Midfielder Ruler

The doubts about Messi's election to the 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or are exactly the same as in 2010. Iniesta, the core member of the champion who has the glory of the competition, once again ranked behind Messi and missed the FIFA Ballon d'Or.

I don’t know if the live broadcaster did it deliberately. While Cannavaro was announcing the winner of the 2012 FIFA Ballon d’Or, the camera showed the Spanish star Iniesta who had a good chance of being elected...

"Leo Messi!"

When Iniesta heard Messi said by Cannavaro, he froze for a moment, as if he had misheard.

Sitting in front of the TV, Tang Zheng saw it clearly, he smiled, really disappointed for Iniesta.

In the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Iniesta performed well and was the absolute contributor to Spain's victory over the Netherlands in the final. Logically speaking, the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or was either Sneijder who led Inter Milan to win the Triple Crown, or Iniesta. Nesta or Harvey, the result was accidentally obtained by Messi...

Compared with 2010, Iniesta lost the 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or even more regrettable.

On the second day, the mainstream European media and the media who followed the FIFA annual awards ceremony made fierce judgments on the winners of the FIFA Golden Globe Award.

Many professional media believe that Messi does not have a decent team glory, and it is not convincing to win the FIFA Golden Globe Award.

The "French Football" of the FIFA Ballon d'Or jointly organized with FIFA expressed its absolute dissatisfaction with this selection. Most of the professional football media voted for Iniesta and Cristiano Ronaldo.

And almost every year there will be tricky voting, just like the Chinese national team captain Zheng Zhi and head coach Camacho have voting rights, they obviously voted for Tang Zheng in the first class, but in the end the votes went to Messi.

However, there are also many media who believe that Messi is an absolute work of art in modern football. He is the strongest example of a professional player and has nothing to do with glory.

Tang Zheng didn't pay attention to things outside the arena anymore, his attention was very concentrated, preparing for the second half of the 2012-2013 Bundesliga season, which was about to rekindle the fighting.

In the middle of next month, the 1/8 finals of the 2012-2013 UEFA Champions League will also kick off again. Dortmund is two points behind Bayern in the league. The first thing they need to do to catch up with the score is not to make mistakes.

How can we do it without making mistakes?

This is also the fundamental reason why Tang Zheng seized the time to train actively.

In a blink of an eye, January 19th, local time in Germany, came, and Dortmund came to the Weser Stadium to challenge Werder Bremen.

This game is Tang Zheng's first game since he became a professional football player under Puma. He will wear the latest V1.11 sneakers of Puma V series to make his debut at the Weser Stadium, so many domestic and foreign media pay attention to this game.

Saying goodbye to Nike and welcoming Puma, Tang Zheng appeared in the 2012-2013 Bundesliga season's first match in the second half of the Bundesliga wearing Puma V-series sneakers. It was with his one shot and one pass that Dortmund won 3-0 away at Werder Brewery. plum.

In this game, the other players may have shown some flaws in their state, but Tang Zheng's performance was amazing enough.

He drives the whole through his good form, which is also the root cause of Dortmund's 3-0 victory over Werder Bremen in the away game.

Since Bayern Munich beat Greithof 2-0 at home, the difference between each other has not changed in any way.

It is worth mentioning that there was a goal battle in this round. Schalke 04 beat Hannover 96 5:4 at home.

Chinese fans are gratified that Chinese international Hao Junmin scored a key fifth goal in his first game back from injury, otherwise it is still unknown whether Schalke 04 can finally score three points at home.

A week later, Dortmund returned to their home court against Nuremberg. Tang Zheng didn't score a goal, but had an assist.

In the end, Dortmund won the opponent 3:0 at home, winning four consecutive victories since losing to Wolfsburg at home.

Bayern Munich performed equally well in the away game. They beat the home team Stuttgart 2-0 and tried to keep the points unchanged when Dortmund was in full form.

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After playing the home game, Dortmund's game in early January came to an end.

2013 is not a leap year, and February only has 28 days.

The schedule is a bit tight for Dortmund, as they have to play six games in just 24 days.

Four league games, the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals and the German Cup quarter-finals.

But these six games are not easy to play. The four-match opponent Leverkusen ranks third in the league, Frankfurt ranks fourth, Borussia Mönchengladbach ranks seventh, and Hamburg ranks ninth.

Shakhtar Donetsk may not be as strong as Dortmund, but their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. They currently rank first in the Ukrainian Super League. They only lost one of their 18 league games and won all the other 17 games.

The only thing that makes Dortmund coach Klopp feel relieved is that because of the weather in Ukraine, the winter break of the Ukrainian Super League is a bit long, and the league will not reopen until March.

From early December to early March, the three-month holiday will somewhat make it difficult for Shakhtar Donetsk players to find their status.

Finally, it is the quarter-finals of the German Cup at the end of the month. The opponent is Mainz, who is currently ranked fifth in the Bundesliga.

From the perspective of performance, whether Dortmund can achieve good results at the end of the season depends on the results of the February game.

On February 4, German time, Dortmund went to the Bayer Arena to challenge their state rival Bayer Leverkusen.

This game can be said to be ups and downs, hearty.

Leverkusen first opened the scoring by Kisling, and then Gotze helped Dortmund equalize before the end of the first half.

At the beginning of the second half, Kisling scored twice and took the lead again.

"Aww-"

The frenzied atmosphere in the Bayer Arena is still there, and the home fans make deafening cheers!

However, the home fans were not happy for too long. Dortmund captain Tang Zheng, who wore the captain's armband on his left arm, stood up.

Marcel Leif, the commentator of Sky TV in Germany, looked at the switching camera and subconsciously elongated his voice: "Gooooooooooooooooooooal——"

The football shot by Tang Zheng hit the inner edge of the left post of the goal, made a clear and crisp sound, and then bounced into the net.

Leverkusen goalkeeper Leno has done his best, but still beyond his reach, Dortmund equalized again!

2:2

From 1:0 to 1:1, and then from 2:1 to 2:2, the Leverkusen players felt some pressure in their hearts. The head coach Hypija decisively chose to defend and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

However, Leverkusen, who surrendered the initiative, did not wait for the opportunity to counterattack. Instead, Dortmund achieved the lore in the 89th minute of the game!

Tang Zheng got the opportunity to pass the ball by running in a wide range. His medium and long passes were still accurate, and he accurately found Schmelzer who was plugging in at high speed from the left.

Schmelzer's and Tang Zheng's long passes are the same, and they don't even need any adjustments.

Schmelzer swung his left foot while running to complete a half-high pass. Lewandowski jumped in front of Walscheid and dived to the top. The football headed towards the dead corner of the goal.

Lore!

2:3

The home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

Lewandowski, who scored the lore goal, took off his jersey excitedly, venting the pleasure of scoring.

The head coach Klopp stood on the sidelines and hit a set of iconic combination punches to release the pressure.

Bayern Munich, which finished the away game yesterday, has already defeated Mainz 3-0, which means that if Dortmund loses points in the away game, it means that the difference between the two sides will expand again, so Lewandowski's goal of overtaking the score is particularly exciting .

Leverkusen, who was behind in the score, stepped up their offensive in stoppage time, hoping to equalize the score, but Dortmund's defense was united, and the score of 3:2 was maintained until the end of the game.

In the past twenty rounds of the Bundesliga in the 2012-2013 season, Bayern Munich ranked first in the league with 16 wins, two draws and two losses with 50 points, and Dortmund ranked second with 15 wins, three draws and two losses with 48 points.

Leverkusen, who lost 2:3 at home to Dortmund, ranked third in the league with 11 wins, four draws and five losses with 37 points, and Frankfurt ranked fourth with 33 points.

Whether it is Leverkusen or Frankfurt, or Mainz, Schalke 04, it is very difficult for them to catch up with Bayern Munich and Dortmund. between Dortmund.

Next, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will both prepare for next weekend's domestic league matches.

Bayern hosts Schalke 04 and Dortmund hosts Hamburg.

From the perspective of opponents, Bayern's home game is more difficult, but considering that Bayern and Schalke 04 will be preparing for the first round of the Champions League 1/8 final after the league, the next round of the league is the best time for Dortmund to chase points .

If Bayern unexpectedly draws at home, Dortmund, who sits at the Westfalun Stadium, wins and the points are tied with each other, and they will only rank second with a goal difference disadvantage.

If Bayern lose at home and Dortmund win, Dortmund will overtake the points.

Of course, after the script is written, it is still waiting for Bayern and Schalke 04 to cooperate.

But the result was not in favor of Dortmund. Bayern, whose main lineup was rested, beat Schalke 04 4-0 at home, who also had reservations.

The league between Bayern and Schalke 04 was earlier than Dortmund's home game against Hamburg, so when the news of Bayern's home victory over Schalke 04 reached the Westfalun Stadium, the Dortmund players were somewhat nervous.

The two-point difference directly turned into five points, which somewhat brought some psychological pressure to the Dortmund players who missed a game.

The whistle sounded at the end of the first half, and the score board showed that the score was still 0:0, without any change.

During the half-time break, the atmosphere in the home team's locker room seemed a bit depressing.

Dortmund, who has exhausted the main force, must withdraw some of the main force in the second half to prepare for the away Champions League match in the middle of next week.

Tang Zheng frowned. He admitted that the team's failure to open up the situation in the first half was directly related to him, so he secretly clenched his fists, trying to break the ice at the beginning of the second half!

I don't know if it was luck. In the second minute of the second half, Dortmund got an offensive right corner kick.

Gotze took a high-quality corner kick, Tang Zheng leaped high in the crowd, twisted his waist and threw his abdomen, a textbook-like lion head shake!

The talented player Sun Xingmin, who was placed high hopes by the Korean media, had no choice but to become the background.

The goalkeeper Adler reacted very quickly, and subconsciously blocked with a single palm, but his movements were chaotic, and he could already be shortlisted for the top ten saves in Europe this week if he was able to save the football.

As for whether he can stretch out his palm to block the football from the bottom line, it is hard to expect.

At this time, luck dominates.

The football saved by Adler came in front of Hummels. He reacted quickly and stabbed the ball towards the goal first.

Van der Vaart, who was standing by the right post, subconsciously stretched out his leg to block it, but failed.

The football crashes into the snow-white net!

"Aww-"

Immediately, deafening cheers rang out from the Westphalon Stadium.

In the end, Dortmund beat Hamburg 1-0 at home with Hummels' supplementary shot in front of the goal, maintaining the point pressure on the top Bayern.

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Before they knew it, Dortmund had won five consecutive victories in the domestic league, scoring 13 goals and conceding just two.

Four of them scored three goals in a single game, except for the 1-0 victory in the just-concluded league.

Of course, winning is good, as for how many goals you win, it doesn't matter.

Dortmund's away game against Shakhtar Donetsk in the first round of the UEFA Champions League 1/8 final was at 8:45 pm local time on February 13th, and the Dortmund team took a flight to Donetsk in the afternoon of February 11th.

Three hours later, the flight stopped at Donetsk International Airport, and the outside temperature was minus seven degrees.

"Ha Qiu."

As soon as he got out of the plane, Tang Zheng sneezed subconsciously, and couldn't help cursing: "Damn the weather!"

Immediately, he zipped up the zipper of the down jacket he had just put on, all the way to the top, so that the collar stood up completely.

"Are you all right, Don?"

My friend Hummels asked with concern.

"Well, it's fine."

Tang Zheng shook his head and said.

Expeditions to the colder Moscow in the past have not had any problems, and this time it is estimated to be the same.

Back at the hotel, the team took a short rest.

In the morning and afternoon of the next day, the entire Dortmund team adapted to the venue at the Donbass Arena to prepare for the first round of the UEFA Champions League 1/8 final tomorrow night.

Tang Zheng, who had finished adapting to the venue, felt a little heavy-headed, worried in his heart, and thought to himself, "Could it be a cold?"

On the morning of the match, Hummels was a little surprised to see that Tang Zheng was still sleeping. In his impression, Tang Zheng was always very punctual.

In the past, as the captain, he had knocked on doors one by one.

what happened?

"Don, it's time to get up."

Hummels pushed Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng felt dizzy, took a breath, and found that his nose was blocked, and his throat was also a little sore.

With sharp eyes, Hummels reached out to touch Tang Zheng's forehead, and subconsciously exclaimed: "God, your forehead is so hot!"

After that, he added: "Damn it! I'll call the team doctor."

"Wait!" Tang Zheng stretched out his hand to hold Hummels: "Don't call the team doctor, the game is going to start tonight, I don't want to miss it."

Tang Zheng knew what it meant to confirm that he had a cold before the match, which meant that he would definitely miss the first round.

"But..." Hummels was obviously more worried about Tang Zheng's body.

"It's nothing but, I know my body best." Tang Zheng said, "Mats, you have to know that every game in the Champions League knockout round is very important. I hope you understand."

Hummels frowned, and finally nodded slowly: "If you can't hold on, you must not hold on, you know?"