Andres Iniesta controls the ball up front.

In the face of Ballack's pressing, the Barcelona midfielder skillfully controlled the ball while watching the movement of his teammates.

Harvey was on his right.

Pedro is on the left.

Messi tried to get closer.

Iniesta made a move to pass the ball to Pedro, turned on the spot, and was about to break through, but Milner pressed over from the side.

In desperation, Iniesta chose to turn around again, moving sideways before suddenly knocking the ball with his heel.

Xavi stepped forward with understanding, he didn't stop the ball, and directly pushed the ball.

Football to the feet of Messi.

In the face of Senderos and Cuellar's encirclement, Messi smashed the ball continuously at his feet, and suddenly flicked the football with his left foot, and lifted his foot to shoot a long shot.

Cuellar had already taken precautions against this, stretched out his foot to block it, the football bounced up, and bounced out of the bottom line, Barcelona's corner.

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'When Messi can only look for goals from distance, you can understand how successful Aston Villa's defense was today. He Wei praised.

In fact, at half-time, commentators from all over the world were analysing and studying Aston Villa's successful defence against Barcelona today.

The general perception is that Fang Jue's formation and tactics have been very successful, and Aston Villa's defensive formation has greatly compressed the attacking space in the central midfield.

Former England international and gold medal commentator Lineker gave the time and analysis from a professional point of view, and he believes that Aston Villa's defensive compression is multifaceted and can be broken down into front-to-back compression and left-right compression.

The front and back compression is that when Aston Villa faces Barcelona's central frontal attack, the back line does not blindly retreat, and the forward line also pays great attention to the return of the pinch, which makes Barcelona's players often have to face front and back interceptions and chasing soldiers.

In this way, there is no room for fast players such as Pedro and Messi to break forward.

This is the case with a successful defence, whether it's Andres Iniesta or Xavi or Messi, even if they can control the ball skillfully and play a subtle combination of playing a heel pass through the gap, but as long as the player has the ball, he will definitely face a situation where there is a catcher and an interception before the chaser.

There is also left and right compression, when defending with all his might, Fang Jue will ask the team to form a 451 formation, Bale and Shevchenko return to the left and right wings respectively to help the team fight for the center and back, and the speed and physical advantages of these two people also complete the task of assisting Milner and Cuellar well.

In this way, it also limits the space for Barcelona's two wings to go forward.

'Aston Villa's compression defence was very successful, and Barcelona's previous way of using the speed of the two full-backs to break through with a small diagonal line to the two ribs was very limited in this game. Zhang Lu said, "Even if Mascherano is replaced, which frees Abidal and Alves to press up and attack, but the effect is not great." ”

Pep Guardiola frowned on the sidelines and Aston Villa's defensive resilience was a headache for him.

Aston Villa's formation in local defense is usually dominated by three-man surrounding, especially for Messi, Iniesta, Xavi and others, which can be said to be defended to the extreme.

There is forcing and blocking, and it can quickly organize and effectively form a compound encirclement with different divisions of labor and different roles in a very short time.

It's a very resilient defense.

It is on the basis of this elastic and varied defensive formation and formation that Aston Villa's defensive hierarchy has been implemented very well!

Guardiola turned his head and glanced at Fang Jue in the Aston Villa coach's box, he hasn't seen him for two years, and this guy is even more powerful.

Pep Guardiola even has the illusion that he is playing against a sophisticated coach who combines the iron-clad discipline of German football with the chain-like defence and tactical prowess of Italian football.

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"Barcelona's corner." David Zamora said, "The corner kick is a rare opportunity for Barcelona who have been unable to open the game for a long time. ”

'Barcelona have to pay attention to defending Aston Villa's counter-attack. Dolores reminded.

He saw that Pique and Mascherano had come up to take part in the corner, and if they were to be hit by Aston Villa on a counter-attack, Barcelona would have basically stopped.

Fang Jue glanced at it, and he saw that Pique and Mascherano had both come up to participate in the corner kick attack, and Abidal, Alves and Xavi stayed behind to defend.

This is also the basic pattern of counter-attacking in corner kicks, with two fast full-backs and a midfielder staying in the half to defend.

However, if it were Fang Jue, he would choose to let Mascherano stay behind and let Xavi go up to participate in the attack.

Obviously, Guardiola left Xavi behind, and the meaning of defense was relatively less, and more importantly, after intercepting Aston Villa's counterattack, Xavi instigated the attack and played Aston Villa's counterattack.

Fang Jue glanced at Guardiola, embarrassed by this old acquaintance, not only to defend well, but also to always think about attacking.

Andres Iniesta takes a corner.

There was no threat to Aston Villa's goal, and Pique wanted to go for the top of the pitch, but the tall Senderos used his height and good header ability to get the ball out of the way.

The ball was picked up by Clement, who flicked Busquets' counter-attack, controlled the ball at his feet, and then swept the ball sideways to Ballack.

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Ballack played a long ball straight and Aston Villa launched a quick counter-attack.

Aston Villa's two previous counter-attacks were both empty after Alves pressed up.

This time, Alves didn't press and Aston Villa's counter-attack couldn't get through.

Bale dribbled the ball and he got tangled up in Alves.

Bale passes the ball to Ronaldo, who comes over to pick it up.

Abidal predicted in advance and stabbed first, and the ball was stabbed open.

Xavi quickly approached and snatched the ball away.

Barcelona immediately switched from defense to attack.

Xavi played a long ball straight to Andres Iniesta in front.

Iniesta didn't stop the ball and took advantage of the situation.

"Beautiful!" There was a lot of admiration in the commentary booth, although Barcelona have not been able to score, but this does not hide the superb skill of the Barcelona players.

In fact, it was precisely this that before the attack was surrounded and contained near the penalty area, Barcelona's attack was relatively beautiful...... However, it didn't work.

Messi gets the ball and he receives it with his back to the attack.

Clement was firmly stuck behind him and didn't let Messi turn around.

Unexpectedly, Messi took the ball with the arch of his foot while receiving the ball, and at the same time Messi quickly turned around.

Although he stumbled a little, Messi leaned forward, stabilized his center of gravity, and successfully passed.

Clement didn't expect Messi to be able to accomplish such a move in such a situation.

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However, if you want to get over Clement, this is not enough.

Clement took a long step to catch up with Messi, and saw an opportunity, a beautiful sideways sliding tackle on the ground, shoveling the football out, Messi was also put to the ground, and the two fell together.

The Barcelona fans erupted in huge boos, which they considered a foul.

The Aston Villa fans cheered and applauded Clement's successful defence.

The referee, Kaushoi, did not blow the whistle, he was in a good position, and it was clear that Clement tackled the ball first, and it was not a foul.

Aston Villa did a very good job of protecting the second point after the ball was tackled, and Deisler grabbed the ball and he passed it straight to Ballack behind him.

The latter played the ball quickly.

Shevchenko wins the ball on the right flank.

Amid the boos of the Barcelona fans and the cheers of the Aston Villa fans, Aston Villa's counter-attack is back.

The veteran Ukrainian raced forward with the ball, Pedro was chasing back and Xavi was intercepting in front.

As he approached Xavi and the two were about to make contact, Shevchenko suddenly made a sharp stop and at the same time passed the ball horizontally.

Ballack, who stepped forward at high speed after completing the pass, won the ball.

However, Pedro, who returned to the defense, stretched out his foot and touched it when Shevchenko passed, and the ball had a bounce.

That made it difficult for Ballack to stop the ball, and by the time he stopped the ball, Busquets had already put it on.

At the same time, in front, Mascherano also came up.

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"Beautiful! Barcelona defended well this time and that's where the substitution of Mascherano comes in! Dolores complimented.

Faced with this situation of being caught in front and back, the German veteran did not panic, he did not blindly play the ball, but controlled the football while observing the movement of his teammates.

Ballack then made a move to break through from the left, but stealthily pushed the ball between Mascherano's legs.

Ronaldo received the ball, and the Brazilian pulled the ball and turned around, going straight to speed.

Pique hurried to intercept.

Ronaldo pedaled his bicycle in a row, making a gesture to break through, but suddenly passed the ball diagonally.

Bale, who had been sprinting, arrived, he cut in from the back row at high speed, and once a successful anti-offside, he received the ball!

"Bell! He's in! ”

"God! Aston Villa's counter-attack is done again! ”

"Single-handed!" Commentators from all over the globe exclaimed.

In the midst of the loud noise, Bale faced Valdés and he opted for a left-footed shot.

The ball arced past Valdés' left-hand side.

Valdés' left hand seemed to touch the football.

Valdés was still turning his head to look behind him as he fell backwards, eager to see the ball thrown by himself.

However, Valdés barely touched the ball, which did not completely change the trend of the ball flying forward, and the ball went up, continued to fly, and finally hung into the net almost against the bottom edge of the crossbar.

Three to zero!

The huge new Wembley Stadium erupted into a huge sound as the arc swirled into the net......

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