Chapter 102: Suspense in the second round
"Whoa—"
With the huge cheers that erupted at the Bernabeu Stadium, Tang Zheng pushed Raphinha, who was back to defense, in the high-speed run, and took the ball forward, and then looked at the running position of his teammates in the penalty area.
Dante is already the first time to make up for Raphinha to make up for the right side of the defense due to his speed and physical inferiority, but Tang Zheng is very insightful in handling the ball, Tang Zheng in high-speed running is very in place, and in the process of chasing the ball, he consciously adjusts the step point under his feet, which means that Tang Zheng's preparations have been made.
By the time Dante subconsciously put the tackle too late, Tang Zheng's left-footed horizontal ball pass was very fast, almost rubbing Dante's elongated right foot sole and quickly rolling to the middle of the penalty area.
Boateng is at the right distance from Dante and must be kept safe behind Dante when the midfielders are not in the defensive position.
However, Dante subconsciously put a tackle and did not tackle the football, and Boateng needed time to react because of the proximity......
Boateng didn't have time, and his instinctive tackle was noticeably half a beat slower, even affecting goalkeeper Manuel Neuer's judgment on the ball.
Boateng and Manuel Neuer were affected, but Benzema was not the midfielder, and he was conscious of the distance between him and Boateng in the high-speed follow-up, and by the time Neuer realised the ball was rolling towards the unmarked Benzema, it was too late to make a move.
Neuer Benzema picked up his right-footed shot and fell to the ground slightly to the left of the goal, and the whole person pounced on the football like a hungry tiger.
It's just that the other person is very far away from the football, and even if the body flies in, the tip of the left finger does not touch the football.
"Goooooooal-" About half a second later, the Bernabeu Stadium radio heard the distinctive loud chant of live announcer Albert: "It was Karim who scored for us-"
In the frenzied atmosphere of the scene, Benzema, who scored the goal, looked very excited, and he ran to the frenzied yellow wheat koji with open arms and opened his arms in front of the opening stage.
At the same time, tens of thousands of Real Madrid fans tacitly cooperated with the chanting of the live announcer Albert, hysterically shouting: "- Benzema!"
Of course, the goal-scoring Karim Benzema did not forget Cristiano Ronaldo, who provided him with a brilliant assist and planned the attack, and they hugged each other to celebrate the opening goal at home.
However, Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti was not as happy as the player, and opening the scoring at home meant that the balance was broken.
There are pros and cons to the result of breaking the balance, and the pros and cons are naturally that the lagging Bayern Munich will gradually strengthen the attack, so that the holes in the back line will become bigger and bigger over time.
The downside is that Bayern Munich, which has stepped up their attack, is likely to find a hole in Real Madrid's defense and then deliver a fatal blow.
In the two legs of home and away games, away goals are particularly important.
Therefore, as the manager of Real Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti must plan ahead and think ahead about how to deal with the next game.
Whether to avoid its edge, or to maintain the status quo, or to attack against attack.
During the time period when Ancelotti turned around and discussed with his assistant Clement about the next game strategy, the close-up of the live director gave many Bayern players.
They are frustrated.
Although the goal was not scored by 'Bayern nemesis' Tang Zheng, he assisted directly, which somewhat made those Bayern veteran players think of that memory that they don't want to recall.
Don't...... Really can't beat the team with Tang Zheng?
If so, why couldn't you win against Dortmund in the first place?
Why is Dortmund so easy to deal with without Tang Zheng?
Robben and Ribery couldn't think clearly, captain Lahm couldn't think clearly, and even head coach Pep Guardiola frowned and thought, is it really so evil?
Simeone, the current manager of Atletico Madrid in a certain stand at the Bernabeu Stadium, does not think so, because he is ugly, it is not difficult to beat Real Madrid, but the difficulty lies in how to restrain Tang Zheng's performance throughout the entire 90 minutes.
As for how to completely suppress Tang Zheng's play, Simeone has some eyebrows, but he hasn't completely sorted it out.
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The game restarted, and Bayern, who had the advantage of kick-off, significantly strengthened the attack.
However, there have always been reservations about the number of attacking penetrations, and it is clear that they are worried about Real Madrid's ability to counterattack quickly.
After all, Real Madrid's opening goal came from a quick counter-attack, and Pep Guardiola once coached Barcelona and suffered from Real Madrid's quick counter-attack, so caution is essential.
Besides, the game has only been going on for more than 20 minutes, and there is still more than an hour to complete the goal.
No hurry!
However, there was only one result that was not rushed, and that was that the score did not change in the first half.
At 1:0, Real Madrid entered the dressing room with the lead.
Before the two sides walked to the players' tunnel, the on-site director gave a close-up of the core players of both sides with deep meaning.
Before the end of the first half, the broadcaster gave the ball ratio between the two sides, with the home team Real Madrid 43% behind the away team Bayern Munich 57%.
However, the lead in possession did not bring Bayern any substantial gains, but rather they had fewer crucial shots on goal than Real Madrid, which meant that Real Madrid's attack created more chances in terms of actual threat.
Therefore, Yang 5 commentator He Wei said: "Bayern does have a unique advantage in big data, but it is behind Real Madrid in several crucial data, what does this mean? It shows that Bayern will spend more time in ineffective possession time, and Real Madrid's attack is low-key and threatening under the deliberate control of Tang Zheng, if Real Madrid finally defeats Bayern, it can be said that efficiency football wins control football, there is a saying in the football world is right, defense wins the championship, offense wins fans, it is really worth pondering......
Andy Gray, a commentator for the British sky, also talked about related issues: "With the progress of the times, too much money has penetrated into the football field, and the concept of defending to win the championship is deeply rooted in the body and mind of many coaches, but there are also many coaches who do not believe in evil and believe that the attack also wins the championship...... Almost, perhaps...... They could be at the top of the Champions League in the future, but now it's difficult. ”
Fifteen minutes passed quickly after the break, and the game changed sides again.
It is worth mentioning that there were no substitutions in the first ten minutes of the second half, and it is not difficult to see that Carlo Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola are very happy with the current line-up.
However, the head coaches of both sides were very nervous, standing in their respective coaches' command areas with their arms around and watching the game, and turning their heads from time to time to communicate briefly with their assistants.
The live director took advantage of the dead ball opportunity or the stalemate to give a few shots to the warm-up area, but the warm-up players who went to the warm-up area were never called up, so they had to continue to warm up in the warm-up area to prepare for the game.
It wasn't until the 62nd minute that the first substitution was made.
Visitors Bayern Munich replaced Raphinha with Xavi Martinez, Lahm returned to right-back, and Xavi Martinez partnered Schweinsteiger to ensure that the transition from the right was no longer a problem while defending in the middle.
Raphinha was conscientious defensively, and it was precisely because he was so conscientious that he could not help the team on the offensive end, often causing Robben to fall into a one-two-two-and-three.
However, Lahm, who replaced Raphinha at right-back, was more cautious, having cast a shadow over Tang Zheng's side over the past four seasons, and was so afraid that Tang Zheng would suddenly attack his defensive right flank, so his help to Robben was limited.
In addition, Robben was also worried about Tang Zheng's defense, so that his confidence was low, and the 'Robben route' he relied on to become famous did not succeed once at the Bernabeu Stadium.
Arjen Robben played for Real Madrid for two seasons, but in 2009 Florentino eliminated Calderón's players and bought Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka, two superstars, which cost Robben his place and forced him to move to Bayern.
In the 2009-2010 season, he scored 23 goals in 37 games for Bayern, and was the team's top scorer, and also contributed four goals in the Champions League, helping Bayern enter the Champions League final hosted at the Bernabeu Stadium, which made Real Madrid lose face, and Robben, who was a guest at Real Madrid, also hoped to repeat the scene four years ago, but ...... It's overwhelming.
Ribery on the other side feels the same way, he feels that last season was the best season of his career, but the result was a third-line rout by Dortmund led by Tang Zheng, and the decline in form this season is naturally farther away, and his self-confidence is worse than Robben.
The situation of the game was in favor of the away team Bayern, but Bayern actually threatened Casillas to guard the goal only a limited number of times, Ancelotti did not make targeted substitution adjustments, and it was not until 70 minutes into the game that Pepe signaled that he could not continue the game with a right hip strain.
Raphael Varane comes into play.
Pep Guardiola thought that Varane, who was in danger, would become the weakness of Real Madrid's defense, so he asked Robben, Ribery and Mandzukic to focus on attacking Varane, but Varane was not nervous at all, and then quickly stabilized his position with the help of Ramos, Xavi Alonso and Tang Zheng and entered the role.
"Whoa—"
The frenzy at the Bernabeu Stadium continues unabated, and even if Real Madrid spent much less time on the ball than Bayern Munich during this period, Real Madrid fans enjoyed it.
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In the blink of an eye, the game came to the physical critical point of 75 minutes, and the physical reserves of the home Real Madrid players were obviously not comparable to Bayern, who won the league championship six rounds in advance, but fortunately, La Liga postponed Real Madrid's league game at the weekend, otherwise the physical fitness would be more bellflowery.
In the absence of a way, Ancelotti made a passive substitution adjustment, Ilia Ramendi replaced Di Maria, and the formation became Ancelotti's best four, three, two and one formation.
At this time in the game, Real Madrid still led Bayern Munich 1:0, and the huge momentum created by the home fans had dropped significantly.
Fans who know a little bit about the virtues of Real Madrid fans know that this is a kind of dissatisfaction of the home fans with the home team.
Many Real Madrid fans believe that Real Madrid, as the best club of the 20th century, should naturally play a little more strategic and score more goals.
But many times the reality is cruel, contradictory, and the likelihood of being both beautiful and winning is very low, after all, Pep Guardiola's Barcelona won the Champions League twice in three years, which is a rare case in world football.
Or rather, Pep Guardiola's success is due to Spanish technical football and La Masia.
The attack was slow to break through Casillas's goal, and Guardiola made a series of substitutions, that is, used up the last two substitutions.
Thomas Müller and Pizarro came on to replace the in-form Franck Ribery and Schweinsteiger respectively.
However, the substitution adjustment did not have the desired effect, in Real Madrid's more stable 4321 system, the use of space is very small, the middle can not penetrate, the two wings have to be inserted gradually, and Varane and Ramos are in excellent form, Mandzukic and Pizarro are difficult to threaten at the two high points.
With the Champions League quarter-finals two legs of mistakes conceded, Real Madrid's back line error rate was minimized, so the pre-match Guardiola's hopes of fighting for the second place were also disappointed.
It wasn't until the end of the game that Bayern Munich found a decent chance, but Thomas Muller's half-volley from seven yards was blocked by Tang Zheng, who had returned in time, and then flew over the crossbar.
German Sky commentator Marcel Leif shook his head and said: "It seems that Josep Guardiola's preparation before the game is not enough, although his team's style of play is close to the original coach of Barcelona, but there seems to be a big problem in the use of key personnel, and the restrictions on Don are not enough, but fortunately this is the first leg of the battle, Don's focus is more on defense than attack, if the game ends 1:0, I think this is the best result for Bayern Munich." ”
As time went on, the Bayern players who were trailing felt that it was acceptable to lose a goal away from home, so the number of troops involved in the attack became less and less.
Carlo Ancelotti had two requirements for his team before the game, one was to win and the second was not to concede.
Now that the game is coming to an end, the two requirements are still there, so he has no intention of strengthening the attack, but just asks Tang Zheng to attack boldly if he has the opportunity, and how to control that opportunity is up to Tang Zheng himself.
And Tang Zheng has known the responsibilities of a qualified midfielder since he joined River Plate and tried to change to a back midfielder - attacking to protect football and defend to protect space.
When the Champions League reaches the semi-finals, everything should be careful, and the attack should not be numb and strengthened according to the requirements of the fans, otherwise it is very likely that the attack will not score but will be equalized by the opponent.
In order to put an end to this possibility, maintaining the status quo and strengthening the defense is the best option.
So the score did not change until the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, and Real Madrid beat the visiting Bayern Munich 1-0 thanks to Benzema's half-time goal.
The game ended with Real Madrid winning 1-0 somewhat disappointingly, after all, Real Madrid took the lead early, Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid was not conservative, and Pep Guardiola's Bayern has always been under the banner of attack, and the result was ......
However, the score of 1:0 also brought great suspense to the second leg of the Champions League semi-final between the two teams at the Allianz Arena a week later.
It will be a week before we decide which team will qualify for this season's Champions League final.