"In the first leg, Manchester United seemed to have lost their home advantage, but they did not score a away goal. Of course, this is not a good ending, but at least it is not a bad ending. If I were asked to say it, it can only be considered a medium-sized side."

When everyone heard Gao Han say this, they nodded one after another.

The challenge of the Champions League knockout round lies in the away goal, which is a very genius rule, even comparable to the offside rule on the football field. It makes every game, even every minute of the Champions League knockout round, crucial, and makes the game full of suspense.

Take Manchester United and Atletico Madrid as a 0-0 match. At first glance, Manchester United lost by 0-0 at home, but in fact? On the contrary, because Manchester United did not score a away goal for their opponents.

If we go to Calderon Stadium, as long as Manchester United scores a goal, it will not be a draw. Atletico Madrid must score one more goal than Manchester United to ensure victory. Let me ask, in this case, can the pressure on the Bedding Legion be lighter?

Even in the second round, does Heinx want to attack or defend?

It should be said that no matter how you choose, the risk is still not small, and Manchester United still has a great chance.

"I think Ferguson has prepared for this game before the game. Giggs is absent, Scholes is in poor form, and Manchester United's offense is greatly affected. In this case, Ferguson probably is not sure, so he simply chooses a more stable tactical style and strives to keep the score."

Everyone couldn't believe it. Is this Ferguson's idea?

If so, it would be too risky. After all, who dares to say that he can definitely defend himself?

"Of course, this is my hindsight. He may not think so, but was forced by the situation and had to do so." Gao Han explained.

Obviously, the latter explanation is more reasonable.

"The game was like this. If it were me, I would definitely start the second round and strive to score a goal. As long as there is one goal, the situation of the game will be back to Manchester United."

Everyone nodded repeatedly when they heard this. This was indeed the ideal way.

"However, Heinx is very experienced, and he will definitely expect this. If he simply counterattacks based on this point, Manchester United may not be able to withstand it." Hones analyzed.

Gao Han nodded and smiled, "Indeed, as you said, Heinx is completely likely to do this, and Ferguson may not be able to attack, but I can guarantee that he will have a backup plan and be ready to counterattack at any time."

Manchester United's most important task in the away game is to score goals. As long as there is a goal, the Red Devils can completely reverse the seemingly unfavorable situation, which is also determined by the away goal rules.

It can be said that in the case of zero to zero in the first round, whoever scores the first goal in the second round will have an overwhelming advantage.

Gao Han was also very curious. What would he choose, Ferguson and Heinx, two top European coaches, then?

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Unlike Gao Han and the coaching staff's relatively neutral analysis, on the second day after Manchester United drew with Atletico Madrid by zero to zero, almost most media were very dissatisfied with Manchester United's performance in the first leg, believing that Ferguson's team played very ugly.

Many media even began to hype Atletico Madrid will advance to the finals successfully.

This is not only an analysis by some media in other European countries, but also many British media hold the same attitude. Many of them are not optimistic about Manchester United and even believe that the first leg of Manchester United's visit to Calderon Stadium is likely to be a crushing defeat.

But Manchester United and Atletico Madrid seem to be uninfluenced by the outside world and have not responded to the media's public opinion.

With the gradual conclusion of the Champions League and major European leagues, European football has become the focus of attention of everyone around the world.

After the first leg of the semi-finals, Bayern Munich ushered in the 30th round of the Bundesliga, heading at the Allianz Stadium and welcomed Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Since he will play the second round again in the middle of next week, Gao Han sent all the substitute lineups to play in this game, allowing the main lineup to rest, but still defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-1 with his home advantage.

The goals scored for the Bundesliga giants were Lewandowski and Tony Kroos.

Compared with the Bundesliga champions, the championship battle between the Premier League and La Liga is still in full swing, especially Barcelona is visiting the Bernabeu and challenging Real Madrid's century derby.

Guardiola's team started the game without ideal, and was scored by Real Madrid's striker Higuain in the 14th minute.

But this goal was also the conceding that completely awakened Barcelona, ​​who seemed to have vented all the resentment against Bayern Munich on Real Madrid.

Henry equalized the score for Barcelona three minutes later.

But two minutes later, Puyol won another game and reversed the score.

And before the first half was over, Messi scored another goal.

After the second half of the change of sides, the two teams were still hard to distinguish. The two sides fought against each other, but in the end, Barcelona won Real Madrid 6-2 away, and defeated the Bernabeu.

This game also completely restored Barcelona, ​​who lost at home three days ago.

In the media's opinion, Guardiola used a bloodbath to tell everyone that it was not that Barcelona was too weak, but that Bayern Munich was too strong at the Battle of Camp Nou.

Let me ask, if Barcelona are weak, then Real Madrid, which was wiped out by blood 2-6 at home, what is the strength?

But some media also analyzed that Guardiola's efforts in this game may mean to abandon the Champions League and maintain the league with all his might.

In another game at the same time, Atletico Madrid challenged Real Betis away. Heinx's team scored a goal early and replaced two players early in the first half to retain their strength in the mid-week Champions League. However, the Bedding Army still defeated Real Betis 2-0 and continued to maintain its impact on the league championship.

In the Premier League, Manchester United also played with a half-main and half-substitute lineup. Giggs and Rooney and other players returned to their bravery. In the first half, they helped the Red Devils lead 2-0, and eventually defeated Middlesbrough 2-0.

After playing the weekend's league, we once again ushered in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals in the mid-week.

Unlike a week ago, this time the first game was Atletico Madrid's home match against Manchester United, and Bayern Munich and Barcelona were one day late.

Gao Han also attached great importance to this game, and once again arranged his right-hand assistant Thomas Tuchel to go to Calderon Stadium to watch the game. He himself sat in the coach's office and watched the game with the management and assistants.

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On the evening of May 5, 2009, Calderon Stadium, Madrid, Spain.

The two teams that just shook hands and made peace at Old Trafford Stadium a week ago finally started a desperate battle again.

This time both teams sent all their main forces.

As Gao Han expected, Ferguson's team started a rush from the beginning.

Just two minutes into the opening game, Manchester United sent the ball into Atletico Madrid's penalty area, but Carvalho calmly cut off Rooney's ball and passed it to Torres in front, but Torres did not stop well and missed an opportunity to counterattack alone.

But less than a minute, Manchester United scored the first shot of the game, a long shot from Tevez missed the goal.

Ferguson's abacus was indeed as Gao Han had expected before. He wanted to use the opening attack to win a goal, so he pushed forward and frequently created a threat to shoot. However, Heinx's team stood firmly in front of the goal, obviously he was prepared.

After the start of the game, the game time went on very quickly, with two teams attacking and defending, and it was difficult to distinguish.

But just in the ninth minute of the game, Manchester United suffered a setback and Atletico Madrid seized the opportunity to counterattack.

Antonio Lopez dribbled the ball and passed it straight to the frontcourt and gave David Silva.

The Spanish midfielder pulled the ball to the left and got the ball. After getting rid of the defensive player, he passed the ball to Villa who cut into the penalty area. The latter kept shooting with anger.

But the ball hit Pepe and bounced back to the front of the penalty area.

At this moment, Xavi Alonso suddenly stepped in from behind and shot angrily against the ball.

Only a bang was heard, and the ball hit the underside of the goal crossbar with lightning speed and bounced into the goal.

Faced with such a shot, Van der Sar was powerless.

One to zero!

The entire Calderon Stadium was completely turned into a sea of ​​celebration. Countless fans of the Bedding Legion shouted the name of Xavi Alonso frantically, celebrating the winning goal he scored for the team.

This goal almost changed the trend of the entire game and completely pushed Manchester United into the abyss of death.

"It's over, Manchester United is over!" Hoes said with a sigh.

Rumeneg also shook his head and said, "Although it's a pity, the old man Ferguson took a tactical adventure in the opening game."

Sometimes, this is a matter of choice.

It depends on whether to adopt a more stable defensive tactic or a more aggressive attack tactic. It has nothing to do with the pros and cons, it only depends on what kind of people are making a decision.

Gao Han also shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Heinx is really an old fox. It is expected that Ferguson will attack, so he defended and counterattacked. And look at the counterattack routine just now, it was definitely practiced before the game."

Rummenigge and Heness also nodded repeatedly.

They are all very familiar with Heinx and know the old man's coaching ability. But they didn't expect that after coaching in La Liga for a few years, their level became more and more powerful.

"However, it's just one goal, Atletico Madrid cannot be careless, so as not to feel sad if you feel extremely happy." Gao Han said cautiously.

Everyone nodded and said yes.

A goal is not safe, because as long as Manchester United scores one goal, the outcome of the game will be completely reversed.

After being hit by a scout at the opening and conceding a goal, Ferguson seemed to become a little conservative, and Manchester United also began to retreat, as if he was avoiding Atletico Madrid's edge and focusing on steady defense.

As soon as the opponent retreated, Atletico Madrid also took the initiative to adopt the pass and control style, pressing forward to find opportunities.

But Heinx seemed to be prepared before the game. After one goal was in hand, they played more steadily and did not make a rash move.

As the saying goes, barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes. Atletico Madrid, who scores goals, can fight against the barefoot Manchester United?

After that, the game went a bit dull and failed to create excellent opportunities in the first half.

After the second half of the game, the situation did not seem to improve, and the two teams continued their first half style of playing.

But the more this happened, Gao Han frowned the tighter it.

"It's not right, it's not right." Gao Han felt very uneasy.

“What’s the problem?”

"Yes, what's wrong?"

Everyone found it very strange.

Although this game has nothing to do with Bayern Munich, it may determine who will become the team's opponent in the Champions League final, and they have no choice but to care about it.

"This is definitely not like Ferguson's style." Gao Han shook his head, "With Ferguson's character, he will never give up, but you see, Manchester United plays too passively on the court now."

"But isn't this the same as the first round?" Heness asked back.

In the first round, wasn’t Manchester United just being pushed to the point of being unable to move by their opponents?

But Gao Han still shook his head. His years of coaching experience told me that this is not the case.

"Ferguson is the kind of person who wants to bite his opponent's ear even if he dies. You said he would just be willing to lose the game?"

When everyone heard this, they thought about Manchester United's previous games and thought that Gao Han's words were reasonable.

But what is Ferguson planning?

There is not much time left, and there is only half an hour left in the game. What are he waiting for?
Chapter completed!