Chapter 1090: Midfield is King

'Barcelona midfielder passes, Sergio Busquets ...... Iniesta ......"

De Bruyne dropped back to defend and got the ball off. ”

'There was no pass, De Bruyne himself went forward. ”

"Chinatown's on-the-spot counter-attack, Barcelona's backline quickly returned. ”

"See what De Bruyne will do this time. ”

'Eden Hazard and Antoine Griezmann pulled apart, De Bruyne crossed to the left, Hazard passed back again......

De Bruyne then passed it back to his team-mate who was behind him...... Pogba!"

"The ball is in!!!!"

“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!”

In the 43rd minute, Chinatown scored another goal. ”

"A long-range shot from outside the Pogba box. ”

'It was a very abrupt kick and a very precise effort and angle, and it was a complete reflection of Pogba's excellent long-range shot, and it was also very sudden. ”

"Chinatown's counterattack after the midfielder's counter-steal made Barcelona a little caught off guard. ”

Re-watching the slow-motion replay, Busquets was pressed by Firmino, this pass was not comfortable, Iniesta did not hold the ball on the first foot, and De Bruyne quickly cut the ball away and launched a counterattack at the first time. ”

'This series of links on the edge of the Barcelona penalty area was also played by China City, with Eden Hazard taking the ball to attract the attention of two defenders, then back to De Bruyne and then Pogba. ”

"We can clearly see that in Pogba's position, Barcelona has no close defense and interference, which gives Pogba the opportunity to calmly get up and hit the goal, and the French midfielder's long-range shot is also fast and accurate. ”

"The first half was coming to an end, and being overtaken by China City at this time was definitely not a good thing for Barcelona. ”

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The referee finally blew the whistle for the end of the first half.

China City reversed Barcelona 2-1 thanks to two goals from Raphael Varane and Paul Pogba.

Equalising before the end of the first half was a big blow to Barcelona's morale, but the key was how to adjust in the second half and whether Barcelona could play more effectively.

But after fifteen minutes of play, both sides returned to the pitch, only to see that neither team made any substitutions, and as the second half began, both teams were basically continuing the first half's style of play and thinking.

'Luis Enrique's use of troops is debatable, but Barcelona's core problem is the players. ”

In the stands, Gao Han, as a bystander, saw it more clearly than anyone else.

Judging from the data, in addition to the advantage of possession, Barcelona cannot catch up with China City in terms of the number of shots on goal or the running distance of the players, especially in the latter, the gap between Barcelona and China City is very obvious.

Firmino is known for his frantic running and pressing, Eden Hazard and Antoine Griezmann are also pressing at the back, while midfielders Kevin De Bruyne, Paul Pogba and N'Golo Kante have a lot of movement.

Just now, Gao Han specially looked at the heat map of the activity area of the players in the game, and the three midfielders in Chinatown almost firmly locked the entire midfield and two wings, with a large range of activities and active performance, even Gao Han himself was quite amazed.

On the other hand, Barcelona, except for one Rakitic, Busquets basically still uses the previous style of play, but Iniesta's range of activity has declined significantly, coupled with the side of Alves in the backline, and Messi in the front, it can be said that Barcelona's running ability is far less than back then.

This is not surprising at all, as their group of players have already won all the accolades they can get, and to put it bluntly, they lack the desire to win the game, and they just want to continue their more comfortable style of play.

This will lead to a situation in which Guardiola controls the ball for the sake of possession in the later stage, which also led to Guardiola finally choosing to leave.

Barcelona's most dangerous team at the moment is Suarez, who can provide the team with agility and excellent depth attacking ability, which Ibrahimovic has not been able to give before, and his combination with Messi is also quite threatening.

Rakitic was the right idea, but the team didn't regroup along that line, which was very problematic.

Barcelona is actually playing very awkwardly now, and there is a feeling that the high is not the low.

Of course, with the strength of Barcelona's squad, it definitely belongs to the level that can reach the Champions League final lying on the credit book, but the decline is already quite obvious.

"This summer, we're going to keep this midfielder in the team no matter what, and we're not going to be able to leave any of them. Gao Han squinted his eyes and said loudly.

Cantarero on the side also nodded, "Yes, now the strong teams in Europe are looking for midfielders, we have the top midfielders in Europe, and letting them go is not equivalent to digging our own graves?"

The strongest link in Chinatown is the midfield, and now that the midfield is king, as long as the midfield is strong enough, it doesn't matter if you play casually in the front and back.

But it is not easy to keep this set of midfielders, after all, the poaching of other teams is not vegetarian.

Fortunately, the players' contracts are still relatively long, and the termination fee is relatively high, such as Pogba and Isco, who have reached 200 million euros after the contract renewal, and Ilia Ramendi and Kante have also reached 150 million euros.

And the contract years of the players in the team are also particular, to ensure that there will not be a recurrence of the tragedy of the entire central axis being poached in the same year as before, so even if it is really a last resort, the team only needs to sell one or two, and with the talent reserve of China Town, it is completely manageable.

Gao Han's eyes were fixed on the court, but his mind was no longer in this game.

After a 2-1 comeback in the first half, this game has been basically won by Chinatown, and he is thinking about the next one.

The Champions League final a week later.

Barcelona's defeat in the Copa del Rey final at the Camp Nou tonight is bound to have some impact on the team, and it will be up to Luis Enrique to cope with the Champions League final in a week's time.

In Barcelona's current situation, there is still no chance of winning a week.

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Gao Han's eyesight is the sharpest, and his judgment is often extremely accurate.

The scene that best reflected the fighting spirit and morale of the Barcelona players occurred in the 59th minute of the second half.

Barcelona launched a wave of attacks, creating a corner, but the ball was cleared by De Vrij in the Chinatown penalty area, before Kante slotted the ball to the left.

Andres Iniesta, Alves and Paul Pogba chased the ball from different directions at the same time.

Seeing that the ball was about to go out of bounds, Alves quickly slowed down and did not continue to chase it, and Iniesta was the first to catch the ball, but instead of stopping the ball or passing it back to his own half, he blocked Pogba with his body to get the ball out of the line.

The French midfielder was obviously unwilling, although his body was blocked by Iniesta, but he was tall and long-legged, and used his body advantage to squeeze out a gap, and grabbed the ball back to the pitch with his first kick, and then quickly used his body to jam Iniesta, caught up with the ball, and quickly dribbled to Barcelona's half.

Caught off guard by the sudden change, Andres Iniesta and Alves chased Pogba at the same time, but the French midfielder quickly dribbled into Barcelona's 30-metre area and immediately crossed the ball into the middle.

Hazard picked up the ball at the edge of the box and passed it to De Bruyne, who crossed diagonally, Griezmann quickly cut in from the right side of the box, won the ball and fired a ball into the Barcelona goal.

Three to one!

The entire Camp Nou stadium resounded with cheers from Chinatown fans.

The overall situation has been decided, and Chinatown can basically be said to be a sure winner.

Antoine Griezmann celebrated wildly with his team-mates after scoring the goal, but at the same time rushed to the fan stands on the sidelines.

The Frenchman was a decisive goal, which basically guaranteed Chinatown to win the Copa del Rey and a good start to the Champions League final a week later.

Yes, Chinatown missed out on the league championship, which is indeed very regrettable, but in the past two months, Chinatown has played a crazy state, winning ten consecutive league games, winning consecutive games in the Champions League, and now winning Barcelona in the final of the Copa del Rey, which undoubtedly brings enough confidence to the team.

The first team to successfully defend the title since the Champions League was restructured!

It's quite attractive for any team, for any player.

Who doesn't want to go down in history?

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Compared with Zidane's cheering and celebration in front of the home team's coach's box, Luis Enrique's expression in the away team's dugout was a little weird, he was smiling, but there was bitterness and helplessness in his smile.

He's obviously very aware of the current state of the team, he knows why Martino is leaving, and he knows even more that he has also suffered from Martino's crisis this season and is facing a dismissal, but is this his problem?

It's like conceding the third goal just now, if it was in normal times, Alves and Iniesta should have caught up as soon as possible, but as a result, they didn't do their best, and they became lazy and slack, which gave the high-spirited Pogba a chance.

To put it bluntly, football is a game of people.

With the development of modern football techniques and tactics, it is almost impossible for a player to rewrite a game.

Even superstars like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo need a large group of teammates to be on their side, but if one or two of the team's eleven starters start to become lazy and slack, this may not matter when playing against the middle and lower teams, but it will be extremely obvious in the strong dialogue.

Enrique asked his assistant to warm up Xavi, and he wanted to bring on Xavi and let the midfield triangle try it to see if he could fight back.

He doesn't have many cards at his disposal, if not very few.

By the time the game went, he had little hope for the Copa del Rey, but he had to think about the Champions League final in a week's time, and with the current situation of the team, it would still be quite difficult to beat Chinatown in a week's time.

In the 63rd minute, Barcelona made the first substitution of the game, Xavi replaced Rakitic, and the Barcelona midfield iron triangle was combined again, and Enrique's intention was obvious, to strengthen the ball and strive for a counterattack.

But two minutes later, Zinedine Zidane also made his first substitution, bringing on Koke for De Bruyne.

It was also a very obvious substitution.

Three-to-one, Chinatown will accept it when it sees it, and it will be good to win the championship.

The real showdown between the two sides should come at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin a week later.

And with this victory tonight,

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