Chapter 640: Barcelona changes formation
Reka, the commentator on the substitution scene like Guardiola, was very surprised, "Why did you replace the striker and replace the defender at this time? Even if Ibrahimovic is worse, he is more dangerous than Maxwell, right? Besides, there is still Henry sitting on the bench? Why not send Henry on the field? Henry defeated Inter Milan 5-1 with Arsenal, which was not as good as Barcelona?"
Obviously, Reka doesn't know Barcelona very well, Messi's top to the center forward position is Guardiola's helpless move, because Henry's last game with the Spaniards is really not good, last season Henry with Barcelona won the Grand Slam, the fighting spirit declined, and there was the idea of retaining physical strength to play the World Cup in South Africa, which made Guardiola very unhappy, so when he fell behind 0:2, Henry the Great was still suppressed on the bench by Guardiola. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Henry sat on the bench, looked at the pitch for a while, whispered something to Ibrahimovic for a while, and didn't seem to care much about the situation on the pitch.
Although Ibrahimovic did nothing under the marking of Lucio and Samuel, but as one of the best center forwards in the world, Ibrahimovic's deterrent power is still very large, after Ibrahimovic left the field, although Messi went to the position of center forward, but Inter Milan's mentality was relaxed, although Messi's cameo center once beat Real Madrid 6:2, but Lucio and Samuel both felt that Real Madrid was defenseless, what center forward can Messi play at 1.69 meters? So Lucio and Samuel still defended normally and did not pay attention to 12 points.
Obviously, a talent like Messi is a huge threat in any position, although he is not a center forward like Ibrahimovic and Drogba, but it is very dangerous to let him get close to the goal.
In the 63rd minute of the game, Xavi split the side, and Pedro crossed to Messi in the middle.
Lucio quickly grabbed close to Messi and didn't let Messi take the ball.
If it is Ibrahimovic who stands in Messi's position, there is nothing wrong with Lucio's approach, even if Lucio is passed and Samuel assists in the defense, but now it is Messi.
The ball passed horizontally, and Messi leaned to the right with a small jump, looking like he was going to stretch his foot to stop the ball to the right, and when Lucio intercepted to the right, Messi suddenly let go of the ball and broke through Lucio from the left side.
Now Inter Milan's double central defender Lucio and Samuel cooperate quite tacitly, Samuel has arrived when Lucio is passed, and decisively tackled.
Changing to another player, he also needed to adjust his center of gravity after passing Lucio, but Messi was too agile, as if he had predicted that Samuel was going to come over and tackle, he flicked the ball and passed Samuel into the penalty area, at this moment Lucio had just turned around, and it was too late to defend.
The Inter fans were stunned as they finally got to see Messi's amazing ability to break through, and the two centre-backs were in their positions but couldn't stop him.
Cesar wasn't a spectator, swooping out to block Messi's shot when Samuel was breached.
Cesar's save was clever and he didn't go to Messi's feet because Messi didn't have much angle and space to shoot, and he didn't have time to adjust, and Lucio was already catching up behind him.
However, Messi is Messi, and in a very small range, he once again flicked the ball and changed direction, past goalkeeper Cesar, and shot from a tight angle close to the baseline.
The angle was too small, and Messi shot in a hurry, where he grasped it so accurately, and the ball flew out of the bottom line against the goal line.
The Inter Milaners didn't dare to breathe from the moment Messi received the ball and broke through, until the ball flew out of the bottom line, and the fans gasped and screamed from the stands.
Guardiola, who was on the sidelines, clenched his fists and kept secretly saying that there was one, and when he saw the ball flying out of the bottom line, he held his head and turned around regretfully.
Mourinho couldn't help but step into the stadium nervously, and when he saw the ball out of the bottom line and Inter Milan served the goal kick, he immediately shouted at Lucio and Samuel, "Don't defend Messi so much!
But a player like Messi can't break through you if you don't grab him, in the 65th minute of the game, Xavi suddenly plugged straight, Messi looked like he should break through to the penalty area in the direction of the ball, but Messi stopped the ball.
Lucio didn't dare to give Messi space to shoot and hurriedly pressed up, but at this time Messi started, he changed direction twice in a row to shake off Lucio, pretending to shoot and shook Samuel again, but at this time Motta appeared in time and poked the ball out from behind.
Under Messi's successive breakthroughs, Inter Milan's back line was tight, and the double back Motta and Cambiaso had to separate one person to assist the two central defenders to defend Messi.
Messi alone involved three players, Xavi got a lot of room to move, his pass was even more terrible than Messi's breakthrough, under Xavi's organization and scheduling, Barcelona's two wings of Pedro and Maxwell got three shots in a row, but under Inter Milan's crowd tactics, neither of them could shoot on target.
Gao Xiaodong quickly realized the seriousness of the defensive problem, and he immediately withdrew from the forward position and directly marked Xavi to prevent Xavi from taking the ball and receiving the ball.
Gao Xiaodong has the skills of the back waist, and also has the awareness of the front waist, his judgment of the ball is very accurate, and he has a very fast speed, he is next to Xavi, no one in Barcelona dares to pass the ball to Xavi from a long distance, and Xavi's chance of getting the ball is greatly reduced.
Xavi was frozen by Gao Xiaodong, Messi was surrounded by two central defenders and a midfielder, Pedro and Maxwell were both players who did not create attacking opportunities, and the attack could only rely on Pique and Alves to press and assist.
There is Gao Xiaodong's extremely fast forward in the middle, Pique does not dare to press easily, so Alves almost became Barcelona's right winger, he constantly inserted assists, and then quickly returned to defense when Inter Milan counterattacked, and the entire right side almost became his corridor.
Seeing Alves, who is both offensive and defensive, commentators from various countries said that Alves' performance today was no worse than his national team teammate McConn, and it was a bit of a condescension to play as a substitute in the Brazilian team.
However, Mourinho on the sidelines has been sneering, blocking Messi and freezing Xavi, his purpose is to force Alves to assist, the main target of Inter Milan's counterattack today is the space after Alves' assist, and he sent Sneijder to the left winger position to catch Alves's vacancy.
Of course, the premise of Mourinho's arrangement of this tactic is that Barcelona's midfielder Iniesta can't play, if Iniesta is there, with Xiaobai's breakthrough and creativity, Alves doesn't need to assist so much, and it will be difficult for Inter Milan to take advantage of Alves' gap.
The only thing that surprised Mourinho a little was that Messi actually played the center, and Lucio and Samuel were full of flaws in the center position, which forced Gao Xiaodong to retreat sharply to mark Xavi, and Inter Milan's frontcourt attack was greatly reduced, otherwise Barcelona's back line would have been beaten into a sieve.
In fact, Barcelona coach Guardiola is not stupid, he also knows very well that Alves is a double-edged sword, but he has no way, Barcelona does not have a third person on the field who can break the deadlock, there is one on the bench, but Henry does not even have the will to take the initiative to ask for the game now, and Guardiola does not want to send Henry unless he has to.