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Chapter 182 The first leg at the Allianz Arena(1/2)

Bayern Munich's original home stadium was the famous Munich Olympic Stadium, which hosted the World Cup and European Cup finals. It is unique like the snow-white ceiling of the Alps, which is a major feature. Later, in order to prepare for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Germany decided to renovate a new stadium in Munich, which is the current Allianz_arena. The foundation construction of this modern stadium costing nearly 300 million euros began in October 2002 and was officially completed in April 2005.

The stadium was originally built by two clubs, Bayern Munich and Munich 1860, and Allianz Group. According to the contract, the two clubs invested in the stadium have common ownership of the Allianz Stadium, while Allianz Group invested 90 million euros in exchange for the stadium’s 15-year naming rights.

In order to invest in the construction of this stadium, Bayern Munich sold 10% of the club's shares to Adidas for 75 million euros. As a result, half of the building was built, and another club, Munich 1860, told Bayern that they had no money and could not continue to invest in the construction of the stadium. Bayern Munich had to acquire Munich 1860's shares in Allianz Stadium. From then on, this stadium completely belongs to Bayern Munich Club, and Munich 1860 will continue to use the newly built Allianz Stadium by lease, with the lease until 2025.

The most distinctive feature of the newly built Allianz Stadium is that its exterior wall ceiling is composed of a transparent diamond-shaped membrane structure, which flashes with a shimmer in the sun, giving it a magical visual effect. At night, it can be red, blue and white from the lights (red represents Bayern Munich, blue represents Munich 1860, and white represents the German national team).

From the outside, this stadium looks like a lifebuoy or a rubber boat, so the Munich also called this stadium a "seat belt" or "rubber boat".

It's night now, and the whole of Allianz Arena is flashing with red light.

This is Bayern Munich's match day, and Bayern Munich is playing here.

And their opponent is Metz, who is also the main color of red.

The stadium stands that can accommodate 66,000 people are full. Although Bayern Munich has fallen to the point where he can only play in the League Cup this season, their fans still support the team.

Ten minutes into the game, the two sides ended the test stage, and Bayern Munich began a large-scale attack. They naturally had to score more goals when playing at home first, and at the same time, they scored less or tried not to score goals, so that they could take the initiative in the second round of the game.

Metz knew what tactics Bayern Munich would use, so they played a defensive counterattack in this game.

First defend firmly, then wait for an opportunity to counterattack. Defence is the top priority. If you can tie the game with Bayern Munich 0:0 in the away game, it will be a great victory.

Although he joked off the court that he would wave to Chu Zhongtian for the ball during the game, Ribery didn't care about doing this during the game. He kept rushing to Metz's defense line on the side. In order to defend him, Chu Zhongtian would sometimes make up for the side.

Fifteen minutes after the game began, the two had three chances to face each other directly.

The first two times Ribery used his teammates and his own speed to break through Chu Zhongtian's skills. The third time happened in the 14th minute, Ribery used his old trick again and wanted to break through Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian did not give him time to make moves, so he shoveled down with a decisive and rapid pace.

The Ribery people walked over, but the football was kept by Chu Zhongtian.

Looking back, seeing Chu Zhongtian still lying on the ground, Ribery quickly turned around and rushed towards the football.

Chu Zhongtian had long expected that Ribery would not give up so easily. If his opponent was someone else, Ribery might have lost possession of the ball, but when facing himself, this person would definitely be entangled with him to the end. So before he could get up, he lay on the ground and swept the football out with his right foot.

Proman received the ball swept from Chu Zhongtian and passed it to Menez in front.

Ribery was out of nowhere.

"Damn!" he muttered.

Chu Zhongtian smiled and got up from the ground, then patted him on the back. "You are not fast enough." He deliberately angered Ribery.

※※※Although Chu Zhongtian successfully defended Ribery's breakthrough, the team's condition was not good. In terms of strength, the gap between the two sides was too large. This is not the gap between Metz and Sevilla, it is the gap between Metz and Bayern Munich. Although Metz also won the Champions League championship AC Milan, it was the European Super Cup, and the team was holding up all the energy. The fighting spirit of this game was obviously not as good as that game.

Moreover, Bayern Munich's style is very Kermetz, they are tougher and more direct than AC Milan.

Metz is good at playing offensive football, with delicate feet, well-organized passes, and many short passes.

Bayern Munich is much more direct, defending at high pressure in the midfield, and then using the personal abilities of Ribery, Tony and others to attack Metz's defense line.

In this game, Bayern Munich sent the strongest lineup they could send.

The goalkeeper is Oliver Kahn. The center backs are Lucio and Demichelis, the left back is Marcell Jansen, and the right back is Philipp Lahm. The midfielder is mark_van_bommel, Frank Ribery, Schweinsteiger, Ze Roberto. The forwards are Luca_toni and Lukas_podolski.

Among them, Van Bomel plays a similar role as Chu Zhongtian, who connects the center and frontcourt and takes into account defense. He is the one used by Bayern to replace Barack after Barack transferred to Chelsea. Barack is a midfielder with both offense and defense, and Van Bomel is also, but he is one number one weaker than Barack.

Schweinsteiger is a front midfielder, with delicate skills and a long shot.

Ribery and Ze Roberto were on both sides, Podolski often retreated, and Luca Tony, as a powerful center, headed in the front and did not retreat easily, threatened Metz's goal with his head and shot.

In the 23rd minute, Metz launched a counterattack. Chu Zhongtian got the ball in the midfield. Schweinsteig came up to interfere. He passed the ball to Proman who was inserted behind him and continued to run forward. As a result, when Proman passed the ball forward to Menez, the ball hit Van Bomel's leg and bounced out of line, which was intercepted by Ribery who was returning to defense.

Ribery took the ball and turned around, and did not pass the ball to anyone, and drove forward by himself!

Chu Zhongtian was running forward, but when he saw Ribery breaking the ball and turning forward, he knew what the kid was going to do. Although the two of them no longer played football together, the tacit understanding was like a broken thread, and it was still tied with him.

He also immediately turned around and chased Ribery.

This time, even if you use a foul, you will have to stop Ribery!

Ribery also knew Chu Zhongtian’s thoughts, so he just came up and passed the football out.

Chu Zhongtian was about to commit a foul, but he was out of nowhere and could only watch the football be sent out by Ribery, while a very obvious loophole appeared in the middle!

Podolski pulled out to catch the ball and pulled out the central defender Rodriguez who was defending him.

Ribery did not stop after passing the ball, and he continued to straighten forward.

Chu Zhongtian was stunned for a moment. He saw that Podolsky did not shoot, but passed the football to the wing.

Ribery caught the ball.

He started to chase again, and it was too late. Ribery, who received the ball, did not continue to break down, but made a direct cross. The football passed the heads of the unexpected Metz defenders and landed on Tony's chest very accurately. He took off the football with his chest, then turned around and raised his foot to rush!

The football flew into the goal with a shout, and goalkeeper Winbi had not reacted yet!

"The ball is in! The ball is in! Bayern Munich beat Metz with a beautiful counterattack!"

The Allianz Stadium was full of joy.

Ribery, who completed this assist, ran towards Tony. His relationship with Tony was very good in the team.

Watching Ribery and Tony hug each other to celebrate the goal, Chu Zhongtian felt indescribable.

The good friend of the past became the enemy of today... He deeply felt this feeling for the first time.

"Frank Ribery's assist is a gift for his old club!"

After hugging Tony, Ribery did not continue to celebrate the goal, but exited the circle. He turned around and saw Chu Zhongtian. He found Chu Zhongtian looking at him, so he shrugged at him and grinned.

※※It is not unacceptable for Metz to concede just one goal. Even if the game is finished with this score, Metz should be happy, on the contrary, Bayern should feel regretful.

So conceding the ball did not allow Mess to press the ball across the board to equalize the score. Fernandez did not give such instructions. Mess still insisted on defending and counterattacking with the goal of losing less balls.

Ribery is very active, much more active than the veteran Zer Roberto on the other side. Perhaps he wants to show off his old club and tell them that he is doing well now.

Sometimes he was on the right and sometimes he went to the left, and the switch back and forth made Messe's defense line very troubled. Chu Zhongtian had to temporarily give up the task of organizing the offense and come back to assist in defense to help his teammates defend Ribery, who was causing their headaches.

When Ribery faced Chu Zhongtian, he felt as if he had taken stimulants and became even more excited.

When Ribery saw Chu Zhongtian running towards him, he was full of speed of dribbling, and then turned his back to Chu Zhongtian.

Originally, he could have completely broken through in a straight line with the ball, but now he turned around unexpectedly and gave up the opportunity to move forward, as if he wanted to fight a positional battle.

Chu Zhongtian suddenly felt that the scene in front of him seemed familiar - he seemed to have seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it suddenly... Ribery just turned his back to Chu Zhongtian, and immediately knocked the ball back with his right foot, and then... turned around!

Chu Zhongtian remembered that he had seen this move in a team training match. At that time, Ribery and him were not as good as they are now. Ribery and him one-on-one, he was so dizzy by this move... Still come?

Chu Zhongtian is different from the past. He immediately made his own defense when Ribery turned around. He did not tackle or block Ribery, but turned around and retreated.

Ribery knocked the football over with his right foot, and his left foot used as a support foot to support his body and turn the football forward with his toes!

Next, according to the plan, he should speed up the chasing ball and completely throw away the dumbfounded Chu Zhongtian.

But the situation was not as he imagined. When he turned around and also drove the football away, what he saw was not a flat horse, but Chu Zhongtian's back.

Chu Zhongtian took advantage of his chance to turn around and troll the ball to complete the position and separate the football from Ribery.

Ribery couldn't stop the car and hit her head, but of course she was so reeling from the reaction force that she fell to the ground. Chu Zhongtian looked back at Ribery and controlled the football at his feet.

"Hey! Stop the foul!" Ribery, who was sitting on the ground, raised her arms and shouted to the sidelines who were right next to her.

The lineman ignored him.

Chu Zhongtian turned around by controlling the ball, then shook his right index finger at Ribery. Then, under Ribery's unwilling gaze, he passed the ball out.

"Don't treat me as a joke from three years ago, Frank."

"You bastard..."

※※※The first half ended like this. After Bayern Munich scored, he slowed down a little, and Metz did not show that he must score a goal. Losing the game 0:1 is also a good result.

During the break, Fernandez praised the team's performance. In addition to the failure to counterattack, he gave Bayern a chance, Metz's defense was well organized and did not give Bayern Munich too many opportunities. Tony only had three shots in the first half, one of which scored, and the other two kicks didn't even enter the goal frame.

It can be seen that Messe's defense against Tony was very successful.

The only trouble comes from Ribery. As Bayern's most active player in the first half, he gave Mess a headache in the defense.

Fortunately, Chu Zhongtian's assisted defense also gave Ribery a headache.

Fernandez instructed the team to continue playing like this in the second half, to stabilize the defense and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. If there is no good opportunity, it would rather give up the opportunity to counterattack than give Bayern another chance to score. As for what exactly is considered "no good counterattack opportunity", it depends on the players on the court to grasp it themselves, especially how Chu Zhongtian masters this degree.

Metz's tactic is very simple, it is to strive to win or lose away games, and if possible, score another goal.

Bayern Munich's tactic is also very simple, it is attack.

A ball lead is not insurable.

Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Heatzfeld was dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half because they slowed down after scoring a goal and were less eager to pursue goals.

He asked Bayern Munich to strengthen his offensive in the second half, and to score another goal, at least one more goal.

This will not give Mess a chance to return to the home court.

After the second half of the game began, Bayern Munich did strengthen its offensive, but Metz had already expected it, so he strengthened his defense. For a while, they couldn't even pass the half and hurried in their own penalty area to defend. Judging from the scene, this is of course ugly, but compared with the result, it's no big deal to be ugly at this time.

Metz rarely plays such ugly games, but when they decide to do this, they must have the belief of "result first".

The only difference from before is that in this way, Ribery was the arrowhead who played the counterattack in front. He had outstanding speed and personal skills, and had strong combat capabilities in individual soldiers. Sometimes he could solve problems by one person.

It's different now. Metz defends his life but has no one to fight back. Ribery is on the opposite side.
To be continued...
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