Chapter 213: Messi's Fight Back
Pep Guardiola was a little annoyed. That's right, annoyance, not anger and anger.
He will only be angry because of one situation, that is, his player's appearance is very bad, but, to be honest, the goal of Manchester United just now should be more of a reflection of the star's personal ability - Yang Fan single-handedly finally contributed to the appearance of this goal.
For the Barcelona players, the goal was sudden, and it can also be said to be a 'non-war crime', so Guardiola did not get angry with the team's appearance. It's really that Chinese is too 'colorful'. Guardiola looked up at the replay of the goal on the big screen again, and had to praise it, this goal is really beautiful.
The reason why Guardiola is annoyed is that this loss of the goal suddenly 'messed up' his tactical deployment before the game, because he considered many situations, but this kind of situation of conceding the ball less than a minute after the start of the game is really a rare unlucky thing in ten years, and I didn't expect Barcelona to encounter it.
However, Pep Guardiola is not flustered, and he has confidence in his team, which comes from the near-perfect performance of the current Barcelona team this season.
A year ago, Barcelona trailed Real Madrid by 18 points in La Liga, after being kept clean by United over two legs in the Champions League semi-finals. But a year later, Real Madrid can only watch Barcelona dominate La Liga, while Barcelona are now in the Champions League final, and if they win this game, they will be treble-crowned.
The matchup between Barcelona and Manchester United is considered to be a duel between Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Yang Fan, but it is also a duel between the 38-year-old Guardiola and the 67-year-old Ferguson.
Before taking charge of Barcelona's first team, Pep Guardiola was just a coach who took Barça's second team from Division D to Division C. Strictly speaking, this season is Guardiola's debut on the world stage. And this year is incomparably brilliant, Barcelona defeated Real Madrid in two legs in the league, bloodied Real Madrid 6-2 at the Bernabeu, won the La Liga championship three rounds in advance, won the 25th Copa del Rey in the club's history, and reached the final of the Champions League......
A qiē and a qiē are all obtained by this 'rookie' coach, and it is hard to imagine that a famous coach can achieve the highest results at such an age and in such a debut season.
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In the eyes of some proud Catalan media and football 'fans', the reason why Guardiola can succeed has a lot to do with his Barcelona 'blood'. If he wins the title, Guardiola will be the sixth person in football history to win the Champions League both as a player and as a coach. There is an interesting number of jù, in chronological order, there are five people who have done this before, the first being Munoz (won the title as a Real Madrid player in 1956, 1957, 1960 and 1966 as Real Madrid manager), Trapattoni (won the title as an AC Milan player in 1963 and 1969, Juventus manager in 1985), Cruyff (1971, 1972, Won the title as an Ajax player in 1973 and Barcelona in 1992), Carlo Ancelotti (won the title as an AC Milan player in 1989 and 1990, AC Milan manager in 2003 and 2007), Rijkaard (won the title as an AC Milan player in 1989, 1990, Ajax in 1995 and Barcelona in 2006).
The media is now imagining Pep Guardiola leading Barcelona to the title as a coach after leading Barcelona to the title as a player.
Previously, Pep Guardiola had lifted the Champions League trophy as a Barcelona player in 1992. These two championships are very important for Guardiola, Barcelona's 'blood' allows Guardiola to have a very high authority in the team, in today's Champions League final of the 8 La Masia players, half of the Guardiola in the youth team taught, and Xavi, Puyol, Valdés Although not Guardiola's youth army, but Guardiola's idol role in Barcelona was also unlimited. On Barcelona's training ground, Guardiola can block Eto'o, fine Messi, Xavi, Eto'o and others, only Guardiola is in charge of the team.
In addition, Pep Guardiola is a complete successor to Cruyff's football philosophy, and has improved on it. In terms of tactics, Guardiola adheres to the concept of attacking and playing with the ball, but he handles the defense better than Rijkaard, in fact, Guardiola has a better grasp of the details than Rijkaard, whether it is to reasonably arrange Messi's playing time or solve Henry's adaptation problem, Guardiola is indispensable.
Although facing the defending champion Manchester United and the world-famous coach Alex Ferguson, Guardiola is not 'flustered', and the Barcelona he built single-handedly is his confidence. Although this is only his first season in charge of Barcelona.
The expulsion of Ronaldinho and the 'stimulation' of Messi's energy are considered to be the most 'good' thing that Guardiola has done, which has laid the most solid foundation for Barcelona's revival this season. The media said before the game that Messi was the key to Barcelona's title, although Pep Guardiola refused to admit it, saying that Barcelona are a team and no one is special. But, in fact, Guardiola also has high hopes for Messi.
In this game, Messi was given a great degree of freedom, he could use his flexible running to tear up Manchester United's defense, or he could break through individually and use his fast characteristics to drive Manchester United's defenders crazy.
Messi will obviously be the target of the key defense, but Guardiola still insists on Messi as the core, using Messi to involve the Manchester United defense, don't forget, there are Eto'o and Henry, when Messi pulls out the vacancy, this is the opportunity for these two super 'shooters'!
Pep Guardiola is still very satisfied with his tactical arrangement. The only annoyance was that Yang Fan's goal allowed Barcelona to play from a 0-1 deficit from the start of the game...... In a game like the Champions League final, there is always psychological pressure when you start behind.
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As the United celebrated their goal, Pep Guardiola called Xavi to the sidelines.
Xavi is Barcelona's true midfield commander.
"Now it's 0-to-1, it's an accident. Guardiola was not slow to speak.
Harvey nodded.
"What do you think?" Guardiola asked suddenly.
"Uh...... It's like a two-legged match, we're 0-1 in the first leg and now we're in the second leg. Harvey said.
"'Great' is fantastic. "Guardiola looked at Xavi in surprise, this analogy is very 'good', Xavi is very smart, which also makes him not need to talk much, Guardiola admires Xavi very much, and once said that Xavi will definitely be able to become a great coach in the future.
'Yes, that's how it works, it's better to concede a goal at the start than at the end. This is a very appropriate analogy, you tell the meaning of this to others, don't think about anything else, play in peace. Victory will be ours. Pep Guardiola said.
"Yes, we'll win. Xavi nodded heavily, and then he ran back into the pitch, and then Guardiola saw Xavi gather the other players and 'hand' them over.
Guardiola nodded in satisfaction.
He is confident that this group of La Masia players will make the whole football world tremble.
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“…… Manchester United got off to a dream start, and it was a real surprise. Maybe only such a great player can have such a shocking appearance. An Italian narrator said.
The commentator next to him laughed when he heard this: "So, have you changed your opinion now?" The Italian commentator admires Messi very much, thinking that Messi is the most 'outstanding' of the three.
"Of course not...... Such a passive situation is a test for Barcelona, and for Messi, it is also pressure and motivation. The Italian commentator said.
The football commentator shrugged his shoulders and smiled, he understood why this guy liked Messi so much, the commentator was a Neapolitan, and he was slandered by Maradona, Maradona said that Messi was his *** person, so this guy was suddenly 'obsessed' with this little Barcelona player, but Messi is a Barcelona player, which has nothing to do with Napoli, and Napoli may never be able to be associated with Messi...... The guest expressed helplessness about the thinking relationship of his partner brother.
"Barcelona is in trouble. ”
'Manchester United are ahead, but it's too early to say that Manchester United have the advantage, Barcelona have Messi. ”
"Yes. Messi ......"
While the commentator was talking about this, the game on the pitch had restarted and now, Messi was getting the ball.
Park Ji-sung is defending him.
A simple pedal of the bike and then Messi forcibly starts. It seems that he intends to force Park Ji-sung!
Of course, Park Ji-sung will not just let Messi pass, he turned sideways to the right and blocked Messi's breakthrough direction. Messi made a sharp stop, then used his right foot to move the ball from his side to the left, and it looked as if he was about to break through from the left side again. Park Ji-sung hurriedly followed, and he immediately stretched out his feet to intercept to the other side, so that there was a big gap between his 'legs'......
Having said this, in fact, is just a second or two of action!
Messi was waiting for this time, and he stabbed the football under Park Ji-sung's crotch!
"Oh oh oh oh Messi! He wore the crotch and passed the ball past Park Ji-sung!"
"Is this his response to Yang Fan?!"
"Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi!"
Just now, Yang Fan wore the crotch and the ball passed Busquets, and then scored that goal, and now Messi immediately wore the crotch past Park Ji-sung! Strong response! This made countless commentators and ball 'fans' boiling. Such a game, such a Champions League final, is really hot enough, and it is exciting enough!