Chapter 128: Europe's Upstart Ascends to the Top
The 2017-218 Champions League final was held at the NSK Olympic Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, and tens of thousands of fans poured into the country, despite the potential danger. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In addition to the turmoil in recent years, the most important impression of fans in Ukraine comes from Shevchenko, the former superstar of AC Milan, nicknamed "Ukrainian nuclear warhead", which shows the influence of football on the world and affects the popularity of a country.
This final is a contest between Europe's upstarts and old powerhouses, and Li Haolong's Villa team is generally among the upstarts, so deep down he hopes that Monaco will win the championship, so as to break the monopoly of Europe's traditional giants and create a turbulent scene in Europe in the post-double pride era.
Monaco uses the traditional 442 formation, a relatively stable formation, Li Haolong really can't imagine that such a stable formation has created the strongest firepower in Europe, except for the slightly lower level of Ligue 1, it can only be said that Monaco's team members are too strong.
Up front, Kylian Mbappe has managed to move Germain out of the pitch, and his forward combination with Tiger Falcao has scored 71 goals throughout the year, shining all over Europe. In fact, Falcao suffered an injury in his first season at Monaco, and then suffered a quiet spell on loan at Manchester United and Chelsea, and the wandering striker eventually returned to Monaco to usher in a rebirth and find his form to make a big splash at Porto and Atletico Madrid.
After Ancelotti replaced Pep Guardiola, Bayern's style of play tended to be pragmatic and did not care too much about the excessive pursuit of possession, and the top three backlines led by Hummels, Boateng and Alaba will usher in the sharpest attack test.
Unlike last year, Li Haolong watched the ball on the spot, mainly to inspect Bakayoko. Although Mbappe wants everyone, Li Haolong also moved a little thought, or self-doomed this idea, the rumored 150 million is too terrifying, and the current combination of Griezmann and Dembele in the Villa team is good enough, and Mbappe cannot replace the role of Arario's arrow center.
150 million euros is too heavy for a 19-year-old player who is still a child, in the era of 100 million yuan, young demon stars are overly concerned and developed, which is also a sequelae that Li Haolong did not expect, compared with previous years, the introduction of a young player has to spend more than in the past, everyone has a gambling mentality, but this is also the inevitable process of the new football king at the end of the Messi Ronaldo era to take the position, one word, chaos!
Monaco launched an inevitable attack wave at the beginning of the game, and there was a great posture to set the tone of the game in the first half, and the Bayern team was like a Tai Chi master, not in a hurry to fight with bayonets, and adopted a more resilient counter-attack tactic.
The field will not be too good-looking, one is very urgent but does not have too good opportunities, and the other seems to be very embarrassed, but there is a chaotic order, and only fans who really understand the ball can see the tactical value.
Monaco obviously lacks experience in the tournament and has a less stable mentality than Bayern, but fortunately, the passion is enough, and the whole team has a clear goal and action in unison, and has been hanging this breath.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "there is Taiji in literature and peace in the world, and there are eight poles in martial arts". Monaco's attack wave is just like the ancient Chinese boxing technique of Bajiquan, the action is fierce and violent, and the Bayern team responded with a soft and rigid Tai Chi, seeing the moves, the two sides fought until the end of 90 minutes and still did not distinguish the winner, and the game had to go into extra time.
Ancelotti's tactics are correct, but there is still a lack of determination to counterattack, the game dragged into extra time is cruel for Bayern, let's take a look at Bayern's veterans, Ribery, born on April 7, 1983, is 35 years old, Robben, January 23, 1984, 34 years old, fortunately Lahm has retired, otherwise it is another 35-year-old, when Ribery and Peter Pan Robben can't fly, Bayern is in danger.
Ancelotti is well aware of the danger here, whether the second old man is not convinced of the old, or decisively replaced the two with Kimmich and Douglas---- and even in overtime, he still has two substitutions, Ancelotti's conservatism can be seen, he does not like rotation, and the regular use of a 14-man core lineup is his trademark, but it is precisely because of his caution that he has been honored.
However, he often walks by the river, how can he not get his shoes wet, and this time Ancelotti paid a price for his conservatism. A change is two, the players who just came on the field have not had time to adapt to the game, and suddenly entered the tense overtime, it is inevitable that there is some restraint, taking advantage of Bayern's adjustment, Monaco still has the physical strength to launch an attack, a storm of attack, by the Portuguese midfielder Moutinho stabbed in the chaos, a typical mess punch to kill the master.
On 28 February 2004, FIFA announced that both the Golden Ball and Silver Balls, which would determine the outcome of the match, would be abolished, and that the distinction between winners and losers would return to the traditional practice, so the match would continue until the end of the 120 minutes. Originally, the appearance of the Golden Ball system was to encourage offense, but I didn't expect that after the introduction of the system, because of the fear of sudden death, it became more conservative and went against the original intention, so it was reasonable to cancel it.
Monaco coach Jardim waved his fist on the sidelines and breathed a long sigh of relief, and immediately began to rearrange, he is not a crazy coach who fights to the end, it can be seen from the position of the players on the field, this is to defend to the death, although the best defense is to attack, but in this case, most coaches will still arrange a good defensive strategy.
The anxious Bayern pressed on and made Monaco breathless, but Monaco's back line is also very good, and the two fullbacks are the focus of the whole Europe, so naturally Bayern will not be so easy to get.
Li Haolong is most concerned about Bakayoko at the scene, this young man is indeed very tough, his skills are also very solid, he doesn't need to say steals and interceptions, he can score 9 points, but he is a little casual, sometimes he likes to show off his skills, which is a bit like Pogba, but it is not so serious, Li Haolong said that if he was under his account, these actions would definitely be criticized by him, and he still needs to continue to observe in the World Cup, but he is likely to have no main position in this French team, and he will not be able to pry Pogba and Kante for the time being.
There were no more surprises in the game, and the old powerhouses were knocked out by the European upstarts.
This year's Europe belongs to these upstarts, with the Europa League won by Aston Villa and the Champions League taken by Monaco.
Now, the biggest test for the club and the owners of Monaco will be the rush to buy this summer, whether they can withstand the sky-high prices and whether they can convince their players to prove their determination to dominate rather than be short-lived, which will soon be revealed in this busy summer.