football redemption

Chapter 82

An hour before the start of the game, all Inter Milan players went out to warm up for 10 minutes. After returning, the nervousness eased somewhat.

In the locker room, Mourinho explained tonight's tactics again:

"No matter what Barcelona play in this game, I think they need to attack, so our chance is to counterattack.

They try to keep the football at their feet, which is what they do best but it doesn't matter, we don't need possession.They attack, we defend and counterattack..."

Guardiola's Barcelona dream team, the whole world knows that they want to control football at their feet. For Xavi and Iniesta, it is: catch, pass, catch, pass.

Mourinho guessed that Guardiola would not change his style of play for anyone, so he didn't plan to have the ball possession rate in this game. What is the difference between the ball possession rate compared with Meng San and playing big swords in front of Guan Gong?
After talking about the tactical matters, Mourinho intends to say something to encourage the players, because he can see that many players are a little nervous facing such an important game.

But he worried that the more he talked, the more nervous they would be

So he simply waved his hand and left time for the players.

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In the Barcelona locker room, Guardiola is also giving everyone his final instructions.

"Inter Milan is good at defensive counterattacks, so we have to pay special attention to their counterattacks when we attack..."

Barcelona has its own way to deal with the opponent's defensive counterattack, which is to control the ball.

As long as the football is firmly under your feet, the opponent will not have so many opportunities to fight back.

At the same time, they are good at siege in the frontcourt, which can also greatly reduce the chance of the opponent's counterattack.

Many counterattacks died in the cradle under their siege.

"So after you lose the ball, you must counterattack on the spot, and you must actively surround them and prevent them from passing the football from the backcourt."

The Barcelona players listened to the coach's instructions with relaxed expressions. Only Messi looked serious. For him, this was not only a match between Inter Milan and Barcelona, ​​but also a match between himself and Quaresma.

The winner has the Champions League and the Ballon d'Or, and the loser is only the league champion and the cup champion.

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When the live broadcast stopped playing music and began to introduce the rosters of both sides, the two teams came out of the channel one by one.

Inter Milan is led by captain Zanetti, while Barcelona is led by captain Puyol.

The fans at the scene shouted like a tsunami, and of course there would be boos.

Each name elicits cheers from his team's fans and boos from opposing fans.

Players are not euros, so it is impossible for everyone to like it. Whether it is boos or cheers, the louder the voice, the more popular you are.

Among them, of course, the voices of Quaresma and Messi are the loudest.

After a series of necessary rituals before the start of the game, Zanetti won the side call, and Barcelona happily got the kick-off.

The gold content and importance of the Champions League final is no less than that of the World Cup final, so when the captain is guessing coins, the flashing lights in the surrounding stands flash like stars, and the entire stadium is decorated as a galaxy connected end to end
Xia Qi quickly seized the time to look at the light screen:
Long-term mission: the Medal of Beautiful Ball (Diamond), already worn.

Sub-quests: Beat Boss Mei with skills and win the championship.

Complete the task: reward 300 gold coins, 200 blue coins, and 150 green coins.

Rewards: two simulation cards, two training cards, player attribute scanner (permanent), a bottle of intermediate treatment solution.Free attribute points award four points.

Failure: deduct two points from any physical attribute, one point from the technical attribute, and one point from the mental attribute

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The players started the game, Guardiola looked at the starting list in his hand, and then looked at the player positions of Inter Milan, and cursed in his heart: clever!
It turns out that the starting lineup provided by Mourinho to the organizing committee is a 433 lineup:

Goalkeeper: 12-Cesar

Defender: 13- Maicon, 2- Cordoba, 25- Samuel, 39- Thornton
Midfielder: 19- Cambiasso, 4- Zanetti, 14- Vieira

Forwards: 45-Balotelli, 8-Ibrahimovic, 77-Quaresma.

But in fact Shaqi (Quaresma) stands in the position of the midfielder.

It doesn't seem to matter, it's still the original 11 people, but Guardiola was caught off guard.

He arranged for Eto'o, the African cheetah, to defend Quaresma, who was also fast. As a result, Quaresma withdrew five or six meters from the winger position.

Inter Milan is cheap, just like Arsenal Wenger likes to sprinkle water on the lawn. Whether it can take advantage of it depends on the players' performance on the spot.

beep!
The referee's whistle sounded!
Barça started aggressively, with three attacks in the opening five minutes, and after the first failed, they quickly got their second and third chances as they fanned out outside the Inter penalty area.

In these 5 minutes, Messi is the most dazzling person, because the football will pass to his feet, no matter where he is, the football will pass to his feet, and then he will complete the attack.

In these three attacks, Barcelona did not score. Under the guidance of Mourinho, Inter Milan's defense could never be penetrated in the opening 5 minutes.

The third attack was unsuccessful, Barcelona lost the ball, and the football quickly reached Shaqi's feet.

Shaqi, who stopped the ball, dribbled sideways and did not pass the ball in a hurry.

And Barcelona's Eto'o rushed to Shaggy remembering the coach's confession.

"Eto'o's target is obviously Ricciardo!"

The commentator Noy exclaimed, he was very experienced and he didn't understand why Barcelona didn't defend against the position, but instead rescued the fire from a distance?Is Iniesta's defense so unreliable?
So Noy exclaimed, he was frightened by Guardiola's arrangement, and Guardiola touched his head and sighed in his heart, he was still not bald enough, too kind.

He couldn't stop Eto'o immediately. Changing tactics at the beginning of the game would hurt Eto'o's enthusiasm too much, and Guardiola didn't think Shaqi could really catch Barcelona's small flaws.

"Barcelona and they want to steal the ball directly and launch a counterattack. Ricardo will definitely face a very difficult situation in this game... Passed! Good! Good goal! Beautiful! Ricardo's dribble is very beautiful!"

Thomas and Noy were analyzing what it means for the striker to grab the ball from the front midfielder, and they cheered suddenly, and it was naturally Xia Qi's extraordinary that made him lose his composure.

Shaqi did not pass the football in a hurry, but made a point of splitting the pass. When Eto'o was deceived and shifted his center of gravity, he turned around and dunked the football to the other side of his body, then turned around and cut it in front of Eto'o, protecting the football.

After passing Eto'o, Shaggy speeded up to pass the ball forward. The Barcelona players thought he was going to attack. Iniesta even rushed up to intercept Shaggy, but suddenly passed the football diagonally to the rear. The left back Thornton received the ball.

Shaqi didn't want to attack, he wanted to see what Barcelona meant?I want to see if Barcelona's defense is tight.

With a few kicks, Shaggy quickly matched Butzkes.

Butzkes posted it without hesitation.

Shaqi did not lose his position because of his pressing. Shaqi turned his back to protect the football, stretched out his hand to support Butzkes, and then passed the football.

This disappointed the fans and the audience in front of the TV. Everyone is still expecting him to pass Butzkes again.

In such a critical game, Xia Qi didn't want to show off his footwork, but wanted to be safe.

After the pass, Shaggy ran forward to put distance between Butzkes.

Butzkes' midfield interception ability is very strong, but it is only a small trouble for Shaqi.

Restricted by Barcelona's formation, Butzkes' defense couldn't help pressing forward to the midfield.

In Barcelona's 433 lineup, Butzquez is the most important line of defense behind Harvey and Iniesta.

His cross-knife in the defensive midfielder is the key to Barcelona's all-out attack, so Butzquez cannot easily leave his defense zone.

And Xia Qi is a free factor under Mourinho, his position is very flexible and not fixed in a certain area, so Xia Qi is not afraid of Butzkes at all.

Shaqi and his teammates tried several times and almost knew Barcelona's routine.

The pressing is active, but it is not a single person who is robbing, but a gang "robbing". The first person comes up to entangle the player who has the ball, and the others come up to surround the opponent to cut off the connection between him and his teammates, and then steal through group fights.

Shaggy continued with the ball, attracting Eto'o and Iniesta to flank.

Iniesta is very confident in his footwork. He almost sticks to Shaqi, just when he thought he could break Shaqi's football.

Xia Qi had already run away,
Iniesta wondered, I haven't grabbed it yet, so you don't want the ball?So no fighting spirit?I have no sense of accomplishment!

what!
What about football?
what!
Xia Qi also has no football at his feet?
Where has football gone?

It turned out that when Shaqi was running forward, he had a very concealed heel knocking back to pass the ball, and the football rolled to Cambiasso's feet, which happened to be Iniesta's blind spot.

Iniesta finally saw the football at Cambiasso's feet, and rushed to Cambiasso like a refugee who had been starving for three days saw food.

Cambiasso is the brain of Inter Milan, how could he be entangled?Seeing him coming, he gave the football to Xia Qi again.

Harvey and Butzkes came to attack Xia Qi, but Sha Qi still did not fight and did not open Messika.

Star cards are things outside the body, improving oneself is the right way, and what can promote people's growth more than games?

Shaqi swiped the outside instep of his right foot while running, and the football circled around Butzquez to Balotelli on the other side.

Then he continued to run, and at the same time raised his hand to Balotelli for the ball.

Two over one!

With such an obvious two over one, Butzkes certainly didn't want to let Xia Qi get his way, so he immediately followed Xia Qi.

Balotelli saw Shaqi's raised hand, with two fingers stretched out, he knew it was a fake two-for-one,

Shaqi's obvious move is just to help him attract the opponent's defensive attention, so as to create opportunities for his own breakthrough.

So I took the football out and made a breakthrough!

When there was no one around, Balotelli rushed forward.His task is very simple, that is to push the football forward as far as he can, and use such a simple and rough breakthrough to oppress the opponent and force the opponent to return to defense.

If you can't break through...

It's also easy to pass the ball around.Absolutely can't break through if you can't break through by force.

Mourinho repeatedly reminded the players before the game, just not to be reckless.

It can be imagined that Inter Milan's ball possession rate in this game will never be high, so we must cherish every possession of the ball and achieve an effective ball possession success rate.

In fact, this game will be very tiring for the Inter Milan players headed by Shaqi. In order to prevent Barcelona from controlling the situation, they must always keep the game in a state of high rhythm and high confrontation.

Balotelli's breakthrough was soon met by Puyol's interception. Balotelli made a move to dial the ball to the left and continued to break through. Suddenly, his head with a long reaction arc remembered Mourinho's order.

The young Balotelli's physical fitness is really good, thinking that he can do it, he paused the ball-handling action in time, and changed the ball from left to right to pass the football to Shaqi.

His flick and stop turned into a brilliant feint that tricked veteran defender Carles Puyol.

"Beautiful feint! Mario's left-hand pass is very expressive."

No one except Balotelli himself knew that his call was actually real.

Shaqi didn't stop the ball and didn't give the Barcelona players a chance to press. He directly kicked a long diagonal pass.

The ball flew over everyone's heads, landing on Barcelona's right and Inter's left.

Because Inter Milan's offensive center of gravity was on their right and Barcelona's left, it is natural that Barcelona's entire team is inclined to this side.

In order to make up for the emptiness in the penalty area, the full-back Sylvinho, who was supposed to defend Ibrahimovic, also withdrew to the penalty area, looking more like a central defender.

This has created favorable conditions for Ibrahimovic to receive the ball when the wing is unmarked.

If Shaqi stopped the football, looked around, and hesitated, then a fool would find the loopholes there, Sylvinho would rush to make up for it immediately, and Messi, Harvey and others would rush back to defend.

Now, because Xia Qi made a direct long pass, Barcelona was caught off guard.

When Ibrahimovic received the ball, there was no Barcelona player beside him!
After Ibrahimovic took the ball, he slashed in and Sylvinho rushed up. Ibrahimovic did not single out Sylvinho, but distributed the football to Cambiasso in the ribs, and then cut inward in a straight line, trying to make a two-for-one cooperation.

Before the game, all Inter Milan players must understand the fact that there will not be too many opportunities in this game, and every opportunity must be cherished.

Even Ibrahimovic, who has always been arrogant, wants to be safe and ask someone for help.

Cambiasso is the brain of Inter Milan. He has a strong ability to read the game. He found that the Barcelona defender thought he would cooperate with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, so he crossed and passed the football to Shaqi.

This is beyond everyone's expectations!

"Danger!"

Two words flashed in the minds of the Barcelona defensive players. Butzkes, Toure and others rushed to Shaqi to prevent Shaqi from shooting. Pique and Sylvinho helped the goalkeeper to block part of the shooting angle.

Shaqi and Cambiasso are in a straight line, Ibrahimovic is in front, and the three form a triangle.

When teammate Ibrahimovic yelled that Cambiasso didn't talk about martial arts, Shaqi's football rolled towards him?

Ibrahimovic didn't expect Shaqi to pass the ball to himself. Isn't it a bet that his shot is faster than the defender's shot?

Da Bongxian is Da Bongxian. After being surprised, Ibrahimovic knew that he must be fast. He simply ran two steps towards the football, and then kicked the football backward like a donkey.

Valdez fell to the ground to save him, he was not as fast as football, he showed despair...

(End of this chapter)