Vol 3 Chapter 267: Round 2

Just a few hours after the end of the game between the Chinese team and Jordan, at 9:45 pm Beijing time, Iraq played against Singapore in the kick-off in Qatar.
Because Jordan lost two goals to the Chinese team, they have only three goals in the goal difference with Iraq.
Therefore, as long as Iraq can win more than four goals in Singapore in this game, it will squeeze out Jordan and advance to the top ten.
And in the end, Iraq did not disappoint. They defeated Singapore 7:1 at home and scored six goal difference goals. The points were the same as Jordan, and the goal difference was three more goals than Jordan. .
But all this has nothing to do with Zhou Yi.
I thought the match between the Chinese team and Jordan was at four o'clock in the afternoon, so after the game, Zhou Yi still had time to catch the plane back to Germany.
He went directly to the airport from the stadium, and then took a flight that had been set a long time, flying directly to Germany.
Although Zhou Yi hastily hurry, but he has missed a league in Dortmund.
In the 23rd round of the league, Dortmund defeated Hanover 96 3-1 at home. At that time, Zhou Yi was preparing for a match with Jordan in China, so he was not able to participate in this match.
This time, Dortmund without Zhou Yi performed better than the previous round of the league. The Dortmund team proved the so-called "Zhou Yi Dependency" in the media with practical actions.
After Zhou Yi returned to Dortmund, due to the fatigue of long-distance travel and jet lag, in the twenty-fourth round of the league, Dortmund played against Mainz at home. Zhou Yi did not start, but sat on the bench.
Taking into account the next key battle with AC Milan, Klopp took Zhou Yi to rest for granted.
Dortmund did not disappoint everyone. Zhou Yi finally defeated Mainz 2-1 without starting.
Zhou Yi was not replaced until the game had ten minutes left. The purpose was not to win, but to make him look for the game.
Starting from the sixteenth round of the league, Dortmund has won nine waves in a row, allowing them to score up to fifty-nine points. What are the Bayern Munich points? Forty-eight points.
Dortmund led them by 11 points in the league standings!
Such a huge lead has made the German media think that Dortmund can basically lock the league title. Unless there is an accident, such as... Dortmund goes further in the Champions League, the better they score in the Champions League, the greater the impact on the league.
But now it seems that Dortmund will be eliminated in the Champions League round of 16-it depends on their performance in the second round of the Champions League quarter-finals.
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After the match with Mainz, Dortmund's team transferred to the preparation for the Champions League.
AC Milan also flew to Dortmund the day before the game. The score of 3:1 made AC Milan's players look very relaxed when they were interviewed at the airport.
In the twenty-sixth round of the Serie A match just ended, AC Milan won Palermo 4-0 away, in good condition. In the league standings, they also lead Juventus by two points.
At the same time, as their opponent, Dortmund's core Zhou Yi has not played well in three rounds of leagues. Because of participating in the national team, he has missed two games in the last three rounds. The third game is only a substitute. The total of three games I only played for ten minutes.
How to maintain the state?
Coupled with his return to China to participate in the World Cup qualifiers, running back and forth, tired travel, physical condition and state is definitely a problem.
Therefore, AC Milan feels that as long as they do not make mistakes themselves, it is not difficult to win Dortmund on the road.
But when the game really started, they realized that the situation was completely different from what they imagined...
Zhou Yi, the core of Dortmund, did not experience any discomfort.
His performance on the court is hard to believe that he is the one who played only ten minutes in the last three league games.
Only five minutes into the game, Zhou Yi let Van Bommel get a yellow card.
As the team's main defensive midfielder, Van Bommel carried a yellow card in the opening five minutes, which is really not a good thing.
Some superstitious people may think this is an ominous sign.
Although it is unfounded to say such things as superstition, there are some things on the football field that are evil gates...
Two minutes after Van Bommel received the yellow card, Dortmund scored in the seventh minute of the game.
The person who scored the goal was the team's main center Lewandowski.
And it was Zhou Yi who assisted him!
"Dortmund lead AC Milan 1-0! It was Robert who scored the goal!" Live broadcast Norbert Dicol shouted. In the stands, countless fans responded with a roar in unison.
"Lewandowski!!!"
After the goal, Lewandowski came to hug Zhou Yi.
Commentator He Ping is very happy: "Zhou Yi's state has remained very good. Although he played only ten minutes in the last three league games, it seems that there is a lack of competition, but he surprised everyone! It seems, no How to play the league seriously, but gave him enough rest... In the first five minutes, Van Bommel received a yellow card, and in the first seven minutes, he assisted Lewandowski to score. Now the total score is only behind AC Milan It’s a ball, and there’s an away goal!"
Marcel Leif is also analyzing the situation for everyone: "Pretty! 1:0! Dortmund scored 2:3 behind AC Milan, but they have an away goal, so they only need to score another goal, 2:0 AC Milan can be eliminated! This time reflects the importance of Zhou Yi's away goal in the last round!"
Lewandowski's goal left AC Milan a bit ignorant-they really didn't expect Dortmund to break their goal so quickly.
This is far beyond their expectations.
What next?
When the game restarted, the AC Milan team played a bit of confusion. This confusion is not because of tactics. The tactics are actually clear. If you lose the ball so early, you have a choice-attack, try to score an away goal, offset Lost Dortmund's away goal advantage.
The confusion of AC Milan players comes from their psychology. Dortmund scored in the first seven minutes of the opening, and the aggressiveness they showed at the beginning of the first minute of the game made AC Milan players panic.
Although they tried to counterattack, but under Dortmund's tough defense, their offensive progress was not smooth.
Dortmund also paid a price to stop AC Milan's counterattack. In the thirteenth and fifteenth minutes, in just two minutes, two fullbacks Piszick and Schmelzer received a yellow card.
The two defenders received a yellow card, which is logically worse than the yellow card received by Van Bommel.
But Dortmund did not care at all.
They are players on the lagging side, they would not consider so many of them.
For them, if they can't advance to the next round, it doesn't make sense for all members to have no yellow cards.
In this regard, Dortmund has fewer ideas than AC Milan. On the football field, the more you think, the worse, and sometimes the less you think, the better.
AC Milan's counterattack after losing the ball was so forced back by Dortmund's tough defense.
Dortmund began to repress AC Milan.
And in the twenty-sixth minute, after Getzze dribbling laterally outside the penalty area, he suddenly took a shot and the football penetrated AC Milan goalkeeper Abbiati's ten fingers!
"2:0!!! Nice job! Goetze!" Marcel Leff shouted. "Total score 3:3! But Dortmund has another away goal! If this score can be maintained until the end of the match, Dortmund will advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League for two consecutive seasons!"
"Getty! This shot is beautiful!" He Ping was also very happy. Dortmund can go further in the Champions League, he can explain more Zhou Yi's game.
The West Grandstand’s south stand after Gotze scored ~EbookFREE.me~ was about to collapse, and the violent shock would make people think that the earthquake was going to happen. But that was just caused by the jumping of the fans in Dortmund in the stands...
All Dortmund fans have already begun to look forward to their team. Next, they will destroy AC Milan's city at home and score more goals to completely lock the victory. Then which team will we meet in the quarterfinals?
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Dortmund players on the court also seem to be considering the quarter-finals opponents.
When they lost the first round at 1:3, many people criticized them violently. Yes, they did not perform well in the first round. But now they have proved that they can achieve a reversal without being optimistic!
This result really makes all Dortmund proud of the players.
But everything is two-sided.
When the game restarted, the Dortmund players, still immersed in the joy and excitement of equalizing the total score, soon discovered that the opponent in front of them seemed to be not the same as before... (to be continued.)