Champion’s Heart

After the players from both sides finished their warm-up, when they returned to the locker room, the stands were almost full of people. There were fewer and fewer fans gathered outside the stadium. I went to the tavern to drink with my friends while waiting for the start of the live broadcast of the game.

Only a very small number of people are still reluctant to give up outside the stadium, waiting infatuatedly, hoping to wait for one or two refund tickets.

Only such lucky ones are very few.

There are only two Ruhr Derbys in a season. How many people will not watch such an important game, and then refund it after buying the ticket?

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Yang Muge was sitting in his seat, on his right was his good friend Draxler from the youth team, on his left was Hao Junmin from the first team, his compatriot, his senior.

The active international player of the Chinese national team who moved to Schalke 04 during the winter break last season.

Last season, there were four consecutive starting performances. In the first game of the new season, he also got the chance to start. In the second game, he became a substitute. In the third game, he didn't even make the squad. Erqu Derby has nothing to do with him anymore, he can only watch from the sidelines with Yang Muge.

As the only Chinese in the team, he naturally knew Yang Muge, and because of Zhouyi, the two became close.

Zhou Yi was teammates with Hao Junmin when he was in the national team. When he heard that Hao Junmin was going to Schalke 04, he specifically mentioned Yang Muge to him.

For this Ruhr Derby, the Chinese media were very disappointed that Hao Junmin did not make it to the squad for the competition, otherwise they would have been able to hype up the Chinese Derby gimmick.

Last season Zhou Yi led Dortmund to the derby at the Schalke Stadium, Hao Junmin also did not enter the squad.

The Chinese derby in the Ruhr area that the Chinese media hope to see seems to have to wait.

The three of them were sitting in the stands, discussing the upcoming game.

Draxler is still full of confidence in his team. Although the team has had a bad start this season and has not won yet, he believes that Derby is different. Schalke 04 will usher in the season in this game First win. And then all the way forward. Go back to where they belong.

In comparison, Yang Muge is not so optimistic. Since the new season, Schalke 04 has played three league rounds and one Champions League group match. Lost all four games with zero points. Ranked seventeenth in the league - second to last,

Only the advantage of goal difference is on top of Stuttgart.

Hard times for coach Magath...

Hao Junmin basically doesn't speak German, so he couldn't deeply participate in this discussion. He can only rely on Yang Muge's translation to understand what Draxla said. He also expressed his opinion in Chinese and Yang Muge - he also thinks that the team is not doing well recently, but he also thinks that the Derby is a game with a different meaning. The two derbies in each season have to be taken out separately, and the previous performance cannot be used as a reference at all. Maybe this derby will really be a turning point for the team to reverse the league ranking?

Yang Muge disagreed with both of them. He turned his head and said to the optimistic Draxler in German: But Dortmund has a change of heart. He is in really good form this season.

After hearing Yang Muge's words, Draxler was taken aback for a moment. Then fell silent.

Zhou Yi, this is really the last name he wants to hear at this time...

The derby at this stadium last season is still vivid. Schalke 04 lost to Zhou Yi in the end.

While Draxler fell silent. Yang Muge turned back and said to Hao Junmin in Chinese: Brother Hao, don't forget that the core of Dortmund is Zhouyi...

When Hao Junmin heard this, he also fell silent.

Before coming to Schalke 04, Hao Junmin was very confident in himself, because he just scored a very beautiful goal from a small angle in the friendly match against the German national team. It was precisely because of that goal that he was valued by Schalke 04. At home, his agent also told him that he is fully capable of gaining a foothold in Germany.

Later, before she met, Zhou Yi, who was already playing in Germany, appeared and performed well.

He thought to himself, Zhou Yi, a former amateur player, could be the main player in Dortmund, so if he went to Schalke 04, the main player did not run away.

But in the end, when he actually came to Schalke 04, Magath gave him a big blow in the first training session-the training intensity made him want to vomit, not because of nausea, but because of tiredness. vomit……

In a state of extreme fatigue, people will have some stress reactions, leading to vomiting.

If Hao Junmin hadn't held back, he might have vomited directly on the training ground. If that's the case, it's like losing a grown-up...

Then he heard that the training intensity of Dortmund's coach Klopp next door was not inferior to that of Magath.

And this kind of training, that seemingly thin boy persisted?

Just thinking of this, Hao Junmin felt incredible. In his mind, his evaluation of Zhouyi was also changing.

Then, the longer he stayed in Germany, the more he found himself naive.

Is it not a problem to play the main force in Schalke 04?

It's a good thing he didn't tell others about this small thought at the beginning, otherwise he would become a laughing stock now.

Chinese football and German football are like two completely different parallel worlds, and there is no possibility of intersecting at all.

For a while, he even began to wonder if he was not suitable for playing football. Why is it that no matter how hard he trains, he still can't show a decent performance when he goes on the court?

At this time, when he looked at Zhou Yi again, his eyes became complicated.

When I first met Zhou Yi in the national team, everyone was watching Zhou Yi, and he was no exception. Whether it is competition or training, Zhou Yi has indeed shown his ability to be selected for the national team. However, in Hao Junmin's view, Zhou Yi has the strength of the national team, but he is not as powerful as the media brag about. At least when he was training and competing with the national team, he never showed any performance like stand out from the crowd—— At that time in China, there were indeed very few media who used such an adjective that made the international players uncomfortable.

Oh, stand out from the crowd, of course Zhouyi is a crane, are we a flock of chickens?

This is too bad, right?

Anyway, everyone feels that Zhou Yi's performance in the national team is far from reaching a level that is far beyond everyone's understanding and understanding. Hao Junmin also guessed his prospect of joining Schalke 04 because of this—since Zhou Yi’s ability can be the main force in Dortmund, why can’t he have more experience than him and better skills than him in Schalke 04? Find a place in the main lineup?

But when he came to Germany, he could experience the high level of European football at the shortest distance. Look at Zhou Yi's performance in Dortmund. Only then did he realize that something was wrong.

Especially the Ruhr Derby where Schalke 04 played against Dortmund at home last season. At that time, Hao Junmin was also watching the game in the stands, but he didn't sit with Yang Muge, he saw Zhou Yi's performance with his own eyes. Then I was surprised to find that Zhou Yi wearing a Dortmund jersey is completely different from Zhou Yi wearing a Chinese team jersey, whether it is performance or temperament on the court. It's all different.

For some details, Hao Junmin also plays football. Of course you can see it.

For example, the speed of passing and running is faster than when he was in the national team.

At first, Hao Junmin wondered if he was delusional.

But after watching the whole game. He found that it was not an illusion, but a fact.

But why did Zhou Yi have such a change. Different people in the club and the national team?

Hao Junmin's first reaction was that Zhou Yi didn't work hard for the national team, and reserved his strength for the club's games. That's a little unpatriotic and politically incorrect...

But if you really don't work hard. So why did he perform well in the national team?

Hao Junmin couldn't understand this question.

Later, he gradually became acquainted with Yang Muge, and he asked Yang Muge what kind of person Zhou Yi was. I accidentally heard Yang Muge say that Zhou Yi is a very helpful person, and he is very good at considering others, and he will think very thoughtfully.

know this time. Hao Junmin suddenly understood why Zhou Yi's performance in the national team and the club were somewhat different.

It's like two cars with the same engine, four liters of displacement, turbocharged, and the same power, for example, both are 422 horsepower, with a maximum power of 310 kilowatts and a maximum speed of 5,000 500 rpm, maximum torque 600 Nm... Judging from the data performance, it is a very good eight-cylinder engine.

But the first car matched this engine with a gearbox with the highest four-speed, and the second car matched with a nine-speed gearbox.

So which car performs better on the road?

Hao Junmin is the driver, of course he knows, there is no doubt that it is the one with the nine-speed gearbox.

Because the first car has the highest fourth gear, when the speed exceeds 100 kilometers, the engine speed will be very high, which will damage both the engine and the gearbox, and it is not comfortable to drive at all. The frustration is palpable.

And what about the second car? The nine-speed gearbox can make this car very smooth when accelerating, and the dynamic response is positive. There will be no frustration when upshifting. Even if the speed exceeds 100 kilometers per hour, it is also very easy to accelerate and overtake. , The tacit cooperation between the gearbox and the engine is so perfect that you can hardly feel the existence of gear shifting.

Apparently the first car's gearbox wasn't able to exploit the full capabilities of this excellent engine. Only the second one will do.

Under such circumstances, if the first car must use this engine with a four-speed gearbox, it can only reduce the power of the engine so that it can adapt to the gearbox. For this engine, this is actually a waste of capacity, but at least it can be matched with a gearbox, which makes the car less uncomfortable to drive.

Zhou Yi As for the Chinese team and Dortmund, it is the relationship between an excellent engine and two gearboxes. The national team has a four-speed gearbox, while Dortmund has a nine-speed gearbox. If Zhou Yi does not reduce his output power, then it will be difficult for him to cooperate with the Chinese team in the fourth gear. If he wants to adapt to the national team, he will naturally make his engine seem to have no statistical performance. so awesome...

When he returned to Dortmund, there was a gearbox that fully matched his ability, and he could fire without any scruples. At this time, he looked like he was awesome and worthy of those dazzling data.

So it's not that Zhou Yi's ability is mediocre, but that the national team is too poor. He doesn't need and can't be too dazzling. After all, he is a midfield organizer. How to organize the attack?

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When Hao Junmin was silent, the atmosphere on the scene suddenly heated up, because the broadcast on the spot was broadcasting the starting lineup of Schalke 04 for this match.

Every time a name is reported, it will cause cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami.

The cheers also interrupted Hao Junmin's thoughts, pulling him out of his melancholy.

Next to Draxler and other fans, cheering loudly for each player.

And after reporting the Schalke 04 players, the live broadcast only introduced the Dortmund players with a weak sentence of Let us also welcome our opponent Dortmund.

But at this moment, all the boos sounded in the Schalke stadium.

After the booing, the players from both sides came out. Hao Junmin and Yang Muge saw Zhou Yi among the Dortmund players. Despite the loud cheers and boos, his expression was calm.

Players from both sides are on the field! Welcome everyone to watch the Ruhr Derby! (To be continued.) Launch of new website