super storm

Chapter 940 Sad Story

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

From the opening 10 minutes or so, this most outstanding pass-control team in the history of world football began to find its sense and stabilized its rhythm. It began to advance slowly and steadily according to its own way of passing and controlling the ball.

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

Barcelona created the best goal scoring opportunity since the opening in No.16 minutes. Xavi quickly sent a free kick, and Busquets went straight into the penalty area. After receiving the ball, Pedro did not cross the ball to look for Messi and Villa immediately.

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 following inertia and had nothing to do with Casillas.

One minute later, Barcelona played an exquisite cooperation. Alves made a low pass from the right side of the penalty area. Messi pushed and scored from the front, but the referee signaled offside.

Under the strong offensive pressure of Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid also performed very bravely.

No. In the 201st minute, Real Madrid successfully pressed the frontcourt and passed the ball to Yang Yang on the left side after stealing the ball.

After Yang Yang got the ball and got rid of Alves, he passed directly to the penalty area to find Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Swedish center blocked Puyol with his body.

This was an excellent opportunity. Ibrahimovic was so angry that he slapped himself on the head with both hands. He was obviously very depressed about what he had done just now. If he didn't push the shot and just picked it, the ball would be sure.

Sometimes the game is like this, changing rapidly, players have to make decisions in a split second, whether it is right or wrong.

If, in the first three and 10 minutes, the two sides were still attacking and defending each other, 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 its own 30-meter area.

The three midfielders lined up, tightly protecting the defense, blocking Barcelona's route to Real Madrid's penalty area and goal.

In the last ten minutes or so, Real Madrid also counterattacked, but their strategy was conservative. If the situation was not right, they immediately retreated to their own half, or even within the 30-meter area, to tightly block Barcelona's passing line.

Even though it has been two years, Barcelona still has no way to start facing Real Madrid's defense.

As a relatively weak part of Real Madrid's defense, Barcelona also tried to create threats on the right. Alves and Pedro frequently attacked Marcelo's side, but Marcelo performed very well. He not only completed his own defensive tasks, but also often filled the team's defensive loopholes.

In the end, relying on the team's defense and the opening attack, Real Madrid managed to maintain a [-]-[-] lead until the intermission, but the pressure on the players was still very high.

……

During the intermission, Benitez made adjustments to the team's first-half loopholes, and at the same time affirmed the team's performance in the first half, especially the opening attack, which Real Madrid played very successfully.

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

In the first derby of the century when Benitez just coached Real Madrid, although the team beat Barcelona [-]-[-] in the away game, it was a bit of luck.

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

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

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

The most obvious thing is that Barcelona has always been slow to enter the game state recently, which is a sign of aging players.

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

Barcelona themselves are obviously aware of this problem, so they are intensively finalizing Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas, hoping to buy Fabregas back to fill Harvey's vacancy.

……

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Although many people, including Real Madrid themselves, were speculating whether Barcelona would adopt a faster offensive advance, more direct and diagonal passes, and play behind Real Madrid's offensive play, Barcelona still adopted a slow advance play.

Guardiola's team still insists on ground passing and receiving cooperation, and after controlling the ball, it slowly advances bit by bit.

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

As an opponent, Real Madrid knows Barcelona.

Yang Yang has heard Benitez mention more than once that Barcelona regards possession of the ball as their life, and in order to ensure the stability of possession, their pass control is basically based on stability, so the direct pass and oblique pass that can improve the team's speed, and the riskier long pass, have never been considered by Barcelona.

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

It was as if after the opening of the second half, Barcelona passed the ball slowly and advanced. After entering the first half, they encountered Real Madrid who were waiting in full force. 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, and there are only a handful of goals that can really hit the goal.

…………

…………

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

Barcelona made a substitution in the No.605 minute, replacing Villa with the teenager Afeilai.

The Spanish striker was really out of shape in this game. Facing Maicon, he basically didn't 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 it, this is really a sad story, because Villa is only 29 years old.

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

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 style of play, no one knows that his state can be maintained for a few more years.

As we get older, injuries will gradually 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, they must protect him.

Ancelotti’s previous opinion was correct. If he wanted to prolong Yang Yang’s peak period, he had to change his playing style, just like Ronaldo was too lazy to run and concentrated all his physical energy to sprint for goals.

The same is true for Messi now. Guardiola put him in the middle of the frontcourt, and it is not that he did not intend to change his position on the court.

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 adopt this traditional Italian style of tight defense and quick counterattack against Barcelona. This is also the most effective way." Valdano analyzed the team's technical and tactical trends from the perspective of the team's technical director.

Although Real Madrid hopes to play more beautiful and aggressive offensive football than Barcelona, ​​it is impossible to achieve this when they cannot control the ball and can't beat Barcelona.

Valdano's words are undoubtedly another bargaining chip in Florentino's heart, because among the current list of candidate coaches of Real Madrid's management, there is only one person who is best at this kind of Italian defense, and at the same time can enrich the team's midfield organization and offense from details.

That is Ancelotti.

……

10 minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

No.705 minutes, Guardiola made the second substitution of the audience, replacing Pedro with Bojan.

This also made everyone see Barcelona's problem, that is, Guardiola didn't dare, or in other words, he didn't want to move the midfielder at all.

Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, and Messi in the frontcourt, this is the guarantee for Barcelona to control the ball.

Before that, Guardiola once replaced Iniesta with Sedu Keita, but as a result, Barcelona made more passing and possession errors, which was quite terrible for Barcelona, ​​so they quickly adjusted back.

Now, Guardiola made two substitutions, replacing the starting left and right wingers respectively, but he just didn't dare to move the midfielder.

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 the front court trident. Once the ball was grabbed, the first thing to do was to make a long pass to find Ibrahimovic, or directly hit behind the Barcelona defense line, and Yang Yang and Robben would chase after it.

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

When the game was about to enter the 10th minute, Barcelona launched an attack, but just crossed the center line and was about to pass into the 30-meter area of ​​​​Real Madrid. Javier Martinez took the lead and shoveled the ball to Mascherano.

After the Argentine midfielder got the ball, he quickly took it forward, and Real Madrid launched a counterattack with the trident in the frontcourt.

A direct pass was accurately delivered 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 behind Barcelona left-back Adriano.

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

Almost at the same time, Yang Yang also threw away Alves, and slanted into the left side of the goal from the left rib at the fastest speed.

(End of this chapter)