"…2002 was the last year for Real Madrid to win the Champions League trophy. Twelve years later, Real Madrid went through two Galaxy battleships, spending more than one billion pounds to buy the world's superstar. But since 2005, Real Madrid has failed the Champions League quarterfinals for six consecutive seasons, creating the bitter joke of "Sixteen Ron". Now twelve years later, Real Madrid has finally arrived at the final stage. Will they be the tenth championship trophy waiting for them?"

The preview of the Champions League final is being played on the TV screen, and next is a highlight of Real Madrid's journey this season, especially Real Madrid's 4-0 away defeat to Bayern Munich. The scene where Cristiano Ronaldo shook his palm back and forth to celebrate the goal was really highlighted.

Coupled with the various roars of the live commentator, it made people excited.

After introducing Real Madrid, it was replaced by Dortmund.

"As the Champions League champion last season, Dortmund created a miraculous season last season. But in fact, this season is even more miraculous. With the camp full of wounds this season, many people are not optimistic about their results this season. For a while, the defending champions in the league and the Champions League seemed to be defeated... But who would have thought that at the end of this season, it was such a team that won the Bundesliga championship? Now they have defeated Atletico Madrid, which has defeated Simeone, and entered the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons. Since the reform of the Champions League, no team has been able to defend the title successfully. This has become a 'curse'. So this time, can Dortmund, who miraculously reached the Champions League final, break the 'curse'?"

It is also a playback of Dortmund's Champions League this season.

The highlight moment was the first leg of the semi-finals, and Dortmund defeated Atletico Madrid in a blitz at home.

The players of the Chinese national team were sitting in the restaurant of the hotel where they stayed, having supper and watching TV.

The Champions League finals between Real Madrid and Dortmund are coming soon.

The players of the Chinese national team are waiting to watch the live broadcast of the finals.

They are not just about cheering for Zhou Yi and Yan Min. This is the "task" assigned by the new head coach Lippi.

As a team to participate in the World Cup, of course we have to look around the world.

So how can we not watch the Champions League final, the most technical football game in the world?

Watching such a high-level game can also improve the players' tactical qualities and open their eyes to know what the top level of modern football looks like, so as not to many people's impression of modern football is still on the Tiki-taka tag several years ago. No team that reached the Champions League final this year played Tiki-taka football. Real Madrid is obviously not. Although Dortmund has excellent passing and controlling skills, their style is more varied.

Lippi hopes that by watching the Champions League final, his players can gain more.

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While TV broadcasters are warming up the finals through various programs, players from both Dortmund and Real Madrid have arrived at the final venue, the Stadium of Light in Lisbon, Portugal.

At the same time, both sides' starting lists came out.

For Real Madrid, Khdira replaced Alonso, who missed the final due to the suspension, while Varane replaced the injured Pepe. Khdira has only played for 117 minutes since November last year. Ancelotti's arrangement is very risky and has to bear the pressure.

The starting goalkeeper is Casillas. Before this Champions League final, Casillas played a La Liga match, which was the last round of the La Liga and the second league game Casillas played this season. Although Mourinho has left Real Madrid, Casillas has not become the winner. After Ancelotti came on stage, he was still firmly pressed on the bench. At the same time, in order to take care of the face of the Real Madrid captain, Ancelotti adopted a strange rotation method, that is, in cup matches such as the Champions League and the Copa del Rey, Casillas was the starting goalkeeper, while Diego Lopez continued to use in the league.

After Real Madrid reached the Champions League final, if they insist on letting Casillas play the Cup, then Casillas will face the embarrassing situation of not having a single game to play for twenty-four days from April 30 to May 24.

This is very bad for Casillas who wants to play in the Champions League final, because if he doesn't play for a long time, his condition will not be able to maintain.

What will a goalkeeper who has not played in the game for more than 20 days do in the Champions League final? This is simply unimaginable.

So under such circumstances, Real Madrid finally arranged for Casillas to play two league games.

One game was the 34th round of the league on May 7th.

The other game is the last round of the league, with Real Madrid playing against Espanyol at home.

Although he played two league games, he only played these two games in 24 days, and Casillas's game volume was still far from enough...

No one can tell what kind of performance he can perform in the finals.

In addition to goalkeeper Casillas, Real Madrid's starting defender is right-back Carvajal, center-back Varane and Ramos, left-back is Coentrand, not Marcelo. The midfield is Modric and Khedira, Di Maria, and Bale, Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo on the front line.

The starting lineup of Dortmund is no different from before.

Goalkeeper Weidenfeller, right-back Piszczek, center-back Hummels and Papastasopoulos, left-back Schmeltzer. Midfielders Sven Bend and Zhou Yi, Yan Min, Reus, and Aubameyang and Mark on the front line.

It can be said that except for the injured players who cannot play, both teams have sent the strongest lineup they can.

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When he went out to warm up, Zhou Yi did not observe the layout of the final venue of the photosensitive stadium, nor did he look at the TIFO of the fans on both sides of the stage. Most of the time he turned his attention to Casillas.

In fact, Zhou Yi has simulated the final battle with this opponent many times in the virtual space.

In countless simulations, he discovered a problem, but he was not sure whether it would still appear in reality, so he now wants to find some clues by observing Casillas' warm-up...

When Real Madrid warmed up, they seemed to be consciously feeding the ball to Casillas and letting him find his condition.

Zhou Yi noticed that Casillas performed quite steadily when receiving the shot. However, when his teammates began to deliberately transfer the ball to Casillas, Casillas made some mistakes. Although it was not many, it was captured by Zhou Yi.

In fact, Casillas has always had weaknesses of unstable reception of high balls, but he made up for it with his excellent second reaction. In addition, he deliberately strengthened his training in this area, so this problem was not very prominent at his peak. However, as he grew older and had not played well in these two seasons, his condition declined significantly, and this problem became more prominent, and it was even a bit... fatal.

Casillas' unstable problem of receiving high balls comes from his personal height defects.

Among the world's top goalkeepers, Casillas' height of only 1.85 meters is a shortcoming.

Compared with him, both Buffon and Neuer are more than 1.9 meters tall, Buffon is 1.91 meters tall, and Neuer is 1.93 meters tall, both of which are both tall and flexible. Even Sun Pan is 1.90 meters tall.

Gao Ball is the weakness of Casillas that Zhou Yi observed in the virtual game, and he has not been well corrected in reality.

After seeing Casillas' performance, Zhou Yi turned his attention back and focused on his own warm-up. He had already obtained the information he wanted.

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After finishing the warm-up, Zhou Yi went back to the locker room and directly found Klopp and told the head coach what he observed during the warm-up.

"This is something I haven't noticed much before..." Klopp pondered after hearing this. "But this is helpful to us. Thank you, Zhou Yi."

"You're welcome, coach, just as you can."

"But there are few players who pay attention to these details."

Zhou Yi scratched his head. He couldn't tell the head coach that he noticed this because he discovered that Casillas always made mistakes on the same issue in virtual games again and again, right?
Chapter completed!