Chapter 301 A Difficult League to Play In

The Champions League games are over, and now everyone is turning their attention to the league.

All eyes are on Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich's respective matches in the league.

The league championship is not decided, anything is possible.

In the 32nd round of the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich faced Werder Bremen at home, while Dortmund challenged Leverkusen away.

Dortmund's opponent in the last round of the league was Mainz, who ranked seventh in the league. Mainz wanted to compete for European qualifications, and there was a reason to fight with Dortmund.

In this round of the league, Leverkusen also has reasons to fight with Dortmund.

As of the 31st round of the league, Leverkusen ranked fourth with 54 points, four points behind Schalke 04, who was third in the league. This does not mean that there is no possibility of catching up with Schalke 04.

But their most urgent thing now is not to catch up with Schalke 04, but to prevent Wolfsburg from catching up.

Wolfsburg, fifth in the league, has 53 points, one point behind Leverkusen.

But the fourth in the league and the fifth in the league are two completely different worlds - the fourth in the league can participate in next season's Champions League qualifying rounds, and after passing the qualifying rounds, you can participate in the Champions League main game. By then there will be at least six group matches to play, and there will be a lot of bonuses for appearances and winning games. For Bundesliga clubs that will be financially healthy, the Champions League game revenue and broadcast fee sharing are one of the very important financial revenues.

The fifth place in the league can only participate in the Europa League. The Europa League is far behind the Champions League in terms of appearance fees, game bonuses and broadcast fee sharing. Losing the qualification for the Champions League and playing in the Europa League means that the financial income will be significantly reduced next season.

No team wants this to happen.

So Leverkusen doesn't care much about Schalke 04 now, they are more concerned about the result of Wolfsburg's game.

In order to prevent Wolfsburg from catching up with them, Leverkusen will of course have to compete with Dortmund in the next league. Moreover, this is still at their own home court and they have home field advantage.

As long as they can defeat Dortmund, no matter how Wolfsburg plays, Leverkusen can temporarily relax.

Wolfsburg faces Freiburg at home in this round of the league. The latter is ranked 13th in the league. In theory, there is still pressure to relegation, but in fact, there is no need to consider relegation. So it can be said that it is almost without desires and desires.

Wolfsburg has a high probability of beating Freiburg at home.

Under such circumstances, Leverkusen must win Dortmund at home.

Dortmund, who had just finished playing in the Champions League, would not be easy to win when they did not face such a Leverkusen team away from home.

Not to mention, they spent a lot of physical energy in the Champions League - that tactic was very effective against Atletico Madrid, but it also had a great impact on physical fitness. After this game, can Dortmund still use all its main players? There is a question mark when the lineup plays against Leverkusen.

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The last time Dortmund played against Leverkusen in the league, it was a very fierce game.

There was also controversy after the game.

It was the most difficult time for Dortmund, ranked third in the league, and Leverkusen was above them - second in the league.

The two sides played very close and intensely in the game.

Sven Bender and Shaheen were injured and left the field successively during the game. It was the time when Dortmund's injuries were at their most serious. The successive injuries to players made many people think that Dortmund was cursed.

During the game, Leverkusen's Korean star Son Heung-min also performed very well, helping Leverkusen open the scoring.

But Zhouyi later equalized the score.

At the last moment of the game, Zhou Yi was tackled by Leverkusen defender Spasic in the penalty area, winning a penalty kick for Dortmund, but it also caused a conflict between players from both sides.

Yan Min was sent off for accumulating yellow cards in this conflict, and Spasic was also sent off for a foul on Zhou Yi.

Both sides paid a heavy price.

Zhou Yi personally took the penalty kick he won, helping Dortmund complete the reversal.

In the end, Dortmund paid the price of two injuries and one person being sent off at home, and finally defeated Leverkusen with a score of 2:1.

After the game, Leverkusen was very dissatisfied with the loss to Dortmund. They believed that Zhou Yi's fall in the penalty area was a flop. Without this flop, Dortmund would not have received a penalty kick and would not have won the game. .

Dortmund was naturally unhappy because in order to win this victory, they injured two players and were sent off with a red card.

There is a strong smell of gunpowder between the two sides.

Now, after half a season, the two sides meet again, and the smell of gunpowder remains unabated.

Leverkusen wants to keep its fourth position in the league, while Dortmund wants to keep its first place in the league. No one on either side can afford to lose or be equal.

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Before the game even started, the war of words between the media from both sides had already begun. The Leverkusen media took the lead and cited historical results to cheer up the team: "...the two sides have met a total of 69 times in the history of the Bundesliga. Dortmund has a slight advantage with 26 wins, 19 draws and 24 losses. , the advantage is very, very weak, almost negligible. And when we faced Dortmund at home, we had a historical advantage - 17 wins, nine draws and eight losses, giving us the absolute upper hand..."

The Leverkusen media used the historical results to speak for themselves, and Dortmund was naturally not to be outdone. Dortmund's media also cited historical results: "...Reporting historical results from a long time ago cannot explain anything, because the players on both sides more than ten years ago are not the same people as they are now. The result of the confrontation between them has no clue. No reference value. Just compare the results of the same group of players - since Klopp coached Dortmund in 2008, the Hornets have never lost to Leverkusen in an away game... The last time Dortmund was here The away defeat was on May 19, 2007, when the team's head coach was still Dole, and Dortmund lost 1:2. In the following seven years, Dortmund visited Leverkusen six times and remained undefeated, with three results. Win three draws..."

The Dortmund media's counterattack is more powerful. After all, they show the results of the current group of Dortmund players against Leverkusen, which is more convincing.

In addition, for Dortmund forward Mark Wagner, he now still hopes to compete for the Bundesliga top scorer.

So far this season, he has scored 17 league goals, just one goal behind Lewandowski, who currently ranks first in the league's top scorer list.

This is not just a battle between Mark and Lewandowski, but also a battle between Dortmund and Bayern Munich.

The competition between these two people is very interesting. Lewandowski played as a substitute for Mark during Dortmund, and Mark also played as a substitute for Lewandowski. There has always been a competitive relationship.

Later, Lewandowski moved to Bayern Munich, and Mark became the team's main forward again, and also shouldered the important task of attacking the team.

Lewandowski, who moved to Bayern Munich, was also in very good shape and quickly pushed Mandzukic to the bench.

When the two were on the same team before, the competition was not very explicit and intense. Now they can show their competitiveness unscrupulously.

For Mark, he has never touched the honor of the Bundesliga's small steel gun, and Lewandowski has already accomplished this goal in Dortmund - last season, his last season with Dortmund, in Zhou Yi's With constant help, Lewandowski defeated Bayer Leverkusen's Kiessling with 26 goals and became the top scorer in the Bundesliga.

In his best season, Mark scored seventeen league goals and eventually ranked third in the league's top scorer list.

At the same time, seventeen league goals is also the best result of Mark's career.

After scoring 17 goals that time and finishing third in the scorer's list, Mark was seriously injured the next season and the season was scrapped. Then his main forward position was occupied by Lewandowski, and Mark also fell into injury. In the process of repeated injuries and injuries...there was no way to regain his position as the main forward until Lewandowski left Dortmund last summer and switched to Bayern Munich.

This season, Mark has gotten rid of the injuries that have troubled him for a long time, performed stably, and rediscovered the outstanding form when he won the Bundesliga Rookie of the Year title. He has scored 17 goals, tying his career best.

There are now three rounds left before the end of the league, and he still has a chance to refresh this result.

If he can also beat Lewandowski in the scorer list, it will be the best of both worlds for himself and Dortmund. He himself can completely step out of Lewandowski's shadow and prove that he is no worse than Lewandowski. After losing Lewandowski, Dortmund has found a forward who can score steadily, which can minimize the impact on the team after Lewandowski leaves.

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