Starting with playing defensive midfield for Evergrande

Chapter 101 story mission reward has been received! Suarez's first goal at Allianz Arena has made a stunning appearance!
Munich, Bayern Munich's training ground.

After lunch, Guardiola, as usual, gathered the entire Bayern team in the tactical analysis room.

After a magnificent, epic comeback, Guardiola finally felt the urgency that the Champions League Round of 16 brought him!
During this period, in his and his coaching staff's analysis, this depleted Arsenal team, after its fierce battle with Liverpool, would not pose any threat to his full-strength Bayern Munich team at all. But what happened?
Liverpool, the Premier League's most potent attacking force, was miraculously defeated by Arsenal at their own Anfield stadium!
Especially after halftime, Wenger's brilliant move of placing Su Hao as a free-roaming central midfielder was a stroke of genius!
This move brought a huge boost to Arsenal's attacking end, which made Guardiola somewhat worried about the current defense of his Bayern Munich team.

Yes, he has no worries about the attacking end with Ribery, Robben, Kroos, and Mandzukic all at full strength and available!
His concern was whether his own Boateng, who could be absent-minded from time to time, and Dante, who could turn at a snail's pace, could handle Su Hao—who, arguably, was the most unmatched player under 20 years old in terms of the timing and accuracy of his passes.

It was precisely for this reason that Guardiola had to emphasize it during the morning training session, and then patiently drag the whole team back here to repeat it again!
"Always be aware of what's behind and beside you!"

"Arsenal's greatest strength lies in finding openings for passing the ball in tight spaces."

"We must always keep the ball under our control. Remember, as I've always said, offense is the most effective form of defense."

Guardiola remains convinced of his "positional play" style of play that he used at Barcelona, ​​which was dominated by passing and possession.

On the other side, Wenger, who had been up all night, also finalized his tactical arrangements after countless deliberations.

Yes, the professor has figured it out. Since the chances of getting away unscathed from the Allianz Arena with the current depleted squad are slim, he might as well take a gamble on the Champions League, which he had already considered his second choice!
It's the same pure free agent style that Su Hao used before, and then replacing Podolski with Chamberlain, who has a stronger explosive ability!

In this way, Su Hao can freely switch between the two flanks, and no matter which side Bayern Munich shifts the defensive pressure to, Arsenal can break through it at the fastest speed!
The strategy was decided at 4 p.m. that day.

The professor's tactical analysis class then officially began.

Upon hearing that he could start, Chamberlain, who had been a substitute for who knows how long, was naturally excited.

After witnessing his team pull off such a crazy comeback in the last game, Chamberlain was so frustrated that he couldn't sleep all night. The reason for his frustration was that he actually watched such an epic battle from the bench!
Of course, while some were excited, others were unhappy. Podolski was naturally upset to be suddenly replaced in the starting lineup by Chamberlain. However, he also knew that against Bayern's two freaks, Chamberlain was indeed more effective than him on the defensive end.

"Su! Although you are still defined as a central midfielder in this match, remember, from the moment the whistle blows, you are no longer restricted by position."

"On the defensive end, you can decide whether to participate based on your own physical condition; as for offense..."

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Just like the tactics that had been planned day and night, Wenger made no reservations about showing his preference for Su Hao in front of the entire Arsenal team.

Yes!

Just the fact that there are absolutely no positional restrictions means that, at least in the eyes of the other Arsenal players, including Wenger's most favored traitor, they have never enjoyed such treatment!

Of course, they also knew that based on his incredible passing alone, this 17-year-old deserved Wenger's favoritism!
"Also, Su, try to have teammates supporting you when you're advancing!"

"Su"

"Ramsey, you need to keep an eye on Su's position at all times and be there to provide support as soon as Su is surrounded!"

"Gibbs, when passing the ball, remember to check if there are any Bayern players marking Suarez in his position!"

"Su"

During the tactical meeting that lasted for more than an hour, no one knew how many times the professor had mentioned Su.

And this is a statement that almost uses "Su" as a catchphrase!

"Su! I feel like the boss treats you differently than he treats others!"

That's when Kant, who was lying on the bedside after finishing all his training and washing up, suddenly said this!
"Huh? What?!"

Hearing Kant, who usually doesn't talk much except when playing chess, suddenly say this, Su Hao didn't know how to respond.

Different from oneself?
Ok!

After two months of competition, Su Hao had to admit that the professor had really gone a bit too far with him!

Su Hao even felt that if he got injured or something, the professor might be able to handle it.
"Alright, alright, Ngoro, go to sleep! You have training early tomorrow morning!"

Seeing that Kant was still staring at him with those big, eerily white eyes, Su Hao could only quickly turn around and tell Kant to go to sleep.

It wasn't that Su Hao didn't want to talk to Kant anymore, but rather that right after training ended that afternoon, Su Hao finally completed the system storyline mission that he had been longing for all this time.

Stealing a glance at Kant, who was already snoring loudly, Su Hao quickly entered his own control panel.

"Ding dong!"

"Congratulations, host, on completing the special story mission: Perfect Partner!"

"The perfect synergy between N'Golo Kanté and the template has reached 100%!"

"Mission Reward: Up to one single ability in the panel can be unlocked (with the highest talent cap!)."

"Do you want to receive the reward?"

comfortable!
The perfect partner mission, which I had been waiting for for a whole month, was finally completed.

Seeing the golden task completion icon, Su Hao naturally chose to complete it without hesitation.

"Ding dong!"

"Congratulations, host, you have obtained the designated unlock card for the panel (with the highest talent cap)!"

"Please select a panel attribute value!"

Selectable attribute values ​​are: Offense: ? Shooting: ? Heading: ?
Set piece: ? Curved shot: ? Speed: ?
Footwork strength: ? Jumping ability: ? Physical fitness: ?
Defense: ? Steals: ? Injury tendency: ?

A dense array of options was laid out before Su Hao.

Although Su Hao has been considering which ability he should unlock first, he still can't make up his mind.

There was no other way; Su Hao was terrified of being poor.

Who knows when that locked-down control panel system will drop such a great mission again?

If there's no news for the next three years, and if he made the wrong choice this time, he'll definitely regret it to death!

Of the attributes that have been generated so far, offense seems to be the one that can be eliminated first!
As for the reason, it's naturally because the bug of my age being 30 years old seems to have included all the experience of being 30 years old directly in the panel after the initial binding.

Unlocking this now would be a complete waste.

As for other abilities such as passing and ball control, which have already been unlocked, it seems there's no way to unlock them again.

Of the remaining options, shooting and heading should be the two best choices for me.

Header
Given his current role as the core of the organization, it seems that he can only make a choice during set pieces!
do not care!
After hesitating for a while, Su Hao finally made up his mind.

Shoot!

That’s it.

Although he can still occasionally unleash a world-class goal in a match, his overall shooting success rate is not high when he is being marked.

Rather than passing the burden to others when the team needs goals the most, it's better to just score them yourself!
With that in mind, Su Hao no longer hesitated and chose to shoot.

"Ding Dong!!!"

After confirming their choice, the previously gray system interface suddenly flashed with a golden light.

After the light faded, the shooting value that Su Hao had been longing for appeared before his eyes.

[Shooting rating: 83 (98)]

Su Hao was stunned!
Do not!
After being stunned by the number, Su Hao was instantly overjoyed.

There was nothing he could do. Although Su Hao had guessed that his shooting stat wouldn't be bad, he really hadn't expected the talent cap for shooting stat on this dead man's panel to be an outrageous 98!

98 of these values.
In Su Hao's opinion, there is practically no one in the world of football who can reach that level!

This means that as long as you max out your shooting stat.

Just based on his shooting ability alone, he could easily be ranked among the top 3 in world football!

In addition, he also has a passing ability with a maximum value of 95.
this.
Su Hao was thrilled!

I was so excited that I didn't fall asleep until 4 a.m.!

However, after waking up, Su Hao's heart sank again!
Forehead.
It seems he forgot last night that it takes years of grinding to get a 98 score, and now his shooting is just a regular 83!
Damn it, just thinking about this made Su Hao realize that he had wasted several hours and was now feeling dizzy and lightheaded!

Secret training camp, closed-door practice session, and the entire team refusing interviews!
And so, after three whole days of preparation with almost no contact with the outside world.

2014 2 Month 27 Day.

The first round of the 2013-2014 UEFA Champions League Round of 16 has finally arrived.

Just like before in Liverpool, the Chinese people once again demonstrated their incredible spending power in the face of top-level competitions like the Champions League.

Countless Chinese fans who had paid several times the price for their tickets arrived at the plaza outside the Allianz Arena as early as 6 p.m.

What's even more interesting is that when local Chinese vendors saw so many Chinese football fans suddenly appear in Munich, they actually set up stalls selling grilled sausages in the square.

This scene naturally added a lot of Chinese flavor to the Champions League, which originally belonged only to Europeans!

Even Xu Jiaying, in order to show Evergrande Group's support for Su Hao's Champions League debut, spent a lot of money to buy hundreds of tickets and the most eye-catching billboard at the Allianz Arena, and traveled all the way from Guangzhou to Munich to cheer for his prince.

It's 7 p.m. local time in Munich.

The team bus carrying the entire Arsenal squad arrived on time in the plaza of the Allianz Stadium.

Same as before!
After countless Chinese fans flocked to the club, Su Hao, the only prince from China, unsurprisingly became Arsenal's most dazzling presence once again.

Frenzied shouts and red flags fluttering everywhere.

Su Hao's exaggerated display of having fans naturally made him a hot topic again, and the entire Arsenal team was so envious they were practically begging for it!

7 points.

After the bus came to a smooth stop, the professor straightened his collar slightly and hurried to the pre-match press conference.

Just as the professor had expected, when he arrived at the press conference, his old rival, who was also the biggest nemesis in his life, was already sitting there with a smile on his face.

Good evening, Professor!

Upon seeing the professor arrive, Guardiola immediately turned around with a smile and greeted him.

Unlike those guys who like to criticize themselves before a match, Guardiola is truly impeccable in terms of manners and conduct off the field, even though he has eliminated Arsenal every time since 09.

It was this harmonious atmosphere between them that turned the pre-match press conference into a mutual compliment between the two old friends.

Some professors are pioneers of unique reforms in football philosophy, while others consider Guardiola a role model for young coaches.
In short!
At the pre-match press conference, the two players' performances showed no signs of being mortal enemies who had already fought tooth and nail six times in the Champions League knockout stages.

Of course, the two were incredibly harmonious at the press conference, but things changed once they got to the locker room.

The two immediately put on a completely different face.

As soon as Guardiola entered the door, he rushed to the tactics board!
"Sit up, sit up, sit up, children!"

"quick!!!"

Look at me!!!

"The match has less than half an hour left!"

Do you remember what I said before?

"Control the ball!!"

"Remember! Remember! Remember! Keep the ball at our feet! Don't give Arsenal any space or time to get the ball out!!!"

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Very Guardiola style!

It was his hurried shout that made the Bayern stars, who hadn't yet entered the game, sit up straight one by one.

Although deep down they still didn't take this Arsenal team, which was riddled with injuries and could only fill in with substitutes, seriously!

Inside the away team's locker room on the other side.

Unlike Guardiola's hurried and rushed pace.

The professor, meanwhile, continued to leisurely and patiently draw out his predicted Bayern attacking trajectory on the tactics board.

Especially regarding the areas where Robben and Ribery would cover after cutting inside, Wenger was so precise that he even knew exactly when the defenders should make their tackles!
Of course, besides that, the professor's most frequent advice was still, "The first thing you need to do after getting the ball is check Su's position and play according to Su's rhythm."

Munich local time 7:59!
at last!

After a long wait by countless fans in the stands, the countdown began!
In the commentary booth, Huang Jianxiang and Zhan Jun, who had already been explaining things to the audience on camera for quite some time, adjusted their headsets hanging from their collars and, amidst the frenzied shouts of over 70,000 fans in the stands, began to say...
"Zhuang Dian'er Tai!"

"Zhuang Dian'er Tai!!!"

"This is a live broadcast of the 2013-2014 UEFA Champions League Round of 16!"

Bayern Munich vs. Arsenal at home!

"The players from both teams are already standing in their respective halves of the field!"

"Main Table"

"Beep!"

"With the referee's whistle!"

"The competition has officially begun!"

"First, let's look at the starting lineups for both sides!"

"On the other side, Bayern Munich's starting goalkeeper, Neuer, is attacking from right to left in his traditional red jersey!"

"Defenders: Alaba, Boateng, Dante, Rafinha!"

"Single defensive midfielder: Lahm!"

"Two central midfielders: Kroos and Schweinsteiger partner up!"

"Left winger: Ribery, Right winger: Robben!"

"Lone striker: Mandzukic!"

"Facing Premier League powerhouse Arsenal, Bayern Munich will continue with the 4-1-4-1 formation that Guardiola has been using all season!"

"And on the other side, Arsenal's starting goalkeeper, wearing the traditional black away jersey, is attacking from right to left: Szczesny!"

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"Unlike usual, today Wenger has substituted Chamberlain, who has been a substitute, for the left winger position!"

"It seems the professor is worried that Podolski, who doesn't have a speed advantage, will become Bayern Munich's main attacking threat."

"Arsenal have possession of the ball first!"

At Allianz Arena.

Amidst the frenzied cheers of over 70,000 people, Arsenal's first probing attack finally began.

As always, Giroud passed the ball to Su Hao behind him and then quickly darted into Bayern Munich's penalty area.

Giroud's incredible game-winning shot a few days ago has boosted his confidence to the extreme.

Even just now in the players' tunnel, Giroud put his arm around Su Hao and said that as long as Su Hao puts the ball on his head, he can make Su Hao complete an assist hat-trick at the Allianz Arena!

However, just as Giroud plunged headfirst into the midst of the two giants, Boateng and Dante, he suddenly swallowed hard!
It seems I just went a bit too far with what I said!

In the middle of the stadium.

While Giroud was making a frantic sprint, Su Hao didn't rush to pass the ball.

Before the match, the professor had already said that when playing against Guardiola's team, the biggest fear is being drawn into their rhythm.

If Guardiola gains control of the game's tempo, the only outcome will be a slow, gradual suffocation, like a frog being slowly boiled in water, as he uses possession traps to slowly kill the team.

With the professor's prior arrangements, Su Hao naturally slowed down the pace as much as possible.

Of course, Su Hao wasn't thinking about competing with Bayern in terms of passing and possession; he just wanted Arsenal to be able to deliver a fatal blow to their opponents at the crucial moment when they needed to speed up the game the most.

And so, Su Hao began to wander around the center circle.

Facing Mandzukic's pressing, Su Hao first used his body to hold off Mandzukic, and then sent the ball diagonally towards Kanté.

After shaking off Mandzukic and running to the right wing, he then receives the ball and passes it back to Arteta's feet.

This simple gesture forced Ribery, who had rushed forward anxiously, to retreat back to his left flank once again.

One kick!
Two feet!

Three legs!

Arsenal seemed to be aimlessly passing the ball back and forth in their own half.

The sidelines of the stadium!
Guardiola frowned as he watched Arsenal, who had previously favored a fast, direct attacking style, suddenly switch to their possession-based, disjointed play.

As one of the world's top tactical masters, Guardiola understands very well that such sudden changes in tactics often have...
as predicted!

Just as Guardiola was pondering what tricks Wenger was up to, Arsenal, who had been leisurely passing the ball around on the pitch, suddenly surged forward towards their own half after Su Hao used a smooth left-right cut to get past Mandzukic.

Chamberlain on the left, Ramsey on the right, and even Kanté, who had always been a sweeper, were all frantically swinging their short legs and rushing towards Bayern Munich's backfield alongside Su Hao.

On Bayern's side, seeing Arsenal suddenly accelerate, Kroos naturally followed Su Hao immediately.

However, before Kroos could get close, Su Hao had already pushed the ball diagonally with his right foot, sending it to Ramsey's feet and then immediately switching positions to Ramsey's right wing.

After receiving the ball, Ramsey flicked it sideways with his left foot and charged forward along the middle.

Meanwhile, Chamberlain on the left wing continued to drift wide!

Giroud moved slightly to the right side of the penalty area.

"Arsenal's sudden acceleration!"
"Ramsey is pushing forward rapidly in the middle, and Su Hao has already moved to the side!"

"Sagna on the wing has caught up too!"

"Kross missed, and Schweinsteiger could only quickly advance towards the rapidly advancing Ramsey!"

"Kante on the left is following up!"

"Ramsey!" "Instead of playing a through ball, he passed it diagonally back to Su Hao!"

at this time!

Bayern Munich's backfield.

Su Hao already had the ball at the edge of the penalty area.

Just after Ramsey passed the ball laterally, Su Hao had already chosen his passing route.

It's not the left side where my eyes were previously focused!
Conversely, having already spotted Sagna passing by in his peripheral vision, Su Hao flicked the ball diagonally toward the wing with his heel the instant he received it.

Immediately afterwards, Su Hao strode into the penalty area!

No hesitation!
Sagna received a diagonal pass from Su Hao on the wing and, just as Alaba was about to cover him, used his right foot to lob the ball into the penalty area.

"Beautiful!"

"Su Hao's move was absolutely brilliant!"

"Cross the ball directly!!!"

"Giroud and Suho will flank from two points!"

Seeing Arsenal so easily penetrate Bayern's backfield, commentator Huang Jianxiang in the commentary booth suddenly became excited.

However, as excited as I am!
After watching Sagna send the ball out of bounds with a single kick, Old Huang was so angry he almost kicked the table in front of him!

"Oh dear! Sagna! Su Hao has already outmaneuvered Dante!"

"If they can get the ball there, Arsenal might get off to a dream start!"

On the field!
Seeing that he had actually made such a pass, Sania blushed and quickly raised his hands to apologize to Su Hao.

Arsenal's attack yielded no results.

However, it was precisely this successful attack down the flank by Arsenal that immediately infuriated Guardiola.

"Alaba! What are you doing? Just standing there and watching them pass the ball?"

"Restrictions! Where are the restrictions I'm talking about? Where is the oppression I'm talking about?"

As a perfectionist, Guardiola still cannot tolerate his players giving the opponent a chance to pass the ball so easily, even if the opponent does not gain any substantial advantage.

After a relentless roar, Alaba quickly raised his hand to Guardiola.

Although Alaba is considered a veteran of Bayern Munich, Guardiola has never cared about seniority. In Guardiola's eyes, everyone in the world except Messi is the same to him. Even someone like Ibrahimovic could be let go without a second thought, so why would he bother with Alaba?
Guagua roared at his teammates, not far from the Arsenal bench.

Seeing that his newly developed tactics and strategies, which he had hastily developed in just a few days, had actually broken through Bayern Munich's flank defense so easily, the professor became extremely excited.

Yes!

He practically gave up on the Champions League because of this Liverpool league match.

Unexpectedly, by some twist of fate, he felt as if he finally had a chance to overcome Guardiola, this mountain that seemed to be his nemesis.
The game continues!

After being caught off guard by Arsenal's surprise attack.

The defending champions team naturally started to take things seriously.

When Guardiola's Bayern Munich gets serious, the game naturally falls into the dull mode that fans hate the most.

Yes!

This legendary coach, who shaped the dream dynasty of TIKITAKA Barcelona, ​​transformed the expansive and aggressive Bayern Munich into a new Barcelona team dressed in red after arriving at the club.

Toni Kroos, with his top-of-the-line German eight-cylinder engine, replaced the Barcelona maestro.

It started when Neuer passed the ball to Alaba on the wing!
Bayern Munich thus began an extremely tedious and seemingly meaningless ball control tactic.

And for Arsenal!

Under Wenger's clear tactical philosophy, as soon as Bayern gained possession, all Arsenal players, including Giroud, retreated to their own half.

then
A bizarre scene unfolded at the Allianz Arena, which was filled with the deafening roar of over 70,000 fans.

The fans were clearly chanting so passionately.

However, Bayern Munich was making a lot of cross-field passes and passing around the midfield.

It was as if they were waiting for Arsenal to have an opening, but the entire Arsenal team was already packed into their own backfield!

that's it!
After controlling the ball for more than twenty times, the home fans stopped cheering.

Bayern Munich then leisurely passed the ball diagonally to Robben, who was asking for it.

As soon as Robben got the ball, he naturally started his most effective attack down the wing.

just
To Robben's dismay, immediately after he received the ball, Chamberlain, who was also extremely fast, marked him closely.

And it wasn't just Chamberlain; Arsenal's shortest black midfielder was also closely following him.

Moreover, just as Robben made his signature top-class cut inside against Gibbs's challenge, he hadn't even had a chance to shoot.

That short black midfielder had already used an absolutely indisputable sliding tackle to snatch the ball away from his feet!
"Wow! Beautiful!"

"Kante's tackle was indeed decisive!"

"no problem!"

Koscielny receives the ball, looks up, and launches a long pass!

"Right flank!!!"

"Su Hao, over here!!!"

It took Bayern a full four minutes to transition from possession to launching their attack.

Conversely, Arsenal, after a sliding tackle, immediately launched their all-out attack from the spot.

Apart from the two center-backs and Arteta playing deep!
Everyone else, including Sagna and Gibbs on the flanks!
Arsenal's entire team of seven somehow managed to sprint across Bayern's half of the field like a 7-meter dash.

at this time!

Bayern's entire formation is still around the center circle.

Seeing Arsenal's incredible pace of attack, Lahm and several other defenders naturally rushed back towards their own half without hesitation.

However, before Lahm and the others could even get into their defensive line, Su Hao, who had received the ball, delivered a long pass to Ramsey, who had already accelerated after Kanté made the interception.

Middle lane!

Ramsey was extremely fast.

It was so fast that even when Lahm wanted to make a tactical foul, he didn't have time to react.

After a few steps, Ramsey had already broken through to the edge of Bayern Munich's penalty area.

"Ramsey!!!"

"Wow, that's really fast!!!"

"Arsenal's attack!!!"

"Boateng lunged at him!"

"Instead of a direct confrontation, we opted for a more lateral approach!"

"Girl followed suit!!!"

"This is Arsenal!!!"

"Raise your right foot!"

Instead of shooting directly, Giroud used his body to shield Dante after Dante came to cover, and then passed the ball back to him!

"That spot!!!"

"Su Hao!!!"

"Su Hao!!!"

"Su Hao is up here!!!"

"Without any hesitation!"

"Don't stop the ball!"

"A powerful shot!!!"

At Allianz Arena!
The singing of 70,000 people stopped abruptly.

And under their gaze.

Arsenal's number 11 youngster had already sent the ball powerfully toward their goal with his right foot.

Before the young player number 11 even took the shot, Neuer had already anticipated and chosen to block the left flank, but Su Hao's powerful shot was simply too fast!
Neuer didn't even have time to make a save before the ball flew past his feet.

"Beep!!!"

The referee blew his whistle and pointed to the center circle with both hands, indicating that the goal was valid!
"boom!"

at the same time!

The more than 3,000 Arsenal die-hards who had come all the way from London were completely excited.

Of course, it wasn't just the die-hard Arsenal fans who were excited at this moment.

Another red fan zone.

The Chinese fans who shared the same hair and eye color as Su Hao roared wildly after Su Hao blasted the ball into Neuer's goal for the second time.

As for the number 11 on the field who helped Arsenal change the score at this moment.

Naturally, after the referee blew the whistle, he ran wildly towards his own team's red flag in the stands.

"pretty!!!"

"pretty!!!"

"The ball went in!!!"

"The ball went in!!!"

"The match is in its 11th minute!"

"Arsenal have scored!!!!"

"Su Hao!!!"

"Su Hao!!!"

"In his Champions League debut!"

"Su Hao has scored!"

"An absolutely top-class counter-attacking goal from Arsenal!"

"Su Hao has become the first Chinese player in football history to score a goal in the Champions League!"

"That goal!"

"We've waited for who knows how many years!"

“从2007年2月21日的孙祥，再到2007年12月13日的董方卓，还有最后一位2010年10月20日的蒿俊闵！”

"After another long four years, we've finally waited for this!!!"

"We've been waiting for this first Champions League goal for so, so long!"

"Su Hao!"

"It's still Su Hao!"

"He didn't keep all the fans watching on TV waiting too long!"

"Less than 15 minutes!"

"Su Hao then helped Arsenal score their first goal in this Champions League knockout stage!"
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Holy crap, Arsenal are awesome! That goal was so damn fast! I was waiting to see how Bayern would slowly chip away at Arsenal's hopes, but Arsenal scored instead!
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[Haha, the professor is still the same professor! This attack was so smooth! From parking the bus, to Kanté's interception, and finally Su Hao's long pass that disrupted Bayern's last line of defense! This tactic was truly amazing!]
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[Damn, Guardiola must be dumbfounded! Everyone praises Guardiola as a top tactical mastermind, but in my opinion, he was just lucky. When he first started out, he used his own theories to find the perfect Barcelona team for those theories, and then what? He went to Bayern and still wanted to transform Bayern into Barcelona, ​​and look at the result!]
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[Indeed, last season Jupp Heynckes' Bayern Munich had incredible speed on the flanks and a wide-open, attacking style. Look at them now, playing with a bunch of brutes like they're trying to play with needles. It's no wonder they can't go far in the Champions League!]
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[Haha, Arsenal is as consistent as ever! Keep it up, keep it up, score a few more, and Cadillac will have to be traded for a Mercedes! Hahaha!]

Arsenal have scored!

While the die-hard fans in the stands were celebrating wildly, Wenger, standing in front of the substitutes' bench, excitedly raised his hands high.

Yes!

The professor made the right bet!
The ultimate combination of a complete retreat and a single-point attack in counter-attacking tactics proved effective in defeating Guardiola's current possession-based Bayern Munich, which has become somewhat of a hybrid.

Moreover, from the very first attack at the start of the game, they had a direct confrontation with Neuer, leading to this goal.

Arsenal's only two attacks both went directly into Bayern Munich's backfield.

Under these circumstances!
The professor even thinks that his Arsenal might be able to take home a big win at the Allianz Stadium today!

The Arsenal substitutes in front of the bench erupted in passionate celebration.

Not far away, in front of Bayern's substitute bench.

Seeing their own team concede a goal to Arsenal so quickly was incredibly frustrating.

From initially blinking in disbelief, to now...
Guardiola, who had been so confident just moments before, now had a deep frown on his face.

Yes!

Although they conceded a goal, Guardiola did not become angry as before. On the contrary, the goal made Guardiola calm down instantly.

As a top manager who has won six titles, Guardiola is not the kind of person who is inflexible.

It was these two successful attacks by Arsenal at the start of the game that made Guardiola realize that if he continued to play his previous 4-1-4-1 passing and possession style, Bayern might really lose the game to Arsenal.

After a quick thought, Guardiola decisively called Schweinsteiger over from the field.

Yes!
Arsenal did indeed revitalize their entire attack by playing Suho as a libero.

So since you have a free agent, then his Bayern Munich can do the same.

Guardiola disregarded his own reputation and immediately changed his tactical arrangements after summoning Schweinsteiger.

Schweinsteiger was positioned to mark Su Hao closely throughout the game, while Lahm moved to a more advanced defensive midfield position.

The retreat of the two flanks created more space for a sprint.

Even so, Guardiola still doesn't believe Wenger can extend his defensive shell all the way to the midfield line.

As long as there is space to sprint, there is also a large open area in the middle.

His Bayern Munich team doesn't want Arsenal to only have Suarez as a top-class playmaker.

Cross, Ram!
Either of these two could be the turning point that changes everything!
And so, after Guardiola's quick adjustments, the game resumed.

And just as Guardiola envisioned.

After Schweinsteiger was released, he began to focus on marking Arsenal.

His Bayern Munich finally regained control of the game's tempo.

16th minute of the match!

Lahm once again displayed his top-class crossing prowess at the Allianz Stadium.

After Robben used his speed to break through Arsenal's left flank defense, Lahm, who had suddenly cut diagonally from the central midfield position to the wing, received a superb diagonal pass from Robben.

With no one marking him, Lahm delivered a cross with pinpoint accuracy, sending the ball over Mandzukic's head as he leaped high in the penalty area!
A violent headbutt.

The ball sailed past Szczesny's outstretched fingers, but ultimately grazed the crossbar and went out of bounds.

21th minute of the match!

In the middle, Kroos, after a series of one-two and two-two passes with Ribery on the left, chipped the ball into the heart of Arsenal's penalty area in the final moments.

And at the same time!

Robben, who had been leisurely strolling along the right flank, suddenly charged straight in!
Arsenal, having created space, were indeed breached by Kroos's lobbed pass.

Robben had his best one-on-one chance against the goalkeeper so far in the game.

then
A scene unfolded that plunged the hearts of all Arsenal fans into despair.

Yes!

Right inside their own penalty area.

When Szczesny fell to block Robben, he instinctively used his right leg to bring the young striker down.

Peter Pan let out a sudden scream and collapsed onto the grass, clutching his left leg!

The referee, without hesitation, rushed towards the helpless Szczesny, pointed to the penalty spot with one hand, and then handed Szczesny the penalty!

The 22th minute of the game.

Bayern Munich were awarded a penalty, and Arsenal's first-choice goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny was shown a red card by the referee!
Arsène Wenger went crazy in front of the Arsenal bench!

Yes!

It’s only 22 minutes!
I could clearly see hope!
Why.
Why is this plot exactly the same as when I faced Barcelona before?
P.S.: Hey, dear readers, you've misunderstood me. When did Banmian ever write romance novels? Those who know my writing style know that the Su family of Banmian are all top-tier war gods who can sweep the world with a single shot.

Finally, I'm asking for monthly votes. It seems that if I don't write 20,000 words a day, the dads won't even look at my daily updates!

(End of this chapter)