Chapter 520 You have taken all the bamboo shoots in the Alps!
On the evening of April 3, at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
In the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Bayern faced AC Milan at home.
Su Dong accepted the invitation from the Bayern Big Three and sat in the chairman's stand of the Allianz Arena to watch the game together.
Wang Chuqing sat next to Su Dong. Although Su Dong had never officially announced it, everyone had already gotten used to her presence.
The Big Three attach great importance to this Champions League match, not only because AC Milan is one of the strongest teams in European football, but also because this is their home game. Bayern can only have a chance to advance if they beat AC Milan at home.
But from the first minute of the game, Bayern's performance was unsatisfactory.
Heynckes still arranged a stable 4-4-2 formation, with Podolski and Makaay as partners. This is Bayern's best forward combination this season except for Sudirman, especially Podolski, whose form has obviously improved in recent games.
But the rhythm of the entire game was completely dominated by AC Milan.
Ancelotti used the Christmas tree formation tonight, which is 4-3-2-1, with five people in the midfield.
This can be regarded as an adjustment Ancelotti made to AC Milan this season after Shevchenko left the team. The purpose is to control the midfield through the three and two in the middle.
Pirlo lagged behind, and Gattuso and Ambrosini also retreated, freeing up Pirlo so that the midfielder had no defensive worries at all and could devote himself to organization and attack.
Before Pirlo, Seedorf and Kaka were also key players. Seedorf was good at organization, passing and attacking, while Kaka was the team's offensive weapon from defense to offense, especially with his speed.
Su Dong had only watched for ten minutes and he was already dissatisfied with the start of the first half.
"We retreated too far. Heynckes said before that we must push forward as much as possible, but now we always retreat unconsciously, which is not okay." Su Dong shook his head.
Neither Van Buyten nor Lucio are the type of central defenders who can hold their own. Once the formation retreats, the problems in Bayern's defense will be exposed, which is not a good sign.
"We were at a disadvantage in ball possession and technology, which made us too passive." Beckenbauer saw through the crux of the problem at a glance.
Playing at home, the opponent has attackers like Kaka and scorers like Inzaghi. If they lose possession of the ball and do not have the technical advantage, Bayern will not want to concede any away goals to the opponent, so naturally they can only play it safe.
Mentality is a very fatal thing. Many times, players act unconsciously and subconsciously on the court.
In the first ten minutes, Bayern was still able to launch some attacks, but after ten minutes, the game was completely dominated by AC Milan.
This made the situation on the court increasingly worse.
"The pressure that Makaay and Podolski put on Nesta and Maldini was not strong enough, and Jankulovski was too active, which resulted in us not daring to press forward on the right side. There was no threat from Sagnol's side." Hoeness also felt helpless. This was a characteristic of Bayern that they failed to bring into play.
Sure enough, AC Milan soon seized an opportunity.
Nesta intercepted the ball from Podolski and quickly launched a counterattack.
Kaka dribbled the ball inside and made a diagonal pass with his left foot. Seedorf stopped the ball, turned around, dribbled the ball sideways to avoid Bayern's two central defenders, and shot without much interference.
Van Buyten made a fatal mistake when defending against Seedorf's attack. He jumped up directly.
Seedorf kicked the ball on the ground, but when he jumped up, the ball passed between his legs and flew directly into the goal.
This goal loss made the three giants of Bayern lose their patience.
Beckenbauer even stood up and kept shouting: "I can't understand it! I just can't understand it!"
The football emperor found it difficult to understand why the team conceded such a goal, as it was definitely a mistake made by the defensive players.
What’s even more terrible is that after scoring a goal, AC Milan took advantage of the situation and continued to launch a series of fierce attacks on Bayern.
Two minutes later, Oddo made a cross from the right, and Inzaghi headed the ball, but it was confiscated by Kahn.
But just one minute later, AC Milan launched another attack. Jankulovski made a low pass from the left, Gattuso made a straight pass from the middle, Seedorf hit it with his heel, and Inzaghi stopped the ball and pushed it with his right foot, scoring again.
0-2! This time, there wasn't even a defensive player next to Inzaghi.
Both Van Buyten and Lucio are not in position!
AC Milan's Christmas tree formation focuses on the midfield, especially the passing and attacking in the middle.
Mascherano was facing Kaka and Seedorf alone, and it was inevitable that he would lose sight of one while focusing on the other. The two central defenders had serious problems when they were positioning themselves to defend, especially in situations like AC Milan where there was a lot of lateral pulling, they could easily lose their position.
The midfield lacked control, the attack from the front did not pose any threat, and Makaay and Podolski were ineffective.
Bayern was completely defeated in this first half!
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At the beginning of the second half, Heynckes made a substitution, replacing Makaay with Pizarro.
Bayern began to send out active attack signals, but AC Milan, with two goals in hand, began to retreat steadily, waiting for Bayern to press forward and then launching a counterattack behind Bayern.
This puts Bayern in a dilemma.
It is not right to attack, and it is not right not to attack.
Heynckes and Ancelotti took turns to make moves, but neither of them could change the situation.
In the end, Bayern lost 0-2 at home.
The moment the referee blew the whistle to end the game, Beckenbauer looked old.
Sitting in his chair, the football emperor kept shaking his head, "This is the cruelest punishment for us!"
Hoeness also felt the same way, "Technology and ball control, this is the trend of European football in the next few years!"
AC Milan has the confidence to play with Bayern like this because of its technical advantage and control of the ball.
If facing Barcelona, which has better ball possession ability, Ancelotti would not dare to play like this even if he had more courage.
In fact, Ancelotti is indeed afraid of Barcelona.
Before the draw, he said that it would be better not to play against Barcelona.
Even though Su Dong has left the team, Ancelotti is still afraid of Barcelona's passing and ball control.
"Not only AC Milan, but Manchester United is also moving towards technology this season and adding ball control elements. For example, the joining of Carrick and the transformation of Scholes are all Ferguson's efforts to strengthen the passing and ball control elements in the midfield." Su Dong said.
The three giants all nodded in unison. Ginger-Head didn't play like this before. Even though he is old, he is getting better and better with age.
The combination of physical strength and technology is the king of modern football! Tonight, Bayern on the field has physical strength but lacks technology. It is not unfair for them to lose to AC Milan!
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Bayern lost 0-2 to AC Milan at home, and the possibility of advancing to the semi-finals of the Champions League is almost zero.
This caused a wail in the German football world.
Through this game, anyone can see the huge gap between Bayern and the top European teams.
If Bayern, the Bundesliga champion, is in this situation, then the gap between other Bundesliga teams will only be bigger.
Germany's Bild believes that Bayern's loss was foreseeable, but if players Sudon and Modric were able to participate in the competition, the situation would be very different, and there might even be a possibility of turning the situation around.
Therefore, Bild believes that Bayern's reform direction is correct and they should continue to adhere to it and strengthen the recruitment of players.
In addition, many German media have started paying attention to the Champions League scorer list with the mentality of celebrating a funeral.
Many people didn’t pay attention to it before, but now they find that Su Dong is the top scorer in the Champions League again.
He played six games in the Champions League group stage and scored twelve goals, and no one can surpass him now.
Now, following Su Dong in the Champions League scorer list are Kaka and Real Madrid's Van Nistelrooy, both of whom have scored six goals.
This caused widespread amazement among the German media and even the European media.
After only playing half of the season, he was ranked first in the La Liga scorer list and the Champions League scorer list. After coming to the Bundesliga, he was still ranked first.
This is simply leaving no room for survival! Before the 28th round of the Bundesliga, when Bayern Munich challenged Hannover 96 away, the German media asked Su Dong how he felt about being ranked first in the scorer list in three stadiums. Su Dong did not give a direct answer, but instead reminded the media.
"In fact, I only played 16 rounds in La Liga."
The media gathered at the scene were stunned at first, and then burst into laughter.
Look, what Su Dong said, "Grab the bamboo shoots!" You have grabbed all the bamboo shoots on the Alps! But is Su Dong wrong? Not only is he not wrong, but he is also very reasonable.
Because the first half of the La Liga season is 19 rounds, and Su Dong has only played 16 rounds. He really didn't play half of the season, right? So when the news reached Spain, the Spanish media was in an uproar again, and more and more media were calling for La Liga shooters to be more powerful and surpass Su Dong no matter what.
Want to win the Golden Boot in 16 rounds? Dream on! But the problem is that Kanouté, who is closest to Su Dong, has been in a goal drought recently...
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Su Dong was unable to participate in the Champions League, and he was powerless to do anything about the team's defeat in the quarter-finals.
The only thing we can do is lead the team to victory in the league and rebuild morale.
So in the away game against Hannover 96, although the home team played offensive football from the start, which made the demoralized Bayern very embarrassed, but in the ninth minute, Su Dong received a direct pass from Modric, single-handedly dribbled into the penalty area, and calmly shot, scoring the first goal for Bayern.
Then in the second half, Demichelis scored with a header from a free kick.
Although Hannover pulled one goal back at 9-6, Bayern still scored another goal in the 71st minute through Schweinsteiger.
In the end, Bayern defeated Hannover 96 3-1 away and won three points again.
This also allowed Bayern, who suffered a crushing defeat at home to AC Milan, to stop their decline in the league in time.
Heynckes appealed to the team to regroup, play with passion away from home, strive to reverse AC Milan and reach the semi-finals of the Champions League.
Although the hope was very slim, Hai Laotou called on the team to fight until the last minute no matter what.
In the end, Bayern equalized the score twice after falling behind twice on the road, and tied AC Milan 2-2 at the San Siro Stadium.
But with the total score of 2-4, Bayern was eliminated.
(End of this chapter)
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