During the break, the head coaches of both teams seized the time to adjust their team's tactics and plan the tactical play for the second half.

Compared with Real Madrid, Manchester City's tactical system has changed more due to De Bruyne's injury, and more adjustments need to be made.

Pep Guardiola made two preparations for Real Madrid's possible second-half decisions.

"With Kevin not on the court, Lin will definitely be the target of the opponent, so in the second half, I need others to step up and share part of the offensive pressure!"

Pep Guardiola's eyes fell on David Silva and Gundogan, who played as a winger but was more of a midfielder.

If that doesn't work, Pep Guardiola intends to drop David Silva back and take over some of the playmaking and switch to wide midfield.

David Silva's talent is definitely underestimated, don't look at his low appearance rate on the court, only when passing the ball or cooperating with Lin Quan and others on the side, he will be given a second or two shots, and it is basically difficult to see him at other times.

But his position and role in the Manchester City team cannot be replaced, his dribbling ability is outstanding, the ball is strong, the lower set is very stable, the ball is passed to his feet safely, and he will hardly concede the ball.

Even if you can't pass forward, you can safely pass it back to your teammates.

And David Silva also has an elusive pass, whether it is a short distance through the ball, or a mid-to-long distance pick and long pass, he has something to handle.

Therefore, in the process of Manchester City's advancement, he can not only not concede the ball under the entanglement with the opposing players, but also often play a one-two with his team-mates, sending wonderful passes to his teammates in the front line.

In a team that focuses on passing, these things don't seem to stand out very much, especially when there are guys like Lin Quan and De Bruyne who often make unbelievable breakthroughs or amazing passes to attract everyone's attention, David Silva is naturally easy to overlook.

But where the camera can't see it, he has been working tirelessly to scramble, defend, and attack, silently dedicating everything to the team.

Before the arrival of players such as Lin Quan and De Bruyne, the attacking heart of Manchester City's team was actually this small Spaniard.

It's just that after the addition of more outstanding teammates, David Silva took the initiative to give up the ball and took on more dirty work, showing off teammates to do, and the dirty work of wiping his butt was picked up by himself.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the increasingly low-key reason in recent years that Real Madrid did not target David Silva much in this game.

This made Guardiola see an opportunity, and he felt that he could use this to make a fuss, and I believe that he would be able to surprise Real Madrid when the time comes.

Of course, if that doesn't work, then Guardiola has a hand to follow.

As long as City are not behind before the 70 minutes, he will replace Sergio Aguero for Gabriel Jesus.

Gabriel Jesus may not be as good as Sergio Aguero's marksmanship and he can't do the work of a traditional centre-forward.

But Guardiola found a lot of advantages in him, first of all, he is obedient, and he will implement what the coach commands.

The second is a positive defensive attitude, don't look at him as a center forward, but he is very good at interfering with the opponent's attack.

Of course, if you only have this ability, you will definitely not be able to get into Guardiola's eyes.

Pep Guardiola also found that Gabriel Jesus played well as a right winger, and although he was not skilled enough to cut in, his crosses were of high quality.

If he really can't, he can come on the pitch, replace Gundogan, and use his cross ability to assist his teammates.

When the time comes, Manchester City will have Mbappe on the left and Jesus on the right, which will definitely make Real Madrid feel in a dilemma!

……

Zidane and Pep Guardiola thought of going together!

He emphasised the defence in the locker room before he began to arrange the attack.

For Real Madrid, it would be best if they could beat Manchester City directly before normal time.

But if they can't, then they will have to rely on defense, hold on to the draw, and drag the game into extra time.

If extra-time still doesn't settle the battle, then a penalty shoot-out is an acceptable result.

It's a big deal!

Anyway, there are many goalscorers on Real Madrid's side, and penalty kicks are not necessarily cowardly, but on the Manchester City side, it seems that it is not easy to find five penalty takers with good shooting skills.

However, Zidane is not ready to blindly defend passively, Manchester City's offensive strength in the second half of the first half has been taught by Real Horse, and if you blindly defend passively, it is likely that you will not be able to prevent it.

Therefore, Zidane arranged a tactic to grab the opening, allowing the players to take advantage of the inertia of the opponent's mind at the beginning of the second half to catch Manchester City off guard.

As long as you can score a goal, then Real Madrid will be more motivated to defend it!

……

Fifteen minutes passed quickly, and the players from both teams were quickly back on the field.

When the referee blew the whistle for the second half, both teams picked up speed.

"Huh? Real Madrid and Manchester City picked up speed at the start of the second half, with the pace of the game even faster than in the first half. ”

"Does that mean the two teams have to change their tactics and play each other in the Champions League final?"

On the commentary seat of the TV station, the commentators were a little stunned for a while when they saw this sudden situation on the field.

"There is this possibility, but the teams in the finals have generally been conservative, and there are very few teams that dare to put on a posture to attack, after all, there is a good saying that 'defense wins the championship'!"

Not only were the commentators taken aback, but even the players on both sides were a little stunned.

In the second half, Real Madrid kicked off first, and after they kicked off, they were prepared to beat Manchester City by surprise with a fast attack according to the manager's tactics.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the ball kicked off, a large number of Manchester City players rushed to the ball carrier.

Benzema, who was holding the ball, was startled and quickly passed the ball to Modric.

As soon as Modric received the ball, he was forced by Lin Quan and Sergio Aguero.

Modric's ability to protect the ball is indeed strong, but it is still too reluctant to play one-two, and he has to pass the ball back to Casemiro.

Casemiro is not good at organizing, not to mention that the opposing striker and even the midfielder rushed towards him like a mad dog, he was so frightened that he quickly passed the ball to Kroos.

Kroos had already seen the gap on the flank after City pressed heavily before receiving the ball, so he played a long ball to Bale, who was on the wing.

The ball was passed well, and Bale saw the landing point of the football, and while accelerating the sprint, he gave Kroos a thumbs up in his heart.

But City, who had suffered a one-time loss, were on guard, and a man who shouldn't have been in this position showed up and jumped high to get the ball away before Bale.

After Bell saw clearly who the person in front of him was, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

It's Manchester City's centre-back John Stones!

How did this guy come to the side and be so far forward?

Bale doesn't understand Manchester City's defensive system, which is why he has such doubts.

Don't look at Stones as a centre-back, but there are times when he leaves his position and becomes a central midfielder.

If he had an attacking opportunity, he would even dribble the ball past half the pitch and link up with his team-mates on the flanks and step in like a full-back.

As for the defensive problem, it is enough to have Van Dijk as a scavenger.

Van Dijk's drop-back defense is very good against the opposition's one-on-one shot.

Unless the opposition develops a numerical advantage when attacking, it will be difficult to break through Van Dijk's defence.

In this way, Manchester City liberated another person when attacking, especially the unexpected variable of Stones, which caught Real Madrid off guard.

Stones' top ball was picked up by Gundogan, and in the face of Ronaldo's pressing, Gundogan passed back to Van Dijk, who quickly moved to the feet of his wide teammate.

David Silva got the ball, he glanced at Lin Quan's position, and made a move to pass to Lin Quan, the Real Madrid player did not doubt him, because Lin Quan is the offensive and organizational core of Manchester City, and it was expected that the opponent would hand over the ball to Lin Quan.

So they immediately formed a semi-encirclement of Lin Quan according to the predetermined plan, as long as David Silva dared to pass the ball, they immediately wrapped up Lin Quan, cut the ball from under his feet, and then continued to counterattack.

However, to their surprise, David Silva did not pass to Lin Quan, but moved to the other side of the flank on a large scale and found Mbappe in the open position.

It was a link between a winger and a winger, but because David Silva was in a retracting position when he received the ball, the ball almost slanted across most of the pitch, more than 50 metres in a straight line.

David Silva's long pass not only surprised all the players of Real Madrid, but even Mbappe himself was a little surprised.

Originally, he was just running according to the team's offensive tactics, but after seeing that Lin Quan was about to fall into the opponent's encirclement, Mbappe felt that most of the ball could not be passed, so he began to slow down.

But he didn't expect that David Silva, who was so far away from him, could actually see the opportunity on his side and pass the ball over.

This vision is a perfect score!

Mbappe couldn't wait to give David Silva 10,000 likes in his heart, and he quickly accelerated and chased the football.

Carvajal knew that he couldn't grab the landing spot, but he still had to rush over.

This is the area he defends, and if he doesn't come up, Real Madrid's defense on the right will be completely empty.

Carvajal can't stop Mbappe from getting the ball, but he wants to be able to stop Mbappe from moving forward, and if not be able to break the ball from his feet, at least slow down his progress to buy time for his teammates in other positions to get back to the ball.

Mbappe didn't care what the opponent was thinking, and when he saw Carvajal approaching, he kicked the ball forward, and then began to accelerate, ready to eat Carvajal raw with his speed again.

Seeing this move of the other party, Carvajal was angry, this kid looks down on people too much!

But he had a yellow card on his back, and he didn't dare to foul at this time, so he could only turn around desperately, reaching out and pulling Mbappe while turning, trying to prevent the other party from overtaking him.

Mbappe's explosiveness has exceeded Carvajal's expectations.

His tugging didn't affect the balance of the opponent's body, or even slow him down.

Mbappe was like a supercar with a full tank of gas and a throttle on the bottom, and rushed out of Carvajal's side with a whoosh.

Compared to Mbappe, Carvajal is like a rusty classic car, as slow as a snail.

The Real Madrid fans in the stands are all blown up!

Again!

The eighteen-year-old black winger on the other side really left a deep impression on them today, the last time and this time the side breakthrough was the kind of unreasonable breakthrough, the speed is faster than you, what can you do?

Somewhere in a box at the stadium, Real Madrid's president, Florentino, could no longer sit still.

He clenched his fists and stared at Mbappe, who was running at full speed on the pitch, turned his head to the club manager Angel on the side and said:

"Make an offer to Manchester City, I want to see the number 29 in our squad for next season!"

Angel was stunned for a moment, and after realizing Mr. President's determination to buy people, he nodded heavily:

"Rest assured, Mr. President, I will do my best to bring him to the Bernabeu!"

Although he said so on his lips, he was bitter in his heart:

Mbappe's name was actually well-known in football last season, he made his early appearance in the Monaco first team, and because his style of play is very similar to Henry, he was favored by many French football legends, and Henry even praised him, thinking that he would surpass himself in the future.

Real Madrid actually sent scouts to look at him at the time, and even submitted an offer to Monaco.

But unexpectedly, before they could start further negotiations with Monaco, Manchester City was gone, and the transfer was quickly finalized, which caught Real Madrid off guard.

Although the transfer fee of 40 million euros once caused a heated discussion and even a sensation in football at the time, many people felt that Manchester City and Guardiola were fighting too hard.

There is no shortage of young talents in football, but many of them don't play in the end for a variety of reasons.

Dare to spend a huge amount of 40 million to take people down when the other party is only 17 years old, I have to say that Guardiola is very bold and dares to gamble.

In the first half of the season after joining Manchester City, Mbappe had very few opportunities to appear, and there was no shortage of voices from the outside world who thought that Manchester City's deal was a loss.

But later events proved that Manchester City's deal not only did not lose, but made a lot of money.

This season, Mbappe has gone from better to better as he has made more appearances in the Premier League and Champions League, with spectacular statistics on goals and assists, especially for an 18-year-old.

That is, because he is in Manchester City, and the most important thing that Manchester City lacks is a winger, so it greatly limits his appearances.

Otherwise, with his performance, he will definitely be the main player in other teams.

Before the final, the German transfer market had raised the value of Mbappe to 60 million euros.

You must know that the German transfer market is usually very conservative in its assessment of the value of players, and if you want to win a player, the transfer fee must be at a large premium, and sometimes you even have to spend one or two times the value of the transfer fee to get the player you want.

And with Mbappe's performance in this game, Angel can already imagine that Mbappe's value may rise by another 10 million or 20 million.

This means that there is no hope of less than 100 million euros if he is to be taken.

Even if Manchester City is really willing to sell, Real Madrid may have to spend 100 million or even 150 million euros.

But it's crazy to spend so much money on an 18-year-old player, right?

(End of chapter)

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