Chapter 407 Mutual Calculation

In the afternoon, the Porto players went to the Olympic Stadium in Rome to adapt to the venue. After half an hour of relaxed training, Ferreira took the players to visit the Colosseum in ancient Rome, and then returned to the Napoleon Hotel where they stayed for a meeting. ?

Before the meeting, Ferreira showed the highlights of two games to the players, one was Barcelona sweeping Real Madrid 6:2 away, and the other was Barcelona beating Bayern 4:0 at home.

The video and highlights of these two games have been watched many times by Porto players, but the day before the game, Ferreira played it again.

"Maybe you are tired of watching it, but I have to play it again. The reason why I played these two games repeatedly is to tell you what kind of opponent you will face tomorrow.

In all fairness, are we better than Real Madrid and Bayern? Everyone knows that these two opponents are stronger than us, and they lost so badly against Barcelona. If we play against Barcelona, ​​will we concede double-digit goals?

So since reaching the finals, I have been reminding everyone that we can only honestly defend intensively, steal one if we have a chance, and drag it to a big battle if we don't have a chance, and never try to attack.

Our only chance is that Barcelona's left back Alves, center back Marquez, and right back Abidal are all suspended due to injuries, and only the former Manchester United substitute defender Pique is left as the main back.

Against Arsenal, the reason why we were able to eliminate them was because we seized the shortcomings of Arsenal left back Gibson and made a breakthrough from one point. This time Barcelona is expected to let the 35-year-old veteran Sylvinho play the left back and Puyol play the right back. We have to counterattack from the left this time and hit the left every time. We have a little chance of winning the championship. "

After explaining the complete tactics to the players, Ferreira instructed the 11 players separately, how to mark the opponents, how to run, how to press, and how to destroy Barcelona's mercury-like short pass penetration.

In the end, Ferreira called Gao Xiaodong, Alves, and Falcao aside, and made a small contribution to his own central axis. In Ferreira's tactical design, these three people are the most important. Does Porto have any? Hope to be upset, Alves' defense, Gao Xiaodong's offensive and defensive conversion and one pass, Falcao's shot are the most critical.

"Barcelona's individual breakthrough ability in the frontcourt is stronger. We can't defend them one-on-one. We can only compress their space, join forces to defend, and don't hesitate to foul. We can't let them break through at will. Alves, yours The task is the heaviest, in this game you have to shout more and call your teammates to help defend together.”

"Xiaodong, Falcao, Barcelona's ball control ability is very strong, and the ball possession rate can often reach 60 to 70%. That is to say, in a 90-minute game, we must have very few chances to get the ball. I hope you can play efficiently,

Cherish every opportunity to get the ball. "

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Grand Hotel Veneto

Italian four-star hotel located in the center of Rome.

There are many famous local tourist attractions around this ancient building from the 19th century, the most famous of which are the Spanish Steps and the Trevi Fountain, which are only a few minutes away from the Grand Hotel Veneto.

Spanish giants Barcelona stayed here after arriving in Rome.

When Ferreira held a meeting with the players, Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola had just led the players back from the wishing fountain.

According to the locals, any tourist who comes to Rome only needs to drop three coins into the wishing pool and make three wishes. After the coins fall into the pool, the three wishes made by tourists will come true.

Guardiola's team has already won the league and the Copa del Rey before, and is now one Champions League trophy away from the treble.

Guardiola, who is a little superstitious, not only lives next to the wishing fountain, but also personally takes the players to make a wish, hoping that the team will realize its ultimate dream and lift the Holy Grail of the Champions League.

After returning, after dinner, Guardiola also held a tactical meeting for the Barcelona players.

Before the meeting began, tactical analyst Carlos Planchot showed the Barcelona players a ten-minute video of Porto's last 12 games in attack and defense.

The usual opponent Barcelona will only analyze 5 to 6 games, but for such an important game as the Champions League final, Barcelona analyzed the video footage of the previous 12 games of the opponent Porto.

Carlos said: "Judging from the game video, Porto will definitely adopt defensive counterattack tactics. Intensive defense and fierce pressing are inevitable. Against Arsenal, which is similar to our technical style, Porto uses this trick. Gao Xiaodong is this team. The core player of the team, his skills are average, but he is very comprehensive, strong in body, full of stamina, amazing long-range shooting ability, and a good long pass. They are the key players we need to mark. Lock Gao Xiaodong, basically It locked down Porto's attack."

After the tactical coach Carlos finished speaking, Guardiola said: "Coach Carlos just said his views on this game, let me emphasize a few points:

First, Porto must be defensive and counterattack throughout the game. Everyone can guess this, but how to implement this tactic, I think it should be considered in more detail. For example, in the first round of the match between Porto and Manchester United, Porto It is also mainly defensive counterattacks, but they stormed at the beginning, scored a goal, and then defended. We must take this into account.

Second, regarding Gao Xiaodong, he is the most comprehensive player I have ever seen. He can perform quite well in almost any position. It will be very difficult to mark him, and it will also destroy our formation, so our best What is the solution? Pedro, tell me. "

Pedro was just a substitute. He was named by the head coach, and he was a little panicked. He said: "Zone defense, or zone man-to-man defense."

Guardiola smiled slightly and said: "Wrong, we have to control the ball at our feet, and don't give him the opportunity to pick up the pass and break through. Remember where our advantages are, we don't compete with them, we have to Fight technology."

Guardiola continued: "It is true that Gao Xiaodong is the core of Porto, but we should not think that Porto is Gao Xiaodong's team alone. In fact, Porto has many attacking points, such as Falcao, Hulk, Rodriguez, Merreles, they are good offensive players, ignore their words, we will be punished."

"Our full-backs Abidal and Alves are both injured. The opponent will definitely attack our two wings. The right midfielder is very likely to be especially Sylvinho. We must pay attention to him. defense."

"In the end, it is not skill and physical fitness that determine the outcome, but mentality and will. We can't take the odds to heart, and we can't underestimate our opponents. Porto is a two-time Champions League champion. They eliminated Manchester United and Arsenal and reached the final. , we have no reason to underestimate them, and we will go all out to become the first La Liga team to win the Triple Crown." 8