Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid - Chapter 434
c423 Be the first! Be the champion! [Please support the new book
Chapter 423 Be the first! Be the champion! [Please support the new book~]
Leon’s provocative remarks have long been commonplace to Barcelona fans.
Of course, they still have to fight back, or at least pretend to fight back, which is also a “classic program” in the La Liga arena.
As long as Leon’s unbeaten record against Barcelona is not broken, he will always have the qualifications to make provocative remarks against Barcelona.
Barcelona fans do not have the confidence to fight him to the end, and more neutral fans have no objection to this.
Who made Barcelona unable to win this breath and did not beat Leon even once?
The sports media in the Catalan region remained silent before the game this time, and it seems that they have really learned their lesson.
Seeing this, Leon did not continue to express any opinions on the King’s Cup final.
The game will ultimately be judged by the results of the game.
Occasionally, he would tease the nerves of Barcelona fans and make jokes, and he did not want to be a big talker.
So a war of public opinion was aborted before it even started.
Before that, there was almost no rotation, and after enduring this intensive schedule, Li Ang finally had his rare vacation.
The vacation time was not long, only two days.
Li Ang stayed at home to accompany his girlfriend, and Real Madrid did not continue to stumble in the league without him.
Real Madrid, with half of the main players on the away expedition, finally defeated Osasuna 2-0 and won the 20th league victory of the season.
Three days later, Real Madrid set off for Germany in advance, and Li Ang went with the team. They will start the first round of the Champions League knockout match with Dortmund on the evening of February 15.
Coming to the familiar Westfalen Stadium again, the picture of Li Ang and Ronaldo looking at the sunset side by side in a casual suit became the picture of the tweet of Real Madrid official in the evening.
The list of starting superstars announced by Real Madrid’s first team also brought heavy pressure to the Hornets fans!
The eleven-man lineup was announced one day in advance. There was no intention to look down on Dortmund. Real Madrid showed full confidence!
It was to break through the away game first. The starting lineup was released. No matter how the Dortmund coaching staff studied and targeted them, Real Madrid was not afraid.
This is the strong confidence that the outstanding performance of this season has brought to the entire Real Madrid team!
Dortmund naturally dare not underestimate the confident Real Madrid. Today is different from the past. Compared with 2013, their strength has declined too much.
The main lineup has almost been replaced, and their current midfield is far less powerful than it was back then.
The Dortmund coaching staff headed by Tuchel seized the last night before the game to make tactical adjustments.
So on the evening of February 15, the Real Madrid players who boarded the Westfalen Stadium saw a Dortmund team that changed to 343.
This is quite different from the 352 formation that Tuchel used the most this season.
Ancelotti and Li Ang initially thought that Tuchel felt that he could not defend at home, so he had to change the formation and give it a try, so he put out a more offensive 343 formation.
As a result, when the game started, the two wingers of Dortmund, Reus and Ousmane Dembele, were inward, and they looked closer to the middle than the wing.
And the two of them played more like attacking midfielders, or central midfielders.
Because. Today, the two defensive midfielders Weigl and Castro arranged by Tuchel did not dribble forward, but these two players who were supposed to play as wingers often retreated to get the ball and then advance forward.
Well, this is not a 343, it’s just a variant of the conservative 361…
After playing on the field for a while, Li Ang also tasted the taste. Tuchel’s idea was to “have both”.
When defending or controlling the field, he hoped that the two retreating wingers would do more midfield work.
Assist in defense, assist in getting the ball, and organize the advancement.
Reus can certainly sacrifice for the team to this extent, what about Ousmane Dembele?
If the coaching staff has a hard requirement, he should be able to complete the latter two tactical tasks.
The key is that when the team switches from defense to offense, Tuchel still wants Reus and Dembele to quickly advance to the penalty area to help Aubameyang contain Real Madrid’s midfield and backcourt defense!
This is quite excessive, it is simply using the two wingers as cattle.
In terms of ability, Reus can actually meet Tuchel’s tactical requirements, but his physical fitness does not support it!
Reus in his peak period could not withstand Klopp’s high-intensity use. Tuchel’s use of this method may not drain Reus’ physical fitness in half a game.
Logically speaking, Tuchel should give the task of organizing forward insertion and defense to the two midfielders he sent today.
So Li Ang could not understand Tuchel’s intention to squeeze the two offensive players for a while.
But he didn’t know that it was because of his presence that Tuchel didn’t dare to let his two defensive midfielders advance easily, in order to limit his performance.
Li Ang still underestimated his powerful destructive power on the ecological balance of the midfield in today’s football world.
Almost every head coach of a European powerhouse team is thinking about how to limit his offensive performance in the back.
In the past, many German media would praise Li Ang, saying that he was the new Matthäus of this football era, but now no German media would say such things.
Because Li Ang’s dominant performance on both offense and defense has far surpassed that of Matthäus back then!
Especially his almost unsolvable kaleidoscope attack from behind.
If he is double-teamed, he will send precise passes to his teammates on both sides to tear open the defensive space.
If he is not double-teamed and is defended one-on-one, he will simply force past the defender and then directly perform the “point-to-surface” method of breaking the game.
This trick has been tried and tested by him, but the coaches of various powerful teams have racked their brains to come up with a solution for this!
Of course, Tuchel is also among these worried coaches.
His final conclusion is that Li Ang’s personal ability on both offense and defense has far exceeded most star players.
So either use two powerful defensive stars to suppress his performance, or accumulate enough defensive forces in the middle, only targeting Li Ang, and then give more tactical tasks on the field to other players to share.
Well, at first glance, this response plan makes sense, but in fact, how long can the players who share more tactical tasks last in the high-intensity game confrontation on the field?
Li Ang didn’t quite understand Tuchel’s “weird intention”, but this did not prevent him from suggesting that his teammates consume more of Reus and Dembele’s physical strength.
His keen tactical sense allowed him to quickly grasp the key to breaking the deadlock.
Other Dortmund players, such as Castro, Guerrero, or Aubameyang, are not key figures in Dortmund in Li Ang’s view.
They are more like screws on the simple machine of Dortmund rather than core components.
In Li Ang’s view, the only offensive core figures are Reus, who can connect the frontcourt offense, and Dembele, who has outstanding explosive point ability.
So consuming them and suppressing them is the top priority, and the rest of the Dortmund players should just defend normally.
Li Ang’s tactical choice is very direct.
Ancelotti didn’t have any opinions after observing for a while off the court.
Ten minutes had passed, and Tuchel could barely sit still. But after another ten minutes, Tuchel looked at Reus and Dembele, who were still flying up and down but whose tactical effects were not outstanding, and sweat immediately oozed out of his palms!
It was really forced to choose such a tactical style, but even if the hope was small, Tuchel still had some expectations in his heart.
As long as he could open up the situation and play effectively in the first half, it would be best to score a goal first. In the second half, at most he would make substitutions and replace them with new forces to fight Real Madrid’s defense.
Not to mention winning, as long as he could ensure that he did not lose at home, Tuchel felt that he was worthy of the fans at home and the support of the top management.
As for the second round?
Let’s go to the Bernabeu and talk about it. At most, he would fight hard, and even if he lost, he would lose with dignity.
Tuchel’s idea was very simple. He would defend the home court and save the team’s face first, and then talk about promotion. He thought his requirements were not excessive.
But now looking at the stalemate on the court, his calculations are likely to fail.
Reus and Dembele did too much work in the midfield, but in fact, they kept receiving the ball and running in and out, which were all actively lured and forced by Real Madrid.
The physical fitness of the entire Real Madrid team is very abundant, so as long as Li Ang feels that it is not time to press forward and harvest, Real Madrid can continue to wear down the physical fitness of the two Dortmund front-court cores.
As for the offensive launched by other Dortmund players, it is really not enough for Real Madrid’s backcourt defense.
Putting aside Reus and Dembele, except for Aubameyang who can occasionally pull out of the penalty area to receive the ball and rush for a while, the ability of the rest of the Dortmund players is really too “mediocre”.
The core players cannot exert their strength to drive them, and their performance can only be regarded as medium and lower level among the giants.
Even if Real Madrid’s back line still has to take certain risks, Li Ang feels that such risks are worth taking for Real Madrid!
As expected, after the first half hour of the first half, Dembele was the first to slow down his running pace.
He may not be unable to withstand the intensity of the game, but it is more likely that he began to get upset because he doubted the tactical formulation of the coaching staff.
Reus barely held on for a while, but in the 40th minute of the first half, it was difficult to raise his pace.
He could continue to persevere after a break, but the terrible thing is that Real Madrid will not give him time to rest and adjust.
As the frequency of their retreat decreased, Weigl and Castro’s pressure to get the ball in the midfield increased dramatically.
Real Madrid did not really launch a stranglehold on Dortmund until this point!
And only four minutes later, Bale jumped high after interlacing at the back point of Dortmund’s penalty area, and finally overpowered Bartra to head the cross sent by Ronaldo into Dortmund’s goal!
Tuchel, sitting in the coaching seat, buried his entire face deeply in his hands on his knees.
His tactical plan was completely bankrupt.
Real Madrid played high pressure for 40 minutes, only grabbing but not attacking, and after consuming a lot of physical energy of two core players in the frontcourt of Dortmund, the balance of the game was broken in one fell swoop!
Li Ang didn’t even exert much strength at this point, how should Dortmund deal with the second half of the game?
Replace Schurrle and Pulisic, will Real Madrid continue to consume them like this and make them unable to run?
Tuchel was very pessimistic, but at the beginning of the second half of the game, he immediately replaced Dembele, who was running passively, with Pulisic.
Dortmund’s formation also changed accordingly, becoming a normal 343.
When Li Ang saw that Tuchel was not doing anything, he also commanded his teammates to press forward and confront Dortmund in the midfield!
As a result, Dortmund decisively handed over the control of the midfield before even fifteen minutes of the second half, and could only choose to shrink the formation to fight Real Madrid’s counterattack.
Tuchel was still very clear-headed on this point, knowing that he had to counterattack against Real Madrid and defend thoroughly.
He also hoped that Pulisic on the field could have a brilliant performance on the counterattack end to help Dortmund recover from the decline.
But “Captain America” was obviously not used to Real Madrid’s high-position strangulation and pressing.
Dortmund’s counterattack basically started and ended with him. There was no way, the ball was lost too quickly.
Li Ang was no longer very interested in Reus, who was physically exhausted, and he kept grabbing Pulisic.
Poor Pulisic was also the first time to suffer such targeted treatment.
As Tuchel’s carefully prepared tactical back-up, he was silent, and Real Madrid scored again under the strong attack!
This goal came from Benzema’s point-blank shot in the penalty area.
After Li Ang and Bale made a two-on-one wall cooperation, he dribbled into the sideline of Dortmund’s penalty area, and then he passed the ball to help Carvajal who was advancing successfully send an accurate ground pass!
Benzema showed his keen sense of smell in front of the goal this time.
The appropriate running position and stable shooting under confrontation made him look completely different from the happy forward in the past.
And his goal also directly pushed Dortmund to a dead end.
In the 66th minute of the second half, Tuchel replaced Reus and Castro with Schurrle and Shinji Kagawa respectively.
In this way, Weigl was the only orthodox midfielder left in Dortmund!
The two wingbacks Guerrero and Durm were still very active in the frontcourt, which put Weigl under great pressure.
Seeing this, Real Madrid shrank its formation and launched a counterattack like Dortmund did before!
Soon, Real Madrid’s quick counterattacks frequently threatened Dortmund’s backcourt defense.
In the 74th minute of the second half, Li Ang quietly pulled to the side and inserted at high speed during the counterattack. He received Modric’s through ball and accelerated, and directly passed the slower Weigl!
Facing the fierce attack of Bartra, Li Ang decisively dunked and cut inside!
After obtaining sufficient dribbling space and shaking off Bartra’s defense, he chose to kick the ball decisively!
This powerful long shot soon whizzed straight to the upper right corner of Dortmund’s goal!
Burki had already made a prediction by moving his steps in advance. His prediction was correct. He also tried his best to push off the ground and stretch his arms at the first time.
But in the end, his fingertips were still a little away from the football!
When the football hit the crossbar and the goal post and bounced into the goal, the Westfalen Stadium finally fell silent.
Li Ang ran to the end line and raised his index finger to the live camera with a smile.
This not only represents the number of goals he scored in this game, but also represents his expectations for his team this season.
Be the first!
Be the champion!
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