"Although it may be unbelievable to say this, judging from tonight's game, Hamburg's strength is even better than Bayern!"
During the intermission, Zhang Lu in the TV studio made this comment.
This made Duan Xuan on the side feel very surprised.
On the big screen behind them, the score displayed was 2:0, which was exactly the score at the end of the first half between Hamburg and Bayern Munich.
It is not surprising to say that Hamburg performed better than Bayern in the first half, and the current score also proves this.
However, the word Zhang Lu used was "strength", not "performance" or "status".
But the problem is that in German football, there is almost no team that can dominate Bayern in terms of strength.
Not to mention Bayern, which was almost invincible last season. Even Dortmund, which took away the league championship from Bayern twice in the last two seasons, can't say this with confidence.
After all, Dortmund's many victories against Bayern were also based on relatively difficult struggles, and the goal difference was basically between 1 and 2 goals.
In Duan Xuan's confused eyes, Zhang Lu reiterated his point of view with certainty under the gaze of hundreds of millions of Dragon Country fans:
"Yes, I think Hamburg has become stronger this season. In fact, their improvement was very obvious in the second half of last season, which allowed them to finally win the Bundesliga runner-up."
"This summer Pan Yi made targeted reinforcements based on the current situation of the team. Whether it is Milan's three generals or Mitrovic who shined today, they all played an important role in Hamburg's formation."
"Looking at today's game again, Pan Yi also made bold tactical innovations in the 433 formation he likes to use, whether it is the use of Mitrovic, or the positions of Robertson and Carvajal, as well as the midfield and
The wingers’ position-changing cooperation is refreshing!”
"Faced with such a brand-new tactical system, Guardiola obviously did not have a good way to deal with it. This also allowed Hamburg to even steadily suppress Bayern on the scene, and finally scored two convincing coordinated goals.
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Next, Zhang Lu analyzed Bayern's tactics in the first half.
"It is true that Bayern's absence of many players due to injuries today also affected Guardiola's formation. Especially Neuer, his large range of activities in front of the goal can eliminate some hidden dangers for Bayern's defense. If he
If we were there, Mitrovic might have had a chance to save that one-on-one ball."
"Although substitute goalkeeper Stark has good goal-line skills and made several good saves, there is a big gap between him and Neuer in terms of defensive range and ball-playing ability."
"However, this cannot conceal the fact that Bayern lost power in the midfield in this game. Thiago Kroos, coupled with the three midfielders formed by Muller's retreat, simply cannot compete with Hamburg's Casemiro Canted.
Browne's combination to compete."
"Coupled with the two wingers, Son Xingmin Salah did not fall behind in the confrontation with Robben Shaqiri, which gave Hamburg an advantage in the competition with Bayern in the center and wing." "Looking at the defense, Hamburg's current combination of Van Dijk Rudiger is also very powerful. The two full-backs Robertson and Cajal have even been used as half-midfielders by Pan Yi, which also proves that they
ability."
"So, after comparing each position, and going back to what I just said, is Hamburg now stronger than Bayern? You can come to this conclusion without even looking at the half-time score."
"In just this half of the game, we can see how successful Pan Yi has been in transforming this team. He has given full play to the characteristics of the young players in the team and is building it into the most powerful team in the Bundesliga.
!"
"Yes, Pan Yi's slogan of winning the championship put forward at the end of last season and before the start of this season is definitely not false. I also think that they will indeed become a strong contender for the Bundesliga championship, and are very likely to truly become
Champion!"
Obviously, both Duan Xuan and the fans now know that Zhang Lu is Pan Yi's number one fan, and can be said to be the number one "Pan Chui" in the world.
But everyone was still a little shocked to see Zhang Lu making such a decision so firmly.
After all, Hamburg's performance is indeed very good, but Bayern's state last season is obvious to all.
They almost swept across Europe!
If you want to win the Bundesliga, you must not only overwhelm Bayern in direct confrontation, but also maintain very high stability.
In other words, you must win the games that you should win, and you must hold on and not lose the games that look like you are losing!
Bayern Munich's championship score last season was 91 points, and this season it seems to be about the same. They can often crush weaker teams in games and ensure they get the points.
This will definitely be a difficult test for Hamburg, which is dominated by young people.
After all, they may be full of hormones against strong opponents and play incredibly exciting games, but they may also be inattentive and lose points against weak teams.
Some people even believe that Hamburg’s strong performance last season was nothing more than a flash in the pan.
After facing the pressure of the European war this season, teams like Hamburg will eventually reveal their true strength and then plummet in the rankings.
However, Zhang Lu obviously doesn't see it that way.
Finally, he said with confidence:
"Pan Yi has entered his second year coaching Hamburg, and he has also left a profound mark on this team."
"The current batch of Hamburg players are all carefully selected by Pan Yi. They have the ability and willingness to play the kind of football Pan Yi wants."
"Their configuration is more reasonable, their cooperation is more tacit, and their playing style is more stable."
"I believe that they will play more beautiful and dominant games this season and keep Hamburg in the championship ranks!"
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In the locker room of Hamburg, Pan Yi was praising his players with a cheerful face.
Indeed, Hamburg's performance in the first half was really great.
He has been trying to get the players to understand and implement his new 433 style of play in pre-season training matches and warm-up matches, and this has also come at the cost of consecutive defeats.
Therefore, in fact, even Pan Yi is not sure that everyone can show their form in this Super Cup game.
But in fact, the players' performance in this game was a bit surprising.
They fully exerted their abilities and showed the maximum power of Pan Yi's formation!
This shows that the potential of young people is really predictable, and their speed of progress can sometimes be as fast as a rocket.
If we use the numerical values in the FM game as an analogy, we can see that their attributes are growing upward every day.
Therefore, Pan Yi was really happy, proud, and a little surprised by Hamburg's performance in the first half.
And this also strengthened his determination to use this style of play.
You can make the most of your resources, give full play to your expertise, and be more balanced and less aggressive.
The balance here is not the lethargic mediocrity that lacks creativity and passion when some coaches, such as Allegri, lead the team.
The balance here is the balance between offense and defense, that is, while attacking passionately, you can also maintain a solid defensive balance.
And being able to do this, Pan Yi can be proud to say that Hamburg has truly begun to enter the ranks of strong teams!
At least in the Bundesliga, it is an absolutely strong team.
As for whether it can gain a foothold in the more powerful European arenas, we have to wait until the Champions League starts in September to see if it can withstand the test.
"Mitrovich, your fulcrum is very obvious, and your movement is also very beautiful. I think Van Buyten will make you cry."
After praising several players who performed well in the first half, Pan Yi focused on praising Mitrovic's performance.
Everyone in the locker room burst out laughing.
Including Vardy also came over and patted Mitrovic's head in a friendly manner, which can be regarded as a "senior"'s support for the young player.
Mitrovic scratched his head a little embarrassedly.
"In the second half, you still have to keep suppressing their central defenders and don't let them easily come out to get the ball. This way, the pressure on our midfield will be much less."
Pan Yi continued to speak.
But this time I am not praising others, but giving final instructions for the second half of the game.
After all, Guardiola is not a rookie coach. He will also let Bayern players switch back and forth between 4231 and 433 to deal with Pan Yi's new tactics.
Therefore, Pan Yi also needs to take precautions and make preparations in advance.
"If their center Mandzukic also retreats, and the two wingers move into the ribs to support the midfielder, then we have to hit their wings more resolutely to make them lose sight of one thing."
"The midfielder must pay attention to their Kroos. He has a strong long pass. We have suffered from him before."
"The substitute players must also be prepared. I will replace them at about 70 minutes and continue to suppress them with abundant physical strength so that they have no chance to counterattack."
Finally, Pan Yi once again emphasized that final mobilization is also underway.
He asked the players and coaches to form a circle, shoulder to shoulder, and he stood in the middle of the circle.
"Last season we lost to Bayern 1:3 at the Allianz Arena. I said at the time that we were going to win back."
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"Although today is not Allianz, I still want to win! In other words, no matter where we meet Bayern, I want to win!"
"Keep up the good work, guys, you can do it!"
Everyone responded in unison:
"Come on, come on, come on!"
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At the beginning of the second half, Hamburg threatened Bayern with an excellent left attack.
From the continuous passes between Robertson, Casemiro, Carvajal and Son Heung-min, the football is like a butterfly in the flowers, flying back and forth dizzyingly, quickly advancing from the own half to the outside of Bayern's penalty area
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Son Xingmin swayed the opponent's full-back and cut inside laterally, then passed the ball to Mitrovic.
The latter took the ball from the top of the arc to the right, but failed to completely change the angle when shooting. Boateng blocked it and left the penalty area, failing to pose a threat.
But after the ball flew out, it was caught by De Bruyne, and Hamburg quickly formed its second consecutive attack.
After De Bruyne got past Kroos, who came to block the ball, he fired an angry shot, but it was slightly higher than the goal.
Although he failed to score a goal, in this attack, Hamburg showed fast and smooth one-touch coordination, which was very amazing.
You know, in such a strong dialogue, because both sides press hard, it is actually quite difficult to see such smooth passing and cutting cooperation.
And this is one of the advantages of Pan Yi's 433 set.
In addition to always maintaining a triangle position so that each player holding the ball has two or three ball release points, Robertson and Carvajal's inward play is also an important reason.
In addition to defensively, it can allow more players to be in the middle when switching from offense to defense, forcing the opponent's counterattack to hit the side, reducing the threat.
Offensively, the adjoining full-back can attract the opponent's winger or winger to the center (if the opponent's winger is not attracted, your own center will gain a numerical advantage), destroying the opponent's overall regional defense system and creating opportunities for your own winger.
Space to deal with full-backs one-on-one.
This is why in the attack just now, Sun Xingmin could easily face the opponent's full-back and make a breakthrough.
Therefore, the inside full-back has many benefits on both offense and defense.
Compared with traditional full-backs, the advantages of adjoining full-backs are the advantage of playing the ball in the backcourt, defensive advantages and more diversified offensive routines.
When organizing an attack in the backcourt, the backcourt position of a team that uses an inward full-back has more options for delivering the ball, a wider angle, and is more difficult to be restricted by the opponent's frontcourt pressure than the traditional position.
In addition, compared with traditional assist-type full-backs, the running distance of the adduction-type full-back is shorter when defending, and it is less likely to lose position. Therefore, this style of play is equivalent to the winger on the same side sharing part of the pursuit when defending.
Running tasks are more reasonable overall.
At the same time, since the basic position of the adjoining full-back is in the middle, the cooperation with the winger on the same side in the offense is more diversified, and the traditional full-back pattern can still be used.
The full-back can also insert diagonally into the penalty area to let the winger hug the edge, or simply become a defensive midfielder to free up the original midfielder. Compared with the traditional full-back inserting from the wing, there are more options and it is more difficult for the opponent to defend. It is precisely because of this that although Guardiola has made some adjustments during the halftime break, Hamburg's current offense still often forms a partial situation of attacking more and attacking less. Bayern is really a bit confused.
"Judging from the situation at the beginning of the second half, the development is still very unfavorable for Bayern." Zhang Lu analyzed.
"Guardiola has just arrived and obviously wants to show his tactical ability in his first official game in Germany and show that he is better than Pan Yi."
"But now it seems that his 4231 has been completely suppressed by Pan Yi's 433."
"The adjustments during the halftime break obviously had no effect. Faced with Pan Yi's bold play of letting both full-backs move into the center, Guardiola seemed to have few options."
"This is enough to prove that Pan Yi's tailor-made tactics for Hamburg have become increasingly mature. If they can suppress a super strong team like Bayern, they can also defeat any other team!"
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For ten minutes in the second half, Bayern did not take a single shot.
Even if Guardiola asked Muller to move forward to form a double forward, he still failed to form a threatening offense.
Although Hamburg's pressing intensity seems to be less aggressive than last season, its control is even stronger than before.
They formed a formation along the center line and directly suppressed Bayern in their own half, making it difficult for Bayern to advance in a threatening positional battle except for long passes.
As for playing long passes, Hamburg is not afraid either.
Van Dijk and Rudiger, two big men over 190cm tall, looked down upon Mandzukic and Muller so much that they couldn't take any advantage at all.
The same goes for the wingers on both sides.
When Robben wants to break through from the wing, he always faces more than just Robertson.
Kanter, Casemiro, and even Sun Xingmin will harass and assist him in defense, leaving him nowhere to start.
The same goes for Shaqiri on the other side.
Since his breakthrough ability is still slightly worse than Robben's, the situation on his side is even worse, with basically no ball.
After playing for another ten minutes, Guardiola finally couldn't stand it anymore and made a decisive substitution.
He replaced the under-performing Shaqiri with piggy Schweinsteiger.
A winger was replaced with a better defensive midfielder, and Muller and Robben were separated on both sides of Mandzukic. The formation was also converted to 433.
This is about using Guashuai’s best formation to fight Pan Yi.
Although it seems that the offensive power has been weakened, due to the enhanced interception ability of the midfield, Bayern can still win back some ball rights and create more shooting opportunities.
But this also declared the failure of his "reorganization".
Now he finally admits that using only technical midfielders like Kroos and Thiago cannot beat Hamburg's three midfielders!
After returning to the formation that Guardiola is best at and familiar with, Bayern also actively adopted pressing pressure in the midfield and frontcourt.
They also gradually reversed the situation on the scene and launched a wave of suppression against Hamburg.
Bayern also got several opportunities in a row, although they were all long-range shots from the outside.
But at least the situation was stabilized and their offensive was finally launched!
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On the other side, Pan Yi sat quietly on the Diaoyutai and stood still.
He has two balls in hand now, so of course he is not in a hurry.
And he also has another purpose, that is, his current set of 433 has proven that it can defeat Bayern's 4231. So, when Guardiola also changes to 433, can these players in Hamburg also be able to withstand it? p>
This is a test of the players' adaptability on the court and their ability to withstand greater pressure.
After all, many times, this kind of adaptability and pressure-bearing ability cannot be developed in training or even warm-up matches.
It must be in this kind of formal, real-life, high-intensity competition in order to be truly squeezed out.
Regarding the problems and difficulties that may be encountered in this game, including Bayern's possible change to 433, Pan Yi has actually already explained it to the players.
Next, it depends on how they deal with it.
On the current court, De Bruyne's voice echoed throughout the audience:
"Sun Xingmin, be careful to guard against breakthroughs on your side, don't let them come over easily!"
"Kante, keep an eye on Kroos and don't let him pass the ball comfortably!"
"Van Dijk, you can press up a little and control the first landing point!..."
After the original vice-captain Ogo left the team, Pan Yi handed over the position of vice-captain of the team to De Bruyne.
The intention of this is also very obvious, that is, De Bruyne should not only be the midfield commander of the team, but also stand up and become the leader of the team when the team encounters difficulties!
Obviously, under Pan Yi's guidance, De Bruyne, who was not very good at speaking at first, has truly become like Teacher Ding, and he is not polite when commanding his teammates.
This is actually an improvement in confidence brought about by the growth of one's own abilities.
The title of the Bundesliga's assists leader has been put aside, and he speaks louder, and his teammates are more willing to listen.
As Teacher Ding shouted, Hamburg also immediately adjusted from the slight panic at the beginning.
They began to regroup, started a fierce battle with Bayern players, and began to gradually regain the initiative in the game.
When Bayern's attack hit the outside of Hamburg's penalty area, it was successfully intercepted by Kante and Casemiro.
After they succeeded in stealing the ball, they quickly launched a counterattack.
Kante directly passed the ball forward to find Mitrovic. The Serbian center leaned on Van Buyten and snatched the ball away, passing it to Salah on the other side.
The Egyptian forward cut inside and hit the goal, but was saved by Stark.
The ball flew out of the penalty area and landed on the outside.
Pan Yi saw that at this time, Van Dijk and Rudiger in the backcourt were also beckoning their teammates to press forward.
De Bruyne also asked the midfielders to quickly fight back. With the advantage of their superior strength, Hamburg quickly regained the ball.
Casemiro saw the opportunity and hit the football with another furious shot.
The ball was like a cannonball, shooting towards Bayern's goal quickly.
Goalkeeper Stark was beyond his reach at this time.
But they were lucky. The ball hit the crossbar above and made a muffled sound that made everyone in the audience jump.
The ball bounced back, and then was cleared by Boateng and went out of the sideline.
Although he didn't get in, Pan Yi still happily praised: "These young men seem to be really mature!"
Nagelsmann and Inzaghi on both sides also nodded in agreement.
This still makes him very happy.
This shows that the current Hamburg team can face many complex and difficult situations on the court, which also proves the maturity of this group of players.
A mature team will be less prone to mistakes, more stable, and more competitive.
This is very important.
Stability allows the team to perform at a high level during the long Bundesliga schedule.
And stability can also prevent Hamburg from suddenly performing abnormally in a knockout format like the Champions League, leading to a bad game and sudden death.
But Hamburg's performance is a bit uncomfortable in Guardiola's eyes.
If this continues, Bayern's Super Cup will really be in danger.
He decided to continue making substitutions.
Exit Van Buyten, enter Dante.
This substitution is reasonable.
On the current court, Van Buyten was made dizzy by Mitrovic and completely suppressed by this young Serbian.
So try it with Dante, which has a better card position, and you may have better results.
The other substitution is a bit confusing.
Mandzukic, who is completely looked down upon, enters Javi Martinez.
A striker is played and a midfielder is played!
At this time, Bayern did not have an authentic center on the field. Instead, Muller was pushed to the front, and Robben was also returned to the center.