After the Chinese team lost the game, Zhou Yi was surrounded by Chinese journalists stationed in Germany outside the club's training base the next day, wanting to hear his views on the game yesterday.

"I watched the game." Zhou Yi said at the beginning, first showing that he didn't even watch the game and opened his mouth and talked nonsense, and then he concluded. "I don't have any thoughts."

"Is it because I am disappointed with failure?" a reporter asked.

Zhou Yi looked at him in surprise: "How is it possible? What's the disappointment to lose a game? This is the top ten match. Each team has to play eight games. Half of the group stage, and we only lost one game. What's the dissatisfaction with this? This is the top ten match, and it's the highest level in Asia. I'll be honest, it's higher than the Asian Cup. Which team can participate in this kind of game is easy to play? It's normal to lose to anyone, so I don't have any feelings."

"But some people also said that if you were there yesterday, this game would definitely be won..."

Zhou Yi shook his head repeatedly: "This is too amateur. I can't guarantee that we can win if we appear. Football is round. If we fly thousands of kilometers back, the jet lag is not reversed, and playing on the court is like sleepwalking, and losing the game, then how can we explain it? It's not that there is no possibility. We are also humans, not robots. How can we not have any headaches, fever and unexpected situations? I understand and agree with the decision of coach Gao not to call us back to play football. If I were him, I wouldn't call a group of exhausted and sleep-deprived people to the game."

"So it's normal to lose to Qatar at home?"

"What else?" Zhou Yi asked the reporter who was so choked that he couldn't say anything.

"But the key is not the result, it is not that you are not allowed to lose, but that you lose so much hope..."

Zhou Yi sighed and said, "It's just a game, there's no need to exaggerate it. The top ten games are a long schedule. There are not every game like this game that is sandwiched between two European leagues. I think instead of asking this and that why they lose, it's better to ask the AFC why they have to arrange a dignified World Cup qualifier between two European leagues, making it sneaky and thief. Europe, Africa, South America, North America and Oceania have not arranged national team games at this time, so why is Asia so special? I personally think that such a schedule is simply inexplicable."

After saying that, he waved his hand and stopped answering the question, but turned around and walked away.

In fact, the last question was different from what he said in his heart. He sighed and suppressed the true words in his heart. Because he knew that his words would offend many people and cause internal rupture, he should not say it. He would still have to return to China to get along with his national teammates in the future.

What he wants to say is nothing new, nor does it reflect how powerful his insightful insight is. It can't change anything except offend people. Since he is not in that position, it is useless to worry about that.

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On this day, not only Zhou Yi asked about the new defeat of the national team in the interview, but other Chinese players who have not returned from studying abroad were also asked questions with similar content by reporters.

Their answers were similar to those of Zhou Yi. First of all, they didn't think that the loss was because they didn't go back. Secondly, they didn't think that the failure of this game would have any impact on the Chinese team's goal of qualifying for the World Cup. Yang Muge, the most humblest Yang Muge, was so strange that everyone was so upset about the failure of this game in an interview, and he didn't understand what the big deal was.

In the eyes of domestic public opinion, it was a shocking failure, but they felt it was ordinary. So some people conspired to conspire that this was an excuse for returning players who did not return to China to collectively find themselves?

Of course, this kind of conspiracy theory has no market because it is too unrestrained.

Those who believe in this conspiracy theory can basically be classified as "brainless".

But since all the overseas returnees have said that, everyone can only temporarily put down their restlessness and wait patiently for the arrival of the next national team game. At that time, after all the overseas returnees returnees, they will see how their performance and performance will be.

But they will wait a little longer. Because the next top ten match will be in June next year, on June 4, 2013, the Chinese team will challenge Oman away.

Of course, there were no national team competitions before this, and there were still some people watching warm-up matches, friendly matches, etc. However, the value of this kind of competition is very low, and the performance and results in this kind of competition cannot explain anything. Gao Hongbo's national team is famous for performing outstandingly in warm-up matches and friendly matches, but the main match is completely different from warm-up matches and friendly matches.

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On the afternoon of November 17, Dortmund welcomed his opponent Fert, the 12th round of the league at home. Zhou Yi, who had not returned to China to make trouble, started and played the whole game. There was no problem with his physical fitness.

Dortmund beat Fert 3-1 at his home court.

In another game played at the same time, Bayern Munich shook hands with Nuremberg 1:1 on the away game.

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

"...Bayern Munich has made some mistakes recently, and Dortmund happened to seize such an opportunity. Now it seems that it is too early to say that this season's league championship belongs to Bayern Munich. Klopp's team has not given up, and they have appeared as the first in the Champions League group stage in advance, which will help them devote more energy to the league." German media commented.

They said it right, and the next step is Dortmund's Champions League group stage away to challenge Ajax. Because he has already qualified as the first in the group in advance, this game is actually meaningless for Dortmund.

Klopp didn't even bring all the main players to the away game.

He kept some of the main players in Germany.

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

Dortmund defeated Ajax, which was also a help from Real Madrid. Because Ajax was four points and Real Madrid had six points, the points difference between the two teams. In this round of the league, if Dortmund deliberately lost to Ajax, Real Madrid would be in danger of second place in the group - in the same round of group matches, Real Madrid shook hands with Manchester City 1:1 away.

This death group looks like a joke now...

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Back in the league, Dortmund rotated again. After two seasons of experience in the Champions League and domestic leagues, Klopp knew that if the team wanted to maintain their level in multi-line competition, it was necessary to rotate. Whether rotation was the key to measuring whether a team could become a giant.

Basically, small teams do not rotate. First, there is no need, but they are not capable. The rotation requires very high bench thickness.

To be honest, Dortmund's bench thickness has not reached the level of Real Madrid or Barcelona, ​​but if you want to have good grades, you must also rotate.

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

The players who were resting in the middle of the week all started.

Dortmund encountered stubborn resistance from Mainz away. In the end, with a goal and an assist from Mark, they defeated Mainz 2:1 away, maintaining the victory and continuing the pressure to pursue Bayern Munich.

Under the pressure of Dortmund, Bayern Munich beat Hannover 96 5-0 at his home court. The two teams are still a two-point gap, and the competition is very fierce.

However, in the 14th round of the league, Klopp's rotation had problems. Dortmund, who still used rotation, was tied 1:1 by Dusseldorf at home.

Because of rotation, Dortmund has never made up a complete set of the strongest lineup in these games. He always plays half a set of half a set. Frequent rotations still make the players uncomfortable.

After all, they are not Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Barcelona... Dortmund is a mid-range team in the past few years 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 games, maintain the game state, and reduce physical energy loss. However, the disadvantage is that the lineup is not stable enough, and players are prone to not being tacit in cooperation, and their state will fluctuate.

The advantage of not rotating is that the lineup is stable, the players cooperate tacitly, and the tactical completion is higher. As long as the physical fitness is fine, it is the strongest lineup. But the disadvantage is that the main players have a large burden on the game and lose a fast physical energy. In the later stage of the season, they are prone to collapse due to insufficient physical fitness. At the same time, substitutes lack competition training and cannot reach the top when they need to top it. The gap between the main players and the substitutes is too big.

From the perspective of club management, the disadvantage of rotation is very obvious, that is, the club needs to buy more high-level players, and at least two players of the same level in one position, which increases the club's financial burden. Buying more money is needed, and buying people will pay for wages is also a big deal that cannot be ignored. And if you spend a lot of money to buy people, you find that the player is not adapted to the team's tactics, isn't Dortmund's life, and cannot play to his own level, then isn't this money was wasted?

No rotation is a disadvantage for the club's finances, because it saves money. A set of lineups conquers the world, and there is no need to make too much investment in the substitute lineup.

In the previous two seasons, Dortmund had few rotations, mainly relying on a set of main lineups to play. It can be said that the practice of not rotating made Dortmund in the first two seasons, allowing them to win two consecutive league championships and reach the quarterfinals and semi-finals respectively in the Champions League.

However, the practice of not rotating has also become a bottleneck that Dortmund cannot break through. It is precisely because of not rotating that Dortmund defeated the "cosmic team" Barcelona last season after Dortmund defeated the "cosmic team" Barcelona in the semi-finals, and finally lost to Chelsea in the semi-finals and stopped in the semi-finals.

If Dortmund had the capital to rotate, maybe such a thing wouldn't have happened.

This is also why Klopp has been in rotation since the beginning of this season.

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

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