Chapter 269 Reversal of Elimination

When Zhou Yi passed the football to Lewandowski, everyone's attention and eyes shifted to Lewandowski's feet along with the football. Not many people would continue to stare at Zhou Yi. If Lewandowski then passes the football back to Zhou Yi, it will remind everyone that Zhou Yi plays an important role in this offense, which is equivalent to attracting defensive firepower for Zhou Yi.

But Lewandowski didn't do that. After receiving the ball from Zhou Yi, he passed the football to Shinji Kagawa without even looking at Zhou Yi.

Shinji Kagawa did not pass the football to Zhou Yi, but to Gotze.

As a result, football is getting further and further away from Zhou Yi, and everyone pays less and less attention to Zhou Yi. More people are paying close attention to Gotze on the ball and Lewandowski who is very active in the penalty area.

In the tense atmosphere where Dortmund has already reached the AC Milan goal, no one will remember to pay extra attention to Zhou Yi.

But just when everyone was about to forget about him, he reappeared in everyone's field of vision.

Facing the football, he swung his right foot.

It looked like he would whip the football towards the near corner of the goal, but just when the football was about to roll in front of him, he suddenly twisted his hips and pushed out with his right foot, but the football flew towards the back corner!

Abbiati failed to save and could only watch the football fly to the far corner.

Now all he could do was pray to God that the ball would be denied by the goalpost or simply deflected wide.

But this time, God did not hear his voice. The football missed the far post and flew into the goal!

"Zhouyi! Zhouyi! Zhouyi!" He Ping shouted excitedly. "Dortmund leads AC Milan 3:0!"

"Toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor!!!" Marcel Leif roared with a long voice, took a breath, and continued shouting: "tooooor! tooor! tor! tor! tor! tor!!! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! !”

The West**** Stadium was like an erupting volcano. Everyone jumped up and raised their arms and shouted, as if yellow-black magma was flowing down from the crater, covering everything and burning everything.

"Total score, Dortmund leads 4:3!!"

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After scoring the goal, Zhou Yi turned around,

He collided with Gotze, who took him into his arms, then leaned back and knocked him to the ground.

Other hot teammates swarmed forward and pinned Zhou Yi down.

Once again, Zhouyi saved Dortmund.

"Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi!!" All the Dortmund fans in the stands cheered deafeningly.

This cheer can be heard clearly through the TV signal without deliberately keeping quiet.

Every Chinese audience and fan standing in front of the TV and listening to the uniform shouts coming from the TV can clearly hear the Germans shouting Zhou Yi's name.

This scene really shocked many Chinese fans.

The name of a Chinese player is shouted by so many foreigners. Their accented pronunciation sounds weird, but it is not funny at all, and it makes people awe-inspiring.

This is the power of football, which transcends nationality and makes a Chinese the most popular guest at the Westchester Stadium.

National pride rushed into everyone's chest, making them not only happy for Zhou Yi's goal, but also a little emotional.

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"I think everyone must still remember the first round, right? In the first half, Dortmund fell behind by three goals... But now, how familiar is this scene? At Dortmund's home court, they also scored in the first half. Three goals for Milan!" Marcel Leif said excitedly and proudly. "AC Milan said they wanted revenge. I feel that after this game, the goal of revenge has not been completed. I'm afraid there will be new revenge..."

Dortmund, who was devastated at the San Siro Stadium, returned to their home court and seemed to be resurrected with full blood and health.

Zhou Yi's goal came in the 43rd minute of the first half.

The first half ended not long after Dortmund scored.

When the players from both sides left the field, the Dortmund players had smiles on their faces, while the AC Milan players looked confused. They were completely stunned by Zhou Yi's goal. They had finally managed to boost their morale and planned to counterattack, but Zhou Yi scored a goal and extinguished their newly ignited fire of fighting spirit...

Although I have panicked before when I fell behind. But when they conceded the third goal, it wasn't as simple as panicking.

There was a sharp contrast in the expressions of the players from both teams when they came off the field, which reminded people of the first-round encounter between the two sides, only reversed.

During the halftime break, in the locker room, Klopp did not praise the players' performance, but repeatedly emphasized the importance of the second half, asking the players to remain vigilant and not to be too optimistic.

They have a good lesson learned from the past, that is, AC Milan in the first round started to relax after taking a three-goal lead in the first half. As a result, Zhou Yi scored a crucial away goal in the second half. Without this away goal, the psychological state of both sides would definitely be different at the beginning of the second round. At least Dortmund would not be so motivated.

But speaking of it, AC Milan seems to be very good at being blindly optimistic when leading by three goals. This was the case in the knockout match against Deportivo La Coruna in the 2003-2004 season. In the first round, they led Deportivo La Coruna 4:1, but ended up second. The round went to an away game and was beaten 3:0 by Deportivo La Coruna, eliminating AC Milan with an away goal advantage. The most famous one is undoubtedly the Miracle in Istanbul in 2005. AC Milan led Liverpool by three goals in the first half. As a result, they opened the champagne early during the halftime break. Their character was completely defeated. In the second half, Liverpool chased three goals in a row. Finally, in the In the penalty shootout, AC Milan suffered a psychological collapse and lost to Liverpool...

Dortmund cannot repeat the mistakes of AC Milan. In that case, it would be 10,000 times stupider than AC Milan.

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After the start of the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again.

Dortmund did not relax their vigilance at all. They used their excellent overall ball control and tenacious defense to block AC Milan's increasingly crazy counterattack.

Although in the second half, AC Milan used up three substitutions in a very short period of time.

But it doesn't help.

Until the last moment, AC Milan failed to break Dortmund's goal. Although they only needed to score one more goal to drag the game into overtime, this goal seemed to be out of reach.

When the referee blew the full-time whistle, Dortmund's substitutes rushed onto the court to celebrate this hard-won victory with their teammates on the court.

And some AC Milan players collapsed on the ground. They didn't expect that they would be eliminated in the end despite having all the advantages...

"The game is over! Congratulations to Dortmund! They eliminated AC Milan with a total score of 4:3! They have reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League for two consecutive seasons!" Marcel Leif said.

When the midfield whistle sounded at the Westfield Stadium, huge cheers erupted, cheering for the great reversal of the goal and getting close to the quarterfinals.

After giving a panoramic view, the TV broadcast camera almost focused on Zhou Yi.

"The best player in this game is of course Zhou Yi, who scored one assist and one goal. If it weren't for him, how could Dortmund have finally reversed and eliminated AC Milan? You must know that this reversal started after Zhou Yi scored in the previous round. It’s a foreshadowing!”

In the camera, Zhou Yi is hugging and celebrating with his teammates, and each of their faces is filled with smiles.

In the end, almost all Dortmund players gathered around Zhou Yi, surrounded him, hugged, cheered, and celebrated his goal with him.

This scene fully illustrates Zhou Yi's status in Dortmund.

After the game, Zhou Yi was interviewed by reporters in the mixed zone. He mentioned the victory, but he did not think it was his own contribution: "Any game, no matter what the result, is the result of the whole team's success." I got it, so the victory is not due to me alone, and I only scored one goal. I am very happy to be able to reverse and eliminate AC Milan at home, very happy."

A reporter asked him: "Who do you hope to meet in the quarter-finals now?"

Zhou Yi shook his head: "No matter who it is, it doesn't matter."

At this time, he didn't want to think about the embarrassing question of who his opponent was in the quarter-finals. Since he had come back to win, he should celebrate.

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At the post-match press conference, Allegri denied that the game was caused by his improper tactics: "There is no problem with my tactics. We came here with the determination to win. But football games always There will be many surprises, and this game is full of surprises..."

He refused to answer questions from Italian reporters.

But the Italian reporter was obviously unwilling to let him go, because AC Milan was eliminated in the away game despite leading 3:1 in the first round. This is really unacceptable...

They insisted on questioning Allegri's tactical arrangements, while Allegri refused to admit that there was a problem with his arrangements, and the two sides were at loggerheads.

In the end, the post-match press conference he attended ended so unhappily.

On Klopp's side, there was a joyful and peaceful atmosphere at the press conference.

"I'm proud and proud of the performance of the lads, they were great. It's amazing that we managed to make it to the quarter-finals despite the adverse circumstances."

When he said this, Klopp grinned widely and smiled happily. (To be continued.)