Green Dragon

Chapter 201 Derby in the Champions League
May 5th finally arrived as scheduled.

The venue of the competition is located in the Ruhr area, a traditional industrial area in Germany.

The venue of the game is the home court of Schalke 04, and Veltins-Ao went to the Schalke Stadium.

This is a fairly modern stadium, and the hardware facilities in the stadium are even better than many wealthy clubs that are short of money—such as the Milan duo, Liverpool, etc.—much more complete.

But this is also a hell of a devil. In the match between Schalke and Stuttgart in 2007, the blue miners fans once created a horror record of 129 decibels!
It's obviously the warm-up time before the game, and there are still more than 20 minutes before the start of the game, but those noisy German fans have already turned the entire stadium into a real battlefield.

Although the fans of the Bernabeu and the Nou Camp are fanatical, they have the elegance and restraint of aristocratic families. They will not be as crazy and unscrupulous as these German big men. In the stadiums that Long Shute has experienced, perhaps only those as far away as England Anfield has that vibe.

That night, the stadium was dyed as blue as the sky and the sea by more than 5 home fans, and the thousands of Dutch fans who accompanied the team to Germany could only compete with them in a small corner.

Red and blue are the two major colors in the football world, and the confrontation between red and blue is particularly eye-catching in such a situation.
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"CCTV, CCTV, audience friends, you are watching the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final in the 2010-11 season. Schalke 04 vs. Ajax at home. I am the commentator Duan Yixuan."

As a senior commentator of the Bundesliga, Duan Yixuan is in a happy mood today.

He is very familiar with the two teams today. One is the Eredivisie hegemony that he has followed for two full seasons, and the other is a strong team that often meets in the Bundesliga. Last season, he also won the league runner-up.

"Hi everyone, I'm Tao Wei."

The guest who partnered with him is also a veteran Bundesliga fan and Bayern Munich supporter Tao Guidance, just listen to him say:

"Ajax and Schalke are the dark horses of this UEFA Champions League. Ajax is better. After all, it has won the UEFA Champions League four times. Last season, it also defeated Schalke and Real Madrid very strongly. powerful.

But Schalke is different. Although they are the runner-up of the Bundesliga, their performance this season is a bit extreme. They once fell into the relegation zone in the league. Staggered into the semi-finals.

It has to be said that although they have attracted a lot of attention by relying on their Champions League results, this is definitely an unhealthy operating philosophy. In any case, league results are the foundation of a team. Downgrading to the second level is definitely not worth it..."

"Cough cough cough..."

Duan Yixuan couldn't help coughing, because he was afraid that some audience would criticize this guest.

The Bayern Munich you support has not won the league championship for several consecutive seasons. How dare you talk about the league results?
No matter how rubbish Schalke is, they won the runner-up against Bayern last season!

After coughing, Duan Yixuan took over the topic:
"The reason why these two teams attract attention is that apart from being dark horses, they also have a common characteristic. They have a player from China in their team."

Tao Wei laughed and recovered from the eloquent talk just now:
"That's right, Ajax has Long Shute as the starter, and Schalke's Hao Junmin has also entered the squad. This can be called a Chinese derby in the Champions League!"
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Chinese derby?

Long Shute looked at the national team teammates sitting on the bench, and couldn't help shaking his head.

Except for the half season when he just joined Schalke, Hao Junmin didn't get any chance to play this season.

Magath transformed him into a full-back, but Atsuto Uchida, who joined Schalke, did a better job than him. With the departure of Magath, the new coach Rangnick has no interest in him at all. His status in the team has plummeted.

Schalke 04 is the miners' team, and they don't need to sell cars to the Chinese market, so the club has lost patience with this introverted Chinese international...

Long Shute dares to bet that if Schalke leads Ajax by a big score in 04, Rangnick may have a little chance to let Hao Junmin show up, but if the situation is stalemate, Rangnick would rather not make a substitution than let him play...

But the question is... Schalke, who was slaughtered and bloodbathed by Bayern just three days ago, what confidence do they have to lead Ajax by a big score?
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When the referee Proenza from Portugal blew the whistle to start the game, everyone was taken aback.

Even Van Basten was petrified.

The two Ajax forwards Suarez and Hamdavi looked at each other's lineup and could only smile wryly.

"Schalke 04 put out a five-back lineup?"

This may be the first time Duan Yixuan has discovered the opponent's lineup within 10 minutes of kick-off, right?

Because Rangnick's intentions were too obvious.

The two full-backs Atsuto Uchida and Escudero lined up on the left and right, and the three central defenders Metzelder, Hevedes, and Papadopoulos gathered in the middle, which was very useful for Suarez and Suarez. Hamdavi's posture of the two forwards drowning.

"Fuck..."

Van Basten couldn't help covering his eyes:
"Rangnick, you are also a well-known tactical expert in Germany. In order to win, you can also learn bus tactics from a Portuguese coach?"

Bergkamp, ​​who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but slander in his heart:
Just two weeks ago, in order to deal with Barcelona, ​​who has been studying the bus tactics of Chelsea and Inter Milan?
Van Basten immediately sneezed:
"It's so cold in Germany!"
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"This... Schalke wants to defend in such an important game as the Champions League semi-finals. We can all understand, but his formation may make the game dull and boring."

Duan Yixuan shook his head, obviously very dissatisfied.

As a commentator, he certainly hopes that the two sides will have a spark-splashing contest. It is best not to set up defensive players, whoever defends will lose...

Only continuous shooting and scoring can lift the spirits of the audience who stayed up late watching the game, and it can also reflect the commentator's own style.
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Perhaps Rangnick also has his own difficulties. After all, Ajax's offensive power is indeed extraordinary. They were able to concede only one goal in the last game. It was purely because goalkeeper Neuer played too much. Has Er's cheat been renewed? After all, Bayern has just scored four goals just now. Obviously, his cheat level is not too high, and it will take a certain cooling time to restart...

Apart from the top five defenders, Schalke didn't send any more players in the midfield—they wanted to, but they really didn't...

The 25-year-old Jose Jurado is still the core of the team's offense and defense. He is flanked by Alexander Baumjohn, who has only played more than 400 minutes in the team this season. Raul, the team's top scorer and Lord of the Rings, is on the front line Above, Farfan and Draxler cruised on the two flanks as two wings.

These five players, except for Farfan who can have a little defensive ability, the others are almost airless on the defensive end:
First of all, Jurado, the core midfielder, is a typical Spanish midfielder, with a height of 172 cm and a weight of 70 kg. It feels fairly balanced in terms of numbers, but he is the type who can fall at the touch of a confrontation.

Secondly, although the height and weight of another midfielder, Baumjohn, is about the same as that of Long Shute, this midfielder, who was once known as one of the top ten monsters in PES 8, is an out-and-out technical attacker Player, his favorite way to play is to break through with the ball and stage a long-distance attack that passes several people. As for defense, I'm sorry...that's not his job.

Under the genius of German football, Draxler is not yet 18 years old, you can't give the team's defensive tasks to an underage winger, can you?

Finally...you can't expect a 34-year-old Lord of the Rings to defend, can you?
The great banner of Real Madrid has played all the games that he can play this season. Three days ago, he was bullied by the strong men of Bayern Munich for 90 minutes. His stamina bar is almost empty, you just give him a way to survive!

(End of this chapter)