One day after Dortmund beat Schalke 2-0 at home, Leverkusen challenged Nuremberg away.

In this game, Leverkusen lost to his opponent unexpectedly, but they missed an excellent opportunity to catch up with Dortmund. Now the gap between the two teams has widened to six points.

This is good news for Dortmund, because the Champions League knockout will soon be the next one, and Dortmund needs a lead in the league so that they can temporarily concentrate on the Champions League.

At the same time, after losing to Dortmund, Schalke 04 Club announced the news that Magath was dismissed.

Club chairman Tonis explained to reporters: "From the club's perspective, there are good reasons for this breakup, but we will not make it public. I think this is a good result for Schalke."

Although he said he would not make the reason public, the fool knew that it must be because of his poor record, especially the Ruhr derby lost to Dortmund again, which became the last straw that broke Magath back.

Magath came to Schalke 04 after winning the league championship at Wolfsburg. At that time, he received the highest annual salary of 5.4 million euros in the Bundesliga, but did not reach the height of people's hopes.

However, although Schalke 04 Club announced the dismissal of Magath, it did not announce who his successor was.

Currently, the media speculates that Rangnick, who resigns from Hoffenheim this season, may become Magath's successor in Schalke 04.

Zhou Yi really said that he had made a name for himself. Within a week, Magath resigned.

So is this a good thing for Yang Muge?

Then no one can know...

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In the 22nd round of the league, in the last league game before the start of the Champions League quarter-finals, Dortmund challenged Kaiserslautern away.

It is obvious that the entire team has been affected by preparations for the Champions League quarterfinals. Not only did Klopp rotate, but the players on the court also seemed a little absent-minded.

As a result, they were tied 1:1 by Kaiserslautern on the road.

Zhou Yi did not play in this game at all.

What about Leverkusen? They beat Frankfurt 3-0 away and caught up with Dortmund again. They were only four points away from Dortmund.

However, Dortmund did this with helpless move, because the opponent they faced in the quarterfinals is difficult to deal with. It is the giants in the Champions League A Milan!

Of course, Klopp would not want his team to be eliminated as soon as he entered the knockout stage. So he attaches great importance to this game, and he is willing to sacrifice the league.

Having said that, isn’t building such a big lead in the league just to give the team some room for maneuver in the Champions League?

Klopp's idea is to use the advantage of the league's points to exchange for the results in the Champions League. This can not only ensure the results of the league, but also ensure the results of the Champions League. It will not be like Schalke 04, who scored in the Champions League, but ranked outside the top ten in the league. As a result, the head coach was dismissed...

In fact, Milan's performance in the Champions League group stage this season was not good. He won two wins, draws and lost in six group matches, scored only seven goals, and scored eight points, ranking second in the group to qualify. He was only one more point than Ajax, who was third in the group.

But Klopp still dared not take it lightly.

Because the group stage and the knockout stage are completely different worlds, playing well in the group stage does not mean that the knockout stage is also good, and playing poorly in the group stage does not mean that the knockout stage is necessarily bad. It is always right to be careful, especially for a team like Dortmund that has not participated in the Champions League knockout stage for many years...

Speaking of which, how many years has Dortmund not participated in the Champions League knockout stage?

I'm afraid even Klopp didn't know this very well, because it's too long...

In fact, since Dortmund won the Champions League in 1997, they only reached the Champions League knockout stage in the subsequent 1997-1998 season, when they reached the Champions League semi-finals. However, they were eliminated by Real Madrid in the semi-finals.

Real Madrid, who eliminated them, eventually defeated Juventus and won the Champions League title.

Since then, Dortmund has never been able to enter the knockout stage of the Champions League again.

In the 2002-2003 season, Dortmund once made the first round of group stages, but at that time there were two rounds of group stages in the Champions League. They ranked third in the second round of group stage and were unable to enter the real knockout stage.

So so far, Duote has not played in the Champions League knockout stage for thirteen years.

They have no experience in playing Champions League knockout rounds at all.

Klopp must be careful.

What's more, in the first round of the first round, Dortmund is going to challenge Milan away.

The San Siro Stadium is probably not too friendly to Dortmund, whether it is the atmosphere or the turf...

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Because of preparing for this game, Dortmund arrived in Milan two days in advance.

He was able to meet Guo Nu because of this.

Among the four friends, he only met Yang Muge in Europe. Guo Nu was the second person he met.

At first, when Guo Nu took the initiative to invite Zhou Yi to come out to gather in the group, Zhou Yi didn't go: "No! I'm afraid you will hit me, I can't beat you!"

"Damn, why did I hit you?"

"Because I won Inter Milan!"

"...Damn it, don't want to be a villain!" Guo was speechless.

Even though he was joking, Zhou Yi finally came out to have supper with Guo Nu.

Compared to when everyone met on reality shows before, Guo Nu was much more lively and cheerful than that time, but compared with the group, he said much less.

Zhou Yi understands this very well, because chatting in the group is done by typing and will not stutter...

The changes that happened to Guo Nu also made Zhou Yi very curious. He stared at Guo Nu's head for a long time and said, "Old Guo, you should use less header, look at the hair on your head is getting less and less..."

"Damn!" Guo said angrily, "I, I... am a central defender, no, how can I get through without a header?"

Zhou Yi smiled.

In addition to having less hair, Guo Nu's height has increased slightly. But it is still not high. At least Zhou Yi can look at Guo Nu in a straight face now. He is stronger, and under clothes that are not tights, the contours of the muscles are looming.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but go up and pinch it with his hands: "So hard!"

"You, you are a man... can you... don't say this to me, this word!" Guo Nu shivered, and his arm that was pinched by Zhou Yi had a layer of goose bumps.

"Old Guo, your thoughts are so dirty!"

"Ph, ph!"

Although Guo Nu is not tall, only 1.78 meters tall, this does not prevent him from being the main central defender in Inter Milan's youth team.

His outstanding physical fitness makes up for his height deficiency. At the same time, his fierce defensive style and the defensive awareness and skills he learned in Italy made him the "Great Wall of China" of Inter Milan's youth team.

"This is the nickname given to me by the local media in Milan. What, what, what?"

"The Great Wall, which is less than 1.8 meters high, seems to be unable to stop the Huns' invasion in the south, right?" Zhou Yi said with a frown.

"Gogun!" Guo Nu knew that Zhou Yi was hacking him again.

But he quickly grinned: "I'm not stuttering!"

He no longer cared about saying that he was stuttering. This should have been a physiological defect of him, but he could already take it indifferently.

It is precisely because of the person in front of you.

In this world, I'm afraid that Zhou Yi is the only one who is so unscrupulous in criticizing him. He is still happy.

Because Zhou Yi really helped him a lot, if it weren't for Zhou Yi, how could he have made a "short Great Wall" in Inter Milan?

"Old Guo, actually I really like chatting with you offline," said Zhou Yi.

“Why?”

"As soon as you speak, you can ask the author to make up some words." Zhou Yi said seriously.

"Black me again!" Guo Nu pointed at Zhou Yi and smiled.

Zhou Yi also laughed. Lao Guo’s mentality is much better than before.

After damaging Lao Guo, they talked about the important things.

"...a Milan is ranked first now, but I think they are no big deal. They are worth noting. There are two people, one is Ibrahimovic and the other is Thiago Silva, which is just one in front and one behind, and a central axis... Just pay attention to these two people. a Milan has nothing to worry about..."

Guo Nu began to provide information to Zhou Yi. These words were processed by technology. If the scene was real, the author would probably be scolded for making up the number of words...

Zhou Yi listened carefully to Guo Nu's stuttering information, but did not interrupt him or show impatience.

Although Zhou Yi may know better than Guo Nu, after all, he has virtual space to simulate the competition in advance, this is Guo Nu's intention and he cannot refuse.

After listening to Guo Nu’s information, Zhou Yi said: “Old Guo, you are so hard to provide information, don’t you want Inter Milan fisherman to benefit, right?”

Guo Nu glanced at Zhou Yi: "My heart is not as dirty as you, you!"

Although Inter Milan was a bit miserable by Dortmund in the group stage this season, they finally advanced from the group and scored second in the group. They drew Bayern Munich in the knockout round.

"Okay. Do you need me to provide you with information about Bayern Munich?" Zhou Yi asked.

"It's useless to provide me with it. I'm not in the first team, I can't play in the Champions League!" Guo Nu said very regretfully.

"Ah, okay, then I wish Inter Milan good luck." Zhou Yi said.

Then the two of them stopped talking about serious business and started chatting about some leisure days. From recalling the past they had during the reality show, to how well they are doing in their respective teams now.

Express your youthful feelings and sigh at your fate.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Zhou Yi and Guo Nu finished the meal. He said goodbye to Lao Guo and was about to return to the hotel.

Although the game is the first day of the day, Klopp requires every player to return to the hotel to rest before 10 o'clock in the evening.

"Will you go to watch the football live?" Zhou Yi asked Guo Nu while waiting for the car outside the restaurant.

"No, no, no tickets. But I will watch it in front of the TV and watch the game live broadcast." Guo Nu shook his head.

"Okay, go back to chat in the group." The taxi that Zhou Yi called arrived, and he waved his hand to say goodbye to Guo Nu.

"Talk back." Guo Nu waved his hand and watched Zhou Yi get in the car.

Looking at the direction where the car left, he was a little confused.

When everyone met on reality shows, they had their own origins and their own ways of going.

Zhou Yi is doing the best now. But Guo Nu is not jealous of him because that is what he deserves.

Among the five people at that time, he was the core of this small group, so Guo Nu felt that it was normal that he became the core of Dortmund so quickly in Dortmund.
Chapter completed!