Chapter 396 A Dragon
Bayern's attack continues.
After cooperating with Sagnol on the wing, Hargreaves made a diagonal pass to Frings. Frings received the ball and made a cross. In the penalty area, Ballack jumped up and headed the ball, but the ball was punched out by Thomas.
During this period, Bayern played very smoothly, and Ballack's performance was very active. His condition seemed to have reached a peak, and he devoted himself to the game, making him feel at ease in the front court and the penalty area. For example, his header was very powerful now, and goalkeeper Thomas did not dare to catch the ball with both hands, but could only punch the ball with both hands, which shows the power of this header.
But this wonderful performance has not yet ended. The football was hit and fell into the penalty area again.
As soon as Ballack landed, he pushed John Terry aside and jumped up again. When he found that his position was not very good and there was no possibility of shooting, he actually had time to look behind him in the air, and instantly reacted and passed the ball to Guerrero outside the penalty area.
This pass was so classic that it drew applause from Bayern fans in the audience. Then, the next second, the applause turned into curses as Guerrero was kicked to the ground by Frank Lampard.
As a pillar of Chelsea, Lampard can certainly see that Chelsea's form is not very good.
Bayern had already taken advantage of their home court, and with the fans cheering them on, their form reached a peak. The equalizer gave them endless confidence, and under the leadership of Ballack, their overall performance was so good that Chelsea was strongly suppressed.
In fact, Chelsea's performance was not bad, but it was worse than Bayern's. Now, the team was suppressed in the half court, and the ball could not pass across the center line, let alone counterattack.
This time Bayern's attack was even more threatening. If they were allowed to continue such a fierce attack, they would probably have scored a goal long ago.
So, when Lampard saw Guerrero receiving the ball outside the penalty area, he directly knocked him to the ground and decisively ended Bayern's attack. In this way, Bayern's attack was terminated and the team got a chance to breathe. Although this might be a yellow card warning, he couldn't care less in this situation.
This foul was obviously a yellow card, and the referee Temenk did not hesitate. He flashed the yellow card at Lampard and awarded Bayern a free kick of about 25 yards.
At this time, Bayern coach Magath on the coaching bench was very satisfied with the team's performance. He watched the game on the field with a smile on his face, and looked meaningfully at Mourinho on the Chelsea coaching bench who was still sitting with his legs crossed and looked indifferent, wondering whether the team's free kick could turn into a goal.
Magath feels that the team is in very good shape now and is getting closer and closer to scoring a goal.
As long as they can overtake the score, the team's subsequent games will be easier and easier to play, even if Chelsea takes two away goals at the Olympic Stadium. As long as they can win, or even get a two-goal advantage, then when they are away, he will let the team put on a defensive posture. Even if Chelsea's offensive ability is very good, it will probably be difficult to break Bayern's goal again.
It has to be said that Magath and Mourinho are somewhat similar in terms of coaching philosophy. They are both the type who want to win without caring about face...
In contrast, Chelsea coach Mourinho remained very calm and did not look nervous at all.
In fact, Mourinho was still very nervous just now. The team's form was really bad. Bayern was about to break the deadlock and score another goal. In such an important game, a goal is very important. It may almost be related to the ownership of the championship trophy. He couldn't help but be nervous.
However, when he saw the position of the black-haired boy No. 21 on the field, a smile immediately appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the nervousness immediately disappeared.
After a season of contact, he knows Wang Li too well.
As long as this black-haired boy participates in defense, although he cannot resist all attacks, at least it will be very difficult for the players he defends to perform. So far, he has not seen a player who can get rid of Wang Li's defense. At this point, he even thinks it's a pity that Wang Li is not a defender.
On the court.
Hargreaves walked to the penalty spot. As a winger for Bayern, his footwork is very good. In Bayern, he is now the first free kicker on the field. In fact, the position of this ball is not very good. Although it is not bad in terms of distance, the angle is a bit to the right. It is blocked by Chelsea's 5-man wall, so there is basically not much angle.
Therefore, Hargreaves's focus is on his teammates.
Ballack was the best choice. He was standing on the left side of the penalty area, staring at Hargreaves. His expression seemed to say "pass the ball here, pass it here", and he looked ready to rush forward at any time. In this game, everyone could see that Ballack was in very good condition and his performance was indeed the best.
But Hargreaves hesitated, because there was a black-haired boy standing next to Ballack, that was Wang Li. If it were any other Bayern player, they would have passed the ball to him without thinking, but Hargreaves knew Wang Li, and he knew that although Ballack was very strong and was at his peak now, there was still a gap between him and the black-haired boy.
Hargreaves didn't know how big the gap was, but it did exist. At least he didn't think that Ballack would be able to receive the ball if the ball was passed to him.
So, when he heard the referee's whistle, signaling a penalty kick, Hargreaves passed the ball to Frings at the front of the penalty area. Hargreaves did not have his own ideas. In the team, Ballack and Kahn were the most authoritative. If he wanted to continue to mix in the team, he could not offend them. When Ballack asked for the ball, other players would usually pass it to him. After all, no one wanted to offend the boss of the locker room.
But in order to win the game, Hargreaves still did not pass the ball. He gave up the opportunity to pass the ball and gave the option to Frings.
As the team's second free kicker, Frings has a very good passing ability. After receiving the ball, he looked up at the chaos in the penalty area, and without thinking, he kicked the ball towards Ballack.
"Huh..." Seeing the direction of Frings' pass, Hargreaves covered his face helplessly. He knew that the team was about to lose the ball.
At this time, there was real chaos in Chelsea's penalty area. The moment Hargreaves passed the ball, many players began to run towards the penalty area, including Ballack. However, he did not expect Hargreaves did not pass the ball. But when he saw the latter pass the ball to Frings, he did not care. He just thought that it was due to the obstruction of the human wall and the latter was not sure about the accuracy of the pass.
Sure enough, the next second, Frings passed the ball.
Ballack was ready for battle. He still planned to use his best header to seize the opportunity. This time, Frings' pass was very accurate and the football fell directly on Ballack's spot. At this time, Ballack was only 7 meters away from the goal. At the moment of jumping, he seemed to have seen the team score a goal. At the same time, his right eye glanced at the black-haired boy No. 21 who was smiling next to him. He thought to himself, "So what if I'm famous? I can only watch me score goals." But he didn't think that, at least in Germany, he was much more famous than Wang Li.
It happened in a flash, and the next moment, the disdain on Barak's lips turned into surprise, and the changes in his facial expression were almost frozen, as if forever frozen in frozen time.
Wang Li came later but was the first to arrive. He squeezed Ballack's body in the air, tilted his head in the air towards the incoming ball, and after falling, he used the force of the dive to stop the ball with his right foot. After that, he immediately turned left and right, shook off Lucio who came in to assist, and took the ball out of Chelsea's penalty area.
Wonderful
All the Bayern fans in the stadium were in disbelief.
At this moment, they understood what confidence meant, the confidence of a football player in his personal skills in an extremely important competition.
When defending in their own penalty area, players often use long kicks, headers, etc. to kick the ball out of the penalty area to prevent any accidents. This idea of playing football can even be said to be deeply rooted. Few players choose to dribble the ball in their own penalty area. That is absolutely extremely unwise.
But now, they saw this scene. During Bayern's attack, the black-haired boy on the field easily squeezed out Ballack in his own penalty area, stopped the ball, then shook off Lucio who came in to assist, and easily dribbled the ball out of the penalty area.
Isn’t he afraid of losing the ball?
Isn’t he afraid that Bayern will shoot directly after counterattacking?
Wouldn't Chelsea's head coach object to this style of play? Wouldn't he be afraid of being scolded by the head coach?
All these questions made Bayern players and fans fall into deep thought for a moment. Even when Wang Li was about to cross the center line with the ball, Bayern players realized that they needed to defend.
At this time, all the Bayern fans realized that the black-haired boy's dribbling speed was too fast. It was almost as fast as an ordinary player sprinting 100 meters at full speed.
"Oh my God, it's dangerous..." The commentator of the German TV station also realized this.
After leaving the penalty area, Wang Li took only more than 3 seconds to dribble the ball across the center line.
But at this time, defenders Lucio and Lizarazu were still in Chelsea's half, and Bayern Munich's backcourt only had wingers Ze Robert and R. Kovac. The former was still on the wing, and it was almost impossible for him to return to the middle to block Wang Li's attack.
In other words, Wang Li only needs to face R. Kovac and a goalkeeper.
The empty Bayern backcourt was almost a special place for Wang Li to unleash his speed.
R. Kovac's ability is not weak. His full name is Robert Kovac, a Croatian star. In his career, he has been playing in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen's training system has created his defensive skills. Now he is Bayern's main defender.
But R. Kovac had been dribbled past by Wang Li countless times in the first half. When facing Wang Li's dribbling in a 1v1 situation, he even felt a little nervous. At this time, he was the only defensive player in the entire Bayern backcourt. In order to prevent the team from conceding a goal, he had to do a good job of defense. So, he immediately forced himself to stop being nervous and kept thinking in his mind, "I can do it, I can do it." He even closed his eyes to hypnotize himself.
Perhaps, this method of self-hypnosis is sometimes effective, but at least it did not work on Kovac now. In the time he was stunned, Wang Li had already dribbled past him with the ball.
F**k you idiot)"
Seeing R. Kovac's performance, Bayern Munich coach Magath couldn't help but stand up and curse. If this scene was captured by reporters, it would definitely be a big gossip. But at this time, the reporters' cameras were all focused on Bayern's backcourt, and no one cared about this old man who had lost his image.
On the field, Wang Li had already crossed Bayern's penalty area line.
Whenever football experts are asked to select a world-class player from the German squad, Kahn's name automatically comes to mind. Kahn has earned himself the ultimate reputation as one of the world's best goalkeepers and an example of a player who has performed at a high level over the years.
Throughout the world, Kahn has many nicknames: "Titan", "Lion King Kahn", "Tomato", "Thousand-Handed Goalkeeper", etc. From this series of nicknames, fans can also imagine that he is definitely a feared existence for many forwards.
At this time, facing this one-on-one shot, Kahn was angry.
Although he is already 36 years old this year, he feels that he can at least continue to play the goalkeeper position for another 2 or 3 seasons. However, in this game, the opponent has already scored two goals, and now this arrogant black-haired boy actually dribbled the ball from the Chelsea penalty area to the Bayern penalty area and wanted to break his own goal. How can this be tolerated?
When Wang Li was about to cross the penalty area line, Kahn attacked. He ran at full speed, opened his big mouth, and roared madly. His golden hair fluttered in the wind, like an angry lion.
Often, when Kahn shows this expression, many forwards will feel cowardly, but this obviously doesn't work for Wang Li.
He was still dribbling the ball quickly. Even though R. Kovac behind him was having difficulty catching up, Wang Li did not slow down. At this moment, he was fully committed to dribbling the ball. In his eyes, even Kahn was the same as an ordinary goalkeeper.
I have to say that Kahn's level is really good. When he attacked, Wang Li felt that no matter which direction he shot, even a lob, he might be caught by him. So while looking for an opportunity, Wang Li still did not kick the ball. At the moment when their bodies touched, he pulled the ball lightly to the left while running at high speed, and then took a light step to avoid Kahn's catch, and then faced the empty goal.
Looking at the black-haired boy who easily shook him off and faced the empty goal, Kahn, who had just fallen on the grass, felt a little desperate. At this moment, he felt that he was really old. The next moment, according to his mood, he saw the football appear in the goal he was guarding.
The third one.
Kahn felt that no game in his career was more desperate than this one.
"Beep..." With a whistle, the referee Temenk announced that the goal was valid.
All the Bayern fans in the stadium looked at the black-haired boy who was surrounded by Chelsea players on the field with gloomy hearts. They were still a little bit unbelievable.
Before the game started, many media reported Wang Li's record and performance from the beginning of his career to the present. These data can almost be described as perfect, so the name 'Alan Wang' became Bayern Munich's number one enemy. However, in the hearts of Bayern fans, the best players on the field are still Ballack and Kahn.
However, anyone who sees this goal will be shaken in their belief in who is the 'best player'.
The ball was carried from the backcourt to the frontcourt and passed the goalkeeper. This performance can really be described as gorgeous. When Bayern launched a massive attack, the opponent only used one person and counterattacked once, which slapped Bayern hard in the face.
The score became 2:3, and Chelsea took the lead again.
Magath was no longer happy at this moment. Just now, he was expecting the team to score a goal to lead Chelsea, but just one minute later, the opponent scored a goal, and it was such a gorgeous personal performance goal. The gap between the before and after was too big, which was definitely a test for one's heart.
Fortunately, Magath's heart was still in good condition, at least he did not fall to the ground due to the emotional fluctuations.
However, now he seems to have to consider the tactical issues of the next game.
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The Germans have cold nerves; the Germans have rational brains; and German football, like their people, is always well-behaved.
After Wang Li helped Chelsea to overtake the score again, Magath did not immediately direct the players' playing style. As a result, Bayern players still launched a fierce bombardment on Chelsea according to the offensive tactics arranged during the halftime break. It was not that they did not know that it was dangerous to do so, but they were just used to obeying. As long as the head coach did not change the tactics, they would attack unswervingly.
However, this time their attack ran into trouble.
At least Barak was in trouble because there was a black-haired boy next to him.
When he received the pass from Frings again, it was intercepted again. Fortunately, Bayern's attack had not yet been launched in large numbers this time, and Wang Li's counterattack was unsuccessful.
But this is just the beginning.