Zhou Yi came to the gym at the training base to continue his physical recovery training. Although he has trained with the team in technical and tactical aspects, he still needs to train alone.

I take some time every day to strengthen my body.

When he walked into the locker room, he heard heavy breathing sounds coming from inside.

"Hey, Mark, are you tired again?" Zhou Yi said as he walked around a row of equipment, and what caught his eye was Mark Wagner lying on the floor in large characters.

Hearing Zhou Yi's voice, Mark Wagner didn't even raise his head, nor did he answer him immediately, because he was breathing heavily and his words were incoherent.

After a while, he said, "I want to be faster..."

"Hey, there are objective rules. Mark, it's not that you can come back soon by practicing in the gym every day. I think you should be calm and don't be too anxious. Moreover, if your sister finds you, you will be scolded again." Zhou Yi said while putting on equipment and preparing for training.

"I know, Zhou Yi, what you said makes sense, but I just can't help it..." Mark lay on the ground, his chest swelling much more than before.

In fact, at the end of last season, Mark had recovered from injury, but to return to participate in the competition, he still needed restorative training.

So when everyone was on holiday, he returned to Brakel training base for restorative training.

This time, without the help of his good friend Zhou Yi, he had to fight fate alone.

Restorative training is very long because his body has not been active for ten months. He needs to increase the amount little bit to allow his body to slowly adapt and become familiar with it. If there is a slight mistake in this process, it may cause a second injury to the body, which will make the injury come back in a long time and may cause more serious damage to the body.

Listening to the clanging sound of the equipment, Mark sat up from the ground, supported his leaning body with both hands, and looked at Zhou Yi.

"Zhou Yi, can you really play next game?"

"certainly."

"Didn't you say you should be more peaceful and you can't be too anxious?"

"I'm not injured." Zhou Yi said gritting his teeth. He was lifting the instrument pressed on his ankle with force.

"But... you haven't practiced with the team much, if you just play..."

"Don't worry, Mark. I want to coach them to know if I can play or not. If they think I can, then I can play."

The two of them were talking when footsteps came from the door of the gym.

Then, Cortana, wearing a Dortmund sports jacket and a ponytail, appeared in front of the two people.

Seeing that his younger brother was there, Cortana said with a cold face: "Mark, you shouldn't have come here. You have done your physical training today."

In front of his sister, Mark seemed very obedient. He shrank his neck and lowered his head without saying a word.

The sister taught her younger brother a lesson, and Zhou Yi was watching the fun next to her, with a smile on her face.

But Cortana soon noticed him and gave him a blank look: "What are you laughing at!"

"No, I just think my sister loves my younger brother, so warm." Zhou Yi shook his head with a smile.

Cortana glanced at Zhou Yi suspiciously, not sure whether he was telling the truth or sarcasm.

Of course, Zhou Yi guessed what Cortana meant when he saw this. He waved his hand: "Don't think about it, I'm just saying literally."

Then Cortana turned around and said to Mark, "Go away, Mark."

Mark waved his hand to Zhou Yi: "Goodbye, Zhou Yi. If you can show up, I wish you outstanding performance."

"Thank you, Mark, and I wish you a game soon."

Mark and Cortana left the gym, and Zhou Yi was the only one left in the huge room. He began to grit his teeth and compete with the fitness equipment...

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At 2:30 am on August 25, Beijing time, the new season of the Bundesliga will kick off, and the opening match will be the match between Dortmund and Werder Bremen.

The day before this game, Dortmund announced the 18-man roster for the game, and Zhou Yi's name was listed.

As he said, he really could play in this game!

However, some media believe that this is Klopp's insurance measure. He actually does not intend to let Zhou Yi appear, but this is putting him on the bench. If it really doesn't work, Zhou Yi will appear. In fact, most of the time, Zhou Yi may have been on the bench until the end of the game...

What Chinese media and fans care about is whether Zhou Yi will start?

Everyone wants him to start, but they don’t want him to start.

I hope he starts, naturally, wants to see more games for him, and does not want him to start because he feels that his physical fitness has not fully recovered. If he starts, it will have an impact on his physical fitness...

However, while announcing the roster, Dortmund did not announce the starting list for the next day's game, which should be obtained about two hours before the game.

Two hours before the game the next day, the starting list finally came out and was released on the Chinese Internet.

Zhou Yi starts!

"I'll go! Has Zhou Yi really recovered?"

"It seems that Dortmund is fine if you lack anyone, but you can't lack Zhou Yi! The core is well deserved! But will it be a little... too tired?"

"It turned out to be the starter. It seems that the impact of losing to Bayern Munich in the Super Cup is not as small as Klopp said..."

There was a lot of discussion on the Internet.

The fans were surprised, and the reporters were surprised.

In the media seat at West**** Stadium before the game started, reporters who were already in the seat were also discussing the start of Zhou Yi.

"Is Zhou Yi's physical fitness really OK?"

"Actually, two weeks of physical fitness training are about the team's physical fitness training time before the season training, so physical fitness may not be a problem. But even if the physical fitness is fine, how much time does he spend with the team work together? There are only a few? He is the core of the midfield and has to connect the entire team after he plays. How can he connect the team in this situation now?"

"Yes, yes, even if the physical fitness is fine, his cooperation with the team is a problem. Shinji Kagawa left, and another Reus came. It is obviously impossible to use the tactics of last season..."

"Can Zhou Yi start because of Sven Bend's injury?"

After the Super Cup against Bayern Munich, Sven Bend was injured in training and was out for about a month after examination.

"But Zhou Yi and Sven Bend are completely two types of midfielders. He should not be the one who replaces Sven Bend..."

The reporters don't understand.

There are two main questions now. One is whether Zhou Yi's physical fitness is enough to make him deal with continuous battles immediately after the end of the Olympics. You should know that what he is not facing is this game. On the night of September 1st, Dortmund will challenge Nuremberg away, which is the second round of the league. Then on September 11th, he will have to return to China to participate in a key battle in the top ten Asian qualifiers in the World Cup - the Chinese team challenged Japan away. It goes without saying how important this game is. What Chinese media and fans are worried about is whether Zhou Yi will still have physical fitness and condition to play in this game after two consecutive games. After all, he will have to fly back from Germany before that, and the journey will also affect the physical condition of the players.

The second question is that even if Zhou Yi's physical fitness has met the requirements for playing games, what about his condition? What about his cooperation with his teammates? Dortmund has made tactical adjustments this season, but Zhou Yi has not trained with the team for how long. When Kagawa Shinji was there, he played the front midfielder, and Zhou Yi retreated to become the back midfielder. Now Kagawa Shinji has left, and Reus is not the material for playing the front midfielder. So in the front midfielder position, it is equivalent to having a single person. Should Zhou Yi take the lead or continue to stay in the back midfielder? This is not a simple change in position on the court, but also involves a complete set of offensive and defensive operation methods. How much time does Zhou Yi have to practice with his teammates? Are he and his teammates already very familiar with him?

And the first of these two questions may not be able to see anything now, but the second one may be able to know the answer in this game.

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PS, sorry, I miscalculated the time when I wrote the previous chapter, and brought Guardiola to Bayern Munich one season ahead of the time. This is a major mistake. I have already revised it in the previous chapter. The next Bayern Munich is still coached by Heinx, which has troubled everyone. I am very sorry!
Chapter completed!