When the Italian referee Gianluca Rocchi blew the whistle to end the game, Gao Shen, standing in front of the away team's coaching bench at Signal Iduna Park, raised his hands helplessly, finding it difficult to accept the result.
Neither he, nor the players, nor the fans will be satisfied with this result.
One to one, this is the final result of Manchester City's away game against Dortmund in the third round of the Champions League Group D.
Manchester City wasted too many opportunities in this game.
As soon as the game started, Manchester City, playing away from home, launched an attack on the home court.
Gao Shen knew very well that Dortmund's opening press would be fierce, so Manchester City struck preemptively.
In the first four minutes, Manchester City created an excellent opportunity.
After Suarez got the ball on the left side of the penalty area, he passed Dortmund captain Kyle and hit the goal. However, the shot was blocked by Hummels with his body and the line fell to the left side of the penalty area. Gareth Bale hurriedly
It was a one-shot attack before, but the final kick missed.
This is the area where Gareth Bale is best!
Manchester City seemed to be cast a shadow because of this tonight, and their shots were somewhat off target.
In the sixth minute, it was Suarez's pass, it was Gareth Bale's kick from the left side of the penalty area, this time it was directly high, and Gareth Bale was obviously a little anxious.
Three minutes later, David Luiz suddenly advanced with the ball and passed the ball behind the defense. Suarez stepped in at high speed to form a single shot. After stopping the ball with his chest, he volleyed the ball and the result was high.
After missing three scoring opportunities in a row, Manchester City was finally punished.
In the 15th minute, when Manchester City was unable to attack for a long time, Dortmund seized the opportunity to counterattack. Gotze sent a fatal through ball. Lewandowski got ahead of Neuer near the penalty area line.
He took the ball with his foot, managed to get past Neuer who was attacking, and succeeded in pushing the ball into the empty goal.
One to zero!
Dortmund took the lead at home.
Subsequently, Manchester City launched a fierce attack on Dortmund.
The Hornets were playing at home, but were still suppressed by Manchester City.
In the 33rd minute, David Silva made a through ball. Gareth Bale broke into the left side of the penalty area and volleyed with his left foot into the near corner. However, Dortmund goalkeeper Weidenfeller seemed to have a divine help.
The shot that was within easy reach was saved.
Just five minutes later, Lichtsteiner made a high-speed pass from the right and Suarez headed the ball from the front of the small penalty area. The angle was too right and was confiscated by the goalkeeper.
The scene almost showed the situation of Manchester City beating Dortmund, but the Hornets performed extremely tenaciously.
Especially before the end of the first half, Manchester City launched another wave of fierce attacks.
Gao Shen knew very well that entering the second half with a trailing score would be very difficult for Manchester City.
This time, it was Suarez's return to defense that allowed Rakitic to seize the opportunity, steal Kyle's pass, and pass it to Robben.
The Dutchman's performance tonight was very sluggish and he was obviously out of shape, but after receiving the ball, he still cut inside from the right, got rid of Schmelzer, and sent a through ball.
Suarez quickly made a diagonal pass to the right side of the penalty area to receive the ball. After forming a single shot, he volleyed with his right foot and scored, equalizing the score for Manchester City.
At halftime, Gao Shen was quite dissatisfied with the team's performance and believed that the players lacked determination in this game, especially when facing the menacing Dortmund, they were obviously not calm enough.
"Shahin moved to Real Madrid, and Gundogan is new here, so Klopp didn't even dare to arrange for Gundogan to play in this game, but just let him sit on the bench. This is our opportunity!"
Gao Shen requires everyone on the team to stay calm and patiently control the rhythm of the game.
Don't be pushed into a hurry by Dortmund and mess up your own rhythm.
After changing sides in the second half, the superb reprimand and the one-to-one score allowed Manchester City to stabilize their position and patiently control the rhythm.
Dortmund launched an attack in turn, but with little effect. Instead, in the 56th minute, they were defeated by a quick counterattack by Manchester City.
The frontcourt trident of Gareth Bale, Suarez and Robben launched a quick counterattack. Finally, Robben on the right side of the penalty area passed Hummels and formed a single shot, but the last kick was defeated by Wei Wei who attacked decisively.
Denfeller blocked the way.
Manchester City once again missed a great opportunity.
In the subsequent corner kick, Manchester City also created a threat, but failed to score.
When the game reached this moment, Gao Shen already knew it very well.
With the team's form tonight, it will be difficult to win.
He then made continuous substitutions, hoping to reverse the situation on the scene, but in the end he was unable to do anything.
Especially at the end, Manchester City let Robin van Persie and Suarez appear on the court at the same time, but Van Persie's furious shot in the 87th minute was bravely saved by Weidenfeller.
In the whole game, Manchester City took 28 shots, while Dortmund only took 13 shots.
One to one, both sides shook hands and made peace!
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"It's a pity that we lost two points that should have been ours."
When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Klopp immediately walked to the visiting team's coaching bench. As soon as he held Gao Shen's hand, before he could speak, the German bearded man spoke first.
Gao Shen looked at Carlo beside him and found that the latter was also speechless.
Sure enough, it proves the saying: As long as I am not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.
"Jurgen, your face is much better than your performance on the court." Gao Shen was convinced.
Klopp burst out laughing, couldn't help but walked up and hugged Gao Shen.
The relationship between the two is actually very good. When Klopp first coached Dortmund, Gao Shen even brought the team to a warm-up match to help him inspect and debug the team.
Back then, he and Tuchel would travel all the way from Germany to Italy to attend advanced classes without missing a beat.
"To be honest, our state tonight was not very good. If it had been better, you wouldn't be able to laugh now."
Klopp maintains a smiling gentlemanly demeanor, but with his image, he doesn't look like a gentleman, but looks like...
"Here, I respect your right to speak."
The implication is that if you dare to say this when you go out, labor and management will directly blame you!
"The fans' eyes are sharp!" Gao Shen is not intimidated.
In fact, Dortmund's performance was really good in being able to draw with Manchester City, but it was mainly at the pressing and defensive levels.
"Weak midfield control is a big problem."
Klopp's three midfielders tonight are Shinji Kagawa, Sven Bender and Kyle, playing 4231, with Gotze placed in the right rib.
I have to admit that Kagawa Shinji is really good, and he is very diligent and hard-working, so he will be very easy to use.
But facing Javi Martinez, he had no chance.
"If it weren't for Manchester City, I would have replaced Kyle with Gundogan, but our current problem is mainly the offense in the frontcourt, especially the wing offense."
Gao Shen was very impressed by Dortmund's lineup. Compared with Dortmund at its peak, the current Hornets have basically taken shape, and the difference is local.
Shinji Kagawa went to Manchester United, Gotze played as an attacking midfielder, and Reus was introduced from Monchengladbach on the wing, and the Hornets took off immediately.
According to current news from the German media, Klopp is indeed very interested in Reus.
This young player came out of Dortmund's youth training and has been growing under the close attention of the Hornets' scouting department.
The entire lineup was created by Klopp himself, so he naturally knows where the problem lies.
"With your current average age, you are indeed almost able to achieve results."
This group of players in Dortmund are really young.
For example, in this defense line, Schmelzer, Hummels, and Subotic were all born in 1988 and are less than twenty-three years old now. Pischeck is the oldest, twenty-three years old.
Six years old.
It can be said that you are very energetic at this age.
But the problem also lies here.
In the future, Klopp's Dortmund's form suddenly plummeted, also because of age.
His tactical play is really very taxing on the players and the requirements are extremely high because he lacks control.
If you don't have enough control, you can only rely on running, which will cost the players even more.
Of course, to understand Dortmund's financial situation, it is somewhat similar to Atletico Madrid.
With the financial resources of a team like theirs, it is still difficult to introduce high-level players with outstanding technical abilities, and it is not in line with the positioning of their club.
Therefore, from Shaheen, to Shinji Kagawa, to Gundogan to Gotze, Dortmund was sold again and again.
If you want to put together a midfield lineup with outstanding technical capabilities, you need funds.
Of course, another way is to dig out young talents, but the problem is that you can't dig out several players of this type at the same time.
Not to mention anything else, after Shaheen left, Gundogan has not been able to completely replace Shaheen. Otherwise, why would Klopp arrange for captain Kyle to start?
Kyle obviously lacked technical skills, so Manchester City intercepted the pass.
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While Gao Shen and Klopp were chatting on the sidelines, the result of another game far away at the Dragon Stadium in Porto, Portugal also came out.
After Real Madrid scored a goal first, they suffered a reversal from the home team Porto and lost 1-2 away from home.
Mourinho failed in his own prosperous land!
When Gao Shen and Klopp received the news, they both looked at each other in disbelief.
Gao Shen's mood was quite complicated, but Klopp soon became happy.
Because of this, the pressure on Dortmund will be much less.
Now, Manchester City and Dortmund have two wins and one draw, and have seven points. Porto has one win, two losses, and three points. Real Madrid has lost all three games and is at the bottom of the table.
This actually proves once again that in today's European football, the era of blindly piling up superstars is gone forever.
Even if it is a star-studded super battleship like Real Madrid, when the superstars cannot form a joint force and become a rope, the game that should be lost must still be lost.
Because no matter how powerful a superstar is, he needs to rely on the whole body to shine.
But now, there is something wrong with Real Madrid as a whole. No matter how powerful the superstars are, they can't reverse Real Madrid's decline.
This is actually not bad, it’s just that the Champions League is weak.
When Atletico Madrid was relegated, wasn't it also packed with superstars?
At least now, Real Madrid hasn't been relegated, right?
