Who exactly was playing at home here?

This wasn't just Marcel Reif's question, but also what Werder Bremen's fans wanted to know.

Even if Werder Bremen's performance this season was a bit lacking, this was still their home ground.

Yet, Dortmund had quickly seized the initiative and scored the leading goal…

But Dortmund's performance wasn't over yet.

In the forty-first minute, after Dortmund had continuously pressured Werder Bremen's goal for nearly ten minutes, two consecutive shots were blocked.

Zhou Yi suddenly cut into the penalty area, and at the same time, Reus passed the ball to him.

He received the ball in the penalty area and swept it with a half-turn.

The power wasn't great, but the shot was sudden and the angle was tricky.

Werder Bremen's goalkeeper, Wolf, was caught off guard. By the time he dove to save, the ball had already rolled into the goal behind him!

"Zhou Yi! Oh! Zhou Yi! He scored Dortmund's second goal of the game! Before the end of the first half, Dortmund took a two-goal lead!"

"Zhou Yi scored his first goal after the winter break. From this game, we can see that Zhou Yi is still in very good form. Whether it's organizing the attack or shooting on goal, he is very active. Judging from his running, his physical fitness is also perfectly fine..." Duan Xin kept praising Zhou Yi.

"Leading 2-0, this score is like a microcosm of Dortmund and Werder Bremen's first half. Dortmund completely dominated, whether it's the score or the possession rate, Dortmund has the advantage. It seems that the four-point gap has given them hope of catching up with Bayern Munich again..."

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During the halftime break, Klopp praised the players' performance, but also set higher demands: "If possible, strive to score more goals. After all, this is their home ground, and anything can happen in the second half. No one can be careless..."

As soon as the second half started, the entire Dortmund team implemented the coach's guiding principle and actively extended the battle to Werder Bremen's half.

And they achieved results shortly after the second half began.

Right after the second half started, Dortmund got a corner kick due to their relentless attack.

After the corner kick was taken, Werder Bremen's midfielder, Bargfrede, contested for the header in front of the goal, but he didn't head it directly out of the danger zone. Under Mark's close interference, he grazed the ball towards the back post. Dortmund's center-back, Friedrich, happened to be there, and followed up with a push shot, easily sending the ball into the empty net!

"Friedrich! This firefighter, who joined Dortmund as a free agent before the winter break, scored his first goal for Dortmund! In this game, Friedrich started in place of Hummels, who was injured again in the midweek warm-up match... Seeing him perform like this, Dortmund fans can breathe a sigh of relief for the time being..."

"The second half has just begun, and Dortmund has already taken a three-goal lead away from home... Although plagued by injuries, Dortmund's lineup has never been complete, but even so, they have maintained a very strong fighting ability. We might as well imagine—if Dortmund hadn't suffered so many injuries this season, how wonderful the contest between them and Bayern Munich would have been..." Marcel Reif said with regret. He was unwilling to see the Bundesliga return to a situation of one team dominating.

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Werder Bremen probably didn't expect that Dortmund, already leading by two goals, would still be so "relentless," launching a fierce attack as soon as the second half started, catching them off guard.

The entire team was in a "dazed" state after conceding the goal.

They completely lost control of the situation and were completely suppressed by Dortmund.

All the threatening attacks in the game came from Dortmund.

In the fifty-first minute, Mark received a wonderful pass from Zhou Yi on the right side of the penalty area and turned to shoot with force, narrowly missing the crossbar, giving Werder Bremen fans a cold sweat.

In the fifty-sixth minute, Piszczek cut in from the right and blasted a powerful shot from twenty-five meters away from the goal, resulting in the ball hitting the crossbar and bouncing out of the baseline!

"Piszczek! Oh—that was close! Werder Bremen almost conceded another goal!"

"In this defense, the best performer for Werder Bremen should be the crossbar of their home goal!"

Dortmund's storm-like continuous offensive is a characteristic of Dortmund in its heyday. When the rhythm of the game falls into their hands, they can be fast or slow as they please. The reason they can do this is partly because they have a "super brain" Zhou Yi, and partly because their entire team is in excellent physical condition and has extremely outstanding running ability, which allows them to keep up with the non-stop passing and create such a suffocating offensive on the field.

These two complement each other and are indispensable.

Dortmund's dominance in the game has declined somewhat this season, which is related to their excessive injuries. The original players either left the team or were injured. A large number of new players have been recruited, and their training and philosophy are different from the previous Dortmund.

Therefore, there is no such thing as a dominant tactic in this world. What is dominant is the team, a team composed of individual players, not a certain set of tactics. Tactics must ultimately fall to the individual performance of the players, after all, they must be executed by the players.

If the players' abilities cannot do it, then even the most powerful tactics are just castles in the air, empty talk, and meaningless.

Klopp's Dortmund had always insisted on a mad-dog-like tactical style for the previous four seasons. At that time, he had flourishing "puppies" under his command. After his desperate squeezing in these four seasons, although the team achieved unprecedented results, the team's potential was also squeezed dry by him, and the players' bodies began to show various problems.

Even the players who transferred away from the team could not escape.

This season, Götze just transferred to Bayern Munich, and was absent from the first few rounds of the league due to injury. At that time, there was a voice that Götze was treated inhumanely in Dortmund, squeezed by Klopp like a beast, and then threw a squeezed waste to Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich did not know this situation before, until Götze transferred to Bayern Munich, they noticed the hidden dangers of Dortmund from Götze. They realized that this old opponent who had entangled with them for several seasons should have run out of fuel this season and could no longer pose any threat to them...

Of course, Bayern Munich Club has never agreed with this view. Götze himself also refuted the "squeezing" argument.

But this kind of ambiguous message is still spreading wildly in private and has become one of Klopp's crimes.

Leaving aside those rumors, the objective fact is that Dortmund's injuries have suddenly increased this season, and Klopp's favorite tactics naturally do not work.

This game against Werder Bremen finally allowed people to vaguely see the "Yellow and Black Storm" that dominated German football in the previous few seasons.

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Dortmund's bombardment was not just "thunder without rain."

Their constant shots put tremendous pressure on Werder Bremen's players, causing them to panic and lose focus in defense.

So Dortmund's opportunity came.

In the sixty-second minute, Sven Bender intercepted Werder Bremen's forward pass in midfield, and then directly launched a counterattack.

In the counterattack, Zhou Yi and Reus switched positions.

Zhou Yi ran to the left wing, while Reus went to the center.

After receiving the ball in the center, Reus dribbled forward. After attracting Werder Bremen's defenders, he passed the ball to Zhou Yi, who had already cut into the left side of the penalty area.

As Zhou Yi received the ball, he brought the ball into the penalty area.

His sudden insertion caused Werder Bremen's defenders in the penalty area to collectively tense up - the goal conceded in the forty-first minute was because of Zhou Yi's sudden insertion, catching them off guard.

They didn't want to be tripped by the same stone again this time!

So Werder Bremen players in the penalty area immediately turned to defend Zhou Yi, forcing him to the wing.

Zhou Yi did take the ball to the outside, but just as he was about to sprint to the wing, his left heel secretly flicked the ball behind him!

The ball was passed to Reus, who had followed up!

Zhou Yi had taken away most of the Werder Bremen players defending him in the penalty area!

Reus was in front of the penalty spot, completely unmarked!

There was no better opportunity than this!

Reus swung his leg and shot!

The ball hit goalkeeper Wolf at the far post, and he was completely powerless!

"toooooooooooooooooooooooooor! Reus! Reus!!!" Marcel Reif shouted excitedly.