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Chapter 1024 Gunner Myth Messi
It was a relief for Barcelona to score first for Arsenal, because not only is Arsenal's ability to control the ball not much worse than theirs, but they also have a very strong counterattack ability. When playing against ordinary teams, Barcelona always presses hard and puts the ball on the line. The opponent pressed down near the penalty area to attack violently, turning the game into a half-court offensive and defensive training game.But in the face of Arsenal's super fast speed and style of play, Guardiola did not dare to let the back line go crazy before the game. Instead, he adopted three lines to advance steadily when he had the ball, and defend the half court when he had the ball. If this strategy can be implemented well, Barcelona still has a chance to win the game by using their stronger control than Arsenal, but they conceded a goal in the first minute of the opening, and the opponent's goal is still so beautiful. , Let Barcelona immediately arouse the desire to win, even if they don't fight for victory, they still have to fight for an away goal.You must know that in the knockout rounds, an away goal is equivalent to one and a half home goals.

Barcelona began to press forward. Most of the players in this team are products of La Masia's youth training camp. Among the 11 players who started today, 6 came from La Masia. At the most, there were almost eight or nine With Barcelona's own players, their cooperation and tactical awareness on the court are easy to communicate. Once the midfield commander Harvey presses forward, the others are like an avalanche, pressing up from the front, middle and back courts.

Arsenal know that they are not as good as Barcelona in controlling the ball. This is the only team in Europe that puts them at a disadvantage in this regard. Before the game, Professor Wenger has decided to give up some space. The small space can increase Barcelona's ability to pass and receive the ball. The difficulty, to a certain extent, increases Barcelona's mistakes and improves Arsenal's chances of possession and counterattack. Now scoring a goal in 1 minute makes the tactics formulated by the professor more perfect.

When facing the opponent's dense defense, the general team will feel like a tiger eating the sky, but Barcelona is different from most teams because they have Harvey, Messi and Ines tower.

Barcelona's "ventilator" and "lung of the midfielder" Harvey's passing has been perfected and has reached the peak. He seems to have eyes all over his body, and he can perceive the opponent's subtle mistakes and every space.His threading can make the teammates who are pressing on him become orderly, fast and not chaotic, and everyone's role and potential can be brought into full play to the greatest extent.In an instant, his passing between the light and the flint can turn the opponent's impregnable defense line into a tofu dregs project of the Celestial Dynasty.

Iniesta has the ability to pass and control the ball that is not inferior to Harvey, and he also has the breakthrough ability that Harvey does not have. His extraordinary ability is not as good as Messi in Barcelona because his speed is not fast enough, but it is absolutely ranked. In the second place, Xavi and Iniesta's almost perfect fantasy midfield drives the team to run smoothly, making the opponents only sigh with excitement.

When the opponent is too strong and neither Iniesta nor Harvey can find the opponent's space, Messi will appear. The world's second star, second only to Li Huan, has an extraordinary ability to control the center of gravity. His figure Short, but extremely explosive, just like Otto has a Mercedes-Benz engine, most people can't defend against it at all. He breaks through the small ant nest that often becomes the opponent's defense line.

With these three players, Barcelona can press the opponent's defensive formation through constant passing and player movement.Compress the opponent's semi-circular defensive formation from the front of the penalty area to the midfield line into a slender strip formation, and then through the personal breakthroughs of Iniesta and Messi on both sides, the opponent's defenders will move to both sides, plus the players in the middle Cross-running, the opponent is prone to make coordination mistakes when making up defenses and changing positions. When the defensive player makes up the position, no one is defending the target or the mentality of the defender has not changed. Leaking people, Barcelona moved to the middle to form a goal or go straight behind the opponent (because the defense line is very thin, so it is easy to penetrate) to form a single shot.

Wenger is very familiar with Barcelona's style of play, because Arsenal's style of play is very similar to this, so the professor knows how to deal with it.

Barcelona's dozens of passes are like a beautiful dragon slaying in Go. The layout of the many moves in the early stage is closely related, and they are all leading the opponent's nose step by step to a dead end without being able to resist.So the best way is not to resist when the opponent is about to finish. At that time, it will be too late. The best way is to foul Barcelona in the middle of the layout and let them start from the beginning.Over time, Barcelona's rhythm will be broken, and it will become impetuous, the offense is not patient enough to defend and make mistakes, and finally defeated by the underdog.

So when Barcelona started to exert force after conceding a goal, Arsenal used fouls near the center circle to stop Barcelona, ​​and repeatedly used intentional fouls in non-critical areas to disrupt Barcelona's offensive rhythm. Many of these fouls were cards. Between and not taking a card, but the position where the referee considers the foul is close to the middle circle, which has little impact on the result of the game, and is unwilling to play the card.Arsenal used this method to make Barcelona's offense like a crush, always ending before it started.

After Arsenal scored, Barcelona patiently attacked for half an hour. However, the number of free kicks and Arsenal's fouls gradually increased, but the score did not change at all.

Barcelona was a little impatient, and Arsenal seized the opportunity to fight back several times, almost expanding the score again.Barcelona has the advantage in possession of the ball, but it is Arsenal who are the most threatening offensively. Barcelona's possession of the ball is basically carried out outside the 30-meter dangerous area. Whenever they want to attack, Arsenal's Fouls will always come as scheduled, eliminating Barcelona's offense invisible.What particularly angered Barcelona was that Li Huan, who was a full-back, went to the midfield from time to time to raid the midfield, and almost the entire right side of the penalty area became his sphere of influence. Iniesta's speed was not fast, and Li Huan was super fast. Facing the experienced Li Huan, Iniesta couldn't show his extraordinary skills. He could only watch Li Huan scrambling on the right side and no one could beat him.

After Guardiola coached Barcelona for two years, he was no longer the first brother who held Hiddink's hand and congratulated him in advance. He has a lot of clinical experience. Seeing this situation, he immediately signaled Messi to retreat , Villa and Iniesta pressed forward, Messi became a shadow striker, almost the front midfielder, Iniesta and Villa leaned towards the center, avoiding the defense of the opponent's defenders and midfielders.

Guardiola's change had a great impact on the game. After Messi retreated, he had more contact with his backcourt players, especially Harvey, and had more chances to get the ball. His breakthrough made Arsenal Arsenal's players feel more and more difficult to deal with, and after Messi has a certain sprint space, the foul on Messi is getting closer and closer to the penalty area, which has sharply increased the defensive pressure on Arsenal's back line.

In the 38th minute of the first half of the game, Messi suddenly exerted his strength. He shuttled through the crowd like a fast-moving electron. The continuous shoveling and pulling of Arsenal players did not touch Messi dodged left and right, and in a blink of an eye, Messi almost broke through to the top of the penalty area.

Generally at this time, Messi will choose to pass the ball. Messi's breakthrough and distribution are a major feature of Barcelona's offense.But today's Messi did not break through the midfielder Alexander.Song, kicked the door directly.

Messi's legs are short and his range of motion is small, but his strength is not small, because Messi's breakthroughs in front of him have always been passing the ball, and Song didn't think of stretching out his feet to block it. The next time he shot suddenly, he couldn't react in time, and the ball flew from Almunia's hand into the net.

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Messi scored his first goal in England. After the goal, Messi opened his mouth excitedly, waved his hands, and slapped his not-so-majestic chest from time to time, and rushed to the fans' stands to shout, Venting his depression and conquering the spell, Messi was so excited that he couldn't help himself.

All the Arsenal fans in the audience were stunned by Messi's goal. They did not expect that Barcelona, ​​which has been playing very complicatedly, would suddenly shoot from a long distance.

The Barcelona fans were also stunned. They were infinitely close to scoring many times before, but they always missed the goal. But this time they didn't even think about scoring, and the ball flew into the net. .

After the commentator was stunned for 0.1 second, his professional habits immediately made him shout: "Beautiful! Beautiful! Messi's long-range shot, after passing three people in a row, stunned Song and caught Almunia by surprise. Go in! 1:1, this score is beneficial to Barcelona, ​​and being able to get an away goal is a reassurance for Barcelona, ​​even if they lose in the end, Barcelona can accept it, because an away goal is equivalent to two A home goal... the game has changed and now it's up to Arsenal to play their cards."

The professor stomped his feet and beat his chest. This goal is not impossible to save. As long as the goalkeeper is replaced by Cassie and Petr Cech, or even the opponent's Valdes, the goal cannot be said to be scored. , but it was Almunia standing in front of Arsenal. The Frenchman nicknamed Amu is very similar to his nickname. He lacks aura and lacks high-level performance. How ugly.

There was a smile on Guardiola's face. The tactical changes he made before the game finally worked. They lost to Arsenal last season. After that, he analyzed those two games a hundred times. He forced himself to do it. Only in this way can he understand all the characteristics of Arsenal, because he knows that Arsenal is now the last obstacle for Barcelona to dominate Europe. If this obstacle is removed, Barcelona will be able to win the Champions League. You can only be king in La Liga forever.

(End of this chapter)