Chapter 291: Rapid Transfer

Simeone's tactic was to use high pressing to disrupt Dortmund's attack, which was useful against teams who were good at passing and possessing. For example, Atletico Madrid's 1-0 win over Barcelona in the previous game fully proved this.

But Simeone never imagined that the high pressing did not help Atletico Madrid curb Dortmund's attack, but gave Dortmund the opportunity to attack......

Atletico Madrid pressed in front of the court and continued to invest in troops, but the number of people who could play was fixed, only 11 people, and 10 people who could move freely away from the goal.

There are more troops invested in the front court, and the number of people invested in the back field is naturally smaller, and the area of the court is so large that it is impossible to take care of every area, and there will always be some vacancy.

At this time, if Dortmund has another person who is good at catching empty positions, it is inevitable that the alarm will continue to sound behind the Atletico Madrid backline.

After Dortmund stole the ball from Atletico Madrid this time, they quickly launched an attack aimed at the Atletico Madrid goal.

They didn't go back and forth at the back, looking for opportunities.

The opportunity has arisen, and now it's time to see if we can seize it. At this time, the competition is not about patience, but about speed and precision.

Zhou Yi didn't stop the ball, and passed the ball directly, and it was Reuss who retreated to catch the ball.

Dortmund's tactics in this game are fast passing, requiring speed and precision of passing, and under such requirements, it is unlikely that long balls will fly all over the sky, and more often the team will use short passes to advance.

In order to ensure the speed and accuracy of the pass, the distance between the players and the players naturally cannot be too far, and the distance increases, the accuracy of the pass plummets, and no matter how good the passer is, he can't get rid of this rule.

Therefore, this requires Dortmund's players to keep a close distance, and the formation should be contracted with Zhou Yi as the center. Everybody has to keep running, the striker can't stay in front and not come back, and the defender can't stop pressing.

Several lines need to be in contact at all times so that Dortmund's quick passing can be played.

This tactic is physically demanding on the players.

Even Borussia Dortmund, who are known for their good fitness, struggled to last a full game, let alone at the end of the season, when the players were already running out of fitness.

All early goals are important.

Only by scoring early and turning the advantage into a win can the pressure be taken off the team that follows.

The sooner the goals come, the better, and the more goals the better.

Atletico Madrid beat Barcelona with the first 20 minutes of the three-board axe completely stunned Barcelona, and now Dortmund also has a three-board axe waiting for Atletico Madrid.

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After receiving the ball, because he was facing away from the attack, he took the ball and turned around, which was a waste of time and a risk of being cut off. So Reuss passed the ball straight back to full-back Piszczek.

That's why everybody is asked to run aggressively, strikers drop back, defenders press forward, and that's the only way to make connections.

Piszczek received a pass from Reuss and quickly moved to the middle for Sven Bender.

Sven Bender sent the football out for the first time and gave it to Zhou Yi.

All Dortmund players try to adjust the ball as little as possible, trying to only touch the ball twice, once to stop the ball and once to pass the ball.

This is the focus of the three-day training session. Jurgen Klopp demanded that the players have to do it, and if they don't, they will be punished.

Under this kind of devilish training, Dortmund's players have improved their passing accuracy and time a lot.

In fact, the outside world is right, how can it be possible to practice any "secret weapon" in three days......

But the premise of this speculation is that this secret weapon was created out of nothing.

But the Dortmund players are no strangers to this "secret weapon", this set of fast passing and cutting play, since the team has a small black house "Footbonaut", Dortmund players have begun to try to play this kind of football in the game.

Earlier, Zhou Yi, Mark Wagner and Gotze had already begun to use quick passes between the three to tear apart the opponent's defense when they were in Dortmund's youth team, helping Dortmund youth team win the youth championship.

So this set of tactics is not strictly speaking a "secret weapon", and Dortmund has not played it before, everyone knows it.

It's just that at this time, many people can't think of this, and it only exists in people's blind spots, which is a "secret weapon" in this sense.

Simeone never imagined that Dortmund would use such a set of tactics against him......

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The other Dortmund players will more or less stop the ball before passing the ball, and being able to touch the ball twice is enough to meet Klopp's requirements.

But Zhou Yi's standard is different, he doesn't stop the ball, he passes the ball directly!

In the face of the football passed by Sven Bender, Zhou Yi turned his back to the direction of the attack, but sent the football behind him with the outside instep of his right foot and gave it to Yan Min, who was close to the middle.

Then Zhou Yi turned around and ran forward.

After entering the midfield area, the person who was watching him close was replaced by Gabi.

But Gabi didn't touch the football at all, he watched Zhou Yi turn his back, and he was quite happy, feeling that Zhou Yi took the initiative to turn his back to the direction of the attack, which was convenient for him to keep an eye on the defense.

Who thought that although Zhou Yi had his back to the offensive direction, he could still pass the football forward, and at the same time, he blocked himself in front of Gabi and protected the football very well.

Gabi saw Zhou Yi turn around, and he also turned around and continued to defend Zhou Yi. This is the task given to him by Simeone, and he must complete it well.

Yan Min passed the football diagonally and then to Zhou Yi, who was inserted in front.

Gabi was still by Zhou Yi's side and followed him.

Zhou Yi did not stop the ball during the run, but used the outside instep of his right foot to move the football to the right and gave it to the adducted Royce.

After passing the ball, he did not stop running, but continued to run forward, and at the same time made a gesture to ask Royce to pass the football to him, which was obviously a collision with the wall.

Royce certainly got the football back very quickly.

Zhou Yi had advanced to the 30-meter area of Atletico Madrid at this time, and the defender of him was not only Gabi, but also Atletico Madrid's central defender Godin.

He would have been on his own defensive line. Seeing that Zhou Yi had killed all the way to him, of course he couldn't turn a blind eye, so when Royce passed the football to Zhou Yi, he also pounced on Zhou Yi, intending to defend with Gabi and the two of them, so that Dortmund's attack would end here.

Zhou Yi adjusted his pace during the run, faced the rolling football, picked up his right foot, and made a move to shoot.

Godin immediately raised his feet and turned around, intending to block Zhou Yi's shot with his body.

Lifting your feet is to increase the defensive area, and turning is to protect your body instinct - if you don't turn around, it will be uncomfortable if you let the ball hit the face or crotch......

Football rolls over, Zhou Yi picks his feet!

But he didn't hit the football!

Is it a kick?!

No, it was a deliberate leak!

Zhou Yi waited for the football to pass in front of him before picking it up......

He let go of the ball, but the speed of the ball did not slow down, and it passed straight to Zhou Yi's left front.

There, Aubameyang stepped forward and received the ball!

Due to Zhou Yi's series of passing cooperation with Yan Min and Reus, as well as the momentum of the middle rush, it attracted the attention of most of the players in Atletico Madrid.

So when Aubameyang got the ball, they reacted - it turned out that Dortmund's killer move was here!

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had already found himself in the Atletico Madrid penalty area when he got the ball.

He has an excellent shot on goal now!

Aubameyang didn't hesitate and shot straight at goal!

Juanfran rushed up to stop Aubameyang's shot, but his foot was already out and touched the ball.

However, the ball did not change its line and flew out of the goal area, but changed direction slightly and flew to the near bottom corner of the goal!

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's shot was headed for the far corner, and Courtois did the same, but who would have thought that Juanfran would extend such a kick......

The football changed direction and Courtois could no longer do anything but watch the ball graze the near post and roll into the goal!

"The ball is in, the ball is in!!Wow! Dortmund took a one-goal lead just three minutes into the game! Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's shot! Borussia Dortmund got off to a perfect start!" Marcel Leif shouted excitedly.

The West** Stadium was noisy from the start of the game, and now it has reached a peak.