Chapter 224: Barcelona's lightning attack

"Fan!"

"Fan!"

On the noisy field, Fan Bizhuang was kicking the football to Kaka in the distance, when he saw Xavi, Iniesta and others walking over together, smiling and waving to greet him.

"It's you! Long time no see, Harvey, Andres. ”

Fan Bizhuang raised his head and nodded in response with a smile. After all, he is a teammate of the national team, and he doesn't deal with Barcelona, but it's a personal grudge, and it doesn't matter if he makes friends, Xavi and Iniesta both have a good relationship with him in private, so Fan Bizhuang's attitude is quite peaceful.

However, although they said "long time no see", Xavi and Iniesta both heard a hint of ridicule. I haven't seen you for a long time, after all, I am a teammate of the national team, and sometimes I will return to China to compete together, Fan Bizhuang's words clearly mean that he and Barcelona have not "communicated" for a long time, and this time in the Champions League final, I have to "talk about my heart".

"You guy......" Xavi smiled bitterly, then shook his head, "I didn't expect that you have only been away from La Liga for a year, and you have reached the Champions League final with your new club, and we will fight to the death again." ”

"Hey, hey."

Fan Bizhuang smiled with a strange expression, he actually wanted to say, we don't know if we die or not, but you are definitely going to die, but such words are not easy to say directly, with this kind of strange smile, it can be regarded as expressing the subconscious meaning.

Xavi and Iniesta saw Fan Bizhuang's appearance, where they didn't know what the other party was thinking, Iniesta shook his head and spread his hands and said: "Well, it seems that after so long, your hostility towards Barcelona has not dissipated at all." It seems that this time there is only one victory and defeat on the court! ”

"Of course."

Fan Bizhuang nodded, glanced back at his eyes, and said, "I'll warm up first, by the way, that guy Cristiano asked me to help him tell Leo that Fan will avenge me." Convey this to him for me, I don't want to meet him, or that guy will have to say something in front of me again, 'I'm going to beat you' This time, you're going to lose!'" ''I will be the one who wins!'' It's all disturbing to listen to, and I've said it many times, I'm too lazy to listen! ”

After speaking, Fan Bizhuang turned around and ran away.

Xavi and Iniesta were stunned for a moment, and then saw that Messi had already stepped forward.

"What about that guy? How did you run away? ”

Messi said in confusion.

"Are you looking for Fan?"

Xavi gave him a strange look, and then heard Messi say with a firm face: "I have to tell him that this time, he is going to lose!" We're going to give Manchester United a defeat and they'll just watch me and Barcelona reach the top of Europe! ”

“……”

Xavi and Iniesta looked at each other with wonderful expressions, and sure enough, this guy Leo, as Fan Bizhuang said, really came to show off his "bold words".

"By the way, what were you talking about?" After being complacent, Messi asked casually.

"Nothing...... Well, let's warm up first! ”

Xavi and Iniesta obviously didn't want to continue on the topic, waved their hands and ran away decisively.

Messi's face was suspicious, "Hmm...... Wacky and wacky ...... Forget it, don't think about it......"

……

Amid seemingly endless cheers and shouts, the minutes passed, and the players of Manchester United and Barcelona had finished their warm-up and returned to their respective dressing rooms, and about ten minutes later, the players of both teams walked out and stepped into the players' tunnel.

It's 6:40, and it's only five minutes before the Champions League final begins!

Soon the players of both teams in Hungary referee Viktor. Led by Kase, he began to walk onto the pitch, and after a series of pre-match activities, the time pointed to 6:45.

The two sides have lined up in their respective halves, Victor raised his hand and looked at the watch on his wrist, the whistle was put in his mouth, a sharp whistle sounded, and the Champions League final officially kicked off!

"It's game on! Game on!! In the 2010-2011 season, the UEFA Champions League final has begun, this is Wembley Stadium in London, England, this is the venue for this final, the final between Manchester United, the winner of the Premier League this season, and Barcelona, the winner of La Liga! ”

"The two dominant teams in each league will join hands to compete for the Champions League trophy! It's a veritable battle for the 'strongest champion in Europe'! ”

"Barcelona kick off first! They won the kick-off...... Villa passed the ball back to Xavi behind him...... Barcelona's pass-and-possession style of play is one of the best in today's football, and I think they will stick to their tactical style and deal with United in the way they do best...... Now, the ball is on Barcelona's side, let's see what they do......"

As soon as the game started, Villa quickly knocked the ball back to Xavi, and Barca's brain didn't seem to rush forward, and then after a few more control of the ball, it pushed the ball to Andres Iniesta diagonally in front of him. Several Barcelona midfielders, back and forth with each other, controlled the tempo.

This is Barcelona's usual style of play, they are more accustomed to controlling the ball at their feet, slowly passing and penetrating, patiently reversing the foot, looking for the opponent's loopholes, and when the opportunity arises, they will quickly plug the gap and give the opponent a fatal blow.

In the past few years, Barcelona has been able to re-emerge and rarely meet opponents in the world, relying on this set of delicate passing and receiving play, their control of passing and rhythm can be said to have reached the pinnacle, and teams all over the world know how they play and how they will play next, but the final result is still unstoppable.

Such a mature tactical system can really be called "invincible" in the past few years.

Of course, Manchester United has long been prepared for this, and Barcelona's strength is undoubted, but Manchester United this season is also unstoppable, Ferguson has great confidence in the team's midfield attacking group, and his response to Barcelona's delicate passing style of play is to launch a strong attack with strong attacking firepower, strive to score early, and hold the advantage in his hands - if he can't score, then he will also create huge pressure on the opponent, so that the opponent has no time to care, or even let their passing and cutting cooperation not play.

This is very different from the use of dead defense tactics when many teams face Barcelona, it turns out that tightening the defensive line and defending with all the staff may create obstacles for Barcelona to a certain extent, but Barcelona is not only meaningless passing and cutting cooperation and control of the ball possession, their ability to pull and pass the ball is too prominent, and many stars have strong individual ability, and can tear the defense line from time to time, in this case, they can hold for a while, but they can't hold for 90 minutes. Often when the physical strength and energy decline, Barcelona's passing and cutting combination will be more powerful, and this time is also the time when Barcelona scores the most goals.

Manchester United's defensive ability is good, but in this season's Premier League, they are the team with the most goals, but not the team that concedes the fewest goals, Ferguson is not confident that he can use defense to suffocate Barcelona - not to mention whether it can be done, even if it can be done, this is also a bit of putting the cart before the horse.

Ferguson naturally won't do this kind of "stupid thing", so his requirement is that all players are actively moving, and when defending, they must press all hands and press high, and strive to grab Barcelona to take care of one or the other, and when attacking, then the whole team must press and give the opponent high pressure as much as possible.

Therefore, as soon as they saw Barcelona pass the ball back and start to reverse their feet in the midfield, the Manchester United players rushed away, first the striker, then the midfield axis, and the red figure ran around, trying their best to block the opponent.

Repeated active pressing, although failed to snatch the ball, after all, Barcelona's passing level is really fast and accurate, but at least the delay narrows Barcelona's passing time and space, and Barcelona's passing in the backfield seems to be a little stumbling.

Manchester United's high pressing tactics have paid off.

But what is surprising is that when the football was passed to Xavi's feet again, Fan Bizhuang quickly greeted him, but before he could run closer, Xavi immediately raised his foot and kicked the ball out!

Fan Bizhuang was a little stunned, he is also familiar with Xavi, although Xavi's short and long passes are very good, but under the Barcelona system, Xavi is more of a short-distance pass, like this direct backfield big foot ball, it is really rare.

Fan Bizhuang turned his head slightly, and his face changed greatly.

Originally, he thought that Xavi was forced to reluctantly get up under the pressure of his own persecution, but this time, Xavi's long pass accurately flew straight to the left side of the front, and Messi was already plugged in at high speed.

"Harvey! Accurate long passes! ”

"Messi is approaching the landing point at high speed! Villa and Pedro cruising around the penalty area......"

"Attack! A lightning break rarely seen on Barcelona! What a surprise! Manchester United was taken by surprise! ”

No one thought that Barcelona, which has always penetrated with passing and cutting and short passing, would suddenly play such a simple long pass rushing and hanging coordination, which was unexpected, so it instantly reaped miraculous results.

United's midfield defence was left behind by the long ball, and Messi easily unloaded the ball almost unguarded, then flicked the ball and dribbled straight down the middle.

After two consecutive passes with Villa, Messi hit the front of the penalty area, dancing lightly with small broken steps, Ferdinandra went out of the penalty area and wanted to break the ball, but he was shaken behind him by Messi's two consecutive changes of direction with a very fast pace, flashed out of space, and shot directly into the far corner of the goal with his left foot on the spot.

A half-high arc flew quickly through the air and crashed straight into the goal!