211. Derby in the Champions League
May 4 finally arrived as scheduled.
The competition location is located in the traditional industrial area of Germany, Ruhr area.
The venue is Schalke 04's home court, and Feltings Ao went to Schalke Stadium.
This is a very modern stadium, and the hardware facilities on the stadium are even much more perfect than many wealthy clubs that are short of money - such as Milan's two-star Mir, Liverpool and so on.
But this is also a devil hell. In the 2007 Schalke and Stuttgart game, the Blue Miner fans once set a horror record of 129 decibels!
It was obviously the warm-up time before the game, and there were more than 20 minutes left before the start of the game, but the noisy German fans have already built the entire stadium into a real battlefield.
Although fans of the Bernabeu and Camp Nou are fanatical, they have the elegance and reserve of noble families. They will not be as crazy and unscrupulous as these German men. In the stadium that Longshute has experienced, perhaps only Anfield far away in the UK has had such an atmosphere.
That night, the stadium was dyed blue with more than 50,000 home fans, and thousands of Dutch fans who went to Germany with the team could only compete with them in a small corner.
Red and blue are the two major colors of 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 2010-11 European Champions League semi-finals. Schalke 04 plays Ajax at home, and I am 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 Dutch Eredivisie overlord who has been paying attention to the entire two seasons, and the other is the powerful team he often meets in the Bundesliga. He also won the league runner-up last season.
"Hello everyone, I'm Tao Wei."
The guest he partnered with is also a veteran Bundesliga fan and a supporter of Bayern Munich, Tutor Tao, who only heard him say:
"Ajax and Schalke are both dark horses of this Champions League. Ajax is better. After all, he has won the Champions League four times and has defeated Schalke and Real Madrid in a very strong manner last season to advance to the quarterfinals.
But Schalke is different. Although they are second in the Bundesliga, their performance this season is somewhat extreme. They once fell into the relegation zone in the league, and head coach Magath was also dismissed. However, after changing to Ronnick, they staggered into the semi-finals in the Champions League.
I have to say that although they have attracted a lot of attention by relying on their Champions League results, this is definitely an unhealthy operational concept. In any case, league results are the foundation of a team. Even if they win the Champions League championship, the team has been demoted to Class B, which is definitely unpaid..."
"Ahem cough cough..."
Duan Yixuan couldn't help but cough because he was afraid that some audience members would criticize the guest.
Bayern Munich, you support, has not won the league championship for several consecutive seasons, so what are the league results?
No matter how trash Schalke is, he was at least the runner-up won by Bayern last season!
After coughing, Duan Yixuan took over the topic:
"The reason why these two teams attract attention is that in addition to being dark horses, they also have a common feature. They have a player from China in their team."
Tao Wei laughed and recovered from the conversation he had just spoken:
"That's right, Long Shute is the starting lineup in Ajax, and Hao Junmin, who is Schalke, has also entered the roster. This can be called a Chinese derby in the Champions League!"
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China Derby?
Long Shute looked at his national teammates sitting on the bench and couldn't help but shake his head.
Except for the half season when he just joined Schalke, Hao Junmin did not get any chance to play this season.
Magat transformed him into a full-back, but Atsuto Uchida, who had joined Schalke, did better than him. With Magat's departure, new coach Ronnick had no interest in him at all, and his position in the team plummeted.
Schalke 04 is the miners' team, and they do not need to sell cars to the Chinese market, so the club has lost patience with this introverted Chinese international...
Long Shute dared to bet that if Schalke led Ajax in the big score of 04, Ronnick might have another point that would make Hao Junmin show up, but if the situation was stalemate, Ronnick would rather not substitute than let him play...
But the question is... Schalke, who was just massacred by Bayern three days ago, has the confidence to lead Ajax with great scores?
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Everyone was surprised when referee Pronza, from Portugal, blew the whistle to the start of the game.
Even Van Basten was shocked.
Two Ajax strikers Suarez and Hamdavi looked at each other's lineup and could only smile bitterly.
"Schalke 04 is showing a five-back lineup?"
This may be the first time Duan Yixuan discovered what lineup the opponent was in ten minutes of kick-off?
Because Rangnick's intentions were too obvious.
Two full-backs Atsuto Uchida and Escudro were on the left, and three central defenders Metzeld, Hevedes and Papadopolos gathered in the middle, which was very useful for the strong men to submerge the two forwards, Suarez and Hamdavi.
"Damn..."
Van Basten couldn't help but cover his eyes:
"Ronnick, you are also a famous German tactical expert. In order to win, you can learn bus tactics from a Portuguese coach?"
Borgkamp, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but complain in his heart:
Just two weeks ago, in order to deal with Barcelona, I wonder who has been studying the bus tactics of Chelsea and Inter Milan?
Van Basten sneezes immediately:
"Germany is so cold!"
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"This... we can all understand Schalke wants to keep a steady foothold in an important game like the Champions League semi-final, but his arrangement of troops may make the game dull and boring."
Duan Yixuan shook his head, obviously very dissatisfied.
As a commentator, of course, he hopes that both sides will have a battle of Mars. It is best not to set up defensive players. Whoever defends is counted as losing...
Only constant shooting and goals can make the audience who stay up late to watch the game be energetic, and can also reflect the narrator's own style.
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Perhaps Rangnick also has his own difficulties. After all, Ajax's attack power is indeed extraordinary. They were able to concede only one goal in the last game, because goalkeeper Neuer's cheat was too big. Who knows whether Neuer's cheat was renewed this time? After all, he just scored four goals by Bayern. Obviously, his cheat level is not too high, and it takes a certain cooling time to reopen...
In addition to the five defenders, Schalke did not send out a few more beastly waists in the midfield - they wanted to send, but they really didn't...
25-year-old Jose Jurado is still the core of offense and defense of the team. He is surrounded by Alexander Baum John, who has only played in the team for more than 400 minutes this season. The team's scorer king, Raul, the Lord of the Rings, is on the front line, and Falvan and Draxler are cruising on both sides as two wings.
Except for Falfan, these five players have some defensive ability, they are almost always air on the defensive end:
First of all, the midfield core Jurado has a typical Spanish midfield figure, 172 cm tall and 70 kg. It feels quite balanced in terms of numbers, but in the confrontation, it is the type that falls when you touch it.
Secondly, Baum John, a midfielder, is about the same height and weight as Long Shute, but this midfielder, who was once known as one of the top 8 top ten demons in the live football, is an absolute technical offensive player. His favorite game method is to break through the ball and stage long-distance raids that have passed several people in a row. As for defense, I'm sorry... that's not his job.
Being the genius of German football, Draxler is less than 18 years old. You can't hand over the team's defensive tasks to a minor winger, right?
Finally...you can't expect the Lord of the Rings, who is already 34 years old, to defend, right?
Chapter completed!