The players of Borussia Dortmund were in low spirits after failing to defeat Barcelona at home.

After all, they had been in secret training for nearly half a month.

But if you think about it calmly, it would be too childish to be able to defeat Barcelona with just half a month of secret special training.

Even Klopp realized this problem. The powerful Barcelona is not so easily defeated.

So, should they just give up on the Champions League this season?

Of course not.

On the first day of the team's return to training, Klopp told them that in the next six days, the team's training would have only one purpose: the game against Barcelona next Wednesday.

As for the game between Dortmund and Stuttgart at home in between… it didn't matter.

It wouldn't matter even if they lost that game.

Klopp had no intention of giving up on competing with Barcelona, and neither did Zhou Yi.

In addition to expressing this view online and in interviews with reporters, he devoted all his energy to training.

He trained with the team during the day and in the virtual space when he went to bed at night. For this reason, he did not choose to play against Stuttgart in the virtual space. He gave up all those few days of games and switched to training. He trained continuously in the black room, as if he wanted to make passing and receiving the ball an instinct of his body.

In the weekend's game against Stuttgart, Dortmund really didn't take it to heart, because many of the main players, including Zhou Yi, did not start. Moreover, even the Dortmund players who did play were not focused on this game. Their hearts had flown to Barcelona…

In the end, the absent-minded Dortmund drew 2-2 with Stuttgart at home.

They were just lucky not to lose. If it weren't for the goalpost of Westfalenstadion blocking Gentner's shot at the last moment…

In the eyes of the outside world, Dortmund drew with Barcelona at home, and then were held to a draw by Stuttgart at home. This fully shows that the game against Barcelona has affected the league. The players are absent-minded on the field, their condition is low, and they are sleepwalking.

Although it can be seen from Klopp's pre-match lineup that this was the result of Klopp's active abandonment, many people think that Klopp's abandonment is meaningless.

Dortmund cannot reverse Barcelona away. Instead of trying their best in the Champions League, it is better to play the league honestly…

After twenty-eight rounds of league matches, Dortmund's lead in points has changed from a maximum of ten points to seven points. There are still six rounds left in the league, and anything is possible for Bayern Munich.

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The fact that they almost lost to Stuttgart in the league did not affect Zhou Yi. He was very happy that the game against Stuttgart was finally over, and now he could choose Barcelona as his opponent in the virtual space.

So he adjusted his training and game plan in the virtual space. He appropriately reduced the training time and increased the number of games.

If he could play more than one game a day in the virtual space, he would have liked to use all his time to play against Barcelona.

Because he wanted to know more about this team, to understand it in all aspects. *Sun Tzu's Art of War* says: Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

To defeat Barcelona, you must know enough about Barcelona, so that you can know what their weaknesses are and can use them…

He wanted to know as if he had been playing for this team for ten years.

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That day finally arrived. Dortmund ended their training at home and took a plane to Barcelona to challenge this incredibly powerful "universe team."

When they arrived at the airport in Barcelona, many reporters rushed to interview them.

In an interview, Klopp said, "We are ready." This was ridiculed by the local Catalan host in the evening news as being ready to lose the game.

In an interview, Zhou Yi also refuted the idea that everyone thought they had been eliminated: "I have never seen a situation where a 0-0 draw in the first leg is considered to be eliminated in advance. Isn't the two-legged match for some things to happen in the second leg?"

"But after all, this is Barcelona's home, and it is really difficult for Dortmund to beat Barcelona here," a reporter asked. "You know, Barcelona has not lost a game at home this season!"

What the reporter said was true. Barcelona had not lost a home game in La Liga this season. As of the current thirty-first round of the league, Barcelona has played sixteen home games, with fifteen wins and one draw. The home win rate is 93.8%. They have scored sixty-four goals at home and only conceded nine goals. This huge home advantage is self-evident.

In the Champions League, Barcelona's four home games this season have also been three wins and one draw, remaining unbeaten. In these four games, they have scored fifteen goals and only conceded three goals, which is also a huge advantage.

In any case, Barcelona cannot lose to Dortmund at home. They have absolute confidence in their own territory.

Zhou Yi nodded: "Of course, it is not easy to beat them at Barcelona's home. But please note that this is a two-legged match."

He repeated this sentence again, but the reporters were confused.

Yes, the Champions League knockout stage is a two-legged match, is there any problem with that?

Is this the reason why you can reverse Barcelona away?

Zhou Yi didn't explain much, and finally said: "Those who understand will naturally understand."

The subtext is naturally "those who don't understand don't understand."

The reporters really didn't expect to play a guessing game in an interview. They were so tired…

In this regard, the local Catalan media commented that "Zhou Yi's confidence is a bit inexplicable. Perhaps he himself does not know what he is talking about, so facing our reporters' repeated questions, he has always avoided talking about it. This is understandable, because he doesn't know how to explain it at all…"

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Before the start of the game, the Camp Nou stadium was already full, but the atmosphere in the stadium was not too warm. Everyone felt that Barcelona would eliminate Dortmund at home without any suspense. Therefore, the atmosphere in the stadium was not as warm as when Barcelona played against Inter Milan at home.

At that time, the situation was very critical for Barcelona.

Because in the first leg, Barcelona lost 1-3 to Inter Milan away. At that time, everyone thought that Barcelona was forced to the edge of a cliff. The local Barcelona media called on Barcelona fans to unite, go to the stadium to watch the game, cheer for the team, and put pressure on their opponent Inter Milan.

So before that second leg, not only was the Camp Nou full, but the fans also created huge Barcelona team emblems and slogans, creating a devilish home atmosphere.

But unfortunately, not long after the game started, Busquets's dark move against Motta resulted in his dismissal, which completely changed the direction of the game…

Facing Inter Milan, who parked the bus for the whole game, Barcelona only scored a goal at the last moment, but they were still eliminated with a total score of 2-3.

This is actually like what is sung in the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. If it is not a critical moment of survival, Barcelona's home will not give the visiting team that kind of "as if facing a great enemy" treatment.

In the locker room, Zhou Yi was explaining to his players why he said those words during the interview.

"Of course, it is difficult to beat Barcelona away. No team has done it this season. I will not say that we are the first to do it. But this is a two-legged match, so there are away goals, right? We don't need to beat Barcelona away, we just need to draw with them away! 1-1 is enough for us to send them home!" Zhou Yi spread his hands and said. "Drawing with them is not something impossible to do, right? After all, two teams have done it before us."

Zhou Yi held up two fingers, "Sevilla in the league, and AC Milan in the Champions League. Speaking of AC Milan, we eliminated them in the round of sixteen, so we are stronger than them, right? Since AC Milan can draw with Barcelona away, why can't we, who are stronger than them, do it?"

As soon as Zhou Yi said this, many of his teammates showed thoughtful expressions.

Seeing this scene next to him, Klopp held back his laughter. Although Zhou Yi was only twenty years old, he didn't know why, but when Klopp saw his back saying this in the locker room, he couldn't help but think that if Zhou Yi retired, he could come to be a coach. He doesn't speak very loudly, and he doesn't use a lot of nice-sounding and beautiful rhetoric, but for some reason, when the words come out of his mouth, people can't help but believe them and feel that what he said makes sense.

Just like what he said just now.

In fact, after a careful analysis, what Zhou Yi said is all sophistry - first of all, just because others can do it, doesn't mean that Dortmund can also do it. Secondly, football is not a simple equation. Just because AC Milan drew with Barcelona, doesn't mean that AC Milan's strength is the same as Barcelona's, and just because Dortmund defeated AC Milan, doesn't mean that Dortmund is stronger than AC Milan, and just because AC Milan drew with Barcelona, doesn't mean that Dortmund can also draw with Barcelona.

It is very amateurish and childish to equate things in this way.

But when the words come out of Zhou Yi's mouth, no one will question him for saying it wrong in the first place. Instead, they will start thinking and feel that what Zhou Yi said seems to make sense.

This kid is born with a kind of bewitching magic. Fortunately, he chose football, not politics…

Although he knew that Zhou Yi was talking nonsense and arguing, Klopp still had to support Zhou Yi at this time, because he also needed the team to have such a consensus - at Barcelona's home, we are omnipotent.

So he clapped his hands, attracted everyone's attention to himself, and then raised his voice and said passionately: "Zhou Yi is right! Since AC Milan can draw with Barcelona away, why can't we, who eliminated them, do it?!"