Chapter 146 The Stubborn Sister

Barrios' injury was finally confirmed. He strained his groin in that shot. Now he will be out for at least one and a half months. Whether he can play in the next game depends on his recovery in this one and a half months .

Because the groin is a very important part for athletes, if there is an injury here, it is easy to become an old injury if it is not handled well, and it will recur. So proceed with caution.

Fortunately, Mark's performance was good, which gave Dortmund's coaching staff more time, and they didn't have to rush to get Barrios back.

In fact, it was Lewandowski who had been substituting for Barrios, but fate is so joking. In this game, Lewandowski did not enter the squad at all and was replaced by Mark. So in such a game, Mark scored twice, and his performance blinded everyone.

Under such circumstances, Klopp must prioritize Mark over Lewandowski...

It really doesn't make sense to let a young talent who just scored twice in the Ruhr Derby continue to be a substitute.

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After playing the Ruhr Derby, Klopp gave the team a day off. That night, Zhou Yi came to Mark's house to participate in a family dinner to celebrate Mark's outstanding performance in the game.

It was a real family reunion, not just Mark's parents and Cortana he'd seen, but Mark's relatives as well.

About twenty people gathered at Mark's house.

The yards in front of the house and behind the house were full of people. Everyone chatted while drinking beer. Anyone who saw Mark would say "Congratulations."

As a well-known Dortmund star, Zhou Yi has naturally been favored by everyone. He kept meeting everyone's group photo and autograph requirements at the party.

Regarding this, Mrs. Wagner said to Zhou Yi apologetically: "I'm sorry, Zhou Yi, I asked you to come to the party, I didn't expect to trouble you so much..."

Zhou Yi quickly waved his hand: "Where did you go, Mrs. Wagner. It's just a matter of effort. Besides, it's definitely not as much as Mark will sign outside the training base tomorrow, haha!"

After speaking, he looked at Mark and smiled.

Mrs. Wagner laughed too, very broadly.

She is extremely proud and proud to have such a son.

mark. His son, surrounded by a crowd of kids, must listen to what it's like to score in the Ruhr derby.

"It's... so cool!" Mark originally wanted to say, "It's so fucking cool". But he immediately realized that these were children and couldn't speak foul language, so he paused quickly. Swallowed the foul mouth.

The little ones squealed with excitement as they looked at Mark with hero-worshiping eyes.

The protagonist of this party is of course Mark. He is the focus of everyone's concern and discussion, and everyone will cast their eyes on him intentionally or unintentionally.

Zhou Yi didn't go up to bother Mark after satisfying everyone's request for autographs and group photos. Instead, he went back to the house and went straight up to the second floor. Came to the door of the room where he used to live.

The door was ajar, but Zhou Yi opened it with a slight push.

The furnishings inside are the same as when he was playing, a bed, a table and a cabinet. very simple.

This is his first foothold in Germany, where he has transformed from a youth team player to a first-team player.

Just when Zhou Yi was looking at the scene in front of him, the door behind him opened, and Cortana came out.

"What are you doing?" Seeing Zhou Yi, she asked.

"Oh, let me come up to see, why are you here?" Zhou Yi was surprised.

"Be quiet here. Too many people down here." Cortana shrugged.

"Indeed." Zhou Yi listened carefully, then nodded.

"Don't you like quiet too?" Cortana asked.

"No, I just came up to take a look." Zhou Yi shook his head.

"I think so."

"Did you go to the game yesterday?" Zhou Yi asked suddenly.

Cortana was a little surprised: "How do you know?"

"Because I saw you."

Zhou Yi's answer startled Cortana.

Seeing Cortana's panicked look, Zhou Yi smiled: "I'm lying to you, I heard what Hannah said."

"Hannah's big mouth!" Cortana rolled her eyes, but at the same time, she let out a sigh of relief. If Zhou Yi saw him standing up among a large group of Schalke 04 fans and cheering for his younger brother, it would be a real embarrassment... Wouldn't his previous image be ruined?

Seeing Cortana like this, Zhou Yi found it funny. This woman is really cold on the outside and hot on the inside. On the surface, she seems to be very opposed to his brother playing football. I didn't expect to go to the scene to watch the football, and she was still sitting in a group Among the Schalke 04 fans, they really worked hard for their own brother.

Thinking of how she stood proudly with her arms raised among a large group of dejected Schalke 04 fans, Zhou Yi thought this woman was really interesting.

He was celebrating with Mark at the time, and it turned out that he saw this scene earlier than Mark. Although it was very short, based on Cortana's dress and the way she stood up to celebrate, Zhou Yi didn't have much trouble guessing that it should be Cortana .

Later, Hannah told him that Cortana had indeed gone to watch the game, and she was sitting among a group of Schalke 04 fans. He thought that the woman in black and a peaked cap he saw should be Cortana. No doubt about it.

"How about it, do you still think that your younger brother has no talent for playing football?" Zhou Yi asked.

"One game doesn't explain the problem, and a player doesn't only play this game in his life." Cortana snorted.

"You're right." To Cortana's surprise, Zhou Yi did not refute her, but nodded in agreement. "A career is very long, so you need to work hard and improve, and you can't relax. But I still believe that Mark can go further and further on the road of professional football and achieve success. What do you think?"

Cortana looked at Zhou Yi and said nothing.

Zhou Yi also looked at her, with a faint smile on his face, as if waiting for her answer.

At this moment, Mark's voice rang downstairs: "Zhou Yi? Where are you Zhou Yi? Come on, they want to take pictures with you!"

Hearing this, Zhou Yi turned his head and responded downstairs, "Okay, I'll come right away."

After speaking, he turned to Cortana and said, "Goodbye, stubborn sister."

Wait for Zhou Yi to disappear under the stairs. It was only then that Cortana realized that she had reached the door frame at some point. I was actually pushed back by a little boy...

Think again after he said that. Staring at her eyes actually made Cortana a little upset, she didn't dare to look directly, she just wanted to escape.

Such a self is really... too embarrassing!

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The end of this family feast. It ended with everyone getting together for a big group photo.

Zhou Yi and Mark are naturally the core of the crowd, standing in the most central position. And Cortana stood at the farthest corner of the crowd, as if trying to hide herself.

After a lively banquet, Zhou Yi returned to the place where he lived. And Cortana didn't come back, but stayed at home.

This surprised Zhou Yi a little. He had expected Cortana to come back one after the other.

After washing up, Zhou Yi went to bed early. Attending a banquet and dealing with so many people is also tiring.

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the next day. When the training was about to start, Mark hurried to the locker room.

"Mark. You were almost late." Captain Kyle said with a straight face.

"Sorry, Captain. I was supposed to be here early, but..." Mark gasped.

But he wasn't done talking. There was a burst of laughter in the locker room, including Captain Kyle, who had a stern face, and laughed.

"Hahaha!"

The locker room was filled with joyous laughter, but Mark was a little dazed, unable to understand what was going on.

Zhou Yi shouted to Mark: "Are you wearing a wristband, Mark?"

Hearing Zhou Yi's words, Mark understood what everyone was laughing at, and he quickly raised his hand: "I'm wearing it!"

Everyone laughed more happily.

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If some people are worried that Mark will start to drift off after becoming famous overnight, then let them watch Mark's training, I am afraid that such thoughts will not be there.

In training, Mark was still very serious and hardworking. He didn't feel that he scored two goals in the game against Schalke 04 and helped the team win, so he had "no regrets in this life"—that's so stupid How can a human being have such an idea?

Because of Barrios' injury, Klopp modified the training plan, and Mark was obviously put in a very important position.

At the same time, Mark, Zhou Yi, and Goetze's series of fast passing and cutting cooperation in the game gave Klopp some inspiration. He added Shinji Kagawa to let the four of them play such a cooperation together.

And Shinji Kagawa's personal technical characteristics are indeed very suitable for this type of play, because he has excellent skills, flexible movement, and has the characteristics of small skills unique to Japanese players. It can be well integrated with these three people.

Barrios's style was completely different from Mark's before, and the four of them would never be able to play this kind of cooperation together, so Klopp never considered this aspect.

Now that Barrios was injured, I looked again and found that Shinji Kagawa was surprisingly suitable for this style of play.

If Dortmund can make such a call, it can solve the problem that Zhou Yi, as a single core, will be stared to death.

Attacking in the frontcourt will become more free and casual, increasing unpredictability and making it harder for the opponent to defend.

In fact, from a certain point of view, this kind of offense can be understood as the perfect offensive state that Klopp hopes to achieve. Frontcourt offense depends on talent, and backcourt defense depends on discipline. Now, in Dortmund's frontcourt offensive lineup, they are not physically dominant, but these little guys are very flexible and quite talented. Klopp himself doesn't know what their combination will become in the end. , but he is looking forward to it.

The good thing for him is that after this Ruhr derby, the next game is not until a week later, with no other games in between, so he can spend a whole week working on this tactic.

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