We agreed to play football together, and you will be the head coach?

Chapter 439: Winning the Championship with Percentage Points, Aiming at Berlin

The other opponent that reached the Champions League final this year was between Juventus and Barcelona.

In the end, Juventus reversed Barcelona 3-1 at home with Luca Toni's double and Pogba's deadly pass and shot.

At the top of the Champions League, they will meet their group stage opponents Aston Villa.

Italian fans shouted "I've seen this episode".

When He Tianqi was still coaching Palermo, he personally guided AC Milan to defeat Juventus and win the Serie A championship that season.

Of course, as a "reward", Palermo defeated AC Milan in the Champions League that season and won the first Champions League trophy in the history of He Tianqi and the team.

This year's Juventus has obviously received guidance from He Tianqi. The loaned super core Pogba has become the player with the highest plus-minus value in Juventus.

Both his personal data and the improvement in the team's offensive and defensive efficiency when he is on the court are obvious to all.

Luca Toni, who was sidelined by injury in the first half of the season, saw his number of league goals explode in the second half.

Not only was he ranked first in the same period, but he even surpassed Napoli center forward Higuain, who had scored 17 goals, with only two rounds left in the league.

Icardi, who has scored 21 goals for Inter Milan, and Tevez, his Juventus teammate who has scored 20 goals, are trying to compete with them for the Serie A Golden Boot.

You know, he has played at least ten games less than Icardi and Tevez this season!

The importance of Pogba and Luca is self-evident.

Juventus also won the Serie A and Italian Cup championship trophies.

Once they win the Champions League, they will become the third treble winner in Italian football after Palermo and Inter Milan!
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May 18th, the 37th round of the Premier League.

Villa drew 0-0 with West Bromwich Albion away.

This team that reached the FA Cup final showed extremely strong offensive and defensive capabilities.

May 24th, the last round of the Premier League.

Villa beat Sunderland 3-1.

Successfully broke the Premier League championship points record with a super score of 100 points.

Complete 100% to win!

There were 38 games in the whole season, with 32 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, which was a crushing victory!
Chelsea's runner-up Hazard won the FWA Best Player award.

Villa youngster De Bruyne won the most prestigious PFA Player of the Year award.

Villa's defensive core Boateng won the official Premier League best player award.

This year's Premier League Team of the Year is:

Diego Costa and Lukaku
Hazard, De Bruyne, Kante, Sanchez
Azpilicueta, Boateng, Cahill, Walker

De Gea

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Although Villa had six players selected, the fans were still very dissatisfied.

De Gea's performance is indeed remarkable, but judging from the advanced data, Oblak is better than him.

It’s just that Alisson took away some of Oblak’s playing time, so there is not much controversy.

The odds are evenly split between Cahill and Van Dijk, but the latter has the bonus of the team's record, so he should not lose.

Not to mention the four super strikers Mane, Salah, Sterling and Lewandowski.

Only Lukaku was selected, which is really too much water.

Of course, there was a split in votes among these forwards, and they also competed for playing time, so it makes sense that they lost to the wingers of the red and blue teams.

And this year's Premier League top scorer is finally no longer from Villa.

It's Manchester City striker Aguero.

However, Aguero did not appear in the best team or the best player list.

The main problem with Villa is that the forwards distributed the ball too evenly, except for Lukaku who scored 21 goals.

The rest of the players, including Lewandowski, Sterling, Salah, Mane, Mahrez, and even Martial and De Bruyne, have scored between ten and twenty goals.

It can be said that the Premier League is full of stars and the Champions League is on fire!

In terms of assists, De Bruyne continued to lead the Premier League with 22 assists and continued to dominate the assist list.

Chelsea's Fabregas returns to his peak for the eighteenth time.

Modric's 12 assists are quite low-key. But with advanced data, we can find that Modric's penultimate pass ranks first in the Premier League.

The so-called penultimate pass is the pass before the assist.

According to statistics, in about 30% of goals, the penultimate pass is more important than the pass that directly assists the goal.

It is an important statistic second only to direct assists.

The player's personal ability of dribbling past the opponent and shooting is only ranked third on this list.

However, the perception of goals caused by the players’ personal abilities is very obvious, and has a huge appreciation and dissemination effect on the players.

The penultimate pass was unknown.

Di Maria, who is not doing well at Manchester United, and Swansea midfielder Sigurdsson tied for fourth place with ten assists.

Henderson, Cazorla and Salah provided nine assists.

In other leagues, Toni scored three goals in the last two games, tying with Icardi for the Serie A Golden Boot with 22 goals, and became the oldest Golden Boot player in Serie A history.

This season's efficiency ranks first among the top five leagues!
In La Liga, Messi and Ronaldo compete for the top spot.

Ronaldo broke the record by scoring 48 goals in 35 games.

Messi followed closely behind with 43 goals in 38 games.

This makes Neymar and Griezmann, who are ranked third with 22 goals, look a little lonely.

But in La Liga this season, a team has emerged as a dark horse, rushing from a mid-to-lower-level team to fourth in the league and qualifying for next season's Champions League.

That is Alaves led by Fan Zhiyi.

The winger Wu Lei he brought from China scored 16 goals and became the team's top scorer.

In the Bundesliga, Dong Fangzhuo won the Golden Boot with 22 goals.

Frankfurt striker Meyer won the Silver Boot with 19 goals.

Thomas Smuller won the Bronze Boot with sixteen goals.

The overall competitiveness is lackluster.

In Ligue 1, Lyon striker Lacazette won the Golden Boot with 28 goals.

Marseille striker Gignaka won the Silver Boot with 21 goals.

Paris Saint-Germain's duo Ibrahimovic and Cavani scored 19 and 18 goals respectively.

At this point, there is only one last important game left in the whole of Europe.

Champions League final!

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June 6, Germany.

Inside the Berlin Olympic Stadium, 75,000 fans are ready to go.

This is the home stadium of Hertha Berlin and it is also the first time that the stadium has hosted the Champions League final.

Villa came to Germany once during the semi-final.

The finals are coming again, which is a good sign.

In this game, both teams were not affected by injuries or suspensions and they both played with their strongest lineups.

Juventus still uses a 4312 formation:

Tevez, Toni

Vidal

Pogba, Pirlo, Marchisio
Chiellini, Barzagli, Bonucci, Lichtsteiner
Buffon
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Compared to Evra, Chiellini's offensive and defensive capabilities as a left-back have gradually made him the team's starting choice.

Coconut, who was once trained by He Tianqi as the core of Palermo's backcourt, eventually became a versatile substitute in Juventus.

You may say that Chiellini is not successful in Juventus, but they are the champions of Serie A, and except for the period of injury, he is always the starter, no matter what position.

But if you say he was successful in Juventus, compared with the world's best defensive midfielders such as Motta and Vieira, Chiellini's career highlights are indeed a lot dimmer.

Villa's starting lineup is:

Mane, Lukaku, Salah
De Bruyne
Kante, Modric

Azpilicueta, Boateng, Van Dijk, Walker

Oblak
——Modric stood back and left everything to De Bruyne.

But those who know He Tianqi know that it is easy to dodge De Bruyne's obvious attack, but difficult to defend against Modric's subtle attack.

Modric: It's hard to defend against a hidden attack, thank you!

Before the game, Juventus coach Allegri seemed a little anxious in an interview: "We are fully prepared for this game."

"We will play at our best, but the result is not determined by one team."

"What do you think about the fact that we have never beaten Villa this season? There is a first time for everything, maybe we will beat Aston Villa starting from this game!"

Allegri was mainly expressing an emotion and was unwilling to reveal Juventus' specific targeted tactics.

When He Tianqi was interviewed, he dared to talk about more details: "Compared with Juventus, the biggest advantage of our lineup is youth."

"We have to take advantage of this and use more speed and more aggressive running to penetrate them."

"The ball behind the back is our focus, using through passes and the players' sprinting ability to break through Italy's catenaccio!"

He Tianqi revealed his cards.

In fact, this problem has plagued the Italian team since 2006, and even twenty years later, the Italian team is still like this.

Soon, the opening show of the Champions League began.

Then players from both sides entered the field.

A whistle blew.

Everyone began to hold their breath.

In the third minute, Modric intercepted Vidal's pass in the midfield, turned around and made a long pass to Mane who was making a forward run on the left.

Mane raised his foot near the penalty area to stop the ball and passed it to De Bruyne in the penalty area.

Italy's catenaccio began to turn and quickly make up for the deficit.

De Bruyne did not go deep into the penalty area, but took the initiative to dribble the ball outside the penalty area to stretch the Italian team's defense.

Mane is a little behind De Bruyne, ready to cut into the penalty area at any time.

De Bruyne pretended to pass the ball to Mane, but actually passed it sideways.

The ball passed over Bonucci's instep.

Modric cut in from the back row, took the ball away, took two steps into the left side of the penalty area and swept the ball across.

Lukaku pushed the ball from about nine meters away from the goal.

The football went straight into the net!

"GOAL!!! One to zero, Villa got off to a dream start!"

"Lukaku dribbles the ball into the field!"

"The coordination of Villa's goal was simply dazzling, and every shot was almost a textbook operation."

"For a short-statured Mane to receive a long pass near the penalty area, it is a huge test for the speed and landing point of the passer."

"After all, Italy's defensive players are taller than Mane. If they guess the ball's landing point in advance, Mane won't have a chance to touch the ball."

"And Mane stopped the ball directly to De Bruyne, which was enough to remind people of the scene in the last minute of the Champions League semi-final when Lukaku stopped the ball with his chest to Lewandowski."

"This kind of subtle coordination is Villa's most valuable thing. Apart from Villa, only Barcelona can play it in Europe."

"De Bruyne's series of operations are also exquisite. He deserves to be the world's number one midfielder who has emerged in the past two years."

"Modric's back-to-back runs and crosses embody the characteristics of this player. He is always able to create opportunities when there are no opportunities and make problems simple."

Villa's goal ignited the enthusiasm of the fans on the scene.

In the eleventh minute, Van Dijk launched an attack directly with a long pass from the backcourt.

Lukaku moved to the left side and disrupted the positioning of Juventus' defense.

Mane changed position and moved forward, then he tackled the falling ball and shot it.

Unfortunately, there was not enough material and the football was not touched.

Buffon then confiscated the ball.

In the 13th minute, Salah dribbled the ball inside from the right, forced Chiellini to retreat and then sent a through pass.

Walker went down the rim and made an inverted triangle pass.

Modric made another run from the back and scored a world-class goal from outside the penalty area.

The 37-year-old Buffon was still in good shape and successfully blocked the ball.

Lichtsteiner in front of the goal then cleared the ball with a header.

Looking at the energetic Modric, Pirlo felt quite helpless.

The 36-year-old Pirlo is in charge of the overall situation.

The 30-year-old Modric was running all over the field.

Is it that Pirlo doesn’t want to run all over the court?

No.

He just doesn't have the physical strength.

What is a real gifted monster?
Modric is.

Pirlo has had two major transformations in his career, both of which have achieved unprecedented success.

The peak period lasted for ten years, and the high-level period could even last fifteen years.

But Modric, all in all, has been in his prime for ten years.

Judging from the current situation, he may still have nearly five years of his peak period.

If He Tianqi is willing to keep him in Villa for his retirement, the high-level period may last for 25 years.

This is too exaggerated!

But what is outrageous is that such a strong player has never won the Ballon d'Or or the FIFA World Player of the Year in his career.

Pirlo had an illusion that He Tianqi and Modric seemed to have been controlling the score regarding Modric's winning of the award.

Modric has been giving the award to his teammates for some special reasons.

De Bruyne didn't do the same thing.

What is the reason?

Business reasons?
In this way, teammates can leave the team at a higher price, allowing the team to make a lot of money in transfer fees?
Pirlo shook his head. This should be unlikely.

Modric is not a partner of Palermo and Villa.

He doesn't get any share of the transfer fee.

Modric: Hey, you may not believe it, but the deal with Bale made me a fortune! The early deals with Arteta, Motta, Mido and other three young kings helped me achieve financial freedom early!

In the 19th minute, Chiellini intercepted the ball in the backcourt and passed it directly to Pogba.

Pogba launched a counterattack and bounced off Modric who was trying to steal the ball.

boom!
Pogba made a diagonal pass from the left flank, looking for Tevez who was making a forward run.

The ball accurately passed Boateng in front.

Boateng was skilled and bold. He fell to the ground and tackled the ball, destroying it.

The football hit the goal post and flew out of the bottom line, almost resulting in an own goal.

Oblak, Van Dijk and others celebrated their successful defense with Boateng immediately to drive away the fear of almost losing the ball.

In the 25th minute, Boateng passed the ball straight to Lukaku who was retreating.

After receiving the ball, Lukaku turned around and dribbled the ball, pretending to pass it out but actually advancing on his own.

He also used his physical advantage to push Pirlo away and then used bicycle kicks to get into the penalty area, so that Bonucci and Barzagli did not dare to take any action.

boom!
Lukaku shot from long range.

The football slipped out of the goal.

Although he didn't score a goal, his personal ability was fully demonstrated.

Juventus fans saw very clear traces of Pogba in Lukaku, or perhaps Pogba's playing style was largely inspired by Lukaku.

These two people are clearly versions of each other in different positions.

Pogba, midfielder Lukaku.

Lukaku, forward Pogba.

Juventus fans began to imagine, if they had both of these players, wouldn’t it be…

Manchester United: Uh... as long as you are happy.

(End of this chapter)