Chapter 298: Heroes Sympathize

Back at the hotel, Ralph and the coaching staff studied Barcelona's roster but felt they couldn't do anything.

In addition to relying on Lu Wenbin's personal outburst, Hoffenheim is really difficult to compete with Barcelona with the whole team.

Barcelona's offense is not an all-encompassing offense, and their defense is more advanced than the average defense, which is possession and counter-attacking on the spot.

Generally speaking, Barcelona will account for more than 0% of the time spent in possession in most games with their excellent short passing combination, and the number of high games may even exceed 70%.

The ball was at the feet of the Barcelona players most of the time, and if they didn't get the opponent's ball, they naturally couldn't shoot.

If Barcelona concede a goal, they will also immediately counter-attack, including Henry, Messi and others in the frontcourt. Even if you can't grab the ball, you have to delay and interfere with the opponent's attack.

If they can get the ball, Barcelona will not attack easily, they will constantly pass the ball.

If they don't have good chances, they won't be able to waste easily, even if they fall to the back.

They will keep passing the ball slowly until the opponent is paralyzed and there is a gap, and then suddenly speed up and kill with a change of tempo.

The point is, even when the opponent is fully focused and there is no paralysis or gaps, Barcelona have a way because they have too many superstars, too many attackers, to solve the battle alone.

Including Messi, Henry, and Ibrahimovic, they are all dribbling maniacs.

Messi has had five in a row, Ibrahimovic has had six in a row, and Thierry Henry has had a long run from the back to shoot successfully from the back to the opponent's penalty zone.

All three of them have the possibility to solve the battle in a flash of inspiration and alone.

Coupled with Xavi, who is known as the world's No. 1 midfield master, assists and straight stops, the game against Barcelona is simply desperate.

You focus on the Barcelona stars and they will crush you with the whole game. You hold your ground with a complete defence, and they will use the individual ability of their stars to break through you and shoot successfully.

If you want to do both, you don't have enough people.

That's the despair of playing against Barcelona.

After a night of discussions with members of his coaching staff, Ralph felt that the only thing Hoffenheim could rely on was Lu Wenbin's outburst.

In addition, there is a little bit of something that can be used, that is, Ibrahimovic just transferred to Barcelona at the end of July, and he should not be familiar with Messi, Henry, and Xavi when he first arrived.

Moreover, Ibu is a person who is unruly by nature.

Except for his idol Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic is not convinced by anyone, let alone Messi, who is younger than him.

In Ibrahimovic's eyes, Messi may be a little kid.

Even if Messi wins the treble, the Champions League Golden Boot, the best player in the Champions League, and this year's Golden Ball Award and World Footballer, Ibrahimovic will not take it seriously.

The newcomer and Ibrahimovic's own personality problems should make Ibrahimovic more unique on the pitch, and Hoffenheim can intercept and counter-attack against this point.

In addition, assistant coach Matthews also suggested that the players, especially Lu Wenbin, be interviewed by reporters before tomorrow morning's on-court acclimatization training to compliment Ibrahimovic, so that he will be more conceited and will not cooperate with Messi and Henry on the field.

Ralph took the assistant coach's advice.

Therefore, early the next morning, when everyone set off for St. Louis II Stadium for on-course adaptation training, Ralph first told Lu Wenbin and others, and Lu Wenbin and others took it to heart.

Before the start of training, Lu Wenbin, Eduardo and others deliberately walked to the sidelines to sign autographs and take photos of the Hoffenheim fans who came to watch the team's showdown with the top of Barcelona.

Naturally, reporters on the sidelines seized the opportunity to rush up and ask Lu Wenbin and others what they thought of Barcelona.

The Hoffenheim players avoided talking about the Barcelona team as a whole as told by the manager, and praised Ibrahimovic individually.

Lu Wenbin said: "I'm like Ibrahimovic, our idol is Ronaldo. Ibrahimovic is so tall and can dribble with agility and ease, which I deeply admire. Especially when he was at Ajax, the goal of six people in a row made me amazed and sighed to myself, and I was dumbfounded! ”

Lu Wenbin's words made the reporters very excited.

When the two armies faced off, Lu Wenbin, the first core of Hoffenheim, actually admitted that he admired Ibrahimovic, and was amazed by Ibrahimovic's dribbling skills.

Is this an admission that he is inferior to Ibrahimovic?

Although everyone knows that this is true, it is still exciting to have it said it by one of the European Golden Boots himself.

In the morning it was Hoffenheim for the pitch acclimatization and in the afternoon it was Barcelona.

In the afternoon, when Barcelona's players arrived at the stadium, Ibrahimovic was surrounded by reporters who conveyed Lu Wenbin's words.

Hearing Lu Wenbin's words conveyed by the reporters, Yibu had a smile on his face and accepted it calmly.

Ibrahimovic smiled and said, "Lu is right, my idol and his idol are Ronaldo. Although my dribbling skills are a bit better than Lou's, I also admire Lu's goalscoring efficiency. I think Lew is one of the most efficient strikers in the world today. However, his dribbling skills are a bit miserable among top strikers. I don't mind passing on some of my experience to him if he is willing to learn. ”

The journalists were dumbfounded.

The arrogant Ibu also admires people at times, and is willing to become friends with Lu Wenbin and teach Lu Wenbin dribbling techniques?

It seems that Lu Wenbin's goal efficiency really made Ibrahimovic have to bow down.

Of course, it may also be that Lu Wenbin was the first to state that he admired Ibrahimovic's dribbling skills, and Ibrahimovic expressed his admiration for Lu Wenbin's goalscoring efficiency.

I think that if Lu Wenbin had expressed his disdain for Ibu's technology first, Ibu would not have loved Lu Wenbin.

All of a sudden, Ibrahimovic, who had just transferred to Barcelona, had some heroic sympathy with Lu Wenbin, the core of his opponent who was about to play!

As for teammates Messi and Henry, Ibrahimovic didn't talk about it at all, he just announced that he came to Barcelona to lead Barcelona to win more championships and create greater glory.

Ibrahimovic is a man who wants to be the core everywhere he goes, and he can't do it if he wants to play with others.

As long as he is on the field, the ball in the front court will be handed to him. If he doesn't give it, he's going to lose his temper and strike.

I don't know if Barcelona considered these when they bought Ibrahimovic, maybe they thought that the temptation of the Champions League winner could make Ibrahimovic, who had never won the Champions League trophy, change himself and play with Messi, the real core of Barcelona.

Lu Wenbin naturally couldn't imagine that he could get this kind of effect by following the coach's instructions to praise Ibrahimovic a few words, so that Ibrahimovic, who has always been arrogant, admitted that Lu Wenbin's goal efficiency made him admire.

Lu Wenbin was also a little crying and laughing.

I only hope that my compliments can make Ibrahimovic more unique on the field and achieve the coach's intended purpose.

It would be better if Ibrahimovic could have conflicts with Messi and Henry on the pitch because of the ball and abolish Barcelona's offensive system.

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