Chapter 34 vs Bayern Munich
"CCTV, CCTV, dear audience friends, this is CCTV bringing you the 2012 Deutsche Telekom Cup semi-final, with Bayern Munich versus Werder Bremen."
"I'm the commentator He Wei!"
"I'm Xu Yang!"
"Today, the team wearing red jerseys is Bayern Munich, the team wearing green jerseys is Werder Bremen.
In this game, Bayern Munich's formation is 4231, and the starting lineup is:
No. 1 Neuer, No. 30 Gustavo, No. 28 Badstuber, No. 17 Boateng, No. 21 Lahm, No. 39 Kroos, No. 36 Emre Can, No. 11 Shaqiri, No. 25 Muller, No. 10 Robben, No. 33 Gomez.
Werder Bremen's formation is 433, and the starting lineup is:
No. 1 Milic, No. 13 Schmitz, No. 15 Pledel, No. 22 Papastathopoulos, No. 23 Selassie, No. 16 Junuzovic, No. 8 Fritz, No. 6 De Bruyne, No. 11 Elia, No. 10 Lin Quan, No. 7 Arnautovic.
Both teams have very young players, and it is worth mentioning that there are Chinese players in Werder Bremen's starting lineup."
Xu Yang on the side continued: "Yes, his name should be Lin Quan. He was loaned to Werder Bremen from the Barcelona youth team. This is his first official game for Werder Bremen!"
Commentator He Wei stared at the starting lineup in his hand, looking up the information and saying with a smile:
"This player is very young, only 16 years and 167 days old. He should be the youngest starting player in the history of the Telecom Cup. Coach Schaff seems to be very bold in his use of players. He should focus on training young players in this game."
Xu Yang nodded: "Indeed, for Werder Bremen, they drew Bayern Munich in the first game. Their luck is really bad."
Obviously, both of them are not optimistic about Werder Bremen and both think that Bayern will win the game.
With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.
After Bayern kicked off, they immediately launched a fierce attack on Werder Bremen's half.
Both sides play in the same league and know each other's strength well, so there is no need to test each other, just attack.
In this game, Heynckes did not send all the main players to play.
Bayern's left winger Ribery, midfielder Schweinsteiger and striker Mandzukic all sat on the bench.
However, with Bayern's starting lineup, it seems not difficult to defeat Werder Bremen. The gap in paper strength between the two sides is huge.
Although before the game, Lin Quan had already prepared for this game.
But when the game really started, he still clearly felt the gap.
Compared with Werder Bremen's previous opponents in the warm-up matches, Bayern Munich is obviously much stronger.
The coordination between their players, the speed of passing the ball, and the individual abilities of their players far surpassed those of the teams they had encountered before.
This makes the pace of the game extremely fast, and the slightest negligence can easily allow the opponent to seize the opportunity and complete a fatal blow.
In the first three minutes of the game, the ball was always in Bayern's hands and Werder Bremen's players didn't touch the ball once.
Fortunately, Coach Schaff was prepared for this situation. After the game started, except Lin Quan, the rest of the team retreated, and Werder Bremen's formation became 4141.
In the midfield, they have a total of five defensive players, one of whom falls back to protect, and the other four adopt a diamond formation to increase the interception range to cut off the opponent's passing lines, and quickly press the ball holder, not giving them time and space to organize an attack.
This style of play temporarily curbed Bayern's offensive, and the two sides were engaged in a fierce battle in the midfield.
On the sidelines, Heynckes frowned slightly after seeing the opponent's tactics.
The opponent's tactics will definitely not be able to limit Bayern's attack. Judging from their current offensive rhythm, scoring is only a matter of time.
But what did Schaff want to do by putting a 16-year-old in the frontcourt? Did he expect this young man to break through Bayern's goal? Or did he intend to use Neuer's tendency to attack in a large area to target him?
Thinking of this, Heynckes glanced at his goalkeeper.
Sure enough, Neuer ran outside the penalty area again and became his favorite goalkeeper.
However, he did not let Neuer go back. After all, Neuer often did this in the Bundesliga and even the Champions League, and Heynckes still had great confidence in his abilities.
Seeing that the opponent had strong forces in the midfield and their attack was difficult to penetrate the opponent's defense, Bayern players immediately changed their tactics and began to attack from the flanks.
In the seventh minute of the game, Kroos saw the empty space on the wing and immediately passed the ball to Robben on the wing.
In order to create a chance for Robben to break through and help him get rid of the defender, Kroos cleverly gave some lead time for this shot.
Robben understood what he meant and started moving immediately, getting the ball before the defender.
Peter Pan, whose speed had increased, ran with the ball immediately after getting it.
Robben was extremely fast, and the Bremen defenders were chasing him closely but couldn't catch up with him at all.
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Junuzovic wanted to intercept the ball, but was deceived by the opponent's fake move. He rushed forward but failed to grab the ball and was passed by the opponent instead.
After passing the second defender, Robben immediately cut inside.
He is a left-footed player, so he doesn't have the problem of weak foot. After cutting inside, he can choose to shoot or pass the ball to his teammates, so he is very threatening.
Seeing Robben cutting inside to the front of his own penalty area, Bremen captain Fritz immediately came over to provide support.
When Fritz left, a brief defensive gap appeared right in front of Bremen's penalty area, and De Bruyne had not returned to defense in time.
Bayern Munich's attacking midfielder Thomas Muller was unguarded. If Robben passed the ball at this time, Muller could pass it to Saric who was making a forward run to create a one-on-one opportunity, or he could shoot directly.
With Werder Bremen's defensive formation already diverted by Robben, passing the ball to a teammate in open space would certainly create a better chance.
But unfortunately, Robben is not a player with strong team attributes. He has a nickname called Lone Ranger.
If he created the opportunity himself, he would definitely have to take the final shot! So, even though he saw the captain of Werder Bremen blocking him, Robben still dribbled the ball sideways, slightly opened up the angle, and shot directly.
Fritz immediately raised his foot to intercept, but missed the ball.
Fortunately, the goalkeeper of Werder Bremen was well prepared. He saw the opponent's shooting route and confiscated the ball directly.
Seeing the opponent's goalkeeper saved his shot, Robben shook his head, very dissatisfied with his previous shot.
Muller on the side spread his hands towards his good friend Kroos, obviously very dissatisfied with Robben's choice just now.
Just as Bayern players were feeling frustrated and dissatisfied for wasting this great opportunity, the goalkeeper ran out quickly and passed the ball to De Bruyne with a hand-thrown near the penalty area line.
De Bruyne knew that there was no time to lose and he had to play quickly.
So after he stopped the ball, he half turned around and passed the ball to the front right before the opposing defensive players could interfere.
"Lin, charge!"
(End of this chapter)