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Chapter 558 A Choice That Surprises Everyone
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The much-anticipated Champions League final finally kicked off.

Experts noticed something was wrong at first glance. Schalke 04, who kicked off the ball first, stood in the center circle with striker Cavani and... midfielder Jones.

Guardiola did not sit back on the coach's bench, but stood on the sidelines with his arms folded and carefully observed the positions of the Schalke 04 players.

"In the second round of the semi-finals, Jones had a wide range of positional conditions, which made it difficult for Manchester United to play the ball in the midfield." Torrent reminded: "A high press?"

"Impossible." Patrick on the side pointed to Sun Wu who was catching the ball, "Best's position determines that Schalke 04 will not make a high press. He retreats very deep, almost parallel to Westerman... …Well?"

Guardiola twitched the corner of his mouth, knowing that Best would make a fuss, but he didn't expect this guy to...

The Wembley Stadium, which has been in a row since three hours ago, fell silent in this short few seconds...

Everyone was stunned to see that Sun Wu received the ball and passed it back to Neuer, then ran back to catch the ball, and then distributed it to the wing... Then, he stood still behind the central defenders Milito and Hewedes up!

"Sun Wu playing central defender?" Zhan Jun said loudly in disbelief: "Everyone is vaguely looking forward to a wonderful confrontation. Many people think that Schalke with Sun Wu and Rakitic 04 was able to compete with Barcelona for the initiative, but Schalke 04 gave up..."

"Maybe it's a scavenger?" Zhang Lu speculated: "Sun Wu is not good at defense, but he is very sensitive to gaps. It should be Lannick's arrangement."

"But no matter what, it's surprising that a world-class organizational midfielder plays as a central defender!" Zhan Jun shook his head.

Schalke 04 didn't start the attack, didn't start the game with three sharp axes, straight and straight back, crouched on the ground with his head in his arms and was beaten... As long as you can't kill me with the hammer, I will have a chance to fight back, this is the last thing you want Face, or the thickest tactic.

Although it is said that there have been no famous games in the finals since ancient times, there are quite few games like Schalke 04...

This tactic was first proposed by Rangnick. He keenly discovered that although Sun Wu was poor in defense, he was very sensitive to gaps. The few defensive midfielders who played cameos used concise positions to intercept the opponent's pass. .

And Sun Wu also agreed with this tactic. He knew very well that Manchester United in the original time and space lacked a defensive midfielder, so they had to press out to play against each other, and they lost without any suspense.

The whole team, including Cavani, has defensive tasks. Only Farfan, who plays the left winger, is slightly forward.

Even Messi and Iniesta were stunned for a while, Barcelona's pre-match deployment did not expect this situation at all.

The Barcelona players controlled the ball in the midfield without pressure, and then tried to attack. They first chose the center.

But soon, the Barcelona players felt the pressure.

In the 5th minute, Iniesta retracted and Xavi passed the ball consecutively. Jones struggled to destroy the ball with a sliding tackle. Rakitic who received the ball immediately sent a long pass, and Farfan took the ball from the side. The raid was sabotaged by Xiao Ma and went out of bounds.

After 3 minutes, Harvey was in possession of the ball in the midfield, and Jones ran at full speed, but the Spanish midfielder easily played a two-for-one with Messi to bypass Jones.

Harvey aimed at Pedro's running position and was about to score the ball. Suddenly, the wind picked up behind him, and a foot suddenly appeared at Harvey's feet and poked the ball away.

Messi immediately caught the ball and tried to break through, but Westerman, who had been following him, stretched out his foot fiercely and brought Messi down.

In this game, Westerman will be Messi's bodyguard.

The referee whistled to indicate a foul, but let alone a card, there was no verbal warning.

Harvey and Messi were very dissatisfied, but Sun Wu exchanged glances with his teammates. It seems that the standard of law enforcement in this game is relatively loose, which is a good thing for Schalke 04.

"It's almost 10 minutes, Jones has made three steals, it's unbelievable!" The Spanish commentator looked at this scene strangely, "Xavi and Iniesta have less than 0.5 steals in each game..."

Half a month of training prevented Schalke 04 from being perfect defensively, but it was full of fighting spirit and tacit understanding, and Jones also knew that he could not play the whole game, so he sprinted back and forth without hesitation.

The most important thing is that Sun Wu used an "interception card" for Jones, and the success rate of defensive midfielders' steals increased.

In this game, Sun Wu used up all the weights he could use.

Barcelona took the initiative to get out of the way, Xavi sent the ball to the two sides, Messi, Iniesta, Pedro and Alves began to try to break through from the ribs and the sides.

In the 14th minute, Messi gave a wonderful individual performance. He dribbled the ball in from the right, first changed direction in a small range to make the "bodyguard" Westerman staggered and fell, and then swayed Hewedes continuously. and Rakitic.

The Barcelona fans in the stands were ready to start cheering.

"No one can stop Leon... Another pass... Direct pass!"

"Oh, how did Best appear there!"

Messi sent a concealed direct pass after consecutive breakthroughs, but Sun Wu appeared on the rolling line of the ball and easily stretched his feet to block the ball.

Rangnick on the sidelines punched vigorously. This was a successful defense. Most importantly, it meant that his tactical choice was not wrong, and Best did not live up to his trust!
Sun Wu didn't give Messi a chance to counter-rob. He tiptoed and sent the ball to Fuchs outside the penalty area. The latter didn't stop the ball, and directly headed back.

In a blink of an eye, Barcelona's siege turned into Schalke 04's counterattack.

Farfan dribbled the ball to the side under the close defense of Busquets. The two entangled and used both hands and feet. Finally, the referee whistled for a foul by Busquets.

Messi touched his chin and stared at Sun Wu who ran past him. The position of this friend today and the seemingly understated interception just now proved that the opponent's research on Barcelona and himself was three-pointed.

"It's interesting." Guardiola murmured to himself in a low voice.

Guadu had thought about it a long time ago. Schalke 04 may have some unexpected changes, but he never expected that Rangnick chose to let Sun Wu, the best and hottest organizational midfielder in Europe, retreat to the The central defender goes behind to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

Sun Wu doesn't have to face the impact of Messi and Iniesta directly, but he can find the loopholes and see the gaps at the first time, which highlights his tactical thinking ability and sharp vision, and at the same time avoids the most difficult part of his defense. Weak frontal defense ability.

Sun Wu, who was shrunk in the penalty area, commanded his teammates to stand and run loudly, and kept reminding the Barcelona players how to advance.

From the 14th minute to the 20th minute, although Barcelona took the absolute initiative, although Barcelona got more than [-]% or almost [-]% of the ball possession rate, there were very few threatening shots, and there was only one shot on target. The curve ball shot was easily confiscated by Neuer.

"Very interesting tactics." Zhan Jun was surprised that after 20 minutes, Schalke 04's goal, which seemed to be crumbling, turned out to be so strong.

"Not only Sun Wu retreated behind the defender, but also the entire Schalke 04 retracted, giving up possession of the ball, but keeping the 30-meter area airtight." Zhang Lu commented: "Schalke Ke04 has always been famous in European football for his offense this season, but he did not expect to contribute a considerable level of defense in the last game."

But in the eyes of the Barcelona players, Jones' running has brought a lot of pressure, but once alerted, it will be difficult for the Americans to steal the ball successfully.

The most important thing is Sun Wu.

In the 22nd minute, Pedro went forward to the left side of the penalty area. Harvey seemed to be picking a pass. Rakitic jumped up and tried to block the ball with his back. Hewedes stepped forward to put Pedro in an offside position.

But Harvey made a spike before sending out a pick pass.

However, this kick pass did not fly to Pedro on the left side of the penalty area, but flew to the other side of the penalty area.

Villa bursts through the crowd, chests the ball...

　I finished coding two chapters at ten o'clock last night and wanted to take a rest, but saw Wanshang. At that moment, my mood was so complicated!
　　I feel like my newborn son is going to be sent away soon... Hey, it’s good to stay for one night, so I added an update today
　　Finally, I would like to thank Jingye Fengsheng for his rewards.

　　There will be another update later, the third night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)