When the game restarted, the yellow submarine, which was one goal behind, launched a fierce counterattack again, this time in the midfield not only the three of Santo Tiago, but even the front of Thomas and Rossi turned back into the scramble, and now they think very clearly, that is, to rely on the scramble to win the ball in order to launch a counterattack! In the face of such a situation, of course, Barcelona has no reason to retreat, Marquis and Puyol also immediately stepped up, and Xavi and several people also repeatedly turned back to fight.

So for a while, the two teams formed a tragic strangulation in the midfield.

In the eighteenth minute, Gonzalo Rodriguez tackled Iniesta in front of the penalty area, and Xavi's free-kick from 25 yards was blocked by the wall.

In the 21st minute, Samuel Eto'o had a shot blocked, and Iniesta's volley from the edge of the box was deflected wide.

In the 23rd minute, Santhiago passed to Tomasson, who pulled out his foot and fired a fierce shot over the crossbar.

The ferocious scramble drained the physical strength of the players on both sides, while the fans in the stands and the crowd in front of the TV were addicted, and the Villarreal people were more resilient and combative than they could have imagined. There were suspicions before the game that it would be a tacit goal to help Barcelona win the La Liga title at home, after all, the outcome of this game has not had much impact on Villarreal, but this is not the case now.

The madness of the Villarreal is like taking a huge amount of money from Real Madrid.

In the 28th minute, Cazorla knocked down Thierry Henry from the side and was warned by referee Horst.

In the 30th minute, Rodriguez snatched the ball back from the feet of the Barcelona players with a slightly rude movement, but before he could pass the ball out, Xavi, who was not to be outdone, also became entangled with him and quickly recaptured the ball.

In the 32nd minute, after a series of high-intensity scrambles, the Villarreal players finally got the ball out after gaining possession, and this time the ball was successfully passed to the feet of Santhiago. However, Santi was unable to make a breakthrough after receiving the pass, because the Barcelona defenders also quickly surrounded him, and the narrow area did not allow Santi to fully display his skills, and he knew that the bold shaking would only bring unnecessary problems to himself.

So after an unsuccessful attempt to break through, Santhiago had to redistribute the ball.

"Hard bones are really not easy to gnaw!" After Santi passed the ball, he tried to penetrate the Barcelona team, and at the same time scolded in his heart.

The Villarreal fans, who were ready to cheer for him, were a little disappointed, but they soon sang the team song again to cheer for the players, and they did not naively think that Santi had to show a crazy individual performance every game, they just hoped that the team could win the game with their support.

Throughout the first half, there has been no outstanding performance in Santiago, except for a successful breakthrough of his national teammate Messi, Santi is mostly limited to the side of the sideline outside the penalty area like Messi, and Santilgo will fall into a local multi-person package in an instant every time he reaches this position, and it is a very good situation to be able to pass the ball out to ensure that the ball is not lost in such a situation.

For this situation, various commentators have given their own opinions, after all, judging from the previous games, although it cannot be said that Villarreal's attack is completely dependent on Santilago, it is already close to ten in terms of activity. What Santi brings to this Villarreal team is not only a strong midfield commander, but also an important figure who can lead his teammates to break the deadlock in positional battles.

The local breaking point, the attack on the flank and the pulling of the side all played an important role in the response to Rossi and Tomasson on the front line.

At the moment, most commentators and industry insiders tend to evaluate Santhiago for one thing: it is easy to use.

First of all, his personal ability naturally does not need to be mentioned, and his progress in growth is obvious to all, and a variety of offensive methods emerge in an endless stream, which brings a lot of surprises to people. Therefore, when Santi is in good shape on the field, Villarreal can often achieve both firepower and threat in attack, but when Santi is not in good form or is frozen, as it is now, then it may be a bit fatal for Villarreal.

Cazorla, on the other side, is currently a regular regular for Villarreal, but his advantage lies in his ability to run and be able to aggressively scramble when the opponent has the ball, forcing him to make quick moves or mistakes, regardless of whether the opponent has the ball in the midfielder or a defender. But compared to Santi, Cazorla's personal breakthrough ability is actually much inferior.

So this time, even if the current Barcelona is not the future Barcelona that has reached the level of passing and controlling, for them, they can do it without confusion and mistakes in the face of repeated scrambles led by Cazorla. This situation makes the two Tomasson in the forward line feel alone, after all, as a striker, it is very hurtful if there is no support from teammates.

So in the following time, whenever Villarreal relied on fierce scrambling and amazing running to grab the ball, there would always be a situation where the forward line could not continue to advance after pressing, and could only pass the ball back to San Thiago and others for inverted footing. This is the helplessness of the Villarreal players, but for Barcelona, they are really in the middle of the game, what they want is positional warfare, after all, it is indeed possible to run with these young Puyol, but the rest of the people are really choking, everyone knows how fast the pace of the middle and lower reaches of La Liga is, and they certainly prefer positional warfare with strong strength and experience.

Seeing this situation, Pellegrini also frowned, when the time came to 30 minutes, he resolutely decided to give up the competition for the ball and began to change the formation, in the last minute of the first half, Villarreal took the initiative to give up the ball and changed to a 451 position to ensure the width and depth of the defense. At this time, Pellegrini thought very clearly that there was still a lot of time to change the score in the second half, and now the more anxious he is, the easier it is to make trouble, so he simply arranged for the team to retreat.

"Oh? In the final moment, Villarreal took the initiative to change the formation, is this to transition those ten minutes? If Manuel Pellegrini really made that choice, it was a very smart decision. In fact, we can see one thing from the first half of the game, that is, although Barcelona has players like Xavi and Iniesta in the midfield, compared to the desperate Cazorla, Barcelona is not strong enough in the midfield to continue to suppress the opponent. ”

And because of the presence of Tomasson and the possibility of exploding at any time, this means that Barcelona cannot safely put all their midfield strength into attack, especially after gaining another one-goal advantage. We saw that after taking a one-goal lead, Barcelona did not attack again, but began to play steadily while dealing with Villarreal's counterattack! “

There was no doubt that most of the people on the pitch at this point saw the situation on the pitch as the commentators thought, and Villarreal opted to go into the second half safely.

But at this moment, Sainti stepped up, he did not disappoint the fans, staring at the pressure of the manager, and in the 35th minute, Villarreal ushered in a chance.

Saintie, who has been carefully observing the linkage of Barcelona's lineup, quickly found a gap in between, which cost him a lot of energy, but it was undoubtedly worth the money.

After making up his mind, Santi immediately raised his hand to ask for the ball, and when he saw Santi's actions, the Villarreal players present were shocked.

Since joining the team, Santi has hardly disappointed people, so when Santiago took the initiative to raise his hand for the ball and the league looked confident, the sailors of the Villarreal submarine couldn't help but be shocked, knowing that the horn of the counterattack would blow again.

Immediately, Ibargasa, one of the two midfielders, immediately passed the ball to the feet of Santiago, and after receiving the ball, Santi smiled confidently and led his teammates forward.

He is not the type of person who likes to dictate his teammates verbally, but likes to speak through the ball at his feet, and it is this characteristic that allows Santi to quickly find the flaws in the Barcelona defence in the fleeting void.

This is undoubtedly the time for the Dream Team to set sail again, and this is also the representative club of team football and gorgeous football that people talk about, but it is also because of this that the standard of joining this club has become very high, and at the same time, the standard of integrating into this team has risen.

That is, the flaw that Santhiago has captured, compared to Puyol and Xavi's passing ball, it is undoubtedly difficult for the new signings who have just joined the team for less than a year to integrate into this team that pursues fast ground coordination!

In the face of Abidal's defense, San Tiago suddenly pulled back, hid the ball behind him, circled and shocked, attracted the attention of more Barcelona players around him, and then took advantage of the opponent's stunned moment to suddenly pick up the ball towards the left side of the penalty area where Rossi was.

It was a scene that Abidal did not expect at all, and more importantly, because Keita pressed on, Puyol and Xavi were both blocked by his figure and could not see this pass from Saint-Tiago, but they were unable to intercept it, allowing Rossi to successfully win the ball on the edge of the box.

Last season's top scorer for Villarreal easily adjusted his body before Alves returned to the defense, and then pushed the shot!

Barcelona's main goalkeeper Valdés' eyelids jumped when he saw this, in fact, most of his vision had been blocked by his teammates, and he could only rush forward desperately at the moment!