It is only twelve kilometers from Oriental Mandarin Hotel to Allianz Stadium. If the road is smooth, it only takes fifteen minutes.

This was originally the most ideal hotel in Chelsea's plan. Although it was a little more expensive, when Chelsea wanted to book the Oriental Mandarin Hotel after the semi-finals, they were notified by the hotel that the hotel had been booked.

Although the hotel is confidential, the answer is not difficult to guess, because there is only one possibility that can book a Mandarin hotel in one go, that is Real Madrid.

The failure to compete for the hotel forced Chelsea to choose a hotel that was a little further away. There was no problem. It was just that they lost the hotel before the final, which still made Chelsea feel a little dissatisfied.

Before the final, Dimateo took the team from the hotel on time, took the bus, and walked along the municipal road northward. With the attention of fans on both sides of the road, he slowly headed north to the Allianz Stadium.

The bus was silent. Chelsea players were either closing their eyes to rest or looking out the window silently. A trace of solemnity was clearly seen from each of their faces. Obviously, they were not sure enough about the upcoming Champions League final, because their opponent was Real Madrid.

Real Madrid, who has Yang Yang, the world's number one player in football!

Facing Real Madrid, Chelsea's general's mood was the same as the temperature at 20 degrees in Munich at this moment, and it was cool.

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Di Matteo also made sufficient preparations for the upcoming final, and even more careful than ever before. He repeatedly pondered and studied Real Madrid's tactics and Ancelotti's arrangement.

He and the coaching staff have made plans specifically for any situation that may occur in the game, such as how to play at the beginning of the game, how to play behind the situation, how to play one goal behind, or even how to play two goals behind. He is ready for the order of penalty shootouts.

This is a situation he thinks is very likely to occur, that is, the two sides played zero to zero in the game in 120, and finally entered the penalty shootout. At that time, Chelsea will take the penalty kick in the order. In addition, he has also asked the goalkeeper coach to specially train Cech to study opponent penalty kicks in the past two days, and at the same time, let the players study the video of Casillas's save penalty kicks.

In order to boost the morale of the team, he also specially recorded a short video of the players' families encouraging the team, intending to wait for it to be played in the locker room to stimulate the players and make them more morale.

Chelsea's lineup is seriously aging, which is well known. For these veterans, any words of motivation are difficult to work anymore. They are no longer young, no longer impulsive, and no longer motivated. Di Matteo is not the coach like Mourinho who is good at mobilizing players' emotions, so he took a different approach and let the players' families speak.

Tonight, the players' families will also sit in the stands, which is undoubtedly the best encouragement and motivation for the players.

In the team's arrangement, Di Matteo also made targeted arrangements. This is a conclusion he came to after studying Real Madrid's games in the past year. He believed that he could find a breakthrough, so he was in danger.

Can it be successful?

This has to be verified by the competition.

But Dimatio asked himself that he had done everything he could.

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In the last training class before the game, the atmosphere between the two teams was relatively harmonious.

There are many players in Chelsea who are old friends with Real Madrid players, such as Yang Yang, Drogba, Torres, Lampard, Cech, etc., and Juan Mata is even from Real Madrid youth training.

To put it, this is another regrettable bead of youth training. Because Calderon's stupidity at that time led to the turmoil in the youth training of Real Madrid, Juan Mata switched to Valencia and became famous in one fell swoop.

The players from both sides exchanged polite greetings when they met, each returned to half-time training, and then returned to the locker room one after another.

Less than an hour before the game, both sides formally submitted the roster.

It was only then that Real Madrid's coaching staff learned about Chelsea's lineup, and Di Matteo did have a surprise attack.

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"The goalkeeper is Cech, the defense is Ashley Cole, David Luis, Gary Cahill and Bosingwa, the double midfielder is Mikel and Lampard, the front is Bertrand, Juan Mata and Kalau, and the single forward is Drogba."

When Real Madrid coaching staff got the opponent's roster, many people were shocked.

Everyone knows Terry is injured and absent. The central defender combination of David Louis and Gary Cahill is not weak, and the double midfielder combination of Mikel and Lampard is also very good. It is difficult for Essin to grab the main position.

Juan Mata is one of Chelsea's best performers this season. In addition to Drogba and Karau, it can be said that none of these players is surprising. The key lies in Bertrand on the left.

Ryan Bertrand, born in August 1989, is only 23 years old now. He switched to Chelsea from Gillingham in 2005. He was then loaned to Bournemouth, Oldham and Norwich and other teams in the second and third leagues in England. He performed well and was good at left-backs.

He is 1.79 meters tall, weighs 85 kilograms, has a fast speed, and is diligent in the field.

The player has been following the reserve team last season, only for Chelsea to play once. Ancelotti gave him 33 minutes of substitute time in the home game against Birmingham, and he gave him an assist and performed well.

This season, he entered the first team. During Boas's coaching period, he only had thirteen minutes of playing time and did not get any trust. Until Dimateo took over, he quickly promoted him to the roster. He even supported him as the main force in the last few rounds, and his performance was still quite normal, but the data looked average.

In short, this is a young player who seems to have no other advantages besides speed and diligence. More importantly, except for the seven consecutive games in the second half of the schedule, Bertrand has not had even one minute of playing experience in the Champions League so far.

But it was such a player who was arranged to be in the lineup by Di Matteo in such an important Champions League final and replaced a European star like Maluda, which is absolutely extraordinary.

The moment he got the Chelsea roster, Ancelotti's brows were locked tightly.

He realized that this would be a killing move carefully prepared by Di Matteo for Real Madrid. He vaguely guessed that Bertrand should be targeting Macon, because the Brazilian's condition has declined a lot in the past year, especially after inserting the attack, it is difficult to go straight up and down like in his first season with Real Madrid.

Of course, Macon himself was somewhat slackened, because what he wanted most to join Real Madrid was the Champions League, and he realized his wish and reached the peak of his career. This made him feel relieved and inevitably he would decline.

Ancelotti knew Bertrand, and he could guess Di Matteo's idea, but he was still worried.

This is not a conspiracy, it is an open conspiracy.

"Let a left-back play as a winger, obviously it is necessary to defend and counterattack. Maluda is old and lacks speed. Replacing Maluda with Bertrand is also a major change made by Di Matteo after taking office." Zidane also frowned and analyzed.

Ancelotti nodded, "Let Macon pay attention. We would rather leave some force when attacking than let Chelsea take advantage of the loopholes, especially on our right."

When it comes to the Champions League final, it doesn’t matter what style, tradition and other things are the only idea to win.

Everything has to be won first. If you can’t win, everything will be useless.

Of course, facing Chelsea, Real Madrid still has to focus on passing and controlling the ball.

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Chelsea wore a blue jersey and took the lead in kicking off.

Drogba and Juan Mata stood in the middle circle to prepare for the kickoff, while Yang Yang stood on the left side outside the circle, tidying up his own shorts.

In this game, he will face Portugal's right-right defender Bosingwa and Chelsea's on-court captain Lampard.

When he played for Liverpool, Lampard was still the premier offensive midfielder in the Premier League, but now he has transformed into a midfielder, but none of these matters anymore.

With the whistle of Portuguese referee Pedro, Chelsea quickly kicked off and passed it back to Mikel as soon as possible.

Real Madrid rushed forward quickly in the frontcourt and put pressure on Chelsea.

Yang Yang rushed directly to the middle of Bosingwa and Lampard, and was also observing the ball path. Once the ball was passed, he would put pressure on his opponent in his range as soon as possible.

But this time, Chelsea chose to pass directly to the frontcourt to Drogba, but Pepe took the lead and pushed the ball back. Mascherano quickly passed it to Xavi Alonso.

Real Madrid controlled the ball.

Yang Yang sprinted about twenty meters in the frontcourt. After seeing his side taking the ball, he immediately slowed down and walked slowly in the frontcourt.

Back then in Ajax, his coaches kept telling him a truth: it’s not difficult to run on the court, but it’s difficult to slow down. This is a wisdom.

It was like Essin, who was sitting on the bench. When he was young, he would run without hesitation, but no one would think that he was the real world's top midfielder. When he became more experienced and his tactical literacy improved, he began to play smarter, and even transformed into the organizational midfielder for a while, which was even more convincing.

On the football field, how to slow down is the ability.

This is true for players and so is the team.

After Xavi Alonso controlled the ball, Real Madrid immediately slowed down because the team had missed the best opportunity to fight back.

Chelsea's offensive investment at the opening game was very small, even only Drogba and Karau. It was obvious that they did not intend to start the game and attack, but were thinking about defending.

This actually caused headaches for Real Madrid players on the court and Ancelotti on the sidelines.

From Ranieri to Mourinho to Scolari, Hiddink, Ancelotti, Boas and now Dimatho, Chelsea's defensive level has always been the top European level.
Chapter completed!