Chapter 141: Goal and Equalizer
In the 68th minute, Barcelona's strong attack scored, Xavi and Messi cooperated in the front, Barcelona's brain distributed the ball to the right side, Afelai, who had just replaced Pedro, broke through Marcelo's defense and crossed, Messi outflanked and grabbed the point in front of the goal, Casillas was powerless despite the close defense, 0-1, Barcelona led away. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Since Messi scored the goal of Mourinho's team at the Bernabeu, he faced Mourinho's team again today, also at the Bernabeu.
The little Argentine flea, let out a terrible roar, rushed to the Barcelona fans to celebrate, while his Barcelona teammates surrounded him and crushed him underneath, Guardiola clenched his fists in excitement.
The Real Madrid players lowered their heads, they didn't do well enough, they lacked a Pepe, the most critical interception player, at this moment, Barcelona's side-to-center combination, Afelai's sudden flash, made Real Madrid's back line fragmented, Casillas can not be said to be badly defended, but unfortunately Messi's shot was very coincidental, he was not very lucky, and could only wave his hands helplessly.
Marcelo became a sinner in an instant, his position today is very important, Barcelona always wants to play the loopholes on his side, as we all know, Marcelo is a strong fullback who is strong in attack and weak in defense, and the genes of the assist are integrated into his blood, and Barcelona is dedicated to playing him.
Pedro and Messi in the middle often change positions, to put it bluntly, it is to ravage Marcelo in turns, Marcelo has made mistakes before, but he has Pepe to fill in for him, but now Pepe has been discovered, and no one has made up for him, so it is normal for this situation to occur.
Just looking at the previous data, Marcelo is the player with the most fouls on the Real Madrid team, and he has done a lot of interceptions and tackles, Pedro is his credit for leaving the game so quickly, and he also has a card on his back for this, such a record seems quite reasonable, but he also made the most mistakes, and finally failed to escape this time.
Mourinho went to the stands, Real Madrid has not come up with a way to deal with it, there is always one less person in the midfield, Zhang Yuan, Ronaldo, Adebayo are not good at returning to defend players, the current situation is that the three of them have not done enough to protect the midfield, Zhang Yuan's deterrence on the side still exists, but his role is only to hold Puyol.
But Alves on the other side is very confident and bold to Ronaldo, of course, this is also because Alves has enough confidence, his return speed is faster than Puyol, and he also dares to press, Ronaldo's own dribbling breakthrough ability is not as good as Zhang Yuan.
As soon as the goal entered Real Madrid's morale immediately fell a lot, they could not see the hope of scoring on the field, Barcelona has now completely severed the connection between Real Madrid's midfield and the front court, and Real Madrid's forward trio has too few opportunities to get the ball.
Mourinho sat in the stands and shook his head and said nothing, did nothing, he was helpless now, and there was a Granero who could play in midfield on the bench, and a defender Garay.
With the current situation of Real Madrid, Adebayo is very necessary to be on the field, and his tactical role is even more obvious than before, Real Madrid's midfield is out of touch and can only rely on long passes, Adebayo should be there, so he has no room for adjustment in the front.
What's more, Real Madrid is now behind, Mourinho is unwilling to reduce the attacking players in the frontcourt, and the forward line has nowhere to adjust, which makes it difficult to make new adjustments in personnel, remove Alonso and replace him, Garay is not trustworthy, and Granero is not as good as Alonso.
So Mourinho's problem is not that he doesn't want to make adjustments, but that he can't make adjustments, because he trusts Zhang Yuan, believes in Ronaldo, trusts them on the field, Real Madrid still has hope of equalizing, yes, now he simply hopes to equalize, the 1:1 result is very bad, but it can only be so, the current situation is whether it can achieve 1:1 or not.
Mourinho is actually really capable, whether Inter Milan has won several consecutive championships, but he is always psychologically fragile, Mourinho went with a way to heal, and the same is true for Real Madrid, Mourinho came to treat, but Real Madrid is more difficult to treat than Inter Milan.
Real Madrid's psychological fragility is definitely no less than that of Inter Milan, look at the way it is now, after Barcelona scored a goal, the team's atmosphere is completely different, if they were not for Barcelona's efforts to suppress, a group of players would have been attacked, and now they are just unstructured defense.
They are reckless and impulsive on the field, and it is this impulse and recklessness that they will use an extreme defensive method, that is, fouls, which will make the Barcelona people turn their backs, which actually makes Barcelona fail to create better opportunities.
But several people already have cards on them, and it's dangerous to go on like this, and there are still 20 minutes left in the game, so it's definitely not going to work on that alone.
It's also interesting to say, Guardiola saw Real Madrid's style of play, in addition to constantly complaining to the fourth official, he didn't let Barcelona take the initiative to recycle a little, or asked the Barcelona players to press, he now just wants to take advantage of Real Madrid's disadvantage at home to further expand the score.
Sometimes people are so easy to get carried away, and Pep Guardiola is no exception, and positive forward pressure will certainly bring more pressure to Real Madrid, but at the same time, it will also create some opportunities for Real Madrid that are not easy to appear.
Retribution soon came, about 10 minutes after Barcelona scored, in the 80th minute, Real Madrid got a great opportunity, Messi dribbled the ball in front, Ramos made a vicious tackle to tackle Messi to the ground, although he tackled the ball fiercely enough, but he tackled the ball first, and Stark signaled the game to continue.
Of course, Real Madrid doesn't care if Messi falls to the ground, Alonso gets the ball and immediately passes the ball to Ronaldo who retreats to his own half, Ronaldo obviously has space in front of him to dribble the ball, but he just did the opposite, he chose a long pass, looking for the gap behind Mascherano and Puyol, hoping that Zhang Yuan can understand.
His passing is also very accurate, Zhang Yuan has been waiting for such an opportunity, he has been a striker from beginning to end, and he has retreated very little after Real Madrid is behind, just wanting such an opportunity.
The moment Ronaldo passed, Zhang Yuan started, Puyol couldn't catch up at all, Ronaldo's pass was very big, but Zhang Yuan was very fast.
Valdés' first feeling was that he had to attack, he had to attack, and as a Barcelona goalkeeper, he had a lot of range of movement, and he also had a lot of range.
It's a pity that he is one step slower than Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan faced Valdés who attacked, instead of choosing to shoot, because the distance was too close, Valdés' figure had completely blocked the ball, Zhang Yuan chose to divide the ball, the ball passed from Valdés' left side, and Zhang Yuan passed from Valdés' right side.
When Zhang Yuan caught up with the ball again, because the ball was bound to be delayed for a certain amount of time, Mascherano had already returned to the goal, and of course he took the best option, which was to seal the near corner.
Zhang Yuan did not hesitate to get the ball, and directly volleyed with the outside instep, he observed Mascherano's position, he did not hit the near corner, but used the outside of the right foot to draw the outside of the arc into the far corner.
Mascherano reacted quickly, reflexively tried to push the ball out, but unfortunately failed, Zhang Yuan's shot was reasonable, but it was beyond Mascherano's normal reaction speed, and the ball was pumped into the right side of the Barcelona goal by Zhang Yuan with the outside instep.
Adebayor and Pique haven't been able to run until this point, Pique, Valdés, Puyol and Real Madrid's Adebayor watched the ball enter the door of Barcelona together.
Bam Adebayo happily rushed to the net and kicked the ball hard to vent the joy of equalising.
Several of Barcelona's generals covered their faces in pain, it was Zhang Yuan again! It was him again, he couldn't give him the slightest chance, this was a crime!
Puyol is especially painful, but he can't really be blamed, he can't be described as inattentive, but Ramos was fouled just now, at least that's how he sees it, as the captain, he has paid attention to the referee's unfair punishment, Zhang Yuan's start is fast, and he is already too late to turn around.
Responsibility to push down the back line is of course incorrect, most of Barcelona's responsibility for conceding the goal has to be pushed down the midfield, the back line can not be able to prevent the opponent's attack for a long time, if it is really possible, then the defensive group is a god-like existence.
Messi fell to the ground, there was no one around, Alonso's pass was blocked, Ronaldo was not defended, isn't this the responsibility of the midfield? )