Chapter 192 The outbreak under pressure
It is said that a two-goal lead is a good start, but Klopp is not satisfied. He still stands on the sidelines and keeps paying attention to the game and reacts to the changes on the field. If a Dortmund player fails to seize the scoring opportunity, he will slap hard on the sidelines and shout.
Many people can't understand his anxiety - now Dortmund has completely stood up and not only scored two goals, but also suppressed his opponents in an all-round way, and also had the advantage in the field.
As long as Dortmund can continue to fight like this, there is no suspense to victory.
They didn't understand why Klopp was so excited that he couldn't sit down in the coach's chair.
Some people speculate whether Kuba's injury made him so anxious and irritable. If so, it would be normal - anyone who caused such an injury would probably lose his composure.
In the 41st minute, Dortmund interrupted the opponent's ball in defense. After Zhou Yi got the ball, he turned around and passed it straight, sending the ball to Yan Min in front of him. Yan Min rushed forward at high speed, caught up with the football and then dribbled the ball into the penalty area of Augsburg.
Another threatening attack!
However, Dortmund's fast break did not start. Yan Min took only two steps before the football was tackled by the Augsburg player. At the same time, he was lost to the balance and fell to the ground.
The huge booing of Dortmund fans sounded in the stands.
Everyone thinks this is a bad foul and should be given a yellow card, or a red card directly.
But the referee made no statement, just signaling Dortmund to serve the outside ball.
Although the ball is still with Dortmund, their best chance to counterattack has been lost. All the Augsburg players have returned to the position, and Dortmund is much more difficult in the offense than before.
Yan Min, who was thrown to the ground and rolled several laps, found that the ball was not the opponent's foul. He jumped up angrily and opened his arms to shout for justice to the referee.
The referee ignored him.
Off the court, Klopp was even more furious. He couldn't get angry at the referee, so he grabbed the fourth official and protested: "This is the shovel behind the scenes! No matter whether the shovel is a ball or not, he should be judged as a foul!"
"Precaution the words, Mr. Klopp." The fourth official reminded him.
"Be careful of the wording! Augsburg should have paid the price for this foul, but now their people are intact on the court, and our players are just lucky and not injured, otherwise he should have been carried off the court by a stretcher!"
Klopp couldn't hide his anger and continued to swear the referee of this game.
Sure enough, Kuba's injury affected his mood. The Augsburg player's tackle just now looked really dangerous. If Yan Min was tackled, he would have to leave the court early.
Yan Min escaped this time, but the opponent's foul player also escaped, which made Klopp very dissatisfied.
He believes that the referees in the Bundesliga do not provide sufficient protection for their players.
The fourth official was too lazy to argue with him, so he called the referee over through the walkie-talkie.
The referee signaled that the game was suspended, and then he ran off the field with net worth and ran to Dortmund's coaching seat. He broke up and showed Klopp a red card! At the same time, he waved his hand and pointed to the stands very casually, signaling Klopp to go into the stands.
There was an uproar in front of the Dortmund coaching seat and the bench - the head coach was sent off the court. Even if Dortmund is leading two goals now, this is still a heavy blow to Dortmund. The impact will not only be in this game, but also in the future games... Who knows whether Klopp will be punished additionally...
Assistant coach Gerliko Buvac hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Klopp, who was still in trouble with the referee, and protested to the referee: "Just just a verbal warning, the red card is too strict, right?"
The referee just shook his head, keeping his posture pointing to the stands unchanged, and signaling Klopp to leave the field quickly.
Klopp gritted his teeth and glared at the referee, and the referee was not afraid of his glare and still signaled him to come to an end.
Klopp could not really punch the other party. He actually didn't expect that he would vent his emotions to the fourth official and would actually call him a yellow card. Generally speaking, the referee would come up to warn him verbally, and then he would take advantage of the situation. This matter was left unresolved.
Unexpectedly, the referee is so strong today, without any hesitation, and he will be given a red card when he runs to him.
In the end, Klopp could only turn around and walk off the court in anger.
"Klopp was sent off. This is really bad... The situation is obviously beneficial to Dortmund, but Klopp failed to control his emotions. This is a worse situation for Dortmund..." Marcel Leif said as he watched Klopp leave the coaching seat.
"The players were injured one after another, and the media criticized Klopp's tactical choices and training methods, believing that he was the culprit that caused his team's injury to the full camp. In addition, the team's league rankings were behind Bayern Munich and Leverkusen, which puts Klopp in great pressure..." Duan Xin said. "Under heavy pressure, Klopp finally broke out... But this in turn will not reduce his pressure. In the next game, Dortmund had to face the unfavorable situation without a head coach on the spot..."
Originally, he was thrown to the ground and the opponent did not commit a foul, which made Yan Min very angry. When he was about to lose his temper with the referee, Klopp successfully stole the show.
Seeing that the head coach was sent off for complaining, Yan Min also shrank his neck - he would not be the first bird. He was sent off with a red card in the game before. If he came back, he was really worried that he would not be able to play...
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Because he was sent off with a red card, Klopp couldn't even go to the locker room during the break, so when the first half ended, the Dortmund players returned to the locker room and faced assistant coach Bouvac, everyone was a little confused.
They were the two goals in the first half, why do they feel that the atmosphere is wrong now?
Gerliko Buvac is the team's assistant coach and Klopp's most capable assistant. He often comes to arrange players' tactics, so from a level perspective, there is no problem with Buvac.
But at this moment, Kuba was seriously injured and the head coach was sent off. The team was not facing technical and tactical problems, but psychological problems. Everyone was at a loss. What they needed at this time was that an authoritative person could stand up and make everyone feel at ease.
In this regard, Klopp, a man with temperament, has a natural advantage. In recent years, he has established his personal prestige and made this team his personal mark. Many of the players on this team are impressed by his personal charm. Therefore, although there are many criticisms of Klopp's training methods outside, the team is still relatively stable.
However, when the backbone is not present, it is inevitable that there are some symptoms of maladaptation.
Even Gerliko Buvac could not replace Klopp's status and role in the locker room.
When Buvac saw everyone's confused look, he could only slap the first one over and over again in vain: "Don't take things off the court to heart, we are still two goals ahead, the advantage lies with our side..."
As for whether the players really listened to it, whether these words were really useful... then he was not very clear.
Meanwhile, in the locker room next door, Augsburg's head coach Marcus Weinzier is inciting his players.
"They looked like they were leading two goals, but now they even got the head coach sent to the stands. This is our chance! Without Klopp's command on the sidelines, when Dortmund encounters difficulties on the court, they will be overwhelmed... and eventually collapse!"
Weiinzier intends to seize this opportunity and overturn Dortmund to the ground.
Although Augsburg should have no problem relegation this season, who doesn’t want to be the better? Every point in the league is very important. Perhaps at the end of the season, just because of one point, this team is the watershed between the two worlds of ice and fire.
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After the second half of the game started, the TV broadcast first gave Klopp a close-up shot in the stands. He sat among a group of Dortmund fans with a gloomy expression. I don’t know if he was not angry about being sent to the stands or because he was worried about the team’s future fate...
After the second half began, Duan Xin spoke and began to comfort China's Dortmund fans, mainly Zhou Yi's fans.
He said: "Although it seems that the situation is not good for Dortmund now, I think this is just an illusion. It is an illusion brought to people after Klopp was sent off. In fact, as long as you calm down, you can find that Dortmund is still leading by two goals, and the advantage can be said to be quite large. As long as Dortmund does not lose his position, it will be difficult for Augsburg to threaten Dortmund's goal. Although there is no Klopp, Dortmund only needs to follow their pre-match deployment. If you continue playing like this, there should be no problem..."
Five minutes after Duan Xin said this, Augsburg organized an attack on the right and hit Dortmund's 30-meter area. Then Hahn made a wonderful two-pass and one-on-one cooperation with his teammates on the right. After breaking through, he passed the football low to the goal.
In this game, Sven Bend, who replaced Hummels, who was unable to play due to injury, was in a central defender. During the return to defense, he tackled the ball before Augsburg player Milik, intending to destroy the football.
Unexpectedly, he shoveled the football into his own goal in the end!
Chapter completed!