Dortmund's game was one day earlier than Bayern Munich. So when Dortmund defeated Frankfurt at home with a devastating momentum, reporters raised questions to Guardiola at the pre-match press conference between Bayern Munich and Freiburg, asking him what he thought about the big wins of Dortmund in these two games.

Guardiola rubbed his nose and said, "To be honest, I don't care much about them. I only care about my own team. We just need to do our own thing."

He said this with confidence and seemed to not take Dortmund seriously.

Of course, his Bayern Munich does have such capital.

In the subsequent matches, Bayern Munich also beat Freiburg at 4:0, and the scores were exactly the same as those of Dortmund.

It is a response to Dortmund's recent aggressive pursuit.

Now that the league has played twenty-one rounds, Bayern Munich is still topped the list, four points ahead of Dortmund, and has a huge advantage in goal difference - they scored fifty-seven goals, but only conceded nine goals, with a goal difference of up to 48.

Only nine goals conceded made them the best team to defend.

Everyone says offense wins cheers, defense wins championships.

From this simple truth, we can see that teams with good defense are generally champions.

So everyone thinks that if Bayern Munich cannot win the league championship like this, it will definitely make many people doubt their life...

On the other hand, Dortmund has conceded twenty-three goals this season.

This is the season they have conceded the most goals in the same period in the last four seasons.

Last season, they lost 19 goals in twenty-one rounds.

In the 2011-2012 season, they conceded only fourteen goals in twenty-one rounds.

In the 2010-2011 season, they only conceded fourteen goals in 21 rounds.

It is obvious that Dortmund's defense is better, such as before, which has a lot to do with their incomplete defense line.

In terms of goal difference, Dortmund has 37, which is eleven goals away from Bayern Munich's forty-eight.

So why should many Tymonds chase Bayern Munich and compete for the championship?

Their performance this season is not useless. At least so far, they are the team with the most goals in the Bundesliga, and have scored 60 goals in 21 league rounds.

This is also the season with the most goals in the last four seasons.

In the previous three seasons, in the twenty-one round, they scored fifty-three, fifty and forty-four goals respectively.

Although the performance has fluctuated this season, Dortmund's efficiency is still very high in offense. After leaving Lewandowski and Gotze, Dortmund's offensive performance has not declined, which is naturally inseparable from Zhou Yi's outstanding performance.

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After playing against Frankfurt, there is another round of league games, followed by the Champions League knockout round.

Because of this, the next 22nd round of the league will seem very subtle.

Because Dortmund's first Champions League knockout match was played away, and it was in the distant and cold St. Petersburg, Russia. Dortmund's opponent in the Champions League quarterfinals was St. Petersburg Zenit.

Among the sixteen teams in total, even if Zenit, St. Petersburg, is not the worst, can still be regarded as "one".

Perhaps even weaker than them is Greece's Olympiacos.

But this does not mean that Dortmund is lucky and has won a good lottery.

This takes into account the weather in St. Petersburg, and the time of the quarterfinals.

On February 25, St. Petersburg at high latitudes was still very cold and it was snowing heavily.

Dortmund just encountered a blizzard in Istanbul, causing the game to be interrupted and postponed for one day. He was almost turned around and could not qualify in the group.

So Dortmund became very sensitive to the weather.

Everyone is paying attention to the weather in St. Petersburg. According to the weather forecast, St. Petersburg has been cloudy these days, but no one knows what will happen in a week.

The weather is always changing.

They could only pray, praying not to be hit by another snowstorm in Istanbul.

At the same time, because we are going to go to St. Petersburg, it will inevitably affect Dortmund's plan in the league.

In the 22nd round of the league, Dortmund is also away, and their opponent is Hamburg.

Hamburg has performed very badly this season. It played twenty-one rounds in the league, only accumulated sixteen points, ranking seventeenth and second to last. This is the rhythm of relegation.

So when there are almost half of the league left, Hamburg has already entered a relegation state.

They must fight one by one, and fight one by one. Only in this way can they ensure successful relegation.

This game is their home court again, and Dortmund is not easy to play.

If Dortmund reserves in the league in order to prepare for the Champions League, it is very likely that they will lose to Hamburg.

Once they lose to Hamburg, competing for the league championship with Bayern Munich will really become a dream - Bayern Munich will challenge Hannover 96 away. Although it is away, with the strength difference between the two teams, it is not difficult for Bayern Munich to win away.

By then, the score difference between the two teams will be pulled to seven points. Judging from Bayern Munich's stable performance this season, it will be really difficult to surpass it.

But what if the team is too hard in this league, which causes the team to perform poorly when playing against Zenit, St. Petersburg away?

Dortmund Club probably didn't think about defending the Champions League championship, but being eliminated in the first round of the defensive champion's knockout stage is not only about face, but also about income.

For many teams, the appearance fees and various bonuses for the Champions League are very important sources of income.

Although Dortmund is a wealthy club, he will not look down on the appearance fees and bonuses of the Champions League...

Of course they hope to go further in the Champions League.

This dilemma is of course the final decision of head coach Klopp.

Klopp did not hesitate and decided to send all the main players in the league.

The reason is actually very simple - the Champions League is behind and the league is ahead, and it is unknown what the Champions League will play, and whether the league will have an impact on the Champions League is not necessarily the case.

It would be foolish to sacrifice the present for an uncertain future.

So Klopp does not intend to let the team suffer losses in the league because of an uncertain future. First of all, of course, we must win the league and then consider the Champions League.

If you give up the league and don’t win the Champions League, wouldn’t it be a waste of money?

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Before the game against Hamburg, Dortmund announced their 18-man roster, with all the main players in it.

Faced with Hamburg, Klopp also seemed very cautious. He said at a pre-match press conference: "I don't care about the Champions League now. Our opponent is Hamburg, so I only focus on the league opponent."

Hamburg recently suffered a seven-game losing streak, and morale has fallen to the bottom. But they changed their head coach, and the original Dutch coach Van Marvik was dismissed, and Slomka took office immediately.

Hamburg is looking for Slomka to find a fire-fighting coach, not just to find someone to put out the fire. They gave Slomka a long-term contract until the end of June 2016, even if the team was relegated to the second division this season, the contract is valid.

At the same time, they naturally valued his experience of leading the team to relegate successfully - in the second half of the 2009-2010 season, Slomka took over Hannover 96 and miraculously completed the relegation mission in the last round.

Hamburg management obviously hopes Slomka will give Hamburg the same miracle.

There is a saying in football that "changing coaches is like changing knives". There are many examples of teams whose performance has fundamentally improved after changing head coaches.

Whether it is superstition or the changes brought about by the new coach's freshness...

This phenomenon does exist.

Of course, Klopp had to worry that his team would become a victim of Hamburg's sword change.

Recently, Dortmund won two league games in a row, and the team is in full swing. Klopp has to worry that the team is too excited and even feels proud and underestimated the opponent.

The second-last Hamburger, which ranks second-last, does not seem to be qualified to be valued by Dortmund...

Moreover, Hamburg was also suffering from large-scale injuries before this game - Boy, Dickmeier was absent due to illness, Ilicevich, Van der Fate and others were absent due to injuries.

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Klopp's worries are not unreasonable.

After the game started, just three minutes later, Hamburg's Irasek scored the ball from the left side of Dortmund's penalty area and turned around and shot, but the football was slightly off.

This was the first shot of both sides, and Hamburg fired its first shot.

Then Dortmund took the initiative, but Hamburg's defense has always been very stable, and Dortmund has never had any good chance.

"It seems that changing the head coach has indeed made Hamburg look refreshed. Facing Dortmund, Hamburg is not at all inferior!"
Chapter completed!