With the referee's whistle, the Champions League final between Liverpool and Inter Milan officially began!

Liverpool kicked off first, and after Torres kicked the ball to Qin Xiong, Qin Xiong did not immediately attack, but passed the ball back.

The two teams opened up, the tempo was not fast, after all, it was a final with the highest honors at stake.

There is nothing wrong with both sides approaching it with a cautious mindset.

Liverpool pass the ball in the middle and back, the players are familiar with each other and adapt to the game, get into the game, and especially unify the rhythm of the whole team, which is the most important thing in the early stages of the game.

Jose Mourinho watched Liverpool's starting formation from the sidelines.

Koeman did give him a big surprise.

Kuyt, who performed well in the elimination of Bayern Munich, actually sat on the bench!

In his place was Lucas.

Liverpool's formation is arguably similar to Inter Milan's.

Mourinho put Pandev on the bench for only one reason: to be afraid of Liverpool's attack!

If Pandev is on the pitch, then Inter Milan's attack group will be Sneijder + Pandev + Eto'o + Milito.

It's really strong, but the defense is lacking.

Playing an ordinary strong team, Mourinho will have confidence, but he can play Liverpool, and attack Liverpool, which has terrified many opponents?

He still needs to add a layer of security.

Three back waists!

Zanetti + Cambiasso + Motta.

Sneijder is in front of the back line, Eto'o is ambushed near Milito, if you really want to counterattack, as long as the back waist line can complete the transition between attack and defense and play speed, then the counterattack is actually not three people, maybe two people are enough.

This is Mourinho's deployment. But he didn't expect Koeman to look similar to his line-up.

It also looks like a three-back waist.

Lucas + Alonso + Mascherano.

Steven Gerrard was in the middle in front of the back line, and then Qin Xiong and Torres became the vanguard of the attack.

Liverpool are also clearly jealous of Inter Milan.

At least it seems.

But when Liverpool's first shot came on, Mourinho suddenly changed his mind.

It was in the 5th minute of the game.

When Gerrard received Johnson's pass from the middle to the right side, and then quickly passed the ball to the middle, Alonso, who was inserted in the middle, and then passed the ball diagonally to the left side where Qin Xiong was.

Qin Xiong crossed the ball and dribbled past Zanetti. Without waiting for Cambiaso to get close to him, he got up and slammed the door!

Thirty-five yards from goal!

The ball went around Lucio's head and began to fall, with Cesar making a lateral leap to keep the ball out of bounds.

Liverpool's first shot came from distance and was dangerous!

Jose Mourinho reflected on how the shot came on goal and then he realised Koeman's true intentions in his line-up today.

It's not 442.

It's 433!

At least not the extremely radical 433.

Qin Xiong and Gerrard were active on the flanks near the middle, Alonso in the middle, Torres in front!

Torres' position was crucial as he kept pressing the back line led by Lucio and Samuel, forcing Inter's back line to not move forward. Avoid exposing space for the anti-offside to Torres.

It's a defensive instinct that doesn't have to be thought about.

Qin Xiong, Gerrard, Alonso, all three of them have the ability to pass out a penetrating kick!

The back line naturally can't be pressed forward, otherwise Torres is offside, and there are teammates behind him to send a subtle straight stopper, then everything will be over!

It is precisely because Torres is holding back Inter's back line that the back line cannot be too far from the back line.

Don't forget. Qin Xiong has a strong ability to dribble and break through.

Only by maintaining a sufficient distance from the back line can the back line avoid the danger of facing the back line after being broken by Qin Xiong one by one.

That's why. The distance between the back line and the goal is about 30 to 40 yards.

In this way, Liverpool shaped the attacking situation with a kind of deterrence, and then they began to shoot from distance with impunity!

Qin Xiong, Gerrard, Alonso. The three of them do not simply have the ability to deliver threatening balls, they also have one characteristic, that is, they are extremely capable of long-range shooting!

It can be said that Koeman's arrangement is a good play of the two advantages common to these three.

Play a long-range threat with a possible threat ball delivery!

The most important thing is that Liverpool does not seem to be aggressive when playing like this, and the back line is very stable!

Won't give Inter Milan an open space to counterattack!

Johnson and Aurelio will come to midfield in due course. But never move forward again.

Lucas and Mascheranoan are divided into central midfield and will be an important force in cutting off Inter's counter-attacking trio.

In the 8th minute of the game, Motta passed the ball to Sneijder, who encountered a dense defense in the middle, and the back did not move, Alonso and Gerrard alone made Sneijder feel a lot of pressure, and in the middle of the pack, Sneijder still passed the ball to Eto'o, who was on the side.

Eto'o is more prominent in his running and grasping opportunities, he is not a master of long-distance dribbling breakthroughs, after he encountered Liverpool full-backs, the back of the press, he wanted to pass the ball to Milito in front of the penalty area, but after the ball was passed, it was immediately cut off by Skrtel.

Eto'o's speed advantage simply doesn't play out when Inter Milan lack open space to counter-attack, and Milito could have been a finisher or a fulcrum, but his role is difficult to play under Liverpool's multi-player defence.

Jose Mourinho told himself to calm down and that he would continue to watch for a while to see if Liverpool would stick to this style of play for a long time.

Koeman, on the other hand, stood on the sidelines and stood calm.

In the face of this final, his first consideration was not how to play to Liverpool's strengths.

It's about how to limit your opponents!

Don't look at Liverpool's momentum all the way, scoring goals like numbness, bombing the opponent indiscriminately, but in the final, plus the opponent is Mourinho, Coman will not take it lightly.

Inter Milan does not have the capital to fight against Liverpool, it is not that Inter Milan's attack is not strong enough, but Mourinho is too cautious, he should first think that once Inter Milan and Liverpool play against each other, can Inter Milan's defense withstand Liverpool's galloping counterattack?

Because of this, Inter Milan's tactical strategy of playing defensive counter-attacks is not difficult to predict at all, so Mourinho simply admitted it himself generously before, which will not be a secret at all, nor will it be full of mystery.

In order to contain Inter Milan's counterattack, the first is space, and the second is the number of defenders, and the combination of these two points led Coman to formulate a tactical strategy for this game.

In the middle of the game, Coman casually glanced at Mourinho and said: "I won't give you the chance to lead like six years ago!" (To be continued.) )