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Chapter 420 The former Bayern

After two years of running-in, Guardiola's Manchester City has undergone qualitative changes, not only killing the Quartet in the Premier League, but also maintaining stable results in the Champions League.

Just one Champions League winner away!
In Manchester City this season, the team only introduced Mahrez to strengthen the explosive points on the wing, and then reduced the number of personnel to establish a well-run king's division.

The total value of the team exceeds 7 million, ranking among the top three in the world.

Since entering February, Manchester City has started their devil's schedule.

In just 24 days, a total of 7 games will be played on the four fronts, with an average of 3 days to play a game.

There is also a Carabao Cup final against Chelsea.

Such a tight schedule has given Guardiola a headache.

And the opponent is still very strong.

Arsenal, Everton, Chelsea, West Ham United and Bayern Munich, which one is not easy to mess with.

Especially Bayern Munich, under the leadership of Heynckes, has become a team that frightens the whole of Europe and even the world.

If they can overcome this difficulty, Manchester City will definitely make a historic breakthrough in the Champions League this year.

Thinking of this, Guardiola's headache stopped hurting, he touched his bald head, and continued to study tactics.

What made a young handsome man with black hair turn into a famous handsome man with a bald head.

He got stronger and bald!
Compared with Manchester City, Bayern's schedule is much easier.

There were a total of 2 games in February, except for Manchester City, none of them could play.

Heynckes also took the opportunity to upgrade and optimize the team's tactics and train young players.

Just as Bayern won three consecutive league victories in February, Manchester City also showed overwhelming strength with three consecutive victories.

3:1 Arsenal,
2:0 Everton,
6:0 Chelsea.

Repeatedly defeated strong enemies, so that the morale of Manchester City players soared.

In order to allow Manchester City to better prepare for the Champions League, the FA arranged the FA Cup matches on weekends, allowing Manchester City players to have a week of sufficient time to adjust their status.

After beating Newport 4:1 away, Manchester City went to the Allianz Arena to challenge Bayern Munich four days later.

Final preview?

This is the headline played by the media before the match between Bayern and Manchester City.

No one expected that Manchester City would achieve such impressive results in the first half of the devil's schedule.

Manchester City, whose morale, state, and tactics have reached their peak, headed to Germany with hesitation.

In contrast, Heynckes felt physically and mentally exhausted.

Coaching is always a labor-intensive job, let alone a top giant like Bayern.

Unlike Guardiola, he has plenty of physical strength to communicate with players and constantly improve and optimize tactics.

In many cases, assistant coach Sagnol will do it for him.

This time he faced the Premier League champion Manchester City at home, and he seemed a little cautious.

The most recent match between the two teams was in the group stage of the 13-14 season. At that time, Bayern's head coach was Guardiola. The two teams each won one game and were evenly divided.

But the contest between the two head coaches has to talk about the semi-finals of the Champions League in the 12-13 season.

The "cosmic team" Barcelona led by Guardiola, in the two rounds of home and away games, hated "Hedy" with tears.

At that time, Bayern was still sitting on the wings of Robery, but now the two veterans are also regular visitors on the bench, as the souls of stabilizing the military.

Heynckes is watching Manchester City's last four games, analyzing the state of their tactics and personnel, so as to deploy the game.

喜欢在战术上推陈出新的瓜迪奥拉，本赛季在4-3-3和3-2-2-3阵型间自由切换。

Facing teams that are not strong on the wing, he likes to use 3-2-2-3, with five players on the offensive line forming a siege of five arrows piercing the opponent.

As for Bayern's current wing, the pure wing player is Koeman alone.

Therefore, Heynckes deduced that the probability of the opponent using a 3-back formation in this game is high.

Immediately afterwards, Bayern's 4-4-2 lineup was also on the horizon.

After determining the formation, Heynckes already felt a little tired, so he took off his eyes and rubbed them constantly to relieve his fatigue.

Before he knew it, the old handsome fell asleep with his right hand supporting his face.

After a long while, the heavy head slipped and drooped towards the palm of his hand, and he woke up with a start.

old!

After Heynckes yawned for a long time, he continued to study.

On the day of the game, the lights of the Allianz Arena shone like a bright pearl in the dark night.

The cheers from the stadium were earth-shattering, making the fans who had not yet entered the stadium agitated in advance.

This is undoubtedly the most eye-catching game in the round of 16.

After the Manchester City players arrived at the stadium, they immediately started to actively prepare and warm up.

Familiar grabbing the circle reflects the excellent passing ability of Manchester City players.

If it weren't for the fact that the opponent is Manchester City, Guardiola's return this time will definitely get applause from the fans.

But his "journey home" this time came back with Manchester City, a heavy weapon.

In contrast, Bayern's warm-up is much more routine.

Jogging, stretching, passing the ball, everything is so normal and orderly.

After the warm-up, the two teams took a short rest and prepared to enter the field.

In the player tunnel, Rossi met his former teammate Mahrez.

After joining Manchester City for more than half a season, he has become one of the team's main players, and it will take some time before he becomes the starting main player.

His competitors are the golden boy Sterling, B-Silva and Sane.

"Luo, I can't believe it, but one day, you will be my opponent!"

After high-fiving and hugging him, Rossi joked: "If you want to be my opponent, you have to play!"

Soon, under the leadership of the referee Carlos Del Cerro, the two teams walked into the Allianz Arena to greet the cheers of more than 5000 fans.

The home team Bayern Munich started.

Goalkeeper Neuer.

The defense line Alaba, Hummels, Jule, Kimmich.

Midfielders Leitona, Vidal, Martinez, Muller.

Forwards: Lewandowski, Rossi.

The visiting team Manchester City started.

Goalkeeper Ederson Morais.

Defensive Laporte, Otamendi, Kyle Walker.

The defensive midfielder Gundogan and Fernandinho.

Central midfielders David Silva and De Bruyne.

Forwards Sterling, Aguero, B-Silva.

Just as Heynckes expected before the game, the opponent adopted a three-central defense system in view of his weakness on the wing, and wanted to play offensive football in the away game.

Defender Boateng was injured, Bayern had to discharge high school defender Jule.

Although the air defense capability is ensured, the two high school defenders will be attacked by the opponent's three fast forwards in turn, which is a huge test for the defense.

Guardiola also looked very relaxed after seeing Bayern's start today.

Koeman is sitting on the bench, so Bayern's two sides are completely non-threatening.

The game started, Bayern kicked off.

Without the two wings flying together, Manchester City no longer has to worry about being hit behind, and the five-man offensive team in the frontcourt can press forward unscrupulously.

The ball came to the feet of goalkeeper Neuer, and the two Bayern central defenders quickly spread out to form a triangle passing area.

Once the three of Manchester City's strikers press into the penalty area, Martinez will retreat to respond.

Although Hama's B2B attributes are not as strong as they were at his peak, Heynckes only requires him to do a good job of defending and playing the ball, and does not allow him to participate too much in forward offense, which will lead to back and forth and loss of physical fitness.

In the first few minutes, under Martinez's combing, Bayern was able to pick the ball out of the midfield and consciously cooperate with Muller on the right.

In the 5th minute, after the ball came to Muller's feet, he did not intend to force the wing, but handed it to Kimmich, and then went forward into the penalty area.

When Kimmich galloped on the wing, there were three Bayern players waiting to respond in Manchester City's big penalty area.

Outside the penalty area, Martinez dragged back to defend, and Vidal took on the role of attacking forward, lurking here, ready to shoot from a long distance.

Seeing this situation, Guardiola instantly dreamed back to the night of Camp Nou in 2013.

Unexpectedly, after a few years, Heynckes still offered this once "notorious" formation.

After his teammates outflanked, Kimmich forced Laporte's defense and made a pass from the bottom.

Otamendi's header in front of the goal was not far away, and Vidal found an opportunity outside the penalty area, kicked up and tried a long shot.

In order to avoid the defense, Vidal's shot hit the lower left corner of the goal. Looking at the trajectory, it was outrageous.

But what is even more outrageous is that Rossi appeared on the ball flight path.

He reacted quickly, with a light pad of the arch of his right foot, he instantly changed the course of the ball and flew to the other side.

The goalkeeper was caught off guard, and it was difficult to adjust his center of gravity to catch the ball to one side during the movement. He could only watch the ball fly into the goal from his eyes.

yeah! ! ! ! ! ! !
Inside the Allianz Stadium, there was an earth-shattering cheer, flags were waving around the stadium, and red and white fireworks were flying all over the sky.

Bayern, or the strong Bayern.

(End of this chapter)