Chapter 192 Explosion Under Heavy Pressure
A two-goal lead is supposed to be a good start, but Klopp is not satisfied. He still stands on the sidelines and continues to pay attention to the progress of the game and react to changes on the field. If the Dortmund players fail to grasp the score If there is a chance, then he will clap his hands hard and yell with regret on the sidelines.
He is so anxious that many people can't understand it - now Dortmund has completely gained the upper hand. Not only did they score two goals, they also completely suppressed their opponents and had an advantage on the field.
As long as Dortmund can keep playing like this, there will be no suspense about victory.
They didn't understand why Klopp was still so emotional and couldn't sit down on the chair in the coaching bench.
Some speculated that it was Kuba's injury that made him so restless and irritable. If so, that's normal - whoever had suffered such a wave of injuries would probably have lost their composure.
In the 41st minute, Dortmund intercepted the opponent's ball on defense. After Zhou Yi got the ball, he turned around and sent the ball in front of Yan Min. Yan Min moved forward at high speed, caught up with the football and then dribbled the ball to kill. Toward Augsburg's penalty area.
Another threatening attack!
However, Dortmund's fast break did not start. Yan Min only took two steps before the football was shoveled away by an Augsburg player. At the same time, he lost his balance and fell to the ground.
Dortmund fans booed loudly in the stands.
Everyone thinks this is a bad foul and should be given a yellow card, or a red card directly.
But the referee said nothing and just signaled Dortmund to take a throw-in.
Although the ball still belongs to Dortmund, their best chance to counterattack has been lost. All Augsburg's players returned to defense, and Dortmund found it much more difficult to attack than before.
Yan Min, who was rolled to the ground several times and then stopped, realized that the ball was not a foul. He jumped up angrily, opened his arms and shouted at the referee.
The referee ignored him.
Off the court, Klopp was even more furious. He couldn't get angry at the referee, so he grabbed the fourth official and protested: "This is a fucking shovel from behind! Regardless of whether the shovel hits the ball or not, it should be a foul!"
"Watch your words, Mr. Klopp," the fourth official reminded him.
"Watch your wording! Augsburg should pay for this foul.
But now their players are on the field intact, and our player is just lucky not to be injured, otherwise he should have been carried off the field on a stretcher! "
Klopp could not hide his anger and continued to criticize the referee of this game.
Sure enough, Kuba's injury affected his mood. The tackle made by the Augsburg player just now looked really dangerous. If Yan Min was tackled hard, he would definitely have to leave the field early.
Yan Min escaped this time, but the opponent's fouling player also escaped, which made Klopp very dissatisfied.
He believes that Bundesliga referees do not protect their players enough.
The fourth official was too lazy to argue with him and directly called the referee over the intercom.
The referee signaled that the game was suspended, and then he ran off the field and ran to the Dortmund coaching bench. He couldn't help but show Klopp a red card! At the same time, he waved his hand and pointed to the stands very coolly, signaling Klopp to get off the stands.
There was an uproar in front of the Dortmund coaching bench and the bench - the head coach was sent off. Even if Dortmund is now leading by two goals, this is still a heavy blow to Dortmund. The impact is not only on this game, but also on the bench. It will continue to the next games...Who knows if Klopp will be punished additionally...
Assistant coach Zeljko Buvac quickly stepped forward to stop Klopp, who was still trying to make trouble for the referee. At the same time, he protested to the referee: "A verbal warning is enough. Isn't the red card too severe?"
The referee just shook his head and kept pointing to the stands, signaling Klopp to leave the field quickly.
Klopp gritted his teeth and glared at the referee, but the referee was not afraid under his glare and still signaled him to leave.
It was impossible for Klopp to actually punch the opponent. He actually did not expect that venting his emotions to the fourth official would actually get him a yellow card. Under normal circumstances, the referee will come up and give a verbal warning, and then use the slope to get off the donkey, and the matter will just go away.
Who would have thought that the referee would be so strong today and without any hesitation, running up to him would result in a red card.
In the end, Klopp could only turn around and walk off the field indignantly.
"Klopp was sent off. This is really too bad... The situation is obviously in favor of Dortmund, but Klopp failed to control his emotions. This is simply adding insult to injury for Dortmund..." Masse Leif said as he watched Klopp leave the coaching bench.
"Players have been injured one after another, and the media has criticized Klopp's tactical choices and training methods. He is considered to be the culprit for his team's full of injuries. In addition, the team's league rankings lag behind Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverku. Sen, these all put a lot of pressure on Klopp..." Duan Xin said. "Under heavy pressure, Klopp finally broke out... But this in turn did not relieve his pressure. In the next game, Dortmund had to face the unfavorable situation of not having a head coach to direct on the spot..."
Originally, he was tackled to the ground, but the opponent did not commit a foul, which made Yan Min very angry. When he was about to lose his temper to the referee, Klopp successfully stole the show.
Seeing that the head coach was sent off for complaining, Yan Min also shrank his neck - whether he would be a good guy anymore. He was sent off with a red card in the game before. If he did it again, he was really worried that he would not be able to play...
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Because of being sent off with a red card, Klopp was not even allowed to go to the locker room during the halftime break. So after the first half, the Dortmund players returned to the locker room and faced assistant coach Buvac. , everyone was a little confused.
They obviously led by two goals in the first half, why do you feel that the atmosphere is wrong now?
Zeljko Buvac is the team's assistant coach and Klopp's most effective assistant. He is often responsible for arranging player tactics, so in terms of level, Buvac does not have any problems.
But now, with Kuba seriously injured and the head coach sent off, what the team is facing is not a technical or tactical problem, but a psychological one. Everyone is at a loss. What we need at this time is someone with authority to stand up and reassure everyone.
In this regard, Klopp, a man of temperament, has a natural advantage. Over the years in Dortmund, he has established his own personal authority and put his personal mark on this team. Many players on this team are impressed by his personal charm. So although there are many criticisms of Klopp's training methods from the outside world, the team is relatively stable internally.
However, when the backbone is absent, it is inevitable that some maladaptive symptoms will appear.
Even Željko Buvac cannot replace Klopp's status and role in the dressing room.
Seeing everyone's confused looks, Buvac could only clapped his hands and repeated over and over again in vain: "Don't take things off the field to heart, we are still two goals ahead, the advantage lies with us. side……"
As for whether the players really listened, and whether these words were really useful... he didn't know very well.
Meanwhile, in the dressing room next door, Augsburg coach Markus Weinzier was encouraging his players.
"They looked like they were two goals ahead, but now they even sent the manager to the stands, this is our chance! Without Klopp's command from the sidelines, when Dortmund encountered difficulties on the pitch, they You will be overwhelmed...and eventually collapse!"
Weinzil intends to seize this opportunity and bring Dortmund to the ground.
Although there should be no problem for Augsburg to avoid relegation this season, who doesn't want to be ranked as high as possible? Every point in the league is very important. Maybe at the end of the season, just one point will be the watershed for this team.
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After the second half of the game started, the TV broadcast first showed a close-up shot of Klopp in the stands. He was sitting among a group of Dortmund fans with a gloomy expression. I don't know because he was not angry about being sent to the stands. Well, is it still because I am worried about the future fate of the team...
After the second half started, Duan Xin started to comfort the Chinese Dortmund fans, mainly Zhouyi fans.
He said: "Although it seems that the situation is not good for Dortmund now, I think this is just an illusion. It was the illusion brought to people after Klopp was sent off. In fact, as long as you calm down, you can find that Dortmund still has two goals. Taking the lead, the advantage can be said to be quite large. As long as Dortmund does not mess up its position, it will be difficult for Augsburg to threaten Dortmund's goal. Although there is no Klopp, Dortmund only needs to follow their pre-match arrangements, so If you keep kicking it, it should be fine..."
Less than five minutes after Duan Xin finished speaking, Augsburg organized an attack on the right and hit Dortmund's 30-meter area. Then Hahn played a wonderful one-two with his teammates on the right. Cooperated, and after the breakthrough, he passed the football low to the goal.
In this game, Sven Bender, who replaced Hummels who was unable to play due to injury, served as a central defender. During the process of returning to defense, he tackled the ball before Augsburg player Milik, intending to destroy the football.
Unexpectedly, he shoveled the football into his own goal in the end!
In today's game, Weidenfeller, who had played 300 times for Dortmund, could not have imagined that Sven Bender would score an own goal. His attention was focused on Milik. For Sven Bender, An own goal with a ghostly foot, with no ability to react, could only watch the football fly into the goal from the near corner...
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