Zhou Yi can't train with the team at all now, and he can't do ball training. He comes to the training base every day to almost just ask Cortana for massage and acupuncture, and then ask Cortana to practice cupping on him.

In the first two days, after doing this, he left and asked his agent Shultze to pick him up home.

But later, he didn't leave so early. After finishing the massage and acupuncture, he would continue to stay in the physiotherapy room where Cortana worked and chat with her.

In this physiotherapy room, Cortana is a physiotherapist. When the players are training, they will not come to her as long as they are not injured or tired. Most of the time, Cortana has nothing to do and will read books after finishing her work.

However, she was not in conflict with Zhou Yi staying to chat with her.

She may not be able to chat with others. She is very happy to chat with Zhou Yi when she meets her opponent.

The same is true for Zhou Yi. I don’t know if it’s because he knows enough with Cortana or something else. Anyway, he feels comfortable chatting with Cortana. Especially after moving away, he feels more and more that he and Cortana seem to have a good relationship.

When I lived together, I didn’t feel this way. Now I’m separated and feel strongly.

He is now quite enjoying being alone with Cortana.

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Zhou Yi enjoyed the time spent with Cortana, but Klopp did not enjoy the time without Zhou Yi.

Although I tried several methods during training, I didn’t get good results.

This is reflected in the sixth round of the league, with Dortmund challenging Nuremberg away. The opponent is not very strong, but Dortmund failed to win.

With a goal in advance, Dortmund allowed the opponent to equalize the score and could not take the lead until the end of the game.

So Dortmund's proud and incredible 23-round winning streak in the league was gone.

After the game, the reporters' questions were surprisingly consistent.

The questions they raised to Klopp were asking whether they could win the away game or not was related to Zhou Yi's absence.

Although Klopp knew that the lack was related, he could not admit it like this: "We have many excellent players, and Dortmund is not a team of one person. I am very sorry for not being able to win the game, but I don't think it's related to Zhou Yi's absence. After playing against Naples, the players were a little tired..."

His statement is reasonable and well-founded - he played very hard with Dortmund in the Champions League group stage in Naples, and did not get enough rest after returning to Germany. In the game against Nuremberg, the players did not run actively enough, which is indeed a manifestation of fatigue.

However, reporters all felt that Klopp was using an excuse that seemed reasonable to conceal Dortmund's real trouble.

After the league ended, Dortmund Club officially announced that Zhou Yi's injury may need to take a month off.

This is definitely not good news for Dortmund...

Although Dortmund still ranked first in the league with 16 points after being tied by Nuremberg, the crisis has already occurred.

Bayern Munich also won five wins and one draw with 16 points, ranking second. In the month when Zhou Yi missed the game, Bayern Munich had many opportunities to overtake Dortmund.

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On the evening of September 24, Dortmund challenged Munich in 1860 away.

This is a German Cup match.

Facing Munich 1860, ranked fifth in the Bundesliga, Dortmund played very hard.

In the 90-minute game, neither side scored a goal and tied 0:0.

It was not until overtime that Dortmund scored two goals in a row and eliminated his opponent.

Although he successfully advanced to the next round, many people saw Dortmund's dilemma.

After losing Zhou Yi, the team's attack power dropped significantly. Neither Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan, or Shahin, there was no way to promote the attack.

When Mkhitaryan scored twice and Aubameyang made a hat trick, some people thought that they not only filled the gap after Gotze and Lewandowski left, but also became Zhou Yi's successors when necessary. But now it seems that people who think so are really naive.

The reason why people found that Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang performed well was that Zhou Yi was present. If Zhou Yi was there, they performed well, but if Zhou Yi was gone, their performance would be greatly reduced.

Everyone knows that Zhou Yi is the core of Dortmund, but how to understand this sentence and the definition of "core" is not a unified standard for everyone, and the concept is actually very vague.

Now everyone knows why Zhou Yi is the "core".

Simply put, if Zhou Yi is present, Dortmund's players will perform well, even if they are new players who have just joined the team. If Zhou Yi is not here, even players who performed well before will not be able to perform normally, but are in a sluggish state and poor performance.

At this time, everyone is even more grateful that Dortmund left behind Zhou Yi at all costs.

Although Mkhitaryan really wants to play the front midfielder, it seems that as long as Zhou Yi is there, he will not be able to play this position. Even if Zhou Yi is not there, even if he plays this position, his performance will be very different from Zhou Yi...

A reporter went to interview Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi was very calm: "I believe my teammates can win the game without me. I think you should give them more patience."

He doesn't want to put too much pressure on his teammates.

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In the next seventh round of the league, Dortmund will face Freiburg at home.

In this game, Dortmund defeated Freiburg 5-0 at home.

If you look at the score, you will think that Dortmund performed very well. They played a wonderful game, which changed everyone's opinion of them.

But in fact, the game was not so smooth.

In the first half, Dortmund only had Reus' first record in the 35th minute.

But then Dortmund has not been able to expand the score.

It was not until the end of the first half that Freiburg defender Falu Diane fouled Sven Bend in the penalty area and was sent off with a red card that the situation became favorable to Dortmund.

Not only did Dortmund get one more man than his opponent, but he also got a penalty kick.

But they also paid the price - Sven Bend was injured in this infringement and could not continue to play and could only be replaced.

With Zhou Yi and Gundogan being injured one after another, Dortmund's midfielder was already in short supply, and Sven Bend was injured again, which made it even worse.

However, Yan Min did not make the roster in this game, so he could not expect to get a chance to play.

Replaced with Sven Bend is a veteran Oliver Kilch.

Reus came to take the penalty and kicked the football accurately into Freiburg's goal.

In the first half, Dortmund ended with a two-goal lead.

Dortmund, who had one more man in the second half, completely grasped the situation on the court. In the 58th minute, Mark expanded the score for the team.

In the 70th minute, Mark scored twice, and Dortmund led Freiburg 4:0.

In the 79th minute, Kuba, who came on as a substitute, locked the score for the team at 5:0, and Dortmund won the game.

Although he won a big victory, Dortmund fans were not happy because they didn't know how Sven Bend was injured.

If the injury is serious and you have to miss it for a long time, Dortmund's midfielder will be in trouble... Because before this game, the team's captain, Sebastian Kyle, who is also a midfielder, was injured in training. It is said that the situation is not optimistic and there will be more games to miss.

If Sven Bend also misses many games, Dortmund's midfield will not even have a defensive midfielder...

Fortunately, the news came after the game that Sven Bend's injury was nothing serious. He replaced him in advance out of caution. The final inspection result was pretty good and he didn't have to miss the next game.

But that doesn't mean Dortmund is lucky.

Because in training, the young defender Marian Saul and the main left-back Schmelzer were injured one after another and were on the injury list.

Saar is a young defender who was less than nineteen years old in 1995. His injury has not had much impact on the team.

The biggest impact was Schmelzer's injury.

Now, Dortmund's main left back and right back were injured and could not play.

When Piszczek was injured, Klopp could still use Groskreuz, a panacea, to replace him, and the "Big Cross" did a good job. But now Schmelzer is also injured. Klopp can't split Groskreuz in half to use it, right?

When the season started for more than a month, Dortmund had several players injured, which was not available in previous seasons.

The reason why Dortmund was able to suppress Bayern Munich in the league and his performance in the Champions League is also closely related to their fewer injuries during that period.

"...In the previous few seasons, Dortmund was like a high-speed engine, efficient and tireless, which gave them the honor of activeness. But a machine would not be able to remain in good condition forever without wear. Now the engine is malfunctioning, and the parts are aging one after another... Klopp's tank had to slow down, otherwise it might explode directly during high-speed operation and fall apart..."

German Bistro Bistro commented on the problems that Dortmund has encountered recently.

There are also media, especially Munich media, who believe that so many injuries in Dortmund are related to the high-intensity training that Klopp has always emphasized. It is Klopp's training method that accelerates the aging and wear of players' bodies, causing them to suffer frequent injuries now.

They even blamed the injury of Gotze on Klopp and Dortmund, because Gotze was injured when he transferred to Bayern Munich, missing the team's pre-season training camp and the first few rounds of the league. They believed that Dortmund and Klopp had squeezed Gotze out and let Gotze join Bayern Munich with an injury.
Chapter completed!