Chapter 204: Temptation

The referee blew the whistle and Lewandowski kicked the ball out.

The stands of the media gallery were lit up with flashing lights, like bright stars twinkling in the night sky.

Bayern Munich did not rush to press the attack after kick-off, the two teams did not have many chances to meet and were not familiar with each other, so the first few minutes were mainly tentative.

Pep Guardiola has instilled his football philosophy into the Bundesliga giants in recent years. They were skillful with the ball, and in central midfield, Bayern Munich's slow passes, they looked very patient.

Xavi Alonso is the commander of Bayern Munich's central midfield, so naturally he is also a key target for Manchester United.

It's just that Xavi Alonso didn't have much of the ball during this time, and even if the ball came over, he passed horizontally or back, and there were very few forward passes.

Manchester United is not in a hurry to grab, if it is said that with Bayern Munich's fighting skills and short passes in a small area, Manchester United will undoubtedly suffer, so Manchester United still sticks to the middle and does not let Bayern Munich have any room to break through in the front.

This much-anticipated game seemed a little flat at first.

"Bayern have been passing slowly at the back, which reminds me of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona, who are the best at using this kind of pass to slowly paralyze the opponent and then suddenly change the rhythm and catch the opponent off guard." Duan Xuan said from the stands.

"Pep Guardiola does want to turn Bayern Munich into Barcelona, but obviously he is only half the battle, Bayern's passing is a bit of the peak of Barcelona's shadow, but they don't have Messi." Li Yi added next to him.

Indeed, if you want to change the rhythm, Messi is undoubtedly the sharpest knife.

Pep Guardiola once wanted to bring in Neymar as Bayern Munich's Messi, but it was obviously very difficult to steal the Brazilian talent from Barcelona, and Bayern Munich also did not have a tradition of spending a lot of money to poach people from abroad - they were more accustomed to spending less money to find talent from the Bundesliga, and sometimes even without a transfer fee - Lewandowski was a free agent.

Damn tradition again!

Pep Guardiola is unhappy with this tradition.

After the failed introduction of Neymar, Bayern Munich recruited Gotze from Borussia Dortmund, a player who Dortmund sees as the core of the next decade.

From the point of view of transfer strategy, the introduction of Gotze is undoubtedly a very successful recruitment, first of all, Gotze is a German international with good strength, and secondly, he is poached from a direct competitor, which strengthens itself and weakens the opponent, which is very beneficial to continue to consolidate Bayern Munich's supremacy in the Bundesliga.

But for Pep Guardiola, Gotze is a good player, but this German player is obviously not Messi, let alone Neymar, what Messi or Neymar can do, the German international may not do.

As it turned out, Gotze quickly went from a regular to a substitute in Pep Guardiola's side, and he has had very few opportunities to play this season. In such an important tournament as the Champions League final, Götze was only on the bench.

Bayern Munich finally launched a tentative attack after a slow pass from the back for almost two minutes, Xavi Alonso won the ball at the back and made a long pass to find Ribery accurately.

As a result, Manchester United's defense was unceremonious, and as soon as Ribery got the ball, Kramer rushed forward without hesitation, squeezed his body, squeezed Ribery away, and then grabbed the ball.

However, Sweden's referee Eriksen immediately blew the whistle and awarded Kramer a foul.

Kramer also did not argue that this position on the right side of the centre circle, even if Bayern Munich got a locator, would not pose much of a threat to United's goal.

Sure enough, Bayern quickly took the free-kick, and instead of kicking it into the box, they passed it back.

Keeping the ball in possession is an important part of Pep Guardiola's tactical philosophy. If it is not necessary, Guardiola will not allow the ball to be passed directly into the box and see if he can try his luck or something.

In Guardiola's view, maintaining possession is much more important than that.

Kramer's defense this time can also show the tone of Manchester United's game, once Bayern's ball passed through the half, Manchester United's defense was quite hard, they fought closely, and did not hesitate to foul.

After Kramer's foul, Herrera was also whistled for a foul, and he fell to the ground after colliding with Vidal near the center circle and was whistled for a foul by the referee.

Herrera chattered after getting up, this bulldog-like Basque player was already a chatterbox.

However, it didn't affect his defense.

Vidal got up and took a quick free-kick and passed it to Douglas Costa, who came back to pick it up.

As a result, before Douglas Costa could hold the ball, Herrera took a lunge and poked the ball away, knocking the Brazilian to the ground.

Referee Eriksen's whistle blows again.

Herrera foul!!

In just five minutes, United committed three fouls. The race was blown three times to a halt.

Herrera was even whistled for two consecutive fouls within a minute.

However, United's fouls were not very big, and referee Eriksen did not mean to take out a card, nor did he warn or anything.

But the German commentator was a little dissatisfied: "The momentum of the game in these minutes is a bit towards the rhythm of constant fouls, if Manchester United's rhythm of continuous fouls is not curbed, this game will definitely go in a direction that is frequently interrupted, this is the Champions League final, the highest level of football in the world, I think fans must not want to see such a game." Herrera's continuous fouls, the referee should give him a little color to see and curb this momentum! ”

The German commentator looked rather dissatisfied, but Pep Guardiola in the dugout was able to calm down.

He certainly knows what United are doing this for, and everyone knows that Pep Guardiola's side are good at possession, while Carlo Ancelotti will certainly do everything he can to disrupt Bayern Munich's passing rhythm.

With three midfielders protecting the backline, coupled with such a tough defense, Bayern Munich really struggled to find a breakthrough for a while.

But Pep Guardiola doesn't care.

A game can be as long as 90 minutes, as long as you control the possession, slowly wear down the patience of the Manchester United players through passing, and consume the physical strength of the Manchester United players, you can always find a breakthrough opportunity.

More than patience, Guardiola is not worried at all.

The only thing Guardiola is worried about is Li Qingshan.

I have to say that his impression of Li Qingshan is too deep.

Just a few years ago, it was Li Qingshan who led a Chinese Super League team to eliminate Bayern Munich in the final of the Club World Cup.

In that game, Li Qingshan's senior was happy, which overshadowed all the stars of Bayern Munich.

From that moment on, Pep Guardiola knew that the player would be going to shine on the European stage. But he found that he still underestimated Li Qingshan, and in the past few seasons, Li Qingshan has played statistics that only Messi and Ronaldo could play in the past.

If Guardiola is asked to summarize Li Qingshan's shortcomings, he can list very, very many.

But when it comes to Li Qingshan's merits, Guardiola has a headache.

This guy's header is so incomprehensible.

The body is strong, the height and bounce are also the best in the world, the landing point judgment is unmatched, and the heading skills are unparalleled.

It's a bit of a headache for such a player to defend - Bayern Munich can't hold Manchester United down for the whole game and don't let the opponent attack with the ball.

If Bayern Munich could do this, they would not be part of the planet's team a long time ago.

.......

In the fifth minute of the game, Bayern Munich organized an attack.

Ribery crossed for Lewandowski after a wide breakaway, but Marcos Rojo headed the ball away.

Immediately afterwards, United counter-attacked, Juan Mata and Herrera combined for a link-up, Mata slotted the ball wide and full-back Valencia cut in at high speed, before crossing the ball to the edge of the box.

Li Qingshan shot directly at the goal, but the ball was a little wide of Vidal's interference.

It was the only shot on goal from both sides combined, with Bayern Munich holding the ball in possession at the back for half a day before the first shot on goal belonged to Manchester United.

The German commentator took the opportunity to hack Pep Guardiola again: "Yes, Pep Guardiola's team had 80 per cent possession, but it was Manchester United who were the first to create a threat. Pep Guardiola has abandoned the virtues of German football and let the Germans play Barcelona football, and I don't know what is going on in the head of the manager. ”

"In comparison, Manchester United's attack is much more concise and effective, because they have an air tyrant like Li Qingshan, so of course they will try to create a tactical environment suitable for Li Qingshan's play. What style of football a team wants to play should be based on the players that the team has, not what kind of football the manager wants to play. Adapted to local conditions, I think Pep Guardiola should take this sentence seriously. ”

Pep Guardiola obviously couldn't hear the commentator's complaints about him, but from these few minutes of play, he still had a premonition of danger.

Five minutes of play time is almost a blink of an eye on the field.

Soon, the tentative play between the players on both sides was complete, after all, for the pros, five minutes was enough time for them to find the feeling of the game.

Manchester United began to step up their pressing of Bayern Munich's ball-handlers, with Juan Mata, Di Maria and Li Qingshan also joining the scramble.

Under the pressure of physical strength, Bayern Munich's possession began to be a little embarrassed.

Xavi Alonso struggled to organise an effective attack under Herrera's struggles, and Herrera focused on Bayern Munich's midfield commander in this game.

Before Xavi Alonso couldn't find a close grip on Herrera, Bayern Munich's attack seemed to be out of direction.

Manchester United's sudden premise made Bayern Munich scramble for a while, and in this case, the probability of making mistakes is naturally quite high.

Fellaini immediately picked up the ball and Vidal was ready to cross the ball wide to the other side.

It was supposed to be Xavi Alonso's job, but Vidal felt he could do it too.

Vidal's passing footwork is much worse than that of Xavi Alonso.

He passed the ball and full-back Alaba was ready to step up to meet it. But Vidal's passing path was too low, and Li Qingshan just got stuck in his passing line, and the header was a little bit to Mata.

In front of Juan Mata is a large open field - Alaba is a position where Bayern Munich's full-back is not available.

Juan Mata wasn't quick, but the gaps in front of him gave him the option to dribble forward.

Xavi Alonso wasn't fast either, and he tried very hard to get back, but he didn't shorten the distance to Mata himself.

Centre-back Boateng had no choice but to come out and prepare to intercept Mata.

After Mata came out at centre-back, he passed the ball to Li Qingshan, who was receiving in the middle, Li Qingshan did not stop the ball, he passed the ball directly.

Juan Mata got past Boateng and the Bayern centre-back wanted to foul but it was too late.

Li Qingshan and Juan Mata easily beat Boateng in a one-two.

However, after Mata got the ball again, the angle of the shot was already small.

Juan Mata struggled to control his centre of gravity and picked the ball up.

'Juan Mata crosses !!!!'

The narrator exclaimed!!

Li Qingshan rushed into the forbidden area and jumped up.

Central defender Martinez jumped with him, and now that Boateng is no longer in a defensive position, Martinez is the only one who can compete with Li Qingshan for a header.

Competing one-on-one with the central defender for the header, Li Qingshan has no pressure at all.

From the time of the jump, Li Qingshan was already stuck in position, and no matter how hard Martinez tried, he was firmly stuck behind Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan jumps!

He grabbed the point!

Header!!!!!!!!

Slightly out of the column!!!

Neuer didn't touch the ball, and when Li Qingshan shook his head to attack the goal, he didn't have time to react, and he breathed a sigh of relief after he saw the football in addition to the bottom line.

Damn, the other side's counterattack is too sharp!!

There was a sigh of regret from both the bench and the dugout, and Ancelotti leaned back before he clasped his palms hard and applauded the players' performance.

Manchester United's offensive investment just now is actually two people, but it has received very good results, if Li Qingshan's ball part is more correct, it will undoubtedly score!

There was also a sigh of regret in the stands, and then the Manchester United fans erupted in enthusiastic cheers, chanting Li Qingshan's name.

After landing, Li Qingshan didn't regret anything, if the rhythm of the game continues, it is a matter of time before he scores a goal.

When it comes to headers, Bayern will hardly have a way to limit him.

Seeing this header, Guardiola's brow jumped.

That doesn't seem like a good sign......

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