Football’s First Defender

"Janssen sent a sideline kick!"

"Bayern's attack from the left! Under the pressure of many Zenit defenders, it is difficult to achieve results now!"

"Franck Ribery returned the ball to his own backcourt to reorganize the attack!"

"Van Bommel is in a deep position, passing the ball to Lahm who has already plugged in!"

"Lahm made a long pass to the arc of the penalty area!"

"Schweinsteiger and Schrokov, who is defending him at this time, are fighting for a position! Schweinsteiger, who occupies the position, firmly spreads his arms and blocks the position, preventing Schrokov from having full strength Chance to take off!"

"But it's a trap!"

"Lam's pass is too high. The position in front of the arc of the penalty area can't touch the football at all!"

"Schweinsteiger used his hard work to deceive the people around him!"

"Klose! Slipped out of the penalty area and appeared about 2 or 3 meters behind Shirokov!"

"After Shrokov took off and scrambled for the top, he stopped the ball steadily with his chest!"

"However, Schweinsteiger, who was trying to get in position before, didn't take off at all. After shaking Shirokov, he turned around and went to the right side of the penalty area!"

"After Klose stopped the ball with his chest, he put the ball diagonally into the penalty area!"

"Schweinsteiger's chance!"

"Although Yang Feng and Anyukov on the right side double-teamed and wanted to close the door."

"But the speed is still slow!"

"Schweinsteiger directly knocked open the unformed 'door' of the two!"

"Get out!"

"Just hit the door!"

"Fight the ground ball to the far corner post!"

"Malafeyev! He fell to the ground extremely fast at the critical moment! His fingers should have touched the football!"

"The ball almost slid out of the bottom line against the post!"

"If Malafeyev hadn't touched it, the ball would have gone straight into the net!"

"Bayern's corner!"

For Bayern, there is almost no advantage in the set-piece tactics of this game. Although their two central defenders Lucio and Demichelis have a good header scoring rate, facing Zenit's The line of defense still suffers a lot from height!

After the corner kick was sent, Pogrebnyak also relied on his physical advantage to clear the ball with a header! After Denisov on the periphery took the ball, although he wanted to push forward quickly to counterattack, Lahm took advantage of the acceleration process and the moment the ball was out of control, made a tackle and kicked the ball out of the sideline!

After a few dangerous attacks at the beginning of the second half, both sides began to assemble defensive personnel on the wing, cutting off the passing line of each other's passers, absolutely not giving the wing a breakthrough space!

"Zenit started to control the football and move forward!"

"Arshavin frequently moved from the left and right sideways to the center to receive the ball. Every time whether it was Timoshchuk or Ziryanov who took the ball, they could rely on accurate passes to make the ball arrive. Let Arshavin receive the ball in the danger zone!"

"This time, after Arshavin stopped the ball, he turned around and made a pass!"

"Arshavin did not give the Bayern players a chance to interfere!"

"Although Denisov succeeded in countering offside and entered the penalty area, Arshavin's pick pass was still a little bit weak. Lucio hit the football, but the ball did not go over the top and land in the penalty area!"

"Schweinsteiger protected the spot, Arshavin pressed forward and passed back to Lahm. Lahm directly moved to Ribery on the left side of the midfield!"

"Ribery takes the ball and pushes!"

"However, before the starting speed was a few steps away, Shirokov, who had been following him all the time, made a sideways sliding tackle, leaving all the ball behind. There was no foul on the ball!"

"Shrokov, who fell to the ground, immediately stood up and counterattacked with the ball!"

"Although the pace was a little staggering because he just got up, he still successfully passed the football to Pogrebnyak who came over!"

"Pogrebnyak with one hand, blocked the two behind him, successfully protected the football, and brought the ball back to the midfield by himself, and passed it back to Tymoshchuk to organize the attack!"

"Bayern's defense line is under pressure, it should be ready to siege on the spot!"

"Tymoshchuk continued to pass back and sent it to Anyukov!"

"Anyukov saw the opportunity, and passed the ball non-stop to Pogrebnyak, who was slightly ahead of the midfield!"

"Don't look at Pogrebnyak's tall stature, but the skills at his feet are actually not too bad!"

"Relying on a tall body to open the way, but unloading the football like a textbook, and gently knocking it to Tymoshchuk in the middle circle!"

"Tymoshchuk knew it and kicked it straight!"

"The ball was looking for Arshavin, who was almost level with Boshen, and came in the middle!"

"Arshavin acts as a transfer station and gently pushes the ball forward!"

"Pogrebnyak, who completed the pass before, has turned around and advanced!"

"Bayern's defense was torn apart by Pogrebniak!"

"Ram also ran to the middle to defend!"

"But Pogrebnyak flicked his ankle and turned the ball to the left!"

"Denisov!"

"The left side is empty!"

"Although Ram is trying his best to run back to defend!"

"It's not enough time for Denisov to adjust two steps with the ball and hit the goal directly!"

"Denisov! Volley!"

"Close corner!"

"Kan, who was still in the middle of the goal before, has already relied on his rich experience to move closer to the near corner!"

"When Denisov finished hitting the goal, he kicked hard, so that his body flew into the air, and he jumped directly to the side!"

"Seal the goal!"

"Corner!"

"Although Denisov's ball has excellent speed, power, and angle, it's still not for Kahn!"

"Zenit had a wonderful teamwork, but the performance of the old goalkeeper Kahn was also brilliant!"

"Arshavin is going to take a corner kick!"

"but!"

"beep--"

"The referee stopped the game!"

"We saw that Kahn, who made a beautiful save before, fell directly to the ground. Due to the injury of the goalkeeper, the referee had to suspend the game and wait for the team doctor to enter the field!"

"The camera is on Kahn, the double goalkeeper of Bayern and German Chariot! However, no matter how good a player is, he has to face the tragedy of aging!"

"The place where the team doctors are pressing should be Kahn's inner thigh muscle. Was it strained during the save just now?"

"All the Bayern Munich fans in the audience are giving a standing ovation to cheer for their goalkeeper!"

"After the team doctor checks, discuss something with Kahn, and Bayern's substitute goalkeeper Rensing is undergoing an emergency warm-up at this time!"

"I didn't make a substitution immediately! It should be that Kahn can still persist in the game, or it's just that Kahn thinks he can last for a while and give Rensing more time to warm up!"

"Old soldiers don't die, they just wither!"

"For veterans who have played in football for more than ten years, injuries and age are their biggest enemies. I hope Kahn can spend the last few games of his career in good health!"