Chapter 114 An inadvertent kick
The concerns of the English commentator make sense. After more than twenty minutes of the game, Dortmund had already shot multiple shots, but what about Arsenal? It has not even had a single shot yet! It was completely suppressed by Dortmund.
Just looking at the performance of these twenty minutes, it is really hard to believe that Arsenal is the first in the group and has maintained a complete victory in the previous three games. What is also hard to believe is that Dortmund actually won only one of the first three games in the group stages and is currently only ranked third.
Of course, He Ping knew why there was such a change: "... Dortmund, who played at home, has very good oppression of Arsenal. The offensive is like a storm, one wave after another, which makes Arsenal almost breathless. Seeing Dortmund's performance like this, people can't help but wonder - since that's the case, why is Dortmund's performance in the Champions League group stage this season unsatisfactory? It's very simple, because they didn't have Zhou Yi before. The changes in this game were almost all because Zhou Yi appeared..."
This is not He Ping, who is bragging alone. Marcel Leif also believes that Dortmund's complete transformation is closely related to Zhou Yi.
"...Look at Dortmund's performance in the past twenty minutes. Although he is playing at home and has a certain home advantage, it is not as great as this... It fully demonstrates how important Zhou Yi is to this team. When he is away, even if Dortmund wins, it will not be so convincing..."
Zhou Yi was like a tiger who had been locked in a cage for a long time, and was suddenly released into the mountains and forests, showing the style of a "king of beasts". He ran tirelessly and appeared in everything he could. He could retreat to the back line, stay on the same line with his central defender teammates, or break into the opponent's penalty area and shoot.
Seeing that it was difficult for Flamini to control Zhou Yi alone, Arteta also strengthened its defense against Zhou Yi. This is no longer the situation where Flamini's marking Zhou Yi and Arteta assisted, and it has completely become a trend for two people to defend Zhou Yi.
But even so, it is not easy to make Zhou Yi honest.
In the 25th minute, when Zhou Yi was holding the ball on his back, he resisted the interference behind Flamini, and at the same time attracted Arteta to come up and grab him. Just when Arteta was grabbing, he suddenly passed the football behind him with his heel. As a result, Arteta swept over and did not touch the football, but kicked Zhou Yi to the ground.
As soon as the referee's whistle sounded, he was drowned out by the huge booing sound of West** Stadium.
Zhou Yi just recovered from injury and flew not long after he flew. Now Dortmund fans are very sensitive to those fouls against Zhou Yi. As long as anyone dares to foul on Zhou Yi, waiting for him will be the crazy booing and scolding of Dortmund fans.
Arteta was like stabbing a hornet's nest.
Zhou Yi curled up on the ground with his ankles, and his teammates rushed up to find Arteta's trouble.
Arteta raised his hands high and signaled that he did not mean it, but was aiming for the ball, and did not want to foul Zhou Yi.
However, his explanation did not allow him to escape, and the referee still showed him a yellow card.
"Arteta received a yellow card. Since he was still responsible for defending Zhou Yi in the game, this yellow card may be a burden for him. The game only started twenty-five minutes and the yellow card was on his side. In the next game, he would definitely be timid..." The English commentator said worriedly.
It started raining at this time, and the rain was not small, not the kind of hazy drizzle. The venue was slippery, which was definitely not good news for Arsenal, which mainly played ground transmission control...
Everything is moving in a direction that is not conducive to Arsenal.
Of course, many Tymond supporters feel that the situation is not good. If Zhou Yi is injured again, Arsenal only needs to pay a yellow card to get Dortmund's most threatening player out of the court. In this way, Arsenal is more advantageous...
Fortunately, Zhou Yi quickly got up from the ground by himself. Although he was a little limping while walking, it should be nothing serious.
"It should be a flaw..." He Ping guessed that it was also a good wish. Although the flaw was very painful, there were no serious sequelae, which means that the joints were not damaged.
On the Internet, many Chinese fans are not that polite and are scolding Arteta.
Some even conspiracy theories believe that this is Arsenal's tactical arrangement, with the purpose of causing Zhou Yi to be injured again, so that Arsenal can easily defeat Dortmund away.
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Zhou Yi was fouled by Arteta, earning Dortmund a free kick about 33 meters away from the goal and slightly to the left.
This is a good free kick, and you can shoot directly.
Reus came to take the free kick.
Zhou Yi did not go in to arrange the wall, and his small body might not be able to squeeze into the wall. If he wanted to enter the wall to interfere with the defense, he could not do it at all.
So he stood outside and could control the second landing point.
After Arsenal set up a wall, the referee also blew a whistle.
Reus glanced at the goal, then ran up and shot!
The football bypassed the wall and flew straight to the goal!
This is a very high quality free kick!
Impatient cheers rang in the stands!
But the football did not fly into the goal...but was blocked by Arsenal goalkeeper Szczesni with his hands when he was about to fly into the goal!
The quality of Reus' free kick was still very high, so even if Szczesny could block the football, he had to do his best.
He was just able to keep football out, but he could do nothing no matter how he turned it out.
So the football did not fly out of the bottom line, but was blocked by Szczesny's hand and then bounced back!
The penalty area suddenly became chaotic!
Players on both sides rushed to football.
In the chaos, the football was kicked out by someone and rolled out, and was caught by Arsenal player Arteta at the top of the free throw arc. Arteta was facing the attack direction when he received the ball, so he naturally turned around after receiving the ball.
As a result, just as he turned around, he saw Zhou Yi standing in front of him!
Zhou Yi seemed to have known that he would do this for a long time, waiting here. Seeing Arteta turn around and swipe the football out, he took a step forward.
This step did not go up directly, but stepped out obliquely, and this oblique just hit the next move of Arteta.
The moment Arteta turned around, he saw Zhou Yi, so he subconsciously used his left foot to thrust the ball diagonally forward.
He originally wanted to avoid Zhou Yi, but his band collided with Zhou Yi's step towards the slanting front!
Zhou Yi poked his foot and poked the football that Arteta pushed over!
Zhou Yi stabbed this kick very quickly. It was too late for Arteta to have a second reaction. He originally wanted to wade away the football before Zhou Yi, but now he was mixing garlic under his feet, his center of gravity was unstable, and he lost his possession!
Zhou Yi, on the other side, cleverly bypassed Arteta and caught up with the football in the free throw arc.
Just as he caught up with the football, Mertesacker had already rushed up, and at the same time, Zhou Yi also swung his right foot.
Seeing this, Mertesack knew that he could no longer intercept the ball, so he simply put his hands behind his back, then stretched his legs to expand the defense area, hoping to use his body to block Zhou Yi's shot. As for why he had to put his hands behind him? That was because he was afraid that the football was raised and there was a risk of being awarded a penalty...
But because his hands were behind his back, the defense area was not large enough, Zhou Yi shot and flew over him. Mertesak tried to tilt his body, trying to use his body to block the football, but unfortunately the distance was too far.
"Zhou Yi's shot--!"
Marcel Lef roared in a long voice.
Amid his roar, the football that Zhou Yi shot did not fly straight out, but went a little arc and headed towards the upper corner of the far end of the goal!
Szczesny did not react immediately while Zhou Yi shot because his sight was blocked by the tall Mertesak. When he saw the football flew over, he misjudged the football again. Seeing that Zhou Yi's kick was not the same as the powerful shooting posture, he thought the ball was not fast and should be easier to save.
But when the football flew over, he realized that the situation was completely different from what he imagined!
Zhou Yi did not exert much force in this kick, but he pursued the angle!
The football went to the back corner of the goal, with a high height and a sharp angle. Szczesny did not judge the ball well, which caused him to jump up to be insufficient inch and did not encounter the football!
He was in the air, looking up at the football flying towards the goal, and was frightened - Isn't this ball really going to enter, right?
He guessed it, and the football got into the goal from the upper corner of the goal!
When Zhou Yi was kicking his feet, no matter how you look at it, everyone thought it was a hasty shot, and no one had any hope for the result.
So when football really flew into the goal, most people were stunned for a moment.
Unexpectedly, the goal was born suddenly, but there was no sign before!
It was still an experienced commentator like Marcel Leif who responded quickly. He roared quickly: "TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! He took the lead for Dortmund! In his first Champions League game after returning from injury, Zhou Yi used a goal to prove his importance to Dortmund!!"
After scoring the goal, Zhou Yi turned around and wanted to celebrate, but after just running two steps, he was hugged by Reus in the waist, then pulled it to the ground and pressed it on.
Others also flocked to the ground and pressed up. The excited Dortmund player played the role of the stacked Arhat.
Behind them are Arsenal players with confusion on their faces...
Chapter completed!