Reus's transfer success is a big event for Dortmund fans, and it is also a big event in the news of the Bundesliga winter break, but it is relatively ordinary in the entire European transfer market.

The impact within the Dortmund team is basically minimal at present.

Only Groschloitz, who has been teammates in Red and White Allen and Reus, is very excited.

In addition to training, others also have their own affairs and problems to solve.

For example, Shinji Kagawa.

He was a little annoyed during this winter break because his contract renewal negotiations with the club were not going very smoothly.

Both sides have never reached an agreement on the issue of annual salary.

How unsuccessful are the negotiations going?

In January 2011, the Dortmund Club planned to renew its contract with Shinji Kagawa.

As a result, a year has passed and the contract renewal has not been completed. It can be seen how big the differences between the two parties are...

In addition, Lewandowski's contract renewal negotiations are also underway.

Since Barrios left for transfer and Mark Wagner was injured, Lewandowski has become the only scorer Dortmund can count on on the front line.

Of course, he did not disappoint the team. He made 16 appearances in the first half of the season and scored ten goals, making him the team's number one scorer.

After the importance was highlighted, Dortmund also began to renew his contract.

The contract renewal will significantly increase Lewandowski's salary.

But I don't know if this can satisfy Lewandowski, who is in a hot state...

As for Zhou Yi...

Transfers and contract renewals have nothing to do with him. No matter what this summer will happen, at least during the winter break, he will not be able to leave Dortmund. In terms of contract, he has just completed a contract renewal with the club, and his salary has risen to three million euros. The club cannot immediately start a new round of contract renewal negotiations with him, unless the club is so much money that there is nowhere to spend...

In addition to completing normal training during the team's training, he is also continuing to carry out his physical training to strengthen physical fitness, further improve his running ability and expand his range of activities.

As a midfield organizer, being able to see far and spread far is not enough, and one must be able to run far. You must have the ability to appear in any part of the stadium in a 90-minute game, which requires physical support to be able to run to death.

Although Zhou Yi has developed quite smoothly since his debut, he has a good vision. His short pass is accurate and his long pass has made significant progress after so long training. He is still constantly training his dribbling and breakthroughs. It seems that the sky is wide ahead, and let him fly and gallop, his future is limitless.

But in fact, Zhou Yi felt a sense of crisis in his heart.

Although he did not hit the rookie wall, he seemed to have encountered a bottleneck.

This bottleneck is physical fitness. Because Zhou Yi himself is not the kind of player who can't run, his physical fitness is not very good. With sufficient physical fitness, his performance can be very good. However, with the retirement of the game, the number of times he sends threatening balls will decrease significantly in the final stage of the game. He often uses passes to control the rhythm rather than launching an attack.

In this case, if you need to fight back at the last moment, Zhou Yi will be powerless.

Of course, this is not a big problem. After all, there are so many professional players, and not everyone can keep their physical condition full of energy from the first minute of the game to the end. After all, there are a few people like that.

So if Zhou Yi is satisfied with the status quo, he can continue to be the core of Dortmund and a first-class player in the Bundesliga. Anyway, he will not be too bad, and he can continue to be the well-deserved core of the Chinese national team.

But Zhou Yi is an ambitious person, and he will not be willing to maintain his current level.

In order to make a breakthrough, he must continue to improve himself.

Physical fitness is the foundation of modern football. Although Zhou Yi's current physical fitness is much better than when he first debuted, he is still a bit far from Zhou Yi's goal in his heart... He hopes that even in 120 minutes, he can rush from the backcourt to the frontcourt to participate in the offense. Whether it is giving out fatal assists or shooting himself, there is no pressure.

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After fifteen days of training in Mallorca and three warm-up matches, Dortmund's entire team returned to Germany to make the final preparations and welcome the second half of the league.

In the 18th round of the league, the first team to appear were Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach. Bayern Munich challenged Borussia Mönchengladbach away.

As a result, Bayern Munich lost 1:3 away to Borussia Mönchengladbach!

During the winter break, Reus, who officially announced that he would transfer to Dortmund in the summer, scored his first record for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the eleventh minute of the game.

In the 71st minute, he assisted his teammate Hermann to score the third goal of Borussia Mönchengladbach in this game.

Bayern Munich only scored a goal to save face in the 76th minute by "Piggy" Schweinsteiger.

During the game, Duan Xin also joked: "This must be Reus's letter of vote for his new boss!"

The next day, Schalke 04 played against Stuttgart at home. Yang Muge, who was training with the team during the winter break, appeared in the fourth consecutive league game, and helped Schalke 04 defeat Stuttgart 3:1 at home.

One day later, Dortmund challenged Hamburg away.

Zhou Yi used two assists to help the team beat Hamburg 5-1 away.

Dortmund is now four points ahead of Bayern Munich in the standings.

In the 19th round of the league, Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Schalke 04, and Borussia Mönchengladbach all defeated their respective opponents.

All the top four teams in the league won, and the ranking remains unchanged.

Dortmund ranked first with 44 points, Bayern Munich ranked second with 40 points, Schalke 04 also caught up with a series of wins, amassing 40 points, but ranked third with a goal difference disadvantage. And Reus's location, Borussia Mönchengladbach, can be said to be a dark horse this season, and they ranked fourth with 39 points.

These four teams can be regarded as the number one group because their points gap is very close, and everyone has the opportunity to surpass their opponents.

The gap between Werder Bremen in fifth place and the top four is a bit big. Werder Bremen currently has 31 points, and there is still a 8-point gap between Mönchengladbach.

However, next, Schalke 04 will lose their main midfielder Yang Muge. Because Yang Muge is going to participate in the Olympic qualifiers, the Chinese national Olympic team will challenge the Qatar national Olympic team away.

Yang Muge also participated in the Olympic qualifiers before, but at that time Yang Muge was just a marginal player of Schalke 04's first team. Whether he is there has no effect on the team or not, and Stevens never thought there was anything wrong with this.

But now the situation is different.

Yang Muge is Schalke 04's main midfielder. Although he doesn't think he is so dazzling when watching the game, he seems to be invisible most of the time. But Stevens clearly knows that Yang Muge's existence has indeed improved the team's defense. This can be seen from Schalke 04's conceded goals in recent games.

In the first fifteen league games without Yang Muge, Schalke 04 conceded twenty goals, averaging 1.43 goals per game. In the five games Yang Muge played, Schalke 04 conceded only four goals, averaging 8 goals per game.

Numbers will not lie. Although Yang Muge is not a player whom the broadcast camera likes to follow on the court, the improvement he brought to Schalke 04 is real.

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After the match against Cologne, Yang Muge left Schalke 04 and flew to Qatar where he would meet with his teammates. At the same time, Sun Pan, He Ying and Guo Nu would also meet with the main force there to prepare for the group stage in a few days.

This game is very difficult for the Chinese Olympic team because it is their home court, and everyone knows the home advantage of West Asia.

In the end, the National Olympic Team tied 2:2 with Qatar on the road.

In the game, Qatar National Olympic Team scored the first goal and took the lead.

In the first half, He Ying equalized the score of the Chinese team.

In the 75th minute, He Ying scored twice and took the lead for the Chinese National Olympic Team.

At that time, Chinese fans thought they could win this game. Who knew that in the last 86th minute, the referee on duty awarded a penalty kick to Qatar!

At the critical moment, the home court advantage was fully utilized.

In the end, Qatar tied the Chinese National Olympic Team 2:2 at home with this penalty kick.

The failure to win Qatar has caused many Chinese fans to worry about the National Olympic Team.

But God is still quite fair. The Chinese team suffered unfair treatment against Qatar. The luck was so bad. Good luck made up for them in the match between South Korea and Saudi Arabia.

The South Korean Olympic team was tied 1:1 by the Saudi Arabian Olympic team on the road!

Everyone is tied, but the two sides are still one point apart.

Next, as long as the Chinese team defeats the South Korean team at home, they can surpass them, become the first in the group, and take their destiny into their own hands.

And this game will start on February 22.
Chapter completed!