When Lewandowski volleyed his foot near the penalty spot in Arsenal's penalty area, Arsenal's defenders could only watch and were completely helpless.

When the football flew into the goal, the Arsenal fans in the stands held their heads with their hands, but they didn't expect the goal to be broken like this!

"Lewandowski--!Lewandowski!!" Marcel Lef was very excited. "Beautiful volley! Gotze's cross was also very accurate!"

The Dortmund players on the court all ran towards Lewandowski, and Zhou Yi was among them, but halfway through the run, he was hugged by Kyle.

"Beautiful job, Zhou Yi!" The captain praised him. "That interception just now was really accurate!"

Zhou Yi smiled: "You are welcome, captain. That depends on luck."

"Hey, don't be humble. You Chinese just like to be humble. It's your credit and it's your credit. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have made it!"

Zhou Yi was no longer modest and smiled happily.

His happiness is not only because he received praise from captain Kyle, or because of the goal, but more importantly, because he found confidence in this success. He does have his advantages in defense.

This advantage is different from others and belongs to his advantage only.

He is indeed on the right path now.

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He Ping is also paying attention to Zhou Yi: "The goal just now was initiated by Zhou Yi's steal. Is this the purpose of Klopp's defense? But the steal just now looks familiar..."

He suddenly remembered that this ball was a bit similar to the ball that Dortmund challenged Inter Milan away, and Zhou Yi intercepted the ball from behind.

When everyone saw that scene, they focused on scoring the goal. As for Zhou Yi's interception, more of it was considered luck.

I felt that Zhou Yi just happened to appear in a critical position, and then stretched out his feet and broke the football off.

So, isn't this ball lucky enough to hit it now?

He Ping dared not make such a statement in his heart.

He always felt that this matter was not that simple, and it could be explained by luck.

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Off the court, seeing Lewandowski scored a goal, Klopp jumped excitedly, waved his arms hard and cheered at the Emirates Stadium.

He was so excited, not only because the ball equalized the score, but also because he saw that his vision was effective again!

This ball was initiated by Zhou Yi, but before launching the attack, Zhou Yi completed a beautiful defense!

Yes, this is defense!

This is what Klopp hopes to see Zhou Yi’s defense.

"Jurgen, we've bet right!" Assistant coach Buvac was also very happy.

"Of course! That kid never let me lose!" Klopp praised Zhou Yi with great qualifiers.

In fact, Klopp and the coaching staff have been studying the matters regarding Zhou Yi’s defense since last season.

Because Zhou Yi has officially become a back midfielder last season, since he is a back midfielder, no matter how hard he defends, he still has to undertake some defensive tasks at that position, and it is not possible to rely solely on eye defense.

So Klopp and his assistants have been wondering if Zhou Yi is really suitable for defense. If he is suitable, how can he explore his defensive ability?

During this period, they studied a large number of Zhou Yi game videos, carefully analyzed Zhou Yi's playing characteristics and style, and then saw whether he was really suitable for defense.

In the end, both Klopp and Buvac thought that Zhou Yi actually had good defensive abilities, but he probably didn't realize it himself.

They did not know Zhou Yi's talent secret, but they found the secret in Zhou Yi's running position by analyzing so many games.

This led to a conclusion that Zhou Yi's ability to perceive space is far beyond that of ordinary people. His habit of waving his head left and right can capture the situation around him and remember it all in his mind. So he can see many things that ordinary people are difficult to see.

Since you have such ability, you should be able to judge the opponent's passing route. This provides the basis for interception.

So Zhou Yi does not have defensive ability, but his defensive ability is different from a player.

This misunderstanding in understanding has led many people to prejudice against Zhou Yi's defense, including himself.

But Klopp now needs to correct this prejudice and explore Zhou Yi's defensive ability.

This is equivalent to introducing one more main player for Dortmund.

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After celebrating the goal, everyone ran back to the half. When Zhou Yi went back, he looked at the coach's seat on the sidelines. He thought of what head coach Klopp said to him during the halftime break, which shows that he knows himself and knows what advantages he has before himself.

He saw Klopp standing on the sidelines and gave him a thumbs up.

So he smiled and gave a thumbs up.

It is a great blessing in his career to meet Klopp, a head coach who knows and trusts him so well.

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After Dortmund equalized the score, Emirates Stadium suddenly fell into a tense atmosphere. Not only the fans were worried, but the players also felt nervous.

The current situation in the group forces them to win, and they are clearly ahead. Now that Dortmund equalizes the score, who can stand it?

So after the game began, Arsenal continued to launch a fierce offensive against Dortmund's goal.

During their offense, Zhou Yi continued to perform his defensive duties.

After successfully breaking Walcott's pass, Zhou Yi found some tricks.

If the opportunity is really good, hide it aside and wait for an opportunity to intercept the ball.

But if the chance to intercept the ball directly is not particularly good, and you don’t want to break through here and want to force the opponent to the side or other places, then you can just stick to the opponent’s passing route openly.

In this way, when Arsenal players saw themselves blocking their pass route, they naturally retreated and passed the football elsewhere.

The former and the latter are actually successful defenses, and it is not necessary to cut off the football every time.

Arsenal players also quickly discovered the differences they felt during the offense and the specific differences were actually not very good, but they could find that their offense was not as smooth as before.

Sometimes, I had already made a good start to attack, but I found that the road was blocked in the middle of the fight, and I had to temporarily change to other routes.

That is, Arsenal's pass and control ability is excellent. If it were other teams, the offense would not be able to continue. Arsenal could at least open up another road, but it just had to go around and waste some time. The opportunity that was originally optimistic disappeared during the detour...

Why does this change lead to?

As they kicked, they found that the main reason for their poor attack was... Zhou Yi!

This discovery really shocked many people.

Because it is not only Arsenal players, but also the commentators who commented on the game have discovered it.

"Zhou Yi forced the opponent to pass the ball back..."

"Faced with Zhou Yi, Walcott was unable to break through. He passed the football... This scene is really surprising. You know, he easily broke through Zhou Yi before, leaving only Zhou Yi with a back..." The British commentator was incredible about this.

But this is nothing incredible. Zhou Yi can not only force Arsenal to return in his offense, but also occasionally intercept the ball and other things. Such performance is truly in front of everyone. Whether they want to or not, they must admit that Zhou Yi no longer seems to be the weakest link in Dortmund's midfield defense.

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When the game reached the 85th minute, the score was still tied 1:1. But Arsenal no longer had any obvious advantages in the field.

Dortmund frequently launched counterattacks through their defense in the midfield and backcourt.

Especially after Zhou Yi participated in the defense, Dortmund's counterattack speed was faster and his threat was greatly increased.

The Arsenal fans in the stands were silent. They found that it was not a problem of winning a few goals at home, but a problem of not being able to win at home...

This issue is also something that Arsenal players need to consider.

Can we still win this game now?

Wenger on the sidelines did not give up hope of winning. He directed the team to strengthen the offense and gave Dortmund a fatal blow for the rest of the time.

The game time passed by minute by minute, and in a blink of an eye, the fourth official raised a sign on the sidelines, reminding everyone that the injury time was three minutes.

A well-prepared stoppage time means that if Arsenal wants to win this game, they only have three minutes left to make their last try.

For Dortmund, as long as they dragged through these three minutes, they could take a draw away from the away game, which is completely acceptable.

After a draw, Arsenal still had eight points and Dortmund scored first in the group with twelve points. What's wrong with this?

Faced with Arsenal's aggressive offensive, Dortmund retreated across the board and vowed to defend the draw.

In the 92nd minute, Arsenal continued to launch an attack, but this time their attack failed.

Ramsey made a pass mistake - it was hard to say whether it was a pass mistake - the football was passed directly to Zhou Yi!

After intercepting the ball, Zhou Yi passed the ball directly and gave it to Shinji Kagawa.

After receiving the ball, the Japanese midfielder turned around and ran wildly, killing towards Arsenal's goal.

Because Arsenal was besieging Dortmund's goal before, there was no one on their defense line at this moment.

Shinji Kagawa shook past Mertesak, who was turning slowly, and faced the attacking goalkeeper Szczesny and pushed the shot!

The football rolled over from Szczesny's feet and... rolled into the goal!

"Shinji Kagawa! Shinji Kagawa! Shinji Kagawa!!!" Marcel Leif won consecutively and shouted the name of the goalkeeper because this was a decisive kill! "In the 92nd minute, Dortmund took the lead 2:1 away!"

When Shinji Kagawa turned around and ran wildly at the Emirates Stadium and rushed towards Zhou Yi, the entire Emirates Stadium suddenly fell into silence.
Chapter completed!