Chapter 314 Fighting in Despair
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Intensive defense is a difficult problem for any team, and it is a true proposition that has been verified by countless games.
The intensive defense of the Italian team is a nightmare for any team, because the defensive counterattack has penetrated into the blood of the country.
Fiorentina advocates offensive football in Italian teams, but they definitely understand defense and defend compared to Spanish teams. They have shrunk the entire line to their own 30-meter area to defend, which has left Barcelona with no good solution for a while.
At this time, short pass penetration is no longer the best choice. Barcelona's pass and ball control ability is not as amazing as Guardiola's later era. Fiorentina also has a good counterattack ability. The risk of short pass penetration being intercepted is very high. Personal breakthroughs and long shots have become Barcelona's best choice.
In Barcelona's lineup, Van Bomel and Deco both had a long shot, but Fiorentina's preparations were also done well and did not give them a chance to shoot easily. Messi has been proven to have strong destructive ability at this moment, and Fiorentina players did not dare to underestimate him at all, giving him the same defensive treatment as Ronaldo.
Under such a defense, Barcelona's offense like a craziest attack could not break through Fiorentina's goal in about ten minutes. Only Messi's few newborn calfs who were not afraid of tigers made chaos in Fiorentina's penalty area, almost allowing Barcelona to take advantage of the troubled waters to break through the goal.
A whistle ended the storm in Barcelona in the first half, and also made the worried Fiorentine fans temporarily put their hearts in their stomachs. When the whistle sounded, the Fiorentine players were not afraid, but only felt exhausted and relieved, because under the opponent's fierce attack, Fiorentine had no time to be afraid, and could only defend subconsciously.
The road to the mixed channel is a bit terrifying for Fiorentine players, because more than 80,000 Barcelona fans in the game were booing them loudly with their hands and fingers. It is impossible for people who are not in the scene to understand that feeling. Eighty thousand people booed together in a small place, which can be said to be even more sensational than thunder. The feeling of being pointed by someone in a Chinese word is "a thousand men are pointed by, but they end up in no time."
However, after returning to the locker room, the Fiorentine players finally got better.
"We tied Barcelona."
"Damn it, Barcelona's offense is so fucking horrible."
"This is offensive football. In comparison, Serie A is like an old bull pulling a broken car."
The players in Fiorentina were excited to comment on the past game.
Chen Yu said, "We shouldn't be too happy too early. Now it's just the first half, and we will definitely have a more difficult second half."
Although Chen Yu's words were not harmonious with the overall atmosphere, Chen Yu's words were still very important. Before the game began, Chen Yu insisted on focusing on defending Messi. The first half of the game also proved that Messi was indeed very strong and also proved that Chen Yu's correctness. Indeed, if Messi was judging by age and experience, he would definitely be abused miserably by him.
The first thing Plandelli said when he came to the locker room was: "Thank you everyone, you gave me surprises and letters
This is what Plandelli said in his heart. In the last ten minutes of the first half, Plandelli was feeling in pins and pins. He thought that the Fiorentine players could not stop it and were about to concede the ball, but in the end they all supported it. How could Plandelli not be excited and not be confident?
Chen Yu said: "Coach, you have confidence, but we don't have the confidence to block the second 45 minutes. Their offense is really crazy."
Plandelli said: "If you relax in the second half, you can get a point, and it doesn't matter if you can get a point. Anyway, our opponent is not Barcelona, and our opponents are Bremen and Panasinaikos. If all three of us lose to Barcelona, then the results against Bremen and Panasinaikos are the key to whether we qualify. Of course, I am asking you to relax, not asking you to give up. It is of course the best to be able to play this game well."
Plandelli first comforted his players, and then arranged the tactical style of play in the second half. After the life-and-death battle in the first half, Plandelli had a clear understanding of himself and Barcelona. Defensive counterattacks, and even intensive defense and occasional counterattacks became his first choice. The only personnel adjustments were to replace veteran Pancarlo and replace young player Pasquiel.
Plandelli did not want to play Pasquire's assist ability, but wanted to play his running ability. When fighting a team like Barcelona, it is necessary to run continuously for a game, but Pancarlo's physical fitness and reaction ability can't keep up. In the face of Barcelona's rapid passes and cuts, Pancarlo's experience cannot be used, but reaction has become his shortcomings.
In the home team's locker room, all Barcelona players said unwillingness to accept it. Yes, they were unwilling to accept it. In the first half, their possession rate reached 73%, their shooting was five times that of Fiorentina, and other data were also superior. However, the score was l:l tied, and the goals were scored were all set pieces, which made Barcelona players satisfied.
Rijcard is still slow. He said to his players: "Everyone played well in the first half and played out all our characteristics. He didn't give his opponent many opportunities. The only regret is that we didn't score more goals. However, I hope everyone will not be anxious and think about it calmly, instead of being blinded by our advantages in the first half. First, the opponent has always been strong. AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Juventus have no way to deal with them. The more they lose, the less they win, the second, this is an Italian team, and defensive counterattack is their true nature. Even if the two teams have the same level, they will adopt defensive counterattack tactics. Third, Chen Yu was the winner of the European Golden Boot Award last season, scoring one goal per game, which also means that Chen Yu has a strong ability to seize opportunities. Think about these three points, do you think the score of l:l is not so dazzling.
Barcelona players are all smart people. They also play smart football, otherwise they would not have been called "Shadow". However, after they won the La Liga championship and were called art football, they were a little arrogant. However, they have not won the Champions League championship yet and do not have much pride capital. Rijcard's words made them wake up suddenly. Xavi, Deco, and Ronaldinho began to summarize the gains and losses of the first half and think about why they had the advantage and failed to lead.
Rijkaard did not interrupt the players' reflections. He only analyzed and summarized the issues in the first half when the halftime was almost halfway through, and made appropriate adjustments to the tactical style of the second half.
In the first half, Etoo O was the center, Ronaldo and Messi played against left and right wingers. Messi performed well on the side, but Ronaldo was seen very hard. Moreover, Etoo O's performance in the middle was average, and there was no chance to counterattack. Etoo O's speed could not be played. Faced with Fiorentina's intensive defense, Etoo O's strength and technology advantages were insufficient, and he could not provide much help to Barcelona and could not play the role of a bridgehead.
Rijcard decided to put Ronaldo in the center position and let Etoo play the winger. Although Ronaldinho is not the center, Ronaldinho can play the fake center. He can pass the ball to the two players who are inserted in the wing and the middle, and Etoo can also play his speed advantage better on the wing.
Barcelona kicked the ball first in the second half, and Messi and Etoo were standing in the center circle. Fiorentina's players and coaches did not feel that their opponents had made changes. After the game began, Ronaldinho and Etoo suddenly changed positions and caught Fiorentina off guard.
Ronaldinho's style is very different from Etoo. Ronaldinho is not purely shooting at the center position, but mainly organization, while Etoo's speed on the wing also requires different defensive methods.
In the 45th minute, the ball passed from the backcourt to Messi's feet again. Messi dribbled the ball and broke through forcibly. Fiorentina mobilized heavy troops to defend and double-teamed Messi on the edge of the penalty area.
Although Messi is young, his ball control skills are superb. He did not concede the ball in the double-team of the three Fiorentina. He even saw his teammate's running position. He passed the ball from the gap between Fiorentina's defensive players to his teammate Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho must have been under a tighter defense in the middle, but Ronaldinho did not intend to get the ball. The ball was passed to his feet. He let the ball go and used the forefoot to push the ball, and the ball made a right-angle change direction and passed it to Deco.
After Davis left, Deco, known as a farmer in China, had a more prominent role in Barcelona's midfield. He is the offensive organization and the backbone of defense. His biggest feature is his constant running.
Ronaldinho passed the ball back, and Deco happened to arrive. Seeing a gap between himself and the goal, Deco pulled his feet without hesitation and shot.
Deco's long-range shot is also a great choice in Barcelona. In addition to the high goal rate, there is another thing that other players are not able to reach, which is that there are many change directional balls. Many of the goals he scored were refracted by the defensive players, and then flew into the net. England's Sun once called Deco and Lampard the king of refraction.
When Deco shot, he saw that there was no one in the direction of his shot, but after the ball left his feet, someone suddenly ran to the connection between Deco and the goal, and the ball refracted again. However, this time he did not fly to the goal net, but flew out of the sideline, and Barcelona got a chance to get a corner kick.
Barcelona won at least five or six corner kicks in the first half, but only the first one of them passed to the penalty area. Seeing that no one could compete for the top, the other corner kicks were all tactical corner kicks, so Fiorentina's corner kick against Barcelona mainly prevented them from passing on the side, but they did not invest much energy in the middle of the penalty area.
However, in the second half, Barcelona made obvious changes in offense. Deco took a corner kick with a very low arc on the left, and Etoo suddenly ran and headed the ball before and rubbed it.
This corner kick changed to Fiorentina caught off guard. No one touched the ball at the high point in the penalty area. The ball flew to the back point. At the back point, Messi rushed over at high speed like a rocket and fell to the ground and shot six meters from the penalty area.
Just as no one thought that Barcelona would take such a corner kick, no one thought that Messi, a little guy, rushed into the penalty area to grab the spot, so when Messi rushed over to tackle the ball, there was no defensive player.
However, facing a third goal open to him, Messi, who was unguarded, actually kicked the ball out of the crossbar with one kick, which was a thousand miles away from his passing and dribbling level, which surprised everyone.
Messi was lying in the penalty area, looking at the sky, and was very disappointed with his performance.
Ronaldinho walked over and reached out to Messi, "Stand up, Leo, it would be great to be able to grab this point."
Harvey encouraged: "It's good if you cum too much."
Seeing this scene, CCTV commentator Huang Jian thought: "Messi is very outstanding in all aspects. His biggest disadvantage is that he is not good at shooting and his shooting power is also small, but this will not affect his becoming a superstar.
In the first minute of the game, Barcelona played a different offense than the first half. Fiorentina felt these changes, but did not fail to respond in time. For a team like Barcelona, which lives on offense, a little negligence is fatal.
In the minute of the game, Messi broke Pasquel on the wing, attracting the defense of three Fiorentina. However, the defense of the three players still did not cut off Messi's ball, allowing Messi to pass the ball from the double-team to Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho knocked back in the middle, giving Deco, deco diffused to Xavi, and Xavi passed to Etoo on the side.
These passes were all passed in one pass, so fast that Fiorentina's defensive players could not keep up with the pace. At this time, Etoo used his speed to break through Marco and cut into Fiorentina's penalty area.
Fiorentina's defense became chaotic, and Dainelli and Brokey both rushed towards Etoo, and the other players quickly moved closer to the goal position.
At this time, the African Cheetah passed the ball back to the top of the penalty area, where Xavi Deco and Ronaldinho had both entered the penalty area.
When Xavi saw goalkeeper Frey blocking the right post, he directly rubbed the ball towards the left side of the goal and shot the goalkeeper in the opposite direction.
This was undoubtedly a beautiful shot, but in order to ensure accuracy, the ball flew too slowly and was pushed out by Uyfalusi on the goal line.
However, Barcelona's attack was not over. The ball flew towards Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho did not rush to shoot in a hurry when he faced the ball. He cunningly picked the ball with his feet, and the ball just passed Donadale who was rushing over from the cross. If Ronaldinho shot directly, he would definitely be blocked by Donadale.
Ronaldinho picked Donadale with his right foot, followed by a volley with his left foot and scored the ball into the goal, leaving Frey, who had already run over to save, with no way.
Ronaldinho helped Barcelona take the lead with a wonderful shot.
The Alsugnas in the stands were already halfway up when Xavi was hanging the door. When Ronaldo scored twice, they all jumped up, applauding and cheering.
“Ronaldinho Ronaldinho”
Amid the cheers like tsunamis, Ronaldinho bared his buck teeth, raised his hands and ran towards the stands.
At this moment, Camp Nou is Ronaldinho's personal stage.
When Ronaldinho scored, Chen Yu stood not far away, watching the World Footballer perform in front of him and watching his opponent play with his passes like a flower or butterfly to play with his teammates, Chen Yu was very helpless because this was the gap in strength, which he could not make up for by his personal ability. Even if he had a higher level binding, it would be useless. There was a senior superstar like Ronaldinho in his opponent's camp, and he was one step away from entering the King of Football stage. His level binding was only equal to his opponent.
Although Fiorentina was passive before, its defense was becoming more and more convenient. Seeing that Barcelona overtaken the score, they were unwilling and unwilling to accept it. Under the instruction of head coach Plandley, the two full-backs of Fiorentina continued to take the premise and pushed the battlefield from their own half to Barcelona midfielder.
Barcelona continued to put pressure after leading in the first half, but Fiorentina found an opportunity to equalize. This time, Barcelona became much more calm and continued to recycle, attracting Fiorentina to attack.
The Fiorentine players didn't know that it was the opponent pulling the snake out of the hole, and they thought that Barcelona had been forced back by them, the attack became more fierce and the desire to equalize the score was stronger.
It is very dangerous to play with Barcelona with this eagerness to achieve success. Two minutes later, Deco, who had been organizing defense and long shots, suddenly stepped forward and hit Fiorentina unexpectedly. At this time, they realized that Deco was also produced in Brazil and was not bad at all.
Donadale was forced to commit a foul and pulled Deco from behind, and was shown a yellow card by referee Bennett.
Barcelona won a free kick with a good position, but at this time Ronaldinho gave the free throw to Deco, which made Frey and Fiorentina fans feel relieved.
Then a scene that quickly shocked the Fiorentines. Deco took the free kick and was touched by Tony while flying over the wall, which changed direction. Frey was ready to save, but he could only watch the ball enter the net.
Deco expanded the score to two goals.
The third time there was a tsunami-like applause in the stands, which was roaring for the simple and unpretentious Deko.
The live commentator was obviously a fan of Deco. He said emotionally: "... Beautiful Deco completed a key goal, he helped Barcelona lock in the victory. Deco needed a goal, and applause was the honor he won. The professor said that Deco was the most important thing in Barcelona. This is not an exaggeration, but it is a fact. As Barcelona's two brains, Deco can replace Xavi, but Xavi cannot replace Xavi because Xavi's stealing ability is insufficient. Of course, Ronaldinho is Barcelona's flag and king, but without Ronaldinho, Barcelona cannot win at most, but without Deco, Barcelona will lose... "
The Barcelona people throughout the stadium were cheering and celebrating, while the Florentines were trapped in the abyss of pain.
Not only did Fiorentina's morale suffer a major blow, but pessimism and disappointment also spread in the players' hearts. At this time, even head coach Plandley had the idea of giving up this game because the gap was too big, and both overall and personal abilities were far stronger than their opponents. Instead of fighting with their opponents, it would be better to retain some physical strength and eat less yellow cards.
However, this thought flashed through Plandelli's heart, and then the Italian young marshal quickly issued an order to Chen Yu to stabilize the morale of the army and increase the investment in counterattack on the basis of steady defense.
Chen Yu is not a person who can easily admit defeat, especially facing the strongest player in the world now and the strongest player in the future, Chen Yu is also determined to prove himself. He immediately gathered his teammates together while his opponent celebrates and said: "Brothers, we can't give up before the game, we knew we were going to lose, but we can't lose dignity. We must prove that we are qualified to stand in the Champions League. We don't have many opportunities to enter the largest stadium in Europe. Let us leave a deep impression on Camp Nou and the fans of Camp Nou. Believe in me, and fight with me."
What is a hero? What is a flag?
The hero is the one who can stand up in danger, and the flag is the one who walks in danger.
Chapter completed!