Grass roots glory

Chapter 496 An Unpopular Prelude?

The Bernabéu fell silent again.

This time it was completely quiet. The goal came so unexpectedly that everyone was unprepared. With a distance of 25 meters and a wall of five people, Zhou Tiancheng hit an angle that the goalkeeper couldn't save.Although Casillas is a top goalkeeper, he is not a god after all, he did not predict in advance, and he can only surrender in the face of such a ball.

The interest of the Real Madrid fans was severely frustrated. The fire of hope in their hearts was burning fiercely. Zhou Tiancheng carried a bucket of ice water and directly extinguished the fire, making them feel the icy chill.

Falling behind again is not terrible, even two away goals at home will not make Real Madrid fans feel this way, what really scares them is that Zhou Tiancheng seems to be able to do this at any time, as long as he wants .The top defense and legendary goalkeeper don't seem to have any interference with him.

This means that Real Madrid cannot make any mistakes on the field, and even mishandling is not allowed. This is what really makes them worry.Although they have great confidence in Real Madrid, they are not arrogant enough to believe that Real Madrid can be flawless. In fact, this is impossible.

At the end of the first half and entering the intermission period, Duan Xuan was very optimistic about Dortmund's prospects: "As long as Zhou Tiancheng can play the second half smoothly, Dortmund can at least return to the home court with a very satisfactory result." The decisive victory, so what Zhou Tiancheng must pay attention to is to protect himself. After all, there are lessons learned from the past, and the heart of defense is indispensable. In fact, if Klopp replaces him, it would be the most ideal way, but this is obviously impossible."

Marcel Leff praised Zhou Tiancheng unreservedly: "Zhou's halftime performance was simply perfect, is there anything he can't do? No! No one can stop him, these two goals have helped He surpassed Cristiano and Messi in the UEFA Champions League real-time scorer list, and now he monopolizes the UEFA Champions League scorer list! Hahaha, come on, Zhou, nothing can stop you!"

Holding such an advantage, Klopp naturally has to consider how to expand the advantage. He is a person who advocates ending the game with offense. In the midfield, he made an adjustment that no one expected. He replaced Sven Bender Next, Ilkay Gundogan was replaced.

After the winter break, Gundogan was gradually able to get consecutive opportunities in the league, and a considerable part of them were starters. He has no game experience in the Champions League.But all of this is not a problem in Klopp's eyes, only whether he thinks it is suitable. Klopp believes that experience can always be practiced on the court.

Gundogan ran onto the court with a look of excitement. From this point of view, he was much luckier than Shaheen in the opposite camp.

At this time, Shaheen was in his apartment, watching the live TV broadcast with a depressed face. He didn't even make the roster for this game, and he didn't even have the qualification to sit and watch the game.

This is by no means the first time. For most of the season, he has only played four times in the league.

When he saw Zhou Tiancheng shoot through Iker Casillas' goal for the second time, he suddenly felt very regretful, and greeted his agent in a low voice: If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have believed his nonsense, you bastard!

As soon as he entered a wealthy family, Shaheen unfortunately became another person who fulfilled this sentence.

At this moment, Gundogan walked onto the court, and his teammates came over to give him high fives one by one, as a way of encouraging him. Zhou Tiancheng came over and asked, "Ilkay, what do you want to say to the boss?"

"Attack!" Gundogan replied excitedly.

Zhou Tiancheng nodded lightly: "Then you go up, and I'll cut off the back for you."

Jing Duoan gave a dry laugh, feeling a little inappropriate: "Zhou, isn't this bad?"

Zhou Tiancheng knew what he was thinking, and asked back: "The boss didn't give you a limited role and you are not allowed to attack?"

Gundogan shook his head.

"Then there is no hesitation, or I will go up, but can you prevent their counterattack?"

"Uh..." Jing Duoan was even more speechless, Zhou Tiancheng did get to the point, and it was less difficult for him to be in charge of the offense.

But this does not mean that Zhou Tiancheng is a defensive engineer. He has never played such a role in Dortmund's system. Although Gundogan's position is higher, the actual effect is more to attract attention. Regardless of the effect, everyone still regarded Zhou Tiancheng as the brain of the field without any surprise.

In this way, Dortmund's midfield is close to the penalty area as a whole, and the defense must remain consistent as a whole. The result is that Dortmund firmly suppresses Real Madrid in the half!
At least it is impossible to organize an effective counterattack from the middle.Even Ozil retracted to open up space with the striker, but whether it is him or Alonso, it is difficult to pass the ball accurately when there are at least two defensive players one meter in front of him. It is not small.

The two outlets in the midfield were choked. Mourinho took a look at Kaka, who was left by himself as a backhand, and replaced Di Maria with him in the No. 70 minute.

Kaka's first position is the attacking midfielder, but Mourinho is now going to use his abnormal breakthrough and extraordinary ability.

In the last half hour of the game, Dortmund experienced an extremely torturous test. Ronaldo and Kaka's lightning-fast counterattacks made the two central defenders who were slow to return to defense suffer a lot.Fortunately, there was Zhou Tiancheng, who acted as a sweeper in time, received it in the penalty area, and was precisely stuck between the running lines of Ronaldo and Kaka, while leaning on Benzema.

One against three!

To everyone's surprise, he actually predicted the line that Kaka would pass to Ronaldo after the inside cut. One second he was staring at Kaka, and the next second he fell to the left and stretched his foot.Directly blocked the passing line.

"Aha, beautiful, 1V3! Powerful anticipation ability, so calm."

Duan Xuan couldn't help sighing.

Seeing such an opportunity, Mourinho shook his head again and again.He knew very well that the tide was over.

In the last 5 minutes, Dortmund began to use various tactics to delay time. The 5 minutes of stoppage time in regular time made both sides very dissatisfied. Marcel Leif said: "The stoppage time is too long. In the current situation, Real Madrid has no possibility of equalizing the score, and it is meaningless to give it a long time."

Juan Picchi, the commentator of Madrid TV, said angrily: "It's useless, it's useless. Even if the referee team makes up another game, Dortmund can lie on the turf and spend the time to their heart's content. Never underestimate a pursuit." What kind of tricks will the victors use, haha!"

However, when Rizzoli blew the final whistle, everything was sealed.

Dortmund won 2:1 away and took the lead.

This was the first matchup in the first round of the quarter-finals, and it was an upset.

"This result is really surprising. Could it be a prelude to unexpected surprises?"

No one knows this now, but returning to Westphalia in the second round, more and more fans began to believe that Dortmund's upset is getting closer to reality.

(End of this chapter)