Hamburg are really fighting defensively and counter-attacking now.

Many of their players stayed in their own half, and Son Heung-min and Mohamed Salah, who had been swimming on the wings, have now retreated to wing-back.

Hamburg's formation now looks more like a 451, or rather a 4141.

Because Casemiro often retracted to the back line as a centre-back in the five midfield options, Hamburg sometimes played like a more defensive 541.

In front of the "back five", there are Paulinho and Kante, two players who can't run to the death, and you can imagine how difficult Atletico Madrid's advance will be.

This is Pan Yi's current style of play.

He just wants to disgust the team on the other side to prevent the rebellion.

Who doesn't know how to defend and counterattack?

Today Lao Tzu is going to defeat magic with magic!

Of course, that goal was also crucial.

With two balls in hand, Pan Yi no longer has to fight Atletico Madrid.

The consumption of physical energy is one thing, but the most important thing is to preserve vitality!

At the Calderón Stadium, too much physical contact with Atletico players is not a good thing.

Now that one De Bruyne has been injured, even if Hamburg's bench depth is thick enough, a few more injuries can't withstand it!

They have passed Atletico Madrid, and then there is the German Cup final and the more important Champions League final!

Hamburg, on the other hand, waited for Atletico to take the initiative, but Simeone was a little big.

Although Hamburg was also defensive at the beginning, it was still a balanced formation after all, and the two wingers did not close so behind.

In this case, Atletico's attack in the middle and on the wing can still play some coordination.

But now, Hamburg seems to have really set up a bus after the goal!

This makes the Atletico players a little uncomfortable.

You must know that most of Atletico Madrid's midfielders and wingbacks are sapper-type players.

Perhaps only Turkey's Alda Turan has better skills on his feet, but he is not at the level where he can break through thousands of troops.

In front of Hamburg's bus formation, Atletico Madrid's players had a very narrow space to move forward, and there were many mistakes in coordination.

They are dysfunctional in midfield, the ball is out of order, and even more disorderly up front.

And once the ball is picked up by Hamburg, either Casemiro, Van Dijk, or Rudiger, they all do not hesitate to directly make a long pass to Vardy in front of him to launch a counterattack, and basically will not let the ball stay on his feet for too long.

In this case, it is difficult for Atletico Madrid's frontcourt to limit Hamburg's backcourt, and at most it can only run over and interfere.

In addition, Diego Costa, who was originally very aggressive, is now carrying a yellow card, and he also knows that he has just escaped the punishment of the red card, so his kick is not so ruthless;

And Villa himself is not a fierce player, and continuous high-speed running and pressing is not his forte, and he is also 32 years old this year, not at the peak of his career, and his physical function is also declining;

Therefore, the weakness of Atletico Madrid's two forwards has also reduced the transmission pressure on Hamburg to a certain extent.

Of course, Hamburg is now pressed very far behind, and the encounter line is almost behind their own half, so most of the counterattacks launched from the back can only find Vardy.

As a result, Atletico's three centre-backs are actually very easy to defend against Vardy and Hamburg's counter-attack.

As a result, neither side actually created any threatening attacks, and the kicks and kicks were a bit stalemate.

……

For this situation, of course, Pan Yi is not in a hurry at all.

Hamburg now have a two-goal lead and an away goal in hand.

In other words, even if Atletico can score two goals to equalize the aggregate score, it will still be Hamburg who advance.

Of course, this also means that this game is not destined to go to extra time.

And now Atletico Madrid must score more than three goals if they want to reach the final!

This is obviously a difficult task.

A team that can score three goals in one game against Hamburg this season doesn't seem to exist yet?

Not to mention such an "atletic-oriented" Hamburg team.

So in the same situation, Simeone on the other side is of course getting more and more anxious.

He began to wave his hands from the sidelines, directing his team's offense while making adjustments to his 352.

Of course, this is not much of an adjustment to be exact, as this itself is a variant of 352 that will appear when attacking at full strength.

That is, in the positional battle against Hamburg, the 235 offensive formation can be quickly achieved by the forward insertion of the wing-backs and the forward insertion of the two strikers in the middle (Villa) and one of the midfielders (Turan and Gabi).

In this way, Atletico have five men who can directly enter the Hamburg penalty area and fight Hamburg's back four system through the ribs.

It's arguably the craziest mode of attack.

Because at this time, Atletico Madrid only had two central defenders left in the entire backfield, and even Alderweireld went to the midfield.

Simeone, of course, knew it would be risky, but he had no more options.

He has now lost the capital to fight against the counter, so he can only press it out!

Such a change of formation is obviously also effective.

Atletico Madrid's suppression of Hamburg is very good.

From 30 minutes onwards, Atletico took full control of the midfield and began to create plenty of chances on goal.

Hamburg, on the other hand, can only threaten Atletico's defence with a few sporadic long passes.

In the 32nd minute, Alda Turan started from the midfield, broke through in succession in the face of multiple defenders, and was finally destroyed in the penalty area.

In the 33rd minute, Felipe broke through on the left and then his cross was blocked by Van Dijk.

In the 34th minute, Cork went straight and Costa slid a low shot from the right side of the penalty area.

In the 36th minute, Hamburg's counter-attacking opportunity, Vardy attracted the defense and passed diagonally, but Son Heung-min volleyed away from inside the box.

In the 37th minute, Gabi distributed the ball to the left, and Villa adjusted and the push was cleared by Navas.

In the 38th minute, Raul Garcia forced a breakthrough on the right flank, shook off the angle and shot slightly higher.

In the 39th minute, Costa made the ball, Villa's shot in the box was blocked by Navas, and Koke missed the follow-up shot.

In the 40th minute, Atletico Madrid launched an attack with a cross from the right, and Costa turned and swept from close range and was saved by Navas.

There was constant danger in front of Hamburg, and Nagelsmann and Inzaghi were a little anxious, but Pan Yi still sat firmly in his seat, standing still.

Even the narrator, Zhan Jun, began to sweat for the burger.

"During this time, the game was very intense and the shots were constantly shooting. However, the vast majority of those shots belonged to Atletico, with Hamburg only having one shot high on the counter-attack. ”

"Atletico showed a very strong desire to win, and they put on a rare siege posture and put a lot of force into the Hamburg penalty area."

"Hamburg are defensively solid at the moment, but I'm a little worried that they won't be able to hold out for long under a fierce attack like Atletico's."

"Hamburg have a two-goal lead at the moment, but if it goes on like this......"

But Zhang Lu has a different view:

"Although it seems that Atletico have the advantage on the field and have some shots on goal, how do I think this is Pan Yi's intentional?"

"Don't look at Atletico's lively play, but Hamburg's defense is still very tight, and Atletico's shots are often relatively hasty, so the quality is not very high."

Hamburg's counter-attack, although easy to crack due to the lack of points in front, also seemed to paralyze the vigilance of the Atletico players. It's not the first time that Pan Yi has pretended to be a pig and eaten a tiger! ”

"Don't forget, just a week ago in the first leg, Pan Yi deliberately showed weakness in the match against Atletico Madrid, luring Simeone to make the decision to directly change three people and defeat him in one fell swoop."

"This time...... Hehe, it's hard to say whether Pan Yi will repeat his old tricks. After all, his formation is very flexible, as long as the two wingers press up, it will immediately form an attack formation of three forwards. ”

"Huh? You see, Pan Yi has stood up, and he is about to start directing the game! ”

……

At this time, 40 minutes had passed in the first half.

Pan Yi glanced at the chronograph slowly, then stood up and walked to the command area.

He's really going to fine-tune his play.

As Zhang Lu said, Pan Yi is ready to advance the positions of Sun Xingmin and Salah a little bit to enhance the strength of the front-court counterattack!

However, he made this decision not to "repeat the old trick", but to "make a temporary decision".

Because he saw that after these twenty minutes or so of onslaught, the running ability of the Atletico Madrid players has decreased to varying degrees.

In fact, Atletico Madrid could not grasp the shooting opportunities after creating them, and a large part of the reason was that the physical support was not enough.

Not having enough fitness means that you can't make the most important effective shot at the end after passing or stealing points.

This is also the reason why many people "pass like Messi and shoot Heskey".

And the final stages of the second half, which is 40-45 minutes, and 85-90 minutes, is when this happens the most.

But if at this stage, the team with better physical strength and stronger will will have more chances to score if they can make full use of it!

Pan Yi also saw this opportunity.

Because the players of Hamburg have maintained a stable formation under the stubborn defense, and the distance between them has been maintained very well, and they have not consumed much energy at all.

So now, at least physically, hamburgers have an absolute advantage!

It would be great to hold on to a two-goal lead, but wouldn't it be perfect if we could score one more goal against them?

As a result, Son Heung-min and Salah no longer stood in the wing-back position, but mentioned the initial winger position.

They will still drop back on the flanks to press Atletico's wing-backs, but when Hamburg have the ball at the back, they will also be more active in plugging in to target the natural lethal space behind Atletico's wing-backs!

Along with this are Hamburg's midfielders.

On the left, N'Golo Kante's partner Son Heung-min attacked Atletico's left flank, supplemented by Paulinho and Mohamed Salah on the right, targeting the possible openings in the middle of the opposition back three.

And such a change of formation is also accompanied by a sudden change in rhythm, which makes Atletico Madrid, who was still immersed in the attack, suddenly feel that something is wrong.

But they couldn't keep up with the rhythm in time.

First, Salah tried to cut inside, and after being blocked by the opposition central defender in time, Salah immediately passed the ball back to Paulinho.

On Atletico Madrid's side, Gabi and Koke ran over as soon as possible, wanting to form a bag against Paulinho together.

After the Brazilian midfielder stopped, he glanced at Jamie Vardy in front of him, then at the left, and suddenly picked up the ball with his left foot and straight behind Godin, on the edge of the left corner of the box.

I saw a white figure quickly cut in from behind Godin, and after stopping Paulinho's pick pass to the front, the whole person did not slow down, and wanted to rush directly into the big penalty area.

It's Sun Xingmin!

He didn't know when he had already come up from the midfield position, the speed was really too fast!

For a while, the entire Calderón Stadium once again lost its voice and exclaimed.

If Sun Xingmin shoots, Atletico Madrid's goal will be in danger again!

But at this critical moment, Alderweireld, who had been desperately chasing back, came out from the side, and the whole person collided with Son Heung-min from the side and back, directly knocking the South Korean striker away and falling in the big penalty area.

Alderweireld immediately raised his hands in the air to signal that he was innocent, but the referee immediately blew the whistle and showed him a yellow card.

Will it be a penalty?

Alderweireld's foul seems to be in the box!

Then, the referee's arm is raised at an angle of 45 degrees, which indicates ......

It's a free kick!

It's not a penalty!

Suddenly, there was a soft cry at Calderón Stadium, highlighting a blessing.

But the away stands were not satisfied.

They let out shrill boos and expressed their displeasure with the referee's decision.

In their opinion, it was a 100 per cent penalty!

'The referee thought it was a foul on the line of the box, so it was only a free-kick, not a penalty.

"Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay ......"

"We can see that Son Heung-min's sudden forward insertion made Atletico Madrid's defenders a little too late to react. And Alderweireld, who was chasing back, had no choice but to bump into it. ”

He didn't have any chance to touch the ball at all, and threw his arm in Son Heung-min's face...... So it's a foul without a doubt. So, where exactly is the foul place? ”

"Look at where the two are in contact...... Ah, it's really in the restricted area. It should be a penalty! The referee made another misjudgment! ”

"Then again, even if this goal is not a penalty, but Alderweireld is the last defender, Son Heung-min is about to face the goalkeeper and is knocked down, shouldn't Alderweireld be shown a red card?"

Once again, the referee showed mercy. If you count Diego Costa's malicious foul on De Bruyne, Atletico should have received two red cards, and now they can only play with nine! ”

"Maybe the referee is trying to keep the game from losing suspense early. But such a penalty begs the question, is this home advantage? ”

……

On the field, Son Heung-min was still lying on the grass with his face covered, and the team doctor from Hamburg entered again.

Soon, the team doctor made a substitution gesture in the direction of the away team's bench.

"I'm grass! Hurt again? Pan Yi's eyes widened.

I'm really afraid of something.

Atletico Madrid, where is playing football, this is killing football!

Although Pan Yi's adjustment immediately paid off, Sun Xingmin's left side directly created a great threat, but this kind of "consumables" style of play is really difficult to top.

But now there is no choice but to replace.

When Pan Yi passed by carrying Sun Xingmin's stretcher, he glanced at it, and Sun Qiuwang's face was swollen so much, he really couldn't kick it.

Pan Yi thought about it for a while, but made a somewhat unexpected decision.

He didn't let Wu Lei play and make a counterpoint substitution.

Instead, let Calhanoglu go up to replace Sun Xingmin, and Cha Qiu Wang replaced Sun Qiu Wang!

Pan Yi doesn't want to consume too many players anymore.

Score fewer penalties, score less, just the lead of these two goals, that's enough!

And even if there is consumption......

Qiaqiu Wang Ling barely topped this place, Wu Lei, I still have to keep it!

……

When Calhanoglu came on the pitch, he naturally stood in front of the ball.

Although he was a substitute, he was Hamburg's first penalty taker for free-kicks.

Normally De Bruyne, Mohamed Salah and others would come to take free-kicks, but if Calhanoglu was there, he would usually be in charge.

In all fairness, at the beginning of Calhanoglu's career, his free-kick kung fu was indeed superb, and all kinds of banana balls and elevator balls could be kicked, so his teammates were still very convinced.

This is also the origin of his title of "King of Chess".

The people who can be called the "king of the ball" by the fans, except for those really strong players such as Pele and Maradona, often mean that this player has a more outstanding skill.

For example, the king of the ball who is good at free kicks, the king of Sun who can run long distances, and the king of three goals who can break through on the side......

Of course, there are also many people vying for the only ball king in London......

It's just that the position of the free kick today is a little too close to the goal.

Yes, too close.

Don't assume that the closer a free kick is to goal, the better.

When a player takes a free kick, he needs to kick an arc around the wall, and then fall down and smash into the goal.

And if the penalty spot is too close to the goal, it will cause the ball to arc up, and it is likely to fall out of the bottom line before it has time to fall.

This is especially true for players like Calhanoglu who are more adept at playing long-range lift balls.

So, at this time, in addition to Calhanoglu, Salah and Paulinho also walked over to the penalty spot.

The free-kick was on the left side of the box and Salah was left-footed, and if he were to take it, it would be to kick a perimeter ball to get the high post in the box for a header.

And if Paulinho comes to take the penalty, it may be a low burst of shots, trying to see if he can break through Atletico's human wall.

At this point, the three players approached and covered their mouths, as if discussing something.

And the die-hard Atletico Madrid fans in the stands behind the goal suddenly made a deafening noise, wanting to affect the main penalty of the free kick.

However, the Hamburg players were clearly unaffected, and after discussion, Salah and Paulinho stood between the ball and the Atletico wall, while Calhanoglu took two steps back.

At this point, the referee seemed to be a little impatient, and blew a crisp whistle heavily.

At the whistle, Salah nudged the ball towards Calhanoglu and Paulinho stepped forward to secure it on the grass.

In this way, they artificially pushed the free-kick back a metre or two, which also reached Calhanoglu's curling range!

The Atletico players also saw the intention of Hamburg's free-kick tactic, and Costa and Felipe in the wall rushed towards Calhanoglu to block his shot.

But by this time, the king of the ball had already finished running.

He seemed to be pouring all the energy of his body into his feet, and he directly pulled out a furious shot!

It's not a curveball!

However, due to the dispersal of Atletico's human wall, this angry shot also happened to penetrate the past and flew towards Atletico Madrid's goal with lightning speed.

That's really fast!

Courtois reacted quickly, but his vision was somewhat blocked by his own human wall, and when he reached out, he only felt his fingers touch the skin of the ball, but he was powerless to change the direction of the ball.

"The ball went in !!!!!"

"In the 45th minute, the last minute of the first half, Hamburg scored again!"

"Now the score is 0:2, Hamburg is already two goals ahead of the road!"

'Calhanoglu had just come off the bench with his first touch of the ball and scored with a beautiful powerful free-kick!

"It's a bit of a dramatic scene. A dangerous foul by Atletico sent Son off injured, Alderweireld escaped a red card, but Atletico were once again breached. ”

"The same goes for the first goal in Hamburg. A foul by Diego Costa sent De Bruyne off injured, but Hamburg soon found the back of the net with an attack...... Should this be said to be lucky or unfortunate for Atletico? ”

"But no matter what, Hamburg have taken a three-goal lead on aggregate!"

"With away goals, it means Atletico have to score four goals in today's game to get ahead of Hamburg!"

"But it's only half time now! Judging from the performance in the first half, Atletico Madrid actually didn't have a good way to take Hamburg. ”

"I must say that Hamburg has one foot on the Stadium of Light and has stepped into the stage of this season's Champions League final! ……”

After the goal and passionate celebration, the referee also blew the whistle for the end of the first half.

And Pan Yi is actually a little blind.

And just another goal?

He still thinks he'll just win by two goals!

Okay, just reluctantly accept this fact, three goals are three goals!

Who let Atletico Madrid kick so fiercely, even the two big players of Hamburg, win a few more goals against him, and it is also appropriate to export birdishness!

Then, waiting for the deployment at halftime, Pan Yi also knows it.

And that's—

Keep guarding, in case he cries!

(End of chapter)