Real Madrid lined up close to a 442 for this game, with defenders Nacho, Rüdiger, Carvajal, Mendy, Camavinga midfielders, Kroos, Valverde, Bellingham, Vinicius forwards, Rodrygo, and between the attacking midfielders to the forwards, Bellingham Position.
Defenders Hummels, Dort Discharge 433, Schlotterbeck, Maatsen, Ryerson, Brandt Midfielders, EmreCan, Sabitzer, Adeyemi On the front line, Sancho, Füllkrug
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The match started with a test for both teams. Real Madrid mainly tried to blitz with Vinicius on the left side. In fact, Dortmund was doing the same thing, mainly playing Adeyemi's blitz on the left. sancho was helping to organize or pass the ball in the midfield.
Valverde hit the right side of the road with 11 minutes to go, Carvajal followed up to the box to help, at which point Bellingham suddenly moved closer to the right side of the box as well, and the trio suddenly played a partnership to help Valverde pull off an 18-yard shot, which went to the third floor, but it could already be seen that Dort were pulling five men back into the box at a moment's notice, whereas Real Madrid used just three Man.
Hummels picked up the ball with 20 minutes on the clock and suddenly played a direct pass to the left of the front post, Adeyemi sprinted out and turned it into a one-two with a full backward pass, Courtois was out of options, but Courtois' final fall affected Adeyemi, who pushed the ball too far to his left, resulting in Carvajal not being able to push the empty net immediately and being driven back.
Dort were cleared on 22 minutes with another attack, but Maatsen immediately snatched the ball back and passed it forward, Füllkrug managed to get the ball in front of him on the reverse side and fired a shot from 11 yards in the far corner that ended up hitting the post, a goal that was unfortunate.
In fact, both goals were must-score chances for Dortmund, but Dortmund failed to capitalize on them. Actually this has been the key point of the game, because Dortmund didn't take advantage of the opportunity to take the lead, and then Real Madrid can gradually control Dortmund's attacking mode after getting used to it.
Unexpectedly, EmreCan was suddenly injured in the 24th minute. Although he returned to the field after treatment and continued to play, we could see that after that, Dortmund's midfield was significantly weakened in both offense and defense, and Real Madrid quickly noticed the change in their opponent and began to gradually control the midfield.
The teams played for 33 minutes when Real Madrid saw Dort trying to mess up at the back. As a result Vinicius deliberately ran at goalkeeper Kobel for the ball and then shanked him for a yellow card.
Vinicius was intentional and very useful, both in terms of the play and the result.Kobel was clearly in pain after being kicked, affecting Dortmund's passing at the back. Real Madrid started pressing forward, not really thinking about stealing the ball, but affecting Dortmund's back-pass. Dortmund had to keep giving the ball to the keeper, but Kobel had been kicked and was affected. As a result, Dortmund's goals at the back didn't go any better than in the first half.
The first half ended 0-0 and the second half started with Real Madrid showing signs of pressing forward which made it more difficult for Dortmund to attack.Kroos threatened the goal with a free-kick in the 48th minute and Real Madrid clearly stepped up the pressure in the second half.The first half ended 0-0 and the second half started with Real Madrid showing signs of pressing forward which made it more difficult for Dortmund to attack.
Dortmund knew that Real Madrid's tempo was going to get worse and worse, and they started to speed up their counterattacks. They kept using Adeyemi to counterattack. on 62 minutes Adeyemi started on the left and put a header on the right to Füllkrug which was threatening, but if you watch the whole game you'll see that Dortmund's shots in the second half were straight and from 12 yards out, and Courtois looked dangerous in the first half, not catching the ball straight away easily, and most of them were blocked and not blocked out of bounds to stay in the box, but after the start of the second half, Courtois suddenly became very stable and no matter how many attacks Dortmund created were blocked straight away, Real Madrid's defense was suddenly not the same as in the first half after the intermission.
Looking at the whole game, Real Madrid kept generating corners after they started to pressurize in the second half. In fact, Real Madrid kept playing corners. Dortmund replaced Adeyemi, who had been depleted for most of the game, with Reus in the 71st minute.
