At half-time, Liverpool's players returned to the dressing room.

Everyone had excited smiles on their faces and were clearly happy with the result of the first half.

Benitez's tactics were completely on the right track, completely disrupting Barcelona's tactical deployment.

In fact, after Ten Carter's departure from Barcelona, Rijkaard's tactical response has been criticized, especially in some strong conversations, Barcelona's tactics can even be said to be a complete defeat, such as the away challenge to Real Madrid, Barcelona lost 0-2 to Capello's team.

The draw at home to Atletico Madrid and the away defeat to Valencia were both unsatisfactory.

In the Champions League group stage against Chelsea, Barcelona were 2-2 at home and 0-1 away, but neither could produce a convincing performance, and Rijkaard's targeted tactics did not go wrong until tonight.

Of course, for a team like Barcelona, it is not necessary to target the opponent everywhere, but more importantly, how to play at the level of the opponent as always.

But even then, Barcelona can't do it.

Although the first half of this game was 1-1, in fact, from a tactical level, Barcelona lost!

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Yang Yang has only been in Liverpool for half a year, but he really admires Benitez's tactics.

Whether it's against Chelsea's Jose Mourinho, Manchester United's Alex Ferguson, or a strong Barcelona player, Rafael Benitez has a way of keeping his opponents at a tactical level.

If there is any problem with Benitez, it is undoubtedly that he is a bit tactful, obsessed with football, and does not understand the world, which is what Yesterdam is best at.

The combination of the two complements each other perfectly, a bit like the combination of Rijkaard and Ten Carter.

Therefore, Yang Yang feels that Benitez really can't leave Yesterdam, otherwise it will be like Rijkaard losing Ten Carter.

No one is perfect, and football has always been a team-based profession.

It's true on the pitch and it's true off the pitch.

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Benitez walked into the locker room, he was still the same as usual, with a cold and indifferent face, looking mechanical, as if he had no emotion.

If it weren't for the excitement and laughter when he saw him celebrating the goal just now, Yang Yang would have felt that this was a robot.

Benitez took the lead in raising the team's problems in the first half, mainly some small local details, and Sissoko's mistake, Benitez never mentioned, obviously taking care of the feelings of the Mali midfielder.

"Normally, if a team has the upper hand on the pitch, they don't easily adjust in the second half, because changing the style of play can easily lead to losing control of the game, so it's not easy to take risks."

Rafa Benitez presented his guesses on Barcelona's second-half tactics.

'It was 1-1 but Barcelona were in control and it was only in the minutes towards the end of the first half that they had some problems and were scored on the counter-attack, so I guess Rijkaard won't make any adjustments because of that, especially the substitutions.

In front of Benitez, all the players, including Yang Yang, could only nod and listen.

"It's impossible to predict how they'll adjust the small details, but we have to do two things ourselves."

Benitez told the players in front of him very seriously and deliberately.

'First, we have to press Barcelona's centre-backs faster and harder, Rafael Marcos and Puyol didn't feel much pressure in the first half, so we had to step up on that in the second half.

Yesterdam also opened his mouth to explain at this time, "Barcelona's goalkeeper Valdés has always been very unstable, this is a very unreliable goalkeeper, and Barcelona's passing and controlling style of play starts from the central defender, so we have to put pressure on the central defenders and disrupt their passing and controlling play, especially Valdés and Puyol, we must pay attention." ”

Rafa Benitez is always concise, while Yesterdam is responsible for explaining in detail to make sure each player understands it, and then he explains and shares their game tasks with the players one by one.

"Second, we have to be quicker on the counter-attack, but at the same time we have to make sure that our whole attacking and defensive system is compact and not disjointed, the latter is the premise, the basis for us not to concede any more goals, and we must do it well."

During the training camp in Portugal, Liverpool have been practicing their skills and tactics to ensure that the overall attacking and defensive system is not disjointed, which has always been the focus of Benitez's drills, and the players have understood the importance of the manager's attention to this.

'That goal at the end of the first half, it was precisely because we played with speed.

Hearing Benitez's words, everyone turned their heads to look at Yang Yang, and Gerrard, Xavi Alonso and others were all smiling, as if to say, you kid has been praised.

Rafael Benitez has never been easy to praise in the dressing room, and to be able to say that is actually a compliment.

After saying this, Benitez basically finished explaining what he wanted to explain.

'Guys, although the 1-1 half-time scoreline does give us reason to be satisfied, we must not take it lightly, you know, this is the Camp Nou, the home of Barcelona.

Benitez admonished his players with a serious face.

'You have to know that tonight you are playing against the strongest team in the Champions League, whether it is a draw or a goal lead, it is not enough to ensure that we qualify, so we have to concentrate all and focus on playing every minute.

Gerard immediately stood up and nodded heavily.

The other players also stood up, nodding their heads or responding loudly.

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The second half of the game was restarted.

Barcelona's tactics did not change much, as Benitez expected.

There were no adjustments to the personnel, and the tactics basically continued the performance of the first half.

But Liverpool were clearly different from the first half.

Back in Portugal, Rafael Benitez said that his tactics in this game were not negative, even at the Camp Nou, he was trying to get an away goal and keep his hopes back at Anfield.

And his weapon for away goals was in the second half.

If Liverpool's tactics in the first half were to stabilize the defense and be familiar with the rhythm of Barcelona's game, then in the second half, Liverpool's tactics were to get used to the opponent, peep into the timing, rush up, and bite the opponent's throat!

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Just a minute into the second half, Liverpool began to press on step by step.

Thiago Motta fouled Mohamed Sissoko and gave Liverpool a free-kick in front, but Gerrard went straight to the goal, which was saved by Valdés to defuse a crisis.

But Liverpool's pressing continued, and the game quickly entered Liverpool's rhythm.

Barcelona's attack was contained and it was difficult to open the game.

The wings of Ronaldinho and Messi were restrained by Finnan and Arbeloa in the first half, which was tantamount to cutting off two arms of Barcelona, and the attack in the middle was blocked by Xavi Alonso and Mohamed Sissoko.

As for the two full-backs, Belletti was in charge of guarding Yang Yang, while Zambrotta was pinned down by Kuyt.

It can be said that Barcelona's entire attack was contained by Liverpool.

The first half couldn't open the game, and the second half was even worse.

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Rijkaard is also clearly struggling with the team's lack of offensive momentum.

He paced back and forth in the coaching area throughout the second half, giving the impression of being nervous and anxious.

Ten minutes later, he finally couldn't wait and made the first substitution of the game.

Andres Iniesta replaces Thiago Motta.

As a result, Barcelona's three midfielders became Xavi, Iniesta and Deco, and Xavi was still at the end.

Without the high point of Thiago Motta, Barcelona's midfield can only continue to walk on the ground, which further caters to Liverpool's ideas, so Benitez is still unmoved.

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Yang Yang has a feeling on the pitch that the ball is still at the feet of Barcelona, but the game is in the hands of Liverpool.

One of the most important aspects of pass-and-control play is to create a threat.

If you have no possession but you can't create a threat, too much possession is dangerous, which can change the mentality of the team in possession.

From the start of the second half, the two sides played a stalemate, neither of them was able to create chances, but the atmosphere of the game became more and more depressing.

Yang Yang knows that this is a test for both sides, whoever can't bear it, whoever makes a mistake first, will lose!

Liverpool, for their part, are still steadfast in their manager's tactics because they worked.

In the 65th minute, Barcelona made the second substitution of the game.

Yang Yang was on the pitch and saw the fourth official on the sidelines playing the substitution card, he didn't even need to look at who replaced whom, he concluded that Barcelona was already anxious, and Rijkaard was completely messed up.

Because Liverpool haven't even made a single substitution!

The substitutions had only one purpose, and that was to change the game.

Similar to Rijkaard's two consecutive substitutions, the opponent did not make a single move to deal with it, and anyone can see that Liverpool has the advantage both tactically and psychologically.

And in this, Yang Yang's goal at the end of the first half was the key!

Without that goal, Barcelona would not have been in a hurry at all.

Rijkaard replaced Xavi with Giuli in the 65th minute.

Four-two-four formation!

This is definitely a desperate move to get out of the way!

Benitez also had to make adjustments, with Gerrard forced to step back to better protect the defence.

Liverpool still hasn't made any substitutions!

After the substitution, Barcelona intended to play a fierce attack, but the result was still not to find an effective way to break through the Liverpool defense, but its own hidden dangers were finally exposed.

In the 70th minute, left central defender Puyol was forced to pass back to the goalkeeper under the pressure of Crouch.

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