Chapter 151 Opportunity
Zhou Yi gave Reus a thumbs up because Reus ran beautifully just now, ran into the air accurately, and seized a good opportunity - if Reus received the ball, he would be behind Mainz's entire defense line, but he was not offside because he started the ball the moment Zhou Yi passed the ball.
Although Reus did not receive the ball, he still gave Zhou Yi a thumbs up and praised Zhou Yi for his beautiful pass.
Zhou Yi's praise may be a simple form, but Reus' praise comes from his inner admiration. Just now, Zhou Yi was very busy getting rid of defense. When he turned around, he even turned his back to himself. In that case, he could accurately judge that he would appear in this place and then send the football over. This is indeed amazing...
For two people, you give your thumbs up, and I give your thumbs up. It seems simple and ordinary movements, which often appear on the court.
But in the eyes of Mainz's defensive players, it has unusual significance.
This was the first time Zhou Yi organized an offense since he came on the court, which almost made Dortmund a threatening shot.
People say that Zhou Yi is now the top midfielder in the Bundesliga.
This sentence is very simple, and it is even used extensively. But after fighting with Zhou Yi, you can truly feel the correctness of this sentence being used on Zhou Yi.
Mainz players realized that even if they shrink their defense, the remaining ten minutes would be difficult for them, and they suddenly felt a lot of pressure...
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Mainz shrinks its defense, which gives Dortmund more offensive opportunities.
Facing the "wall" built by Mainz players near the penalty area, Zhou Yi was not anxious. He kept passing the ball, or directing his teammates to pass the ball with gestures, and constantly looking for routes to pass the ball. These routes all became a downward view in his mind, and he found the best one from these routes.
Then, when the football reached his feet, he naturally could not watch it and just send the football over with one kick.
For Zhou Yi's defense, although Mainz shrinks his defense, he always feels that there are still many loopholes and is a little tired of dealing with it.
During this period, Dortmund was bombarded around Mainz's goal.
If this is Dortmund's home court, the killing sound will definitely be shocking at this moment.
Of course, the stadium is also very noisy now, and most of it is the shouting of Mainz fans. There are exclamations of worrying about their goals, and the noise that interferes with Dortmund's offense.
Such an environment may affect others, but it does not interfere with Zhou Yi. He is like a sophisticated computer, calculating the ever-changing situation on the court at a rapid pace, and his feet are not stopping, constantly running, receiving and passing the ball.
With these actions, there were more and more lines in his brain, and it began to become less and less.
When there was only one line left, Zhou Yi suddenly accelerated!
Teammates passed the football from the side to the middle, and Zhou Yi rushed up to the football. It was a high ball, and it was not difficult to stop, but stopping the high ball would also waste some time on Dortmund's offense. Time is very important. Football is essentially a competition between the two sides for the excellence of time and space.
Zhou Yi is unwilling to waste time, which means that the best route he planned before is no longer the best.
So Zhou Yi chose another solution - he jumped into the air and twisted his waist hard, but instead of heading the ball, he used his chest to hit the edge of the penalty area in front.
Aubameyang received the ball that was hit by Zhou Yi's chest here. He used his outside instep to smooth the ball, then brought the ball from the Mainz back next to him into the penalty area, and then shot with a straightforward shot!
The football drew an arc and flew towards the far corner of the goal against the grass.
Mainz goalkeeper Karius fell to the ground and rushed to the side, but it was still a little late. He did not touch the football. The football rushed over from his hands, then flew into the goal, and turned around the goal, and finally got wrapped in the net and stopped moving...
"Aubameyang! Oh oh oh oh! Dortmund equalized the score in just five minutes! And these five minutes are exactly the five minutes that Zhou Yi played!" Duan Xin shouted excitedly.
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Marcel Leif is so sure that he is in his understanding and trust in Zhou Yi.
With Zhou Yi playing in this game, how could Dortmund be willing to just get a draw away? They are going to chase Bayern Munich and Leverkusen!
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After scoring the goal, Aubameyang originally wanted to run to the corner flag area to celebrate the goal, but he quickly thought of something more important than this, so he turned around and ran back, and then hugged Zhou Yi.
If Zhou Yi stopped this ball, it might be another result.
Of course, Aubameyang has to thank Zhou Yi for his assists, although he did a great job himself...
More teammates flocked to the top and surrounded them to celebrate the goal.
Facing the unfavorable situation of being behind away, Dortmund equalized the score in just five minutes, which is of course worth celebrating.
However, Zhou Yi, who was in the crowd, did not want to celebrate with all his heart. He said to his teammates: "Our goal is not a draw, but to win!"
He reminded everyone not to celebrate too much, and there is actually not much time left for them.
Although Zhou Yi is not the captain, what he said is useful.
Hearing him say this, everyone stopped celebrating, but turned around and ran back together.
They also have to seize the time and strive to score more goals, and they must win this game!
After falling to third in the league, Dortmund has no room for maneuver unless they want to give up on the league.
But how can there be a reason why you have to surrender early if you haven’t finished half a league?
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In the short time when Dortmund players celebrate the goal, Mainz head coach Tuchel has made new adjustments.
In fact, after Aubameyang scored, the one in front of Mainz was a multiple-choice question: A, choose to actively attack, continue the previous fast-paced style, and strive to regain the lead in a short period of time. B, temporarily give up the previous fast-paced style and defend and counterattack. Anyway, it should be Dortmund, who is anxious now, because they are left third in the league by Bayern Munich and Leverkusen, they can't afford to tie now.
Tuchel quickly made a choice - abandoning her previous fast-paced play, shrinking her defense, allowing Dortmund to press on to attack, and then hitting the gap behind them.
This is the safest way to do it.
After re-teletting, Dortmund did try hard to push the attack, hoping to seize the time to score another goal.
For Dortmund, only one goal is enough. This goal may come in a few minutes, just like the previous goal, but it may not be found until the end of the game - football is round, and everything may happen. Sometimes, it does not even mean that you can get the desired result by putting in a lot of effort.
Especially when Mainz shrinks its defense and fights back.
Dortmund did launch several offensives after the kickoff, but Mainz also seized the opportunity and fought back twice. It seems that Mainz's counterattack is more threatening.
Generally, when a team encounters such a situation, it will temporarily shrink, slow down the pace of the game, and make a long-term plan.
But Dortmund did not do this, or Zhou Yi did not intend to do this. He seemed to have no idea of the hidden dangers of such a pressing attack, and kept sending football forward to help Dortmund burn the war directly to Mainz's goal.
This seems to be competing with Mainz to see who scores first.
Doesn’t Zhou Yi know that the gap behind him will be exploited by the opponent’s counterattack?
Of course I know, but Zhou Yi has other considerations - Dortmund has just equalized the score, which is the time for the strongest morale. If you slow down at this time, it is equivalent to self-destruction. You cannot give up such an opportunity just because you are worried about losing the ball.
Dortmund was so angry that he had to vent his anger for most of the game that he needed to vent, otherwise he would burn himself in turn.
All Zhou Yi can do is to do his best to find a correct breakthrough for this surging anger, so that the magma underground can gush out of the crater and destroy the world.
After failing to try a pass in the middle, Zhou Yi moved to the wing.
When he received the ball on the side, he lowered his center of gravity and leaned to the right, making a stance to break through from the right. Mainz South Korean left back Park Joo-ho shook his upper body, but soon realized that Zhou Yi was a fake move, so his lower body stopped and did not move because of this, which made Zhou Yi unable to cut in and break through.
Zhou Yi was indeed a fake move. He leaned his body and quickly withdrew it back. His feet did not move, but he just shook his upper body, hoping to deceive the defensive players.
But Park Joo-ho saw through his fake moves in time and made the game go from dynamic to static.
Zhou Yi can only stop and cannot continue to move forward. When the player who takes the ball completely stops, the difficulty of defense must be reduced accordingly. At the same time, because he stops, Dortmund's entire offense must stop. Although it only stops for a moment, there may be a cooperation mistake - for example, Zhou Yi stops, but the receiver does not stop, so when Zhou Yi passes the ball again, the receiver may be offside...
When Zhou Yi stopped, he raised his foot and made another move to pass the ball, but he did not finally pass the ball, but just flicked it, because in the penalty area, Schiber would be offside. If the ball was passed, Dortmund's attack would end here.
Park Joo-ho naturally believed that it was because he had seen through Zhou Yi's fake moves that made Dortmund's attack fall into such an embarrassing situation.
It was not wrong for him to understand this, but he seemed to be a little happy too early.
Because just when Zhou Yi took back his foot, he suddenly kicked it out!
This time it was not a fake move. He pushed the football into the penalty area with his feet, and the football happened to pass between Park Joo-ho's legs!
A pass through the crotch!
When other Mainz defenders saw Zhou Yi really passed the ball, they raised their arms like conditioned reflexes, indicating that Dortmund would be offside!
But the referee and the lineman do not think so.
It's right for Siber to be offside, but he didn't participate in the attack. Zhou Yi's pass passed through Siber and fell near the penalty spot. Here, Aubameyang was like a black panther, killing the opponent, and then took the football passed by Zhou Yi to the left!
Chapter completed!