Chapter 209 Final Attack and Defense

Stopping the ball is the most challenging part for a player's basic skills.

Wang Po's foot attracted the spinning ball like a magnet, which gave him the advantage in the next move.

He turned, accelerated, and dribbled the ball while Liverpool's defense was not in place.

Robertson, who was advancing, was not in a defensive position at all. At present, the defense of Wang Po could only rely on the defense of the midfielder.

Fabinho hurriedly made up for Wang Po from the middle and grabbed the ball.

In terms of speed, the Brazilian did not have an advantage. Facing Wang Po, who had already accelerated, he obviously could not keep up. He wanted to reach out and commit a foul, but he caught a lonely one and almost fell down.

Liverpool's empty side defense did not put too much pressure on Wang Po, who was holding the ball, and he dribbled the ball into the sideline of the penalty area.

Van Dijk came over from the side to defend. For this big central defender with an extremely fast speed, Wang Po tried to speed up to get rid of him. As soon as he dribbled the ball, the Dutch defender had prepared the position in advance, stretched out his foot, and cleared the ball out of the baseline.

The speed of the foot made Wang Po surprised.

Dortmund got the first corner kick opportunity of the game.

The ball was kicked out and landed at the front point. According to the tactical arrangement before the game, Aubameyang was responsible for the front point of the ball. After the header, he rubbed the ball to the back point. The pillar center forward Kuhn, who was ambushing at the back point, stood like an iron tower in the crowd, jumping high to compete for the second penalty kick. For such a center forward who stood out from the crowd, Liverpool's other central defender Matip was always closely guarding him.

Matip jumped at the same time, and the two completed the confrontation in the air.

It was still Kuhn who grabbed the first point and headed for the goal, but unfortunately the speed and power of the ball were not enough, and Alisson easily took it off.

In just 5 minutes, Liverpool and Dortmund completed the attack on the opponent's goal, and both posed a threat.

Is this the offensive and defensive level of the Champions League final?

Such a fast-paced attack and attack made many fans excited.

Although, on the wing, Dortmund has accumulated a large number of defensive forces to strangle Liverpool's offensive players, but both Mane and Salah are not only system players, but also have extremely strong personal abilities.

Players of their level can change their offensive methods by reading the game.

Therefore, even if the Hornets' defensive system is tight, there will always be loopholes that will be caught by the opponent.

This time, Salah broke through the siege with his superb dribbling ability. Facing Subotic's defense, he chose to pass the ball to Arnold, who took the ball and aimed at Firmino's head in the penalty area and headed the ball into the goal.

This attack scared the Dortmund defense line into a cold sweat.

Bless the crossbar, this ball would have gone in if it was two centimeters lower.

The Dortmund team that escaped the disaster was still in a state of shock. Three minutes later, Liverpool's attack came back again.

This time, it was Mane who charged, and his pure speed bullied people. He cut into the penalty area along the baseline. When the defensive players were not in place, he swept a flat ball into the penalty area. Salah, who was flanking from the right to the penalty area, rushed over and scored a goal with a shovel shot, opening the scoring for Liverpool

1-0.

At the 29th minute of the first half, Liverpool finally caught the flaws in Dortmund's defense and broke the goal.

Liverpool, an absolutely passionate head coach, in the past, whenever the team scored a goal, they would choose to roar to celebrate and perform a signature "Farmer's Three Punches" on the sidelines.

This is the case when coaching Dortmund, and it is even more so when taking over Liverpool.

This time, Klopp was very calm. He just loudly explained some tactical issues to the players. Apart from that, he just looked at the court quietly, biting his lips from time to time, and seemed a little overwhelmed.

After taking the lead in the score, Liverpool did not shrink the defense line, but continued to attack.

The reason is very simple. Except for the several attacks by the Hornets at the beginning of the game, they were suppressed in the half court in most cases, and they scored the second goal as soon as possible to completely kill the game.

In the 37th minute of the game, Liverpool's attack reappeared. This is the tactic that the "Red Army" is best at and familiar with. Firmino came out to the front midfielder to control the ball, creating space for Mane, Salah, Arnold, Robertson and others to cut in. After three consecutive adjustments to the left and right sides, Firmino suddenly chose to send the ball to the ribs of Dortmund this time.

Arnold, who suddenly inserted forward, still completed the action of shooting with a defensive player hanging on his body. Not only that, the quality of the shot was still very high. Unfortunately, Schmelzer reacted very quickly to this ball and kept the goal.

Even so, in the recent rounds of attack, everyone can feel that Liverpool is not far from scoring again.

"Be steady, be steady."

This is the Champions League final. It's a lie for the head coach Tuchel on the sidelines to say that he is not nervous.

High-pressure pressing is coming.

Even in the first half of the physical bottleneck period, Liverpool's frontcourt pressing still made Dortmund feel suffocated.

Facing the drive of the "Red Army" defensive first echelon, this time, Subotic chose to kick the ball to a vague area on the right side of the frontcourt. As for whether Wang Po, who was waiting on the wing, could touch the ball, it all depended on fate.

Wang Po has a keen sense of smell for high-altitude ball judgment and blocked the landing point of the ball in advance.

With the previous lessons, this time, Fabinho and Wijnaldum, two defensive stalwarts in the Liverpool midfield, both took special care of Wang Po.

One against two, he blocked two people with his body. The moment the ball hit the ground, he suddenly knocked the ball with his heel and turned around.

The ball passed, but the man failed. Fabinho knew Wang Po's terrifying speed and did not dare to let him start. He simply stretched his leg and hit the ankle of Dortmund No. 11.

"Du~!"

Wang Po fell to the ground, the referee blew the whistle and committed a foul. Dortmund got a free kick opportunity near the sideline of the center circle.

It wasn't a big move, but it was tactically significant for Liverpool, disrupting Dortmund's fast attack.

Wang Po stood up with a grin on his face. Although this position was a flaw and had little impact, the short-term pain was enough for him to drink a pot.

The position of the free kick is a long way away from the goal. Whether it is a direct attack or a long pass into the penalty area, it is impractical.

Subotic trotted all the way to the sideline of the center circle. As a central defender, he was responsible for taking this ultra-long free kick.

Back up, take a run.

Just when everyone thought Subotic was going to lob the ball into the penalty area, Liverpool's defensive players had all returned to the center and blocked the route. Unexpectedly, they suddenly braked in front of the ball and pushed the ball. It was given to Wang Po, who was unguarded on the wing.

After getting the ball, Liverpool's defensive players reacted, and the Liverpool players gathered in the center quickly bounced out of their formation.