Chapter 385 Guardiola: Maximize Lin Quan’s Offensive Power!

"Damn Mourinho, tell him, if he can't win this game, let him pack up and leave!"

In the box at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea owner Abramovich was so angry that his nose was crooked.

Liverpool now has the name of a wealthy club but no reality of being a wealthy club. He cannot accept the reality that Chelsea cannot even beat such a down-and-out Liverpool.

If this game is a draw, Chelsea's top spot will be replaced by Manchester City, and they will be 2 points behind Manchester City.

With two rounds left in the league and it was about to end, Chelsea collapsed at home.

Abramovich, like the vast majority of Chelsea fans, cannot accept this result at all.

On the field, Mourinho was also furious. In the second half, he replaced defensive players and replaced them with a large number of offensive players. He put on a desperate posture and launched a fierce attack on Liverpool.

However, Liverpool's tenacity far exceeded the imagination of the Blues. They besieged the opponent for an entire half of their home court and used all available methods, but they could not break through Liverpool's goal.

In the end, Chelsea had to accept the result of being tied at home.

At the end of the game, huge cheers came from the Manchester City dressing room.

With the help of Liverpool, they have returned to the top of the table and are leading the way to defend the league title!

As for the Blues, after being unexpectedly tied by Liverpool, they have lost the initiative.

Even if they win the last two rounds, they are not guaranteed to win the championship. They still need to see the face of Manchester City. Unless Manchester City loses or is tied, they will have a chance.

Otherwise, Chelsea people will sit back and watch Manchester City successfully defend their title!

This game received a lot of attention in the UK, and major media spent a lot of space reporting on the game after the game.

There is a lot of criticism of Chelsea and Mourinho.

"Mourinho should be responsible for today's failure!" 》

"The Blues unexpectedly dropped points and may miss out on the championship!" 》

"Abu's patience with Mourinho has reached its limit!" 》

Several years of continuous investment of hundreds of millions of pounds resulted in five years without a league title. Not only Abramovich couldn't bear this result, Chelsea fans couldn't bear it either.

After the game, there were rumors claiming that Abramovich broke into the locker room and had a violent argument with Mourinho in the locker room.

This has intensified the outside world's concerns about Chelsea's coaching position. The madman's second term in the Blues may be coming to an end.

However, the outside world is not surprised by Mourinho's end.

"Mourinho's current fate is entirely because of his own incompetence. He failed to win the direct confrontation with Manchester City!"

This season, Manchester City won both matches against Chelsea.

Especially in the second round at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea led Manchester City by 6 points before that game. If they win, the point difference can be widened to 9 points, basically sealing the victory.

But it is a pity that Mourinho failed to defend his home court. Instead, he lost to Manchester City at home and gave the opponent a precious three points.

This kind of six-point battle is very critical. If you win by 3 points, if you lose by 3 points to your opponent, it is equivalent to deducting 3 points. If you go back and forth, it will be 6 points.

And Chelsea losing two games in a row is equivalent to losing 12 points at once, which is indeed very fatal for Chelsea who want to compete for the championship.

"If Chelsea had not lost to Manchester City in a row, their lead would have been at least 4 points at this time. If they had defeated Manchester City, Chelsea would have won the championship early!"

Manchester City had such a serious change in the middle of this season, and the team was in a sluggish state for several months.

Chelsea did not seize such a good opportunity, and Mourinho was not unjustly criticized by the outside world.

Regardless of the outside world's criticism of Mourinho, the Manchester City soldiers were refreshed and their morale soared after unexpectedly reaching the top with the help of Liverpool.

Therefore, with such high morale, Manchester City came to Munich three days in advance to prepare for the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals.

Compared with Manchester City, which has won consecutive victories, Bayern's state seems to be much worse just based on the record?

They have suffered two consecutive defeats in the league. After losing to Bayer Leverkusen 0:2 in their last away game, this time they lost to Augsburg at their home court Bayern.

Moreover, Bayern not only lost the game, substitute goalkeeper Reina also received a red card and was ejected after only 13 minutes for a bad foul. It can be said that they lost both the game and the opponent.

Just judging from the records of the two teams, Manchester City, which has a 2-goal advantage and is in full swing, should be able to easily defeat Bayern, which is in "out of shape".

However, in the handicap offered by major betting companies before the game, almost no one was optimistic about Manchester City winning away from home.

Even the people who are most optimistic about them have a handicap of one goal for Bayern.

This is tantamount to acknowledging that Manchester City will lose at the Allianz Arena, and looking at the handicap of many companies, they even think that Manchester City will lose miserably!

"Do you look down on us so much?"

After the Manchester City players learned about the handicap offered by the betting company, every one of them was filled with indignation.

The game hasn't even started yet, and it's like these guys have sentenced them to death?

Why do they think Manchester City is not Bayern's opponent?

"Although I feel very unconvinced, objectively speaking, our chances of winning this game are indeed very low!"

Someone was not affected by emotions and calmly analyzed:

"Bayern has been recuperating for a whole week. Don't look at their embarrassing defeat to Augsburg. If you look at the starting lineup, most of them are substitutes. The main players were replaced one after another in the second half. On the field.

This shows that they don't care about the result of the game at all, they just use this game to train and keep the main players in shape. "

Bayern's lead in the league is too big and they have already won the championship 4 rounds in advance. Therefore, Heynckes almost did not arrange the main players to play in the last few rounds of games.

This allowed Bayern's main players to get a long rest, and their physical reserves are much better than those of Manchester City's players.

They have reserved so much physical energy, and they obviously intend to 'receive' Manchester City well at the Allianz Arena.

In the last game at Manchester City's home court, they could barely withstand Bayern's attack. When they arrived at the opponent's home court, it was almost wishful thinking to rely on defense to block Bayern's attack.

And once Bayern scores a goal, their morale will be boosted and they will only get stronger and stronger. I'm afraid no one knows how many goals Bayern can score in the end.

Bayern's offensive power is obvious to all, and they have accumulated their strength for so long in advance, so the outside world is optimistic about Bayern, because everyone believes that Manchester City will definitely not be able to defend.

Coincidentally, Guardiola thinks so too.

"Bayern's offense is too strong, and you will definitely die if you just defend. Therefore, we must open up a posture to fight against our opponents at the Allianz Arena!"

Guardiola announced this sentence as early as after the first round.

But at that time, many people didn't believe what he said and thought he was using it as a cover-up, deliberately saying it to confuse his opponents.

At that time, even some players in the Manchester City team thought so.

But now, when Guardiola brought up the old story again, the players saw his serious expression and all understood:

Guatu is not joking, he is serious!

If you don't dare to attack Bayern, you just stick to defense, and you want to rely on defense to deal with Bayern, then you will really die without a place to die!

"Don't think that we can rest easy just because we have a 2-goal difference!"

Seeing the hesitation on the faces of some players, who seemed to have objections to his decision, Guardiola glanced at them and said unceremoniously:

"If you really think so, then this game will be the end of our Champions League schedule this season, and we can consider preparing for next season's Champions League!"

Seeing what Guardiola said was so serious, everyone suddenly stopped talking.

"Very good. Since everyone is silent, they support my decision!"

Guardiola quickly took out the tactical board he had prepared, called all the players over, and then began to explain his tactics to each player carefully.

The players were originally uneasy about playing against Bayern at the Allianz Arena, but after listening to Guardiola's tactical explanation, none of them hesitated anymore.

If Guardiola's tactics can work, then they may really be able to win with this tactic!

In order to confuse the opponent, hide your true intentions as much as possible.

Guardiola also deliberately practiced defensive tactics in front of reporters and Bayern fans who came to spy on the military situation, giving the impression that they were afraid of Bayern's powerful offensive capabilities and planned to rely on defense to deal with Bayern.

This discovery immediately attracted ridicule from Bayern fans:

"Haha, didn't Guardiola say something harsh before that he wanted to play against Bayern at the Allianz Arena? Why doesn't he dare to do it now?"

"Haha, I must be afraid of Bayern's powerful offensive capabilities, so I can only slap myself in the face!"

"It would be too naive to rely on defense to save your life!"

"I bet Bayern can score at least 3 goals against Manchester City!"

"Too conservative, I think we can score 4!"

"I scored three goals in the first half and two in the second half. I think we can win by five goals!"

"You are all too conservative. Maybe this game is like the last game against Porto, 8:1?"

"If it were really 8:1, then someone's face would be swollen!"

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Because of the incident of leaving the team during the winter break and the club's slander, Bayern fans are very unpopular with Guardiola.

They very much hope to see Bayern defeat the team coached by Guardiola at their home court, and tell Guardiola with practical actions:

It's you who are not worthy of us!

Guardiola did not respond to the ridicule and doubts from the outside world.

He focused on perfecting his offensive tactics.

Instead of wasting time arguing with these people, it's better to spend more time thinking about how to limit Bayern's powerful attack on the wing.

To this end, Guardiola specially collected videos of the losing games of Bayern under Heynckes in recent years to study.

As a Bundesliga giant, Bayern doesn't lose many games.

Among these limited game videos, there happen to be a few games that Lin Quan played against Bayern during his time at Werder Bremen.

After watching the videos of these games with curiosity, Guardiola's eyes lit up.

Coach Schaff's tactic of putting Lin Quan on the right wing to challenge Bayern seems like something we can learn from?

Compared with Werder Bremen's lineup back then, Manchester City's lineup is undoubtedly more luxurious.

Their reliance on Lin Quan is far less serious than that of the Parrot Legion, so fixing Lin Quan on one wing will have an impact on the team's midfield and frontcourt organization and offense, but the impact will not be too great.

With De Bruyne, Kroos and others in the team organizing, dispatching and passing the ball, they can completely liberate Lin Quan and allow him to exert his maximum offensive power!

Thinking of this, Guardiola thought of the best tactic!

That is to combine his use of Messi on the wing during the Barcelona Dream III Dynasty, coupled with coach Schaff's tactics, to maximize Lin Quan's power on the wing!

Before Lin Quan appeared, if Guardiola was asked to select the strongest wide player, then he would definitely vote for Messi.

But now, Lin Quan has emerged, making it difficult for Guardiola to cast his vote.

He has seen Messi at his peak and knows how powerful Messi was back then.

But he hasn't seen Lin Quan's strength on the wing, so he can't make an accurate judgment.

It just so happened that this game was an excellent opportunity for him and others to see Lin Quan's strength on the wing!

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News from Manchester City quickly spread to Bayern, and they learned that Guardiola was practicing defensive tactics and seemed to be planning to use defensive counterattacks to deal with Bayern.

Heynckes summoned the assistant coaches and discussed it together.

"Defensive counterattack is a very pragmatic choice for Manchester City, especially since they can still have a two-goal difference advantage."

Bayern's coaches didn't have much doubt about this intelligence, because they all felt that Manchester City did not need to take risks and could just use Bayern's offensive mentality to counterattack defensively.

The power of defensive counterattack tactics in the hands of strong teams is very terrifying.

Mourinho relied on this move to win two Champions League championships, and was even able to snatch the Big Ears Cup from Barcelona during their heyday.

However, neither of Manchester City's two wingers are very fast. Lin Quan and David Silva are both technical players with strong passing, organization and dribbling abilities, but average speed.

If they really play defensive counterattack, they won't pose much of a threat to Bayern, at least that's what Bayern's coaching staff thinks.

Although I think so, Bayern also has to make some preparations in advance.

For example, when Manchester City switches from defense to offense, how to limit the opponent's ball and organize the opponent's midfielder to hand the ball to the winger.

After the opponent's winger gets the ball, how to restrict the opponent's breakthrough, passing, cutting and shooting, especially on Lin Quan's side. His shooting skills are very good, and giving him a chance to shoot is extremely dangerous for Bayern.

In response to Manchester City's possible tactics, Bayern spent two days practicing various targeted defensive tactics.

Bayern is fully prepared and confidently waiting for the game to begin!

On May 13, the second leg of the Champions League semi-final between Manchester City and Bayern was held at the Allianz Arena.

Before the game was about to start, both sides announced the starting lineups of their respective teams.

When Heynckes got Manchester City's starting lineup, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes and realized that he had been fooled.

Kroos's name is in Manchester City's starting list, and the left back is still Kolarov, who is strong in offense and weak in defense.

With this starting lineup, you told me they are going to play defensive counterattack?