Chapter 940 Sad Story

As if awakened by Yang Yang's sudden volley, Barcelona quickly stabilized.

From about ten minutes into the game, the most outstanding pass control team in the history of world football began to find a feeling, stabilized its rhythm, and began to move slowly and steadily according to its own way of passing and controlling the ball. He fell on the ground and gradually put pressure on Real Madrid's hinterland.

During this period of time, Real Madrid did not directly switch to defensive counterattack because of the lead, but still actively adopted the frontcourt pressing and pressing tactics, and the defensive line still pressed forward, forming a wrestling with Barcelona near the center line.

In the 16th minute, Barcelona created the best chance to score a goal since the opening. Xavi quickly sent a free kick, Busquets went straight into the penalty area, and Pedro did not cross the ball immediately to find Messi and Bi. Leah, but tried to wade past Casillas himself, but was thrown into the penalty area by Casillas.

The referee did not signal a foul, but the Barcelona players put pressure on the referee, thinking it was a penalty.

Judging from the slow-motion replay of the live broadcast of the game, Casilla's attack timing was very good, and he directly threw the ball at Pedro's feet. The Barcelona winger just fell to the ground by inertia, which has nothing to do with Casillas.

A minute later, Barcelona played an exquisite cooperation. Alves passed into the penalty area low on the right side. Messi pushed the goal and scored, but the referee signaled offside. Accurate penalty.

Under the strong offensive pressure of Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid also showed great courage.

In the 21st minute, Real Madrid succeeded in pressing in the frontcourt, stealing the ball and passing it to Yang Yang on the left side.

After Yang Yang got the ball and got rid of Alves, he made a direct pass to the penalty area to find Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swedish center blocked Puyol with his body, then plugged in and got a kick near the penalty spot, facing the goalkeeper directly. , but a push shot failed to create a threat, and was flicked by Valdes to get the ball.

This was an excellent opportunity. Ibrahimovic was so angry that he slapped his head hard with both hands. Obviously, he was very depressed about his handling just now.

Sometimes the game is like that, it changes so fast, the players have to make a decision in a split second, right or wrong.

If, in the first 30 minutes, the two sides still had each other's offense and defense, and Real Madrid did not retreat, then in the last 15 minutes of the first half, after Barcelona completely controlled the situation on the field, Real Madrid had to retreat to the original position. Thirty meters square.

The three midfielders were lined up, closely guarding the defense line, blocking the route from Barcelona to Real Madrid's penalty area and goal.

In the last ten minutes, Real Madrid also fought back, but the strategy was more conservative. As long as the situation was not right, they would immediately retreat to their own half, even within a 30-meter area, to strictly block Barcelona's attack. passing line.

Even though it has been two years, Barcelona is still unable to start with this set of defense against Real Madrid.

As a weak link in Real Madrid's defense, Barcelona also tried to create a threat on the right. Alves and Pedro frequently attacked Marcelo's side, but Marcelo performed very well, not only completed His own defensive task, but also often to fill the team's defensive loopholes.

In the end, with the team's defense and the opening attack, Real Madrid managed to maintain a 1-0 lead until halftime, but the pressure on the players was still very high.

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At halftime, Benitez adjusted some of the loopholes in the first half of the team, and also affirmed the team's performance in the first half, especially the opening attack, Real Madrid played very successfully.

This also proves Real Madrid's progress in the past two years.

In Benitez's first century derby in Real Madrid, although the team beat Barcelona 5-0 away, it was a bit of luck. At that time, Real Madrid's opening attack failed to work, but was beaten by Barcelona. One was caught off guard.

Two years later, in the Champions League final, Real Madrid directly attacked Barcelona to score a goal in the opening attack, and even fought evenly with Barcelona for half an hour. It can be seen that Real Madrid is constantly narrowing the strength gap between itself and Barcelona.

Of course, it can also be said that Barcelona is in decline.

Puyol is 33 years old and Xavi is also 31 years old. The main players of the two central axes are obviously going downhill in their careers.

The most obvious is that Barcelona has always been slow to enter the game in recent times, which is a sign of the players getting old.

The AC Milan senior team coached by Ancelotti was like this, but they maintained the defense of the Italian team, while Barcelona maintained the team's passing system.

Barcelona themselves are clearly aware of this problem, so they are in full swing to finalize Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas, hoping to buy back Cesc Fabregas to fill the vacancy of Xavi.

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In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Although many people, including Real Madrid themselves, were guessing whether Barcelona would adopt a faster offensive advance, more direct passes and diagonal passes, when playing the offensive play behind Real Madrid, Barcelona still adopted it. A slow-moving play.

Guardiola's team still insisted on the ground pass and received cooperation, and after controlling the ball, slowly advancing little by little.

Real Madrid made two sets of plans for this, which obviously did not surprise Real Madrid.

As an opponent, Real Madrid knows Barcelona.

Yang Yang has heard Benitez mentioned more than once that Barcelona regards ball control as life, and in order to ensure the stability of ball control, their pass control is basically based on stability, so it can improve the speed of the team. Passes and oblique passes, long passes with greater risk, have never been considered by Barcelona.

Benitez's statement may be a little biased, but it basically tells the problem with Barcelona.

It was as if after the opening of the second half, Barcelona slowly passed the ball and advanced. After entering the first half, they encountered Real Madrid who were waiting for them. It was difficult for them to create opportunities and threats.

There are a lot of shots, but basically they are mainly long-range shots and blocked shots. There are only a handful of goals that can really shoot on target.

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The stalemate on the scene made the game look a bit dull.

Barcelona made a substitution in the 65th minute and replaced Villa with teenager Afele.

The Spanish striker was really out of shape in this game. In the face of Maicon, he basically did not show a good performance.

This also made the Real Madrid management in the stands shake their heads.

"Villa is no longer at his peak." Zidane shook his head.

Speaking of which, it was a really sad story, because Villa was only twenty-nine years old.

Florentino is also a shrewd person, and Zidane immediately knew what his special adviser meant when he said this.

Zidane is reminding him to pay attention to let Yang Yang avoid repeating the mistakes of Villa and other players.

With Yang Yang's current way of playing, no one knows that his state can be maintained for a few years.

With age gradually increasing, injuries will continue to increase, and every injury will lead to a decline in physical function. This is not a joke. If Real Madrid is really determined to use Yang Yang as the core of the team in the next few years, it must be protected. he.

Ancelotti's previous opinion is right. If you want to extend Yang Yang's peak period, you must let him change his playing style, just like Ronaldo was too lazy to run and concentrated all his physical energy to sprint to score goals. Same.

Messi is the same now. Guardiola put him in the middle of the frontcourt, and it is not without the intention of changing his position on the pitch.

They are all smart people, Zidane is a little bit, Florentino knows it, but he doesn't respond.

"Judging from the current situation, in a short period of time, we still have to continue to use this traditional Italian-style tight defense and quick counterattack in playing Barcelona. This is also the most effective way." Valdano said from the ball From the perspective of the technical director of the team, analyze the technical and tactical trends of the team.

Although Real Madrid hopes to play offensive football that is more beautiful and aggressive than Barcelona, ​​this is simply impossible to achieve when the ball cannot be beaten by Barcelona.

Valdano's remarks undoubtedly put a chip in Florentino's heart, because in the current list of candidates for Real Madrid's management, there is only one person who is best at this Italian-style defense. At the same time, it can enrich the team's central and frontcourt organization and attack in detail.

That is Ancelotti.

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Ten minutes passed in a blink of an eye.

In the 75th minute, Guardiola made his second substitution in the game, replacing Pedro with Bojan.

This also made everyone see the problem of Barcelona, ​​that is, Guardiola did not dare, or rather, he did not want to move the midfield.

Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, and Messi in the frontcourt, this is the guarantee of Barcelona's possession.

Before, Guardiola once replaced Iniesta with Seidu Keita, but as a result, Barcelona made more mistakes in passing and controlling the ball, which was quite fatal for Barcelona, ​​so it was quickly adjusted.

Now, Guardiola has made two substitutions, replacing the starting left and right wingers, but he just doesn't dare to move the midfield.

Benitez made a substitution at the same time, replacing Kaka with Robben.

After Real Madrid adjusted, the team returned to the four-three-three formation. Yang Yang, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Robben formed a trident in the frontcourt. Hit directly behind Barcelona's defense line, and Yang Yang and Robben will chase after them.

In this case, Ibrahimovic's central advantage, Yang Yang and Robben's speed are very obvious.

When the game was about to enter the 80th minute, Barcelona launched an attack, but just crossed the center line and was about to enter the 30-meter area of ​​Real Madrid. Javier Martinez took the lead and shoveled the ball to Madrid. Scherano.

After the Argentine midfielder got the ball, they quickly moved forward, and Real Madrid's front trident launched a counterattack.

A direct pass was accurately sent to the frontcourt. Ibrahimovic retreated, turned his back to the attacking direction, blocked Pique with his body, stopped the ball, turned to the right, and passed to the left back of Barcelona Adri behind Arno.

Dutch flying man Robben, who had not been on the bench for a long time, went straight behind him at a very fast speed and caught up with the ball one step ahead.

At almost the same time, Yang Yang also threw off Alves and slid into the left side of the goal from the left rib at the fastest speed.