The players on both sides finished their warm-ups. When they returned to the locker room, the stands were almost full of people. There were fewer and fewer fans gathered outside the stadium. Those who had tickets had already entered the venue, and those who did not have tickets were drinking with their friends in the taverns they often went to while waiting for the live broadcast of the game to begin.

Only a very small number of people are still reluctant to leave outside the court and are waiting intently, hoping to wait for one or two tickets to be refunded.

But there are very few lucky people like this.

The Ruhr District Derby is only twice a season. How many people will not go to watch such an important game and then return it after buying the ticket?

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Yang Muge sat in his position, on his right was Draxler, the youth team's friend, and on his left was Hao Junmin from the first team, his compatriots, and his seniors.

Last season's winter break transfer, the active international of the Chinese national team came to Schalke 04.

Last season, he had four consecutive starts. He also got the opportunity to start in the first game of the new season. He became a substitute in the second game. He didn't even make the roster in the third game. This fourth game, the Ruhr derby has nothing to do with him, so he can only watch the wall with Yang Muge.

As the only two Chinese in the team, he naturally knew Yang Muge, and because of Zhou Yi, the two of them were closer.

Zhou Yi was teammate with Hao Junmin when he was in the national team. When he heard that Hao Junmin was going to Schalke at 04, he specifically mentioned Yang Muge to him.

What disappointed the Chinese media in this Ruhr derby was that Hao Junmin was not able to enter the roster of the competition, otherwise they could have speculated on the gimmick of the "China derby".

Last season, when Zhou Yi led Dortmund to the Schalke Stadium, Hao Junmin was not on the roster.

The Chinese media hopes to see the Chinese derby in the Ruhr area, and it seems that they have to continue waiting.

The three of them sat in the stands and were also discussing the next game.

Draxler is still full of confidence in his team. Although the team started the bad start of the season and had not won the ball, he believes that the derby is different. Schalke 04 will usher in the first victory of the season in this game, and then make a great stride and return to their position.

In comparison, Yang Muge is not that optimistic. Since the new season, Schalke 04 has played three rounds of league games, one Champions League group stage, lost all four games, and had zero points, ranking seventeenth in the league - second to last, and only pressed on Stuttgart with the advantage of goal difference.

Head coach Magath has had a hard time...

Hao Junmin basically doesn't know German, and he can't participate in this discussion in depth. He can only rely on Yang Muge's translation to understand what Draxra said. He also expressed his opinions in Chinese and Yang Muge - he also thinks the team is in poor condition recently, but he also thinks that the derby is a game of different meanings. Two derbys in each season must be presented separately, and his previous performance cannot be used as a reference at all. Perhaps this derby will really become a turning point for the team to reverse the league rankings?

Yang Muge disagrees with their views on both of them. He turned his head and said to the optimistic Draxler in German: "But Dortmund has Zhou Yi, and he is in really good shape this season."

After hearing Yang Muge's words, Draxler was stunned at first, then fell into silence.

Zhou Yi, this is really a name he least wants to hear at this time...

The derby on this stadium last season is still vivid in my mind. Schalke 04 finally lost to Zhou Yi.

When Draxler was silent, Yang Muge turned around and said to Hao Junmin in Chinese: "Brother Hao, don't forget that the core of Dortmund is Zhou Yi..."

When Hao Junmin heard this, he was silent.

Before coming to Schalke 04, Hao Junmin was very confident in himself because he had just scored a very beautiful small-angle goal in a friendly match against the German national team. It was precisely because of that goal that he was valued by Schalke 04. In China, his agent also told him that he was fully capable of gaining a foothold in Germany.

Later, before she could pass by, a Zhou Yi who had already played football in Germany appeared and performed well.

He thought to himself that Zhou Yi, a player who used to be an amateur, could play the main player at Dortmund, so when he went to Schalke 04, the main player would not run away anyway.

But when he actually came to Schalke 04, Magath gave him a warning in his first training class - the training intensity made him want to vomit, not because he was disgusted, but because he was tired...

In a state of extreme fatigue, people will have some stress reactions, leading to vomiting.

If Hao Junmin hadn't held back, he might have vomited directly on the training ground. In that case, he would have lost an adult...

Then he heard that the training intensity of the head coach Klopp, who is next door to Dortmund, is no less than that of Magath.

But the seemingly thin boy persisted in this kind of training?

Just thinking about this, Hao Junmin felt it was incredible. In his heart, his evaluation of Zhou Yi was also changing.

Next, as he stayed in Germany longer, he discovered his naivety at the time.

Isn't it a problem to play the main players in Schalke 04?

Fortunately, he didn't tell others about this little thought, otherwise he would have become a laughing stock now.

Chinese football and German football are like two completely different parallel worlds, and there is no possibility of intersecting.

For a while, he even began to wonder if he was not suitable for playing football. Why no matter how hard he trained, he still couldn't perform well as soon as he came on the court?

At this time, when he looked at Zhou Yi again, his eyes became complicated.

When he first met Zhou Yi in the national team, everyone was observing Zhou Yi, and he was no exception. Whether it was in competition or training, Zhou Yi did show his strength to be selected for the national team. However, in Hao Junmin's view, Zhou Yi's strength as the national team was not as powerful as the media praised. At least he had no such performance as "outstanding the crowd" during the national team training and competitions - at that time, in China, there were indeed a very small number of media using such an adjective that made the national team not very comfortable.

Oh, the crane stands out in the flock of chickens, of course Zhou Yi is a fairy crane, we are just a flock of chickens?

Is this too much damage?

Anyway, everyone thinks that Zhou Yi's performance in the national team is far from far beyond everyone's understanding and level. Hao Junmin also speculated that he had the prospect of joining Schalke 04 - since Zhou Yi's ability can play the main force in Dortmund, why can't he gain a place in Schalke 04's main lineup with richer experience and better skills than him?

But when he came to Germany, he could feel the high-level European football at the closest distance. After looking at Zhou Yi's performance in Dortmund, he realized that the situation was wrong.

Especially last season Schalke played against Dortmund at home against Dortmund. At that time, Hao Junmin was also watching the game in the stands, but he didn't sit with Yang Muge. He saw Zhou Yi's performance with his own eyes. Then he was surprised to find that Zhou Yi wearing a Dortmund jersey is completely different from Zhou Yi wearing a Chinese team jersey. Whether it is his performance or temperament on the court, it is different.

Hao Junmin also plays football with some details, so it can be seen naturally.

For example, the speed of passing and running is faster than when you are in the national team.

At first, Hao Junmin wondered if he was an illusion.

But after watching the entire game, he found that it was not an illusion, but a fact.

But why did Zhou Yi have such a change? He is completely different from the national team in the club?

Hao Junmin's first reaction was that Zhou Yi did not work hard in the national team and kept his strength to play club games. This was a bit unpatriotic and politically incorrect...

But if he really doesn't work hard, why does he perform well in the national team?

Hao Junmin couldn't understand this problem.

Later, he gradually became familiar with Yang Muge. He asked Yang Muge indirectly what kind of person Zhou Yi was. By chance, he heard Yang Muge say that Zhou Yi was a very helpful person, and he was very good at thinking for others and would think carefully.

Knowing this time, Hao Junmin suddenly realized why Zhou Yi's performance in the national team and club was somewhat different.

Just like two cars, the engine is the same, with four-liter displacement, turbocharger, and the power is the same, for example, both are 422 horsepower, the maximum power is 310 kilowatts, the maximum power speed is 5,500 rpm, and the maximum torque is 600 Nm... Judging from the data performance, it is a very good eight-cylinder engine.

However, the first car is matched with this engine with a maximum four-speed gearbox, and the second car is matched with a nine-speed gearbox.

So which car performs better in actual driving?

Hao Junmin is the driver, and of course he knows that it is undoubtedly the one with a nine-speed gearbox.

Because the first car, the highest fourth gear, when the speed exceeds 100 kilometers, the engine speed will be very high, which is a damage to the engine and the transmission, and it is not comfortable to drive at all, and the feeling of cranking when shifting gears is obvious.

What about the second car? The ninth gearbox can make the car very smooth when accelerating, and the power response is positive. There will be no cease when upshifting. Even if you accelerate and overtake at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, it is easy. The tacit understanding between the gearbox and the engine makes you almost unable to feel the existence of shifting gears.

Obviously, the transmission of the first car cannot fully utilize the full capabilities of this excellent engine. The second model can only be used.

In this case, if the first car must use this engine with a four-speed gearbox, it can only reduce the power of the engine and make it adaptable to the gearbox. For this engine, this is actually a waste of ability, but at least it can match the gearbox, making the car less uncomfortable to drive.

As for the Chinese team and Dortmund, Zhou Yi is a relationship between an excellent engine and two gearboxes. The national team is a four-speed gearbox, while Dortmund is a nine-speed gearbox. If Zhou Yi does not reduce his "output power", then it will be very uncomfortable to cooperate with the four-speed Chinese team. If he wants to adapt to the national team, his engine will naturally not look as awesome as he does in the data...

When he returned to Dortmund, he had a gearbox that could match his abilities and could turn on all fire without any scruples. At this time, he looked like he was awesome and worthy of those dazzling data.

So it’s not that Zhou Yi’s ability is mediocre, but that the national team is too poor, and he doesn’t need or perform too dazzlingly. After all, he is the midfield organizer. If he is extraordinary and other teammates cannot keep up with his pace, how can he organize the offense?

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When Hao Junmin was silent, the atmosphere suddenly became hot because Schalke 04's starting lineup was broadcast on the live broadcast.

Every name that is reported will cause cheers like tsunamis.

The cheer also interrupted Hao Junmin's thoughts and pulled him out of his melancholy.

Draxler and other fans were cheering loudly for every player.

After reporting Schalke 04 players, the live broadcast only introduced Dortmund's players with weak words "Let's welcome our opponent Dortmund."

At this moment, the sound of boos sounded from Ao Going Schalke Stadium.

After the boo, the players from both sides appeared, and Hao Junmin and Yang Muge saw Zhou Yi among the Dortmund players. He looked calm in the face of noisy cheers and booing.
Chapter completed!