After the warm-up, the players who were going to play stayed on the field, while the substitutes returned to the bench to sit down.

Sitting on the cold bench, the surrounding teammates sighed and complained about Yan Min: "Yan Min, what kind of directions did you give us? You said you were fluent in German, but what happened? You made us get lost!"

"Yeah, yeah, if you hadn't given us the wrong directions, how could we have lost to them in the traversal!"

"Ah, my starting spot! I wanted to be teammates with Yi Ge! I wanted to play football with him!"

"Me too…"

Amidst the widespread sorrow, Yan Min, sitting on the bench, snorted: "What's so great about being teammates!"

"You don't think it's great, but we do!"

"That's right, that's right!"

Yan Min curled his lip: "Zhou Yi was our teammate in the first half, but he'll be our opponent in the second half. When we get back on the field, we can directly compete with Zhou Yi! Isn't that more exciting and interesting than being teammates?"

Yan Min's words silenced the bench, and everyone stared at him blankly: "Really?"

"Of course! I overheard the on-site director saying it when I passed by just now."

Everyone turned to look at the on-site director, who was assigning tasks to the camera crew leader.

They turned back and focused their gazes on Yan Min's face.

"Anyway, I'd rather be Zhou Yi's opponent. Everyone says he's amazing, and I want to personally experience how amazing he is!" Yan Min looked like a fearless newborn calf who didn't take tigers seriously.

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With a whistle, the game began.

In terms of pure strength, the inheritors team composed of Chinese teenagers was naturally not as good as Borussia Dortmund's youth B team.

Let's not even talk about the gap in individual player strength. This time, due to the popularity of the first season, many of those who came to participate in the show were promising stars who were highly anticipated in their respective clubs. Their individual strength was actually a bit stronger than the previous season.

But compared to Dortmund's youth team, their individual strength was still not as good.

Just talking about the overall strength of the team, this inheritors team was pieced together temporarily, and they had a very short time to train together. After they came to Europe, they played two games in two weeks, and they lost both of them. Moreover, the training was not systematic, and most of the time was given to filming the game and entertainment segments.

They were completely incomparable to Borussia Dortmund's youth B team, which had been training systematically together for a long time.

If it weren't for Zhou Yi, this game would also have been a failure without any suspense.

After Zhou Yi joined, at least on the field, things were a bit more watchable with Zhou Yi.

Dortmund also knew that Zhou Yi was the strongest in this team, so they adopted an extreme double-teaming defensive strategy against Zhou Yi.

However, a genius is a genius. Facing such a double-teaming defense, Zhou Yi was still able to deliver precise passes, using passes and runs to direct and guide the team. He was not greedy for possession and would not keep the ball at his feet and play the role of a lone hero.

He positioned himself as the team's commander, not a charging forward. So, it was not easy for Dortmund u17 players to freeze him, unless they used foul tactics.

But fouling Zhou Yi… If Zhou Yi was injured in a game against the youth team, everyone would probably be waiting to face Klopp's wrath…

Thinking about it this way, they didn't dare to foul.

Then it came back to the previous problem. If they didn't foul, it would be difficult to freeze Zhou Yi.

In this way, relying on Zhou Yi's passes and connections, the inheritors team was initially able to compete with Dortmund's youth team.

And Zhou Yi didn't show any sense of unfamiliarity with these teammates he was meeting for the first time. Once he was on the field, he seemed to have been cooperating with these people for a long time. He was familiar with every player, and the balls he sent out were just right, making people feel comfortable.

Seeing this scene from the sidelines, Hao Dong couldn't help but smile with relief.

Zhou Yi was still the same Zhou Yi, the familiar recipe, the same taste.

Now Hao Dong no longer thought about why Zhou Yi had such abilities. There were too many magical performances on Zhou Yi. If he had to trace the source of each one, it would probably give him a headache.

So, he just needed to enjoy the magical performances he brought.

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Watching Zhou Yi constantly pass the ball on the field, helping his teammates complete outstanding performances, the substitutes sitting off the field were really anxious.

Each of them was fantasizing about how great it would be if they were the ones receiving the ball on the field—I received Zhou Yi's wonderful pass and scored a goal!

This was something they could brag about for at least half a year when they got back.

Yan Min, however, did not enthusiastically participate in everyone's fantasies. He stared at the field, putting on an indifferent expression, appearing different from the others.

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Despite Zhou Yi's help, the inheritors team still fell behind Dortmund u17 by two goals in the first half. If the opponents hadn't focused more of their energy on limiting Zhou Yi's performance, they probably would have conceded even more goals.

And Zhou Yi could also feel that the strength of this team was far from that of Dortmund's youth B team. Even in his heart, Zhou Yi compared this team with the inheritors team from the first season.

He found that although on paper, some of the current players were indeed better than the players from the first season.

But that was only theoretical ability, and it didn't represent the strength they could exert on the field. In China, there were actually many players who performed very well in training, but when it came to actual matches, they probably couldn't even display half of their training level.

In addition to unsystematic, unscientific, and unserious training, it also came down to mental toughness.

Many people in the first season's inheritors team actually had excellent mental toughness. Besides Lao Guo, He Ying, Yang Muge, and Sun Pan were all mentally strong. The others weren't too bad either. That group of people could be said to be a freak of Chinese football…

Perhaps it was precisely the disregard of various clubs at the time that unintentionally allowed that team to gather a lot of eccentric talents.

They had no room to play under the original system. They went abroad and participated in a not-so-formal reality show, but instead performed well.

And now, when domestic clubs began to pay attention, those who were selected were all elites in the traditional Chinese sense, so various "good traditions" of Chinese football began to be reflected in them…

Near the end of the first half, Zhou Yi took advantage of Dortmund's youth team's relaxed vigilance, decreased stamina, and lack of concentration, suddenly cutting into the penalty area, shooting, and scoring, finally saving some face for the Chinese teenagers.

But in fact, this didn't have much to do with the Chinese teenagers.

This was a concentrated display of Zhou Yi's personal ability. After receiving the ball outside the penalty area, he made a feint to pass the ball to the wing, then hooked the ball to the center while turning and accelerating into the penalty area, catching the opponent off guard. He shot after entering the penalty area, and the ball went into the net.

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The first half ended with a score of 1:2. From the score, the inheritors team only lost by one goal. From the field perspective, they were not completely at a disadvantage. It should have been a happy thing.

But everyone couldn't be happy, because during the halftime break, Zhou Yi didn't follow them back to the locker room. Head coach Hao Dong also told them bad news in the locker room—Zhou Yi would participate in the game as a Dortmund player in the second half, changing from a teammate to an opponent. Dortmund would be even stronger, while the inheritors team would suffer a great loss in strength.

For a time, the atmosphere in the inheritors team's locker room was heavy.

Thinking that they were only losing by one goal with Zhou Yi, and that Zhou Yi was going to the other side in the second half, they didn't know how many goals they would concede… Many people felt that there was simply no fighting spirit to speak of.

But there was one exception. Yan Min clenched his fists in his seat, lowered his head and gritted his teeth, his body trembling slightly.

He wasn't afraid, and he wasn't nervous, but excited.

Just now, after Hao Dong announced the news that Zhou Yi would be their opponent in the second half, he also announced the personnel adjustment decisions for the second half.

Yan Min appeared in the lineup for the second half.

He finally had the opportunity to compete with Zhou Yi face-to-face!

He was going to show his strength to Zhou Yi to his heart's content!

And also show his strength to the European scouts who might be present!

Yes, he also wanted to repeat the footsteps of his predecessors, and realize his dream of playing abroad by participating in this program!

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On the other side, Zhou Yi was chatting with head coach Elk in the Dortmund u17 locker room.

This was the first exchange between the mentor and disciple since Zhou Yi left u17 for u19.

Although Elk may have been the coach who coached Zhou Yi for the shortest time, as Zhou Yi's first coach to enter the Dortmund youth training camp, and even enter professional football, he still had special significance for Zhou Yi, just like a guide, leading him into the world of European professional football.

Elk was also very happy that Zhou Yi could achieve his current achievements.

When Zhou Yi first came to the Brackel training base, he was so thin and weak that he didn't look like a child who could play football. Even if he could barely become a professional player with such physical conditions, he wouldn't have any good performance and achievements.

He saw all the efforts Zhou Yi put in and was considered a witness.

When coaching u17, Elk also often used Zhou Yi as a living example for the new children, telling them that physical conditions were not important, what was important was to be willing to work hard.

Zhou Yi certainly had a high talent, but Elk valued Zhou Yi's efforts and sweat on this basis even more.

He believed that was the important reason why Zhou Yi was able to quickly advance to the first team and perform well in the first team.