"CCTV, CCTV, we are now at the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund, Germany, broadcasting for everyone the focus of the 29th round of the Bundesliga in the 2002-2003 season. The two sides are the home team Dortmund and the visiting team Bayern.
!Before this game, the two teams were ranked first and second. Dortmund ranked first with 65 points, and Bayern ranked second with 63 points. The strength of both sides can be said to be very strong.
So close! If Dortmund can beat Bayern, then their lead will reach five points, giving them an absolute advantage with only five rounds left in the league! And if Bayern beats Dortmund away from home, they will surpass Dortmund.
, and at the same time completed a double win against Dortmund in this season's league! Such a game is naturally extremely attractive. Dortmund has the home field advantage, but they will have to play the second leg of the Champions League knockout round away from home four days later.
It will involve some of their energy, and Bayern can participate in this game with no distractions. Therefore, both in terms of strength and schedule, the two sides are basically on the same starting line. What do you think, Director Zhang?"
"Well, now we have a very good understanding of the situation on both sides. As you just said, in terms of strength and performance this season, the two sides are actually about the same. Dortmund has the advantage at home, but they still need to pay attention.
In the next Champions League, Bayern has no such concerns. The result of this game may be 50-50. If it is a draw, it will also have a certain advantage over Dortmund. Now it depends on the head coach of Dortmund, Dick.
What do you think? If he decides to protect the league first, he will try his best in this game. In short, the command of the head coaches of both sides in this game is a key. Hitzfeld is the best head coach in Germany in the past ten years, and he is worthy of it.
He is called Germany's champion coach, and Dick's coaching achievements in the past few years are also brilliant. The role of the head coach is very important to the team. Historically speaking, this is not very beneficial to Dortmund, because they
It has been seven seasons without a win against Bayern. The last time they defeated Bayern was in 1995. At that time, Dortmund's head coach happened to be Hitzfeld. They have not beaten Bayern since then. Although they won the league championship last season, they did not win.
Bayern also lost both games. This season they also lost to Bayern on the road. It’s just that Dick is a head coach who is very good at breaking records. When he coached Atletico Madrid, Atletico Madrid also didn’t win for six seasons.
After defeating Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid has not lost to Real Madrid in the league or Champions League since he took office. What kind of tactics he will arrange is very important."
"Well, Bayern's injuries were relatively serious before. Jerry Mays, Hargreaves, Ballack and other main midfielders were all injured one after another. However, they have all recovered from injuries before this game. This is a good match for Greece."
This is good news for Sfeldt. The only personnel loss is the suspension of Robert Kovac. The Ghanaian Kufuor will take his place. Dortmund has lost the young central defender Metzelder.
, he had some minor injuries in training and was not included in the squad during the insurance period. Warnes will partner with Ismail. This is not a big loss for Dortmund. Metzelder and Ismail themselves
Maier just takes turns to play, Metzelder has become more of the main player recently because of his good form, and Ismail's strength is actually not bad."
"Now we have the starting lineups of both sides... Dortmund still sent the four-five-one they are used to, goalkeeper Lehmann, defenders Alves, Dede, Warnes and Ismail, midfielders Kyle, Fo
Lins and Rosicky, the two attacking midfielders are Rivaldo and Okocha, and Cavinagi is forward alone. This is the main lineup that Dortmund is accustomed to this season. Bayern sent a 442, goalkeeper Kahn
, the two wings of the defense are two Frenchmen, Sagnol and Lizarazu, the central defender partner is Kufuor and the old defender Thomas Link, the midfielders Jeremiah and Ballack are in the middle, and on both sides are
Hargreaves and Ze Roberto, Sauer are on the bench, Deisler is absent due to injury. The strike partners are Elber and Pizarro."
"There was a very interesting thing before the game, that is, the goalkeepers of both sides started a war of words in the newspapers. Lehmann and Kahn were competitors in the German national team, but Lehmann had been suppressed by Kahn, and he had a feeling in his heart.
Resentment is also normal... In an interview, Lehmann said that he is the best goalkeeper. Kahn said that I am the main player in the national team, while Elber satirized Lehmann and said: 'Yes
Yes, Lehmann is the best goalkeeper in the Bundesliga, but Kahn is the best goalkeeper in the world, let alone the national team.' At this time, Dick naturally had to come out to protect his players, and his words were damaging enough:
'If I were Elber, I wouldn't have said the last words. Things like the national team should be Elber's taboo, right?'"
At this point, the two commentators burst into laughter at the same time. I have to say that Dick's words really exposed Elber's scars. What's more terrible is that Elber, like Jardel, was considered to have some problems before.
Two top strikers with strong abilities, but incompatible with the Brazilian national team. Under the leadership of Dick, Jardel successfully caught up with the national team after winning the Champions League, and also scored a goal in the last game of the group stage. Following
The national team won the World Cup, but Elber got nothing. How embarrassed was Elber...
From this conversation, it can be seen that the battle between the giants of the Bundesliga has already started flying. The two sides have never said anything good. The top leaders of both sides are also quarreling. Nebom said, "We have no words."
No matter how much money you spend, you can lead Bayern in the league." Hoeness retorted: "When you won the championship, you spent a lot of money." Zorc came out and said: "Then let us
Look how we can win the championship and still play in the Champions League with half the salary of Bayern."
From the management to the coaches to the players, both sides are engaged in a war of words, which makes this game even more exciting.
Under the spotlight of everyone, the players from both sides have already stood on the court. The referee responsible for officiating this game is Merck. This referee is famously strict in the Bundesliga and takes out a lot of cards. Another point is that
, he has refereed three games between Dortmund and Bayern recently, and Dortmund lost all three games - this can be regarded as Bayern's advantage.
Before the game started, Dick didn't talk about any issues about the referee. What he knew in his heart was that the Bundesliga is actually very fair in terms of referees. Since the referee is strict, then don't make too many mistakes during the game.
Big moves, and the Bundesliga's law enforcement environment is generally relatively relaxed, because there are quite a lot of physical confrontations in the Bundesliga. In this case, it is very necessary to grasp the degree.
However, what Dick did not expect was that he was not the only one who thought this way - Hitzfeld also noticed this - Merck once took out a total of ten yellow cards in the game between Dortmund and Bayern. Even though Bayern won, it was a loss.
Unfortunately, he also pays great attention to the current situation.
After the game started, unlike the heated situation before the game, the two sides appeared to be quite cautious on the court, more entangled in the midfield, and the two sides also paid great attention to defense and did not give the opponent's forward any chance.
Compared with Bayern this season, Dortmund seems to use local players more, but like Bayern, their attackers are basically South American players. Elber has broken through Dortmund's door six times after joining Bayern.
He is the player that Dortmund needs to focus on the most, but Dortmund's players have not broken through Bayern's gate many times. Only one goal has been scored against Bayern, which also makes Dortmund appear to be very cautious in attacking.
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After struggling for nearly seven or eight minutes, the first shot of the game came. After receiving Ballack's pass, Hargreaves suddenly began to dribble forward, getting rid of the defense of Kyle and Frings.
Then he took a long shot from the front of the penalty area, but due to the interference of Kyle and Frings, his shot finally passed the crossbar.
This attack seemed to ignite the fuse of this game.
Dortmund immediately launched a counterattack. Alves threw a free kick from the wing. After receiving the ball, Okocha suddenly turned around and made a pass. Kavinaji, who rushed to the front post, turned his back to the goal and crossed.
Kyle, who followed up from behind, met the ball fifteen meters away from the goal. The ball hit the outside of the goal post and flew out of the baseline!
"It's such a pity that Kyle's header missed the goal by a hair. Kyle also seemed very regretful!"
Kyle was indeed very sorry. He scratched his head and ran back. After he became famous at Freiburg, both Bayern and Dortmund extended an olive branch to him. However, he did not choose Bayern, the well-deserved Bundesliga hegemon.
, but willingly joined Dortmund - because Kyle is an ambitious player, he does not want to go to Bayern to win the championship more easily, but hopes to challenge Bayern in Dortmund - to a certain extent, he succeeded
Well, he joined Dortmund halfway through last season, and then won the league championship with the team...
However, the loss to Bayern last season made Kyle feel a little unhappy. He has not yet proved that his choice was completely correct.
So at this time, he seemed a little regretful about losing the ball.
Like him, there is also Frings who wants to prove himself in this game.
Frings is also an ambitious player. From Werder Bremen to Dortmund is an improvement, but showing his ability in front of Bayern is also what Frings longs for, not to mention he knows that his biggest goal is in the national team.
The competitor must be Ballack. If he uses his performance to suppress Ballack in the game against Bayern, it may be a huge bargaining chip for him to compete for the main spot in the national team!
Even if he can't suppress Ballack, he still needs to be on par with him in importance. Playing this position in Dortmund makes Frings full of confidence in this.
Like Kyle, Flynns was one of the players who performed exceptionally well in this game.
In the 17th minute, Frings found an opportunity after a forward push. Okocha passed the ball out immediately. Frings followed up and before Ballack interfered, he shot an extremely powerful shot without stopping the ball.
A threatening long shot!
When the ball approached the goal, Kahn jumped up and used his signature saving action to narrowly push the ball over the crossbar!
Lyman, who saw this scene from a distance, snorted and tightened his gloves.
