Vol 3 Chapter 237: 2 The best of all world

On October 19th, in the third game of the Champions League group stage, Dortmund challenged the Greek team Olympiacos on the road.
In the end, the powerful and excellent Dortmund beat Olympiacos 3-1 away. Zhou Yi completed an assist.
Half of the group stage kick, Dortmund won three games and three wins, ranking first. This embarrassed the seed team Arsenal...
Arsenal are now six points and Dortmund is three points, but they are not without opportunities. They also have a match against Dortmund at home.
As long as they can beat Dortmund at home, they still have a chance to win the group first.
Back in Germany, Dortmund welcomed opponent Cologne at home.
In this game, Zhou Yi's state is also very good, he sent two assists to help Dortmund beat Cologne 5:0 at home.
Bayern Munich lost 1-2 to Hannover in this round of the league, revealing an upset.
In this way, Dortmund is only one point behind Bayern Munich.
At the beginning of the season, everyone thinks that Dortmund is easy to defend and difficult to defend. It is not easy to defend the league title. Bayern Munich will never allow Dortmund to the league title for two consecutive years.
But now it seems that those experts' predictions are wrong...
The league started only ten rounds, and Dortmund started to exert its strength after the ups and downs at the beginning of the season. Gradually caught up with Bayern Munich, staring behind Bayern Munich.
After the league, Dortmund ushered in the second round of the German Cup, their opponent is a team ranked tenth in the German Bundesliga-Dresden.
This time, Klopp has fully learned the lessons of last season. Although he has carried out rotations, he has not replaced all the main players in one breath. At least Zhou Yi is still on the court.
Zhou Yi scored a goal in this game to help Dortmund eliminated Dresden 2-0, and finally did not repeat the mistakes of last season.
Last season, Dortmund was unexpectedly eliminated by the Offenbach kickers in this round of the German Cup. This season, at least they can go further than last season.
Back in the league, perhaps during the most recent period, the week-long doubles were a bit fatigued, perhaps because the previous state was too good and needs to be adjusted.
In short, Dortmund was tied 1-1 by Stuttgart in the eleventh round of the league.
Bayern Munich defeated Nuremberg 4-0 at home.
The difference between the two teams has been pulled to three points.
The battle between the two teams in the league will continue, obviously Bayern Munich is not so easy to give up. After all, the Bundesliga is their back garden. If they want to let them hand out the league title, it will take great effort.
In the Champions League, Dortmund maintained their strength and they defeated Olympiacos 3-0 at home. After four rounds of the group stage, Dortmund scored twelve points in four battles, and since Marseille in the group third failed to beat Arsenal on the road, Dortmund was equal to obtaining the group qualifying right in advance.
Now Dortmund is twelve points, Arsenal because of a handshake with Marseille, ranked second with seven points, Marseille only four points, ranked third. With two rounds remaining in the group stage, Marseille could not get Dortmund down anyway. Their only hope was to squeeze out Arsenal and become the group second.
But Arsenal will naturally not give up.
Now Arsenal have seven points, five points less than Dortmund. As long as they can win in the last two group matches, and Dortmund loses in the next two games, they can replace Dortmund to become the first in the group.
But to be honest, this probability is too small.
First they will beat Dortmund at home in the next group stage, and then count on Dortmund to lose to Marseille at home in the last group stage...
The event of beating Dortmund at home may not be very difficult for Arsenal. Arsenal also has this confidence.
But Dortmund lost to Marseille in the last game... but they are not under their control. And Dortmund is not stupid. Of course they understand the importance of the first team. How can they lose to Marseille in the final round when the situation is good?
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In the twelfth round of the league, Dortmund faced Wolfsburg at home and Bayern Munich challenged Augsburg away.
Prior to this game, the Dortmund club received a fax from the Chinese Football Association.
The contents of the fax surprised Klopp.
Because the Chinese side hopes to allow Zhou Yi to play less time against Wolfsburg, it would be better if he could come off the bench.
In the fax, they also explained in detail the reasons for the request.
It is because there is a very crucial game for the Chinese national team-the Chinese team will challenge the Iraq team away.
In the Asian World Cup qualifiers, the current team in the Chinese team is in this situation-Jordan ranked first with two wins and one tie and seven points, the Chinese team ranked second with five points and one win, one tie and one loss With four points, Singapore ranked third, and Singapore's three games were ranked fourth with zero points.
Because each group is the top two qualified for the top ten, so if the Chinese team wants to qualify from this group, the points and Iraq only one point away from them must die. Failure to win Iraq at home is enough to make the Chinese team nervous. If they lose to Iraq on the road, the Chinese team will have to compete in the final round of Jordan, while also watching Iraq and Singapore.
In order to successfully qualify, it is of course the best result to win on the road or tie Iraq.
So this game is so important.
The Chinese side hopes that Zhou Yi can maintain a relatively good physical condition in this game-the last time the Chinese team was home by Iraq, some analysis pointed out that Zhou Yi's physical condition did not reach the best, after all, in the club. Starting in the field, the League Champions League double-line battle, but also across the entire Eurasian continent to play the game, it is really easy to get tired.
Generally speaking, players return to the national team from the club and will be required by the club to play only halftime, and the national team will abide by this agreement. This is the first time that the national team has kicked out the club's request that the players play fewer club games.
Klopp had intended to refuse because there was no such precedent. The club is the person who pays the players to pay, and is qualified to decide whether or not the players will play, and how long they will play, and it will not be possible for the national team to play tricks. In addition, the club will also worry about the excessive use of players by the national team, causing the players to be injured in the national team game. The current regulation is that if the player is injured in the national team game, the national team will compensate the club.
How did Mark Wagner, Dortmund's main shooter, get hurt? Wasn’t it just hurt when playing in the national team?
On the one hand, the club has to pay the players, on the other hand, the players are injured in the national team, the club has to spend money to treat them, when the players can not play because of injuries, the wage club still needs to pay, a penny can not be less , Players can easily make money by lying on the bed... is there anything more unreasonable than this?
But Klopp thought about it, still calling Zhou Yi aside on the training ground, and then handed the fax of the national team to Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi swept it quickly, Klopp asked: "I want to hear your opinion, Zhou Yi. What do you think?"
Zhou Yi took the fax and thought for a while, "The Dortmund club signed the contract with me, and the Dortmund club also gave me the annual salary and bonus."
Klopp thought that Zhou Yi was unwaveringly standing on the side of the club's interests. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi's remarks turned around.
"But as a Chinese player, it is a duty to play for the country. Moreover... the World Cup is very important for Chinese football, I don't want to have any regrets."
Zhou Yi's words were not very direct, a little euphemistic, but Klopp nodded: "I understand."
The World Cup is a dream for all professional players, and it is normal for Zhou Yi to have such an idea. So how can the interests of the club and the wishes of the players themselves not have irreconcilable conflicts...
While Klopp was still thinking about this issue~EbookFREE.me~ Zhou Yi continued: "So I thought of a way to protect the interests of the national team without harming the interests of the club. how do you feel?"
"Huh? Come and listen." Klopp didn't expect Zhou Yi to have decided yet.
"It was I who started in the match against Wolfsburg and then strived to lock in the win early so that you can replace me in advance."
Klopp stared at Zhou Yi with wide eyes. He did not expect Zhou Yi to make such a suggestion.
Are you really confident enough to make such a suggestion?
"Why? Is this not a good idea?" Zhou Yi asked Klopp's expression incorrectly and asked.
Klopp shook his head and smiled: "No, this idea is very good!"
He gave a positive answer.
"We will do this!" (To be continued.)