Chapter 909： World wave breaking the deadlock

Beep! ! !

With the long whistle of the Dutch referee Bjorn Keppers, the entire Louis II stadium immediately boiled.

Barcelona, ​​who took the lead in the kick-off, kicked the ball to Villa by Messi, and the Spanish forward made a long pass directly to the back line and handed it to Pique's feet.

With Su Dong as the head, Di Maria and Sanchez as the wings, Manchester City’s front court trident also rushed towards Barcelona’s halftime at the moment the whistle sounded, first chasing into the center circle, then straight Bent the back line of defense.

After Pique received the return pass, he quickly handed it to Mascherano.

The midfielder, who was transferred from Bayern Munich, was assigned to the defense by Mourinho during Puyol’s absence due to injury, and he made up for Puyol’s loopholes. As soon as he received the ball, he found the past. Teammate Su Dong has already been killed.

After the Argentine midfielder stopped the ball, it quickly passed to the right and gave Alves.

After meeting Su Dong, he grinned at Mascherano, and the Argentine responded with a smile, but Su Dong immediately turned around, always adjusting his position between Mascherano and Yaya Touré.

Whether it is the fans in the stands or the audience overlooking the camera, you can clearly see that Su Dong's movement happens to be stuck in a position that makes Alves very uncomfortable.

Barcelona's right back can't pass back at all.

He knew how fast Su Dong's speed and explosive power were, but he had no idea.

When Sudong is always stuck in this position, whether Alves passes to Mascherano or to the midfielder Yaya Toure, he is very nervous and not stable enough.

But if you take the ball forward, Di Maria has already entangled him again, and there is no way at all.

Fortunately, at this time, Harvey ran over to catch the ball. After he got the ball, he quickly knocked back to Alves, who retreated and ran away from the gap, to solve the problem of Barcelona's right back, but the ball returned to Barcelona's half.

...

Mourinho grabbed his head from the sidelines and turned his head to the side. He looked at Guardiola on the other side of the coaching bench with some surprise. He was a little surprised because he found that Manchester City actually took the initiative to attack and press high.

This is indeed very surprising.

Is this kid's difficulty crazy?

Mourinho glanced back at the coaching bench, just to glance at assistant coach Vilanova. He turned his head back calmly because he didn't know how to respond.

Vilanova really guessed right?

Is Guardiola planning to start the game? Or do you really plan to play against Barcelona?

For the time being, Mourinho has no bottom in his heart.

Sitting in the coaching bench, Vilanova noticed Mourinho's look and sighed inwardly.

In fact, he really wants to tell Mourinho that the pass of Alves just now is really easy to crack, just need Yaya Toure to get closer to Alves and avoid Sudong's defensive area is fine.

Yaya Toure leaned over, and after stopping the ball, he directly looked for Harvey in space. Alves and Yaya Toure ran into neutral again. Harvey suddenly had several directions of the ball, and the ball passed the center line, not at all. Need to post back.

But why was it forced to pass back in the end?

Because Yaya Toure did not lean in, Harvey was forced to leave the space he ran out to meet Alves.

Passing and controlling is a tightly linked link. When the entire passing and controlling chain, a certain link, especially after the midfielder is delayed, this crucial node, when there is a problem, the entire passing and controlling system will be buried. Under the huge hidden danger.

This is like a bicycle chain. When one of the sections is loose, it may not be a problem during normal relaxation, but once it is loaded and climbing, it may break at any time.

Yaya Touré is a world-class midfielder, but it's just not suitable.

Too sticky ball, lack of sense of position, and limited running position, which caused him to be a dark thunder in Barcelona's midfielder's position. The previous time was only a mild symptom.

Thinking of this, Vilanova got up, walked to Mourinho's side, and reminded softly: "Man City will adopt confrontation tactics. I guess the most likely way is to let Su Dong come to grab Yaya. Toure this point, we have to prepare in advance."

Mourinho frowned, his eyes flashed with a complex look.

Yaya Touré and Busquets, this is the biggest criticism of Mourinho by many Barcelona media and celebrities, especially after Busquets played at Manchester City and was selected for the Spanish national team.

Mourinho chose Yaya Toure, Guardiola chose Busquets, who is good and who is not, how to judge?

At this moment, Vilanova mentioned Yaya Touré, which reminded Mourinho a lot.

To some extent, Yaya Touré represents Mourinho's coaching authority in Barcelona.

"I see." Mourinho said flatly.

Vilanova knew in his heart that Mourinho's heart is very sensitive, which is why he was reluctant to say it yesterday.

But at this moment, Su Dong suddenly grabbed back and passed Alves to Yaya Toure in time, intercepted it from the middle, and quickly handed it to Tony Cross.

Tony Kroos shifted the ball to the right, Sanchez drove the ball straight to the penalty area, faced Abidal one-on-one, pressing step by step, after a series of fake moves, suddenly activated, throwing away the French defender, and shot a low shot. , Hit the door directly.

The ball slipped out.

Su Dong was chasing to the back point at this time, and saw Sanchez kicking the door by himself, raising his hands somewhat helplessly.

The Chilean winger quickly raised his hand to apologize.

If this kick is passed, Su Dong is a lore!

Although it failed to form a murderous opportunity, Manchester City's counterattack was very fast. From stealing to transferring, all were passed with one kick. Only Sanchez's breakthrough to Abidal was slightly delayed, but it was only a second or two. Things.

This time the attack can be regarded as a wake-up for Barcelona, ​​especially Mourinho.

...

The game continues.

After Manchester City opened, they did not adopt the tactics of counterattack, but kept the offensive situation uncharacteristically.

In particular, the opening wave of high-position pressure and pressure caused Barcelona to play a lot of twists.

It's not that they haven't experienced the high position pressure of their opponents. For example, when they played Manchester United in the Champions League final, Ferguson also wanted to grab a wave and adopted this kind of play, but it is also high position pressure. Manchester City is obviously different from Manchester United.

Manchester City is more organized, but also more targeted.

This pressure on Barcelona is unmatched by Manchester United's pressing.

The activity area of ​​the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is also different from the past.

When he is defending, he always puts his position in the area of ​​the two central defenders and midfielder Yaya Toure, the purpose is to be able to force the central defender and midfielder at any time.

This is also the tactical task that Guardiola gave him.

Yaya Toure is tall and strong, has a lively foot, and has a strong ability to dribble the ball. This makes him often able to break the situation once he rushes up, but his weakness is also very obvious, that is, the running position is not active and he often leaves. Own defensive position.

Guardiola also aimed at this point, so Su Dong focused on grabbing his area.

And once the defensive turns offensive, Su Dong will change his position as soon as possible.

During the time when Manchester City was pressing for a high position, Barcelona also fought back for the first time, passing the ball into Manchester City's penalty area for the first time.

It was from Iniesta's dribbling and cooperating with Messi. The Argentine superstar directly picked a pass and passed behind the defense. Pedro diagonally inserted into the penalty area, stopped the ball in the chest and shot, and the ball was shot. Hit high.

In just over three minutes, the two teams played against each other several times, especially when the ball changed hands back and forth.

This makes the game look very exciting and quite smooth.

Despite being counterattacked by Barcelona once, Manchester City still did not back down, continue to take a high position to press and oppress, continue to suppress Alves' side, making it clear that the cart is to abolish Barcelona's right attack.

This also made Mourinho quite nervous on the sidelines, frequently reminding the players on the court to pay more attention to supporting Alves, especially Yaya Toure and Mascherano, these two players are closer to Alves. .

But even so, in the fifth minute, Manchester City still seized the opportunity to successfully steal the ball on the left.

After Marcelo intercepted Alves' pass, he completed a two-to-one match with David Silva. After he stopped the ball on the left side of the penalty area, he was forced by Alves and was blocked. Left line.

Seeing that there was no chance for a forced breakthrough, Marcelo suddenly dunked the ball when Di Maria suddenly slashed into the baseline. Before Alves could react, he quickly crossed to the left corner of the penalty area.

Sudong pulled to the left corner, facing the offensive direction, facing Marcelo's pass, he blocked Mascherano with his body at that time, turned around after stopping the ball, and cut the ball horizontally.

Pique behind Mascherano was shocked, and immediately rushed to Su Dong to help defend.

Su Dong faced the menacing Pique, and suddenly he had a smash to smash into the large penalty area, so that Pique quickly blocked it, but Su Dong suddenly took the ball horizontally, and the whole person quickly started.

Suddenly stopped, Pique was unable to keep up with this sudden shift, and Su Dong directly opened a defensive gap. Su Dong seized the opportunity, and there was still a long distance to the left of the arc top. Raise his leg directly and shoot angrily.

The shooting angle is not large, but the ball takes a straight line and takes the bottom left corner of the goal very quickly.

Valdez was mentally prepared for a long time, reacted in time, and swooped sideways, trying to block the ball with one hand.

He is sure of saving Su Dong's shot!

But what he never expected was that Su Dong kicked the ball very quickly and eagerly, but when he entered the small penalty area, there was a landing rebound. After the rebound, the ball speed was significantly faster. And the hand of Valdes who made the pounce can't save the ball at all.

The Barcelona goalkeeper threw himself out and fell onto the grass.

The ball hit the side net of the goal behind him.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"

"Only five minutes into the game, Manchester City opened the scoring!!!"

"Su Dong used a wonderful world wave to break the deadlock for Manchester City!"

"One to zero!!"

"Barca were at a disadvantage in this wave of offensive after the opening, and Manchester City scored the goal."