“Come on, Zhou Yi, say a few words to your teammates!”

When Klopp pointed at Zhou Yi and said this, everyone was stunned, including Zhou Yi himself.

He pointed back at himself, “Me?”

With an expression of disbelief.

“Of course, you. Come on, we don’t have much time.” Klopp beckoned him to hurry up.

“Why me…” Zhou Yi wanted to understand the question.

“Because what you said in the hotel this morning was quite good.” Klopp said to Zhou Yi with a smile.

Only then did Zhou Yi realize that what he had said in the restaurant had been heard by the head coach…

“This…” Zhou Yi was still a little hesitant.

Klopp glared at him and asked, “Do you want to win?”

Zhou Yi immediately puffed out his chest and replied, “Of course!” without the slightest hesitation.

“Then come on.” Klopp made another inviting gesture.

Zhou Yi understood what the head coach wanted to do, and knew that the head coach’s thoughts were exactly the same as his own, so he didn’t decline or act modest anymore and stood up.

He didn’t immediately make a speech, but instead scanned his teammates, looking each of them in the eye.

Some people couldn’t help but lower their heads and eyes under his gaze.

He lingered on Gotze’s face for an especially long time.

Gotze’s gaze flickered a few times at first, but he finally persisted and didn’t look away.

“Actually, there’s nothing much to say.” Zhou Yi finally spoke, ending the awkward silence in the locker room. “I said what needed to be said this morning. I still firmly believe that we can beat them at home, and I firmly believe that we can score four goals against them. My goal hasn’t changed, I just want to confirm this with everyone again, or rather, I hope everyone can confirm this again. How many people share the same goal as me?”

Zhou Yi raised his arm.

“If you do, please raise your hand. I want to see how many people want to help me achieve that goal. To be honest, I don’t care what the outside world thinks of this game. Even if the whole world thinks we can’t win, it doesn’t matter, as long as you believe we can win, then I have confidence. Because we are a team, and football is a team sport.”

Not many people responded to him at first. The first person to raise his hand was Mark Wagner, Zhou Yi’s most loyal partner, who believed everything Zhou Yi said and supported everything he did.

After seeing Mark raise his hand, Zhou Yi said, “Thank you, Mark. Not bad, already two people believe we can win. Anyone else joining? You know, this is the most exciting thing, because we are going against everyone in the world who doesn’t believe we can win. Think about it, guys, how many times in your life will you get to be at odds with the whole world?”

Zhou Yi continued to use words to encourage his teammates.

His words worked. Lewandowski raised his arm and said, “We’ve put in so much effort to get to this point, I don’t want to just give up like this.”

At the same time, captain Kehl, center-backs Hummels, Subotic, assistant goalkeeper Weidenfeller, and more and more Dortmund players raised their arms, indicating their confidence.

Zhou Yi also expressed his gratitude for their support, “Thank you, it looks like we have the majority.”

At this moment, Gotze also raised his arm and then said—this was the first time in recent times that he had expressed his opinions and views in front of so many people in the locker room: “I said that before the end of the season, I will do my best to win victories and championships for Dortmund, and I will do what I say.”

As he said this, he looked at Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi was also looking at him. Their eyes met in the air, and neither of them looked away.

Seeing Gotze raise his hand, Zhou Yi smiled at him.

Seeing Gotze raise his hand, Grosskreutz, who had been at odds with him for some time, also snorted and then raised his arm: “I won’t be a deserter!”

Zhou Yi’s arm was still raised, even though more than half of the people now supported him, he didn’t put it down.

It wasn’t until all the players had raised their arms and expressed their confidence that Zhou Yi lowered his arm and said, “Thank you, everyone. Now I have even more confidence. We are a group of soldiers filled with grief, but soldiers filled with grief are not sad and desperate soldiers, but sad and angry soldiers, soldiers who can unleash tremendous energy when faced with oppression and injustice. There are many examples in history of soldiers filled with grief winning battles, and after today, it’s our turn to have our names written into history!”

“Good!” As soon as he finished speaking, someone shouted next to him. Everyone, including Zhou Yi, turned their heads to look and realized it was the head coach, Klopp.

Klopp ignored everyone’s gaze and continued to applaud and cheer, “Well said! After today, it’s our turn to have our names written into history! People will remember this game, and we’ll use practical actions to tell them that Dortmund is not so easily defeated! Since we were able to beat them twice in the group stage, both at home and away, then now, we can still beat them at home! Use practical actions to tell them that Dortmund is still an insurmountable mountain for them! Want to beat us? No freaking way!!”

The more Klopp spoke, the more emotional he became. By the end, he was waving his fist vigorously, roaring like a madman, even swearing.

His kind of crazy emotions completely infected the people in the locker room, and the players roared along with him, like the long howl of wild beasts.

When the somewhat emotional players left the locker room and rushed towards the field, assistant coach Buvac said to Klopp, who was lingering at the back: “You spoke really well, I knew you were the most suitable and best at doing this.”

Klopp, who had already pulled himself out of his emotional state, waved his hand: “No, I was motivated by Zhou Yi’s words. The one who spoke really well wasn’t me, it was Zhou Yi. That kid… has the magic to motivate others.”

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When the players from both sides were waiting in the tunnel to enter the field, Norbert Dickel was leading everyone in shouting out the Dortmund starting lineup over the stadium’s public address system.

Every player received cheers, with one exception.

Norbert looked at the name on the starting lineup in his hand, paused, adjusted his emotions, and still shouted it out with passion: “Number ten, Mario——!!”

Usually at this time, Dortmund fans would shout in unison: “——Gotze!!!”

But this time, there were no cheers, only sporadic voices shouting his name, and they were drowned out by even louder boos.

Angry and disappointed Dortmund fans were using this way to express their most genuine emotions.

Until now, they had shown no signs of forgiving Gotze.

The Spanish commentator, upon seeing this scene, jokingly mocked, “Listen to these boos, I thought the stadium announcer was introducing the Real Madrid players’ starting lineup, haha!”

Marcel Reif also said, “Gotze may have accomplished something, he is the first Dortmund player to be booed by the entire Dortmund crowd while wearing a Dortmund jersey… but I don’t think the Dortmund fans doing this will make Gotze change his mind, instead it will only push Gotze completely towards Bayern Munich. The transfer, which was not completely certain, may now be set in stone, nailed down… Of course, perhaps when this news was revealed, the angry Dortmund fans no longer expected Gotze to change his mind and stay, right?”

He Ping, on the other hand, felt worried for Zhou Yi: “The Dortmund fans’ attitude towards Gotze will definitely affect the morale and fighting spirit of the players, this game is really ominous for Dortmund. If they can’t win at their own home stadium, then going to the away game in this state, Dortmund probably won’t get any advantages either. Zhou Yi’s chance of becoming the first Chinese player to participate in the Champions League final… seems to be getting further and further away…”

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The fans’ huge boos also reached the tunnel. The Real Madrid players naturally had expressions of watching a good show, while the Dortmund players generally looked bad.

Internal conflicts being watched as a good show by the opponents, the Dortmund players were very unhappy—are you so happy to see us unlucky?

More hatred for Real Madrid welled up in their hearts.

It further strengthened their determination not to lose to Real Madrid at home. Otherwise, they would not only lose to their opponents, but also be ridiculed and despised by them, which would be even more unbearable than killing them.

Some people thought of that word Zhou Yi had said.

*Ai Bing*.

Soldiers filled with grief and anger.

A flame was indeed beginning to burn in their chests.