Whether it was Klopp or Buvac, neither of them went to the players to ask what had happened, but they both got the answer through a TV program.

What exactly did Zhou Yi say to Sahin?

Thanks to the lip-reading experts, Klopp and the others knew.

"Be yourself?" For ordinary fans, this was just a piece of gossip, but for Klopp, it made him think of more.

Sitting in front of the TV, he muttered to himself, chewing over what Zhou Yi had said to Sahin.

He had been racking his brains on how to get the two playmakers to perform better.

In theory, there wasn't much of a problem with his set of tactics, and they should have been able to operate normally.

But in actual operation, they had been slow to mesh successfully. He had been considering where the problem lay.

He didn't expect that Zhou Yi would wake him up with a word.

Let Sahin be himself, and the team actually performed better.

Previously, he had always thought that two playmakers should be in a parallel relationship.

But through the game against Hannover 96, he found that the two cores didn't necessarily have to be parallel. One could be slightly stronger and the other slightly weaker. In this way, it was said to be two cores, but in fact, it was a single core plus a powerful assist. The advantage of doing this was that the team didn't have to spend too much time adapting to this set of tactics. Everyone was familiar with Sahin as the core, after all, he had been the core of this team for one and a half seasons.

The downside was that if Sahin was the core, Zhou Yi would be the assist... Was he willing?

But now it seemed that Zhou Yi himself didn't object to or resist this, and he had even proposed it himself.

However, Klopp was thinking further ahead.

In the single-core plus assist model, who stipulated that only Sahin could be the core and Zhou Yi the assist?

Sometimes, if Sahin was in poor form, or was marked to death by the opponent, Zhou Yi could also be the core, and let Sahin assist...

Thinking of this, Klopp felt that the problem that had been bothering him all along had suddenly been solved.

He knew how to adjust the training plan.

He didn't expect that Zhou Yi was the first to see this problem...

Klopp felt it was amazing to think about it.

That kid really gave him a lot of surprises, and not just limited to on-field performance...

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After the words Zhou Yi said to Sahin were exposed, the media praised Zhou Yi for having the demeanor of a great general at a young age. He dared to directly point out the problems of his teammates, especially core teammates, in the game. Not everyone had such courage and insight.

But Zhou Yi not only did it, but he was also right.

It was really impossible not to admire him.

This made the Chinese reporters particularly proud.

Since Zhou Yi appeared in everyone's field of vision, he always gave people the feeling that he was like a person composed of positive energy. Every time he appeared, he would bring positive energy to people, making people feel like they were fully charged.

Everyone liked this young man and was happy to interact with him.

Maybe that was the reason?

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Zhou Yi didn't care much about how the media commented on his behavior this time. He only felt that the problem was solved, and he could finally train his long passes in the virtual system with peace of mind. Now he didn't have to spend more time working with Sahin, because everything was on the right track. He only needed to set aside a small amount of time to train with Sahin, and he could still arrange long pass special training for most of the time.

Of course, every virtual day, he still had to play a game.

And just after he finished the game with Hannover 96, when he entered the virtual system again, Chu Ling told him that there was a new opponent to challenge.

Basically, every time a new opponent appeared, it was the team that Dortmund would face in the next game.

So Zhou Yi had one more week than the team to prepare for the new opponent, and this week was still the real world. Converting it into the time of the virtual system, it would be a full seven weeks...

Zhou Yi had plenty of time to understand the opponent and get used to the opponent.

And this time, when Zhou Yi opened the list of opponents, he found that what appeared in front of him was Schalke 04!

He realized - the next game was the Revierderby.

Zhou Yi was no stranger to the Revierderby, because when he was in the Dortmund youth team, he had experienced two Revierderbies, one for the U17s and one for the U19s.

Even for the first team's Revierderby, Zhou Yi was no stranger. Because he could repeat the experience over and over again in the virtual system, the system could perfectly simulate the sound effects of the scene. Whether it was the cheering of the fans in Westfalenstadion or Veltins-Arena, it impacted his eardrums. The sense of reality was bursting, and it was really easy for Zhou Yi to forget that he was actually in the virtual system.

Because of this perfect authenticity, it was now difficult for Zhou Yi to have any excitement about the Revierderby - when a person could play a Revierderby once a day, and continue to do so for fifty consecutive days, it was already a good psychological quality not to vomit.

Zhou Yi didn't vomit, but he was already very indifferent.

For the next Revierderby, Zhou Yi just said "oh" and then started the simulation game.

Of course, he also scanned the Schalke 04 roster and didn't find Yang Muge in it.

I wonder when I will be able to meet Lao Yang in the first team...

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Zhou Yi seemed very indifferent to the Revierderby, but outside, people attached great importance to this game.

At the beginning of the season, when Dortmund's performance was not good and their state was unstable, they lost 0:1 to Schalke 04 at home in the first round of the Revierderby, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the local media in Dortmund at that time.

Therefore, this Revierderby was defined as Dortmund's revenge battle.

Klopp naturally understood the important significance of this game - if he let Schalke 04 do a double kill in one season, then even if the higher-ups supported him, his image would be damaged in the minds of the fans.

If he wanted to continue to win the support of Dortmund fans, he had to do something.

And this was not only related to the Revierderby, but this game was also related to Dortmund's league ranking.

Now Schalke 04 had forty-five points, ranking third in the league, and Dortmund followed closely behind with forty-three points.

In the Bundesliga, only the top three in the league were eligible to participate in the Champions League next season, so the top three in the league was the result that Dortmund had to achieve this season no matter what.

The two factors combined made this game full of highlights and suspense.

This was also the most watched game in Germany in the twenty-fourth round of the league, and it even attracted attention in Europe.

China was naturally indispensable for attention.

Because this game was the first Revierderby experienced by a Chinese player!

But Zhou Yi didn't think so.

"Actually, I have experience." When interviewed by Chinese reporters, he said calmly. "I have played in the Revierderby in the youth A team and the B team."

"But that's the youth team after all, and it's different from the first team. The atmosphere of the stadium and the number of spectators are not the same." Some reporters didn't agree with Zhou Yi's statement. He felt that Zhou Yi underestimated the famous Revierderby.

"It's okay, it's okay." Zhou Yi said with a smile, still with an indifferent look on his face.

He really had no way to tell the reporters how many Revierderbies he had played in two stadiums full of fans.

Although it was virtual, the on-the-spot feeling was extremely realistic. He still remembered when he first set foot on the Revierderby field, he got goosebumps when he heard the shouts of the fans.

Seeing that Zhou Yi was still so calm, for the Chinese reporters, they didn't know for the first time whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

If it was an ordinary game, Zhou Yi's calmness would make them feel that Zhou Yi was really confident.

But now they were talking about the Revierderby!

The most famous and popular derby in Germany!

After the decline of Munich 1860, Bayern Munich had completely lost its opponent in Munich.

Therefore, the Revierderby had become the top derby in the entire Bundesliga.

Faced with such a game, even a veteran who had experienced many battles would not dare to be so relaxed and calm, right?

They would still feel nervous to some extent.

But Zhou Yi really didn't have any nervousness at all.

What did this mean?

Anyway, many Chinese reporters didn't dare to think about "full of confidence".

They thought that Zhou Yi was either heartless or had realistic acting skills and was deceiving them.

They were more convinced that it was the latter, because if the hope of Chinese football was a heartless guy, it would inevitably make them feel a little sad about the shattered hope...

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Zhou Yi didn't know how the reporters commented on him in their hearts. Anyway, he really didn't take this Revierderby too seriously.

Even in the locker room, his teammates seemed to be nervous about this game, and he was still the same as usual.

He cracked whatever jokes he should crack. It was really difficult to find evidence of his nervousness on him.

This made coach Klopp a little surprised - it was okay for Zhou Yi to perform normally in ordinary games, but this was the Revierderby!

It was a top-notch derby in Germany!

And this time it was an away game!

The grievances between Dortmund and Schalke 04 would be magnified countless times in the away game. Even veteran players who had experienced many battles might not be able to perform well, but Zhou Yi was so calm...

"It's normal, after all, he is a Chinese, maybe he doesn't understand the grievances between us and Schalke 04." This was how assistant coach Željko Buvač saw it.

"Hmm..." Klopp also accepted this explanation, because this was the only reasonable and understandable explanation. "But in this case, when he comes on the field, will he be unable to perform normally because he is caught off guard?"

Faced with Klopp's question, Buvač couldn't answer either.

"Maybe there is this possibility... but it's hard to say." He really didn't know how to define and evaluate Zhou Yi now, because he would always suddenly do that when you thought he should be like this.

If he spoke too definitively about him, God knows what would happen in the future...