Champion’s Heart

After the Chinese team lost the game, Zhou Yi was surrounded by Chinese journalists based in Germany outside the club’s training base the next day. He wanted to hear his opinion about the game yesterday.

"I watched the game." Zhou Yi said from the beginning, firstly showing that he didn't even watch the game and opened his mouth to talk nonsense, then he said the conclusion. "I don't feel much."

"Are you disappointed by the failure?" a reporter asked.

Zhou Yi looked at him with some surprise: "How is it possible? What a disappointment to lose a game? This is the top ten, every team has to play eight games, half of the group stage, we I only lost one game, what’s unsatisfactory? This is the top ten, the highest level in the Asian region, let’s be honest, it is higher than the level of the Asian Cup. There are teams that can participate in this type of competition. Which is good to play? It’s normal to lose to anyone, so I don’t feel much.”

"But some people said that if you were present yesterday, this game would have won..."

Zhou Yi repeatedly shook his head: "This is too amateurish, and I dare not guarantee that we can win if we play. The football is round. If we fly a few thousand kilometers back, the jet lag will not be reversed. , How to explain after losing the game? It’s not that there is no such possibility, we are also humans, not robots, how can there be no headaches and brain heat accidents? I understand and agree with the decision of the high guide not to call us back to play football, I If he wasn’t, I wouldn’t call a group of exhausted people to sleep.”

"So it is normal to lose to Qatar at home?"

"Otherwise?" Zhou Yi asked the reporter who was so choking and couldn't tell.

"But the key is not this result. It's not that you don't allow to lose. It's that such a loss makes people see no hope..."

Zhou Yi sighed and said: "It's just a game. There is no need to go online. The top ten is a long schedule. Like this game, the top ten between two European leagues is not a field. Yes, I think you are better to ask why the AFC lost the game than to ask why the AFC has arranged an upright World Cup qualifier between the two European leagues, making it sneaky like being a thief. People in Europe, Africa, South America, North America and Oceania have not arranged the national team games at this time. Why is it so special in Asia? I personally think that this kind of schedule is inexplicable."

After he finished, he waved his hand, no longer answered the question, but turned and walked away.

In fact, the last question, what he thought in his heart was not the same as what he said at last, he sighed and pressed down the true words in his heart. Because he knew that what he said would offend many people and cause internal divisions, he should not say it. He still has to return to China to get along with his national teammates.

What he wants to say is nothing new, nor does it reflect how powerful his real insights are. Say nothing but offend people. Since he is not in that position, it is useless to exercise that concentration.

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On this day, it was not only Zhou Yi who was asked about the new defeat of the national team in the interview. Other Chinese team players who had not returned to the world were also asked by reporters about the same content.

Their answer is similar to that of Zhou Yi. First of all, they didn’t think they lost because they didn’t go back. Secondly, they didn’t think the defeat of this game would affect the Chinese team’s World Cup qualifying goal. The most modest and humble Yang Muge was very strange when he was interviewed for the failure of this game. I don’t understand what the big deal is.

It seemed a shocking failure in domestic public opinion, but they felt it was uncommon. So some conspiracy theories, is this not an excuse for the returnees who return home collectively for themselves?

Of course, there is no market for this kind of conspiracy theory, because it is too ridiculous.

People who believe in such conspiracy theories can basically be classified as "brainless".

But since the returnees have said so, everyone can only temporarily put down their restlessness and wait patiently for the next national team game. After all the returnees have returned to the team, let's see how their performance and results will be.

But they will wait a little longer. Because the next top ten game will wait until June next year, the Chinese team will challenge Oman on June 4, 2013.

Of course, before that, there will not be no national team games, there will be some watching warm-up games, friendly games and the like. But the gold content of this kind of competition is very low, and the performance and results in this kind of competition can't explain anything. Gao Hongbo's national team is famous for playing warm-up matches and friendly matches, but the main game is completely different from warm-up matches and friendly matches.

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On the afternoon of November 17th, Dortmund ushered in the home twelfth round opponent Fürth at home. Zhou Yi, who did not return to China, made his debut and played the whole game. There is no problem with his physical fitness.

Dortmund defeated Fürth 3-1 at home.

At the same time in another game, Bayern Munich shook hands with Nuremberg in an unexpected 1:1 away game.

The difference between the two teams suddenly changed from four points to two points!

"...Bayern Munich have made some mistakes recently, and Dortmund has just seized this opportunity. It seems that it is too early to say that this season's league title belongs to Bayern Munich. Klopp's team has not given up And, they have already appeared as the group first in the Champions League group stage, which will help them to put more energy into the league." German media commented.

They are right. The next step is Dortmund's away challenge to Ajax's Champions League group stage. Since the team has already qualified as the first team in advance, this game is actually meaningless for Dortmund.

Klopp didn't even take all the main force away.

He left some of the main players in Germany.

But even such a Dortmund team still defeated Ajax 4:1 away, and they achieved a three-goal lead in the first half, ending the suspense of this game.

Dortmund's defeat of Ajax is a real help for Real Madrid. Because Ajax originally had four points and Real Madrid had six points, the points of the two teams were not much different. And in this round of the league, if Dortmund deliberately loses water to Ajax, Real Madrid is even dangerous for the second group-in the same round of group games, Real Madrid shake hands with Manchester City at 1:1 away.

This death group now looks like a joke...

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Back in the league, Dortmund rotated again. After two seasons of fighting in the Champions League and the domestic league, Klopp knew that to keep the team level in multi-line competition, he had to rotate. Rotation is the key to measuring whether a team can become a giant.

Basically, the small teams do not rotate. One is unnecessary, but it is incapable. The rotation requires high bench thickness.

The thickness of Dortmund's bench is honestly not as good as that of Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​but if you want to get good results, you must also rotate.

During this rotation, the players who played in the Champions League in the middle of the week were basically replaced, and Zhou Yi was among them.

The players who rest during the week are all starting.

Dortmund faced tough resistance from Mainz on the road. In the end, with a goal and an assist by Mark, they defeated Mainz 2-1 on the road, maintained the victory, and continued to pursue the pressure of Bayern Munich.

Under the pressure of Dortmund, Bayern Munich beat Hannover 96 at home 5:0, the two teams still have a gap of two points, and the competition is very fierce.

However, in the fourteenth round of the league, Klopp had a problem with the rotation. Dortmund, who still used the rotation, was tied 1:1 by Düsseldorf at home.

Because of the rotation, Dortmund has never made up the strongest lineup in these games, always playing half a set and half a set, and frequent rotations have caused players to become uncomfortable.

After all, they are not Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Barcelona... such a traditional powerhouse, Dortmund was still a midfield team a few years ago, and has never played any rotation.

Rotation and non-rotation have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage of rotation is that it allows everyone to play and maintain the state of the game, while reducing physical loss. But the disadvantage is that the lineup is not stable enough, the player cooperation is prone to unsympathetic situations, and the state will fluctuate.

The advantage of not rotating is that the lineup is stable, the players cooperate well, and the tactical completion is higher. As long as there is no physical problem, it is the strongest lineup. But the shortcomings are also obvious, that is, the main players are burdened by the game, and their physical fitness is depleted quickly. It is easy for them to collapse due to lack of physical fitness in the late season. At the same time, the substitute players lack training and do not get up when they are needed. The strength gap between the benches is too large.

From the aspect of club management, the disadvantage of rotation is very obvious. That is, the club needs to buy more high-level players. At least two players of the same level in a position are required, which increases the financial burden of the club. Buying people needs more money, and buying people to pay for wages is also a big head that cannot be ignored. And in case someone bought a lot of money, but found that this player is not suitable for the team's tactics, not suitable for Dortmund's life, unable to play their own level, then the money is not a good deal?

No rotation has no disadvantages for the club’s finances, because it saves money, a set of lineups dominates the world, and there is no need to invest too much in the replacement lineup. Less is mainly due to a main lineup. It can be said that the practice of not rotating has achieved Dortmund in the previous two seasons, allowing them to win the league championship for two consecutive seasons, and also reached the quarterfinals and quarterfinals in the Champions League.

But the non-rotation approach has also become a bottleneck that Dortmund cannot break through. It is precisely because there is no rotation, after Dortmund eliminated the "Cosmos" Barcelona in the semifinals last season, the player's physical fitness was too great. Finally lost to Chelsea in the semifinals, stopping at the semifinals.

If Dortmund can have capital to rotate, perhaps such a thing will not happen.

This is why Klopp has been rotating from the beginning of the season.

If you want to make a breakthrough in the Champions League and at the same time do not give up in the domestic league, you have to rotate.

Even if you encounter some difficulties, you must stick to this path.

So after being tied by Düsseldorf, Klopp said in an interview that he would not change his current rotation policy. (To be continued.)