Glory Greenery

Chapter 264
On February 2, Yang Mo followed the team to take a special plane to Greece to prepare for the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals the next day.

After arriving in Piraeus, Greece, after a brief rest at the hotel, I went to the stadium for adaptive training.

In the eyes of outsiders, players should be able to have a good time going to a tourist destination like Greece.

But in fact, apart from training and rest, players can't sit still, let alone do anything.

For ordinary people, football is a hobby and a game.

But for professional players, football is a very hard job.

After a normal game, it is normal for a player like Yang Mo who runs a lot to lose two to three kilograms of weight.

Collecting the sweat he shed throughout the field is also calculated in kilograms.

Therefore, sometimes ordinary people seem to play football very fun and simple, but in fact it is not like that at all.

If ordinary people play a game according to the intensity of professional players, they will never recover within half a month.

But as for professional players, sometimes they even have to go through double matches a week, or even three matches.

This intensive schedule consumes physical strength and willpower, which is unimaginable for ordinary people.

After a day off in Piraeus, on February 2, Bayern ushered in the first game of this year's Champions League.

For their opponent Olympiacos, the Bayern coaching staff made full preparations a long time ago, including the opponent's record, usual tactics, and the main players in the team that need to be paid attention to.

These, the coaching staff also informed the players in advance.

When Yang Mo read the long list of honors of Olympiacos, he found that the team's dominance in the Greek Super League is simply too amazing.

37 league titles, 24 cup titles.

In the 1997 years from 12 to the present, except for the league championship in 04, Olympiacos has won eleven league championships.

Despite the opponent's poor performance in the European war, Bayern had too many unlucky things this year, and they were just tied by Nuremberg.

So in the face of this kind of village domineering team, we have to be careful.

But when the game started, Bayern found that most of their preparations seemed to be useless, and Olympiacos did not use the previous tactics at all.

As the saying goes, when facing Bayern, the top European giants, Olympiacos simply put up a 451 defensive formation at home, without any self-consciousness as the home team.

In a football match, no matter what team it is, there is no good way to deal with this kind of tortoise formation with buses at the door.

The same is true of Bayern.

Olympiacos let you Bayern pass back and forth in my half, but you can't live or die.

And Bayern, also afraid of being counterattacked by the opponent, played cautiously.

And Yang Mo, who has improved ball control and dribbling, was not arranged to start by Van Gaal because of his recovery from injury.

The two starting forwards, Olic and Gomez, do not have Yang Mo's ability to "dance" in a heavy encirclement.

So the two faced this dense defensive formation, and there was no good way for a while.

Among them, Gomez had two chances to shoot, but one hit the plane, and one shot was too angled and sent directly to the arms of Olympiacos goalkeeper Nico Polidis.

In this case, one side cannot attack, and the other side does not have a strong desire to attack. After the entire first half of the game, the scene was extremely boring.

On the domestic TV stations, Liu Jianhong and Director Tao, who commented on the UEFA Champions League match, also started rambling, helping the audience pass the time.

Not to mention the boring game, Yang Mo hadn't played yet, so everyone was bored watching it.

On the sidelines, Van Gaal was also dissatisfied with the game.

At the end of the first half, after entering the locker room, he unceremoniously began to adjust the lineup.

It is certain that Yang Mo will play. Facing the formation of Olympiacos, Van Gaal needs Yang Mo to use his body and technology to find opportunities for Bayern.

The one who was replaced by Yang Mo was Gomez who made repeated mistakes in the first half.

I don't know what's wrong, this Mr. 3000 million has been unsatisfactory since he joined Bayern.

According to Van Gaal's temperament, if Gomez continues like this, it is very likely that he will not get a chance to play this season.

Seeing Van Gaal replace him, Gomez's face suddenly sank.

Bayern fans know very well that Van Gaal's behavior of substituting a player without even saying a word shows that Van Gaal is very dissatisfied with this player.

This encounter, Gomez has experienced a lot at the beginning of this season.

But for Gomez, he actually has no opinion on Yang Mo who replaced him.

Although Yang Mo also played as a center forward in Bayern, his main position is still a winger, even a role between a winger and a full-back.

Everyone can see that Yang Mo's ability to grab points and head the ball in front of the goal is not strong.

Since joining Bayern, Yang Mo has scored almost no headers and only a few points in front of the goal.

What Yang Mo is most feared by opponents is his terrifying impact when dribbling.

Using body and technique to launch a powerful breakthrough, and then involving the opponent's formation and defensive strength, this is Yang Mo's greatest role.

Therefore, Yang Mo and Gomez are completely different roles in terms of positioning, and Gomez is not worried about Yang Mo's competition at all.

On the contrary, Klose's state has begun to pick up recently. The Bayern veteran and Olic are Gomez's biggest competitors.

Regardless of what Gomez was thinking, after the second half started, everyone found that Yang Mo, who had been away from the game for almost two weeks, finally appeared.

"Friends from the audience, this is the five sports channels of CCTV. What you are watching is the quarter-finals of the 2009-2010 UEFA Champions League."

"The home game is Olympiacos of the Greek Super League playing against the Bundesliga giants Bayern at home."

"We can see that after the start of the second half, our young player Yang Mo finally came off the bench."

"Obviously, at this time, Van Gaal replaced Yang Mo, who had just returned from injury, because he wanted to rely on Yang Mo's ability to help Bayern break the deadlock."

Following Liu Jianhong's words, Yang Mo passed the ball to Olic in the middle circle, and then ran towards the Olympiacos half.

For Yang Mo, the top scorer in the Champions League, Olympiacos has naturally been famous for a long time, and he dare not be careless at all.

So as soon as Yang Mo moved, two defensive players immediately went up to meet him, ready to restrain Yang Mo from the very beginning.

However, how could Yang Mo, who had just improved his ball-handling and dribbling abilities, be restrained so easily.

Behind Yang Mo, Olić passed the ball back to Schweinsteiger, who turned and sent the ball to Müller.

After Muller received the ball, he saw that the players defending Yang Mo were not in place, so he sent the ball towards Yang Mo with a big kick.

Faced with Muller's pass, Yang Mo's body that had been silent for more than ten days suddenly started, and instantly threw the two defensive players who hadn't posted it behind him.

Facing the falling football, Yang Mo jumped up and gently patted the football with his feet, then stopped the football firmly in front of him.

Between the one stop and one stop, Yang Mo's speed like a flying arrow and his soft stop movement like catkins immediately attracted countless exclamations and praises.

This is the most direct manifestation of 92-point possession.

(End of this chapter)