Chapter 59 New Discovery

"Mario Gotze! Beautiful! Borussia Dortmund U19s scored first! They are ahead in this final!" Leif shouted.

He seldom explains youth team games, but he still knows a lot about Gotze. This kid is now a genius that the whole of Germany is paying attention to.

Leif paid attention to Gotze's performance in the German youth team at the U17 European Youth Championship last summer. Compared with Gotze at that time, Mario is now more mature and he has grown very rapidly.

"It's a little surprising that Dortmund took the lead so quickly. After all, in the field of youth training, Freiburg's level is very high, and Streich is also a coach who is good at youth training. Freiburg was still the same last season. The U19 national champion. Compared with last season, Streich's training of the team is also more perfect. But facing Dortmund, he conceded the goal in the first 12 minutes..." Leif said. "Obviously, it's not just Freiburg who have improved. Dortmund's performance this season can also be described as reborn."

Leif set his sights on Zhou Yi. The goal was scored by Gotze, but it was assisted by Zhou Yi.

If it's just a through ball, it's nothing more than a strike.

It doesn't make Leif, an experienced commentator, pay special attention.

He still remembers Dortmund's series of consecutive passes before Gotze scored.

Starting from Zhou Yi, the non-stop ball was passed directly to Goetze, Goetze passed it directly to Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi passed it to No. 25 Mark, Mark passed it back to him, and then Zhou Yi faced the football, and once again did not stop the ball , pass the ball directly.

The football flew in the direction where Gotze was.

Did you see it?

In this Dortmund attack that led to a goal, Zhou Yi was the one who touched the ball the most, and the football was always passed to his feet.

He is the core of Dortmund's U19 team.

Regarding this point, Leif already knew it when he was preparing for the game.

He was quite surprised at the time. Why is the core of Dortmund U19 not Gotze, but an unknown Chinese kid?

Now he sort of understood.

Freiburg's main goalkeeper, Oliver Baumann, is considered a mature and calm goalkeeper who does not match his age.

But now Leif thinks,

Zhou Yicai has a maturity and calmness that does not match his age.

Generally speaking. A midfield organizer, when faced with someone marking him closely, will inevitably be a little flustered, especially young people. Easier so. Their ability to resist pressure is obviously not as good as that of first-team players, which is also related to the fact that they have experienced fewer complicated scenes.

And during the ten minutes of this match, Leif didn't see a trace of youthfulness from Zhou Yi.

Whether it was in the attack that led to the goal, or in the ten-minute stalemate before that, Zhou Yi did not show that kind of panic.

Facing a high press from Freiburg. He seemed to be at ease. His passing speed is very fast, there is no process of observing the ball after receiving the ball and then passing the football.

But after receiving the ball, the football can be sent out immediately without any delay.

So even though Freiburg arranged for Zhou Yi to be guarded by someone close to him, the effect was not very good.

Then why can Zhou Yi do it?

Through observation, Leif also found that Zhou Yi often turned his head to look around during the game, which reminded Leff of Barcelona's current midfielder Harvey.

What he didn't know was—is this young man Zhou Yi deliberately imitating his idol, or is it just him himself...

But this question is not too important.

What interested Leff was that he originally thought that Dortmund's youth team was just Mario Gotze, but he didn't expect to comment on such a game, but discovered another young genius.

"Mario Gotze's goal came from the assist of Zhou Yi, the No. 23 Dortmund midfielder. This is a young man from China... This is really rare. There is a German club in the youth training camp. Chinese players, and they can play the main force and the core!"

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Klopp sat in front of the TV and laughed when he heard Marcel Leff comment on Zhou Yi.

Although he only watched the game for more than ten minutes, Zhou Yi already had an assist.

It seems that Ricken is right in telling himself that Gotze's performance is much better after having Zhouyi.

When there was no Zhouyi before, Gotze had to take on too many tasks, which would distract him. Affects his state and performance.

Klopp rubbed his chin and began to think about further things...

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Streich stood on the sidelines, staring blankly at the stadium.

He never expected that it should be the high-position pressing tactic of Dortmund's nemesis. But it was broken so easily by the other party...

Freiburg only lasted for twelve minutes before conceding the goal!

The opponent's No. 23, their core, is more powerful than I imagined!

He, Gotze, and the No. 25, the continuous passing between the three of them. It penetrated the "cage" of Freiburg at a very fast speed.

Originally, he thought that Dortmund would use a direct long pass from the backcourt to find Kinchek to deal with his high-position press, so he asked the players to first create an offside, second, the goalkeeper should attack as soon as possible to expand the control area, and third. It is to strengthen the pressing in the frontcourt and interfere with Dortmund's center back Russell Sobiech.

Although Sobiech is a central defender, he has a steady style of play on the court and a high pass success rate, so if Dortmund wants to play a long pass, the point of delivery is almost definitely Sobiech.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi, who he thought could be easily marked to death, performed extremely well.

The continuous passing and cooperation between the three of them caught him off guard.

However, Streich was not knocked down by this conceded goal. He frowned and began to think about countermeasures.

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"It's already 12:15..." Li Cuiyun glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer, "It's been 15 minutes since the game started, and we haven't figured out how to read it here...Old Zhou, just say we Can I catch a glimpse of my son before the game is over?"

"It's definitely possible, it's definitely possible..." Zhou Jianliang wiped the sweat from his forehead with a paper, and continued to study on the screen with his eyes squinted.

Li Cuiyun saw that her husband was so focused, she didn't say anything, but got up and left, and she came back after a while, holding Zhou Jianliang's teacup in her hand. It has been filled with water.

She didn't speak, just put the teacup where her husband used to put teacups, and then sat down again, quietly watching her husband busy.

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after the game restarted. Streich did not change his tactics and Freiburg stuck to their high press.

Because there is no need to make adjustments, Freiburg did not play a shrinking defense before, and they needed to press out after losing the ball. They already pressed out.

The only adjustment is that Freiburg's midfield grabs more fiercely. Especially for Zhou Yi and Gotze.

Fouls began to increase on the court, and the referee kept blowing his whistle infrequently to suspend the game.

There were also dissatisfied boos from Dortmund fans in the stands-they thought the Freiburg players played too brutally.

"Idiot! Kicking people is not kicking football!!" Mrs. Wagner stood up in the stands, waved and shouted dissatisfiedly to the court, she was complaining for Zhou Yi who had just been kicked down.

Cortana sat next to her, frowning and saying nothing.

"Hey, Zhou Yi, how are you?" Mark ran over to care about Zhou Yi.

"I'm fine, Mark." Zhou Yi stretched out his hand to Mark, "Pull me up, thank you."

Mark pulled Zhou Yi up.

"Don't come back to care about me next time, Mark." Zhou Yi said to Mark after getting up. "You should stay in the front at this time, in case we have a chance to play a quick attack?"

"Ah... I was anxious when I saw you being kicked... I didn't have time to think about other things."

Zhou Yi touched his head: "Winning is the most important thing. If we can lead them by two goals in the first half, we will win. You haven't seen that they are getting more and more aggressive now, but behind us Is the gap getting bigger and bigger? If they foul like this, it might be our chance."

"I see, Zhou Yi." Mark nodded, but he didn't forget to ask one more question, "Are you really okay?"

"Nonsense." Zhou Yi pushed him away, "Go up!"

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The game continues. Freiburg's high pressing tactics and ferocious defense against Zhou Yigotze have not changed in any way.

It didn't take long for Gotze to be knocked to the ground by them this time.

Goetze, who fell to the ground, looked very painful, rolled over a few times, and covered his calf with his hands.

The referee's whistle also sounded. Fouled again by Freiburg players.

The boos of Dortmund fans sounded again in the stands, and the boos of more than 2,000 people still sound quite stressful...

The Dortmund U19 players are complaining to the referee, indicating that the Freiburg players have committed too many fouls during this period. Should the referee give a card?

The players from Freiburg are saying that Gotze is a flop.

"I was making a reasonable collision, but he was holding his calf!" Thorge was also very wronged, or he acted very wronged.

Gotze lay on the ground. Football is not far next to him.

Zhou Yi stepped forward, glanced at Ge Ce who was still rubbing his calf, bent down to pick up the football, and put it down again.

On the other side of him, players from both sides are still surrounding the referee, arguing whether this is a foul that should be given a card, or an exaggerated dive by Gotze.

Then Zhou Yi got up, took a step back, stepped forward again, and kicked the football!

Boom!

The football was kicked forward by him!

But after hearing Zhou Yi's words, Mark, who didn't come back to care about Gotze, saw the ball coming towards him, and he suddenly realized in his mind that this was his chance!

He immediately turned and ran forward!

"Strike! Mark! Mark!!" Mrs. Wagner exclaimed, and beside her, other Dortmund fans also shouted loudly.

Their shouts spread to the field and were heard by the referee, so he also noticed that the football had been kicked out.

He didn't whistle to stop the game and let the football return to its original place, but ran out of the encirclement and followed.

This action, as long as it is a fan, will understand-this is a tacit approval of Zhou Yi's kick!

"Fast free kick!" The commentator Leif shouted excitedly. (To be continued.)