Chapter 58 2 Yellow
Although Mourinho asked Lampard to come on and pass the message, not everyone's emotions could return to calm just after conceding the goal, especially when they were tied when they were originally leading. The blow was simply worse than it would have been. In the case of a draw, the lag becomes even greater...
So after the game restarted, Chelsea's players did not immediately show their courage, determination, and calmness in facing difficulties.
Two minutes after conceding the goal, Dortmund launched another threatening attack. Mark used his head to push the football back in the penalty area. Aubameyang volleyed directly from outside the penalty area. The football missed the goal post and flew out of the baseline.
Sun Pan failed to save the ball, but fortunately the football did not hit the goal frame.
Although there was no goal, many Chelsea fans at the scene were shocked into a cold sweat - if they conceded two goals in a short period of time, I was really afraid that the team would collapse because of this!
Fortunately, Mourinho's instructions gradually came into effect.
Under the leadership of veterans like Lampard, Chelsea players gradually calmed down and realized that they were only equalized, not behind, so there is still hope to win this game.
Dortmund also had to slow down because their attack speed in the first half was too fast and their physical fitness could not keep up. This will reduce the threat to Chelsea.
But they had already equalized the score anyway, so there was no need to be so anxious. It is also reasonable to slow down appropriately and give the players a chance to breathe and rest.
Therefore, Klopp did not urge the team to continue the fast break from the sidelines.
In this situation, the next game reached a deadlock.
In the stalemate, both teams seemed to have chances, but no one had a particularly good chance.
In the 54th minute, Zhou Yi got the ball in the frontcourt. Because there was no good chance to pass the ball, he decided to protect the ball and wait for a while. As a result, Ramirez kicked him while grabbing the ball. This action provided Ramirez with a chance to pass the ball. Si received a yellow card.
In the 62nd minute, Schürrle passed Schmelzer and passed into the penalty area, but Torres failed to touch the football. Two minutes later, Subotic suddenly slipped while controlling the ball in the backcourt and made a mistake giving up possession of the ball! Schürrle got the ball smartly and then passed it into the penalty area. This time Oscar's shot was saved by Weidenfeller.
In the 68th minute, Dortmund won a corner kick. After the corner kick was taken, Zhou Yi, who was ambushing outside the penalty area, followed up to grab the second volley. The ball only missed the goal slightly, scaring the Chelsea fans once again. .
A minute later, Chelsea launched a quick attack, and Hazard's shot in the penalty area was held by Weidenfeller.
As the end of the game approached, Dortmund picked up the pace again and wanted to end the fight within ninety minutes.
They don't want to play a European Super Cup and have to play overtime.
In the 70th minute, Klopp made the first substitution of the game. He replaced Aubameyang with Mkhitaryan.
"With this substitution, of course Mkhitaryan can also play on the wing, but his favorite is definitely the center... But now that he is replaced, it is not Zhou Yi who replaces him, but Aubameyang, which shows that in Klo In Pu's heart, the position of the middle road definitely belongs to Zhou Yi and cannot be shaken..." He Ping introduced.
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In the 74th minute, Dortmund once again got a chance for a corner kick. This time they did not kick the football directly into the penalty area.
Instead, a tactical corner kick was taken - Zhou Yi went to the corner flag area but responded. After receiving the ball, he turned around and passed the football outside the penalty area to Mkhitaryan.
When Mkhitaryan, who had just come on the field, received the ball, he passed the oncoming Oscar and then shot a long shot, but the football missed the goal...
In the 78th minute, Chelsea got a corner kick. Lampard's corner kick accurately found Ruiz, and the Brazilian center back passed the header to Ivanovic. Ivanovic, who inserted the ball from behind, was not even marked when he headed the ball. All Chelsea fans were ready to jump to their feet and cheer.
As a result, the Serbian defender's rush hit the ball on the crossbar!
"Ivanovic! This was Chelsea's most threatening shot in the second half! The crossbar ruthlessly rejected him!"
Ivanovic, who saw the football hitting the crossbar, put his head in his hands and knelt on the turf in front of the door. His eyes widened and he looked at the crossbar that rejected him in disbelief.
He almost became a Chelsea hero!
Mourinho on the sidelines was also very excited. He thought he was about to score a goal and was ready to celebrate, but when he saw the football blocked by the crossbar, he turned around angrily and kicked away a bottle of water next to him. …
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Chelsea missed an opportunity that could determine the outcome of the game, and not long after, they created another opportunity that could determine the outcome of the game...
In the 85th minute, Chelsea launched an attack, but the attack was not completed. The ball was intercepted by a Dortmund player while passing forward. Sven Bender, who stole the ball, passed the ball to Shaheen, and Shaheen distributed the ball to Royce on the wing.
Royce ran down the wing with the ball.
Zhou Yi followed in the middle. Judging from his running, it seems that the long-distance flight back and forth in the past two days did not have a serious impact on his physical fitness...
Today, Zhou Yi's physical fitness is no longer his shortcoming.
He moved forward in the middle just to meet Royce.
Because the offense always comes back to the center.
Royce also noticed Zhou Yi's forward thrust. When he ran into a gap, Royce decisively passed the football sideways.
Zhou Yi adjusted his speed and prepared to catch the ball.
But just when he received the football, Ramirez, who had been chasing him, also rushed up from behind.
After receiving the ball, Zhou Yi was about to continue taking the football forward, and he took the football out.
When Ramirez saw that Zhou Yi was about to run away, he didn't care about anything else. He threw his entire weight away and bumped into him.
Just like that, his body pressed against Zhou Yi, knocking Zhou Yi to the ground.
As for football, after it was taken out by Zhou Yi, it fell to the feet of Chelsea defender Ruiz without waiting for Zhou Yi to come back...
The sky above the Eden Stadium in Prague instantly erupted with harsh boos from Dortmund fans.
He even suppressed the referee's whistle.
However, his gesture could not be suppressed. Everyone saw the referee making a foul gesture and ran towards the location of the foul.
"Ramirez—" Marcel Leif drawled. "This is a tactical foul! You must be given a card!"
"Ramirez knocked down Zhou Yi. In order to prevent Zhou Yi from moving forward, this was a tactical foul...but before that, he already had a yellow card!" the British commentator exclaimed. "Perhaps Ramirez can calm down a little more and stick to Zhou Yi? You must know that speed is not what Zhou Yi is good at. Even if Zhou Yi is allowed to dribble the ball, he can't run far... But now with such a collision, Dortmund's counterattack is indeed It’s terminated, but Ramirez himself is also facing big trouble!”
Ramirez was still lying on the ground and did not get up, but Royce had already reacted after getting the ball. He hugged the football and ran to the referee, wanting to intercede for Ramirez. Of course he also knew that Ramirez had a yellow card before. If Ramirez gets another yellow card, he will have to go down. One less person will be a heavy blow to Chelsea.
But he didn't know if he could persuade the referee to "keep his men safe" because it seemed difficult to escape from this foul...
"Ramirez... this is a foul. He can be dismissed. Don't say give him a yellow card. Even if he gives a red card directly, I think it's totally fine!" As a Chinese commentator, He Ping is of course unconditionally on Zhou Yi's side. "As a result, both of his yellow cards will go to Zhou Yi!"
Mourinho was also very angry about this foul, but he did not express his anger to his players, but to the fourth official - he thought Zhou Yi was suspected of diving, and the fall was too exaggerated, exaggerating Lamy. The severity of Reis' foul this time...
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No matter how the Chelsea players gathered around to persuade them, the referee remained unmoved. He withdrew from the circle of Chelsea fans, waved to them not to follow, and at the same time hooked Ramirez to signal him to come over.
Ramirez got up from the ground. He already knew his ending. When he fell to the ground with Zhou Yi, he knew what kind of punishment he would face for what he had done.
So now he did not escape and walked up to the referee.
As expected, the referee took out a yellow card and a red card from his pocket.
He first showed Ramirez a yellow card for this foul, and then changed it to a red card. Two yellows turned into one red, and Ramirez was sent off!
"In this way, Chelsea will lose one person, and the situation will become very unfavorable for Chelsea. When there is not much game time left, if Dortmund kills it like this..."
The TV broadcast cut to Chelsea's coaching bench. Mourinho was already pulling Faria on the sidelines to explain something nervously.
He had to make adjustments as soon as possible. He had no time to argue with the fourth official about whether this was the result of Zhou Yi's exaggerated performance...
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