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Chapter 316 Days of Playing with Barcelona 2 (79100)

Manchester City's wings played well.

However, the double central defenders of Puyol and Pique in the middle made Manchester City's crosses from the wing, most of which fell into the empty space.

Puyol's style is brave, Pique is very good at defending high points, and he also has a kick.

Under such a combination, the effect of Manchester City's wide cross is often not very good.

In order to defend Manchester City's wing, Busquets retreated deeper.

Because in terms of defensive ability, Barcelona's left back Abidal is not bad, but right back Alves is more like a right winger, especially the kind that needs someone to wipe his ass behind him.

Therefore, Manchester City's offense can often pose a threat on the left.

At this time, due to Busquets' lack of movement and the need to defend Manchester City's front, Harvey and even Messi have to return to this position to make up for it.

For a while, Manchester City's offense was suppressed and Barcelona was a little out of breath.

In terms of possession rate, Barcelona's advantage is gradually being eroded.

Guardiola was very anxious on the sidelines, dancing and directing, but his bald head was scratched brightly, but he couldn't find a suitable way.

With such a score, the first half of the game between the two sides is over.

The city stadium, the home fans are very happy.

But the away fans couldn't sit still.

The team has gone smoothly this season, and any opponent has been flattened all the way. Even in the last round of the league, Real Madrid was bloodbathed 6:2.

It was the stage of bursting with self-confidence, but the team actually came here?
It was fine to lose in the first round because of a Milito who fell from the sky. As a result, the second round had just played half of the game.

How can this make the fans suffer.

Some irrational Catalan fans even sweared at the home team's seating area and raised their middle fingers.

Although I can't understand it, the fans of the home team can understand it by reading gestures.The irrational actions of the Catalan fans immediately caused even more irrational actions by the fans of the home team.

They rushed over one by one, swearing loudly through the aisle and the barbed wire.

As for why he didn't rush over.

Because there is a thick layer of riot police in the middle!

The black baton in the policeman's hand tells an epic story.

So everyone is more restrained.

Most of the instigation between each other is verbal and behavioral, but there are no actual actions.

In the visiting team's locker room.

The Barcelona players are rather depressed. Under Guardiola, they haven't played such a depressed game for a long time.

It's as if I'm used to eating big meals, and occasionally eat pancakes. I'm afraid few people will like this tune.

They've clearly done a good job.

However, Manchester City's offense still creates threats again and again. All the players of Manchester City's team are running, as if they are flowing water.

It is very difficult for Barcelona to defend.

The players were confused, but Guardiola certainly understood why.

To put it bluntly, Barcelona's tactics require the team's overall formation to maintain a high position to ensure the compactness of the team's formation and the passing and pinch defense between players.

They want to keep the ball under their control at all times.

However, Manchester City seized the weakness that Barcelona's wing was too high, and launched a charge on the wing to suppress Barcelona's defense.

Regardless of whether the central defenders will run over to help defend, their retreat is inevitable.

In this way, the single midfielder Busquets, as the only barrier in front of Barcelona's defense line, must follow back.

Because Busquets has a great sense of position.

However, Barcelona's frontcourt players are still implementing the tactical requirements of high-position pressing. They press very high and are getting farther and farther away from their own back line.

In short, Barcelona's originally compact formation was abruptly torn apart by Manchester City.

Difficult to maintain distance.

This is the biggest problem.

How to solve it?
"Let's make adjustments in the second half of the game." Guardiola cleared his throat to attract the attention of the players: "The tactic of inserting on the side remains the same, but Harvey and Iniesta, you two should take on more side defense The responsibility. Of course, the best situation is to strangle the pass to Manchester City's wing and prevent them from cooperating on the two wings."

Xavi and Iniesta nodded.

"If the two of them share the defensive task, the team's offensive organization will definitely be difficult to take care of. In this case, Leo." Guardiola looked at Messi: "In the second half of the game, you should retreat more and organize more. In tandem, of course, if there is an opportunity, you can make a personal breakthrough from Duoduo. You can grasp this opportunity yourself. Moreover, if you dribble the ball from the midfield, it will be more difficult for the opponent to defend!"

Messi nodded.

Guardiola's tactics this season have been quite successful, allowing the team to improve a lot in terms of control over the game and winning percentage.This made the players very convinced of Guardiola's tactical arrangements.

In Guardiola's eyes, although the team is still behind, they still have great hopes of qualifying.

Although Manchester City's tactics are very threatening, he is confident that his tactical arrangements will have good results.

At the beginning of the second half, the situation changed exactly as Guardiola thought.

At the beginning of the second half, Manchester City made a substitution. Samaras went off and Fellaini was replaced.

This is the same as the last game, you have to play three midfielders?

Guardiola smiled, replaced a striker, replaced a midfielder, this is to defend.

I am not afraid of you defending, but I am afraid that you will keep attacking.

Guardiola still has a lot of experience in breaking buses.

In the 47th minute, taking advantage of Manchester City's unsteady foothold, Barcelona launched a counterattack. Messi dribbled the ball from the center and crossed diagonally into Manchester City's penalty area. Under Thiago Silva's close marking, Messi still Finding the angle of the shot, he took a low shot in front of the penalty area and broke Manchester City's goal.

1: 0!
Barcelona not only took the lead in this game, but also tied Manchester City in the total score.

Guardiola shook his head funny: At this time, I really want to see Duncan's expression, it must be very exciting, right?

A defensive player was replaced in the second half, ready to defend the fruits of victory, but the total score was immediately equalized.

At a time like this, you can't declare the substitution invalid, right?
The final result is that the dumb eats coptis and cannot speak.

Thinking of this, Guardiola couldn't help but glanced at Duncan, but found that Duncan didn't have any extra expressions. He just shrugged and communicated with the assistant coach, very calm.

Pack!Then put on!
Guardiola curled his lips psychologically.

This guy must be panicking now!
How could it be so cheap to be so prematurely conservative and put on defensive players to defend the victory?
If Duncan knew what Guardiola was thinking now, he would definitely cry out for being wronged!

Who stipulated that I should be replaced by a defensive midfielder for the purpose of defense?

(End of this chapter)