Chapter 171 The Focus of Movement!
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Barcelona also sent all the main force.
In the past June and July, their overall lineup has not changed much, and only two players, Cesc Fabregas and Alex Sanchez, have been introduced in the summer transfer.
The newly appointed Barcelona president, Roselle, announced at the end of last season that the summer transfer budget was only 45 million euros. Under such harsh conditions, he could win Alex Sanchez and Cesc Fabregas in a row. Strong aid, Barcelona's transfer is still surprising.
Udine boss Pozzo once asked Sanchez for "50 million euros, a word can't be less", Arsenal changed the unit to sterling is the valuation of Cesc Fabregas. Negotiations for a top star are hard and long.
The technical department led by general manager Zubizarreta finally showed its ability to work. did not appear.
The principle of Barcelona's contract is to use the bonuses for winning many championships in the future as part of the clauses to offset the expensive transfer fees, such as Sanchez, 26 million euros plus 11.5 million floating fees. The high amount of floating funds also created La Liga transfer history.
Cesc Fabregas’s fixed transfer fee reached 34 million, with a floating amount of 6 million, but 5 million of which was subsidized by Cesc Fabregas himself. As far as the club is concerned, the down payment is only 29 million, and the remaining funds are still enough for Barcelona. The second team added two young players, Kiko Femenia and Rodri. "World Sports News" joked, "This shows Roselle's frugal management."
"World Sports Daily" analyzed, "Barcelona's first team only introduced two people, which proves that Guardiola's team formation policy has not changed, and he still pursues the construction route of less and better - the lack of central defenders, Pep will train Maas Celano, who has become a de facto third central defender, with no substitute at right back, and Dos Santos on top, as for a versatile player like Keita, he must be Guardiola's treasure."
Both new players are frontcourt players, and Barcelona's determination to continue to strengthen their offense remains unchanged.
In the media's comments on the signings, most of them believe that Sanchez will be an important addition to the MVP combination, and will continue to enhance the speed of the wing. After Boyang leaves, Villa will also have the opportunity to play more centers. s position. Cesc Fabregas is not only a substitute for Xavi, in Guardiola's words, "he can coexist with Xavi Iniesta completely", playing "No. 4" is still an attacking midfielder, and even as a substitute for Messi, Pep There is a plan and it is being implemented gradually.
Barcelona is also very aggressive in cleaning. Bojan and Romeu are young La Masia who need game time. They are willing to release them on the premise of getting a reasonable amount of money, on the condition that buybacks are added to the transfer contract. terms and guarantees against future losses. And Milito, a bench who has a high salary but doesn't make many appearances, decisively ends the contract and sends it away. While saving wages, it can also give the newly promoted Fontas, Munesa and Thiago more playing time. Don't waste the resources of the second team.
In general, Barcelona has done a lot of work in terms of transfers. They spend small money to do big things. Compared with Atletico Madrid's high-priced sale of the core Aguero and the practice of spending a lot of money on signings, the media is more concerned about Barcelona's transfer. optimistic.
However, whether the transfer is good or not depends on the game results.
Now is the time for the two teams to decide the outcome!
After the start of the game, the two sides began to test continuously, trying to find the state of the game. In the opening ten minutes, both teams worked hard on defense and were very cautious on offense, so the opening game was not hot and there were few threats to attack. .
Gradually, the two sides launched an offensive.
Both teams are top-notch in technology, spare no effort in attacking, and the most luxurious lineups on both sides are also in the midfield, so the intensity of the field leaders can be imagined.
Barcelona is still the old way of playing, constantly passing the ball, passing the ball, keeping the ball underfoot all the time, passing forward when there is a chance, and the exploratory pass is successful, and then it is likely to directly threaten the penalty area and the goal.
This style of play is a headache for many teams.
Last season, in the face of Barcelona's style of play, Wansheng had to let the team defend the goal, but now it is different. The team's staffing is more reasonable and its overall strength is stronger.
Whether attacking or defending, Wansheng is confident that the team is no weaker than Barcelona.
Therefore, Wansheng asked the team to strengthen the midfield fight and deal with the defense normally. As long as they put enough pressure on Barcelona, they cannot keep making mistakes all the time. As long as they make mistakes, the opportunity may become Atletico Madrid.
This kind of defense depends on luck and the performance of the players of the two teams, but luck in professional football is very important. Just like there is a saying that "there is no 100% victory in the game", which is the truth.
When it was found that Atletico Madrid did not defend the penalty area desperately, but let go of the formation to fight, Barcelona felt that there were many opportunities.
They made a threat in the 17th minute. Iniesta made a breakthrough from the wing and handed a direct cross to Messi. Messi waded through Godin with a strong shot and almost broke the door of De Gea's handle.
There was a sound of inhalation from the audience, and the fans who supported Atlético de Madrid broke into a cold sweat.
Wan Sheng sat steadily.
He did not change his face even a little bit because of the threat made by Messi in front of the goal.
Football matches are already very tense. If the opponent gets nervous after a shot, the coaching profession doesn’t need to continue. Otherwise, the mood will continue to fluctuate greatly, which is too dangerous.
In the next five minutes, Barcelona made threats twice in a row. Atletico Madrid seemed to have no defense, no intensive defense, no targeted blockade, and completely let Barcelona play.
This scene made Guardiola feel puzzled in the future. He felt that Atletico Madrid should not play like this, otherwise, wouldn't it be sure to lose?
Guardiola was a little confused, but he quickly understood.
In the 26th minute, the Barcelona midfielder kept passing, and Harvey made a small mistake.
The football hits Raul Garcia.
Raul Garcia made an oblique pass to Kevin De Bruyne, De Bruyne dashed forward quickly with the ball, Iniesta ran too far ahead and had no chance to defend at all, left back Abidal was defending alone, He didn't take De Bruyne seriously, but the real defense found it very difficult to grab the ball.
Kevin De Bruyne went straight to the bottom line, then dunked the ball over, but when Abidal thought it was going to be a pass, he lifted the ball high with the sole of his foot.
Football goes straight to the right penalty area!
Diego Costa rushed over, he rushed to the position to unload the ball, then turned his back to Pique, turned and volleyed directly!
Football swoops into the far corner!
Valdez accurately judged to save the ball, and the football bounced off the bottom line on the goal post.
This time it's the Barcelona fans' turn to breathe!
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The threats created by Kevin De Bruyne and Diego Costa did not seem to be in Barcelona's eyes. After that, they continued to push forward normally to find opportunities, but Atletico Madrid's defense was still very solid, although Atletico Madrid did not Stick to the penalty area, but the defensive formation is still difficult to break through.
There was a five-minute 'peace' period in the next game, but soon as Atletico Madrid pushed forward, Ozil's sudden outbreak became tense again.
This time Ozil chose to cooperate with Morris.
The two played for Manchester City together and came to Atletico Madrid together. They cooperated very well with each other. In just three passes, the football was pushed to the corner of the penalty area.
Facing Alves' defense, Ozil raised his left foot again. Alves subconsciously felt that he still had to pass the ball to Maurice, and his body leaned inward, but Ozil chose to continue forward along the sideline. Suddenly, he left Alves behind.
After breaking through Alves, Ozil quickly cut inside, dunked inside and swayed Puyol, and then he chose to cross.
The football hits the penalty area line in the middle of the goal.
Raul Garcia on the heel ran to the position. He waved his right foot directly in front of the ball, but Messi kept interfering next to him. Garcia's chance seemed small, but what Messi never expected was, Garcia did not choose to shoot, but ... continue to pass!
Garcia's right foot swung high and dropped gently, and he pushed the ball to the right side of the penalty area with his inner instep.
On the right is... Kevin De Bruyne!
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Kevin De Bruyne is full of surprises!
Since childhood, many people regarded him as a talented player, but as he grew up, after some achievements, De Bruyne was absolutely mediocre. He performed well in the Belgian league, but after all, it was only the Belgian league. The gap with the world's top leagues is not small. He knows that he has to adapt to other leagues when he is in other leagues.
After the official transfer was confirmed, more Belgian fans regarded him as a genius and believed that he would definitely become a top star in the future.
Kevin De Bruyne is also looking forward to the future, but after coming to Atletico Madrid, he found that many of his teammates are no worse than himself. Maybe he can quickly occupy the main position. The biggest reason is not ability, but position. --In the entire team, he is the only one who is a pure right midfielder.
In order to have a better performance, Kevin De Bruyne has been training hard, hoping to adapt to the team's tactics as soon as possible, but J-Rodriguesby is also a new Colombian teammate who is also a young player. He's more talented, and the opponent is growing at a rate that's visible to the naked eye, which also puts Kevin De Bruyne under great pressure.
The current team is still satisfactory to Kevin De Bruyne, but it is the first time he has been exposed to such complex tactics, and the speed of adaptation will be slower.
In the past half a month, the fastest growth of Kevin De Bruyne is in the movement to the penalty area.
In many teams, the full-backs are completely the wingers of the past. Unless they play individually, they seldom run into the penalty area and do the shooting work of strikers and central midfielders.
This is also the reason why many full-backs score very few goals.
Before Kevin De Bruyne was regarded as a future star in the Genk first team, his performance on the field was always the best, he had more freedom, and occasionally played as a striker, but last season 22 games He also only scored 5 goals. He has always positioned himself as an assister and has no expectations for goals.
Now coming to Atletico Madrid to adapt to the complex tactical system, Kevin De Bruyne felt that his head was big, but after listening to the words of the old players in the team, he focused on running positions, Especially the moves to the penalty area.
As a full-back, if you just run back and forth, it is very easy. Even if you have the ball, you can choose to bring your own, or cooperate with teammates in the middle.
The running to the penalty area is different. It is based on the overall formation of the team. The important thing is not to grab positions with teammates, and not to allow the team to attack with loopholes.
Kevin De Bruyne is focusing on that, and he's improving quickly.
The results of this training came out!
Raul Garcia just passed the ball according to the tactical routine. He subconsciously felt that someone on the right side would follow, but he regretted the passing moment, because the right side was Kevin De Bruyne-a newcomer to the team. .
How hard is it for a rookie to adapt to tactics?
Raul Garcia has experience. He adapts very slowly. When Reyes played on the right, he didn't get used to it after half a year, let alone a rookie.
But Kevin De Bruyne kept up!
Raul Garcia was surprised and surprised when he saw Kevin De Bruyne in the right place.
Kevin De Bruyne was very excited. He rushed towards the ball, suppressing his excitement, glanced at the door, and swung his right foot directly behind the ball.
go in!
"Kevin De Bruyne--!!"
A full-back ran into the penalty area to shoot. It was unexpected and very threatening. Every Barcelona player realized it, but it was too late for them to stop. The only thing they can do is pray in their hearts that the ball will not go .
Unfortunately, God did not stand behind Barcelona!
Kevin De Bruyne was just over 10 meters away from the goal, and goalkeeper Valdes was tricked by Raul Garcia and stood on the other side, too late to adjust his position.
The football goes straight to the near corner of the goal!
The moment Kevin De Bruyne completed his shot, the hearts of everyone on the scene were raised.
The fans who support Atlético de Madrid are full of joy, while the fans of Barcelona are a little desperate.
No matter what the fans think, there is no way to stop the football that is flying towards the goal!
Valdés didn't have time to save. He stood in the ground and waved consciously, but it didn't work at all. He could only watch the football fly in. (To be continued ~^~)