Chapter 248: Fighting against the Transmission Control
Both sides have prepared well for this game, and it is definitely the best team of the season to reach the Champions League final, and any dismissiveness could lead to defeat.
Both sides also came up with the best lineup:
On Barcelona's side, goalkeeper Ter Stegen, the four defenders from left to right are Alva, Mascherano, Pique and Alves; The three midfielders are Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Rakitic.
On the Dortmund side, goalkeeper Langerak, defenders from left to right: Schmelzer, Hummels, Subotic and Durm; midfielders Kyle and Gundogan; three forwards, Shen Peng, Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang; Striker Kylian Mbappe.
After all the foreplay was over, the players finally arrived at the players' tunnel and were ready to enter.
Shen Peng was holding a little caddie at this time, a little girl with a bob head, who looked as cute as a doll, and she was looking at Shen Peng carefully with wide eyes.
In fact, not only her, but even the caddies led by other people around them looked at Shen Peng with more or less curiosity, after all, Shen Peng's performance has caused his current fame to catch up with Ronaldo Messi.
And Shen Peng turned his head with a feeling at this time and found that Messi in the Barcelona team was looking at him.
After Messi found Shen Peng looking over, he smiled at Shen Peng, and then turned around and chatted with his teammates.
Shen Peng also smiled, turned around, and quietly waited for the game to start.
This scene was also captured by the camera that had been paying attention to the two, and everyone who was following the game at the moment noticed the action of the two of them just now.
At 7:45 p.m. local time in Germany, the Champions League final officially began.
Barcelona were the first to serve, and as soon as they came up, they began to penetrate each other with short passes.
When Shen Peng was in Germany before, he had also seen Bayern Munich's passing control, but Bayern Munich's passing control was recreated by Guardiola according to the characteristics of the team, which is different from the Barcelona in front of him, which is the most authentic "Tiki-Taka".
There have been many studies on how to deal with Barcelona's style of play.
In the 2009 Champions League semi-finals, Guus Hiddink's Chelsea used a hard, tight defense against Barcelona, forcing Barcelona to shoot outside the penalty area, and used Bosingwa, Terry, and Essien to take turns to mark Messi, Chelsea became the first team not to concede a goal at Barcelona's home stadium that season, the score was 0-0, and in the second leg Chelsea led 1-0 and was finally defeated by Iniesta's long-range shot.
In the 2010 Champions League semi-finals, Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan defeated Barcelona 3-1 in the first leg by pinching Messi and cutting off Xavi's passing rhythm, and then recovered the stubborn defense in the second leg in exchange for 0-1 to advance.
In the 2012 Champions League semi-finals, Roberto Di Matteo's Chelsea again used a similar tactic against Barca, who eventually won on a counter-attack, using four defenders and three midfielders to hoard in the middle of the fort and then fight on the flanks, such as Ramirez against Alves.
In the 2013 Champions League semi-finals, Bayern Munich gave Barcelona a heavy blow. Bayern's previous manager was Louis van Gaal, and his successor, Heynckes, has made his Bayern with flashy attacks and superior possession more practical, with Heynckes infused with a tougher defence. Heynckes' Bayern Munich beat Barcelona 4-0 at home and 3-0 away to Barcelona. The seven-0 aggregate score reminds people of the role of pragmatism.
So Klopp has already dealt with this game, of course, since he has Shen Peng, Mbappe and Aubameyang in his hands, he will not defend like other teams deal with Barcelona, but combine offense and defense, so that Shen Peng and Aubameyang can retreat appropriately, from the previous 4-2-3-1 to a formation similar to 4-4-1-1.
In this way, Shen Peng and Aubameyang are more similar to midfielders than before. They can help the team form a local numerical advantage in midfield and achieve a pressure on Barcelona. When attacking, they can rely on the speed advantage of the two of them to form a quick counterattack on the wing.
In the third minute, there was a small climax on the field: Barcelona found an opportunity in the midfield, and Iniesta sent a precise pass to find Messi, and Messi used his foot skills to shake off Kyle and shoot with a gesture, allowing Hummels to block his shooting route, but in fact, a cross, fortunately, Subotic played well, interfering with Suarez, who was answering, and only then did the ball pass in front of Suarez, and was finally cleared by Durm.
Klopp was also shocked into a cold sweat, although he had prepared before the game, knowing that Barcelona's trident was difficult to defend, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult to defend, all his players obviously did not have any omissions, but they still let the other party find an opportunity.
"Cheer up!"
There was no problem with tactics and execution, Klopp had to shout that and let the players play a little better.
In fact, there is no need for Klopp to shout, Dortmund's players have already played with twelve points, as long as they win this game, they can lift the Big Ears Cup.
Just like two years ago against the then mighty Bayern Munich, they lost in the final, but only by one point. And they had a good chance in the process, at one point keeping the score 1-1 until 89 minutes – until Bayern Munich scored the winning goal near the end of the game.
Therefore, in the game, spirit is the most important, and it is the only magic weapon for a team to defeat strong opponents.
With the all-out scramble of Dortmund's players, Barcelona's offensive momentum was finally stifled.
In the seventh minute, Borussia Dortmund's players organized a counter-attack.
Shen Peng received a pass from his teammate on the side and immediately sprinted with the ball.
For his characteristics, Barcelona's players have long known that they also have coping tactics before the game, so as soon as Shen Peng accelerated, Rakitic leaned over, just interfering with Shen Peng's running, and did not plan to stretch out his feet to grab the ball.
Until Shen Peng crossed the middle line with the ball, Rakitic kept following, which made Shen Peng unable to accelerate, after all, once accelerated, the force of the ball would inevitably be greater every time, so that when the ball was slotted out, it was easy to be cut off by Rakitic who was not far away.
If the trip is smaller, the running speed will not be able to get up, and when he runs outside the opponent's penalty area, there may be eight people standing in the opponent's penalty area.
Shen Peng figured out the pros and cons in an instant, did not continue to dribble the ball, but found an opportunity to pass the ball directly, the ball flew directly to a no-man's area in the middle, Mbappe suddenly appeared, received the ball, at this moment, Shen Peng and Aubameyang accelerated at the same time, like two yellow flowing fires, flying from both sides to the hinterland of Barcelona!