Chapter 109: The Curse of Science

Borussia Dortmund defeated Schalke 04 3-1 at home, and in addition to winning another Ruhr derby, they also relied on this victory to successfully squeeze Schalke 04 out and become third in the league. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Now they have five wins, two draws and one defeat in eight league games, and they are third with 17 points.

And Bayern Munich eight games and eight wins to accumulate 24 points ranked first, this season Bayern Munich's re-emergence momentum is indeed very strong, which seems to be in line with everyone's season preview of this season's league championship prediction, today's German football, except for Bayern Munich, no team can win the championship for three consecutive years, so this year's league championship must be Bayern Munich, Dortmund still wants to win the league is not playful, it is better to think more about how to make a historic breakthrough in the Champions League.

The second-place team is somewhat unexpected, a name that Chinese fans once knew very well - Eintracht Frankfurt.

Eintracht Frankfurt have six wins, one draw and one defeat this season, accumulating 19 points. Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen and other strong teams are pressed below.

But experts are not optimistic that they will eventually be able to rank in this position. In fact, Eintracht Frankfurt themselves know that they will not be able to hope for second place in the league and qualify for next season's Champions League. Their manager, Armin Fei, told reporters after beating Hannover 96 3-1 that Eintracht Frankfurt are aiming for "relegation" this season. For Eintracht Frankfurt, who were in the Bundesliga last season and have just returned to the first division this season, this goal is practical and sincere.

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After the Ruhr derby, another game awaits Zhou Yi and his Dortmund team-mates.

That is the Champions League group stage, and Dortmund will host the seeded team in the group, Real Madrid.

The Champions League group stage has been played for two rounds, with Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund now both on a winning note, with Borussia Dortmund beating Ajax 1-0 at home and Manchester City 2-1 away. Neither of these wins was a big win, and City didn't win it easily.

Real Madrid, by contrast, only had trouble in their first game against Manchester City, narrowly beating them 3-2 at home and beating Ajax 4-1 away in the second. Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid showed great quality and completely ignored their opponents' home advantage. The same opponent, Dortmund played very hard at their home stadium, and finally won the victory in the 87th minute thanks to Zhou Yi's goal, while Real Madrid won by three goals at Ajax's home stadium, and this difference in strength is obvious.

The world believes Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid will be the favourites to win the Champions League this season. As you can see from the performance in the group stage, the critics are right.

This time, the best teams in the group will meet, and this game is seen as a battle to decide who can be the leader of the group. Whoever wins is the first in the group.

In terms of strength, Mourinho's Real Madrid is stronger than Borussia Dortmund. But Dortmund are not completely at a disadvantage, they also have the advantage that this game is their home stadium.

Yes, Borussia Dortmund have a home advantage, but it's not the same as home advantage in the usual sense - for Real Madrid, the German team's home field is hell.

Yes, not Borussia Dortmund's home stadium, the West** Stadium, but the home of all German teams. No matter what the results of this team against other teams, as long as they meet Real Madrid, it will be like a blow on their home turf.

In the previous Champions League history, Real Madrid met German teams on the road a total of 24 times, and the historical record cannot even be described as "not dominant", but "miserable". In these 24 away games, Real Madrid has only won a pitiful one, and there is no shortage of humiliating games such as losing 0:5 to Kaiserslautern, 1:5 to Borussia Mönchengladbach, and 1:5 to Hamburg.

Their only away win was Thierry Henry on 20 September 2000, when they beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-2 away. In the 12 years since, Real Madrid have played nine games, drawn three and lost six. I have to say that going to Germany is simply a nightmare for Real Madrid, and this nightmare is twelve years and cannot be broken.

In addition to the difficulty of finding a win, Real Madrid, which has strong offensive firepower, scored a maximum of three goals in a single game when they went to Germany before.

All aspects show that Real Madrid is not adapted to the soil in Germany.

Specific to the opponent Dortmund, Real Madrid and Dortmund have met three times in the Champions League before, although Real Madrid won Dortmund in aggregate on aggregate, but three away challenges to Dortmund, the powerful Real Madrid did not win once.

In the 1998-1999 season, Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund met in the Champions League, and Real Madrid played 0:0 with Dortmund away and did not win.

In the 2002-2003 season, Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund met again in the Champions League, Dortmund drew 1:1 at home to Real Madrid, and Real Madrid still did not win.

The 2010-2011 season, the most recent meeting to date, is perhaps more instructive as the players on both teams haven't changed much from that time. It can be regarded as the same team as it is today, and the two Real Madrid and Dortmund teams of more than a decade ago are long gone.

In this encounter, Real Madrid first defeated Dortmund, who broke into the Champions League for the first time in seven years, 4:1 at home, almost ending the suspense of the two-legged match.

However, Dortmund, who have been eliminated from the competition, showed great tenacity after returning to their home stadium, and they drew 1:1 with Real Madrid, so that Real Madrid still could not conquer the German stadium.

Of course, regarding this second leg, some people may say that this is because Real Madrid has already qualified early, so the players are too relaxed and do not pay much attention to it. Unlike the current group stage, Real Madrid will definitely not have a mentality of underestimating the opponent this time, and they will take the game more seriously, so the last meeting will have little reference value.

But in any case, the reason why a spell is called a spell naturally has its own reason.

Real Madrid can't win away from Germany, that's the curse. The concept of the curse that has been hyped in the media ahead of this game will definitely affect the mentality of the Real Madrid players.

If they are in a hurry to prove that they are not affected by the spell, then they will be impatient in the game.

If they do believe in the spell and have concerns in their hearts, it will make them hold back in the game.

Although Mourinho said in an interview that he and his team will not care about any "curse", who knows what the Real Madrid players really think? I am afraid that even he does not know......

How did Sortmund see this?

Klopp said in an interview that he doesn't care about any spell or not, and he believes that the outcome of the game can only be determined by the performance of the players on both sides in the game, and has nothing to do with the spell or anything.

Zhou Yi, as the core of the team, will naturally be asked this question by the media.

Outside the training ground, he said solemnly: "Spells, nonsense, I can't understand, it's all the 21st century, why would anyone believe in the same excuses as the Middle Ages." I don't believe in spells, that's nonsense. ”

He said it so firmly that some of the reporters couldn't help but ask: "But the fact is that Real Madrid only won once in Germany...... How can this be explained?"

Zhou Yi looked at him and said very seriously: "There is a very scientific word called 'Murphy's Law', I think this should explain your doubts." ”

After saying that, he said goodbye to the reporters.

A group of reporters stood in place, still reminiscing about what Zhou Yi had just said.

"Murphy's Law?" some reporters don't quite understand.

But some reporters understand very well: "Damn, this kid Zhou Yi is making a difference!"

Those who don't understand let those who understand explain: "How do you say it? Why do you make it bad?"

"You know the saying, right? If you drop a slice of bread with jam on the floor, it must be the side with the jam on it. The man who understands asks rhetorically.

"Yes, yes, I've heard of ......" The people who didn't understand nodded again and again.

"That's Murphy's Law. That is, if something is likely to go wrong, then it is bound to go wrong. ”

As soon as he explained this, those who didn't understand understood.

"So Zhou Yi is saying that if Real Madrid is likely to lose to Dortmund, then it will definitely lose to Dortmund?"

"Yes! How else to say that Zhou Yi's stomach is bad! Hurting people is so bad that he is bad!" Haha!" The Chinese reporter laughed happily, apparently he didn't seem to think this was Zhou Yi's shortcoming......

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"Murphy's Law" is not well known in China, but in the Western world, it has become a popular slang term, and when Zhou Yi said this, the eyes of German journalists lit up.

The next day, Germany's "Kicker" used this title: "Zhou Yi: There is no 'curse', only 'Murphy's Law'".

There is no need to explain much, just by looking at this title, everyone knows what Zhou Yi means.

Murphy's Law is actually a psychological effect, in which "things that go wrong will always go wrong" and "if you worry about something happening, then it's more likely to happen" are the main elements of Murphy's Law.

Zhou Yi is actually only using psychology to explain why there is a "curse", since it is considered a curse, it means that this kind of bad thing will happen often, which of course belongs to the scope of the explanation of "Murphy's Law".

At the same time, the media also detoxified Zhou Yi's remarks, Weikang Zhou Yi's provocation of Real Madrid, and announced in advance that Real Madrid would definitely lose away from home.

His remarks were naturally criticized by the Spanish media, who thought that Zhou Yi was arrogant and did not respect his opponent enough.

In this regard, Zhou Yi said in the "Crowding Out Lao Guo" group: "I'm really wronged, I just told them that the statement of the magic spell is unscientific, if it wants to be scientific, you have to use the term 'Murphy's Law', which can be interpreted as deliberately provocative and arrogant, why do you say that the reporter's brain hole is so big?"

"Load, load. Sun Pan watched coldly.

"Load, load. ”

"Load, load. ”

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The rest of the people below follow suit to stay in formation. Even Yang Muge and He Ying are among them.

Zhou Yi could only sigh that "the world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient", and even Lao Yang and He Ying followed Sun Pan to learn badly. (To be continued.) )