striker cool brother

Chapter 602 Conservative Zidane, Guagua who works hard

The UEFA Champions League is the highest-level competition in Europe, and the opening ceremony is comparable to a large-scale concert.

This time, Selena Gomez was invited as a guest singer.

In order to reflect the sense of modern technology, the scene layout of the concert uses naked-eye 3D special effects, which is beautiful.

After the concert, there will be a fireworks display of the UEFA Champions League theme song.

I have to say that the organizers really took great pains to allow fans from afar to have a visual feast before the start of the game.

Under the leadership of the referee Alvin Plessy, players from both sides walked into the Dragon Stadium to greet the fans who shouted like a tsunami.

Guess coins in the middle circle, Manchester City will attack first.

Sterling stood in the middle circle, the whistle sounded, and the final officially began.

Both teams use a 4-3-3 formation, but play very differently.

Guardiola, who loves to work around, actually formed a waistless formation.

In the Champions League final, if he dares to play as a midfielder, that is to say, Guardiola dares to do so.

Perhaps because he was too confident in his pass control, Guardiola wanted to sacrifice the defense of the midfielder to strengthen the offensive advantage of the frontcourt.

Such a tactical arrangement gave Manchester City the head start at the opening.

Goalkeeper Ederson made a long pass from outside the penalty area, passed through the midfield, and passed directly behind the Real Madrid defense.

Sterling passed between the full-back and the central defender, succeeded in anti-offside, and unloaded the ball in front of him.

Varane stuck to Sterling and didn't give him a chance to cross.

Without a suitable shooting angle, and unable to see the teammate outflanking the middle, Sterling turned around after smashing the ball, and after shaking the distance, he kicked and shot.

But he underestimated Varane's reaction and speed.

The French Xueba turned around sharply and poked the ball away before his opponent.

[Oh, this attack is a pity! 】

[Sterling has world-class handling when receiving and unloading the ball. 】

[But the final kick is always a little bit short. 】

Manchester City, without a defensive midfielder, pushed De Bruyne to the front midfielder position, forming a triangle position with the other two midfielders.

The three-man midfield plays an intercepting role and can deliver shells forward when switching from defense to attack.

Mahrez and Foden can use their speed to attack Real Madrid's defense.

In order to limit Manchester City's wing attack, Rossi and Vinicius will come back to participate in the defense.

From the start of the game, Manchester City was like an excited child, passing the ball non-stop, trying to find opportunities to attack.

In order to further balance the midfield, Manchester City will use a full-back premise when attacking, forming a 3-4-3 formation.

Real Madrid obviously lost to Manchester City in terms of ball possession rate, so they did not use a high position to press, but arranged the defense line in the middle circle.

Moreover, the Real Madrid players also started from here to test the referee's penalty scale.

Only by grasping the judgment scale of the referee at the beginning of the game can we have more choices in defense.

This is the game experience of the king of the Champions League.

It can only be understood, but it is difficult to teach.

"drop!"

Modric pushes for a foul.

Facing passing teams, Real Madrid must disrupt their rhythm.

After Manchester City players were violated again and again, they would just sit on the turf and protest to the referee.

Some Manchester City fans even made telescopic gestures to mock the referee's penalty scale.

After 20 minutes of the game, from the scene, Manchester City had the advantage and spread the attack to Real Madrid's half.

But it is difficult for them to advance to the edge of the penalty area. Sometimes they can only rely on two crosses from the wing to let the midfielder De Bruyne compete for the top.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Guardiola quickly adjusted, allowing De Bruyne to look for offensive opportunities in the ribs.

In the 25th minute, with the cooperation of his teammates, De Bruyne entered the penalty area and made a cross.

Foden immediately took a shot after stopping the ball, which was blocked by Ramos stretching his leg.

Real Madrid's biggest gain is the return of the defense headed by Ramos.

Courtois was so excited that he almost shed tears.

Do you know what I've been up to these past few months?
In the face of Manchester City's bombardment, Zidane has been calm.

In his view, every shot of the opponent seems to be a forced choice of helplessness, which cannot threaten the goal at all.

He also keeps reassuring the players, must be calm and patient.

This is the competition experience.

Especially Real Madrid in recent years, they entered the final five times and won four Champions League titles.

Such a champion team is many times stronger than Manchester City, which entered the Champions League final for the first time.

And the more important the game is, the more important the game is, not the number of stars or how good the tactics are, but who makes fewer mistakes.

Obviously, Zidane wins this point.

He understands the importance of a midfielder to the team.

The more critical the game, the more conservative you have to be.

Manchester City's offense and defense are still fierce, and the frontcourt pressing is also very active.

However, Real Madrid's passing system is not so easy to be suppressed by opponents.

In the 30th minute, after receiving a return pass from his teammate, Courtois made a long pass to find Modric on the side.

There is no good passing line in front. After Modric passed the pass to Mendy, he retreated to the full-back position.

Perhaps it was because of Modric's move to retreat that Manchester City was negligent and did not press forward immediately, but retreated collectively.

After Mendy turned around without interference, he saw that the front end Rossi was running horizontally, driving the defensive player to move outward.

At this time, Manchester City's defense line is three central defenders. After the central defender is taken away by Rossi, the distance between the three will be invisible.

Then, Rossi pointed forward and let Mendy pass to the gap between the center back and the center back.

And he himself, after taking an arc from the outside line, slanted behind Manchester City's defense line.

[Real Madrid opportunity! 】

[The ball is passed in! 】

[Rosie single-handedly! 】

【Shoot! 】

I saw that Rossi tore through Manchester City's defense with a deft movement.

Goalkeeper Ederson made a decisive decision, abandoned the goal and went out, his feet spread out in a straight line, expanding the defensive area.

But after first dunking the goalkeeper, Rossi opened up a large space and pushed the empty goal.

This goal was beyond everyone's expectations.

Real Madrid actually took the lead.

[This is Rossi's 15th goal in the Champions League this season! 】

[He has already surpassed Messi and was crowned the Champions League shooter! 】

The score was behind, and the live camera was aimed at Guardiola who was drinking water.

His eyes were a little empty, as if he was thinking about countermeasures.

Because this conceded goal is directly related to his pre-match deployment.

Taking the initiative to take down the midfielder undoubtedly reduces the hardness of the defense.

Guardiola wants to use the identity of a full-back as a midfielder to "substitute".

But obviously, this tactic failed.

First of all, replacing four central defenders with three central defenders itself exposed the shortcomings of insufficient defensive width.

Kyle Walker, who became a temporary midfielder, did not successfully intercept the opponent's through ball.

Once Rossi gets the ball in the ribs, the three-back system becomes fragile.

Although Guardiola didn't want to admit it, he knew very well that Manchester City, without a midfielder, was not an opponent of Real Madrid at all.

During this whole job, I pecked out my own eyes.

(End of this chapter)