I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 287 Familiar Connection

With Bell's equalizing goal, fans from both teams were so nervous that they felt like their chests were about to explode!
In this crucial first match of the group stage, both sides showed extremely high-quality offensive and defensive levels.

The Blue Moon Legion relied on wonderful attacks to break through the gate of Real Madrid early!

The Galacticos were not to be outdone. Real Madrid's new trident set off a war storm belonging to Los Blancos in Manchester City's half. Bell's sword to seal his throat was right in front of him!
The offensive of the two teams frequently created thrilling threats.

Seeing that the injury time incident was almost over, the two teams strengthened their defense tacitly, bringing the first half of the game to an end.

Players from both teams exited the field and returned to the locker room.

Guardiola was a little excited and felt very tricky at the same time.

He has already seen that Zidane, on the basis of ensuring stable output, will occasionally make unexpected attacks, such as NBB's frontcourt display of personal abilities.

Manchester City's defense was already somewhat overwhelmed when facing Real Madrid's offensive group headed by NBB.

From the data point of view, Manchester City's ball possession rate in the first half was 50.00%, and the overall trend was slowly declining.

Because in the final stage of the first half, Real Madrid's midfielders adjusted their positions and gained more stable and efficient control time, so Manchester City's ball possession rate began to slowly decline.

Modric's full-court sprint and Toni Kroos' long pass once again became the starting point of Real Madrid's offense.

Real Madrid, which has given up on pursuing long-term ball-holding organization in the midfield, seems to have found the key point of offensive and defensive balance.

Zidane's style of play does not have any style characteristics.

Because only after changes will the style become more prominent.

A slight retreat in the midfield formation is a defensive counterattack, and the midfield and backcourt increase the offensive threat, which is offensive football.

They happen to be in a state of ease.

It doesn't feel like there are too many bright spots on the bright side.

But it is the ability to skillfully integrate defense, organization, and offense without conflict.

The whole world can say that Real Madrid's technical and tactical style is not outstanding, but who would say that they are too conservative?Too utilitarian?Or is it more offensive than defensive, top-heavy?
When all the famous coaches around the world hope to raise their own clear flag and try to create a sect in an era that will be famous for eternity, Zidane's metaphysics of moderation is not bringing football back to its original nature?
Where did so many complicated techniques and tactics come from?

The top defensive player, the top midfielder, plus the most explosive striker.

As long as all the players can unite together and do their jobs well, how can this star-studded Real Madrid be any worse?

The simpler the idea, the more efficient the execution.

The more complicated the fight, the more difficult it is for yourself!
Real Madrid, which originally had a simple and efficient style of play, has posed a huge threat to Guardiola's team after further simplified adjustments.

Faced with this situation, Guardiola gave the team another shot in the locker room and once again emphasized tactical discipline.

As for the way the team won the game, when he walked out of the player tunnel, his gaze was fixed on Zhao Jinge's back.

How to play Manchester City's offense, when there is no perfect opportunity, it is to hand over the football to Zhao Jinge for the final blow!
There is no doubt about Zhao Jinge's tactical positioning. Whether it is an offensive or a transition, it will determine the running position of other players. Manchester City's main attack direction is determined by him.

Guardiola was unable to give Zhao Jinge a fixed task.

That would only lead to a dead end for the team's offense.

When Zhao Jinge is in good form, put the hope of winning on him, and the Manchester City players united by his side will also explode to their due strength.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again.

In the past three minutes, De Bruyne repeatedly tried to attack in the center-side area, but did not achieve good results.

Teacher Ding's range of activities is more on the left side of the center, because he must leave enough offensive space for Zhao Jinge.

When Mr. Ding handled the attack on the left, his cooperation with Sterling and Clichy did not have the tacit understanding that came from a direct connection with Zhao Jinge.

When De Bruyne advances the ball by himself, it is easy for the defense to lose position. Although the pass can be delivered accurately, he cannot do more under the opponent's defense.

After another attack from the left had no chance, De Bruyne chose to exchange positions with Yaya Toure. After moving to the middle, he decisively connected with Zhao Jinge again.

Sure enough, he found a better opportunity. In the 4 minutes of the game, after seeing Zhao Jinge's planned advance,

De Bruyne immediately passed the ball straight over!

Casemiro immediately stepped forward and tried to entangle Zhao Jinge.

And Zhao Jinge's next move made the Brazilian midfielder instantly confused!
Zhao Jinge did not slow down while running and knocked the football back one step!Directly gave the football to De Bruyne who was following behind!

football?

The moment he passed him, he didn't continue dribbling the ball at all!
Casemiro originally had the opportunity to steal the ball, but because he chose to follow Zhao Jinge's judgment, the Brazilian midfielder missed the best opportunity.

After realizing that Zhao Jinge had no connection with football, he continued to pester the Manchester City striker, but he already knew that he had made the wrong decision!
Not only did he fail to keep up with Zhao Jinge right away, he was also unable to steal the ball!
After Zhao Jinge made a small circle diagonally from the center, when he received Teacher Ding's return pass at the edge of Huang Mai's penalty area, Varane and Toni Kroos, who quickly returned to the penalty area, formed a double-team. Waiting for him.

Zhao Jinge lobbed the ball into Real Madrid's penalty area. The first time he faced Varane, he slumped his shoulders and faked to the right.

Varane thought that Zhao Jinge would use a fake move to start the second time like before, relying on explosive power and speed to eat him alive.

But this time Zhao Jinge was beyond his expectation. After quickly sinking his shoulders and swaying, he retracted his center of gravity and slowed down to control the ball.

After Varane's body moved, he immediately took a step back and regained his center of gravity. After discovering that Zhao Jinge was still in front of him and had not started, he immediately stopped hesitating and chose to directly attack!

When he hadn't finished his grabbing action and just leaned forward, Zhao Jinge, who was in front of him, suddenly moved!
Push the ball forward to the right to complete the breakthrough!

The timing and rhythm are extremely precise!

Teacher Tony was about to hit him. Zhao Jinge took a look at the situation in the middle of the penalty area. Casemiro had not returned to defend at this time. Zhao Jinge decisively pushed the ball behind the opponent.

David Silva got the opportunity, quickly moved forward, met the ball and kicked the ball!

As a result, Navas miraculously saved the ball in front of the near corner of the goal! "Navas! Navas dropped his weight too quickly!
If David Silva's shot can be lowered, there may be a chance to break the goalkeeper of Costa Rica!

However, it's not his fault, Navas' performance today was really good. "

After a brief slump at halftime, the cheers at the Etihad Stadium suddenly became earth-shattering again!
After several rounds of contests in the second half, the two sides showed an evenly matched posture.

Guardiola stood on the sidelines expressionless, but there was a thoughtful look in his eyes.

What is the most impressive thing about Manchester City?
It is almost the tactical discipline that Guardiola emphasized before the Champions League game today.

High position pressing, passing and controlling organization!They need to rely on the organization and penetration of the ribs and sides to attack. When the organization of the offense cannot penetrate, they can only rely on Zhao Jinge and De Bruyne, two of the world's top offensive players, to break the dense defense.

So what did Real Madrid change in the final stages of the first half?
Manchester City launched an attack, and Real Madrid's new trident counterattacked and harassed them in the frontcourt. After regrouping, all three of them, including Bell and Neymar, were willing to contribute their strength in defense.

The midfield combination of Modric, Kroos, and Casemiro only needs to retreat slightly to form a tight zone defense with the back line.

There was no chance for Manchester City to counterattack or infiltrate. Real Madrid arranged their formation in an orderly manner and did not leave too much space for Manchester City's offensive organization.

Guardiola has a headache.

Compared with Mourinho and his extravagant use of gorgeous Galaxy battleships to interpret the classic extreme defense.

Zidane does not intend to use expensive striker luxury goods as engineers, at least they do not need to play the role of too many engineers.

And this part of the task was passed on to Modric and Cross.

They don't need to advance forward to organize the offensive, they don't need to insert into the penalty area, and they don't even need to create threats at the front of the penalty area.

All that is needed is their insight into the timing and a precise mid- to long-distance pass.

Since you have superb footwork, then use this part of your advantages!
Leave the rest to the NBB and they will resolve the battle.

When the situation is not good, Real Madrid will not be counterattacked by the opponent first, and secondly, the protection of the midfield line from the back line will also increase their defensive fault tolerance.

The game was fast-paced, and Manchester City hit Real Madrid's defense time and time again, but in fact they didn't create too good opportunities.

Almost all of their threatening attacks today were opportunities created by Zhao Jinge relying on his own speed and personal ability to break through Real Madrid's defense.

Now, when Casemiro and Varane face Zhao Jinge's attack, they have completely given up the idea of ​​attacking. They just directly defend in a zone and squat in position, coupled with a stalking and close defense.

It has to be said that even Varane and Casemiro, who have entered their prime, still have to rely on small moves on the defensive end to thrillingly defend Zhao Jinge, who is getting better and better.

But even in their blunt-cutting defense, Zhao Jinge was indeed slowly restricted.

Manchester City's offense requires Zhao Jinge or De Bruyne to connect in the frontcourt. When Zhao Jinge is restricted by many people, he can only form a connection through the active and unremitting movement of other players in the midfield and frontcourt, and then continue the offensive.

However, Zhao Jinge also attracted a lot of attention from Real Madrid players, and other Manchester City players have become accustomed to the strategy of selling Zhao Jinge, using him to attract the opponent's strong defensive side, and then using the weak defensive side to launch an attack.

In the 409th minute of the game, after coming to the left side of the frontcourt to receive David Silva's pass, Zhao Jinge formed a passing and cutting cooperation with Sterling, who came quickly to respond.

When he rushed past Casemiro and was about to touch the ball at the edge of Real Madrid's penalty area, Casemiro quickly returned to defense, and Zhao Jinge suddenly slowed down.

Casemiro also slowed down, but Zhao Jinge suddenly speeded up and hit the ball hard into the penalty area!

At his peak, the Brazilian was not much worse than Zhao Jinge in terms of absolute speed. The key to Zhao Jinge's ability to defeat him before was his grasp of the offensive rhythm.

After more than a season of hard work, today's Zhao Jinge pays more attention to rhythm control and changes without an absolute speed advantage.

To put it simply, compared to the self who just debuted in the Bundesliga, the current Zhao Jinge is better at playing football with his brain in addition to taking advantage of his own advantages.

There is no need for fancy passing skills, a rhythm difference can change direction when the opponent first surrenders the center of gravity.

But today's opponent is Real Madrid, and their defensive players are also the best on the planet.

It is not enough to rely solely on the change of dribbling rhythm, but also requires surprise in ball-handling skills.

Zhao Jinge learned the trick of slowing down, pretending to stop the ball, and speeding up the ball to break through, from another proud disciple of Guardiola, our boss Mei.

Although Messi has the advantage of speed in dribbling and breaking through, he is definitely a master of rhythm changes. With the conversion of static and dynamic in a split second, destroying the opponent's defense is as simple as a routine.

When Zhao Jinge broke into the penalty area and faced Varane's cautious defense, Zhao Jinge started his previous tricks again.

Although it seemed that Zhao Jinge had not made a breakthrough, his sudden fake move still made the experienced old Varane very afraid!
Stretching out to steal may foul, but if you don’t move, it will only become less and less rhythmic, and you may be led astray in your thinking!
Casemiro and Ramos quickly rushed towards Zhao Jinge. Casemiro filled in behind Varane. Shui Ye took the initiative to block Zhao Jinge from changing direction to the right, opening up the shooting angle, which could prevent Zhao Jinge from shooting. .

But just when Casemiro came to Zhao Jinge, Zhao Jinge once again pulled the ball with his shoulders down, and suddenly changed direction and headed towards the center of the penalty area!

Varane and Ramos closed the door to defend, Casemiro stepped forward to block!

Three-sided attack!

Zhao Jinge collided with people one after another, staggered on his feet but didn't take the initiative to fall, he was still rushing towards the middle of the restricted area.

The three Real Madrid defensive players were suddenly shocked!
Zhao Jinge didn't have the ball under his feet. He diverted the ball the first time he came into contact with the three of them after changing direction and sprinting!

"Varane, Casemiro, Casemiro were all deceived!

Maybe it was because his momentum of changing direction was too fierce, these Real Madrid stars subconsciously blocked and defended him at the first time, but they didn't realize that the moment Zhao Jinge came into contact with them, he used the arch of his foot in Lin Li's thigh , pushed the football out!

In the middle, Ramos wanted to destroy Zhao Jinge's pass, but De Bruyne, who had been waiting for a long time, got there first!
Without hesitation at all, he hit Real Madrid's goal with a powerful and heavy kick!

"GOAL!!!!!!"

"Perfect cooperation, Manchester City's twin stars relied on their incomparable tacit connection to once again open a breakthrough for Blue Moon to win!"

"Navas! This Costa Rican goalkeeper who performed well was helpless in the face of De Bruyne's heavy shot!"

(End of this chapter)