The fierce battle between Liverpool and Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena had been in a fierce stalemate since the first leg, leaving the audience unable to be distracted for a moment.
In the 38th minute of the first half of the game, Ribéry crossed the ball from the flank just past the half of the field to the middle. This change disrupted Liverpool's defensive deployment, and Schweinsteiger contained Alonso.
Ribéry passed a straight pass just as Gerard and Kuyt were about to attack from both sides.
The football rolled behind Alonso, and Robben cut across the middle from the flank position further ahead.
He got rid of Aurelio, and if he succeeded in receiving him, he was likely to find the most comfortable angle to shoot!
Seeing that the situation was critical, Skrtel rushed forward and stretched out his leg to intercept. It looked like an interception, but in fact, Skrtel was rushing to foul!
He knew that he could not successfully stop him, so he simply fouled!
He must not let Robben touch the ball!
When Robben was tripped by Skrtel's outstretched leg before he could touch the ball, Robben was very agitated and complained to the referee!
He could sense that Skrtel deliberately fouled, so he thought that the referee's penalty should be more severe.
The referee blew to stop the game and went to show Skrtel a yellow card.
In fact, there was no need for Robben to protest. The referee could also see that Skrtel was determined to foul.
"Bayern Munich has a direct free kick in front of the penalty area. Who will take this free kick? It looks like it will be Robben. "
The Liverpool players formed a human wall in the penalty area. Reina left the angle of the far corner of the goal to the human wall to block, and he guarded the angle of the near post, and then waited quietly for Robben to challenge.
Robben stood in front of the football. He carefully observed Liverpool's human wall and the goalkeeper's position, and finally chose to use a clever shot to attack the goal.
The free kick he took drew an inward-spinning arc.
He bypassed Liverpool's human wall on the way up and headed straight for the far corner of the goal.
Reina could only stand where he was and turn his head to look. Once the opponent shot the ball towards the angle of the goal blocked by the human wall, even if he ran to save it, it would be useless. He would not be able to make it in time!
After the football bypassed the human wall, it continued to spin inward. Tens of thousands of Bayern Munich fans in the Allianz Arena stared intently at the football, looking forward to the football's flight trajectory ending in Liverpool's goal!
Clang!
The football with strong internal rotation finally hit the outside of the goalpost and bounced out of the end line!
Robben shook his hand unwillingly. He felt that his luck was too bad!
Just a little bit more and the ball would have been sent into the goal!
Loud sighs echoed throughout the Allianz Arena. The Bayern Munich fans also felt sorry for Robben's free kick.
The Liverpool fans could take a breather.
As the first half of the game came to an end, the two teams still did not slow down their pace of attack and defense.
In the 43rd minute of the game, when Robben was forced near the end line by Mascherano and Aurelio on the right flank and could only choose to pass, Agger successfully overpowered Origi to break free. Liverpool immediately launched a quick attack.
When Alonso passed the ball to Johnson on the right flank, Bayern Munich's counterattack in the front field failed and they had to withdraw their formation.
At this time, Qin Xiong, who was in the midfield, immediately ran forward.
He turned from the flank to the left side of the middle and ran forward at a steady speed.
His movement naturally attracted the attention of Bayern Munich's defensive line.
Van Bommel, Lahm, and even Van Buyten were wary of Qin Xiong.
In the eyes of the Bayern Munich players, Qin Xiong would definitely be involved in Liverpool's attack, whether it was the process of advancing or the final kick.
But when the attack appeared, Comain's eyes were full of expectation on the sidelines.
It was not that he ignored the situation of Qin Xiong being surrounded by many Bayern Munich players, but the current situation was exactly what Liverpool wanted to see!
If one were to ask who was the most popular star player in European football today, there was no doubt that it was Qin Xiong!
In fact, whether Liverpool arranged Qin Xiong as the core of their offense or not, Qin Xiong would be heavily marked by all the opponents. There was no doubt about that.
So there were actually two ways to take advantage of Qin Xiong's "importance".
One was to "actively ignore" Qin Xiong and concentrate the offense on the other Liverpool players. Then the opponents would naturally lower their defense against Qin Xiong because of the tight defense in other areas. At that time, Qin Xiong could be used as a weapon to gain the upper hand after making a move.
The other was to further increase Qin Xiong's importance and make the opponents more vigilant against Qin Xiong's existence. They would also invest more troops to seal off Qin Xiong, so that Qin Xiong's defensive containment of the opponents would further increase!
Comain chose the latter in terms of tactical arrangements.
The difficulty of the former was that if Qin Xiong's teammates were unable to pose a sufficient threat at the beginning, then the whole plan would be for naught.
The latter plan was based on Comain's confidence in Qin Xiong. In terms of individual ability, Qin Xiong would definitely make the opponents tremble in fear, even if he could not directly attack the enemy.
In this way, after creating a more relaxed attacking environment for his teammates, his teammates would play better!
This was not about sacrificing Qin Xiong, because they were a team.
When Bayern Munich thought that they had completely sealed off Qin Xiong and could rest easy, Liverpool's next attack stunned them.
When Johnson advanced to the midfield, he passed the ball to Gerard in the middle.
Under Schweinsteiger's pressure, Gerard knocked the ball back with his heel. Alonso followed up and kicked the ball to the front of Gerard's forward position.
After rushing past Schweinsteiger, Gerard's attacking space in front of him was extremely wide.
Van Bommel's position was slanted on the left side of Qin Xiong's position.
Gerard strode forward with the ball. He was extremely fast and quickly came to the front of the penalty area. Van Bommel, who was slow to react, moved over to defend, but it was too late!
Gerard rushed to Demichelis with the ball. When the opponent was ready to play one-on-one with him, Gerard passed the ball to the nearby Kuyt.
After the ball, Gerard ran diagonally to the front left. Van Buyten immediately blocked Gerard's forward path. When Demichelis went to press Kuyt, one of them was completely lost by Bayern Munich!
The Red Army's Holy Baby, Torres!
Kuyt easily slanted the ball behind Demichelis, and Torres formed a one-on-one in the penalty area!
Bute decisively abandoned the goal, but Torres did not dawdle. He finished a push shot when Bute rushed forward two steps. The football rolled diagonally to the lower left corner of the goal.
Bute fell to the ground in a hurry. He looked at his palms, which were stretched to the limit, but he still could not touch the football when he landed.
The Red Army fans at the stadium, as well as the Red Army fans watching the game in front of the television, most of them tacitly did the same action. They stood up and raised their arms!
Everyone witnessed Torres's push shot break through Bayern Munich's goal!
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