Chapter 335: Defense is the most important

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While the players were still waiting at the tunnel for both sides, Dick had already swaggered out of the tunnel. [No pop-ups. 】

More than 63,000 fans poured into the entire Old Trafford stadium, including 20,000 Dortmund fans and 20,000 AC Milan fans, who clearly occupied the north and south sides of the stadium, wearing the club's home jersey, and the rest were neutral fans. Sosa, Coral Corel, Sammer, Chapuisat, Andreas? Muller...... They wore Dortmund jerseys in a stand, along with the current Dortmund management, cheering on their team.

AC Milan were not to be outdone, with the legendary Baresi in the stands, Weah, Savicevic, Boban...... Silvio Berlusconi, the owner of AC Milan, arrived in a private helicopter on the day of the match, and the whole stand was full of stars!

However, when Dick walked out of the players' tunnel, all eyes were on him.

Dortmund fans let out huge cheers, including those former Dortmund players, and AC Milan fans are frantically booing Dick, everyone knows that in terms of overall strength, Dortmund is far inferior to AC Milan, but because of Dick's command, they have eliminated Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Juventus, which are not worse than AC Milan, to enter the final, in the eyes of AC Milan fans, this guy is AC Milan's biggest enemy!

Half seawater, half flames.

Half of it is outright worship, half of it is disgust.

Such diametrically opposed emotions are enough to make most people feel at least extremely irritable, but Dick seems to enjoy such cheers.

He raised his hands and waved at the stands occupied by the Dortmund fans, then turned to look at the stands where the AC Milan fans were, and he grinned.

Then he made a gesture that quieted the whole court - the trophy of the Champions Cup was placed in the middle of the players' tunnel, and there were two security guards standing next to him, but Dick swaggered over, and after approaching the trophy of the Champions Cup, he raised his hand and stroked the trophy of the Champions Cup, then pointed to the Champions Cup, and then pointed to himself!

The audience was in an uproar.

"Ahem, cough, cough, cough......" A CCTV celebrity who was drinking water directly squirted out all the tea, and he said while coughing: "Di ...... Dick made such a move...... What does he mean...... I...... I think he should show his self-confidence, Dick has always been a coach who is very brave enough to show himself......"

"Arrogant Chinese! Don't he know what convergence is? Before the game even started, do such an unruly act in front of everyone! It was the ugliest scene of the Champions Cup final! The Italian commentator said angrily.

"Uh...... This one...... Dick always makes unexpected moves...... However, for Dortmund, who are at a disadvantage, perhaps it is because of Dick's attitude of never admitting defeat that he has always supported them to move forward......"

After an uproar at the scene, the Dortmund fans began to laugh, and then began to slap Dick in celebration, while the AC Milan fans began to scold one after another, but whether it was angry or praised, Dick could not change anything, he strolled to the front of the coach's box, and then sat down comfortably.

"You're going to make those guys explode......"

"That's for the best." Dick laughed.

This episode did not last long, because soon, under the leadership of the four referees, the players of both sides had begun to enter, and the players of Dortmund also saw the series of actions of Dick before, which made them want to laugh at the same time, and at the same time, they also swelled up with infinite pride in their hearts!

The boss is not afraid of anything! He's so confident! Then do what he says, and we will be able to win!

This is not superstition, but the achievements of Dick's team since this season have made them have enough trust in Dick!

Since he dares to make such a move, then he must be sure enough!

With this in mind, the Dortmund players took to the pitch with courage and waited for the game to begin.

It was Borussia Dortmund who kicked off first.

Cavinaghi passed the ball to Rivaldo, who passed it back to Rosicky, who came up behind him, who stopped the ball at his feet and looked up to watch the movement up front.

Shepchenko and Inzaghi were quick to catch up, and although they are both good attackers, they will still be involved in defense in such games.

Rosicky did not choose to force a breakthrough, but passed the ball horizontally to Frins, who came up to receive it, and Frings did not dribble the ball, but took advantage of the momentum and pushed the ball to Ruyt, who was inserted in the set.

Ruit began to dribble along the wings, and this time he was bold - Dick said before the game that if he won the kick-off in the first half, the first attack must be bold, but one thing is that if the attack fails, it will either form a dead ball or a foul, and the opponent must not be allowed to easily get the ball and launch a counterattack!

So Ruit is very careful to move forward, he has a lot of experience, and AC Milan's formation is a bit weak on the flanks in midfield......

Seedorf came over to defend Ruyt's advance, but at this time, Ruyt, who was quite physical, moved the ball forward and then accelerated to break through!

Seedorf couldn't stop Ruyt's breakthrough on the first shot, which allowed Ruyt to break through midfield and then start dribbling down the wing, where Everton moved to the wing to help him get attention.

Before Pirlo could come to defend, Ruit had already lifted his foot and passed the ball straight to the edge of the box!

Through his run, Cavinaghi appeared on the edge of the penalty area and, after receiving a pass from Ruyt, he immediately turned and shot with his feet on goal!

Cavinaghgi's shot was very sudden, and even he felt that the opponent's defender would not appear on the route to block it for the first time, but when he just shot the ball, Nesta appeared on his shooting route, and then slightly turned his body sideways and blocked the ball with his body!

The ball bounced near the touchline, and Costa Curta tried to control the ball, but at this time Rivaldo rushed up and used a very rare down-to-earth tackle to shovel the ball directly out of the touchline!

"Rivaldo was very positive! This tackle stopped a counterattack from AC Milan, and in slow motion we can see that when Costa Kuta was ready to get the ball, Costa was ready to start responding, and Shepchenko and Inzaghi in the front court had already started to run, Rivaldo broke the ball off the line, and Dortmund won the chance to return! ”

Dick nodded slightly, it was good to be able to do this.

Ancelotti pursed his lips, such a game would seem so difficult, he expected, after all, in such a final, even the laziest player in normal times will probably actively scramble, let alone Rivaldo, who has never had Champions Cup honors?

For a player like him who is over 30 years old, has earned enough before, and has won all other honors, just short of such a heavyweight honor, he will definitely perform better than usual in such a game!

However, Dortmund's firm return defense also made Ancelotti feel a little inappropriate.

He didn't have time to think about anything wrong, the players on the field had already started the game.

Costacuta threw a throw-in and AC Milan started to attack, Pirlo controlled the ball at his feet to try to organise the attack, and in his eyes, Dortmund's pressing was not very fierce, which made him feel a little strange.

So Pirlo began to choose to carry the ball forward on his own, and after passing the center circle arc, he immediately knew why he felt that Dortmund's defense was not tight!

After he entered Dortmund's half, the entire Dortmund half began to move quickly as if he had received some signal, just like the originally calm lake was covered with quiet piranhas, once an enemy broke in, it immediately began to devour wildly!

Cavinaghi rushed towards Pirlo, who was able to control the ball well, but when he looked up, he didn't seem to have a passing route......

Seedorf was flanked by Frings, Kyle pressed for Costa, Shepchenko and Inzaghi were under close guards, and Rosicky and Rivaldo were on the lookout...... The entire Dortmund field, except for the goalkeeper Lehmann, the other ten people on the field all started to defend!

This made Pirlo's playmaking difficult, and he managed to seize an opportunity to pass the ball to Costa, who immediately distributed the ball to the left, Seedorf received the ball and attracted Ruit's attention, and then passed the ball to Kaladze, who cut in on the edge, and Caradze crossed directly with his feet, and Warnes grabbed the ball in front of Inzaghi to head the ball off the line.

After clearing the siege, Warnes breathed a sigh of relief, Inzaghi's running was too weird, and this kind of running made Warnes, who was used to the Bundesliga confrontation, feel very unaccustomed, so he chose to clear the siege first.

Pirlo took a corner, Ismael and Inzaghi got tangled, and finally the ball flew off the sideline, Inzaghi complained that Ismael had pulled people, and in fact he did not make such a small move, and the referee also warned them to play 50 boards each.

Dick nodded slightly, judging from the current situation, if AC Milan wants to find opportunities in the case of full defense, Inzaghi's running is troublesome, but Dortmund's two central defenders are very good players in judging the landing point, as long as there are no mistakes, then there will be no problem!

In Dick's opinion, in this final, the most important thing for Dortmund is always defense! If the defense is not guaranteed, then then Borussia will not have any chance to win, because it is very difficult to break through the door of AC Milan, not to mention that AC Milan's Serie A points are eleven points less than Juventus, but because of the style, Dortmund can suppress Juventus, but not AC Milan - because the technical content and running ability of AC Milan's midfielder are not worse than Dortmund.

"It's going to be a long battle...... Dick thought to himself.