Green Journey

"Good audience friends, you are welcome to come to Manchester's Etihad Stadium following the TV signal..."

At 19:45 local time, with the whistle of the referee Laos, the first round of the semi-final between Manchester City and Juventus officially started.

After the opening, neither Manchester City nor Juventus directly launched an attack, but focused on stability.

On Manchester City's side, Guardiola's 3241 formation, which was once a surprise in the Champions League some time ago, appeared again in everyone's sight this time.

Immediately, the commentators in the various live broadcast rooms, as well as the famous football stars and head coaches who watched the game were all in high spirits.

Everyone wants to see how Manchester City's front, middle and back three lines work in Guardiola's tactical system.

It also contains Guardiola's innovative tactical ideas.

As for Juventus, although Allegri ranked a 343 before the game, he was actually a four-back after the opening.

And during the transition between offense and defense, with the withdrawal of the right midfielder Alves, Juventus' formation will quickly switch to five defenders.

"During the opening period, both sides focused on stability. Juventus did not retreat at the beginning."

"Manchester City didn't pick up speed at the beginning like they did in the Premier League."

"It's about steadily controlling the rhythm, using our more mature transmission and control system, and fighting up bit by bit."

"Yes! Usually the more important the game, the more likely the scene will be boring." He Wei said with a smile when he heard Zhang Lu's words, "Like the hot scene between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid yesterday, in the semi-final stage of the Champions League It’s a rare encounter.”

"Hey, everyone knows Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. They have played in the Champions League final twice, so they are not as cautious as Manchester City and Juventus..."

On the sidelines, due to Khedira's yellow card accumulation and suspension, Allegri was a little worried about the state of Marchisio, who has not played much this season, before the game.

But judging from the overall performance of one's own midfielder in the opening few minutes, Marchisio performed well.

Although he can't perfectly replace Khedira's role in the midfield, Allegri is already satisfied with this satisfactory performance.

In the 7th minute of the game, Chu Zheng slightly accelerated the tempo of Manchester City's offensive end.

On the right side of the middle circle of his own half, Chu Zheng unloaded the ball with his chest, then immediately went forward to the right and gave the ball to Sterling on the wing.

Sterling takes the ball and faces Sandro on the inside of the wing.

But in a blink of an eye, Pjanic on the ribs and Mandzukic behind him rushed back like mad dogs.

Sterling was cornered on the wing in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that there was no way to retreat, Sterling directly dribbled the ball and broke through.

He snatched the ball from between Sandro's feet suddenly at the moment when Sandro was close to grab the ball.

At this moment, Pjanic leaned over from his left side and immediately launched a second wave of grabs.

Seeing that he was about to be flanked by Pjanic and Mandzukic, Sterling suddenly swiped the ball to the left, then ran across quickly, and took the ball from behind Pjanic to cut inwards.

After entering the ribs, seeing Pjanic relentlessly follow up, Sterling had no choice but to pass the ball back to Stones who came from the middle.

Stones turned the ball around and stopped, facing the left half, and immediately sent the ball to the left, which is Juventus' weak defensive side, and scored the ball on the right.

Chu Zheng quickly followed along his ribs.

At the same time, Juventus' defensive formation is also rapidly switching from four backs to five backs.

In a blink of an eye, Juventus pulled up a solid five-man front behind the end of the penalty area.

On the outside of the left rib at the top of the arc, the moment Chu Zheng caught up with the ball, Alves also rushed diagonally from the rib.

This former Barcelona winger didn't seem to be afraid of Chu Zheng at all.

Relying on Barzagli's quick replacement behind him, Alves went straight to the ball in front of Chu Zheng.

Although Alves is 34 years old this year, after moving to Juventus this season, he has proved with practical actions that he still maintains a high level of competition.

Numerous European media also believe that Alves' current state is very close to his peak state in Barcelona, ​​which can be said to be a second spring.

In the two rounds against his old club Barcelona in the last round, Alves was not polite to his former teammates.

In the two rounds, the Brazilian fellow Neymar had no temper, and then directly killed the most important point of Barcelona's offensive end.

However, in the next second, Alves, who felt that he was in exceptionally good condition today, rushed out and was slapped by Chu Zheng.

On the outside of the penalty area, facing the aggressive Alves on the right side who followed up the defense, after Chu Zheng caught up with the ball, he suddenly used his left foot to support the position where the ball had just rolled in front of him, and at the same time turned his body sideways, To Alves.

Immediately afterwards, Chu Zheng's right foot passed behind the supporting foot, and his body also moved horizontally in the air with inertia, and stopped the ball suddenly with the instep of his right foot.

"Oh!!!!"

"Crossbowstring, flower-arranging feet stop the ball in reverse!!!" Immediately, He Wei and Zhang Lu in the live broadcast room of Channel [-] exclaimed in surprise at Chu Zheng's coquettish gesture.

In BCC, BTsport and other foreign studios, countless commentators were also stunned by Chu Zheng's fancy movements, and their faces were full of amazement.

"Incredible balance!" Lampard exclaimed. This flower-arranging foot reverse stop movement requires extremely strong balance and sense of the ball.

If the speed is slow, many players with a good sense of the ball can do it.

But to complete this action at the speed of Chu Zheng just now, Lampard thinks that there are not many active players who can do Chu Zheng's level.

"Chu's body is his most powerful weapon!" Lineker next to him was a little excited.

"Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!" In the stands, the Manchester City fans were also shown by Chu Zheng.

It's not that they haven't seen the world, but that Chu Zheng's action is so beautiful, it's very different from other players, and it's a blast to watch.

Just like some fancy movements, different people use them, although the effect can be the same, but due to the difference in body coordination, the movement perception presented is completely different.

This is the case with Chu Zheng. His action just now gave all the fans at the scene a natural feeling. It didn't make people feel blunt at all, and it was very beautiful.

However, Chu Zheng couldn't care less about beauty at this time.

After a sudden stop, he found that Alves had not been completely thrown away. He immediately dialed the ball on the spot and sent Alves another ejection start.

Now Alves couldn't hold it anymore.

Seeing that Chu Zheng was like a fighter jet ejected from an aircraft carrier, Alves subconsciously stomped heavily, stopped and turned sharply, wanting to turn around in the opposite direction and continue to defend.

But the moment Chu Zheng jumped out, Alves' body protested, his feet slipped, and he fell flat on the spot.

"oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Seeing Chu Zheng overthrow Alves, the fans cheered again from the Etihad stands.

In the stands behind the Manchester City bench, Niu Benben grinned and said, "It's too cruel! Blind man is a pervert!"

"Suddenly stop and start a two-combo attack, even Ultraman can't stand it!" Hao Xiao also had a toothache expression.

On the field, Chu Zheng quickly cut inward and entered the ribs after throwing off Alves, and formed a two-on-one local advantage over Barzagli with Sane, who was originally on the end line of the penalty area on the left rib at the top of the arc.

However, at this moment, Juventus made a series of tacit replacements, and in a blink of an eye a man-to-man defensive situation was formed inside and outside the penalty area.

This kind of rapid, one-to-one overall defensive movement really opened Chu Zheng's eyes. The tacit understanding between Juventus players can be said to be superb.

Chu Zheng has never seen this level of defense in the Champions League.

It is said that the Italians have integrated the art of defense into their bone marrow genes and passed it down from generation to generation.

Now Chu Zheng believed it.

No wonder Barcelona lost so badly.

Seeing that Sane's forward penetration did not create a good pass and cut space, Chu Zheng rushed in front of Marchisio from the top of the arc to compress his ball holding space, and swung his right foot to shoot the goal directly. far corner.

"There is!!!"

As soon as the ball left his feet, Chu Zheng felt that he had the ball.

This is the feeling of scoring a goal, you can't go wrong.

However, in the next second, Cech ran a few steps to the left in front of the Juventus goal line, and then flew forward, holding Chu Zheng's ball to the upper left corner of the goal with one hand and out of the bottom line.

"Foo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The rapid exclamation sounded like a stormy sea.

"Damn!!!!!!!!!"

"I buy Karma!!!!!!!!!"

At the on-site commentary booth, seeing Chu Zheng's tricky long-range shot being saved by Buffon, Martin and Smith said dirty words, and their faces were full of disbelief.

On the sidelines, Guardiola held his marinated egg in both hands, with the same dumbfounded expression.

In the live broadcast room of the fifth sports channel, He Wei saw Buffon's sudden attack, smiled and said: Time flies, 40-year-old Buffon ushered in his 100th UEFA Champions League match for Juventus today. "

"However, although he has played in the Champions League for many years, the Big Ears Cup has always been a trophy that Buffon has never touched. It is also the last piece of the puzzle of honor he has been pursuing for many years. It is also one of the motivations for him to maintain a world-class state at the age of 40. source."

Beside He Wei, Zhang Lu was also amazed, and said: "Shen Pu, this kind of ball that is almost going to the dead corner can be saved, Buffon is still the same Buffon!"

After the words fell, Zhang Lu changed the subject and said, "This is the strength of Juventus' defensive system."

"Some people say that Juventus' defense this season is impeccable. Even if a drop of water leaks occasionally, it will be stopped by Buffon. This sentence is the best interpretation of Juventus' defense."

On the field, Chu Zheng also had a look of disbelief.

What the hell, this kind of almost dead corner kick can be saved.

Chu Zheng shook his head again and again, with a wry smile.

Buffon's ability to judge in advance is really amazing.

Off the field, in the Juventus coaching area, Allegri couldn't see much expression on his face, but he was a little flustered inside.

He didn't blame Alves for being reckless in this defense, it was really that Manchester City's monster midfielder was too strong.

In that kind of high-speed movement, the emergency stop can still maintain balance, and then immediately reverse and accelerate to get rid of it, even if it is a young defender, it will not be able to keep up.

Chu Zheng's athletic ability was something he had never seen in his life.

After being frightened by this, Allegri felt more worried.

If Manchester City is just blindly fast and rushing forward like Monaco, he has the confidence to play it to death.

But Manchester City is different. Their midfielder is not like Monaco, which lacks sufficient scheduling and rich offensive routines.

Especially Manchester City today's fast and slow, arbitrary rhythm control, tearing up their overall defensive formation may sometimes be fatal.

Although the outside media say that their defense is as strong as a cement slab poured with reinforced concrete, Allegri doesn't think so.

The average age of their defense is over 30 years old.

Even though Chiellini, Bonucci, Barzagli and others have penetrated into the marrow of the defensive tacit understanding and are superb, under the repeated impact of these young freshmen in the frontcourt of Manchester City, it is absolutely certain that there will be loopholes.

Humans are not machines after all.

On the field, De Bruyne took a right corner kick and found Kompany at the back.

But Chiellini and Bonucci quickly put Kompany on the spot to close the goal. Bonucci looked back at the moon and directly pushed the ball to the ribs outside the penalty area.

The ball was picked up by Marchisio on the left side of the penalty area at the top of the arc. Seeing Sterling rushing up in front of him, he immediately passed the ball to the 30-meter area in the middle.

At this moment, Manchester City immediately launched an on-the-spot counter-robbery.

Yaya Toure in the middle stepped forward, and Stones rushed back along the middle to stare at Pjanic and Higuain before and after the landing.

Stones just rushed in front of Higuain, Pjanic saw Toure approaching, he kept the ball and put the ball forward Higuain.

So the ball just flew between Stones and Higuain, and was kicked directly into the air by Stones.

In the next second, Stones quickly climbed up, and Yaya Toure directly sandwiched Higuain in the middle, and then took the ball back, and directly passed back to the backcourt to reorganize.

On the sidelines, Allegri shook his head and glanced at Guardiola on the right.

Manchester City's 3241 formation is much more difficult than he expected.

Before the game, Allegri and the team thoroughly studied Manchester City, and he did not neglect Manchester City's short-lived 3241, and also conducted a detailed analysis.

But unfortunately, the game video is limited, and there are not many things they can analyze.

But on the spot today, Allegri fully realized the power of Guardiola's 3241 set.

When Manchester City attacked with the ball, Stones joined the midfield to control the ball and cooperate, and even often inserted into the opponent's penalty area to act as a spoiler.

Behind Aguero are Chu Zheng and De Bruyne, both of whom are top players in passing and control skills. They can cooperate with Sane and Sterling to infiltrate and control the situation with short passes, or they can wait for opportunities to make long passes or pass through to find an attack. In the gap, the offensive methods are so rich that it is outrageous.

The most important thing is that Chu Zheng and the others took on the task of directly attacking the goal.

When one side cooperates with the passing breakthrough, the other side actively enters the penalty area. When Aguero attracts defensive attention in the middle, he takes the opportunity to find an opportunity to attack the goal immediately.

In this way, Manchester City can greatly improve the number and quality of attacks and the ability to tear through the opponent's dense defense.

Another point is that on the defensive end, this tactic uses rushing instead of defending to suppress the opponent through the frontcourt.

At first glance, Manchester City seems to have a small number of defenders in the backcourt, but with this attacking lineup, the opponent can only be forced to defend in their own half.

And once Manchester City loses the ball in the frontcourt, 3241 of the 241 will immediately switch to the counter-grab mode, directly forming a multi-person siege in a local area of ​​the opponent's half, encircling and counter-robbing layer by layer.

In this way, if the opponent does not have top-level ball control and quick cooperation, it will be difficult to transfer the ball from the encirclement of Manchester City's frontcourt.

You can't even get the ball out, let alone form an effective counterattack.

With this in mind, Allegri glanced at Guardiola again. This tactical ability is amazing.

No wonder the bald man is said to be smart, his head is so big.