The evening of October 20th is the most anticipated football night for Chinese fans. First, the Ruhr derby was ushered in at 9:30 pm, and then at 4:00 am on the 21st, Barcelona challenged La Coruña away. If they are lucky, they can see three Chinese players in one night. ΔΔΔ

The day before the game, Barcelona announced the 18-man roster for the game, and He Ying was selected again.

This makes Chinese fans full of longing for the next game.

In fact, Zhou Yi and Yang Muge were also included in the roster of their respective teams, but it was no longer news that they were selected for the roster, so no one paid attention to it. As long as everyone sees them playing on the court, it is enough.

In fact, there is another person who was selected into the roster of the competition and is worth paying attention to, but Chinese fans and media do not care because that is not a Chinese player.

The Dortmund local media are very happy.

That is, Mark Wagner, who missed the entire season due to a serious injury last year, finally made it to the roster. This means that his body has met the standards for playing games, and it also means that his injury has been healed.

Dortmund media expressed their welcome and longing for Mark's return, and Dortmund fans were also very happy. Everyone still remembered Mark's performance after coming to the first team last season. At that time, all Germany thought that a new star on the front line was rising.

As a result, injuries caused everything to come to an abrupt end.

After experiencing such a serious injury, it is already a great victory for Mark to be able to return to the court. Everyone is actually very tolerant of his future. Let’s go back to the court first and then talk about other things.

Zhou Yi was not surprised that Mark could return to the roster, because when he saw Cortana move back to live with him, he knew that Mark should be not far from returning to the stadium.

Sure enough, Klopp put Mark on the roster of this game.

Having just experienced a national team game, many players in Dortmund will have some ups and downs in physical fitness and condition. Putting Mark on the roster is also a supplement and prevention.

If any player performs poorly, Klopp can consider letting Mark over.

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Before the game, the whole Dortmund team stayed in a hotel to prepare for the game.

Zhou Yi and Mark were assigned to a room.

When it was time to rest, Mark couldn't sleep, so Zhou Yi, who was on the bed next door, quipped: "What, Mark? This is not your first professional game, why are you nervous?"

"Cough..." Mark didn't expect that Zhou Yi was not asleep. He was startled. "You didn't sleep, Zhou Yi?"

"I woke up by you, Mark."

"Ah, sorry, Zhou Yi, I didn't mean it...I just...I'm a little nervous. Because this is the first time I've been on the big list after more than a year..."

Zhou Yi laughed: "It's just about being on the roster. It's not really about to play. Why are you nervous? Besides, even if you want to play, there's nothing to be nervous about, right?"

"After all, there has been no game for more than a year, and I don't know what I will perform at that time. What if I don't play well? You have to know that this is a Ruhr derby!"

"I have some confidence in myself, what's wrong with the Mark Ruhr derby? Do you remember your first first team game? Have you forgotten? It's also a Ruhr derby..."

After Zhou Yi said this, Mark remembered: "I remembered that I was also very nervous before that game..."

"Yes, you're so nervous that you can't even warm up. I even kicked you in the head."

"It's the face!"

Zhou Yi burst into laughter.

Mark also smiled, and scenes of the moment appeared in front of him instantly. He was really making a fool of himself at that time.

But when he was unexpectedly arranged to come out of the bench...

"But when you played, you scored two goals, Mark. You scared everyone, including your parents." Zhou Yi said after laughing. "So believe in yourself, Mark. Treat this game with a normal mind. As long as you give you opportunities and time, you will find your state and there is nothing to worry about.

After hearing Zhou Yi's words, Mark's heartbeat slowed down a lot: "Thank you, Zhou Yi. I feel much better now and I'm not that nervous anymore. I think I can have a good sleep now."

"So good night, Mark."

"Good night, Zhou Yi."

After saying that, Zhou Yi did not really close his eyes and enter the virtual space, but waited quietly until he heard the breathing sound coming from Mark's bed became smooth and even. Then he closed his eyes and went to "Dream" to compete with Schalke O4.

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Before this Ruhr derby, Dortmund and Schalke O4 scored 14 points, among which Dortmund ranked third above Schalke O4 due to the advantage of the number of goals.

Schalke O4 "ranks fourth".

This is the Ruhr derby with the smallest gap between the two teams in recent years.

On the one hand, Schalke O4 has performed well this season, and on the other hand, Dortmund's performance has not been very stable after the start of this season.

The seven rounds of the league have passed, and the first place in the league is Bayern Munich led by Heinx. He won seven games and scored 21 points, ranking first with an unbeaten record.

Bayern Munich's performance announced their strong return this season and vowed to regain the league championship.

Media experts believe that the reason why Dortmund's performance after the start of this season is related to their core Zhou Yi not training with the team before the season.

Their analysis makes sense. Pre-season training is very, very important for a team. There are many examples of European football's performance plummeting because of not doing a good job in pre-season training.

A typical example is Real Madrid in the 2oo3-2oo4 season. Real Madrid, who was also the league champion last season, came to East Asia to make money during the pre-season training camp. The team is busy with various commercial activities and does not conduct systematic pre-season training camps well.

This leads to insufficient physical reserves for players.

In addition, the new head coach Queros trusts the main lineup too much in the game and rarely uses rotation, which leads to the main players' physical fitness consumed too quickly, and the substitutes lack the training of the game. When they need to replace the main players, they cannot support them at all.

Until the 31st round of the league, Real Madrid ranked in the list with 67 points, hoping to defend the league champion.

But then Real Madrid fell into a collapse, leading the 38th round of the league from the 32nd round, and Real Madrid lost all seven rounds!

Set a record of the most shameful record in Real Madrid's century history. After that season, Queiroz was fired. He was originally an assistant coach at Manchester United, but he thought his wings were hard, so Real Madrid extended an olive branch to him, making Queiroz very ambitious, but he ended up suffering the biggest Waterloo in his coaching career in Real Madrid.

Real Madrid ended that season with a shameful performance and ended Queros' coaching years at the Bernabeu.

If Real Madrid could do a good job in training during the pre-season training camp, maybe they wouldn't collapse so quickly in the end.

Although Zhou Yi showed a good state after the start of the league and was no stranger to the team, his familiarity does not mean that other people in Dortmund are familiar with him.

In short, there are still some problems with running-in, which is an objective fact.

The national team competition has just ended, and it is the Ruhr derby. Zhou Yi flew back and forth on the Eurasian 6, which will definitely affect his condition and physical fitness. The media believe that although this game is Dortmund's home court, Schalke O4 may not have no chance to defeat his opponent.

In short, this is likely to be the most even Ruhr derby in recent years.

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After the competition began, media analysis was confirmed.

The first to score was not the home team Dortmund, but the away team Schalke O4!

Schalke O4 scored a goal in just fourteen minutes of the game!

Schalke O4's loan from Barcelona Ibrahim Afelle used his degree and skills to break through and scored after a shot.

He made the entire West**** stadium quieter.

Schalke's commentator shouted excitedly in the commentary seat: "Afeel! Afeel! Elves from the Netherlands! He set the record for Schalke O4!!"

"To be fair, before scoring, Schalke O4's performance was indeed better than Dortmund. This goal is logical and there is no accident. Schalke O4's preparation is obviously more sufficient than Dortmund..." Marcel Leif said.

After Schalke scored a goal ahead of the O4 goal, their morale boosted and their play became even more crazy. Everyone ran tirelessly to curb Dortmund. Yang Muge not only guarded Zhou Yi but also defended other Dortmund players in the midfield. He was like building a dam in the midfield, blocking Dortmund's offensive outside the dam, leaving his goal safe and sound.

In the first half, Dortmund's entire team was not much different from sleepwalking, and the national team's game day still had a greater impact on them.

Logically speaking, the Ruhr derby should be very intense. Even if there is no goal, there should be many fouls. But Dortmund seemed to be too polite at his home court. The only yellow card in the first half was what Schalke O4 players received, from their midfielder Hoggle.

At the end of the first half, the score was still o:1, and the home team Dortmund fell behind. (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!