Chapter 1047: An Epic Battle
The 2012-2013 Champions League final at the new Wembley Stadium is barely empty as the time draws closer.
From the far view of the stadium, the north and south stands are occupied by die-hard Dortmund fans and Valencia die-hard fans respectively.
Huge team crests poured down from above in the north and south stands, and the bats of Valencia and the BVB-09 of Borussia Dortmund were like peerless masters facing each other.
Interestingly, the stands of the two die-hard fans also tacitly appeared in the stands of each other's banner players, Valencia fans held up a huge poster of captain Elo, and Dortmund fans held up vice-captain Feng Xiaoting.
As the Chinese media boasted before the game, in addition to the pinnacle matchup of this game, which has attracted much attention, the current head-to-head confrontation between the world's No. 1 striker and the world's No. 1 central defender has also whetted the appetite of the media and fans.
As usual, players from both sides entered the stadium to warm up 70 minutes into the game, and the stadium stands were already in a frenzied atmosphere by fans from both sides, each cheering wildly for their teams.
A year later, the new Wembley Stadium was once again the venue for the Champions League final, and the welcome to Iello was no different from the 2010-2011 Champions League final, with the whole stadium shaking slightly as soon as he appeared on the pitch.
Many Dortmund players who came to the stadium from the players' tunnel were very dissatisfied, so they were all working hard to beat Valencia in the next game and let the fans in the stands know that the myth of Valencia ended here!
Especially Borussia Dortmund's German international Reuss, he and Iello played as left wingers in the Champions League final, so it is inevitable that there will be a comparison between the two before the game.
But it is not surprising that in the perception of the media, even if Reus is a new German international, he is still not qualified to be compared with Iro, because when Ilo was 27 years old, he had already won five UEFA Champions League titles, and there were countless league titles and cup titles.
In terms of goal numbers, the two are even more incomparable, and Iello announced that he surpassed La Liga's all-time scorer Sala with 252 goals in the 16th round of La Liga's brace, becoming the new all-time scorer in La Liga.
In the 37th round of La Liga, Aylo's goals reached 284, continuing to set a new high.
As for the Champions League goalscorers, Iello's total number of goals in the Champions League in eight seasons has already exceeded 100 goals, and it is still a new record.
Royce was born in 1989, which means he is only three years younger than Eyro, but his league goals total and Champions League goals are far behind Arrow......
In addition, Poland international Lewandowski is also quite unhappy, and it stands to reason that his senior team in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid at home was highlighted by the media before the game.
But what I didn't expect was that the first person to appear in the pen of a media writer would always be ...... Iroh.
Listening to the shouts erupting from the stadium stands, Reus and Lewandowski glanced at each other, and they could see the extremely strong fighting spirit in each other's eyes.
All...... The game is going to be high!
However, as the captain of Dortmund who started this game, Feng Xiaoting behaved very naturally, and there is always a huge difference between a striker and a defender, because the player who scores the goal is often the striker, and the fans will only remember the striker who scores.
As for defenders, fans are more likely to ignore them, and only defenders who have played consistently for a long time will be remembered.
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After the 40-minute official warm-up time, the players from both sides returned to the dressing rooms to listen to the final arrangements of their coaches before the game, while preparations began at the new Wembley Stadium for the opening ceremony, which is the duty of the Champions League finalists.
But that's not where Chinese fans are concerned, the focus of Chinese fans is on the players' tunnel.
As the players from both sides appeared in the players' tunnel, the on-site director also switched the camera over, and soon, Valencia captain Ailo and Dortmund captain Feng Xiaoting had an exchange.
Looking at the two people talking in the camera, Duan Xuan, the narrator of the Beijing studio, said excitedly: "This is definitely an epic scene!" Chinese internationals Ailo and Feng Xiaoting represent Valencia and Borussia Dortmund respectively, and both of them are the banner figures and captains of their respective teams!! Just watching the exchange between the two, I could already guess how exciting it would be after the game started! ”
Of course, at this time, the camera of goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei is naturally indispensable, and after Feng Xiaoting and Ailuo finished hugging, they took the initiative to hug each other and encourage.
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After the start of the game, as Duan Xuan had previously judged, Dortmund, with the strongest lineup, relied on the advantage of many young players to run at any cost of physical strength, so as to make up for the lack of technique.
Sven Bender and Gundogan's back-to-back duo is very solid, and the tacit understanding formed between them over the course of many games has made Valencia's unique penetration of the middle unable to pass the ball in.
Coupled with the fact that Feng Xiaoting and Hummels are in good shape, especially the performance of captain Feng Xiaoting, it can be said that it is the best moment of his career.
His two successive encounters with Iroh ended in victory, and of course, he used small movements in the referee's visual corner to influence Iro's stopping and dribbling.
As a teammate from the national youth team to the national team, Feng Xiaoting is very familiar with the technical characteristics of Aillo, so he adopts close defense when defending, and does not give Aillo any space to break through at all, and then uses the team's cooperation to limit Aillo's activity space, resulting in a small flaw in the operation of Valencia's offensive system.
Similarly, Borussia Dortmund have focused so much on defending that it is difficult for them to reach Valencia's defensive half.
Reuss and Gotze, who were ambitious before the game, were busy defending, and only Lewandowski was used as a tactical suppression.
So for the first ten minutes of the game, it looked like the two sides were playing very openly, but there was no attack that threatened the goal.
The game lasted until the twelfth minute, when Ailuo was adapting to Feng Xiaoting's defensive rhythm, using the tacit cooperation with his teammates to temporarily shake off Feng Xiaoting, and suddenly fired a cold arrow 28 meters from the goal.
Twelve of Ayro's goals throughout the 2012-2013 season came from mid-to-long range.
The same was true of the sudden cold arrow, which forced Weidenfeller to make a brilliant save to keep the goal intact.
Looking at Ailuo, who felt a little sorry, Feng Xiaoting pulled up the captain's armband that had fallen off, he knew ...... This game will be more difficult than he imagined!