One Thousand Seventy-Seven Dead Ends

The dressing room of the visiting team at the Bernabéu.

When Martino, Lula, Ruby and others came in with Fabregas through the door, Barcelona's starting eleven immediately raised their heads, realizing that the team was about to make a substitution.

Especially Aguero, who bears the brunt, changed his face even more.

Fabregas can play midfield and frontcourt, but basically in the middle.

The iron triangle in the midfield is Basare's unstoppable main force, and in the front trident, Neymar is the upstart and Messi is the ace. Neither of them can move, so only Aguero.

What's more, Fabregas often played as a false center before.

After tempering in the Premier League, Fabregas is not afraid of physical confrontation ability, and more importantly, his passing and coordination awareness are also very good.

In contrast, although Aguero also has the ability to hold the ball with his back, his scoring ability and frontal impact ability are stronger, but he is indeed not as good as Fabregas in effectively connecting the left and right wings and midfield.

Sure enough, Lula signaled that Aguero could go to take a shower first.

Barcelona had to make some adjustments in the second half.

After Aguero left, Martino asked his assistant to pull out the tactical board and took the lead in analyzing the team's problems in the first half.

The score of zero to two is indeed relatively bad, but it is not yet time to despair.

Martino believes that one of the important reasons why the team conceded two goals in the first half was that Barcelona's offense lacked threat.

The game is dynamic. When Barcelona's offense is not threatening enough, Real Madrid will stabilize their defense and will naturally invest more in counterattacks. Then it is inevitable for Barcelona to lose the ball.

No matter from which point of view, Barcelona must solve the team's offensive problems as soon as possible.

But Martino still does not intend to change some of the team's tactics in the first half, such as medium and long passes.

It's an effective way to change the pace of the game, and Barcelona have a lot of players who are good at passing.

What Martino wants to do is to reconnect the team.

Neymar is a newcomer and has strong personal abilities, but he is not yet in harmony with the team, so Martino clearly instructed him that he should stay on the left.

Continue to create threats.

At the same time, Martino also asked the entire midfield of the team to pass the ball to Neymar as much as possible to create more opportunities for him to face Carvajal one-on-one. Ability to eat Carvajal's.

"If Real Madrid want to double-team you on this side..."

Martino took a pen on the tactical board and drew a large circle on the left side of Barcelona's penalty area.

"Neymar, then you try to move the ball to the other side and Alves will meet you on this side."

This is Martino's targeted deployment based on the trend in the first half.

Everyone nodded.

There is no doubt about Neymar's personal ability. If he faces Carvajal one-on-one, he can also create opportunities.

"Cesc."

After Martino placed Fabregas' chess piece on it, he turned and pointed at Fabregas.

"After going up, you can directly face the two central defenders of Real Madrid more directly, but I also want to give you a special deployment."

With that said, Martino pulled Fabregas' pawn back and placed it in the space between Ramos and Xavi Alonso.

The meaning is obvious, he hopes that Cesc Fabregas will find an opportunity between Real Madrid's left center back and midfielder.

"Your retreat will definitely involve Ramos' attention, and at this time, Messi can obliquely insert the gap you brought out, or advance forward and hit Ramos behind, and the two of you form a cross. transposition."

This time, not only the players, but even Lula and Ruby were impressed by it.

Martino's ability to coach well in South America is really not without level.

This move may seem strange, but it actually works wonderfully.

This cross-position of Fabregas and Messi can activate Messi to the greatest extent, and at the same time, Fabregas' retracement can also effectively respond to Harvey and Iniesta.

You know, the ability of Fabregas's final pass is very strong.

By that time, Real Madrid's defensive players will probably have a headache.

If you follow, the defense will loosen; if you don't follow, once Fabregas gets the chance to get the ball and pass the ball, the connection between him, Messi and Neymar will make Real Madrid's defense very deadly.

Lula and Ruby looked at each other, and they both saw the appreciation in each other's eyes.

Martino's move was obviously thought up in the game and based on the situation on the court. It is really not simple and very imaginative.

Many people don't know that, in fact, the head coach needs imagination just like the players.

If Barcelona can really create a threat on the side of Messi and Fabregas, it will definitely attract the defensive attention of Real Madrid. By then, the pressure on Neymar's side will be reduced a lot, and there will be opportunities to attack.

"Well, folks, believe me, we're not in despair yet."

"In the second half, we have to work hard to score goals, even equalize the score, and then go back to the Nou Camp, we will be ashamed!"

Martino finally mobilized passionately.

The Barcelona players were also encouraged and their confidence was rekindled.

...

In Gao Shen's past life, he met all kinds of people, and slowly, he also summed up some experience.

People live in this world with different personalities, resulting in different behaviors.

Some people are very radical and always want to hit their personal ceiling; some people are extremely conservative, always careful to avoid stepping on pitfalls, and always follow the rules.

Of course, in life, these two kinds of people are not common, and more are ordinary people between the two personalities.

Take buying a house as an example.

Gao Shen once had a colleague who missed the best time to buy a house due to various reasons. As a result, when the housing price was the highest and he had no money, he piled up all the loans he could. With all the money I could borrow, I went to buy a small third-bedroom house in the school district in the core area.

Later, because of the mask, the house price fell, and he was willing.

In his words, he is willing to bet and admit defeat. More importantly, what he wants is a degree, and he doesn't want to sell it at all.

Gao Shen also has a friend who has been holding coins for more than ten years. He saw Guojiang from the core area, saw the new district from Guojiang, and saw the suburbs from the new district...

He just watched helplessly with the money in his pocket. He could have bought a house in the core area, but in the end he couldn't even afford it in the suburbs.

Almost every time he would wail in pain, saying that if he had another chance, he would never be so cautious.

But whenever the opportunity comes again, he is still cautious, for fear that he will buy at a high position and suffer a loss, so he always picks and picks, but he doesn't pick one that makes him feel at ease.

Gao Shen and the two friends are different.

He is neither aggressive nor conservative.

When he had saved almost enough for the down payment, he started to look at the house. He did a lot of preparations, including investigating the housing prices, rents, and occupancy rates of popular communities, and finally came to a conclusion that he thought housing prices would rise.

Therefore, he made a decisive move, and when there were no new buildings in the core area, he decisively started at a location near the core area across the river.

Afterwards, housing prices really ushered in a round of skyrocketing, but Gao Shen never believed that the so-called housing prices kept rising.

Because nothing in this world is absolute.

Such is the case with a profound character.

When doing things, he likes to judge the situation and seize the opportunity while preparing as much as possible, neither greedy for success, nor shrinking.

Specific to the second half of the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup match between the Bernabéu and Barcelona, ​​after entering the intermission with a 2-0 lead, he comprehensively synthesized various information, especially after the reference opinions provided by the coaching staff, He guessed that Martino would attack in the second half.

He was also well prepared for this.

But he didn't expect that Martino would replace Aguero with Cesc Fabregas in midfield, and the team's tactics changed.

When the game progressed to the 51st minute, Barcelona made another long pass.

This time it was Harvey who made a long pass directly to the right side of the frontcourt to find Messi.

Messi stopped the ball and went inside, passed it to Alves, who came in after him, and ran to the middle by himself, but Marcelo chased after him.

When Messi received the pass from Alves, Xavi Alonso also ran over for the first time, but Messi dribbled the ball smartly to avoid Real Madrid's defenders, and then passed it back to Alves.

Alves made a long diagonal pass, which was accurately transferred to the feet of Neymar on the other side.

After the Brazilian player stopped the ball with his chest, under the close marking of Carvajal, he decisively dribbled the ball inside and accelerated the attack speed.

During the inside cut, Neymar quickly passed the ball into the penalty area.

Fabregas stopped the ball with his back to Pepe and quickly passed the ball back to the right of the top of the penalty area.

At this moment, Messi rushed over suddenly, stopped Fabregas' pass to the inside, followed up and shot directly with his left foot.

After the ball crossed an arc, it hung straight to the upper left corner of Real Madrid's goal.

dead end!

Casillas struggled to make a save, but there was nothing he could do.

One to two!

Barcelona recover a ball!

The entire Bernabéu stadium let out a burst of exclamation.

Barcelona's offensive cooperation this time was very exciting, and it was completely different from the previous cooperation, with more long passes.

This is also a change that Martino brought about.

Obviously, the Argentine is trying to transform Barcelona.

Gao Shen was standing on the sidelines. After seeing Barcelona score, he decisively made a substitution.

In the 55th minute, Gao Shen replaced Carvajal with Arbeloa.

This is a move to strengthen the team's defense on the right.

Carvajal's defensive ability is good, but he is still a bit tender, and he suffers a bit from Neymar.

Arbeloa's defensive ability specializes in all kinds of dissatisfaction, even Messi can't do anything about him.

...

After the substitution, Gao Shen made tactical adjustments one after another, and Real Madrid gradually stabilized their position.

Barcelona's attack began to weaken gradually.

But Gao Shen also has his own backhand.

Especially after Real Madrid stabilized their defense, Barcelona's problems also began to be exposed.

Modric has been suppressing Iniesta throughout the game, and Xiaobai also avoided Modric to play at first, but he began to attack head-on in the second half.

But in the fifty-eighth minute, when Iniesta tried to break through with the ball, he was flanked by Di Maria and Modric at the same time.

Iniesta was approached by Di Maria when dribbling the ball, and his body lost his balance. Modric decisively intercepted the ball.

Xiaobai fell to the ground, but the referee did not blow his whistle.

Modric quickly caught up, grabbed the ball before Busquets and moved forward, and he was about to form a counterattack situation in the frontcourt.

But at the critical moment, Busquets made a decisive tactical foul.

The referee also blew the whistle very definitely.