On the evening of March 28, at the Alp Stadium in Turin.

  The game is already in the sed half, nearing the 60-minute mark, and the score remains 0-0.

  Sihe start of the sed half, Capello has been standing in the and area of the home team's coag bench, adjusting the team's tactics acc to the situation on the field, especially monit some of the pyers' movements and positions.

  But tonight, Real Madrid's defense is very tight.

  Capello looked up at the clock, turned his head, and oward assistant coach Gabbiati on the bench.

  Gabbiati immediately walked over to the bend called Mutu's elling him to warm up quickly.

  The Juventus assistant had a solemn look on his face; the situation on the field was not optimistic.

  Capello had two attackers on the bench, Mutu and Zayeta, the tter standing at 1.88 meters tall. If he went on, Juventus would have three tall forwards in the front line.

  But the biggest problem for Juventus tonight was that the midfield couldn't deliver the ball effectively.

  ...

  At the start of the first half, Juventus pyed very actively.

  Trezeguet and Ztan Ibrahimovic attacked Real Madrid's bae fiercely.

  Real Madrid still used a 4-2-3-1 formation, trying to use the five midfielders to maintain stability. Initially, this wasn't very effective and they were suppressed by Juventus for a few minutes. However, Gao Shen quickly made adjustments, especially by pushing Raul and Beckham forward to tain Zambrotta and Chiellini, with Negredo pressing the tral defenders and Zidaargeting the double pivot midfielders.

  As a result, Real Madrid gradually stabilized their position.

  Once Real Madrid stabilized, it became increasingly difficult for Juventus to advance from the back to the front.

  Especially in the midfield area, Real Madrid had five pyers in that zone.

  sequently, Juventus was forced to rely on frequent long balls.

  Trezeguet and Ibrahimovic had an advantage in aerial duels in the front. Ramos wasn't tall, and Woodgate had recurring injuries, which made it difficult for them to test Juventus' two promi strikers.

  Gao Shen was clearly aware of this, so he pced signifit emphasis on peting for the sed ball.

  Trezeguet's ability to hold the ball was weak, allowing Real Madrid to trol the sed ball. Ibrahimovic liked to py with the ball at his feet, but as soon as he received it, there were at least two or three Real Madrid pyers around him.

  Because Real Madrid's formation was meticulous, they could effectively trol the sed ball.

  The ground py wasn't effective, and long passes were ineffit. Juventus was at a loss.

  The statistics reflected Real Madrid's defensive performaonight.

  Throughout the first half, Juventus only mahree shots, none on target. Trezeguet and Ibrahimovibio be offside six times.

  Who would have thought that Real Madrid would py defensively at the Alp Stadium!

  But was that it?

  Gabbiati always felt that Real Madrid ying straonight.

  ...

  When Gabbiati returo the bench, Capello also walked back, took a sip of hot water, adjusted his gsses, and looked somewhat anxious.

  "Have Zayeta warm up ter; tonight will be a tough fight," Capello said solemnly.

  Gabbiati nodded, "I always feel that Real Madrid is a bit strange."

  Capello g his assistant and nodded slightly, "Did you notice it?"

  Gabbiati was taken aback for a moment; it turned out Capello knew all along.

  "Every time we press forward to attack, Real Madrid also pushes up, defends high, presses our midfielders, and forces our forwards out of the penalty area. That's why we have few shots but many offsides."

  After Capello's expnation, Gabbiati immediately uood.

  "But," Capello tinued, "every time we retreat properly, hoping to lure Real Madrid out, they also retreat. That's why the rhythm of the game is se, different from usual matches."

  Hearing this, Gabbiati suddenly realized.

  He finally uood why he felt it was stra was the rhythm of the game.

  Juventus advanced, Real Madrid followed; Juventus retreated, Real Madrid also retreated.

  But why py like this?

  "Why?" Capello chuckled, "It's simple—it saves energy."

  When fag Juventus, any team wanting to sust i heavily in manpower and e a lot of physical strength and running, because Juventus is known for its solid defense.

  In other words, after iing a lot of resources and ing a lot of energy, it's still uaiher they score.

  Gao Shen's approach is that Real Madrid doesn't want to scoals. Apart from taking quick terattacks when the opportunity arises, the rest of the time is spent maintaining formation against Juventus' advances areats.

  One advantage of this is minimizing the pyers' running and physical ption.

  But the downside is also obvious—unless you seize a terattack opportunity, you won't score a goal.

  "Isn't this too servative?" Gabbiati felt a bit amused, thinking to himself, no wohe Spanish media is critig him for being servative. Indeed, he's extremely servative, not even daring to attack.

  But Gabbiati, being Capello's assistant, quickly thought it through.

  "I uand. He's preparing for the national derby and the sed leg."

  Realizing this, Gabbiati felt a bit stunned.

  Isn't this too bold?

  Even though the Champions League is a two-leg match, hoeople have such ce?

  Isn't this something only the world's top managers dare to do?

  "Real Madrid's lineup is limited. Without their Brazilian pyers, it's hard for them to perform well in all games. So, from the beginning, he hought of winning at the Alpiadium. He just wanted a draw, preferably a 0-0 draw," Capello said helplessly.

  Fag an oppo who defends tightly and doesn't want to win, he also had a headache.

  As for pying ugly, Juventus and Real Madrid were evenly matched.

  So far, the home team had four shots with zero on target, while Real Madrid had one more shot—five shots with one on target.

  It was a quick ter-atta the first half. After Beckham's long pass, Felipe hurriedly advanced from the left, made a cross from the bottom line, and Negredo followed up with a shot.

  Buffon saved it with a flying leap.

  This was the most threatening attack by either team so far.

  Other than that, it was really drowsy.

  "You know what? The pain in the world is that people don't know what they want. They always want more but don't uand that God has secretly put a pri everything. How much you get is how much you lose."

  Capello sighed, "This kid knows exactly what he wants and resist temptation. So you see, as soon as Real Madrid stepped forward, he shouted to let the team retreat because he only wanted a 0-0 game from the start."

  Gabbiati was a bit surprised. He didn't expect Capello's evaluation of Gao Shen to be so high.

  Is Gao Shen really a 25-year-old young man?

  "Even if this game ends 0-0 for him, is he so fident that he will wiional derby against Bara a us in the sed leg at the Bernabeu?" Gabbiati wondered.

  Capello shook his head and smiled, "Who knows? That's the fuhing about football, isn't it?"

  After a pause, Capello added, "Even if you ask me, if he really forces a 0-0 draw in the first leg and goes to the Bernabeu for the sed leg, is there any ce of winning? I 't answer you."

  "As managers, everything we do, every decision we make, is to help the team as much as possible, to improve the probability of sg or winning. There has never been an absolute certainty in football."

  Gabbiati his was the so-called uability.

  A lot of post-matalysis is based on the results to deduce the reasons. It's rare to deduce from before the game.

  "This kid is iing, really iing." Capello turned his head and g Gao Shen in front of the visiting team's bench.

  "So, what do we do now?" Gabbiati asked, "Just let him keep the score?"

  "He wishes!" Capello ughed, "Let Zayeta warm up a ready to py."

  ...

  ...

  Gao Shen stood in front of the visiting team's bench, staring worriedly at the field.

  Real Madrid's pyers all have an attag heart, and he was afraid they might rush out actally.

  At this point, they 't rush.

  Going forward is very difficult to scoals and es a lot of energy. How will they fight against Bara and Juventus Wednesday?

  More importantly, he was also Juventus to find loopholes to exploit in the sed leg.

  But he didn't expect Capello to be so relentless.

  Ih minute, Mutu repced Camoranesi and pyed as the left midfielder. Nedved switched to the right.

  Then, Gao Shen saw Zayeta warming up.

  Five mier, Zayeta repced Vieira.

  "Damn, is Capello crazy?" Maqueda shouted in disbelief.

  Three ter forwards!

  Zayeta, Trezeguet, and Ibrahimovic were all 1.9 meters tall.

  Gao Shen also felt like cursing.

  This clearly showed bullying Real Madrid's shorter pyers, right?

  But indeed, Real Madrid's pyers were at a physical disadvantage.

  Capello had another iion: he saw through Gao Shen's pn and forced a war of attrition.

  Otherwise, imagihree 1.9-meter tall ter forwards standing in the penalty area with high balls flying in. That se was like setting fire to the city!

  Gao Shen turned his head and g the home team's coag bench. Just as Capello looked towards him, he even nodded and smiled, which made Gao Shen curse inwardly.

  Miscalcuted!

  Capello is Rijkaard's mentor!

  Are these two masters and apprentices really pnning to join forces to crush me?

  How to say, you are both renowned and aplished, a you choose to bully a newer like me?

  Do you think that's appropriate?

  Does bullying me like this really bring you that much pleasure?