Chapter 305 Dear Camp Nou, This Is a Friendly Greeting From London

"Chelsea has changed its formation. Leon and Kroos have both changed to play the No. 8 position. Now Chelsea players are also controlling the ball in the midfield. Such a scene is really rare in Camp Nou..."

"Hehe, Enrique seems to be a little too practical, but it is understandable. Barcelona failed in the midfield competition with Chelsea last year.

With the previous experience, Enrique will definitely not fight Mourinho in the midfield again. Counterattack is a good idea. Messi and Neymar also have super personal ball-holding ability, and the tactics are more compatible."

"Yes, Coach Zhang is right, but seeing Barcelona's counterattack against Chelsea, I think many audience friends will have a very weird feeling like me at this moment.

After all, this is completely different from the battle between Chelsea and Barcelona in our impression!"

Zhan Jun said with emotion in the studio, while Zhang Lu beside him was watching the adjustments in the tactical details of the two teams in the live camera with interest.

In fact, it is not entirely true to say that Barcelona has completely given up the control of the midfield.

Enrique's tactical play looks more like a temporary avoidance at this moment.

After all, if you want to completely give up the excessive counterattack in the midfield, wouldn't it be better to let Iniesta and Xavi sit on the bench as a backup and further strengthen the interception power in the midfield?

It is also a wise choice to avoid a midfield decisive battle with Chelsea at the beginning, and to hand over the control first in order to prevent the midfield from losing control.

This play is highly consistent with the tactical thinking of Mourinho leading Real Madrid to challenge Barcelona in the 10-11 season.

First show weakness in the midfield, consolidate defense, strengthen counterattack power, and then wait for an opportunity to seize midfield control in the second half, press on the attack, and decide the outcome!

To attack the strong with the weak is to avoid using the shortcomings of your team to defend the advantages of a strong opponent.

Only if you can endure and defend can you talk about the desperate blow at the last moment.

Otherwise, if the defense line is broken in the first half of the game, then no matter how fearless and tenacious you play, it will not help you win the game.

However, Enrique chose to avoid the battle at this time, but Mourinho still seemed to have fallen into his tactical trap and chose to take control of the midfield.

This surprised Enrique.

He could not think of the reason why Mourinho would cooperate with him to adjust the tactics.

Such tactical changes also made the mentality of the two teams on the field change at the same time.

Barcelona's players naturally thought that their coaching team's tactical design was successful.

Chelsea's players were even more morale-boosted.

After all, they were the ones who dominated the game in the Camp Nou.

In the past, Barcelona played passing and controlling football in this stadium to suppress the opponent.

But today, Chelsea suppressed Barcelona in turn. How could this scene not make Chelsea's players feel excited? !

Most of the Chelsea players did not think of Mourinho's deeper tactical meaning at this moment.

But Leon and Kroos were tacitly waiting for Mourinho's further tactical instructions.

Like Li Ang, he didn't believe that Mourinho really intended to use the passing and controlling tactics to suppress Barcelona.

Chelsea can certainly play passing and controlling football, because Chelsea's midfield and frontcourt players are fully equipped.

In terms of passing skills and ball control ability, the main midfield and frontcourt players in Chelsea are no worse than Barcelona.

But this is not Chelsea's best offensive style after all.

Another thing, you play passing and controlling football in front of Barcelona?

They know what offensive routines to play, and they know how you play with their eyes closed. Isn't this a show of skill in front of an expert!

Li Ang thought of this point at the first time, and he didn't believe that Mourinho would not think of it.

So in Li Ang's view, Mourinho must have a backhand.

Before Mourinho gives his real killer tactics, what Li Ang and Kroos have to do is to consolidate their midfield advantage as much as possible, and at the same time be alert to Barcelona's counterattacks that may be launched at any time.

At this time, Kroos was mainly responsible for the tactical task of controlling the ball and issuing cards, so Li Ang naturally paid more attention to limiting Messi's performance.

In the 14th minute of the first half, Hazard tried to dribble and shake off Alves.

In the end, he passed, but the ball under his feet was poked away by Alves' experienced kick!

Pique took the lead and passed the ball directly to Busquets who retreated to receive it.

Professor Busquets took the ball and turned around at the moment of receiving the ball. After a little observation, he passed the ball to Messi near the center line!

Hazard must be too late to return to defense at this time. Li Ang directly shot and signaled Bertrand not to rush and retreat first.

He himself slowly approached Messi.

This was the first match between the two old friends in this game.

After Messi perfectly unloaded the ball, he took small steps and quickly pushed the ball to Chelsea's defensive third zone.

Li Ang blocked Messi's position when he cut inside and went to the middle, and he didn't rush to grab the ball easily, just like he did countless times in the past when he defended Messi.

He didn't kick easily, didn't lose his position, and always kept the defensive pressure on Messi, and then trusted his teammates!

Messi looked at Leon in front of him, who was still not easily fooled, and watched more and more Chelsea players return to defense.

In the end, he had to give up the idea of ​​a strong attack and pass the ball to Sanchez who pulled to the right to meet him.

This is not because Messi is afraid, or because he has a psychological shadow on Leon's defense.

It is simply because Barcelona has too few opportunities to counterattack and his tolerance for error is too low.

Instead of trying to gamble on being able to pass Leon and then get a chance to shoot, it is better to continue to control the ball on the offensive end, reorganize, and look for other opportunities.

Leon looked at Messi, whose offensive choices became more and more stable, and felt a sincere regret in his heart.

He is not a masochist, and he doesn't like to recall the dark scene when he was passed by Messi like a wooden stake.

But it is precisely because he has personally played against Messi at his peak and fought against him that he knows the terrifying ability of Messi at his peak.

So now looking at Messi who has to suppress his offensive desire for Barcelona and forces himself to become more stable.

He felt this regret from the bottom of his heart.

It's not that Messi can no longer dribble past others and create goals that destroy the balance of the game with his personal super ability.

It's that Barcelona can no longer provide him with trial and error conditions.

The previous Barcelona allowed Messi to give full play to his abilities.

Now it's time for Messi to give back to Barcelona.

So he has changed, and the change is still big.

But sadly, these two seasons are the last peak of Messi.

The omnipotent Leo Messi is gradually fading away under the cruelty of reality and the invasion of time.

And Li Ang also understood at this moment that he, who is entering his peak, may no longer have the opportunity to compete with Messi in his prime in offense and defense...

The direct dialogue between the two did not take place, and they finally passed each other.

Messi regretted that Sanchez was too impatient in handling the ball, and the flat cross he sent was destroyed by Thiago Silva.

And Leon had no time to continue to appreciate Messi's transformation, because after he received Terry's pass in the backcourt, he also received tactical instructions from Mourinho!

Even if it was just a quick glance, Mourinho's appearance of standing on the sidelines and shouting with a pen drawing three fingers was already seen by Leon.

"Go to the middle!"

Kroos's reminder came, and Leon looked up and noticed Ibrahimovic who was retreating to the top of the arc in the middle circle of Barcelona's half and stretched out his hand to signal him!

The next second, Leon's long pass without hesitation was sent directly to Ibrahimovic's control area!

Despite Busquets' defensive interference, Ibrahimovic finally jumped steadily, stopped the ball with his chest, and then controlled the football under his feet.

Kroos advanced one step ahead of Leon, and when Hazard and De Bruyne had not successfully broken through Barcelona's side defense, Ibrahimovic chose to pass the ball back to Kroos again.

The advantage of Chelsea's dual-core midfield arrangement was fully demonstrated at this moment!

Just like the Habermas combination in the peak period of Dream Team III.

No matter who launched the attack in the backcourt, there was always a core player who could rush to the frontcourt in time to meet his teammates and reorganize the deployment.

At this moment, Kroos played an important role in the secondary organization of the attack.

After receiving the return pass from Ibrahimovic, he just crossed the center line and passed the ball to Barcelona's right again!

But this time his pass target was not Hazard, who was closely watched by Alves, but Bertrand, who had already made a full effort to penetrate behind the Barcelona defense line!

This move of making a feint to the east and attacking the west immediately made the Barcelona defense line a commotion.

And Bertrand also stopped and ran to the Barcelona bottom line without any delay after unloading the ball.

Ibrahimovic took the lead in counterattacking into the Barcelona penalty area, and Bertrand's cross balls sent after observation followed one after another!

Pique wanted to take a closer look at Chelsea's echelon arrangement for this attack.

But Ibrahimovic had already rushed directly into his defensive area, and he had no time to think again. He could only jump up with Ibrahimovic in a slightly passive manner in the confrontation with him!

There were bursts of exclamations at the Camp Nou, but the football finally passed over the heads of Pique and Ibrahimovic.

Enrique's mentality exploded at this moment!

Because he saw the horrifying scene of Li Ang jumping up and confronting Mascherano in the air!

Barcelona's Marco flew to the side uncontrollably, and he was unlucky to be knocked over by Li Ang!

Under close defense, Ter Stegen, even if he reacted quickly, had no time to deal with Li Ang's fierce header!

After knocking over Mascherano and heading Bertrand's cross into the Barcelona goal.

Li Ang, who landed on the grass in the Barcelona penalty area and rolled around, then roared and slapped his chest, and ran towards the corner flag area of ​​Barcelona's half!

In the dead silence of the Camp Nou, Mourinho and Holland hugged each other passionately!

The tactical gesture Mourinho made to Leon just now was very straightforward, which was the traditional routine of counterattacking with a high ball from the wing.

Facts have also proved that this tactical variation is effective against Barcelona!

Leon took the lead in standing in the corner flag area, and then faced the crazy boos that came down from all directions, raised his head high, and proudly opened his arms!

Dear Camp Nou, this is a friendly greeting from London!