From the man behind the football king to the football king

As the saying goes, the older the better. In this Bayern Munich team, there are six veterans around 30 years old, which can be said to be a large number of veterans.

In comparison, the oldest of Manchester United's starting eleven is Gundogan, but the German midfielder will not be 30 for another two months.

In other words, no one in Manchester United's starting lineup is over 30 years old!

This is both a disadvantage, after all, the physical fitness of the veterans may be problematic and they cannot compete with the young and strong guys; but it can also be an advantage, as their age gives them more game experience.

For example, now, this group of veterans clearly understand the coach's intentions. They know clearly that they can't be impatient at this time. The more impatient they are, the more chaotic they will be, and the more chaotic they will be, the worse it will be.

So, a group of Bayern Munich veterans led by Boateng, Muller and Lewandowski quickly stabilized the situation.

Bayern Munich began to shrink their defense, which allowed Manchester United to launch a wave of strong attacks and directly hit Bayern Munich's iron wall.

To be frank, the 4231 formation is also conservative because there are two defensive midfielders.

Even if necessary, the two wingers can retreat to protect the two sides of Bayern Munich.

In this case, there will be up to eight defensive players in front of Bayern Munich's goal.

Of course, this will only happen in extreme cases. After all, this situation is equivalent to sacrificing the offense. At least in the Bundesliga, almost no team can force Bayern Munich into this dilemma.

But today, the powerful Manchester United has forced Bayern Munich into such a desperate situation!

And Manchester United's idea of ​​swallowing Bayern Munich in one bite is simply impossible to start.

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Among the materials provided by the Manchester United coaching staff to Bruno, there is an article that specifically analyzes Bayern Munich's formation in detail.

Head coach Mourinho and the coaching staff members all agreed that Bayern Munich's success this season comes from Flick's tactical adjustment. The key is to use Thiago and Goretzka to adopt a double defensive midfielder style.

The basic configuration of the 4231 formation is four defenders, two defensive midfielders, three attacking midfielders and a single striker. This formation has very high requirements for offense and defense.

The requirements for the two full-backs on the defensive line are relatively high. They must be all-around players who can attack and defend well; the requirements for the two defensive midfielders in the midfield are even more stringent. One of them must have excellent physical fitness and defensive running ability, mainly responsible for the defense of the midfield, and the other needs to have excellent dribbling and passing ability and the ability to control the rhythm of the game. Goretzka and Thiago are the golden partners in this position. The requirements for the crossing ability of the two side forwards are relatively low, but they must have excellent inside breakthrough and scoring ability.

As the front midfielder in the 4231 formation, it is the soul of this formation. It must not only have the organization and passing ability of the traditional front midfielder, but also have a strong ability to score by itself.

The division of labor in the entire midfield is very clear. The two defensive midfielders are responsible for defense and connecting the frontcourt, and the three attacking midfielders must cooperate with the single striker to attack.

Because a single striker is adopted, the midfield shares more offensive responsibilities.

In this formation, the striker must be a strong center forward who is good at grabbing points, protecting the ball, holding the ball with his back and scoring. Lewandowski is undoubtedly this type of striker.

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To control the situation on the football field, you must either control the ball or control the space, and both of these things cannot be achieved without people, so some people say that the advantage on the football field is how to create a local advantage in numbers and play this advantage.

At the front of the penalty area, the attacker has two people and the defender has only one, then they are dead.

If it is the other way around, the attacker is probably done.

The same principle is adopted by Bayern Munich. Six players are arranged in the penalty area and the front of the penalty area, plus a front midfielder. This can ensure that Bayern Munich will oppress all opponents who enter the 30-meter area, forcing the opponent to only kick at a distance, and it is difficult to create a threat, because the most threatening and critical areas inside and outside the penalty area are occupied by them.

But everyone also knows that on the football field, defense alone is not enough. No matter how good the defense is, if there is not enough offensive threat, it will be defeated by the opponent sooner or later, so there are two wingers and a striker in front.

The three have always been standing in a triangle, and their characteristics are different.

Lewandowski is good at running and interweaving behind, and has the best scoring ability on the planet; Gnabry is fast and explosive, good at attacking from behind and dribbling through the middle; Kingsley Coman is more comprehensive, very creative, and has outstanding passing awareness.

The three players complement each other and echo each other, forming a tactical level when attacking.

They can pull to the side, play small cooperation in the middle, or play fast counterattacks.

Faced with such an offensive combination, no team dares to be careless, and the full-backs dare not rush forward, because Kingsley Coman and Gnabry can both create threats on the side.

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But how can there be a perfect tactic in the world?

One weakness of the 4231 formation is the overall recovery. When switching from defense to offense, the distance from the goal is very far, so in essence, this is a very conservative defensive counterattack tactic.

How to solve the problem of too far distance?

Thiago's long pass and Thomas Muller's close pass!

Another problem is that it is easy to be disconnected.

The goal scored by Manchester United in the first minute of the game is the best proof.

After the kick-off, Bayern Munich launched a pressing attack in the frontcourt, trying to control the ball from the beginning. As a result, Manchester United directly made a long pass behind them. Bayern Munich's midfielders did not have time to return to the front of the penalty area, which led to Gundogan's ability to easily find Bruno when he got the ball and assisted him to score a header.

At that time, Manchester United used its speed to make the two lines of defense in Bayern Munich disconnected.

In addition, the width of the attack was heavily dependent on the two full-backs. In the absence of full-back support, the attack was too concentrated in the middle, which made it easier for the opponent to defend.

After Manchester United opened the scoring, the trend of the game basically matched the situation of the 4231 formation.

After scoring a goal, Manchester United took the initiative to press forward, but at the same time, whether it was Bruno who rushed forward or Kante and Gundogan who lagged behind, they all firmly held the middle.

Cancelo and Luke Shaw on both wings did not dare to press too much, at most they were on par with the two defensive midfielders.

In the frontcourt, Bruno held back Kimmich and Goretzka, and Mbappe attacked Bayern Munich's left wing with all his strength, not only suppressing Kingsley Coman, but also frequently creating threats on the court.

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This made the situation on the entire field of Bayern Munich very embarrassing, even embarrassing.

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In the first half, the front four that Bayern Munich relied on, Lewandowski did not have a single shot, Kingsley Coman had a long shot, and Muller and Gnabry were invisible throughout the first half.

It can be said that Manchester United's tactics were very successful throughout the first half, and Bayern Munich had only the power to parry, but no room to fight back, and it was difficult for the attack to pass through the midfield.

On the other hand, Manchester United frequently created threats. In addition to Bruno's lightning goal at the beginning, he also dribbled the ball from the left and passed it diagonally behind him. Mbappe quickly inserted behind Kingsley Coman and passed it to the penalty area. Gundogan inserted and pushed it, but it was slightly off target.

Then Bruno sent another wonderful pass from the right, which was passed to the back point. Rashford followed up and shot directly, but still missed.

When the game reached the 30th minute, Cancelo sent a precise cross from the right, which landed at the back point.

Bruno quickly inserted, headed the ball before the baseline, and headed it back to the front of the goal. Harry Kane pushed it from close range in front of the goal. As a result, Bayern Munich goalkeeper Neuer blocked the shot as if he had divine help, and then Gundogan's follow-up shot was also destroyed by Goretzka.

Bruno also created a long-range shot opportunity for Gundogan in the 32nd minute. The German midfielder fired a heavy shot and hit the crossbar directly, but still failed to score again.

In the 36th minute, Mbappe created another opportunity from the right and sent the ball into the right side of the penalty area. Gundogan got the ball and passed it to the front of the goal. Harry Kane and Boateng interfered and the shot was not strong enough. Kimmich flew out in front of the goal line.

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It can be said that Manchester United had the advantage in the first half. Except for the ball possession rate, Manchester United was ahead of Bayern Munich in all offensive data, and the number of shots was far ahead.

But even in this situation where everyone thought that Manchester United should be able to score again soon, Bayern Munich equalized the score.

After the first half of the game entered injury time, Manchester United's offensive slowed down, and Bayern Munich took advantage of the opportunity to launch a quick counterattack.

At that time, Kingsley Coman was shoveled out of bounds by Kante on the left. After Bayern Munich threw the ball out of bounds, they reorganized the attack and sent the ball into the penalty area. Maguire headed the ball first, but Thomas Muller got the ball first outside the top of the penalty area, and Gundogan fouled when defending.

When Kimmich took the free kick, Lewandowski, who was lining up with Manchester United players, stepped aside, and the ball hit his left upper arm, turned a zigzag line, and hit Manchester United's goal.

De Gea judged the original trajectory of the ball, but did not expect the ball to change direction after hitting Lewandowski.

This is definitely an unbelievable lucky ball.

Manchester United players immediately signaled to the Italian referee Osato that this should be considered a handball, but Osato said that Lewandowski's arm was not open at the time, and there was no obvious active handball awareness, but he just passively touched the football, so there was no problem with this ball.

The video assistant referee also recognized the referee's decision, and he did not even prompt the referee to watch the video replay.