Klopp's substitution adjustment was considered by Schalke 04 as a desperate attempt, and he made a complete mistake and rational adjustment. It's okay to replace Shahin, but it is definitely worth discussing if he replaces Hummels.

If we want to strengthen the control of the midfield, shouldn’t the conventional approach be to replace a forward and a midfielder?

Defense is the basis of everything. Now that replacing a defender is equivalent to weakening the defense. So what is the point of strengthening midfield control?

Of course, it is not surprising that Klopp makes such adjustments, because he is such a head coach who is easy to bet on, and is a complete gambler. Sometimes, he can win, but there is no gambler in the world who can always win.

Klopp won a bet before, but it doesn’t mean he can still win this time.

In the view of Schalke 04's head coach Jens Keller, Klopp's adjustment is Schalke 04's opportunity, seizing their relatively empty defense line and striving to score another goal, so there is no suspense in the outcome of this game.

Keller replaced the dismissed coach Stevens before the winter break and became the team's head coach. Before that, he coached at Schalke 04's U17. Schalke 04 Club said that Keller is not an over-coach of the team and will coach until the end of the season.

Stevens was dismissed because of his poor performance. When he was dismissed, Schalke 04 had even fallen out of the Champions League zone and failed to win for six consecutive games.

Keller's main task after taking over the team is to get the team back to the Champions League and be able to qualify for the Champions League next season. For Schalke 04, although participating in the Champions League will make them perform poorly in the league, the Champions League qualification is related to huge fiscal revenue, which is a money that cannot be given up easily. In addition, if you can participate in the Champions League every year, it will also be beneficial to the cultivation of the team's strength. Look at Dortmund today, it is their good example. Dortmund can participate in the Champions League every year. They also won two consecutive championships in the domestic league, and the team's strength has improved by leaps and bounds.

Keller also knows that his shoulders are very heavy. He came to the club last July and signed a two-year U17 coaching contract with Schalke 04. The Schalke U17 he led has performed very well in the Youth League. As of the time he coached Schalke 04 first team, the U17 he led won thirteen games in the Western Conference League. And because the U17 youth team and Schalke 04 first team adopt a similar formation, the handover between Keller and Stevens will not be too difficult.

When coaching U17, Schalke 04U17 led by Keller scored 77 goals in thirteen games, with very strong offensive firepower. In the youth league, he led the team to defeat Dortmund 4:3 when facing the Dortmund youth derby. What Schalke 04 first team failed to do was accomplished in the youth team, so he can be regarded as a coach with experience in winning the Ruhr derby.

Now that he led Schalke 04 first team leads Dortmund two goals in the Ruhr derby, it seems to prove that his coaching experience in Schalke 04U17 youth team is useful.

So he also made adjustments to Dortmund's adjustment.

That is to strengthen the offense, and to target Dortmund's only three defenders, make Schalke 04's offensive more fierce, and strive to score another goal in the shortest time, then shrink the line and start defending.

With three balls and grounds leading, you can defend until the end of the game.

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After receiving the latest instructions from the head coach, Schalke 04's players continued to launch a fierce attack on Dortmund's goal after the start of the second half, while using their mad dog-like pressing in the midfield to maintain their advantage in the field.

Especially for Zhou Yi, it is not just Yang Muge, but other Schalke 04 players will also help Yang Muge defend Zhou Yi if they have the chance.

When Zhou Yi was defended and it was difficult to turn his body, Dortmund's attack naturally could not be organized.

This is a problem with Dortmund in the first half of the attack.

But the situation in the second half was a little different from the first half.

Because Shahin came on stage.

When Zhou Yi was in a deep siege, he didn't need to look for passing targets and paths everywhere like in the first half. Now he only needs to lock in one Shahin. When the opponent surrounds him, he passes the football to Shahin.

It is far less difficult to find multiple pass targets by just searching for one pass target.

So in the second half, Schalke 04 players, including Yang Muge, found that it was not as easy as the first half.

When the football was still passed to Zhou Yi, Yang Muge pounced on Zhou Yi. In addition to him, Hogel also rushed towards Zhou Yi, intending to double-team the left and right.

After Zhou Yi took the ball, he did not pass the football immediately, but adjusted it. It was when he adjusted that Yang Muge and Hogg came up, with Yang Muge pushing him close to him, while Hogg was waiting for an opportunity to move.

Zhou Yi, who was surrounded, then passed the football out, and he passed it to Shahin, who was not far away.

Because he attracted two Schalke 04 players himself, there was not even a Schalke 04 player around Shahin.

"Shahin received the ball! This ball is so beautiful!" Duan Xin shouted.

Shahin, who received the ball, turned around and led the ball forward. Before the other Schalke 04 players came up, he passed the ball to the other side of the court and landed at the feet of Dortmund striker Lewandowski, who was heading in the front.

After Lewandowski got the ball, Gotze had already stepped forward at high speed, so Lewandowski passed the football to Gotze, and Gotze finally completed a high-quality shot. The football was saved by Schalke 04's goalkeeper Hildebran and Dortmund won a corner kick.

After Hildebrand saved the football from the baseline, the TV broadcast cut to Shahing a close-up. He regretted that Gotze did not score the goal and was holding his head with both hands.

Marcel Lef sighed: "Shahin found Lewandowski very accurately with the transfer of his long pass just now. This scene really makes us feel like we were back two years ago. At that time, Shahin was also wearing Dortmund's jersey and frequently sent such long passes on the court..."

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Dortmund won a corner kick. When they were pressed by Schalke 04, any frontcourt set-piece they could get was worth taking seriously. So Dortmund players who were good at heading all squeezed into the penalty area and prepared to compete for the top.

Zhou Yi did not go up to join in the fun. He was not in his height or strength, and he was not very good at bounce. Such a way for him to run into the penalty area is meaningless except causing trouble. So when he was in a corner kick, if he hadn't taken the penalty, he would wait outside the penalty area for the second place.

The corner kick was handed over to Shahin to take the penalty, and he had just sent a precise long pass.

After he put the football on, he took a look at the situation in the penalty area. It was a mess. Schalke 04 and Dortmund players were entangled. You have me and I have you, so it is difficult to separate them out. Moreover, they still have movements in each other's hands, pulling the bear and holding it... He doesn't know who will be snatched when the ball hits the goal.

The referee Gagelmann obviously noticed this situation, so he whistled and paused the game, then ran into the penalty area, and called out the two most obvious players of both sides, Hummels and Hevedes, and gave them a verbal warning to them to take care not to have too much physical contact.

Both of them obviously thought it was the other party's responsibility, so they were not convinced. They were just too difficult to show off in front of the referee, so they nodded in the end to indicate that they would pay attention.

But when they returned to their positions, their hands quickly got on each other. Gagelman was used to this situation. If he insisted that the players on both sides were not allowed to contact each other, then by the 90th minute, the corner kick would probably not be able to be opened, so he can only turn a blind eye to the chaos in the penalty area.

Shahin stood in the corner flag area from afar, paying attention to what happened in the penalty area. He found that after the referee suspended the game, the situation still had not improved, and the penalty area was still in chaos.

At this time, of course, he can still choose to kick the football into the front area with one kick, and then turn the responsibility on his teammates who are fighting for the top in front of the goal. Let them try their best to compete for a chance that is not great. This is not a mistake. Anyway, not every corner kick can score, so failure must be allowed.

But Shahin doesn't want to do this, because for Dortmund now, every frontcourt set-piece like a corner kick is a valuable scoring opportunity. Why did head coach Klopp repeatedly remind himself how to play in the second half during the break?

It’s not because if the team loses this game, they will likely lose the league championship. So the victory of this Ruhr derby is crucial.

He hopes to help the team seize every opportunity to score.

It was a pity that Gotze didn't score the goal just now. He knew very well that the chances of passing the football without any defensive pressure like before will likely be less and less in subsequent games.

We must seize every opportunity and never be perfunctory!

Thinking of this, he turned his attention to outside the penalty area, where there were fewer people, and most of the players on both sides were concentrated in the penalty area, which made outside the penalty area look like a suburb of a bustling city, deserted.

Zhou Yi was there and was turning his attention to Shahin.

The two people's eyes met in the air, and suddenly a tacit understanding appeared deep in their hearts at the same time.
Chapter completed!