Three hundred and seventieth chapters a hurdle
Before the game, when the players of both sides shook hands with each other, Jose Maria said emotionally: "This is a handshake and confrontation that has been 42 years later!"
The game 42 years ago seemed to have given Atletico Madrid a tragic color to the Champions League final. Atletico Madrid participated in the final twice, but could only win the bitter runner-up.
He had a feeling that Bayern Munich, who made Atletico Madrid hate the final for the first time, seemed to be the source and key to all this, and the shackles on Atletico Madrid's neck were put on by Bayern Munich.
If Atletico Madrid wants to rewrite this fate, they must break this shackle.
Breaking the shackles starts with defeating Bayern Munich.
He hopes that Atletico Madrid can break the projection of fate in this fight with Bayern Munich.
This Atletico Madrid team did not seem to be burdened with a heavy burden of history. After the game started, they performed very positively. Griezmann took the lead in breaking into the penalty area and shot low from a small angle with his left foot. Unfortunately, he did not play the strength and was easily obtained by Neuer.
Although there was no goal, this did not affect the mentality of Atletico Madrid players, and they continued to attack Bayern Munich's goal.
Bayern Munich, led by Guardiola, seems a little uncomfortable with the game entering this fast pace from the beginning.
They are like an old car, and they always need to slowly increase the speed by gear. If the gears are not specified, the speed will not be increased even if they are replaced.
Atletico Madrid is like a Nissan God of War GTR. After turning on the ejection mode, it starts directly at 5,000 rotations. It will be sent to the car and it will be ejected like it is being fired. It starts very fast and can instantly shake off the opponent, so that the opponent can only eat the exhaust gas and watch the taillights from behind.
Faced with Atletico Madrid's fast-paced play, Bayern Munich can only choose to defend first, then make plans after stabilizing.
For Bayern Munich, they only need to withstand the bombardment of Atletico Madrid in the ten minutes of the opening game, and gradually use their excellent pass control technology to seize the initiative of the game in their own hands.
At that time, Atletico Madrid will be mobilized to make their physical energy consumed again and again until they are exhausted, and they will never be able to support their rapid pressing and transfer. By then, Atletico Madrid will be nothing more than a fat meat slaughtered by Bayern Munich.
"Simone chose the way to attack after coming up..." He Ping also saw that he felt that this was a bit risky, but it seemed that it was the only optimal solution that Atletico Madrid could do. After all, if he slowly grinds with an old fried dough stick like Bayern Munich, it would sooner or later fall into Guardiola's rhythm, and he would never know how to die at that time.
It is to bring the game to your own pace as soon as possible and strive to score goals as soon as possible. Once you score a goal, you can stabilize your confidence and cause panic to your opponent.
It's like playing Barcelona at home in the last game.
The only problem is that this style of play is very physically exhausting, and requires some luck, and has relatively strict requirements, that is, Atletico Madrid can score goals in the shortest time.
If you can't score a goal after the start, this fierce and fast style of play will be unsustainable.
Guardiola sat on the chair in the coach's seat and did not get up. He saw Simeone's intentions, but he was not panicked.
He had anticipated this before the game and repeatedly emphasized it to his players. He knew his players knew how to deal with it.
Just wait patiently.
Look at Simeone next to him. He has been standing on the sidelines since the start of the game, paced back and forth, paying attention to the field nervously, and his body language is rich. Seeing him like this, he is not sure, right?
After all, this is a dangerous move and there are great risks.
Guardiola would never take this method. You should know that this is too risky, and this crazy adventure really does not conform to Guardiola's aesthetic. Only gamblers like Simeone can do it...
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Simeone's tactics are not a complicated secret. Everyone can understand them and know the huge risks hidden behind them.
But they put themselves in their shoes. With the football styles of Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich, Simeone seems to have no other better choice.
This is the problem of home first and away games. If you don’t use your home advantage to score more goals in the first leg, you may be reversed in the second leg.
Think about Barcelona, how did they die at the hands of Atletico Madrid?
Any three goals lead may be eliminated!
In the pace of the game that Atletico Madrid can speed up, ten minutes pass quickly.
In these ten minutes, although Atletico Madrid got some opportunities, they did not score any goals by just thunder and rain. Both shots in the penalty area and outside the penalty area were easily resolved by Neuer.
Bayern Munich fans breathed a sigh of relief - Atletico Madrid's offensive just now, they were really worried that the team would concede the ball in the first ten minutes. Didn't Barcelona collapse in the end because they concede the ball in the seventh minute?
The first ten minutes seemed to have become a hurdle. If you didn't lose the ball, you would have successfully overcome this hurdle.
Guardiola is preparing to get up from the coaching table and give some on-site commands to the players and make adjustments on the spot. After passing this hurdle, it is Bayern Munich's turn to gradually take the initiative in the game.
At this moment, Atletico Madrid launched a long pass from the backcourt.
Midfielder Augusto Fernandez jumped up and headed the ball to the top, and then pushed the ball to Gao Zheng, who was retreating and responding.
Gao Zheng got the ball in the midfield, and followed Bayern Munich's midfielder Thiago.
Although Thiago followed Gao Zheng closely, because Gao Zheng protected the football very well, he did not find a chance to step on his feet, so he could only follow Gao Zheng and did not dare to step on his feet rashly.
Gao Zheng was like he didn't know that there was an opponent player behind him, and he was dragging the ball forward. His speed was not fast, as if he was not worried that Thiago would catch up from behind and intercept the ball.
When Gao Zheng took the football forward a few steps, he was getting closer and closer to Bayern Munich's defense line.
At this time, Thiago realized that he could not let Gao Zheng continue to lead like this, so he decided to stretch his foot from behind to destroy the ball.
But just as he stretched out his feet, Gao Zheng suddenly swept the football forward and accelerated!
This trip happened to stab the football away from Thiago's feet, making Thiago lose everything!
After Gao Zheng threw away Thiago, he immediately faced Bayern Munich left-back Bernat, and his center of gravity was tilted to the right, making Bernat think that Gao Zheng was going to break through from his left side.
But just as he was following the center, Gao Zheng's right leg suddenly stretched forward and gently buckled the rolled out football to the left!
Then he kicked the ground with his right foot, changing direction to the left!
As soon as he dunked the football, Bayern Munich's midfielder Alonso rushed up and wanted to intercept the ball.
But Gao Zheng's movements were faster than him, and he threw his left foot out again, slamming the football before Alonso's foot reached and buckled it in front.
At the same time, Gao Zheng also turned around and rushed through Bernat and Alonso.
Although Alonso threw out the center of gravity of his body in order to intercept the ball and shoveled it directly, he still couldn't touch the ball.
Both of him and Alaba fell to the ground and looked quite embarrassed.
Bernat quickly got up and turned around to chase him back, but it was too late.
At this time, Gao Zheng had already dribbled the ball into the penalty area!
"Gao—! Beautiful continuous successive!!!" Jose Maria shouted excitedly.
There was a huge cheer from Calderon Stadium.
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Amid the cheers, Guardiola jumped up from the chair in the coach's seat.
He smelled an unusual danger!
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When Gao Zheng broke into the penalty area, he faced a frontal block from Bayern Munich's central defender Alaba.
Gao Zheng lowered his center of gravity, and the center of gravity quickly moved back and forth between his left and right legs - he made a pendulum extraordinary for Alaba in a very short time!
Alaba was at a loss for a moment when he faced Gao Zheng's extremely deceptive false action.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gao Zheng gently moved the ball to the left side with his left foot and dodged a angle.
This angle is not big, but it is enough for Gao Zheng.
He immediately adjusted his step and shot with a very concealed left foot!
The football flew over Alaba's legs and rushed straight to the far corner of the goal!
Originally, when Neuer, who was at the close-angle blocking angle, saw the football rushing towards Alaba, it was too late to make a save. The football flew over before he rushed to the end, and then flew into the goal against the edge of the far post!
Chapter completed!