No matter where Zhou Yi runs, there is always a Valencia player around him, not necessarily the same person. Sometimes it is the striker Soldado or Mata, and sometimes it is the midfielder Alberda or Joaquin...

He kept changing his position on the court, and the defensive players around him were always changing, but what remains unchanged is that no matter what, there are people who are guarding against him.

This is not a man-target defense, but an area defense.

The advantage of this defense is that it can keep the overall formation of the team from being messed up, and there will be no one following you, but you will be able to use it by your opponent.

For example, in the first game of Dortmund's League, Heinx used man-to-man defense against Zhou Yi. As a result, after Vidal was pulled out, Leverkusen was imbalanced in the midfield and backcourt, and was used by Dortmund to concede the ball.

Valencia's head coach Emery used regional defense in this game to avoid such a situation.

However, regional defense also has weaknesses - the weakness of regional defense is that it is not tight enough to keep a close eye on people, which can easily give the opponent more space and time.

Emery made some adjustments to the regional defense. He made the team's formation shrink more compactly, especially in the middle, so the wings look a little larger, but the middle is very tight and compact. In this way, the space Zhou Yi can get is greatly compressed.

Although this will give more room to the wing, Emery cares more about defense in the middle than limiting the wing. In any case, Zhou Yi cannot easily organize the offense.

From the current point of view, under such a defense, Zhou Yi had to pass the ball out as soon as he received the ball. In such a tense atmosphere, it was difficult to organize any threatening attacks.

"... Valencia should hope to use this shrinking defense to limit Zhou Yi's performance and make him a pure passer..." Marcel Lef analyzed. "But I don't think Dortmund must rely on Zhou Yi to organize the offense. Anyone can use this huge wing."

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Although Zhou Yi seemed to be driven away by Valencia's tight defense, he was unable to live in peace and could only ensure that the football was not lost. There was no guarantee that the threatening ball would be passed.

But in fact, although Zhou Yi was running constantly, he could see the running positions of both sides on the court clearly, and a constantly changing aerial view was generated in his mind. It was like using satellite cloud maps to see the weather, which was clear at a glance, and could predict the future based on some rules, basically achieving the goal of being inseparable.

Through the overlook, you can clearly see that Valencia's players are basically concentrated in the area between the two ribs of the court. There are very few people on the sidelines. At the same time, in order to keep the three lines or even four lines compact, they compress the front and back very hard. This leads to the fact that there are actually many places on the court that Valencia cannot cover.

But those places are a bit far away from me, and it is difficult to send football with a short pass like normal.

So don't use short passes, long passes.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yi found that as he moved to the right of the court, a relatively large space appeared in the upper left corner.

Because everyone's center of gravity and attention are attracted by football, that corner is the farthest from football, and naturally it is also the weakest defensive force.

There is an opportunity.

All you need now is a precise long pass.

During the process of observation and thinking, Zhou Yi continued to run to the right. It seemed like he was going to become a winger.

He did this, pushing Groschloitz into the front and becoming a winger.

The football was passed.

The focus of Dortmund's offense seemed to be here, and everyone thought so.

But after getting the ball, Zhou Yi suddenly turned around and passed the ball in a completely opposite direction - the upper left corner of the court!

There, Dortmund's left-back Schmelzer had already inserted at high speed. When he reached that space, Zhou Yi's pass also arrived at the destination.

Schmelzer raised his foot and stopped Zhou Yi's pass, very calm because no one came up to force him.

"Schmelzer! Beautiful long pass transfer! Zhou Yi!" Marcel Leif shouted excitedly.

The Dortmund fans, who were not many with the team, also gave huge cheers, which covered the cheers of Valencia fans over Mestalia for a moment.

After receiving the ball, Schmelzer took a step into the penalty area and sent out the cross. Barrios ran back and stepped forward, snatching the football before Valencia's defender Mathieu.

But unfortunately, the football he pushed out was above the crossbar!

"Ahhhhh!" Marcel Leif held his head with regret. "Barrios! He wasted this excellent opportunity! Otherwise Dortmund would lead 1:0 in the away game! The game has just begun for three minutes! This is Dortmund's first shot in this game. It is much more threatening than Alberto Costa's long shot just now!"

While Barrios topped the ball high, a huge scream came out over Mestalia. It was the terrified shouts of Valencia fans and the sighs after escaping from death.

In front of the bench and coaching seat of Dortmund, there was also a group of people holding their heads in their hands and sighing to the sky. They were not grateful for Valencia's escape from death, but on the contrary, they were regretting that they were not able to score first!

"Barrios! Barrios! Barrios--!" Klopp grabbed his hair and repeated Barrios' last name in annoyance and angrily. "It's really a hell!"

"Oh! Zhou Yi's move was so beautiful!" Yang Muge also exclaimed in the group.

"That Barrios is too bad, right? I won't be able to top this ball even if I get it!" Sun Pan regrets that Zhou Yi's pass was wasted.

"It seems that Zhou Yi's long pass has really been trained..." Guo Nu said. "His progress is really visible to the naked eye..."

He Ying didn't say anything, just stared at the TV screen, and put the phone next to it, but it was not picked up.

Although he didn't see what everyone was talking about, his feelings were the same as Guo Nu, that is, Zhou Yi's progress was so obvious... Looking back at the rookie high school student who just joined the team, he was just two people with Zhou Yi now.

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"Barrios! It's simply a crime!" Zhou Jianliang slapped himself in his thigh in annoyance, and shocked Li Cuiyun next to him with a slap.

She glared at her husband, but obviously at this time he had completely immersed in the game and had no idea about himself around him.

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After the game restarted, Valencia took the ball and used the wing to launch a new round of offensive against Dortmund's penalty area.

Finally, he created a threatening shot through Joaquin's cross. Soldado's shot was pounced down by Weidenfeller and held it in his arms.

It was considered a return to Barrios' header just now.

Then the two sides began a fierce attack.

Yes, it's an attack.

Dortmund did not shrink his defense just because he played away, and played very conservatively.

Similarly, Valencia, who played at home, had no reason to play conservatively.

The head coaches of both teams are passionate representatives of the young and strong. When these two teams meet, it is difficult to play.

So the game continued in a fast-paced and high-confrontation.

Fast pace means that both sides have very fast offensive and defensive conversion speeds in the attack.

High confrontation naturally means that this game is not a polite greeting between the gentlemen, but a collision with the ** and ** and the ** and the ** and the ** and the times are splashing.

As the core of Dortmund's midfield, Zhou Yi was naturally under the focus of Valencia's defense.

Emery knew very well that if you want to paralyze the entire Dortmund, Zhou Yi would never let him go.

So he adopted such an area defense, specifically targeting Zhou Yi's continuous position change during the game.

It can be seen that Emery has studied Zhou Yi and put in some effort.

However, as the game progressed, Emery gradually frowned.

Because he found that Zhou Yi was different from what he expected.

Before this game, Zhou Yi had not participated in any UEFA Champions League matches, so it was not easy to get videos of Zhou Yi's matches in the Champions League. He could only study Zhou Yi's performance in the league.

After research and analysis, he mastered some of the characteristics of Zhou Yi playing football in the league and designed his own defensive tactics in a targeted manner.

There is a prerequisite for this defensive tactic, that is, Zhou Yi's performance is the same as he did in the league.

This wasn't a problem.

But the problem is that the Bundesliga and the Champions League are different.

The difference between the Champions League and the Bundesliga can be clearly expressed with just one data - in the Champions League, the passing speed is ten to fifteen percentage points faster than the Bundesliga.

This is the feeling Zhou Yi experienced in the virtual competition.

With such a large speed-up, if you are an inexperienced player, you may be unacceptable.

Emery believes that Zhou Yi will definitely not adapt. After all, he is very young and is only nineteen years old this year. He is so young and lacks enough experience. Once he encounters a situation different from his expectations, his performance will fluctuate.

At this time, putting some pressure on him is enough to make him collapse.

However, after watching the game on the sidelines for ten minutes, Emery felt that Zhou Yi showed no sign of collapse, but was more like a veteran with rich experience in the Champions League...

This is unscientific!
Chapter completed!