Although Liverpool is strong, it doesn't mean Bayern Munich intends to give up these two semi-final matches.

On the stage of the Champions League, reaching the semi-finals means no team will voluntarily surrender.

Even if Liverpool is formidable, Bayern Munich is not to be trifled with.

They are the giants of German football, and regardless of the perspective, they will not surrender to Liverpool.

If they are wary of Liverpool, then they will prepare earnestly and strive to defeat them in the two-legged tie.

Perhaps Bayern Munich is Liverpool's nemesis in this season's Champions League?

Every season, Liverpool is always eliminated from the Champions League, no matter how well they perform before, they always lose in the end. Maybe it's because of their own strength, or maybe it's because they are unlucky. Anyway, they can't win the championship.

Now, the thing Bayern Munich needs to do is to ensure they don't become a sacrifice. If Liverpool loses in the final, what does that have to do with Bayern Munich? They have already become Liverpool's defeated opponents. Whether Liverpool wins the championship or comes in second is irrelevant to them. It's impossible to say that if Liverpool loses the final, Bayern Munich will get the chance to participate in the final... that's too absurd.

Therefore, for Bayern Munich, the most important thing about Liverpool never winning the championship every season is—they must become Liverpool's terminator, and not let Liverpool's final opponent become their terminator.

Bayern Munich has made ample preparations against Liverpool.

Liverpool's most powerful and threatening player is Chen Hero. Apart from Chen Hero, the others are of average level and not to be feared.

Chen Hero is the backbone of Liverpool.

As long as they can curb Chen Hero's performance, they can disintegrate the morale and fighting spirit of the entire Liverpool team.

But how to curb Chen Hero?

Bayern Munich intends to work on Chen Hero's body.

Everyone knows that Chen Hero's physical fitness is not as good as before.

Then they will have more physical contact with Chen Hero, and it doesn't matter if the defensive actions are a bit rougher. They don't need to worry about being called for too many fouls.

The English Football Association, UEFA, and FIFA are all in cahoots.

In the Champions League matches, fouls against Chen Hero are rarely called.

The referee is implementing a double standard on Chen Hero—others fouling him doesn't count as a foul, but him fouling others definitely counts as a foul.

This is an unwritten rule, although no one says it, everyone knows it. Bayern Munich naturally knows it too.

Although doing so has the suspicion of bullying an "old man," competitive football is about victory first. There is nothing wrong with using this method to pursue victory.

Besides, if everyone else uses it and they don't, wouldn't it be too unfair if they lose in the end?

Bayern Munich's tactical keynote is "big movements."

Big movements in attack, and big movements in defense.

Use big movements to curb Liverpool's attack, and use big movements to defend Chen Hero.

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Gerrard doesn't care what tactics Bayern Munich will use. Over the years, many teams have invented many strange tactics against Liverpool, but Liverpool is still the champion and has never changed.

This shows that no matter how the opponents deal with Liverpool, as long as Liverpool sticks to its own football, no one can defeat them.

During this time, his training content has been to let Liverpool practice offensive tactics built around Chen Hero.

As long as Chen Hero's role is fully utilized, Liverpool will definitely win the game.

This can be regarded as severe "Chen Hero dependence."

As for where Liverpool will go after Chen Hero retires, Gerrard hasn't really thought too much about it. At this moment, the most important thing is this season.

Chen Hero has won so many championships for Liverpool. In his last season before retirement, he hopes that the team can regain the Champions League title after six years. No matter what, the entire team must realize this wish for him.

At worst, from next season, Liverpool will have a major overhaul, rebuild their team from scratch, and then fight their way up again little by little.

What's so great about it?

Can it be worse than not winning the Premier League title for twenty-two years before? Gerrard has personally experienced that time. So he feels that he has gone through the darkest days, and no matter what awaits him in the future, he will not lose confidence and will firmly move forward.

He believes in Liverpool's foundation as a giant.

After making the most pessimistic plan, he stopped thinking about it.

Because Chen Hero's physical fitness has indeed declined now, Liverpool's offensive tactics are more concise. First of all, Chen Hero doesn't need too much ball control to attract the enemy's defensive firepower. Secondly, he won't be given frequent through balls to make him constantly sprint, which is a great test of his physical strength and speed.

In short, try to reduce Chen Hero's chances of getting the ball, whether it is controlling the ball or receiving the ball.

As little as possible.

The most perfect thing is that Chen Hero only needs to be responsible for shooting in the game.

Many of Chen Hero's abilities have declined at the age of forty, but some abilities are the opposite. With the passage of time and the accumulation of years, his abilities in these areas have become more refined.

Shooting skills are one of them.

The older he gets, the more experience he has, and the more skilled he is in shooting techniques.

So even if Chen Hero only needs to be responsible for shooting, it is enough.

Gerrard tries to simplify the work that Chen Hero needs to do in the offense. He tries to let his teammates complete all the work before his shot, and finally send the ball to his feet, and use his extraordinary shooting skills to help the team make a final decision.

In fact, Gerrard didn't know how Bayern Munich would deal with Chen Hero, but inadvertently his arrangement just restrained Bayern Munich's tactics.

Bayern Munich hopes to curb Chen Hero by using rough defensive actions, forcing him to be unable to control the ball well.

And Liverpool simply doesn't give Chen Hero a chance to control the ball.

Of course, neither side knew this before.

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Chen Hero has been to Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena many times.

There are many beautiful memories left here for him—in fact, throughout Europe, all the famous stadiums have left him with beautiful memories. There are almost no stadiums that have created bad memories for him.

Because Chen Hero always wins, always wins.

This season will be his last time to come to the Allianz Arena to participate in the game, and Chen Hero decided to leave a souvenir.

Of course, not standing at the entrance of the Allianz Arena and asking his teammates to take a photo for him.

He never takes photos in the stadium, because someone does this for him.

He only needs to score goals in the game, and then celebrate the goals, and many photographers will point their cameras at him and press the shutter. And the next day he will be able to see his heroic posture in the major media.

Those people are all professionals, and the image they take is much better than the images taken by his teammates.

What he calls leaving a souvenir is scoring a goal in this stadium.

Just like some people like to write "So-and-so was here" when they arrive at a tourist attraction.

Chen Hero's goal is actually a declaration that he has been here.

Because of these goals, everyone knows that he has been to these beautiful stadiums and left his mark in them.

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With the mood of saying goodbye to the Allianz Arena with a goal, Chen Hero has been actively and energetically looking for opportunities to score goals from the first minute of this game.

His running position is very flexible and erratic.

And this kind of running doesn't require too much effort, because in fact his range of activity is very small—just near the penalty area.

He doesn't need to pull to the wing. Naturally, someone will do it for him to pull to the wing. With his current status, he doesn't need to do this kind of thankless thing at all.

After getting old, Chen Hero's ability to find opportunities in this kind of running position has become more and more superb, making the players defending him even more confused.

Bayern Munich then realized that their pre-match tactical arrangements were useless...

Because Chen Hero has very few chances to get the ball, he just runs. Still off-ball running.

And the most difficult thing to defend is off-ball running.

They followed Chen Hero's running, and soon became confused.

Then in the twenty-second minute, Liverpool's first goal appeared while Bayern Munich's players were dizzy.

When the team made a long pass from the backcourt, Chen Hero was originally on the right rib of the court.

But when the ball was passed to the frontcourt, everyone suddenly found that Chen Hero appeared on the left rib, and resolutely inserted into the penalty area.

Even if there are two Bayern Munich defenders beside him, he did not hesitate at all.

He doesn't even consider whether he still has room to get rid of the shot even if he enters the penalty area—because this long pass is passed very far forward. Judging from this trajectory, even if Chen Hero receives the ball, he is already very close to the baseline.

No one will doubt Chen Hero's ball-stopping ability. The older he gets, the stronger Chen Hero's ability in small skills.

But what can he do after he stops?

The two players on the other side are not vegetarians. Now Chen Hero's physical fitness is not as good as before. If he is hit by the opponent, he may lose his center of gravity.

And at this time, the referee will not easily call a foul.

It seems that the best result of Liverpool's attack is that Chen Hero wins a corner kick for Liverpool...

Just when everyone thought so, Chen Hero, who was running, looked back at the flying ball. Then he slowed down a little, he was adjusting his pace!

Immediately after, the ball accurately crossed his shoulder and flew to the front of Chen Hero.

Then he saw Chen Hero, who had adjusted his pace, raised his left foot while running.

Stopping the ball?

No!

Shooting!

Direct shot!

Chen Hero's left instep hit the middle and lower part of the ball.

With a bang, the ball changed its direction and flew towards the goal!

Bayern Munich's goalkeeper, Briel Harris, was caught off guard. It was too late when he jumped up to make a defensive move. He raised his neck and looked back at the ball.

Now he can only hope that the ball will fly out of the crossbar by itself... After all, Chen Hero's shot was a bit high.

But contrary to expectations.

The ball kicked by Chen Hero began to fall after passing his hand.

Then he plunged into the far corner of the goal!

No one can stop this ball!

Throughout the attack, Chen Hero only touched the ball once, and it was fatal!

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ps, dizzy, the automatic update time setting was wrong, which caused the guaranteed second update to not be updated for a long time. I thought it was updated. If it wasn't for a reader reminding me... Now the guaranteed second update has been updated.

Because my mistake caused everyone to be unhappy reading the book, so I specially added an extra chapter to apologize...