When Zhou Yi trained long passes in the virtual system, the real world was also passing day by day. At the national team level, the Chinese team went to the semi-finals of East Asia in Japan.

However, this time, Zhou Yi was not recruited by Gao Hongbo. Gao Hongbo's explanation is that Zhou Yi has heavy game tasks in the club. No one has recruited overseas players in the semi-finals of East Asia, so naturally the Chinese team does not have the need to recall Zhou Yi.

Chinese media also believe that Zhou Yi doesn't have to come back to participate in the East Asian semi-finals, which is not an international A-level event. Because these useless competitions have affected his future in Dortmund, it is not worth the loss.

You should know that Shahin performed well after returning from injury, which has already made the Chinese media feel a sense of crisis. If the main position in the club was taken away because of returning to China to participate in the irrelevant East Asian semi-finals, it would be like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.

There was no such precedent before.

After Yang Chen performed well in Frankfurt, he was frequently called back to China to participate in the national team competition, which eventually led to him losing his main position in Frankfurt. Such a tragedy cannot be repeated in Zhou Yi.

At the same time, the national team without Zhou Yi also gave the Chinese a surprise. They tied the host Japan 0:0 in the first game, and then ended the 32-year "fear of Korean" that was not victorious in Korea with a 3:0 victory! During the Chinese New Year, Chinese fans had a meal of dumplings.

In terms of the club, the game Borussia Dortmund is getting closer and closer to the away game against Bayern Munich.

However, Dortmund's preparations were not very smooth. During training, their main goalkeeper Weidenfell was injured.

There are few injuries to goalkeepers. Injuries during training are even rarer.

But such a rare thing happened to Dortmund.

As the team's main goalkeeper, Weidenfeller's last line of defense is very important for Dortmund.

His injury is definitely bad news.

So Klopp, who was on the training ground at that time, looked ugly.

You know, just the day before Weidenfeller was injured, the team's captain Sebastian Kyle was also injured.

Dortmund's luck was really bad after losing two people in a row.

When Kyle was injured, Klopp's face was not as ugly as it is now.

After all, after Shahin recovered from injury, Kyle is no longer the main force. Moreover, Kyle has always been with injuries in recent years. Injuries are commonplace. He was not injured during the period when Shahin was injured, and he performed in time, and his performance exceeded Klopp's expectations.

Weidenfeller's injury is definitely incomparable to Kyle's injuries.

When Weidenfeller was injured, the team's training was suspended. Everyone was watching the team doctor Dr. Craun checking Weidenfeller, and they all frowned. They also knew the importance of Weidenfeller to the team.

Someone couldn't help but sigh.

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Weidenfeller was injured suddenly, just the day before the team was about to set off for Munich.

In this way, Dortmund's goalkeeper can only exchange for Ziegler, who has no playing time for the season.

Then, with such a lineup, Dortmund's entire team flew to Munich.

The main goalkeeper was injured. In addition, he had only practiced a new tactic for a week, Dortmund did not get any advantage on the road.

They eventually lost 1:3 to Bayern Munich.

Dortmund took the lead in the opening five minutes, with Subotic scoring.

But the good times didn't last long, and then Bayern Munich scored three goals in a row.

Dortmund was beaten away without any temper.

This is the first time that Zhou Yi and Shahin have been doing well this season. Both players in good shape recently have made it highly anticipated.

When Shahin returned from injury, local media in Dortmund believed that Shahin could coexist with Zhou Yi at the same time. This will greatly enhance Dortmund's control and passing ability in the midfield.

But after the two players were at the same time, the team lost the ball.

And in the game, they did not show the effect of one plus one being greater than two.

This seems to be one of the reasons why the team lost to Bayern Munich away.

However, Klopp did not think so. He said at the post-match press conference that the loss was because of the team's bad luck.

Such an explanation is obviously not recognized by the media.

"Doesn't lucky? Dortmund took the lead in the first five minutes! If this is not lucky, then what is lucky?" Munich's local media sarcastically said.

As for Zhou Yi and Shahin's performance at the same time was not as good as everyone thought, Klopp also felt it was normal: "You also said that this is the first time that the two of them are at the same time this season. It is normal for them to have some lack of tacit understanding between them. I don't think there is any need to pay special attention to this."

In fact, Klopp knew in his heart that there was only one reason Dortmund lost to Bayern Munich, that is, Dortmund's strength is not strong enough compared to Bayern Munich.

But he cannot publicly admit this, as this is a blow to the morale of his team. If Dortmund players know that their coaches think they are not as good as Bayern Munich players, what will they think? They will feel that such a coach is not worthy of their desperate efforts. At that time, the trust foundation between the players and the coach will be disintegrated.

So Klopp could only put the blame for losing on bad luck.

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In fact, in the years when Dortmund had good grades, they were powerful challengers for Bayern Munich.

However, as Dortmund's performance declined and its fiscal situation deteriorated, the gap between Dortmund and Bayern Munich was wider and wider.

However, some other teams took over the banner of "Bayern Munich Challenger".

For example, Werder Bremen, Stuttgart, Schalke 04.

But before this game, Dortmund's momentum was very strong, which made everyone full of expectations for the match between Dortmund and Bayern Munich. See if Dortmund can become a challenger for Bayern Munich again.

But reality gave those who are so fantasized.

After the game, some media commented that although Dortmund performed much better at the beginning of the game season, there is still a long way to go to threaten Bayern Munich.

Some media disagree with the view that Klopp lost was bad luck, believing that Klopp should be responsible for the team's loss to Bayern Munich.

The successive injuries of Weidenfeller and Kyle are the responsibility of Klopp's training intensity.

Because both of them were injured during training.

Even Shahin's injury was counted on Klopp's head. He believed that Shahin was overly tired during training, which led to his inability to better protect himself in the game.

However, Klopp did not respond to this voice.

Some media also believe that Klopp wants to make Shaheen and Zhou Yi coexist in a "dual core" tactic of "the picture is beautiful" theoretically. However, there are many difficulties in actual operation and are not as promising as imagined.

"...The dual cores are not that fun. The English national team should be the lesson of Klopp. Gerrard and Lampard are well-deserved cores in their respective clubs, but the midfielders of the England team, which have these two world-class midfielders, are very chaotic and perform poorly in international competitions. This is because the two cores conflict with each other, the division of labor is unclear, and the responsibilities are chaotic... Now Dortmund is facing the same problem as the English team... The chaos in Shaheen and Zhou Yi's cooperation has been reflected in the game against Bayern Munich..."

Klopp also did not defend himself against the questioning of the new tactics.

No matter what the outside world sounds, he just wants his new tactics to take shape as soon as possible.

In the match against Bayern Munich, it can be seen that Shahin and Zhou Yi still have some problems with their cooperation.

For example, theoretically, two people should maintain contact and clear division of labor during the game, and can also change positions.

This requirement is actually very vague.

How can we maintain contact and clear division of labor? Are clear division of labor and mutual exchanges contradictory? When should we have clear division of labor and when can we have clear division of labor and when can we have different division of labor?

These are all difficult to figure out in one game. Only by constantly training and cooperation can we develop enough tacit understanding.

This takes time and patience.

Klopp is very patient with this. He is willing to give these two young people enough time. He also believes that these two young people will not let down the patience and expectations he has given.

But not everyone has this patience.

Zhou Yi actually didn’t.

He was very patient in the first team waiting for the opportunity to play.

Because he couldn't decide this matter, he couldn't wait patiently.

But for this matter, he hopes that through his own efforts, he can reduce the waiting time.

Especially after losing to Bayern Munich.

Zhou Yi was not in a hurry, and his attention was on long passes that week. But after he lost to Bayern Munich away, he realized that long passes needed time to slowly improve, and a week of hard practice was limited. His short passes were practiced for a year before he achieved the results.

Now it seems that his cooperation with Shahin in the midfield is more urgent.

So Zhou Yi adjusted his training proportion in the virtual system. He still practiced long passes every day, but he did not only practice long passes like last week. He now spends one-third of his time on long passes and short passes, and the remaining two-thirds of his training time is spent on the offensive and defensive training with Shahin.

The main purpose is to improve the level of tacit understanding with Shahin in the new tactical system. The specific manifestation is to explore the timing and degree of "maintaining contact, clear division of labor, and exchanging positions" in continuous repeated training.

In fact, this is not Zhou Yi’s own business, after all, it is a dual-core.

Zhou Yi's training can only improve his familiarity with new tactics, but not Shahin's proficiency with this style of play.

So it seems that special training like Zhou Yi is actually useless.

After a day of training, Zhou Yi also had such doubts.

Because no matter how he trains in the virtual world, in the real training the next day, everything seemed to be no different from before his special training. If it gets better, the amplitude of getting better is also very, very small...

It won't work like this, but you can't just let it go. You have to think of a solution, right?

After thinking hard for ten minutes, Zhou Yi came up with a solution.

Since Shahin cannot conduct special training, he can only train himself, let Shahin continue to play football in the way he is familiar with and cooperate with Shahin himself.

In this way, you can do it by just using special training.

This is the only way to cooperate with the most obvious and fastest effect among the dual-core tactics.
Chapter completed!