Captain Football System

Chapter 196 Champions League Game 1

Chapter 196 The First Champions League Game

The final result of the match between Dortmund and Leverkusen was two to two, and the two sides shook hands.

Among them, Dortmund's second goal was scored by Shen Peng at the end of the game, finding an opportunity to use Thunder Beast to score. Although the game was not won, Klopp was very satisfied, and at the end of the game, the audience applauded for him.

The second round of the league began on August 8. In this round, Dortmund played away against Augsburg.

In this game, because the opponent was not very strong, Klopp boldly changed his formation and used a formation he had been thinking about before, that is, Shen Peng and Aubameyang are both extremely fast players, one left and one right, flying with both wings.

This tactic is very useful when confronting opponents, and it has no advantage in facing shrinking defenses, so he did not use it in the first two official games.

However, at the end of the first half, this transformation did not achieve very good results. Although the two wings flew up, the center was short of a fulcrum.

This made Klopp sigh, if only there were two Shen Pengs, one in the middle and one on the left.

So in the second half, he had to change back to the previous formation and let Shen Peng return to the middle.

In the end, Dortmund won the game [-]-[-] with a strong offensive, and Shen Peng contributed a goal.In fact, anyone who has watched the process knows that if Dortmund hadn't used the new formation in the first half, the result might have been [-]-[-] or [-]-[-].

After the end of this round of the league, an interesting thing happened, that is, after the end of the two rounds of the league, no team in the entire Bundesliga has won two consecutive victories.

Currently the top two in the standings are Bochum and Dortmund. They both have one win and one draw, with four points and three goal difference. The third to eighth teams also have one win and one tie, but the goal difference is less than these two teams.

After Shen Peng left, Bochum performed surprisingly well at the beginning of this season. In the previous German Super Cup, they also fought Bayern Munich for [-] rounds.

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On September 9, in the third round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund played against Freiburg at home.

Freiburg was on the verge of relegation last season and was not a strong team, so Dortmund also played relatively easily in this game. In the end, they defeated their opponents [-]-[-] and Shen Peng contributed two assists.

In the first half of this game, Klopp still did not give up and tried to fly with both wings. It was still the same as the previous game, with a fulcrum in the middle.

This fulcrum does not mean that one player is enough, but that there must be a player with sufficient ability. It is required that this player can not only seize the opportunity at the critical moment, receive a pass from his teammate and score a goal, but also be able to draw the opponent's strength in the middle.

In this game, he asked Ramos to play this position in the middle, but Ramos has limited ability after all, and his ability to grasp opportunities is not as good as Shen Peng, so Klopp had to switch back in the second half.

After the game, Klopp also temporarily gave up this idea, and now the team will start preparing for the Champions League group stage in a few days.

Dortmund's group is Group D. The other three teams in this group are Arsenal from the Premier League, Anderlecht from the Belgian League, and Galatasaray from the Turkish Super League.

After this group is divided, the general prediction from the outside world is that Arsenal and Dortmund will enter the top [-]. After all, only these two teams are the strongest in this group.

Dortmund's opponent in the first game is against Arsenal at home.

Arsenal is a veteran team in the Premier League. They won the Premier League title undefeated in the 03-04 season and left a record of 49 unbeaten games in the Premier League.

But unfortunately, Arsenal have never won the Champions League. The closest to the top of Europe was in the 05-06 season. They lost [-]-[-] to Barcelona in the Champions League final.

In July 2006, Arsenal moved into the new stadium, but this also caused the team to bear huge debts. Although they were able to win the Champions League every year, they were still unable to win another championship trophy until last season.

This season, Arsenal spent 7000 million euros to buy forward Alexis Sanchez, defender Calum Chambers, full-back Mathieu Debig and goalkeeper David Ospina, which greatly increased their strength, which made Dortmund dare not underestimate them.

And Klopp is also ambitious this season, so he attaches great importance to this game.

This is also Shen Peng's first time facing opponents from other leagues.

He has also played against teams from other leagues before, but most of them were in friendly matches. At that time, the lineup was adjusted, so it can't be used as a reference.

"According to the pre-match analysis, Arsenal's most likely lineup for this game is a 4-1-4-1 lineup, with Welbeck as the center forward, and Sanchez and Ozil will also play. You must pay special attention to Ozil's pass..."

On the training ground, Buvac is holding a piece of paper, telling the players what to pay attention to in the next game.

It talked about a lot of things, such as all the possible formations of the opponent and the corresponding countermeasures; the characteristics of the opponent's main players who may play, and how to deal with the corresponding positions, etc. It can be said that basically everything Shen Peng can think of has been mentioned. This has never happened before in Bochum.

From here, we can see the gap between the two coaching teams. For the Bundesliga teams, because they have been in the same league for a long time, many things are familiar, so this is not so important. But in the European battlefield, especially when it comes to the knockout stage, the more preparations, the more chances of victory.

Although the group stage has a higher error tolerance rate, it can't be sloppy. The opponent who qualify first in the group is the second place in other groups. In terms of overall strength, it is worse than the first place in other groups. Therefore, if you can win the first place in the group, it will be more beneficial to the team's subsequent knockout rounds. Otherwise, if you qualify second in the group, you will face the first place in other groups.

After listening to Buvac's explanation, although Shen Peng didn't remember all the content, he remembered what was related to him, that is, some points that need to be paid attention to about the opponent's defense, such as some kicking and positioning habits of the opponent's defender and goalkeeper.

After finishing talking about the opponent, Klopp made tactical arrangements for the players on his side, such as how to defend when the opponent is attacking; how to face the opponent when using a certain style of play, and so on.

(End of this chapter)