Chapter 53: The Bundesliga kicks off and faces strong opponents again.

On August 24, the new season of the Bundesliga officially kicked off.

I don’t know whether it was a deliberate arrangement by the German Football Association or an unintentional act.

The two teams in the opening match are the two opponents in the Telecom Cup final not long ago, Dortmund and Werder Bremen.

This is the second time the two teams have met in 20 days, and what's even more unfortunate is that this is the second time Werder Bremen has faced Dortmund away from home.

Therefore, after the schedule came out, everyone in the team felt speechless.

"The Football Association really knows how to create gimmicks!"

Seeing that the Dortmund media shouted slogans of revenge, their players also stated on social media that they would give 120% of their strength to play against Werder Bremen and win the game.

This made everyone in Werder Bremen feel that they were being arranged. Facing a Dortmund team that was full of anger and had been gathering their strength for 20 days, they really had no confidence of winning.

"This is just an ordinary league game. Don't think too much. Just play well. Winning or losing is not that important!"

Coach Schaaf stepped in at the right time to relieve the pressure on the players.

The league is not a competition like a cup match where one game decides the outcome. In a long season lasting a year, the win or loss of a game is important, but it is not to the extent of deciding life or death.

"Yes, the coach is right. This is just an ordinary game. Don't put too much psychological pressure on yourself. Just play the game in the same state as in normal training!"

The team's veteran players also stepped forward and began to comfort the young players.

With the comfort from the coach and veteran players, the tension of the young players was relieved a lot.

At 19:30 in the evening, Werder Bremen's players stepped onto the grass of the Westfalen Stadium again after 20 days.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in China, CCTV was also broadcasting the game live.

As one of the first five major leagues to obtain broadcasting rights, the Bundesliga was the league that CCTV broadcast the most before it obtained the broadcasting rights for the Premier League and La Liga in the early years.

At that time, there were still many Chinese players studying abroad. Later, with the gradual decline of the Chinese national football team, the number of players studying abroad became fewer and fewer.

Last year, when Shao Jiayi announced the end of his overseas study and returned to China to play football, there were no Chinese players on the German league courts.

However, in this context, the Chinese player Lin Quan emerged and gave a shot in the arm to the Bundesliga, which had already begun to lose viewers in China, and attracted a lot of viewers again.

The opening match between Dortmund and Werder Bremen set a new record for CCTV's ratings for the Bundesliga's opening match in the past three years.

The commentators were Tao Wei and Duan Xuan.

Many viewers are looking forward to seeing Lin Quan passing his opponents and scoring easily on the court.

However, when the starting lineups of the two teams came out, they were dumbfounded!

"What the hell is Werder Bremen doing? Lin Quan is not even on the starting roster?"

"I once suspected that there was something wrong with my eyes, but Lin Quan was definitely not on the starting list!"

"This is definitely a conspiracy. It's the discrimination and oppression of us yellow people by Western white people!"

For a while, the posts in the forum were refreshed rapidly, and many people said that they could not understand the arrangements made by the Werder Bremen coaching staff.

Not only they couldn't understand it, but Dortmund's head coach Klopp also couldn't understand it.

"Has Shaf given up resistance?"

"Or is this old guy plotting something again?"

Klopp, who had been fooled once, became much more vigilant this time.

Therefore, he asked the team to keep a steady start at the beginning and not rush to attack, so as to avoid being ambushed by the opponent like last time.

Dortmund's players were still haunted by the fact that they conceded two goals in the first five minutes of the previous game, so after the kick-off, they deliberately controlled the tempo of the game and were not in a hurry to launch an attack.

"Did Dortmund change their tactics today? They played very cautiously, which is not like their usual style!"

Seeing Dortmund players passing the ball back in the backcourt, CCTV commentators Tao Wei and Duan Xuan were both very confused.

The slow-paced game lasted for five or six minutes, until Dortmund was sure that the opponent did not intend to play against them today, and then they were relieved and began to launch a full-scale attack! Facts have proved that without Lin Quan, Werder Bremen's offensive threat has dropped by almost a level.

De Bruyne's performance in this game was still excellent. He made several threatening passes in the frontcourt.

However, his teammates' abilities were limited, and his quick passes were either not received or wasted after he caught the ball.

All in all, Werder Bremen fell into a passive position in the frontcourt attack and found it difficult to open up the situation.

On the other hand, Dortmund does not have this problem.

Reus has integrated perfectly into the team, and his cooperation with Lewandowski in the frontcourt is becoming more and more smooth.

In the eleventh minute of the game, Reus broke through and passed the ball. Lewandowski received the ball and passed it back to him. The two completed a two-on-two in Werder Bremen's penalty area.

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When Reus received the pass from Lewandowski, he had already gotten rid of the defender and was in a one-on-one situation.

Faced with such a great opportunity, Reus certainly would not waste it. He shot the ball into the upper right corner of the goal.

Although Werder Bremen goalkeeper Milic jumped in time and touched the football with his fingertips, he failed to save it.

The score became 1:0, and Dortmund, playing at home, took the lead in just the 11th minute of the game.

After scoring the goal, Reus ran to the corner area and kissed the team logo on his jersey.

This action drew cheers and applause from the audience. They gradually fell in love with this new handsome guy and forgot about Shinji Kagawa who had gone to England.

Schaaf was somewhat dissatisfied with the team's loss of the ball, and he began to shout at the players on the field, asking them to fight harder and not play so timidly.

After receiving instructions from the coach, Werder Bremen players increased the intensity of the confrontation in the following game.

The result is that the number of fouls on both sides is increasing.

In the 21st minute of the game, Gundogan, who had been violated many times in previous games, could no longer bear it. When Werder Bremen defender Ignovski had the ball, he retaliated by shoveling the opponent to the ground.

After being tackled, Ignievski screamed like a pig being slaughtered and rolled back and forth on the ground holding his legs.

Such a big noise naturally alarmed the players of both teams. The players of Werder Bremen immediately rushed up and surrounded Gundogan.

Dortmund players immediately rushed to protect Gundogan, and it seemed that a fight was about to break out between the two sides.

The referee immediately rushed to the scene, picked up the yellow card and showed it to Gundogan, calming the commotion.

But this did not seem to quell the anger of the players on both sides, and in the subsequent games, the actions of both sides became more and more violent.

In the 28th minute, Werder Bremen's Junuzovic tackled Reus and was shown a yellow card by the referee.

Two minutes later, Ignovski also collided with Lewandowski outside the penalty area and received a yellow card.

Afterwards, Dortmund's Kyle was not to be outdone and showed his studs when tackling Arnautovic, for which he was directly shown a yellow card.

The first half hasn't ended yet and the players from both teams have received four yellow cards combined. If both teams continue to play like this, the number of yellow cards in this game might even double.

(End of this chapter)