Laurent Blanco, former captain of the French national team, is the core of the defensive defence who won the 1998 World Cup championship.

A central defender who has been obsessed with, even when he is thirty-five, will take him from Inter Milan to Manchester United and entrust him with important tasks, hoping that he can replace Stam's vacancy and provoke Manchester United's defense.

After retiring, he first coached Bordeaux. In his first season, he brought the team to the runner-up of the Ligue 1 League, almost knocking down the traditional overlord Lyon. In the second season, he directly led the team to win the Ligue 1 and the French League Cup, becoming a double champion, and immediately became famous in European football.

After the South African World Cup, Laurent Blanco replaced Domeneke as the head coach of the national team, ended in the quarterfinals in the 2012 European Cup, losing to the unstoppable Spanish team. Then Blanco also left the national team coach and took over the French Ligue 1 upstart Paris Saint-Germain.

Under Blanco's coaching, Paris Saint-Germain has achieved a qualitative change in French domestic results in the past three seasons, winning three consecutive Ligue 1 championships, achieving three consecutive championships, and always maintaining a stable record in the quarterfinals in the Champions League.

It can be said that just for one thing, Blanco's coaching performance in the past eight years has been impressive, which makes people have to look at him with admiration.

This season, Paris Saint-Germain has established an advantage in the Ligue 1 early. After ten rounds of the league, they have already led their opponents by five points, and remained unbeaten in 10 games, eight wins and two draws, but such results have long been accustomed to them.

Whether it is Paris Saint-Germain's management or Laurent Blanco, they are eager to make a breakthrough in this year's Champions League, at least breaking through the limits of the quarterfinals and reaching the semi-finals.

But no one expected that in the group stage, Paris Saint-Germain would draw a opponent Real Madrid.

Last season, Paris Saint-Germain encountered Barcelona in the group stage, and was the first to go away. He defeated Barcelona 3-2 at his home court. Although he soon lost 1-3 at the Camp Nou and finally ranked second in the group by one point difference, Paris Saint-Germain was not without the ability to fight against the top European giants.

This season, Blanco is naturally ambitious and wants to defeat his opponent at home.

But unexpectedly, the master-level midfielder Zidane and top scorer Yang Yangsou coached together. So far this season, the La Liga and Champions League have maintained a complete victory. The offensive is stormy, and the unstoppable Real Madrid has completely overturned the impressions of Blanco and the outside world about them at the Princes Park Stadium.

Real Madrid is actually tragic!

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Blanco has been standing on the sidelines since the opening and has never sat down.

The Frenchman in a straight suit looked a little nervous. From time to time, he walked to the sidelines, shouted at the players on the field, and kept directing them to adjust the team's tactics through gestures. But more often, he stood there, habitually grasping his chin, observing the changes in the situation on the field.

His brows were always locked, as if they were the icebergs that could never be melted.

At the beginning of the game, he noticed that Real Madrid's tactics were a bit strange, but he didn't think much about it.

The goalkeepers are Navas, the defenses are Marcelo, Fermuren, Ramos and Carvajal, the midfields are David Silva, Tony Kroos, Mascherano and Di Maria, and the double strikers are Yang Yang and Suarez.

The formation of 442 is not surprising. Real Madrid has often played this formation last season, but the difference between the game is that Real Madrid played a bit negatively, and from the beginning, it did not show the momentum of winning and taking the initiative.

So far this season, Real Madrid has been on the storm of offense, with sharp offense and excellent defense, which made everyone talk about it, believing that Real Madrid, coached by Zidane and Yang Yang, is playing a beautiful offensive football.

Blanco himself felt the same, but unexpectedly, Real Madrid adopted a balanced and even conservative tactical strategy tonight, and did not take the initiative, but focused on restraining Paris Saint-Germain's attack.

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Paris Saint-Germain's offense relies mainly on Ibrahimovic.

There has been a very obvious change in the Swedish center this season, that is, when the team turns from defense to offense, he will actively retreat, which looks more like a midfielder, with the purpose of responding to the ball from the backcourt, organizing and planning the overall offensive trend.

Verati and Mota were quick to insert, especially Mota. They often stayed at the same position as Ibrahimovic, with the purpose of controlling the ball without hitting a quick counterattack and guiding the players on both sides, especially the full-backs, to participate in the attack.

In this case, the Aurier who was inserted behind Lavic and the other one was Paris Saint-Germain's weapon to open up two sides.

This style of play has taken advantage of Barcelona's tactics in the Champions League final. Messi's retreat was eye-catching at that time, and his pick-up and throw-out were also very interesting. Blanco wanted Ibrahimovic to play this role.

In the frontcourt, Paris Saint-Germain also has a high center forward Cavani, so there is no need to worry about offensive issues at all.

This style of play is unstoppable in the French Ligue 1, with consecutive victories, and Ibrahimovic and other players in the team also benefited from it. The Swedish center himself can accept this role change, because his back insertion will also become an important part of the team's offense.

But unexpectedly, Real Madrid adopted a balanced formation of 442 tonight, ready to face the battle.

From the opening game to now, there have been several times when Paris Saint-Germain grabbed the ball and passed it to Ibrahimovic's feet, not only did Real Madrid's central defender not follow the Swedish center at the first time, but instead retreated to the 30-meter zone as fast as possible, and the midfielder also retreated at the first time without any entanglement at all.

The intention is very clear. If you like to control the ball, then you can control it.

Ibrahimovic is characterized by delicate skills, but the pace of playing football is slow and sticky, so every time he holds the ball, he finds that Real Madrid's defense line is retreating as soon as possible and can't fight back. He hesitates for a while and even retreats in the midfield.

Then, Paris Saint-Germain began to gain possession near the center line, but could not penetrate forward.

If it's just that, it's nothing.

With the ball in hand, you can control it and fall down the middle and backcourt, and the opportunity will still come out.

But how could Real Madrid make their opponents so easy?

Whenever the midfield and backcourt are in place and the defensive formation is formed, Tony Kroos will immediately push forward and press against players such as Ibrahimovic, Veratti and Mota, forcing them to pass the ball back or divide the side and unable to advance.

Yang Yang and Suarez will also form oppression in the frontcourt, and their purpose is also very clear, which is to force the ball to the side.

Once the ball reaches the wing, Real Madrid will immediately invest in defense. David Silva and Di Maria are both players who are very dedicated to defense, which makes it easy for Real Madrid to strangle against Paris Saint-Germain's ball-holders on the wing.

Once the ball is obtained, Real Madrid will pass the ball immediately and launch a quick counterattack.

It is certainly a good thing to work, but if it doesn't work, Real Madrid will never be interested in fighting. They retreated immediately and got reconciled again.

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"It shouldn't be!"

Blanco kept shook his head. He couldn't understand. Real Madrid this season was obviously not like this style, so why did they suddenly become conservative? The key is to be so thorough.

"What is our possession rate?" Blanco asked his assistant next to him.

“Sixty-five percent.”

The French angrily cursed and sweared, does this look like the style of Real Madrid?

This team is the strongest team in European football, with its attack firepower that is the best in the world. When it comes to passing and controlling the ball, they may not lose to Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but they end up playing like this?

If Real Madrid now has a 65% possession rate, Blanco would not be surprised or even happy, because this is the script he is familiar with.

But now, it is obvious that the two rookies Zidane and Yang Yang do not respect the screenwriter at all and change the scripts randomly.

What's even more terrifying is that the situation is somewhat out of Blanco's control.

Real Madrid is getting married, Paris Saint-Germain has the advantage on the field and is playing at home again. It is inevitable that they will want to move forward, but if there is an omission in the defense...

"Who did Real Madrid's defensive tactics come up with?" Blanco cursed bitterly.

But soon, he realized it himself.

From Benitez to Ancelotti, Real Madrid's head coach has always been the top tactical master in Europe, and its defense is not bad at all. The only difference is that in the past, Real Madrid only showed their defensive achievements when playing against a very small number of teams such as Barcelona. But now, even playing against Paris Saint-Germain has adopted this style of play.

"Should I be happy?" Blanco smiled bitterly.

But soon, he couldn't help but curse again, "I'm so happy to go!"

If he can't win the game, he should cry!

How could he be so happy that he was restrained by two rookies?

If you lose, Zidane and Yang Yang will definitely be accused by the picky media of conservatism after the game, but the key is that they get three-pointers.

Between three points and image, everyone knows how to choose.

Thinking of this, Blanco still felt worried.

Real Madrid is too miserable, like a dormant lion, which can pounce on people at any time.

Paris Saint-Germain must be careful.

So the Frenchman walked to the sidelines and waved at the players again.

"Be careful, cheer up, and after conceding the ball, return to defense faster!" Blanco shouted excitedly on the sidelines.

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Just as Blanco finished shouting and turned around and was about to walk back, a burst of exclamations suddenly broke out in the stadium, which scared the head coach of Paris Saint-Germain to turn around in fear.

I saw Tony Cross push forward again and oppress Ibrahimovic.

The Swedish center passed back to Verati, and Tony Cross surpassed the Italians at the first time.

I was assigned to the left and wanted to find Ravic.

As soon as the Argentinian stopped the ball, Di Maria and Carvajal formed a double-team.

The ball was broken!
Chapter completed!