When Zhou Yi talked about his ambitions to his teammates in a calm tone in the locker room, Dortmund's head coach Klopp was also talking about his thoughts to his colleagues.

"I think I may have made a mistake all the time..." Klopp's opening remark surprised everyone. They looked at each other and then turned their doubtful eyes to Klopp.

Klopp, who lowered his head, seemed to be thinking about something. He did not say it immediately, but kept his head down and silent.

After being silent for a few seconds, he suddenly looked up and continued: "I always thought that we were done this season. At least this is true in the league. We cannot pose a threat to Bayern Munich. They are too strong and too stable..."

Klopp said this and scared the Dortmund coach who was working. The Dortmund coach actually gave in advance? If the media knew about this, the outside world would not know how much storm would cause...

They looked at each other. If they saw what they heard today in the media in the future, who would have leaked it?

"But yesterday's game showed me something I had always overlooked... I used to think that our team had lost their desire for championships and victory after winning three seasons in a row. But I saw from yesterday's game that the players were still full of desire for victory. So I think maybe I was wrong... Our players have not given up yet, and I can't give up at this time..."

Speaking of this, Klopp said: "I want to tell them what I think now, and I want to re-define our goal this season, and still be competing for the championship. Of course, in order to achieve this goal, we must do more work, especially the team doctor group."

He looked at Dr. Braun: "We need to add one more person to the medical team to the coaching seat."

Dr. Braun didn't even think about it, and immediately gave the candidate: "Of course it's Cortana. With her on the bench, I think Zhou Yi's performance level can be five to ten percent higher."

After he said this, everyone started to laugh.

The relationship between Zhou Yi and Cortana is not a secret, and the team will joke about it from time to time.

Klopp also laughed: "Okay, that's the decision."

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When the players came to the training ground and were preparing for training, they saw that head coach Klopp and all the coaching staff were in place, and everyone looked at each other in surprise - they were not late...

"Warm up first." Klopp waved his hand.

Everyone was warming up with their heads down and concentrating on their hearts, but the doubts in their hearts became stronger and stronger because they felt that the atmosphere was indeed different from usual...

After the warm-up, the players stood in a circle and faced head coach Klopp.

They knew Klopp must have something to say.

"First of all, congratulations, boys. Your game against Werder Bremen is very exciting. The pleasing attack and control of the situation are the best reward for everyone. Secondly, I want to apologize to you."

As soon as Klopp said this, everyone was shocked.

The first half of the sentence, congratulations on winning, can still be understood. What the hell is this sudden apology?

Many people's doubts are even stronger.

"I want to apologize to you. Before that, I have not trusted you very much... Yes, our performance this season has been ups and downs, we have serious injuries... We are at a disadvantage in the league competition now... There is too much unfavorable news. I once wanted to give up the league. But after watching your game against Werder Bremen, I found my mistake - my team did not give up, it was me who wanted to give up. So I need to apologize to you."

After hearing Klopp's words, the players were still shocked and had no idea what to say. They just looked at Klopp in silence.

"So now I want to reiterate our goal for this season - the league championship! We will never give up!"

Some of the players gradually came to their senses and then laughed out loud.

At such a serious moment, someone suddenly laughs, which cannot be unsightly.

Assistant coach Bouvage looked up and said, "Do you have any ideas, Kevin?"

Groskreuz waved his hand quickly: "No, no, no...I just think it's a coincidence..."

"What a coincidence?" Buvaci asked.

"Just just now, Zhou Yi said almost the same thing..." Groskreuz successfully kicked the football towards Zhou Yi.

Now, the coaching team members' eyes were all focused on Zhou Yi.

In full view of everyone, Zhou Yi had to stand up and explain to the coaches: "I just said that the league championship this season, I don't want to give up..."

Klopp smiled, Zhou Yi had said this to him before. However, he was still hesitant at that time, and only took Zhou Yi's words into consideration, but he did not really intend to do so.

Unexpectedly, when he was hesitating, Zhou Yi was moving towards this goal very firmly.

Think about the performance of Zhou Yi after the winter break ends.

One harder than another.

Although he had no bold words, he was using practical actions to prove that he kept his word.

"Very good. Since both of our goals have been consistent, then things will be easy." Klopp clapped his hands. "I think all of you know how difficult it is to win the championship this season. Although we are only four points behind Bayern Munich, we have serious injuries this season. In terms of rotation, we cannot maintain the same level as last season. Players in some positions will have to bear more games and greater pressure. But since our goals are consistent, we should move towards this goal. Now, start training!"

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Since the goal is determined to be the league champion, the next German Cup will definitely be given up.

At this time, Zhou Yi had no objection to giving up the German Cup.

So on February 11, in the quarterfinals of the German Cup, Dortmund lost 1:2 away to Frankfurt and stopped in the quarterfinals of the German Cup again.

He just won Werder Bremen in the league a 5-1, and lost the game against Frankfurt, who was not as strong as them in the German Cup.

This still leaves the media full of criticism of Dortmund.

In the eyes of these experts and famous reporters, Dortmund should not expect the league championship this season. Even if they just won Werder Bremen, even if they were only four points behind Bayern Munich. With such stable performance of Bayern Munich, it is extremely difficult for Dortmund to turn the tables.

The German Cup is Dortmund's only choice to avoid being empty-handed this season. Exciting his performance in the German Cup and being able to win a German Cup championship is also a comfort for Dortmund's bad season...

As a result, Dortmund has buried this hope with his own hands - they sent a large number of young players and substitutes in the game against Frankfurt. From this personnel adjustment, it is obvious that Klopp's idea was that he gave up the German Cup.

"It's simply unwise!" A reporter criticized this on social networks.

"Maybe Klopp was overwhelmed by Dortmund's 5-1 victory over Werder Bremen. You should know that the game is atypical and does not have any reference value. Dortmund has not played several games this season. His performance has fluctuated greatly, and the league is a long process. What is needed is the team's stable performance in this process... The basis for stable performance does not exist in Dortmund today!"

No one knew that the machine had started to operate after the target was determined inside Dortmund.

Klopp adjusted the training content, increased the training ratio of physical strength and physical fitness, ensuring that players will not lose their physical strength due to physical fitness during the league sprint stage, and also reduce the chance of injury.

At the same time, the content of Footbonaut training is also appropriately increased, which is a training method that allows players to pass and receive the ball quickly. It is very consistent with Dortmund's tactics.

Dortmund's outstanding performance in the past two seasons is also closely related to this set of high-tech training equipment.

Yan Min likes this "little black room" very much. He has never experienced such training content in China before. In his opinion, this is just as challenging as making games and can be upgraded.

From the beginning of one person passing and receiving the ball in the cage to adding defensive players to interfere with you, from one defensive player to two defensive players, the difficulty level increases in a geometric manner.

Yan Min used to benefit from his boredom and practiced dribbling alone in the training ground, but he developed good dribbling skills. But in comparison, his passes and receiving are like other Chinese players, and they don’t seem to be a big problem in training. Once he joins the confrontation, his passes and receiving are all lacking in accuracy.

Since he came to Dortmund, he has been very interested in this training content because he knows that it can improve his passing and receiving ability.
Chapter completed!