Chapter 85 Don't Replace Me(1/2)
In fact, the issue Draxler mentioned was also considered by Dortmund's head coach Klopp.
So after celebrating the goal, he quickly made adjustments to the team.
Unlike ordinary coaches who choose to let the team defend after the team leads, Klopp goes against the rules and chooses to let the team strengthen the offense and strive to be able to break Schalke 04's goal again in a very short time. Once you lead two goals, the advantage will be great.
It makes sense for him to make such arrangements. After all, Dortmund just scored a goal, his morale was high, and his condition would become better.
Schalke 04 just lost the ball, and his morale was hit, and the players' performance was definitely not as good as before.
If you can take advantage of the situation, scoring two goals in a short period of time is not a whim, but a great possibility of realization.
So after the game started again, Dortmund did not mean to restrain himself at all, but launched an aggressive offensive at Schalke 04's home court, hoping to score again as soon as possible.
But football is always indefinite.
Because football is round, anything can happen.
When Dortmund launched a fierce attack on Schalke 04 goal, there were problems on their own defense line.
In the 67th minute, just six minutes after Barrios scored, Schalke equalized the score 04.
"Ivan——!"
The broadcaster on Schalke 04 live broadcast elongated his voice and shouted.
Schalke 04 fans responded to him: "Rakitic!!!"
It's like a tsunami.
Marcel Leif also said excitedly: "It was only six minutes after Dortmund's goal, Schalke equalized the score in 04! That's right! This is the Ruhr derby we all hope to see! Compared to the frequently interrupted games in the first half, the game is now really better!"
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"Damn!" After conceding the ball, Klopp cursed in annoyance.
His plan did not bring goals to the team, but instead made the team lose one goal, and now the lead of one goal is gone...
It will soon be seventy minutes. Once Zhou Yi is replaced, Sha Xin will inevitably be unable to support herself...
Klopp is a passionate coach. When facing choices, he is always willing to choose options that are risky but also have huge benefits. However, if you do this, you will not succeed every time, and sometimes you will fail.
This time, it is an example of failure.
Now it seems that he has to choose a more conservative strategy to treat the next game.
If you can draw Schalke 04 away, it is also an acceptable result.
But...it's a bit unwilling to think that they once led Schalke 04 in the game and only got a draw in the end.
No matter how unwilling he is, Klopp must consider this very realistic issue now.
Zhou Yi's physical fitness should be close to the red line, and he must find someone to take the field to replace him.
If you want to continue the attack, Klopp will choose Gotze.
But now that I have to defend, Klopp can only give up Gotze for the time being, because Gotze's defensive ability is not very good.
He told assistant coach Buvac: "Gerico, ask Santana to warm up."
Buvac also knew the problems the team was facing now, so he did not hesitate and quickly got up to go to the bench.
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On the court, Schalke 04 players who celebrated the goal ran back, and Dortmund players gradually recovered from the hit of the goal.
As soon as Shahin turned his head, he saw that assistant coach Gerliko Buvac was calling the team's Brazilian defender Felipe Santana from the bench.
He understands what this means.
Since Zhou Yi played at Dortmund, it has been a fixed procedure to replace him in about 70 minutes.
Not to mention Shahin, a Dortmund player, even the commentator, reporter, and fans know it very well.
As for the reason for doing this, everyone knows it. Because Zhou Yi's physical fitness is still difficult to play the entire game.
Why physical fitness becomes Zhou Yi's weakness? After Zhou Yi was interviewed by the Ruhr News, everyone understood that a young man who had never received systematic professional football training before the age of seventeen was understandable. Of course, a person who had only received formal training for less than a year was able to play as a main player in the Dortmund first team, which is enough to show how talented he is. If he had no other weaknesses, he would definitely be considered a monster. Now Zhou Yi has weaknesses of poor physical fitness and weak strength, and everyone is actually quite tolerant.
If Zhou Yi is replaced, all the pressure will be concentrated on Shahin.
Although Shahin had participated in the Ruhr derby before and was the core of the team, Zhou Yi had not yet shared the pressure for him at that time.
It is logical that he shouldn't be nervous about the situation ahead.
But the current situation is slightly different from before, because since she returned from injury, Shahin's condition has not been very stable.
When it is good and bad, he does not have enough confidence in himself.
If Zhou Yi ends up, how can he deal with Schalke 04, who has just tied the score and is so powerful?
Shahin was a little suspicious of himself.
He ran almost two steps, came to Zhou Yi, and patted his shoulder.
"You are going to be replaced, Zhou Yi."
Zhou Yi turned his head and looked at the sidelines and saw it too.
Then, what surprised Shahin was that Zhou Yi actually ran straight to the sidelines!
He ran to the coach's seat in one breath and said to Klopp who was standing on the sidelines: "Coach, I can play the whole game in this game."
Klopp did not expect that Zhou Yi would come to him to make such a request.
"Why?" he asked.
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Zhou Yi suddenly ran to the sidelines to find Klopp, and this scene also attracted everyone's attention.
The TV broadcast immediately cut the camera to two people.
"Did Klopp call Zhou Yi off the court?" Duan Xin felt strange.
"It seems that no, it should be Zhou Yi who came here on his own..." Tao Wei observed it very carefully.
"What are they talking about..."
"I don't know. But there will definitely be reporters asking about it after the game."
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"Why?" Klopp asked.
He didn't finish his words. In fact, he wanted to ask why Zhou Yi suddenly asked to finish the game.
However, Zhou Yi understood what he meant and replied: "I think if I could stay on the court, it would have a greater effect on the team."
"But your physical fitness may not last until the end." Klopp shook his head.
"My physical fitness is fine, coach." Zhou Yi tried to make his breathing smoother and even, although in Klopp's opinion, he was still a little breathing. "I was replaced at this time before, but I still had enough energy. So I felt that I could hold on until the end of this game."
Klopp doesn't believe that Zhou Yi still has the energy to say every time he is replaced.
If Zhou Yi can really ensure that every game is played for 90 minutes, why does he need to replace him and use a substitution place?
However, Klopp looked at Zhou Yi, but did not insist on replacing him. Instead, he made a decision that was completely opposite to his previous decision. He nodded: "Okay. Then I won't replace you now. But if I think it's already a drag on the team for your physical fitness to keep you on the court, I will replace you without hesitation and will not care whether you want it or not."
Zhou Yi was very happy to see that Klopp agreed to his request, so he naturally agreed to the conditions proposed by Klopp.
"No problem, coach! I will help the team win the game!"
After saying that, he turned around and ran back.
In the middle circle, Barrios was waiting for him to kick off the ball.
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"Zhou Yi and Klopp seemed to have said a few words and it was over. Zhou Yi ran back to the court..." Marcel Leif was also very curious. "I don't know what they said, did Klopp make any adjustments?"
Barrios was also curious about what Zhou Yi and Klopp had talked about. When Zhou Yi ran back to him, he did not kick off the ball immediately, but asked: "What did you talk to the coach?"
"I told him not to replace me," said Zhou Yi.
"Ah?" Barrios was surprised. "His he agreed?"
"Of course." Zhou Yi smiled.
Barrios stared at Zhou Yi blankly, and didn't understand why Klopp agreed not to replace Zhou Yi. Isn't it usually necessary to replace him at this time?
At this moment, the whistle of the referee Grafie sounded and the game continued!
"Hey, it's kick-off." Zhou Yi had to remind Barrios, who was a little distracted.
Barrios then realized and knocked the football out, and the Ruhr derby continued.
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Buvac came up and asked Klopp: "What did Zhou Yi say to you?"
He was not around at that time, so he didn't hear it.
"He told me not to replace him at this time like I did when I played normally," Klopp said with his arms around his chest.
"What did he think? It's impossible for him to stick to his physical strength..." Buvaci felt that Zhou Yi was really crazy and whimsical.
To be continued...