From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 211 Balance

The most fascinating thing about football games is that you never know what will happen in the next second. A small accident may cause the trend of the game to change.

Thiago's goal originally boosted Bayern Munich's morale, but Alonso was suddenly injured, which caused a brief chaos in Bayern Munich.

At this moment, Udinese suddenly picked up speed.

Badstuber stood on the sidelines, ready to wait for the opportunity of a dead ball to complete the substitution.

At this time, the game had just reached the 64th minute.

Facing Udinese's frontcourt press, Bayern Munich made a mistake in its defense. Veteran Rafinha made a mistake in handling the ball under Salah's press, and passed the ball to Alonso. Too small, the football was robbed midway by Bruno.

Immediately, Bruno dribbled the ball into the penalty area alone. When Neuer was passed by Bruno, he chose to stretch his foot and tripped Bruno.

"beep!"

The Spanish referee Carvalho's whistle sounded, and he walked over and took out the cards from his pocket.

The Bayern Munich players hurriedly gathered around. They could guess what color card the referee would draw: As the Bayern Munich goalkeeper, Neuer is the last defensive player, so this will probably result in a red card!

"Referee, that guy is diving." A Bayern Munich player shouted loudly. He refused to admit that Neuer committed a foul and instead accused Bruno of diving.

"That's right, that kid dived." Veteran Rafinha immediately shouted. His mistake in passing the ball just now caused all this. Now he is excusing Bonoyer, and he is also excusing himself.

Naturally, the Udinese players would not agree with what the Bayern Munich players said, and the players from both sides had a fierce quarrel.

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The referee Carvalho shouted loudly, signaled both sides to calm down, and separated the players from both sides. Then he pointed to the penalty spot and awarded Udinese a penalty kick. Finally, he walked towards Neuer and showed his card to the Bayern Munich goalkeeper: Yellow!

The Spanish referee awarded Udinese a penalty kick and then gave Neuer a yellow card for the foul.

This penalty surprised both sides. Bayern Munich players suddenly became ecstatic, while Udinese players looked like they couldn't believe it.

For such an obvious red dot package, the referee only issued a yellow card? !

Several Udinese players immediately surrounded the Spanish referee and questioned his decision.

In the stands of the Friuli Stadium, the moment Carvalho showed the yellow card, it was completely boiling, and boos filled the entire stadium.

"It turned out to be a yellow card! When Bruno broke through, Neuer, the last defensive player of Bayern, tripped Bruno in the penalty area. Such an action was a very clear red card and penalty kick, but the referee on duty was Only a yellow card was shown,” John Mortensen said, his tone full of disbelief.

Lineker was silent for a moment before speaking: "Maybe Carvalho is doing it out of balance considerations. After all, Udinese is already in the lead. If Neuer is sent off again, the game will completely lose its suspense." …”

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On the court, Guidolin was so angry that he jumped up and down and rushed to the fourth official to protest.

Bayern Munich head coach Guardiola was surprised to have escaped death. He clapped vigorously and gave the referee a thumbs up.

Originally, Guardiola wanted to die the moment Neuer pulled Bruno down.

He really wanted to rush up to Neuer and spray him in the face, asking him why he did that.

Neuer's importance to Bayern is unimaginable to ordinary people. As long as he is on the court, the team's defense is reassuring.

In that case, even if Bruno scores the ball, Guardiola will have the confidence to come back with Bayern Munich's attacking power.

After all, the Champions League knockout rounds are two-legged games, home and away!

However, now that Neuer fouls like that, he will definitely be sent off with a red card. This almost declares that Bayern Munich is dead in this round of the series.

In the remaining nearly half an hour, Bayern Munich will face a ten-man challenge, and we don’t know how many goals they will score.

After returning to home in the second leg, Neuer will also be suspended due to a red card.

This is completely like losing your wife and losing your troops!

But the next moment, something happened that he couldn't believe. The referee only showed Neuer a yellow card!

This means different results!

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No matter how dissatisfied the Udinese soldiers were, no matter how loud the boos from the Udinese fans at the Friuli Stadium were, they could not make the Spanish referee Carvalho on duty change the penalty.

Penalty kick for Udinese.

<divclass="contentadv">Because the previous penalty kick was missed, Udinese's penalty kick right has been in the hands of Bruno. In addition, this penalty kick was made by himself, so there is no doubt that he will take the penalty kick.

After the referee blew the whistle, Bruno started to take a run-up, and then used the change of rhythm to induce Neuer to move first before taking a penalty kick.

Neuer, who moved first, misjudged the direction and the ball hit the net.

"GOOOOOOOOOOL!"

"3:1! Udinese once again extended its lead to two goals!"

"This is Bruno's 13th goal in the Champions League this season, leading the list of top scorers in the Champions League!"

"3:1! Udinese 3:1 Bayern Munich! It's crazy, they are now two goals ahead of Bayern Munich."

Guardiola sat on the coaching bench, looking very calm.Although Bayern Munich is likely to lose this game, they still have a chance.

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Guardiola's premonition was correct. In the following time, despite Bayern Munich's full counterattack, they failed to score the second goal of the day. Instead, their defense made a quick counterattack in Udinese. , almost declared lost again.

In the 87th minute, after Salah broke through from the right, he passed a low pass on the right side of the penalty area. Di Natale responded from the front. Boateng, who was guarding him, almost had an own goal with his left toe 7 meters away from the goal. Neuer was brave. Hold up the crossbar!

In the end, when the referee Carvalho blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score on the field was still maintained at 3:1. Udinese defeated the powerful Bayern Munich at home.

This caused even bigger cheers. Amidst the huge cheers, the players on the Udinese bench rushed to the field with roars. The players on the field roared in celebration, and the whole stadium seemed to explode. volcano.

At the post-match press conference, Udinese head coach Guidolin once again mentioned the controversy over the referee's decision on Neuer's foul. He believed that the Spanish referee was taking care of Bayern Munich. Because anyone else would have been shown a red card in that situation.

Guardiola said that the referee Carvalho's penalty was very courageous, which also ensured the balance of the game.

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Regarding this defeat, Guardiola said: "We did not expect this score. The two goals in the first half were conceded too quickly. When such a situation occurs on the field, everything becomes difficult."

"After that, we got a goal back and took control of the game. But looking at the whole game, Udinese should be the team that performed better." Guardiola said, "The score of 1:3 made the second leg better. The game becomes difficult, but we will try our best.”

Bayern Munich captain Lahm added: "We could have lost 1:2, but now 1:3 is much more difficult. However, in the second round, we will still try our best to achieve our goal."

The 1:3 away result in the first leg was obviously extremely unfavorable to Bayern.

In the history of the European knockout rounds, Bayern has lost more than 4 goal in the first leg of the away game 1 times and has never overturned the set.

Since the European War implemented the "away goal first" rule in a draw, a total of 178 teams lost 1:3 in the first round, and only 3 teams came back to advance, with a success rate of only 1.69%.

Specific to the Champions League, the probability of a comeback after losing 1:3 in the first round is much higher, reaching 22%.

Of course, this does not mean that Bayern will definitely be eliminated by Udinese at home. The recovery progress of key players such as Ribery, Robben, Alaba and their status will affect the possibility of Bayern's reversal.

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Bayern Munich's performance in this game was criticized by all parties. Bayern legend and football emperor Beckenbauer was very angry. He made no secret of his disappointment and started criticizing Bayern in the live broadcast room of Germany's Sky TV.

Beckenbauer pointed out that in the game against Udinese that night, Bayern's performance was completely abnormal and even failed to reach a passing grade.

"It's fair to say that I didn't see any of the Bayern players perform at their usual level. It was a black match day and that does happen sometimes, like tonight."

As far as this game is concerned, Udinese's frontcourt players are very unique in terms of skills, speed, and physical fitness. The full-backs are also very capable of assisting, especially their ability to force and take advantage of the opponent's mistakes.

A very representative statistic is that Udinese is the only team in the Champions League this season that has directly used the opponent's mistakes to score double-digit goals. The other teams only have a maximum of 6 goals from the opponent's mistakes. In this campaign, Udinese Si did the same thing again and returned home with a full load.

On the other hand, Guardiola has no targeted deployment for this characteristic of Udinese, at least the effect is not obvious. If Bayern had played more conservatively at the start, they wouldn't have lost so ugly.

But Guardiola is too confident in his own use of troops and believes that his team can mobilize opponents without being counterattacked by their opponents.Once the calculation is wrong, it is often a complete defeat.Bayern only had 5 shots in total in this game, setting a record for the team's fewest shots in a single Champions League game since losing 6:0 to Barcelona 4 years ago.

Since Guardiola took office, Bayern has begun to pursue possession of the ball, playing around with mid-to-lower teams and winning big at every turn. All statistics are at the top level in Europe. However, what is behind this data is shocking. The melon version of Bayern encounters a strong team. The opponents are often defeated, losing the backbone of the iron-blooded Bayern team in the past.

Two weeks ago, they lost 0:2 to Borussia Monchengladbach. They lost 1:4 to Wolfsburg in the first game of the second half of the league. They also lost to Real Madrid 0:4 at home in the semifinals of last season. They lost to Borussia Dortmund 0:3 at home in the league. Together they lost 1:3 in this game. 5 losses to Udinese. In the above 2 games, Bayern lost all of them, losing by 16:!