This week, I've been flipping over and over to watch the video of this game.
I did watch Liverpool's two-legged match at Villarreal. To be sure, Emery was a good godhead, but poverty limited his imagination. At that time, he debuted in the big club, was dazzled, it was difficult to start from a tactical point of view, the Ligue 1 and the Premier League carefully digested; back in La Liga to take charge of Huang Qian, his tactical thinking brought Villarreal a lot of progress, but the overall strength of the team is there after all, the barrenness of the bench is not the height of personal technical and tactical thinking can be leveled.
Especially at home to Liverpool in the early hours of this morning.
If the away team holds a rather ideal first half zero-zero, the second half was abruptly changed by the Red Army's "broken dream" or accidental, back to the love song stadium, "Yellow Dive" two goals ahead, smooth sailing, in the face of the European super-first-class team quickly completed its own adjustment after the continuous punch, completely missed the dark horse bottom. Gerald Moreno and Danjuma Danfan are tired, Huang Qian's full attack is a tiger, plus the team's physical ability to dive directly after 55 minutes, placed in the ranks of one of the Champions League final four, almost unimaginable.
It's hard to say what will happen to Lo Celso's trip to Alisson once he succeeds in finding a penalty; the key is Liverpool's rapid rebound, as well as the performance of the possession, which shows Klopp's ability to compete with Guardiola as a "world one-of-a-kind".
Perhaps this is the Champions League-style "success and failure".
Back earlier real madrid away to Manchester City.
The thinness of the bench has made Ancelotti's ability to do rice cookers grow day by day, but it is a great fortune in misfortune to be able to leave with a gap of -1 goal on the road and retain a glimmer of life.
The gap between the away and home teams is all-encompassing and doesn't need to be whitewashed, and Ancelotti is out of the way in tactical arrangement. It can be said that there are no outdated tactics, only offensive and defensive balance, game intensity and execution. Real Madrid's old fritters are not the first time to taste the bitterness of "fist fear and less strength", but after all, the first in the history of the Champions League, the skinny camel is always bigger than the horse. As a result, in the early morning of April 27, the camel was almost shot dead indiscriminately.
If it were not for Mahrez's limited shooting skills, Real Madrid's hopes of reaching the final would have been lost in the first half, and it would have collapsed, and it may even force the management to meet overnight whether to leave Ancelotti and his coaching staff.
If it weren't for that, Guardiola wouldn't have been furious after Mahrez squandered it in the first half.
He knows that letting Real Madrid escape is likely to provoke a frenzied counterattack when visiting the Bernabeu – a possibility that was even superstitious even after Real Madrid pushed Chelsea.
When the home team grabbed the big gap in the away team's midfield in as many as six attack-to-defense and defensive-to-attack switching through the "high-level pressing + fixed-point pressing" in the first 42 minutes, the Galaxy should sink.
When Modric had a dilemma between staring at De Bruyne, Tony Kroos was forced to be taken away seven times in his unfamiliar mid-back position, and caused Mahrez's main right to become a high-speed road with a foot on the throttle – five times in the first half and two times in the second half, the away team was simply a live target for human flesh.
When the real madrid midfield attack and defense ends because of the various flaws in teamwork, three opportunities were wasted in the first half, and the retreat process was allowed to let Tintin, Mahrez and Bernardo Silva cheerfully "in and out" the hinterland, and this battle did not even need to be conceived into a prototype of one-sided slaughter, directly into the meat.
Real Madrid's half was not useless, they frequently forced Ederson to give a few defender teammates the ball, hoping to rely on Benzema's excellent skill points to trigger the "goalkeeper active error" buff; but also found that Stones' state was a mystery, the right side of the town guard was weak from the beginning of the defensive turn, so they constantly pressed for pressure from a high position, and got very good opportunities - so to speak, Manchester City's defensive transfer efficiency is amazingly high, the offensive and defensive efficiency is surprisingly low, how many opportunities Mahrez has, Real Madrid can also get the same amount of opportunities in the pressing.
The difference is in the difficulty of cashing in. Mahrez is profligate, and Real Madrid really can't grasp it.
After surviving the hellish first half, the away team's determination to die broke the glasses of many people. This crazy counterattack, the idea is almost the same as the "Premier League King Mountain" at 23:30 on April 10.
The physical intensity of that duel, the intensity of the game, the tactical execution, it is no exaggeration to say that the peak of modern football history, tactical targeting and response, Liverpool players are obviously inferior to Manchester City; Klopp also understands that no matter how carefully he cuts tactics, he is always inferior to Guardiola, and the result is that in the second half, he chooses "mirror image" - playing behind the Manchester City defense in the way of Guardiola, thrilling to equalize the opponent.
Obviously, this game gave Ancelotti an inspiration that since Manchester City can't hold on to it, it is better to fight 120% and keep 1% hope. The result was 3:4, a one-goal gap for the elderly Real Madrid, an unexpected result.
Real Madrid formation (4-3-3 to 4-1-4-1)
Goalkeeper: No. 1 Courtois
Defenders: No. 2 Carvajal, No. 3 Militão, No. 4 Alaba, No. 23 Mendy
Defender: Valverde 15, Modric 10, Tony Kroos 8
Forwards: No. 21 Rodrigo, No. 9 Benzema, No. 20 Vinicius
Substitutions: 46 minutes 6 Nacho replaced 4 Alaba; 70 minutes 25 Camaranga replaced 21 Rodrigo; 79 minutes 19 Ceballos replaced 10 Modric; 88 minutes 11 Asensio replaced 20 Vinicius.
A major tactical mistake was that the coordination of Real Madrid's starting line on the right was too poor.
First of all, in the offensive and defensive stage, Real Madrid changed 4-5-1, Rodrigo and Valverde's responsibilities were not clear, Valverde would come to the middle to help defend, but he could not stare at De Bruyne, rodrigo did not have the consciousness of staring, becoming the first big mistake.
The first goal conceded was De Bruyne's sudden back-insertion outside the top of the penalty area, with no one following him at the back. I looked at social media, when Mr. Dong Lu explained to his young players that Real Madrid had conceded a goal, he claimed that Rodrigo was fully responsible for this mistake. In fact, Valverde, who is in the middle of the road, does not focus on talent is the biggest problem.
As shown in the chart, in the opening 54 seconds, Manchester City assisted on the right side, Modric assisted in defending to the wing, and it was Tony Kroos who stared at De Bruyne. The latter is very clever, as soon as he sees that the old fritters are on this side, he immediately pulls to the left side and picks raw melon eggs to start.
It was 1 minute 29 seconds after Mahrez got rid of Alaba and Mendy after encountering Modric's defense. At this time, Tony Kroos on the right rib is ready to help Mo Ma help defend Mahrez's breakthrough. On the weak side of Real Madrid, that is, on the left side of De Bruyne, the opponent is three defenses and three, Valverde does not stare at people at all. He probably thought Rodrigo would keep an eye on De Bruyne, but the problem was that Rodrigo presumably thought so too. So the first person responsible was Valverde, who was made up in the middle, who did not defend De Bruyne, so that Tintin stepped in.
Just 1 second later, Mahrez got rid of Modric, Tony Kroos was in place, de Bruyne at the far end had picked up speed, and Valverde was unprepared. This is the biggest loophole in Real Madrid's previous "three-back" defensive system after encountering the intrusion of newcomers. If Casemiro had not been suspended, he would have been in the position of Tony Kroos above, Modric in Valverde's position, and the thickness of the defensive line was formed. Without Casemiro, it was immediately a big mistake.
Secondly, De Bruyne in the midfield almost no one can contain, Modric because of tactical requirements and to go forward, to as a strong point of the offensive pass to hold the ball, his state of this game is indeed average, coupled with Manchester City taking the initiative to push up the intensity of the game, the elderly Croatian uncle is tired of going back and forth, it is difficult to play his best role in assisting defense.
This was the second major mistake that Ancelotti suffered from his entire tactical set. There is no need to entangle Modric's Tintin in a fluttering position, like a wide sea with a fish leaping, organizing an attack with ease. Here is a clear conclusion: Real Madrid did not limit De Bruyne as a whole team, and Manchester City's attacking system was operational, there was no need for special personnel, just relying on passes, it was redeemed by Modric.
From the heat map, it can also be seen that De Bruyne, with the support of the whole team, wants to be windy and rainy.
As the core of the organization, De Bruyne doesn't need to put so much effort into his own backcourt that there are barely any blue blocks representing regular running positions. After passing through the central circle, his organizational area spread throughout the Real Madrid half, covering almost the entire thirty-meter area outside the arc of the big penalty area, and the green block representing the active area was the defense zone of Rodrigo and Valverde. If Modric is still in charge of this side, it will form a counterpoint. However, in the actual game, there was none.
In contrast, Modric, who has a large area of regular running position, mainly on the left rib and the middle road, is partially covered by the right rib of the side, and there is no green block representing the active area, indicating three points:
1. There is no strength at both ends of the attack and defense, that is, it is walked by people.
2. The basic defense in place does not explain the defensive quality of the Real Madrid forward line. In fact, the Real Madrid forward line in this game is the tofu slag project.
3. The left side he is guarding is still met by Mahrez, reflecting the efficiency of Manchester City's all-team passing.
Conceding the ball less than 2 minutes into the opening game is a testament to the fatal flaw in Real Madrid's formation defense. In the official statistics of UEFA after the game, the entire Manchester City team ran a distance of 122.8 kilometers, and the real Madrid team was only 114.6 kilometers, and the gap of as many as 8 kilometers sounded the alarm bell for the "old fritters".
Real Madrid simply can't limit De Bruyne now, only after 0:2 "you play your attack, I play my attack". Modric still contributed a fatal steal without the support of his teammates, causing Mendy to cross from the left, Benzema carrying Zinchenko's volley, and the rebound ball hit the right upright.
The entire 10 seconds of the attack reflected the problems of Manchester City itself, combined with screenshots to illustrate.
At 32:26 in the first half, Goalkeeper Ederson kicked the ball over the centre circle and was pushed back into the home team's half by Militan, where the Blue Moon formed a four-way tie and Valverde rose to the top.
The problem arises in the "untransmission" city's attacking and defensive organization. At this time, Real Madrid's attacking personnel have not formed a scale, but the Manchester City three forwards are foolishly watching the battle for the back in the front, ignoring the fact that the ball is at the feet of the opponent, which is extremely inconsistent with the identity of the strong team.
At 32 minutes and 29 seconds, after Benzema got the ball, the local attack and defense area was compressed, becoming Manchester City's two-defense three, and Benzema broke through with the ball. Zinchenko's destruction of the ball was a very good defensive move, and the problem with the four-man defense in front of Manchester City was entirely formalistic, especially Mahrez, whose steal was precisely his lack of enthusiasm (well, there was a problem with the attitude).
At 32 minutes and 34 seconds, after Modric shoveled, Ferran Mendy got the ball, pay attention to the running position of the two defense lines of Tuman City above, because the three of the forward line did not observe the position of Benzema, Rodrigo and Vinicius, and only cared about paying attention to Felan Mendy with Stones, the defensive deployment was actually only No. 3 Dias, No. 14 Laporte, No. 11 Zinchenko three-on-one staring, and finally the pot god topped Zinchenko to grab the front point.
The offensive and defensive posture of this goal magnifies the shortcomings of Manchester City itself. Combined with the previous mistakes in the Manchester City defender line, it gave the away team a very good hint: the opponent is too strong, and if you don't want to be fished, you can only attack. So there was a second half of the explosion. After the explosion, the situation also became clear, Manchester City can score right, the defensive flaws are also very large, especially Fernandinho, who played full-back for Stones, was suddenly doubted by Vinicius in the sports battle.
This series of responses is the first round of no way to do it, and does not mean that Real Madrid, who return to the Bernabeu, can turn the tables steadily. The return of Casemiro in the second leg seems to me to be just a symptom of the symptoms, real Madrid's "three backs" more than six years of competitive stability makes other clubs envious, with the increase in the age of personnel, the decline of playing ability, tactical status has also come to an end, this special combination has won the "Champions League triple" the supreme achievement, but like "Habaibu", there is no possibility of replication and the universality of tactical promotion.
Real Madrid in the early hours of tomorrow morning, it is really fierce.