Chapter 545 Fighting Method

The technical and tactical tactics of football games are complicated and complicated, but they are also simple.

It's nothing more than four words, making the best of your strengths and avoiding your weaknesses.

There is no perfect team or perfect tactics in this world, there will always be loopholes and weaknesses.

The coach's tactical arrangements and personnel allocation before the game, to put it bluntly, is to cover up his shortcomings, give full play to his advantages, and use his strengths to attack the opponent's shortcomings.

The technical level is not as good as that of their opponents. No one needs to say this. Liverpool knows it well.

Not to mention Liverpool, even in the Premier League, apart from Arsenal, no team can compete with the European powerhouses on a technical level, and the tactics created by Wenger in Arsenal are indeed It is a big alternative to the Premier League.

Therefore, Liverpool can only rely on fighting, robbing, containment and interception in this game.

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Athens Olympic Stadium is not a professional football stadium.

Because between the stadium and the stands, there is a wide track and field, and there are two semi-elliptical areas behind the goal.

This is obviously quite bad in the design of football fields, because it will seriously affect the atmosphere of the game.

None of that matters, though, for two teams that can walk into this stadium and play in this game.

The stadium has a capacity of nearly 70,000, but only 63,000 people are actually allowed in.

British fans are notoriously frenzied, but AC Milan fans are equally unequivocal.

Judging from the size of the stands, the two teams are roughly the same.

Thirty-eight years and three hundred and thirty-one years old, Maldini is the senior of tonight's final, because tonight is his eighth time in the Champions League final, tying the record of former Real Madrid superstar Gento, and He is the oldest non-goalkeeper in the history of the Champions League final, and this is the third time he has captained the Champions League final, and is also the oldest captain.

In this regard, the media gave Maldini a very high evaluation, and the AC Milan legend hopes that in this commemorative game, AC Milan can have the last laugh.

Like the encounter two years ago, AC Milan is still wearing a white jersey, and Liverpool is facing red.

The referee is Vander from Germany, who is 43 years old. He has enforced Liverpool in the past three times, with one draw and two losses, and he has never scored a goal. He has enforced AC Milan in five games and won all five games.

This also made the Italian media quite excited, thinking that even the referee was on their side.

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Back from the warm-up on the court, everyone is doing the final preparations.

On the way back to the locker room, the coaching staff has already got AC Milan's starting lineup.

The goalkeeper is Dida, the defense is Jankulovsky, Maldini, Nesta and Odo, the midfielder is Ambrosini, Pirlo and Gattuso, and the double front midfielder is Seedorf and Kaka, and the single striker is the big Inzaghi.

In fact, there is really no suspense in AC Milan's style of play.

Ancelotti's team really played like that stinky thing in the group stage and the beginning of the knockout stage. No one could have imagined that a team that played so badly could reach the end. the final.

But that's the magic of the Champions League.

Whether it was Ancelotti's purpose, he adjusted it by chance, anyway, starting from the quarter-finals, AC Milan relied on this Christmas tree formation to stabilize its position and reached the final all the way.

Of course, the outbreak of Kaka is also a crucial and indispensable factor.

It can be said that he is the key to AC Milan reaching the final all the way.

In this case, Ancelotti will not make too many adjustments at all, and he has no leverage to adjust.

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"I hope everyone can start a little bit more stable in this game."

Benitez warned the players cautiously, and everyone immediately thought of the Champions League final two years ago. In Istanbul, Turkey, AC Milan scored in less than a minute.

That was definitely the most nightmarish start to the Champions League ever!

"AC Milan 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, and we just use our pressing and pressing. , try to bring the game into the rhythm we are most familiar with."

Liverpool's most familiar rhythm, needless to say, is fast!

Defend faster, attack faster, and counterattack faster!

"In the starting lineup for this game, I don't want Crouch to start, it has nothing to do with him, but because I know that Ancelotti must have made a full plan, and he has a way to limit our set. Offensive mode, so we're going to change."

"Crouch will be our raider tonight, and Kuyt, you will be the center, and Pennant will start on the right."

After a pause, Benitez continued: "Crouch didn't come, AC Milan's back line should be relieved, and the two wing players should take a more proactive attitude, especially Yang. Kulovsky, Pennant has to intersperse behind him more to create opportunities for crosses from the right."

Pennant nodded heavily. He was excited and excited to be able to replace Crouch in such an important game, but it requires him to show better and better form on the court to repay the coach. ,prove yourself.

Crouch was a little disappointed, but he accepted Yesterdam's ten-minute explanation, which was a tactical arrangement.

The coach is fighting with Ancelotti!

"Gerrard needs to expand his scope appropriately, especially for Pirlo's suppression."

"Yang Yang, I need you to be more active. Ancelotti will definitely deploy heavy troops on the right. Don't look at what he said before the game. I'm sure that the most important task for Odo and Gattuso in this game is to To stare at you, you need to move more flexibly, and I believe you can do it."

There is no doubt that as long as you are not an idiot, you can see that Yang Yang is Liverpool's main attacker.

The so-called main attacker is to make the enemy have to defend.

Therefore, Yang Yang is the only player in the team who has no defensive task and only needs to focus on offense.

His biggest mission is to score goals, to find every opportunity to score goals.

Of course, Ancelotti will also make targeted arrangements. Otto and Gattuso are both on this side. They are Ancelotti's killer to lock Yang Yang.

Benitez did not make specific arrangements for Yang Yang. This is his trust in Yang Yang, and it also gives Yang Yang freedom.

As long as he can get rid of the defense of Gattuso and Odo, how Yang Yang runs, how to intersperse, how to play, that is his business.

Of course, this has to be on the basis of being integrated into the team as a whole.

"Finally, good luck to everyone!" Benitez said solemnly.

In such a crucial final, sometimes things like luck are really very important.

A goal ahead, an avoidable error, maybe even a pass...

Who knows how the game will end?

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"Getting Liverpool's starting line-up."

Tasotti walked quickly into the locker room, holding the freshly released list in his hand.

Ancelotti took a look and frowned.

"This cunning guy can't get on Crouch!"

Tasotti nodded, "This is a very bold choice, and it is estimated that they are also very controversial."

"You don't need to say Yang Yang is on the left, Oddo can't go up at all, and Gattuso must always pay attention. Kuyt in the middle, Pennant on the right..." Ancelotti thought something in his mouth, obviously in the The map of the game was deduced in his mind.

"Don't forget, there's another Gerrard," Tasotti reminded.

Ancelotti nodded, frowning deeper.

"Take a gamble, let Pennant pass, Nesta and Maldini are in charge of freezing Kuyt, Jankulovski is looking for opportunities to move forward and participate in the attack. To score a goal in the first half, it is definitely not possible without the flank."

Tasotti understood what Ancelotti meant, and it was a trade-off.

Let go of the left, Pennant will get more opportunities to cross, but Jankulovsky will also have many opportunities to go forward.

"Benitez's lineup is very clear, he wants a draw, and it is a zero-to-zero draw, and the second half will be more powerful, which is very unfavorable for us." Ancelotti analyzed carefully.

This group of AC Milan veterans will suffer in the second half, so AC Milan can either control the ball and rhythm, which will make the game easier and consume less, or advance the ball, shrink the defense, and let Liverpool attack, Fight back again.

"This guy Benitez has always been good at using tricks. He killed himself in the battle two years ago. I didn't expect that two years later, he still has such courage and determination. It is really admirable. " Ancelotti smiled slightly.

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When the two teams lined up and stood in the two halves of the stadium, Liverpool's Gerrard and Kuyt stood in the middle circle and were ready to kick off. This was the chance Liverpool had won when they guessed.

Just now, Gerrard called everyone over and formed a circle, hoping that the team could fight for a rush at the beginning of the game.

This is a consistent feature of the English team. The opening must be played with momentum and bluffing opponents.

This trick may not seem new, but it actually works.

Gerrard was ready to serve, while Kuyt moved forward a little to pass the ball back as soon as possible to avoid AC Milan's pressing.

With the whistle of the referee Van Der, Gerrard kicked the ball to Kuyt, and the Dutchman kicked back directly.

AC Milan really quickly scrambled, rushing directly towards Liverpool's hinterland.

Xavi Alonso stopped the ball, adjusted quickly, passed it to Mascherano, and then distributed it to the left.

Yang Yang was still standing on the left side near the center line at this time. After receiving the pass from Mascherano, Gattuso and Otto both pressed towards him at the same time. He had to choose to pass back to Aureli. Oh.

AC Milan's frontcourt players pressed towards the Brazilian left-back for the first time, and Aurelio immediately picked a pass back to the middle of the midfield and gave it to Xavi Alonso.

The Spanish midfielder gave Mascherano the header point, but at this moment, Kaka actively stepped forward to press.

Mascherano made a mistake in his busy schedule and the ball was stabbed by Kaka.

But fortunately, the ball did not leave Liverpool's control, Aurelio kicked a long-range pass back to the penalty area and sent the ball back to Reina's feet.

The Spanish goalkeeper stopped the ball with his foot at the front of the small penalty area, then slowly moved forward, grabbed the ball before the big Inzaghi, and passed the ball to Finnan on the right.

Finnan drove forward with a big foot and passed directly behind Yankulovsky.

Pennant quickly caught up.