Leon's provocative speech has long surprised Barcelona fans.

Of course, they still have to fight up, at least make a look of standing up and resisting, which is also a "classic show" in La Liga.

As long as Leon's unbeaten golden body against Barcelona is not broken for a day, then he will always be qualified to speak provocatively against Barcelona.

Barcelona fans don't have the confidence to be tough with him, and more neutral fans have no problem with this.

Who made Barcelona just can't fight for this breath and hasn't won even once against Leon?

The sports media in Catalan remained silent before the game this time, and it seems that they have really learned to be obedient.

Seeing this, Leon did not continue to say anything about the Copa del Rey final.

After all, the game still depends on the result of the kick.

Usually occasionally teases the nerves of Barcelona fans, just make jokes, and he doesn't want to be a big talker.

As a result, a public opinion war has been stillborn before it has even started.

And after almost no rotation before, after withstanding this intensive schedule, Li Ang finally ushered in his rare vacation.

The vacation is not long, only two days.

Leon stayed at home and spent a good time with his girlfriend, and Real Madrid did not continue to play in the league without him.

Real Madrid, who traveled away from home, won 2-0 against Osasuna to claim their 20th league win of the season.

Three days later, Real Madrid left for Germany early, with Leon on on the side of the squad for the first leg of their Champions League knockout tie against Borussia Dortmund on the evening of 15 February.

Coming to the familiar Westphalen Stadium again, the picture of Li Ang and Ronaldo in casual suits looking at the sunset side by side became the picture of Real Madrid's official tweet in the evening.

And the list of starting superstars announced by Real Madrid's first team also brought heavy pressure to Hornets fans!

The announcement of the starting eleven one day in advance, without any contempt for Dortmund, Real Madrid only showed full confidence!

It is to take the lead in breaking through on the away side with dignity and releasing the starting lineup, no matter how the Dortmund coaching staff studies and targets, Real Madrid is not afraid.

This is the strong confidence that this season's excellent results bring to the whole Real Madrid team!

Dortmund naturally did not dare to underestimate the confident Real Madrid, now it is different from the past, compared to 2013, their strength has declined too much.

The main squad has almost changed, and their current midfield is far less strong than it was back then.

The Dortmund coaching staff, led by Thomas Tuchel, seized the last night before the game to make tactical changes.

So on the evening of February 15, the Real Madrid players who appeared at the Westphalen Stadium saw a Dortmund team that changed the formation and played 343.

That's a big difference from the 352 formation Tuchel has used most this season.

Carlo Ancelotti and Leon initially thought that Tuchel felt that he could not hold on to the home stadium, so he wanted to change his formation and give it a go, so he put on a more attacking 343 formation.

As a result, when the game began, Dortmund's two wingers, Reus and Ousmane Dembele, were in an adduction position, looking closer to the middle than to the wings.

And the two are also more inclined to play as a midfielder, or a central midfielder.

Because. Today, Tuchel's two midfielders, Weigl and Castro, did not dribble forward with the ball, but the two players, who were supposed to play as wingers, often dropped back to pick up the ball and then push forward.

Well, what kind of 343 is this, it's just a variant of conservative 361......

After playing on the pitch for a while, Leon also tasted it, and Tuchel was thinking of "both want and want".

When defending or controlling the pitch, he wants the two wingers who drop back to do more midfield work.

Assist in defense, take the ball, and organize advancement.

Reuss can certainly do this for the sake of the team, but what about Ousmane Dembele?

If the coaching staff had a hard request, he should be able to complete the last two tactical tasks.

The key point is that when the team switched from defending to attacking, Tuchel also wanted Reus and Dembele to quickly move forward into the box to help Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang contain Real Madrid's central and defensive defence!

That's pretty excessive, it's like using two wingers like cows.

In terms of ability, Reus can actually meet Tuchel's tactical requirements, but his fitness is not supportive!

Reuss at his peak couldn't resist Klopp's high-intensity use, and Tuchel's use was afraid that it would drain Reus's fitness in the first half of the game.

It stands to reason that Tuchel should have left the task of organising the forward and defensive movements to the two midfielders he sent today.

So Leon couldn't understand Tuchel's intention to squeeze two attacking players for a moment.

But he didn't know that it was because of his presence that Tuchel did not dare to allow his two midfielders to step forward easily, in order to limit his play.

After all, Li Ang still underestimated his powerful destructive power to the ecological balance of the midfield in today's football.

The manager of almost every of Europe's biggest teams is thinking about how to limit his attacking play from the back.

In the past, many German media would praise Leon as the new Mateus of this football era, but now no German media will say such things.

Because Leon's dominance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends has far surpassed that of Mateus!

Especially his near-incomprehensible kaleidoscope attack.

Wrap him up and he delivers precise passes to open up space for his teammates on either side.

doesn't wrap up, and uses a one-on-one way to mark him, he simply forcibly passes the defender, and then directly stages the "point to break the surface" method of breaking the game.

He has tried this trick many times, but the coaches of the various strong teams want to break the game for this, but they want to break their heads!

Tuchel is certainly among those troubled coaches.

His final conclusion is that Leon's individual ability on both the offensive and defensive ends has far surpassed most star players.

So either use two powerful defensive stars to suppress his play, or hoard enough defensive power in the middle to target Leon only, and then hand over more tactical tasks to other players to share.

Well, at first glance, such a response plan makes a little sense, but in fact, how long can the players who share more tactical tasks last on the field and play high-intensity matches?

Leon didn't quite understand Tuchel's 'strange intentions', but that didn't stop him from advising his team-mates to spend more energy on Reus and Dembele.

His keen sense of tactics allowed him to quickly get to the point of the break.

Other Dortmund players, such as Fidel Castro, Guerreiro or Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, are not key figures for Dortmund in Leon's eyes.

They are more like screws on a simple machine than a core component in Dortmund's simple machine.

can be called the core of the attack, in Leon's opinion, only Reus, who can connect the frontcourt attack, and Dembele, who has the ability to highlight the explosive point.

So consuming them and suppressing them is the top priority, and the rest of the Dortmund players just need to mark normally.

Leon's tactical choice was very straightforward.

Carlo Ancelotti didn't have a problem after watching from the sidelines for a while.

Ten minutes passed before the game, and Tuchel could barely sit still, but after another ten minutes, Tuchel looked at Reus and Dembele, who were still flying up and down, but the tactical effect was not outstanding, and his palms suddenly sweated!

It was a frustration to choose such a tactical style of play, but even if the hope was small, Tuchel still had some expectations in his heart.

As long as you can open up the situation in the first half and play the effect, it is best to score a goal first, then in the second half of the game, it is a big deal to make substitutions and replace the new force to beat Real Madrid's defense.

Not to mention winning, as long as he can guarantee not to lose at home, then Tuchel feels worthy of the support of the home supporters, even if he is worthy of the home support.

As for the second round?

When the time comes, I will go to the Bernabeu and talk about it, it's a big deal to fight hard, even if you lose, you can lose with backbone.

Tuchel's idea is simple, to hold on to his home stadium first, to save face in his team, and then talk about promotion, and he doesn't think he is asking too much.

But now looking at the stalemate on the court, his calculation is likely to be empty.

Reus and Dembele have done too much work in the midfield, but in fact, they are constantly receiving the ball and interspersing with movements, which are actively lured and forced by Real Madrid.

Real Madrid's entire team is very full of energy, so as long as Leon feels that it is not yet time to press the harvest with all his strength, then Real Madrid can continue to wear down the physical strength of the two Dortmund frontcourt cores.

As for the offensive launched by the rest of Dortmund's players, it is really not enough for Real Madrid's backfield defence.

Aside from Royce and Dembele, except for Aubameyang, who can pull out of the penalty area from time to time to catch the ball and rush for a while, the ability of the rest of the Dortmund players is too "mediocre".

The core players can't drive them with force, and their performance can only be regarded as a middle and lower level in a group of big teams.

Even if Real Madrid's backline still has to take a certain risk after all, Li Ang feels that such a risk is worth taking Real Madrid!

Sure enough, after the first half of the first half was played, Dembele slowed down his running tempo first.

It's not necessarily that he can't withstand the intensity of the game, but it's more likely that he has doubts about the coaching staff's tactical development, so he starts to make trouble.

Reuss barely managed to get on the top for a while, but by the 40th minute of the first half, his cadence was hard to pick up.

He can continue to hold on after a break, but the worst thing is that Real Madrid will not give him time to rest and adjust now.

As soon as the frequency of the two of them dropped back, the pressure on Weigl and Castro to pick up the ball in midfield increased dramatically.

Real Madrid did not launch a strangulation siege on Dortmund in the real sense until this point in time!

And just four minutes later, Bale jumped high after interspersing at the back of the Dortmund penalty area, and finally beat Baltra to send a cross from the side of Cristiano Ronaldo into the Dortmund goal!

Tuchel, seated in the dugout, buried his whole face in his hands resting on his knees.

His tactical plan was completely bankrupt.

Real Madrid played 40 minutes of high pressing, only grabbing but not attacking, and after consuming a lot of physical energy of Dortmund's two core players in the frontcourt, the balance of the game was broken in one fell swoop!

Leon hasn't even played much at this point, so how will Dortmund deal with it in the second half?

Replace Schurrle and Christian Pulisic, and continue to be consumed by Real Madrid like this until they can't run?

Tuchel was pessimistic, but at the start of the second half, he immediately replaced the sluggish Dembele with Christian Pulisic.

Dortmund's formation also changed accordingly, becoming a normal 343.

As soon as Leon saw that Tuchel was out of order, he also commanded his teammates to press forward, and he and Dortmund had a tough battle in midfield!

As a result, the second half did not even play for fifteen minutes, and Dortmund decisively handed over control of the midfield, and could only choose to shrink the formation to play Real Madrid's counterattack.

Tuchel is still very clear-headed at this point and knows that he can't fight back against Real Madrid.

He also hoped that Christian Pulisic on the pitch could play brilliantly on the counter-attack and help Dortmund recover their slump.

But "Captain America" is obviously not comfortable with Real Madrid's high-level strangulation and pressing.

The counter-attacking attack launched by Dortmund basically started with him and ended with him, there was no way, the ball was lost too quickly.

Leon didn't have much interest in the physically exhausted Royce at this time, so he grabbed Pulisic and grabbed it.

It was also the first time that poor Pulisic had been subjected to such targeted treatment.

As Tuchel's carefully prepared tactical back-up, he was dumbfounded, while Real Madrid scored again under the attack!

The goal came from Benzema in the box.

Leon and Bale made a one-two collision with the wall and then held the ball to the sideline of Dortmund's penalty area, and then he split the ball to help the forward Carvajal successfully send a precise sweeping pass!

Benzema showed his keen nose in front of goal this time.

Proper movement and consistent shooting in the duel made him look nothing like the happy pot striker he used to be.

And his goal also directly forced Dortmund to a dead end.

Tuchel replaced Reus and Castro with Schurrle and Shinji Kagawa in the 66th minute of the second half.

In this way, only Weigl is left in Dortmund's orthodox back!

The two wing-backs, Guerreiro and Durm, are still aggressively active up front, which puts Weigel under a lot of pressure.

Seeing this, Real Madrid contracted the formation like Dortmund before and counterattacked!

Soon, Real Madrid's quick counter-attacks threatened Dortmund's backline.

In the seventy-fourth minute of the second half, Li Ang quietly pulled the side and plugged in at high speed when counterattacking, and the through ball from Modric exploded and accelerated, directly past the slower Weigel!

In the face of the ferocious attack of Baltra, Leon is a decisive smash inward!

After getting plenty of space to dribble and also shake off Baltra's defence, he opted for a decisive kick!

The powerful long-range shot soon whistled straight into the top right corner of the Dortmund goal!

Burki had already made a prediction by moving his steps in advance, and his prediction was correct, and he also pushed the ground as hard as he could and stretched his arms as hard as he could.

But in the end, the fingertips of his save were still half a finger away from the football!

When the ball hit the crossbar and the post, and then bounced back into the goal, the Westfalde Stadium finally fell silent.

Leon ran to the bottom line, smiled at the live camera and raised his index finger.

This represents both the number of goals he has scored in this game and his expectations for his own team this season.

Be the first!

Be a champion!

(End of chapter)