Chapter 410 The No. 1 Battle at the Camp Nou (Two Chapters in One)
"This is the Nou Camp, maybe this will be the most important game of La Liga in the 2008/2009 season." Dolores said loudly at the Nou Camp's commentary booth, "Barcelona played against Ibiza at home, The second place in the league against the first place in the league, the real battle for the top of the table."
Players from both sides have already played.
When the broadcast introduced the names of Barcelona's players, the Nou Camp cheered loudly. When the names of Ibiza's players were introduced, the boos at the scene could make people's ears ring.
Today's starting lineups of both sides were played live on TV.
Barcelona lineup: 1-Valdes; 20-Alves, 4-Marcos, 2-Caceres, 16-Sylvinho; 6-Xavi, 24-Yaya Toure, 8- Iniesta; 10-Messi, 9-Eto'o, 14-Henry;
"Compared to the first leg in Ibiza, there are only two changes in Barcelona, one is that Caceres replaced the injured Pique, and the other is that Sylvinho replaced the suspended Puyol at left back. .”
"In the first leg of the match between the two sides, Barcelona suffered a disastrous away game. Guardiola's formation was also questioned after the game, especially the lack of necessary protection in the midfield. Yaya Toure became Ivy at that point. Sa's breakthrough, but this time, Guardiola still has the same midfield lineup as in the first round. The reason is very simple——" Dolores paused, took a sip of water, and continued, "Ivy Sa has suffered serious injuries. Modric, Royce, Alba and Aubameyang will all be absent due to injuries. Ibiza's attacking ability has been greatly affected. The pressure on Barcelona's central defenders will be Much smaller."
Ibiza home lineup:
Goalkeeper: 13-Claudio Bravo;
Defense: 2-Bolarouz, 3-Koscielny, 15-Hummels, 24-Henrique;
Midfielders: 4-Makelele, 5-Clemente, 23-Mark Corosas, 7-Juan Mata, 10-Sebastian Deisler;
Forwards: 9 - Robert Lewandowski.
"Compared to the first round of the match between the two sides, Ibiza's starting lineup has changed a lot due to injuries, especially in the frontcourt. Royce, Modric and Aubameyang are absent."
Fang Jue stood on the edge of the coaching bench of the visiting team, with his hands in his trouser pockets, staring at the field.
Assistant coach Ceballos signaled Fang Jue to return to the coach's bench and take a seat.
Because the coach bench of the visiting team is close to the Nou Camp stand, the insults of the Barcelona fans can be heard more clearly.
There is no hatred between Ibiza and Barcelona. Of course, Ibiza in the past couldn’t reach this big man even if he wanted to feud with Barcelona. However, after Fang Jue coached Ibiza, he first gave Barcelona in the King’s Cup 'Disgraceful exit', and in the first round of La Liga this season and the 9th round of the league, the hammer beat Barcelona 6-2, and was beaten 2-6 by the newly promoted. This was regarded as a great shame by Barcelona, so , even if the beam is knotted.
"It's okay." Fang Jue shook his head indifferently. In his opinion, the louder the Barcelona fans booed, the more they showed that they were afraid of him. He was even a little proud of it. Not all cats and dogs can make Barcelona people crazy Shhh yours.
Ceballos ignored Fang Jue. He didn't want to be scolded by Fang Jue on the sidelines. His mental quality was not as good as Fang Jue's.
At this time, players from both sides lined up on the field, shook hands, exchanged team flags, guessed coins, picked sides, and completed the routine before the start of the game.
The camera gave a close-up of Messi, the star of Barcelona. After Ronaldinho moved to AC Milan, Messi is the well-deserved number one star in Barcelona. It won applause from the media and fans.
In the coin guessing session, Ibiza captain Deisler won the Barcelona captain Xavi, so Ibiza got the right to pick a side and Barcelona kicked off first.
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With the whistle of the referee Gilles, the whole stadium was drowned in the huge cheers of Camp Nou.
Henry passed Eto'o's kick back to Messi.
Messi passed the football to Iniesta behind him, and he ran forward by himself. At this moment, Henry and Eto'o were already sprinting.
Iniesta made a gesture to pass back to Harvey, but he suddenly started. First, he passed Deisler with a beautiful spike, and then continued to move forward. The football was passed.
Messi received the ball, he was about to pull the ball and turn around, when Clemente's flying tackle came, the Argentine was startled, jumped up, dodged the flying tackle, the ball went out of the touchline, Barcelona's forward Line-in.
"Messi! Clement! This flying shovel is very fierce, but there is no foul, and the shovel is very accurate." Dolores shouted.
"Rough tackle, this is a flying shovel with the intention of hurting people!" Barcelona's commentator obviously didn't think so, because Clement's flying shovel really looked very fierce, if Messi hadn't taken the initiative Jumping up and dodging may really cause Messi to be injured.
Guardiola frowned. Although this was only the first offensive and defensive confrontation after the start of the game, it still made him more vigilant and caught a trace of information.
Is this to deal with Messi with a tough and fierce defense?
Guardiola decided to continue to observe. If he just used this simple method to defend Messi, it would disappoint Guardiola.
Guardiola is not worried, because this method is very common. Many teams now use this method to limit Messi when facing Barcelona, and add at most one man-to-man, but the effect is very general.
Guardiola glanced at the handsome young colleague not far away, and hummed in his nasal cavity. He felt very uncomfortable when he saw it. This is a natural rejection. To be honest, Guardiola has coached Barcelona for a year Barcelona's performance is still very good. It is currently 6 points ahead of its arch-rival Real Madrid in the league. A somewhat chaotic Barcelona with star Ronaldinho just left; in addition, in the European Champions Cup, Barcelona has also reached the quarter-finals, and the Copa del Rey Barcelona has also reached the final of the King's Cup, which can be said to be the third line Fluttering red.
It is the first time to coach the first team to achieve such a result, which can be said to be quite a brilliant record. It stands to reason that Guardiola should be surrounded by flowers, applause and endless praise, but unfortunately, none of these, Or it was much less than expected, because these flowers and applause belonged to Ibiza coach Fang Jue. This La Liga newly promoted polo team topped the league table and earned a lot of attention and applause.
Moreover, Ibiza can be said to be stepping on Guardiola and Barcelona, which makes Guardiola even more depressed.
Staring at Fang Jue's handsome face, and finally glaring fiercely at Fang Jue's thick and beautiful black hair, Guardiola snorted again.
Soon, though, Guardiola had no energy to envy Fang Jue's hair as he noticed his team was in trouble.
Obviously, Ibiza and Fang Jue are well prepared for this game. They have very complete plans on how to defend against Barcelona, especially Messi, and actually present these plans.
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"Ibiza's midfield and defense are very close together, which hardly gives Barcelona any room to move," Dolores said. "Ibiza's defense will try to press. The midfielders are also a bit further back, so there is very little space between their midfield and defense."
"Yes, it means that it will be very difficult for Messi to receive the ball in this area."
"Even not just Messi, whether it's Eto'o or Henry and Iniesta, it becomes very difficult to get the ball and push it easily."
"Makelele, Clemente and Corosas, Ibiza will even change to a three-man midfielder in due course, and Deisler and Mata will also retreat very deep."
"I even have a feeling that the absence of Alba, Royce, Modric and others from injuries has prompted Fang Jue to make up his mind to adopt this more practical and direct conservative tactic in this game." David Summer Ra spread his hands and said, "Because they have no choice."
"It is not surprising that this kind of performance happened to Ibiza. The team built by Coach Fang Jue is very particular about iron blood and discipline. They run aggressively and fight aggressively. They are like a sophisticated machine. All players can complete the coach's deployment." Dolores praised, "And this also made Messi very depressed in the game."
"Ibiza is also very focused on helping each other," said David Zamora. "Ibiza has Makelele, Clemente, and Corosas. They always have two teams. Personally watch Messi, other players in Barcelona will always look for Messi in the game and want to pass the ball to him, so this makes Ibiza relatively easier to defend, they will always limit Messi, always will There are at least two players watching him."
From the commentator's praise of Ibiza's tactics and performance, it can be seen that Ibiza is relatively successful on the defensive end, especially in defending Messi's strategy.
At this time, it was already 41 minutes into the first half. Although Barcelona took the absolute initiative in the game and their ball possession rate was as high as 71%, they still couldn't get a good result on the offensive end. chance, the score on the court is still zero to zero at this time.
"Perhaps, Guardiola should try to change his tactics, not passing Messi for the time being, and choosing to seek an attacking route from Eto'o or Henry." Dolores said.
"Yes, Ibiza's defense against Messi was successful, especially Boulahrouz, he was very successful in pressing Messi, as long as Messi has the ball, it's either him or Clemente, always It will be the first time to go up and persecute."
"Because the people of Ibiza know that if you let Messi get the ball comfortably, then the situation will become very difficult to deal with. So they want to make sure before Messi has the ball, or the moment he has the ball. There are enough people to defend him. Because once Messi gets up to speed, it is very difficult to guard him."
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"Messi has been restricted by us, why didn't Guardiola change his tactics?" Ceballos asked puzzled.
"He is training." Fang Jue said, "Because Barcelona is now taking the initiative, we are not a big threat on the offensive end. Therefore, Guardiola is not in a hurry. He is practicing tactics when Messi is heavily defended."
"This is the top battle." Ceballos exclaimed, that guy really dared to play like this in such an important game?
"This guy is very confident." Fang Jue said, "He has a clear goal, let's put it this way, he has a complete tactical and team building plan, and in this team building plan, Messi is crucial, he needs It takes a lot of testing to develop all kinds of tactics around Messi."
"Maybe it wasn't in the plan, it's just this guy's sudden decision, but in fact, this guy is using us for training." Fang Jue continued, feeling very upset.
Ceballos still couldn't understand, "He doesn't want to win, doesn't he want the La Liga championship?"
"Of course I want to." Fang Jue said with a bad expression, "So, it's just the first half of the game. If Messi can get out of the predicament and help Barcelona score in the first half of the game, it will be the best, but, If not, just watch, Guardiola will change in the second half of the game."
As he said that, Fang Jue glanced at the coaching bench of the home team, and he snorted heavily. This bald man has a personality and a shyness enough. Does this mean that Barcelona can solve the battle with half a game?
Finally, when the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, the score on the field did not change, no goals were scored, and the two sides played zero to zero in the first half.
"Haha, let's see, it stands to reason that Ibiza should be able to accept a zero-to-zero situation, but Barcelona is not satisfied. After all, Barcelona had a firm initiative in the first half of the game, but—" Dolores shouted Said, "Let's see, Fang Jue looks very angry and his face is not very good, while Guardiola is smiling."
The broadcast camera captured such a picture, and the narrator was also amused, and they felt a little puzzled.
"Does Fang Jue feel that they should score a goal in the first half to be satisfied? It's really laughable. With 33% ball possession rate and two shots, it should be thankful that they can score 0-0. He also What do you want to do?" Barcelona's commentator said sarcastically that in the first half, Barcelona took the initiative and Ibiza was relatively passive, which made Barcelona's commentator happy. The only regret is that Barcelona failed to score.
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