Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 254
The German media is optimistic about the Champions League trip of the two Bundesliga teams. Needless to say, Bayern Munich, they met the Portuguese Super League giants Sporting Lisbon in the round of 16 encounter.

In the first round, Bayern Munich's relentless offensive completely stunned Sporting Lisbon, and lost five bloody goals at home. Bayern Munich has not entered the top 8 with one foot, but It has been announced that it has entered the quarter-finals. If Sporting Lisbon wants to reverse at the Allianz Arena, it may be more difficult than Hoffenheim winning the Bundesliga.

The other team, Schalke 04, got a draw in the away game and scored an away goal. There is no doubt that they have taken the lead, and they have great hopes of advancing to the quarterfinals.

The media gave Schalke 04 all kinds of tricks. Some suggested attacking to disintegrate the opponent at home, and some suggested deliberately defending at home, as long as they kept 0:0.

Schalke 04 itself is not as optimistic as the media. It is clear to everyone that the draw in the last match was a result of hard work.

Although the penalty kick is unwarranted, if the Villarreal striker gives more strength, it will be difficult for Schalke 04 to get a draw.

Both Buskens and Mulder are old teammates of Muller. Now the high-level scuffle has been exhausted. The Champions League is one of Muller's life-saving straws, so he asked his two old friends to ensure promotion no matter what. In the quarter-finals, there are those who are at the bottom of the quarter-finals. It is not so easy for Schnussenberg and Peters to drive him away.

As the acting coaches of the team, Buskens and Mulder are not only under pressure from Müller, they really want the team to advance. Of course Buskens hopes that with the gradual improvement of Schalke 04, If you can keep your position, you can remove the pronoun next season.

Therefore, Buskens and Mulder focused their energy on studying Villarreal's offensive routines after the game against Cologne, and focused their energy on defending Villarreal's offense.

Zhang Yuan surprised everyone in the last game of the frontcourt offense. They still pinned their offense on Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuanlai was in charge of the frontcourt offense.

Just don't lose the ball, this is their most basic tactical focus.

No matter in any game, a team must have a consistent tactical thinking. If you say that you keep changing your tactics, you are bound to be trapped in the end.

On the stage of the UEFA Champions League, team strength accounts for [-]%, flexible tactical response and luck account for [-]%. Strong teams are qualified to play their own tactical styles, but weaker teams are not fully able to display their strengths , must be adjusted according to the opponent's tactical thinking.

Buskens and Mulder put the team's attitude very low, thinking mainly about defense.

At 3:10 pm on March 45th, Schalke 04's home game against Villarreal officially started.

Buskens was suspended for Schalke 04, and he could only watch the team's performance from the stands. Compared with the first lineup, Bolton recovered from injury and returned to the starting lineup. This time it was him and Digan. Brazilian partner.

Rafinha was replaced by Westerman, and Kristajic played at left back. Schalke 04's tactical intentions are already obvious. The players on the back line have good defensive ability and are tall.

Rafinha and Pender had a balanced offense and defense, but they were not as good as the two sides on the field. Schalke 04 made up their minds to defend.

In the midfield, Englar and Jones form a double midfielder combination. Rakitic cannot be regarded as a midfielder, but can only be regarded as a central midfielder.

The front line is still the three players from the previous round. Asamoah, Zhang Yuan, Farfan, Kuranyi, Altintop Jr., and Sanchez are all sitting on the bench.

Villarreal's Pellagrini sent out the same formation as the previous game. The change in the lineup was that Godin returned to the central defender, Capdevila returned to the starting lineup, and Nihat replaced slightly. lent.

For Pellegrini, he has his plans for this game. Not conceding any more goals is the most important thing after the start. If Schalke 04 concedes first at home, it will be a blow to Villarreal. Heavy, so Pellegrini chose a relatively conservative tactic.

There is another important purpose. Facing the dense defense of Schalke 04, Villarreal is actually very difficult to attack. Instead of pressing up and attacking, it is better to let Schalke 04 guess his tactics wrongly and take the initiative to stand up and attack. On the contrary, I can find some vacancy in this way.

But Schalke 04 didn't do what he wanted. Regardless of whether Villarreal went forward or not, Schalke 04 just didn't want to take the initiative to come out, and they didn't come out when they gave up space.

As a result, after the start of the game, the two sides played very dull, as if neither side was willing to attack, and everyone wasted each other in the midfield.

This made UEFA President Platini who came to watch the game very depressed, the game was ugly!

After becoming the president of UEFA with a high profile two years ago, the Frenchman has never concealed his disappointment at the giants' dominance of the Champions League.He reformed the quota allocation rules and leaned towards weaker leagues, but unfortunately, such changes only increased the base of the Champions League pyramid, and those who remained at the top of the tower were still those few players that Mr. Platini least wanted to see. teams.

On the first match day of the second leg of the 1/8 final, Mr. Platini did not go to Anfield or Turin.He came to the Schalke Stadium to watch the dialogue between Schalke 04 and Villarreal.

The operating state of the Bundesliga clubs is the healthiest. Except for Bayern Munich, other teams have limited performance in the Champions League. Schalke 04's top 8 last season has created team history.

Villarreal is also an emerging force. It doesn’t matter whether they are in the top league or not. The important thing is that these two teams can only be regarded as lower-middle teams in the Champions League. The Champions League should be more attractive. Don’t let Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Premier League powers sing every year. Everyone has aesthetic fatigue. If this continues, the Champions League will not be very interesting.

Mr. Platini does not want to see the Champions League become a game for the giants, he does not want to be a messenger to reconcile the relationship between the giants, so he just came to watch this game that is not worthy of attention. This is a signal that he is more inclined to Vulnerable Groups.

After half an hour of the game, the two teams still focused on the midfield. Villarreal had a slight advantage, but it was difficult to attack Schalke 04's penalty area.

Pellegrini had already discovered through the last game that it was too difficult for his team's striker to compete for the high ball on Schalke 04's defense, so he replaced Nihat, Nihat Compared with Llorente, it is more comprehensive and has good technology.

But until now, the strike partner of Nihat and Rossi still failed to pose any substantial threat to Schalke 04.

Pellegrini's heart is a little nervous now. He doesn't know if he can save the current state by changing his tactics. In his opinion, Schalke 04's defense is too tight so far.

Just as he was sitting on the coach's bench thinking about countermeasures, cheers came from the scene, and the home team fans cheered like a tsunami!
what happened? !

Pellegrini looked up at the field. Surrounded by his teammates, Zhang Yuan was running to the fans to celebrate. He scored again? !

Back to the 32nd minute, Englar steals the ball from Ibagaza in the backcourt, and then makes a long pass to find Asamoah on the left. Asamoah used his body to pass.

After Asamoah passed Angel, he made a pass. His pass was very poor. It was neither a high-altitude nor a ground ball, but a half-high ball, which made it difficult for Zhang Yuan, who was responding in the middle.

Godin stretched out his foot to clear the siege, but Zhang Yuan was ahead of him and intercepted the ball with his chest. Of course, Zhang Yuan's chest was also kicked by Godin's foot.

Without time to make any adjustments, Zhang Yuan volleyed from a small angle and hit the top of the near corner. Diego Lopez was broken by Zhang Yuan again.

沙尔克04主场1:0领先比利亚雷亚尔，但这不是一个保险的比分，1:0如果变成1:1沙尔克04立马就会跟比利亚雷亚尔回到同一起跑线。

However, taking the lead in scoring goals at home will still greatly boost everyone's morale. Just look at the scene and you will know that not only the players on the field but also the substitutes off the field are also rejoicing for this goal.

Pellagrini is still trying to figure out a way to attack, or to adjust in the second half. The bad is bad, but Villarreal only needs to score one more goal to return to the decline.

Before he could figure it out, he scored again on the field!

Pellegrini's mood was like falling into an ice cave, bad, very bad!It will be difficult to catch up after two goals behind.

But this time he was hugged tightly by the assistant coach beside him before he could react.

"Manuel, we scored!" Ruben Cousillas said excitedly while hugging Pellagrini.

(End of this chapter)