Lin Hai Ting Tao
Chapter 1064 Exemplary Role
In the following match, Bayern Munich couldn't find the rhythm of the game, and the mentality of the whole team was obviously unbalanced.
After Toni Kroos committed a foul with a sliding tackle in front of the penalty area, he kept arguing with his opponent, even though the foul was undisputed… but Toni Kroos just had to argue.
After falling behind by two goals, Ribery clashed constantly with Carvajal, who was defending him.
Once again, when Carvajal was protecting the ball, he bumped Ribery out of bounds. The Frenchman, like a powder keg ready to explode, flared up and went to make trouble for Carvajal. And Pepe, as the player with the highest "combat power" in Real Madrid, of course had to stand up for his teammate.
Lewandowski, seeing that Ribery was about to suffer a loss, also came up to help.
As a result, there was even a short period of chaos on the field.
It was not easy to restore order, and they could take a corner kick.
As a result, Ribery slapped Carvajal in the penalty area again. Fortunately, Boateng separated the two, which prevented a bigger conflict.
The referee was lenient and did not show Ribery a yellow card.
The Bayern Munich fans in the stands were still unforgiving, making huge boos. They believed that the referee should give Carvajal a yellow card, and they would be even happier if he could give him a red card…
Of course, the referee didn't listen to them.
The imbalance of mentality was also reflected in Robben. When crossing, Robben kicked the ball in Pepe's face. Pepe fell to the ground. Robben thought he was deliberately delaying time, so he stepped forward and tried to pull him up forcibly, which aroused the dissatisfaction of Real Madrid players and almost triggered a large-scale conflict…
How could Bayern Munich players play well with such a mentality?
In the thirty-fourth minute, Real Madrid launched a quick counterattack in the backcourt. Di Maria passed a long pass to Benzema who was standing in the frontcourt. After stopping the ball, Benzema turned around and passed the ball to Bale who was plugging in the middle.
Bale used his speed advantage to forcibly break through Boateng and then passed the ball horizontally. Cristiano Ronaldo, who followed up, shot directly without stopping the ball.
Although the ball was blocked by Neuer, it still stubbornly burrowed into the near corner of the goal!
3:0!
After scoring the goal, Cristiano Ronaldo ran to the corner flag area and opened his hands, representing the number "ten", and then he repeatedly flipped his right hand, reminding everyone that this was "five".
This celebration means that Cristiano Ronaldo has scored fifteen goals in the Champions League this season!
His score has broken the single-season Champions League goal record jointly held by Altafini and Messi—the previous record was fourteen goals, which has now been rewritten by Cristiano Ronaldo with fifteen goals.
"Fifteen goals in the Champions League! Ronaldo has created history! You must know that he also missed two Champions League games this season! It's really a terrifying scoring efficiency!"
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After Real Madrid led by a total score of 4:0, even a fool knew that Bayern Munich was definitely hopeless to reverse the situation.
With a first-leg result that was still satisfactory, no one thought that they would usher in a collapse at their home stadium, instead of a reversal.
In the seventieth minute of the game, Bayern Munich did not even show signs of scoring a goal. The extremely disappointed Bayern Munich fans stopped booing the Real Madrid players and began to leave the field early.
As the team's coach, Guardiola could only sit on the coach's bench and drink water one after another in the face of such a situation, but he couldn't come up with effective adjustment countermeasures at all.
In the eighty-eighth minute, Real Madrid won a free kick opportunity in front of Bayern Munich's penalty area. Cristiano Ronaldo took the free kick. The ball he kicked did not bypass the wall from above, but went past the wall that jumped high, close to the turf, and went straight to the near corner of the goal.
Neuer never expected that the opponent would do this. His center of gravity had already tilted towards the far corner, preparing to take off. He never thought he would see the ball coming through the wall.
At this time, he could no longer make any movements. He could only keep his body stiff and watch the ball roll into his goal for the fourth time…
"4:0!! Ohhhhh! Ronaldo! Ronaldo! Cristiano Ronaldo!! His sixteenth goal in the Champions League this season! He broke the Champions League single-season goal record that he had just created! He has played fifty Champions League games on behalf of Real Madrid and has scored fifty-one Champions League goals, ranking second in the team's history. At the same time, his sixty-six Champions League goals are second only to Raul's seventy-one goals and Messi's sixty-seven goals, but the Portuguese's are of higher quality, with thirty-three goals scored in the knockout stage, Messi has thirty-one, and Raul only has eighteen…"
Faced with this goal, Guardiola stroked his bald head and then lowered his head in silence.
In the end, Bayern Munich was brutally defeated by Real Madrid 0:4 at their home stadium, and was eliminated with a total score of 0:5, without even having the power to fight back.
This result really greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.
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The next morning, when everyone got up and had breakfast in the restaurant, the match between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid last night naturally became the focus of everyone's discussion.
Some people who hadn't watched the game were surprised after hearing the score.
"0:4? Bayern Munich at home? Are you kidding me!"
"No kidding, that's really the score. You didn't watch the game. Bayern Munich was beaten so badly at their home stadium that they didn't even have the power to fight back. I've never seen such an embarrassing Bayern Munich! Even when they played against us, they weren't this embarrassing…"
"I really didn't expect it… how is this possible? Did the entire Bayern Munich team eat the wrong medicine?"
"Who knows…"
"Now it's all right. We've overtaken them in the league, and they've been eliminated from the Champions League. The 'Universe Team' has been sent back to Earth so quickly. It's really… tsk tsk!"
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A group of people were talking about it.
In the area where the coaching staff was located, the air seemed to freeze a little.
The topics they discussed were even more serious than the players: "...I think yesterday's game will definitely give Atletico Madrid some stimulation."
"Yes, nothing is impossible."
"This game will be difficult..."
"...We must remind the players not to relax, and be careful of Atletico Madrid's counterattack..."
So Dortmund's pre-match mobilization was a little different from the past. Klopp talked the most in the Calderón dressing room about reminding the players to pay attention, be careful, not to take it lightly, not to relax, to take it seriously, to go all out, and not to think that the situation was optimistic.
He used Bayern Munich as an example for everyone: "...In the first leg, Bayern Munich only lost 0:1. Everyone thought they could beat Real Madrid at home and advance to the final. But what was the result? They were beaten by Real Madrid by four goals at their home stadium! So in the world of football, nothing is impossible, and nothing is predetermined! You must always remember this sentence!"
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Before the game started, the players from both sides stood on the center circle line, lined up to mourn and pay tribute to Barcelona's former coach Vilanova, who had just passed away from mumps, and former Yugoslav coach Vujadin Boskov, who had also just passed away.
This was the only moment in the game when both sides were full of warmth.
Then, after the game started, the things that Klopp and the Dortmund coaching staff were worried about became reality.
At the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid, playing at home, launched a very fierce offensive.
They still used the tactic of high pressing.
But this time, the mentality of the Dortmund players was different from the first leg.
A three-goal lead made many people feel that everything was going well. Even with Bayern Munich's previous example and Klopp's repeated instructions before the game, the loosened string was not so easy to tighten.
In the fourth minute, Atletico Madrid got a corner kick opportunity through offense. Koke took the corner kick, and the ball flew to the near post and was headed out by a Dortmund player.
The headed ball flew straight to the left wing, and Koke, who had just taken the corner kick, happened to run to that place. Facing the flying ball, he didn't stop the ball, but kicked the ball towards the goal with his right foot.
Koke's intention was to cross, but his footwork was not well controlled, and the ball flew directly to the back corner of the goal.
Weidenfeller was also defending against a cross at first. When he saw the ball flying over, his first reaction was to attack and pick the ball.
But when he jumped up, he realized that the height of the ball was a little higher than he expected!
His hand was not able to touch the ball.
At the same time, the ball fell after passing his hand, flying towards the back corner of the goal!
Then it brushed against the lower edge of the crossbar… and fell into the goal!