Chapter 413 Barcelona, that’s it? !
“The game has been going on for twenty minutes, and Barcelona, which is sitting at home, seems to have suffered”
“Even though the La Liga giants have nearly 60% of the ball possession rate, they have not created too many goals. A good shooting opportunity was suppressed instead."
"The score is still zero to one, and the visiting team is in the lead."
"Manchester United's defensive formation is very high."
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"Barcelona players seem to be a little uncomfortable with the aggressive personal defense of Manchester United players."
With the commentator's narration, the live camera lens was also aimed at the coaches of both sides on the sidelines.
Luis Enrique frowned, folded his hands on his chest, and looked like he was thinking;
Mourinho, who was dressed in a classic windbreaker, had his hands in his pockets and his eyes were burning.
Returning to Camp Nou feels like he has returned to the time when he led Inter Milan to this stadium.
Mourinho knows Barcelona's tactics very well.
You know, for this game, he started watching Barcelona game videos half a month in advance!
Therefore, he formulated very detailed defensive strategies and guidelines.
Of course, this is also a process for him to build a defensive system on this Red Devils.
After Ling Feng helped the team get a dream start like lightning, and after Pique retired due to injury, Mourinho keenly captured the opportunity to win this game!
In his view, with Pique gone, Barcelona's defense is already riddled with holes:
Macherano, who is older, has a significant decline in running ability and speed. The full-backs can only defend in a defensive position;
Mathieu's level is average, except for his height, which is not worth mentioning;
Umtiti's speed and confrontation are good, and he also has a certain lead. He has the ability to play and play the ball, but lacks experience;
And Alba is an assist-type full-back, and his defensive ability can only be said to be acceptable.
Such a defense line can only be regarded as second-rate in Europe.
After repeatedly watching the game video, he came to a conclusion:
Now this Barcelona relies on MSN's personal ability to win!
So, how to restrict MSN has become an issue that every team against Barcelona must consider.
However, after repeatedly watching the game videos and researching, he found that there was no way to effectively limit the performance of MSN!
Messi, Suarez, and Neymar are all top players in today's football pyramid.
It can even be said to be number one in every position!
Taken individually, they all have super personal abilities to lead a team with a single core.
What’s more, three people joining forces? !
However, as the defensive master of Barcelona, Mourinho quickly thought of a good way:
That is to prevent MSN from getting the ball too much!
Instead of allowing the MSN combination to comfortably transfer the ball from the midfield to the frontcourt, it is better to suppress them and cut off the connection between the backcourt and the frontcourt!
If there is no ball at their feet, even the three South American heroes whose personal abilities explode when they are picked up alone will not be able to return to the backcourt to get the ball, and then pass seven or eight people in a row into their own penalty area. The ball went into the goal guarded by De Gea!
So, Mourinho did not choose to retreat to half court in this game, but chose to take the initiative and press high!
And one word he repeatedly emphasized to his disciples was-aggression!
They carried out crazy pressure and press in the frontcourt, and used a group of three people to press and siege the players holding the ball, and then did not allow Barcelona players to easily control the ball and pass the ball.
In addition to pressing Barcelona's backcourt, especially "little white" Iniesta made targeted defensive arrangements.
Compared to Messi being the ball-holding core in the frontcourt, Iniesta is the commander who delivers shells forward in the Barcelona midfield.
In Mourinho's view, as long as Iniesta is restricted as much as possible so that the midfielder cannot easily transition the ball to the frontcourt, Barcelona's offense can be restricted to a large extent. speed!
So, he asked Rooney on the right wing to retreat slightly, and then used his strong body to restrict Iniesta on the left midfielder from controlling the ball.
This arrangement is very simple, it is to restrict the "novice" from quickly sending the ball to the feet of MSN in the frontcourt, forcing Messi and Neymar to retreat to receive the ball, thus slowing down their offensive pace.
Although Rooney's defensive awareness and skills are not good. But the victory lies in the defensive enthusiasm and attitude, which are both very good.
He is like a British bulldog, always following Iniesta, entangled.
Compared with Messi's unparalleled pace, Iniesta relies on changes in rhythm to surpass others. As he gets older, his weakness of average confrontation ability is more exposed.
As long as Rooney gets on his body, the rhythm will be interrupted, and it will not be so easy to get past Rooney, who is one year younger than him.
Under Manchester United's targeted defense, Barcelona fell into an old problem since the beginning of this season:
Slow start!
Although he led the team to win the Triple Crown in the first year of taking office, he was praised as a "famous coach" by the media and fans
In fact, since the Champions League stopped in the quarterfinals last year, Enrique's The tactics were criticized by the media and fans.
Because, his tactical idea is to hand the ball to MSN and let them solve all problems!
And he doesn’t care much about the team’s backcourt defense and midfield organization. He blindly pursues the strategy of handing the ball to MSN as soon as possible and letting the South American Trident solve all problems. Fans angrily shouted, “If it weren’t for MSN, you would be nothing.” ”
If it weren’t for the fact that the MSN team is so strong and has almost defeated all the invincible players in the world, this representative coach of the “dog crown” school would have been criticized by the fans until he got out of class.
Originally, both Enrique and Barcelona fans felt that Barcelona could
play this game without him, just because they had MSN!
However, when they saw Manchester United pressing forward, making it impossible for Barcelona, they began to realize that something was not right.
The five players in the midfield, Ibrahimovic, Rashford, Rooney, Ling Feng, and Kante, with Mourinho waving and shouting from the sidelines, spared no effort to press Barcelona's backcourt again and again.
Under Manchester United's unconventional high-position press, Barcelona's backcourt was robbed in a very embarrassing situation.
It also made Enrique on the sidelines and the Barcelona fans in the stands very confused:
What is going on?
You Mourinho stopped playing bussing and started playing high-position pressing instead? !
Many times, he was forced to make long passes from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and then gave the ball to Manchester United.
After getting the ball, Manchester United quickly handed the ball to Ling Feng and let him instigate the attack!
If Messi is Barcelona’s accelerator, Ling Feng is Manchester United’s accelerator!
Barcelona's 433 tactical formation is obviously stronger in offense than defense. Strictly speaking, only Busquets and Rakitic are defending in the midfield.
And the three midfielders are too far apart to effectively intercept and defend the center immediately.
The most fatal thing is that when Ling Feng retreated in the middle, no one came up immediately to stop him from getting the ball!
This also surprised Ling Feng.
This is a "treatment" that is not available in the Premier League
Because, in the Premier League, every team knows that they cannot let Ling Feng get the ball so easily.
However, at Camp Nou, Barcelona and Enrique believed that there was no need to focus on Ling Feng.
And such arrogance is destined to pay a price!
In the 26th minute of the game, Ling Feng got the ball again in the middle.
Barcelona's 433 tactical formation is obviously stronger in offense than defense. Strictly speaking, only Busquets and Rakitic are defending in the midfield.
So when he turned around, he saw Rakitic coming from the left.
And behind him is Suarez's defense.
Faced with the situation of interception in front and pursuit behind, Ling Feng did not panic at all.
I saw that the Red Devils No. 7 just feinted with his upper body and broke through to the right, tricking Rakitic into moving to the right. Then he slammed his right foot to the left, and a fried meatball was swiped from the left side!
“Beautiful pass!”
Then, before Busquets stepped forward to block the ball, he directly handed the ball to the outside with a cool outside instep. Ibrahimovic in front took advantage of the situation and moved forward.
Ibrahimovic leaned on Mathieu with his back, knocked the ball directly to the left, and then ran into the penalty area.
With the ball in hand, Rashford once again got the chance to challenge Mascherano!
Rashford, who is about to turn 19, faces the 32-year-old Ma Mao.
This is the showdown between the new generation and the old era!
In this game, Rashford's left wing is definitely a surprise move for Manchester United's offense.
Once Ling Feng advances in the middle and Ibrahimovic attracts the central defender, Rashford on the left will definitely have more space to carry out vertical impact.
And his target is Mascherano!
Although Mourinho encouraged Rashford to boldly break through with the ball before the game.
However, from the beginning of the game until now, the young Master La seems to have not yet entered the state.
After all, this game is only the second starting game of this amazing boy in the Champions League!
And facing a super giant like Barcelona, the young player is a little nervous.
I want to perform well and become famous in one battle, but I am afraid that I will not perform well and let down the trust of the head coach.
Thinking too much leads to hesitation and lack of decisiveness in action.
This time, he wanted to cut inside laterally and then hit the wall with Ling Feng to cooperate.
However, Mascherano predicted his route in advance, and a blocking position cut off his connection with the ball.
Then in desperation, Rashford directly pushed Ma Ke, and was immediately called for a foul.
A few times one-on-one on the wing, Rashford was almost completely guarded and had no temper at all!
Seeing that Rashford could not take advantage of Mascherano, Ling Feng also played a tactical role as a field commander.
While the ball was dead on the sideline, when Luke Shaw came up to kick the ball, Ling Feng also ran over and shouted to Rashford:
"Marcus, you're welcome! ”
"Show off the momentum you had in training and pass him directly!"
"He is older and his speed is definitely not fast enough for you!"
Of course, his shouts were also echoed by those next to him. Mascherano, Rakitic and others heard.
Of course, Ling Feng didn’t care whether Mascherano understood or not.
It’s best to listen and understand, so that you can get into Brother Ma’s mentality.
Hearing the instructions from Ling Feng, the big brother, Rashford also did the same
However, before Manchester United could create another killing opportunity, Barcelona finally launched a threatening offensive in the frontcourt in the 33rd minute of the game!
It’s still Messi who drops back to get the ball!
Starting to accelerate on the right, after passing Kanter, there was a sudden pause, and then he sent an extremely precise diagonal pass with his left foot, finding Neymar on the far side of the left.
Faced with this long diagonal pass, Neymar directly showed off the skills of a Brazilian samba dancer:
I saw him standing on his left foot, turning his right foot behind his left foot, and using the inside of his foot to stop the ball steadily.
Then he dribbled the ball forward, stepped on two bicycles, shook Valencia away, and shot into the far corner decisively!
Bang!
De Gea made a wonderful dive and blocked the ball from the baseline.
Neymar, who thought he was a sure winner, also waved his hands angrily, lowered his head and cursed.
Even so, the audience gave warm applause to this attack.
Barcelona's corner kick chance.
Seeing that except for Mathieu's high point in the penalty area, there is not much advantage.
Iniesta, who took the corner kick, did not pass the ball directly. Instead, he made a tactical coordination and passed the ball to Messi who came to respond.
Then, facing Rashford who was back on defense, Messi made a fried ball and directly replicated the operation of passing Nani back then!
This wave of passing made Camp Nou burst into cheers.
However, Kanter and Ling Feng came over immediately to help defend, leaving Messi without much room for breakthrough.
After thinking at high speed, Messi slumped his shoulders and continued to break to the right. However, he stopped and passed the ball with his left foot to Suarez in the middle.
However, no matter how hidden the passing intention was, it was still successfully predicted by Ling Feng, who was always in control of the entire field!
After stretching out his long legs and directly intercepting the pass, he immediately shouted:
"Marcus, run!"
Before he finished speaking, Ling Feng sent a direct pass to the left!
Hearing this, Rashford immediately used all his strength to sprint forward!
At this moment, due to the corner kick pressure, both central defenders came to the frontcourt penalty area, leaving only two players in Barcelona's backcourt.
One is right back Mascherano, and the other is left back Alba.
When Rashford dribbled the ball across the center line, in front of him was Mascherano, who had defended him many times!
This time, facing Mascherano, Rashford immediately recalled Ling Feng’s teachings:
Observing that the opponent is older, don’t hesitate to make soup directly!
So, he made a prompt decision, waded the ball behind Ma Xiaomao, and then accelerated and rushed over before he could react.
For a moment, Mascherano didn't even have time to reach out to pull Rashford, and he was overtaken by him!
"It's over!"
"Rashford dribbled the ball towards Barcelona's backcourt!"
When he reached the edge of the penalty area, Rashford slowed down slightly and turned his head. After observing the right road, I saw a white figure cutting in at a terrifying speed!
“Wow!”
“That’s amazing!”
"Ling Feng carried out an outflank at the speed of the wind"
Ever since, Rashford did not hesitate and made an inverted triangle cross pass, sending the ball to the no man's land in the middle of the penalty area.
The next second, Ling Feng rushed over!
At this time, Alba, the only defender left in the backcourt, was hesitant between attacking and retreating.
In the end, I also missed the best opportunity to attack, so I could only grit my teeth and choose to step forward to block.
However, Ling Feng unceremoniously used the arch of his right foot to complete a push shot!
With a loud bang, the ball shot out!
A black shadow clung to the turf, flew past Alba's feet, slipped through Ter Stegen's fingertips, and got into the lower right corner of the goal!
With the goal, Camp Nou was once again occupied by the cheers of the visiting team fans.
What hurts the hearts of Barcelona fans more than the goal is Ling Feng’s celebration after the goal:
He turned around, faced the main stand of Camp Nou, shrugged, spread his hands, raised his eyebrows and smiled.
That look seemed to say:
Barcelona, that’s it? !
(End of this chapter)