Champion’s Heart

In the end, the German national team drew with Uruguay 3:3 in Leverkusen. After the game, the German national team was heavily bombarded by the Dortmund media.

...I don't understand the point of Loew's insistence on letting Gundogan play? Well now, after only 27 minutes of playing, Gundogan was substituted due to a recurrence of an old injury! It's simply unreasonable! Bayern Players from Munich can not come to participate in the national team game because they have children, but players from Dortmund have to play even if they are injured and insist on playing an insignificant friendly match!

Our national team should protect the club's players because they are the common property of both parties, but I only see the national team overusing club players, and if a player is injured in a club game, the club often suffers criticism... What happened yesterday in Leverkusen was so ugly!

I now understand why some media before the season thought it was impossible for Dortmund to win the championship again this season...

Gundogan's injury made Dortmund's media particularly angry, even raising conspiracy theories.

The conspiracy theory is of course nonsense, but it also shows how angry Dortmund people are right now.

If in this important World Cup qualifier, Gundogan is injured while playing for his country, maybe they will admit it.

But now it is just an ordinary warm-up match with Paraguay, not a formal match. Gundogan was injured for this, which will inevitably make people feel that it is not worth it.

And this happened despite the Dortmund media repeatedly admonishing the national team, which made the Dortmund people feel that they cannot easily forgive.

After the game, when Loew was being interviewed as the head coach of the national team, he was already asked about Gundogan by an angry Dortmund reporter: What makes you insist on sending Gundogan who is already worried? Don't you know? Was he injured against Augsburg?

Loew could only: We have assessed his physical condition and we think he can play. The injury is indeed unfortunate, but it is not our intention to injure the player.

No one wants to see this...

Loew's answer certainly did not satisfy the Dortmund people.

Gundogan's injury this time reminds people of Mark Wagner's previous serious injury. A rising superstar also suffered the most serious injury in his career after participating in a national team game. That injury also brought a turning point in Mark's career. Since then, he has never returned to the state before the injury.

For a national team game, Dortmund lost a star of hope.

Now for the national team game, Dortmund has lost another midfielder.

How could the Dortmund people be happy?

After Gotze and Lewandowski left, Gundogan performed well in the new season, which can give Dortmund fans some psychological comfort.

Unexpectedly, Gundogan, who was in excellent form just now, would be injured during the national team game. I don't know how long he will be sidelined. What if the injury is serious?

It's obviously a national team game, why does the club have to foot the bill in the end?

Many Dortmund fans are unhappy.

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One day later, the Dortmund club officially issued an announcement stating that after examining Gundogan's injury, team medical director Dr. Braun believed that he might need to rest for two weeks.

After this announcement came out, many Dortmund supporters breathed a sigh of relief. Two weeks, okay, okay.

Because this weekend against newly promoted Brunswick, Klopp originally planned to arrange for Gundogan to rest. After all, he was injured in the first round, so it is normal to rest. It's a pity that the club arranged for him to take a rest, but the national team did not allow him to take a rest, so the injury worsened during the national team game...

After Gundogan was injured, the defensive midfielder position should be composed of Shaheen and Sven Bender. It is still undetermined whether new aid Mkhitaryan, who has rested for four weeks due to an ankle injury, can make his debut in Saturday's game.

The season has just begun and people are already on the injured list one after another, which is not a good sign.

Everyone knows that injuries are the enemy most likely to defeat Dortmund.

When Bayern Munich has no chance against Dortmund, only injuries can stop them...

Two days after the national team match, the second round of the league begins.

So how can you, the Dortmund media, not complain about the national team? With such an intensive schedule of events, Gundogan was not allowed to rest. No one could think of any other answer besides conspiracy theories.

The German media paid great attention to Gundogan's injury, but the Chinese media did not pay that much attention. They just followed it and paid more attention to it. They still care more about their players.

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In the second round of the league, Guardiola's Bayern Munich narrowly defeated Frankfurt 1:0 away from home. Hertha Berlin was tied 2:2 by Nuremberg in the away game.

As long as Dortmund can win, they can become first in the league.

On the afternoon of August 18, Dortmund welcomed newly promoted Eintracht Braunschweig at home.

Logically speaking, this is not a very strong opponent, and Dortmund, playing at home, should easily defeat the opponent.

But the fact is that Dortmund couldn't score a goal long after the game started.

Brunswick is very tenacious, and the tactics they chose in the away game are also very appropriate. They defended across the board and did not allow Dortmund to gain too much space and time in the 30-meter area. In addition, their desperate Saburo-like style allowed Dortmund to It is difficult for the players to control the ball, and naturally it is difficult to organize an effective attack.

At the end of the first half, Dortmund had 11 shots but no goals.

Brunswick defended with all their strength and naturally had no way to attack, so they did not score a goal.

0:0.

...This score is really surprising. Before the game, many people would never have imagined that 45 minutes had passed and Dortmund had not broken through the newly promoted goal of Braunschweig...

After defeating Bayern Munich 4:2 in the Super Cup and defeating Augsburg 4:0 in the first round of the league, Dortmund seemed to prove how ferocious their attacking firepower was with actual actions.

But facing Brunswick, Dortmund's attackers collectively failed.

During the halftime break, Klopp criticized the performance of the players. In his view, the delay in opening up the situation in the face of Brunswick's intensive defense was not a tactical problem, but the players' ideological attitude. Something went wrong.

To put it bluntly, he just didn't pay enough attention to his opponent, and he was a little proud and underestimated the enemy.

Dortmund was in really good shape during this period. They were not optimistic before the Super Cup. However, they played a beautiful game in the Super Cup, defeating Bayern Munich 4:2, which slapped those who were not optimistic about them in the face, but at the same time, they also played a beautiful game. It made Dortmund's players so confident that they were a little arrogant.

In the first round of the league, they faced Augsburg away from home, which was not very strong, and they played very well. They beat the opponent with four goals and left no chance for them. In that game, Dortmund's players performed well from beginning to end. Each player's post-game score was not less than three points, and the worst was three points.

The performance of this game further deepened the arrogance in the hearts of the players. I thought about returning home to face newly promoted Braunschweig, what else could I not win?

The only suspense is not how many goals we win, but how many goals each of us can score...

This idea is too arrogant. Dortmund's players didn't study this opponent at all, and the coach didn't think about anything. Anyway, you can win just by playing on the court, so why bother?

Of course, it's not that there are no players who perform normally. Zhou Yi is the player that Klopp didn't criticize. The reason why he did not underestimate his opponent was because he had seen all possible situations in virtual competitions. In the virtual world, virtual Braunschweig and virtual Dortmund played many games. They used intensive defensive tactics in almost every game because this was an away game and their strength was not as good as Dortmund. Only fools would choose to play against Dortmund. Attack.

But it is useless for Zhouyi to perform normally alone. The balls he sends to his teammates will always be wasted carelessly by his teammates.

Zhou Yi was also helpless about this, but he rarely or almost never publicly criticized his teammates during the game, so he had nothing to do.

At the same time in the Braunschweig dressing room, head coach Thorsten Libknecht was slapping his hands and encouraging his players: Well done, boys! What you did in the first half Very good! We will continue to do this in the second half! Of course we are not as good as Dortmund in terms of strength, but we have the fighting spirit and fighting spirit that they do not have! I believe that with these we can create miracles at the West** Stadium !”

These words made the young and innocent Brunswick players even more excited, with high morale and full of confidence.

Looking at the players, Liebernecht nodded with satisfaction. This is what he wants. He didn't expect to return with a victory in this game. He was very satisfied with being able to draw with Dortmund away from home. If we can draw with Dortmund, it will be a very significant stimulus to the team's confidence. Confidence is very important on the team's road to relegation.

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