Chapter 152: Kill This Game
When Zhou Yi suddenly passed the football into the penalty area, he was standing in front of him, but Park Joo-ho, who was close at hand, did not react at all - he did not expect that Zhou Yi would pass the ball at this time, and without warning. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
By the time he found out, the ball had slipped between his legs, and he reflexively clamped his legs, but nothing.
When the football came, Mainz's goalkeeper Karius found that the football was passed to a very critical place by Zhou Yi, so he decisively abandoned the goal, intending to block any possible shots.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, meanwhile, also came out of the crowd!
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang caught up with the ball ahead of Karius, and then he flicked it to the left with his left foot!
Karius fell to the ground and reached for the ball, expanding the defensive area on the ground. But he was still shaken off by Aubameyang's pull and did not touch the football.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who jumped past Karius, caught up with the ball and then turned to shoot!
At this time, Mainz's goal was completely open to him!
"Aubameyang - !!!" In the roar of Marcel Leif's long voice, the football flew into the goal without any suspense!
"Borussia Dortmund are taking the lead again! It's only been four minutes since their last goal!
After Aubameyang scored, he ran to Zhou Yi, who passed the ball to him, and the two hugged each other again.
This is Aubameyang's second goal in this game, and both goals were assisted by Zhou Yi, of course he has to thank Zhou Yi.
Although Zhou Yi's compatriot Yan Min can be regarded as a competitor to Aubameyang in a sense, Zhou Yi is a bowl of water in the team and does not obviously favor Yan Min, in order to be able to put Yan Min in the position, he deliberately reduced the pass to Aubameyang.
How to pass or how to pass, whether Zhou Yi passes the ball to Aubameyang depends only on whether Aubameyang runs to the right position.
"Borussia Dortmund completed the comeback! Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice, Zhou Yi also assisted twice!" Duan Xin said. "It seems that Dortmund will still beat Mainz away from home in this game...... They can't escape the reversal!"
The TV broadcast began to replay Aubameyang's goal just now, Zhou Yi's pass was very sudden, his first leg pass was a feint, but when he really passed, the range of action was not so large, that is, the calf flicked, the ankle shook, and the football was passed out very covertly. Such a concealed pass is not too difficult a technique, but the key is that it can be passed accurately and the timing is just right, which is very skillful.
And when he passed the ball, he didn't observe the surrounding situation at all, and he didn't even glance at the penalty area, he kept his head down from beginning to end, looking like he was going to concentrate on dealing with Park Joo-ho, but who would have thought that he would actually repair the plank road and secretly Chen Cang?
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"If Zhou Yi had started, Dortmund would not have been able to take the lead for almost 80 minutes......"
That is, the importance of Zhou Yi to Dortmund is self-evident. I think even if everyone else is rotated, Zhou Yi can't be rotated. Hopefully, after this game, Jurgen Klopp will be able to fully realise that!"
"As soon as Zhou Yi came on the field, Dortmund's attack immediately had a direction, inspiration and creativity, and everyone else knew how to run. This is the value and meaning of core existence!"
On the Chinese Internet, after Aubameyang's goal, there was also a lot of discussion.
Everyone is happy that Dortmund can win the game and show the importance of Zhou Yi. If Dortmund is allowed to use the loss to feel the indispensability of Zhou Yi, the price will be a little too great. If they lose this game, Dortmund will be seven points behind Bayern Munich......
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After Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's goal, the TV broadcast gave not only the celebrating Dortmund players, but also the manager Jurgen Klopp.
Jurgen Klopp appeared relatively calm on the sidelines – compared to the Borussia Dortmund substitutes and coaches around him who were celebrating wildly......
He was so calm, not because he was not satisfied with the result, but because he had a very deep affection for Mainz.
Jurgen Klopp spent most of his career as a professional footballer in Mainz, where he played for 12 seasons, making 325 appearances and scoring 52 goals.
During this time, Mainz was always in the Bundesliga, and Klopp never played in the Bundesliga.
After retiring from Mainz, Klopp became a coach in Mainz, where he remained for eight years. Within a few seasons, he led the little-known United States to succeed in the armor and the armor to success. In his second season in the Bundesliga, he participated in the UEFA Cup, and although they were eliminated by Sevilla in the first round, it was still a good time to remember for Mainz, who were very weak at the time.
After accumulating rich coaching experience in Mainz, Klopp has also won the favor of many big Bundesliga teams, and even Bayern Munich has been rumored to be looking for him to coach.
In the end, though, Dortmund won Jurgen Klopp's favor.
Coming to Dortmund from Mainz, Klopp led the long-established team back to life.
Despite having been away from Mainz for many years and winning many trophies at Borussia Dortmund, he has become a champion coach. But he still has a deep affection for Mainz, so he naturally doesn't want to celebrate here wantonly and stimulate the Mainz fans who once cheered for him.
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Jurgen Klopp can hold back while everyone celebrates, but that doesn't mean he can also lose away to Mainz.
He is now the head coach of Borussia Dortmund and of course responsible for Dortmund's results.
Although Dortmund have already taken a one-goal lead, in Klopp's view, this is not enough. It's too dangerous to have a one-goal lead, especially when Mainz played a good game, they are certainly not willing to lose at home to Dortmund like this, and then they will definitely go all out, even desperately, hoping to equalize or even lead again......
If Dortmund are ill-prepared at this time, or if they don't have a unified mind, they could take advantage of the opportunity to equalize.
Jurgen Klopp helped unify the team's thinking, and after the game resumed, he stood on the sidelines and waved his hand to Dortmund to shrink their defence and play counter-attacks.
He was worried that after Dortmund took the lead, they would press out and attack and give Mainz a chance to counterattack.
At this time, of course, it is to shrink the defense and play counterattack.
After listening to Klopp's arrangement, Dortmund quickly completed the adjustment.
And just as they were making adjustments, Mainz also launched a fierce attack on the Dortmund goal.
There isn't a lot of time left for the home team and they have to make the most of it.
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Dortmund has also played defensive counter-attacks over the years, and what should be done in the natural way.
Zhou Yi returned to the back position, and when assisting in defense, he was mainly responsible for the transition between attack and defense. When it is necessary to counterattack, his passing is the signal flare of the counterattack, and where it goes, Dortmund's counterattack begins.
As time passed, Mainz still failed to break through the Dortmund goal, and seeing that the game time was getting less and less, the gap of this goal was like a trench, making it difficult for them to overcome.
Tuchel decided to take a last-ditch gamble and let his team press all the way - on his home turf, there is no difference between 1:2 and 1:3, they both lose anyway, so why not rush forward and maybe do a miracle?
Seeing Mainz pressing on all fronts, Zhou Yi realized that this might be an opportunity to end the game once and for all. Even if Dortmund stay up for a few more minutes, the game could have ended. But football is round after all, and who knows if Dortmund will be able to hold out for a few minutes under Mainz's desperate frenzied attack?
So at times like this, if there's a chance to be able to kill the game directly, why not do it?
So when Mainz's attack was stopped and Dortmund had a chance to counterattack, Zhou Yi did not choose to pass the football to the front directly with a long pass, but sent the football to the front with a short-distance pass, and then suddenly inserted himself and rushed forward.
"Dortmund's counterattack!"
Borussia Dortmund used a quick speed to pass the football to the outside of the 30-meter area of Mainz in three passes and two downs.
At this time, Mainz's defenders were paying attention to Aubameyang with the ball, Reus and Schiebert running without the ball, but at this time, Aubameyang took the football to the side, and Zhou Yi appeared in the air - he finally ran up!
Because it was a quick counterattack, Mainz's defenders had not completely retreated, and there were few defenders near the penalty area, and now in the face of this unplanned situation, it was even more stretched - Zhou Yi was simply not watched!
After receiving the ball, Zhou Yi took a trip and entered the penalty area.
He suddenly appeared and completely disrupted Mainz's defense. Defenders who had been eyeing Aubameyang, Reus and others in the middle turned to him, while goalkeeper Karius also quickly turned and pounced to block the near corner.
Zhou Yi faced such a situation with a very calm cross, and the football passed between the goalkeeper and the defender who pounced, and rolled directly to the back point of the goal.
He didn't have merit because there were people in a better position than him.
When Reuss was about to roll the ball out of the goal, Reus finally got on the slap and kicked the ball into the goal with a shoe spike!
"3:1! The game was killed! Dortmund won the game early!
Marcel Leif's voice rang out.