I'm Beckenbauer

Chapter 200 194. Chain Defense and Zone Defense

"Mancini's Italian national team is a storm of youth. None of the players starting today are over 30 years old. Starting goalkeeper Donnarumma; defenders Florenzi, Di Lorenzo, Romagnoli, Spina Zola; midfielder Jorginho, Verratti, Barrera; striker Zaniolo, Belotti, Chiesa, the average age of this team is only 23.7 years old. The average age is relatively young, but Italy is the youngest team."

"Of course our starting lineup is also very young, except for Neuer and no player is over 30 years old. Goalkeeper Neuer; defenders Klostermann, Schulz, Jonathan Ta, Halstenberg; Mihi, Gretzka, Luca Beckenbauer; strikers Sane, Brandt, Haverts. The happy thing is that Loew finally gave up his attempt to let Werner play as a striker. This is still without a striker. There are also obvious shortcomings, I can only say that the young people in our country are really disappointing, and now I miss Klinsmann and Gerd Müller very much."

Today's starters on both sides are quite young. The oldest player in Italy, Verratti, and then Belotti, both of them are under 30 years old, and only Neuer is over 22 years old among the 30 players in the audience.

It also fully proves Neuer's tenacity. He is 34 years old and still firmly holds the starting goalkeeper position of the national team. Ter Stegen is full of tears. Even if he is expensive as Barcelona's starter, he can't become Germany's goalkeeper. .

Luca is relatively familiar with the players of the Italian team. He has encountered almost all of them when he played in Serie A before. Few of them emerged last year. Even if they are not familiar with their technical abilities, the coaching staff also gave a key introduction.

What Luca didn't expect was that Zaniolo's rising momentum was so strong that he would become the core player of the Roma team.

Although he was placed on the wing by Manic, and his breakthrough ability is not bad, but Luka feels that his playing style may be more inclined to the midfielder.

Italy's three-skilled midfielder is also blooming more, which will be troublesome.

Today will undoubtedly be a tough battle.

At 6:[-] p.m. in Munich, the referee blew the whistle to start the game on time. There was a hustle and bustle at the Allianz Arena, and the German team kicked off quickly.

Brandt and his teammates cooperated quickly. The German team's frontcourt technical ability is quite good. Luca played as a central midfielder today and can cover two penalty areas.

It's really hard to say a word about German forwards. Last season, Lewandowski scored 34 goals, Werner scored 28 goals, Luka scored 25 goals, Sancho scored 17 goals, Haverts scored 15 goals, Hennings scored 15 goals, and Cordoba scored 13 goals. Rand 13 goals... I have counted the scorer list with more than 10 goals. There are very few German players, and even fewer are forwards. Hennings is too old, so Loew brought Werner. Unfortunately, Werner alone The striker is not bright.

Now even a Kuranyi-level striker can't be photographed, let alone Klose and the like.

So today Loew let Brandt play as a lone striker.

At least it can provide enough technical support in the middle. Brandt is similar to Podolski.

The technical content of the frontcourt ensures that the team passes the ball very well, but there is also a problem that there is no fulcrum in the penalty area. The German team had this problem after Klose retired, but there was Klose at that time, but now Klose Ze has not been selected for the national team for three years.

Although Italy has used three technical midfielders, their defense is very good. This is completely Italy's housekeeping skill.

Havertz dribbled the ball back and forth in the frontcourt looking for opportunities. Brandt had no chance to enter the penalty area. Seeing this situation, Luka could only go up to meet him. Haverts also trusted Luka when passing the ball.

Luca took the ball and immediately faced Jorginho, and Barrera quickly defended together.

Because he couldn't rush up at the first time, Luka couldn't get rid of them quickly.

Kimissi came up to respond, and Luka chose to pass back.

Kimissi didn't dare to make a long pass when he took the ball. After all, Haverts is on the wing today, there is no high point in the middle, and he has no advantage over Italy.

"The German team's midfield is in trouble now. The Italians used their chain defense, no, an enhanced version of the chain defense. The German team is in big trouble today. Luca Beckenbauer did not say Wrong, the Italians have always been good in cup competitions."

The full-back Schulz stepped forward to take the ball, but was forced by Chiesa and could only pass a long pass, but it was never an advantage for Sane to compete for the top, and the Italian team began to counterattack.

Manic didn't feel very relaxed standing on the sidelines. He had watched the German team's games before. This German team was more difficult to deal with than imagined. They are the team that conceded the fewest goals so far, and the defense is good. The team is the easiest to win the championship.

After receiving the ball, Verratti quickly passed it forward to Zaniolo. At this time, Kimisi had already gone up to press, Belotti was strictly defended, and Zaniolo quickly returned the pass. At this time, Luca suddenly appeared and snatched the ball. .

"Beckenbauer!!!"

"The German team's defense is not bad. Our zone defense is also very strong. Everyone has their own area of ​​responsibility. Luca Beckenbauer's huge coverage area is the best guarantee for the German team's defense. He spent a lot of money on him, but it was very well spent and I believe this is the best signing for Chelsea and the best transfer of the summer."

After Luka received the ball, he made a long pass to Haverts immediately. Haverts approached the middle with his own speed. Julian Brandt knew how to cross positions with him. Unfortunately, the opponent's defender was very stable and failed to find a chance. When Haverts wanted to pass to the left, he found that Luka had already assisted him, and he passed the ball decisively with his heel.

Luka took two steps with the ball and quickly kicked a long shot.

Bang~ The ball was hit with great power, and it reached the penalty area almost instantly. Romagnoli couldn't dodge and was hit on the arm by the ball, and then the ball flew out of the baseline.

Players from both sides quickly surrounded the referee, and the German team hoped to get a penalty kick.

The Italian players naturally disagreed, and the two sides kept surrounding the referee.

At this time, the referee chose to go to the sidelines to watch VAR after listening to the headset, hoping to see clearly whether it was a penalty.

After waiting for more than a minute, the referee came back from the sidelines, waved his hand and pointed to the corner flag area, allowing the German team to take a corner kick.

The commentary of Sky TV also agreed: "This is not taking the initiative to handle the ball, but the new rule is to judge when it is hit. Unfortunately, this is a big arm, so there is no problem with the referee's handling. Now we should hope that the German team seizes this corner. Opportunity."

Luka looked back, neither Kimisi nor Gretzka intended to come up to compete for the top, so there should be no problem, so he entered the penalty area.

Romagnoli was obviously impressed by him and kept sticking to Luka.And Luca also felt the eyes of hatred, and the source of the eyes was Donnarumma, the Italian national who had had a lot of filth with him.

(End of this chapter)