Champion’s Heart

For Chinese fans, they are extremely happy now. After just witnessing Zhou Yi's historic win as the best player in Europe, they are about to witness a Chinese Derby in the European Cup.

The European Cup will pit last season's Champions League champions Dortmund against last season's Europa League champions Chelsea.

Zhou Yi and Sun Pan represented these two teams in this game respectively.

Another Chinese derby.

The happiness of Chinese fans today is indeed something that Chinese fans in the past could hardly imagine, or even dare to think about.

How difficult was it for Chinese players to appear in European competitions in the past?

Yang Chen's mid-to-lower teams like Frankfurt can attract national attention.

The Chinese Derby between Yang Chen and Xie Hui, even if it is a German second league match, has attracted great attention from Chinese football fans and football fans.

When Li Tie, who represented Everton and Sun Jihai's Manchester City, met for the first time in the English League, the Chinese media and fans were very excited and shouted the slogan British-Chinese Derby. As a result, Li Tie got injured and was replaced after playing for 24 minutes...

At that time, there were not many Chinese players studying abroad, and not many could play the game stably, so every time Chinese players met in a game, it was something worth looking forward to and hyping up. Even the meeting between Sun Jihai and Dong Fangzhuo in the reserve team can be called the Chinese Derby, and the meeting between Sun Xiang and Yu Hai in the stands of the Eredivisie can be called the Standby Derby by the Chinese media...

This kind of superficial behavior will naturally disdain many Chinese fans who are familiar with European leagues, thinking that it is an act of putting money on their own faces, and it also ruins the sacred word Derby. But in fact, the deeper helplessness in this approach makes people feel more sad-Chinese football at that time was weak, extremely weak. No one looks down on us, we can only entertain ourselves and force ourselves to add drama.

But things are different now,

As Sun Pan, Yang Muge, and He Ying successively played for their teams, the Chinese Derby, which was a very rare thing in the past, suddenly became more and more popular, and it also had a tendency to become bad...

First, Yang Muge established a foothold in Schalke O4. The Bundesliga alone can provide everyone with two Chinese Derbys every year. Then in last year's Champions League knockout stage, He Ying and Sun Pan played two Chinese Derbys, which was also the first Chinese Derby in the Champions League. Then Zhou Yi and Sun Pan met again in the quarter-finals and staged a sequel to the Chinese Derby.

This season, in the group stage, Chelsea and Schalke are tied with 4 points, and there will be two more Chinese Derbys.

Nowadays, there is also a Chinese Derby in the European Cup.

There are so many Chinese Derbys that everyone is not so surprised and thinks it is a matter of course.

At least for this Chinese Derby in the major cup, the Chinese media did not start warm-up very early in advance and conduct extensive reports.

Of course, on the one hand, the news that Zhou Yi may win is more significant, but it also shows that the Chinese media now have a wider range of reporting options and are more confident. They will not be eager to participate in a Chinese Derby like before. Explore all the topics... Because at that time, for the Chinese media, it was really... not easy for two Chinese players to meet in Europe.

This is a bit like when Chinese people's living conditions were not good in the past. Ordinary people couldn't afford fatty meat. They couldn't bear to eat it after they finally bought it. Instead, they boiled it into lard, so that every meal would at least have some fat.

It’s not like today’s Chinese families. They have begun to promote that eating fat meat is not healthy anymore, and you have to eat lean meat. Eating lean meat is not healthy anymore, and you have to be vegetarian...

When Chinese reporters blocked Sun Pan in the hotel where Chelsea was staying in Prague and wanted to interview him, Sun Pan curled his lips and said: The award ceremony is over, do you think of me now?

Sun Pan became famous very early. In terms of popularity and status, he is on par with Zhou Yi. Therefore, everyone has reported and interviewed Sun Pan for several years. Naturally, they know his temper. He talks hard, but his heart is soft.

And what is the relationship between him and Zhou Yi? Everyone knows that it is impossible to say that Sun Pan is jealous because Zhou Yi won the award. They will make some jokes to each other, but the way they joke is a little special.

Sure enough, Sun Pan continued to make fun of Zhou Yi: If you want to ask me about Zhou Yi's award, there is no need to ask, it's not me who won the award!

Everyone burst into laughter. No one would doubt the friendship between Sun Pan and Zhou Yi, but it is said that their friendship is quite strange and they like to make fun of each other. What if people who don’t know each other really think that their relationship is bad...

What do you think of today's European Cup China Derby, Sun Pan? A reporter asked directly about a topic that had nothing to do with winning the award.

But Sun Pan himself was involved in winning the Zhouyi award: We will beat Dortmund. How can an individual win an award and the team also win an award? Right, one person cannot take advantage of a good thing. Character is conserved. , he won the individual award, so we have to give up the collective honor!

Sun Pan bared his teeth and smiled.

The noisy reporter went to interview Zhou Yi with Sun Pan's questions and wanted to hear Zhou Yi's response.

In fact, they especially hope and like that Zhou Yi and Sun Pan will use their precious space to fight a war of words...

After listening to Sun Pan's words, Zhou Yi smiled: Pan Pan is talking nonsense. If he follows the law of conservation of character, then the football match should be half won and half lost, but that's obviously not the case.

He spread his hands and mocked Sun Pan a little.

Chelsea is a difficult opponent to deal with. We lost to them in the Champions League semi-finals. That time they still had Panpan. This time with Panpan, I believe it will be more difficult to deal with. But if it is easy to win, Isn’t it boring to compete with an opponent? Last season, after we defeated Panpan, we went all the way and won the Champions League. So for me, Panpan is my lucky star, and good things will always happen when we meet him. .”

The reporters listened to Zhou Yi's response and felt that Zhou Yi and Sun Pan were really two completely different players. Sun Pan's personality made it difficult for him to say such things, while Zhou Yi could do it even if he was blaming others. Said so gently and gracefully...

This is a nice way of saying it, but it doesn’t sound nice because it means that people are criticized in a roundabout way...it’s not fair at all!

But this is just the way they behave due to their different personalities.

When Zhou Yi was quarreling with a certain domestic media on Weibo, he did it like this. He didn't even use curse words, but he could still scold the other party so much that they couldn't even retaliate. So don’t be deceived by Zhou Yi’s honest and innocent appearance. Just like the giant panda, he looks very cute, but in fact he is a bear, a bear that can tear an iron basin with his hands...

Zhou Yi was quite confident when he was interviewed, but no one believed in his confidence.

One yard for another, although he can win the best player in Europe, it does not mean that everything he says is right. He can defeat all opponents.

Compared with Chelsea, Dortmund had a natural shortcoming in this game, that is, core Zhou Yi went to attend the award ceremony, resulting in insufficient rest. He did not even participate in the training to adapt to the field. When he stepped on this stadium tonight, No matter what the situation is, there is no turning back.

Moreover, the long-distance flight back and forth will definitely have a negative impact on Zhou Yi's physical and mental energy.

How much strength can he still have on the court by then?

It's not easy to say.

Once Zhou Yi does not perform well, there is a high possibility that the entire Dortmund team will not perform well. Facing the wolf-like Chelsea, how can they resist it?

This season Chelsea also has Sun Pan joining the team. Judging from Sun Pan’s performance against Dortmund in the Champions League quarter-finals last season, Dortmund, which has the advantage of home court, wants to break the goal guarded by Sun Pan. , it is not easy, it can be said to be very difficult.

A reporter raised his concerns to Zhou Yi: Zhou Yi, you probably arrived in Prague at midnight yesterday, and then you spent half the night traveling from the airport to the hotel. Can you have some rest?

Zhou Yi showed his signature smile: Don't worry, I slept well last night.

Well, it is indeed very good, both in terms of sleep quality and game quality...

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