Chapter 151 Opportunity

Zhou Yi gave Royce a thumbs up because Royce ran beautifully just now, ran into the space accurately, and seized a good opportunity-if Royce received the ball, he would be in Mainz all the way. Behind the defense, but not offside, because he started the moment Zhou Yi passed the ball.

Although Royce did not catch the ball, he still gave Zhou Yi a thumbs up and praised Zhou Yi for his beautiful pass.

Zhou Yi's praise may be a simple form, but Royce's praise comes from his inner admiration - Zhou Yi was clearly busy getting rid of the defense just now, and when he turned around, he even turned his back completely. In that case, he It is really amazing that he can accurately judge that he will appear in this place and then send the football over...

Two people, you give a thumbs up, and I give a thumbs up. It seems to be a very simple and common action, which often happens on the court.

But in the eyes of Mainz's defensive players, it has an unusual meaning.

This was the first time Zhou Yi organized an attack after coming on the field, and he almost allowed Dortmund to form a threatening shot.

People say Zhou Yi is now the top midfielder in the Bundesliga.

This sentence is so simple that it is even commonly used. But after playing against Zhou Yi, I can truly feel the correctness of this sentence when applied to Zhou Yi.

The Mainz players realized that even if they tightened their defense, the remaining ten minutes would be very difficult for them, and they suddenly felt a lot of pressure...

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Mainz shrunk its defense, which gave Dortmund more offensive opportunities.

Facing the "wall" built by the Mainz players near the penalty area, Zhou Yi was not anxious. He kept passing the ball and running, or used gestures to direct his teammates to pass the ball, and he kept looking for routes through which he could pass the ball. Everything turned into an aerial view in his mind, and he then found the best one among these routes.

Then, when the football came to his feet, he could just send the football over without looking at it.

Regarding Zhou Yi's organized attack defense, although Mainz tightened its defense, it always felt that there were still many loopholes and was a little exhausted to deal with it.

During this period, it was Dortmund who bombarded Mainz's goal.

If this were Dortmund's home court, there would definitely be a roar of killing at this moment.

Of course, the stadium is also very noisy now, most of which are the shouts of Mainz fans. There are exclamations worried about their own goal, and there are also noises that interfere with Dortmund's attack.

Such an environment may affect other people, but it will not interfere with Zhou Yi. He is like a sophisticated computer, rapidly calculating the ever-changing situation on the court. At the same time, he does not stop, constantly running, catching and passing the ball.

In response to his actions, the number of circuits in his brain increased and then decreased.

When there was only one route left, Zhou Yi suddenly increased his speed!

A teammate passed the football from the wing to the center. Zhou Yi rushed up to meet the football. It was a high ball. It was not difficult to stop, but stopping the high ball would also waste some time for Dortmund's offense. And time is very important. Football is essentially about the excellence of both sides competing for time and space.

Zhou Yi was unwilling to waste time, which meant that the optimal route he had planned before was no longer optimal.

So Zhou Yi chose another solution - he jumped into the air, then twisted his waist hard, but instead of heading the ball, he used his chest to knock the football towards the edge of the penalty area in front.

It was here that Aubameyang received the ball that was hit by Zhou Yi's chest. He smoothed the ball with the instep of his outside foot and brought the ball into the penalty area from the Mainz defender next to him. Then he kicked it neatly. Rubbing and cumming!

The football drew an arc and flew to the far corner of the goal against the turf.

Mainz goalkeeper Karius fell to the ground and made a sideways dive, but it was too late. He did not touch the football, and the football flew past his hands.

Then he flew into the goal, spun around in the goal, and was finally wrapped in the net and stopped moving...

"Aubameyang! Oh oh oh! Dortmund equalized the score in only five minutes! And these five minutes were the five minutes Zhou Yi came on!" Duan Xin shouted excitedly.

"TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!!! Aubameyang -!!! He equalized the score for Dortmund! It was a beautiful 'raid'! It was not a good chance, but it ended up being a goal!" Marcel Leif said excitedly. "Zhou Yi's pass was very clever, and Aubameyang's stop and shot were also done in one go, decisive and accurate! The two completed exquisite cooperation and helped Dortmund equalize the score! In the 75th minute, the two sides returned to each other. We have reached the same starting line! But we have reason to believe that although the two teams are evenly divided, the scene will never be as boring as before the goal!"

Marcel Leif is so certain because of his understanding and trust in Zhou Yi.

With Zhou Yi playing in this game, how could Dortmund be willing to just get a draw on the road? They want to catch up with Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen!

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After scoring, Aubameyang reflexively wanted to run to the corner flag to celebrate the goal, but he quickly thought of something more important than this, so he turned around and ran back, and then hugged The Book of Changes.

If Zhou Yi had stopped the ball, it might have had a different result.

Aubameyang certainly has to thank Zhouyi for his assist, although he himself did a great job...

More teammates swarmed up, surrounded the two of them, and celebrated the goal.

Facing the unfavorable situation of falling behind in the away game, Dortmund equalized the score in just five minutes. This is certainly worthy of celebration.

However, Zhou Yi, who was in the crowd, had no intention of celebrating. He said to his teammates: "Our goal is not to draw, but to win!"

He reminded everyone not to celebrate too much, as there was not much time left for them.

Although Zhou Yi is not the captain, what he said is useful.

After hearing what he said, everyone stopped celebrating and turned around and ran back together.

They must seize the time and strive to score more goals. This game must be won!

After falling to third place in the league, Dortmund has little room for maneuver unless they want to abandon the league.

But how can there be any reason to surrender early before the league is even halfway through?

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In the short time that Dortmund players celebrated their goals, Mainz coach Tuchel had already made new adjustments.

In fact, after Aubameyang scored, Mainz was faced with a multiple-choice question: A. Choose to attack aggressively, continue the previous fast-paced play, and strive to regain the lead in a short period of time. B. Temporarily give up the previous fast-paced play and stick to the counterattack. Anyway, Dortmund should be anxious now, because they can't afford to tie up after being dumped to third place in the league by Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen.

Tuchel quickly made a choice - abandon his previous fast-paced play, shrink the defense, let Dortmund press forward and attack, and then hit the space behind them.

This is the safest approach.

After the restart, Dortmund really pressed hard to attack, hoping to seize the opportunity to score another goal.

For Dortmund, just one goal was enough. The goal might come within minutes, like their previous goal, but it might also not be found until the end of the game - football is round and anything can happen. Sometimes, it doesn’t even mean that you can get the results you want by putting in a lot of effort.

Especially when Mainz shrinks its defense and fights on the counterattack.

Dortmund did launch several offensives after the kick-off, but Mainz also seized the opportunity to counterattack twice. It seemed that Mainz's counterattack was more threatening.

Generally speaking, when a team encounters such a situation, they will temporarily shrink, slow down the pace of the game, and consider the long term.

But Dortmund did not do this, or Zhou Yi did not intend to do so. As if he didn't even know the hidden dangers of this pressing attack, he kept sending the football forward, helping Dortmund burn the flames of war directly in front of Mainz's goal.

This seems to be a competition with Mainz to see who scores first.

Didn't Zhou Yi know that the space behind him would be exploited by the opponent's counterattack?

Of course I know, but Zhou Yi has other considerations - now that Dortmund has just equalized the score, it is the time when morale is at its strongest. If you slow down at this time, it will be equivalent to abandoning your martial arts. Don't give up such an opportunity just because you are worried about conceding the ball.

Dortmund had been holding back their anger for most of the game and needed to vent it, otherwise it would burn themselves back.

All Zhou Yi could do was to try his best to find a correct breakthrough point for this surging anger, so that the magma under the ground would erupt from the crater and destroy the world.

After unsuccessfully trying to pass the ball in the middle, Zhou Yi moved to the wing.

When he received the ball on the wing, he lowered his center of gravity, leaned his body to the right, and made a posture of breaking through the bottom from the right. The Mainz Korean left-back Park Ju-ho who was guarding him shook his upper body, but soon realized that Zhou Yi was making a fake move, so his lower body stood still and did not move because of it. This also made Zhou Yi unable to cut in and break through. .

Zhou Yi was indeed a fake move. He tilted his body and quickly pulled it back. His feet also did not move. He just relied on the shaking of his upper body, hoping to deceive the defender.

But Park Joo-ho saw through his fake move in time. The game suddenly changed from dynamic to static.

Zhou Yi could only stop and could not move forward. When the player holding the ball comes to a complete stop, the difficulty of defending should be reduced accordingly. At the same time, because he stopped, Dortmund's entire offense would also stop. Although it was only a momentary stagnation, there may also be errors in coordination - for example, Zhou Yi stopped, but the receiving player did not stop, so when Zhou Yi When passing the ball again, the receiving player may be offside...

When Zhou Yi stopped, he raised his foot and made another move to pass the ball, but he did not finally pass the football, but just made a feint shot, because in the penalty area, Sibel was offside. If the ball was passed Go out, Dortmund's attack ends here.

Park Zhuhao naturally believed that he saw through Zhou Yi's fake move, which put Dortmund's attack into such an embarrassing situation.

It's true that he understood this, but it seemed that he was a little too happy too early.

Because just when Zhou Yi took his foot back, he suddenly kicked it out again!

This time it was no longer a fake move, he pushed the football with the inside of his foot, pushing the football into the penalty area, and the football just passed between Park Zhuhao's legs!

A crotch pass!

When other Mainz defenders saw Zhou Yi really passing the ball, they all raised their arms reflexively, indicating that the ball was offside for Dortmund!

But neither the referee nor the linesman thought so.

Sibel was offside, but he did not participate in the attack. Zhou Yi's pass passed behind Sibel and landed near the penalty spot. Here, Aubameyang was like a black panther, killing the opponent. Come out, and then take advantage of the situation and move the football from Zhou Yi to the left!

"Chance!!"