Champion’s Heart

When Zhou Yi was training long balls in the virtual system, the real world was also passing day by day. At the national team level, the Chinese team went to the East Asian semi-finals in Japan.

But this time, Zhou Yi was not called into the team by Gao Hongbo. Gao Hongbo's explanation for this is that Zhou Yi has heavy competition tasks in the club, and everyone in the East Asian semi-finals did not call back players who played overseas. Naturally, the Chinese team did not have the need to recall Zhou Yi.

The Chinese media also think that Zhou Yi does not need to come back to participate in the East Asian semi-finals, which is not an international A-level event, because these weak competitions affect his future in Dortmund, and that is not worth the loss.

You know, Shaheen performed well after returning from injury, which has already given the Chinese media a sense of crisis. If the main position in the club is taken away because of returning to China to participate in the irrelevant East Asian semi-finals, then it is really picking sesame seeds and losing watermelons.

There is no such precedent before.

After Yang Chen's outstanding performance in Frankfurt, he was frequently called back to China to participate in the national team's competition, which eventually caused him to lose his main position in Frankfurt. Such a tragedy cannot be repeated on Zhou Yi.

At the same time, the national team without Zhouyi also gave the Chinese a surprise. They drew the host Japan 0:0 in the first match, and then ended their 32-year invincibility against Korea with a 3:0 victory against the South Korean team. Koreaphobia! Let the Chinese fans eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year.

In terms of clubs, Dortmund's away game against Bayern Munich is getting closer and closer.

However, Dortmund's preparations for the game were not very smooth-in training, their main goalkeeper Weidenfeller was injured.

Injuries to goalkeepers are rare, and injuries in training are even rarer.

But such a rare thing still happened to Dortmund.

As the team's main goalkeeper and the last line of defense, Weidenfeller is very important to Dortmund.

His injury is definitely bad news.

So Klopp, who was on the sidelines of the training field at the time, looked ugly.

You know, just the day before Weidenfeller was injured, the team captain Sebastian Kell was also injured.

Losing two people in a row, Dortmund's luck is really bad.

When Kyle was injured, Klopp's face was not as ugly as it is now.

After all, after Shaheen returned from injury, Kyle is no longer the main force. And Kyle has always been accompanied by injuries in recent years. Injuries have become commonplace. He was uninjured during his time with Shaheen. Topped in time, the performance has exceeded Klopp's expectations.

The impact of Weidenfeller's injury is definitely unmatched by Kyle's injury.

When Weidenfeller was injured, the team's training was suspended, and everyone watched the team doctor Dr. Kraun checking Weidenfeller. They all frowned-they also knew the importance of Weidenfeller to the team.

Someone couldn't help but sighed.

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Weidenfeller was injured very suddenly, just the day before the team planned to leave for Munich.

so. Dortmund's starting goalkeeper can only be replaced by Ziegler, who has not played a minute this season.

Then with such a lineup, the Dortmund team flew to Munich.

The main goalkeeper was injured, plus a new tactic that had only been practiced for a week. Dortmund did not find any bargains away.

They eventually lost 1:3 to Bayern Munich.

Dortmund took the lead five minutes into the game, thanks to a goal from Subotic.

But the good times didn't last long. Bayern Munich then scored three goals in a row.

Dortmund was beaten without temper in the away game.

This is the first time that Zhou Yi and Shaheen have started at the same time this season. It is the first time for two players who have been in good form to start at the same time. It stands to reason that they are highly anticipated.

When Shaheen returned from injury. The Dortmund local media believes that Shaheen and Zhou Yi can coexist at the same time, which will greatly enhance Dortmund's ability to control and pass the ball in the midfield.

But after two people started at the same time. The team lost instead.

And in the game, they did not show the effect that one plus one is greater than two.

This seems to be one of the reasons for the team's away loss to Bayern Munich.

But Klopp didn't think so. He said in the post-match press conference that the loss was due to the team's bad luck.

Such an explanation obviously cannot be accepted by the media.

Bad luck? Dortmund took the lead in the first five minutes! If this is bad luck, then what is good luck? The local media in Munich sneered.

As for the performance of Zhou Yi and Shaheen starting at the same time but not as good as everyone thinks, Klopp also thinks it is normal: You also said that this is the first time that two people start at the same time this season. There is some lack of tacit understanding between the two. That's normal, and I don't think it's anything to be concerned about.

In fact, Klopp knew in his heart that there was only one reason why Dortmund lost to Bayern Munich, and that is that Dortmund's current strength is not strong enough compared to Bayern Munich.

But he can't admit it publicly, it's a blow to the morale of his team - what would Dortmund's players think if they knew that their manager thought they were inferior to Bayern Munich's players? They will feel that such a head coach is not worthy of their hard work. At that time, the foundation of trust between the players and the head coach will be disintegrated.

So Klopp can only push the responsibility for the loss to bad luck.

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In fact, in the years when Dortmund performed well, they were a strong challenger to Bayern Munich.

However, as Dortmund's performance declined and its financial situation deteriorated, the gap between Dortmund and Bayern Munich widened.

Instead, some other teams took over the Bayern Munich Challengers banner.

Such as Werder Bremen, such as Stuttgart, such as Schalke 04.

But before this game, Dortmund's momentum was very strong, which made everyone look forward to the game between Dortmund and Bayern Munich. Let's see if Borussia Dortmund can reemerge as challengers to Bayern Munich.

But reality has given those who fantasize so much a sap.

After the game, some media commented that although Dortmund performed much better than at the beginning of the season, there is still a long way to go to threaten Bayern Munich.

There are also media who disagree with the view that Klopp's loss is bad luck, and believe that Klopp should be responsible for the team's loss to Bayern Munich.

The successive injuries of Weidenfeller and Kyle are the responsibility of Klopp's excessive training intensity.

Because both of them were injured in training.

They even blamed Shaheen's injury on Klopp's head. It is believed that Shaheen was overtired during training, which caused him to be unable to better protect himself in the game.

However, Klopp did not respond to this voice.

Some media also believe that Klopp's dual-core tactic that allows Shaheen and Zhou Yi to coexist looks beautiful in theory. But in practice, there are many difficulties. Not as promising as expected.

...dual core is not so fun. The England national team should be a lesson for Klopp. Gerrard and Lampard are well-deserved cores in their respective clubs, but England has these two world-class midfielders. However, the field is very chaotic, and they did not perform well in international competitions. This is because the two cores conflict with each other. The division of labor is not clear, and the responsibilities are confused...Now Dortmund is facing the same problem as the England team...Shaheen and Zhou Yi are fighting each other Chaos in the coordination. It was shown against Bayern Munich...

Regarding the questioning of the new tactics, Klopp also did not argue.

No matter what the outside world sounds, he just wants to make his new tactics take shape as soon as possible.

In the game against Bayern Munich. It can be seen that there are still some problems in the cooperation between Shaheen and Zhou Yi.

Like in theory. Two people must keep in touch during the game, and have a clear division of labor, and at the same time, they can also switch positions.

This requirement is actually very vague.

How can we keep in touch and have a clear division of labor? Is the clear division of labor and mutual exchange contradictory again? When to have a clear division of labor. When can we switch places again?

These are difficult to figure out in a game, only continuous training and cooperation. In order to cultivate enough tacit understanding.

This takes time and patience.

Klopp is very patient about this, he is willing to give these two young people enough time, and he also believes that these two young people will not live up to his patience and expectations.

But not everyone has this patience.

Zhou Yi actually did not.

Waiting for a chance to play in the first team. He is very patient.

Because he couldn't decide on this matter, he had to wait patiently.

But for this matter now, he hopes that through his own efforts, the waiting time can be reduced.

Especially after the loss to Bayern Munich.

Zhou Yi wasn't in a hurry at first, his attention was all on the long pass that week. But when he experienced the loss to Bayern Munich in the away game, he realized that long passing needs time to improve slowly, and a week of hard training is limited. His short pass has been practiced non-stop for a year to achieve the current results.

Now it seems that the cooperation between him and Shaheen in the midfield is more urgent.

So Zhou Yi adjusted the proportion of his training in the virtual system. Long passes are still practiced every day, but unlike last week, he only practiced long passes. He now spends one-third of his time on long and short passes. , and the remaining two-thirds of the training time is used for the team's offensive and defensive joint training with Shaheen.

The main thing is to improve the level of tacit understanding with Shaheen in the new tactical system. The specific manifestation is to explore the timing and degree of maintaining contact, clear division of labor, and changing positions in continuous repeated training.

In fact, this is not Zhou Yi's business alone, it is dual-core after all.

Zhou Yi's training can only improve his familiarity with the new tactics, but it cannot improve Shaheen's proficiency in this style of play.

So it seems that Zhou Yi's special training is actually useless.

After training for a day, Zhou Yi also had such doubts.

Because no matter how he trains in the virtual world, in the real training the next day, everything seems to be the same as before his special training. If there is any improvement, the improvement will be very, very small...

It won't work if it goes on like this, but you can't just let it go, you have to think of a solution, right?

After thinking hard for ten minutes, Zhou Yi came up with a solution.

Since Shaheen cannot be given special training and can only be trained by himself, then let Shaheen continue to play in the way he is familiar with, and cooperate with Shaheen himself.

In this way, you only need to train yourself.

This is the only way to cooperate with the most obvious and fastest effect in the current dual-core tactics.

It is also the only feasible special training method. (To be continued.) Enable new URL