The evening of October 20 was one of the most anticipated football nights for Chinese fans, starting with the Ruhr derby at 9:30 p.m., followed by Barcelona away to Deportivo La Coruna at 4 a.m. on the 21st, and if they were lucky, they could see three Chinese players playing in one night. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The day before the game, Barcelona announced the eighteen-man squad for this game, and He Ying was selected again.

This makes Chinese fans full of anticipation for the next game.

In fact, Zhou Yi and Yang Muge were also selected into the squad of their respective teams, but it is no longer news that they were selected into the squad, so no one paid attention to them. All you have to do is see them on the pitch.

In fact, there is another person who has been selected for the tournament squad and is also worth paying attention to, but Chinese fans and the media don't care, because it is not a Chinese player.

Dortmund's local media were delighted.

That is, Mark Wagner, who missed the entire season last year due to a serious injury, finally made the squad. It means that his body is up to the standard of playing, and it also means that his injury is considered to be healed.

The Dortmund media welcomed and looked forward to Mark's return, and the Dortmund fans were delighted. Marc's performance last season after arriving in the first team, everyone remembers it. At that time, the whole of Germany thought that a new star was rising in the front.

As a result, injuries brought everything to an abrupt halt.

After such a serious injury, it is already a great victory for Mark to be back on the pitch now. Everyone is actually very tolerant of his future, first back on the court, and then talk about other things.

Zhou Yi was not surprised that Mark was back in the squad, because when he saw Cortana move back to live with him, he knew that Mark should not be far from returning to the court.

Sure enough, Klopp put Mark in the squad for this game.

Having just experienced a national team match, many players in the Dortmund team will have some ups and downs in terms of fitness and form. Having Mark on the big list is also a supplement and prevention.

If a player doesn't perform well, Klopp can consider putting Mark on top.

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Before the game, the whole Dortmund team stayed in a hotel to prepare for this game.

Zhou Yi was assigned to a room with Mark.

When it was time to rest, Mark couldn't sleep, so Zhou Yi in the next bed quipped: "What, Mark? This is not your first professional game, what are you nervous about?"

"Ahem......" Mark didn't expect Zhou Yi to be asleep, he was taken aback. "You didn't sleep, Zhou Yi?"

"You've woken me up, Mark. ”

"Ah, I'm sorry, Zhou Yi, I didn't mean to...... I was just...... Indeed, I was a little nervous. Because after all, this is the first time I've been back in the squad after more than a year......"

Zhou Yi laughed: "It's just that you're in the squad, and you don't really want to play, what are you nervous about." Besides, even if you're going to play, there's nothing to be nervous about, right?"

"After all, I haven't played for more than a year, and I don't know how I'm going to behave. What if the game doesn't play well? This is a Ruhr derby!"

"A little bit of confidence in yourself, Mark. What happened to the Ruhr derby? Remember your first first-team game? Did you forget? It was also a Ruhr derby......

As soon as Zhou Yi said this, Mark remembered: "I remember, I was also nervous before that game......"

"yes, you were so nervous that you couldn't even warm up, and I kicked you in the head. ”

"It's the face!"

Zhou Yi laughed.

Mark also laughed, and the scene at that time instantly appeared in front of his eyes, and he was really out of appearance at that time.

But when he was unexpectedly sent off the bench......

'But when you came on and you scored two goals, Mark. You spooked everyone, including your parents. Zhou Yi said with a smile. "So believe in yourself, Mark. Approach this game with a normal mind, as long as you are given the opportunity and time, you will find your form, nothing to worry about.

Hearing Zhou Yi's words, Mark's heartbeat slowed down a lot: "Thank you, Zhou Yi." I feel much better now and I'm less nervous. I think I can get a good night's sleep now. ”

"Good night then, Mark. ”

"Good night, Zhou Yi. ”

After speaking, Zhou Yi didn't really close his eyes and enter the virtual space, but waited quietly until he heard the sound of breathing coming from Mark's bed become smooth and even. He also closed his eyes and went to compete with Schalke 04 in his "dream".

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Before this Ruhr derby, Dortmund and Schalke 04 were tied on 14 points, of which Dortmund ranked third above Schalke 04 because of the advantage of goals scored.

Schalke 04 is "relegated" to fourth.

This is the smallest Ruhr derby between the two teams in recent years.

On the one hand, Schalke 04 have performed well this season, and on the other hand, Dortmund's performance has been inconsistent since the start of the season.

Seven rounds of the league have passed, and the current top of the league is Bayern Munich led by Heynckes, with seven wins in seven games, 21 points, and first place with an unbeaten record.

Bayern Munich's performance announced their strong comeback this season and their desire to regain the league title.

Media experts believe that the reason why Dortmund's performance after the start of the season is mediocre is related to the fact that their core Zhou Yi did not train with the team before the season.

They made a lot of sense, pre-season training is very, very important for a team, and there are many examples in European football of a season that has plummeted because of a poor pre-season training camp.

A case in point is Real Madrid in the 2003-2004 season. Real Madrid, who won the league last season, came to East Asia to make money during the pre-season training camp, and the team was busy with various business activities and did not have a systematic pre-season training camp well.

This has led to a lack of fitness among the players.

In addition, the new head coach Queiroz trusts the main team too much in the game and rarely uses rotation, resulting in the physical consumption of the main players too quickly, and the substitute players lack game training, and when they need to replace the main players, they simply cannot stand up.

Until the 31st round of the league, Real Madrid was at the top of the table with 67 points and had hopes of defending the league title.

But then Real Madrid fell into a collapse, from the 32nd round to the 38th round of the league, a full seven rounds of the league, Real Madrid lost!

It set the most humiliating record in Real Madrid's 100-year history. At the end of that season, Queiroz was fired. was originally an assistant coach at Manchester United, but he thought that his wings were stiff, and Real Madrid extended an olive branch to him, making Queiroz ambitious, and as a result, he suffered the biggest Waterloo of his coaching career in Real Madrid.

Real Madrid ended the season with a humiliating performance and ended Queiroz's years at the Bernabeu.

If Real Madrid had been able to train well during the pre-season training camp, maybe they wouldn't have collapsed so quickly in the end.

Although Zhou Yi showed a good form after the start of the league, he is no stranger to the team. But just because he's no stranger doesn't mean the rest of Dortmund is no stranger to him.

In short, there are still some problems with the run-in, which is an objective fact.

Now that the national team competition has just ended, it is the Ruhr derby, Zhou Yi flew back and forth on the Eurasian continent, which will definitely affect his condition and physical fitness, and the media believe that although this game is Dortmund's home stadium, Schalke 04 may not have a chance to win the opponent.

All in all, it could quite well be the most evenly matched Ruhr derby in recent years.

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After the start of the game, the analysis of the media was confirmed.

It was not the home team Dortmund who scored the first goal, but the away team Schalke 04!

Just fourteen minutes into the game, Schalke 04 scored the goal!

Schalke 04 Ibrahim Afelai, who is on loan from Barcelona, used his pace and technique to break through and score.

He made the whole West**** stadium a lot quieter.

Schalke's commentator excitedly chanted from the commentary bench: "Afelai, Afelai, elf from the Netherlands, he opened the scoring for Schalke 04!!"

"To be fair, Schalke 04 did perform better than Borussia Dortmund before the goal, and this goal was logical and not surprising. Schalke 04 is clearly more prepared than Borussia Dortmund......" says Marcel Leif.

After Schalke 04 scored the lead, their morale was boosted, and they played more crazy, everyone used tireless running to contain Dortmund, Yang Muge not only marked Zhou Yi in the midfield but also defended other Dortmund players, he was like building a dam in the midfield, blocking Dortmund's offensive outside the dam, so that his goal was safe and sound.

In the first half, Dortmund was not much worse than sleepwalking, and the international team break still had a greater impact on them.

It stands to reason that the Ruhr derby should be intense, and even if there are no goals, there should be a lot of fouls. But Dortmund seem too polite on their home turf. The only yellow card of the first half was for the Schalke 04 players from their midfielder Hogel.

At the end of the first half, the score was still 0:1, and the home team Dortmund was behind. (To be continued.) )