I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 193 Endgame and Tucao

There is not much time left for Atletico Madrid in the game. Taking advantage of Atletico Madrid's crazy counterattack and unstable formation, Manchester City played a rather threatening attack instead.

In the 806th minute of the game, when Aguero and Zhao Jinge crossed to the left of the penalty area to meet Yaya Toure's pass, he pulled the ball across and blasted a high-quality shot after swinging out of an angle.

The football flew to the lower right corner of the goal, and Oblak blocked the ball with a single palm in the middle of a flying save.

Manchester City fans were amazed.

This little-known goalkeeper in their eyes is so powerful?
It took Oblak a year to become the third-generation Atletico Madrid goalkeeper after De Gea and Courtois.

In the eyes of Atletico Madrid fans and even La Liga fans, this save is a routine operation.

But for Manchester City fans who have little knowledge of Atletico Madrid's games, O'Barack's performance in this game has surprised them a bit.

What is a door god?

One of the characteristics of the goalkeeper is the non-world wave shots from outside the penalty area, basically don't want to be able to score!
Oblak's performance this season is definitely enough for this title!
Atlético Madrid quickly launched a counterattack. Saul came to the left side of the backcourt. Felipe Luis passed the ball to him. Mahrez and Clichy flanked him. Gabby completes the hit-the-wall fit.

After coming to a position close to the middle to stop the ball, the aggressive Saul spotted a gap in Manchester City's midfield and sent a long pass without hesitation.

After the re-kick-off, Griezmann, who had been looking for opportunities in the hinterland of Manchester City, had a keen insight into this and accurately received Saul's pass while running.

Griezmann advanced alone in the frontcourt. When facing Stones and Kompany, he went outside to speed up the breakthrough. Stones and Kompany flanked him one after another. Drop interception.

The three people in the small space were immediately entangled together, and they were thrown off their feet.

Griezmann rolled to the ground, but the referee did not blow his whistle. Kompany managed to break the football from Grid's feet.

The Frenchman who got up from the ground was also unequivocal. He didn't even bother to shoot the grass clippings on his body. He hurried forward and chased after two steps.

He directly chose to shovel Kompany from the side and rear. Fortunately, when Griezmann stretched his foot, Kompany passed the ball in advance.

Then he was directly brought down by Griezmann. Kompany stood up and looked at Griezmann fiercely. After the latter got up, he continued to run to the backcourt.

The referee did not blow his whistle because the offense was favorable.

Cork tripped Clichy to the ground when he tackled forward.

The referee blew his whistle at this time.

Then he turned around and showed Griezmann a yellow card, which was reissued.

Griezmann, who was a little angry, complained endlessly, and was worried that the referee hadn't called Stones for fouling him just now.

In the 809th minute of the game, De Bruyne, under the defense of Gabi, touched the ball and suddenly retreated when he touched the ball.

Gabi did not expect that De Bruyne would choose to withdraw. In fact, the reason why De Bruyne chose to withdraw at this time was just to kill the last time of the game with more kicks.

In these seven or eight minutes, Atletico Madrid's players showed Manchester City how they settled down and snatched the capital from Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Relying on their fierce pressing and not afraid of fouls and collisions, they have begun to disrupt the rhythm of Manchester City in the final stage of the game.

At present, the situation on the entire field is beginning to become chaotic. After receiving the prompt from the sidelines, De Bruyne immediately made a decision to kill time and stick to the lead.

A two-goal lead is enough, as long as Manchester City does not make mistakes in the away game, this advantage has already allowed them to imagine a trip to Milan.

After taking two steps back, De Bruyne quickly turned around and faced Griezmann. When he made a pass, Griezmann had no doubts at all, only when he wanted to pass the mass The transmission continues to consume time.

But De Bruyne suddenly smashed the ball and changed direction to kill Griezmann, and suddenly made the premise in the process of going backwards.

At this time, Griezmann reacted, and immediately turned around to press the confrontation. De Bruyne's change of direction from the dribble back to the fake fax dunk, part of which was learned from Zhao Jinge.

In Wolfsburg, Zhao Jinge took the lead in dancing on the tip of the knife, that is, he did not move forward when the counterattack was launched, but retreated to avoid the opponent's first counterattack.

If it is in a dangerous area, De Bruyne would not dare to dance on the tip of the knife so blatantly, but it is very useful to interrupt the opponent's follow-up rhythm near the midfield.

Just when Griezmann was about to collide with De Bruyne, De Bruyne knocked the ball back again. After the ball was released, De Bruyne also collided with the French head-on without hesitation.

The two were bounced one step away at the same time, Griezmann continued to chase, but De Bruyne pulled away from him, and then regained the ball from Kanter, and continued to be close to the end Control the ball without slowing down.

A set of moves can be said to make Griezmann play around.

Seeing that time is running out, Fernando and Gabi plan to join forces to block De Bruyne, counting Griezmann, attacking from three sides!
De Bruyne is about to pass the ball, and Gabi is still some distance away from him, even if it seems that the distance is less than two meters at most,

But Gabi knew that it was impossible for him to interfere with De Bruyne. In desperation, Gabi shouted at Griezmann and Fernando: "Shovel! Block his passing line!"

Griezmann had a yellow card on his back, and he hesitated a little bit when he stepped down.

Fernando stretched his legs without hesitation.

At this time, the football under De Bruyne's feet has already flown out, trying to cross to Mahrez on the right.

But this time, Atletico Madrid's defensive players were on guard. The backward passing route was blocked by Gelizhiwen, and the forward direction was Gabi and Fernando.

De Bruyne's passing route was almost blocked, so he could only choose to pass it laterally. Cork kept staring at De Bruyne's line to the right for Mahrez, and an accelerated circle forward, preempting De Bruyne's pass. Browne's pass is intercepted.

Mahrez counterattacked immediately, and Cork moved the ball to the side to distance himself from him, and then sent it straight with a kick over the top.

Gabi immediately ran to the left side of the forward field and rushed to the left. After receiving Cork's pass, Gabi cut inside and passed the ball obliquely to the right of the penalty area.

After the football flew past, Saul immediately rushed to the right to meet it, but it seemed a little out of reach. Kompany just breathed a sigh of relief, but he was shocked by the arc drawn by the football's rotation.

I thought it should be that Joe Hart could control the ball with an easy attack, or the football would fly out of the baseline.

However, the gradual deflection of the external rotation allowed the football to bypass Kompany's back, and it failed to make Joe Hart, who was inattentive at this time, make up his mind to attack and save the ball.

One of the biggest shortcomings that hinder Joe Hart from being a top goalkeeper is that he often has some lack of judgment or distraction in the game.

After the football bounced off the left side of the small penalty area, Torres, who was sprinting with Saul, arrived in time before it was about to fly out of the bottom line. He also posed a huge threat while saving the ball before the bottom line.

Stones rushed to block in a hurry, and Kompany still had to worry about Griezmann who had already inserted quickly behind him and Koke who was far away
Torres had already started to shoot, Stones blocked it with a shovel, and at the moment when the England central defender made a choice,
The experienced Spanish old golden boy gave up his shot and flicked the ball to the right, ready to continue hitting the goal.

But what he didn't expect was that when Stones shoveled past him, his left hand touched the football under his feet. Torres cut across the past, but the ball rolled behind him.

Torres quickly raised his hand and slapped his arm at the referee, excitedly reminding Stones of the handball foul!

A whistle sounded, and the referee pointed to the penalty spot in the penalty area of ​​Manchester City.

Torres clenched his fist and swung it hard, he was relieved for a moment, a penalty kick is great!

After all, I am no longer my peak self. If I was still in Liverpool, I would definitely be able to wipe out this England kid cleanly.

Having lost most of his explosive power, he had a little difficulty doing some extraordinary moves, but fortunately he chose to excel.

Just now, if he forcibly hits the near corner of the goal against Stones' shovel and Joe Hart's block, the chance of scoring by himself is probably only [-]% at most. It is definitely not as efficient as a penalty kick.

But if he successfully passed Stones with the ball and only faced Joe Hart, that would be a different matter.

"Penalty! The referee awarded Manchester City a penalty!
Stones did touch the ball while gliding, and if his hand hadn't touched the ball, Torres would have had a great shot.

There is no problem with this penalty.

And it was Torres who made this penalty, and Gabi's precise and wonderful threatening pass, this should be the masterpiece of the Atletico Madrid midfielder's flash of inspiration! "

Stones held his head in frustration.

It was a bit embarrassing for him to be rid of by a veteran like Torres just now.

Even though no teammates and fans would blame him, he still fell into self-blame.

The Atletico fans at the scene became quiet after a burst of cheers.

Griezmann takes the penalty.

After the referee whistled, the Frenchman pushed the lower right corner of the goal after a run-up.

Joe Hart predicted correctly but failed to block the ball due to tricky angles.

"The goal! Atletico Madrid recovered a goal at the last moment with a penalty!
One to two, although the total score was one goal behind, they scored an extremely valuable away goal.

This is not an unacceptable score for Manchester City, at least they still have a goal lead at their home court.

However, although the score is leading, Simeone's Atletico Madrid can also leave Manchester contentedly.

An away goal should have satisfied Simeone's vision for this game.

A week later at the Calderon Stadium, the two top teams still have to go through an intense game to decide the real winner. "

After Atletico Madrid's players finished celebrating, the game entered the stage of injury time, and Atletico Madrid put up their iron wall again.

Facing Atletico Madrid's bus, the Manchester City players whose physical fitness has been greatly consumed have no other better way to break through the defense.

At the end of the game, Manchester City beat Atletico Madrid two to one.

"Fernando, you performed very well today, can you exchange jerseys with me?"

After the game, Zhao Jinge stepped forward and offered to exchange jerseys with Torres.

After these two matches this year, if I want to face Torres as the main player again, I am afraid that such an opportunity will never come again.

So Zhao Jinge also cherishes the opportunity to play against this man who changed his destiny very much. Although his template is given by the system, Zhao Jinge still has the highest respect for the stars he has drawn out.

"Really, Fernando, I'm a fan of yours, when I was playing in the Bundesliga, they always called me Torres of Germany."

Looking at Torres, who was a little surprised and unresponsive, Zhao Jinge took off his jersey and handed it over.

"Oh, that's amazing! I really didn't expect you to be my fan.

I have heard news and rumors about you, but your performance is much better than mine.

When you were in the Bundesliga, it was indeed very similar to when I was at my peak.

But when you get to the Premier League, things are different, you get stronger.

Thank you, this is my jersey. "

Torres, who was stunned for a moment, also took off his jersey and handed it to Zhao Jinge, and gave Zhao Jinge a big hug.

"When I first heard about you from my friends, I couldn't help but look for your game video to watch. Come on boy, don't get hurt, don't be like me."

Torres looked at Zhao Jinge, who still had a childish face, as if he saw the shadow of himself when he was young, and couldn't help but say a few more words.

"I will, see you in Madrid!"

"See you in Madrid, I'll wait for you in Calderon!"

After the exchange, the two met to bid farewell. Looking at Torres who followed his teammates out of the court, Zhao Jinge felt a lot of emotion.

"Hey, Mr. Pep, congratulations on this difficult game. I would like to ask whether this victory will have a decisive impact on this round of knockout."

In the interview booth of the post-match press conference, a reporter from the Guardian took the initiative to ask the stern-faced Guardiola.

"This is indeed a difficult game. We faced a crazy opponent. Who would have thought that Simeone would give me [-] for more than half an hour!

Not to mention football, Atletico Madrid's penalty area can't even fly in. I would like to call it unprecedented and unprecedented!
The originator of Wufeng formation, this is Simeone.

But fortunately, we had enough patience. Zhao Jinge scored the first goal for us with a flash of inspiration at the end of the first half.

Then we took advantage of Atlético Madrid's second-half change of shape and tactics to score the second goal.

But we were a bit rough in the final stage of the game. At that time, we had problems controlling the rhythm of the court.

I always emphasize the issue of rhythm, because this is indeed our tradition. Kevin was a little sticky when he was in possession of the ball in midfield, and the teammates around him didn't have a unified mind. Should we continue to attack or recover the defense?
Therefore, they had a problem passing the ball when they retreated to respond, which requires us to review and analyze after the game.

But fortunately, it was not bad in the end. We controlled the rhythm of the field for most of the game and finally got a few good chances.

This allowed us to go to Madrid with a one-ball advantage.

It doesn't sound very good, but in the end we won the first leg, just like in Barcelona, ​​it's the same today, and hopefully the next one will be the same. "

"Of course the most important thing to win this game is our patience, because Simeone is such a person, his tactics and his players always make me test back and forth on the edge of breaking the defense.

I watched the missed ball as if I were watching a sledgehammer hit a wall.

Once we hit the wall, if there is a slight mistake, they will immediately cause serious damage to us.

You have to know that all of their front lines are sharp knives, and each knife is very sharp.

Griezmann, Torres, Koke, Saul, everyone has the strength to break through Manchester City's defense.

Yes, in the final stage of the game, I was a little panicked, almost, we might just go to Calderon with a draw.

So it is not a kind of defense for me to let Manchester City's players attack desperately. We have to let Simeone take back these good knives of his and use them in defense! "

"Mr. Pep, you just talked about Zhao Jinge, in which position do you think he can maximize Manchester City's attack power?

We can see that in this game, Zhao Jinge appeared in multiple positions in the middle and sideways.

Can Manchester City's current new lineup withstand the consideration of important events? "

"Zhao is a talented offensive player, he can appear in any position in the frontcourt, providing us with the most ferocious firepower.

Of course I know where to put him will maximize the effect.

But the lineup will always change because of people, just like David Silva is more suitable to stay on both sides, and he himself prefers that.

Zhao can also take the initiative to find his more comfortable position on the court, and I will not restrict him.

So far our new formation is doing well, after all we have won against two strong opponents, haven't we? "

"Pep, can you talk about how you adjusted in the second half?
What is the reason that made you choose Mahrez. "

"Simeone, because Simeone's bus made me helpless.

So I had to make adjustments to the lineup, especially in that situation. For the first time, I felt that my striker should not only have better skills, but also have advantages in other aspects.

Anyway, they don't plan to pass the halftime, so I don't need to arrange so many people in the midfield and walk in the back?

So after I adjusted the lineup, I let the full-backs and midfielders continue to press up and participate in the attack.

Atlético Madrid's defense is really good, the front field is empty, the center is defending, even the ghosts can't get in, so we need surprise soldiers, just like Mahrez.

We need his pace on the right flank and his ability to create chances in tight spaces. "

Guardiola accepted the interview expressionlessly, and he couldn't get rid of all kinds of complaints about Simeone in his words. For him, Simeone's football philosophy is completely different from him, almost two opposites.

Guardiola, who had had enough of Simeone's entire bus, began to complain at the press conference.

(End of this chapter)