Chapter 560: First win in the Champions League

At Bayer Leverkusen, Vincent saw a young Bulgarian player who had actually piqued his interest when Vincent was still in Valencia, but after much thought, Vincent still didn't complete the transfer.

This young player is Berbatov, Fan Shang took a fancy to him because of his nickname, "Brother Chic", he played really beautiful, ornamental, at that time Fan Shang just wanted to improve Valencia's ornamentation, but this brother's running on the field really did not satisfy Fan Shang, he obviously demanded himself according to the goalkeeper's running standards, and finally Fan Shang did not buy him, but the idea managed to get him under the command of his own agency.

At the end of this Leverkusen game, Fan Shang also specially chatted with him, of course, in addition to encouragement and mention, Fan Shang also had an idea to let the media take pictures.

In this way, these calls for Pizarro to replace Morientes as the starting center forward were mixed with the hope that Bayern Munich would be able to bring in the Bulgarian player, and of course, they wrote that Vincent wanted to bring him in.

Fan Shang just wants to create some tension for several strikers, especially Morientes, if he doesn't show any more, starting is a trivial matter, maybe Fan Shang will not rent him during the winter break, and return it directly to Real Madrid.

These are all the media talking to themselves, although now Bayern Munich's strikers are listening to themselves, but the game still has to be played, right?

Bayern Munich finally ushered in the first game of this year's Champions League at this time, hosting Celtic.

The highlight of this game is how Santa Cruz and Larsson fought back against their old clubs.

It seems that Santa Cruz is quite adaptable in the Soviet Super League, and has scored 3 goals, with a high goal rate, and Larsson was still pressed on the bench by Fan Shang.

Before, he was not suitable to play, and this game Fan Shangke has already ventilated with Larsson in advance, he is the starting center, there is no doubt, but he does not need to grab the header, just need to grasp the opportunity when it comes out.

Celtic's current tactics are very simple and rude, that is, long passes and charges, three center forwards in the frontcourt, which one can grab this point, and then shoot or pass.

Although Celtic put these three center forwards is a routine they often use in the Soviet Super League, but for Bayern Munich, the high-altitude ball is still relatively difficult to handle. Vincent actually made some of these preparations, and the center-back combination sent to this game was Mertesacker and Kovac, which should be the most defensive center-back combination before Metzeld recovered from injury. However, this is still a weak defence for the three centre-forwards, so Ballack has more range of movement in this game, and he needs to return to the box from time to time to assist in the defence, especially from set-pieces. But of course, Vincent has other ways to suppress Celtic, that is, not to let you cross, but obviously this is not absolute, what Bayern Munich has to do is to let the Celtic players cross in the most difficult places and high balls in the most awkward places. This Bayern Munich can still do, there are two fullbacks on the side, Zarazu and Sagnol, while the middle is more dependent on Jeremes and Ze Roberto, today it is Ballack who is behind, and Jeremes and Ze Roberto are sweeping near the center circle, their biggest purpose is to force the Celtic players who have the ball in the midfield, giving them two choices, either they will pass or they will be forced to pass long. Let's not talk about the return pass, and in this case, the long pass is basically a pass without looking at people, the quality is very poor, Bayern Munich even if the air defense ability is average, but in the face of this kind of ball, it is more than enough to deal with. So the Celtic who want to use their own advantages to bully Bayern Munich have been ruined like this, just kidding, the idea is good, but without enough support from the midfield, the three strikers are nothing, Santa Cruz is better at his feet, but the other two British center forwards Thornton and Hutson are the standard British rough brothers, and the rest are not at the level of the stream. So the two of them are basically running blindly in this game, and the Celtics may understand more about the good of Santa Cruz today, the body does not suffer, and the technique is still very good, especially that handsome face, if you hone it well, maybe it is really a star! Vincent gave up because he didn't want to give him time to grind, not because he was bad, but because he needed time, and Bayern Munich didn't have that kind of waiting time. Today, Fan Shang only put Larsson on the front line of Bayern Munich, Larsson's style is definitely not a pile center, he is more flexible and changeable, delicate at his feet, but his heading ability is still very strong, but his height is limited to become a god tower. But in this game, Larsson faced the Celtic defense that he was particularly familiar with, that is, he was like a fish in water, and several tall central defenders who had always played in training before, this time they played them like stakes on the playing field. In the 26th minute, Larsson ran ghostly from behind the two centre-backs to the two centre-backs, and when they didn't react, nodded the ball into the back of the net. In the 59th minute of the second half, it was Larsson again, this time he faced his former teammate Scottish international McNamara one-on-one, and the two were already familiar with each other. There was already a gap, Larsson unceremoniously completed the shot, the unguarded shot in the penalty area is really difficult to save, Celtic's goalkeeper Albert is an ordinary goalkeeper, and there is nothing he can do about this ball. With Larsson's brace, Bayern Munich defeated Celtic 2-0 at home to usher in their first Champions League victory of the season. After this game, Vincent thought with his heel and knew what these media who like to study Bayern Munich's tactics would do, and he would definitely evaluate Bayern Munich's forward line again. This is not the second day, the discussion about who Bayern Munich is using in the forward line has escalated again, before the debate between Morientes and Pizarro, and now it has been extended to Larsson, Larsson showed flexibility in the last game is not very good for the two before, so the media feels that if Bayern Munich's wings are mainly inward, the effect of Larsson on the single striker may really be better than that of Morientes and Pizarro.