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Chapter 1033 The Gunner Myth Messi's Nemesis

After Arsenal scored a goal, Barcelona jumped three feet high like a cat with its tail on fire. Disgrace at home and embarrassment away are two completely different concepts. The so-called shame can only be lost when there are people. It's not that important when you're human.In front of nearly 9 people, Arsenal played such a beautiful match. How can Barcelona keep their face? They must quickly get back to this place, otherwise they will be ashamed when shopping on Las Ramblas after the game To see people.

Barcelona's attack combination has no height, no physical advantage, and absolute sprint speed is not strong, but their advantage is the tacit cooperation, and the key is the dribbling and breakthrough skills at the feet are far superior. In front of the opponent's defender, their breakthrough The short-distance pass and cut with the group is often quick, tacit, unexpected, and the play is dazzling, making the defender focus on one thing and lose another, and the defense level and system will inevitably be torn apart by the opponent.Therefore, the balance of the game can easily be broken by Barcelona. Barcelona creates many opportunities in front of the goal and it is easy to score goals.

The gap in technology, especially the gap in dribbling skills at the feet, will cause defenders to be at a disadvantage in defense.The advantage of predicting the position and selection, the advantage of height and leg length, in front of such a small and quick opponent, is not enough to make up for his lag in turning and judgment, and naturally it is not enough to block the opponent's breakthrough line.The only thing to rely on is the intensive defense formed by many people retreating.

When Arsenal started to deal with Barcelona, ​​they also adopted dense defensive tactics, but unfortunately it didn't work well. Munoz once said that in Barcelona's football, Messi, Villa and Pedro are not only An expert in scoring goals is also an expert in suppressing opponents. Among them, Pedro can be called a master in counter-robbing.Once Barcelona successfully counterattacks, the Red and Blues can immediately use a close-range counterattack to catch the opponent off guard, the opponent's defense collapses, and Barcelona can also complete the shot at the shortest distance.Therefore, in many cases, the intensive defensive team is often unable to form an effective counterattack. Only the defense does not counterattack. It is inevitable to make mistakes when encountering Barcelona's aggressive counterattack in 10 minutes. Once Barcelona scores a goal, it will be too late.

Later, Arsenal played against Barcelona again, but the result was still losing. Until the arrival of Li Huan, the maturity of Fabregas and Walcott, the quality of Arsenal's defense has improved a lot, and the quality of counterattack has become more prominent. Li Huan One person can sometimes handle Barcelona's entire defense, not to mention the help of stars like Nasri, Fabregas, Arshavin and Theo Walcott, it will be very difficult for Barcelona to besiege Arsenal like before.

However, Barcelona lost a big away game. After returning home, Guardiola adjusted the team's tactics. First, he strengthened the pressing and marking of Li Huan and Fabregas. Li Huan and Fabregas are Arsenal's offensive The starting point is also a safe haven for defense. The two of them pose the greatest threat to Barcelona's frontcourt siege tactics.

Secondly, Barcelona's offensive method has also changed to a certain extent compared with the original one. Barcelona's offense has always relied on Harvey's organization and planning. It can be said that he is the core of Barcelona's offensive system and the engine of the offense.The other players on the offensive line are interspersed and running, tearing apart the defense, and then relying on Harvey to feed the ball.When Harvey was firmly marked or restricted, he relied on the breakthroughs of Xiaobai and Messi to find opportunities.

But this season, Barcelona's dependence on Harvey has been greatly reduced.Because Barcelona's invincible style of play in the past has been seen through, and the opponents have also added ways to limit Harvey.So this season, Barcelona is paying more attention to the mutual exchange and cooperation of the frontcourt offensive combination.Messi is no longer confined to the wing. His area of ​​activity has been greatly expanded, mainly concentrated near the penalty area. He has more dribbles, more breakthroughs, and more penetration into the penalty area. His dribbling breakthroughs can often attract More defensive forces, and then plan and build an offensive by breaking through or cooperating with Villa, Xiaobai, and Pedro.

In the last 15 minutes of the first half, Barcelona's ball was passed to Messi more, and Alves and Xavi also began to press forward quickly, giving Messi an extra mobile receiving point in the frontcourt.

However, Arsenal's defense against Messi was very successful. Messi wanted to lead the team to counterattack in the last 15 minutes of the first half, but Diaby followed him like a ghost, and Li Huan harassed him from time to time. Messi was a little disturbed, Barcelona's offensive ability was greatly weakened, and their counterattack did not score a goal.

At the end of the first half, the referee Rossetti blew his whistle, and the players from both sides went back to the locker room to rest for 15 minutes before the final 45 minutes of life-and-death battle.

In the locker room of the home team, Barcelona once again played an exciting and exciting short video, and also played videos of Barcelona's wonderful goals in recent years, which inspired the players' fighting spirit and morale, allowing them to improve in 15 minutes. The strength of the team.

In the visiting team's locker room, Wenger is not the protagonist. He came to the locker room with the boss Kroenke and the club's executive chairman Gazidis.

Kroenke's approach was very simple. He tore up a check to Gazidis in public, "If the team wins and reaches the semi-finals, you can directly fill in all the numbers within 1000 million euros on it, and use the money To reward the players, don't delay, after the game is over."

The wine is red and the face is red, and the money is touching.Kroenke doesn't need to say a word, his check is more effective than Guardiola's inspirational blockbusters and passionate words.

After the start of the second half, the fighting spirit of the players on both sides was up. Barcelona launched an almost unscrupulous attack, leaving Puyol and Pique in the backcourt. Even Maxwell and Alves on both sides stepped forward to assist.

Arsenal has two balls in their hands and is full of confidence. In addition, Li Huan played a role in the defense line, like a mainstay, blocking all attacks on his right. Due to Li Huan's strength, Barcelona players had to Shift the focus of offense to the center and left.

In the second half, Barcelona scored the first goal again. This time it was not Messi, but Villa. King Kong Gourdwa predicted that Vermaelen wanted to pass the ball to the side. He suddenly intercepted and intercepted the ball.

The moment Villa intercepted the ball, he stopped the ball two meters away from his body, but this time he shook his lower back Song Ye, and Villa easily rushed over and made a small arc to hit the goal dead corner.

2:1, Villa overtook the score for Barcelona.The total score of the two sides has also become 4:3, and Barcelona can complete the overtaking by scoring two more goals.

But Arsenal is by no means a vegetarian. Barcelona's goal seems to stimulate the nerves of the Arsenal players. In fact, it stimulates the wallets of the Arsenal players. If they fail to advance, their bonus of 1000 million euros will be gone. , Faced with such a situation, who would not be in a hurry and not angry, not to mention that Arsenal have been going smoothly for the past two years, dominating European and world football, how can they bear this breath.

Less than 3 minutes after Barcelona scored a goal, Messi dragged Arsenal to the left to attack Clichy, but Arsenal had already deployed heavy troops, and Messi's breakthrough was blocked, so he could only keep dribbling the ball horizontally, looking for Arsenal's defense. At the same time, they can use the momentary confusion of Arsenal's defense to cooperate with teammates.

However, with the rise of Messi's belt, he didn't notice that he had passed the top of the penalty area and came to the right side of Arsenal. A tall Gunners player appeared, and Messi flicked the ball again, trying to pass this player.However, just halfway through Messi's action, the tall player's legs stretched out in front of Messi's feet and hooked the ball.

Messi was taken aback, but he didn't panic, and immediately lifted the ball, trying to get the ball out of the intercepting man's feet.However, the opponent has a lot of experience. He hooked the ball with his feet, and his upper body had already hit him. The short Messi staggered. When he regained his balance, the ball had been snatched away by the opponent. Messi only saw him A bright red number 13 on the back.
"Li Huan!" Messi gritted his teeth and said, "He ruined my good deed again!" After speaking, Messi ran after Li Huan like a hot wheel with two short legs.

Li Huan rushed from the side to a position close to the middle to snatch the ball from Messi, and then immediately dribbled the ball out from the middle. He has played as a midfielder many times, and he often dribbles in the middle. For Li Huan, he only needs to break through Barcelona The chasing and interception in the frontcourt is equivalent to half of the success, because Barcelona's backcourt is too weak, almost a large-scale racecourse.

However, it is not easy to avoid Barcelona's frontcourt siege. Compared with the average team, Barcelona's frontcourt press is more systematic and scientific. At any time, Barcelona's players are all mobilized and actively participate in defense.Whether it is in the opponent's backcourt, in the midfield, or in their own backcourt, as long as the ball is lost, Barcelona's players will swarm up and grab it endlessly.The siege of Barcelona is not a swarm of bees chasing after the football, but a clear division of labor, forming a numerical advantage in a small area of ​​football. .Only in this way will the ball be quickly broken at the opponent's feet, or the opponent will be forced to clear the siege with a big foot, regain control of the ball, and then launch an attack.

But at this time, Li Huan showed great confidence and fighting spirit. He did not pass the ball to Arshavin or Van Persie, but directly rushed to the Barcelona players who were besieging him. The opportunity to counterattack becomes the speed of Van Persie and Picoby again, or get a free kick from the side again. He has to use the speed to escape before the opponent closes the siege.

(End of this chapter)