What ball king, call me ball god

On Ajax's side, Ten Hag noticed the change of opponent Barcelona.

He was keenly aware that Valverde was liberating Messi, and wanted to let the two wingers attack Ajax's wing defense more, and then create opportunities to pass the ball to Messi.

The closer Messi is to the goal, the stronger his finishing ability.

For Ten Hag, the strategy has not changed, and the connection between Messi and his teammates is still cut off.

But tactics will change.

Ten Hag was brainstorming on the sidelines.

At this time, on the court, there have also been changes.

Link faced Messi directly.

Although Messi played in the attacking midfielder position, he retreated deeply. He didn't have many chances to get the ball in the first half. The sudden change in the second half gave Messi another period of breathing to get the ball.

Therefore, Messi immediately retreated to get the ball to organize an attack.

Lin Kedi didn't want to interrupt the cutting tactics in the first half, so he rushed forward as soon as he saw Messi holding the ball decisively.

"Lin Kedi confronts Messi head-on!"

Zhan Jun immediately regained his spirits.

And Messi also saw Lin Kedi rushing towards him at high speed.

Messi didn't want to collide head-on with the opponent, so he decisively distributed the ball to Dembele on the right.

The ball was passed in front of Dembele, and Dembele wanted to get the ball in two steps.

But suddenly stick out a foot.

"Tadic!"

Tadic intercepted the pass early.

The cutting tactics in the second half can still be used!

From the sidelines, Ten Hag saw the players on the field acting on their own, implementing the established tactics.

A decision was made immediately.

He decided to continue to implement the cutting tactics. Van der Beek blocked Messi's front, Tadic and Ziyech blocked Messi's passing route from left to right, and Messi's teammates passed him from behind. It is up to Lin Kedi to block this route.

After such a decision, Ten Hag immediately wanted to tell the players on the field this information, so he took advantage of a dead ball and handed over these arrangements to Tadic on the sidelines.

Tadic passed one by one, and soon the players in the midfield knew it.

So, in the second half, Ajax continued to siege.

It's very difficult, because Messi is in the middle, unlike on the wing, where he has to cut inside to pose a threat to the goal.

Because he is now in the middle, if he fails to defend, Messi can easily threaten the goal directly.

So in the second half Ajax basically used all their energy to contain one person.

"Ajax's tactics are obvious. It is to restrict Messi and block the pass from Barcelona's players to Messi from all angles. Messi is restricted to death, and Barcelona's offensive line is completely misfired. West’s reliance has always been there, but this situation did not happen before, and it was caused by the overall decline.” Zhan Jun commented on the situation on the court at that time.

In this matter, the time has come to 65 minutes. Although Barcelona has always held the ball, this kind of possession is invalid possession, because the ball is difficult to send to the hinterland of Ajax, and it is also difficult for Barcelona to pass it around. No threat to Ajax.

As a result, Ajax got more serious about cutting off Messi and his team-mates.

In the 65th minute, Barcelona made another substitution.

"Come on Semedo, replace Roberto. This is a counter-substitution, but now Barcelona is behind, change to a full-back?"

"Semedo is a typical player with strong offense and weak defense. If he is replaced, he may want to strengthen the offense on this side, but after all, he is only a full-back. Replacing him will be very effective for Barcelona's overall offense. micro."

Barcelona has already changed two people, and Ajax will not make the first substitution of the game until the 71st minute.

"Ajax is also going to make a substitution here. Sinkhrafen comes on and replaces Van der Beek. Sinkhraven is a player who can play central defenders and midfielders, but Ten Hag replaced him. With an attacking midfielder, it seems that we will continue to strengthen our defense."

After replacing Sinkhrafen, Ajax's formation has changed a bit, with Sinkhrafen before the double midfielder.

Sinkherafen's running range is very large, he can press Messi's position, and he can also become Ajax's first line of defense when he retreats.

However, he does not have the abilities of an offensive midfielder such as Sinkherafen's pass organization, assists and shots, so replacing him also represents a signal from Ten Hag.

That's total defense.

From the 71st minute until the 80th minute, Ajax didn't even allow Barcelona to attack Ajax's midfielder.

Barcelona continued to use the third substitution.

"Malcom came on and replaced Rakitic. This is a fight! Replace a midfielder and replace a forward. Now Barcelona is equipped with four forwards, plus a Messi. But this If not, there would be no one in Barcelona's midfield."

At the last moment, Semedo went to the midfield when he was attacking, temporarily acting as a midfielder barrier.

When defending, Semedo remained in the midfield, the right winger Dembele dropped back to the full-back position, and the left winger Coutinho also dropped back to the midfield.

This is basically a desperate tactic, without any conventional operability.

And Barcelona did launch an extreme counterattack in this way. At this last moment, although Ajax was still insisting on executing the cutting tactics, Barcelona no longer passed the ball to Messi. As for the tactics of crossing, as for whether Messi can grab it, that is not their worry about passing the ball.

They started attacking around Messi.

Based on these circumstances, Ajax made consecutive substitutions in the 83rd and 88th minutes.

"Put Feltman on, Ziyech on."

"Put on DeWitt, replace Tadic."

"In this way, Ajax's four-man offensive team in the frontcourt has only one link left, and the other three have been replaced by defensive players. It seems that Ajax is preparing to defend the past. 2 minutes, plus injury time maybe 5 minutes!"

At the end of regular time, the fourth official on the sidelines held up the stoppage time card - 2 minutes.

This caused the dissatisfaction of the home team fans at the scene, and there were boos everywhere for a while.

And Valverde also directly approached the fourth official to express his dissatisfaction.

But the fourth official didn't take it seriously, and the official answer: "Except for the time wasted by substitutions in the second half, there was no middle part of the game caused by injuries. It can be said that the game went extremely smoothly in the second half, so stoppage time 2 Minutes is a reasonable arrangement."

Valverde, who was blocked by some words, was upset and couldn't help it.

And the 2 minutes of stoppage time also passed very quickly.

Soon, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.

At this time, Suarez's shot fired an anti-aircraft gun.

Suarez also pointed to the corner flag, meaning it was a corner, but the referee obviously wouldn't give any time.

Suarez heard the whistle at the end of the game and was extremely dissatisfied. He was about to rush to the referee, but was immediately stopped by Messi.

"Forget it, Louis. The game is over, there is no need to get a card for this."

"But—hey!"

Suarez sighed, turned and left unwillingly.

Messi didn't care about his friend, but turned to look at Lin Kedi who was celebrating with his teammates.

Messi secretly sighed in his heart: "18 goals. This is no longer a genius, this is a world-class star."

Thinking of this, Messi stopped sighing and walked straight over.

Usually Messi is a shy person who doesn't know how to chat with people he doesn't know, but now, he is the captain of Barcelona, ​​he knows that he should take responsibility, he must take responsibility, there are outgoing leaders, and there are A silent leader is just a difference, but as a leader, some things must be done.

So he went straight to Lin Kedi.

"Lin, let's exchange jerseys."

Lin Kedi was stunned for a moment, then said "OK", and then the two exchanged jerseys.

"Lin, I hope you can think about Barcelona. You are a player that any team would desire, and Barcelona is no exception."

Seeing Messi's sincerity, Lin Kedi nodded and left.

After all, it's just thinking, nothing else. (end of this chapter)