Chapter Five Hundred and Sixty First, Unexpected Changes

Nainggolan's fierce tackle this time seemed to be shoveling on the Manchester United players. They quickly came out of the free state at the beginning and gradually improved. Especially Kanter, who partnered with Nainggolan in the midfield, has once again revealed the potential of a world-class midfielder.

In a scramble, he cleverly tackled Harvey's forward pass and broke the ball out of bounds; and then in a dribble of Iniesta, he completely blocked Iniesta's passing route, Let Iniesta's forced pass fall into Alisson's arms.

After these two wonderful performances, Iniesta, who was walking back, exchanged a look with Harvey. The two tacitly understood what the other wanted to say: this young French man is not easy to mess with!

In fact, Kanter is not the only one who is not easy to mess with. After Nainggolan tackled Neymar just now, in another defense, he used his strong body to knock Neymar out of the baseline for the second time. This time Nainggolan wasn't even called for a foul.

The referee once again received boos from the home fans, and Neymar, who staggered and barely stood still, was depressed. He looked up at Nainggolan and felt a chill all over his body. He felt that this ferocious Belgian was a butcher, and his next tackle might break his leg!

Thinking of this, Neymar's heart became even colder. In the next period of time, the number of times Neymar dribbled the ball on the side decreased a lot. He passed the ball more to Messi at the far end and Suarez in the middle, and then looked for other opportunities, and tried to avoid Naingo orchid.

Suarez, who was in the penalty area, also fell into Smalling's close marking and was unable to get a chance.

In this game, Messi, the core of Barcelona's offense, is also closely guarded by Alonso. Once they got a chance to move forward, the defense led by Vidic immediately entered the state of zone defense, preventing these three players from getting opportunities through cross-positioning.

Near the midfield, Iniesta and Harvey were positioned higher, and they were closely defended by Kanter; when Neymar was doing nothing, Nainggolan handed over the task of marking Neymar to the right back Ba Rencia, and then he and Kanter formed a double midfielder to confront Xavi and Iniesta head-on.

Barcelona's lagging midfielder Busquets just wanted to step forward to help the offense. At this time, De Bruyne pressed up to prevent Busquets from having the opportunity to step forward.

As a striker in this game, De Bruyne appeared in the midfield position more often, and his role in offense was not as great as defense.

The first half of the game lasted more than 20 minutes. Although Barcelona has been suppressing Manchester United's half, they still have nothing to gain.

At this time, Enrique on the sidelines suddenly understood: Manchester United is not playing a 4-4-2 formation at all in this game! They've been playing 4-4-2 under the guise when in reality they're playing 4-2-3-1!

In this game, it seemed that De Bruyne was playing forward, or the position of shadow forward, but today De Bruyne appeared more near the center circle, and the two defensive midfielders formed a tight formation with him in front of the back line. The defensive system suppresses Barcelona to the greatest extent.

Barcelona's three midfielders Busquets dragged behind, while Manchester United's three midfielders De Bruyne rushed forward, and the three perfectly defended Barcelona's trio.

Although Xavi and Iniesta are extremely strong, Kante, who spared no effort to run, and Nainggolan, who is fierce in steals, organically formed a joint force and suppressed Barcelona's two world-class midfielders for a while!

The reason why Kintag sent De Bruyne instead of Lampard in this game was to take advantage of De Bruyne's younger and more physical characteristics to suppress Busquets in all directions. And Busquets' speed is his weakness, De Bruyne will use his explosive power to compete with him for the ball as much as possible, even if he can't break Professor Bu's ball,

At least let his pass lose a certain amount of sight.

Now it's the 30th minute of the first half, and Barcelona still haven't scored Manchester United's goal. And Manchester United's offense was even worse, they didn't even take a shot! It seems that Jin Taige really gave up defense completely today.

Seeing this situation, Enrique made tactical adjustments off the court: he let the central defender Mascherano step forward and push it to the position of the midfielder, and then let Busquets press forward to respond forward Harvey and Iniesta, the three formed a joint force.

This change made Barcelona's offense more violent. Kante and Nainggolan are extremely difficult to deal with Harvey and Iniesta, plus a Busquets who can attack and defend well, the two of them can't stand it completely.

Busquets is known as the "Ball Blind Filter" among the fans. He seems to be of little use in the team, but everyone who knows him knows that Busquets is a Chinese player no matter whether he is in Barcelona or the Spanish national team. The most indispensable role in the field.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Enrique's adjustments were immediate.

Busquets and Harvey hit the wall twice in a row, and then pretended to pass it to Iniesta. As a result, he flashed past Kante who was marking him, and rushed to the top of the Manchester United penalty area!

Manchester United's goal is in danger!

When Busquets robbed Vidic, he pinched the outside of his instep, passed the ball into the penalty area, and handed it to Suarez. At this time, Smalling stared at Suarez closely, preventing him from turning around.

But Suarez suddenly passed the ball to the side. At this time, Neymar plugged in at high speed and kicked the ball to the far corner!

"Suarez can't turn around! Messi and Neymar are running! Pass to Neymar! Neymar's shot!"

"The ball was rubbed by Valencia who marked him, the arc became smaller, and Alisson held him in his arms!"

"Alisson kicked the ball out with a big kick! Martial got the ball! He drove in at high speed on the right!"

"Martial dribbles the ball into the Barcelona penalty area along the baseline!"

Seeing this situation, Kintag off the court stared at the situation on the court with good eyesight, and he looked forward to Martial's performance very much.

In this game, Kintag asked the veteran Lampard to play as a substitute. During this period, Lampard started consecutively. He was physically exhausted in the final stage of the season. Fortunately, there are Kroos and Martial who can perform well. young players.

Kintag has considered several combinations, such as letting Kroos directly replace Lampard and become the midfield commander.

But Kintag still vetoed his own idea. In this game against Barcelona, ​​Kroos' strong offense and weak defense will be penetrated by the opponent.

In the end, Kintag moved De Bruyne to the center, and then let Martial, who has better breakthrough ability, play on the right, just to let him use his excellent dribbling to create opportunities in the counterattack.

And now, the opportunity has come!