Chapter 164 The Price of Victory

After Zhou Yi gave Dortmund the lead, the game restarted. Leverkusen, who was lagging behind, was certainly not willing to lose to Dortmund on the road.

Before this game, Leverkusen ranked second with 34 points, while Dortmund ranked third with 32 points.

If Dortmund wins this game, they will overtake Bayer Leverkusen by one point and regain second place in the league.

When Leverkusen came to the away game, they planned to take advantage of Dortmund's recent poor situation to defeat them in the away game and widen the point difference to five points.

Although Leverkusen is missing someone, Dortmund is also missing someone. Therefore, there is no gap in numbers between the two sides, which gives Leverkusen the courage to equalize the score.

If Dortmund has one more player, when Leverkusen desperately counterattacks, they have to think about whether they, with a small number of people, are at a disadvantage and will be counterattacked by Leverkusen, who has a larger number of people?

Now that both sides have the same number of people, there is no disadvantage or advantage.

Klopp also reacted quickly. When the Dortmund players were celebrating the goal, he had already grabbed the nearest player and asked him to pass on the latest instructions to others - shrink the defense. Fight back.

At the same time, he is still preparing to use up the third substitution spot.

Mkhitaryan is warming up.

This substitution does not have any technical or tactical adjustments or significance. Just to delay time.

However, the person he wants to replace with Mkhitaryan is not Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi can play a role in controlling the rhythm on the court, and he is not useless in defense.

It was the 87th minute of the game when Zhou Yi scored the penalty kick.

There is actually not much time left until the end of the game.

When the fourth official held up the five-minute injury time sign on the sidelines, there was a burst of boos at Westminster Stadium. Dortmund fans obviously think this injury time is too much. What if Leverkusen equalizes the score in these five minutes?

In the 91st minute, Klopp used the last substitution.

He replaced forward Mark Wagner with Mkhitaryan.

Mark, who was substituted, did not jog all the way, but walked slowly off the field. This caused dissatisfaction among the Leverkusen players on the field. Some people wanted to come up to "help" Mark walk faster, but Mark pushed him back. .

This time, players from both sides quickly gathered together.

But this time, the "anger" of the Dortmund players was more like a disguise to conceal their true purpose.

The real purpose is of course to delay the game.

Since the referee gave five minutes of injury time, use other things to make these five minutes go faster. Although the referee will also make additional time for things that delay time during injury time, generally speaking, full time is rarely given.

Moreover, this is Dortmund's home court, and the referee cannot ignore the factors of the home court.

Marcel Leif said: "The Leverkusen players are too impulsive... Taking the initiative to push Mark at this time is simply providing ammunition to Dortmund... Now Dortmund can waste a little time openly... "

Leverkusen's head coach Hyypia stood on the sidelines with his hands spread out. He didn't know whether he felt helpless at his players' lack of composure or was dissatisfied with Dortmund's shamelessness.

Finally, after a minute, the conflict between players from both sides ended. In fact, Dortmund showed a lot of restraint in this conflict. This can also be seen as proof that Dortmund deliberately delayed time. Although it seemed that they were unhappy with the actions of the Leverkusen players, the Dortmund players just gathered around and shouted. , and didn’t get started. This was different from the conflict caused by Zhou Yi being tackled in the penalty area.

Mark received a yellow card for backhand pushing the opponent's player, but he had no yellow card before, so it doesn't matter even if he has a yellow card now.

He helped the team delay some more time, and his task has been completed.

Looking at this messy scene, Marcel Leif shook his head and sighed: "No matter what the final result is, this game has had a great impact on both teams. It can be said that both sides suffer. In this league They fought so fiercely, it really makes people worry about how much energy and state they can show in the Champions League game next week..."

If both teams are eliminated from the Champions League group stage because of this battle for the second and third place in the league, Marcel Leif really can't tell whether it is worth it...

Of course, outsiders can still consider this issue, but the two teams Dortmund and Leverkusen are not qualified to consider this issue.

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After Mkhitaryan came on the field, the outcome of this game was almost fixed.

The conflict caused when Mark came off the field seemed to have drained the temper and fighting spirit of the Leverkusen players. In the next few minutes, although Leverkusen had several shots, they did not shoot at Weidenfeller. What threat does the guarded goal pose?

When the referee blew the full-time whistle, boos and cheers rang out at the Westfield Stadium at the same time.

The cheers were of course for this victory, but the boos were dissatisfaction with the referee.

For this victory, Dortmund paid the price of injuries to two main players and Yan Min being sent off with a red card, not to mention multiple players receiving yellow cards.

In the eyes of Dortmund fans, these are completely avoidable. From the beginning of the game, Leverkusen showed very strong aggression, and their movements were very big. If the referee can strictly enforce the law and curb Leverkusen's tendency, the intensity of the game will be reduced, and maybe it will be more gentle. ·Bender and Shaheen will not be injured, Zhou Yi will not be tackled by the opponent in the penalty area, and Yan Min will not be sent off with a red card for trying to stand up for him...

The most important thing is that if Leverkusen doesn't play like this, it shouldn't be so difficult for Dortmund at home to win the game.

Dortmund fans were dissatisfied, and Leverkusen players and coaches were equally dissatisfied with the result.

They still believe that Zhou Yi dived in the penalty area. He deceived the referee, causing Dortmund to gain unjustly and Spasic was sent off.

Dortmund's deliberate delaying behavior at the last moment also annoyed them, thinking that Dortmund was too despicable.

These will all become topics of debate after the game. Although the game is over, the topics caused by the game are far from over.

After the game, Zhou Yi was pulled into the mixed area for interviews by reporters. What everyone wanted to know most was whether his fall in the penalty area was a flop.

Faced with this problem, Zhou Yi took off his sneakers and socks, and then showed everyone a red spot above the heel of his right foot.

"This was kicked by Spasic. Just because my leg is not broken now, you can't think it's a foul. That's unfair, right?"

Faced with the evidence presented by Zhou Yi, the reporters gathered their cameras and camera lenses one after another and captured the scene.

Then the Chinese reporter asked Zhou Yi what he thought of Yan Min's red card.

"What do you think? I don't want to comment on the referee of this game." Although Zhou Yi said this, everyone could still feel some dissatisfaction from his tone. "Of course it is bad behavior to receive a red card in the game, but I don't think anyone in the locker room, including me, will complain that he left the team with one less person. In this game, Yan Min performed very well. The red card was part of a good performance."

A German reporter asked: "You fought so fiercely in the game against Leverkusen, and Sven Bender and Shaheen were both injured as a result. Will this affect the key qualifying match for the Champions League group stage in the next midweek? Do you think Is it worth paying such a price to win the game?"

"Whether it's worth it, I don't know. But when we are in this game, of course we consider this game. In addition, I actually don't think this will have any adverse impact on our next Champions League game. We will start from this group. Qualified."

After saying that, Zhou Yi waved his hand and stopped accepting the interview and left the mixed zone.

Although he won the game, judging from his expression, he was not very happy.

This makes what he said before less credible.

Will it have any adverse impact on the next Champions League group stage?

The two main midfielders, Sven Bender and Shaheen, are injured. The only midfielder Dortmund can use now is veteran Sebastian Kyle.

How is it possible?

It is still unclear what the specific injuries of Sven Bender and Shaheen are. Are they serious injuries or minor injuries?

Anyway, after the two people came off the court, they were taken directly to the hospital for examination and treatment. From this point of view, I am afraid it is not a minor injury that can be recovered from after a few days of rest.

Two main players were injured. Is this what made Zhou Yi feel bad?

On the other side, at the post-match press conference, Klopp was also troubled by this incident: "Yes, we won the game. But I don't want to think about it now..."

Why didn't he want to think about it? No one asked him, because he would definitely get an answer that everyone knew.

Because Dortmund actually lost two main players in one game!

Sometimes, it makes people feel that just using "bad luck" cannot describe Dortmund...