Chapter 59 New Discoveries
"Mario Gotze! Beautiful! Dortmund U19 took the lead in scoring! They were ahead in this final!" Leif shouted.
He rarely comments on the youth team's games, but he still knows Gotze well. This child is now a genius that the whole of Germany is paying attention to.
Leif has paid attention to Gotze's performance at the U17 European Youth Championship last summer. Compared with Gotze at that time, Mario now seems more mature and he is growing very quickly.
"It's a bit surprising that Dortmund took the lead so quickly. After all, in the youth training field, Freiburg's level is very high, and Streich is also a coach who is good at youth training. Freiburg is also the U19 national champion last season. Compared with last season, Streich's coaching of the team is more perfect. But facing Dortmund, he concedes the goal in the first twelve minutes..." Lef said. "Obviously, it's not just Freiburg that has made progress. Dortmund's performance this season can also be said to be a complete transformation."
Leif aimed at Zhou Yi. The ball was scored by Goce, but Zhou Yi assisted.
If you just pass the ball directly, it is just a good ball.
It won't be particularly careful as an experienced commentator.
He still remembers Dortmund's series of successive passes before Gotze scored.
Starting from Zhou Yi, the ball was passed directly to Goce, Goce was passed directly to Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi passed it to Mark No. 25, and Mark was passed back to him. Then Zhou Yi faced the football, and once again kept stopping the ball and passed it directly.
The football flew to the direction where Gotze was.
Did you see it?
In this attack where Dortmund scored goals, Zhou Yi was the one who touched the most balls, and the football was always passed to his feet.
He is the core of the Dortmund U19 team.
Lef already knew about this when preparing for the pre-match.
He was quite surprised at the time. Why is the core of Dortmund U19 not Gotze, but an unknown Chinese child?
Now he understands a little bit.
Freiburg's main goalkeeper Oliver Bowman is considered a mature and calm goalkeeper who does not match his age.
But now Lef believes that Zhou Yi is maturity and calm that is inconsistent with his age.
Generally speaking, a midfielder will inevitably be a little panicked when facing someone who is in close contact with him, especially for young people, which is more likely to be like this. Their ability to withstand pressure is obviously not as good as that of first-team players, which is also related to the fewer complex scenes they have experienced.
In the past ten minutes of this game, Leif did not see a trace of youth from Zhou Yi.
Whether in this offense that led to the goal or during the ten-minute stalemate before, Zhou Yi did not show such panic.
Facing Freiburg's high-pressure, he seemed at ease. His passing speed was very fast, and he did not have the process of observing and passing the football out after receiving the ball.
But after receiving the ball, you can immediately send the football out without delaying any time.
So although Freiburg arranged someone for Zhou Yi to keep an eye on him, the effect was not very good.
Then why can Zhou Yi do it?
Through observation, Leif also discovered that Zhou Yi would often turn his head and look around during the game, which reminded Leif of Barcelona's current midfield core Xavi.
What he didn't know was that was Zhou Yi, a young man, deliberately imitating his idol, or was he like this himself...
But this question is not very important.
What interested Lef was that he originally thought that Dortmund's youth team was only Mario Gotze, but he did not expect that he would find another genius in such a game.
"Mario Gotze's goal came from the assist of Zhou Yi, the Dortmund midfielder No. 23. This is a young man from China... It's really rare. There is a Chinese player in the youth training camp of the German club, and he can also play the main player, the core!"
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Klopp sat in front of the TV and laughed when he heard Marcel Leif's comment on Zhou Yi.
Although he only watched the game for more than ten minutes, Zhou Yi already had an assist.
It seems that Ryan said to himself that after Zhou Yi, Goce's performance has improved much better.
When there was no Zhou Yi before, Goce had to take on too many tasks, which would distract his energy and affect his status and performance.
Klopp rubbed his chin and began to think about something further...
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Streich stood on the sidelines and stared blankly inside the court.
He never expected that it was obviously Dortmund's high-pressing tactic, but it was broken so easily by the opponent...
Freiburg only persisted for twelve minutes before conceding the ball!
The other party’s No. 23, their core, is even more powerful than I imagined!
He, Gotze, and the No. 25, the continuous transmission between the three of them penetrated the "cage" of Freiburg at a very fast speed.
Originally, he thought Dortmund would use a direct long pass from the backcourt to find Jinchek to deal with his high-level pressing, so he asked the players to first create offside, second, goalkeepers should attack as soon as possible, and third, they should strengthen pressing in the frontcourt and interfere with Dortmund's centre-back Russell Sobech.
Although Sobech is a central defender, he has a steady style of playing on the court and has a high pass success rate. So if Dortmund wants to play a long pass, the goal point will almost certainly be Sobech.
But unexpectedly, Zhou Yi, who thought he could easily be starved to death, performed extremely well.
The continuous transmission and cooperation between the three small men caught themselves off guard.
However, Streich was not knocked down by the concealed ball. He frowned and began to think about countermeasures.
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"It's 12:15..." Li Cuiyun glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer, "The competition has been fifteen minutes, and we haven't figured out how to look at it yet... Lao Zhou, can you say we can still take a look at our son before the game ends?"
"It must be, it must be..." Zhou Jianliang wiped the sweat from his forehead with paper, and continued to squint his eyes and study on the screen.
Seeing her husband's concentration, Li Cuiyun didn't say anything else, but stood up and left. After a while, she turned back, holding Zhou Jianliang's teacup in her hand, which was already filled with water.
She didn't say anything, but just placed the teacup where her husband was used to putting the teacup, then sat down again, and quietly watched her husband busy.
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After the game restarted, Streich did not change his tactics, and Freiburg insisted on hitting their high-pressures.
Because there is no need to make adjustments, Freiburg played not before to shrink the defense, and after conceding the ball, they had to press it out, which was already pressing out.
The only adjustment is that Freiburg's midfield and frontcourt grabs were even more fierce, especially against Zhou Yi and Gotze.
Fouls on the court began to increase, and the referee kept blowing the whistle and pausing the game.
The booed the Dortmund fans in dissatisfaction also sounded in the stands - they thought the Freiburg players were playing too savage.
"Idiot! Kicking people is not football!!" Mrs. Wagner stood up in the stands and waved to the stadium dissatisfiedly. She was making a frustration for Zhou Yi who had just been kicked down.
Cortana sat next to her and frowned without saying a word.
"Hey, Zhou Yi, how are you?" Mark ran over to care about Zhou Yi.
"I'm fine, Mark." Zhou Yi stretched out his hand to Mark, "Pull me up, thank you."
Mark pulled Zhou Yi up.
"Don't run back and care about me next time, Mark." After getting up, Zhou Yi said to Mark, "You should stay ahead at this time. What if we have the chance to play a quick attack?"
"Ah... I was anxious when I saw you being kicked... I didn't have time to think about anything else."
Zhou Yi touched his head: "Winning is the most important thing. If we can lead them two goals in the first half, we will definitely win. You haven't seen them pushing more and more fiercely now, but is the space behind them getting bigger and bigger? They are so fouled, maybe it's our chance."
"I understand, Zhou Yi." Mark nodded, but he had not forgotten to ask again, "Are you really okay?"
"Nonsense." Zhou Yi pushed him away, "Go up!"
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The game continued to begin, and Freiburg's high-pressing tactics and fierce defense against Zhou Yigeze did not change.
Not long after, it was Gotze's turn to be knocked to the ground by them.
Gotze, who fell to the ground, seemed very painful. He turned around and rolled a few times, covering his calves with his hands.
The referee's whistle also sounded, and the Freiburg player was sentenced to a foul again.
The booed Dortmund fans again in the stands, and the booed by more than 2,000 people still sounded quite stressful...
Dortmund U19 players are complaining to the referee, indicating that Freiburg players have committed too many fouls during this period. Should the referee give a card?
Freiburg's players said that Gotze was a fake fall.
"I was rushing to the ground, but he was covering his calves!" Solge was also very aggrieved, or he was very aggrieved.
Gotze lay on the ground, with the football not far away next to him.
Zhou Yi walked forward, looked at Goce, who was still rubbing his calves, bent down and picked up the football, and put it down.
On the other side of him, players from both sides were still surrounding the referee to argue whether this was a foul that should be given to the card, or Gotze's exaggerated fake fall.
Then Zhou Yi stood up, took a step back, stepped forward and kicked the football!
Bang!
He kicked the football forward!
After listening to Zhou Yi's words, Mark, who did not come back to care about Gotze, saw that the ball was coming towards him. He immediately understood in his mind that this was his opportunity!
He immediately turned around and ran forward!
"Good ball! Mark! Mark!!" Mrs. Wagner exclaimed, and beside her, the other Dortmund fans also shouted loudly.
Their shouts reached the field and were heard by the referee, so he also noticed that the football had been kicked out.
Instead of whistling the whistle to stop the game and let the football return to its original place, he ran out of the encirclement and followed.
Anyone who is a fan understands this move - this is acquiesced to Zhou Yi's kick!
Chapter completed!