In the locker room, Klopp criticized the team's performance in the first half very harshly.

"...This is a derby! What are you thinking? Wake me up quickly. If anyone can't wake up, I will replace him!"

He was also very dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half.

He would not accept the excuse of national team game day.

Because did Schalke 04 players not participate in the national team competition? Everyone is the same, so why do you say that you have been affected?

The Dortmund player who was scolded by Klopp did not dare to take a breath. Although Klopp can always get along with the players, it does not mean that he is an unprincipled good man. He gets angry and is as extreme as he loves you.

The correct way to do when he is scolded is to lower his head and be scolded. Never try to defend himself, nor do you look up and look him directly, as that will only lead to death even worse.

After scolding, Klopp began to arrange tactics for the second half, and he asked the players to run more actively. The tactics are fine, the key is execution. If everyone does not run or fails to run, all the arrangements before the game cannot be implemented. Then no matter how good the tactics are, they are just talking about the war on paper.

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At the same time, in Schalke 04's locker room, head coach Stevens was praising his players.

"...You guys did a good job! The second half is the same as in the first half. We used our runs to divide them so that they could not establish any connection, especially Zhou Yi! Don't let him pass the football!"

Everyone nodded when they heard this.

This is also their strategy in the first half. Active running is the main reason why they can take the initiative in the first half. Running allows them to enter the game earlier than Dortmund.

When Yang Muge heard the head coach's arrangement, he naturally agreed. There was only one worry - if you continue running like this, can everyone's physical fitness be able to hold on?

His physical fitness is fine. His job is to keep running, but what should I do if other teammates who don’t usually play like this? After 70 minutes of the game, how much strength do they have to support this tactic?

Once our physical fitness is exhausted, how can we maintain our advantage over Dortmund? You should know that this is Dortmund's home court. If they can relieve themselves, Schalke 04, whose physical fitness has declined, may collapse.

However, head coach Stevens has also considered this, so while asking the players to continue to run actively, he also asked the players to seize every opportunity they can seize and strive to get a few more goals.

"... As long as we can score more goals and get a big enough lead, we can win this game!"

This is, as long as Schalke 04 can score more goals when they have the advantage and make the score wider so that Dortmund is unable to counterattack, you can win this game. Then shrink the defense and there will be no need to spend much energy.

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At the beginning of the second half, both sides played with their own goals, especially the Dortmund players. After being scolded by Klopp in the locker room, everyone was furious and wanted to prove themselves and defeat their opponents.

So just as the second half of the game began, Dortmund launched a very fierce offensive, hitting Schalke 04's defense line.

In the stands, the Dortmund fans who were still a little depressed in the first half were excited. They kept cheering their team with singing and cheers. For a moment, West**** Stadium regained its vitality.

But the goddess of fate seemed to deliberately go against Dortmund.

Just as the whole Dortmund team regrouped and planned to make a comeback, the second half began only three minutes, Dortmund's main midfielder Mario Gotze was hit on the back of the thigh in a fight. He felt muscle sore at that time and could not continue running, and of course it was impossible to continue the game.

Only replaced.

The second half just started, and Gotze, the main player in the offense, was injured and was replaced. This was an unexpected situation.

"Ah, Dortmund is so unlucky! Finally, the offense looks a little better, but Gotze was injured and it seems he can't hold on to the game..."

Faced with such a bad situation, Klopp did not swear. He frowned and muttered twice with his assistant coach Buvac beside him. Then Buvac returned to the bench and then hooked up to Mark Wagner, who was a little anxious on the bench: "Mark."

It was not the first time Mark Wagner was a rookie who had been on the bench in the first team. He knew what this meant. He was a little surprised but excited and nervous. He quickly got up and ran to the warm-up area.

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"Mark! It's Mark!" Mrs. Wagner in the South stands stare and saw her son get up to warm up at a glance. She is an old fan. How could she not know what this action means?

So she screamed excitedly, attracting others.

Everyone followed and found Mark Wagner warming up in a vest.

Is Mark going to play?

This really surprised people.

They didn't expect Mark to have a chance to play so soon, but at the same time they were also a little confused - Gotze was injured and Mark came on the court, his task must be very heavy, so can Mark, who has not played for more than a year?

Originally, the step for Mark to recover from injury was to first appear during the garbage time of the game, play for a few minutes, find the feeling, and gradually adapt to both the body and the mind.

This now makes them a little frightened, worried that Mark will bear too much pressure. If he performs poorly, it will definitely hurt Mark's confidence and fighting spirit, and will make his path to recover from injury more difficult.

The commentator was also worried. Marcel Leif was surprised when he saw Mark go to warm up: "Is Klopp going to let Mark replace the injured Gotze? I think this may not be a good consideration for a player who has just recovered from injury..."

But Mark, who was warming up, did not consider this issue at all. He was now full of thoughts that he was about to play, and these thoughts made him excited. He was so excited that he didn't even bother to consider the pressure he was carrying.

It was not until he stood on the sidelines that assistant coach Buvac stood in front of him again, and then said to him: "Go up and replace the injured Gotze and form a forward partner with Lewandowski..." He suddenly realized that he was not going to feel the atmosphere when he came on the court, but to fight with the Derby opponent with real swords and guns!

He then felt a little hesitant.

Buvac pointed to the court and signaled him where he would go after he came on the court. He looked up mechanically, but his eyes were not focused at all, and he didn't even observe where the coach asked him to go on the court.

He was still thinking in his mind: No? He encountered such a thing when he was on the stage?

But when he was confused and panicked, his eyes without any focus searched for Zhou Yi on the court.

Zhou Yi was playing very focused. He kept shaking his head and observing left and right, his eyes swept through everything on the court like radar.

Seeing Zhou Yi like this, Mark suddenly calmed down.

He remembered how Zhou Yi told him in the hotel room last night.

Believe in yourself, Mark.

There's nothing to be afraid of, Mark.

Think about your first team debut, Mark.

Zhou Yi's voice echoed in his ears, calming down Mark's panicked heart.

What's wrong with being ordered in danger?

So what about Derby?

It's no big deal.

I'm Mark Wagner!

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"Mark, do you understand?" Buvac seemed to notice that Mark's spirit was a little strange, and he asked.

"I understand, coach." Mark answered very simply.

"Do you really understand?" Buvaqi looked at him suspiciously.

"Well. I really understand, coach. After playing, I moved behind Lewandowski, connecting Zhou Yi and Reus, and others. If I had the chance, I would shoot by myself. If I didn't have the chance, I would pass the football to my teammates with better positions, right?" Mark repeated.

After listening to it, Buvac realized that Mark had really listened to it, not lying to himself, so he nodded with confidence: "It's great, there's nothing to worry about. Everything is like you did before you were injured, that's the rhythm and style you are familiar with."

He was afraid that Mark would think too much and have too much burden.

Mark nodded. What he said before was his mission before he was injured. He just kicked that way before he was injured, and he always played very well.

This is something he is familiar with.

Although he hasn't played for a year, Mark believes that he won't become unfamiliar so easily. Maybe he needs to adapt to it at the beginning, but soon he will remember that feeling again.

Just like a bicycle, once you learn it, it is not easy to forget it.

This is the instinct he cultivated when he was with Zhou Yi every day to train!

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A dead ball, the fourth official stood on the sidelines with a display card. The sidelines raised the flag over his head with both hands, and the referee signaled to make a substitution on the sidelines.

Because the injured Gotze had been helped, Mark, who was waiting on the sidelines, did not have to hand over Gotze, but could play directly.

After being examined by the fourth official, he ran to the field.

"Dortmond substitution! Klopp replaced the injured Mario Gotze with Mark Wagner. This was the first time Mark played in the game after being injured for more than a year. It was a bit surprising to ask me to say this appearance... But no matter what, welcome back, Mark Wagner!" said Marcel Leif.

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Chapter completed!