Schmidt made the decision to remove midfield commander Calhanoglu and bring Rolfes off the bench while switching to the 4411 formation.

Schmidt's purpose is to turn the midfield into a meat grinder, since he can't attack the opponent's penalty area, then the opponent doesn't want to easily hit his backfield.

Anyway, it is Bayer Leverkusen who have the advantage of away goals.

After Rolfes came on the field, the battle for midfield turned directly into hand-to-hand combat, making the scene more intense than exciting.

Schmidt's move is like flipping the table, that is, no one wants to play well.

Of course, Schmidt's ability to use this move is also related to his usual style of play.

Since Schmidt took over, Bayer Leverkusen have become a crazy team in the Bundesliga, with all kinds of pressing, all kinds of fouls, making it difficult for those teams with technical flow to feel uncomfortable.

In the end, the two sides drew 1-1.

Bayer Leverkusen, who have the advantage of away goals, are the more favourites to reach the final.

In the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Bayer Leverkusen received a not-so-bad result, while Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich was different.

The next day, at the Camp Nou, it was Lionel Messi who scored twice, and then Neymar added the icing on the cake at the end of the game, as Bayern lost 3-0.

Pep Guardiola transformed Bayern, which once beat their opponents by seven goals, into a gift package that allowed their opponents to rub on the ground.

There are angry fans shouting: Gua Niangniang get out of Bayern.

Knowing that Bayern lost to Barcelona, Jose secretly screamed in his heart.

With the current Bayer Leverkusen squad, if they advance to the final, the ideal opponent is still Bayern, not Barcelona.

"Hey, it's useless to think too much." José shook his head and continued to fight.

In addition to potential opponents, Bayer Leverkusen also ushered in bad news, Papadopoulos suffered a thigh strain, and there is a high probability of season reimbursement.

And Sparšić's injury is undecided, and it is still uncertain whether he can return in time.

The injury of the two central defenders made Schmidt's next line-up a little difficult.

Just when Schmidt was suffering from injuries, the 32nd round of the Bundesliga continued.

In this round, Bayer Leverkusen will face Borussia Mönchengladbach away.

This season, Borussia Mönchen has performed well against strong teams, they are unbeaten against Bayern with one win and one draw, and they also have wins and losses with Wolfsburg and Dort.

In the first leg against Bayer Leverkusen, if Jose hadn't played well, they would have had a chance to walk away with three points.

So, it's definitely a game no less than against Bayern.

The starting lists of both sides were announced early.

For Bayer Leverkusen, Yedwai partnered with Toprak in central defence, Rolfes and Russ Bender in midfield, and other positions remained the same.

For Borussia Mönchenchen, Hazard's younger brother Solgen Hazard was on the bench and he was replaced by Rafael.

Bayer Leverkusen played extremely aggressively after the start of the game, as only two more wins would allow Bayer Leverkusen to win the league title one round earlier.

It's a pity that although the Leverkusen team is on the offensive, the final blow is really unsatisfactory.

In the first half, there were 7 shots in a row, but none of them hit the goal.

On the contrary, Borussia Mönchenchen, who had only four shots on goal in the first half, three of which were in the goal.

It's just that Jose predicted the opponent's shot in advance and easily confiscated it.

In the second half, Hilbert was substituted due to injury, and Donati came on as a substitute.

In the 50th minute, Borussia Mönchen had a good chance to score.

Xhaka burst into the right side of the penalty area, shook off Donati's interception and crossed in front of goal.

From five yards out, Kreuzer scrambled to get to the ball.

The ball immediately rolled towards the bottom right of the goal.

The shot was too close and the ball wasn't slow, and under normal circumstances, it would have been a perfect goal.

Jose knew in his heart that if he didn't rely on the plug-in, he would have less than a 30% chance of saving this shot.

Without any hesitation, Jose used the first "timeout" of the game.

Jose held the door for Bayer Leverkusen for the time being.

In the 81st minute, Borussia Mönchen had another good chance.

On the edge of the box, Kramer suddenly got up and shot hard.

The ball flew towards the bottom right corner of the goal at a breakneck speed.

Faced with Kramer's low flat shot, Jose could only fly with all his strength to intercept.

Right on the goal line, Jose kept out Kramer's powerful shot.

However, something that left people speechless happened.

The ball was blocked, first touching Yedwai's calf, and then rolling towards the left side of the penalty area.

In the confusion, Herman grabbed the ball.

Faced with an empty goal from close range, Herman calmly slotted into the bottom left corner.

At this point, José got up from the ground, and it was absolutely impossible for him to get to the left to make a save.

And just like that, the ball went in.

Borussia Mönchen leads 1-0.

After the score was behind, Schmidt was in a hurry, and immediately waved his hand and pressed all the players.

It's a pity that it can't threaten the opponent's goal at all, but allows the opponent to play a quick counterattack many times.

In the 88th minute, Borussia Mönchen almost extended the score.

Substitute Traore suddenly got up on his feet on the edge of the box.

The ball sped towards the top right of the goal.

Hit high?

No, it's a perfectly perfect ball of the full moon scimitar.

If Jose hadn't mastered the Moon Scimitar technique, he would probably have treated the opponent's kick as a miss.

Judging the approximate location of the ball, Jose flew and pounced.

In front of goal, he lifted the ball off the line with one hand.

Prevents the opponent from expanding the score.

Unfortunately, Bayer Leverkusen were unable to score until the end of the game.

In the end, they lost the game 0-1.

Bayer Leverkusen's unbeaten season hopes have been dashed.

At the same time, because Bayern defeated Augsburg 1-0, Bayer Leverkusen's points advantage became 2 points again.

In the last two games, Bayer Leverkusen can only win all of them in order to take the initiative in the championship.

As for the competition for the Golden Glove Award, after the match with Bayern, Jose has already confirmed that he will be exclusive to this season's Golden Glove Award.

Jose has kept a total of 25 clean sheets so far, while Manuel Neuer has kept 21 clean sheets.

Considering the difference in value between the two teams, Jose has a lot of weight to win the Golden Glove award.

In addition to the Golden Glove Award, the league record for the fewest goals conceded, Jose is also very hopeful of breaking it.

With just two league games remaining, Bayer Leverkusen have conceded just 10 goals, and as long as they don't concede more than two goals per game in the last two rounds, Jose Mourinho's record for the fewest goals conceded this season will be broken by Jose.

Of course, Mourinho's record was set in the Premier League, which has four games more than the Bundesliga, making Mourinho's record all the more precious.

Although Jose has been in excellent form this season, so far there has been no certainty on which honour he will win.

As for the current situation, José thought about it.

There are only three or four games left in the season.

Two of the league games are a must-lose, and Jose is secretly determined that he will guarantee victory in both games, even if it is a free-kick at the risk.

As for the second leg against Juventus, Jose will need to think about it carefully.

Without conceding a goal, Bayer Leverkusen will advance regardless of whether their teammates score or not.

If you concede a goal, then you have to make sure your team-mate scores a goal or go up and take the risk yourself.

Even so, there is a possibility of a penalty shoot-out later.

In the penalty shootout with Real Madrid, Jose used psychological warfare to defeat Casillas, but in the face of Buffon, psychological warfare may not be effective.

After thinking about it, Jose felt that even if he used the plug-in a few more times, he had to ensure that he did not lose the ball, which was the most cost-effective approach.

On May 13, the final match of the second leg of the Champions League semi-final arrived.

A day earlier, Bayern's second leg against Barcelona had been played.

In the opening seven minutes, Benatia scored first, giving Bayern fans hope of a comeback.

However, shortly afterwards, Neymar scored twice to make the aggregate score 5-1 and kill the game outright.

Although Lewandowski and Muller scored successively in the second half, it could not change the overall situation.

In fact, Barcelona clearly stayed in the second half, and they didn't want to embarrass their former meritorious coach too much, otherwise it was likely to give Bayern a can of seven ups.

After this game, Bayern officially announced that Pep Guardiola will be removed after the season, and it is unknown who will take over as Bayern's coach.

Pep Guardiola is a good coach, but he is too idealistic, Bayern's tradition, he is doomed to failure, maybe he should go to the Premier League.

In the Premier League, there are several teams that he can spend as much as he wants.

The starting line-ups for both sides were only announced just before the start of the game.

Bayer Leverkusen side.

After all, Spasic was unable to make a comeback, and the centre-back partnership had to choose between Jedvaj and Toprak.

In addition, Castro was in the squad but failed to start, so the two midfielders were partnered by Rolfes and Bender.

The remaining positions are the same as in the first round.

Juventus side.

Compared to the first leg, there was only one change in their starting line-up.

That is Pogba returning from injury to replace Sturaro in the full-back position.

As for Pogba, Jose only thinks his hairstyle is eye-catching.

It was Juventus who drew the first kick-off.

Launch a quick attack directly.

Unfortunately, Alvaro Morata's shot was completely missed.

After getting the ball, Jose didn't rush to take the goal kick.

According to Schmidt's pre-match arrangement, the main purpose of this game is to control the pace of the game and try to keep the goal intact.

Through God's perspective, José found that only Evra's side had a large gap.

Jose tossed the ball to Hilbert, who drove forward.

Unfortunately, the first wave of Leverkusen's attack failed to reach the opponent's penalty area.

Although Pogba did not drop back to assist Patrice Evra in defence, Chiellini will play wide and join Patrice Evra, so it will not be easy to break through them.

Juventus broke the ball at the back and the ball reached Pirlo's feet.

Pirlo made a long pass for the first time and found Pogba in front.

Pogba drove forward with the ball and got to the edge of the arc.

Pogba passes the ball straight behind the Bayer Leverkusen defence.

Alvaro Morata burst into the box quickly and scrambled a right-footed shot before Jedwai.

The ball made a small arc in front of the goal, and it was about to fly past Jose and towards the top left corner of the goal.

I paid for the manuscript, and then I found that the author with the same amount of subscriptions as me had more than 2,000 more than me.

At first, I thought it was a mistake at the starting point, and then I saw the four alliance leaders on the other side.

Well, it's okay.

(End of chapter)