Champion’s Heart

By the way, do you think this is the worst news?

While Zhou Yi was deep in thought, agent Schulze's voice rang again.

What? Zhou Yi was surprised.

Two main defenders were injured in a national team game. Isn’t this the worst?

You know that Friedrich, right? Schulze asked.

Zhou Yi hummed.

Manuel Friedrich is the replacement Borussia Dortmund is looking for after Subotic is out for the season.

At that time, if Dortmund wanted to introduce a central defender from other teams, it would have to wait until the January transfer window opened at the earliest, but in that case, it would have been too long. Dortmund could not wait that long, and water from afar could not quench the thirst for nearness.

According to transfer rules, only transfers to free agents who do not have a contract are exempt from transfer window restrictions.

So Dortmund finally turned its attention to former international Manuel Friedrich, who was at home and had no ball to play.

In fact, Friedrich is not a very suitable candidate. After all, he has not played football for a while, and his condition cannot be guaranteed at all.

But Dortmund has no better choice. There are only so many free agents. If players are really capable and in excellent condition, it is impossible to play without the ball.

Moreover, Manuel Friedrich once played for Mainz, and Klopp also coached Mainz. The two have a direct cooperative relationship. Klopp knows Friedrich well. Although Friedrich has now been reduced to the point where he has no ball to play, Klopp also prefers to choose players who have worked with him and are familiar with him.

So after Subotic was injured, Friedrich, who originally planned to go to Bangkok to play in January next year, came to Dortmund's training base to train with the team.

Zhou Yi knew this.

At that time, Friedrich came to Dortmund for a trial training. Later, when Zhou Yi left Dortmund and returned to play in China, he heard that Dortmund had officially signed a contract with Friedrich.

The two parties signed a contract for seven months, and the contract expired after the season.

This is obviously a firefighting contract.

Thirty-four-year-old Manuel Friedrich was once a German international. He was selected for the German national team in 2006, but did not participate in the 2006 World Cup. Because he was not trusted by Klinsmann's successor, Low, Friedrich only played nine times with the German national team and scored one goal.

Friedrich, he was injured in a warm-up match just now. Schulze said calmly.

But Zhou Yi opened his mouth wide and looked at the agent driving in front of him with disbelief.

Are you kidding me?

How could it be a joke? Just when you were participating in the national team competition, Dortmund also found someone to play a warm-up match. The opponent was the German second division team Paderborn. As a result, Dortmund won 2:1, but Friedrich Nozomi injured his knee during the game... At that time, it was said that Klopp rushed directly onto the pitch...

Listening to Schulze's narration, Zhou Yi could completely imagine such a scene.

He can understand Klopp's mood - after finally finding a replacement for Subotic, he got injured in the first warm-up match. Isn't this almost a death wish?

How is the injury? Zhou Yi asked the most important question.

Don't worry, it's not a season reimbursement. Schulze joked.

Oh, that's okay... Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next game against Bayern Munich may not be played. Schulze added.

Zhou Yi frowned.

The game against Bayern Munich is very important. Friedrich cannot play, and Hummels, Subotic, and Schmelzer are injured again. How will Dortmund compete with Bayern Munich...

Zhou Yi himself felt a headache, let alone Klopp.

At least Zhou Yi doesn't have to think about how to solve this problem, and if Klopp can't come up with a solution, he will watch Dortmund being beaten by Bayern Munich at home.

Now Dortmund only has one Papastathopoulos at the centre-back position.

In addition, there is a young player named Marion Sarr who was born in 1995. Although he plays as a central defender, he has never played in the first team. In the game against Bayern Munich, it is impossible to expect him to perform well when he comes out and withstand Bayern Munich's offensive. This is reality after all, not a one-hit-wonder movie.

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The Dortmund media are reporting on the wave of injuries suffered by Dortmund, and the target is naturally directed at the German team and conspiracy theories such as favoring Bayern Munich.

In response, the Munich media also fought back.

Although the game between the two teams has not started yet, the war of words has already begun.

The Munich media ridiculed that Dortmund had already made excuses for the failure, so they continued to exaggerate the injury crisis they encountered, so that if they lost, they could blame the loss on too many injured soldiers.

And what about Bayern Munich? They never make much publicity about their injuries, even though their injuries are serious.

In this game, Bayern Munich's Bastian Schweinsteiger, Shaqiri, Ribery, Pizarro, and Badstuber have also confirmed that they will not be able to participate, while Robben, Boateng, and Harvey Martin Ness, Contento and others have just returned from injury, and it's hard to say what their condition is.

So when it comes to being affected by injuries, Bayern Munich is no worse than Dortmund, but Bayern Munich has no complaints.

The Dortmund media retorted: Aren't you complaining now?

Of course, in fact, the most important gimmick of Germany's El Clasico this time is definitely not that the two teams are full of injured soldiers, but that Gotze and Lewandowski played against their old clubs again after leaving Dortmund. meet in.

This summer, when the two left Dortmund, they both had some trouble with their original clubs.

In the minds of many Dortmund fans, both of them can be equated with Judah.

Of course, Lewandowski's situation is a little better. When he left Dortmund, he had a very good reason, and in the transfer farce, it was Dortmund's side that was not responsible, so there were not many Dortmund fans targeting him.

Mainly for Gotze.

This genius, who was regarded by Dortmund fans as the leader of Dortmund in the next ten years, resolutely betrayed the parent team that trained him without any nostalgia.

Dortmund fans are said to be ready to welcome Gotze home by booing him during the game.

Some media conducted an interview about Gotze on the streets of Dortmund. Facing the TV cameras, almost no Dortmund fans were friendly towards Gotze.

Everyone gritted their teeth when they mentioned Gotze.

And what does Gotze himself think of this trip home?

I will play hard, and things off the court will not distract me. He cleverly avoided overly sensitive questions.

After moving to Bayern Munich this season, Gotze did not have a stable chance to play in the Bayern Munich team due to early injuries.

He missed two games and spent 90 minutes on the bench in two others, starting four times and coming on as a substitute three times, scoring just one goal.

This performance is far from his performance when he was the main player in Dortmund.

The Dortmund media believes that it seems that Gotze's choice to leave Dortmund for Bayern Munich is destined to be a failed transfer. He has gone from being a main player of the Bundesliga championship team to becoming the loser of Dortmund in the past three seasons. Substitute.

It is said that people go to higher places, but now Gece has done the opposite and gone to lower places...

Dortmund fans are naturally gloating about Gotze's current situation at Bayern Munich. Thinking he deserves it is what you get for betraying Dortmund.

Munich has high hopes for Gotze, believing that his current performance is not very good, mainly due to an injury at the beginning of the season, which caused him to miss the team's pre-season training and the first two rounds of the league.

Now that he has returned from injury, of course he still needs to slowly find his form.

Once he regains his form, he will make Bayern Munich even more powerful!

What do Dortmund players think of their reunion with Gotze?

Many people avoided talking about this issue. Grosskreutz was interviewed. He did not forgive his former teammates, but viciously told the media: I don't know if he will play, but if If he plays, I will make him regret his decision!

Zhou Yi was also asked about Gotze, and his attitude was much gentler: Everyone has their own choice. It's not a big deal. It's been so long and there's no point in saying anything. As long as I can do it for myself, Just make your choices responsibly.”

Some reporters asked Zhou Yi: Dortmund is currently in a very bad situation. If they lose to Bayern Munich, will Dortmund's dream of four consecutive league championships be dashed?

Zhou Yi laughed when he heard this: The league is long. Who said that if you lose one game, the league championship will be lost? This statement is too irresponsible. Otherwise, wouldn't it mean that the winning team must go undefeated for a game? To win the championship, as long as you lose one game, you won’t be able to win the championship?”

Does that mean you think losing to Bayern Munich is an acceptable result? A reporter immediately asked, feeling as if he had caught a big news.

Zhou Yi glanced at the reporter who asked the question and showed a gentle smile: Haha.

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