Thomas Muller is an orthodox Bayern Munich player. He was born in Wilheim, 40 kilometers outside Munich. He is also a model for German players to become famous at a young age.

Can you imagine?

When his peers were just 4 years old and were still playing, Thomas Muller had become a member of the Pal club in Wilheim and began his football career.

After completing 7 years of training at Pal’s club, Muller joined Bayern Munich Football Club youth training camp and scored 18 goals in the 2007 German A-level Youth League, helping the team win the runner-up in the Bundesliga under 19.

During his eight years at Bayern Youth Training Camp, Muller has completed his middle school studies in addition to daily training. Every week he has to take the train to and from the school to the training ground.

On August 15, 2008, in the Bundesliga match between Bayern Munich and Hamburg, Muller replaced Miroslav Klose in the last 10 minutes, completing his official debut in the first team.

In the summer of 2009, Muller was promoted to Bayern's first team and became an official member of the first team.

From the beginning, Muller was positioned as Bayern's fifth striker after Klose, Gomez, Tony and Olic, but with his outstanding performance, Muller quickly gained his position and attracted the attention of many German football celebrities such as Ged Muller. By now Muller has become a recognized forward genius around the world and is also regarded as the peak figure of Bayern Munich's forward line in the next ten years.

Thomas Mueller performed best not in Bayern Munich club, but in the German national team. While officially entering Bayern Munich first team, Mueller was also selected for the German national team.

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa was Mueller's battle to become famous.

In the first round of the group stage in Group D, Muller scored a goal for Germany and gave him an assist. Later, in the quarter-finals against England, Muller scored twice, helping Germany defeat England 4-1.

In the World Cup quarterfinals, Germany defeated Argentina 4-0. In the third minute, Mueller completed his fourth goal in the World Cup.

The German team failed to enter the finals. In the third place competition, Germany defeated Uruguay 3-2 and won the third place in the World Cup. Mueller scored another goal in the game, scored the fifth goal in the World Cup, and had three assists, winning the World Cup Golden Boot Award and Best Rookie, becoming the youngest Golden Boot Award in history.

With such performance in the German national team, Muller naturally became the No. 1 striker of the national team. More importantly, Muller is only 22 years old so far, and German players have always become famous late. Many peers are still in the youth team, but Muller has become the Golden Boot of the World Cup. It is conceivable how many German fans will support Muller.

When Mueller appeared, Bayern Munich fans cheered loudly, hoping that Mueller could play to help Bayern Munich score.

After Thomas Mueller appeared, it was certainly impossible for Bayern Munich to rewrite the score for a short time. Two minutes later, taking advantage of a dead ball, Atletico Madrid also made a substitution adjustment - Raul Garcia replaced Kevin De Bruyne.

In response to this, the stadium broadcaster Berba commented, "Bayern replaced Muller in hopes that Muller could help the team score goals, and Atletico Madrid's substitution obviously needs to strengthen the midfield."

After two months, Atletico Madrid fans have known several new players. Kevin De Bruyne has good abilities. He can be said to be the Belgian "David Beckham". In terms of personal abilities, he is indeed very similar to Beckham, but he is not the kind of pure midfielder. He is not doing very well in defense and support. In the 433 formation, perhaps he should play in Falcao's "right forward".

Raul Garcia is different. He is a pure midfielder and has a strong defense. As an old man on the team, he and his teammates needless to say.

This substitution adjustment is still easy to interpret. Whether it is effective depends on the game.

After Mueller appeared, Bayern Munich wanted to continue to strengthen the offensive and break through Atletico Madrid's goal in one fell swoop. If they wanted to get points, they had to score a goal first. Nothing else means anything else, so they had no choice.

But Atletico Madrid players all know that the time for counterattack has come!

Bayern Munich has been attacking for a long time. This time is enough for Atletico Madrid to adapt to their offensive. When talking about offensive ability, Atletico Madrid believes that it is not inferior to its opponent.

The reason why Bayern Munich can maintain continuous suppression is more important that Bayern Munich is the backward side. They have a heart to fight, so Atletico Madrid doesn't have to fight like that. They are already ahead, and it's not worth the loss to fight against Bayern Munich, so it's more important to stabilize the defense before.

But no team can attack the entire game all the time, just like Atletico Madrid's first 20 minutes of the first half, they must slow down the pace and make some adjustments to ensure the state and performance of all players.

The same goes for Bayern Munich.

Although they have been seeking offensive suppression, except for Thomas Mueller, who has just appeared, other players have not been able to keep up with their physical fitness and energy. If they hadn't been eager to score a goal, their pace would have slowed down long ago.

Atletico Madrid is going to counter-suppress and force them to slow down.

On the field, Thomas Mueller got the ball.

Heinx has high hopes for Mueller. When Gomez performs poorly, he can only rely on Mueller to be better. In fact, he doesn't like to put pressure on a young player. Mueller won the "World Cup Golden Boot" last year, but he is only 22 years old after all. In the eyes of many people, Mueller is still too young. In another 2 or 3 years, he will truly grow into a "general", but now Bayern Munich can only rely on the young Mueller.

Thomas Muller met Raphael Varane when he got the ball.

On the bench, Muller noticed Varane, a young player four years younger than him, but he successfully freezes Gomez, which must not be underestimated.

Muller glanced around and found that his teammates were not in good positions, so he chose to grab Varane's point. Just like Gomez's idea, as long as he broke through Varane, he would have the chance to face the goal.

But Mueller failed too!

When the two were about to meet, Muller twisted his body to the left and raised his left foot, as if he wanted to pass the ball, but Varane was not fooled. Now Varane's personal ability has increased a lot and he is already an excellent central defender. It is difficult to deceive him with ordinary movements. Seeing Muller's movements, he was unmoved at all.

Varane was not fooled, so Mueller quickly protected the ball. He was much more cautious than Gomez.

But at this moment, Varane suddenly stretched out his right foot. Muller had no idea that the other party would stretch his foot. He couldn't react, and the football under his feet was hit by Varane's toes.

The football rolled behind him.

Raul Garcia, who had just appeared, grabbed the ball. When the football was under his feet, Garcia was even a little stunned. He didn't expect to receive the ball just after he appeared.

But he immediately reacted - isn't this the best opportunity to fight back!

Raul Garcia no longer hesitates!

He handed the ball directly to Morris in the front left, and Morris was in the middle. In the defense, he mainly paid attention to the front of the penalty area. Seeing Raul Garcia get the ball, he immediately ran forward.

The two have a tacit understanding!

When Morris received the pass, he had his back facing the attack direction, and there was also a Bayern Munich player behind him. Schweinsteiger was also on his side. If he dribbled the ball by himself, it would definitely delay some time and increase the risk of counterattack. So Morris decisively chose to pass the ball.

Morris handed the ball to Mario Suarez on one side and then continued to rush forward.

Schweinsteiger next to him did not turn to defend Mario Suarez, because he knew that it would make no sense, so he ran with Morris.

But when the two fought together, Schweiingsteiger discovered the gap!

Morris is 34 years old!

Logically speaking, a 34-year-old player should have a comprehensive decline in physical fitness, let alone explosive power. But when the two of them rushed forward at the same point, he pulled down two and three positions with the other party in a few steps!

How is this possible!

Schweinsteiger was very surprised. He kept rushing forward, but found that he was getting further and further away from Morris.

"No wonder he won the Golden Globe..." Schweiingsteiger smiled bitterly.

At the same time, Mario Suarez also passed the ball to Ozil on the wing.

Ozil is quite fast.

When he received the ball, he launched a counterattack wave on behalf of Atletico Madrid.

In the eyes of Bayern Munich players, Atletico Madrid's counterattack is no different from before. The opponent has counterattacked several times before, but none of them can threaten it.

This time it will not be an exception!

With this mentality, Robben, Ribery, two wingers on the frontcourt, and forward Thomas Muller did not rush to retreat to defend. Instead, he waited in the frontcourt, hoping that his teammates in the backcourt could stop and pass the ball back.

Thomas Mueller has no defensive tasks, so it is not surprising that he has this mentality.

Robben and Ribery are different.

As wing forwards, the two must have defensive tasks, but until now, Bayern Munich has been attacking for so long, and their physical fitness and energy are a little unable to keep up.

This kind of thinking is just to comfort myself.

Robben and Ribery think so, and the other Bayern Munich players are not much better. They are thinking about how to break through Atletico Madrid's goal, rather than how to deal with Atletico Madrid's counterattack.

Soon they knew they were wrong!

Under the ‘b-tf’ tactical system, Atletico Madrid’s counterattack was pressed all over the line, and even the two full-backs moved forward with central defenders, regardless of the position of Bayern Munich’s frontcourt players.

By the time Ozil dribbled the ball to the bottom line, left-back Felipe Kasmirski had already followed, while Bayern Munich's right forward Ribery had just run across the center line.

Looking at Atletico Madrid's counterattack, Ribery already felt the crisis.

Ribery has played for Derby County before, which is where he became famous. He has a deep impression of Wan Sheng. He knows Wan Sheng's ability to lead the team and some of Wan Sheng's tactical ideas. Although many years have passed, Atletico Madrid's playing style still has the shadow of Derby County's tactics back then.

A counterattack will be pressed on the whole line!

Atletico Madrid is much tougher in offensive than Derby County back then.

That's how Ribery realized that the team was threatening. In the years he had been in Bayern Munich, he had become a little used to running, and he had forgotten that he had run all over the field when he was in Derby. Perhaps some teammates thought that Atletico Madrid players were constantly running back and forth, which was almost like wasting physical fitness. But because of this, Derby County won the Premier League championship back and forth.

What about now?

Will this wave be a "waste of physical fitness"?

Ribery ran backwards and couldn't help but look at the sidelines. The familiar figure stood there, as if he was feeling the attention, and Wan Sheng also looked over.

The two looked at each other.

Wan Sheng smiled and nodded at Ribery. Ribery was panting and had no expression.

At the same time, Felipe Casmirski also received the ball, and he passed the ball to Mario Suarez who followed, and Suarez passed Raul Garcia again.

Atletico Madrid's continuous crosses made Bayern Munich unable to make a key defense at all.

This is a classic counterattack routine for Atletico Madrid's daily training.

Many teams emphasize speed when counterattacking, but Atletico Madrid is different. Their speed is already very fast, so there is no need to emphasize too much. Instead, the efficiency of counterattack needs to be paid attention to.

How can we increase the efficiency of counterattack?

That is to make the counterattack more tactical. In the counterattack with full-line pressure, Atletico Madrid can easily gain an advantage in the number of players. They pass the ball continuously, delaying some time, and at the same time, making the opponent's defense arranged by the opponent lose its effect.

That's it now.

Faced with Atletico Madrid's counterattack, Bayern Munich quickly organized the defense, but the defense they built was on the left. Atletico Madrid used continuous crosses to send the ball to the right.

The players' running will definitely not keep up with the ball.

When the football reached Raul Garcia's feet, Bayern Munich could no longer defend him.

Raul Garcia's position is opposite the goal, Bayern Munich central defender Badstuber is still blocked in the middle, but Raul Garcia did not choose to break into the penalty area, but handed the ball to the right side of the penalty area.

There, Falcao followed!
To be continued...