Vol 4 Chapter 938: Sad story

As if Yang Yang's sudden volley awakened, Barcelona quickly stabilized its position.
From the opening ten minutes or so, this world's most outstanding pass and control team in the history of football has begun to find a sense, and stabilized its own rhythm, and began to advance slowly and steadily according to its own pass and control method He fell to the ground and gradually put pressure on Real Madrid's hinterland.
Real Madrid has not directly turned into a defensive counterattack because of the lead at this time. It still actively adopts the tactics of forcing and pressing in the frontcourt, and the defense line is still pushing forward, forming a wrestling with Barcelona near the center line.
Barcelona created the best field goal since the opening in the sixteenth minute. Harvey made a free kick and Busquets went straight to the penalty area. After Pedro received the ball, there was no first time to cross and find Messi and the ball. Leah, but he tried to pass Casillas, but Casillas was thrown in the penalty area.
The referee did not signal a foul, but the Barcelona player pressed the referee to think it was a penalty.
Judging from the slow-motion replay of the live broadcast of the game, Casilla's attack timing is very well controlled, and he directly rushed to Pedro's foot. The Barcelona winger just fell to the ground with his inertia, which has nothing to do with Casillas.
A minute later, Barcelona played an exquisite cooperation, Alves went low into the penalty area on the right side, Messi pushed forward and broke the goal, but the referee signaled offside. This was an undisputed event, and Messi himself did not dispute Accurate penalty.
Under Barcelona's strong offensive pressure, Real Madrid also showed great courage.
In the twenty-first minute, Real Madrid succeeded in the frontcourt, and passed the ball to Yang Yang on the left rib.
After Yang Yang got the ball away from Alves, he went straight to the penalty area to find Ibrahimovic, the Swedish center blocked Puyol with his body, then plugged in and got a kicking opportunity near the penalty spot, directly facing the goalkeeper , But failed to make a threat with a single kick, and Valdés flung the ball to get the ball.
This was an excellent opportunity. Ibrahimović slammed his head hard with both hands, and was obviously very depressed about his treatment. If he didn't push, just pick it directly and the ball would be stable.
Sometimes the game is like this, changing rapidly, players must make a decision in an instant, whether it is right or wrong.
If, in the first 30 minutes, the two sides are still offensive and defensive, and Real Madrid did not take the retreat, then in the last fifteen minutes of the first half, after Barcelona completely controlled the situation on the field, Real Madrid had to retreat to this. Area of ​​thirty meters.
The three backs lined up closely to protect the defense line and blocked Barcelona's route to Real Madrid's restricted zone and goal.
In the last ten minutes, Real Madrid also counterattacked, but the strategy was conservative. As long as the situation was not correct, it quickly withdrew its own half immediately, even in the 30-meter area, and strictly blocked Barcelona ’s Pass line.
Even though it has been two years, Barcelona have no way to start against Real Madrid's defense.
As the weaker link of Real Madrid ’s defense, Barcelona also tried to make a threat on the right. Alves and Pedro frequently hit Marcelo ’s side, but Marcelo did very well, not only finished. In his own defensive tasks, he often fills the team's defensive loopholes.
In the end, with the team's defense and the opening attack, Real Madrid successfully maintained a one-to-zero lead to the halftime break, but the player's game pressure is still very large.
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In the intermission, Benitez adjusted some of the team's first half holes, and also confirmed the team's first half performance, especially the opening attack, Real Madrid played very successfully.
This also proves the progress of Real Madrid in the past two years.
In Benitez ’s first coaching Real Madrid ’s first century derby, although the team broke Barcelona five to zero, but that was a bit of luck. At that time, Real Madrid ’s opening attack did not work, but was beaten by Barcelona. A surprise.
Two years later, in the UEFA Champions League final, Real Madrid's opening attack directly attacked Barcelona's goal and even even competed with Barcelona for half an hour.
Of course, it can also be said that Barcelona is declining.
Puyol is thirty-three years old and Harvey is thirty-one years old. The two central axis leaders are obviously going downhill in their careers.
The most obvious thing is that Barcelona has been slow to enter the game recently, which is a sign that the players are getting old.
At the time, the AC Milan senior team coached by Ancelotti was like this, except that they had the defense of the Italian team maintained, while Barcelona maintained by the team's pass and control system.
Barcelona themselves are clearly aware of this problem, so they are intensively finalizing Arsenal's Fabregas, hoping to buy back Fabregas to fill Harvey's vacancy.
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In the second half, there are many players, including Real Madrid, who are wondering whether Barcelona will adopt a faster offensive advancement, more direct and diagonal passes. When playing the offensive play behind Real Madrid, Barcelona still adopted it. Play slowly.
Guardiola's team still insists on ground transfer coordination, and after controlling the ball, it slowly advances little by little.
Real Madrid has made two plans for this, which is clearly not unexpected from Real Madrid.
As an opponent, Real Madrid know Barcelona.
Yang Yang once heard Benitez mentioned more than once that Barcelona regards ball control as life, and in order to ensure the stability of ball control, their pass and control are basically based on stability, so they can improve the speed of the team. Biography and oblique pass, long-risk long pass, have never been considered in Barcelona.
This statement by Benitez may be a little biased, but basically shows the problem of Barcelona.
It's like after the opening of the second half, Barcelona slowly passed the ball forward. After entering the first half, they encountered Real Madrid who were waiting for them. 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 shots, and they are really capable of shooting positive goals.
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The deadlock on the scene made the game look dull.
Barcelona made a substitution in the sixty-fifth minute and replaced Villa with teenager Afele.
The Spanish striker was really out of this game. He basically did not perform well in the face of Maicon.
This also made Real Madrid's management in the stands look straight and shook their heads.
"Villa is no longer at his peak," Zidane shook his head.
Speaking of which, this is really a sad story, because Villa is only 29 years old.
Florentino is also a shrewd man. Zidane said that 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 even other players.
With Yang Yang's current kicks, his condition can still be maintained for several years, and no one knows.
As we get older, injuries will increase one after another, 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, it must be protected. he.
Previously Ancelotti's opinion was correct. If you want to extend Yang Yang's peak period, you must let him change his playing style, just like Ronaldo was too lazy to run and concentrated all his physical energy to sprint goals. same.
Messi is the same now, Guardiola put him in the middle of the frontcourt, it is not without intention to change his pitch.
All are smart people, Zidane is a little bit, Florentino knows, but does not respond.
"From the current situation, in a short period of time, we still need to continue to use this traditional Italian-style tight defense, fast counterattack, which is also the most effective way." Valdano is from the ball From the perspective of the team's technical director, analyze the team's technical and tactical trends.
Although Real Madrid hopes to be able to play a more beautiful and aggressive offensive football than Barcelona, ​​but in the case of the ball can not grab Barcelona, ​​this is impossible.
Valdano's remarks undoubtedly put a chip in Florentino's heart, because in the current Real Madrid management candidate list, only one person is the best at this Italian defense, At the same time, it can enrich the team's midfield and frontcourt organization and attack from details.
That is Ancelotti.
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Ten minutes passed.
In the 75th minute, Guardiola made his second substitution in the game, replacing Pedro with Bojan.
This also made everyone aware of Barcelona's problem, that is, Guardiola did not dare, or that he refused to move to the midfielder.
Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, and Messi in the frontcourt are the guarantee of Barcelona's possession.
Earlier, Guardiola once replaced Iniesta with Ceduca Keita, but Barcelona's pass and ball turnovers increased, which was quite terrible for Barcelona, ​​so it quickly adjusted back.
Now, Guardiola makes two substitutions, with the left and right wingers replaced, but he dare not move to the midfield.
Benitez made a substitution at the same time and replaced Kaka with Robben.
After the adjustment of Real Madrid, the team returned to the four, three and three formation. Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Robben formed a trident in the frontcourt. Once the ball was snatched, the first time was a long pass to find Ibrahimovic, or Directly behind Barcelona's defense line, Yang Yang and Robben went to chase.
In this case, Ibrahimovic's center advantage, Yang Yang and Robben's speed, is very obvious.
When the game was about to enter the eighty minutes, Barcelona launched an attack, but just crossed the center line, about to enter the Real Madrid 30 meters area, Javier Martinez first put the shovel and gave the ball to the horse Scherrano.
After Argentina got the ball from the midfield, he quickly moved forward, and Real Madrid's front trident launched a counterattack.
A straight pass was given to the frontcourt with precision, Ibrahimovic retreated, turned his back to the offensive direction, blocked Pique with his body, stopped the ball, turned to the right, and passed to Barcelona's left defender Adri Behind Arnold.
The Dutch flying hero Robben, who hadn't been on the bench for a long time, came straight in and then caught up with the ball.
Almost at the same time, Yang Yang also spurned Alves away from the left rib diagonally to the left of the goal.