The Glory of the Godfather

Let's talk about the starting lineups of both sides.

For Dortmund, the goalkeeper is Weidenfeller, the left back is Schmelzer, the center back is Hummels and Subotic, and the right back is Piszczek.

The double defensive midfielders are Gundogan and Sven Bender.

Reus on the left, Błaszczykowski on the right and Mario Gotze in the middle.

On the front line, Aubameyang is at the forefront alone.

In Dortmund's starting lineup, Hummels, Royce and Aubameyang are all old players trained by Fang Jue when he was in Ibiza.

For Aston Villa, Ter Stegen is the starting goalkeeper.

Milner at left back, Senderos and Thiago Silva at center back, Thornton at right back, Kyle Walker suspended for accumulating yellow cards.

The double midfielder is Clement and Modric.

In front are Mane, Ibrahimovic and James Rodriguez.

At the front of the line is Lewandowski.

This game is also Lewandowski returning to the Westvale Stadium to face the old owner. Also on the Dortmund bench, Papastathopoulos is also facing the old owner.

Suddenly, there was an extremely loud and ear-piercing booing sounded over the stadium again.

Here's Milner bringing down Bwaszczykowski with a wide tackle.

Fang Jue applauded from the sidelines, applauding Milner's key tackle interception.

This seemed to stimulate the fans who came to Dortmund, and the whole stadium booed wildly.

The Westerlenstadion is the most popular stadium in the entire Bundesliga, and it is also a famous devil's stadium in European football.

Many teams come here as guests, and they will perform poorly, and even have inexplicable defeats.

In the UEFA Cup in the 2001/2002 season, Serie A giants AC Milan reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup.

In the Champions League, the Rossoneri have never won the UEFA Cup in history.

At that time, the Italian media were all looking forward to AC Milan being able to win the UEFA Cup and achieve a Grand Slam.

Then in the first round of the semi-finals, they were kicked 0-4 by Dortmund in this stadium. Brazilian striker Amoruso scored a hat-trick. This fiasco can be said to have shocked the whole world.

Today, Aston Villa and Dortmund are also in the semi-finals of the European War. Dortmund also played at home first, but from the UEFA Cup to the Champions League.

Therefore, some German media used this game to encourage Dortmund before the game, expecting them to create another European miracle.

Some media even wanted to interview Inzaghi, a person who experienced the fiasco, but Fang Jue almost kicked him out.

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The referee who enforced the game was the referee Kupes from the Netherlands. He only verbally warned Milner.

This irritated the Dortmund fans even more, and the huge din resounded through the stadium.

Dortmund's attacking free kick.

Gotze drives the football into the box.

Subotic's header was interfered by Senderos, and he failed to top the power, and the football was picked up firmly in the air by Ter Stegen.

Aston Villa then tried to launch a quick counter-attack. After a few kicks, the quick counter-attack was terminated as Modric passed the ball to Milner, who had just caught the ball and was brought to the ground. .

The referee Kupes showed a yellow card to Bwaszczykowski for a foul.

Westvalon Stadium was outraged.

Klopp also roared angrily on the sidelines, protesting the referee's penalty.

He pointed at Milner, meaning why Milner's foul was just a verbal warning, but Bwashchkowski's foul here is going to be played?

Revenge! You are an act of revenge! Fang Jue shouted loudly, responding to Klopp for the fourth official.

Please calm down, Mr. Klopp, or I will call the referee. The fourth official said with a serious expression, then he turned his head and pointed at Fang Jue, Mr. Fang Jue, please shut up too!

Fang Jue shrugged, biting Lu Dongbin doesn't know good people, he thinks that the fourth official has EQ problem, he obviously wants to speak for him, okay?

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The first half of the game was very intense, and it can even be said to be full of sparks.

From a tactical point of view, Klopp's Dortmund attaches great importance to the transitional moments of offensive and defensive transitions.

The German coach paid particular attention to perfecting his team's defensive transitions.

This is done by pressing the opponent quickly after conceding the ball in order to regain possession.

This concept is known as the high pressure press.

The tactical idea is that the opponent's rhythm will be disrupted as soon as they have the ball, because they need to switch from defensive to offensive mode. If the pressing work is done well, this chaos can be used to regain the ball.

To execute Klopp's high-pressing press, Dortmund attacked in a rather narrow formation.

They often attack through one side of the court, and at a certain moment, they form a continuous pressure on the opponent's ball holder with a numerical advantage, and strive to complete the steal. Even if they cannot steal, they will delay the opponent's attack speed and force the opponent to stop Don't pass back, terminate this counterattack.

Interestingly, Fang Jue's Aston Villa is also very good at pressing high.

Some Spanish Ibiza media, English media and Chinese media said that Klopp's high-position pressing tactics were learned from Fang Jue.

However, some German media said that this is nonsense, and Klopp has his own football wisdom.

Fang Jue agrees with this view. He said that his tactics are different from Klopp's tactics.

Because we are better!

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The Times wrote that Fang Jue was definitely not boasting.

Aston Villa's high-position pressing method has become more active than Dortmund's side.

Although Aston Villa will also take advantage of the midfield press, they mainly use this to set up a pressing trap.

Just when the opposition thought it was safe to move the ball the other way, Aston Villa's hidden dagger was at the ready.

Aston Villa's pressing is all-round and more active.

The specific performance is that Aston Villa's overall high-pressure pressing line is higher and more fierce than that of Dortmund.

Of course, there is also a very important point. Aston Villa has Clement and Modric, and Dortmund only has Gundogan and Sven Bender.

This directly determines the counterattack efficiency of the two sides once a steal is formed in this high-position pressing situation.

Thirty-five minutes into the game, Aston Villa attacked the frontcourt.

After Thornton's pass was intercepted by Schmelzer, he immediately countered and knocked the football out of the sideline with his foot.

Then Thornton did not return to the defense immediately. Together with Lewandowski and Hamei, the three of them double-teamed Royce who received the throw-in ball from his teammates.

At this time, the director zoomed out and everyone was stunned. Except for goalkeeper Ter Stegen who was still in front of the goal, the entire Aston Villa team overwhelmed halftime.

Senderos stood in the middle circle, and he was marking Dortmund's most forward Aubameyang.

Clement is on Aubameyang's side, and he is the god of defense.

Thiago Silva leaned to the right side. In front of him was his teammate Modric. The two formed a deterrent to Svenbender and Gotze who might receive the ball.

At this time, Royce, who was double-teamed by Lewandowski, Thornton and Ha Mei, had no way out at all.

He could only pass back to Schmelzer who came to meet him.

Hamei immediately rushed towards Schmelzer.

The latter immediately saw a gap in the Lewandowski-Thornton-Hamei triangle.

From this gap, Gundogan can be seen.

Schmelzer immediately passed the ball to Gundogan.

Then he saw Gundogan shaking his head and yelling while speeding up to catch the ball.

This is Modric, who was marking Sbender, and started to activate when Schmelzer received the ball and was pressed by Lewandowski.

Schmelzer didn't see Modric running because he was blocked from sight, but Gundogan saw it, but it was too late for him to stop Schmelzer from passing the ball.

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Steal! Beautiful! Modric!

Modric cuts off Schmelzer's pass straight down.

While receiving the football, he pulled the ball horizontally, moved his body half a step, and avoided Gundogan's stealing the ball.

Then he directly accelerated the ball and drove straight towards Dortmund's penalty area.

Modric's steal, and his decisive dribble forward, fast and ruthless!

It directly tore through Dortmund's defense.

Schmelzer, Royce, even Gundogan who was passed just now, Subotic in the penalty area, etc., all swarmed towards Modric.

At this time, Modric passed the ball.

The goal is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has long been waiting in the middle of the arc at the top of the penalty area.

I knew it would be passed here! Hummels was overjoyed, the time had come to show his prestige in front of his former mentor, and he rushed towards Ibrahimovic.

Then, Hummels was stunned.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic didn't catch the ball.

The Swedish boss opened his legs and missed the football.

Hummels subconsciously turned his head to look, and saw that Mane had successfully turned offside and caught the football behind him.

The ball was passed by Modric, not Ibrahimovic.

Therefore, as long as Mane moves at the moment Modric passes the ball, even if he is already behind Hummels when he receives the ball, the ball will not be offside.

Single sword!

Wonderful!

beautiful!

Mane faced Dortmund goalkeeper Weidenfeller. He made a gesture to shoot, but he knocked horizontally.

Aston Villa's right-back Thornton, who has been ignored by no one, has arrived in front of the goal. He faces a half-empty goal and shoots directly!

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Gooooooooooooooooooooal!

Thornton! Thornton! Davide Thornton! He steadily scored Mane's pass! One to zero, Aston Villa leads Dortmund 1 to 0 away!

Beautiful! Aston Villa taught their opponents a lesson in front of Dortmund pressing high. The goal is beautiful. Schmelzer obviously fell into Aston Villa's high pressing. A trap, Gundogan wanted to remind him that it was too late.

There is also Modric, who steals beautifully, advances decisively, passes beautifully, and Ibrahimovic's leakage is even more exciting, which directly made Mane's anti-offside success. Facing the goalkeeper, Mane's selfless Passing the ball to Thornton, when the Italian defender was running, no one noticed him at all.

I think this goal will become a classic goal in the Champions League. This goal will be used by many coaches to learn from it. It's wonderful! Lineker was full of praise for this goal.

Fang Jue used more active high-position pressing tactics to teach Klopp, who is good at high-position pressing, a lesson.

Although Klopp couldn't hear these words from the commentator, he was already angry enough.

To be honest, it is useless for the head coach to get angry if he concedes such a goal. It is not because his players are not good, but because the opponent is too strong, and the goal is too beautiful. This is the perfect embodiment of teamwork and personal skills.

However, for Klopp, just like the commentator, being scored by Aston Villa in this way is a slap in the face.

Klopp had a gloomy face and muttered in his mouth.

Thornton, who scored the goal, was very excited. This is the UEFA Champions League semi-final game. In the UEFA Champions League semi-final, he scored the first away game for the team. He is too good!

Italy, Milan.

In front of the TV, Moratti couldn't help standing up and applauding when he saw the goal.

He wasn't applauding the Aston Villa goal.

He was happy for the boy who scored the goal.

David played better at Villa. Moratti said to his son Angelo Mario.

What's the use of playing well, Thornton is no longer from Inter Milan.

Moratti glared at his son, this guy is really good at making people feel bad.

Then, Moratti also sighed, depressed and unhappy.

Although Thornton is not Aston Villa's main right-back right now, he has become an important rotation for Aston Villa's right-back. The young man's value in the German transfer market has climbed to 19 million euros.

You know, when Thornton transferred to Aston Villa two years ago, his worth was only a few million euros, and Thornton's final transfer fee to Aston Villa was only 2.9 million euros!

Thinking of this, Moratti was brooding.

However, he knew that there was nothing he could do about it. No one would have thought that Thornton's career would not be ruined after his meniscus had been removed, but would instead be revived under Fang Jue's hands.

This summer, Davide must be brought back to Meazza. Moratti said, Thornton was the former prince of Inter Milan, and he was determined to bring back the wandering prince.

Aren't you going to change your mind again? Angelo Mario Moratti asked eagerly.

Massimo Moratti has been in charge of Inter Milan for nearly 20 years. Due to the poor management of the Salas Petroleum Group of the Moratti family, it is difficult for Moratti to invest a lot of money in Inter Milan.

Now, the Moratti family is secretly contacting potential buyers, intending to sell Inter Milan.

The rest of the Moratti family welcomed the sale of Inter Milan with all hands. They did not have the deep love for Inter Milan as Massimo Moratti did. black hole.

Yes, I am already preparing to sell the team, what else are you thinking about?

Massimo Moratti was very sad again by what little Moratti said.

Then, Moratti looked at his son very, very unhappy, if you can't speak, just shut up, okay?

The father and son watched the game dully. After a while, the first half ended. Aston Villa temporarily led Dortmund 1-0 away at the Westvalon Stadium with the goal of Italian defender Thornton.

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