Chapter 535: A Contest Between Old and New Madmen

After the goal, Gao Yuan immediately made tactical and personnel adjustments.

Dzeko, who replaced the goal, was replaced by Wang Zi.

This is not a simple personnel change, it means that the whole tactical style of play has changed.

This means that Maritimo is no longer attacking strongly, but strategically defending and counter-attacking, tactically focusing on possession.

Defensive counter-attacking and possession play seem to be a pair of contradictions, but in fact, they are not contradictory when they are actually implemented. Just like strategically despising the opponent and tactically valuing the opponent, what seems to be a contradiction is actually unified.

The key is that you have to have players who are suitable for this style of play.

And Maritimo has it.

The current Maritimo is a strikerless formation, with Wang Zi and Cristiano Ronaldo alternately appearing in the forward and forward positions. Sometimes there are even six people in the midfield, and everyone has the ability to pass and control, and of course they can turn the ball upside down.

This passing is based on defense and is aimed at scoring goals, which is very different from some teams passing for the sake of passing.

After Maritimo changed his style of play, Real Madrid was even more uncomfortable.

Because the current situation requires them to press out and attack, but once they attack, the weakness of the defense line will be exposed.

And Maritimo's defensive counterattack is to punch the opponent's soft underbelly.

If you don't attack it, you are waiting for death, and if you attack it, you are looking for death, how to choose? The time has come to test Zidane again.

Qi Zu on the sidelines had a grim face, he didn't understand, how could he get into this situation again! And this time he has no great saint Bell to savior!

As a last resort, with the mentality of a dead horse being a live horse doctor, Zidane replaced the inactive Vinicius and replaced him with the "fatty" Hazard, who repeatedly broke his heart.

By the way, the metaphysics that has saved itself countless times is expected to be powerful again.

However, the reason why metaphysics is metaphysics is because it is not effective from time to time, and if it works every time, then it is not metaphysics, but science.

Metaphysics doesn't necessarily work every time, but fat is sad every time.

Eden Hazard, who has been absent from the team for a long time, is in very poor physical condition due to not playing for a long time, let alone creating a threat, and it is difficult to even dribble the ball that he was best at before.

Seeing that Hazard conceded a few goals, Zidane regretted it, it is better to keep Vinicius, at least young and able to run!

But there is no regret medicine in the world, and Zidane can only scratch his bald head with sorrow.

With this happening, Maritimo is playing more relaxed.

In the 84th minute, Maritimo hit back.

Antonio again caught Eden Hazard one-on-one, cutting the ball off at his feet before handing it to the defender Joao.

Joao passed to Zhou Yong, Zhou Yong passed to Jora, and Jorah made it to Ronaldo...... After the middle and long men fell 17 or 8 feet, the ball came to the front of the big penalty area.

Liu Yun passed diagonally to Wang Zi at the front of the penalty area, seeing the ball at his feet, Wang Zi did not receive the ball, but slammed it forward.

The ball was also missed.

Casemiro, who was keeping an eye on Wang Zi, was stunned for a moment and didn't react to what was going on, but soon he found that the ball had leaked to the feet of Ronaldo not far away.

He was in a hurry, his brain was hot, he forgot the basic principle of "watching the ball and not looking at people", and rushed to J Ronaldo.

He's out of place!

Before Casemiro could rush in front of him, Ronaldo flicked his ankle and the ball hit him behind him.

There, Wang Zi had already plunged into Real Madrid's penalty area like a sharp knife.

People to the ball! Wang Zi didn't stop the ball, and shot directly with his left foot!

With so close to the goal and so resolute in his play, Courtois didn't have any chances but to watch the ball graze his side and fly into the net!

2:0!

This wonderful goal completely killed the suspense of the game and sealed the victory!

Portuguese Super League upstart Maritimo overturned the old giant, the Galaxy Battleship Real Madrid, at his home stadium!

Shortly after the second goal, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

The game is over!

Maritimo's temporary home stadium, Estadio Reavis, has been transformed into a sea of joy!

Although this is the home of the city's rivals, at this moment, everyone is Portuguese! We are all proud of the achievements of the Portuguese team in Europe!

Maritimo ended the group stage with a beautiful victory!

In the other Champions League group game played at the same time, Red Bull Salzburg was no longer in form and was defeated by Schalke 041-0.

Schalke 04 also avoided the embarrassment of losing the group.

At this point, the group stage of this season's Champions League is over.

Maritimo won 5 and drew 1, proud of the whole group with an unbeaten record, scoring 15 goals and conceding only 3 goals!

Real Madrid finished second in the group with 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat, scoring 9 goals and conceding 6 goals, 4 of which were due to Maritimo.

Red Bull Salzburg, who lost the chain in the final stage, barely ranked third, with 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses, scoring 5 goals and conceding 10 goals.

They were originally expected to become the biggest dark horse in the Champions League this season, but because they were demoralized by Maritimo, they collapsed and could only go to the Europa League to continue their dark horse dream!

Acting as the vice-squad leader is Schalke 04, 1 win, 5 losses, scored 4 goals and conceded 14 goals.

It's not that they're too vegetable, it's just that the opponents in the group are too tough!

Just like the Chinese team in 2002, everyone only remembers that they didn't score a goal and swallowed 9 eggs, but don't forget that their group stage opponent was the champion Brazil, the big dark horse of that World Cup, Turkey! That year, the runner-up of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, Costa Rica!

To paraphrase a classic line from the movie: It's not that the national army is incompetent, it's really that the G army is too cunning!

But the other party has a Gundam!

The day after the Champions League group stage was over, UEFA held a draw for the round of 16.

Maritimo's opponent is Tottenham Hotspur, who are second in Group C!

As soon as this sign came out, the media exploded!

Conspiracy theorists have speculated that UEFA has engaged in a dark operation for the sake of ratings and creating topics!

It's not that Maritimo and Tottenham Hotspur are attractive, it's their managers: Gao Yuan and Jose Mourinho!

Both are highly topical and controversial star coaches!

And the two have N more things in common:

Neither was born as a star player, and although Mourinho played in several small teams in the lower leagues, he did not play well, and retired at the age of 24; And Gao Yuan has never played a day in his profession.

Although both of them are halfway home, their grades are exceptionally brilliant.

Both of them have made a name for themselves in the Portuguese Super League, with Mu Niao leading Porto to the Champions League and has been out of control ever since, and Gao Yuan seems to be making great strides in the footsteps of his predecessors.

Both of them have very distinctive personalities, and they both like to scare the sky and the air!

Both of them put a lot of emphasis on tactical discipline, saying the same thing in the team, what is right, the players have to execute, what is not right, you have to treat it as right, to execute!

Both are believers in counter-attacking and both love to study tactics

Both are linguistic geniuses and are proficient in multiple Chinese

……

The two have so much in common that many media like to refer to Gao Yuan as the "new Mourinho".

However, Gao Yuan is not interested in such a title, what "New Mourinho" and "New Klopp", Lao Tzu is Gao Yuan, the first Gao Yuan in the world!

However, no matter what Gao Yuan thinks, the outside world is still very excited about the contest between the "new and old madmen"!

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