Seven Crowns

After winning the Serie A championship, we celebrated one night that night and rested the next day. On the third day, Inter Milan began to train and prepare for the Champions League.

All the games where Lu Wenbin has been zero-blocked so far, as well as the last three games between Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich, are the objects of repeated research by Mourinho.

Pride of character is pride, but intellectually Mourinho will not relax his preparations for the final.

He can achieve such a great success now, not by talking about it.

Hoffenheim has won all the championships they can participate in in the last three seasons. This record cannot but make Mourinho vigilant.

Moreover, Lu Wenbin's attack power must also be taken seriously.

After the German Cup final, Lu Wenbin played a total of 50 club games this season and scored 92 goals, averaging 1.84 per game.

This efficiency is definitely the best in football, and Mourinho must pay attention to it.

That's why he was so concerned about Bayern Munich's clean sheet against Lu Wenbin in the first round of the Champions League semi-final.

It is difficult for other players to score goals, but it is difficult for Lu Wenbin not to score goals.

On such an important occasion as the Champions League semi-finals, Lu Wenbin must have tried his best. Bayern Munich can still keep Lu Wenbin clean in the first round, so their defense must be unique.

That game is therefore the focus of Mourinho's research.

Of course, he didn't start researching after the league ended.

When the result came out that the opponent in the final was Hoffenheim, Mourinho's team had already started to study Hoffenheim.

After researching and summarizing this period of time, the coaching staff agreed that the game where Bayern Munich kept Lu Wenbin clean was accidental.

Bayern Munich's home game, excellent defense, Lu Wenbin's poor luck in scoring goals, etc., all combined factors led to the result of Lu Wenbin's full performance in that game but failed to score a goal.

In the UEFA Champions League final, it is very, very difficult for Inter Milan to achieve the same goal as Lu Wenbin.

In terms of probability, the probability of Lu Wenbin scoring in the final is much higher than the probability of not scoring.

This is not only the reason why Lu Wenbin has body, speed, skills, superb shooting skills, and a thief without the ball in sports warfare.

There is also Lu Wenbin's free kick technique.

Including the national team game, Lu Wenbin scored a total of 18 free kicks this season. This efficiency is also the best in football, more than the total number of goals scored by many forwards in a season.

Lu Wenbin even scored twice from free kicks.

Even if Lu Wenbin's sports goal is prevented, there is no guarantee that Lu Wenbin will not use a free kick to score.

Of course, in everything, there must be some inevitable factors in the accident.

Bayern Munich can keep Lu Wenbin clean in the first round of the Champions League semi-finals, and there must be some advantages to learn from.

After continuous analysis and research, Mourinho made targeted tactical arrangements for Hoffenheim's main lineup, especially Lu Wenbin.

The first is the formation. Inter Milan can't play 5-3-2 like Bayern Munich, so the defense line is too tight, there is no strategic depth, and Hoffenheim will keep pressing and playing, too passive.

It is very difficult for a team to stick to 90 minutes without conceding a goal. In the second round, Bayern was eliminated by Lu Wenbin with two goals.

Therefore, Mourinho chose a relatively balanced 4231 formation, which retains a more advanced counterattack ability on the basis of taking into account defense.

When defending, except for the forwards, Inter Milan can have 9 people shrink back to defend, and there are three lines of defense.

When attacking, with the assist of the full-back, as many as 8 people can participate in the attack.

As the coaching staff analyzed, if they cannot guarantee a zero seal against Lu Wenbin, they must retain their ability to counterattack and score goals, and they cannot completely defend, let alone completely shrink within 30 meters of the backcourt.

Another reason for this formation to press forward is that Mourinho does not want to give Lu Wenbin too many frontcourt free kicks.

Even when there is a need to foul, it is best to foul at a distance of 30 meters away from the goal.

At the same time, in order to curb Hoffenheim's offensive football, Mourinho also asked the whole team to strengthen their running and press down on Hoffenheim, even the forwards.

From the second the ball is lost, the whole team will enter a defensive state.

In order to prepare for the Champions League final, Mourinho asked the physical coach to reserve the physical fitness of the players with the goal of the Champions League final even before the end of the league.

This is also the reason why it was very difficult for Inter Milan to win against the relegation team Siena in the last round, because their preparations were not fully focused on the league, and a large part of their energy was focused on the farther UEFA Champions League final.

This led to their poor performance in the last round of the league, with only a small victory by 1 goal.

After the league ended, the Inter Milan team began training and preparing for the game under the tactical framework formulated by the coaching staff.

The Nerazzurri, who have been waiting for nearly half a century, are full of desire for the Champions League trophy from top to bottom.

Inter Milan is making intense preparations, and Hoffenheim is not idle.

The temptation of the Champions League champion also stimulates every Hoffenheim player. Even Lu Wenbin, who knows that he will not lack the Champions League in the future, is full of desire for this season's Champions League.

Hoffenheim's German Cup final ended one day earlier than Inter Milan's last round of the league, so Hoffenheim's training preparation time was one day longer than Inter Milan's.

Before the training started, Lu Wenbin used 3 skill points to increase his header attribute to 14/14, leaving the remaining 2 skill points there useless.

Then, during training, Lu Wenbin also deliberately strengthened set kicks, mainly corner kicks and free kicks from both sides of the penalty area to compete for the goal.

Mourinho's team has long been labeled as a defensive counterattack.

Inter Milan's defense is better than that of Bayern Munich. Lu Wenbin is not sure that he will be able to score goals by breaking through and shooting.

In the second round of the UEFA Champions League semi-final, Inter Milan relied on their bus placed in front of the Camp Nou goal to block the wave after wave of Barcelona's offensive, and finally eliminated Barcelona to advance to the final.

Therefore, in this Champions League final, Hoffenheim will definitely encounter Inter Milan's intensive defense, and set kicks have become a very important way to score goals.

With the 14/14 header, plus Lu Wenbin's speed, physique, height, and running without the ball, there are not many opportunities for positioning the ball to compete for the top goal.

As for the formation, Ralph did not play any tricks.

Hoffenheim has long been accustomed to the 4-3-3 offensive formation. Both the frontcourt and the backcourt players are quite tacit, and the rash change may not catch the opponent by surprise, but will make their own players at a loss.

Therefore, Ralf decided to stick to his offensive football, no matter how Inter Milan responded. (seeking a monthly ticket)