Chapter 165: Playoffs

"Zhou Yi, look!" Mark called Zhou Yi into his room and pointed to the computer screen to show him. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Zhou Yi saw at a glance a photo of himself and Gotze and Mark holding the German Cup.

"The official website reported on us, you can see the title they used -- "The Trident of the Youth A Team"! Handsome or not!" Mark said excitedly.

"Handsome indeed. Zhou Yi looked at the screen and said.

On the plane back to Dortmund from Berlin, a reporter from Dortmund's official website interviewed him and his teammates.

I didn't expect this report to be published so quickly.

This is not the first time he has appeared on Borussia Dortmund's official website, but it is the first time he has appeared on the front page of the official website.

The report introduced the "Trident" combination in the Dortmund U19 team.

It is believed that the reason why Dortmund was able to win the German Cup was due to the trident combination.

When Zhou Yi read the report, Mark was around him constantly noisy and dancing excitedly.

Zhou Yi patted him on the shoulder: "Calm down, Mark." It's just a sign on our club website. What if you go to "Kicker" in the future?"

Hearing Zhou Yi say this, Mark was stunned. Looking at his expression, Zhou Yi knew that he must have begun to fantasize about the scene where his photo appeared on "Kicker".

Ah, fantasy child...... It's enviable!

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Yang Mu holds the local newspaper El West, a media outlet that focuses on Schalke 04 news, as does Ruhr News, which specializes in Dortmund club news.

In the corner of the newspaper, Yang Muge found the news about Borussia Dortmund's U19 winning the German Youth Cup final.

In just a few words and a few lines, the "Western Daily" made their position clear in this way -- the success of their sworn enemy, and their willingness to set aside a little space to mention this matter was already very neutral and objective, and as for the detailed report, it was impossible to think of it.

However, Yang Muge didn't need to be reported in detail by "Western News", because he watched the whole process of the game.

Zhou Yi's performance in the game impressed him. He found that since he came to Germany, every time he saw Zhou Yi, he would feel that he was very different from the last time, and he had made rapid progress.

Today's Zhou Yi is completely different from the student player who first entered the reality show team.

He really is a man who was born to play football, and he is at home in Germany, a place with a rich football culture.

If he didn't choose to go to school at the beginning, but received formal and professional football training, maybe he would also be a figure of He Ying's level.

But it didn't matter, fortunately he came to Germany, and luckily he chose the path he should take.

Yang Muge was happy for Zhou Yi in his heart.

"Hi Yang. Draxler saw Yang Muge holding the newspaper in a daze, so he took the initiative to greet him. "Why do you think about buying a newspaper to read?"

Yang Muge pointed to the news of Dortmund's U19 championship and showed Draxler.

"Ah...... Dortmund...... Damn!" the smile on Draxler's face was gone. It was a day long before the Dortmund fans were happy and Schalke 04 fans were unhappy.

Especially as a Schalke 04 youth player, this feeling is even deeper.

The sworn rivals came home in the final of the German Cup, and they simply lost the limelight.

"I didn't watch that game, but let me guess, your friend must have made a big splash in the game, right?" Draxler asked.

Yang Muge nodded: "Well, two assists helped Dortmund win 2:0 against Freiburg." ”

"Both goals are related to him......" Draxler suddenly said to Yang Muge with a serious expression, "Yang, we all have to redouble our efforts." I have a bad feeling that maybe your friend will show up before we do...... In the first team!"

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Borussia Dortmund won the German Youth Cup with the Under-19s, but that didn't have much of an impact on the team itself.

With the exception of two days off off for the whole team after returning to Dortmund.

But in the past two days, Zhou Yi and Mark have not been idle, they went to the football field near Mark's house, Zhou Yi passed the ball to Mark, and Mark came to shoot.

This practiced both Zhou Yi's passing and Mark's shooting.

Zhou Yi's pass is actually very good, but he is still not satisfied, sometimes he still feels that he sees the vacancy, but there is no way to pass the football over, because the passing is too difficult, and the rash pass will lose the ball, so he has to re-pass the football horizontally or back, so that the two sides can run again and find the vacancy again.

But in this way, it delayed the team's offensive rhythm.

Zhou Yi's goal is to be able to practice his short pass value to more than ninety, and now his short pass is sixty-five, which is a little higher than Gotze, who is sixty-four.

Twenty-five points are still there to reach the minimum goal of ninety.

You must know that Zhou Yi has just started, and his short pass is only twenty-two points.

In fact, Zhou Yi's progress is very rapid, but he also feels that as the value increases, the higher the increase, the more difficult it becomes, and he has been stuck at sixty-five points for almost a month.

Although the training in the virtual world has the ability to increase the training effect, but in the final analysis, it still has to fall into the actual training, if you just train in the virtual world, out of the virtual world, the ball does not touch, and you still want to count on the ability to increase, then it is really a dream.

Therefore, in the daily training of the team, Zhou Yi is very serious in training, and in addition to training his body, he will also conduct some basic technical training in his spare time.

Especially after discovering the football field near Mark's house, as long as there is a chance, on days when there are no games, Zhou Yi will come here to train with Mark, he practices passing, Mark practices shooting, the two of them are just matched, he passes the ball to Mark, and Mark shoots the football towards the goal.

Later, after Gotze joined, it became a special training for fast passing.

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The regrouped Borussia Dortmund Under-19s were asked by their head coach Yebala to quickly forget about the German Youth Cup they had just won.

"We still have the league title to fight for and dwelling on the past is meaningless for the future. So there will be no difference between today's training and the usual training. ”

After saying that, Yebara proved this to the players with practical actions - he called Zhou Yi, Mark and Gotze out again to play the game.

"Ah, still playing, isn't the German Cup all played?" Zhou Yi was very strange.

"You think I'm here for the German Cup final? No, you haven't won yet!"

However, the three of them were not too frustrated, and after getting used to the game, they thought it was actually quite fun......

Yebara made his mind firm in the German Cup final and will be looking for the Trident as his main tactic for the rest of the season.

Rely on the performance of the trident to impact the league championship.

With Freiburg's fierce high pressing, the Trident tactics can all work well, so why not hope for them more?

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Just a week after the final of the German Youth Cup, Borussia Dortmund U19 welcomed their 25th round of league in the German U19 League Western Division.

In this match, Dortmund faced Hupadal at home.

This team is currently second from bottom in the league and is not very strong.

But despite this, Yebara is still the main force to play, and the trident is not missing, and all of them start.

He just wants to use more games to hone the trident, and try to polish the trident when the playoffs come.

The Trident's performance did not disappoint Yebarra, as Borussia Dortmund beat Hupaidal 5-0 at home, with Gotze scoring twice, Mark netting a goal and Zhou Yi providing two assists.

As a result, first-placed Borussia Dortmund are five points ahead of second-placed Bayer Leverkusen and qualify for the playoffs one round earlier.

And from them down, all teams can only look forward to fighting again next year.

Another week later, in the final round of the Western Conference, Borussia Dortmund away to Bayer Leverkusen, who are second in the league.

It was still the main force to play, but this time Zhou Yi was replaced after only half a game.

It's not because of poor performance, it's that Yebara is going to save for the playoffs.

Götze was also substituted shortly after the start of the second half. The Trident left a mark on the field.

In the end, Borussia Dortmund U19 lost 1:3 away to Bayer Leverkusen U19. However, it doesn't matter whether this game is won or lost, and the Dortmund players, who qualified for the playoffs early, are clearly absent-minded on the pitch, and they are now thinking about the playoffs rather than the game in front of them.

Yebara also did not criticize the team.

After all, it's a young person, and it's hard to control your emotions. They did a great job this season, and if they lost the last inconsequential game, they lost.

In this way, Borussia Dortmund U19 ended all their matches in the Western League of the U19 League this season, with 26 rounds of league play, Borussia Dortmund U19 20 wins, 4 draws, 2 losses, 63 points, 91 goals scored, 32 goals conceded, and a goal difference of 59 goals.

With the exception of four more goals conceded than second-placed Bayer Leverkusen, they are all ranked first in all other statistics.

Last season, the team led by Yebara, who was also led by Yebara, only finished fourth in the Western Conference and did not make the playoffs at all. Sixteen of the twenty-six league games were won, four were draws and six were lost. The performance was completely different from what it is today.

Of course, this season's Borussia Dortmund Under-19 has more players than last season's, such as last season's U17 Western Conference top scorer Daniel Kinczek, such as Mario Gotze, as well as Zhou Yi and Mark.

They are all big reasons why the team has been able to perform so well.

Next, they will prepare for the semifinals of the playoffs in a week's time.

Dortmund's opponent in the semi-finals was Freiburg U19 very coincidentally......