Football’s First Defender

At halftime, Real Madrid and Bayern, the two teams with the most powerful offensive firepower in Europe, only ended in a 0-0 draw at the Bernabéu.

Both teams had a lot of chances, but the defensive players played equally well.

With the central defenders of the two teams playing efficiently, the entire first half of the game, when both sides rewritten the score, were a little bit less lucky.

And the score of 0 to 0 is definitely worth accepting for Real Madrid, who are playing at home.

The score of 2 to 1 in the away game gives Real Madrid a lot of room for maneuver. Even if they rely on defense and limit the number of goals scored by Bayern to less than two goals, then even if Real Madrid loses 0 to 1 at home, they can still score away. The advantage of the ball advances.

So during the halftime break, Zidane, of course, focused on letting the team defend well and not leaving too many offensive opportunities for the opponent Bayern.

Although Zidane's main goal is not to disrupt the battle with Bayern in the opening stage of this game, it does not mean that Real Madrid must retreat and defend.

Real Madrid wants to do a good job of defense, but in the process of Bayern organizing the ball in the backcourt, Real Madrid's midfielders also began to improve in the game compared with the opening.

Real Madrid's midfielders put their defensive position forward and came to Bayern's half, putting a certain amount of pressure on Bayern's players.

But Bayern is a team with a background in pass control.

Facing Real Madrid's frontcourt and pressing defense, Bayern did not panic too much, but used repeated passes to successfully get rid of the siege of many Real Madrid players, and easily transferred the ball to Real Madrid's defense weak point.

After all, compared to Bayern's previous frontcourt press, Real Madrid still did not use their full strength in this frontcourt press, but to take into account the stability of the overall defense, not like Bayern, which was a bit desperate at the beginning .

In the case of no defensive effect, other Real Madrid players retreated back to their own half, relying on the number of defenders to gain the lead in the defensive situation

.

Bayern took the ball out before, and the attack method they found was Ribery on the left.

Ribery's position on the court today actually has a lot of freedom. After Lewandowski returned from injury in the first game, and there was an obvious fulcrum in the middle, Ribery did not immediately focus on the offensive activities on the left at the beginning of the game, but more Choose to move laterally, come to a position close to the middle to respond to the pass of teammates, and use yourself as a breakthrough point to disrupt Real Madrid's overall defense.

This time, Ribery moved laterally to the midfield near the middle position. After receiving the continuous pass from his teammates in the backcourt, Ribery showed his speed and began to develop long distances on the weaker side of Real Madrid's defense. raid.

Although Modric occupies a certain defensive position advantage, he can only follow Ribery and restrict Ribery's further route to the center, but he cannot stop Ribery's rapid impact diagonally to the left.

When Carvajal had to come over to assist Modric to complete the blockade of Ribery's offensive route, Ribery sent a through ball directly to Carvajal's back position.

Alaba quickly lapped the edge directly on the left. He played his full speed close to the sideline and just received Ribery's through ball.

Then do not make adjustments, catch the ball in a fast sprint state, and immediately choose a cross into the penalty area

.

After all, in today's game, Bayern has a veritable high center forward Lewandowski in the penalty area, which makes Bayern's wide players quite easy. Just choose to pass the ball directly, and it may create a threat

.

But this time, Lewandowski showed his excellent personal ability as a high center forward.

Although the header this time did not pose an absolute threat, the big reason is that Alaba's pass was still further behind, even behind the penalty spot. Under the circumstances, it is actually quite difficult to complete an excellent header. However, in the confrontation with Ramos, Lewandowski beat Ramos, and Ramos scored consecutively. None of them came across.

Zidane looked at the ball off the field, with some brows furrowed.

Lewandowski is indeed the best No. 9 center in European football today, but Ramos is also a world-class central defender, but in the direct confrontation between the two, this time Lewandow But Ski completely crushed Ramos, leaving Ramos with nothing to do with his defense.

Ramos's performance may be a certain hidden danger for Real Madrid

, because everyone knows that Bayern’s main offensive method must still be the side attack. Even if Bayern makes more breakthroughs in the middle at the beginning, the most threatening thing is of course the two excellent side attacks of Robben and Ribery. hands, and Alaba and Lahm behind them both have excellent crossing ability from the wing,

And with Lewandowski in the middle, Bayern must be quite proficient in combining the side and the center. So even though Real Madrid has recently suffered from Bayern's continuous raids close to the center, Zidane has not changed his defensive tactics.

It is better to carry out defensive interception in the dangerous area, and absolutely not to give the opponent enough threatening space on the side.

Now Zidane can only hope that Ramos can quickly enter the state, unable to completely restrict Lewandowski, but he has to cause enough defensive troubles for him, instead of letting Lewandowski relax like this, Even complete a high-quality header.

Real Madrid's goal kick once again opened to Bayern's half, but in the fight for the landing point, Bayern's double central defenders have a considerable advantage in this kind of header competition.

Hummels overwhelmed Benzema to spot the ball before it returned to the Bayern players

.

Without any procrastination, today's Bayern players would rather their passing is inaccurate, but they also have to play their own fast offensive rhythm.

After receiving the second point from Hummels, Thiago sent a direct pass and found Ribery in front again.

After Ribery received the ball, facing the defender, Ribery wanted to pass the ball to complete the acceleration and break through Casemiro, but this time Casemiro's defensive position was very good, facing Ribery The ball was passed by the man in Li, and Casemiro directly blocked Ribery's forward route based on the principle of being superior to others.

Seeing that this forward football may be received by other Real Madrid defensive players, when Ribery got rid of Casemiro's block, he increased his hand movements, but pushed Casemiro to the ground. , and the referee also decisively blew the whistle to punish Franck Ribery for this foul.

this match,

for

For Ribery, the opening game was actually quite active.

The continuous attack on the left and close to the center completely relies on Ribery's personal attack to drive Bayern's overall attack.

In contrast, Robben on the right has not had many opportunities so far, and it seems that he has not even touched football once.

This time, Real Madrid did not choose a free kick from the backcourt to open the frontcourt directly. Instead, they passed the ball short back to the back, slowly passing the ball, and controlling the rhythm of the game.

With the rhythm of the opening game completely in the hands of Bayern, Real Madrid can only use ball possession skills to reduce the rhythm of the game and try to regain the dominance of the offense.

It's just that, although Real Madrid's pass and control of the ball went quite smoothly, and they controlled it for nearly a minute, but when Real Madrid wanted to really launch a threatening attack, they still encountered a precise block from Bayern's defense.

The pass to Ronaldo was intercepted by Hummels directly, and Bayern's counterattack started immediately

.

Bayern's style of play today is to pursue a fast pace. After Hummels went up and intercepted to find a pass to Ronaldo, he immediately handed the ball to Thiago.

The midfielder Thiago did not hesitate too much, and directly shifted a wide range of kicks, and the ball continued to find the left. After Alaba successfully snatched Hummels, he immediately accelerated forward and launched a counterattack run, just in time to respond This long pass to Thiago diverts the ball.

And Alaba took the ball forward, and Ribery was in front of him.

It was Bayern's offensive duo on the left again. Facing the defense of Carvajal and Modric, Alaba chose to hand the ball to Ribery, while he continued to overlap.

After Alaba attracted Carvajal, he gave Ribery and Modric one-on-one offensive space.

Faced with Ribery's offensive pauses and certain fake moves, Modric can only choose to mainly defend Ribery's inward cuts, and give Ribery some space to go on the side.

There is no way, although Modric's defense is good, but in the face of such a breakthrough attacker from the side, Modric can only do his best to defend well

.

I want what the opponent gives me. Ribery decisively chose to go from the side to force a pass from the bottom when Modric was obviously inclined to defend in the middle. Although he was already struggling to block, Ribery's The acceleration action and the final passing efficiency are very high, kicking the ball from the side and directly looking for the goal

.

Lewandowski is the guarantee for Bayern players to dare to cross unscrupulously on the wing, but this time Lewandowski's fight was not successful. Ramos himself is inseparable from Lewandowski on the defensive end this time, and with all his teammates defending well, Yang Feng can also properly help Ramos complete the protection of the penalty area.

The pass this time is actually quite good. Find a forward position. If Lewandowski really completes a header, it may pose a great threat to the goal, but Lewandowski On the one hand, Ramos had defensive interference from Dovsky. On the other hand, Yang Feng's sudden appearance directly blocked Lewandowski's forward route, making it impossible for Lewandowski to reach the position immediately.

Bayern's attack came back in vain

.

In the next attack, Bayern finally turned from the left back to the right. The right side rarely became the active point of attack this time, but when Robben really chose to be on the right side and forced an inside cut to hit the goal, he was instantly double-teamed by as many as three Real Madrid players. Although Robben was already speeding up The speed of hitting the goal, but still there is no route to hit the goal.

Casemiro blocked the ball directly, the ball was blocked and flew out of the baseline, giving Bayern a corner kick

.

It was the first corner kick of the opening game.

Bayern Munich did launch a strong offensive posture in this game, and wanted to use their strong attack to pose enough threats to Real Madrid to score goals.

However, although Real Madrid's defense is not perfect at the moment, it also focuses on pinching Bayern's two wing attacks, and in the middle, it completely relies on the personal abilities of Ramos and Yang Feng to complete the defense.

Moreover, Real Madrid deliberately retracted the formation, effectively ensuring their own defensive space and defensive numbers, so that Real Madrid can have excellent defensive strength to put pressure on offensive players in various defensive situations.

.

Among the set kicks, Real Madrid actually has a certain advantage. After all, Benzema and Ronaldo's header ability is not bad.

With the addition of double central defenders and Casemiro in the defensive midfielder, Real Madrid still has certain advantages in competing for players.

For this game, Zidane, in addition to making key arrangements for Lewandowski, Hummels, and Boateng's high-point players on the bright side, for Bayern's Vidal, Zidane Nei also made a detailed defensive arrangement in the corner kick tactics

.

Although Vidal is not tall, his running position and explosive power can always create a very big header threat. Real Madrid suffered a loss in the first round.

In this game, Zidane did not dare to overdo it, and arranged a defensive player to mark Vidal full-time. He must not allow Vidal to have such a comfortable sprint and take-off space, posing a threat to the team

.

This time the corner kick on the right was taken by Thiago. Thiago took a short run-up with his arm in his arms and then quickly sent a curve ball to the goal.

The pass from Thiago was extremely fast and fell directly into the small penalty area.

Hummels and Lewandowski formed a double ghost shot in the small penalty area and went straight to the point where the ball fell.

But this time, although the speed of the ball is very fast, for Yang Feng, the ability to judge the landing point of the ball still helped him to have a clear running goal in the first place

.

Yang Feng firmly stuck in the defensive position, then leaned forward and jumped forward, taking the lead in passing Thiago at high speed and flying out.

With Thiago's passing power this time, if he is really caught by a Bayern player, or even if a Real Madrid player accidentally touches it, it may result in a goal or an own goal.

After Yang Feng's accurate judgment this time, he defended very well again, taking the lead in pushing the ball out of the penalty area

This is Yang Feng's defensive role, and it is also the reason why Zidane dared to make more arrangements on the defensive end in this game.

Yang Feng and Ramos can form a fairly effective complement.