Champion’s Heart

When Dortmund got an offensive opportunity, the football was once again passed to Zhou Yi's feet.

This time Zhou Yi did not wait in place, but faced the football and was ready to catch the ball.

Javi Garcia, who was guarding him, also ran up, trying to stick to Zhou Yi and prevent him from turning around.

But Zhou Yi didn't even think about turning around. When he ran in front of the football, he spread his legs and missed the football!

The football just passed between his legs, rolled past Javi Garcia who was caught off guard, and then fell to the feet of Lewandowski who was retreating to receive the ball.

Then Zhou Yi turned around and ran to the front to meet Lewandowski.

As soon as Lewandowski saw Zhou Yi coming up, he passed the football to him, while Xavi Garcia chased Zhou Yi.

While Zhou Yi was catching the ball, he suddenly stopped and planned to turn around and get rid of Xavi Garcia.

This sudden stop and turn was indeed beyond Javi Garcia's expectations, but Garcia's reaction was also quick. When he was about to be thrown away by Zhou Yi, he decisively stretched out his feet to block Zhou Yi. If Zhou Yi wanted to turn around, If so, he would definitely knock the football behind him so that his feet would get stuck on the path Zhou Yi turned around.

But who would have thought that Zhou Yi did not knock the football and turn around, but left the football where it was and turned around himself. As soon as he turned around, he hit Javi Garcia's leg. Naturally, his body suddenly leaned back and was knocked to the ground.

The scene looked very visually impactful, as if Zhou Yi had been hit by a forklift coming from behind.

At the same time, the referee's whistle also sounded.

In front of the Dortmund dugout, Klopp angrily roared: It's a foul!

At the same time, German commentator Marcel Leif was also shouting: Javi Garcia kicked someone in the back, a very bad foul! He should pay the price for it!

He Ping said: The referee should show a yellow card. If we continue to let it go, I'm afraid the game will get out of control!

After landing, Zhou Yi did not get up from the ground immediately. Instead, he lay on the ground, covering his ankles with his hands, with a painful expression.

Javi Garcia held up his hands to show his innocence, but this time he couldn't escape.

After all, the visual impact of Zhou Yi's fall just now was too great.

His kick was basically cutting down trees.

Sure enough, after the referee Kralovic blew the whistle, he ran in front of Xavi Garcia and showed him a yellow card.

In the 35th minute, Xavi Garcia also received a yellow card.

Now two players in the Manchester City team have received yellow cards, but this situation did not attract people's attention when Manchester City had the advantage.

Zhou Yi was surrounded by teammates, concerned about his health.

I'm fine. Zhou Yi had already sat up from the ground. After landing, he fell directly onto his back, looking embarrassed and miserable. At that time, he did not get up from the ground immediately, but covered his ankle with his hands, which made people worried about his ankle injury.

Is everything really okay? Gotze was not very reassured.

It's okay. I hid at the critical moment. Otherwise, why would I have fallen so much? Zhou Yi said.

He did hide. When he made an emergency stop before, he expected that Javi Garcia might be waiting for him behind him, so at the moment of contact, Zhou Yi took the initiative to lean back and kick his legs forward at the same time. This made him look a little exaggerated when he fell, but it protected his ankle well. If Javi Garcia had hit the target with this kick, Zhou Yi would probably have to lie on the ground for a while. Even so, my ankle still hurts a little.

Zhou Yi, you should reduce the number of times you get the ball, right? Royce was worried for Zhou Yi. If you keep playing like this, all the opponent's fouls will come towards you...

Zhou Yi waved his hand: It doesn't matter. As long as we can get the ball close to their penalty area, they won't dare to commit such a foul.

Fouls in sensitive areas will give Dortmund free kicks, and free kicks in these positions are likely to directly threaten Manchester City's goal.

But we first have to advance to their thirty-meter area. Gotze said. But now they're marking you and it's hard for you to keep the ball, right?

Zhou Yi was pulled up by Lewandowski, and then said to the teammates surrounding him: So I need your help, try not to be too far away from me, let us pass the football.

That's no problem. Gotze nodded. He knew what Zhou Yi was going to do.

The other teammates also nodded.

After Footbonaut's special training, today's Dortmund players have greatly improved their passing ability, and they can already keep up with Zhou Yi's passing rhythm.

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After the game restarted, Dortmund obviously accelerated the speed of passing. Dortmund's players kept running and passing.

Zhou Yi is Dortmund's offensive hub, and the ball will always be passed to his feet, but whether it is Xavi Garcia or other Manchester City players, they are finding it increasingly difficult to stop Zhou Yi.

Because Zhou Yi's passing speed is getting faster and faster, he always passes the football again without waiting for the football to stop. He didn't need to observe the situation or raise his head. He was looking back to see whether Manchester City's defensive players were approaching, while at the same time passing the football to the completely opposite direction with his feet.

This is really confusing.

Through continuous quick passes, Dortmund restored the situation little by little.

Before Xavi Garcia received a yellow card, Manchester City had always had the upper hand, and Dortmund was so suppressed that they couldn't even lift their heads.

But now, the situation is reversed. Dortmund's offensive gradually picks up, but in the face of their offensive, Manchester City shrinks back little by little.

Dortmund took control of the game! Marcel Leif was delighted.

Mark Laurentian watched this scene with relish. Zhou Yi passed the ball without looking at the target many times, which really made him mesmerized.

It's like the entire field is in his head, and he doesn't even need to look to know where to pass the football.

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In the 41st minute, four minutes before the end of the first half, Manchester City had not attacked Dortmund's goal for a while.

Dortmund got another chance to attack.

Zhou Yi did not go to the front, he caught the ball from behind. Because he didn't go up, Xavi Garcia couldn't rush up to defend him. When formulating defensive tactics, Mancini still chose zone defense instead of man-to-man defense, and did not arrange for a certain person to follow Zhou Yi every step of the way.

Therefore, Zhou Yi can get the ball relatively calmly later.

But he is also relatively far away from Manchester City's goal.

After Zhou Yi got the ball, he did not pass the football directly behind with a long pass, but dribbled the ball forward.

As he moved forward, he entered Javi Garcia's zone.

Javi Garcia quickly came up to him.

Seeing Xavi Garcia coming up, Zhou Yi used his right foot to dunk the football to the left, and at the same time, his body turned to the left, as if he wanted to go to the left.

Seeing Zhou Yi's move, Manchester City's defense also adjusted its defensive focus, leaning towards this side, and quickly filled the space on the left, leaving Zhou Yi without a ball point. At this time, Xavi Garcia came up again, making it impossible for Zhou Yi to pass the football forward. If he doesn't want to get the ball intercepted, he can only pass the ball back. Then Manchester City's defense is considered a success.

Mark Lawrenson was high up in the commentary box and saw the entire stadium. He noticed that Manchester City's defense had blocked the offensive direction Zhou Yi was facing, but he also saw the blind spot in the field of vision that Zhou Yi could not see. In fact, there is a huge gap - because Manchester City has shifted the focus of the defense to the other side, so a gap naturally appeared there.

The gap was so obvious that not only did he see it, he believed that some players from Dortmund and Manchester City also saw it, but so what?

The football is now at Zhou Yi's feet, and Zhou Yi's back is in that direction. He can't see the space at all. The football will not be passed there, and there is no way to pose a threat to Manchester City's defense.

But in Mark Lawrenson's eyes, he always looked at that empty space with anticipation.

He felt that Zhouyi could see it.

So he said: On the right side of Manchester City's defense, there is a gap. This is Dortmund's opportunity to attack!

The Manchester City fans in front of the TV will definitely be dissatisfied with his words, thinking that Mark Lawrenson is telling lies - how could that gap that Zhou Yi couldn't see be Dortmund's offensive opportunity?

But at this moment, Zhou Yi, who was originally facing the left, suddenly turned around and kicked the football with his feet!

Before Javi Garcia, who was following him, could react, the football had already flown from in front of him to... behind him!

The football flew to the right side of Manchester City's defense, that huge gap!

Zhou Yi passed the ball! Mark Lawrenson shouted excitedly. He saw it!! (To be continued.)