Actually, Bayern Munich's recent poor performance is also related to their injury situation.

Arjen Robben, the team's absolute main player and top scorer with 23 goals last season, was injured at the beginning of the season and has not yet returned. It is said that he may miss the entire half season.

Robben's absence will have a significant impact on Bayern Munich's strength.

He was an important contributor to Bayern Munich's league and cup double crown last season, and also reached the Champions League final.

In addition, another core player of the team, Ribery, was also plagued by injuries at the beginning of this season. In the fifth round of the league, Bayern Munich defeated Hoffenheim 2:1, but he was substituted off in the 62nd minute due to injury by Altintop.

In the subsequent sixth round of the league, Bayern Munich lost to Mainz, and in the second round of the Champions League group stage, Bayern Munich defeated Basel away, Ribery was unable to play.

And judging from his injury situation, he is very likely to miss the upcoming game against Dortmund.

With such serious injuries, it is naturally difficult for Bayern Munich's performance to improve.

In addition to injuries, Bayern Munich also has hidden dangers in many aspects.

After the team performed well last season, Van Gaal may have thought that his skills were complete, so he made very few moves in the transfer market.

But the season has just begun, and the team has fallen into an injury crisis, causing Van Gaal to have no one to use, which really gave him a blow to the head.

In addition, Bayern Munich's defense has always had problems.

Since they sold Lúcio during his prime years, Bayern Munich has never had a center-back that can reassure people.

Van Buyten, Demichelis, and Badstuber always make some inexplicable mistakes to prove their existence.

There is even a joke circulating on the internet to mock Bayern Munich's defense.

After young player Petersen came to Bayern Munich's first team, he met Badstuber. Badstuber asked Petersen, "What goals have you set for yourself in the new season?"

Petersen said, "Just score more goals than you leak."

Hearing this, Badstuber laughed and said, "Then you're bound to lose!"

In addition, the old goalkeeper Butt's form has also become unstable.

There are also frequent rumors of discord between Van Gaal and the players, and with the club's senior management.

In short, all of Bayern Munich's performances this season can be translated into a capital "failure".

In this situation, what good will come of them challenging the in-form Dortmund away?

Because Bayern Munich has been so bad recently, even Dortmund players like Großkreutz are embarrassed to laugh at them anymore, because there is no point in laughing at them.

But Klopp doesn't think this game will be easy. He believes that Bayern Munich is the kind of special team that can often explode with great energy when faced with difficulties and desperation.

So if you look down on them, they will let you die without a burial place.

His pre-match arrangements were still very cautious.

However, Zhou Yi had a different opinion. He felt that his coach was being overly cautious.

He had simulated it many times in the virtual space, and Dortmund won more than they lost.

Bayern Munich's recent form is indeed very bad, and it is difficult to see any signs that they might suddenly explode in this game.

Before the game against Bayern Munich, Zhou Yi seemed very relaxed.

He didn't see this game as a difficult one. In his opinion, the difficulty was far less than the Ruhr Derby.

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Facts also proved Zhou Yi's judgment.

After the game started, Dortmund, who were determined to take revenge, were simply unbeatable by Bayern Munich.

At the beginning of the first half, Bayern Munich could still compete with Dortmund.

But when the first half progressed to the later stages, Bayern Munich's defense began to have various problems...

"Van Buyten missed someone! That was close! Mark almost scored!" Marcel Reif exclaimed. "This missed person is really fatal... But this doesn't seem to surprise us at all, because this is the most profound impression that Bayern Munich's defense has left on us this season - there are four bombs on their defense line, who knows when they will explode!"

As if Marcel Reif had predicted, the bomb on Bayern Munich's defense line really exploded!

Just one minute into the second half, Van Buyten twisted his knee in a defense and fell to the ground in pain...

"Ah, Van Buyten is injured. Looking at his painful expression, it is very likely that he will not be able to continue. For Bayern Munich, the start of this season is really too bad! Robben will be out for half a season, Ribery hasn't recovered from his injury, and now they have to add Van Buyten to their injury list..."

The TV broadcast immediately cut to a close-up of Van Gaal on the sidelines. In the shot, Van Gaal frowned with a gloomy expression.

After Van Buyten was injured, Van Gaal replaced him with Demichelis.

However, this substitution may be completely adding insult to injury for many Bayern Munich players.

If Van Buyten and Badstuber are considered time bombs on Bayern Munich's defense line, not knowing when they will explode, then Demichelis's arrival is directly detonating the bomb...

But there was no way, who told Van Gaal to only bring Demichelis, this one defender, to Westfalenstadion for this game?

So he can only replace Van Buyten with Demichelis now.

It's not that Van Gaal didn't want to bring more defenders, it's just that the team's injury crisis has left him with no extra choices even on the bench.

Demichelis is already considered the most reliable substitute.

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The game then continued, and Dortmund obviously regarded Demichelis as a breakthrough point, consciously starting to attack this side.

Zhou Yi passed the ball to this side again and again, while Mark, Kagawa Shinji, and Götze took turns attacking Demichelis's defense zone, hoping to make him make mistakes in the chaos.

This continuous pressure was effective.

In the fifty-second minute, Zhou Yi once again passed the ball to the defense zone where Demichelis was located, and Götze went up to receive the ball, with Demichelis following closely.

Who would have thought that Götze didn't stop the ball at all, but directly used his heel to flick the ball backward, and the ball went behind Demichelis...

At this time, Mark took advantage of the situation and dribbled the ball into the penalty area!

Then, facing another defender, Badstuber, who was approaching, he made a move to shoot.

Badstuber didn't dare not block, and stretched out his foot to intercept while falling to the ground, but Mark hooked the ball back, dodging Badstuber just like that.

Next, he quickly shot, and the ball flew past Butt's fingertips and into the goal...

"Goal!!! Goal!" Norbert Dickel shouted into the microphone in the stands. "We are 1-0 ahead of Bayern Munich! The scorer is Mark—"

He raised his voice.

Immediately after, the stands resounded with a chorus of voices: "Wagner!!!"

Among them were Mark's parents. At this moment, they didn't seem like Mark's parents, but like ordinary die-hard fans, shouting their son's name, which was also their surname, without feeling uncomfortable at all.

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After Mark scored, Dortmund continued to bombard Bayern Munich's goal.

In fact, Van Gaal's Bayern Munich had a very strong ability to play defensive counterattacks. Even Tao Wei, a commentary guest in China, analyzed why Van Gaal's team rarely made transfers this summer, especially not bringing in defenders.

He believed that Van Gaal wanted to make the Bundesliga teams think that Bayern Munich's defense was weak, and then press up and attack fiercely when playing against Bayern Munich, so that Bayern Munich could play defensive counterattacks...

Putting aside whether this idea is reliable, even if Van Gaal really thought so... But Robben was injured before the season started, and Ribery was also injured a few rounds after the season started. With the two most individually skilled players on the wings unable to play, what ability did Bayern Munich have to launch counterattacks?

Now Dortmund can press forward so recklessly because they are taking advantage of the fact that Bayern Munich doesn't have the ability to launch quick counterattacks.

In this game, Bayern Munich doesn't have a single fast and technically outstanding player in the front and midfield.

Even if they clearly know that there is space behind Dortmund and the ball can be passed there, no one can run up.

On the other hand, Dortmund gained a lot of opportunities after continuous pressure.

Eight minutes after Mark scored, he got another chance in the penalty area.

But this time his shot was saved by Butt.

The ball flew out of the penalty area behind him.

Zhou Yi appeared at the landing point of the ball, then stopped the ball, and then swung his leg as if to shoot from distance, but it was just a feint, and after deceiving Van Bommel to pounce over, he passed the ball to Kagawa Shinji on the left.

Then he continued to rush into the penalty area.

Kagawa Shinji also understood what he meant by running like this, and followed by passing the ball between two Bayern Munich players, and Zhou Yi happened to run to that position. After receiving the ball again, he turned around and faced the goal.

This time, he raised his foot again, but no one could interfere with him anymore!

Shot!

The inside of his right foot rubbed out an arc, and the ball darted forward along the grass, bypassing the goalkeeper Butt who was diving to save, and finally brushed against the far post and rolled into... the goal!

The ball is in again!

Dortmund are two goals ahead of Bayern Munich at their home stadium!