Football irons are burning

Chapter 109 The Champions League Begins

In football, injuries are indeed a player's worst enemy.

No matter how talented you are, if you encounter injuries, many people will still fall in front of them.

Li Tie now hopes that he can get a few more one-time healing items, so that he can heal these injured players and prolong their careers.

But maybe it may not be possible to get it, after all, who can guess accurately about the system?Maybe it rewards something different next time.

After being warned of Deisler's injury, Kaiserslautern also conducted a comprehensive diagnosis of the injury. It seems that Deisler's sudden injury sounded the alarm for Magath.

This diagnosis really has some injuries.

Van Nistelrooy suffered a slight muscle strain, and the team doctor advised Magath that it would be best not to let Van Nistelrooy play in the first game of the Champions League.

Klose also has a groin strain and is also on a truce. In this game, Klose fought too hard.

Carvalho also had a bit of muscle soreness and was sidelined.

Others, intact.

Two days later, the first round of the UEFA Champions League began.

Kaiserslautern hosts Benfica.

Benfica is a giant in the Portuguese League, and they have a lot of background in the European war. They have reached the finals of the European war a lot.

They won the Champions League consecutively in the two seasons of 1960-1962 and 1961-1962, but then fell into Gutman's curse. They entered the Champions League five times and lost all of them, which became a major record in the history of the Champions League.

In comparison, the Benfica team's preparations are obviously more adequate. They have five days more rest time than Kaiserslautern.

At the press conference before the game, Benfica's German coach Heynckes said: "This is a good opportunity to beat Kaiserslautern. They just played a Bundesliga game. We will undoubtedly be more physically fit."

Magath said: "The team will implement rotation. The UEFA Champions League will be played at home. Three points cannot be lost."

After the two sides entered the field, careful fans found that Ruud van Nistelrooy, the main striker, did not play. Di Natale took his place, and Drogba served as a double striker.

Stankovic, Deco, and Malouda made another appearance, forming the midfield with Li Tie.

Stam, Materazzi, Zheng Zhi and M. Friedrich form a back four, and the goalkeeper is still Bout.

This is also Li Tie's first UEFA Champions League game. It is impossible to say that he is not excited.

However, his mood calmed down quickly, and he was only excited in an instant.

After the opening, Kaiserslautern kicked off first, passed the ball several times, and still returned to Li Tie's feet.

Li Tie rushed the ball across the midfield, and Maniche immediately pushed forward.

If Li Tie doesn't pass the ball, he just fucks Maniche hard. In the beginning, as the captain, he will do this twice to show off Kaiserslautern's muscles.

Maniche knew how powerful Li Tie was, so he didn't dare to be negligent. Seeing that he couldn't stop Li Tie, he simply pulled Li Tie to the ground.

Kaiserslautern got a free kick at the start, but it was too far from the goal.

Li Tie still asked his teammates to go up and compete for the header.

He then took a corner, and Stam grabbed the spot and headed the ball over the bar.

However, this also puts great pressure on the Benfica players.

Benfica then also launched an attack. Poboski took the ball and broke through from the side and was directly knocked to the ground by Malouda. The Czech genius is no longer as brave as he used to be.

Soon, Kaiserslautern took full control of the situation and began to launch one attack after another.

In the 9th minute, Li Tie made a straight pass in the middle, and Stankovic took a long shot. The ball went straight to the upper right corner of the goal, but it was slightly deflected and flew out of the baseline.

Three minutes later, it was Stankovic's long-range shot again, but this time it was a bit dumbfounding, and Drogba blocked it out of the bottom line with his butt.

In the 16th minute, Li Tie took advantage of Stankovic's cover and took a kick, and the ball was also blocked by the opponent's defender from the bottom line.

It seems that Benfica's defense is still quite tough.

Heynckes' coaching ability is naturally good, and he passed the tenacity of German football to this team.

In the 19th minute, Li Tie made a pass to the side, and Deco's precise right-sided diagonal pass found Drogba's head, but Drogba missed under the pressure of the opposing player.

Since then, Kaiserslautern has been the main attacker and Benfica has defended, but the score has never been rewritten.

In the 23rd and 39th minutes, Di Natale got two chances to shoot in the penalty area, but they both missed the angle too much.

The halftime score was 0:0.
Back in the locker room, Li Tie finally understood the intensity of the Champions League.

Throughout the first half, Kaiserslautern had more than 80% of the ball and shot more than 15 times, but they were still unable to score.

The opponent's defense is very good.

Even the two forwards, Pinto and Gomez, retreated to the midfield to fight.

This made Kaiserslautern's offense fall into the opponent's double-team, unable to open the situation.

Of course, the players themselves are still inexperienced in the game. After all, they are participating in the Champions League for the first time, and they are very young. Sometimes they are a little impatient when handling the ball.

"Be patient, don't rush to shoot, you see the effect, isn't it good?" Magath came in and criticized the players for shooting too anxiously.

It really takes patience for the opponent to set up troops in the backcourt and put up an iron bucket formation.

"In the second half, both sides play faster, resolutely go to the bottom, and then you can choose to cut inside or cross. Drogba, you have to seize the opportunity and don't always waste the opportunity. When the time is right, you can pull out a little bit to make room for your teammates."

Magath made another deployment, and then ordered Li Tie to press more to participate in the attack. The opponent obviously did not have a big offensive threat, and the opponent did not have a few shots in the first half.

However, he also told Zheng Zhi to make up for Li Tie. Now Zheng Zhi is playing the right back position, but Magath knows Zheng Zhi's role.

After 15 minutes, everyone came out to continue the game.

After the start of the second half, Benfica still adopted the strategy of the tiger not going out of the hole, giving up the offensive initiative.

There is more than one UEFA Champions League group stage. In the away game, the visiting team is more conservative, which is generally understandable.

The Kaiserslautern team surrounded the opponent and attacked.

In the first half, they didn't play much on the wing, and most of them relied on the organization of Li Tie and Stankovic to launch offenses in the middle.

In the second half, Kaiserslautern began to exert force on both sides, and Malouda and Deco were very active on both sides.

In the 55th minute, Li Tie made a long pass to the left, and Malouda stopped the ball with his chest!

After getting the ball, after going down quickly from the left, he suddenly knocked across the middle. Stankovic caught the ball and knocked it to him again. Malouda swept across the goal immediately.

Didier Drogba rubbed forward, and the ball changed direction and went straight to the near corner.

The opponent's goalkeeper Couto fell to the ground and flicked the ball away. After the ball came out, it just landed at Di Natale's feet. Di Natale accepted the gift with a smile, and finally rewritten the score to 1:0!

"Haha, I scored a goal!" Di Natale ran to the billboard behind the goal with a smile, and jumped over to interact with the fans behind the goal.

The home fans pumped their fists excitedly, the attraction of the Champions League is still very strong.

Kaiserslautern have been away from European competitions for a long time, and when they returned to European competitions, they scored goals immediately, and the fans were very satisfied with that.

And the previous worries about Ruud's absence are now swept away.

In fact, Van Nistelrooy's absence really affected the team's offense. Without Van Nistelrooy in the first half, the striker's breakthrough ability was greatly reduced. After all, Di Natale's physical confrontation ability is not as good as Van Nistelrooy's.

But Di Natale's ability to grab points is still very good, and he did a very good job of grabbing points.

Leading by one goal, the team will play easily and return to the rhythm Kaiserslautern likes.

Li Tie also jumped over, knocked Di Natale to the ground, and then pressed on him.

(End of this chapter)