Chapter 745: Bayern Munich

Five to two!!

A big comeback when you're two goals down!

This made Gao Bo of the press conference seem quite high-spirited.

"I wasn't happy with the first half, but luckily we woke up in the second half!"

'It's good for the team to get a win like this before the Champions League semi-finals begin, but Bayern Munich are not easy opponents to play against, so in a few days at the Allianz Arena we are going to have a tough game!'

After the game, Gao Bo was also asked about the Champions League semi-finals, but since this was not a press conference for the Champions League, Gao Bo only brought it slightly.

After playing a crucial match against Tottenham, the Manchester City squad will leave for Munich to prepare for the first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich.

In England, the impact of Manchester City's win over Tottenham continues.

Tottenham Hotspur is already the strongest of Manchester City's next opponents, and if Tottenham loses to Manchester City, it may be really difficult to find a team that has the strength to beat Manchester City.

"Manchester City are one step closer to the trophy!!"

After the game, Sky Sports commentator Rentkinson commented on Manchester City's comeback.

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If you want to say that the most regretful and sad about the result of this game, I am afraid that it is not the fans of Tottenham.

It's Manchester United!

About half an hour into the game, Manchester United's round of matches began.

At the end of the first half, Manchester City's second half had just begun, so the United players were very excited at half-time as they were leading Stoke City 1-0.

In the end, Manchester United won 2-0 against Stoke City to win one game on the road.

As a result, they learned of Manchester City's comeback win over Tottenham immediately after the game, much to the dismay of Manchester United's players.

Chelsea, on the other hand, are away to Liverpool in this league round.

As a result, Jose Mourinho's goal pair lost at Anfield!

Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1!

As a result, Chelsea are directly nine points behind Manchester City!

'Chelsea are out of the league title race!!'

As soon as this game ended, some media made such a conclusion.

With the league game at the bottom, Manchester City are six points ahead of Manchester United and nine points ahead of Chelsea!

The championship is getting closer.

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By this time, Manchester City had arrived in Munich.

Bayern Munich is undoubtedly a strong team that deserves to be taken seriously by Manchester City!

On the day of arrival in Munich, after the players' lunch break, they were summoned to the conference room by head coach Gao Bo to watch the game video.

Gao Bo showed the players a clip of Bayern Munich's two-legged Barcelona game!

In the quarterfinals, Bayern Munich first swept Barcelona 4-0 at home, and at the Camp Nou, Bayern also defeated Barcelona 3-0, and advanced to the semifinals with a score of 7-0 over two legs!

Bayern Munich easily eliminated Barcelona, a result that shocked everyone.

Just two seasons ago, in the Champions League, Bayern Munich lost 0-4 to Barcelona, and in just two seasons, Bayern Munich took revenge!

In particular, the score of 4-0 in the first leg between the two sides is recorded in history.

On the day of Barcelona's away game against Bayern (April 23, local time), it coincided with the traditional Catalan St. Jordi Festival (Valentine's Day), but on this night, Barcelona, which had won the championship 4 times in the previous 7 seasons, was abandoned by the Champions League lover, and the terrible score of 0-4 set a series of shameful records, making the "Daily Sports" lament: "The saddest Valentine's Day".

The 0-4 in this game has already set a record of the most painful defeat in Barcelona's Champions League history. The last time Barcelona lost a European competition with a score of 4-0 was back in November 1997, when Shevchenko, who scored a hat-trick, was not known at the time. In the Champions League era, Barcelona had suffered two four-goal defeats, the other being the most famous Athens tragedy, a 4-0 defeat to AC Milan in the 1994 final

In the 21 years since the Champions League was restructured, there has never even been a 4-0 score in the semi-finals, and the difference is the most significant. The last time there was a four-goal deficit in the semi-finals was in 1989 when Steaua Bucharest beat Galatasaray 4-0 at home.

After this match, this Bayern Munich team was even called "the best Bayern in history" by many media outlets.

And now, this "best Bayern" team is the current obstacle in front of Manchester City.

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Gao Bo led Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich three times last season, but this season's Bayern is obviously different from last season's Bayern, and now Gao Bo's team is not Atletico Madrid, but Manchester City.

If there is much to talk about as "the best Bayern in history", after all, Bayern Munich has had many glorious times in its history.

But if the current Manchester City is the "best Manchester City in history", it is absolutely worthy of the name.

But can the best Manchester City beat Bayern?

In Europe, the media in Germany and Spain are more bullish on Bayern Munich.

Needless to say, the Germans swept Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate, which is enough to give the Germans full confidence that Bayern will reach the final.

The Spanish side was purely frightened by Bayern Munich - just from the score point of view, Barcelona was almost helpless to be dealt with by Bayern Munich.

On the England side, the media believe that Manchester City have a fight.

First of all, of course, Manchester City have been in excellent form of late, beating strong teams in quick succession.

Manchester United, Chelsea, Juventus, Tottenham!

Manchester City have all emerged victorious.

Then there's Manchester City's manager Gao Bo, who won two and drew one of his three games against Bayern Munich last season and has yet to lose.

However, judging from the history of the two sides, Manchester City's results against Bayern Munich in the Champions League are still very dismal.

Manchester City and Bayern Munich were drawn in a group last season, and as a result, Manchester City lost both of their group stage games against Bayern...

Of course, last season's Manchester City were not as dominant as the current one.

And now Gao Bo is letting the players watch Bayern Munich's win over Barcelona, of course, not just to show the players how strong their opponents are.

"If we look at Bayern Munich's win over Barcelona, even though they scored four goals, it was Bayern Munich's defensive system that really decided the game! They are well assigned the defensive blame in midfield! ”

Gao Bo combined the edited game video to explain the characteristics of Bayern Munich to the players through the game.

'We are familiar with the characteristics of Barcelona, they like to keep the ball, which is very similar to us!' Gao Bo emphasized.

Manchester City are indeed a team that likes to control the ball as well.

"Bayern Munich's defensive system without the ball is very oppressive! In this game, for example, Gomez and Muller will drop back, and one of them will always be able to keep an eye on Busquets to prevent him from attacking. Barca's two centre-backs and two other midfielders both spent more time on the ball than Sergio Busquets. Bayern's other two attackers, Arjen Robben and Franck Franck Ribery, were very reliable to see the Barcelona full-backs. Ribery was pressed very far back by Alves and did have a few frustrations, but overall, Bayern were tight and their two rows of four-man defence moved seamlessly around the pitch as a unit. Only a few times did Messi find space between the two lines and he had to move to the right to get the ball. Xavi Martinez was in charge of pressing Iniesta, and Schweinsteiger continued to sweep the midfield effectively despite being slipped past by Xavi a few times in the opening stages. Barca's midfielders were all further back than they liked, Sergio Busquets retreated to the back to find space, Xavi just wandered back and forth in front of his own defence and did not get involved in the midfield battle, while Andres Iniesta spent too much time doing Xavi's job, so there was no effort to link the midfield and the attacking line. ”

"After talking about defense, let's take a look at Bayern Munich's attack!"

Gao Bo drew two lines on the tactical board.

"Set-pieces and wide strikes!!" "It's Bayern Munich's attacking weapon, they have impactful strikers like Gomez and Mandzukic, and opportunists like Muller!! ”

Muller is an important player for Bayern Munich.

Thomas Müller, the German star of today's football, is a typical opportunist on the pitch. He is a player who sits between midfield and striker, playing as a midfielder, as a winger, as a shadow striker and even as a cameo as a centre-forward. As a midfielder, he doesn't have the midfield playmaking ability of Andres Iniesta, and as a winger he can't dribble inside as quickly as Robben to shoot. As a center forward, he can't play the same role on the pitch as Lewandowski. But he always takes chances to score goals and always delivers perfect assists from time to time.

Of the seven goals scored by Bayern Munich over two legs against Barcelona, Muller was directly involved in five: two goals, three assists!

This season, Muller is also in the stage of full explosion.

For such a player, Manchester City also has to be guarded against.

"They still have Ribery and Robben!!"

Gao Bo listed several of Bayern Munich's most important players.

The goalkeeper has Neuer, the back line has Lahm, Boas, Alaba and others, the midfield has Kroos, Schweinsteiger, Martinez, etc., and the attacking line is Ribery, Robben, Muller, Mandzukic, Gomez!

The opponent faced in the semi-finals was very strong, and in order to deal with this opponent, Gao Bo and his team also took a very serious attitude to prepare for this Champions League semi-final game.