Chapter 44 Dortmund’s devilish home court
"Is this Dortmund's home stadium? It's really scary!"
Dortmund's home fans are very fanatical and it is one of the famous devil's home stadiums in European football.
This place can accommodate 80,000 people to watch the game, and Dortmund’s home court is almost full.
Especially its South Stand, where more than 30,000 fans sit packed to capacity every game.
They wore Dortmund's black-edged yellow-soled jerseys, waved various flags, and sang Dortmund's team anthem loudly. The singing was so powerful that it lasted for a long time.
The atmosphere at this home court is much scarier than Bayern's Allianz Arena.
"Don't be affected by off-field factors. Dortmund's home court has always been like this. If you focus too much on this kind of thing, you will be fooled by them!"
Captain Fritz saw that the young players were shocked by Dortmund's home atmosphere, so he quickly spoke to remind them.
It is often said that the home fans are the twelfth member of the team.
This statement is not unfounded!
When playing at home, tens of thousands of fans of our team can provide cheers and applause for the home team, cheer them on, inspire their fighting spirit, make their blood boil, and their fighting spirit high.
As for the players of the away team, they will be booed by the home team fans once they get the ball. The huge boos will make people feel irritable and lose their calm judgment.
If the mental quality is worse, he may be booed and unable to hold the ball, making various mistakes.
Not only that, the cheers of the fans can also put pressure on the referees, allowing them to make decisions in favor of the home team.
These factors add up to home field advantage in football matches.
This advantage is actually very obvious, so in leagues in various countries, there are often home teams with strong home records.
If you encounter this kind of team, the game will be very difficult.
Unfortunately, Dortmund is such a home team!
They lost only one of their 17 Bundesliga home games last season. This result ranked first among all 18 Bundesliga teams and was significantly ahead of the second place.
To defeat them at their home court is even more difficult than capturing Bayern's home court!
The historical confrontation data between the two teams is also very unfavorable to Werder Bremen. In the past ten games in the past two years, Dortmund has an absolute advantage with 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.
Poor physical condition, the opponent's terrifying home field advantage, and the absolute advantage in historical confrontation results.
All this indicates that this game will be very difficult for Werder Bremen.
Schaff knew this too, so he devised a very bold plan.
"After the opening, attack for five minutes and try to break through the opponent's goal. Once you succeed, immediately retreat and defend until the end of the game!"
Dortmund's players are young, energetic and dynamic, which is good.
But there is one shortcoming of young players that is not very good, and that is that their mentality is not stable enough.
If it's a tailwind game, they have no psychological burden and can often perform superbly.
But once they get into a headwind situation, especially one where they can't win for a long time, they will become more impatient, perform worse and worse, and then lose the game.
The last time Werder Bremen defeated Dortmund, it was because of Sylvester's quick goal in just five minutes of the opening, which disrupted the opponent's mentality and made the opponent more and more anxious. In the end, the collective performance was abnormal and the Werder Bremen team failed. Bremen won the game by fluke.
Therefore, for Werder Bremen, if they want to win, they must seize this opponent's weakness and fight to the death.
If their tactics work, there is still hope of winning this game.
If their tactics failed, it wouldn't be a big deal, since their chances of winning were not great anyway.
Therefore, when Coach Schaaf told him his plan, the players all agreed and were willing to give it a try!
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"CCTV, CCTV, dear viewers, this is the final of the 2012 Deutsche Telekom Cup brought to you by CCTV, between Dortmund and Werder Bremen."
"I am the commentator He Wei!"
"I am the commentator Xu Yang!"
“The game is about to start, let’s take a look at the starting lineups of both sides:
Dortmund's players are No. 20 Langerak, No. 21 Korci, No. 15 Hummels, No. 30 Günter, No. 37 Halstenberg, No. 5 Kyle, No. 7 Leitner, No. 19 Grosskreutz, No. 11 Reus, No. 32 Bidancourt, No. 9 Lewandowski.
Werder Bremen's formation is still 433:
The starting list is: No. 1 Militz, No. 23 Selassie, No. 5 Lukimya, No. 15 Pledel, No. 17 Igniowski, No. 8 Fritz, No. 6 De Bruyne , No. 7 Anautovic, No. 10 Lin Quan, No. 41 Phil Kruger, and No. 11 Elia. "
Because the last Telecom Cup semi-final narrated by He Wei and Xu Yang received good ratings in China, they continued to serve as CCTV commentators for this game.
Before the start of the five major leagues, such a game is naturally an option not to be missed for fans who like to watch football.
Therefore, after the live broadcast began, the ratings of CCTV Sports Station soared rapidly.
And a large part of the reason for this is because of the young Chinese player in the Werder Bremen team.
Lin Quan scored a hat trick against Bayern yesterday, breaking three Telecom Cup records in one go.
They are: the youngest starting record, the youngest goal record and the youngest hat trick record.
Although the Telecom Cup competition is not particularly valuable, for his age, being able to break these three records at once has made him a little popular in the football circle.
In addition, because He Wei compared Lin Quan to Messi in the commentary, many Messi fans and people who hate Messi were also attracted.
"Haha, I want to see if this so-called Messi II is as powerful as the commentator brags about!"
"I watched Lin Quan's last game. He is definitely the real Messi II!"
"Upstairs, I don't study well, don't lie to me!"
"That's right, bragging is not a draft. There are so many 'Messi's popping up from every nook and cranny every year. When did Messi become so cheap and worthless?"
"Based on my 20 years of experience in watching football, Messi's talent for the ball is definitely at a historical level. If other players like Messi don't have such a top-notch ball feel, they can only be superficial. "
"Tsk, tsk, see Mei Chui again, your Messi is so strong, why did Germany shave his head in the World Cup?"
"It sounds like your Cristiano Ronaldo has made it to the top eight. How can someone who falls in the top 16 have the nerve to talk nonsense here?"
…
The original topic of discussion was whether Lin Quan was Messi II, but due to the appearance of Messi fans and Messi, the topic seriously went off topic and turned into the debate between Ronaldo and Messi.
These two are the players with the strongest strength, the most discussed topics, and the largest fan base among the active players in today's football.
During this period, these two people were called the unparalleled twins.
They both have a large number of fans, and these fans dislike each other, so fans from both sides often quarrel with each other.
Amid the quarrel between fans from both sides, time passed little by little.
At 7:35 pm, the referee blew his whistle.
The much-anticipated Telecom Cup final, Dortmund's match against Werder Bremen, has officially begun.
