Chapter 243: Breaking the Demons
The fifteen-minute intermission passed in a heated discussion and praise for Zhou Yi. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The players from both sides reappeared on the pitch, still with the same personnel as in the first half, with no substitutions.
There were also no tactical adjustments.
There is no team that has to play a defensive counterattack in the second half because the opponent played offensive football in the first half.
It's still an attack.
Unreserved attack.
Borussia Dortmund's manager Jurgen Klopp is a manager of great character and it is no surprise that he would make such an arrangement.
But Heynckes is clearly an old and serious manager, why does he also act like a passionate young man?
For Heynckes, he coached Bayern Munich for two seasons and was entangled with Borussia Dortmund for two seasons.
In these two seasons, he tried everything he could to beat Dortmund and experimented with a lot tactically.
After so much experimentation, no tactics are effective.
So before the Champions League final, it is almost impossible to come up with any surprise tactics to attack the unprepared.
In that case, why bother with tactical adjustments?
Just attack Dortmund, put aside so many intrigues and tricks, and see who has sharper and more ferocious offensive firepower.
This approach is also very much in line with the appetite of the Bayern Munich players -- we are Bayern Munich, and we have to face the sworn enemy Dortmund head-on! Only by winning the other party can we convince the other party!
In the first half, the two sides played lively, and there were frequent alarms at the back.
Heynckes turned a blind eye to this and continued to ask the players to step up their attack in the second half and keep pressing Dortmund. He told his players to believe in themselves, in terms of offensive firepower, they will definitely not lose to Dortmund, or even stronger than Dortmund!
These words greatly boosted the morale and confidence of the whole team of Bayern Munich.
So at the beginning of the second half, Bayern Munich used their powerful attacking firepower to slowly gain the upper hand.
In the 55th minute, Bayern Munich won a corner.
After Robben kicked the corner, Xavi Martinez nodded the ball in front and Mandzukic followed closely behind to nod the goal!
But perhaps Martinez's header back didn't surprise Mandzukic that the ball didn't have the power to go up and was easily held by Weidenfeller.
Just a minute later, Bayern Munich made a comeback.
First it was Borussia Dortmund who launched an attack, but were disrupted by the opposition in front of the 30-metre area of Bayern Munich, and the ball fell to the centre circle for Robben to pick up.
"Peter Pan" dribbled forward, and the Dortmund players were very afraid of Robben's speed and did not dare to rush up to grab it, for fear that Robben would be pierced by a ball.
So although Dortmund has five people in the backline, no one dares to come up to grab Robben's ball, so they can only follow the retreat, retreat, hoping to compress Robben's sprint space, and when there is no space behind them for Robben to play the speed advantage, the threat of this attack will be minimized.
But Arjen Robben wasn't stupid either, and he couldn't just dribble the ball all the way to the black – although he did play that way most of the time, but this was the Champions League final he had to redeem himself, and it always had to change a little.
So when he first entered the 30-metre zone at Dortmund, he gave the ball to Franck Franck Ribery, who picked him up on the wing.
After Ribery got the ball, he immediately became the focus of Dortmund's defense.
He didn't pass the ball out right away, but took the ball to the baseline, and it seemed that he was going to break through directly on the side.
It certainly caught the attention of the Dortmund defenders.
Piszczek kept the inside line tight and didn't let Ribery break through.
And after Ribery was about to go to the bottom, he suddenly made a sudden stop and changed direction, and he killed horizontally in the middle!
This action completely attracted the attention of the Dortmund defense, and immediately the Dortmund defenders rushed towards Ribery.
Piszczek, Subotic and Hummels all rushed up and blocked Ribery!
At this time, all eyes were on Ribery, completely ignoring the others.
But Ribery didn't, and after a lateral dribble, he suddenly pushed the ball out with his right foot, not to the middle, but to the penalty area, behind the Dortmund backline!
There's also a vacancy there!
Robben smashed into the box like a red lightning bolt and received the ball!
Piszczek looked back to see Robben receiving the ball and raising his arm to signal that the Dutchman was offside.
But referee Rizzoli ignored it, because he could see clearly that Robben's goal was never offside!
"It's a good shot! Bayern Munich's chance!!"
Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Weidenfeller dropped the ball before Robben could receive the ball.
He knew there was room for salvage.
Robben is now on the side of the goal, he can't shoot directly, he must have to adjust, and he can take advantage of his adjustment to force him to the bottom line and make him lose the angle of the shot...... As long as Robben can't shoot on goal, the defense will be a success.
Everyone knows that Robben is very unique, when he gets the ball in front of goal, he almost doesn't want him to pass the ball, he must end the attack with a shot, cheer when he scores, and sigh when he doesn't score.
In fact, Weidenfeller's defensive strategy was almost successful.
Robben really couldn't shoot directly after receiving the ball, Weidenfeller had already pressed to his side, and if he forced his shot now, there was a good chance that he would hit Weidenfeller's body for the third time, and then waste a great one-on-one chance.
So instead of shooting, Robben slid the ball diagonally towards the baseline, and Weidenfeller followed closely and continued to block his shot angle.
Seeing that Robben chose to play the ball to the baseline, Marcel Leif exclaimed in disappointment: "No shot!"
He Ping also felt that Robben's choice was debatable: "Bring more!"
Seeing that football is about to be taken out of the bottom line by Robben, Weidenfeller has the chance to win!
I saw Robben step up with an arrow, and then before the football went out of the bottom line, he half-turned and kicked the football with his left foot in front of the goal!
Not a shot, but a ...... Cross!
At this moment, Robben, who has been cutting inside on the right side, seems to have become the flying left winger at Chelsea again!
Weidenfeller saw that Robben was a cross, and hurriedly stretched out his leg to block.
But he couldn't make it, and the football passed him by, rolling past him and into the open ground in front of the goal!
Sven Bender, who had returned to goal, watched the ball fly by, forced the brakes as he retreated, and then reached out with his foot to kick the ball out.
But the backward body prevented him from touching the football......
All he could do was watch as the ball slid past his feet and flew straight to the back of goal!
There, it's Bayern Munich center Mandzukic who came up!
To be honest, the Croatian centre-forward wasn't in a very good position, he was too close to the football, and there was little space and distance to shoot.
But Mandzukic knows that he doesn't need to play at this time, he just needs to be able to play football!
He leaned sideways and swept sideways with his left foot!
He swept the football!
The ball was swept out of a parabola and flew into the Borussia Dortmund goal......
Dortmund, who had the advantage in the first half, was actually scored first by Bayern Munich!
Seeing this scene, many people have such a sentence in their minds: wasting an opportunity is really going to be retributed!
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"Mario Mandzukic!! "Marcel Leif didn't have that many ideas, and when he saw the football fly into the goal, he jumped up from the commentary box, raised his arms and shouted. "Bayern Munich took the lead! In the 56th minute, the deadlock was broken!"
The entire Wembley Stadium was filled with the cheers of Bayern Munich fans.
After the goal, Mandzukic ran to the billboard behind the goal, clasped his hands behind his ears and made a listening gesture of celebration.
Because of the change of sides in the second half, Bayern Munich attacked towards the stands where their fans were, and behind Dortmund's goal was the stands where Bayern Munich fans gathered, where he could hear the cheers of Bayern fans directly.
When he ran to the advertisement and ran for money, he excitedly pulled the Bayern Munich emblem on his chest, and then slapped his heart hard.
Other excited Bayern Munich players rushed up to celebrate the goal with him and the Bayern Munich fans in the stands.
The televised broadcast began to replay Mandzukic's goal.
Although the ball was scored by Mandzukic, the most important contributor to this goal was indeed Robben, who launched an attack with the ball in the center circle, it was he who squeezed forward to receive the ball behind the Dortmund backline, or he lured goalkeeper Weidenfeller out and sent the ball to Mandzukic with an accurate cross, giving him the opportunity to hit the empty goal.
Robben, who didn't pass the ball before and had to shoot no matter what, delivered such a high-quality assist.
It's amazing.
At this time, many people remembered that when Robben was famous at Chelsea, he played as a left winger!
Creating a killing machine on the left side was originally his job.
But later in Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, since he practiced a trick of breaking in on the right side and then cutting in, and dribbling horizontally to shoot, everyone no longer saw his performance on the left side, only that he was a scorer who hit the right side with his left foot and cut inside on the right side.
And in this final, he suddenly came to the left side, returned to his old job, and was willing to make a wedding dress for his teammates.
I can't help but feel emotional......
The defeat of two Champions League finals and one World Cup final left him with endless pain and a demon.
And today, he has challenged his inner demon, and he wants to defeat it!