I Want to Be the King of Football

Beep!

With the whistle of Turkey’s referee Kakir, this world-renowned Champions League semi-final first leg match officially sounded the horn at the Nou Camp, and the scene was full of boos from Barcelona fans.

The first to kick-off was Manchester City center Su Dong, who was standing in the middle circle.

Barcelona fans’ perception of Su Dong has always been quite torn. They both missed his beauty during his time at Barcelona and hated him for leading the team to slaughter Barcelona after he left Barcelona. This made Barcelona fans love and hate him. , Quite contradictory.

Once, Barcelona hated him more than love, but after last season's relaxation, especially after Barcelona won the Champions League, their attitude towards Sutton and East has improved a lot.

But now, they began to hate it again.

No way, Su Dong is too strong.

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At the beginning of the game, Manchester City was aware of the changes in Barcelona's formation.

It doesn't look like the traditional Barcelona style of play, but a bit like a three-back formation.

Puyolpic and Mascherano, these three players are on the back line, lined up from left to right.

Alves, who was originally expected to appear in the defense, appeared on the right side of the midfield.

As a result, Barcelona's midfielder from left to right became a combination of Cedou Keitaia Tourehave and Alves.

Iniesta and Fabregas are before midfield and after Messi.

The Argentine superstar serves as the single striker.

This lineup is a bit weird.

I've never seen Barcelona use such a style of play before.

It looked like three, four, two, one, but when Manchester City’s right Sanchez dribbled the ball and wanted to open the defense from the right, Cedou Keita retreated to the defense.

This proves that Barcelona is not without a full-back, but just pushed the full-back forward to the midfield.

Cedou Keita and Alves said they are full-backs, but when defending, they can retreat to the back line at any time to protect the side defense, which will make Barcelona's back line a five-back.

Pressing out on offense and retreating on defense have high requirements for players' tactical execution, physical fitness and other aspects, and also have requirements for defensive ability, but Cedu Keita and Alves are basically capable of it.

The intention of this is actually very simple, that is, to exert a strong enough pressure on Manchester City in the midfield.

Especially Fabregas and Iniesta, the two players are almost staring at Busquets.

Everyone knows that Busquets is the center and back pass hub of Manchester City. He can steadily comb and play the ball under high pressure. He looks very low-key, not obvious, but in fact, his The effect is very obvious, and the personal ability is also very strong.

Mourinho used two players, Iniesta and Fabregas, to pinch Busquets. In addition to defensiveness, Mourinho also intended to ensure that after a successful steal, the two of them can put in a counterattack as soon as possible. Messi formed a team.

In terms of overall tactics, Mourinho really adopted a more secure tactic. Instead of showing aggressiveness at the beginning of the game, he took the initiative to give up possession and tried to pass the midfield's numerical advantage to oppress and press Manchester City. .

It has to be said that Mourinho's strategy still has a certain effect.

In Manchester City’s midfield possession, Fabregas and Iniesta's retracement, Sedou Keita and Alves move forward, Barcelona has six players in the midfield, Manchester City usually only three One, even if the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe retreat, there are only four, which is completely at a disadvantage.

Barcelona players through this midfield press and pressure, quickly succeeded in stealing the ball.

Under Iniesta’s interference, the ball passed by Busquets to David Silva was intercepted by Harvey. Although David Silva put in the counter-attack for the first time, Harvey was quicker and straightforward. A kick was passed to Messi who had retreated in front.

Messi pulled out of the Manchester City centre-back's defense zone and drove forward with the ball after receiving the ball. When approaching Pepe, he flicked a shot and fooled Pepe. Although he failed to break through with the ball, he still delivered a precise kick. A straight pass was given to the back of Manchester City's defense.

Fabregas pushed forward quickly, and Kompany chased all the way back and grabbed the penalty area. Before Fabregas kicked, he fell to the ground and tackled the goal, blocking the Barcelona player’s shot from the baseline, turning it into a shot. Corner kick.

Subsequently, Barcelona's corner kick was cleared out of the penalty area, Yaya Toure grabbed the second landing point, after stopping the ball, nearly 30 meters away from the goal, blasted a long shot, high.

Two consecutive shots came from Barcelona.

Manchester City control the situation and the ball, but so far have not been able to organize a decent attack.

Guardiola kept calling on the players to be patient from the sidelines, and Su Dong, wearing the captain's armband, also signaled his teammates on the court to control the ball as much as possible and try to slow down the rhythm.

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Benitez said that football is a struggle for space and the right to the ball.

Manchester City have the ball, but Mourinho hopes Barcelona can seize space.

So he took advantage of the numbers to build a very solid steel line of defense in the midfield.

Even at first glance, he seemed to put the line of defense directly in the midfield.

As long as Manchester City players enter the midfield with the ball, they are immediately chased by Barcelona players.

Even if Sudong retreats, and David Silva Tony Cross and Busquets form a diamond-shaped ball possession square, but it is difficult to penetrate Barcelona's line of defense.

Mourinho is truly outstanding in building defense.

Especially now that Su Dong retreats and the two wingers rush forward, they just happen to be imprisoned by Barcelona's three central defenders.

You know, Puyol and Mascherano are both very fast, and both can keep up with Di Maria and Sanchez's dribbling breakthrough, not to mention there is a Pique who is dragged in the end.

After Sudong retreated, Yaya Toure has been pestering him.

The Ivorian midfielder has always had mixed reputations in Barcelona, ​​but Mourinho trusts and reuses him very much.

As long as Su Dong retreats, he and Harvey will never advance.

Manchester City also quickly realized the difficulty of the midfield. Marcelo and Sabaletta began to actively move forward, participating in the passing of the midfield, hoping to open the situation from the side. At this time, the game has passed quickly. Ten minutes.

In the first ten minutes, Manchester City didn't even shoot a goal.

It can be seen how tight the Barcelona midfield and frontcourt restrictions have been done in this game.

Low post defense, midfield strangulation, three central defenders, and Messi left in the frontcourt. This seems to be a real defensive counterattack.

"Remember, at the beginning of the season, after losing to Manchester City in the European Super Cup, Mourinho once said that he is actually more inclined to play defensive counterattacks because he believes this is the most effective tactic against Manchester City."

"Now, he finally got his wish and came up with the tactics he most wanted to play, but it seems that the fans at the scene still have some opinions. After all, at the Nou Camp, Barcelona has always been tyrannical, but now he is forced by Manchester City. It has to retreat and counterattack, which somewhat embarrassed Barcelona fans."

"But Mourinho's creed is never to win beautiful, but to win!"

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The game is in the hands of Manchester City, but it is difficult to create a threatening attack.

Even after fifteen minutes, Manchester City still didn't even kick a shot, which made the situation on the court a little irritable.

Until the nineteenth minute, when Su Dong saw Di Maria follow Alves back to the defense, he immediately ran to the left.

Marcelo and Di Maria joined forces on the left wing and cut Alves's ball and handed it to David Silva.

The Spanish midfielder sent a through ball directly behind the defense.

Su Dong obliquely inserted into the left from the middle, before everyone else, stopped the ball.

Puyol also blocked Su Dong's passage to the restricted area for the first time.

He knows Su Dong too well.

One-on-one, Su Dong didn't show any fear, and he slammed the ball to the bottom line in an attempt to force a breakthrough, but Puyol reacted fast enough to keep up immediately.

I saw Su Dong’s explosive power slightly better, leading half of his position, and stabbing the ball into the penalty area, but he rushed outside the court, and after avoiding Puyol, he suddenly accelerated and grabbed the ball before the bottom line. The foot blocks the ball in the line and passes the ball back to the vicinity of the penalty spot before Pique comes to make a clearance.

Only then did Sanchez rush to his horse and greeted Su Dong's return pass directly, forming Manchester City's first shot in this game.

This was originally a very good opportunity, but under the interference of Mascherano, Sanchez's kick was a little bit off, and he went straight to the bottom line and failed to pose a threat.

The entire Camp Nou stadium was relieved.

Although he could not break the goal, Su Dong's speed and technique when he faced Puyol and Pique on the left side of the road was really frightening.

As long as he is still on the court, no one can rest assured.

Sure enough, just four minutes after the last attack, Manchester City once again intercepted the ball in midfield.

This time Tony Cross made a long pass behind the defensive line. Su Dong quickly jumped in, before Pique, with a header, from the left side of Pique to the right side of Pique, and he speeded up the chase. Going up, before Pique, the whole person stopped and slammed the ball to the left, directly passed Pique, and drove the ball to the left.

Puyol stepped forward to make up for the first time, but Su Dong sent a pass to the bottom line.

With no one to defend, Di Maria obliquely inserted the left rib of the penalty area, after catching up with Su Dong's pass, his left foot directly pushed the far corner. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

As a result, this foot was going to take a shot, hit the lower edge of the right post, bounced out, and failed to form a goal.

Di Maria hugged her head in pain and fell into the penalty area of ​​Barcelona.

This is already a single-handed ball. The chance is so good that it hit the post.

"Manchester City's offensive has improved during this period of time, and it has become more and more threatening. Su Dong has continuously created opportunities, but it is still lacking even when it comes to the goal."

"Neither Di Maria nor Sanchez are the kind of players who score very efficiently."

"But the problem is that in Manchester City now only Su Dong can hold the ball in the frontcourt and create opportunities."

"Guardiola is on the sidelines, still calling on the players to be patient, to stabilize their positions, and to wait for the opportunity."

"Obviously, both sides are waiting for the opponent to make a mistake."