"Yan Minchuan with the cross! An excellent opportunity! Aubameyang with the header... Courtois! He makes a world-class save... Wait, the ball's not out yet, it's chaos in front of the goal... Eh?! Goal! It's a goal!!!" He Ping shouted excitedly. "In the chaos, someone got a foot to it first, and the ball flew into Atletico Madrid's goal! Borussia Dortmund takes a 2-0 lead at their home stadium! This is fantastic!"

He Ping had been worried about karma for wasting chances, but now he threw all those worries to the winds.

When the ball flew into the goal, Klopp and his colleagues once again leaped from the bench, celebrating wildly.

Their tactics had worked!

Scoring two goals against Atletico Madrid in the first fourteen minutes was simply amazing!

This was already the best possible start they could have imagined!

Meanwhile, next to them, Atletico Madrid's coach, Simeone, looked even more grim.

Conceding a goal after just three minutes, and then another after fourteen minutes... he had never anticipated such a situation.

He had imagined that his team might concede a goal on the road, and even lose, but he never thought things would get this bad.

The "iron army" he had built was proving so vulnerable at Borussia Dortmund's home!

It seemed that both goals had an element of bad luck, but Simeone wouldn't dare attribute all the problems to bad luck now. If he still thought that way, he wouldn't have been able to lead Atletico Madrid to such achievements.

With a grim face, he replayed Dortmund's two goals, and their attacks that didn't result in goals, in his mind one by one.

It didn't take him long. Before Dortmund's players had even finished celebrating, he had figured it out.

To counter their high pressing, Dortmund had adopted a quick passing and moving tactic, using fast passing and movement to neutralize Atletico Madrid's pressing and surrounding tactics. After all, no matter how fast a person runs, they can't outrun a football. As long as Dortmund kept the ball moving, they could fully mobilize Atletico Madrid's defense.

At the same time, Atletico Madrid's players constantly pressing forward created a lot of space behind them.

Both goals were actually conceded because of gaps in the defense, which Dortmund had seized upon...

He suddenly realized what Klopp and Zhou Yi had been talking about before the game when they mentioned a "secret weapon"...

Wasn't this the secret weapon they had specifically prepared to deal with Atletico Madrid?!

It was just that this secret weapon was too unexpected. Simeone knew that Dortmund was capable of this style of play. It wasn't his first time playing against Dortmund, so he had naturally studied them and knew that Dortmund had used such tactics before.

He just felt that this style of play demanded a lot from every player on the team, and it was impossible to execute unless the whole team was in particularly good form. Judging from Dortmund's miserable performance this season, they couldn't possibly risk using this tactic, otherwise, they might end up destroying themselves before they succeeded...

Who would have thought that Klopp would actually do it, and succeed!

People always said that Klopp was a crazy coach, and now it seemed that he truly lived up to his reputation...

Now that he had figured out the root of the problem, the next step was to make adjustments, of course.

The opponent's quick passing and moving tactic mainly exploited the gaps left after Atletico Madrid's pressing, so it was easy to counter them: just stop pressing.

Having already conceded two goals, continuing to press could very likely lead to more goals. If they lost by a large margin, and then had to go back to their home stadium for the second leg, the match would be difficult to play...

Simeone was already thinking about the second leg.

Now, the priority was to stabilize the defense and not concede any more goals. Then, with more than seventy-five minutes of game time remaining, there would still be opportunities to score as long as they were patient enough.

Since the game had reached this point, Simeone wasn't even considering winning anymore. If they could get an away goal and avoid conceding any more, then a 1-2 scoreline wouldn't be unacceptable.

An away goal, with a total score difference of only one goal, would allow Atletico Madrid to turn the tables in the second leg at home, relying on their strong home advantage.

Most importantly, in the second leg, Dortmund would truly have no secrets left. They had already played their biggest card. In the next leg, Atletico Madrid would definitely make corresponding arrangements. The same trick can't be used on a Saint twice, right?

So as long as they didn't lose by a large margin in the first leg, Atletico Madrid could still have the upper hand in the second leg.

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While Dortmund's players were still celebrating, Simeone stood on the sidelines and called Gabi over, giving him instructions.

This move naturally didn't escape the eyes of Dortmund's coach, Klopp.

Seeing this scene, he knew what Simeone would do.

They weren't fools, and it was easy to guess such a simple thing.

Although Simeone understood the situation after fourteen minutes and made corresponding adjustments,

Klopp was already very satisfied.

After all, in those fourteen minutes, Dortmund had scored two goals, leading 2-0.

Next, when Atletico Madrid stopped insisting on high pressing, Dortmund could also slow down the pace and play around with them slowly.

In fact, Simeone's adjustment could even be said to have relieved Klopp.

With Dortmund's current personnel status and physical condition, it was really impossible to maintain this tactic for the entire game, not even for most of it.

So if Atletico Madrid didn't adjust, he couldn't let the team keep playing like this. At most, after thirty minutes, they would have to slow down the pace and switch to normal tactics, otherwise, if their stamina was exhausted, the team would collapse, and even if they were leading by two goals, they wouldn't be able to hold on.

Although he saw Simeone's adjustments, Klopp didn't shout from the sidelines to remind his players to pay attention.

He believed that Zhou Yi would make corresponding adjustments after seeing the opponent's changes. He would leave this matter to Zhou Yi.

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When Zhou Yi and his teammates finished celebrating and returned to their own half, Atletico Madrid's players were all standing in their positions, ready.

Although they had conceded two goals, they received instructions from their coach in the first instance, so they didn't feel panicked. Because they knew what to do next. In fact, most of the time, when a team plays poorly in a match, making repeated mistakes after conceding a goal, it's mostly because they don't know what to do next and feel uncertain.

Currently, although they were two goals behind, there was still a lot of game time left, and the coach had already told them what to do next: stabilize the defense, then look for opportunities to counterattack, and completing the task would be scoring one goal.

After the game restarted, Zhou Yi quickly noticed this change.

Although Atletico Madrid's players were still pressing, the intensity of their pressing was far less than before. Previously, their pressing could almost reach Dortmund's goalkeeper Weidenfeller.

But now, as soon as they kicked off, Dortmund passed the ball back, and when they were passing it around on the defensive line, Atletico Madrid's players didn't even come up.

Logically speaking, in this situation, Dortmund should also slow down and play around with Atletico Madrid slowly.

After all, they were leading by two goals now.

But Zhou Yi didn't intend to do that.

Slowing down the pace was what Atletico Madrid wanted. If Dortmund also slowed down, it would be exactly what Atletico Madrid wanted.

The quick passing and moving tactic was indeed very energy-consuming, but the game had only started for a little over ten minutes, and Dortmund's stamina was far from being exhausted. If they gave up the quick passing and moving tactic at this time, wouldn't they be actively giving up their advantage?

So Zhou Yi decided to continue with the current style of play.

He wasn't worried about Atletico Madrid's defensive retreat.

First of all, Atletico Madrid hadn't really retreated defensively. Even if they had, quick passing and moving still had the ability to break through the defense.

So he didn't repeatedly pass the ball back in the backcourt, waiting for Atletico Madrid's players to press up. Instead, he directly sent the ball forward.

It was still quick passing and moving, with players running to receive passes.

And he kept waving his hands, asking his teammates to push up, especially the full-backs on both wings, who had to push up.

His teammates trusted Zhou Yi very much. Although they also saw the changes in Atletico Madrid, if Zhou Yi told them to push up, then they would push up.

The two full-backs, Piszczek and Durm, obediently pushed forward, and the whole team still maintained that compact formation, seemingly not worried that Atletico Madrid would take this opportunity to launch a counterattack behind them...