Champion’s Heart

Before Dortmund announced the starting lineup, everyone was speculating whether Klopp would make rotation adjustments to the starting lineup. After all, the game against Atletico Madrid three days ago consumed a lot of physical energy from the Dortmund players.

If there is no rotation, it will not only affect the performance in this game against Leverkusen, but also continue to affect the second round against Atletico Madrid next week.

With continuous fighting and the end of the season, even a team like Dortmund, which is known for its good physical fitness, may be in a situation where the landlord has no surplus food...

In the squad announced the day before the game, Aubameyang and Royce were not even included in the squad. This basically gave everyone's speculation a preliminary result - Klopp has indeed rotated!

There is nothing that can be done about this. With Dortmund's current lineup, if they don't rotate, they are afraid of a complete collapse... For the sake of the next game, it is necessary to make a moderate rotation now.

But two hours before the game, when Dortmund announced the starting lineup, everyone was still shocked - Zhou Yi was nowhere to be found in the starting lineup!

Zhou Yi, who entered the big list, did not enter the starting list, which is a rare thing for Dortmund.

No matter how the rotation was done before, Zhou Yi was the unshakable starting force. It was also under the leadership of Zhou Yi that Dortmund was able to hold on to Bayern Munich in the league and achieved a lead at the Allianz Arena.

The importance of Zhou Yi to Dortmund is evident.

Before, everyone speculated that Dortmund would rotate in this game, but no matter how you guessed it, they never thought that Zhou Yi would be rotated...

So when the starting lineup came out, many people's first reaction was - Did the Bundesliga official website make a mistake? How could Zhou Yi not start?

But after repeated confirmations, it was discovered that Zhou Yi did not start. Mkhitaryan started in this game instead of him, and Zhou Yi sat on the bench.

For a time, the media and fans paying attention to this game were in an uproar, both in Germany and China.

Speculations abounded.

How could Zhou Yi not start?

If there wasn't something wrong with Klopp's brain, there must be a reason why Zhou Yi didn't start.

What's the reason?

Zhou Yi was injured?

Is there a big problem with Zhou Yi's physical fitness?

Because the starting lineup was announced only two hours before the game, even though reporters had questions in their minds, they had nowhere to ask.

They can only guess but have nowhere to prove it.

Judging from Dortmund's previous training, Zhou Yi is normal, and he definitely won't be unable to start due to injury. Physical problems are more likely. After all, Zhou Yi played the entire match between Dortmund and Atletico Madrid, and he always controlled the rhythm of the game. Very impressive. When Dortmund plays fast passing tactics, Zhou Yi keeps running up and down. The football always has to pass through his hub, which requires very high physical fitness.

Although Dortmund defeated Atletico Madrid 3:0 and almost completely suppressed Atletico Madrid on the scene, what was the cost?

The average running distance of the Dortmund team in that game was 11 kilometers.

This is the average running distance of the entire team.

Zhou Yi ran nearly 15,000 meters by himself, making him the player with the longest running distance in the Dortmund team.

This data can tell us how tired Zhou Yi is.

So it makes sense that Zhou Yi did not start the game against Leverkusen...

It's just reasonable, but Klopp's doing so is very risky.

What if Dortmund loses to Leverkusen away from home? The one-point lead they had finally built up over Bayern Munich was completely gone, and the league championship would also fall to Bayern Munich. So why did Dortmund work so hard all season?

Unless Klopp feels that Dortmund can win Leverkusen away from home even without Zhou Yi.

Then his attitude will definitely anger Leverkusen.

And with Zhou Yi on the bench, Leverkusen will also see it as an opportunity.

Will Dortmund be able to withstand Leverkusen's indiscriminate bombardment at home by then?

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The match between Dortmund and Leverkusen kicked off on the evening of April 26, local time. Prior to this, many Bundesliga games kicked off on the afternoon of April 26, including Bayern Munich. The games between Munich and Werder Bremen, as well as the games between Wolfsburg and Freiburg that Leverkusen focuses on.

As a result, Wolfsburg was unexpectedly tied by Freiburg at home, and the two sides tied at 2:2.

This is not good news for Dortmund. Wolfsburg's draw means that as long as Leverkusen can beat Dortmund at home, they can expand the point difference between them and Wolfsburg and further consolidate their fourth position in the league, so they defeated them at home Dortmund's desire is even stronger.

In addition, the result of Bayern Munich's game also put a lot of pressure on Dortmund.

They encountered stubborn resistance from Werder Bremen at their home court at the beginning. Werder Bremen scored first, and Selassie helped Werder Bremen open the scoring in the tenth minute.

However, Bayern Munich equalized ten minutes later through Franck Ribery.

In the 36th minute, Werder Bremen took the lead again. Hunter scored against Bayern Munich.

At the end of the first half, Werder Bremen still led Bayern Munich 2:1.

If Bayern Munich loses the game like this, Dortmund will be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, Bayern Munich's coaching bench received the starting lineup for Dortmund's game against Leverkusen.

Originally, the opponent's starting lineup was nothing to pay attention to, and Guardiola would generally not be told this kind of thing. But today's situation was so special that the people collecting intelligence didn't know what it meant, so they simply told Guardiola.

Zhou Yi didn't start? Guardiola was also surprised after hearing the news. After getting the definite answer, he fell into silence for a while.

What does it mean that Zhou Yi doesn't start?

Is this a conspiracy ordered by Klopp? Or has Klopp gotten carried away?

Is this our chance?

For a time, many thoughts flashed through Guardiola's mind.

Then he opened the locker room door and walked in.

Because of falling behind in the first half, the morale of Bayern Munich players was not very high.

In fact, this has often happened to Bayern Munich since losing to Dortmund in the battle of Tianwangshan at the Allianz Arena.

Although they are only one point behind, if Dortmund keeps winning, the result will still be very disappointing...

Lack of confidence will be particularly prominent when encountering difficulties.

Such as now.

Bayern Munich fought fiercely with Werder Bremen at home for 45 minutes, and in the end Werder Bremen led by one goal.

At halftime, the atmosphere in the locker room was not very good either.

At this time Guardiola opened the door and walked in.

Keep a straight face.

After everyone saw the head coach's expression, the air in the locker room froze.

I just heard something interesting and I thought I should share it with you, Guardiola said.

The players' interest was attracted by his words, and all eyes turned to him.

Dortmund did not have Zhou Yi in their starting lineup against Leverkusen.

As soon as Guardiola said these words, the eyes of some people in the Bayern Munich team changed. They knew what it meant that Zhou Yi didn't start.

I don't know why Zhou Yi did not appear in the starting lineup, but I guess it may have something to do with them knowing that we were trailing Werder Bremen 1:2 in the first half. They felt that we were destined to lose, so they could let The core players are fully rested...

Guardiola said, but the Bayern Munich players were unconvinced - yes, we are behind now, but isn't there still half a game?

Who says we are destined to lose? !

Guardiola had to spend a lot of time trying to make his players understand, but now he only needs to tell them what Dortmund did...

As for whether Dortmund really put Zhou Yi on the bench because Bayern Munich fell behind in the first half, that actually doesn't matter at all. Guardiola doesn't care what the truth of the matter is.

He just needs to take advantage of this order...

He used to say he didn't care what happened to Dortmund, but now he needs Dortmund to help boost his morale.

It's a bit...ironic to say the least.

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After the start of the second half, Bayern Munich, which had not made any personnel adjustments, was like a new team, quickly bringing the game into a familiar rhythm.

Just eight minutes into the second half, Pizarro equalized for Bayern Munich.

Four minutes later, Pizarro scored twice and Bayern Munich took the lead.

Bastian Schweinsteiger scored in the 61st minute, and Bayern Munich led Werder Bremen 4:2.

At this time, Werder Bremen had been demoralized by Bayern Munich and could not threaten Bayern Munich's goal. They could only shrink their defense and pray for fewer penalty kicks...

But in the 74th minute, they still lost the ball. Arjen Robben came off the bench to seal the victory for Bayern Munich.

In the end, Bayern Munich defeated Werder Bremen 5:2 at home.

Dortmund, who temporarily overtook Dortmund with one game in hand, regained first place in the league standings.

Just like beating a drum to pass flowers, the pressure-filled ball was passed from Bayern Munich to Dortmund. No one knew whether the ball would suddenly explode when it was in Dortmund's hands...

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