Vol 5 Chapter 175: Strategic abandonment?

The make-up match for Galatasaray was in the afternoon of local time, so after the match, Dortmund rushed to the airport. Although the snow is still falling, it is much smaller than last night and does not affect the normal landing and landing of the aircraft.
They can return to Dortmund today to prepare for the weekend league match against Hoffenheim.
This is the penultimate game of the first half of the league, and they can’t play for the last game of the first half. For the World Club Cup, the 17th round of the Dortmund home against Hertha Berlin was postponed to next year’s On January 30.
One less game than Bayern Munich, and behind in points, no matter what the result of the match against Hoffenheim, Dortmund can't threaten Bayern Munich's position. Regardless of the outcome of Bayern Munich's game, it has already won the Bundesliga's winter break championship in advance.
The meaning of this championship is very important, it is almost the vane of the final league champion.
Under the leadership of new coach Guardiola, Bayern Munich has performed very well this season. It seems that they finally want to end Dortmund's in the league.
Just as the Dortmund team flew back to Germany, the European media also summarized the Champions League group match that just ended.
The UEFA Champions League group stage this season has set a number of records, but not only the record of the highest score being eliminated from Naples, but also the record of the lowest score in the group-this summary is simply a wound towards Naples Put a knife and sprinkle salt...
St. Petersburg Zenit won the record of "lowest group points qualifying", they got the group qualifying right with six points and qualified to participate in the Champions League knockout.
They won only one of the six group games and became the first team to win only six points in the group stage after the Champions League restructuring.
In addition, the UEFA Champions League group stage this season also created the second group with the most points-Manchester City scored 15 points, but it can only be the group second, not the group first, which is also "baby's heart." . They scored 15 points with Bayern Munich, because the win-loss relationship is not dominant, Bayern Munich was squeezed into the second group.
The UEFA Champions League group stage is finally over, followed by the draw of the Champions League round of 16 elimination rounds.
Group 1 and Group 2 will catch the fight.
However, no one is optimistic about the defending road of the defending champions, because their injuries are too much, and the ghost knows what strange injuries they will encounter next... after all, their subsequent schedule is not easy, the players’ The intensity of the game is very heavy, very tired, and prone to problems.
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Zhou Yi is lying on the massage bed at home-because the girlfriend is a physiotherapist, and because the male owner is a professional athlete, Zhou Yi's home facilities are slightly different from others, and a massage bed seems very incompatible.
But in fact, it is very useful. After all, it is not always possible to massage on a soft bed, which is not good for exertion.
Zhou Yi is lying on the bed, Cortana is giving him a massage and relaxing, while the two are talking about what happened recently.
Cortana tells Zhou Yi what she heard from team leader Dr. Braun: "Klopp might give up the Champions League..."
Hearing his girlfriend's words, Zhou Yi turned directly to sit up, startled Cortana who was giving him a massage, and stared at him stupidly, "Why?"
"Abandon the Champions League?" Zhou Yi asked back.
"Yes, this season's injury situation is too serious. In the double battle, Klopp is worried that the final league and the Champions League will be defeated. And, next year is the World Cup. If there is a national team in the club because of The injured missed the World Cup and the team has to bear a lot of pressure..."
Cortana did not tell Zhou Yi that the biggest pressure came from the Chinese journalists who gathered in Dortmund.
This is the second time in the history of the Chinese national team to reach the World Cup finals. Zhou Yi is an absolutely indispensable core figure of the national team. There must be no slippage. Dortmund wanted to be cursed at any time this season. The players in the team were injured one after another, and the injuries were still the main players. Therefore, the Chinese media and fans have always been worried about finding Zhou Yi on the injury-Zhou Yi was hit by a coma in the game against Naples, resulting in the absence of the game for more than a month, which caused an uproar in China and exacerbated their Fear of injury.
Although Zhou Yi is back from injury, Yan Min has also played steadily in the team and performed well, so Chinese fans have another object to worry about.
Every time Chinese journalists asked Klopp at the press conference before and after the game, they would more or less convey the meaning that they did not want Klopp to overuse the two Chinese players, worrying about Zhou Yihe Yan Min was injured.
In addition, the injury situation of the team this season is indeed very serious, and the staff gap is very large, which is stretched.
Bayern Munich's performance in the league is terrible and stable. In the Champions League, Dortmund stumbled on a group of qualifying rights. After a huge success last season, the players' fighting spirits were reduced, and their hunger for victory and championship was not as strong as before... …
These factors have prompted Klopp to seriously consider giving up one event and specializing in another.
If Dortmund did not win the Champions League last season, then Klopp will seriously consider gambling in the Champions League this season and try his best to impact that supreme honor.
But now that Dortmund has won the Champions League, the Champions League is not so important-it is good to be able to go further in the Champions League, but if it takes a lot of energy and even affects the league, then it is not worth the loss. . After all, the league is fundamental. If the league does not play well, next year it is very likely that even the Champions League qualification will not be obtained.
So in Klopp's heart, he has actually decided to give up the Champions League and specialize in the league.
Although he specializes in the league, it is not easy to say whether he can beat Bayern Munich in the league to win the league title. Bayern Munich have performed so well this season, they are stable and excellent and desperate.
So deep down, Klopp's goals for Dortmund this season are realistic and somewhat low-as long as they can qualify for the Champions League next season.
This goal Klopp did not intend to make it public, because if he said it, it would only attract ridicule and blows from competitors, but also affect the morale and confidence of the team's players. On the surface, he will still play a posture to compete with Bayern Munich, but in his heart, he will feel that the top three of that league are satisfied.
Klopp's thoughts in mind, Zhou Yi and Cortana are now unknown, he just frowned after his girlfriend said that the head coach is about to give up the Champions League.
He didn't want to question the head coach, but he couldn't help but think of the initiative to give up the German Cup last season.
Choosing to give up in the German Cup against Bayern Munich has always made Zhou Yi grudge.
Not to mention that Dortmund is likely to win the Triple Crown. The only reason is to choose to give up, not to give up early, not to give up late, and then give up against Bayern Munich...This is really uncomfortable.
Zhou Yi himself has no obvious preference for the Bundesliga team. He is not a fan of a certain team. But since choosing to join Dortmund, after playing for several years in Dortmund, he naturally became a supporter of Dortmund. Since his heart belongs to Dortmund, it will naturally regard Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich as enemies, naturally not I hope the enemy is doing well. So he played very hard when playing Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich, becoming the last person that these two fans want to see.
It was unacceptable for Zhou Yi to choose to give up in the German Cup against Bayern Munich.
It also made Zhou Yi have a little resistance to "strategic abandonment".
"Giving up" is of course a clever way of doing things.
But Zhou Yi always has another stubborn idea in mind-for those weak teams, giving up is a helpless move and a smart way. But as a rich team like Dortmund, why can't they launch more challenges on multiple fronts?
Of course ~EbookFREE.me~ This season Dortmund has indeed encountered a personnel crisis, full of wounded soldiers. But not all players, like Gondoan and Subotic, were seriously injured during the season. They will always come back, and Dortmund's lineup is always in order.
Zhou Yi is really reluctant to surrender in advance. Some things still have to be tried.
"I'm going to find a coach tomorrow." Zhou Yi lay down on the bed again and let Cortana massage herself.
"Are you going to object in person?"
"No, just express your opinion. It is the coach's business to listen to it, but it is mine." Zhou Yi pouted. "Don't the coach also ask me to discuss tactics?"
"That's discussion tactics, and then strategy." Cortana corrected Zhou Yi's thoughts.
"It's the same, I still have the right to express my opinion?"
Cortana did not speak.
Freedom of speech
was politically correct. Zhou Yi said so, and she could not refute.