Real Madrid 3: 2 Duotes inventory: From being soldier without bloodshed to almost black for three minutes

In the last game of the Club World Cup semi-finals, Real Madrid defeated Dortmund 3:2. At the press conference before the start of this game, Real Madrid coach Xavi Alonso talked about his upcoming opponent, and took out the players in the Hornets one by one and said it one by one. As he said, he was too familiar with Dortmund. He led Leverkusen to Wolfsburg led by Nick Kovac and Dortmund, who took over this year, to know each other's details in the Bundesliga.

However, Nick Kovac did not know much about the tactical design of Real Madrid led by Ancelotti. And he knew that Alonso was best at playing three central defenders, and he saw that he had switched to this system since the third game of the group stage. However, Alonso gave Nick Kovac a dose of ecstasy at the press conference. His knowledge of Dortmund far exceeded Nick Kovac's knowledge of Ancelotti's skills and tactics.

So in this quarter-final against Dortmund, Alonso actually took out the 4312 formation from the Ancelotti era. This formation has been used frequently by Ancelotti over the past two seasons. The core purpose of this new style of play, derived from 433, is to solve the problems of positioning and running between Bellingham, Mbappe and Vinicius. These three people used to be in position coordination, and they didn't feel strongly between each other, and the overlap rate on the left side was very high.

Later, Ancelotti had to make fine adjustments to the 433 formation, and the two wingers retracted inward and placed a front midfielder in the middle. When Bellingham appeared at the 10th position and was paired with Vinicius and Mbappe in front, the cooperation between the three people instantly became smooth. This set of technical and tactical styles is the key to winning Dortmund 2-0 in the Champions League final in the 23-24 season.

Xavi Alonso's quick knife cuts the mess

When the starting lineup came out, many people probably didn't expect it. In the previous three games, Guillail has been playing as a single midfielder, but this game has become a left midfielder, while Valverde appears in the familiar right midfielder. Arnold and Fran Garcia serve as left and right full-backs, while Heysen, who performed well, partnered with Rudiger in the left center back. Bellingham returned to the midfielder position, with the two forwards being Vinicius and Gonzalo Garcia.

When the defense falls, Vinicius will return to the left midfield and change to 442. When attacking, Arnold often forwards on a large scale, forming an offensive team with his friend and fellow villager Bellingham, Valverde and Gonzalo Garcia. Vinicius on the left often becomes an offensive means of single-point blasting.

This offensive and defensive strategy caught Nick Kovac off guard. When attacking, Real Madrid's pass-through cooperation in the midfield, front and middle and backcourt are so familiar. This is the result of Ancelotti's training for two seasons. Everyone interspersed with each other's running position and passing timing formed muscle memory. After Dortmund was suppressed by Real Madrid in the 9 minutes of the game, Vinicius took the ball on the left and distributed it to Fran Garcia who was on the side. After the cross was cleared, he grabbed the second landing point and launched another attack. When Vinicius passed the ball to Guillail in the corner of the penalty area, Dortmund was suppressed by Real Madrid and could not move in the penalty area. The back line was pushed into three points by Valverde, Gonzalo Garcia and Bellingham. When Guillail easily rubbed this accurate small diagonal pass, it was almost impossible for Dortmund to squeeze out the three Real Madrid players on his defense to get out of the space for grabbing points, so Gonzalo Garcia's goal with a volley was the most direct manifestation of Alonso's quick breaking of the deadlock after the change of the formation.

Just 9 minutes later, Real Madrid made a comeback, but this time almost the same offensive routine happened on the right. Bellingham formed an offensive 4-man team with Arnold, Gonzalo Garcia and Guillail who switched to the right. When the pass back and forth to tear the gap and Arnold went straight into the penalty area to send a straight cross, Dortmund's defense line, who was a little confused by the dispatch back and forth, could not resist Fran Garcia who was inserted into the point of grabbing.

Two goals in 20 minutes, this is easier than the Champions League final a year ago. In the next 70 minutes, no matter how Nick Kovac adjusts, he will not be able to play with Real Madrid's very well-rounded formation.

Why did Real Madrid have a panic-black three minutes

For Chinese fans, the black three minutes in stoppage time are painful memories. Alonso almost tasted it in this quarterfinal too. There were 5 minutes of stoppage time in the second half, and when the stoppage time reached 1 minute and 40 seconds, Real Madrid still had the chance to rewrite the score to 3:0. However, in the 92nd minute, Dortmund's offensive Rudiger made a clearance mistake and gave Bayer a chance to hit the ball, and the score was rewritten to 1:2. After the kick-off in the middle circle, Real Madrid took an attack, Rodrigo dribbled the ball into the penalty area and attracted three players to defend, and then passed it to Gulaire who was trapped in the edge. Gulaire crossed in front of the goal. At this time, Dortmund's defense line, which was already in chaos, could not take care of Mbappe, who was waiting to grab the point at the back point. He quickly led Real Madrid's goals to 2 again with a barb. However, just one minute later, Heysen pulled down Dortmund's players while defending in the penalty area and received a red card. When Dortmund scored a penalty kick, if Courtois had not performed well in the final countdown, he would have almost equalized the score by Dortmund's long shot.

In fact, Real Madrid appeared in the last three minutes, which seemed a bit terrifying. The core reason was that the players on the court were too relaxed. It felt like he suppressed Dortmund for 90 minutes in the whole game, and the opponent did not show enough scoring ability on the offensive end. But the old saying goes: When your thoughts are lax, you will basically be punished. However, Real Madrid's team's condition was very good in this game and was able to enter the semi-finals without any danger.