Chapter 65 League Game 1

Zhou Yi came to the gym at the training base to continue his physical recovery training. Although he has already conducted technical and tactical training with the team, he still needs to train alone.

Take some time out of your day to strengthen your body.

When he walked into the locker room, he heard heavy breathing coming from inside.

"Hey, Mark, are you tired and lying down again?" Zhou Yi said, bypassing a row of equipment, and what came into view was Mark Wagner lying on the floor in big letters.

Hearing Zhou Yi's voice, Mark Wagner didn't even raise his head, nor did he answer him immediately, because he was breathing heavily now and couldn't speak coherently.

After a while, he said: "I want to go faster..."

"Hey, this is an objective rule, Mark. It doesn't mean that you can come back sooner if you push yourself in the gym every day. I think you should be calmer and don't be too anxious. Moreover, if you are forced to If my sister finds you, you will be scolded again." Zhou Yi said as he got on the equipment and prepared for training.

"I know, Zhou Yi, what you said makes sense, but I just can't help it..." Mark lay on the ground, the rise and fall of his chest much gentler than before.

In fact, at the end of last season, Mark had already recovered from his injury, but he still needed restorative training to return to the game.

So when everyone was on holiday, he returned to the Brakel training base for restorative training.

This time, without the help of his good friend Zhou Yi, he had to fight against fate alone.

Restorative training is very long, because his body has not been active for ten months. He needs to increase the amount little by little to allow the body to slowly adapt and become familiar with it. A slight mistake in this process may lead to secondary injuries to the body. , thus making recovery from injury elusive, and may also cause more serious harm to the body.

Listening to the clanking sound from the equipment, Mark sat up from the ground, supported his leaning body with both hands, and looked at Zhou Yi.

"Zhou Yi, can you really play in the next game?"

"certainly."

"Didn't you say that you should be calm and not be too anxious?"

"I'm not injured." Zhou Yi gritted his teeth and said as he tried to lift the equipment pressing on his ankle.

"But... you have never practiced with the team.

If you just play..."

"Don't worry, Mark. I think the coaches know very well whether I can play or not. If they think I can, then I can play."

While the two were talking, there was a sound of footsteps at the door of the gym.

Then Cortana, wearing a Dortmund sports coat and a ponytail, appeared in front of the two of them.

Seeing that her brother was there, Cortana said with a cold face: "Mark, you shouldn't be here. You have already done your physical training today."

In front of his sister, Mark seemed very obedient. He shrank his neck and lowered his head and remained silent.

The elder sister taught the younger brother a lesson, while Zhou Yi watched the excitement with a smile on his face.

But Cortana quickly noticed him and rolled her eyes at him: "Why are you laughing!"

"No, I just feel that my sister loves and protects her brother, it's so warm." Zhou Yi smiled and shook his head.

Cortana glanced at Zhou Yi suspiciously, not sure whether he was sincere or sarcastic.

Of course Zhou Yi guessed what Cortana meant by this glance. He waved his hand: "Don't think blindly, I just meant it literally."

Cortana then turned to Mark and said, "Let's go, Mark."

Mark waved to Zhou Yi: "Goodbye, Zhou Yi. If you can play, I wish you a good performance."

"Thank you Mark, I also wish you can play as soon as possible."

Mark and Cortana left the gym, leaving Zhou Yi alone in the huge room. He began to grit his teeth and compete with the fitness equipment...

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At 2:30 a.m. on August 25th, Beijing time, the new Bundesliga season will kick off, with the opening match between Dortmund and Werder Bremen.

The day before this game, Dortmund announced the 18-man roster for this game, and Zhou Yi's name was clearly on the list.

As he said, it is really possible for him to play in this game!

However, some media believe that this is Klopp's insurance measure. He actually does not intend to really let Zhou Yi play. He is putting him on the bench. If it's really no longer possible, then let Zhou Yi play. In fact, most of the time, Zhou Yi may stay on the bench until the end of the game...

What the Chinese media and fans are concerned about is whether Zhou Yi will start?

Everyone wants him to start, but they don't want him to start.

Naturally, I want him to start because I want to see him play more games. I don’t want him to start because I feel that his physical fitness has not fully recovered. If he starts, it will have an impact on his physical fitness...

However, while announcing the roster, Dortmund did not announce the starting lineup for the next day's game. This list should be available about two hours before the game.

Two hours before the game the next day, the starting lineup finally came out, and it was posted immediately on the Chinese Internet.

Zhou Yi makes his debut!

"I'll go! Is Zhou Yi really recovered?"

"It seems that Dortmund can be missing anyone, but Zhou Yi cannot be missing! The core is well-deserved! But is it a little... too tired?"

"He turned out to be the starter. It seems that the impact of losing to Bayern Munich in the Super Cup is not as small as Klopp said..."

On the Internet, everyone is talking about it.

The fans were surprised, and so were the reporters.

In the media box at Westchester Stadium before the start of the game, reporters already in place were also discussing matters about Zhou Yi's starting lineup.

"Is Zhou Yi's physical fitness really okay?"

"Actually, two weeks of physical training is almost the same as the team's pre-season physical training time, so physical fitness may not really be a problem. But even if physical fitness is no problem, how much time will he have to train with the team? There are only a handful of them, right? He is the core of the midfield, and after he comes on the field, he has to connect the whole team. How can he connect in this situation?"

"Yes, yes, even if his physical fitness is no problem, his cooperation with the team is also a problem. Shinji Kagawa is gone, and Royce comes again. It is obviously impossible to continue to use the tactics of last season... "

"Could it be that Zhou Yi was allowed to start because of Sven Bender's injury?"

After the Super Cup match against Bayern Munich, Sven Bender was injured in training and will be out for almost a month after being tested.

"But Zhou Yi and Sven Bender are completely different types of defensive midfielders. He shouldn't be the one to replace Sven Bender..."

Reporters couldn't understand.

There are two main questions now. One is whether Zhou Yi's physical fitness is enough for him to cope with continuous combat immediately twenty-two days after the Olympic Games. You must know that this is not the game he is facing. On the night of September 1st, Dortmund will challenge Nuremberg away from home. This is the second round of the league. Then on September 11th, he will return to China to participate in a key game in the top ten of the World Cup Asian Qualifiers - the Chinese team challenges Japan away from home. Needless to say how important this game is, the Chinese media and fans The worry is whether Zhou Yi still has the physical fitness and condition to play this game after two consecutive games. After all, he has to fly back from Germany before that, and the travel and travel will also affect the player's physical condition.

The second question is that even if Zhou Yi's physical fitness has reached the requirements for playing games, what is his status? What about the cooperation between him and his teammates? Dortmund has made tactical adjustments this season, but Zhou Yike has not been training with the team for long. When Shinji Kagawa was here, he played as an attacking midfielder, while Zhou Yi retreated and became a defensive midfielder. Now that Shinji Kagawa is gone, Royce is not a front midfielder, so there is an empty person in the front midfielder position. Should Zhou Yi's position be moved forward, or should he continue to stay in the back midfielder? This is not just a simple change of position on the court, but also involves a whole set of offensive and defensive operations. How much time does Zhou Yi spend practicing with his teammates? Are he and his teammates already familiar with it?

The first of these two questions may not be obvious yet, but the answer to the second may be known in this game.

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PS, I’m sorry, I miscalculated the time when I wrote the previous chapter and advanced the time when Guardiola came to Bayern Munich by one season. This was a major mistake. I have already revised it in the previous chapter. The following is Bayern Munich is still coached by Jupp Heynckes, so I'm very sorry for causing trouble to everyone! (To be continued.)