Fang Jue now likes the atmosphere of St Andrews Stadium.

St Andrews Stadium is relatively small and can only accommodate 30,000 people.

One advantage of a small court is that it can make huge noises in the narrow space.

Moreover, the stands are closer to the venue, and the sounds made by the fans have a stronger influence on the players.

After the game began, Aston Villa's fans made huge noises and movements to influence and interfere with Real Madrid players.

Especially for important Real Madrid stars like Ronaldo, Benzema, and Alonso, they will receive huge booing and booing as long as they get the ball.

Fang Jue's eyes were on Coentran.

In the last game, two of Aston Villa's three goals were scored all the way from where Essin was, which highlighted that Coentrand's performance was pretty good.

It seems that for this reason, Mourinho still arranged for Coentran to play today, and did not play Brazilian star Marcelo.

This arrangement has been carefully considered.

Marcelo has stronger offensive ability.

Real Madrid must win 2-0 away games in this game to turn the tables, which seems that Real Madrid should send Marcelo, who has stronger offensive capabilities.

However, it is precisely because Real Madrid wants to attack that Real Madrid's defense is more important.

Real Madrid is trying their best to avoid being scored by Aston Villa.

In this case, Coentrane is very strong, with a balanced offense and defense. Compared to Marcelo, he is more like a serious full-back. He can make Mourinho feel more at ease on the defensive end.

...

On the offensive end, Mourinho has high hopes for Di Maria.

However, not long after the game started today, Mourinho frowned:

Di Maria is obviously not in a state today.

Once he faced Daniel Ross's fight on the wing, but failed to make a breakthrough, so he finally chose to force the inward cut and shoot.

The shot flew straight into the stands.

Aston Villa fans immediately seized the opportunity to boo the Argentinian.

Luo, who had already swam over to pick him up, expressed dissatisfaction with Di Maria's blind long-range shot.

He waved his arms vigorously and shouted at Di Maria, signaling him to pass the ball, pass the ball!

It's not just Di Maria who is in poor condition.

I am also very sorry for Er Dayan’s condition today.

In the fifteenth minute of the game, Eddie dribbled the ball in front of the field, and Clement went up to defend him.

Clement stretched out his foot and touched the football. Eddie wanted to pull the ball and turned around, but he staggered. The football was immediately snatched away by Clement, and Eddie was also knocked to the ground by Clement.

Edge, who fell to the ground, complained to French referee Lannoy that Clement was a foul.

Referee Lannoy ignored him.

Eddie jumped up from the ground in anger, waved his arms and complained endlessly, completely ignoring that Aston Villa had launched a fast counterattack attack.

Mourinho was very dissatisfied with Eddie's performance this time.

He roared at the field, "Return to defend! Return to defend! Return to defend! What are you doing with Er Dayan? Return to defend!"

...

After being scolded by Mourinho, E Dayan quickly returned to defense.

Aston Villa's quick counterattack was not achieved, and Pepe directly knocked down Ha Mei by tactical foul.

Fang Jue was furious and expressed his dissatisfaction with referee Lanoy's failure to show Pepe the yellow card.

This is an excellent counterattack opportunity for Aston Villa. A tactical foul from Real Madrid stopped Aston Villa from fighting back without a card. This transaction is very profitable.

After being scolded by Mourinho, Eddie's attitude in fighting and returning to defense became a little more positive.

His positive attitude is: foul!

Twenty-one minutes, E Dayan almost hugged Ibrahimovic when he returned to defense.

Referee Lannoy verbally warned E Dayan.

"Isn't this a yellow card?" Fang Jue roared angrily.

Three minutes later, Edge and Alonso teamed up to bring down De Bruyne in midfield.

Referee Rannoy finally took out the card this time, and he showed Ozil a yellow card.

Mourinho was cursing on the sidelines, and he was very dissatisfied with the referee playing cards with E Dayan.

Of course, Mourinho knew very well that there was nothing wrong with this card.

Now, Mourinho is worried that after the Germans are scolded by him, he seems to be too active. Judging from this attitude, Mourinho is very worried that he will accumulate two yellow cards and be sent off in less than half of the game.

This is because Real Madrid only arranged Xavi Alonso as a midfielder, and Real Madrid's midfield interception ability has declined, which makes other Real Madrid players have to contribute on the defensive end.

For example, Di Maria and Eddie need to pay more attention to returning to defense and replacing the position.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to die, Mourinho grabbed Er Dayan who was preparing to throw the sideline ball on the sideline, "Calm down, I don't want you to be sent off before halftime."

Er Dayan immediately expressed his opinion, asking the coach to rest assured, he knew that he would not be sent off.

...

He was right, he would not be sent off.

Three minutes later.

Eddie got the ball in the frontcourt, and Modric went to defend him.

Seeing that it was not Clement who came to defend himself, Er Dayan was overjoyed.

He moved the football horizontally and made a move to cut forward and break through.

After tricking Modric into reaching out to intercept, E Dayan suddenly wiped the ball, then pulled the ball with the momentum, turning around on the spot with his left foot as the axis.

Modric was shocked and reached out and pulled Er Dayan.

Then he heard the other party scream and fell to the ground.

Modric successfully intercepted the ball, and then got furious. He didn't bring such a thing. He just pulled the opponent's jersey, and the guy screamed as if his legs were broken.

However, as he watched the opponent lying on the ground screaming more and more miserable, Modric was a little confused. He hesitated for a moment and did not choose to pass the football forward, but kicked the football out of the sideline, causing a dead ball.

...

Real Madrid team doctors entered the court quickly.

Modric stood aside and seemed innocent. He explained to the Real Madrid player who was walking over that he did not commit a foul because he was not injured by Er Dayan.

Ronaldo, Benzema and others did not cause trouble for Modric. They could see clearly just now that the Croatians at most pulled a big-eyed jersey with no malicious actions.

"Er Dayan was injured, it looked very painful. How did he get injured?" Reinker was also surprised.

At this time, slow-motion replay tells everyone what happened.

Er Dayan stopped and turned sharply in place, and at the same time he pulled the ball and turned around to pass Modric.

It was just as he turned around that when the German star in Real Madrid landed on his left foot, he seemed to have sprained his ankle.

"This is an unexpected situation that occurs when the player makes his own moves and has nothing to do with Modric." John Motson defended Modric, saying, "It seems that the Germans can't continue to play, which is bad news for Real Madrid."

The Real Madrid team doctor checked Eddie and frowned. They made a substitution gesture to the sidelines.

Mourinho was very impressed.

The sudden injury of E Dayan completely disrupted Mourinho's arrangements.

Bale is seriously injured and can't count on this season.

Kaka was also injured and was not brought to Birmingham at all.

Eddie was suddenly injured now, and Mourinho actually found that no one was available.

Mourinho himself finds it ridiculous that the dignified Madrid is no longer available.

In desperation, Mourinho had to compromise. He replaced Nacho, whom he had always looked down upon, and replaced the injured Eddie Eye.

Nacho plays right back.

Essin, who played the cameo right back, returned to the midfield position.

...

Fang Jue saw that Essin was adjusted to the midfield.

He immediately made an adjustment and asked the team to focus on attacking Essin.

The Big Buffalo performed very well at Chelsea and was considered the most reliable midfielder in the Premier League.

However, Essin is in a worse state now.

In fact, Mourinho insisted on using Essim and even preferred to play as a guest right-back rather than Nacho, which has also aroused criticism and doubts from the Madrid media.

They question Mourinho's use of nepotism.

"Maca" criticized that the relationship between Essin and Mourinho was extraordinary, and it was also rumored that after Essin joined Real Madrid on loan, he called the madman to be his "dad", which directly led to a sharp decline in the relationship between Mourinho and "Maca".

...

Fang Jue asked the whole team to focus on attacking the Essin point.

However, what he didn't expect was that the "Big Buffalo" who returned to the midfield was in a very good state today.

Aston Villa kept making efforts in Essin, but he never made any breakthroughs.

Ibrahimovic was taken seriously by Essin and was entangled for a while.

De Bruyne and Hamei were also focused on guarding on both wings. Coentron and Nacho adopted foul tactics against the two. For a while, Aston Villa's offensive rhythm was disrupted and there was no effect.

Faced with Aston Villa's sudden strengthening offensive, Real Madrid could only make every effort to defend.

The game was at a deadlock.

Aston Villa and Real Madrid have little choice but to do so, and both sides are in a hand-to-hand battle in the midfield.

Both sides have few shots.

To be honest, this game was relatively dull and not very good-looking.

The camera even captured a lady in the VIP room yawning boredly.

Although the game was boring, Fang Jue was not in a hurry at all.

The 3-2 win at the Bernabeu allowed Aston Villa to be at ease in this game.

Three to two away games, and three away goals were in hand. Even if this game was zero to zero or even zero to one, the final result was Aston Villa eliminated Real Madrid and successfully advanced to the semi-finals of this season's Champions League.

So, I didn't have to hurry.

In fact, for this game, the core of the main tactics that Fang Jue formulated for Aston Villa is "defensive counterattack".

Compared with the more aggressive ‘defensive counterattack’ at the Bernabeu.

In today's game, Aston Villa's defensive counterattack is the most conservative defensive counterattack. Even if you get a counterattack opportunity, you will not blindly press the whole line. The first thing you need to do is to defend well.

Only when the defense is not messy and the defensive formation remains complete will we consider investing more counterattack forces.

Among the double midfielders formed by Clement and Modric, Modric's top priority is not to organize the offense and quickly use the ball to counterattack, but to sort out the midfield to ensure that the midfield is not anxious or impatient.

In the front, De Bruyne and Hamei will also pay attention to the distance from the full-back and are ready to come back to help defend.

Only two players, Ibrahimovic and Lewandowski, were not mandatory to return to defense, and they could choose their own time to help defend as needed.

These two men remained in front of them to deter Real Madrid's defense line.

On Real Madrid, Di Maria was in poor condition and E Dayan left the field due to injury.

Rod was closely guarded by Aston Villa.

Benzema and Higuain in front were cut off from the route of transporting judgment, and they also seemed to be isolated and helpless.

...

Aston Villa had three shots throughout the first half.

Real Madrid had four shots.

Among the seven shots of both sides, the two sides contributed a total of four long shots.

When referee Lannoy blew the dull whistle to the end of the first half, many neutral fans shook their heads in disappointment and even cursed.

However, Aston Villa fans burst into cheers.

The first half was zero to zero, which was extremely beneficial for Aston Villa.

If Real Madrid wants to turn the tables, they must score two goals in the second half, while ensuring that they do not concede:

Aston Villa, who was in good shape in the first half, had a 2-0 difficulty in this mission.

So, at the end of the first half, Mourinho's face turned gloomy. Obviously, the Magic Birds knew that his team was having big size annoyance (not a typo).

Fang Jue smiled. After such a first half game, he was more confident that Aston Villa would eventually eliminate Real Madrid and advance to the semi-finals.

...

"Good job!" Fang Jue praised his players during the break.

He praised Modric in a key way.

In today's game, Modric sacrificed his offensive ability and helped the team defend more.

Modric is not a brute-force defense.

He sorted out the midfield in the position of the midfield in the organization, and used the pass and receiving and running coordination to ensure the stability of the midfield as much as possible.

Before the second half begins.

Glino found Fang Jue.

"Boss, let me play," said Glino.

"Stay honestly, you will be arranged to play when you need to play." Fang Jue said angrily.

"Boss, the game is too dull, I feel uncomfortable watching it." Gleno said distressedly.

Fang Jue almost laughed out loud, tell me, you stayed honestly on the bench, and you were just going to be dead at any time, and you actually said that the kick was too dull and it was uncomfortable to watch.

"Let me play, and the deadlock in the game will be broken immediately! Tell me, who will I do?" Gleno continued to say unyieldingly.

He really wants to play.

He is already thirty-three years old and can't play for long, one less game.

What a great opportunity to play against Real Madrid in the Champions League knockout stage. What a shame it would be if it didn't go up and play Real Madrid all at once.
Chapter completed!