Chapter 275 Secret Weapon

After reading the report, Guardiola felt that the world was really an incredible coincidence. He had never thought that his team would be connected with Zhou Yi.

However, this incident is just a small episode and will not have any impact on Guardiola. For Guardiola, this thing is more like relaxing in the intense preparation work, listening to stories to relax and relax.

After he saw it, he dismissed the matter and didn't take it to heart.

If you don't get Zhou Yi, you don't get Zhou Yi. It's not a big deal, and Guardiola won't feel that there is anything to regret about it.

His focus now is still on the Champions League.

Since Zhou Yi is a player whose playing style is very similar to Xavi's in some aspects, things are simpler for Guardiola.

Because he is very familiar with Harvey, in other words, he is also very familiar with Zhou Yi.

His playing style, his passing preferences...Guardiola can all find some shadows in Xavi.

It would be easier to restrict Zhou Yilai.

After understanding his past playing experience, we can know that Zhou Yi's physical fitness is much better than when he first debuted, but his strength has not improved significantly. No matter what the reason is, it can at least show that Zhou Yi is not a strong player.

Then you can make a fuss about this.

When dealing with Dortmund, some teams like to arrange two or three defensive players around the core Zhou Yi, hoping to use their numerical advantage to suppress Zhou Yi.

But Guardiola did not intend to do this. On the one hand, Barcelona, ​​which played 433, did not have enough manpower to defend Zhou Yi. On the other hand, Guardiola believed that Zhou Yi did not need so many people to defend.

He didn't even plan to conduct any man-to-man defense against Zhou Yi.

Barcelona is world-famous for its offense. When it comes to Barcelona, ​​it seems to be the symbol and representative of offensive football.

But in fact, many people ignore Barcelona's defense.

Barcelona was able to win the Champions League last season, and their defense cannot be ignored.

Unlike some teams where defense is what the defenders do, for Barcelona,

Defense is a team-wide matter.

Other teams start to defend when the opponent attacks near their 30-meter area, while Barcelona's defense starts from the forward line.

Against any team or player, Barcelona will not change their strategy, which is regional defense.

Watching Barcelona games, you rarely see a Barcelona player defending one-on-one with an opponent player. On the contrary, you often see a ball-carrying player surrounded by two or three Barcelona players.

Unless the player holding the ball has super personal ability and good luck, it will be difficult to break through this encirclement.

At the same time, due to the sensitivity of Barcelona players to passing routes, they can easily cut off the passing routes of the opponent's ball-holding players and completely isolate the ball-holding players.

Barcelona can be seen defending like this from almost every corner of the stadium. They seem to always have a numerical advantage.

Some people may ask, such a defense requires strong running ability and super physical fitness. How can any team persist in playing like this?

Keren Barcelona has such ability. This is also something that has been overlooked, that is, their running ability far exceeds that of ordinary teams.

Barcelona's football, whether offensive or defensive, is based on excellent physical fitness.

With the support of such running ability, they can form a numerical advantage whether offensive or defensive. If you encounter an evenly matched opponent, rely on your physical strength to wear down your opponent.

Physical fitness and running are actually the secret to Barcelona's dominance in Europe.

This time, Barcelona will also use this method to deal with Dortmund, who has Zhou Yi.

Defensively, cut off the connection between Zhou Yi and other Dortmund players, launch an attack through a series of midfield and frontcourt sieges, create continuous pressure on Dortmund, force them to make mistakes of their own, and then seize these mistakes.

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When Guardiola led the Barcelona team to Dortmund, it attracted the attention of the media and fans.

At the airport, Barcelona soldiers were interviewed by the media.

"The West**** Stadium has a very scary home atmosphere. We will face severe challenges in this game. But we will not be afraid of our opponents. We will use the way we are good at to win." As a team Captain of the team, Puyol said this in a very domineering manner. Of course, he is such a person, and speaking like this is considered his normal style.

As the most famous star in the Barcelona team, Messi is relatively humble, but also a little simple: "We will go all out on the road."

He just said this, nodded and refused the interview requests of other reporters, and walked straight onto the bus.

As the world's top star, some airs are still necessary.

You know, he is a superstar who can be interviewed for a thousand euros a minute. He really speaks like gold.

Other Barcelona players were also chased by reporters, hoping to speak a few words in front of the microphone and camera.

Many Barcelona players did stop to be interviewed. It can be seen from their answers and expressions that they are in a very relaxed mood.

Although this is only the quarter-finals of the Champions League, although their opponent is Dortmund, and although they are playing away from home, as a Cosmos team, Barcelona has such confidence. This is the confidence that a team that has reached two finals in three years and won two Champions League titles should have. Although sometimes their confidence can make many people who don't like them hate them, that is not the reason why they should be humble.

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In the evening, German TV station also spent a lot of time reporting the news of Barcelona's arrival in Dortmund. It shows how much everyone attaches importance to this team.

When they appeared at the exit of the airport terminal, the flash lights on the scene almost became one.

In addition to the Barcelona fans who had arrived here in advance to welcome the event, the number of media reporters who came to report on the scene was even more exaggerated.

As the most dreamy football team on the planet, Barcelona enjoys high popularity. Wherever they went, there were flashes of light and screams.

Grosskreutz, who was watching news reports in the hotel, couldn't stand Barcelona's appearance and couldn't help but sarcastically said: "It's just a red carpet for them!"

Hearing this, Zhou Yi, who lived in the same room with him, laughed because what Grosskreutz said was so vivid.

Critics later began to analyze the match on television.

"...For Dortmund, all the unfavorable situations have caused them to encounter. The first is of course meeting Barcelona in the quarter-finals, and the second is the schedule, playing home first and then away, which is really It’s not a good schedule... I only have one expectation for Klopp’s team – just go to Camp Nou and lose less than Leverkusen in the second round...”

Before he finished speaking, Grosskreutz turned off the TV with a beep.

"That's nonsense!" he cursed and threw away the remote control. "When the time comes, we will give them a good look! You say so, Zhou Yi!"

"That's right!" Zhou Yi nodded vigorously and answered Grosskreutz with a firm smile and tone.

Hearing what Zhou Yi said, Grosskreutz laughed: "We have a secret weapon!"

He seemed confident.

Zhou Yi did not agree with him this time, because Zhou Yi thought of the secret weapon.

He can train in the virtual space every day and improves quite quickly.

But what about his teammates?

Even if they set aside fifteen minutes for training every day, the time for training is limited. Half a month is not enough time for a training. Zhou Yi knows this very well, because he can use an hour as a day in the virtual space, but he still needs to spend a long time to practice a certain ability well.

Now the team's approach is more like sharpening its guns before the battle.

Although it is said that one is sharpening one's guns before the battle, the unhappiness is gone.

But facing a team of Barcelona's level is almost boring.

This can be seen from his repeated confrontations with Barcelona in the simulated space.

Even after special training by footbonaut, Barcelona players have improved their ability to pass and control the ball to varying degrees.

But when Dortmund faced Barcelona, ​​they still lost more than they won.

Although the competition in the virtual space is only a simulated competition, this kind of numbers similar to probability statistics also has a certain meaning.

It can explain some problems.

That is, in terms of the overall strength of the team, Dortmund and Barcelona are indeed not on the same level.

If you want to defeat such a powerful opponent, it's not enough to just sharpen your guns in battle...