Champion’s Heart

While Kaji Kagawa was chatting with Klopp alone, Zhou Yizheng squatted on the ground holding an oil-based pen to write and paint on football.

"Hello, Zhou Yi, what are you doing?" Goetze noticed Zhou Yi's behavior hiding in the corner, and he moved inquisitively.

"Say hello to Manchester City in advance." Zhou Yi said.

"How to say hello?" Goetze was strange.

"Isn't it saying that the two Carrington training bases are next to each other? It is said that one big foot can kick them across."

After listening to Zhou Yi's words, Goetze straightened and looked up outside the training field, the row of dense woods...

"Don't be funny, Zhou Yi. This must be a rumor! Even if you kick a big foot in the past, it is absolutely impossible to kick it to Manchester City!"

"Even if it is a rumor, then I have to refute it myself."

During the speech, Zhou Yi had already written, he put away the pen, then stood up to estimate the distance, tossed the football, just like the goalkeeper opened the big foot, kicked the football hard.

The bang even disturbed the others on the training ground, but when everyone followed the reputation, they saw nothing. They only saw Zhou Yi and Goetze standing on the other side, looking at the woods on the edge of the training ground, and they didn't know what they were doing.

"I can't see it at all. I said it's impossible to kick in." Goetze shrugged.

"Rely, it looks like a rumor!" Zhou Yi frowned.

"You also waste a football."

"It's okay, it's Manchester United anyway." Zhou Yi waved his hand. After talking, he patted his **** and turned and walked towards the big army. "Go away. Don't tell anyone about this."

"So you know shame..."

"What, I'm afraid the Manchester United club wants me to lose the ball!"

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The game is getting closer and both clubs are ready. Both teams have players who are unable to play in this game because of injuries. Dortmund has the old injury number Ovo Moyella. He has missed four league games.

Richards is still on the side of Manchester City, and he hasn't played in another game this season.

Maicon was injured in the last round of the league and was unable to participate in this game.

During this time Mancini has been studying Dortmund, mainly studying the core player Zhou Yi of Dortmund.

Find a way to curb Zhou Yi's play in the game.

In the last UEFA Champions League group match, Ajax used the method of building a wall at their door to contain Dortmund's attack. They did not use any special tactics to target Zhou Yi, and even took control of the ball outside the penalty area. Give up. Their approach is to defend the space in the penalty area, not to give Lewandowski, Royce, Goetze and others the space and time to get the ball inside and outside the penalty area, so Zhou Yi naturally has no goal to pass the ball.

Ajax's approach gave Mancini a little thought. He certainly can't let Manchester City put the bus at home. This is not his style or Manchester City's style.

But instead of trying to contain Zhou Yi, it is better to find a way to contain Zhou Yi's goal. This is indeed an idea.

Zhou Yi's running position is very flexible. It is not easy to contain Zhou Yi, because he can appear in almost any corner of the court. He is looking for someone to follow him, and his team's formation is chaotic. If a regional defense is adopted against him, it is difficult to guarantee the strength of the defense against other players in Dortmund in one area.

It’s not a good practice.

So Mancini thought he might learn from Ajax's approach, but he couldn't copy it all. If Zhou Yi is in the backcourt, there is no need to control him. Once he is close to the 30-meter area of ​​Manchester City, he has to personally mark him personally, and everyone else does his own job to ensure the integrity of the line of defense, try not to appear too obvious empty, so Zhou Yi did not Very good pass target. The person who marks Zhou Yi is responsible for interfering with Zhou Yi and preventing him from controlling the ball and observing.

The day before the game, Mancini came to the Carrington training base, Manchester City will do the last training here, the intensity is not big, mainly the offensive and defensive training of the positioning ball.

Today he just sat down in his office and was knocked on the door by assistant coach Brian Kidd.

"Manjo, the equipment manager is looking for you."

Mancini is very strange: "Is there anything wrong with the training facility?"

"No, actually... uh, let him tell you that he is outside." Kidd thought he was more troublesome about this, so he simply handed the task to the administrator.

"Then invite him in."

The equipment manager at the Carrington training base came in with a football in his hand.

"My people found this while picking up football in the grove, sir. I think it should be brought to you for a look..."

Because of the thick trees next to the training base, and there will always be cases where the player kicks the football into the woods during training, every day after the training, the equipment manager will always arrange for people to go to the woods to pick up the football.

At a glance, Mancini saw the huge Nike logo on the football in the hands of the administrator.

"Manchester United's ball?"

Nike is a sponsor of Manchester United, their training ball is definitely Nike. The sponsor of Manchester City is Umbro, so it is impossible for Nike football to appear in the Carrington training base in Manchester City.

Because the training bases of the two clubs are next to each other, there will indeed be cases where the opponent's club football is picked up when picking the ball. Although the probability is not high, it is indeed possible.

However, when picking up the football of the opponent's club, it will be temporarily stored first, and after a certain amount, they will be returned to the opponent collectively. Although the game is very hot, but the private working relationship will not be too hot.

"Yes, sir. Manchester United's side."

"Isn't that just giving it back to the other party?" Mancini didn't understand why the administrator had to get a Manchester United football to find himself. Don't you know that your time is precious? Especially before the Champions League...

"Uh, but this is very special, so I think maybe I should show it to you, sir." The administrator was actually hesitant about whether to give this football to the head coach of the team, maybe they didn't even care What about these things?

However, Mancini took the football, took it in his hand, and turned it. A line of English written on the light red ball appeared in front of him.

"Hello, Blue Moon, this is a greeting from the Hornet."

The payment was "Zhou Yi", with a smiley face and V gesture drawn behind it.

Seeing this scene, Mancini was a little stunned. It was strange to see the head coach's reaction. Kidd also gathered to see what happened. After seeing this sentence, he frowned: "What does this mean..."

"I don't know." Mancini shook his head.

"Will it be Zhou Yi's prank?"

"Is he so boring?" Mancini didn't believe it. He felt that Zhou Yi certainly had intentions to do so, but what the intention was, he hadn't thought about it for a while.

Regarding Zhou Yi, he has heard some rumors that he is the best brain among young players. People play football with his body. He plays football with his brain. On this point, Mancini believes, because Zhou Yi's body is not dominant, but he can achieve such achievements, relying on the brain.

There is also a rumor that Zhou Yi was called "Eastern Wizard" in Germany, saying that he would mysterious Eastern sorcery. When Barrios fell into a goal shortage and was questioned by the public as parallels, he saved Barrios. Under his witchcraft blessing, Barrios scored again and again, and finally Barrios won that season. A cannon-shaped trophy symbolizing the honor of the best shooter.

At that time, there were still many people in Germany who blocked Zhou Yi outside the training base in Dortmund, just to get his blessing, which is said to be quite effective.

Mancini has heard that Chinese medicine is amazing. Acupuncture is not a rare thing anymore. Doctors take a needle and pierce it into the body, they can cure the disease. He had also seen cupping. Physicians used a glass jar to put a fire on it, and then pressed it on the person. When it was removed, there was a dark round scar on the body. According to the doctors, the body had bad "qi" It was pulled out, and those scars are proof.

And the point is that it seems really useful.

Mancini thought it was incredible. In his eyes, it was almost the same as witchcraft.

Holding football now, he associates Zhou Yi's nickname with the Eastern "witchcraft" he has seen. The more he feels that Zhou Yi's playing a football specifically is probably not as simple as a prank.

Is Zhou Yi using this ball to cast a spell?

Thinking of this, he handed the football to the administrator: "Return the ball over there immediately."

The administrator is strange: "But we found this one..."

"Then return this one." Mancini was not harsh, no doubt.

The administrator didn't understand why the head coach was so serious, but he did so and turned to leave with a football.

As soon as he left, Kidd asked Mancini: "Mancho, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I'm just a little worried." Mancini muttered to himself.

"worry about what?"

"Well... there is nothing to guess. It's okay, let's talk about today's training..." Mancini realized that he had inadvertently talked about it, so he quickly diverged.

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The last day of training before the game was over, and the Dortmund team gathered to prepare to return to the hotel.

Klopp came to everyone with a football.

He turned the football with one hand, and then called out Zhou Yi.

"Did you write the above words, Zhou Yi?" he asked.

Zhou Yi didn't answer the question in the first place, but looked at Goetze.

Getze spread out in the team: "I swear I didn't say."

"It was given to me by Manchester United," Klopp said.

"I wrote it." Zhou Yi answered honestly.

"What are you doing with this?" Klopp continued to ask.

"Want to say hello to Manchester City before the game? By the way, see if the training bases of the two clubs are really so close." Zhou Yi explained his original intention to do so.

"You are really boring." Klopp was also speechless about Zhou Yi's completely unusual brain hole, and he threw the football to Zhou Yi. "Stop it yourself."

Zhou Yi took the football very worried: "Does Manchester United want me to compensate?"

"Manchester United said that, give you a commemoration." Klopp waved his hand, let Zhou Yi back to the team, and then began to summarize the training results.

Goetze whispered to Zhou Yi next to him, "I said you must not be able to kick it, no, it was picked up by Manchester United?"

"How do you know if you don't try it, Mario."

"Then did you try?"

"Try to find that I can't kick."

"whispering sound……"

"But at the very least I know that the distance between the training bases of the two clubs is not close enough to kick a football to the point that if I don’t try it, I may never know it, and it’s just a cloud. Mali Oh, do you know what is the spirit of science? The spirit of science is a bold hypothesis, be careful to verify!"

Zhou Yi said that his brain-opening behavior was so high that it made Geze not knowing what to say.

When the team returned to the dressing room ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ when they were ready to change clothes and get on the bus, everyone ran to ask Zhou Yi if this was a challenge to Manchester City, just like a flying arrow shooting a challenge book.

But Zhou Yi shook his head and denied: "No, no, this is literally meaning, there really is no subtext. I just want to say hello to them."

"really?"

"Of course it is true. I have no grudges against Manchester City. Provoking them? What annoyed them to make them black feet in the game? Do I have such an idiot? So it was a friendly greeting that failed." Zhou Yi explained very seriously.

"Well, Zhou Yi, you are really boring..." Everyone dispersed.

Seeing everyone saying this, Zhou Yi pointed to himself and asked Getz: "Boring?"

Getze shook his head: "No, it's very boring." (To be continued) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point, and your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please read. )