Chapter 467: Inter Milan's Counterattack (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Seeing Cambiasso return to the midfield position, many Barcelona fans in the stands secretly screamed that it was not good.
The fans saw that something was wrong, and Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola's face naturally became even more difficult to look at.
Zanetti and Cambiaso, both world-renowned top midfielders, are world-class in terms of experience and strength.
It's hard to deal with one back, let alone two.
With the addition of Lucio, Samuel, McConn, and Yuto Nagatomo, Inter Milan's defensive strength has improved a lot compared to the previous 4132, and it is not as simple as one more person.
The commentators on the commentary bench also praised Mourinho's tactical change, saying that Mourinho's use of Cambiasso was simply brilliant.
Indeed, after Cambiaso retreated to the midfield position, Inter Milan's defensive strength suddenly improved a lot.
Although it was at the expense of a striker position, it was Inter Milan who now led the scoreline, who had the initiative and were qualified to play defensive counter-attacks.
Barcelona, on the other hand, had to attack aggressively.
Although Barcelona's passing and control skills are unique in the world, with the configuration of Inter Milan's double back midfield, as well as the help of Lu Wenbin, Sneijder, and Stankovic often returning to defense, Barcelona has not been able to score for a long time.
On the contrary, Inter Milan used the conversion of the ball from time to time to launch counterattacks.
Not only the grabbing of the ball, but also the goal kick that Inter won after Barcelona's shot made Inter Milan counterattack more than before.
In the 33rd minute, Lu Wenbin had a low cross after a wide break and was grabbed by Eto'o to hit the goal with his head at the first point.
It's a pity that Valdés played extraordinarily this time, and even saved Eto'o's header from the small penalty zone, and made a big difference.
In the 42nd minute, Lu Wenbin also won a free kick on the right side of the front of the big ban zone through his own breakthrough.
However, Lu Wenbin's free kick from the special skill hit the far post and bounced back into the forbidden area and was cleared by Pique.
Barcelona, on their part, tried their best to attack and wanted to equalize, but with the concerted efforts of the experienced Inter defenders, they did not get too many good chances.
The only attack that came close to scoring came when Messi shot after three people in a row, and the ball went straight to the corner, but Cesar also showed great courage to save the bottom line.
One minute of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half and the two sides went into the break with a 0-1 scoreline, with Inter Milan leading Barcelona away.
After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides and fought again.
Unable to equalize in the first half, Barcelona naturally became more impatient in the second half.
If the match ends with this scoreline, Barcelona will be eliminated.
As a result, they had to invest more troops, with Xavi, Sergio Busquets, Pedro in midfield, and even Puyol and Alves in the back line often rushing to the front.
Barcelona's pass-and-possession football requires a large number of people to be able to play it, and it is impossible for one or two people to do it like Inter Milan on the counter-attack.
As a result, Barcelona, whose number of defenders at the back has declined, naturally gave Inter Milan more opportunities to counterattack.
In the 57th minute, Lu Wenbin did not break through after getting the ball in the midfield, but suddenly kicked straight through.
Full value vision and passing ability, Lu Wenbin's straight ball showed Xavi's artistic sense, the ball almost passed through the only line between Busquets, Mascherano, Pique and others, evaded everyone's interception, and rolled forward.
Eto'o also used his pace to get ahead of Mascherano to receive Lu Wenbin's through ball, forming a one-on-one knife and rushing towards Barcelona's forbidden area.
Unfortunately, Eto'o's speed dropped when he dribbled the ball, and he couldn't match Lu Wenbin's combination speed, and was chased by Mascherano.
In the face of Valdés, Eto'o was pushed from behind by Mascherano when he hit the goal, but the ball was poked out of the goal by Valdés with his toes with a sitting save.
Samuel Eto'o squandered Lu Wenbin's through ball and missed a goalscoring opportunity.
However, despite this, it still scared the whole Barcelona team a lot, so that they reined in a little and did not dare to press the whole team so boldly.
However, as time went on and the end of the game got closer and closer, Barcelona had to press again and strengthen their attack.
Because they are behind in the score, they can't stop attacking because they are afraid of being counterattacked by Inter, right?
Then simply surrender and admit defeat.
On their home turf, at Camp Nou, Barcelona naturally couldn't have raised their hands and surrendered.
They can only press in formation again and strengthen the attack.
In the 71st minute, Barcelona had a good chance to open the scoring.
Xavi's pass had already torn apart Inter's defence, and Villa received a pass from Andres Iniesta in the corner of the small penalty zone behind Lucio and others, and raised his foot to hit the goal.
As a result, the shot dodged a save from Cesar and hit the near post instead.
Not only that, but the ball bounced off the near post and did not bounce off the baseline or back into the no-out zone, but bounced off the far post.
The ball bounced off the far post before it bounced into the 'no-go' zone and Samuel kicked it off the touchline after being driven back to the line.
Barcelona and Villa were unlucky enough to hit the post twice in a single shot but didn't score, which was almost crazy.
As the time to the end of the game got closer and closer, Barcelona's overall formation became more and more pressed, and there was more and more space at the back.
Finally, in the 80th minute, Inter Milan had a good chance to counter-attack.
Pedro's dribble was stabbed away from behind by Cambiaso and stabbed into McConn.
McCone received the ball and quickly played it to Sneijder in midfield, who then passed to Lu Wenbin, who was running wildly without the ball on the right side.
After Lu Wenbin received the ball, only Alves was left in front of him: the Barcelona formation was counterattacked by the forward press, and the number of defenders in the back was insufficient.
Pique and Mascherano in the middle did not dare to lean on the wing, because Sneijder and Eto'o, who had passed the ball, were sprinting into the forbidden area in the middle, and they did not dare to let go of Sneijder and Eto'o to help Alves defend Lu Wenbin.
Lu Wenbin naturally will not let go of this opportunity.
Although Alves is very cautious in defending while retreating, how can his speed compare to Lu Wenbin?
Lu Wenbin split the ball by himself during the run, and the man ran out of the sideline and circled a big circle from outside the court, but still caught the ball before Alves.
Then, Alves was stuck behind Lu Wenbin and couldn't touch the ball at all, and Lu Wenbin began to cut inside with the ball.
Pique had to give up on Sneijder and move to Lu Wenbin's side, ready to block Lu Wenbin's breakthrough and shot. (Ask for a commuter pass)
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