Josep Guardiola looked at Samuel Eto'o as he raced from the sidelines, and although he equalised for his side, he didn't like him much.

At the beginning of the season, when Guardiola first took office, in a training session, according to his tactical midfield diamond running method, Guardiola asked Eto'o to run according to his own understanding, but he didn't expect the distinctive and very strong cheetah to directly slap him: You are fine, right? It was a very awkward scene.

Eto'o said afterwards: "Pep wasn't a great player in the past, he was just a good player. And he's a midfielder, I'm the best striker in football right now, how can he guide me how to move? ”

There are two things to say. In the world of football, teaching a top striker to run is a denial of a player, which is indeed a great disrespect. But in the coach's tactical system, no matter who you are, you should cooperate with the coach, otherwise you will only be abandoned.

But Pep Guardiola can't abandon Samuel Eto'o, because he is really good at scoring goals, and Barcelona can't do without him in the front line today.

This incident has hurt Guardiola's prestige in the locker room a lot, although the team's remarkable results this season have given him enough confidence, and Eto'o is hard-mouthed, and his actions still give Guardiola some face, especially in the second half of the season, he has taken the initiative to pull the side more often, giving Messi more room to move. But the gap between them has never been bridged.

To be honest, Guardiola didn't see the subtlety of Zhuo Yang's diagonal pass to Kaka a few minutes ago, and of course he didn't think that the responsibility for conceding the ball lay with Messi who couldn't catch up with Kaka. In Guashuai's tactical concept, football has no unbreakable defense, and if you want to improve the quality of defense, the best way is to control the ball, control the football at your feet, and reduce the time of the opponent holding the ball, which naturally reduces the probability and efficiency of the opponent's attack.

So when Barcelona is constantly kicking the 'tikitaka', even if they are looking for an attacking opportunity, they are also defending. In this way, no matter how reluctant you are to admit it, Barcelona's tactics are actually a defensive counterattack in another sense.

And the one who has mastered Barca's transition from defensive possession to offensive possession rhythm is the brains of the team, Xavi Hernandez Creus.

In the 1998-99 season, Barcelona midfield and captain Josep Guardiola was suspended for most of the season due to injury. When he returned from injury the following year, he found himself out of the team's main position, and the 20-year-old Xavi became the new controller on the pitch. As a result, the 30-year-old Guardiola left Barcelona and retired after five years of wandering.

At the age of 20, Xavi forced Pep Guardiola away, but at the age of 29, he regained his position as the absolute main force. In the latter stages of Rijkaard's tenure, Javi admired and trusted the Portuguese Deco more, and Xavi had to share the opportunity to play with Deco.

In the 2006 Champions League final against Madiburg, Xavi sat on the bench for 90 minutes. After the game, the media attributed this to one of the main reasons for Barcelona's defeat to Madibourg, but in fact, Deco performed very well in that game, and caused great restrictions to Zhuo Yang in the midfield, Madipourg's victory was mainly due to God's favor and because of character.

With Pep Guardiola taking over the Barcelona coach last year, Xavi ushered in a turnaround, not only did Guardiola not hold a grudge against Xavi's rise that forced him away, but admired Xavi's style very much, and he also trusted the Barcelona lineage who was born in La Masia. Deco was sold to Chelsea for a low price, forming the Premier League's most famous midfield triangle with Ballack and Frank Lampard, while Xavi once again became Barcelona's stadium brain.

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Xavi's main opponent on the pitch today was Andrea Pirlo, and both Sleepy and Xavi were big on each other. In fact, Ancelotti's 'five No.10' midfielders today surprised Pep Guardiola, because it is unbelievable that he is facing Barcelona without a full-time defensive midfielder.

In Pep Guardiola's estimates, AC Milan will send at least Flamini and Gattuso two locked midfielders, Gattuso did not start when he got the list, which was already very surprising to Guardiola, and after the game, it was found that Flamini actually played left-back, which made him not know how to deal with it.

An Fat gave up the football world to deal with Barcelona's most commonly used double defensive back or even three backs, is to try to fight with the opponent to the ball, and in the face of Barcelona's very effective midfield rush around, the five 10s can be the offensive organizer, so that you have no surrounding.

Ancelotti said in his heart: That is, the formation is not allowed, otherwise I will put Seedorf on the plate, hum, six 10s, Lao Tzu can't scare you to death!

In the 20th minute, Xavi hoisted a small high ball, and Henry rushed wide in front of the goal; On 23 minutes, Andrea Pirlo tore through the ball and Inzaghi's shot was parried by Valdés.

In the 30th minute, Xavi headed in a corner from the left and Samuel Eto'o headed high from eight yards to cover six of Barca's first eight shots. In the 36th minute, David Beckham knocked down Andres Iniesta and Xavi took a free-kick from 28 yards out on the left side, unfortunately just over the near corner.

A minute later, Pirlo immediately returned the color, he picked up Zhuo Yang in the penalty area, and Puyol performed a thrilling 'scorpion tail swing' to clear the siege, and it was only then that the danger of this must be avoided was narrowly resolved.

Pirlo and Xavi are not the top midfield defenders, but they are both kraft gum-type defensive masters. Although Milan and Barcelona have played few games in recent years, the Italian and Spanish national teams are old rivals, and they are also old enemies. In the national team, because of the overall disadvantage of midfield strength, Pirlo is basically at a disadvantage in the face of Xavi.

Ancelotti also understood that the Italian national team's use of traditional double backs could not contain Spain, which was based on Barcelona's style of play, so he played a stunning shot of 'five 10s' in thought.

When he was in the national team, Pirlo was constrained in the face of Spain, and although he and Xavi still couldn't completely limit each other today, compared to the national team, Milan's Pirlo had more points to attack.

In the 43rd minute, Pirlo took advantage of his 7 centimeters taller, raised his elbow in the scramble to suppress Xavi, and saw the right time to send the football to Zhuo Yang, who was cutting inside. Seeing that Zhuo Yang held the football firmly and accepted his love, Sleeping Skin opened Harvey with his elbow and let out a sigh: It's not easy.

Zhuo Yang is even more difficult, he will not only be Messi's first barrier in defense today, but also face Busquets and Puyol in attack, especially the Pu team, a monster who can almost be on the same level as Nesta today.

Even though his brains were about to be pumped and he struggled to return to such an ideal position, Zhuo Yang still couldn't get rid of Puyol completely, and the Barcelona captain desperately squeezed him from the side and back. Although his height is almost 10 centimeters lower, Pujol is not inferior to Zhuo Yang in weight, and he still has the upper hand in pure upper body strength.

Zhuo Yang knew that one more second of entanglement would bring up Busquets, and two more seconds would bring Yaya Toure up. So, he waited three seconds.