Chapter 207 Focus on the League

It is a pity to be eliminated from the Champions League, but Dortmund fans will not be too sad, because in fact, Dortmund's performance in the Champions League this season is already an unexpected surprise for them. They never expected before the season that Dortmund could go all the way to the Champions League quarterfinals.

For these Dortmund supporters, the most important thing is the domestic league.

At its best this season, Dortmund led the league by as many as ten points.

Later, as the Champions League knockout rounds began, Dortmund was obviously affected by the two-front battle.

Their lead in the league is now just three points.

At this time, Dortmund was eliminated from the Champions League.

Although being eliminated from the Champions League is a bad thing, for Dortmund today, it may be just the right time to be eliminated...

The next 30th round of the league is very critical for Dortmund. In fact, their own game is not very critical. Dortmund faces Freiburg at home. As long as they perform normally, it is impossible for Freiburg to upset.

The key is another game, Leverkusen will challenge Bayern Munich away from home. This is a contest between the second and fourth league.

For Dortmund, it's a time when the crane and the clam compete, and the fishermen benefit.

Bayern Munich's home game against Bayer Leverkusen is on the same day as Dortmund's game, but their game is two hours earlier than Dortmund's game.

Basically, after the game between Bayern Munich and Leverkusen ends, the Dortmund game begins.

So Dortmund players can know the result there before they go out to play.

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Although the second round match against Real Madrid was very tough, Klopp still used all his main players in this game and he would not allow any mistakes.

When the Dortmund players arrived at the West**** Stadium, the match between Bayern Munich and Leverkusen had already begun, and a goal was scored - seven minutes into the game, Leverkusen midfielder Ronaldo Wolfs scored an own goal to help Bayern Munich lead Leverkusen by one goal.

In the 28th minute, Bayern Munich center Gomez scored, and Bayern Munich led Leverkusen by two goals.

This good news made Dortmund's players very relaxed during the warm-up. Everyone was talking and laughing while discussing the game there.

Before Dortmund finally played, Bayern Munich defeated Leverkusen 5:1 at home.

As long as Dortmund can defeat Freiburg, they can widen the point gap between them and Leverkusen to six points.

With only four rounds left in the league, this point gap is much safer than three points.

And Dortmund did not live up to the opportunities created by Bayern Munich. They defeated Freiburg cleanly 3:0 at their home court. Zhou Yi contributed an assist in the game.

In the next round of the league, Bayer Leverkusen defeated Hoffenheim 2:1 at home. Three hours later, Dortmund's away game against Monchengladbach started.

In this game, Zhou Yi once again sent an assist, helping Dortmund defeat Monchengladbach 2:1 in the away game and maintain a six-point lead over Leverkusen.

In this way, with three rounds left in the league, as long as Dortmund wins in the next round, they can basically claim to win the championship in advance.

Because when the points are the same, the Bundesliga does not first look at the results of the two sides' games against each other, but directly compares the goal difference and the number of goals scored. Even if Dortmund lost the last two rounds of the league, Leverkusen won both and tied the points.

Then there is also a huge gap between the two sides in terms of goal difference.

Currently, after the 30th round of the league, Dortmund has a goal difference of 44. How many goals does Leverkusen have? Twenty-one, a full twenty-three goals short!

It is almost impossible for Leverkusen to close this gap in the remaining three rounds of the league.

The chances of Dortmund losing by a big margin in the last two rounds are too low...

Sure enough, without the constraints of the Champions League, Dortmund burst out with huge energy after they could devote themselves to the league.

Competitors have almost no chance to take advantage.

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At 9:30 pm on April 30th, Beijing time, in the 32nd round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund faced Nuremberg at home. At the same time, Leverkusen challenged Cologne away.

These two games will determine the league title this season.

China Central Television chose to broadcast Dortmund's match against Nuremberg on its free sports channel, while Leverkusen's away game against Cologne was broadcast on the paid Fengyun Football Channel.

With an hour left, Zhou Jianliang had already finished the preparations. All the teacups and kettles were placed on the coffee table. However, others were not watching in front of the TV, but in front of the computer, visiting various community forums to see what was going on. What everyone thinks about this game, let’s see what they think about Zhou Yi.

Zhou Jianliang felt very happy when he saw Zhou Yi's fans expressing various emotions towards Zhou Yi on the Internet.

Because they only praise their own sons.

Ever since Zhou Yi became famous, Zhou Jianliang has gradually developed this habit - because just reading newspapers can no longer satisfy him. Ever since he found more posts praising his son on the Internet, he has been like a fish in the sea, swimming to his heart's content. In the ocean of "zhou blow".

Judging from online feedback, basically no one thinks that Dortmund will capsize in the gutter at home.

This game will definitely be won, there is no suspense.

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In the dressing room, Klopp was telling his obviously over-excited players: "Relax, boys. It's just a normal game, don't think too much - if you really want to If there are so many things, I suggest you wait until the game is over to think about it, and I promise I will never pour cold water on you at that time."

What Klopp is worried about is that the players will get carried away after coming on the field, and then their minds are not in the game at all, and their form will be completely lost. In the end, they will lose to Nuremberg in an upset at home.

There are many teams that have some ups and downs when they are close to the championship, let alone a young team like Dortmund.

They have never had the experience of winning a league championship...

In this team, only the old captain Sebastian Kehl and Dede have the experience of winning the Bundesliga - that was still the distant 2001-2002 season, nine years ago, a long time ago It was enough to make both Kyle and Dede forget what it felt like to win the championship...

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After the game started, Dortmund's players did behave a little abnormally.

In the first half hour, Dortmund failed to score a goal. In the 28th minute, Mark was too excited and made too many defensive moves and received a yellow card.

The good news is that there were no goals in the games between Leverkusen and Cologne.

Dortmund is actually short of a goal at this time. As long as there is a goal, everyone's mentality can be restored to normal and the game can be on track.

But when will the goal come?

In the 32nd minute, Dortmund controlled the ball outside Nuremberg's penalty area, and the football fell to Zhou Yi's feet.

Zhou Yi directly passed the football to Mark, and then he moved forward and signaled Mark to pass the football back.

With his back to the direction of the attack, Mark leaned on the Nuremberg player who was guarding him, and then pushed the football sideways.

Zhou Yi received the ball on the line of the penalty area. He made a gesture to shoot, but he deceived Nuremberg defender Penola. He gently flicked the football to the outside with the instep of his left foot, past the opponent, and entered the penalty area!

"Zhou Yi!! Beautiful performance!" Marcel Leif shouted excitedly. Huge cheers also rang out from the south stand of the West**** Stadium. The cheers were very loud because Nuremberg's goal was right under the south stand!

After dodging Penola, Zhou Yi dribbled the ball into the penalty area. Facing a swarm of Nuremberg players rushing up, he did not choose to pass the football to anyone, but shot it himself!

He turned his right foot sideways and kicked the football!

Looking at this action, Zhou Yi wants to kick the football to the far corner. He is very good at this way of scoring goals. In the goal against Real Madrid, he seemed to have scored it in the same way, using his right foot. An inward arc was drawn on the inside, then bypassed the defensive player and the goalkeeper's fingers, and finally turned into the far corner of the goal.

So when Nuremberg goalkeeper Schafer saw Zhou Yi falling backward, he expected that Zhou Yi would definitely go to the far corner this time, so he moved his center of gravity to the far end.

But when Zhou Yi's foot hit the football, it was not a rub shot from the inside of the foot, but a volley from the instep!

The football was whipped to the near corner by him, and the speed was very fast!

At this time, Nuremberg goalkeeper Schafer wanted to change his focus and attack the near corner, but it was too late... He could only freeze in place and watch the football fly into the goal he was guarding...

The goal that can bring everyone back on track finally appeared! (To be continued.)