Xavi couldn't imagine what Barcelona would look like if they lost possession.

He felt that Barcelona at that time would definitely be like the fat piece of meat on the chopping board that could be slaughtered.

But this kind of thing rarely happens, especially in recent years.

After Rijcard coached Barcelona, ​​the trend of passing and control set off by Gao Han at Atletico Madrid has profoundly influenced Barcelona. Under this circumstance, Xavi gradually gained a foothold and became the main midfielder in the team.

Gradually, he became accustomed to controlling the ball, used passing and controlling the ball to play with his opponent in applause.

This brought him and the team an unprecedented sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

Especially in this season when Guardiola coached, Barcelona's pursuit of ball control has reached its peak.

Iniesta, who has stronger ball control ability and better understands the essence of Barcelona's inheritance, replaced Deco and became the team's main midfielder, partnered with Xavi, and joined Busquets in the drag-back position. Barcelona's ball control tactics are invincible and swept the entire European football world.

In no game, Barcelona does not have the advantage in possession of the ball.

Fifty percent?

No, the safe point should reach 55%, or even 60%.

How to pass the ball after the game, how to control the ball, and how to deal with the opponent's fierce pressing, Harvey and his teammates have already had a complete set of mature execution plans.

But tonight, when facing Bayern Munich in this game, Xavi suddenly realized that the team's set seemed to be a little unworkable, and Barcelona could not grab the ball possession from Bayern Munich.

Even ten minutes before the opening, Barcelona was relatively passive in the field, and his opponents scored several consecutive shots, forming a shot, especially Lucio's corner kick at the opening three minutes. The Brazilian central defender ran out of the gap and headed the ball, almost rubbing the post and out of the baseline.

If Lucio had pushed a little more straight at that time, the ball would have been lost.

Afterwards, Bayern Munich launched consecutive attacks, leaving Barcelona a little tired of dealing with it and could only struggle to hold on.

Fortunately, ten minutes later, Bayern Munich slowed down its offensive, while Barcelona took this opportunity to start snatching possession.

But Harvey realized it was very difficult.

Arturo Vidal!

He is not tall, his speed is not fast, and his movements are not too fierce. But he is very hard-working, very hard-working.

This Chilean player, who is not very famous, is said to have played defenders before, but Gao Han likes his fighting spirit and promotes him to the midfield. In this game, his position is even higher, which is clearly aimed at Busquets.

But his range of activities is very large, not only Busquets, but Xavi and Iniesta frequently enter his defensive area.

He was like a desperate man, running around there, chasing, and robbing, and never stopping for a moment, as if he would never be tired.

If Vidal was in front and unscrupulously destroyed and blocked, then Schweinsteiger and Modric were dragged backwards, forming a defensive barrier for Bayern Munich midfielder.

When Barcelona's pass finally avoided Vidal and sent it to Bayern Munich's midfield center, Schweinsteiger and Modric were often able to grab the loopholes in the first time and destroy Barcelona's pass.

This situation does not occur once or twice, but frequently.

One time after conceding the ball, Modric directly passed it directly and sent it to Robben's feet. The latter cooperated with Aguero and almost broke into the penalty area. Fortunately, Abidal stuck his position, making it difficult for Robben, who had left-footed, to attack.

Regional joint defense combined with man-to-man defense?

Xavi quickly noticed Bayern Munich's targeted tactics, which gave him a headache.

Generally speaking, Italian teams are best at using this style of play to restrain Spain's pass control.

Harvey couldn't help but turn his head and glanced at the Chinese man in a black suit standing in front of the visiting team coach's seat on the sidelines. It was obvious that all this came from his arrangement.

Barcelona's midfield is in an inverted triangle, with Xavi and Iniesta ahead and Busquets dragging back. Gao Han obviously adjusted Bayern Munich's midfield in this game, dragging Modric's position behind, and Vidal broke forward and turned into a regular triangle.

Three-on-three, Gao Han wanted this targeted defense to disrupt Barcelona's midfield pass control.

In fact, this trick is not new.

For Barcelona, ​​this situation has happened before. Many teams including Atletico Madrid, as well as in the Champions League last season, many teams used this tactic to restrain Barcelona's pass control.

But do you think this will make us rare?

Xavi snorted in his heart, glanced at Gao Han in dissatisfaction, and then shook Iniesta, who immediately understood Xavi's intention tacitly.

The middle road is no longer working, so I switch to the side road.

Last season, Messi and Ronaldinho were in charge of Barcelona's two wings. No matter which side they pass, it's fine. But not long ago, Ronaldinho transferred to AC Milan, and Barcelona can only trust Messi now.

Pass to Messi!

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Marcelo felt the pressure he was facing was getting bigger and bigger.

From the fifteenth minute, Barcelona continued to increase their attack on the right, and Messi began to get the chance to get the ball. Every time Argentine players took the ball, Marcelo was as if they were facing a big enemy and responded carefully.

This made him nervous all the time, and he didn't dare to slack off at all.

But just that is not enough.

Messi's performance is incredible. Every time he moves, he seems to see through Bayern Munich's defense, and can always move to the gap. Whenever he catches the ball, no matter whether the opponent passes it well or badly, he can always stop the ball steadily.

Every time he touched the ball, every step he took, the frequency of his pace, and the length of his pace seemed to have been carefully calculated. Marcelo always reminded himself at the beginning, not to be impulsive and not to step on his feet easily, but gradually, he found that he was thinking too much.

It's hard to keep up even if you follow, but you still have to make a move?

Facing a Messi dribbling, Marcelo even suspected that he had no choice. Apart from fouls, there was no effective means to stop him. He could only barely follow him again and again, blocking him and the goal, and forcing him to pass the ball out.

Want to intercept the ball?

dream!

Marcelo can finally understand the collapse of Real Madrid youth training player Miguel Torres when facing Messi during the Century Derby.

He also clearly remembered that it was the 26th round of La Liga. Real Madrid visited the Camp Nou Stadium and challenged Barcelona. The start was very smooth. Van Nisstrui scored the first record for Real Madrid in just four minutes, and in the subsequent games, he led three times and equalized three times by Messi.

In that game, the Argentinian scored a hat-trick, and with one red card in Barcelona at halftime and one person missing, he tied Real Madrid at home with three to three.

At that time, the young player Miguel Torres was responsible for defending Messi.

After the game, Torres suffered tremendous psychological pressure and he was unable to get out of the shadow for a while.

At that time, Marcelo had not had a deep impression of Messi, but now, he finally personally experienced the feeling of fatigue when Miguel Torres faced Messi.

What's more, Messi is obviously stronger and more mature a year later than that year.

Marcelo never dared to be careless at all times and followed Messi along.

The Argentinian has a large range of activities. When Barcelona's offense tends to the left, he frequently moves to the middle. Marcelo also leans towards the middle, standing on the front line of the penalty area, ready to move forward and close to defend.

The ball passed Iniesta's dribble from the left and passed to the right side of the arc top of the penalty area, at Messi's feet.

As soon as the Argentinian received the ball, Marcelo leaned forward immediately.

But he was fast, Messi was faster than him, and directly dunked the ball into the penalty area. His short body turned around very flexibly, faced the attack direction directly, and drove the ball into the penalty area.

Marcelo was surprised. He didn't expect Messi to turn so quickly, but he immediately reacted and got stuck on Messi's inside and prevented him from facing the goal directly.

But Messi suddenly accelerated and drove the ball forward. Marcelo started as soon as possible, but what he didn't expect was that when Messi caught up with the ball and kicked the ball forward, the whole person accelerated again and became faster.

This shocked Marcelo and tried his best to catch up with him.

But even if Marcelo chased after him as fast as possible, Messi was still thrown away by one position. The Argentinian swept the ball with his right foot at the front of the small penalty area and passed it to the penalty area.

Etoo in the middle was like a black whirlwind, and quickly inserted from behind with lightning speed. Before Neuer attacked, he stabbed the ball directly into the goal guarded by Neuer.

The whole process happens in the blink of an eye.

Marcelo was a little suspicious of his eyes, and he couldn't even imagine that Messi could speed up again in the middle of the sprint, which means that he still had enough energy to start.

Oh my god, is this Messi?

Marcelo couldn't accept it, he felt like he was just being fooled by Messi.

But there was a burst of crazy cheers from the entire Louis II Stadium. All Barcelona fans who came to the scene were exclaiming Etoo's goal and also marveling at Messi's personal strength.

One-on-one, Messi beat Marcelo.

Barcelona players were celebrating with head coach Guardiola raising his arms high on the sidelines and applauded vigorously.

This is definitely a wonderful manifestation of Messi's personal strength. Only players like him can have such amazing performances. From the big penalty area to the small penalty area, he was able to turn around and sprint again and there was another obvious speedup in the middle. This is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

Guardiola walked to the sidelines with a smile, slapped the celebrating players, and congratulated Etoo and Messi, the meritorious player of the goal.

When he retreated to the coaching area, he turned around and glanced at Gao Han.

At this moment, Gao Han was regretting the loss of the ball, covering his forehead, with a headache, and he seemed to feel Guardiola's eyes and looked over.

The two looked at each other, and Guardiola smiled slightly.

I've scored the goal first, take your time.

Gao Han also smiled at him, and it was no big deal to have only one ball.

Guardiola knew very well that this was not an exaggeration at all, so he quickly walked to the stadium again and clapped his hands hard to tell the players not to be too excited and pay attention to Bayern Munich's counterattack.

The period after the goal is often the most vulnerable moment of defense. Players are prone to become slack due to the surprises brought by the goal, so they must be taken seriously.
Chapter completed!