Chapter 66: Change

Pep Guardiola is in a very good mood right now, and not just because his side are ahead of Guangzhou Evergrande – in fact, this is not a cause for Bayern to be happy about. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Pep Guardiola is genuinely pleased that his revamp to Bayern Munich over the past few months has begun to bear fruit. Look at the goal just now, a continuous pass, a smooth coordination, and a shot after completely tearing the opponent's defense loose. And the long period of possession naturally also reduced Guangzhou Evergrande's counter-attacking opportunities.

In fact, during this time, Guangzhou Evergrande didn't even touch the football a few times, and their passes did not exceed a few kicks, and they were re-snatched back by Bayern's high press.

This kind of continuous pressure on the opponent makes Guangzhou Evergrande seem a little at a loss.

Even Lippi was rarely seen standing on the sidelines at this time, waving his arms and roaring at the players on the field.

In Lippi's view, a big problem for Guangzhou Evergrande in these 20 minutes is that they did not let go of the play, and they looked a little restrained and even cautious on the field.

It can be seen from a statistic that Bayern Munich got the vast majority of possession in these 20 minutes, but Guangzhou Evergrande did not have a single foul!

That's right, after playing for 20 minutes, the opponent continued to press with the ball, and the number of fouls on this side was zero!!

This made Lippi very angry, Guangzhou Evergrande really did not put enough pressure on Bayern Munich, and they looked a little timid when facing those stars who are worth tens of millions.

Lippi's roar on the sidelines finally affected the players of Guangzhou Evergrande, and thanks to the stimulus of conceding the goal, Guangzhou Evergrande finally began to play hard.

As soon as Gotze received the ball on the side, Sun Xiang posted it, and before Gotze stopped the ball, Sun Xiang knocked him directly to the ground! Foul!

"In the past few minutes, Guangzhou Evergrande's fouls have suddenly increased." Duan Xuan said, "It's not very safe to give the opponent too many free kick opportunities in the front court." ”

"I think Guangzhou Evergrande should put some pressure on Bayern in this way, and they made Bayern's pass too easy before that." Xu Yang said.

Bayern Munich's passing in these few minutes was indeed not as comfortable as before, and the main reason was, of course, due to frequent fouls that caused frequent interruptions in the game.

When Kroos was knocked down by Zhao Xuri again, he sat on the ground and protested against the referee with his arms outstretched.

During this time, the number of fouls of Guangzhou Evergrande is indeed frequent, in the face of Kroos's protest, the referee just waved his hand, signaling Kroos to stand up, for the referee, although such a collision is a foul, but it does not constitute a yellow card, and Guangzhou Evergrande's fouls are still very particular, they will not be fouled by a player in a row, which also makes the referee have no reason to play the card.

Guangzhou Evergrande is dense in the middle and does not easily foul in dangerous areas where they can shoot directly, while in other areas, Bayern's players began to fall to the ground frequently.

When defending a free kick, Li Qingshan also returned to defend in the penalty area. Bayern Munich tried to pass the ball directly into the penalty area several times, but Li Qingshan judged the right landing point in advance and pushed the ball out.

Khamenez opened his little notebook and made another note on it: he was precise in his judgment of the soccer line.

Pep Guardiola stood on the sidelines with a frown, he was very unhappy with the performance of Bayern's players during this period. At the end of the day, the players were a little rusty with his tactics. Moreover, in this dense defensive formation, the previous Barcelona relied on Messi's personal breakthrough to play. And now, Bayern's team is not only three midfielders who can't play the role of a combination of Butskec, Xavi and Iniesta, but more importantly, there is no sharp knife like Messi.

After Barcelona was restrained by the opponent's dense defense, they had Messi, a single point breakthrough that could force the opponent's defense to appear chaotic.

As for Bayern, they did not have such an attacking point, and Guardiola forced to change their previous tactical style, in this case, the players naturally seemed a little confused.

However, with Bayern's ability to far surpass Guangzhou Evergrande's players, they still firmly controlled the situation on the field, although their offensive threat was not as big as the first 20 minutes, but Guangzhou Evergrande did not have any good opportunities to counterattack.

Pep Guardiola stood on the sidelines, pressed his hands down, signaling Bayern's players not to rush.

For him, as long as he can win this game, he doesn't have to score many goals. Now that the team is ahead and the opponents don't seem to be able to threaten the Bayern goal, there is no need to keep the opponent under siege. After all, Guangzhou Evergrande's more contact-seeking defense also made him a little worried, and his players would be injured as a result.

Bayern took the initiative to lower the tempo, this is the advantage of being able to control the tempo, the tempo of the game is completely controlled, the side wants to be fast, if it wants to be slow, it can be slow, and the opponent can only respond passively.

Although the pace of the game in the first half slowed down under Bayern's control, Bayern still created a few chances to shoot on goal, which made the hearts of Guangzhou Evergrande fans tighten.

This gap is too big....... although the other party seems to be careless now, but there is still nothing that can be done by his own team.

Yes, what can Guangzhou Evergrande do? Do you press it up and force it? This will only expose more vulnerabilities to the opponent. And what about continuing to stick to the restricted area like now? It seems that there is no complete way to prevent the opponent's attack.

"Now that the problem is in Lippi's hands and the first half is coming to an end, how will Lippi react?" Duan Xuan said.

However, before he could finish speaking, the situation on the field suddenly changed.

In the forty-fourth minute of the game, the Bayern players, who had been looking a little careless, suddenly increased the tempo.

Lahm knocked the ball across to Kroos, who sent a long boccia ball directly to Gotze's feet, Gotze swept the ball into the middle without stopping, and Mandzukic slammed the ball into the net!

Bayern, which had been constantly passing back and forth, suddenly changed its rhythm and caught Guangzhou Evergrande off guard!

Towards the end of the first half, Bayern scored another goal.

With two goals down, it looks like the general trend has been set, and there is no way back.........

Lippi also looked a little frustrated after seeing the goal, and just before the end of the first half, the goal was missed again, not to mention the blow to the team's morale, and the tactical changes he had thought of at half-time were completely useless.

With two goals down, Lippi is limited in what he can do. Continuing to defend means that the game is basically abandoned, and attacking aggressively in front of a team like Bayern Munich is no different from looking for death.

Not long after that goal, the referee blew the whistle for the first half.

When the dejected Guangzhou Evergrande players walked back to the dressing room, Lippi was already waiting for them in the dressing room.

One by one, the players walked to their cupboards and sat down, and the atmosphere in the dressing room was a little silent.

It was only after playing Bayern Munich that they realised how far apart they were from the best teams in the world, and that gap was definitely not just reflected in the two goals conceded in the first half.

'In the second half we changed our tactics a little bit. Lippi spoke.

The players looked up and listened carefully to the manager's plans.

'We could have defended better in the first half and in the second half we played like that, but we needed more destruction! Disrupt their passes and disrupt their rhythm. ”

'As for attacking, we need to attack, we need to score! But we can't just press it up and attack! It's no different from looking for death! Lippi looked at the players and said.

After that, he looked at Li Qingshan and said, "Li, in the second half of the game, you have a wider range of running, so you don't have to be in front all the time." We pass forward every chance we have at the back and you see the opportunity to control the ball! ”

Li Qingshan nodded. He didn't get much of a ball in the first half, and his team-mates rushed to clear the ball in the direction of the opponent's goal, even if he knew the path of the ball, it was difficult to get it.

It gave him a kind of depression that he couldn't exertion. If this continues, this game will definitely be lost!

It's time for some changes!