Football: The butcher in the midfield at the start, the magic bird stunned

Chapter 416 I am me, not the second one, I am the first me
After Barcelona led by 1 goal, the control of the ball became tighter.

This is also the football style that La Masia has always cultivated. The possession rate of 60% to 40% is my advantage.

Although after Messi and Gundogan joined the team, coupled with the teenager Güler's natural understanding of passing and controlling football, Barcelona is leading the league and the Champions League in terms of ball possession this season, but they are far from the peak of the universe. The biggest gap in the team was the ability to counter-grab on the spot after losing the ball.

At that time, the most helpless thing for the team facing Barcelona was that after getting the ball, they might not be able to pass the three-footed ball, and they would be surrounded by Barcelona on the spot and cut the ball off.

This is not only related to the ability of the Barcelona players, but also related to the popularity and widespread use of high-position pressing tactics in recent years. Many teams in the league will often encounter opponents who insist on playing high-position pressing and insisting on forming oppression in high positions. , Whether it is a three-man center, a wing back, a double midfielder or a fulcrum striker retreating, or even a goalkeeper playing the ball, today's football has enough mature tactics to deal with high-position pressing.

So even though Manchester United only had 40% possession, they did not take fewer shots than Barcelona.

This has to mention the long-legged Sesco who is at the forefront of Manchester United's offensive line.

In the 21st minute, Chen Xiaoliang moved forward after receiving the ball in the backcourt. He moved along the left side of the midfield, Casemiro moved to the right, and Milinkovic wandered behind Sesco.

Behind Chen Xiaoliang, Messi chased and harassed, and Pedri was already standing in front of him.

A contemporary football champion and a new golden boy, although the two are not physically strong, and the confrontation is not outstanding, but the pressing awareness and the frequency of the feet are very fast.

Chen Xiaoliang didn't want to entangle with them and waste offensive opportunities. He raised his left foot and rubbed the ball forward vigorously. Cesko, who was directly in front of him for a moment, sprinted forward to prevent offside, suddenly retreated at this time, only Kong De, who made an urgent follow-up and defensive action, was left with a dazed expression.

Usually, he pretends to retreat to catch the ball and then suddenly runs back to plug in. Why is this guy offside and almost throws me off, but then runs back?

Kong De naturally didn't understand, because the ultimate move of this attack was not in the front, but in the back!

When Chen Xiaoliang passed the ball, he not only looked at Cesco’s running position, but also the running position of the midfielder and winger. Whether the two midfielders moved forward or left and right was also selected according to the running position of their teammates. Whether to step forward to support, or to open the position to create a gap.

Sesco's thrust just now brought Conte back, and at the same time drove the back line towards Barcelona's penalty area. Chen Xiaoliang did the same thing when he received a header from Benzema. Milinkovic behind him was in place immediately.
Explosive pumping on the instep, no arc!

Zhan Jun: "Frontcourt... direct long shot!"

"This ball... ter Stegen made a superb throw!"

"A sideways, blocking the ball out of the baseline just under the crossbar!"

Zhang Lu: "Oh, this ball was thrown beautifully."

"Milinkovic's playing quality is already very high, and the ball speed is not slow."

詹骏：“小狮子力保巴萨城门不失，上赛季联赛38轮实现26次零封只丢20球，本赛季28轮联赛又是20轮零封丢15球。”

"Naihe Yu appeared in the competition and was regarded as the successor of the lion king Kahn. He has always been called the little lion. Now he will be 33 years old in a month, but he has played Neuer in the German national team most of the time. substitute."

Zhang Lu: "It depends on this year's European Cup. Neuer is 38 years old and in good condition."

Manchester United wins a left corner.

This is an important offensive method they advocate today.

In terms of height, Varane, Milinkovic, Sesco, and Casemiro all have the ability and capital to compete for the top in the penalty area, and these people are also very good at fighting.

However, Chen Xiaoliang did not push up, which made Barcelona's defense a little more at ease.

Kwa took a left corner kick and went straight to the back point. Milinkovic took off from the back point. De Jong had nothing to do with him, but in the end his direct header from a small angle hit the side net, but he was still shocked. The entire Camp Nou exclaimed "Oh!"

Today is different from the past. Last season, the two teams met in the Europa League round of 16 knockout play-offs. At that time, Barcelona, ​​which had a large lead in La Liga, lost to Manchester United 3-4 in two rounds.

Now the lineups of the two sides have changed. In addition to the biggest signings Messi and Chen Xiaoliang, Barcelona only have Gundogan and Güler, one old and one young, while Manchester United has Cesco, Kwa, Timber, and Mirin. Kovic, Livakovic and many others.

The overall strength is not close, but there is a feeling of pulling away.

Therefore, the home fans of the Nou Camp tonight came to watch the game with a sense of apprehension. Every time Manchester United, which temporarily ranks first in the Premier League with an undefeated body, attacks the front field and forms a shot, it will make them pinch for their team. sweat.

Milinkovic missed the shot, and Barcelona made a short pass for the goal kick. They continued to use precise and fast short passes to control the ball, and the ball possession rate remained above 60%.

In the 32nd minute, Barcelona made a pass between multiple people in a small area on the right.

The ball passed from the foot of Araujo who was plugging in to Garvey who was on the side. Before Luke Xiao could pounce on it, Garvey kicked the ball to Pedri who came over.

Casemiro wanted to stick to Pedri in the past. After receiving the ball, the latter directly pulled the ball and turned around, and then passed it to Gundogan in the middle.

Milinkovic, who was standing in front of Gundogan, just stretched his feet forward and prepared to press. Gundogan took two steps diagonally to the front right, and picked a pass back to Garvey on the right.

Zhan Jun: "Zhang Zhi thinks how much difference is there between the current Barcelona team and the Cosmos team under Guardiola in terms of pass control ability?"

Zhang Lu: "I don't think there is much difference in pure pass control. Although there were Xavi, Xiaobai, and Busquets back then, but now Gundogan, De Jong, Pedri, and Garvey, although they have won honors and status in the world It may be worse than the previous three, after all, those few have won the team honors, but in terms of the skills under their feet, there is really not much difference."

"But the real difference is not the pass control, but the sudden pass under control, the fatal pass, there is still an obvious gap."

"In that Barcelona team, I remember that someone used a word to describe him at that time, called 'hypnotic football', and sometimes even had a ball possession rate of more than 75% in a game, passing from midfield to backcourt. Passing back and forth, even the audience in the stands wanted to sleep."

"But in this drowsy rhythm, Messi, Iniesta, including Pedro, and later Villa, a movement without the ball, the midfielder immediately Send a deadly pass, and the opponent's defense is completely broken."

"But now in this Barcelona team, there is possession of the ball, but you can see that there are not many connections between the midfielder and the forward. Laiwan is a little bit dissociated from the feeling of a midfielder. Compared with the ball passed to him by Messi a bit more."

"In addition, Harvey did not start Dembele today in order to ensure control of the midfield. Although Güller is very skilled, he has almost no ability to break through and he is not active on the wing, so the wings on both sides are basically It didn't create much pressure on United's full-backs."

While Zhang Lu was speaking, Garvey, who got the ball again, advanced to the right rib, attracting Luke Shaw and Casemiro to double-team him. He immediately pushed the ball, and the ball passed from Casemiro Swipe past, and come to Messi's feet on the outer right of the top of the arc.

The fans in the audience immediately shouted and booed, and it was Chen Xiaoliang who was defending Messi in front of Messi who caught the ball!

Zhan Jun: "Look at this ball first..."

Messi caught the ball with his left foot and took two small steps forward to the left, but this kind of tentative attacking pace has no effect on Chen Xiaoliang who is in Glasgow Rangers, let alone the current Chen Xiaoliang .

He knew that Messi might suddenly change direction at any time, and the attack pace in front of him was just to drive his center of gravity back.

Sure enough, after taking a few steps to the left, Messi's shoulders suddenly sank. This was his signature preparatory action before changing direction.

The fans immediately shouted excitedly, because at this time Messi has entered the range of the third offensive area.

Although the man marking was raised from 15 to 16 before the game, with Messi's absolute dribbling ability of 20, Chen Xiaoliang couldn't see Messi's next movement and direction of dribbling.

But as the saying goes, fists are afraid of being young. Chen Xiaoliang did not choose to take a step back to keep space to prevent being broken through. Instead, he took a quick step to the left and stuck Messi.

The old ball king will be 37 years old in three months. Although he still maintains a good state, his explosiveness, speed, change of direction, and confrontation ability have all declined significantly.

Ten years ago, when he was 27 years old, the defensive players had to retreat and look for opportunities if they wanted to post them, and they had to be careful not to stumble on their feet and fall to the ground in embarrassment like Boateng did not find opportunities. .

Now, facing Chen Xiaoliang, who is only 20 years old in two months, is at the age of youth and enthusiasm, and his physical fitness is still at the peak level, Messi himself knows that it is difficult to get rid of him.

But his sudden attempt was not because he wanted to try blindly, but because he wanted to focus all the attention of Manchester United's defense on himself. Give you what you see.

Suddenly, as soon as Messi pulled the ball to stop, he sent a curved ball to the left of the penalty area with his left foot and rubbed a pass!

Varane, who was still paying attention to how Chen Xiaoliang defended against Messi, only felt a gust of wind blowing beside him. As an old central defender, he immediately turned and retreated, as if everything was being manipulated by his subconscious.

But despite this, Lewandowski was already looking up at the passing pass, ready to shoot.

In this world, there is no mask incident, and Lewandowski deservedly won the Golden Globe and World Footballer of the Year awards in 2020.

Although he and Messi, who were still in Bayern at the time, competed fiercely, time has passed and the two, who are now in the twilight of their careers, are determined to work together to add the last few trophies to their honor roll.

Zhan Jun: "Lewandow! Small angle! Left foot!!!"

"Liva... Lima!"

"Wow! Manchester United's goal almost conceded again, from the connection between Messi and Lewandowski!"

"Lewandowski's left-footed volley shot hit the far corner. Livakovic, who was standing in the near corner, stretched out his left hand to slow down the speed slightly. Lisandro Martinez, who retreated to the goal, used his left foot. Kicked the ball high into the air and almost cleared it on the goal line!"

"Then Livakovic jumped up and took the ball off."

Zhang Lu: "Just now I said that Lewandowski is a bit dissociated from Barcelona's midfield system, but the role of Messi cannot be ignored. The wine just now suddenly retreated and kicked a pass under Xiao Liang's defense. Later."

"The ability to break through, change direction, and direct attack is weak, which can be made up for with set kicks, but Manchester United really needs to pay attention to the pass."

Messi, who inserted into the penalty area after taking the ball and wanted to participate in the second attack, saw that his wonderful pass assist was destroyed by the little fellow Lima, and he specially slapped Lima after getting up.

However, in the next second, Livakovic, who had observed the ball after receiving the ball, suddenly ran with the ball in his arms, and then swung his arm vigorously and threw the ball forward to the right!
Milinkovic received the ball with his back, turned around and passed the ball to Anthony who had already started along the right.

Bald rushed forward to press, Anthony thought of the scene of being glared at by Chen Xiaoliang countless times in training, and immediately swung his only usable leg and passed the ball to the front of the center.

"Whoosh!"

"Chachachachachacha..."

Gündoğan heard again those horrifying sounds that had kept him shut for nights after the Champions League final.

That was the sound of a person passing by him in an instant, the sound of clothes and trouser legs being wrapped in the wind, and the friction sound of every step left by his feet flying across the grass!
But the youthful Garvey had none of these emotions.

Although I played against Chen Xiaoliang before, it was only a friendly match before the season. Everyone focused on warming up, and the playing time was limited. We also had to prevent injuries, so we didn't try our best.

The petite midfielder, who is 3 months younger than Chen Xiaoliang and worth 1 million euros, looks like a naturally unyielding bullfighter. He rushed towards Chen Xiaoliang diagonally from behind, and stretched out his finger on the other side Defensive position, so that Frankie de Jong, who is lagging behind, is in position to form a double team.

Chen Xiaoliang knows Garvey's style. The youthful appearance that looks harmless to humans and animals is actually very fierce. He will receive a yellow card in an average of 3.5 games, and there are countless fouls. It must be fierce and merciless.

But Chen Xiaoliang doesn't have the time to fight him one-on-one now. Kwa on the left, Cesko in the front, and Milinkov on the right behind through [Passive Skill LV1: The range of sensing teammates' positions becomes larger] Qi and Anthony, and Casemiro in the left rear have also advanced.

All the players in the midfield have come up, and there are only four defenders in the backcourt. Once there is a mistake, it is too late to retreat and defend.

He swayed around the ball with his left foot and flicked the ball with his right foot to the front right. Instead of going to the front left of Garvey's position, he chose to hit the side of Frankie de Jong's defense.

Frankie De Jong immediately chased back sideways, and the left back Bald also received it in the penalty area.

All of a sudden, Garvey, Frankie de Jong and Bald surrounded Chen Xiaoliang in a large circle.

Chen Xiaoliang kicked the ball directly from the right rib about 10 meters away from the penalty area!

Garvey and Frankie de Jong saw him kicking out, hitting the ball, and pulling in his belly in one go, and their mouths opened in surprise for a moment!
That's it?

The ball flew to the penalty spot, and Ter Stegen took two steps forward to catch the ball, but when the ball reached the highest point and began to fall, it turned backward and spun.

Kwa had already made the kill from the oblique stab. He knew better than anyone else on the earth where Chen Xiaoliang's pass would land. He only needed to step up and lift his foot to create a killing intent.

But all the way forward, he still couldn't get rid of Araujo. In the end, he was less than 2 meters away from the ball, because the squeeze of Araujo's body prevented him from rushing to the ball at full speed. Conde, who was chased back It broke the bottom line first.

The linesman's flag pointed to the corner area, and the referee Marciniak awarded Manchester United a left corner.

Seeing that Kongde defended successfully, Garvey shouted: "Okay! Let's defend like this! If we defend like this, they will stop!"

Chen Xiaoliang on the side ignored him and smiled coldly in his heart.

He knew that the young and energetic Garvey yelled to himself on purpose.

He understands this feeling.

There were also other opponents who told him "Young people should not be too arrogant".

But is it still called a young man if he is not arrogant?

Kwa took a left corner kick, Cesko, Milinkovic and Casemiro were in the penalty area, and Varane was almost caught by Lewandowski just now.

Kewa took a tactical corner kick and passed it directly to Chen Xiaoliang, who was on the left side of the rib and on the left line.

Messi ran over, and Chen Xiaoliang started directly beyond the bottom line, preventing Messi from getting close to him at all.

Garvey, who had been staring at Chen Xiaoliang, made up, and behind him was Araujo, who was waiting for an opportunity to defend, and Pedri and Gundogan were on the penalty area line.

In this battle, no matter whether Chen Xiaoliang goes to the bottom or cuts inside, there are layers of defense waiting for him.

But they didn't know that Chen Xiaoliang didn't see any of them.

He stopped suddenly to pull the ball, and took a few steps back. Garvey pushed forward, thinking that his defense was successful, and wanted to force Chen Xiaoliang into the narrow space on the sideline.

In the penalty area, seeing that the winger was not attacking, the Manchester United players had already started to run back, and Milinkovic and Casemiro were even more prepared to fall back to participate in the organization.

But Chen Xiaoliang kicked up suddenly, and used his right foot on the left sideline to send a diagonal pass of about 40 meters into the penalty area!
In the penalty area, Conde stood in front of Cesco to defend the front point, Frankie de Jong defended the rear point behind him, and Bald moved in the penalty area to act as a temporary central defender, but all three focused on defending the corner. Stare at the person in the penalty area, transfer to the corner kick and put it on Chen Xiaoliang.

"How is this guy going to play?"

"Will he cut inside and burst?"

"Or forcefully blast the bottom pass?"

"The most threatening thing about Manchester United is him, you have to watch carefully and react as soon as possible."

Almost 11 people on the Barcelona side think so in their minds.

And Chen Xiaoliang's cross was fast and urgent. Before they could react, they had passed over Cesko's head and landed right in front of the penalty spot!

Casemiro, who just ran back as if he wanted to go back to join the organization again, did not know when he ran back from behind Balder.

What he has to do is very simple, watching the ball fall in front of him almost as accurately as calculated, and then use his feet to hit the angle he thinks it should hit.

This distance is too close. Although Ter Stegen has made an extreme save response and made a sideways save to the right, the ball rolled into the goal line before his hand was stretched out!
Zhan Jun: "The goal was scored! In the 35th minute, Manchester United tied the score at 1-1!"

"Xiaoliang made a cross from the left, Casemiro made a good move, the two midfielders connected and broke through the gate of the Nou Camp!"

Zhang Lu: "We have witnessed and mentioned this countless times in previous games. If you want to use one person to defend Xiaoliang, it is equivalent to no defense."

"The fan shape 40 meters away from the goal is his shooting range. The entire half of the frontcourt is within the range of his long pass. What's more, the place where he sent the ball just now is not far from the left corner of the penalty area. , Garvey is the only one on Barcelona's side watching him."

Zhan Jun: "Garvey can't do anything about it. He's already approaching to put pressure on him, but he probably won't dare to go up and grab him. Once he gets close, Xiao Liang will easily pass him by."

Zhang Lu: "This is due to the fact that there are fewer games between each other, and I don't know enough about Xiao Liang. Look at the last West Ham game, Moyes always let one person stick to Xiao Liang, and one person is always ready to defend. .”

"The person who posted it was passed, the one who was waiting behind posted it immediately, the one who was passed got up and ran back quickly, and then waited for his teammates to be passed so he could post it again."

"Even if you don't hesitate to foul, you must find a way to stick to Xiaoliang."

"Harvey is playing health-preserving football at home, leaving room for Xiaoliang to display his abilities."

But no one expected that just 3 minutes after the booing at the Nou Camp, Sesco shot and hit the blocked Conde to bounce off the baseline, and Manchester United got another chance for a left corner kick.

This time, Manchester United's high point was overwhelmed across the board, but Chen Xiaoliang was dragged away from the penalty area and did not come up.

There was no one else around Kewa, and this time it seemed that he was going to pass directly to the penalty area and resolve the battle by fighting for the top.

"Beep!"

The referee Marciniak whistled, and Kwa took a corner kick with the instep of his right foot!
The ball flew to the corner of the penalty area...

still flying...

Flying over the restricted area line…

Didn't turn inward, didn't turn into the penalty area? !
You know, there are 13 people standing in different positions in the penalty area at this time, all waiting for the ball to appear so that they can carry out the next attack and defense.

At this time, the eyes of these 13 people all followed the ball to look outside the penalty area.

A man in red clothes, the clothes on his body swayed with his striding strides, like surging blood.

He spread his left arm outwards to keep his body balanced, swung his right leg back, bent his bow and set an arrow, and hit the ball that fell in front of him and never touched the ground with all his strength!

What [good at ultra-distance shooting] [good at powerful shooting], what is strong 20, explosive 20.

These are already triggered and used naturally in his blood, as natural as breathing.

"Boom!"

Like a heavy punch in the chest of the Barcelona home fans, the ball flew forward roaring like a meteor.

Casemiro on the route quickly dodged sideways, and Frankie De Jong, who was defending beside him, also subconsciously turned his head.

In an instant, the most basic sense of self-protection engraved in human genes played a preliminary role.

Ter Stegen once again made an extreme save response, but just like he who is very good met an even better Neuer, tonight he did it to the extreme and met Chen Xiaoliang who was even more extreme than him .

Before the save action started, the ball had not only crashed into the net of the goal, but also bounced out of the net...

Ter Stegen subconsciously hugged the popped ball with both hands...

But what greeted him was the second booing from Camp Nou, and the tragic scene of Manchester United players rushing towards Chen Xiaoliang in the penalty area to celebrate...

Looking at Anthony from the edge of the penalty area, Messi put one hand on his hip and stroked his beard with the other, as if wondering why he was so old.

Zhan Jun: "Only 3 minutes have passed!"

"Xiao Liang completed a pass and a shot at the Nou Camp!"

"In front of Messi, the king of football, in front of this man who is best at solving battles by himself, Xiao Liang used his dazzling personal performance to help Manchester United overtake the score!"

"I believe that after tonight, the fans' question will no longer be whether Xiao Liang can become the next football champion, but when will he become the next football champion!"

After scoring the goal, Chen Xiaoliang ran to the sidelines to celebrate by jumping up and pumping his fists, and then pointed to a slogan that he noticed when he entered the field.

"You are not the second so-and-so, you are the first Chen Xiaoliang!"

(End of this chapter)