Chapter 144: Too Relaxed
Two league games were played after the winter break, with Borussia Dortmund winning both. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Naturally, such a performance is gratifying.
It gave Dortmund fans the confidence to catch up with Bayern Munich.
In February 2013, Bayern Munich defeated Mainz 3-0 away on February 2, which was a game without suspense.
A day later, in the final game of the league round, Borussia Dortmund played Bayer Leverkusen away.
Prior to this game, Borussia Dortmund were second in the league and Bayer Leverkusen were third.
It's actually a contest between second and third in the league. However, the outcome of this game will not be directly reflected in the standings. Because the points gap between Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen is a bit big.
Borussia Dortmund, who are in second place, are two points less than first-place Bayern Munich, with 48 points and Borussia Dortmund with 46 points. Bayer Leverkusen, who are third in the league, are nine points short of 37 points. Winning or losing a game doesn't mean anything.
Everyone says that this season's league title competition is still between Dortmund and Bayern Munich, and the rest is whether it is Bayer Leverkusen, or Frankfurt, Mainz, Schalke 04 are all playing soy sauce.
Borussia Dortmund only has Bayern Munich in their eyes, and they don't pay attention to other teams.
Judging by the course of the game, such a statement makes sense.
Just three minutes into the game, Reus opened the scoring for Borussia Dortmund.
The man who assisted him was Lewandowski.
Just six minutes later, Zhou Yi made a sudden through ball in front of the penalty area, creating a one-on-one chance for Mark to face the goalkeeper, and when he shot, Mark was knocked to the ground by the onrushing Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper Bender Leno, and the referee decisively awarded a penalty and showed Leno a yellow card.
Marc, who then created the penalty, took it upon himself to kick the ball into the back of the net.
Borussia Dortmund had a two-goal lead within ten minutes of the game, and there was no suspense in the game.
Bayer Leverkusen were clearly stunned by Borussia Dortmund's blitzkrieg, and after the restart, they were all playing in a mess of their own, with some wanting to counter-attack quickly and try to score. But there are also players who are worried that the crazy Dortmund will score again, and prefer to defend in the back.
This ideological disunity is reflected in the scene, which is a miserable chaos.
Against Bayer Leverkusen, Dortmund played relaxed. They are not in a hurry, they attack when they have the opportunity, and they pass the ball and fall to the foot when they don't have the opportunity.
Anyway, with a two-goal lead in hand, with our strength and performance, what is there to worry about?
Perhaps because they were too relaxed, Dortmund had some chances in the first half but didn't take them.
Bayer Leverkusen, on the other hand, should be thankful that they didn't concede any more goals, let alone an equaliser.
Thus, at the end of the first half, Borussia Dortmund led Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 away, a score that remained unchanged after ten minutes of play.
This was a bit of a disappointment for commentator Marcel Leif, who asserted after Mark's goal that the game would be a big score.
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At the start of the second half, Bayer Leverkusen made a substitution.
Head coach Sasha Lewandowski replaced another midfielder, Simon Rolfes, with black midfielder Sidney Sam.
This was due to Bayer Leverkusen's poor midfield performance in the first half, which is also considered to be the reason why Dortmund were able to play so easily.
At the start of the second half, Bayer Leverkusen launched a fierce attack on the Dortmund goal, which was almost a match for their performance in the first half, which Dortmund did not expect at all.
Leverkusen's counterattack in the second half of the court is fierce?
There is one statistic that illustrates one or two.
Ten minutes into the second half, Bayer Leverkusen had seven shots on goal, compared to Borussia Dortmund's two.
You must know that in the entire first half, Bayer Leverkusen only had five shots on goal, and only two of them hit the woodwork.
Five of those seven shots in the second half were on target.
If it weren't for Weidenfeller's excellent performance, Dortmund's goal would have been lost.
During this time, Bayer Leverkusen attacked and the Leverkusen fans in the stands were also excited, their shouts resounded over the field, and Bayer Leverkusen finally felt like they were fighting at home.
In addition to the fierce attack, the fierce defense of the Bayer Leverkusen players who did not hesitate to foul also made the Dortmund players very uncomfortable.
In the space of ten minutes, Bayer Leverkusen had six fouls, compared to one by Borussia Dortmund.
This stark contrast explains why Bayer Leverkusen now have the upper hand.
Relying on fierce defense and desperate momentum, Bayer Leverkusen regained the initiative little by little.
On the other hand, the Dortmund players, after a half-time break, did not expect Leverkusen's counterattack to come so quickly and quickly, and they were caught off guard.
And when they are suppressed, it will be difficult to turn the situation around.
Now they can't play well.
Their players will be brought to the ground by Bayer Leverkusen players after they get the ball, and sometimes the referee will blow the whistle to signal that the Bayer Leverkusen players have committed a foul, but other times, it is reasonable physical contact and there is no foul.
The rhythm of the Dortmund players was completely disrupted by this tactic of Bayer Leverkusen, and it was very difficult to regroup.
In the 58th minute, thirteen minutes into the second half, Bayer Leverkusen's frantic comeback finally paid off.
Their defender, Stefan Reinert, first split the ball after stealing Gotze's ball in midfield, and then he didn't stay behind, but went straight forward and ran into the Borussia Dortmund penalty area. At this time, the football had been passed to the feet of Kiessling on the wing, and Kiessling crossed from the side, and Reinerts jumped high while rushing into the penalty area!
Since Reinerts has always been a defender in the back, Dortmund did not take him into account when defending, so he suddenly appeared in the penalty area and caught Dortmund off guard!
There was absolutely no one to defend him!
The unguarded Reinerts jumped in the air and hit the ball very comfortably, a powerful rush!
Weidenfeller couldn't stop the ball this time and the ball flew into his goal!
"Reinerts-!!," Marcel Leif exclaimed excitedly. "Reinerts! beautiful header! He smashed headlong into Weidenfeller's impregnable defence!"
When Reinerts scored, the Bayer Arena erupted in loud cheers like a bolt from the blue.
Bayer Leverkusen played so badly in the first half that their fans were embarrassed. In the second half, Bayer Leverkusen played a game that made their blood boil, and when they cheered for the Bayer Leverkusen players again and again, they had a thought in their hearts - such a good performance, now they are one goal away!
And the goal finally came!
Just a dozen minutes into the second half, Bayer Leverkusen pulled a goal back, giving hopeful hope to supporters.
There is still time, and the remaining time is enough for them to score one more goal, or even two!
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Reinerts didn't celebrate after the goal, but after hitting the ground, he rushed into the goal, bent down to pick up the football before anyone else could react, and turned to run towards the center circle.
Hurry up, everything is still possible!
The rest of the Bayer Leverkusen players followed him back to their own half.
They were so bad in the first half that they were going to be ashamed of now!
Facing the high-spirited Bayer Leverkusen players, the Dortmund players were confused.
After conceding the goal, centre-back Santana defended at the front post and as soon as he looked back, he saw Reinerts high and hit the ball. He didn't even know how Reinerts ended up in that place......
Like him, there were other Dortmund players who were also frustrated and surprised by the goal.
For the side that conceded the goal, this kind of performance is not necessarily a good thing. Because they don't even know why they concede the ball.
Some Borussia Dortmund players also thought it was Leverkusen's shit luck ā after all, it was a midfielder who didn't have much attacking expertise to score. Who would have thought that he would press up and participate in the attack? In the ten minutes when Bayer Leverkusen frantically besieged the Dortmund goal, he did not participate in the attack much, and dragged himself behind the defense......
He stepped forward this time and scored the goal, isn't this shit luck?
The consequence of this thinking is that the Dortmund players don't pay enough attention to it - if it's a lucky goal, then luck can't always be around, right?
And they're still ahead, so there's no need to rush and don't worry.
Just four minutes after Bayer Leverkusen pulled a goal back, Bayer Leverkusen scored again, or rather, Reinerts scored again!
The same way to score goals, it's all headers!
This time the man who assisted him was replaced by defender Bernisch.
"Reinerts!!!" exclaimed Marcel Lef. "It's unbelievable! Borussia Dortmund took a two-goal lead in six minutes of the first half, Bayer Leverkusen equalised in just four minutes! Reinerts scored twice! And these were his only two goals of the season! Before that, he had made 16 appearances without scoring a goal!"
The entire Bayer Arena has been turned into a boiling crater...... The roar of the Bayer Leverkusen fans almost burned the Dortmund players to ashes! )