Champion’s Heart

When the game restarted, Hoffenheim changed from a shrinking defense to a rushing press all over the field.

This was of course Lannick's instruction.

Rangnick's adjustments were fairly quick, and he didn't give the players time to be at a loss on the court.

In the face of Hoffenheim's pressing, Dortmund's countermeasure is to strengthen the relationship between Zhou Yi and Shaheen, and use the pass-run cooperation between the two of them to open up space and liberate Shaheen.

Zhouyi was like taking part of Shaheen's work.

Dortmund's overall strategy is to counterattack after controlling the ball, taking advantage of the space left behind by Hoffenheim to press their counterattack.

It also really threatened Hoffenheim's goals several times. If it weren't for Hildebrand's normal performance, Dortmund might have scored again.

However, this did not make Hoffenheim back down, and their pressing in the frontcourt became more ferocious.

After all, they are only one goal behind, and the gap of this one goal can still be made up.

With more than ten minutes left in the game, there is still a chance.

In response to this situation, Shaheen and Zhou Yi led Dortmund's midfielders to slow down their speed and rhythm, and began to turn their feet frequently. On the one hand, they hoped to pull Hoffenheim's defenders out, Hoping to kill some game time by kicking back.

How could Hoffenheim fail to see Dortmund's intentions?

Hoffenheim fans booed from the stands every time Dortmund players were on their feet.

At the same time, Hoffenheim's players also grabbed more fiercely, and there was still a wave of emotion in this kind of pressing.

The unwillingness to fall behind and the anger at Dortmund for being so down.

In the 81st minute, Hoffenheim midfielder Maxuel, who had just come off the bench for five minutes, fouled Shaheen who was holding the ball.

Klopp jumped up on the sidelines, and he cursed the German national curse.

As the core of the team, Shaheen will inevitably become the key target of each team, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon!

Shaheen is injured!

Marc Suel's foul caused a flurry of chaos on the court.

In the confusion, Gross Kreutz pushed the fouled Maxuel, but he was also pushed back by Gustavo.

In the end, the referee of the game, Komptel, showed a red card to the fouled Maxuel and directly expelled him from the field!

But Gross Kreutz also received a yellow card.

Although Hoffenheim is missing one person. But Dortmund may not want to have one more player than their opponent at all. Because Shaheen couldn't hold on to the game anymore.

When the players of the two sides clashed, Dortmund's team doctor Dr. Markus Braun ran onto the pitch to check Shaheen.

Then he made a substitution gesture to the sidelines.

Shaheen could not persist in the game and had to be replaced.

The stretcher also quickly ran onto the field. Shaheen was carried onto the stretcher.

Meanwhile, on the sidelines. Klopp, who has finished scolding, is making adjustments.

Another midfielder, Forner, will come on to replace the injured Shaheen, and he will bring the latest instructions from the manager.

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Soon, Forner was substituted.

Dortmund lost a general. Although the opponent has one less player in exchange, I don't think Klopp will want to make such an exchange. Marcel Leif said. I hope Shaheen will not be injured too seriously. Otherwise, the following games will be troublesome for Dortmund...

While talking, Forner ran onto the court, and he ran straight to Zhou Yi.

Zhouyi. The coach asked you to replace Shaheen.

Let me hit the midfielder? Zhou Yi was surprised. He can't hit the back.

No, let you be the core of the team's midfield.

Zhou Yi has always believed that the sky will drop a big responsibility on him. But I didn't expect the appointment to drop so suddenly... It's his first time playing in the league, and he's going to be the center of the midfield!

It's the first time this league debuts, it's really rich in content...

But he didn't refuse or run away. Instead, he nodded: Okay.

At the same time, assistant coach Buvac yelled on the field: Let Zhou Yi handle the ball!!

The other players also understood that Zhou Yi was about to end Shaheen's gun.

However, they were not very surprised by this, because Zhou Yi had been training with them for five months, and they had a very clear understanding of Zhou Yi's ability during these five months of training. In terms of ability, Zhou Yi is qualified for this.

Gross Kreutz gave Zhou Yi a thumbs up to encourage him, and Zhou Yi gave Gross Kreutz a thumbs back.

Because Maxuel's foul on Shaheen was in Dortmund's backcourt, the first thing after the game restarted was that Dortmund would take a free kick in the backcourt.

Central defender Hummels stood behind the football and wanted to kick the football forward with his big feet. This is also a safer approach. But at this moment, he saw Zhou Yi running back from the midfield, ran to ten meters in front of him, and made a gesture for the ball.

The head coach asked him to take over Shaheen's job. He was really not polite at all, and he instantly became the core of the team.

Hummels changed the idea of ​​kicking a big kick to the frontcourt, but passed the football to Zhou Yi.

Just as the football was passed to Zhou Yi, Hoffenheim striker Demba Ba also rushed towards Zhou Yi from behind.

As long as Zhou Yi moves slowly, he may be posted by Demba Ba.

But Zhou Yi didn't slow down and wait for Demba Ba. When the football was passed, he kicked the football out again. This time he passed to another centre-back Subotic.

Then he ran away from the spot and ran into the gap left by Demba Ba's rush.

And Demba Ba missed it.

Zhou Yi, who ran to the empty space, gestured to Subotic again for the ball, so Subotic handed the football to Zhou Yi again.

It seems that Dortmund's stars are willing to listen to Zhou Yi. Here I have to mention the good impression Zhou Yi left on everyone when he first entered the first team. He flattered everyone in the team. Everyone likes this clever The lad, if he wants the ball, give it to him, no big deal. No one will deliberately oppose him.

Zhou Yi still passed the ball with one kick, and he passed the football to the right back Owo Moyela. After passing the ball, he didn't let Owomoyela pass the football to himself, but let Owomoyela take the ball forward by himself, and he himself ran forward. But not fast. And leaned towards the middle.

Soon Owomoyela encountered Hoffenheim's interception on the way forward, and he saw Zhou Yi immediately, so he passed the football to Zhou Yi who was meeting him on the side.

After Zhou Yi received the ball, he passed the football back to central defender Subotic.

Football seems to have returned to the original point after such a turn...

However, Zhou Yi, who was originally playing as a front midfielder, has always been active in front of the back line. Looks more like a lower back.

How could the Hoffenheim fans in the stands fail to see what this series of passes led by Zhou Yi meant?

They booed again.

Marcel Leif felt that there was nothing wrong with what Zhou Yi and his teammates did: Dortmund back and forth back and forth, controlling the football under their own feet. The game time is passing by, and they are getting closer and closer to victory It's close!

It's not that Hoffenheim's players haven't thought about increasing their actions to defend Zhou Yi, such as increasing some physical contact - just look at Zhou Yi's small body. I knew he was not good at physical confrontation.

But they basically miss the opportunity.

Because Zhou Yi's pass is very, very... fast!

He doesn't even stop the ball and adjust, the football comes through. He immediately passed the football out again!

With such a fast speed, Hoffenheim's players have no chance to come up at all.

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Rangnick stared at Zhou Yi who was running back and forth on the court to receive the pass, and was a little fascinated.

It's not like he hasn't seen a player who passes the ball very quickly. It's not that I haven't seen this kind of backcourt inversion, but Zhou Yi's inversion. He didn't see much...

Why?

Because Zhou Yi almost kept the ball and didn't adjust, he could pass the football directly. Although the targets of his passing are all defenders. There are mostly back passes, occasional cross passes, and none of the forward passes. But this still surprised Lannick.

At first he thought how could a player not adjust the direct pass every time?

Later, Lannick discovered that Zhou Yi did not adjust, but his adjustment method was different from that of ordinary players. Most people use their feet to adjust the ball after receiving the ball, and then pass the football. This is the so-called three-foot touch: stop the ball with one foot, adjust with one foot, and pass the ball with one foot.

But in fact, the higher requirement is to touch the ball with two feet: stop the ball with one foot and pass the ball with the other.

In Lannick's view, Zhou Yi is a model of two-foot touch.

So how did he do it?

On the one hand, when Zhou Yi chooses the target of the pass, he tries to be the easiest target in front of him, so that he can pass directly without adjusting the football.

Another reason is that when Zhou Yi is about to catch the ball, he will adjust his body posture. He replaces the step of adjusting the ball with his feet by adjusting his body posture, so that when the football comes over, he can directly replace the football from the ball. the...

Lannick rubbed his chin, he felt that he really underestimated this unknown person before. Now it seems that this kid is really good at passing the ball!

But it's still very dangerous to keep falling in the backcourt like this, because no one can guarantee that every pass and catch is accurate, without any accidents. And as long as there is one, there is a possibility of being caught...

So Rangnick did not prevent the players from pressing.

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This period of time was really a feast for the eyes of Zhou Jianliang, Li Cuiyun and other Chinese fans in front of the TV, because the TV footage basically centered on Zhou Yi and would always return to Zhou Yi.

It's just that they still have some regrets—it's not interesting to always be like this, but it's a little hypnotic...

They still want to see Zhou Yi's performance in offense.

And they will still feel worried in their hearts, worried that if Zhou Yi is passed on like this, in case they set fire to themselves, the opponent directly intercepts the ball and counterattacks, causing the team to lose the ball. Doesn't that mean that all the previous scoring credits have been wiped out?

The commentator Duan Xin also has such worries: Dortmund keeps falling back and forth in the midfield. It can be seen that they want to delay the time. After all, there are not even ten minutes before the end of the game. But it is still quite dangerous. You know Dortmund are one goal ahead now and that will always give Hoffenheim hope. Hoffenheim will only get crazier as time approaches. Look how they are pressing now... Dangerous!

Before he finished speaking, Duan Xin exclaimed.

Because he saw that when the football was pierced to Zhouyi again, there was already a person beside Zhouyi in advance - Ibisevic, and another Hoffenheim player Obasi also rushed up. Hoffenheim obviously wanted to fight, and this time they played two people!

It looks like the ball passed to Zhou Yi will be cut off!

This scene made people worry, and Duan Xin couldn't help crying out.

But when the Hoffenheim players were about to poke Zhou Yi's ball first, Zhou Yi passed the football back! Just a little bit faster than the opponent!

Then, Zhou Yi, who passed back the pass, turned around leaning on Ibisevic who had posted it, and suddenly moved forward diagonally.

The central defender Subotic, who received Zhou Yi's return pass, also saw the opportunity and passed the football diagonally to Zhou Yi!

He used a little bit, and passed the football to Zhou Yi's body. Zhou Yi stretched out his foot and hooked the football to the front. He didn't lose any speed, and he took the ball forward to kill!

In the blink of an eye, Dortmund suddenly changed from a state of passing back and forth in the backcourt to a forward attack!

Such a quick change caught Hoffenheim by surprise!

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PS, at the beginning of this book, I said that I want to write a book that has a different feeling from the previous books, so this book will have a lot of details. I will not only focus on the protagonist, I will go to Write the stories of the people around him, and those who are related to him. Otherwise, why should I make up five small players instead of just the protagonist as before?

So this book is not the kind of book that can keep you climaxing until you get tired of it.

This is a slower book, but I firmly believe that the quality is better and it is worth reading repeatedly.

The subscription results from the beginning of the novel to the present also prove that it is reasonable for me to do so. The subscription results are much better than I expected, and even the results in the same period are better than The Winner is King, which is my best book. Only the monthly ticket is half dead because I didn't fight because it didn't explode.

But I don't expect monthly tickets for this book. I just want to write slowly according to the rhythm and direction I originally set. It is enough to write well and complete.

In addition, because this book is in cooperation with a reality show, it will not be too long. Whether it is the number of words or the time span of the book, it cannot be too long. If I delete all the details that some people say about water, the book may be finished with 500,000 words, but then it is not a novel, it is called an outline, a synopsis of the story.

Some people are willing to read the synopsis, but I believe more people are still willing to read the novel.

So I stuck with my approach and just wrote it. I also believe that eating too many big meals and occasionally eating porridge and side dishes will have a special flavor.

Of course, if you don’t want to read novels with this rhythm, you just want to read pure and refreshing ones. I respect your choice. You can read the few books I wrote before, The Winner Is King and The Hero of the Forbidden Zone are all Finished the book with good grades, and Light of Champions also meets your definition of no water. The rookie has become the savior of Sao Paulo, and Champion Heart has 800,000 words, and the protagonist has just played his first official league game.

Finally, once again, Heart of a Champion is a competitive novel of different styles. Don't use the previous standards to say how many words should be how many chapters should be. The novel is written by me, and I have my own sense of proportion. I am happy to see the results, but in the end it is me who makes the decision. I accept what makes sense. If I don’t accept it, I must have my own considerations. If you insist on asking me to write according to your opinion, if you don't write like this, it's trash, rubbish, or something, then I'm sorry, I'm the same as Tony Twain, I've always been soft and not hard.

In the end, my next book may have a different style. Maybe I haven’t played a professional league game by the end of the book. I don’t know if some people can stand it? (To be continued.) Enable new URL