Chapter 258 Group 1

The successful transfer of Reus is a big event for Dortmund fans, and it is also a big event in the Bundesliga winter break transfer news, but when it comes to the entire European transfer market, it is relatively ordinary.

The impact on the Dortmund team is currently basically minimal.

There is only Grosskreutz. People who have been teammates with Allen and Reus in Red and White are very excited.

In addition to training, everyone else also has their own things and problems to solve.

For example, Shinji Kagawa.

He was a little annoyed during this winter break because his contract renewal negotiations with the club were not going very smoothly.

The two sides have never been able to reach an agreement on the issue of annual salary.

How unsmooth were the negotiations?

In January 2011, Dortmund planned to renew Shinji Kagawa's contract.

As a result, one year has passed and the contract renewal has not been finalized. This shows how serious the differences between the two parties are...

In addition, Lewandowski's contract renewal negotiations are also ongoing.

Since Barrios left via transfer and Mark Wagner was injured, Lewandowski has become the only scorer Dortmund can count on up front.

Of course, he didn't let the team down either. In the first half of the season, he made sixteen starts and scored ten goals, making him the team's top scorer.

After his importance became apparent, Dortmund also started renewing his contract.

The contract extension will significantly increase Lewandowski's salary.

But I don’t know if this can satisfy the hot Lewandowski...

As for the Book of Changes...

Transfers and contract extensions have nothing to do with him. No matter what happens this summer, at least during the winter break, it is impossible for him to leave Dortmund. As for the contract, he has just completed a contract extension with the club, and his salary has increased to 3 million euros. It is impossible for the club to immediately start a new round of contract renewal negotiations with him, unless the club really has too much money to spend...

In addition to completing normal training during the team's training camp, he also continued his special physical training to strengthen his physical fitness, further improve his running ability and expand his range of activities.

As a midfield organizer,

Being able to see far and pass far is not enough, you also need to be able to run far. You have to be able to appear anywhere on the court in time during the 90-minute game, which requires the physical support of being able to run to death.

Regardless of Zhou Yi's development from his debut to the present, it seems that his development has been quite smooth - his vision is very good, his short passes are accurate, and his long passes have also improved significantly after such a long period of hard training. He is still training continuously. His dribbling and breakthrough. There seems to be a vast sea and sky ahead, allowing him to fly and gallop, and his future is limitless.

But in fact, Zhou Yi himself felt a sense of crisis.

Although he didn't hit any rookie wall, he seemed to have encountered a bottleneck.

This bottleneck is physical fitness. Because Zhou Yi himself is not the kind of player who can't run to death, his physical fitness is not very good. With sufficient physical fitness, he can perform very well. But as he retires from the game, the number of threatening balls he sends will drop significantly in the final stages of the game. He spends more time on the court using passes to control the rhythm rather than launching attacks.

In this case, Zhou Yi would be powerless if he needed to counterattack at the last minute.

Of course, this is not a big problem. After all, there are so many professional players, and not all of them can keep their physical condition energetic from the first minute of the game to the end. After all, such people are in the minority.

So if Zhou Yi is satisfied with the status quo, he can continue to be the core of Dortmund and be a first-class player in the Bundesliga. Anyway, he won't do too badly, and he can continue to be a well-deserved core member of the Chinese national team.

But Zhou Yi is an ambitious person, and he will not be willing to maintain his current level.

In order to achieve a breakthrough, he must continue to improve himself.

Physical fitness is the foundation of modern football. Although Zhou Yi's current physical fitness is much better than when he first debuted, it is still a bit far away from the goal Zhou Yi has in his heart... He hopes that even if he can play for 120 minutes Sometimes, he can also rush from the backcourt to the frontcourt to participate in the offense. Whether it is sending a fatal assist or scoring a goal himself, there is no pressure.

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After fifteen days of training in Mallorca and three warm-up matches, the Dortmund team returned to Germany to make final preparations for the second half of the league.

In the eighteenth round of the league, the first teams to appear were Bayern Munich and Monchengladbach. Bayern Munich takes on Monchengladbach on the field.

As a result, Bayern Munich lost to Monchengladbach 1:3 in the away game!

Reus, who officially announced during the winter break that he will move to Dortmund in the summer, opened the scoring for Monchengladbach in the 11th minute of the game.

In the 71st minute, he assisted teammate Hermann to score Monchengladbach's third goal of the game.

Bayern Munich only scored a face-saving goal from "Little Pig" Bastian Schweinsteiger in the 76th minute.

During the game, commentator Duan Xin also joked: "This must be Royce's vote of approval for the new club!"

The next day, Schalke 04 faced Stuttgart at home. Yang Muge, who trained with the team during the winter break, appeared in the starting lineup for the fourth consecutive league game and helped Schalke 04 defeat Stuttgart 3:1 at home.

One day later, Dortmund challenged Hamburg away.

Zhou Yi used two assists to help the team beat Hamburg 5:1 away from home.

Dortmund are now four points ahead of Bayern Munich in the standings.

In the nineteenth round of the league, Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Schalke 04, as well as Monchengladbach all defeated their respective opponents.

The top four teams in the league all won and their rankings remained unchanged.

Dortmund ranks first with 44 points, Bayern Munich ranks second with 40 points, and Schalke 04 has also caught up with a wave of winning streak, with 40 points, but ranks third with a goal difference disadvantage. . Monchengladbach, where Royce is located, can be said to be a dark horse this season. They ranked fourth with 39 points.

These four teams can be regarded as the first group, because their points gap between each other is very close, and everyone has a chance to surpass their opponents.

The gap between fifth-placed Werder Bremen and the top four is a bit big. Werder Bremen currently has 31 points, and there is still a full eight-point gap with Monchengladbach.

But next, Schalke 04 will lose their main midfielder Yang Muge. Because Yang Muge was going to participate in the Olympic qualifiers, the Chinese Olympic team challenged the Qatar Olympic team away.

Yang Muge also participated in the Olympic qualifiers before, but at that time Yang Muge was only a fringe player in the Schalke 04 first team. His presence or absence had no impact on the team, and Stevens never thought it mattered.

But things are different now.

Yang Muge is the main midfielder of Schalke 04. Although watching the game, you don't think he is very dazzling. Most of the time, he seems to be invisible. But Stevens knows very well that the presence of Yang Muge has indeed improved the team's defense. This can be seen from the goals Schalke 04 has conceded in recent games.

In the first fifteen league games without Yang Muge, Schalke 04 conceded twenty goals, averaging 1.43 goals per game. In the five games Yang Muge played, Schalke 04 only conceded four goals, averaging 0.8 goals per game.

The numbers don't lie. Although Yang Muge is not a player that broadcast cameras like to focus on on the court, the improvement he brings to Schalke 04 is real.

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After the game against Cologne, Yang Muge left Schalke 04 and flew to Qatar, where he will join his teammates. At the same time, Sun Pan, He Ying and Guo Nu will also join the big team there. , preparing for the group stage in a few days.

This game is very difficult for the Chinese Olympic team, because this is their home court, and everyone in West Asia knows the home court advantage.

In the end, the Olympic team tied with Qatar 2:2 in the away game.

During the game, the Qatar Olympic team scored first and took the lead.

In the first half, He Ying equalized the score for the Chinese team.

In the 75th minute, He Ying scored twice and took the lead for the Chinese Olympic team.

At that time, the Chinese fans thought that the game could be won. Who knew that in the last 86 minutes, the referee on duty awarded Qatar a penalty kick!

At the critical moment, the home field advantage was fully utilized.

In the end, Qatar relied on this penalty kick to draw with the Chinese Olympic team 2:2 at home.

The failure to win Qatar made many Chinese fans sweat for the Olympic team.

But God is still fair - the Chinese team suffered an unfair treatment in the match against Qatar. It was really bad luck, and good luck made up for them in the match between the South Korean team and Saudi Arabia.

The South Korean Olympic team was tied 1:1 by the Saudi Arabian Olympic team in an away game!

Everyone is tied, and the two sides are still one point apart.

Next, as long as the Chinese team defeats the South Korean team at home, it can overtake them and become the first in the group, taking its destiny into its own hands.

The game will start on February 22nd.

Fortunately, none of the teams that the Four Little Dragons play for have participated in the Champions League. Otherwise, it is hard to say whether the club will let him go... because that time is the second match day of the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals... …(To be continued.)