0154 The Champions League Final
The players were relatively relaxed, mainly responsible for regulating their body and mind. However, in the conference room, the coaching staff had a heated discussion, or even a debate, because they had not come up with a complete set of definite plans tonight.
There is no plan, and the coaching staff doesn't know how to explain the precautions on the field to the players.
Finally, at the last moment before this tactical meeting in the afternoon, Ye Su finally opposed the opposition, made a decision, and rejected everyone's objection.
After the meeting, everyone also started preparing.
The skills and tactics of football matches are complicated, but they are simple and simple. They are nothing more than four words: playing to strengths and avoiding weaknesses.
There is no perfect team in this world, nor perfect tactics, so there will always be loopholes and weaknesses. The player's ability characteristics and personal status will become important factors that affect the tactical effect.
The head coach’s tactical arrangements and personnel allocation before the game are to put it bluntly to cover up his shortcomings, give full play to his own advantages, and use his strengths to attack his opponent’s shortcomings.
Manchester United can also be classified as a technical team in the Premier League, but if they really want to compete with teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid, they still can't match their skills.
Therefore, Manchester United can only rely on fighting, grabbing, blocking and interception in this game.
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As UEFA's five-star stadium, San Siro Stadium or Meazza Stadium is very large, with a stadium capacity of up to 80,000 people. However, according to the ticket allocation plan initially issued by UEFA, the two clubs received only 18,000 tickets, while the remaining 44,000 tickets will be retained to relevant sponsors, member states and other organizations. So many retained votes have created the highest number of Champions League finals.
Real Madrid and Manchester United are very dissatisfied with UEFA's ticket allocation plan, believing that UEFA has left too many tickets for itself and should give more to the teams participating in the finals.
The dissatisfaction of the two clubs makes sense, because 15 years ago, when the San Siro Stadium held the Champions League final last time, Valencia and Bayern Munich, who participated in the competition, received 23,000 tickets, 5,000 more than Real Madrid and Manchester United each.
However, the purpose of the two clubs was not achieved, and UEFA strongly rejected the request of the two clubs to increase their tickets.
Although Real Madrid and Manchester United were unable to allocate more tickets, when the game started, everyone who went to the stadium to watch the game basically wore Real Madrid and Manchester United's jerseys respectively.
In such occasions, no one would wear jerseys from other clubs to provoke the scene. At most, some people would wear ordinary clothes like suits, but in very small numbers.
Judging from the size of the on-site stands, the number of jerseys worn by the two teams is roughly the same. Real Madrid is wearing white jerseys, while Manchester United faces the match in red.
The referee is the famous whistle Bruch from Germany. This is a referee with experience in law enforcement of many important matches. However, what Ye Su remembers the most is that he was expelled by FIFA in the Russian World Cup in another time and space.
Bruch once enforced a direct dialogue between Real Madrid and Manchester United. In the first leg of the Champions League one-eighth knockout match in the 2012-2013 season, Real Madrid faced Manchester United at the Bernabeu. The referee at that time was Bruch. In that game, Manchester United tied Real Madrid 1-1 at the Bernabeu.
In addition, Bruchy also enforced two Manchester United games, namely Manchester United's away from Galaz Steel in the 2011-2012 Champions League group stage, and Manchester United's away from Braga in the 2012-2013 Champions League group stage. Manchester United won both games, with the scores being 2:0 and 3:1 respectively.
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After warming up from the court, everyone was making final preparations.
On the way back to the locker room, the coaching staff had already won the starting lineup of Real Madrid.
As Ye Su expected, the goalkeeper was Navas, the defense was Carvajal, Ramos, Pepe and Marcelo, the midfield was Casemiro, Modric and Kroos, and the BBC combination on the front line.
"I hope everyone can start a little more stable in this game." Ye Su reminded the players with a cautious look on his face.
Because Manchester United's most familiar rhythm, it goes without saying that it's fast!
Faster defense, quick attack, faster counterattack!
However, Manchester United's opponent in this game is also the best team in the world to counterattack quickly. Real Madrid, which has Ronaldo and Bale, has a quick counterattack. There are really few defense lines on this planet that can be blocked.
Therefore, Ye Sucai asked the team to be steady after the game starts, and defend against Real Madrid's quick counterattack after stealing the ball.
"Real Madrid is also seeking stability. Judging from their starting lineup, they must have guessed our tactical intentions, so they will try their best to control the ball and the rhythm of the game. We just need to use our pressing and oppression to try our best to bring the game into the rhythm we are most familiar with."
After explaining Manchester United's tactics again, Ye Su finally said: "Finally, good luck to everyone!"
When it comes to such a critical final, sometimes luck is really important. A goal is a avoidable mistake, or even a pass... God knows what will happen in the end of the game?
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Betoni quickly walked into the locker room, holding the freshly released roster in his hand, and said to Zidane with a smile: "I have won Manchester United's starting lineup."
Zidane came over and frowned.
Manchester United's starting lineup is 4231, goalkeeper De Gea, four defenders are Luke Shaw, Maguire, Van Dek and Kyle Walker, Kanter and Carrick are paired with double midfielders, and the three players in the front line are Valdy, De Bruyne and Rooney, and Harry Kane have a single arrow breaking forward.
"Roony plays as the right forward? What kind of hell is this?" Zidane was a little stunned.
Manchester United has played 4231 a lot in the past two seasons, and even most of the games are in this formation. However, Rooney has never played as a right forward.
"Ye Su has always been good at using strange things. I didn't expect that in such an important game as the Champions League final, he still has this courage and determination. It's really admirable." Zidane smiled slightly.
Judging from Ye Su's troops and formation, he was still influenced by his words.
This is not beyond Zidane's expectations. Harry Kane was introduced by Manchester United at a record price, so it was not to come to the team to play a substitute for Rooney.
Betoni smiled and said, "It may also be that he has killed himself?"
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When the two teams lined up and stood in two and a half zones of the stadium, Manchester United's Rooney and Harry Kane stood in the center circle to prepare for the kickoff. This was the opportunity that Manchester United won when they guessed the side just now.
Just now, Rooney called everyone over and formed a circle, hoping that the team could strive to rush at the beginning. This is the usual characteristic of the English team. You must show off your momentum at the beginning and scare your opponent.
This trick seems not new, but it actually works very well.
Rooney was preparing to serve, while Harry Kane stepped forward a little to pass the ball back as soon as possible and avoid Real Madrid's press.
With the whistle of referee Bruchy, Rooney kicked the ball to Harry Kane, and Harry Kane directly passed it back.
Real Madrid did quickly rob and rushed directly towards Manchester United's hinterland.
Carrick stopped the ball, adjusted quickly, passed it to Maguire, and then transferred to the left.
At this time, Vardy was still standing on the left side near the center line. After receiving Maguire's pass, Casemiro and Carvajal both pressed towards him at the same time, and he had to choose to pass back to Luke Shaw.
Real Madrid's frontcourt player immediately rushed towards England's left back, Luke Shaw immediately passed back to the midfield, giving Kante, and the French midfielder header gave Maguire.
But at this moment, Benzema actively stepped forward to press.
Maguire made a mistake in his busy schedule and the ball was stabbed by Benzema. Fortunately, the ball did not leave Manchester United's control. Luke Xiao passed the ball back to the penalty area with a long distance and sent the ball back to De Gea's feet.
After the Spanish goalkeeper stopped the ball with his feet at the front of the small penalty area, he slowly led the ball forward and passed it to Kyle Walker on the right before Ronaldo.
Kyle Walker drove forward with his big foot and passed directly behind Modric.
Rooney quickly chased after him.
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After Rooney chased the ball as fast as he could, he snatched before Modric. When the ball landed and rebounded and fell quickly, he took the opportunity to kick out his right foot and volleyed the ball into the penalty area.
Manchester United's fast break on the right was very urgent, and Real Madrid only came back from the penalty area. The former assisted in defense and protection of Modric on the outside of the penalty area, while Pepe blocked Harry Kane in the penalty area.
The England center is right between Marcelo and Pepe, closer to the right side than Pepe, so when Rooney made this pass, his position was better than Pepe.
But Portugal's central defender has a lot of experience and blocked Harry Kane with his body, so that he could not turn around even if he got the ball. Marcelo turned around and returned to defend immediately, attacking from front and back.
Harry Kane has good physical fitness and judged the landing point of the ball. After blocking Pepe with his body, he did not let the ball stay at his feet, but instead stopped the ball directly to the outside of the penalty area.
Due to the pressing just now, Casemiro and Tony Cross were both in a little position. When De Bruyne quickly inserted, there was no defensive player in the entire front of Real Madrid's penalty area. Casemiro had not had time to return to defense. Only Modric and Carvajal were still on the right side of the arc top area, looking at Valdi.
De Bruyne caught up with Harry Kane's pass, stopped, adjusted his pace and passed the ball directly with his right foot. The ball crossed the penalty area and landed at the back of the goal.
Chapter completed!