Chapter 187: The Team with the Most Hope of Qualifying!
After the restart of the game, Bayern Munich did not lose morale because of backwardness, but continued to organize the attack in high spirits.
But obviously, they played more rigorously than before.
German football has always been rigorous, Bayern Munich represents German football, their rigor is famous, no team can be as delicate as them, and no team has such a strong sense of position as Bayern Munich.
It can be said that every player is part of the team, and this phrase is best reflected in Bayern Munich.
There are pros and cons to this kind of football.
When every player in the team is in good shape, Bayern Munich will be like a sophisticated machine, each player has no special performance, but they can send the football into the opponent's goal safely, and the goal is so that the opponent has nothing to say.
When the team played well, one goal after another followed.
Beating an opponent by a margin of more than five goals is hard to see in other leagues, but it is not unusual in the Bundesliga, especially when Bayern Munich or other strong teams play against ordinary teams.
This is also a major feature of German football.
On the contrary, if the player is not in good shape, it will affect the team's performance very much.
When Bayern Munich is in a headwind situation, the player's performance is affected, and a 'part' is stuck, which will affect the performance of the whole team, so Bayern Munich's overall performance will drop a notch, and then lose to the weak team.
That's it on the field now.
Bayern Munich after being scored a goal by Manchester City, the whole team was a little confused, although they actively organized the attack, but the mental state of individual players was still affected somewhat, plus many media reported before the game that the game would be very difficult, all together, some players looked at the game differently. Their performance suffered, and then Bayern Munich's overall performance was affected.
They are proactive in attacking, but it is difficult to find any opportunities up front.
Manchester City, on the other hand, is different.
Taking advantage of the team's high morale, Manchester City performed better after the restart, in fact, Manchester City are very good at playing the tailwind, which is the advantage of young teams, many of the players in the team are very young. When the game goes well, it's hard to imagine what they can do.
The most active player on the pitch right now is David Silva.
Morris's goal just now gave the whole team a lot of confidence, including David Silva, as soon as the confidence came up, the performance was much better, the fear of facing Bayern Munich at the beginning of the game was long gone, and the Spaniard faced Bayern Munich with a normal heart. The performance is quite flexible, and some actions that were not dared to do before are also performed one after another, such as breaking through in the face of defense, and then hitting a sudden shot from a long distance, etc. This poses a big threat to Bayern Munich.
This time David Silva received a pass in the middle again, and he was not nervous at all in the face of Dutch star Van Bommel defence, but instead used a small change of direction. Dribbling straight ahead of Van Bommel before Hargreaves stepped in and David Silva moved the ball to the wing.
Downing takes the ball and goes straight to the Bayern defense!
The 22-year-old Downing has top-notch breakout ability and speed. As soon as he burst forward from the flank, tension immediately rose on the pitch, Sagnol rushed to defend, Downing brought the ball to the baseline, and then kicked a long ball.
Ivan Crewe on the right cut in at high speed, stretched out his right foot and unloaded the ball securely.
Downing's pass was very far away, which was somewhat unexpected by the Bayern players, who did not expect the ball to fly high and fall directly to the right instead of running in front of the goal.
On the sidelines, Wan Sheng's eyes lit up when he saw Downing's pass.
This is a small routine of the team's training, that is, to use the transfer of long passes, to disrupt the opponent's defense, so as to find opportunities, Ivan Crewe is difficult to play long-distance passes, but Downing, who is more physical and powerful, can, although the pass is not very accurate, but the football is in the air long enough for the receiving player to find a position.
However, when Ivan Crewe got the ball, there was already Lahm defending behind him.
Facing Lahm's defence, Ivan Crewe didn't rush and sent the ball back to the middle of the box, where David Silva ran just into position!
"City's fast attack! Ivan Crewe's cross! ”
Seeing the danger, the narrator exclaimed.
The commentators were a little surprised, just now they thought that Downing would pass to the front of the penalty area to create opportunities for Anelka and Morris, who were attacking forward, but they didn't expect the football to reach the feet of Ivan Crewe and then move to the front of the penalty area, and the defenders in the Bayern penalty area could not catch up if they ran forward.
The Bayern players were caught off guard.
Manchester City has been using short passes to infiltrate to find opportunities, they didn't expect this time it suddenly became a long pass transfer from the left and right, the first goal let them know that they must strictly guard the middle, several players were piled up in the middle, but they saw the football transfer, and went to make up for the wing, but they didn't expect that the opposing full-back did not possess the ball at all, but transferred the ball to the middle again.
This time and again, their defensive formation was affected
David Silva got the ball at the front of the box but he couldn't shoot straight at goal because there were two players in front of him who were physically blocked.
He took the ball slightly to the left.
Lucio immediately caught up and blocked the angle, David Silva immediately slid the left, and Lucio had to follow and run again.
This time David Silva did not continue to dribble the ball, but kicked back with his right foot, Lucio readjusted his center of gravity, and saw Silva smash the ball to the left again, and it was not easy for Lucio to stabilize his body, taking advantage of such a gap, David Silva directly swung his right foot.
"What is he going to do?" Quite a few people have the same question.
David Silva's left-facing position is not suitable for shooting, he is not a left-footed player, and there is an angle between that position and the goal, and a direct shot is almost a wasted opportunity.
But the next moment, they knew.
David Silva still opted for a direct shot, his right outside of his foot was directly behind the ball, and the ball curved straight to the left corner of the goal!
"Danger!"
Until this time. All the Bayern players just realized the danger!
They just thought that David Silva would have a hard time shooting against Lucio, but they didn't expect such a gap, David Silva chose to shoot directly, and it was a beautiful outside instep.
Lucio reacted and his position seemed to be blocking the sight of goalkeeper Kahn.
The other players who saw the shot reacted, but they only had time to look back along the course of the ball and shout 'attention' to alert Kahn to make the save.
The only chance to touch the ball was Van Bitten, but he was defending Anelka and then turning around to see the football. It was too late to reach out to intercept, and the ball brushed past him.
"Shoot-"
Sky Sports commentator Lyle Statham lengthened the pitch
David Silva's sudden shot caught Bayern goalkeeper Kahn off guard.
Kahn had been keeping an eye on David Silva just now, beware of a sudden shot, but Lucio blocked his view, he thought he was safe, but then the football had rushed towards him.
The moment he saw the ball, he pounced to his left.
Karn's reaction was quite quick, but there was always time to react. When he saw that the ball was being saved, it was too late, and when he was in mid-air, he saw that the football had flown in front of his arm.
Entered!
Karn was incredulous, he didn't even do anything to protect him. Just fell to the ground.
Then, the whole stadium was cheered by Manchester City fans.
At the same time, in front of the TV, I don't know how many Manchester City fans raised their arms and chanted together.
It was immediately after the narrator's roar sounded.
“Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!”
"David Silva! David Silva! David Silva! ”
"The ball is in, Goal! 0:2! 0:2! David Silva scored the second goal for Manchester City, and it was a brilliant cold shot! Manchester City leads Bayern Munich by 2 goals away! ”
Bayern Munich fans in the stands were caught.
No matter how pessimistic the German media was about the match between Bayern and Manchester City before the game. They also didn't expect that before half-time, they were already two goals down.
David Silva excitedly pounced on Ivan Crewe, who had provided the assist, before rushing to the dugout. With Wan Sheng in his arms, Silva seemed to be very excited here, hugging every team-mate who came running, and then running under the Manchester City fan stands, raising his arms and cheering with the fans.
At the same time, almost all the media covering the game commented on the goal.
They were surprised by the situation at this point, they couldn't think of why Manchester City could lead Bayern Munich by two halves at the Allianz Arena, so they could only express their feelings with exclamations at this moment.
They gave all kinds of praise to Manchester City and David Silva on various TV stations and media seats!
"Goal! Goal!”
“2:0!”
"David Silva!"
These have all become keywords
Bayern Munich fans couldn't accept the cruel reality of being two goals behind, and they were silent in the stands, staring at the game, unable to believe the score on the scoreboard.
Also unable to accept reality are the players of Bayern Munich.
They were standing on the field like chickens, whether it was Van Bommel or Lucio, they were all a little dejected with their eyes in confusion.
Half time hasn't passed yet!
They were mighty Bayern Munich, who faced a team that was playing in the Champions League for the first time in several years, only to be scored twice at half-time.
Defence has always been a source of pride for them because they have Lucio, they have Kahn and a lot of defenders at the back, but now they have scored two goals as if their team were unguarded against Manchester City.
0:2 They feel like the score is reversed!
Not to mention Beckenbauer on the podium, he was extremely disappointed with this Bayern Munich team on the field!
At this time, Beckenbauer could no longer remain serious, and his face was full of gloom and dissatisfaction.
Beckenbauer's lifelong wish is that German football can develop better, the Bundesliga can become the world's largest league, the German team can win the World Cup again, and for Bayern Munich, Beckenbauer hopes that the team can win the Champions League one by one and dominate the whole of Europe.
But the current situation is not optimistic, Bayern's 'road to dominance' has not yet begun, and they fell at the feet of a team that is participating in the Champions League for the first time.
Manchester city.
An ordinary Premier League team with no name, why can they play so well?
This is not only a problem of Bayern Munich's poor performance, but Manchester City as an opponent is also too good, just the opponent's midfielder Lee Morris, a player who has just 'reluctantly' entered the England squad, and now midfielder David Silva, a young star from Spain, these two players can also be regarded as stars, but compared to Bayern Munich, it is nothing at all, but the two of them broke out at the Allianz Arena respectively, so that Bayern Munich conceded two goals in the first half.
There is no doubt that both of these men are geniuses!
But a year ago, two years ago, both of them were not famous at all, just like David Silva who had just performed, that kind of world-class performance is not just something that an ordinary young talent can do, but he has done it.
If he is C-Ronaldo who rose to fame at a young age, or young stars such as Messi, Torres, Sergio Aguero, it would not be surprising at all, but he is David Silva, an ordinary Spanish player who has been unknown since the age of 18, so why can they perform like this in such a major Champions League game?
Beckenbauer looked unconsciously at the Manchester City dugout, where a young Chinese was standing waving at the players.
It's him, right?
Beckenbauer couldn't help but remember some pre-match media reports about the young coach.
'We're here to show that we're the biggest focus, that we're the team with the best hopes of qualifying from Group G'
When he first heard the report, Beckenbauer thought it was just the arrogance of a young man, and that it was understandable that there would always be some arrogance when he became famous at a young age, but now he knew that this young man had done what he said.
It was one of the toughest away games in the group stage for Manchester City, but with a two-goal half-time lead over Bayern Munich, who's to say City aren't the favourites to qualify? (To be continued.) )