Chapter 44: Dortmund's Devil's Home Field
"Is this Borussia Dortmund's home stadium? It's terrifying! ”
Borussia Dortmund's home fans are very fanatical and are one of the famous devil's home stadiums in European football.
It can accommodate 80,000 people to watch the game, and Dort's home stadium is almost full.
Especially its south stand, where more than 30,000 fans sit to the brim for every game.
They wore Dortmund's black-edged and yellow-bottomed jerseys, waved various flags, and sang the Dortmund team anthem loudly.
The atmosphere at home is much scarier than Bayern's Allianz Arena.
"Don't let it be influenced by off-field factors, Borussia Dortmund's home stadium has always been like this, and if you put too much attention into this kind of thing, you're fooling them!"
Captain Fritz saw that the young players were shocked by the atmosphere at Dortmund's home, so he hurriedly spoke up to remind them.
It is often said that the home fans are the twelfth on the team.
This claim is not unfounded!
When playing at home, the team's tens of thousands of fans can cheer and applaud the home team, cheer them on, stimulate their fighting spirit, and make their blood boil and their fighting spirit high.
As for the players of the visiting team, they will be booed by the home team's fans as soon as they get the ball, and the loud boos will make people feel irritated and lose their calm judgment.
If the psychological quality is a little worse, maybe you will be booed and unable to hold the ball, and there will be all kinds of mistakes.
Not only that, but the cheers of the fans can also put pressure on the referees who enforce the law to make decisions in favour of the home team.
These factors add up to home advantage in football.
This advantage is actually very obvious, so in the leagues of various countries, there are often the kind of home dragons with strong home records.
If you play against this kind of team, it's a very difficult game to play.
Unfortunately, Dortmund is such a home dragon!
They lost just one of their 17 Bundesliga home games last season, which is the top result of all 18 teams in the Bundesliga, and a wide lead over second place.
It's even harder to beat them on their home ground than it is to storm Bayern's home stadium!
The historical head-to-head statistics between the two teams are also very negative for Werder Bremen, with Dortmund having the absolute upper hand with 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in the last ten games in the past two years.
Poor physical form, horrific home advantage of opponents, and an all-time head-to-head record of overwhelming dominance.
All this indicates that this game will be very difficult for Werder Bremen.
Schaaf was also well aware of this, so he made a very bold plan.
"After the opening, we will attack for five minutes, strive to break through the opponent's goal, and immediately retreat after the victory, and hold until the end of the game!"
Borussia Dortmund's players are young, young, energetic and driven, which is good.
But there is one weakness of young players that is not so good, and that is that they are not consistent enough mentality.
If it's a tailwind game, they don't have a psychological burden and can often play a supernatural performance.
But once they fall into a headwind, especially a long-term headwind, they will play more and more impatiently, perform worse and worse, and then lose the game.
The last time Werder Bremen beat Dortmund, it was with Silvestre's quick goal in the opening five minutes, which disrupted the opponent's mentality, made the opponent more and more anxious, and finally played out of style collectively, allowing Werder Bremen to win the game by luck.
Therefore, for Werder Bremen, if they want to win, they must seize this weakness of the opponent and fight to the death.
If their tactics work, then there is still hope of winning this game.
If their tactics fail, it's not a big deal, and their chances of winning are not much anyway.
So when Coach Schaaf said his plan, the players were all in favor and everyone was willing to give it a go!
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"CCTV, CCTV, dear viewers and friends, here is the final of the 2012 Deutsche Telekom Cup brought to you by CCTV, by Dortmund against Werder Bremen."
"I'm the narrator He Wei!"
"I'm the narrator Xu Yang!"
"The game is about to start, so let's take a look at the starting line-ups for both sides.
Because the last semi-final of the Telecom Cup commented by He Wei and Xu Yang received good ratings in China, the two of them continued to serve as commentators for CCTV in this game.
Before the start of the five major leagues, such a game is naturally a choice not to be missed for fans who like to watch football.
Therefore, after the live broadcast began, the ratings of CCTV Sports soared rapidly.
And a large part of this is due to the young Chinese player in the Werder Bremen team.
Lin Quan scored a hat-trick against Bayern Munich yesterday, breaking the record of three Telecom Cups in one fell swoop.
They are: youngest starter, youngest goal and youngest hat-trick.
Although the gold content of the Telecom Cup is not particularly high, for his age, being able to break these three records at once also made him a little popular in the football circle.
In addition, because He Wei compared Lin Quan to Messi in the commentary, many Messi fans and people who black Messi were also attracted to it.
"Hehe, I want to see if this so-called Messi II is as powerful as the commentator boasts!"
"I watched Lin Quan's last game, and it is definitely the real Messi II!"
"Upstairs, I don't read much, don't lie to me!"
"That is, bragging doesn't make drafts, there are so many 'Messi' popping up from all corners every year, when did Messi become so cheap and worthless?"
"In terms of my 20 years of experience in watching football, Messi's ball sense talent is definitely at the historical level, and other players like Messi, if they don't have such a top ball sense, it can only be in vain."
"Tut, see Mei Chui again, your Messi is so strong, why was his head shaved by Germany in the World Cup?"
"It's as if your Ronaldo has entered the quarterfinals, but those who fell in the top 16, how can they have the face to make a big fuss here?"
……
Originally, the topic of discussion was whether Lin Quan was Messi II, but because of the appearance of Mei fans and Mei Hei, the topic was seriously off-topic and ran to the debate between Ronaldo and Messi.
These two are the strongest players, the most discussed and the most popular players in football today.
During this period, these two people were called peerless duo.
They both have a large number of fans who don't like each other, so there are often fights between fans on both sides.
In the quarrel between the fans on both sides, time passed little by little.
At 7:35 p.m., with the referee's whistle.
The much-anticipated Telecom Cup final, Dortmund vs. Werder Bremen, officially began.