Chapter 215 There are reasons to win
Regarding Zhou Yi's answer when he talked about his not going to Bayern Munich in an interview, a Munich media responded: "Remind Zhou Yi that although he won two Bundesliga championships in Dortmund, he has not won the Champions League."
The implication is that Bayern Munich can win the Champions League title, but Dortmund can't win it.
However, Zhou Yi has no time to have a verbal battle with reporters in the media, and his game with Bayern Munich is close to him.
At 0:30 am on May 5th, Beijing time, Dortmund will kick off at home against Bayern Munich.
The time of this game is not a prime time for Chinese TV viewers. It is a bit late. It is 2 o'clock in the morning after watching the ball. This time is not friendly for Chinese fans who are going to work and school.
There were rumors before that the Bundesliga officials would take care of the time of Chinese TV audiences and put the game to 9:30 pm Beijing time. But in this way, the game time would become the afternoon of May 4th local time. This decision was firmly resisted by Bayern Munich. The rest time was not enough, and the game time was even less enough.
To take care of Chinese fans, many Tmund clubs may be willing to change the game time because they have Chinese players in the team, but we, Bayern Munich, do not have Chinese players. Why should we be beautiful in adulthood?
Of course, this is just a rumor and has never been officially confirmed.
Although the time is not good, there are still a large number of Chinese fans waiting in front of the TV for this game, waiting for the game to begin.
Anyway, it is often 3:30 in the morning and 5 o'clock in the morning and there are many people in China who watch La Liga. Compared with La Liga, it is already very early to tweet the Bundesliga...
On the Chinese Internet, everyone is already discussing this game when there are more than ten hours left before the game begins.
Bayern Munich's outstanding performance this season has made the two teams' game full of suspense. The first meeting between the two sides in the league was tied 1:1.
Bayern Munich led by one goal until the last five minutes of the game, but Zhou Yi equalized with a shot outside the penalty area.
Although Bayern Munich still won the winter break after a draw, it has not been able to widen the points gap with Dortmund since then, which has laid the groundwork for the current decisive battle between Tianwang Mountain.
If Bayern Munich could defeat Dortmund at home, the current lead would definitely not be just two points, but five points. If there was really a five-point gap, then the game would not be so important or critical now...
But life has no ifs, and football has no ifs.
No matter what, since all chances have turned this game into such an important battle in Tianwang Mountain, let's have a good fight.
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In the locker room at West** Stadium, Dortmund's head coach Klopp is making final preparations for his men.
"There are ten minutes left, and the game is about to begin. No need to say anything more. I believe you all know the importance of this game. I will not deceive myself and tell you that this is just an ordinary league. Some people say that in Germany today, except Bayern Munich, no team can win three consecutive league titles. The ranking of points so far this season seems to prove that this statement is correct. But I want to say 'shit'! I know we are not afraid of Bayern Munich, and you also know this. The countless times in the past two seasons should be that Bayern Munich is afraid of us! This season, under their performance so well, they have not been able to beat us at their own home court. What does this mean?"
Klopp paused for a moment and continued: "This shows that the real situation is that Bayern Munich is afraid of us! He said that Bayern Munich did not have three consecutive championships in the league, so let us give them a three consecutive championships! Thanks to the league schedule, with the last three rounds left, we can directly talk to Bayern Munich. Things have become simple. As long as we can beat them, we will become the first in the league! Use these ninety minutes to prove to them that we Dortmund are the overlords in the league today!"
Klopp's passionate speech made the players feel excited and screamed, like a group of wild horses about to break out, ready to smash all the obstacles in front of them!
At the same time, in the locker room of Bayern Munich, Heinx said to his players with a serious face: "Don't think that as long as we can draw them away just because we are two points ahead, we can win the championship. This idea is very dangerous. Forget the draw, in the football world, there is only victory or failure. If you can't win, you will lose. In this game, everyone should take the best state and the most serious attitude to treat it. Remember, we only have one goal, that is, to beat them at their home court!"
The players of Bayern Munich are also very excited. This season is the last season of the coach Heinx in Bayern Munich. He has been working in this team for two years. In the past two years of working together, the players have respected the coach very much.
In fact, this is not the first time that the old coach has coached Bayern Munich. After becoming the head coach, this is his third time coaching Bayern Munich.
1987-1988 Heinkes coached Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga giant, for the first time, leading the team to win two league titles. But then he was dismissed midway through the season due to losing control of the team.
Since then, Heinx has coached many teams and has led Real Madrid to the Champions League championship. He has no connection with Bayern Munich.
However, in the second half of the 2008-2009 season, due to Klinsmann's dismissal, he was already at home. Heinx, who was in retirement, was invited back to be the interim head coach by Bayern Munich Club, helping this team at a low point to win the league runner-up.
Bayern Munich's comeback seemed to have made the coach feel the passion of coaching a team again. After finishing his work as a fire-fighting head coach in Bayern Munich, he turned to coach Leverkusen and helped the team win the league runner-up.
In 2011, due to Dortmund's strong rise, Bayern Munich lost the league championship again, and Van Gaal also lost control of the locker room and was fired early by the senior management of Bayern Munich's club. After firing Van Gaal, Bayern Munich thought of Heinx when he chose his successor.
The two sides signed a two-year contract in advance, which took effect in July 2011.
In this way, Heinx coached Bayern Munich for the third time. However, since his coaching, everyone thought that Heinx was found by Bayern Munich to put out the fire. They would never give up looking for a truly world-class coach to lead Bayern Munich against Dortmund, and they would be young.
As long as Bayern Munich finds the right candidate, Heinx will leave again.
Bayern Munich announced in advance that it had signed with Guardiola in January, which seemed to prove this.
The old coach also announced that the last half of his season at Bayern Munich will be the last half of his coaching career. After fulfilling the contract with Bayern Munich, he said that he would completely retire and no longer serve as the head coach of any team.
After announcing the signing of Guardiola, there was actually no requirement for Heinx's coaching performance. As for the task of fighting Dortmund, it was handed over to Guardiola. Everyone was optimistic that as long as Guardiola came on stage, he could lead Bayern Munich back to the top and defeat Dortmund.
But who would have thought that in the last half of the league, Bayern Munich's performance was very stable, winning consecutive games and always maintained a lead over Dortmund in the league standings. Not only that, in the German Cup, the team he led also eliminated Dortmund, and now reached the German Cup final, eliminated Barcelona with an astonishing score of 7:0 in the Champions League semi-finals, and reached the Champions League final. In this way, this old coach who was the last day in coaching career actually had the opportunity to lead Bayern Munich to become the first triple-champion in German football history!
This really surprised many people.
But Bayern Munich's players may not be surprised, because they worked with Heinx for two seasons. They know Heinx's ability and character, and compared with Van Gaal, who is stubborn and inconsistent with players, the old coach Heinx is more kind and can better manage Bayern Munich's locker room and make the "Bundesliga Hollywood" united. This is probably the main reason why Bayern Munich can put Dortmund down this season.
For the coach's diligent work, Bayern Munich players hope to bid farewell to their respected head coach with three championship trophys.
This game against Dortmund is their first step to achieving their goals.
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Players on both sides have the determination and reason to win, so they met in the player channel.
In the stadium outside, Dortmund fans were chanting Dortmund's roster under the leadership of DJ Norbert Dikor. Every Dortmund player received cheers, and even Gotze was no exception. Although the cheers were obviously much smaller than his teammates, some of them were still worried about Gotze's transfer Bayern Munich. Dortmund fans who were unwilling to cheer for Gotze, but they did not want to boo to let their opponents laugh at their internal unity, so they chose to remain silent.
Although many of the two teams are teammates of the national team and even have good personal relationships, at this time, everyone stood quietly in their own team, staring straight, and no one greeted or greeted friends in the other team.
The referee team walked out of the lounge, and under his leadership, the players of the two teams lined up to enter the West** Stadium.
There was a thunderous cheer on the scene.
Chapter completed!