Green Journey

Chapter 395 A major turning point!Well done this undercover!
During the intermission, after the advertisement, the camera returned to the LeTV live broadcast room, and Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu began to replay the match between Manchester City and Barcelona in the first half.

"The score of 1-1 in the first half has actually explained a lot of problems!"

"More than 20 minutes before the start of the game, Manchester City suppressed Barcelona through high-position pressing, and even cut off the connection between Barcelona's midfield and MSN at one point, making it impossible for Barcelona's frontcourt MSN combination to display their powerful offensive capabilities."

"But after Messi helped Barcelona equalize, Barcelona increased their press and pressure on Bravo."

"In the last 20 minutes of the first half, Barcelona obviously entered the game state. Both sides pressed the opponent with high pressure. On the whole, the two sides were evenly matched."

"For Manchester City, in the last 20 minutes, Messi, Neymar and Suarez successively approached the city, forming a huge impact and deterrent force on Manchester City."

"And when the back line is continuously tight, Fernandinho, the defensive midfielder, keeps making mistakes, and the avant-garde is under the tremendous pressure brought by the high press, and Manchester City's defense line personnel begin to make mistakes. A concentrated expression of Manchester City's incomplete rooting!"

"That's right!" Cheerful Zhang Lu nodded, looking at Zhan Jun with admiration, and agreed with Zhan Jun's tactical analysis very much.

"Manchester City's conceded goal in the first half was both accidental and inevitable!"

"The chance is that Fernandinho fell, but the inevitability is that the defense of Manchester City's single midfielder in the middle is a bit weak!"

"Iniesta's run, coupled with the running positions of other Barcelona players, directly emptied the middle of Manchester City's penalty area, coupled with Fernandinho's fall, by accident, it must be a two-pronged approach, resulting in Messi goal!"

"Chu Zheng actually realized the emptiness of the defense of the single midfielder in the middle, and he came back in time, but after all, he is still not as fast as Messi!"

In Zhang Lu's view, the technical and tactical confrontation between Manchester City and Barcelona in the first half was world-class and can be used as a classic teaching case.

From the beginning of the game, Barcelona and Manchester City, who lacked sufficient offensive depth, were trying their best to find and create offensive depth.

Both sides concentrated their forces in the midfield to compete.

Both teams played the same pass-and-control tactic-high pressing in the frontcourt, counter-marking in the midfield, emphasizing ball possession and control.

There are similarities in tactical thinking and player movement.

However, the combination of personnel and execution is different, so the level of performance, detailed execution and rhythm control have different effects.

In contrast, Manchester City has to do better here.

Relying on the tacit cooperation of Chu Zheng, the fleet commander, and Gundogan, De Bruyne, Nolito, Sterling and other attackers, Manchester City found Barcelona's gaps on both ribs. The tactical execution can be said to be excellent. It was a huge success.

At the same time, the atmosphere in the Barcelona dressing room is relatively relaxed.

Although they were suppressed for a while in the first half, they played better in the second half, threatening Manchester City's goals continuously.

For the victory of the game, the Barcelona players basically didn't think much about it.

Because this is Camp Nou, the great Camp Nou.

Whether it's the Galaxy Battleship next door, the Bandit team, or a foreign team, it's not that simple to win a victory at the Nou Camp.

This is not because the Barcelona players are blindly confident, but because Barcelona's super high winning percentage at home has given them strong self-confidence.

In the dressing room of the Nou Camp home team, Messi sat quietly in his position, resting with his eyes closed.

But at this moment, Messi's mind was thinking back to the fight with Chu Zheng in front of Manchester City in the first half.

For Messi, his feeling at the time was horrifying.

It was also this fight that gave Messi a clear understanding of Chu Zheng's strength for the first time.

In terms of starting speed and acceleration ability, Chu Zheng was evenly matched with him.

As for the frequency of his feet, although he won, he still has lingering fears in his heart. Even thinking about it now, he still feels a little scared.

Because the frequency of Chu Zheng's feet didn't slow him down too much. At that time, as long as he slowed down a bit, Chu Zheng could take the lead and destroy the ball.

Over the years, after game after game, Messi's stride frequency has almost always been a dimensionality reduction blow to opponent players.

In terms of the frequency of movements under his feet, he is the leader.

But today Chu Zheng gave him a huge surprise. Chu Zheng's equally fast feet made him feel threatened for the first time and gave him a strong shock.

Next to it, Busquets and Rakitic, Barcelona's two world-class midfielders, are also a little silent.

In the first half, the two faced Chu Zheng frequently, and even joined forces to defend Chu Zheng many times.

But Chu Zheng also put huge defensive pressure on the two of them, and the two were played by Chu Zheng more than once.

So the two of them are in a bad mood at this moment, thinking about how to deal with Chu Zheng in the second half.

But the two of them only thought about tactical fouls, otherwise they would have a hard time defending against Chu Zheng, who has comprehensive skills and extremely fast feet.

Especially Chu Zheng's unconstrained imagination and creativity caused even more headaches for Busquets and Rakitic.

After 15 minutes, players from both sides stepped onto the court again.

Seeing that Pique, the core player in the team's defense line, disappeared, the hearts of countless Barcelona fans in the stands suddenly thumped.

Sure enough, soon the fourth official appeared on the sidelines and held up a substitution sign.

"Oh!!!"

"24 Good Mathieu replaced Pique!" Zhan Jun's tone was extremely surprised.

"It should be impossible to persist in the game!"

"Gundoan put a shovel behind his back at the end of the first half. Pique almost didn't stand up at that time. It should be injured!"

Hearing Zhang Lu's words, Zhan Jun shook his head and said with a smile: "Barcelona was a little unlucky today. They were forced to use up two substitutions in the first half!"

On the sidelines, Guardiola's eyes lit up when he saw Barcelona's substitution, as if he had thought of something

Mathieu joined Barcelona from Valencia in 2014 for 2000 million euros.

Although this guy is not the absolute main force in Barcelona's defense line, he is also an indispensable member. His mid-range and side-line attributes have solved Barcelona's urgent needs many times.

In other words, this is a firefighter in Barcelona's defense line, and his ability cannot be compared with Pique.

But after thinking about it carefully, Guardiola temporarily suppressed the idea of ​​replacing Aguero in his heart, and prepared to observe it first.

Today's game, so far, except for Fernandinho's outrageous slip, Guardiola is still quite satisfied.

Not long after, Marzic blew his whistle, and the second half of the game officially started.

Different from the first half, at the beginning of the second half, the rhythm was obviously faster than that of the first half. Barcelona and Manchester City seemed to have a tendency to fight.

At the beginning of the game, Barcelona pressed the whole team to strengthen the press and attack in the midfield and attack, and return the opponent in the same way.

So Barcelona is a wave of onslaught in a blink of an eye.

In the 46th minute of the game, Umtiti suddenly launched an attack with a long pass from the left side of the backcourt.

Neymar and Umtiti formed an excellent passing and running tacit understanding, throwing off Zabaleta and Otamendi who were chasing behind them.

Neymar just entered the Manchester City penalty area from the upper left corner. Facing the attacking Bravo, he jumped up directly, and at the same time wanted to lead the ball in midair.

But Bravo didn't give him this chance. With a precise pounce with both hands, the ball was blocked.

In a blink of an eye, Manchester City retaliated.

In the 48th minute of the game, Kolarov took the ball from the back court and pushed it to the left of the center circle, and then quickly passed to Chu Zheng, who was on the left rib of the center circle, to the right.

Chu Zheng didn't take the ball, but directly knocked Gundogan back in front of him, and then slanted towards the middle.

But as soon as Chu Zheng left, Gundogan was surrounded by a triangle from Busquets, Iniesta, and Mascherano.

But Jing Duoan was really alive, and when he stumbled and stumbled, he stabbed the ball forward through the gap to Chu Zheng.

Chu Zheng stretched out his back and turned around, facing Nolito with his left rib thrust forward.

At this time, because of Mascherano's top, there was no one around Nolito.

Just now Rakitic on the wing didn't fill in for Mascherano at all.

Chu Zheng didn't pass it immediately, but took the ball straight to Umtiti who was retreating in front of him.

In a blink of an eye, Chu Zheng came to the left rib area at the top of the arc, and then went straight to the left side of the penalty area.

Outside the upper left corner of the small penalty area, Nolito rushed to the ball and directly exploded the near corner.

Umtiti blocked the block with a sliding tackle and missed the ball.

But Ter Stegen at the near corner reacted quickly. After quickly judging the line of Nolito's shot, he tilted his body to the right and blocked the ball out of the baseline with his knee.

Soon, De Bruyne took a left corner kick and directly found Chu Zheng who was in the back.

Among the short guys in Barcelona, ​​Chu Zheng successfully took off, and the distance from the ground was outstanding.

Under the eyes of everyone, Chu Zheng's body was like a tight bowstring, but when the ball came in front of him, he pushed forward suddenly, and the ball hit the upper corner of the near point.

Duang!

A loud sound made everyone in the restricted area tremble.

Ter Stegen almost didn't lose his mind. After reacting, he found the time, took a step forward and lifted his knees to take off, and firmly grasped the ball that was going straight up and down with both hands.

"Oh!!!!"

"Oh yo!!!!!!!!!"

In the LeTV live broadcast room, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu exclaimed at the same time!
"Chu Zheng's jumping ability is really at the BUG level in football!"

Zhan Jun adjusted his glasses and said with a smile: "The key point is that Chu Zheng is still very strong in physical resistance, you can't hold him back from jumping at all."

"Look at just now, Busquets and Mathieu at 189 were pulling and pulling. They couldn't do anything about Chu Zheng. They could only watch Chu Zheng take off."

On the sidelines, Guardiola also hugged his head in regret.

In the stands, no matter how brilliant and outstanding Chu Zheng's performance was, the boos from the Barcelona fans were still there and getting louder.

It's a pity that from the start of the game to the present, they found that Chu Zheng was not affected by them at all, and his performance was getting better and better.

This has frustrated countless Barcelona fans.

Then the situation of the game was deadlocked.

Hesitantly, the frontcourt press and midfield defense of both sides have achieved the ultimate, resulting in the formation of both sides presenting a three-line extremely compressed situation.

The high-tech mutual injury made neither Barcelona nor Manchester City dare to widen the width of the midfield.

As long as the offensive side moves with the ball, the defender immediately follows the transfer, and the high-position press is in place.

The tactical execution of Manchester City and Barcelona amazed countless people who watched the game.

Just when everyone thought the game would continue to be deadlocked, a turning point that made Barcelona fans ecstatic and Manchester City fans vomit blood suddenly came.

In the 58th minute of the game, Chu Zheng received a forward pass from Zabaleta on the center line from the left side of the center circle.

But he couldn't turn around because Mathieu quickly went up behind him.

With the addition of Neymar on the right side quickly approaching, Chu Zheng had to pass back to Otamendi who was pulled to the side, and at the same time signaled others to control the ball.

So on the side near the center line, Chu Zheng, Zabaleta on the ribs, and Otamendi formed a continuous triangle pass.

Neymar, who was in the middle of the three, was forced to grab the circle and was walked by a monkey!
But Barcelona is too familiar with this triangle ball control method. They are not in a hurry at all, so they firmly occupy the key position and prevent the ball from developing in the middle.

Chu Zheng was forced to cross the center line by Iniesta behind him and returned to his own half.

But in the next moment, Chu Zheng suddenly turned to the right and shot a cold arrow with his left foot.

The ball jumped from the middle of Iniesta and Busquets who were standing parallel on the center line of the wing, and went straight to Gundogan outside the arc of the center circle.

When Gundogan saw Zabaleta go forward, he stood still and stretched his feet, and the ball jumped in front of Zabaleta.

But Gundogan didn't do a good job with the ball, and the ball was given too much in advance.

Let Digne on the wing grab the ball in front of Zabaleta.

Digne's kick didn't seem like a clearance, but a long pass over the top, hitting directly behind Manchester City's defense.

The landing point is on the left side of the center, about 36 and seven meters away from the Manchester City fans.

Suarez pushed the speed to the extreme, and Otamendi also chased back from both sides, trying to give Suarez a close defense.

But after the ball touches the ground, the tendency to roll forward is extremely fast.

Seeing that it was impossible to catch up, Bravo also came out, and the three of them slowed down at the same time.

Stones quickly moved to the top of the arc in the middle to establish a point for the ball.

However, in the next second, everyone was dumbfounded.

After Bravo came out from the left rib at the top of the arc, he kicked the ball with his right foot.

Everyone could see that Bravo wanted to throw the ball directly to Fernandinho who was withdrawing along the middle lane ten meters away.

But he didn't fully exert his strength on this ball, and the line was very close to Suarez.

As a striker at the top of the world football pyramid, how could Suarez miss this opportunity.

Facing the flying ball, Suarez stretched out his foot to intercept the ball directly, then quickly adjusted his body and pace, swung his right foot and directly hit the goal.

"Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Bravo gave a gift!!!!!!!!!!" In the live broadcast room, both Zhang Lu and Zhan Jun were dumbfounded.

At the same time, Gary Neville, Pettit and old Harland in England's Sky Sports live broadcast room were also dumbfounded.

It is really unbelievable that such an ultra-low-level mistake appeared in such a super-level confrontation.

On the field, at this moment, Bravo was dumbfounded.

Facing Suarez's hanging goal, he subconsciously jumped up, raised his hands and directly blocked the ball.

"Beep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The next second, the referee Marzic blew a sharp whistle, ran over and took out a red card from his trouser pocket to signal Bravo.

In the middle circle, Chu Zheng's eyes were wide open, and he couldn't believe what he saw.

At the scene, Guardiola, Enrique, Barcelona and Manchester City fans all stared at the drama staged at the front of Manchester City's penalty area.

Guardiola twitched the corner of his mouth twice, then scratched the back of his head, turned and walked towards Caballero on the bench.

Beside, Enrique was so happy from ear to ear!

Not long after, there was huge and enthusiastic applause at the Nou Camp.

"This is Guardiola's second return to Camp Nou after leaving Barcelona!"

"However, today Guardiola's most trusted two generals made major mistakes in the first and second half!"

"Haha!" Zhang Lu was also happy, "Bravo was recruited to Manchester City by Guardiola because of his good footwork."

"But the mistake this time is really too big!" At the end of the sentence, Zhang Lu shook her head.

"The Camp Nou fans are also applauding Bravo's righteous report! This undercover job is well done!!"

"Hahaha!" Zhang Lu was overjoyed, "Manchester City with 10 players is going to be tough!"

At the scene, taking advantage of the time gap between substitutions, Guardiola quickly called Chu Zheng to the sidelines, and then made gestures to Chu Zheng.

In the camera, Chu Zheng, who is listening to Guardiola's tactical arrangements, keeps pinching the orange bottle, squeezes the special drink into his mouth, and then spits it out, nodding constantly.

But because of the huge noise at the scene, no one could hear what Guardiola and Chu Zheng said in the camera.

(End of this chapter)