Chapter 190: The first half of the warm-up match
Zhou Yi has confidence in himself, not only because he feels that his physical strength can cope with a game, but also because he has played this warm-up game in the system for several nights. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Originally, the warm-up game would not need to be simulated several times in the virtual system, but this warm-up game was too important for Zhou Yi, and he had to be cautious.
After so many simulations of warm-up matches, Zhou Yi felt that he had adapted to Wolfsburg's tactics, and he knew how to play in the game.
After Zhou Yi ran to the vacant place, he asked his teammates to ask for it, and his teammates passed the football to him, and Zhou Yi happened to be in a situation where he was temporarily unmarked.
After receiving the ball, Zhou Yi continued to pass the ball out, and then ran again.
In this way, under the leadership of Zhou Yi, Dortmund pushed the attack to the front of the Wolfsburg penalty area.
Then Zhou Yi sent a straight stopper, but unfortunately Barrios was not able to receive it, and the football rolled directly out of the bottom line.
Barrios also knew that Zhou Yi sent a good ball, and it was his responsibility not to receive it, not Zhou Yi's, so he turned around and gave Zhou Yi a thumbs up and praised him for the pass just now.
Although Barrios did not score, so Zhou Yi had no way to complete the first assist, the Chinese reporters on the sidelines were already excited to watch and applaud.
This is just the beginning, but Zhou Yi's performance has already given them hope. Zhou Yi's performance was very calm, not at all like a newcomer who participated in the first team competition.
In the past, Chinese foreign players played more forwards and defenders, the striker was responsible for scoring goals, and the defender was responsible for defense, and their work was relatively simple, and none of these players could become the core of the team.
Such a thing is unthinkable for the Chinese media.
But now, they see hope that there is a Chinese player who will become the core.
Zhou Yi frequently takes the ball in the Dortmund midfield, as if he is already a midfield core.
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"This kid really doesn't have stage fright. Assistant coach Bwach praised Zhou Yi's performance in this attack after seeing it off the field.
Jurgen Klopp sat in the dugout with his hands folded on his chest and did not answer.
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Barrios didn't score, and Zhou Yi didn't regret it. He has confidence in himself that this performance will not be an accident and he will have many opportunities in the future.
He continued to run non-stop on the court, fighting, receiving the ball, passing the ball.
He and Gotze have the most contact with each other, not because he knows Götze best, but because Gotze knows him best.
With the help of the system, Zhou Yi knows all about his first-team teammates, and there is no strange situation. However, his teammates did not have the help of the system, and they knew him to different degrees, and Gotze knew Zhou Yi the best.
Zhou Yi and Götze often work better together than with others.
With his help, Gotze had a good chance to shoot but the shot was saved by Wolfsburg goalkeeper Diego Bernaglio.
Although he didn't score, Gotze still turned around and gave Zhou Yi a thumbs up, and the pass just now was very beautiful and comfortable.
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In this way, Zhou Yi continued to receive thumbs from his teammates, and his strength was not only in training, but also recognized by his teammates in the game.
But I don't know whether to say that Zhou Yi is unlucky, or that the other players of Dortmund are unlucky.
Zhou Yi sent a lot of passes, but none of his teammates were able to convert them into goals.
That didn't stop both sides from scoring, though.
Half an hour into the first half, three goals have already been scored by both sides.
Two goals from Borussia Dortmund and one from VfL Wolfsburg.
Borussia Dortmund's two goals were not directly related to Zhou Yi, he was only involved in the attack, using his passing and running to create chances for other team-mates, but he did not directly assist.
This also made the Chinese reporters outside the stadium sigh again and again - Zhou Yi's performance is already very good in their opinion, but there are no key statistics, no goals and no assists, if they can have even one assist, they will be much better to write this manuscript back.
The scene that Chinese reporters had been waiting for finally arrived at the thirty-eighth minute.
At that time, Zhou Yi took the ball about 35 meters away from the Wolfsburg penalty area, and then passed the football to Grosskloitz, and after passing the ball, he quickly ran and cut forward.
His run caught the attention of the Wolfsburg players, who followed suit.
But just as they were retreating, Zhou Yi suddenly changed direction, not going forward, but pulling away horizontally, because of his sudden change of direction, there was suddenly an unguarded vacuum around him.
And that's exactly what Zhou Yi needs.
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"Clever!" Bwach's compliments blurted out, and his tone made no secret of his appreciation for Zhou Yi's move.
Using a feint to deceive the defender and win space for himself to get the ball, sometimes the void is not necessarily found, but created!
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As soon as Zhou Yi opened the vacancy, he immediately shouted to Grosskloitz: "Kevin!"
Grosskloitz was also paying attention to Zhou Yi's movements, and when he saw that Zhou Yi was free, he passed the football over.
And the Wolfsburg players who found out that they were fooled also quickly pounced when they saw this, ran to Zhou Yi, and prepared to intercept him.
It's just that their change of retreating and going up made their own back line a little uncomfortable, so there was a gap behind them to grab it!
Before receiving the ball, Zhou Yi discovered this vacancy. And he stepped forward to change horizontally, not only to create space for himself to get the ball, but more importantly, to create a more lethal void!
Now, this fatal space appeared, Zhou Yi did not hesitate, did not stop the ball, and directly pushed the ball passed by Grosskloitz horizontally, and the football rolled quickly past the Wolfsburg player who grabbed it, and it went straight to the air!
Paraguayan striker Barrios also cut into the vacancy diagonal when Zhou Yi passed the ball, and successfully received the ball in the vacancy.
The Dortmund fans outside the stadium burst into cheers.
Barrios took the ball and took another step forward before he got up and shot!
The football flew into the goal from the side of Wolfsburg goalkeeper Benagrio from the angle of attack!
Borussia Dortmund leads Wolfsburg 3:1!
"Pretty!!"
Chinese reporters on the sidelines also shouted excitedly.
They weren't saying that Barrios had a beautiful shot, but that Zhou Yi's pass and everything he had done before he passed it was beautiful.
"Good shot!"
Bwach stood up and high-fived Klopp.
On the field, after the goal, Barrios did not forget Zhou Yi, who gave him an assist, turned around and ran to Zhou Yi, hugging him to celebrate.
It was his first goal at Borussia Dortmund, and he had missed a clever pass from Zhou Yi before, and this time, he took his chance.
Barrios was excited, and Zhou Yi was just as happy.
He peeked to the sidelines to see Jurgen Klopp celebrating the goal with assistant coach Bouist Bouque.
He accomplished his first goal - to put on a good performance when he came on the pitch.
All that's left is one last goal - to finish this game!
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After Barrios' goal, the two sides fell into a stalemate, and the first half also went to the end in this stalemate.
In the end, Dortmund led Wolfsburg 3-1 in the first half.
Players from both sides entered the dressing room.
In the dressing room, everyone was chatting about the first half of the game, and some players were pacing around the dressing room, slipping from one team-mate to another. But Zhou Yi didn't do this, he just sat in his seat, silent, with a smile on his face, just looking at his teammates, but he didn't mean to get involved.
He was a little alarmed, for he was now feeling tired and panting.
It's not like he didn't play a full game when he was in the youth team, although there weren't many, he also played, whether it was playing the whole game, or being replaced early, he was so tired at halftime, but he didn't experience the feeling.
This made Zhou Yi feel a little bad premonition in his heart - why was he more tired than he imagined?
After manager Jurgen Klopp came in, the players who were dangling in the dressing room also returned to their own actions.
It is clear to everyone that the next time is for personnel adjustments.
In the warm-up game, the starting lineup of the first half will definitely be returned in the middle of the field.
Sure enough, Klopp briefly praised everyone's performance in the first half and began to announce substitutions.
Starting with the goalkeeper and then up front, almost everyone has been replaced.
Only one person is an exception.
Shaheen thought he would replace Zhou Yi, but he didn't expect him to replace Sven Bender, and Zhou Yi remained on the court.
Gotze, who was replaced, also looked at Zhou Yi unexpectedly, he was all replaced, and Zhou Yi was still on the court?!
This is...... What's going on?
But Klopp didn't want to explain the meaning of the explanation to everyone, he didn't even mention it, and began to lay out the tactics for the second half for everyone.
In the second half, there were two playmaking midfielders in midfield, so Klopp asked the team to focus more on controlling the ball and tempo.
At the same time, because after Sven Bender went off, the defensive intensity of the midfield dropped a lot, so once the goal was conceded, the whole team was required to actively participate in the defense.
He also named Zhou Yi to tell him to be more active in defense.
Zhou Yi agreed to come down.
I was full of expectations for the second half, Klopp kept his promise and didn't replace him, so I definitely can't let go of this opportunity!