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Chapter 413 Barcelona, ​​that's it? !

"The game has been going on for 20 minutes and Barcelona, ​​playing at home, seems to have encountered..."

"Even though the La Liga giants had nearly 60% of the ball possession, they did not create many good shooting opportunities and were suppressed instead."

"The score is still 0-1, the visiting team is leading."

"Manchester United's defensive formation was very high up the pitch."

"Barcelona players seem to be a little uncomfortable with the aggressive close defense of Manchester United players."

Along with the commentator's narration, the camera on the scene was also aimed at the head coaches of both teams on the sidelines.

Luis Enrique frowned, crossed his arms, and looked thoughtful;

Mourinho, dressed in a classic trench coat, had his hands in his pockets and a sharp gaze.

Returning to Camp Nou, he felt like he was back in the days when he led Inter Milan to this stadium.

Mourinho knows Barcelona's tactical style very well.

You know, in preparation for this game, he started watching Barcelona's game videos half a month in advance!

Therefore, he developed very detailed defensive strategies and policies.

Of course, this is also a process for him to build a defensive system on this Red Devils team.

After Ling Feng helped the team get off to a dream start like lightning and Pique was injured, Mourinho keenly seized the opportunity to win the game!

In his opinion, with Pique leaving the field, Barcelona's defense is already riddled with holes:
Mascherano is older, his running ability and speed have obviously declined, and as a full-back, he can only squat and defend;
Mathieu is average, and apart from his height, he is not worth mentioning;
Umtiti has good speed and confrontation, and has certain dribbling and passing abilities, but he lacks experience;

Alba is a full-back who provides assists and his defensive ability is only adequate.

Such a line of defense can only be considered second-rate in Europe.

After watching the game videos repeatedly, he came to a conclusion:
Today's Barcelona relies on MSN's personal abilities to win!

Therefore, how to limit MSN has become an issue that every team facing Barcelona must consider.

However, after repeatedly watching the game videos and studying them, he found that there was no way to effectively limit MSN's performance!
Messi, Suarez and Neymar are all top players in today's football pyramid.

It can even be said that he is the first in each position!

Taken individually, they all have the strong personal ability to lead a team.

What's more, three people joined forces? !
However, as the defensive master of Barcelona, ​​Mourinho quickly came up with a good idea:

That is to prevent MSN from getting the ball too much!

Instead of allowing the ball to transfer comfortably from the midfield to the front court of the MSN combination, it is better to suffocate them and cut off the connection between the backcourt and the frontcourt!
If there was no ball at their feet, even the three South American heroes with explosive personal abilities would not be able to go back to the backcourt to get the ball, then dribble past seven or eight people to get into their own penalty area and send the ball into the goal guarded by De Gea!
Therefore, Mourinho did not choose to retreat to the half court in this game, but chose to take the initiative and press high!

And the word he repeatedly emphasized to his disciples was - aggressiveness!
They carried out crazy pressure and pressing in the frontcourt, with three people in a group to press and surround the player with the ball, and then prevented Barcelona players from controlling the ball and passing it easily.

In addition to pressing Barcelona's backcourt, especially for "Little White" Iniesta, targeted defensive arrangements were made.

Compared to Messi who is the core of the frontcourt holding the ball, Iniesta is the commander who delivers ammunition forward in Barcelona's midfield.

In Mourinho's view, as long as Iniesta is restricted as much as possible, so that the midfield cannot easily transfer the ball to the frontcourt, Barcelona's offensive speed can be limited to a great extent!

So, he asked Rooney, the right winger, to retreat slightly, and then used his strong body to limit Iniesta, the left midfielder, from controlling the ball.

This arrangement is very simple, which is to restrict "Little White" from quickly delivering the ball to the feet of MSN in the frontcourt, forcing Messi and Neymar to retreat to receive the ball, thereby slowing down their offensive pace.

Although Rooney's defensive awareness and skills are not good, he wins in defensive enthusiasm and attitude, which are very good.

He was like an English bulldog, always following Iniesta and pestering him.

Compared to Messi's unparalleled pace, Iniesta relies on changes in rhythm to dribble past opponents. As he gets older, his weakness in confrontation ability is more obvious.

As long as Rooney gets on his body, his rhythm will be interrupted, and it will not be easy to get past Rooney, who is one year younger than him.

Under Manchester United's targeted defense, Barcelona fell into the same old problem since the beginning of this season:
Slow to warm up!

Although he led the team to win the treble in his first year in office and was praised by the media and fans as a "famous coach",

In fact, since last year's Champions League was eliminated in the quarterfinals, Enrique's tactics have been criticized by the media and fans.

Because his tactical idea is to give the ball to MSN and let them solve all problems!
However, he didn't care much about the team's backcourt defense and midfield organization. He blindly pursued the tactic of passing the ball to MSN as soon as possible and letting the South American trident solve all problems. The fans angrily criticized him, "If you are not MSN, you are nothing."

If the MSN combination was not so strong and almost invincible, this representative coach of the "tie the dog to the crown" school would have been fired by the fans long ago.

Originally, both Enrique and Barcelona fans thought that Barcelona could win this game.
It’s because they have MSN!

However, when they saw that Manchester United's formation was pressing forward and Barcelona was completely unable to break through, they began to realize that something was wrong.

The five players in the midfield, Ibrahimovic, Rashford, Rooney, Ling Feng and Kante, under the waving and shouting of Mourinho on the sidelines, spared no effort to press Barcelona's backcourt again and again.

Under Manchester United's unconventional high-pressure defense, Barcelona's backcourt was in a very embarrassing situation.

This also confused Enrique on the sidelines and the Barcelona fans in the stands:
what's the situation?
Mourinho, you no longer play the bus game, but instead play high-pressure defense? !
Many times, he was forced to make long passes from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and then gave the ball to Manchester United.

After getting the ball, Manchester United did not do anything, but quickly passed the ball to Ling Feng, who launched the attack!
If Messi is the accelerator of Barcelona, ​​then Ling Feng is the accelerator of Manchester United!

Barcelona's 433 tactical formation is obviously stronger in offense than defense. Strictly speaking, only Busquets and Rakitic are defending in the midfield.

Moreover, the three midfielders were too far apart to effectively intercept and defend the center in the first place.

The most fatal thing was that when Ling Feng retreated in the middle, no one came up to stop him from getting the ball!
This also surprised Ling Feng a little.

This is a "treatment" that is not available in the Premier League

Because, in the Premier League, every team knows that they cannot let Ling Feng get the ball so easily.

However, at Camp Nou, Barcelona and Enrique believed that there was no need to focus on defending Ling Feng.

And such arrogance is bound to pay a price!

In the 26th minute of the game, Ling Feng got the ball again in the middle.

Barcelona's 433 tactical formation is obviously stronger in offense than defense. Strictly speaking, only Busquets and Rakitic are defending in the midfield.

So when he turned around, he saw Rakitic rushing towards him from the left.

Behind him is Suarez returning to defense.

Faced with the situation of being blocked in front and pursued from behind, Ling Feng was not panicked at all.

The Red Devils No. 7 only faked his upper body and pretended to break through to the right, tricking Rakitic into moving to the right in advance. Then he suddenly kicked his right foot to the left, and with the momentum, he made a fried meatball and passed from the left side!

"Exceptionally beautiful!"

Then, before Busquets stepped forward to block, he passed the ball to Ibrahimovic in front of him with a chic outside of his foot and then moved forward.

Ibrahimovic leaned on Mathieu with his back, knocked the ball directly to the left, and then rolled into the penalty area.

Rashford, who got the ball, once again got the chance to challenge Mascherano!

Rashford, who is about to turn 19, faces the 32-year-old Marco.

This is a showdown between the new generation and the old era!
In this game, the left wing where Rashford was located was definitely a surprise attack for Manchester United.

Once Ling Feng advances in the middle and Ibrahimovic attracts the central defender, Rashford on the left will inevitably have more space to carry out vertical impact.

And his target is Mascherano!
Although Mourinho encouraged Rashford to take the ball boldly before the game.

However, from the beginning of the game till now, the young Master La seems to have not yet entered the state.

After all, this game was only the second starting game for this magical boy who suddenly emerged in the Champions League!

Moreover, facing a super giant like Barcelona, ​​the young player was a little nervous.

He wants to perform well and become famous in one battle, but he is also afraid that he will not perform well and let down the head coach's trust.

Thinking too much leads to hesitant and indecisive actions.

This time, he wanted to cut inside laterally and then play wall passes with Ling Feng.

However, Mascherano predicted his route in advance and blocked his position, cutting off his connection with the ball.

Then in a hurry, Rashford pushed Marco directly and was immediately called for a foul.

In several one-on-one situations on the wing, Rashford was almost blocked to the point where he had no temper at all!

Seeing that Rashford couldn't gain any advantage over Mascherano, Ling Feng also played the tactical role of commander on the field.

When Luke Shaw came up to kick off the game while the ball was dead on the sideline, Ling Feng also ran over and shouted to Rashford:

"Marcus, you're welcome!"

"Show the momentum you showed in training and go straight past him!"

"He's old, he's definitely not as fast as you!"

Of course, his shouts were also heard by Mascherano, Rakitic and others nearby.

Of course, Ling Feng didn’t care whether Mascherano could understand or not.

It’s best if you can understand it, that way you can also understand Xiao Ma Ge’s mentality.

Hearing the instructions from big brother Ling Feng, Rashford also
However, before Manchester United could create another threat, Barcelona finally launched a threatening attack in the frontcourt in the 33rd minute of the game!
It’s Messi who retreats to get the ball!
He accelerated on the right and after passing Kante, he suddenly paused, then sent out an extremely precise diagonal pass with his left foot, finding Neymar at the far end of the left side.

Facing this diagonal long pass, Neymar directly showed off his footwork skills like a Brazilian samba dancer:
I saw him standing on his left foot, turning his right foot to his left foot, and using the inside of his foot to bring the ball to a steady stop.

Then he dribbled the ball forward, did two bicycle kicks, shook Valencia off the ball, and shot decisively into the far corner!
Bang!
De Gea made a wonderful dive and blocked the ball out of the baseline.

Neymar, who thought he had it all figured out, shook his hands in indignation and cursed with his head down.

Even so, there was warm applause for this attack.

Corner kick opportunity for Barcelona.

It seemed that there was not much advantage in the penalty area except for Mathieu's high point.

Iniesta, who took the corner kick, did not cross the ball directly, but made a tactical coordination and passed the ball to Messi who came over to receive it.

Then, facing Rashford who had returned to defense, Messi made a fried meatball, directly replicating the operation of passing Nani that year!

This wave of passing caused cheers to break out at Camp Nou.

However, Kante and Ling Feng came to assist in defense immediately, leaving Messi with not much space to break through.

After quick thinking, Messi lowered his shoulders and pretended to continue breaking through to the right, but he paused and passed the ball to Suarez in the middle with his left foot.

However, no matter how covert the intention of this pass was, it was still successfully predicted by Ling Feng who was in control of the entire court at all times!
After stretching out his long legs and intercepting the pass, he immediately shouted:
"Marcus, run!"

Before he finished speaking, Ling Feng sent a straight pass to the left!
Upon hearing this, Rashford immediately exerted all his strength and sprinted forward!
At this moment, due to the corner kick, the two central defenders came into the front penalty area, and there were only two players left in Barcelona's backcourt.

One is right back Mascherano and the other is left back Alba.

When Rashford dribbled the ball across the center line, in front of him was Mascherano, who had repeatedly defended him!
This time, facing Mascherano, Rashford immediately recalled Ling Feng's teachings:
If you notice that your opponent is older, don’t hesitate, just make soup!
So, he made a quick decision, dribbled the ball behind Xiao Ma Ge, and then accelerated and rushed forward before Xiao Ma Ge could react.

For a moment, Mascherano didn't even have time to reach out to pull Rashford before he was overtaken by him!

"It's over!"

"Rashford dribbles the ball towards Barcelona's backcourt!"

When he reached the front of the penalty area, Rashford slowed down a little, turned his head to observe the right side, and saw a white figure rushing forward at a terrifying speed!
"Wow!"

"It's amazing!"

"Ling Feng outflanked the enemy at the speed of wind."

So, Rashford didn't hesitate and made a reverse triangle pass, sending the ball to the no-man's land in front of the middle of the penalty area.

The next second, Ling Feng arrived on horseback!

At this time, Alba, the only defender left in the backcourt, was hesitating between going forward and retreating.

In the end, he missed the best opportunity to steal the ball and could only grit his teeth and choose to move forward to block.

However, Ling Feng unceremoniously used the arch of his right foot to complete a push shot!
With a bang, the ball shot out!

A black shadow stuck closely to the grass, flew past Alba's feet, slipped through Ter Stegen's fingertips, and went into the lower right corner of the goal!
Following the goal, Camp Nou was once again filled with cheers from the visiting fans.

What hurt Barcelona fans more than the goal was Ling Feng's celebration after the goal:
He turned around, faced the main stand of Camp Nou, shrugged, spread his hands, raised his eyebrows and smiled.

That look seemed to say:
Barcelona, ​​that's it?!

(End of this chapter)