Chapter 301, Robben-Style Incision
Guardiola has been under a lot of pressure this season.
Bayern won the Triple Crown last season. They have already stood at the top of Europe. Guardiola took over the team at this time. score. At present, he is defending the league champion without any worries, and the German Cup has also entered the semi-finals. Their opponent in the semi-finals is Kaiserslautern.
Before this game, Guardiola believed that Manchester United should play well. On the one hand, Jin Taige is the new coach of the Champions League. Compared with himself, his coaching ability is still far behind. On the other hand, Manchester United is undergoing a transition from old to new.
So Guardiola feels that his team will be able to win easily.
At the beginning of the first half, Bayern played against Manchester United, just as Guardiola expected. But after 30 minutes, the situation of the game was different. Kintag adjusted the defense, focused on Robben and Ribery, and immediately grabbed Bayern's arms, and Manchester United's counterattack became more and more improved, and Rooney finally scored a goal.
In the dressing room, Guardiola made some criticisms of the team.
"The goal conceded in the final stage is entirely due to your arrogance. Do you think that Manchester United will not be able to slow down? You probably forgot that in the previous round of the Champions League, Olympiacos 2-0 Leading Manchester United, in the end Manchester United came back to win. In the second half, I hope you can show your best form and strive to get more away goals here!"
In the locker room of the home team, Kintag made careful tactical arrangements, and he praised Rooney's performance.
"Wayne performed very well today, and the final goal is of great significance. In the second half, let's not stick to the two wings, De Bruyne, you have to make more fuss from the center."
Then Kintag made substitution adjustments.
Throughout the first half, Manchester United's two wings were severely suppressed by Bayern. It is difficult to open the wing through speed and technology. Therefore, Kintag decisively replaced Mahrez and Martial, and replaced Giggs and Nainggolan. He let Giggs play the left midfielder, De Bruyne came to the right midfielder, Nainggolan and Kanter formed a double midfielder, and continued to n the Robery combination.
At the beginning of the second half, the players on both sides were aggressive and attacked the opponent's penalty area.
In the opening stage, Bayern's offensive was still very fierce. In addition to the Robery combination, Muller was also much more active than in the first half. This is what Guardiola requested in midfield, to let Muller and Robben and Ribery do more support, connect in the middle, and let Ram boldly advance to help the frontcourt players.
The Franck Ribery combination has also undergone some changes from the first half,
The positions of the two of them changed, Ribery came to the left, and Robben, who was left-footed, went to the right. The switch between the two made Manchester United's defense a little uncomfortable for a while. Especially the two full-backs Evra and Valencia, who had just gotten used to being alone, suddenly changed. This adjustment put a lot of pressure on Manchester United's wing defense.
The game had just progressed to the 62nd minute, an attack by Bayern, this time the initiator was Lahm.
Ram got Guardiola's instruction, he didn't pass the ball this time, but chose to drive forward with the ball. Kanter stepped forward to steal smartly, and Lahm didn't overdo it, and directly passed the ball to Muller in front of him.
As soon as Müller received the ball, Nainggolan came up. Muller had two physical confrontations with Nainggolan just now. He knew that the short Belgian was very powerful, so Muller just dribbled the ball and made a fake move forward, and then knocked the ball directly to the right. The road was handed over to Robben who plugged in at a high speed.
After receiving the ball, Robben went straight to the bottom line and continued to prepare for the bottom pass.
Evra quickly posted it to prevent Robben from moving forward.
But Robben suddenly cut in, passed Evra in an instant, and went directly to the left edge of the penalty area.
When Kintag off the court saw Robben cutting in, he suddenly had an ominous premonition.
After Robben cut inside, he looked up at Manchester United's goal and the position of goalkeeper De Gea, and then without hesitation, he shot from a tricky angle, and the ball went straight to the dead corner of the goal!
"Goal!!! Robben's beautiful goal helped Bayern to exceed the score 2-1 here!"
"In the second half, Robben was switched to the right. We guessed that he might choose more chances to cut inside and hit the goal. Sure enough."
"Every time Robben cuts in from the right, everyone knows he's going to shoot, but they still don't understand his shot!"
"In the history of international football, there have been many classic combinations with two wings flying together: Valencia's Vicente and Joaquin, Bayern's former Ze Roberto and Salihamidzic, Arsenal's Pires and Ljungberg, Giggs and Beckham of Manchester United. But in this era, the combination of Robery is the best winger combination in the world! Their goals helped Bayern lead 2-1 away! These two precious away goals The ball allowed them to step into the gate of the Champions League semi-finals with one foot!"
Seeing Robben's goal, Jin Taige kicked the turf fiercely off the field, and he was very upset!
At present, in the Manchester United team, there is a lack of this kind of star who can reverse the game by himself. Although Van Persie is great, he is about to end the golden stage of his career and is starting to decline. Giggs and other veterans are no longer enough to deal with the opponent's top players De Bruyne and Salah. They still need game experience and growth time.
It seems that during the summer transfer period, I must make a big change to the team! Only by buying enough outstanding stars can Manchester United return to the ranks of the first-tier European teams and continue to shock Europe!
The game restarts.
Although being led again by the opponent, the Manchester United players did not lose confidence. After Giggs played, Vidic handed over the captain's armband to Giggs, and Giggs also played the captain's due obligations. After conceding the ball, Giggs hurriedly encouraged his teammates, telling everyone not to lose confidence, continue to strengthen defense, and create as many offensive opportunities as possible.
The conceded goal this time made Kante and Nainggolan blame themselves a bit. They are top midfielders in the Premier League, but seeing the small captain of the opposing team today, they know what a real world-class midfielder is. Therefore, the two continued to cheer up and built a solid line of defense in front of Manchester United to prevent Bayern from having the slightest chance to threaten the goal!