Chapter 1 Barrios Pounces on Zhou Yi

Barrios, who had scored the goal, rushed toward Zhou Yi. He wanted to celebrate with Zhou Yi, and he also wanted to thank him.

It's just that his way of thanking and celebrating the goal was a little different...

After running up to Zhou Yi, he said to Zhou Yi, "Quick, Wizard, give me empowerment!"

"I don't want to!" Zhou Yi didn't want to cement such a folksy nickname in front of so many people...

But Barrios wouldn't let Zhou Yi think otherwise.

He grabbed Zhou Yi's hand, knelt on one knee, and placed Zhou Yi's hand on top of his head.

Zhou Yi wanted to break free from Barrios's "clutches," but unfortunately, he was far too weak compared to Barrios.

Then everyone swarmed up, and the scene of him empowering Barrios was transmitted through the television broadcast signal...

"Aha!" Marcel Reif laughed when he saw this scene. "It can be seen that Barrios really admires Zhou Yi. He actually made such a celebratory move after scoring a goal! Is this telling us that all his goals are because of Zhou Yi? But it's true... Zhou Yi 'predicted' his first five goals, and now this sixth goal was simply assisted by Zhou Yi!"

"The relationship between Barrios and Zhou Yi is really good, haha!" Duan Xin said with a smile, "Maybe in the future, we might even see Barrios come to China to play football because of this relationship? Ha!"

Tao Wei quickly said, "He's developing so well in Europe, it's impossible for him to come to China..."

"I know, Coach Tao, I'm just joking, ha!"

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"Two goals in the first thirteen minutes..." Buvac shook his head at Klopp. "It's a perfect start. To be honest, even if I supported Zhou Yi's start, I didn't expect him to perform like this. I thought that assist in the fourth minute was enough..."

"This kid will bring surprises. Of course, sometimes he will scare people into a heart attack!" Klopp laughed.

On the bench next to the coaching area, his teammates were cheering for Barrios's goal, including Götze.

But after cheering, he turned his attention to Zhou Yi.

Sitting on the bench, he was able to see Zhou Yi's two wonderful performances from the closest distance.

They used to be starters together in the youth team, but now Zhou Yi has already made the starting lineup, while he is still a substitute.

Götze was both anxious and envious.

He also craved the game, craved to win cheers.

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When the game restarted, Dortmund still firmly controlled the situation on the field.

Originally, Dortmund's strength was much higher than Nuremberg's, and they were also playing at home. Such a performance was only natural.

Zhou Yi still dominated the team's offensive and defensive rhythm in the midfield, guiding Dortmund's attacks wave after wave, like a tide sweeping toward Nuremberg's penalty area, never stopping.

In this situation, Nuremberg had no power to fight back and could only cope with it exhaustedly.

During this time, Dortmund played with great power, showing a rare momentum that they had not seen so far this season, and finally made people feel like a strong team.

The Dortmund fans in the stands were very excited, and although there were no goals, the cheers and songs never stopped.

In the thirty-sixth minute, Dortmund scored another goal, but this goal had nothing to do with Zhou Yi. He didn't score it, nor did he assist it. It was barely even initiated by him; he just participated in it and passed the ball twice.

In the end, Kuba scored the goal, and Barrios passed the ball to Kuba.

Kuba's goal helped Dortmund take a 3-0 lead over Nuremberg before the end of the first half.

Although there were still fifty-four minutes left in the game, everyone knew that there was no suspense in this game.

After Kuba scored, Dortmund's offensive was not as fierce as before, but gradually slowed down.

Considering that the first half was coming to an end and the team was leading by three goals, there was really no reason to continue fighting for the remaining ten minutes.

Zhou Yi began to pass the ball horizontally and backward more in the midfield, so that everyone could slow down from the excitement of scoring, pull themselves out, and slow down the speed. Let everyone rest, enter the intermission with more physical strength, and thus play the second half with more physical strength.

In the end, under Zhou Yi's successful deceleration control, Dortmund ended the first half with a score of 3:0 and entered the intermission.

At the end of the first half, the TV broadcast focused on Zhou Yi, and Marcel Reif also said, "If we want to select the best player in the first half, then I think Zhou Yi must be the well-deserved one. Zhou Yi has made great contributions to Dortmund's ability to end the suspense of this game in the first half."

When walking off the field, Captain Kehl fell behind and communicated with Zhou Yi while walking off the field.

The commentators could not hear what the players were saying, but they could interpret something from this picture.

Duan Xin said, "Zhou Yi has a good relationship with his teammates. We can know this from the reports of domestic media. Now that we see this scene, we should know that Zhou Yi's good relationship with his teammates is not only because of his good personality, but more importantly because of the strength he has shown, which has won the respect and trust of his teammates..."

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Back in the locker room, Klopp praised the players for their performance in the first half, and Zhou Yi was among them.

However, after praising the team, Klopp continued, "But there are still forty-five minutes left in the game, and anything is possible. Even if you are leading your opponent by three goals, the opponent may still tie. Just like if you were three goals behind in the first half, I wouldn't let you give up. So next, you still have to maintain a high fighting spirit and not relax. If you can still score, then don't be polite. We must eliminate the last hope of the opponent!"

Speaking of this, Klopp glanced at Zhou Yi.

In the absence of Şahin, Zhou Yi is Dortmund's only organizer. Only he can organize the offense, and no one else is a professional at it.

So whether Dortmund can continue to score actually depends to a large extent on Zhou Yi's fighting spirit as the organizing core.

If the organizer starts to relax, then the team's offense will become a battle for each other.

Zhou Yi's expression was no different from that of the other players. You couldn't guess what he was thinking from his expression alone.

But Klopp was sure that Zhou Yi was definitely a person who knew what was going on in his heart.

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After a fifteen-minute halftime break, the second half of the game began.

Dortmund did not make any substitutions, while Nuremberg, who were three goals behind, seemed unwilling to give up. They made adjustments during the halftime break, replacing Jahjages with midfielder Uth. Jahjages's performance in the first half can be said to be disastrous. Two goals were lost were somewhat related to him.

Moreover, in the defense against Zhou Yi, he seemed a little overwhelmed, and was confused by Zhou Yi's completely unpredictable running position and passing.

Replacing him was evidence that Nuremberg was unwilling to give up this game.

At the beginning of the second half, Nuremberg fought very hard. They received two yellow cards in two minutes in a row, seemingly trying to regain the initiative with fierce scrambling.

Zhou Yi, who performed actively in the first half, naturally became the focus of attention of the Nuremberg players.

One of Nuremberg's two yellow cards in two minutes was received on Zhou Yi.

When center back Pinola made a fierce wrestling move on Zhou Yi, who was holding the ball in front of the penalty area, a huge boo rang out in the stands.

A large part of it came from the South Stand.

"Pinola, you coward!" Mrs. Wagner raised her middle finger in the stands. "Barbarian! Only knows how to foul!"

"Zhou Yi made him a little flustered. In front of the flexible Zhou Yi, he's simply like a clown!" Bruno also ridiculed Pinola.

At this time, a burst of abuse against Pinola rang out in the men's stands: "Pinola, you gay man who has been butt-fucked!!"

Using "homosexual" to insult opponents is one of the common tactics on the Bundesliga field. This is of course suspected of discriminating against homosexuals, but it is the most primitive impulse of fans. You can accuse them of not doing this, but this phenomenon really exists on every Bundesliga field.

Pinola will definitely not be the only one who is scolded like this. Maybe Zhou Yi will also enjoy such treatment in the future...

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Pinola's foul on Zhou Yi made Klopp very nervous - he had already injured Şahin, and he couldn't afford to have Zhou Yi injured again.

So when he saw Zhou Yi being knocked to the ground by Pinola, he also jumped up excitedly: "Damn it! This should be a card!"

He was worried that the referee had just given Nuremberg defender Wolf a yellow card and would not give another one so soon.

However, the referee, Gagelmann, decisively showed Pinola a yellow card.

In this way, only two minutes into the second half, two of Nuremberg's four defenders had a yellow card on their backs...

When Zhou Yi fell to the ground, his teammates were also very worried.

Captain Kehl was the first to rush up to make trouble with Pinola to stand up for Zhou Yi.

And Großkreutz also followed closely, shouting at Pinola: "This is football, it's football! If you want to wrestle, go back to your house!"

Another player, Sven Bender, ran to check on Zhou Yi's situation: "How are you, Zhou Yi?"

Zhou Yi lay on the grass and replied to Bender in a muffled voice: "I'm okay, hiss—"

Hearing Zhou Yi gasp, Bender became anxious: "What's wrong?"

"I fell a little awkwardly... It's okay." Zhou Yi said after recovering, and then tried to get up from the ground.

Seeing this, Sven Bender quickly reached out to support him and slowly pulled him up.

Zhou Yi, who was pulled up, still put his hands on his hips and arched his body.

"Are you okay?" Bender asked again.

"It's okay, it's okay... cough cough!" Zhou Yi coughed twice as he was talking.

The fall was indeed not light, but fortunately it was just a hard injury, and it hurt a bit, but it didn't hurt the joints.

Seeing Zhou Yi's embarrassed appearance, Sven Bender said, "Zhou Yi, your body is too different from the other party, there is no need to fight them head-on, dodge when you should, let them when you should, anyway, we are now leading by three goals..."

But Zhou Yi shook his head: "But you can't always let them, always dodge, right? It's okay, Sven, I know how to grasp the scale, I won't be stupid enough to resist if I really can't resist."

Seeing that Zhou Yi was finally able to speak smoothly, Sven Bender left with peace of mind.

Then Großkreutz came up to care about Zhou Yi.

After answering Großkreutz with the same words, Captain Kehl also came.

It wasn't until everyone was sure that Zhou Yi was really okay that they dispersed.

"Zhou Yi stood up, and his teammates are asking about his situation. It seems that there should be no major problem... We also hope that there is no major problem!"

This time, the person who was nervously and attentively staring at the screen in front of the TV was Li Cuiyun, while Zhou Jianliang next to him seemed relatively calm: "Oh, even if he is injured, it's just a hard injury. At most, there will be bruises on his body. It's nothing..."

"What do you know!" Li Cuiyun glared at him. "Will it be okay if there are bruises all over your body at that time?"

One of the important reasons why she opposed her son playing football in the first place was that she didn't want her son to be injured playing football. She didn't want those things like breaking arms and legs from playing football to happen to her son.

"It just looks scary, but it's actually nothing. You'll bump into things when you do housework." Zhou Jianliang said indifferently. "As long as the joints, ligaments, and muscles are not injured."

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When the game restarted, Nuremberg, who had two players with yellow cards on the back line, played even more passively.

In the fifty-first minute, they lost another goal. This time, the goal was scored by full-back Owomoyela.

However, this goal was not assisted by Zhou Yi. Großkreutz assisted Owomoyela, but the person who passed the ball to Großkreutz was Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi passed the ball to Großkreutz, and Großkreutz passed the ball to Owomoyela, who then shot hard, and the ball rolled into the near corner along the grass.

4:0!

Ten minutes later, in the sixty-second minute, Dortmund won a corner kick. Hummels jumped high in front of the goal and headed the ball into Nuremberg's goal.

5:0!

Just one minute after Hummels scored, Zhou Yi was replaced by Klopp.

And the one who replaced him was Mario Götze.

The two completed the handover on the sidelines with a high five, and Götze couldn't wait to run onto the field.

Zhou Yi, on the other hand, dragged his heavy and tired feet towards the coaching area.

Klopp stretched out his hand in advance, took a step forward, and pulled him into his arms while shaking Zhou Yi's hand, patted him on the back and said in his ear: "Well done, kid. Now take a good rest!"

Zhou Yi really needed a good rest.

Although he only played for sixty-three minutes, it was more tiring than playing the whole game in the youth team.

"Zhou Yi was replaced. He started for the first time in the league, played for sixty-four minutes, and handed in a report card with two assists. I think it's already very good. I think for many Chinese fans, they may feel that the game is over when Zhou Yi is off the field. But actually no, the game is still going on..." Duan Xin joked.

Tao Wei also smiled.

Zhou Yi's excellent performance made everyone feel very good.

In Milan, Guo Nu turned off the TV after seeing Zhou Yi off the field.

He didn't want to waste time in front of the TV anymore. Now he was going to exercise. He wanted to make himself stronger... stronger!