Chapter 015 A Homologous Control
Only ten minutes after the start of the game, Zhuo Yang was very sure that Inter Milan was completely different from last season, and the already oppressive restrictions were even more extreme.
Jose Mourinho's side is like that, when the players he needs are fully in place, and after a season of tactical adjustments, the team will be perfected in terms of fragmented area restrictions. Especially when playing at home, the opponent will feel suffocated.
In last season's Champions Cup final, Carlo Ancelotti's god-like 'five 10s' tactics played a decisive role, but this genius tactic of overwhelming Barcelona in possession is unrepeatable and hard to find.
Despite repeated setbacks, it is widely accepted in football that the most experienced manager against Barcelona is still Jose Mourinho. Jose Mourinho went the other way and went to the other extreme: against Barcelona, his side would give up possession altogether, cutting and limiting.
As a result, Barcelona will have a surprisingly high possession rate when facing Mourinho's team, and more than 70% is a common thing, but it is more difficult to play every time, and Barcelona people have a pain in their brains when they hear the name Mourinho.
Because under the separation and restriction of Mu Shuai, Barcelona's ball control is almost forced to be helpless passive ball control, useless ball control, and it has never been famous.
From the perspective of the field, Barcelona seemed to have an absolute advantage, and the back-and-forth battle took place almost entirely in the Inter half, but in reality, everything was in the hands of Mourinho, and the pace of the game was completely under Inter's control.
In the 72nd second after the whistle, Messi shook off Lucio and hit the first shot after cooperating with Zhuo Yang, but the threat was not great and was easily confiscated by Cesar. A minute later, Zhuo Yang counter-attacked and passed through, Ibrahimovic and Messi moved in succession, and finally slid a low shot from the right side of the Alves penalty area into the far post.
After that, Keita played a long pass behind Lucio in midfield, and Ibrahimovic chested the ball 11 yards in front of goal and volleyed it away with a right-footed volley. In the 9th minute, Xavi crossed from the right, and Zhuo Yang, who was fighting with Lucio, shook his head at the penalty spot and was confiscated by Cesar to the right.
Barcelona had a lot of attacking opportunities after the opening, but they were all like these, there were no absolute chances to score, and after passing, they barely completed the shot with their individual ability, and the threat was not great.
Inter had their first shot on goal in the 12th minute, when Muntari broke the ball in midfield and handed it to Sneijder, and Inter counter-attacked with a sharp counter-attack. Barcelona's quickly closed formation before it could be fully put into place, and McConn, who had won Sneijder's goal, suddenly pulled out his foot and shot from distance from outside the penalty area.
Valdés' fingertips were far from the ball, but luckily the dangerous shot was a little higher.
The world has its own opinion on who is the number one right-back in today's football between the 28-year-old McCone and the 26-year-old Alves, but there is absolutely no doubt that they occupy the top two right-backs. Because of the presence of the two, Pompon Luis, who has performed well at right-back of treble winners AC Milan, can only be used as a substitute at centre-back in the Brazilian national team.
For Brazil's head coach Dunga, McCone and Alves are happy troubles, both of whom are excellent players at both ends of the pitch, and it is a shame who substitutes whom. In order to solve the problem of coexistence between the two, Dunga often used Alves as a right wing-back in the national team, and he is also very competent.
In this way, at least in Dunga's mind, McCone is the better one at right-back, with a difference of 100 points and 99 points.
Jose Mourinho's second phase of Inter Milan is more extreme than that of AC Milan, he has been 'de-Italialed' in defence, and the meritorious veteran Materazzi has completely become a substitute. From left to right, Zivo, Samuel, Lucio and McCone are Mourinho's main backlines this season, and they also hit the Italians in the face. The chain concrete defensive system is still there, but the Italians are missing.
Even today's Inter starting eleven are not Italian. This kind of 'rebellion' was absolutely impossible to happen to the top three in the north before, but since AC Milan stabbed the bottom line in last season's FA Cup final, it seems that it is no longer a taboo. Jose Mourinho doesn't care about the Italian pride either, and he and Leonardo are the only two foreign coaches among the 20 Serie A princes.
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Fifteen years ago, Mourinho, who is fluent in eight Chinese, was invited by Bobby Robson, the veteran English coach who coached Portuguese giants Porto, to work as an interpreter, and two years later he followed Robson to Barcelona. Later, the old coach left and came to Van Gaal, and Mourinho became an assistant coach of Barcelona.
During his time at Barcelona, assistant coach Jose Mourinho and captain Pep Guardiola got along very well, and the two had a lot in common about the team's technical and tactical aspects. Ten years later, the two men who are eight years apart in age are now famous young coaches in football, the older Mourinho has frosty sideburns, and the younger Guardiola is even more bald.
Their understanding of football techniques and tactics is very different when it comes to the game, but in fact, their core idea is the same - control!
Jose Mourinho is the control of the space on the pitch and Pep Guardiola is the control of the ball. Mourinho's control has developed to the extreme, which is fragmentation and restriction, and the pinnacle of Guardiola's version of control is tiki-taka.
Barcelona's football philosophy comes from the 'ball saint' Cruyff, before which Barcelona did not have a prominent football temperament in La Liga. Kesheng said: In my football, the attack will start with the goalkeeper first, and the defense will start with the striker.
Rijkaard condensed the tactical essence of Kesheng, compressing the formation on the field, exchanging the position of the front court high and midfield, and 'rushing around' and 'no striker' are the tactical characteristics of the Shuai version of Barcelona. On the pitch, it may seem like the team's side are relying on superstars to make the final decision, but in reality, it is his masterful football tactics that allow each player to play to their strengths.
On the basis of his predecessors, Guardiola blurred the division of labor in the midfield, extreme ball control, and further compressed space. Only by controlling the ball at your feet will the opponent have no chance to attack; Only by compressing the space can the technical advantages of the side be fully reflected. The smaller and denser the area, the more it demonstrates Barcelona's ability to pass the ball in a continuous manner.
Close your eyes and listen: tiki-taka, tiki-taka......
Control and anti-control, restriction and anti-limiting, the game between Inter and Barcelona was subdued in the sound of splitting and falling feet. Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola are both stubborn men who want to get straight to the point in the Champions League. So, after the game reached the full score of 70 minutes, the two young marshals couldn't hold it back, and coincidentally adjusted the personnel, trying to change the winners and losers on the field.
In the 71st minute, Jose Mourinho made the first substitution, Stankovic replaced midfielder Muntari. Four minutes later, not to be outdone, Guardiola replaced Keita with Andres Iniesta, Zhuo Yang was pulled back behind the trident, and Xiaobai went to the left winger position.
In the 80th minute, Mourinho made another dangerous move, he replaced the inactive Argentine striker Da Milito with Balotelli, who no one could figure out. So, the story of this game really began.
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