Chapter 509 Manchester City VS Real Madrid, the Champions League final begins, Zidane’s panic!

Although the game had not yet started, when the fans at the scene saw the players from both sides warming up on the court, they could no longer hold back their excitement and began to shout the players' names loudly.

On Manchester City's side, there were more than 20,000 people traveling with the team. They were all wearing Manchester City's sky-blue jerseys and looked spectacular.

There are also a lot of fans on Real Madrid's side, or even more, and their momentum is not inferior to that of Manchester City's side.

The two sides started fighting early as if they were at their home court.

Real Madrid fans, they have begun to sing the team song in unison.

As for Manchester City, they took turns shouting the names of the players in their own team, often interrupting each other when the Real Madrid fans were singing to their climax, making the Real Madrid fans extremely uncomfortable.

Real Madrid fans are not cheap either. They quickly learned to retaliate in kind.

When the Manchester City fans started singing the team anthem, they started doing the same to disgust the Manchester City fans.

It seems that they know that the highlight of this game is the showdown between Ronaldo and Lin Quan, so when Real Madrid fans shouted the names of their own team players, Ronaldo's name was shouted three times in a row!

The noise created by so many people made it impossible for the players from both sides who were warming up on the court to pretend not to hear it.

Ronaldo heard the fans chanting his name, so he stopped training and waved to the stands where the Real Madrid fans were.

He likes this feeling of being surrounded by stars!

The love and support of the fans made Ronaldo feel more motivated and confident to defeat Lin Quan.

In the other half, Lin Quan was also a little surprised.

Cristiano Ronaldo has played for Real Madrid for six years and has not won many honors for Real Madrid. The only significant trophy is a La Liga trophy.

But even so, looking at the fans' support for him, his prestige and status in the hearts of Real Madrid fans are not low!

If you think about it carefully, it seems to be quite common sense.

Although Ronaldo did not receive many honors in Real Madrid, he dedicated all the prime time of his career to Real Madrid. This alone is worthy of the love and respect of Real Madrid fans.

Furthermore, for picky Real Madrid fans, Ronaldo must be skilled, capable, and have outstanding appearance and temperament. Isn't such a top star what they admire and want the most?

Real Madrid fans during this period paid great attention to the appearance and appearance of their players.

…

The half-hour warm-up time ended quickly, and players from both sides returned to the locker room one after another.

The head coaches of both teams did not continue to emphasize things like tactics, but began to mobilize before the game, especially providing psychological counseling to the players to reduce the pressure on them.

Compared with Real Madrid, Manchester City, which has reached the Champions League finals many times, has significantly less pressure on its players.

They have achieved success in the past two finals, which has given them great confidence and confidence, allowing them to face challengers with a more stable mentality.

But for Real Madrid, this is the first time in 14 years that they have reached the Champions League final.

Among the players in their team, except for a very few players such as Cristiano Ronaldo who have experience in the Champions League finals, the remaining players are young and have no experience in this area at all.

Therefore, before the start of the game, the mentality of Real Madrid players was obviously more nervous.

In fact, it's not just the players who are nervous, their coach Zidane is also in a very uneasy mood.

It’s really not easy to finally reach the finals.

He doesn't want to miss this great opportunity. If this is his only chance in this life, if he fails today, he may live in regret for decades to come!

"Hey guys, listen!"

Zidane clapped his hands, interrupting the murmurs of the players in the dressing room.

“I don’t think I need to emphasize the importance of this game any more!”

Hearing these words, the expressions of the Real Madrid players became more solemn.

"Yes, our opponent is very strong and is the defending champion, but so what?"

"Our name is Real Madrid - the only team in the history of the Champions League that has won five consecutive championships. We have 9 Champions League trophies!"

Real Madrid is not an upstart without foundation. On the contrary, they can be regarded as one of the clubs with the deepest foundation in Europe.

Zidane said this to tell his players not to put their mentality from the perspective of the challenger, but from the perspective of the defender.

Including Manchester City, all teams in Europe are challengers to Real Madrid!

Because as long as they win this trophy, they will be the only team in Europe to achieve ten championships!

And other teams are still far away from this goal!

Zidane's words had a very good effect. When the Real Madrid players thought that their team had such a profound foundation and glorious history, each of them couldn't help but straighten their chests with pride and proudly defended their football. The team is proud!

Seeing that his words had an effect, Zidane continued his efforts:

"So, forget who the opponent is, we must be the main player on the field, let go of all mental burdens, and kick out the content of our usual training!"

"Can you do it?"

"able!"

"Very good, remember how you feel now and keep it. Ninety minutes later, I hope to win our tenth championship trophy with you together!"

…

Zidane was boosting morale, but Guardiola was urging the players to calm down:

"Although Real Madrid's defense is not as strong as Atletico Madrid, don't expect to defeat them all at once."

"After the opening, first stabilize the rhythm and figure out the opponent's tactics, and then organize the attack. The wingers on both sides should pay attention behind them and don't give the opponent too much space. Real Madrid is very good at using the wings to launch counterattacks!"

The players nodded one after another, each one of them a little eager to try.

Real Madrid, right?

Let's test your quality, shall we?

…

Players from both teams were ready, leaving the locker room and appearing in the tunnel, waiting to enter.

Although many players in the two teams know each other, on this occasion, no one will say hello to each other, or even look at each other.

However, Ronaldo glanced at Lin Quan, his eyes flashing with strong fighting spirit.

Feeling the other person's gaze, Lin Quan also cast his gaze over. Their eyes met in the air, and each felt the seriousness and determination in the other's eyes.

In this game, they will go all out!

The referee at the front glanced at the time, then took the lead and walked out, picked up the football in front of him, and entered the field.

Click, click, click!

A large number of reporters gathered at the entrance of the players' tunnel, quickly pressed the shutter, and took pictures of the players of the two teams.

Seeing that the game was about to start, the fans at the scene began to get excited.

Entering the venue a few hours in advance, many of them had already exhausted their energy from the previous 'fighting' with the opposing fans.

However, at this time, when they saw their own players on the field, they seemed to be resurrected with full blood, and they became energetic instantly. Even if their voices were hoarse, they continued to shout at the top of their lungs!

"Haha, the fans at the scene are very enthusiastic!"

"Yes, according to official statistics, the number of attendees for this game exceeded 80,000!"

"The attendance of 80,000 fans is indeed a rare event!"

In the CCTV commentary box, the commentators quickly introduced the starting lineups of both sides and started chatting before the game started.

"Haha, fans who support the two teams will not miss a game of this level. Let alone 80,000 tickets, even if there are 20,000 more tickets, I dare say they will be sold out in seconds. Light!"

Europeans are very passionate about football. For many people, football is a part of their lives.

So even if the tickets for the final are expensive and they even have to travel to another country to watch the game, they won't hesitate.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially started.

"The game has begun. Let me once again introduce the two sides to the audience. The one wearing blue jerseys attacking from left to right is Manchester City. The one wearing white jerseys attacking from right to left is Real Madrid."

In the coin guessing session before the game, Manchester City chose the ball and Real Madrid chose half-time.

Lin Quan kicked the ball to Aguero, who then passed it back to Kanter.

On Real Madrid's side, Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo quickly stepped forward and pressed on Kante, who was holding the ball.

Kanter took his time and continued to pass back to Cross, who was in a deeper position.

Cross took a few steps, but didn't see a good choice for the ball, so he continued to pass back to Van Dyke.

At this time, Real Madrid's striker had already rushed to the front of Manchester City's penalty area.

Benzema even accelerated and rushed towards Van Dijk, seemingly trying to steal from his feet.

There was a burst of exclamations at the scene, and the Manchester City fans couldn't help but start to worry.

Real Madrid started with a strong momentum. How could they play so proactively?

Aren't you afraid of Manchester City's counterattack?

Compared with the worried Manchester City fans, Real Madrid fans couldn't help but cheer for them when they saw their team playing with such momentum at the beginning.

What they feared most before the game was that Real Madrid was afraid of Manchester City's name, so they played submissively on the court, and in the end they lost both games and people.

Fortunately, judging from the current situation on the court, the scene they were worried about did not appear.

Although Van Dyke is young, he is very experienced.

Instead of handing the ball to Kompany, who was closer to him, he passed the ball back to the goalkeeper.

Seeing that Van Dijk made such a choice and was sprinting towards Kompany, Ronaldo, who planned to intercept in advance, couldn't help but sigh and started to slow down in advance.

Seeing Van Dijk passing the ball, Benzema abandoned him and continued to rush towards the Manchester City goal.

Although the probability of him successfully grabbing this ball is very low, he always has to give this kind of thing a try.

If the opponent's goalkeeper's mental quality is not up to standard and he makes a mistake under heavy pressure, then such a goal scoring opportunity should not be wasted!

To Benzema's disappointment, Navas did not make such a low-level mistake.

After receiving the ball, he handed the ball back to Van Dyke. After completing the pass, Van Dyke had moved ahead and reached a relatively safe receiving position.

Although Real Madrid rushed fiercely at the beginning, they did not have many people in the frontcourt and could not block all Manchester City's ball points.

After Navas's ball was returned to Van Dijk, Van Dijk took two steps to the wing and then handed it to Cross.

After Kroos got the ball, he saw De Bruyne retreating from the center and handed the ball to him.

De Bruyne felt that there was an opponent's defensive player behind him, so he didn't take any risks and returned the ball to Cross while slowing down.

Manchester City played very patiently and did not launch an attack easily. Instead, they constantly passed the ball back and forth in the midfield and backcourt, pulling Real Madrid's formation and testing Real Madrid's defensive strength.

During this process, the ball was firmly at their feet, and no one from Real Madrid even touched it.

There were bursts of boos from the scene, which was a dissatisfied protest from Real Madrid fans.

The game has been played for three minutes, and the football has been rolling under the feet of the Manchester City players. Although Real Madrid pressed them, they couldn't grab anything.

The frontcourt trio, who were the most aggressive in pressing the ball, were treated like dogs and slipped away.

This makes Real Madrid fans very angry. Manchester City, are you wasting time and preparing for a penalty shootout?

Seeing the incompetence and rage of Real Madrid fans, Manchester City fans laughed out loud.

"Haha, just play like this and let them see the power of our Manchester City passing and controlling tactics!"

"Haha, didn't you say that there is some kind of Galaxy Battleship on the other side? Why can't you even grab the ball?"

"I think Real Madrid's name is just in vain. Otherwise, how could they not reach a Champions League final in 14 years?"

"That's right, Atletico Madrid next door is better than them. At least Atletico Madrid has made it to the finals, and they won't be treated like dogs by us!"

On the coaching benches of both sides, Guardiola was sitting on the seat with a very relaxed expression.

It can be seen that he is very satisfied with the performance of the players.

At Real Madrid, Zidane is not as calm as Guardiola.

Seeing Manchester City's tactics, he couldn't help but frown.

Why does the opponent's style of play feel like it's luring the enemy deeper?

As the pioneer of pass-and-control football, Guardiola will play pass-and-control football. This was actually within Zidane's expectation.

As for how to deal with passing and controlling tactics, Real Madrid has rich experience in this. After all, Barcelona, ​​another giant in La Liga, is the leader in passing and controlling football.

However, Manchester City's passing and controlling feels very different from Barcelona's passing and controlling!

When Barcelona plays pass control, they always like to press their formation up and carry out pressing attacks in the opponent's half.

Once the opponent's defense makes the slightest mistake and Barcelona catches it, it is very likely to be converted into a goal.

However, the consequence of pressing the formation too far forward is that the backcourt is empty. Once you encounter a team with such high counterattack speed and quality, it is easy for something to happen.

Real Madrid during Mourinho's era used this trick to cause Barcelona to suffer a lot.

Zidane originally wanted to copy Mourinho's tactics and use this trick to deal with Manchester City.

But now judging from the situation on the court, it seems that this road is not going to work at all.

Manchester City's formation did not press up, but Real Madrid had to press up themselves in order to disrupt the opponent's counterattack.

Um?

Wait, our formation is pressing forward?

Could it be that?

Zidane seemed to have thought of something, and his pupils suddenly shrank!