Chapter 113 The Difficulty of Barcelona

Barcelona has gradually felt the pressure.

Atlético de Madrid's offense was terrifyingly fast. When Merida got the ball on the wing, he quickly handed it over to Ozil in front. Their fast break started again. Ozil didn't dribble the ball himself, but crossed the The ball is transferred to Morris, who then picks Aguero forward.

Suddenly Barcelona is nervous!

In this game, Atletico Madrid is not a double striker. The lineup is actually a single striker. Diego Forlan is at the front alone, and Aguero is a central midfielder-in fact, it can be regarded as half a striker, but the position is slightly closer. Afterwards, there are only some longitudinal premise than Ozil and Reyes.

Wansheng arranged for Aguero to play this position, not because of tactical considerations, but purely because of Aguero's technical strength and speed. With Maurice and Raul Garcia both playing at the back, Aguero Luo is the core player in the middle of the midfield, and he wants to provoke the team's offense.

So when Aguero successfully got the ball and dribbled it straight to the penalty area line, Barcelona suddenly became nervous.

Busquets greeted him.

In Barcelona, ​​Busquets is a very important player.

Everyone knows that Messi is Barcelona's number one star and the world's top talent, but in fact, it's just because Messi is a striker, scoring a lot of goals, and attracting attention in the game.

Sergio Busquets is also a top talent in the world. He has become the core of Barcelona's offense and defense, and his age is one year younger than Messi. Many people think that Busquets is older than Messi. To be outstanding, because he means more to the Barcelona squad than Messi as a striker.

Busquets was born into a football family, his father was the son of Barcelona goalkeeper Carlos Busquets in the 1990s.

So Busquets is naturally an orthodox 'Catalan player' from Barcelona's youth training.

In 2007, Busquets began to represent Barcelona B team in official competition, when Busquets was only 18 years old, and a year later, he was promoted to the first team, in the summer of 2008 in the Catalonia Cup. In 2019, Butzkes played for the Barcelona first team for the first time.

A month later, Butzkes made his La Liga debut in Barcelona's match against Sporting Santander. Barcelona beat Switzerland Basel 5-0 away in the Champions League on Sunday, making his debut in the Champions League. He scored a goal in the 15th minute, his first official goal for Barcelona.

In December 2008, Butzkes, who had just played in the Barcelona first team for more than three months, renewed his contract with the team until 2013, with a release clause of up to 80 million euros.

The speed of Busquets' progress is astounding.

At that time, as a player under 20 years old, it only took one season for him to become the main player of Barcelona, ​​and his position became more and more stable. It is one of the most undecided main players in the team. You must know that he is not yet 23 years old.

In January this year, Busquets successfully renewed his contract with Barcelona. The contract period is up to 2015. The penalty is as high as 150 million euros, and the annual salary has reached a high of 5.5 million euros.

A player under the age of 23 received a high salary of 5.5 million euros, which shows Busquets' ability, and the 150 million euros release clause also proves Barcelona's determination to keep Busquets.

In La Liga, no player will underestimate Busquets, even if he is not as famous as Messi, he is younger than Messi, but he is already the core of Barcelona's offense and defense.

So does Aguero.

Even more cautiously against the Busquets defense than against Xavi.

But Aguero did not pass the ball immediately, but tried to break through Busquets. As long as he can get rid of Busquets, then he will have the greatest degree of initiative, whether it is passing the ball or shooting himself, there will be a chance.

But Busquets is not a good breakthrough.

Aguero's feet swept across the field in a row, but failed to deceive Busquets' center of gravity, so Aguero planned to leave the speed forward directly, but Busquets suddenly stretched his foot to stop the ball, and the football was kicked to the ground. On the side, Aguero couldn't catch up immediately, Pique quickly stepped forward and kicked the ball to Xavi.

Barcelona fans let out a long breath.

They are still very worried about Aguero, even if many people stubbornly believe that the best star is in Barcelona, ​​but the last time they played against Atletico Madrid, Aguero had two goals.

No one dares to underestimate Aguero now.

Let this Argentine break out, Barcelona's defense is not necessarily safe, but fortunately Busquets did a good job, he successfully blocked Aguero.

Aguero was a little annoyed after losing the ball. He covered his face with his hands, and then waved to his teammates, signaling to come back next time.

Next time...coming soon!

Driven by Atlético de Madrid, the pace of the game became very fast, and Barcelona increased their speed, but Iniesta made a mistake as soon as they passed the ball across the halfway line.

The fast break followed by Atlético de Madrid is here again!

When Maurice passed the ball to Aguero again, Barcelona suddenly found that they couldn't keep up with the rhythm. Busquets, who had previously run to Aguero's side, failed to keep up immediately. As a result, Aguero came forward and successfully stopped the ball.

"It's Aguero again!"

As Aguero took the ball again, the entire Atletico Madrid could be seen in the audience.

From the backcourt to the frontcourt, every player ran forward according to a certain route, and everyone was fast, as if they were pressing towards Barcelona as a whole. The momentum alone was a little suffocating.

As soon as Atletico Madrid moved, Barcelona couldn't keep up.

Other Barcelona players, similar to Busquets, just wanted to defend the players next to them for the first time, but when Atletico Madrid rushed up, their reaction was a little slower. Any running and defense like pressing was completely lost. significance.

For Barcelona, ​​the most fatal thing is that Atletico Madrid's cooperation is too fast!

Some players can only watch Atletico Madrid cooperate, they want to defend, but they have no idea where the ball will go in the next moment.

In fact, Atletico Madrid has no tactics or formation to speak of.

In this kind of extremely fast cooperation, many times it depends on the habits of players in training and on-the-spot performance. Wherever the football is, the first reaction of the players in that position is to kick the ball straight to their teammates. Atletico Madrid's advantage is that they control the ball, they are the attacking side and have the initiative, while Barcelona can only follow passive defense.

At this moment, any defensive formation is meaningless!

Some Barcelona players don't even know what to do. Although many of them are experienced, it is the first time they have experienced such a fast-paced game. Their movements and reactions can't keep up, let alone how to get there. defended.

Players who have ideas go to defend nearby opponents closely. After all, football still depends on people to play. Those players who are slow to react are constantly running but do not contribute to the defense at all.

Barcelona is clearly in a mess.

At this moment, after Aguero and Maurice completed a collision with the wall, they suddenly forcibly wiped them into the penalty area!

The Barcelona fans in the stands exclaimed!

Pique rushed over to stop Aguero, but Aguero did not entangle with Pique, but directly chose to pass the ball into the penalty area!

"Aguero! Pass the ball..."

"Fran—"

As the team's only striker, Forlan is in the penalty area. He doesn't have much time to cooperate, and his most important task is to find opportunities to shoot.

Now is the chance!

Fran took two steps forward against Puyol, and then he waved his right foot!

Puyol kept exerting force on his side. He couldn't destroy the ball immediately, so he could only interfere with Fran's movements as much as possible.

Fran was disturbed by Puyol, and his center of gravity was a little skewed, but in the end he completed the shot and the football went straight to the goal. Unfortunately, he failed to exert force and was held in his arms by goalkeeper Valdes.

"It's a pity... Puyol's defense was successful... He interfered with Forlan's shot..."

Puyol, who was praised by the commentator, frowned.

In the attack of Atletico Madrid just now, Puyol smelled the danger, and he suddenly felt that the game was more difficult than expected.

This season, Puyol has suffered a lot of injuries. The Barcelona League played against Atletico Madrid twice, but Puyol failed to play.

Before, Puyol didn't understand why the team was at a disadvantage in the league competition, and was even killed by Atletico Madrid's home and away doubles.

Now he somewhat understands.

This Atlético Madrid is really hard to deal with!

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Forlan missed the shot, he felt a little regretful, but the game did not stop because of the shot.

Goalkeeper Valdes immediately sent the ball, hoping that the team could take the opportunity to play a counterattack.

Atlético de Madrid were quick to defend, and almost as soon as Forlan had finished shooting, his teammates, who had little hope of running to the edge of the goal to assist, began to prepare to retreat.

This is Wansheng's special advice.

By the time Valdes held the ball, Atlético de Madrid had already started to retreat quickly. The football passed the center line after a few passes, but Atlético de Madrid had already established a defensive formation, and Barcelona had no chance to play a quick counterattack.

They can only keep passing the ball on the perimeter, looking for opportunities by controlling the ball.

Wansheng stood on the sidelines and felt a little regretful that Fran did not score the ball. Before he knew it, 30 minutes had passed. Now if there is a goal, the team will be very beneficial.

Unfortunately, didn't get in.

Wan Sheng didn't care too much, the game is like this, often when you want to score, it is difficult to score, even if there is a chance, it is the same, fortunately, the team played the feeling it wanted, and the fast-paced game has already made Barcelona. Rhona was a little uncomfortable.

The game continues, no doubt very beneficial to the team.

Guardiola on the Barcelona coach's bench, his brows have been furrowed. The game has gone on, and he has found that his adjustment to increase the thickness of the midfield has hardly played a role.

Guardiola was surprised.

Atlético de Madrid's successive waves of attacks have caused a direct threat to Barcelona's defense and even the goal. The most important reason is that the pace of the game is so fast that even Barcelona can't keep up.

Guardiola was surprised at this point. He always felt that when it comes to fast-paced cooperation, Barcelona is the best in the world. Only Real Madrid can compare with Barcelona, ​​but Real Madrid In the face of Barcelona, ​​they can only choose passive defense.

Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid are similar.

Both are Madrid teams, and the technical styles of the two teams are not very different. Therefore, after Atletico Madrid's technical ability has improved, they played against Barcelona and chose a tactical style similar to that of Real Madrid.

Now Guardiola finds himself wrong.

Atletico Madrid can double-kill Barcelona in the league, relying not only on defense and the performance of individual stars, just look at their cooperation performance, that kind of fast-paced cooperation, it is difficult for Barcelona to play , but Atletico Madrid have done well.

This is also the reason why the situation in Barcelona is unfavorable - the team can not keep up with the rhythm of the game.

Guardiola has also seen that the game has gone on until now. Atletico Madrid did not want to rely on defense to win. They are actually playing against Barcelona, ​​but their attack speed is very fast, and the defense is also very retreating. Quick, so it just looks like a defensive counterattack, but in fact, the two teams are playing against each other.

This fast-paced offense is a test of the ability of the entire team.

In terms of defense, the speed of the retreat can even affect the result of the game. With continuous fast-paced offensives, if you want to defend well, the speed of the retreat must be fast.

On offense, the team's overall ability to cooperate has become extremely important. Fast passing and receiving of the ball is a test of the player's ability and reaction. In this regard, Atletico Madrid is even better than Barcelona.

Therefore, Guardiola was very surprised. It was just that the tactical adjustment did not work. The team's overall cooperation is actually not as good as the opponent's?

He was even a little unacceptable.

Guardiola felt that the situation was not good.

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But not only Guardiola, but all Barcelona players feel that the situation is not good.

They didn't think so much about tactics and so on, but as players involved in the game, they had long felt the difficulty of the game.

The last time the two teams played against each other, Barcelona lost the game, but they felt very relaxed as a whole, because they were always on the attacking side. Except for the pressure on goals, when it came to the game, the pressure was very small. They can let go and think about how to score.

It's different now.

They even have a problem keeping up with the rhythm!

When the frontcourt players are attacking, they also have to worry about the defense of the backcourt, because as long as they lose the ball, the opponent can quickly pass the ball to the frontcourt.

On defense, they are also a bit out of step.

The opponent's cooperation is quite fast, as long as one neglect, the ball will go elsewhere.

Every player has to concentrate at all times.

The game consumes more than physical strength, but more energy, so Barcelona players have found that the game is much harder than expected.

Wanting to win the King's Cup is not as easy as the Catalan media said! (To be continued ~^~)