Chapter 150 Zhou Yi Comes on Stage

There was a dead ball situation on the court due to the penalty kick. At this time, Zhou Yi should be able to play.

However, the referee stopped this behavior. He signaled to the sidelines to wait for Mainz to take the penalty kick before making substitutions.

So Zhou Yi had to continue waiting on the sidelines, waiting for the result of the penalty kick. It was as if a bystander were watching a public execution. He could only watch, unable to change the outcome that was about to happen.

Mainz's penalty kick was taken by forward Maxime Choupo-Moting, who came on in the second half.

Dortmund fans have pinned their hopes on goalkeeper Weidenfeller, who has saved penalty kicks many times in the game.

Only this time, he didn't guess the right direction.

Choupo-Moting's penalty shot easily deceived Weidenfeller and flew into the goal.

"Ah - Mainz leads Dortmund 1:0! The deadlock has finally been broken!"

Huge cheers rang out in the sky above the Coface Arena. After scoring, Choupo-Moting flew to the stands of the home team fans to celebrate. His teammates rushed over to celebrate the goal with him. .

It was not until this time that Zhou Yi was allowed to play, and Dortmund completed the substitution.

The person Zhou Yi replaced was Mkhitaryan. Because Zhou Yi was on the bench in this game, Mkhitaryan was naturally the starter.

Mkhitaryan, who replaced Zhou Yi as the team's organizer, did not perform well enough in this game. It seems that it is still difficult for him to find a place in Dortmund's highly competitive midfield...

Mkhitaryan was a little frustrated when he came off the field. After feebly high-fiving Zhou Yi, he walked to the bench with his head lowered.

Zhou Yi finally didn't start this game. He originally thought this was his chance, but the cruel reality poured cold water on him.

"Zhou Yi has been substituted!" Duan Xin's focus is always on Zhou Yi. Even if Dortmund is lagging behind at this time, he does not say a few more words, but excitedly introduces Zhou Yi to the Chinese TV audience. Case. "The situation in front of him is not very good now. Dortmund is behind by a goal. Klopp put him on the field and used up the last substitution... In other words, Zhou Yi is Dortmund's last resort to solve the problem, no matter what No, this is all Klopp’s trick..."

Zhou Yi in the TV camera ran onto the court while reaching out to gesture to his teammates, telling them to adjust their positions.

Originally, when this game started, Dortmund sent a double midfielder, Kyle and Shaheen.

However, Klopp had made substitution adjustments before, replacing Kyle with Royce and replacing Shaheen with Sven Bender. In this way, the double midfielder became a single midfielder.

Zhou Yi can play both as an attacking midfielder and as a defensive midfielder. So what position will he play after he comes on the field?

Soon, everyone discovered that Zhou Yi was standing next to Sven Bender - he chose to play as a defensive midfielder after coming on the field!

This makes some fans regretful. They think that Zhou Yi is far away from the goal and the threat is small. They hope that Zhou Yi will use goals to turn the tide after playing.

But Zhou Yi had his own considerations.

Now there are Sibel, Royce, Kuba and Aubameyang in the frontcourt, four attacking players. If he were to stand in the attacking midfielder position, it would be too crowded and his space would be compressed. Especially after Mainz has taken the lead through penalty kicks, they will inevitably shrink their defense. As a result, the opponent's penalty area is full of people inside and outside, and there is no room for performance.

Therefore, Zhou Yi chose to stand in the midfielder position. On the one hand, this place is far away from the opponent's goal and there are few people, making it easier to launch attacks. On the other hand, the situation of fans in the frontcourt is not so serious, but it is easy to create gaps.

Before Zhou Yi came on the field, neither Klopp nor Buvac had a clear idea of ​​what position Zhou Yi would play after he came on the field, because they believed that Zhou Yi would make his own judgment based on the situation. Now Zhou Yi has made a judgment, and both of them are very satisfied with it - this is the same result they hoped for. They also believe that Zhou Yi should play as a defensive midfielder after playing.

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The game restarted with Dortmund taking the kick-off after conceding the ball.

However, Dortmund, who was lagging behind, did not take advantage of the kick-off opportunity and launched a fierce attack on Mainz's goal. On the contrary, Zhou Yi passed the football back, and after passing it, he took the initiative to run back to respond.

In this way, under the leadership of Zhou Yi, Dortmund fell to its knees. They pass the football back and forth in the midfield and in the backfield, and are not in a hurry to send it forward.

That is to say, Zhou Yi has the ability to suppress the rhythm. If it were anyone else who did this, they would have been thrown away by impatient teammates. In fact, when the ball was lost, everyone was panicked and anxious. They were either at a loss or thinking about equalizing the score quickly. After all, it was already seventy minutes when Mainz scored, leaving Dortmund only twenty minutes.

But Zhou Yi was able to calm down, and under his leadership, Dortmund gradually calmed down.

This is the trust capital Zhou Yi has earned over the years in Dortmund by helping the team get out of trouble time and time again. His teammates believe that Zhou Yi can always make the right choices at critical moments.

Mainz actually hopes to attack for a while after taking the lead and try to score another goal in a short time.

But when Dortmund deliberately slowed down their pace, their fast break plan went bankrupt. Under the command of head coach Tuchel, Mainz began to recycle the defense-if Dortmund had to keep playing at the back, they didn't care. Anyway, they are in the lead now. If they can hold this one-goal lead to midfield, it will be fine.

And Tuchel believes it would be to his team's benefit to return the game to the dull, slow pace it once was.

So he wasn't anxious when he saw Dortmund playing in the midfield.

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Of course Zhou Yi knew that after just conceding the ball, he could take advantage of Mainz's attack and hope to score another goal in a short period of time. The space gained by Mainz's counterattack would definitely be greater than that of the current positional battle. But he also knows very well that if they play against Mainz, both sides will be in a fast-paced back-and-forth situation. Dortmund, who just lost the ball and has an unstable morale, will definitely be at a disadvantage in the fight against Mainz. It can't be done. If it's good, he'll lose the ball first.

Klopp asked him to play in the hope of breaking the deadlock on the field, but due to an accident, the balance on the field had been broken, and the balance of victory and defeat tilted in favor of Mainz. Then his first task on the field is to return the game to a balanced state. Stabilizing military morale is a very important part.

He seemed to have missed some chances to equalize the score, but he calmed the players down and avoided conceding more goals.

Now, watching Mainz recover their defense, Zhou Yi passed the football forward, and it was Dortmund's turn to attack.

Although he is playing as a midfielder, when Dortmund is attacking, Zhou Yi will not stay in the midfielder position. He just passes the football to the front with one kick and that's it. Instead, he will rush forward and fully participate in the attack.

Like now.

After passing the football to Sibel, Zhou Yi ran forward and approached the 30-meter area of ​​Mainz.

As he started forward, the football had already been passed three times. When Zhou Yi approached the thirty-meter area, the football was passed back to his feet.

Facing the Mainz player who rushed to steal the ball, Zhou Yi turned around, protected the football, and blocked the Mainz player behind him. Then he quickly kicked the ball through and the football was passed into the penalty area. !

If Mainz center back Stefan Bell hadn't destroyed the football with a first kick, the football would have been caught by Royce who had already gone around behind him. Once Royce caught the ball, it would have been It was a single goal directly facing goalkeeper Karius in the penalty area!

"Zhouyi's wonderful biography! Oh! What a pity!" Duan Xin shouted regretfully.

The Coface Arena also erupted in exclamations, and the Mainz fans were frightened.

"Zhou Yi's pass... was so dangerous! After simply turning around to get rid of it, he quickly passed the football and almost created a murderous opportunity! This is Zhou Yi's ability!" Marcel Leif spoke very highly of Zhou Yi. . "I think if Klopp had asked Zhou Yi to start, this game would not have ended like this. Although I don't understand why Zhou Yi was asked to substitute, but now that Zhou Yi is on the field, it is not too late to make up for it. Dortmund is now one goal behind. What changes can Zhou Yi bring to the team?"

As he spoke, the TV broadcast showed Zhou Yi a close-up shot. He did not feel sorry for the failure of the attack, but gave Royce a thumbs up.

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