Chapter 005: Say goodbye to the yellow and black career with a red card
Since Tang Zheng scored the ice-breaking goal, the Bayern players have significantly strengthened his defense, so that he will not be able to comfortably take the ball to organize the attack for a long time in the future.
In the face of Bayern's tight defense, Tang Zheng did not give in, but patiently waited for the opportunity.
No, taking advantage of Javi Martinez's deteriorating defensive focus, he knocked the ball back with his right heel and stopped it.
By the time Javi Martinez thought it was too late to foul, Schweinsteiger's defense was timely, but he was a bit reluctant to complete the one-on-one defense against Tang Zheng as an attacking defender.
And Tang Zheng's next actions also verify how colorful his personal ability is.
I saw that Tang Zheng suddenly stopped on the spot and flicked the ball to the right, and Schweinsteiger had to passively stop urgently.
Because of inertia, he still took an extra step forward in small steps.
Taking advantage of this time difference, Tang Zheng suddenly picked up his right foot.
Thinking of Tang Zheng's excellent long-range shooting skills, Schweinsteiger lowered his body's center of gravity at the moment of the emergency stop, and at the same time stretched out his right foot, hoping to intercept Tang Zheng's long-range shot about 30 meters away from the goal.
Boateng, the central defender who has been paying attention to Tang Zheng, also came out sideways, with his arms behind him, trying to use his flesh and blood to complete the block.
If Tang Zheng chooses to shoot from distance, his shot will either be blocked by Schweinsteiger or blocked by Boateng.
But Tang Zheng did not choose to shoot from a distance, but picked the ball with the tip of his right foot at the moment of touching the ball.
The ball took off into the air and fell right from the blocked gap between Schweinsteiger and Boateng to the edge of the penalty area.
The on-site broadcast camera switched suddenly, and the commentator of German television 2, Michael Reti, exclaimed: "Danger!"
Bayern head coach Heynckes was suddenly shocked, because Dante was entangled with Lewandowski, and Tang Zheng's pass was chosen by Reus, who exposed the hole in front of Boateng diagonally!
"Marco—"
Marcel Leif shouted.
Royce cut in decisively from the right rib of the attack, just in time to receive Tang Zheng's pick-up pass.
It was too late for Dante to fill in and Neuer had to drop out.
"Whoa—"
The Dortmund fans at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin were instantly excited, creating a deafening roar.
Tang Zheng's pick pass and Reus's run were just right, and Neuer's attack was obviously half a beat slower.
Reus still had time to look up at the holes in Neuer's defence after he parked the ball, and as teammates in the national team, they knew the roots, so it was a test of who thinks further at this time!
Clearly, Royce is a step ahead.
In the face of the attacking Neuer, he first made a feint to hit the goal, and deceived Loyer into pounced on the left side of his body according to the change in foot shape.
It wasn't until Neuer made a save that he realized he had been deceived by Reus......
A second later, Royce turned around and opened his arms to meet Tang Zheng, who was sending a delicate pass.
With the huge cheers that sounded at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Tang Zheng greeted Royce with a smile and hugged Royce: "Marko, you played so beautifully!"
"It's all good for you. Royce patted Tang Zheng on the back and sighed: "I don't know if I can receive your pass again in the future." ”
Tang Zheng laughed dryly, did not answer directly, but put his arms around Lewandowski and Gotze to celebrate the team's second goal of the game.
According to the current situation, the team has a great hope of winning Bayern!
At the same time, Yang 5 commentator Duan Huo said sensationally: "It's really a pleasure to watch Tang Zheng play, he has a tall figure but not flexibility, realistic feints make it difficult to distinguish between real and fake, and aggressive passes are often the panacea when Dortmund is lacking in goals, perhaps...... I won't be able to see him in the Bundesliga for a long time......"
Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp did not celebrate the goal as excitedly as before, he simply raised his fists, then put his hands in his trouser pockets and pursed his mouth, giving the impression that Dortmund had conceded a goal instead of a goal.
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With half an hour into the game, Dortmund had a two-goal lead, so much so that the Bayern star's desire to fight had dropped significantly.
Stars such as Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery, Muller, Toni Kroos, Schweinsteiger and Lahm were bleak at this point, as all eyes were on the star who had the brightest performance of the 2012-2013 season.
With two goals down, Heynckes had no choice but to stand on the sidelines and quickly give new instructions to the players on the pitch - attack!
Borussia Dortmund had a lead in midfield and had a defensible advantage, but they wisely avoided their edge and put on a defensive stance to meet Bayern's bombardment.
The backward Bayern are attacking fiercely, but they always feel a little worse.
The time of possession continued to increase, but the dangerous shot on goal was slow to come.
The thunder is loud and the rain is small, which is a big taboo in football games.
However, for Bayern, luck is still quite good, they Lewandowski and the single ball were defused by Neuer, otherwise Bayern would have to face a 0:4 deficit before the first half of the game ended.
The fifteen-minute half-time break passed quickly, and the second half changed sides again, and Bayern made the first substitution before the game began, and it was two substitutions in a row.
Croatian striker Margaret Mandzukic replaces Gomez, while Shaqiri replaces Arjen Robben, who has suffered an injury that has led to inform.
Heynckes' substitutions were very purposeful, in order to give the attack a new look and score early to narrow the score.
Using his past six games in charge of Bayern against Borussia Dortmund as a reference, the odds of losing a match are infinitely close to 100% if there is no way to narrow the score.
So in the last game of his coaching career, Heynckes had to give up!
Winning and winning the German Cup can be the last fig leaf.
Whether it's against Heynckes or Bayern Munich, it's a battle for glory and a game you can't lose!
Falling behind by two goals is equivalent to sending Bayern to the edge of the cliff.
Compared with the relentless attack at the end of the first half, the attack at the beginning of the second half was based on defense, so the Bayern fans at the scene and the Bayern fans in front of the TV no longer looked terrified.
This time it is Klopp's turn to have a headache, and Bayern's offensive and defensive transitions are normal, which is equivalent to saying that the team does not put enough pressure on Bayern.
So, he walked to the sidelines and made a gesture towards Tang Zheng.
Tang Zheng tapped his chin to show that he understood.
In the first two or three minutes of the second half, it was indeed too easy for Bayern players to play the ball in the midfield, and if you want to reverse the unfavorable situation, you must strengthen the midfield pressing and reduce the pass success rate of Bayern's midfield.
Schweinsteiger and Toni Kroos are slowly discovering that they are always on the radar of the Dortmund players in the moments before they get the ball, and in order to avoid conceding the ball, they basically hand the ball back to the passer.
Xavi Martinez, Boateng and Dante all have great ability to play the ball, but their role has never been comparable to that of Schweinsteiger, Tony Kroos and Franck Franck Ribery.
The headache came back to Heynckes, but there really wasn't anything he could do about it now.
It's not that Dortmund's defenders are very strong individually, but Dortmund's role in the defensive end is too great, as an attacking midfielder, he can often appear in the most critical positions in the defensive phase, resulting in the middle of the midfield will always encounter obstacles.
For this, the direction of the offensive had to be shifted frequently.
While frequent shifts can maintain control of the ball, such an approach does nothing to help threaten the attack, except to increase possession.
The shift was done in preparation for crosses, and with the centre-back duo of Hummels and Subotic, who are over 1.9 metres tall, controlling the air so well that Mandzukic simply couldn't get the slightest advantage from their cooperation.
The really threatening offense still has to rely on the high-risk and low-yield offensive method of straight plugging and diagonal straight ball.
It's just that this way is easy to be intercepted by Dortmund defenders, and the consequence of interception is that possession changes hands, and the offense turns to defense.
The most terrifying thing about Dortmund is that they switch from defense to attack, and the tacit one-kick pass and the final pass in place are the core tactics of their quick counter-attack.
Of course, the real core player is still Tang Zheng.
As long as he plays the ball in attack, he is a threat.
Heynckes looked at Tang Zheng, who was performing well, and he sighed, such a good player was returned by the top management in the summer of 2009......
Immediately after, he sighed again.
This sigh is not because Bayern's top management returned to River Plate, but because Tang Zheng is likely to leave Dortmund this summer to join the Galacticos Real Madrid.
It was not Joseph Heynckes who benefited, but Josep Guardiola.
In the short time that Heynckes was too empty, Dortmund took advantage of the dead-ball opportunity to request a substitution, with Kuba replacing Gundogan.
The intention of this substitution was quite obvious, allowing Tang Zheng to drop back and partner Sven Bender as a double midfielder, Gotze in the middle, Reus and Kuba on the wings, and use the speed of the two wings to play Bayern counter-attack.
This set of tactics played a very good role when Tang Zheng played as a defensive midfielder, whether it was the second leg of the German national derby this season, or the Champions League semi-finals and Champions League finals.
Kuba came off the bench less than half a minute after receiving a long pass from Tang Zheng and played a quick counterattack, if it weren't for Neuer's divine help, the score would have been Dortmund 3:0 ahead of Bayern Munich.
Considering the severity of Dortmund's rapid counterattack, Bayern's front and back lines gradually appeared inconsistent.
The frontcourt wants to score goals to narrow the score, and the backcourt players want to seek no merit but no fault......
Heynckes still had one last card in his hand, but he didn't dare to use it before the game reached 70 minutes, and he was worried that using up three substitutions too early would cause the rest of the game to get out of control.
In the final analysis, there is still Tang Zheng's Dortmund that is quite impeccable.
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As Dortmund strengthens their midfield defense, Bayern's overall attacking quality has dropped significantly, and Bayern's defenders have been paying attention to Dortmund's rapid counterattacks, and the number of troops invested has never been enough.
Borussia Dortmund had a two-goal lead and the first thing they needed to do was not concede a goal, followed by attack, so the game was in a stalemate.
In the 70th minute, Heynckes played the third card, and the veteran Pizarro replaced the left-back Alaba and the formation changed to 352.
What Heynckes never expected was that less than a minute after he made a substitution adjustment, Dortmund scored again!
The transformation of the back four system into a back three system is a great test for the overall defense, and Ribery and Shaqiri, who play as wing-backs, do not have a good understanding of the defense, which leads to a reservation in the level of recovery from attack to defense.
Tang Zheng took advantage of the lack of mutual protection between Ribery and left central defender Boateng to suddenly play a long pass behind him in the backfield, and Kuba, who came off the bench not long ago, rode like a wild horse off the loose, and then sent a very accurate cross to the ground in the right corner of the penalty area.
Kuba's cross was a thief, first bypassing Xavi Martinez at the front point, and the speed was so fast that Neuer did not dare to attack and get the ball.
Lewandowski, who flanked the follow-up in the middle, fell to the ground and stretched out his leg to poke the ball in the direction of goal, and the ball passed between Neuer's legs and rolled into the goal......
"Brilliant quick counterattack!" Marcel Leif was ecstatic: "At the seventy-first and a half minutes of the game, Dortmund led Bayern Munich 3-0!
The Dortmund fans at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin were happy like children, in stark contrast to the Bayern fans.
The goal had just been scored, and many Bayern fans in the stands had already chosen to leave the stadium early, because they realized that it was impossible for Bayern to beat Borussia Dortmund.
Perhaps the best news for them is next season's Borussia Dortmund without Tang Zheng.
Although there were still 20 minutes of stoppage time, there was no suspense for the crowd.
The first Bundesliga Treble winning team was born!
Neither team seemed to be in much interest until the 85th minute, when Toni Kroos slagged behind and picked up the ball behind him, the offside veteran Pizarro did not move, and Ribery cut diagonally from the wing to the left rib.
By the time the Dortmund backline realised that Bayern were in an offside position, it was too late......
Tang Zheng focused on the first time to chase back, but Toni Kroos's pass went straight to Ribery, and Tang Zheng was still a short distance from Ribery.
"Oh, oh, oh-"
Accompanied by a huge exclamation at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Tang Zheng raised his right arm in the process of running back, like a volleyball player stopping the ball in the air.
Suddenly, the whole stadium was silent.
Tang Zheng, who did this action, did not intercede with the referee, he was very calm in the broadcast camera, first took off the captain's armband tied to his left arm and handed it to goalkeeper Weidenfeller, and then walked to the referee Bruch with a smile on his face, stretched out his right hand, and said with a smile: "Shake hands, Mr. referee." ”
Bruch, who was about to give Tang Zheng a red card, was stunned for a moment, but his next reaction was quick and he stretched out his hand to meet him.
Immediately, Tang Zheng held his head high and turned around and walked to the sidelines.
Bruch looked at Tang Zheng's back, and it took about two seconds to react to show the red card.
The on-site director gave a long shot of Tang Zheng's back, and Duan Huo, the commentator of Yang 5, suddenly felt it: "We thought of 10,000 ways to say goodbye, but we really didn't expect Tang Zheng to say goodbye to his yellow and black career with a red card......"