Seven Crowns

Returning to the team itself, everyone in Hoffenheim breathed a sigh of relief after winning the Bundesliga ahead of schedule.

Now you can put down the league and go all out to put all your energy into the Champions League.

For the Champions League, the players are obviously more motivated than winning the Bundesliga.

The Bundesliga champion was won once last season, but the Champions League has never been won.

Moreover, the UEFA Champions League is recognized as the game with the highest technical and tactical level in football. For many players with weak national teams, the UEFA Champions League is played as the World Cup.

After winning the Bundesliga and returning to Hoffenheim, they celebrated for one night, took a day off the next day, trained at their own base for a day on April 16, and then went to Munich on the 17th to borrow the training base of Bayern's rival Munich 1860 to start training and preparations.

In the UEFA Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich, Hoffenheim played away first and then played home, occupying the advantage of the schedule.

Just as Hoffenheim was preparing for the game at the training base of Munich 1860, on April 18, the first leg of another Champions League semi-final match had ended.

Due to the impact of the Icelandic volcanic ash that filled the European continent, European flights were grounded one after another. Barcelona could not take the plane and could only arrive in Italy by land in its own bus. The players were tired and exhausted from the journey.

Mourinho's Inter Milan is waiting for work at home and going all out.

In the end, Inter Milan defeated Barcelona 3-1 in the first round of the semi-final, not only giving Guardiola the biggest defeat since he took office for two years, but also taking the lead on the road to the final.

Next, watch the performances of Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich.

Hoffenheim was not affected by the volcanic ash.

Also in Germany, Hoffenheim is only a three-hour drive from Munich, so there is no need to fly.

What's more, Hoffenheim arrived in Munich by his own bus two days in advance, so he had enough rest time.

Hoffenheim will not have the problem of fatigue from long car journeys like Barcelona.

On the evening of April 19th, the Allianz Arena in Munich was full. More than 10,000 Hoffenheim fans came, but only more than 5,000 people bought tickets to enter the stadium. Others could only gather outside and pass through the square. screen to watch the live broadcast.

In addition to the more than 5,000 seats occupied by Hoffenheim fans,

All other seats were filled with Bayern Munich home fans and neutral spectators.

The war is imminent.

After the entrance ceremony, handshake, group photo, and side selection, at 19:45 on the evening of April 19, with the whistle of the referee, the first round of the 2009/2010 UEFA Champions League semi-final match between Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim was held at The Allianz Arena in Munich officially begins.

Sure enough, Bayern Munich adopted a 541 defensive counterattack formation like Lyon, regardless of their identity as the Bundesliga overlord and the face of home games.

Van Gaal piled up Demichelis, Van Buyten, Contento, Budstuber, Lahm, Schweinsteiger, and Van Bommel in the backcourt to defend. There are only two full-backs, Ribery and Robben, and Thomas Muller, a striker.

This is the inspiration for everyone in the first round of the quarter-finals between Lyon and Hoffenheim.

In that game, Lyon successfully froze Lu Wenbin in a sports battle. In the end, Lu Wenbin relied on a free kick to help Hoffenheim equalize the score.

Although Lyon suffered a disastrous defeat in the second round, it was largely due to the sudden improvement in Lu Wenbin's dribbling ability that was caught off guard.

In particular, Lu Wenbin's wonderful goal that scored 6 players in a row in 9.67 seconds in the opening game gave the Lyon players a considerable psychological blow, knocking them into a daze, and only then did the final 1-6 fiasco.

But the Lyon team's defense in the first round was quite successful, and the score of 1-6 in the second round was not a real strength comparison between the two sides.

Everyone concluded that Lu Wenbin's personal ability is indeed outstanding, but the defender can use more people to defend.

In particular, the 541 defensive counterattack formation can accumulate more players within 30 meters of the backcourt, and does not give Lu Wenbin the space to run and break through near the penalty area, which can greatly limit Lu Wenbin's performance.

Although some teams played defensive counterattacks in the past, none of those teams had the strength of Lyon, and they carried out defensive counterattacks so thoroughly, so they couldn't restrain Lu Wenbin.

Therefore, the first round of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals between Lyon and Hoffenheim is very informative.

Bayern Munich copied this formation.

Moreover, the personal strength of their backcourt players is much higher than that of Lyon.

Demichelis, Van Buyten, Contento, Lahm, Van Bommel, etc. are all famous defense stars. Although Schweinsteiger plays an organizational midfielder, he also has a certain defensive ability. .

At least, there is no problem with jamming and interference.

When the Bundesliga overlords like Bayern Munich put down their faces and played a 541 defensive counterattack, the defensive intensity faced by Lu Wenbin and Hoffenheim has risen by more than one level.

Although Lu Wenbin's personal breakthrough was still extremely sharp, he was unable to break through Bayern's entire defense line, let alone Eduardo and others.

In the 8th minute, Lu Wenbin broke through Van Bommel and Contento in succession, and was about to enter the penalty area, but Van Buyten fell to the ground and shoveled the ball away from Lu Wenbin.

Lu Wenbin's full-value dribbling can't control the ball to the exact level, and sometimes the opponent will destroy it a little bit too much.

Bayern's defense line, the personal strength and cooperation of the players are much better than Lyon.

Hoffenheim could only pass the ball backwards from the outside to find opportunities, and Lu Wenbin's occasional breakthroughs could not penetrate Bayern's defense to form a shot.

It wasn't until the 16th minute that Hoffenheim took the first shot.

As a result, Lu Wenbin's shot was still blocked by Demichelis stretching his legs in the penalty area and blocked the post, which did not pose a threat to goalkeeper Bout at all.

In the subsequent corner kick, Hoffenheim also failed to grab the first point, and was pushed out of the penalty area by Bayern players.

However, although this time the corner kick did not grab the first point to form an attack, Lu Wenbin also felt that he had found a way to break through the dense defense.

He has just added the header attribute, and his off-ball running, physique, and bounce can make him as good as other players in the penalty area. It may not be impossible to use corner kicks to score goals.

Therefore, in the following time, Lu Wenbin reduced the number of breakthroughs with the ball and increased the number of long-range shots from outside the penalty area.

As long as he has the ball, he doesn't want to pass two or three opponents, but only one or two, or even if he doesn't pass, as long as there is an angle, he will shoot long shots.

On the one hand, the probability of scoring a long-range shot, and on the other hand, a corner kick.

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