Chapter 339: The opponent of the German Cup
While it was remarkable to be able to equalise away from four goals down, Dortmund paid some price for it. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Weidenfeller, for example, will remain absent from the next leg at home to Inter Milan.
It was still a tough game, and the next time they met, Inter Milan probably won't be so light-hearted, leaving Dortmund with far fewer opportunities to take advantage of.
In addition, in the league, because he had just experienced such a difficult game, Klopp made some rotations to the starting lineup, and Zhou Yi did not appear in the starting lineup.
Almost more than half of the main players are either on the bench or in the stands.
In the end, in the ninth round of the league, Dortmund was forced to draw 1:1 by Hoffenheim at home.
The result also resulted in Dortmund remaining at the top of the league table for just one week, with 22 points after a draw. Mainz, on the other hand, defeated Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 away in this round and got three points, accumulating 24 points and regaining the first place.
But Klopp doesn't care about that.
It's not bad to be in second place, after all, the league is still a long way off, and in the second half of the season, it's better to fight for the first place in the league from the second place in the league than to fight for the first place in the league from the 11th place in the league - Bayern Munich is in 11th place after this round of the league.
Of the three teams in Germany participating in the Champions League this season, only Borussia Dortmund have maintained their good momentum in both the Champions League and the league.
Bayern Munich has won consecutive games in the group stage of the Champions League, and is currently ranked first with three wins in three games. But they didn't do well in the league. In nine league rounds, they are three wins, three draws and three losses...... Only 12 points.
Schalke 04, another team in the Champions League, is even worse, although they are second in the Champions League with two wins and one loss, but they have slipped to 16th place in the league - while there are only 18 teams in the Bundesliga, and they have fallen into the relegation zone!
The managers of both teams are under a lot of pressure right now.
Comparing them to them, Klopp is happy with Dortmund's current situation.
In the Champions League group stage, two wins and one draw, ranking first in the group. Seven wins, one draw and one loss in the league, second in the league, what's not to be satisfied with?
Then, three days later, there was a game that was not too important - the German Cup.
Jurgen Klopp decided to play with a mix of substitutes and second-tier players.
On the one hand, because the opponent is too weak......
Offenbach Kickers, a team from Germany's third tier, the Bundesliga.
To deal with a German team, there is really no need to make a big move to dispatch the full main lineup.
On the other hand, because the next tenth round of the league, which is the match between the second and first league games, Dortmund will go away to face Mainz, who have been in surprising form this season, and this game is more worthy of attention for Klopp.
He certainly can't afford to let his main players burn out against a League C team.
The third reason is that Klopp doesn't attach much importance to the German Cup now. There are leagues and Champions Leagues, he can't be busy, and the German Cup will be played casually.
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Zhou Yi found out in the virtual space that he could choose Offenbach kicker as his opponent, but he did not choose to play against this team. His ideas are similar to Klopp's.
On the one hand, the opponent is too weak, there is no point in playing against them, and it will not improve your own strength.
On the other hand, wasting time, wouldn't it be better to have this time to practice long passes or something by yourself?
So when he saw a new opponent, he just threw it aside and continued his training.
It wasn't until there were two days left before the game that he was curious to see how weak the team's stats were.
As a result, as soon as he opened the list of players of the Offenbach kickers, he was taken aback, because he found a very concise name in the mess of German names, with only six letters, or separate, three surnames and three first names.
pan_sun。
Pansun?
Zhou Yi felt that this name was familiar, and then remembered that foreigners used to turn Chinese's name upside down, so the correct pronunciation should be...... sun_pan......
Sun Pan?
Zhou Yi **** for a moment, and hurriedly clicked in to take a closer look.
When Sun Pan's avatar appeared in front of Zhou Yi, his jaw was about to fall to the ground!
At that moment, he had the urge to withdraw from the virtual world, then get up, turn on the computer, and ask Sun Pan on QQ.
Aren't you in the Chelsea youth team!
How can you play in a Bundesliga team?
Could it be that you also have twin brothers?
Zhou Yiqiang resisted this impulse and continued to watch.
Goalkeeper.
The height and weight are similar to the Sun Pan he knows, but the data has changed a lot and he has become a little unrecognizable......
Although Zhou Yi didn't confirm it, he was already 90% sure that it was absolutely impossible for this to be a twin—which twin had the same name?
But how did Sun Pan appear in a German team?
Zhou Yi really couldn't understand this.
However, since Sun Pan is in this team, Zhou Yi is interested in playing a game with this team.
So he went into race mode.
After 90 minutes of play, Dortmund finally beat the Offenbach kickers 3-0.
In terms of the difference in strength between the two teams, it shouldn't have been like this.
Winning by just three goals is just too little.
However, after Zhou Yi played this game, he felt that it made sense to win only three goals, because Sun Pan's performance was really good, and he saved a lot of Dortmund shots with high and low blocks.
It can be seen from this simulation game that Sun Panhe has improved a lot before.
Since everyone went their separate ways from the reality show, he hadn't watched Sun Pan play, and his impression of Sun Pan's goalkeeper was still in the reality show, and now it seems that the huge change in data makes sense, and Sun Pan's ability has really improved.
Zhou Yi was also happy to see his friend have such an outstanding performance.
He hopes that everyone can mix up their own world.
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The next day, the first thing Zhou Yi did when he got up was not to wash, but to call Sun Pan.
"Zhou Yi, you called me so early, Gaha?" Sun Pan's Northeast dialect rang on the other end of the phone.
"Could it be that it's not dawn in London at this time?" Zhou Yi asked.
"Ah...... This, yes, is a little bit ...... Gray ......" Sun Pan stammered a little when he spoke.
As soon as he heard Sun Pan stammer, Zhou Yi felt that there must be a ghost, because Sun Pan would only stutter when he was molesting Guo Nu, and that was when he deliberately imitated Guo Nu. In addition, he stuttered because he spoke unnaturally, and this upright Northeasterner didn't seem to be very good at lying.
"Where are you now?" so Zhou Yi asked directly.
"What's wrong in London?"
"You're not in Germany?"
"Virtue ...... What Germany?"
Stammered again.
Zhou Yi decided to get straight to the point: "Are you a Chelsea player or a Offenbach player?"
Sun Pan on the other end of the phone was stunned for a few seconds and didn't speak, and then exclaimed: "Damn, how do you know?"
"Nonsense, our next German Cup match is against the Offenbach kickers, we will get the list of players, your kid's name is as dazzling as a firefly in the night, how can you not know?" Zhou Yi was much more natural than Sun Pan when he talked nonsense, and Sun Pan couldn't doubt it at all.
But in fact, there is a list of opponent players, if there is such a thing, it is only in the coaching staff, and you can't see it as a player. Of course, he couldn't tell Sun Pan that he had discovered him in advance in the virtual space, it would be too terrifying.
"It's not fun, it's not fun at all!" Sun Pan shouted. "I'll surprise you! When the time comes, I will surprise you!"
"Huh. Zhou Yipi didn't smile. "I can tell you in advance that I shouldn't be in the squad for this game. So there's no way you're going to surprise me in person!"
"I'll go! why?" Sun Pan was surprised to hear Zhou Yi say this.
"Playing against a Bundesliga team, do you still need me to play? We play Mainz in the next round of the league, it will be a battle for the top spot in the Bundesliga, and that game is definitely more important, I want to save my energy for that game. Zhou Yi said very proudly.
"Damn!" Sun Pan was very unhappy. The surprise plan he had been planning for a long time was stillborn......
"Hey, aren't you in Chelsea, why did you come to Germany?"
"It's on loan. Last season, I performed well in the youth team and impressed the club's top management, so they decided to train me a lot and put me on loan!" Sun Pan began to brag.
Zhou Yi raised his forehead: "I really think you are worth cultivating, and I will rent you to the German third division team? Didn't you enlarge the bellies of many ignorant girls in London, so you ran to Offenbach, a place where birds don't, to hide from love debts, right?
"Damn, don't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain! I am a dignified seven-foot man, how can I not be responsible for making a person's belly bigger!"
"It's not something to be proud of, okay!" Zhou Yi felt that Sun Pan's focus was wrong.
"How are you playing in Offenbach?" he asked.
"Haven't played yet......"
"You still say that Chelsea values you?" Zhou Yi didn't know what to say. "I really value you, at least you have to make the most appearances in your loan contract!"
"Hey, brother doesn't care. Brother has to rely on his own hands to seize the opportunity himself!"
"Just blow it......" Zhou Yi rolled his eyes over the phone.