With everyone's puzzled eyes, Zhou Yi followed his teammates in Dortmund out of the player channel and stepped onto the turf of West**** Stadium.

After a summer break, he finally returned to the stadium again. The madness of the London Olympics seemed to be yesterday, but he now had to switch modes, from the national team to the club.

The two teams have different tactical styles and different teammates' level. Even the tasks he holds in the team are not the same. In the National Olympic Team, he is the captain. He is not only responsible for leading the team technically and tactically, but also more responsible for the work of the captain. At Dortmund, his positioning is relatively simple, he is the commander on the court, but not the captain. At least he doesn't need to do such things as guessing coins to pick the edge.

Before the players appeared, DJ Nobi on the court introduced the players on the roster. When he called Zhou Yi's name, the home fans responded the most, which shows Zhou Yi's position in the minds of Dortmund fans.

After Shinji Kagawa left the team, rumors about Zhou Yi's transfer and leaving were everywhere, but Zhou Yi took the initiative to say that he wanted to stay, which won him a high reputation among Dortmund fans.

"Zhou Yi! This game was somewhat unexpected. Let's take a look at his performance in this game!" But when Zhou Yi's close-up appeared in the TV screen, German TV commentator Marcel Lef said.

The reporters in the media table also focused on him and wanted to see how he performed in the game.

Dortmund's opponent in this game is Werder Bremen. Last season, Werder Bremen ranked ninth in the league. This summer, the main striker Pizarro transferred to Bayern Munich, Rosenberg went to West Bromwich, Marin transferred to Chelsea, Naldo transferred to Wolfsburg, and goalkeeper Vize transferred to Hoffenheim. These transfers have a great impact on Werder Bremen.

For example, forward Pizarro, as the team's main striker last season, he and Rosenberg jointly contributed 25 goals to the team. Now both of these main strikers have left, and only Peterson, who was loaned from Bayern Munich, is still strong in the forward position of Werder Bremen.

Midfielder Marin was not in good shape last season. He was originally looking forward to his recovery in this season, but was poached by Chelsea. The main goalkeeper Weize, who performed well last season, also transferred to Hoffenheim freely. So now this lineup is actually worse than last season. Werder Bremen's performance last season was very failed, let alone this season.

Before the season, German media believed that Werder Bremen's main goal this season is not to compete for the Champions League or the Europa League qualification, but to relegate...

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At the beginning of the game, Dortmund took the initiative with his home advantage, which was not beyond everyone's expectations. After all, even without Zhou Yi, the gap in strength between Dortmund and Werder Bremen was very huge. Werder Bremen basically did not have the strength to challenge Dortmund away.

Everyone is mainly reading the Zhouyi.

Judging from the position on the court, Zhou Yi is still in the midfielder, and he and Gundoan are almost on the same line.

However, in this game, Dortmund played not two back midfielders, but three back midfielders Zhou Yi, Gundogan, and the old captain Kyle who replaced the injured Sven Bend.

On both sides are Gotze and Reus.

Lewandowski was heading in front as a single arrow.

The number of midfielders is the same as last season, with five people, but there are no front midfielders.

Dortmund doesn't want to make a front-end?

It is not impossible to not have a front midfielder. Now there are actually fewer and fewer front midfielder who organizes offense...the front midfielder is more like a shadow striker, responsible for scoring goals, and the task of organizing offense is given to the back midfielder or central forward who is more back than their position.

Soon everyone will see how Zhou Yi is active.

Without Shinji Kagawa, his front was actually relatively empty and no one stopped him. So when Dortmund attacked, he would push up and put the position premises almost the same as the position of a front midfielder.

Before Shinji Kagawa came to Dortmund, Zhou Yi became famous in the season when he played almost this position.

But what is slightly different now and then is that Zhou Yi's position is not fixed in front and back. He will change positions at any time according to the situation on the court. He played more flexible than the season he debuted at Dortmund, but he will never leave his sect. This kind of play is not unfamiliar to Zhou Yi.

"...So that's it. When Shinji Kagawa came, he had already occupied Zhou Yi's position. After he left, the position that originally belonged to Zhou Yi returned to Zhou Yi's feet, so his adaptation time must be shorter than ordinary people imagine..." Marcel Leif analyzed.

This is something that many people had never expected before. Everyone just thought about leaving and newcomers, and the lineup changed and they had to adapt again, but they didn't expect that Klopp actually walked back to the old path...

In fact, this was not Klopp's idea alone. He did this after asking Zhou Yi.

When Zhou Yi was sure that he could not participate in the training camp due to the Olympics, Klopp called Zhou Yi in London, and the two chatted on the phone for about forty minutes. Finally, this plan was decided.

Zhou Yi told Klopp not to worry about his inability to cooperate with the team because he missed the pre-season training camp. Of course, he couldn't say that it was because he had a virtual system that could train with Dortmund's players in the virtual system. He just proposed a way of thinking, saying that whether he played as a back midfielder or a front midfielder, what he did was the same, connecting the past and organizing the offense.

The Dortmund team is also used to cooperating with itself, so there are no changes in fact. The team and him can adapt quickly.

After weighing it, Klopp decided to adopt the current style of play.

When Zhou Yi ended the Olympics and returned to the team, Klopp arranged for Zhou Yi to join the team and played an internal teaching match with the youth team, which naturally surprised and happy.

The reason for the surprise is that Zhou Yi really has no adaptation period and his performance is not unfamiliar with him. The team is also very matched with him. Except that Zhou Yi is in a normal state because of some fatigue, it really makes people unable to see that he is a player who has not participated in the pre-season training camp...

Zhou Yi's performance strengthened Klopp's confidence. At the same time, he also gave Zhou Yi to concentrate on physical recovery training and physical fitness reserve training in the next twenty days, laying a solid foundation for the next new season.

Because of sufficient physical training time, Zhou Yi's physical fitness is not as bad as the outside world thinks.

This is reflected in the court, Zhou Yi’s personal impression is no different from the past...

The football kept passing from different directions to Zhou Yi's feet. After Zhou Yi's handling, it was passed to different directions. He kept running on the court, running from one place to another, and participated in the team's offense throughout the entire process.

Appear where he is needed at any time.

After his sorting, Dortmund's offense was progressing very smoothly.

In the eleventh minute, he initiated an attack in the midfield. After passing the three-foot, he passed the football to Reus. After receiving the ball, Reus took the ball and shot in the penalty area. The football flew into Werder Bremen's goal.

Dortmund took the lead 1:0!

Reus also completed his first league goal since returning to Dortmund.

After scoring the goal, Reus was very excited. He ran to the South stand and waved his fists to the fans in the South stand.

The fans of the South Stand also responded to him with the warmest cheers.

"Royce! Beautiful!" Marcel Leif shouted excitedly. "He scored in just eleven minutes! And this is his first league goal in Dortmund! There is no better start than this!"

Zhou Yi, who assisted Reus, ran to him and his teammates to celebrate the goal. Then Gotze pulled Zhou Yi to Reus and said with a smile: "Hi, Marco, this is the 'Zhou Yi's welcome ceremony' I told you!"

"Thank you, Zhou Yi!" Reus hugged him and shouted.

"Hey, what are you talking on my back?" Zhou Yi was very surprised.

"No, no, I'm praising you." Gotze waved his hands repeatedly.

When the pre-season training camp just began, Reus was a little nervous about returning to Dortmund. After all, he left the team when he was very young. When he came back, Dortmund had been the Bundesliga champion for two consecutive seasons. As a wanderer who had been away from home for many years, returning to his hometown would inevitably be a little nervous. He didn't know whether he could satisfy the Dortmund fans in the South Stand.

As his good friend, Gotze comforted him and said a noun that Reus was very unfamiliar to him, called "Book of Yi's welcome ceremony".

That is to say, those players who have just joined the team, or who have returned from injury and need to build confidence will receive Zhou Yi's care during the game. Generally, this care will be reflected by Zhou Yi's meticulous nanny assist.

After Kagawa Shinji returned from injury, he was assisted by Zhou Yi in his first game.

What's even more amazing is that even if Zhou Yi cannot play, he can still use mysterious Eastern witchcraft to help his teammates score goals.

For example, when Barrios transferred to Dortmund, and failed to score goals for several consecutive rounds and was criticized and pressured, it was Zhou Yi's prediction that made Barrios break the goal drought and was out of control... In the end that season, Barrios became the best scorer in the Bundesliga, and Zhou Yi made great contributions...

Reus thought it was amazing. He had heard of Zhou Yi's nickname "wizard" and probably knew what was going on. But he thought that it should be a gimmick created by reporters to attract attention. But is it true that what Gotze said seriously?

Seeing that Reus was not very convinced, Gotze asked him to wait for verification then.

Sure enough, in this first league game, Reus was assisted by Zhou Yi to score a goal...

At that time, Zhou Yi's pass was really comfortable. Reus almost didn't need any extra adjustments. The football happened to be at the right foot that he was best at using. He could shoot directly without changing to the other side. This was a detail that he wouldn't think too much about shooting again, but after the goal was recalled, especially when he thought of what Gotze said, Reus had to believe that this was really "Zhou Yi's welcome ceremony"...

He seemed to have considered everything for the receiver when passing the ball, so that the receiver could minimize the connection movements after receiving the ball, and gain more time and space for the receiver.

Reus had never fought side by side with Zhou Yi before, but he had several confrontations as an opponent, but being an opponent and being a teammate are completely different experiences. At least being an opponent can't even understand the mystery hidden in Zhou Yi's seemingly ordinary passes...

While thanking Zhou Yi, his eyes looking at Zhou Yi were filled with worship of some unknown mysterious existence.

Sure enough, he is worthy of being a "wizard"!

The simple Reus could never have imagined that Zhou Yi had trained with him many times in the virtual space and knew his characteristics very well. It was like playing football together since he was a child. It was not a strange thing to be able to send such a pass... (To be continued.)

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Chapter completed!