champion light

Chapter 1012
Benitez thought about it, but he couldn't find any tactics that could completely contain Barcelona. He could only let Manchester City play a defensive counterattack at home.

To put it bluntly, it is counting on Rongguang's personal ability.

Resolutely deny Barcelona the space and time they want in defense.

It is natural to take strict precautions against Messi, at least two people follow him.Build a line of defense consisting of a central defender and a defensive midfielder at the front of the penalty area, because by studying Messi's game video, Benitez believes that when Messi moves from the right side to the center, it is often the most threatening time for Barcelona's attack.

When the football is passed back and forth between Messi and the players in the middle, the defensive line of the defensive side is also torn apart.

When everyone's attention was on Messi with the ball, he didn't know that his defense was also empty.

The other Barcelona players took advantage of the gap and could completely disrupt the defense.

A lot of Barcelona's goals last season and this season were scored like this, either Messi scored in the end, or Pedro and Iniesta scored.

Pedro and Iniesta's goals are often due to the defensive side focusing on Messi, causing the defense there to be completely empty. Pedro and Iniesta can easily get the ball and score.

Harvey is such a passing master in the midfield, as long as there is a little bit of space, he may be caught by him.

So in the game against Barcelona, ​​from the first second of the game until the last second, you must concentrate on it, relax a little, and you will come to you immediately after losing the ball.

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Benitez made his own arrangements, but in fact he didn't have a plan in his mind. Unlike playing other games, when he made a tactical decision, he could roughly guess what the tactics would look like in the game.

In the game against Barcelona, ​​even Benitez was a little bit emboldened.

It can be seen that Barcelona is strong.

But in fact... their opponent Barcelona is not much better than them...

Guardiola did not find a good way to curb Rongguang in the end. Foul tactics and so on, there are lessons learned from Manchester United in the FA Cup final. Foul against Rongguang, unless you can directly let Rongguang be carried off by a stretcher when you foul for the first time, otherwise, it is assisting Rongguang in disguise.

Of course Guardiola will not let Rong Guang break his leg for a game victory.

So he is in a difficult situation now.

He originally planned to look for the videos of the games Manchester City lost, and find things that he could use from these games.

As a result, he searched and searched, and only found a video of one game, that is, the game where Manchester City lost 0:2 to Everton in the away game. That was also the only game Manchester City lost in the past year or so.

If you want to look again, it was the game between Benitez coaching Manchester City. At that time, Manchester City didn't even have a unified tactical idea.If you use Manchester City in that period as a reference, you can only go astray, and you will not be wronged if you die in the end.

With a video of a game, how do you study it?
Moreover, the result of this game has no reference value at all. The results and data of a single game of football are meaningless. There is such a great chance. It must be viewed in combination from many games to make those data meaningful.

Therefore, the victory of this game can only be an isolated case, and it does not prove that Everton's method of defeating Manchester City is effective.Barcelona cannot follow their style of play.

Finally, after much deliberation, Guardiola decided to "maintain me" in the away game, playing football that Barcelona is good at, firmly controlling football at his feet, taking advantage of the scene, gaining the upper hand in the overall performance of the team, and using Barcelona's strong overall strength to overwhelm Manchester City.

Strive for the initiative.

As long as Barcelona can score one away goal, it is considered to have completed the task, and if there are two away goals, it is considered to have exceeded the task.

As for the matter of winning, Guardiola is very indifferent. He believes that the final decisive battle must be at the Nou Camp.

Although Barcelona is the defending champion, Guardiola did not underestimate Manchester City, who played the Champions League for the first time in 40 years.

With Manchester City's performance in the Champions League this season, it is enough to make people pay attention to them, not to mention that they also have a big killer like Rongguang.

Guardiola clearly knows that if he underestimates Manchester City, he must be the one who will be unlucky in the end.The original Bayern Munich and Real Madrid can be a lesson for them.

So at Manchester City's home court, Guardiola does not force the team to win. Of course, it would be best if they could win.

But also be prepared that it will be a tough game away from home.

As for Rongguang, as long as he is controlled to score at most one goal in a game, Barcelona will be considered as having completed a successful defense.

Guardiola had to do such psychological construction, because Rong Guang was so perverted.

Regarding how powerful Rong Guang is, Guardiola has heard it with his own ears, and he doesn’t know how much he has seen with his own eyes. He must be particularly vigilant about the team where this man is.

On this point, he also emphasized to his players many times in training.

What makes him happy is that his players are not bored or resist his repeated emphasis, and their acceptance is very high.

This may have something to do with some players in the team who have a good relationship with Rongguang.

Iniesta is simply a fan of Rongguang, and Harvey admires Rongguang very much. Messi even once regarded Rongguang as his goal to chase after. Zlatan Ibrahimovic also regards Rongguang as his worst enemy, plus Ronaldinho who has left the team...

With these people around, Barcelona really didn't dare to underestimate Rong Guang and... Rong Guang's team.

When Rongguang was still at Werder Bremen, the team was far worse than the current Manchester City, but because of this glory, they were able to score two goals for Barcelona at Camp Nou, and when they returned home, they even beat Barcelona 3:1!

These five goals are all related to Rongguang. Rongguang scored two goals at the Nou Camp. Back at home, Rongguang scored one goal and assisted two times.

There is nothing Barcelona can do to win glory.

Now there are good teammates such as Berbatov, David Silva and Sneijder beside Rongguang. They have helped Rongguang a lot and made Rongguang even more difficult to deal with.

In the eyes of the outside world, this game may be a game in which Barcelona has the upper hand, and Manchester City can only count on Rongguang.

But no one knows that the tension in the Barcelona team is no less than that of Manchester City...

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Before the war, the four days will always seem extremely long and very short.

The length is for those fans who are waiting for the game. They count down every day like years, counting how many minutes until the game starts...yes, their countdowns are accurate to minutes, not hours.

The short-term is for the players on both sides of the game, but when they find that the game is coming, they only hate that 24 hours a day are not enough, and feel that they still have a lot of unpracticed. Why is the game coming?
The Barcelona team set off for Manchester after the end of the weekend league.

This also reflects the importance Guardiola attaches to Manchester City.

Barcelona, ​​who came to Manchester in advance, will borrow Manchester United's training base for training. They are so close to Manchester City's training base that some media joked that if Benitez or Guardiola shouted something during training, both sides could hear each other. For these two teams, there is no secret at all.

Of course, this is a joke, it can't be true.

Guardiola's team is training in Manchester United's training base, which still attracts many people's attention.

Every day, a large number of fans and reporters gather here. In the past, there were only Manchester United fans, but now Barcelona fans also come here, and the two sides get along fairly well.

Manchester United seem to have forgotten who snatched the Champions League from them last season.

Now the two brothers are fine.

Because they found a common enemy.

Over the past year, with the strong rise of Manchester City, Manchester United, which is the closest to Manchester City, is the first to feel the threat of Manchester City.

The FA Cup was robbed by Manchester City last season, and the league title is about to be robbed this season.

If it can deflate Manchester City, Manchester United must be very happy, not to mention lending it to the Barcelona training base that defeated them in the Champions League final last season, even if they want to loan Rooney to Barcelona, ​​​​I am afraid it will be no problem!
The whole Barcelona team calls their bus from the hotel to Manchester United's training base every day, and after training, they take the bus from Manchester United's training base back to the hotel.

So every day, they can see the Manchester City team logo at least twice - because the bus will pass by a small intersection outside the Manchester City training base. This intersection is marked with the Manchester City team logo. At the same time, there is an arrow pointing to the depth of the path, telling everyone to go inside is Manchester City's Carrington training base.

Every time I pass this intersection, someone in the bus will look over.

Iniesta, Messi, and Ibrahimovic.

It was as if their eyes could follow this path, see Manchester City's training ground, and then find glory on the training ground.

This person is here to prepare for the game with them!

I don't know how he prepared?
(End of this chapter)