Dortmund, who beat Augsburg at home, is now ranked second in the league.

Since losing to Dortmund away, Leverkusen has suffered a series of losses.

The three consecutive losses caused them to fall directly from the second place in the league.

Although Dortmund has one less game, it is still the second in the league.

Everyone thinks that Klopp is more practical and better set the team's goal to qualify for next season and Champions League. The team will not be under too much pressure and can perform with a normal mind.

On January 29, midweek, other Bundesliga teams trained as usual, but Dortmund welcomed a league opponent Hertha Berlin at home, which is the 17th round of the league.

At that time, because Dortmund was participating in the Club World Cup, the game that should have been held on December 21 was more than this day.

At home against Hertha Berlin, Dortmund defeated his opponent 2:1 and scored three points after a hard battle.

With the same game number, they are only four points away from Bayern Munich!

Now many people remembered that when they discussed before, they forgot that Dortmund had another premise of seven points behind Bayern Munich, that is, Dortmund played one less game than Bayern Munich...

Now both sides have the same number of matches, four points behind, and it doesn't seem that insurmountable.

Dortmund's media naturally appreciated Dortmund's performance, saying that Dortmund won Hertha Berlin, bringing the suspense of the league championship back.

The vast and neutral melon-eating crowd were also happy to watch the good show of the two heroes competing for hegemony, and followed the noise below.

Overnight, it seemed as if Dortmund, who was dominant in Germany, was back again...

But in fact, Dortmund has not escaped their crisis.

Because of Kuba's injury, Dortmund wanted to introduce Holtbi to replace Kuba.

Holtbi was a Schalke 04 player before, but was sold to Tottenham Hotspur a year ago by the club for 1.75 million euros. Dortmund wanted to buy the former Schalke 04 player from Tottenham Hotspur.

It’s a pity that this plan was not implemented successfully.

During the winter break, Holtby was loaned to Fulham by Tottenham Hotspur.

In the end, Dortmund can almost be said to have gained nothing in the transfer market during this winter break.

There is no new player in the position that needs reinforcement, and no problem that needs to be solved is solved.

Under such circumstances, it is simply whimsical to still want to chase Bayern Munich.

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"Even if it's considered whimsical, I still want to give it a try." Lying in bed at night, Zhou Yi talked to Cortana about the current difficulties the team is facing.

"But the problem is that even if we all win, we can only expect Bayern Munich to make mistakes by itself." Cortana pointed out the problem with Zhou Yi's idea.

"Of course, but first of all, you have to do your own things well. If you can't even do your own things well, how can you expect your opponent to give them a chance?" Zhou Yi curled his lips, "And if we can continue to win and put pressure on Bayern Munich, maybe Bayern Munich will make a mistake? The pressure to lead the marathon is very high."

"I don't think the story of last season can be repeated..." Cortana shook her head.

"How do you know if you don't try?"

This time Cortana stopped talking. It’s true. How can I make a conclusion in advance if I don’t try it?

The situation Dortmund faced last season is similar to this season. No one believes that Dortmund will eventually reverse Bayern Munich and win the championship.

Unexpectedly, Dortmund completed a great reversal on both the league's Champions League fronts.

"What if I try it in the end and still don't get the desired result?"

Zhou Yi waved his hand: "I don't want so much now, I will do my best first."

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In the 19th round of the league three days later, Zhou Yi did his best to help Dortmund, who lacked the head coach's live command, narrowly defeated the relegation team Brunswick 2:1 away. He contributed a goal and an assist in this game. It can be said that the reason why Dortmund won this game was all due to Zhou Yi alone.

Compared with Dortmund's stuttering, Bayern Munich defeated Frankfurt 5-0 at his home court and won the game without bloodshed.

German media exclaimed that Guardiola's team was invincible.

Dortmund's media did not care about this. What they cared more was that in the game against Brunswick, the main central defender Hummels finally returned from injury. He appeared and played the whole game.

At this critical moment, the return of any wounded soldier is good news for Dortmund.

Now Dortmund's defense is not as nervous as before.

Schmelzer, Piszczek and Hummels have all returned, and only Subotic has been completely reimbursed this season.

This is great news for Dortmund, which has a intensive schedule.

On February 7, in the 20th round of the Bundesliga, they will challenge Werder Bremen away.

Two days after the game, on February 9, Dortmund has a quarter-final match to play in the German Cup.

It is definitely impossible to maintain a lineup. So Klopp made some adjustments to these two games.

The so-called adjustment is of course giving up the German Cup.

Klopp decided to play all the main players in Werder Bremen, and when they play in the German Cup, they will send as many substitutes and second-team players as possible to give the main players a chance to rest and thus reduce the chance of injury.

If one event must be given up, then there will be no suspense in the German Cup.

This event is the most useless and has the lowest value.

This event will only be considered if there is no hope of winning the championship in several other events.

Last season, Klopp decisively gave up the German Cup, which allowed the team to maintain a good upward momentum in the league and the Champions League, and eventually won the double championship in one fell swoop.

This season, when the team encounters difficulties and cannot fight on multiple fronts, the German Cup will definitely be the first to be given up.

Klopp thought well, but in a warm-up match before the game against Werder Bremen, Hummels, who had just recovered from injury, was injured again!

When Hummels was helped out, Klopp's expression was...a numb look on his face.

Yes, after experiencing so many injuries this season, Klopp can't be able to feel numb.

Even if there were only a month when there was no patient on the team, he would feel unfamiliar and unacceptable.

Soon, some media reported that Hummels had just recovered from his injury and was injured.

Except for the pro-Bortmond media, other media are sarcastic about Dortmund, exclaiming that they must have been cursed by the devil this season.

In other words, they shouldn't have reversed the championship last season. They both reversed the championship in the league and the Champions League, which has seriously overdrawn their luck. Now it's time for them to pay off their debts for crazy overdrafts.

The latest news is that Hummels will have to be on standby for two more weeks due to his injury this time.

"...Good news, Hummels only needs to rest for two weeks! It's better than having two months off, isn't it?" This is the self-deprecating of a Dortmund media.

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Hummels' injury before the game cast a shadow on Dortmund's away game against Werder Bremen.

Klopp ranked the strongest lineup he could.

However, this lineup makes people feel sad when they see it. This residual lineup is Dortmund's strongest lineup at present, and it is really different from Dortmund last season...

However, after the game started, the situation on the court was a bit different from what everyone expected...

From the beginning of the game, Dortmund firmly controlled the situation.

Why is this happening?

Because Zhou Yi performed very positively today. From the first minute of the game, he kept running and appeared in every corner of the stadium. No matter who took the ball, as long as he looked up, he would definitely see Zhou Yi as soon as possible.

Driven by Zhou Yi, the whole Dortmund team was like a high-speed machine, dragging Werder Bremen into it and crushing it.

In the 26th minute, Mark Wagner received a cross from Yan Min, heading the ball to Borussia Dortmund's first record. Yan Min received a pass from Zhou Yi before the cross.

After leading, Dortmund continued to maintain its original oppressive situation, making Werder Bremen unable to organize an effective attack at all, and could only be suppressed and beaten by Dortmund.
Chapter completed!