Barrios' injury was finally confirmed. He wounded his groin in that shot. Now he will be missing for at least one and a half months. Whether he can play in the next game depends on his recovery in the past one and a half months.

Because the groin is a very important part for athletes, if there is injury here, if it is not handled properly, it will easily become an old injury and will occur repeatedly. Therefore, be cautious.

Fortunately, Mark's performance was good, which gave Dortmund's coaching staff more time, so they don't have to rush to get Barrios back.

In fact, the person who had been playing substitute for Barrios was Lewandowski, but fate was so joking. In this game, Lewandowski was not on the roster at all and was replaced by Mark. So in just one game, Mark scored twice, and his performance blinded everyone.

In such a situation, Klopp must give priority to Mark, not Lewandowski...

There is no reason to let a young genius who just scored twice in the Ruhr derby continue to be substitute.

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After the Ruhr derby, Klopp gave the team a day off. That night, Zhou Yi came to Mark's home to attend a family dinner to celebrate Mark's outstanding performance in the game.

It was a real family gathering, not just Mark's parents and Cortana he had seen, but also Mark's relatives.

About twenty people gathered at Mark's house.

The yards in front and behind the house were full of people. Everyone was drinking beer while chatting. Anyone who saw Mark would say "Congratulations".

As a famous Dortmund star, Zhou Yi naturally gained everyone's favor. He kept meeting everyone's photo and autograph requirements at the party.

In response to this, Mrs. Wagner said to Zhou Yi apologetically: "Sorry, Zhou Yi, I asked you to attend the party. I didn't expect to bother you so much..."

Zhou Yi waved his hand quickly: "Where did you go? Mrs. Wagner. This is just a small task, and it is definitely not as good as Mark's signature outside the training base tomorrow, haha!"

After saying that, he looked at Mark and laughed.

Mrs. Wagner laughed happily.

She felt extremely proud and proud to have such a son.

Mark, whose son is surrounded by a bunch of kids, must listen to him telling the feeling of scoring a goal in the Ruhr derby.

"It's so... so good!" Mark originally wanted to say, "It's so good that it's so good", but he immediately realized that these are children and could not swear. So he paused quickly and swallowed the swear.

The little kids screamed excitedly, and they looked at Mark with a hero-worshiping look.

Of course, the protagonist of this party is Mark. He is the focus of everyone's concern and discussion, and everyone will deliberately or unintentionally project their eyes on him.

After meeting everyone's request for autographing and photo, Zhou Yi did not go up to disturb Mark, but returned to the house and walked straight to the second floor to the door of the room where he had lived.

The door was closed, and Zhou Yi opened it with a slight push.

The layout inside is the same as when he accompanies him. A bed, a table and a cabinet are very simple.

This was his first place in Germany, where he went from being a youth team player to a first team player.

Just as Zhou Yi was a little dazzled when he saw the scene in front of him, the door behind him opened and a Cortana came out.

"What are you doing?" she asked when she saw Zhou Yi.

"Oh, I'll come up and see, why are you here?" Zhou Yi was surprised.

"Still it here. There are too many people down there." Cortana shrugged.

"Yes." Zhou Yi listened with his ears and nodded.

"Do you like quiet too?" Cortana asked.

"No. I just came up and took a look." Zhou Yi shook his head.

"I think so."

"Did you go to the game yesterday?" Zhou Yi asked suddenly.

Cortana was a little surprised: "How do you know?"

"Because I saw you."

Zhou Yi's answer scared Cortana.

Seeing Cortana's panic look, Zhou Yi smiled: "I'm lying to you, I heard Hannah say."

"Hannah's big mouth!" Cortana rolled her eyes, but at the same time, she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. If Zhou Yi saw her standing up among a large group of Schalke 04 fans, she would be really disgraceful... Wouldn't her previous image be ruined?

Seeing Cortana like this, Zhou Yi found it funny. This woman is really cold on the outside and hot on the inside. She seems to be very opposed to her younger brother playing football, but she didn't expect to go to watch the football on the spot. And she is still sitting among a group of Schalke 04 fans, and she is really hard for her younger brother.

When Zhou Yi thought of her proud look in the thought of her standing up with her arms raised and standing up with pride among a large group of dejected Schalke 04 fans, he thought this woman was really interesting.

He was celebrating with Mark at that time, but he saw this scene earlier than Mark. Although it was short, with Cortana's outfit and how she stood up to celebrate, Zhou Yi didn't have much effort to speculate that it should be Cortana.

Later, Hannah told him that Cortana was indeed going to watch the football scene, and was sitting among a group of Schalke 04 fans. He felt that the woman he saw in black and wearing a baseball cap should undoubtedly be Cortana.

"How is it? Do you still feel that your younger brother does not have the talent to play football?" Zhou Yi asked.

"A game cannot tell the problem, and a player will not only play this game in his life." Cortana snorted.

"You're right." To Cortana's surprise, Zhou Yi did not refute her, but nodded in agreement. "The career is very long, so it requires continuous efforts and progress, and we cannot relax. But I still believe that Mark can go further and further on the road of professional football and achieve success. What do you think?"

Cortana looked at Zhou Yi and said nothing.

Zhou Yi also looked at her, with a faint smile on his face, as if waiting for her answer.

At this moment, Mark's voice rang downstairs: "Zhou Yi? Where are you, Zhou Yi? Come quickly, they want to take a picture with you!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yi turned his head downstairs and replied, "Okay, I'll come right away."

After saying that, he turned around and said to Cortana, "Goodbye, stubborn sister."

After Zhou Yi disappeared under the stairs, Cortana realized that she had reached the door frame at some point. She was actually suppressed by a little boy and retreated...

Thinking about what he said, the look he stared at his eyes made Cortana feel a little upset and dared not look directly at him. He just wanted to escape.

Such a self is really... so embarrassing!

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The end of this family banquet ended with everyone gathering together to take a big photo.

Zhou Yi and Mark are naturally the core of everyone's surroundings, standing in the center, while Cortana stands in the corner of the crowd, as if she wants to hide herself.

After a lively banquet, Zhou Yi returned to where he lived, but Cortana did not come back, but stayed at home.

This surprised Zhou Yi a little. He originally thought Cortana would come back one after another with him.

After washing up, Zhou Yi went to bed early. Attending a banquet, it was very tiring to deal with so many people.

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The next day, when the training was about to begin, Mark hurried to the locker room.

"Mark, you're almost late." Captain Kyle said with a straight face.

"Sorry, Captain. I came very early. But..." Mark said gasping.

However, before he finished speaking, a burst of laughter rang out in the locker room, including the captain Kyle, who was originally stern, and then laughed.

"Hahaha!"

The locker room was filled with joyful laughter, and Mark was a little confused and didn't realize what was going on.

Zhou Yi shouted to Mark: "Did you wear a wrist cover, Mark?"

Hearing Zhou Yi's words, Mark understood what everyone was laughing at. He quickly raised his hand: "It's worn!"

Everyone laughed even happier.

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If someone is worried that Mark will start to be as arrogant as he becomes famous overnight, then let them look at Mark's training, I'm afraid such a thought will not exist.

During training, Mark was still very serious and hardworking, and did not feel that he scored two goals in the game against Schalke 04. To help the team win, he would have "no regrets in his life" - how stupid a person can have such an idea?

Because of Barrios' injury, Klopp revised his training plan, and Mark was obviously placed in a very important position.

At the same time, Mark, Zhou Yi and Gotze's series of quick passes and cuts in the game gave Klopp some inspiration. He added Shinji Kagawa and let the four of them play such a cooperation together.

Shinji Kagawa's personal technical characteristics are indeed very suitable for playing like this. Because he has excellent skills, flexible running positioning, and has the characteristics of small skills unique to Japanese players. He can be well integrated with these three people.

Barrios' style was completely different from Mark before. The four of them would never be able to cooperate like this, so Klopp had never considered this aspect.

Now that Barrios is injured, he looked again and found that Shinji Kagawa is surprisingly suitable for this style of play.

If Dortmund could speak like this, it would solve the problem that Zhou Yi, as a single core, would be stared at by others.

The offense in the frontcourt will become more free and casual, increasing unpredictability and making it more difficult for the opponent to defend.

In fact, from a certain perspective, such an offense can be understood as the perfect offensive level that Klopp hopes to achieve. The frontcourt offense relies on talent, and the backcourt defense relies on discipline. Now, in Dortmund's frontcourt offensive lineup, they actually do not have much physical advantage, but these small men are very flexible and talented. Klopp himself doesn't know what their combination will become in the end, but he is looking forward to it.

In his favor, after this Ruhr derby, the next game will have to wait a week later, and there will be no other games in between, so he can use a whole week to train this tactics.

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Chapter completed!