Chapter 151 Tacit Understanding Lasts Forever

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When the game entered the 80th minute, the score on the field remained unchanged. Shakhtar Donetsk led Dortmund 2:1 at their home court.

In the last ten minutes, Shakhtar Donetsk has given up the offense and recycled all lines, hoping to hold on to this point advantage in the last ten minutes.

So Dortmund faced a more complicated situation.

Another five minutes passed. During these five minutes, Dortmund added four more shots, but the score was still not changed.

In the 86th minute, Dortmund organized another attack and hit the penalty area of ​​Shakhtar Donetsk, and then fell into a quagmire again.

Shakhtar Donetsk's defense was very tight and gave Dortmund almost no openings.

Dortmund could only pass the football sideways, but Shakhtar Donetsk did not come up to grab it. They were afraid that Zhou Yi would seize the opportunity to send a fatal pass after grabbing the ball.

They are still very afraid of Zhou Yi.

So even if Zhou Yi keeps getting the ball outside the penalty area, no one will come up to grab him. They believe that as long as there are no loopholes in their defense, even if Zhou Yi is allowed to get the ball, there is nothing he can do.

This is the right thing to do, especially if the venue is bad. Even if Zhou Yi or other Dortmund players want to use the ball to break through in the open space, it will be difficult to achieve on such a bad field. When the offense can only be organized by passing the ball, there will be very few offensive paths, which will also make it easier for the defender to defend.

But there is always an exception.

Nothing is absolute.

There are always loopholes in a tight defense, and it is impossible to really prevent one from getting in.

Zhou Yi turned his head around, like a radar antenna, taking in a panoramic view of the situation around him, and then formed a bird's-eye view in his mind.

On the bird's-eye view, the distribution of players on both sides was clear. Zhou Yi searched carefully in this bird's-eye view, looking for channels that could create opportunities.

He searched around and found one!

A very hidden passage, but it does exist. As long as it can be exploited, it can pose a threat.

But the problem is that he saw this path, and it doesn't matter if no one else sees it, because if no one jumps in and runs to the right position, it will be useless even if he passes the football.

How can you threaten the opponent's goal if no one can catch the ball?

He needs someone to cooperate with him, but time does not allow him to inform others. After all, the situation on the court is changing rapidly. If there is a slight delay, this channel may be gone.

Besides, if the signal is too obvious, it will only heighten the other party's vigilance.

So now Zhou Yi can only hope that someone in his team will also see this passage. He can't wait for confirmation before passing the ball. He has to pass the football now and hope that someone will get into the space to receive the ball.

It's like a door that is closing. If it's a little later, the door will be completely closed.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yi raised his arm and asked Gotze for the ball.

Gotze was picking up the ball on the wing. When he saw Zhou Yi raising his hand to request, he quickly passed the football over.

In order to prevent the football from being affected by its rolling trajectory on the muddy field, Gotze kicked the football up. The football passed from low altitude and flew towards Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi ran towards the football, but did not stop the ball. Instead, he directly stretched out his right foot and used the outer instep of his right foot to rub the flying football into the penalty area.

The football drew an arc and flew to the penalty area!

This kick was somewhat unexpected by the Shakhtar Donetsk players. None of them expected that Zhou Yi would pass the ball directly without stopping, but instead used the instep of his outside foot to create such an arc!

When the football flew over, all Shakhtar Donetsk players were caught off guard. They could only watch the football pass over their heads and then fly to the far corner behind them...

Someone looked back and saw that the football did not fly directly to the goal, but turned in the air.

It flew to the back of the defense line almost parallel to the goal, where a yellow-black figure shot out like lightning!

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"Mark!" In the exclamation of Marcel Leif, Mark Wagner jumped high during the sprint and made a powerful top move towards the football!

The football was hit firmly on his forehead and then flew to the far corner of the goal!

Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Piatov, who had just turned around and pounced, was helpless in the face of the football that was pushed behind him. It was impossible for him to turn around and pounce again, which would violate the laws of physics.

The inertia made him freeze in place, and he could only turn his head and watch the football fly into the goal...

"Ahhhhhhhh!!" Marcel Leif screamed excitedly. "Beautiful! Beautiful! Mark Wagner! He equalized the score for the team! Two away goals. Dortmund can return to Germany with this result satisfied!"

"Mark Wagner!!" He Ping also shouted. "The final goal! He equalized for Dortmund! This goal came from Zhou Yi's imaginative assist!"

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After scoring, Mark landed and ran to Zhou Yi to celebrate the goal. However, before he could reach Zhou Yi, he was hugged by Lewandowski and was knocked to the ground.

Next, Royce pressed up, Zhou Yi ran over and piled on Royce, Gotze jumped up again, and more Dortmund players swarmed in, completely crushing Mark in the mud...

Under the crazy celebrations of the Dortmund players, the players of Shakhtar Donetsk were a little unacceptable - they were about to win the game, and it was already the 87th minute of the game when Mark scored... The ball was lost! Not only was the score equalized, it also gave Dortmund two away goals!

This is simply the second worst result after losing at home.

When Dortmund coach Klopp saw the result, his face burst into laughter. He made no secret of his inner joy and knelt down on the slippery field.

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The Dortmund team's crazy celebration finally ended with the intervention of the referee, and everyone returned to their positions. After all, the game was not over yet.

Zhou Yi and Mark ran side by side back to the Dortmund half. Zhou Yi asked Mark: "How did you think of going forward for that ball just now?"

"I felt that it must be an open space for you, Zhou Yi, and you might pass the football over, so I tried to go up..." Mark explained.

Zhou Yi happily patted Mark on the shoulder. As expected, Mark understood him best. Although Mark hadn't played football for a long time, the tacit understanding between them had always been there.

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It is a pleasure to equalize the score, and for Dortmund, they can also be satisfied.

Squeezing out Lao Guo, Sun Pan had to admit that Dortmund had a tough life, but they were able to equalize the score in such a difficult situation.

"Zhou Yi's pass was really beautiful..." Yang Muge said with emotion. He was truly convinced of Zhou Yi's ideas and vision. Many people would never even think about passing the ball, but Zhou Yi could pass such an imaginative and impossible ball.

"Maybe he was blinded?" Sun Pan poured cold water on him.

"It's okay if you can hide it!" Guo Nu said.

He Ying said: "I think Mark's running position is better. He seems to know exactly how Zhou Yi will pass. This kind of running position is really amazing."

As both a forward and a forward who is good at running without the ball, He Ying naturally pays more attention to Mark.

"Mark was once an outstanding striker. If he hadn't been injured, nothing would have happened to Lewandowski." Yang Muge said. As Dortmund's derby opponent, Yang Muge is very fond of Dortmund's players. understand. In addition, Mark has indeed performed well in the Ruhr area derby, and the impression is naturally deeper.

"That's such a pity..."

Injuries are the enemy of all professional players, and all players do not want injuries to find them. Therefore, when Yang Muge said this, everyone sighed.

The TV broadcast gave Mark another close-up shot. Although the ball was passed beautifully by Zhou Yi, it was Mark who scored the goal after all, so Mark was the focus of everyone's attention.

Marcel Leif said: "After returning from injury, Mark has been in good condition, but Dortmund has too many attackers in the frontcourt, so Mark can only be a substitute. But even though he is a substitute, Mark's performance It's also very good. I think this is a good thing for Klopp, because this season Dortmund has been using a rotation strategy to deal with two-line operations. He needs a thicker bench depth. Mark's performance gives him more confidence to rotate. ."

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There are three minutes left in the regular time of the game, plus injury time, there are about six or seven minutes left. Is this time enough for both sides to score another goal?

This is an acceptable result for Dortmund, but not so acceptable for Shakhtar Donetsk.

So after the game restarted, Shakhtar Donetsk launched a fierce attack on Dortmund's goal, hoping to take the lead again at the last moment of the game.

Facing the fierce attack of Shakhtar Donetsk, Dortmund shrunk and defended, passing the ball forward when they had the chance, and destroying the opponent's offense with a big kick if they didn't have the chance.

The game could have ended in this situation.

But in the 92nd minute, something unexpected happened on the court - Dortmund got the ball and launched a quick counterattack. Zhou Yi made a long pass and found Mark who stayed in front. Because Mark was the last one to play, his physical fitness was relatively better, so when fighting back, he was the only one at the front.

After Mark saw the football coming, he accelerated and ran forward to chase the ball.

But while Mark was chasing the ball, he suddenly stopped and watched helplessly as the football in front of him was snatched away by the defender of Shakhtar Donetsk.

"Hey, what happened?" Marcel Leif was a little surprised and didn't understand why Mark stopped.

But he knew why next...

Mark stopped and covered the muscles behind his right thigh with his hand, his expression a little painful. Then he simply sat down and kept rubbing the muscles on the back of his thighs with his hands.

"It seems like there's something wrong with Mark's muscles... This..." Marcel Leif didn't even know what to say.

Seeing Mark's situation, Zhou Yi quickly raised his hand and asked the Shakhtar Donetsk players to kick the football out of bounds.

But Shakhtar Donetsk would not let go of the opportunity to continue to besiege Dortmund. They turned a blind eye to Zhou Yi's gesture and only regarded Zhou Yi, who was waving his arms, as a ball of air and continued to attack.

Seeing this, Zhou Yi stopped signaling. He rushed forward and hugged the Shakhtar Donetsk player dribbling the ball with both hands, preventing the opponent from continuing to dribble.

This was an obvious foul, and the referee finally blew the whistle and suspended the game.

Now Mark can get the opportunity to be treated by the team doctor.

And Zhou Yi also received a yellow card because of this intentional foul.

But Zhou Yi didn't care. He left behind the referee who showed him a yellow card, the very dissatisfied Shakhtar Donetsk players, and his teammates who defended him, and ran straight to Mark in front.

"How is it?" he asked anxiously.

"Muscle strain..." Mark heard Zhou Yi's voice and turned around to say to Zhou Yi. He still had a smile on his face, but this smile seemed a bit bitter to Zhou Yi.

"Fuck!" Zhou Yi cursed in his native language. (To be continued.)