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"TOOOOOOR! Ma Kai! The Dutch striker opened the scoring! Only 3 minutes into the game, Bayern Munich is already in the lead!!"

In this German Cup semi-final, Karl chose the 451 formation, while Bayern coach Magath offered 433.

The tactical goals of the two teams can be seen from the formation of troops, the Lions seek undefeated, Bayern seek revenge.

In fact, Bayern Munich did what they wanted. From the very beginning of the game, they aggressively attacked the 1860 Munich defense line.

It was an attack like a storm.

When the two teams met for the first time last year, 1860 Munich won partly through luck and partly because of a clever move - Koch blocked all of Bayern's shots at the time. among.

But this time, Bayern is fully prepared to face any situation. Their two forwards Ma Kai and Pizarro have just returned from recuperation and are in good condition, which makes Bayern's striker look sharper when attacking.

So in less than 5 minutes of the opening, Bayern Munich scored the first goal.

But a goal lead did not satisfy Bayern, they launched a more brutal attack.

Bayern Munich in its heyday is a team that can cause headaches for any European giant, let alone the relatively weak Munich 1860. The Lions tightened their defense and began to struggle.

Karl gave his players instructions before the start of the game, asking them to come up with the most desperate attitude to deal with today's opponents.

Although the average age of the Munich 1860 defense was only 24 years old, they did perform at their highest level, keeping a clean sheet within 20 minutes.

In the 22nd minute, Bayern forwards Ma Kai and Pizarro dribbled the ball back and forth, impacting the defense of 1860 Munich and creating opportunities for teammate Santa Cruz.

In the 23rd minute, Pizarro suddenly dribbled the ball to the left, and Santa Cruz inserted into the Munich 1860 penalty area, waiting for his teammates to pass the ball.

At this moment, Pizarro was double-teamed by Lions guards Ogo and Dante!

Ogo harassed Pizarro close to him, and at the moment Pizarro passed the ball out, Dante fell to the ground with a shovel!

The football bounced high, but instead of heading towards other Bayern players, it flew towards Jankel on the other side of the penalty area!

Yankel immediately kicked the ball wide and passed the ball to the midfielder.

"An extremely tacit defense! A wonderful steal! Munich 1860's immature defense played exceptionally well today!"

Gaynor, the commentator, was praising the defense of the Lions, when suddenly he was speechless as if someone had strangled his neck.

Because on the field, Schweinsteiger competed with Ozil for the pass from Janker in the middle, and the Bayern midfielder obviously jumped faster and higher. He grabbed the ball in front of Ozil and then Stabbed back into the restricted area!

The football flew over Santa Cruz's head in the first place.

Bayern striker Santa Cruz jumped high and hammered his head down!

The football lands hard on the ground, then touches the ground and bounces into the net!

The goalkeeper of Munich 1860, Hoffman, didn't even complete the save action. When the football fell on the turf, his body hadn't even completely collapsed, so naturally he couldn't stop the rebound of the football.

Hoffman's reaction speed was too slow in front of the fast football.

"2:0! Another victory for Bayern Munich!"

"Judging from the performance of the Munich 1860 goalkeeper, although the abdominal muscle strain he suffered a few months ago has healed, it still brought him some sequelae. For example, when he made a save, his reaction was a little slower than before. It's not as exciting as it used to be... Maybe Hoffman's body is subconsciously preventing many wonderful moves from being performed, so as to avoid further injuries..."

Gaynor commented on Hoffman's save without any emotion, and there was no sense of blame in his tone.

Because with the increase of age and injuries, the deterioration of body speed and state is a cruel reality that no professional player can escape.

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In the 26th minute, when Ogo broke the football from Bayern midfielder Hargreaves, he chose to pass the ball to teammate Lars.

Lars stopped the ball and turned around. He observed his front. When he found that Bayern was adjusting the formation and there was no defensive player on the entire right, he quickly chose to launch a counterattack.

Lars drove forward with the ball, and after a two-to-one cooperation with his younger brother Sven, he passed Schweinsteiger and Roberto in a row.

At the front of the penalty area, Sven made a pass from the bottom and hoisted the ball into the penalty area. Ozil inserted in the back row, rubbed the body of Bayern defender Lucio and lifted his foot to score.

Kahn reacted quickly and threw the ball away.

But Portillo suddenly appeared behind Ozil and made a powerful supplementary shot!

Rao Kahn's goalkeeping ability is world-class, and he can't rush in two directions in a few seconds. He can only watch the football go into the goal like his teammates!

"Portillo! The Spaniard once again acted as the team's key player in the game!"

"2:1, Munich 1860 finally regained a point... Will they make persistent efforts against this momentum?"

Munich 1860 hoped to equalize the score in one go, but this goal angered Bayern Munich, and they began a more violent counterattack.

In the 40th minute of the first half, Bayern scored another goal. It was forward Ma Kai who scored the goal.

This goal means that the initiative of the game has returned to Bayern Munich...

"Crazy and uninterrupted attack, today's German Cup semi-final between Munich 1860 and Bayern Munich is undoubtedly the best game in the cup in the next few months."

After the two teams organized another attack and counterattack, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.

The score was already 45:3 in 1 minutes, who knows what will happen in the second half.

But for many fans, seeing such a wonderful game, they already feel very satisfied.

……

During the intermission, Karl hesitated whether to replace Hoffman.

But after thinking about it for a few seconds, he dismissed the idea.

In modern football games, injured goalkeepers are often replaced, but there are only a handful of players who end up halfway due to non-injury factors. Many teams will not change their goalkeepers in the second half even if they are scored 0:4 in the first half. , because that kind of behavior will be recognized as a kind of humiliation, not only for the goalkeeper, but also for the opponent team, and it will cause serious public opinion consequences.

Occasionally there were several non-injury-related goalkeeper exits, most of which were replaced by substitute goalkeepers in the middle of overtime to prepare for the penalty shootout. Among them, the goalkeeper asked himself to leave the field once - that happened in the Inter Milan For the legendary star Pagliuca, in a game he played unbalanced and the goal was pierced by the opponent several times. He took the initiative to end the game under anger, and then the coach replaced him.

In other words, no matter how bad Hoffman performed, Karl couldn't replace him in the middle.cannot.

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Although the team's backcourt was severely suppressed by Bayern's mad attack, several players in the frontcourt were not greatly restrained for the time being.

As the single offensive arrow in today's tactics, Portillo has been looking for his own opportunities.

Soon, he discovered a loophole in Bayern Munich's half: Schweinsteiger and Pizarro stood too far forward, and Santa Cruz also moved forward in order to meet the two, which made Bayern Munich There was a relatively large space in the half.

Portillo didn't hesitate at all. He nodded to his teammate Ozil who was closest to him, and then ran towards the Bayern half.

Ozil moved his footsteps, but did not follow Portillo closely. He observed the positions of his teammates and chose a position where he could see the overall situation.

Bayern midfielder Roberto broke through with the ball, and Dante and Janker double-teamed him.

Roberto, feeling threatened by the 1860 Munich players, looked left and right, ready to pass the ball away.

But before he passed the ball, Dante was already in front of him!

Roberto dribbled the ball and changed direction, trying to pass Dante's side, but at this time, the attack from Jankel also arrived!

Yankel intercepted Roberto's ball, stopped the ball for a while, and decisively passed it to the center circle!

Ozil receives the pass!Then he didn't even have a moment's pause, and directly broke through halftime to Bayern from the center.

Ozil ran extremely fast, and at this time most Bayern players hadn't completed their offensive and defensive transitions, so in just a dozen seconds, Ozil had already broken through to the front of the penalty area.

Then he saw his teammate at a glance, and with a flick of his right foot, the football flew towards Portillo.

It's a very comfortable pass, with just the right positioning and angles, and even the intensity.

Bayern defender Lucio stepped forward to block Portillo's shot, and the young Spaniard used his body to hold the opponent's obstruction, raised his right foot and aimed at the football to shoot a volley!

This shot was very fast, and Portillo completed it in the penalty area. Although Kahn made a save, he failed to prevent the football from entering the net!

"3:2! 1860 Munich once again narrowed the gap with Portillo's brace!"

"When the entire team's defense was in a state of embarrassment in order to cope with Bayern's offense, Portillo alone saved the team's face!"

"Portillo's goals in the German Cup have reached 5! Even if Munich 1860 is eliminated in this game, I think he is very likely to win the top scorer crown in this year's cup, because in the cup In the scorer list, Bayern forward Makaay, who ranks below Portillo, only scored 2 goals."

"Bayern coach Magath claimed before the game that if there was one character they feared most from 1860 Munich, it would be Portillo. Now, the young Spaniard is playing just like Magath. As he said, he is fighting for honor for the team with his own power!"

"Ah, the charm of football, in addition to the layout, tactics, and strategy, should also be the stars' flashes from time to time... Whenever Munich 1860 is kicked back to hell by Bayern, Portillo can pull them back to heaven!"

As if to confirm what the commentator said, the song that the fans made for Portillo sounded in the Allianz Arena: "Portillo

Portillo

polite spanish

you are our hero

bring victory

bring champion

top scorer is yours

goal!goal!goal! "

Not to be outdone, the Bayern fans shouted "Southern Star" all over the away stands: "Southern Star

you never say never

Whether it is adversity or heaven, we will always share our destiny with you

King of Germany

love of my life

This is Bayern

This is Bayern

League Cup Champions Cup

Who can win more beautifully than Bayern? "

In fact, Bayern still has a team song "Forever Number One", but fans like to sing "Southern Star" at this time, because it mentions the German Cup and Bayern's beautiful football.

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If the competition is about which fans sing the loudest, 1860 Munich has undoubtedly won the final victory.

Most of the Lions fans are working class, especially the young and middle-aged men who are engaged in physical labor. They have thick necks and loud voices, and can create first-class sonic attacks anytime, anywhere.

But unfortunately, it is the players who dominate the game.

Football relies on fighting with the feet, not the throat.

Feeling the threat of Portillo and feeling that Demichelis alone could not guard against the Spaniard, Magath assigned Hargreaves to assist Demichelis in marking Portillo.

The two stick closely behind the Munich 1860 striker. No matter where Portillo goes, he cannot get rid of the two Bayern defenders.And his running, passing and even offense have also been seriously harassed.

Portillo had hoped to use the cover of his teammates to get rid of Demichelis and Hargreaves, but the Bayern coach had expected this before the game. His instructions to his two players were: Dead Portillo, don't worry about the rest.

Faced with this simple task, Demichelis and Hargreaves are confident that they can accomplish it well.

Portillo was temporarily trapped, and he couldn't provide any more help to the team's offense.

And Bayern Munich took advantage of the weakened opponent's striker and launched another attack.

"Schweinsteiger passed the ball... Pizarro got the ball and within five meters of him, only Jankel, a 1860 Munich defender, defended him..."

"Pissaro starts with the ball! He runs towards Janker... beautiful! A quick dribble! Pizarro dribbles past the closest defender!"

"Dante came from the other side of the box, he tried to stop Pizarro's shot, but Pizarro had already raised his right foot... a fierce volley! Goal! 4:2! Bayern once again extended the score!"

After the goal, Pizarro cheered and turned to hug his teammates, and the Bayern fans in the Allianz Arena were jubilant.

Bayern Munich coach Magath looked at the time, only a few minutes before the end of the game.

Magath turned his head and glanced at Karl Oston. Although he didn't notice anything from the other's expression, he still couldn't help showing a winner's smile: Although it's a pity that 1860 Munich didn't get a clean sheet, but 4: With a score of 2, Bayern can be regarded as a successful revenge.

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The game soon entered the stoppage time period, and the referee had already raised his hand and counted the seconds against his watch.

4:2, Munich 1860 still needs two goals to drag the game into overtime, but there is only one and a half minutes left before the referee blows the final whistle, two goals in more than one minute, this is Mission impossible.

In the stands, some Bayern fans have begun hugging each other to celebrate.

Even on the court, most of the Bayern players showed relaxed and happy expressions. Corresponding to them, the 1860 Munich players were devastated.

The camera took close-up shots of every winner and loser, and the narrators began to utter their impromptu or prepared sensational words into the microphone.

At this moment, a figure in the stands who was getting up and leaving the field attracted the attention of some people.

After a brief surprise, the commentator of the Spanish radio and television station shouted into the microphone: "Luis Aragones! The national team coach Aragones appeared at the German Cup semi-final match scene!"

Countless Spanish fans in front of the TV, following closely behind the commentator, also recognized Aragones: the old man with white hair, round glasses, and a slightly hunched back who was just accidentally caught by the camera, is not Is he the head coach of the Spanish national team?

As a world-renowned coach, Aragones is not only recognized by Spanish fans.

At the Allianz Arena, many people have realized that the Spanish coach is in this stadium through the shot just now, breathing the same air as them.

The photographer who had just scanned Aragones quickly adjusted the lens and continued to look for the Spanish coach.

Soon, the figure of the Spanish head coach appeared on the big screen of the stadium and was seen by nearly 7 coaches, players and fans.

"Aragones appeared in the Allianz Arena, is it just to watch a German Cup game? No, absolutely not! He must have come to inspect Portillo, a player from Munich 1860, because the two teams fighting on the field Fang Li, only Portillo is a Spanish player..."

Bavarian radio commentator Gaynor said with certainty: "One month later, all countries will submit their World Cup 23-man list to FIFA. Aragones must come for Portillo, and there will be no second one. Two reasons."

Because the game was about to end, the cameraman in charge of the live broadcast no longer took pictures of the whole game. He unscrupulously aimed the camera at the protagonist Portillo first, and then scanned the coach's bench outside the field.

Surprisingly, neither Portillo nor Munich 1860 coach Karl paid too much attention to the appearance of Aragones, and their expressions looked very calm.

"Could Oston and Portillo have known about the arrival of Aragones?" the commentator couldn't help asking.

Neither Carl nor Portillo could answer the narrator's question at this moment, but if they were to tell the truth, Carl would nod very simply. Yes, he already knew that Aragones would Come to the Allianz Arena.

Because just the day before yesterday, he received a call from the Spanish coach.

"I want to go to Munich to watch the German Cup semi-final between you and Bayern, and to check on Portillo, so I can decide whether to put him in my World Cup squad." Aragones said directly to Karl on the phone: "But I know that each team in the German Cup can only send up to 3 foreign players, so can you tell me if he can play the day after tomorrow? I didn't expect to fly to Germany when I didn't expect it, but I missed it."

Carl told him simply at the time: "Portillo will be on the starting list, you can rest assured about that."

Then on the second day, Carl told Portillo the news, so that the other party should be mentally prepared and perform well during the game.

Now that Aragones has come as promised, and Portillo's performance is also very good, Karl will add another international player to his staff in a few days.

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After Munich 1860 defeated Bayern in the league last time, Magath took the initiative to greet Karl. Now the situation is reversed. Karl believes that the Lions cannot lose their demeanor.

Although there were a lot of media surrounding him in the mixed zone, Karl still chose to simply answer a few reporters' questions, then pushed through the crowd and walked towards Magath.

"Congratulations." Karl stretched out his right hand towards the Bayern coach: "I think this year's German Cup championship is not much suspense."

"You can immediately adjust your mentality to bless your opponent after losing the game, Mr. Oston, you are a gentleman." Magath smiled and stretched out his hand: "However, if the head coach of Bielefeld hears you say this In other words, he will definitely go mad." Bielefeld has just been confirmed, and another team that has advanced from the German Cup semi-finals is also a Bundesliga club.

"Will you tell the Bielefeld coach what I said?" Karl blinked at him: "Also, since you did the same thing half a season ago, I boldly guess that you are doing this Praise yourself tactfully?"

"Haha, you actually heard it." Magath said friendlyly: "But you didn't get nothing, 5 goals, this is the highest number of goals scored by a single player in the FA Cup for several seasons , your player, Javier Portillo, he might get the double top scorer in the League Cup."

"I hope so." Carl said with a smile: "When the team's development is not going well, if the players can get as many personal honors as possible, it will be a consolation to us."

Magath nodded in agreement: "That's the truth."

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For the fans of 1860 Munich who felt gloomy after the team lost the game, the appearance of Spanish coach Luis Aragones brought a little light to their lives.

At least when the scoreboard shows Bayern's lead, when their arch-rivals are celebrating the victory wantonly, the Lions fans can comfort themselves while leaving the field: "At any rate, we can't count as nothing, and maybe there will be a lot in the team soon. Another international player!"

The significance of Aragones' appearance in the Allianz Arena is by no means just "just to inspect the reserve players of the national team". In fact, most people know that a country like Spain with a large number of football talents (not Costa Rica) Or a small country like Tunisia), there are more than 20 people in the national team squad, and at least three to 40 people are eligible to be selected, and almost all of them are stars who play in the top European leagues. All of them have been inspected on the spot, especially for players like Portillo who have played in other countries far away. The fact that the head coach can appear on the court shows that he attaches great importance to this player.

In other words, almost all those who can be observed by the head coach of the national team are confirmed members of the national team, and they have a high chance of becoming the main force.

In the Munich 1860 team, Jekas joined the Greek national team as early as the year before last, Dzeko is the main striker of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Leporte has few competitors in the Belgian national team. If Portillo also joined The Spanish national team (in fact, many fans have already confirmed this)... ha, there will be four international strikers in the team!

Which club can do like us, all the frontcourt players are international?The fans of Munich 1860 were intoxicated and thought: It is as beautiful as a dream but unreal!

And on the bench at 1860 Munich, in a dark, unnoticed corner, an impulsive idea was taking shape.

A dark cloud hangs over Lambert Koch's mind, and he thinks maybe it's time for him to offer himself.