I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 180 Changes?Useless struggle!

After losing the ball, Barcelona began to regroup. After the re-kick-off, Barcelona attacked from the left. After Neymar and Alba hit the wall, they dialed the ball in front of Kyle Walker and tried to break through.

But Walker, who is tall, strong and fast, will not let Neymar.

The more breakthroughs are made in a narrow space, the more explosive power is needed to control the body's sudden turns and stops.

In the first half, when his physical fitness was still sufficient, Neymar made continuous emergency stops and changed directions trying to escape Walker's attack, but today Kyle Walker staged what is called a top-level side defense for everyone.

After holding the inside line, Walker stepped forward and forcibly blocked Neymar's forward path with his body, forcing Neymar, who wanted to make a cross pass, to make a mistake. The football hit Walker's leg and popped out of the sideline.

Then Barcelona's sideline kick was cut off by Yaya Toure.

De Bruyne retreated to respond and passed the ball directly to Zhao Jinge's feet.

Zhao Jinge stopped the ball and took the initiative to fight to block Iniesta. He doesn't have so many fancy tricks, and the capital of physical confrontation can help him control the ball well. This is why Loew and Guardiola think he is very good. One of the key reasons why he is suitable for the free agent in the frontcourt.

It is impossible for a striker without physical strength to become a versatile player in the frontcourt. Zhao Jinge shifted the ball to change direction and gradually pressed towards Barcelona's half.

In the fierce and tense competition atmosphere, Zhao Jinge's visual sense is incompatible with the competition.

He's like an alternative now.He is not in a hurry, he controls the ball without speeding up, and he has a sense of sight of kicking a health ball and playing Tai Chi.

However, Barcelona's frantic encirclement and suppression of him was extremely fast, forming an extreme visual contrast.

Rakitic, Alves, Iniesta, Messi, Busquets, plus Mascherano and Pique who stood apart behind Busquets.

Zhao Jinge seemed to be trapped in a cage, but he still controlled the ball slowly.

When Rakitic rushed up again, Zhao Jinge adjusted his direction and blocked him with his back. Messi stepped forward to steal the ball, and he pulled the ball with his left foot to complete the dodge.

The dribbling direction seemed to be adjusted to break through from the middle, and Barcelona's defense was instantly tightened. At this time, Zhao Jinge picked up a pass and sent the ball to the right side of the midfield.

Alves turned and immediately returned to the defense, but Mane stepped forward one step faster and made a stop and went into Barcelona's half.

Zhao Jinge actually likes to do the work of offensive organization. Apart from the fewer chances of scoring goals, he can also get pleasure in other aspects.

Because it is more deadly than a goal to end the opponent and kill the game.The offensive organization will have the satisfaction of being a game ruler.

Passing the ball well is just the most basic requirement.

How to use the pass to drive the team's offense is the advanced effect.

If Zhao Jinge passes the ball to Mane's feet, after Mane stops the ball, he may no longer have the perfect environment to advance.

But Zhao Jinge passed the ball to the open area ten to fifteen yards in front of Mane. As long as Mane has the offensive sense as a winger, he will definitely move forward.

When he got up to speed and moved the ball forward, the situation became clear at a glance.

He can only continue to move forward, because the opportunity has appeared!
Pique and Mascherano rushed back to the defense.

Mane began to dribble forward frantically, and immediately changed to cut in when he entered the danger zone. Before that, he looked at the situation in the middle.

Although Zhao Jinge also followed up, Busquets, Iniesta, and Alba surrounded him.

When Mane cut inside, Zhao Jinge slowed down and followed the Senegalese winger to insert from the other side.

Mane hit the ball across the middle, and De Bruyne followed up and sent an overhead through ball.

Zhao Jinge volleyed the ball back in front of the baseline.

Aguero tried to attack the goal but Ter Stegen, who reacted, took the first step and hugged the football in the air.

Just about to launch an offensive, but was counterattacked by Manchester City. The mental state of the Barcelona generals fluctuated, and they began to feel a little anxious.

On the other hand, Manchester City's lineup pressure is a bit outrageous. The three forwards stand outside Barcelona's big penalty area, and the back line also crosses the midfield, vowing to carry out the high pressure to the end.

After Ter Stegen was continuously harassed, he finally chose to kick the ball with big feet, which was completely giving the ball to the opponent.

But under the pressure of the opponent's audience, the cubs really dare not play with fire in front of their own goal.

Professor Bu has been watched to death. As for the two central defenders, a discerning person can see that the two of them are fluctuating greatly today, and they are not worthy of Ter Stegen's trust at all.

After the little lion took the goal kick, Manchester City once again dominated the offensive, and Barcelona was forced to shrink its defense. The game once again fell into a stalemate, but this time it was Barcelona who barely supported it.

But before the end of the first half, Barcelona once again threatened through a speed-up attack in a counterattack.

This time it was Rakitic who shot in from the back. He didn't hold down the ball and went straight high.

Eight shots, four threats, one goal, Manchester City's offensive efficiency was extremely high in the first half.

On the Barcelona side, with a 40.00% ball possession rate, they only shot twice, and none of them were on target. This proves that it is actually difficult for Barcelona's offense to penetrate Manchester City's defense.

If they can play well, with Barcelona's usual virtues, they would like to pass the football directly into Manchester City's goal, how could they kick such a low number of shots.

This also proves that Manchester City's targeted tactics in the first half, especially the defensive tactics, were very successful.

At the end of the first half, Manchester City, relying on Zhao Jinge's goal, returned to the visiting team's dressing room with a one-goal lead.

During the intermission, Lineker also expressed his feelings about the first half of the game in the live broadcast room of Sky Sports:
"I have to admit I was very impressed by Manchester City. What they showed against Barcelona 15 minutes later was the transition from passive to active.

And after scoring a goal, he completely took out his own initiative, completely overwhelmed his opponents, and did not give them a chance to breathe.

City's high press was suffocating, and they played at a frantic pace that it is rare to see City play with such intensity and speed.

The current Barcelona will definitely not want Manchester City to continue to maintain such a crazy rhythm in the second half, but I think Guardiola will show this kind of pressing intensity again.

Enrique must come up with his own solution during the intermission, and Guardiola may continue to make adjustments.

This second half will be related to the most important inflection point of the entire knockout round. Will Manchester City return to the Etihad with a victory?It's still Barcelona fighting back, everything depends on the adjustment of the two teams. "

But as the on-site commentator analyzed, the real game depends on the adjustment of the coaches of both sides during the intermission.

In the locker room of the visiting team, Guardiola did not give too many instructions, but only warned his players to continue to follow the previous rhythm to control the game:

"Everyone, I still say the same thing, our performance so far tonight is very good, we will continue to work hard!
I believe that as long as we maintain the current rhythm and style of play, and continue to contain Barcelona's pass penetration and offense, then we must be the ones who will take away the victory in the end! "

Guardiola looked at his players with a confident smile.

"You know me, I don't like one-to-zero, so work harder in the second half and try to score one or two more!"

The players responded in unison.

Manchester City can continue to move forward according to the established track, but Barcelona, ​​which has a loophole, needs Enrique to make adjustments.

The first is Busquets. He was forced by Manchester City in the first half and had to retreat to a deep position to get the ball. Basically, he was on the same level as the central defender.
So now Enrique is considering whether to let Professor Bu retreat more thoroughly.

If you form a three-centre back formation that echoes back and forth with two central defenders, facing Manchester City's high-pressure press, Barcelona's backcourt will have more error tolerance.

Secondly, in Barcelona's four-three-three tactics, the two full-backs have always been positioned very high, so now Enrique is considering whether to push them directly to the midfield. It is just a manifestation of Barcelona's traditional position.

The full-backs are front and back, the connection with Messi and Neymar, and the opportunities to participate in the offense will definitely be more.

From this point of view, such an adjustment can further stimulate the team's offensive ability.

But with more offense, the defense will inevitably be weaker.

First of all, the midfielder, Rakitic and Iniesta, two short midfielders, can they provide effective protection?
The defense, Mascherano, but his physical condition is not dominant, Busquets and Pique are both slow, slow turning, and not flexible enough, and now they are both on the defense
In addition, the three backs themselves are not strong enough to defend and protect the side. Once the two forward full backs cannot return to their positions in time, the defense on that side will become a big problem.

Not to mention, Manchester City still has world-class forwards like Zhao Jinge and Aguero standing on the front line.

But Enrique, as a very traditional Spanish coach,
When traditional Spanish coaches consider issues, they always focus on me and start from offense.

For example, the Spanish winger tactics in the past.

Instead of traditional Spanish coaches, such as many Serie A coaches, or people like Benitez and Aragones, they will first think from a defensive perspective when considering issues, and their tactics are more pragmatic.

Enrique is now considering the problem purely from an offensive point of view when the team is behind. On the one hand, it is his personality. On the other hand, it is also because Barcelona is now behind zero to one, and they must strive for goals in the second half.

In the end, Enrique made a decision and changed the team's formation to three-four-three to maximize his offensive firepower.

As for defense, this issue is no longer considered by the Spanish coach. Losing at home means that Barcelona will completely lose the initiative in this round of knockout rounds!
Amidst the constant cheering of the Camp Nou fans, after the start of the second half, Barcelona continued to strengthen their offense after changing their formation.

After observing that Barcelona made adjustments, Guardiola on the sidelines also quickly reacted and made targeted adjustments to Manchester City.

He first signaled to Zhao Jinge, and continued to stare at Busquets.

Now that they have retreated to the back line, that's even better. Zhao Jinge and Aguero directly pressed forward to suppress Barcelona's back line.

Then let Yaya Toure and Kyle Walker jam the opponent's two full-backs.

During the intermission, Guardiola asked the two of them to retreat appropriately. Now it is time for them to defend, retreat to the midfield, and follow Alves and Alba.

At the same time, both Kanter and De Bruyne moved up to suppress Messi and Iniesta.

Manchester City's two midfielders have physical advantages over Messi and Iniesta, especially De Bruyne, who has an obvious advantage over Iniesta. Guardiola is confident that he can completely overwhelm him. live.

After all, what he faced tonight was his old club, Barcelona, ​​which had made him feel painful.

After the last disastrous defeat, he has always wanted to show his best tonight, in Barcelona, ​​in front of this group of former disciples. It is not only Barcelona who made me Guardiola, but also because of my name. Guardiola!

After Guagua made these arrangements, he felt relieved a lot.

Especially after seeing the start of the game, the Manchester City players basically understood his tactical intentions and were playing according to the blueprint he had drawn.

"Manchester City midfielder successfully steals the ball."

"Barcelona made a mistake in the pass under the pressure of Manchester City's midfield. Look at Manchester City's counterattack this time."

"Yaya Toure passed to De Bruyne, but Barcelona's defense was quick and Rakitic came back."

"Then pass to the left and hand it over to Zhao Jinge."

"Zhao Jinge stopped the ball on the left side."

"De Bruyne came up to meet him, but Rakitic followed him every step of the way."

"Zhao Jinge passed the ball to De Bruyne, and he sprinted forward quickly, and Alves followed suit."

"De Bruyne knocked back to the baseline on the left side of the box."

"Look at this time, Zhao Jinge and Alves are competing for speed."

Zhao Jinge sprinted very fast and was slightly ahead of Alves, but on the inside of Alves, Pique also stuck to the left line of the penalty area and blocked Zhao Jinge's low pass.

Manchester City's No. 9 just glanced at it, noticed Aguero's running position, and knew it in his heart.

If the ball is passed low and flat, even if it is not blocked by Alves, it will definitely be blocked by Pique.

Therefore, he hardly thought about it. When catching up with the ball, Alves was right behind him, but Zhao Jinge barely made any adjustments. He made a cross with his left foot and sent the ball directly to the middle of the small penalty area.

At the latter point, Mane was in ambush, holding Pique back, causing Busquets in the center to deal with Aguero alone, and he stopped Aguero behind him.

When Zhao Jinge sprinted, Busquets and Aguero also rushed from the front of the penalty area to the inside of the penalty area.

But Aguero first tried to move to the left side of the penalty area from behind, and arched Busquets with his body, making the Spaniard mistakenly think that he wanted to rush to the left side of the penalty area, hit behind Pique, and went to meet Zhao Jinge.

This allowed Busquets to move diagonally to the left when he entered the penalty area, still pinning Aguero behind him.

In other words, if Zhao Jinge wants to pass the ball to Aguero, he has to pass Busquets first.

Unexpectedly, Aguero behind him suddenly changed direction, threw off Busquets, and slanted into the middle of the small penalty area.

At this time, Zhao Jinge also just left Alves behind and made a cross with his left foot.

Alves on the outermost perimeter did not block the pass, and the football quickly passed over Mascherano's head, flew over Busquets, and landed in the middle of the front of the small penalty area.

Mascherano has rich experience and the quickest reaction. He immediately threw off De Bruyne, who was advancing forward, and chased after the football.

But after Aguero rushed up, his speed was also very fast, like a heavy tank, with the sound of whistling wind, he rushed to the point where the cross ball landed, and with the run-up, he jumped high.

Mascherano's jumping ability is actually good, but he can't stand the short height. Aguero took advantage of his height and took the initiative to attack. In the middle of the ball, a direct head hammer.

The football was headed to the right of the goal by Aguero.

Ter Stegen also reacted very quickly. He originally stood close to the left column and quickly moved to the middle, but his speed could not keep up with the speed of the ball. But still couldn't touch the ball.

"GOAL!!!!!!"

"In 9 minutes, Manchester City made another victory!"

"Two to zero!"

"Brilliant assist from Zhao Jinge from the left, Aguero overwhelmed Mascherano with a header from the center."

"It still came from Manchester City's quick counterattack after stealing the ball, which was very sharp."

"Barcelona's defense reacted quickly, but it still couldn't stop Manchester City's lightning counterattack."

"It's still the wing of the three defenders, and it's still playing behind Alves."

"In the second half, after Barcelona changed and adjusted, Manchester City's counterattacks were almost all on the wing."

"Barcelona is in a very difficult situation now. The front offense has been unable to open up the situation for a long time, but the loopholes behind it have been breached again and again."

"Two to zero, there is about half an hour left in their home game, Barcelona must hurry up!
They are already standing on the edge of the cliff, Guardiola has strangled their throats to Manchester City! "

(End of this chapter)