The English commentator's worries were justified. More than twenty minutes into the game, Dortmund had already taken several shots, while Arsenal? They hadn't even managed a single shot! They were completely suppressed by Dortmund.

Judging by the performance in these twenty-odd minutes, it was hard to believe that Arsenal was actually the top of their group and had won all three previous games. It was equally hard to believe that Dortmund had only won one of their first three group matches and was currently ranked third.

He Ping, of course, knew why this change had occurred: "... Dortmund, playing at home, is putting great pressure on Arsenal. The offensive is like a storm, wave after wave, almost suffocating Arsenal. Seeing Dortmund's performance, people can't help but wonder—if that's the case, why hasn't Dortmund's performance in the Champions League group stage this season been satisfactory? It's simple, because they didn't have Zhou Yi before. The changes in Dortmund in this game are almost entirely due to Zhou Yi's appearance..."

This wasn't just He Ping boasting about himself. Marcel Reif also believed that Dortmund's transformative performance was closely related to Zhou Yi.

"...Look at Dortmund's performance in these twenty-odd minutes. Although they are playing at home and have some home advantage, it's not to this extent... It fully illustrates how important Zhou Yi is to this team. In the time he was absent, even when Dortmund won, they didn't win convincingly..."

Zhou Yi was like a tiger that had been locked in a cage for a long time, suddenly released back into the forest, immediately showing the demeanor of the "king of beasts." He ran tirelessly, appearing everywhere he could, retreating to the defensive line to stay in line with his center-back teammates, or breaking into the opponent's penalty area to shoot.

Seeing that Flamini was having difficulty controlling Zhou Yi alone, Arteta also intensified his defensive efforts against Zhou Yi. It was no longer a case of Flamini marking Zhou Yi with Arteta assisting; it had completely become a situation where two people were double-teaming Zhou Yi.

But even so, it wasn't easy to keep Zhou Yi quiet.

In the twenty-fifth minute, when Zhou Yi received the ball with his back to the goal, he withstood Flamini's interference from behind while attracting Arteta to come up and challenge him. Just as Arteta lunged forward, he suddenly passed the ball behind him with his heel. As a result, Arteta swept his foot through the air, not touching the ball, but instead kicking Zhou Yi to the ground.

The referee's whistle had just sounded when it was drowned out by the huge boos from the Westfalenstadion.

Zhou Yi had only recently recovered from his injury, and now Dortmund fans were very sensitive to those fouls against Zhou Yi. Anyone who dared to foul Zhou Yi would be met with Dortmund fans' crazy boos and scolding.

Arteta's action was like stirring up a hornet's nest.

Zhou Yi curled up on the ground, clutching his ankle, while his teammates rushed up to confront Arteta.

Arteta raised his hands, indicating that he didn't do it on purpose, that he was going for the ball and didn't intend to foul Zhou Yi.

However, his explanation didn't save him. The referee still showed him a yellow card.

"Arteta received a yellow card. Since he also has the task of defending Zhou Yi in the game, this yellow card may be a burden for him. The game has only started for twenty-five minutes, and he already has a yellow card. In the rest of the game, he will definitely be cautious..." the English commentator said worriedly.

At this time, it started to rain, and the rain was heavy, not just a misty drizzle. The field was slippery, which was definitely not good news for Arsenal, who mainly played ground passing and control...

Everything was developing in a direction unfavorable to Arsenal.

Of course, perhaps Dortmund supporters felt that the situation was unfavorable—if Zhou Yi was injured again, Arsenal would only have to pay the price of a yellow card to remove Dortmund's most threatening player from the field. In that case, Arsenal would be the one who benefited more...

Fortunately, Zhou Yi quickly got up from the ground on his own. Although he was still limping a bit, it shouldn't be a major problem.

"It should be a contusion..." He Ping guessed, also expressing a hopeful wish. Although contusions are painful, they don't have any serious aftereffects, indicating that the joint wasn't injured.

Online, many Chinese fans weren't so polite and were scolding Arteta severely.

Some even theorized that this was Arsenal's tactical arrangement, with the aim of causing Zhou Yi to be injured again and leave the field, so that Arsenal could easily defeat Dortmund away from home.

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Zhou Yi was fouled by Arteta, earning Dortmund a free kick about thirty-three meters from the goal, slightly to the left.

This was a free kick in a very good position, perfect for a direct shot.

Reus was going to take the free kick.

Zhou Yi didn't go into the wall. With his small stature, he probably couldn't even squeeze into the wall. It was impossible to interfere with the defense by being in the wall.

So he stood outside, able to control the second ball or something.

After Arsenal set up the wall, the referee blew the whistle.

Reus glanced at the goal, then ran up and shot!

The ball bypassed the wall and flew straight towards the goal!

This was a very high-quality free kick!

Eager cheers rang out from the stands!

But the ball didn't fly into the goal... Instead, it was blocked by Arsenal goalkeeper Szczęsny, who dived across the goal!

The quality of Reus's free kick was still very high, so Szczęsny had to do everything he could to block the ball.

He was only able to keep the ball out of the goal, but he couldn't control how he kept it out.

So the ball didn't fly out of the baseline, but bounced back after being deflected by Szczęsny's hand!

The penalty area was immediately in chaos!

Both sides rushed towards the ball.

In the chaos, the ball was kicked out by someone and rolled outside, where it was received by Arsenal player Arteta at the top of the arc. Arteta's back was to the direction of the attack when he received the ball, so he naturally turned around after receiving the ball.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Zhou Yi blocking his path!

It was as if Zhou Yi knew he would do this and was waiting here. Seeing Arteta turn around and push the ball out, he stepped forward.

This step didn't go straight up, but diagonally, and this diagonal step happened to coincide with Arteta's next move.

Arteta saw Zhou Yi at the moment of turning around, so he subconsciously used the outside of his left foot to push the ball diagonally forward.

He originally wanted to avoid Zhou Yi, but his push collided with Zhou Yi's diagonal step!

Zhou Yi stretched his foot and poked the ball away from Arteta!

Zhou Yi's poke was very fast, and it was too late for Arteta to react a second time. He originally wanted to take the ball away before Zhou Yi, but now he stumbled under his feet, lost his balance, and lost control of the ball!

Zhou Yi nimbly bypassed the staggering Arteta and caught up with the ball inside the penalty arc.

Just as he caught up with the ball, Mertesacker rushed up. At the same time, Zhou Yi also swung his right foot.

Seeing this, Mertesacker knew that he had no way to intercept the ball, so he simply put his hands behind his back and stretched his leg to expand his defensive area, hoping to block Zhou Yi's shot with his body. As for why he put his hands behind his back? It was because he was afraid that the ball would hit his raised arm and risk being penalized for a penalty...

But because his hands were behind his back, his defensive area wasn't large enough, so Zhou Yi's shot flew past him. Mertesacker tried hard to twist his body, wanting to block the ball with his body, but the distance was too far.

"Zhou Yi shoots—!"

Marcel Reif shouted, drawing out his voice.

In his roar, the ball shot by Zhou Yi didn't fly straight out, but had a slight arc, heading towards the far upper corner of the goal!

Szczęsny didn't react immediately when Zhou Yi shot, because his vision was blocked by the tall Mertesacker. When he saw the ball flying over, he also misjudged the ball a bit—seeing that Zhou Yi's shot wasn't the kind of powerful shot, he thought the ball wouldn't be fast and should be easy to save.

But when the ball flew over, he realized that the situation was completely different from what he had imagined!

Zhou Yi didn't put much power into this shot, but he was aiming for the angle!

The ball went straight to the back corner of the goal, and the height was high, and the angle was tricky. Szczęsny's misjudgment of the ball led to him not jumping high enough and not touching the ball!

In the air, he looked up at the ball flying towards the goal, terrified—this ball wouldn't really go in, would it?

He guessed right. The ball went into the goal from the upper corner of the goal!

When Zhou Yi kicked the ball, everyone thought it should be considered a hasty shot, and no one had any hope for the result.

So when the ball really flew into the goal, most people were stunned for a moment.

Unexpectedly, the goal was born so suddenly, without any signs before!

It was still an experienced commentator like Marcel Reif who reacted quickly. He quickly roared: "toooooooooooooooooor!!!! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi!! He gave Dortmund the lead! In his first Champions League game after recovering from injury, Zhou Yi proved his importance to Dortmund with a goal!!"

After scoring the goal, Zhou Yi turned around and wanted to run to celebrate, but after only running two steps, he was grabbed around the waist by Reus, pulled to the ground, and pinned on top of him.

The others also swarmed over and followed suit. The excited Dortmund players started playing a game of human pyramids.

Behind them were Arsenal players with confused faces...

Many people still haven't reacted to how they lost the ball?!