Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid - Chapter 386

c379 The attacking Blues, the misguided Bayern.

“…Today, Chelsea and Bayern Munich both chose to start with a 4231 formation.

The starting goalkeeper for the home team Bayern is Neuer. Pellegrini still chose the double central defender combination of Alaba and Boateng on the back line, Bernat on the left, and Lahm on the right.

Tiago and Javi Martinez are double defensive midfielders, Muller is the front midfielder, Ribery and Robben are the left and right wing forwards.

The starting center is Lewandowski.”

“Chelsea’s starting goalkeeper today is Oblak. Terry replaced the injured Maguire and Thiago Silva on the back line. The left and right sidebacks are Azpilicueta and Trippier.

In the midfield, Matic and Kroos are behind, Li Ang is the front midfielder, and Hazard and De Bruyne are on both sides of Li Ang.

The starting center is Suarez…”

When the game just started, commentators from various countries also took the time to complete the introduction of the starting lineups and players of the two teams.

In general, Chelsea and Bayern are currently facing the embarrassing situation of the main players missing from the team, and Mourinho and Pellegrini have also chosen a more stable starting lineup.

After the game officially started, the two teams’ cautious passing and attacking tests on the court can also show the stability of the two teams’ coaching staff in choosing tactics today.

However, Chelsea’s Li Ang, who mainly holds the ball on the offensive end, is indeed more active. He also put a lot of pressure on Bayern’s midfield and backcourt defense in several attempts to advance with the ball.

Thiago and Javi Martinez are also old rivals with Li Ang in the Champions League, and the two dare not be careless at all.

As soon as Li Ang advances with the ball, the two of them retreat very actively and do not want to give Li Ang the opportunity to continue to advance to his own defensive third zone.

Even Alaba, who has now transformed into a central defender and often advances with the ball in the Bundesliga, squatted in the backcourt at the beginning of today’s game.

Such scenes are rare. Bayern, who always takes the initiative in attacking, chose to take the initiative to defend against Chelsea today.

Who said that Pellegrini doesn’t know how to adapt to tactical selection?

It seems that he doesn’t just strengthen the attack blindly!

Pellegrini also knows that facing the more powerful Chelsea, he needs to consolidate the defense first and then look for opportunities to counterattack.

This is the same as Guardiola becoming more pragmatic in the Premier League.

When playing against other teams, you can stick to your own tactical ideas or even do tactical experiments, but when you meet Chelsea, you need to be flexible.

Pellegrini will still lead Bayern to play offensive football when he returns to the Bundesliga and strongly suppress other Bundesliga teams.

However, if Bayern wants to avoid losses in front of Chelsea today, Pellegrini really needs to change his tactical thinking and can’t go all the way on the offensive end.

Mourinho was also a little surprised by Pellegrini’s tactical changes.

But on second thought, he can understand the reason for Pellegrini’s change.

Now, as Bayern has given up the offensive dominance of the game, a tactical problem has also appeared in Mourinho’s mind.

That is, will Chelsea take over the control of the game or not?

Should they take more active pressure on Bayern at Bayern’s home court?

In the past, such a problem would not bother Mourinho, after all, Chelsea is often the one who takes the initiative to defend first.

But now is different from the past. Even a strong opponent like Bayern needs to bow down to Chelsea first, and Mourinho also needs to consider the possibility of taking the initiative to attack when encountering other teams in the future.

Holland quickly discussed with Mourinho on the side.

The two did not waste too much time. After about two minutes, Holland stood on the sidelines and made a new tactical adjustment gesture to the Chelsea players on the field.

Mourinho chose to take over the offensive initiative given up by Bayern!

Since Pellegrini dared to give it, he dared to take it.

Active attack is not a problem for Chelsea. Mourinho believes that Leon and Kroos will control the ball and sort out the team’s attack.

After Leon confirmed the direction of tactical adjustment with Holland, he changed his previous practice of actively taking the ball to test the strength of Bayern’s defense.

He began to retreat more and take the ball, and sort out the ball with Kroos to drive the team’s overall forward pressure.

Such organizational work is not a problem for Leon and Kroos.

The whole Chelsea team also quickly forced across the center line and began to put pressure on Bayern’s two defense lines in Bayern’s half.

Such a situation made the Bayern fans at the scene feel quite uneasy, but for the Bayern coaching staff, they were waiting for such an opportunity!

Bayern now has almost no opponents in the Bundesliga, and Dortmund can’t take advantage of them in direct dialogue.

So even if there is no huge points gap with Dortmund in the Bundesliga, the whole Bayern team does not regard the Hornets as a threatening challenger.

Compared to the Bundesliga titles that they have won in recent seasons, the Bayern team naturally wants to continue to write legendary records in the Champions League.

Just as Chelsea regards them as their biggest opponent in the Champions League, Bayern naturally regards Chelsea as their biggest obstacle in the Champions League.

So when it comes to studying Chelsea, Bayern’s coaching staff can be said to be no worse than Manchester City’s coaching staff.

Pellegrini has studied Chelsea’s tactical play over and over again this season.

So Pellegrini decisively gave up the idea of ​​attacking Chelsea before the game, and he didn’t want to fight a positional war with Chelsea at all.

Because the records and results of dozens of Chelsea games in the past two seasons clearly told the Bayern coaching staff a fact:

The teams that attacked Chelsea’s defense did not end well in the end.

These teams could not get even one point from Chelsea, because the teams that dared to attack Chelsea were basically defeated by Chelsea’s counterattack!

Bayern had suffered too much in this regard before, so Pellegrini was unwilling to repeat the same mistake.

Even if they tied with Chelsea in the first round and did not gain half an advantage at home, he was unwilling to command the team to attack Chelsea’s tough defense.

Not to mention the positional battle, when the rhythm of the game is slowed down, Chelsea’s defensive system will be their most powerful weapon to win!

It just so happens that Chelsea’s young main central defender Maguire was injured recently.

Terry’s speed of movement is not a strong point, so Chelsea will naturally prefer to play positional warfare with opponents to avoid exposing too many defensive weaknesses.

If Bayern wants to disintegrate Chelsea’s defensive system in the first round and get a big enough lead, it must avoid being dragged into the quagmire of positional warfare by Chelsea again.

So the Bayern coaching staff has formulated a tactical plan to give up the offensive initiative first.

And so far, their plan is running in an orderly manner, and everything is going smoothly.

Chelsea’s active forward pressure also created the prerequisite for Bayern’s quick counterattack!

Li Ang thought on the court that Bayern deliberately gave up the control of the game just to fight Chelsea’s counterattack.

But even so, he did not think that Mourinho’s decision to adjust tactics and actively besiege Bayern was wrong.

Opportunities and risks have always coexisted on the field. You can’t get the bonus of active offense while avoiding the risk of being counterattacked by the opponent.

The same is true for counterattacks. If you have the bonus of counterattacks behind the opponent’s defense line, you must first bear the risk of being besieged by the opponent and losing the defense line.

So Li Ang has no objection to actively attacking Bayern. Bayern dares to give up control of the game, and Chelsea will naturally dare to take over!

What’s better than worrying too much?

In terms of offense, is Chelsea still afraid of any opponent in football?

Li Ang looked at his forward teammates in front of him, and his heart was full of confidence.

This is the forward trident composed of Hazard + Suarez + De Bruyne!

Single-point blasting, passing organization, penalty area end… This forward combination has everything, no worse than Real Madrid’s current BBC combination.

Li Ang firmly believes that after getting enough ball possession opportunities, his forward teammates will be able to break down and conquer Bayern’s defense.

Bayern’s coaching staff thought well, but they still seriously underestimated the strength limit of Chelsea’s current forward combination.

By the end of this season, when Suarez wins the Premier League Golden Boot or even the European Golden Boot, no coaching staff will dare to formulate a tactic that allows him to attack and shoot…

Chelsea’s entire team is pressing forward and attacking very quickly.

Pellegrini is still very confident in his own defenders at this time.

Admittedly, Bayern’s current defense line does have a huge lead in the Bundesliga.

But when Bayern gave up the initiative to attack and just squatted to defend.

Several players on Bayern’s defense line do not have the strong defensive advantage they imagined.

At least Bernat and Alaba’s defensive strength is not at the top level of their respective positions.

Chelsea took down Atletico’s defense line last summer, and this year the forward line has been upgraded.

Li Ang, to be honest, he really doesn’t know where Pellegrini got the confidence to let Chelsea take the initiative to attack first!

In the 9th minute of the first half, Li Ang joined the attack.

After quickly transferring the ball to De Bruyne, he moved forward to the back of Bayern’s penalty area to attract the attention of Bayern’s defensive players.

De Bruyne also tacitly lifted the ball to the front of Bayern’s penalty area.

Suarez, who broke free from the defensive constraints, moved smartly and forced Neuer to make the first god-level save of the game with a shot!

The ball was finally saved by Neuer and after getting up from the grass in a slightly embarrassed manner, Neuer also directly roared to signal his defensive teammates not to play with fire!

Boateng was also very aggrieved at this time. After all, when Li Ang moved forward into the penalty area just now, he had to defend him immediately.

At this time, the responsibility of marking Suarez obviously had to be borne by Alaba.

Alaba’s defensive omissions for a while made him be scolded together, which was obviously a bit unfair.

But as the current organizing leader of Bayern’s defense line, Boateng could only hold back his emotions and signal to Neuer that he understood.

But he did not expect that this was just Chelsea’s offensive appetizer.

Since then, Li Ang has maintained aggressive pressure on Bayern’s defense, and Boateng can only passively focus more defensive energy on Li Ang.

This is not Boateng’s fault. After all, everyone knows how threatening it is for Li Ang to join the attack.

Li Ang can be a feint now, pulling the Bayern defense for Suarez.

But as long as Boateng switches defense with Alaba, Li Ang can become the main attacker at any time!

Do Bayern’s defensive players dare to gamble?

They don’t dare to gamble, because the outcome of losing the bet is likely to be a loss of the ball. Who dares to take such a responsibility?

Pellegrini looked at the passive situation of his own defense and was somewhat shaken.

Chelsea’s offensive routine is completely an open conspiracy. Li Ang specializes in Boateng, allowing Suarez to gain the upper hand in the offensive and defensive contest with Alaba.

Bayern can either further mobilize midfielders to retreat to defend and double-team Chelsea’s forwards, or withstand the current defensive pressure and continue to patiently wait for counterattack opportunities.

Such multiple-choice questions have always been difficult to make. Pellegrini was a little hesitant in the on-the-spot adjustment, and it was really difficult for him to make a decision for a while.

The consequence of his hesitation was that Bayern’s defense was constantly beaten and dragged by Chelsea.

When the defensive pressure was too great, the actions of the defensive players would inevitably be affected and deformed.

In the 28th minute of the first half, Chelsea, which had been exerting pressure on Bayern’s defense for more than ten minutes, found another threatening offensive opportunity.

Li Ang’s running position allowed De Bruyne’s cross pass to directly reach Kroos’ feet.

The former Bayern midfielder’s sharp through pass allowed Hazard, who was diagonally inserted into the rib area of ​​Bayern’s half, to easily get the ball into Bayern’s defensive hinterland!

For a while, there was chaos in Bayern’s penalty area!

Hazard took the opportunity to send a cross, and Boateng also gritted his teeth and let go of Li Ang who continued to feint at this time, and went straight to the back of the penalty area!

Suarez’s running position at the back of Bayern’s penalty area had already stood in a favorable offensive position one step ahead of Alaba.

He originally wanted to head the ball directly, but seeing Boateng coming to assist quickly, Suarez quickly changed his mind to attack.

After jumping, shaking his head, and completing the header ferry, Suarez cast his expectant eyes towards the middle of Bayern’s penalty area!

In the area where Suarez was looking at, Li Ang had already stopped the ball steadily, and then almost shot it in place without a run-up!

Neuer, whose defensive vision was disturbed by too many players from both sides, gritted his teeth and made a save choice, but his save reaction was still half a beat slower this time!

The football that Li Ang pulled out was like a cannonball, whistling quickly and diving into the net in the upper left corner of Bayern’s goal!

The next moment, in the suddenly silent Allianz Arena in Munich, Li Ang opened his arms and ran passionately towards the corner flag area of ​​Bayern’s half!

The rest of the Chelsea players also rushed up and celebrated with Li Ang at Bayern’s home!

With this away goal, Chelsea will get the result they want most at Bayern’s home!

At this moment, Pellegrini, who was distracted, looked at Li Ang who was roaring passionately, and couldn’t help shaking his head repeatedly.

He was lamenting in his heart just like countless Bayern fans now.

Mistake!

Mistake!

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