A few days before the game, a Chinese reporter went to interview Zhou Yi and Yang Muge to hear what they thought about this encounter.

"I made a bet with Zhou Yi. Whoever wins will treat me to dinner. I have prepared all the money." Yang Muge said with a smile.

"I didn't prepare money, I just swipe my card." Zhou Yi responded.

Both sides quarrel, but it looks more like flirting...

Everyone knows that Zhou Yi and Yang Muge are good friends, and they have a good relationship in private.

"Will your relationship with Zhou Yi make you feel a special feeling in the competition?" Some reporters also worried that this friendship will make Yang Muge unable to get out of the competition.

Yang Muge shook his head: "There won't be any special feeling, the game is the game. If the head coach asked me to keep an eye on Zhou Yi, I would do my best in the game."

"Even if it's a foul?" the reporter asked.

"It's not just fouls in defense. But if necessary, I will foul." Yang Muge said with a smile.

"If you shovel Zhou Yi, are you not afraid of affecting your friendship?"

"Zhou Yi is not that kind of stingy person. He knows that we are all for their own purposes and we must do our best to play the game. Otherwise, if you ask him, will he show mercy for my sake?"

This same problem was really thrown to Zhou Yi.

"How is that possible? Lao Yang and I are friends, but we are also players of our respective teams. How can we do such idiotic things? And this will not affect our relationship." Zhou Yi spread his hands and felt that the reporters' worries were really worrying.

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When Zhou Yi was standing at the entrance of the Aohui Schalke Stadium and waiting to appear, Yang Muge came up from behind and patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder.

Zhou Yi looked back and saw that it was Yang Muge, and then smiled: "Oh, Lao Yang, you look very energetic today!"

"If you want to deal with you, you won't be able to be mentally irritated." Yang Muge smiled.

"So that..."

"The coach said, I'm responsible for defending you."

"I just knew."

The two people communicated with a smile. If they weren't wearing jerseys of different colors, they would really make people think they were teammates of the same team. From their expressions, it was impossible to tell that this was a Ruhr derby.

There was no communication between other Dortmund players and Schalke 04 players. They began to have a mortal enemy and had nothing to say at all.

Just Zhou Yi and Yang Muge are different.

However, the two of them didn't have a long chat, and it was really not suitable for having fun together at this time. If you want to chat, they can find a restaurant box by themselves after the game and chat slowly.

After saying that, the two of them returned to their own queue.

Shinji Kagawa came up and asked, "Will your friends have reservations about you during the game?"

"Of course not, and maybe they will work harder than usual." Zhou Yi shook his head. "So Kagawa, be prepared, this is not a good game."

"Uh..." Shinji Kagawa had nothing to say.

On the other side, Draxler was also asking Yang Muge: "What did you talk to him?"

"I told him that I was responsible for defending him in this game."

"Ah, didn't he know our tactical arrangements in advance!" Draxler was very anxious.

"Don't be excited, Julian. I'm responsible for defending him. Anyone can think of this, right?" Yang Muge said.

"This is..." Draxler thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the case.

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When the players on both sides appeared, Zhou Yi and Yang Muge appeared in the TV camera. Chinese commentator Duan Xin was very excited: "Zhou Yi and Yang Muge! They are the main players of Dortmund and Schalke 04 respectively. They will stage a Chinese derby in the Ruhr area!"

This scene has been waiting for by many Chinese footballers for a long time. Since Yang Chen played in Frankfurt in 1998, the wave of large-scale overseas visits by Chinese players began, but even in the most glorious period, the number of Chinese players studying abroad was still very small, and even fewer of them could have direct dialogues.

When Sun Hai was at Manchester City and Litt was at Everton, he staged a UEFA Chinese derby. However, the direct dialogue between the two sides only lasted for 24 minutes. After the opening 24 minutes, Litt was replaced by Everton's head coach Moyes due to a relapse of his old injury, and the Chinese derby came to an abrupt end.

This is the first time that the Chinese derby has appeared in the European arena.

Half a year later, Manchester City and Everton met again in the Premier League, Sun Hai and Lit also started again, and performed well, both of them playing the whole game. This time, the Chinese derby was also the most well-known. British media reported that about 100 million TV viewers watched the game, and 99% of the 100 million TV viewers were from China. At that time, the Premier League was still free to watch, and was broadcast live by several local TV stations in China. The ability to do such a cleanup performance shows the influence of the Chinese derby at that time.

Before Zhou Yi and Yang Muge's conversation, this game was an insurmountable peak for Chinese players in Europe, so that British sports economists at that time even mentioned that this was the highest ratings game in the history of the Premier League.

The third China derby took place on December 7, 2003, which was also the last time Sun Hai and Li Te met in the league. Both of them started and played the whole game again. The two teams also scored 0:0. Shortly after this game, Li Te was absent for 17 months due to serious injury, and the two never met in the field again.

The fourth Chinese derby was four years later. One of the protagonists was still Sun Hai, an evergreen Chinese who studied abroad, while the other was replaced by Zheng Zhi, who joined Charlton. After this game, Charlton was relegated from the Premier League, and Sun Hai later left Manchester City. There were no Chinese people in the Premier League, and there were no Chinese derby in the entire European football world.

When Chinese media reported crazy about hyping Sun Hai and Li Te's second China Derby, those scenes were still in the memory of Duan Xin, a veteran footballer. However, the concept of "China Derby" has cooled down for a long time and faded out of many people's memories.

The tide of Chinese football's overseas resides, talents wither, and Chinese football has fallen into its lowest point.

Looking at Japanese players and Korean players are doing well in European football, how can Chinese fans not feel envious?

The connection between Chinese fans and the European League seems to have to rely entirely on domestic fans of various giant teams, but in fact there is another way, that is, players from their own country play in the European League. The feeling that young Chinese fans may not have experienced it at all. It is very slow to imagine that there were many Chinese fans waiting to see Yang Chen’s latest game news in Frankfurt.

However, since Zhou Yi appeared, that feeling has come back.

Now Yang Muge and Zhou Yi have reappeared the Chinese derby in the European League, which has made many elderly people feel very moved.

"Zhou Yi and Yang Muge are already the absolute main players of their respective teams. Before this game, there was news that Yang Muge will be responsible for defending Zhou Yi in the game. This is the direct conversation we most want to see!"

While speaking, huge cheers rang out in Schalke 04's stadium. DJs on the scene began to broadcast the names of the players, and every Schalke 04's player would be cheered, and Yang Muge was no exception.

Every Dortmund player will get overwhelming booing, among which the booings Groschloitz and Zhou Yi get the biggest ones. Groschloitz is a staunch supporter of Dortmund and often provokes and ridicule Schalke 04, so it is understandable that he has a bad reputation among Schalke 04 fans.

Zhou Yi can get so many boos basically because his performance in the previous Ruhr derby was so outstanding, causing a lot of trouble for Schalke 04, and was considered by Schalke 04 to be the enemy that poses the greatest threat to his team.

Of course, you can't be polite when dealing with such an enemy.

So in fact, this kind of booing is not a bad thing for Zhou Yi, but a medal of honor.

The commentator Duan Xin also mentioned this during the commentary. Because many Chinese people seem to think that foreigners should respect the Chinese with a smile on their faces, but in fact, if both sides are enemies, then all attacks from the enemy are the greatest respect for themselves.

And Zhou Yi is Schalke 04's number one enemy.

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When the game started, the booed Zhou Yi even louder. As long as Zhou Yi took the ball, the booed came overwhelmingly.

Yang Muge couldn't stand it. He played so many games in Schalke 04 and met various opponents. As Schalke 04's opponents, they were also booed at Schalke Stadium, but no team could compare with Dortmund, and no one could compare with Zhou Yi.

It seems that Schalke 04 fans really don’t like Zhou Yi…

In fact, as an opponent, Yang Muge doesn’t like Zhou Yi either because this person... is too cunning!

Just now, Zhou Yi was going to pass the ball to the left, and there was indeed Dortmund's player on the left. Yang Muge, who was standing in front of him, slightly shifted his center of gravity to the left.

As a result, Zhou Yi knocked the football in another direction behind him!

He made him lose his life, and then he ran to another place, and Dortmund's attack followed him to the other side.

This made Schalke 04's defense on the left side in vain.

Just follow it to the other side.
Chapter completed!