3.046 Champions League final
Ferguson is irreplaceable, and Li Chengfeng can foresee that Manchester United will not be able to continue to compete with Manchester City for the league title next season. Thinking of the love and killing of the two teams in these three seasons, Li Chengfeng still misses it a little. Will Manchester City be unbeaten next season, and will they feel lonely because of Alex Ferguson's departure?
After such a long time, Li Chengfeng has not had the energy to think about it, and now the season is far from over. Como failed to continue to play in Europe this season, which is the reason for Li Chengfeng, the big change at the beginning of the season hurt the team too much, that is, Wenger, and other coaches would have turned their faces a long time ago.
Birmingham successfully relegated in advance, Li Chengfeng took over the 15 rounds of games, 7 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses to score 24 points, and finally accumulated 42 points to successfully relegation. With this kind of scoring efficiency, you can look forward to European qualification next season. This also made the Birmingham government very happy to agree to Li Chengfeng to build the new stadium, as long as he can come up with a complete plan and a guarantee.
Norka also surprised him by reaching the promotion play-offs. The vouchers bought by Li Chengfeng at the beginning of the season contributed a lot. Few of these vouchers may have the potential to become big stars, but they are enough to establish themselves in the top flight. Their arrival has greatly strengthened Norka's strength. And the young players who Li Chengfeng put here to train before have also grown a lot, and it's time to make results. The combination of the two has produced strong combat effectiveness, and after passing the run-in in the early stage, the results are getting better and better. Originally, there were shortcomings in the backline, but they were also made up for after the arrival of Harry Dean, and they rushed into the promotion play-offs all at once.
Although Norka's promotion was unplanned, head coach Gao Feng was not willing to give up. No head coach will deliberately give up the game, competition is the essence of professional football, and Li Chengfeng will not let Gao Feng deliberately lose, so he can only go with the flow.
But the most important thing is, of course, the Champions League final between Manchester City and Bayern Munich in the CM world. Li Chengfeng is well aware of Bayern's strengths and weaknesses, and his last Champions League trophy was won by leading Inter Milan to victory over Bayern. Last year, his Manchester City were eliminated by Bayern Munich.
Bayern's strongest point is their two wings, with the combination of Ribery and Arjen Robben among the top players in the world. Of course, Li Chengfeng doesn't think Bale and Reus will be weaker, and Manchester City's other positions are stronger, maybe only the full-backs will be weaker. And there is another advantage for Manchester City, this game was held at Wembley Stadium in London, England, which is equivalent to Manchester City's home stadium, which made Li Chengfeng's confidence a few points more.
Bayern lined up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, with Van Bitten and Dante in central defence and Lahm and Alaba on either side. Schweinsteiger and Martinez were in midfield, with Robery flying on both wings and Muller and Mandzukic in the middle.
And Li Chengfeng responded with a 4-3-3 that placed more emphasis on midfield control. At the back, Zabaleta, Kompany, Godin, Klich lined up. Klos Vidal Modric dominated the midfield, with Bale, Reus and Luis Suarez in charge of attacking for Manchester City.
Manchester City's overall formation is more controllable and controlled, and he is still a little afraid of the attacking power of Ribery and Robben, who relied on them to win the Champions League when he was at Inter Milan before, so he also specifically asked the two full-backs who played in this game, Zabaleta and Klich, to be defensive and not to take risks.
The two teams played very intensely from the start, the game was very fast-paced, and the frequency of switching between attack and defense was extremely high. Bayern took advantage of the impact of the frontcourt players to take the initiative to attack, trying to open gaps in Manchester City's defense, while Manchester City frequently attacked Bayern's defensive weaknesses exposed by attacking with the control of midfielders.
This Bayern team is strong in all positions, and the weakness is the defense. Goalkeeper Ziler can only be said to be decent, and compared to Neuer, it is the difference between Germany's third goalkeeper and the first goalkeeper. As for the centre-backs, Van Bitten and Dante are not very defensively agile forwards, and that's exactly what City are going to do this game.
Soon the flaws in Bayern's backline were exposed, in the 14th minute, Reus passed Suarez, Suarez fired a powerful volley from outside the penalty area past the blocked Dante, Bayern's goalkeeper Zeller jumped up, stretched his arm and couldn't reach it, the ball grazed his gloves and flew into the goal 1:o!
Bayern clearly didn't expect to concede so early, the players were a bit confused, and Dortmund's attack became more ferocious. In the 19th minute, Modric passed through Reus near the center circle, who won the ball and dribbled high to the Bayern penalty area, and a powerful shot near the penalty line was saved by Ziler. In the 22nd minute, Reus went down the left and then reversed the triangle back to the middle, Klos followed up and fired into the far corner, and Zeller saved the team again.
Zeller's two consecutive saves stabilized the mood of the Bayern players, who recovered and reorganized the attack. In the 26th minute, Bayern got the first good chance of the game, Ribery crossed from the left, and Mandzukic headed the goal from close range in the middle and was lifted out by Neuer. One minute later, Martinez's header went just wide.
In the 3o minute, Bayern counterattacked, Robben cut high on the right to form a single chance, but in the face of the attacking Neuer, Robben's shot hit the goalkeeper.
Manchester City also had good chances, in the 35th minute, Alaba was cut off in his own half, Suarez dribbled into the box, forced Van Bitten to break through and shoot, the ball was blocked by Zeller.
In the 43rd minute, Dortmund made a mistake in defense, Robben formed a one-on-one in the box, and his shot hit Neuer again.
At the end of the first half, both teams had a number of good chances, but the goalkeepers of both teams were the better and Manchester City went into the break with a 1-1 half-time lead over Bayern.
In the second half, the battle between the two sides in the midfield was more intense, and in the face of the recovered Manchester City, Bayern's wing assault was difficult to have enough space. It wasn't until more than ten minutes later that the two sides had their first shot on goal.
In the 59th minute, Bayern got a corner kick opportunity, Martinez rubbed in front of the point, and Mandzukic's header at the back point did not have the power to top the goal and was held by Neuer.
It was difficult to break the deadlock on his own, and Robben took the initiative to run to the left to link up with Ribery. The abrupt change left City's defenders a little scrambling, not knowing whether to follow or stay in their own defensive area.
This momentary chaos was caught by Bayern's two teacher fritters, in the 6o minute, Robben and Ribery worked together exquisitely on the left side, Ribery went straight to Robben, Robben took the ball into the bottom of the penalty area and crossed to the middle, Kompany failed to clear the ball, Mandzukic scored in front of the goal, Bayern 1-o Dortmund.
Li Chengfeng seized the time to seize Kompany and explain how to deal with such a situation, and let Vidaldo pay more attention to protection, Robben and Ribery are Bayern's most dangerous players, as for Thomas Muller, Li Chengfeng believes that the interference of Klos and Modric is enough.
The key is still attacking, how to seize every opportunity to counterattack under Bayern's offensive.
The opportunity came quickly, so in the 67th minute, Vidal broke the ball in the defense, Klose passed through to Reuss, and Reuss shook Dante and looked like he was about to face the goalkeeper, but was kicked directly in the body.
Penalty kick! Li Chengfeng jumped up excitedly. Bale stepped up to the penalty spot and his take-over went straight to the bottom left-hand corner of the Bayern goal, where Zeller made the wrong save. At 2-1, Manchester City took the lead again.
When the game started again, Bayern took the initiative to attack, and Manchester City waited for an opportunity to counterattack. In the 72nd minute, Bayern counterattacked quickly, Ribery and Robben repeated their old tricks, but this time attracted Vidal's defense and passed to the feet of Muller in the middle, who won the ball and dribbled over Kompany and Neuer, and opened the angle to push the empty goal. But the ball was cleared by Godin's sliding tackle in front of the goal-line and Bayern missed a great chance.
In the 76th minute, Muller made a return to the front of the penalty area, and Alaba followed up with a long-range shot, and Neuer saved the ball sideways. In the 77th minute, Muller struck a solo shot into the box and went straight to Semanzukic, whose shot from a tight angle hit the side-netting.
Li Chengfeng admitted that he underestimated Muller and couldn't let them continue like this, and now Kloss's defensive ability is still a little lagging behind. Li Chengfeng decisively replaced Modric with Toure to strengthen the defense.
The presence of Toure has made City's defence much more solid, and Bayern's attack has become difficult because of the change of positions of Ribery and Robben.
However, Muller is still difficult to restrict, in the 87th minute, Bayern attacked, Lahm crossed from the right side, Muller's light leak in the penalty area attracted the attention of Dortmund's defense, and Schweinsteiger, who followed up outside the penalty area, volleyed vigorously, and the ball was saved by Neuer.
Muller's performance is better than his attributes, perhaps because he is a player who plays with his brain, so he can swing stronger ability, but fortunately, Neuer's performance reassured Li Chengfeng.
In the end, Manchester City withstood Bayern's attack, and the score remained 2-1 until the end, and Manchester City won the Champions League this season!
This is Li Chengfeng's second Champions League title, although this season's league was taken away by Manchester United, but being able to win the Champions League again makes Li Chengfeng even more excited.
The league championship can be won again, there are many coaches who have won the league championship many times, and Li Chengfeng has also won three consecutive Serie A championships in Inter Milan before. But there are very few Champions League winners who have won the Champions League multiple times. This Champions League has really established Li Chengfeng's status as a famous coach, even if there are four previous top league titles and two Europa League titles, which are not as convincing as these two Champions League titles. They bring not only glory, but also bonuses, endorsement income, lots and lots of them.
Of course, these are things that Li Chengfeng will not think about now, he now just wants to celebrate this hard-won championship with his players, and vent the grievances of this season.
him? Soriano, now you know who is the most important person in this club.
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