“Messi~~~~~Messi! Messi!messiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~~~~~~~~~！ Messi's goal ignited the boiling flames in the Rome Olympic Football Stadium, and tens of thousands of fans all cheered with the shouts of the commentators, among them, although there were less than 10,000 Barcelona fans, many neutral fans also expressed their love for Messi, a new generation of top stars.

Everyone knows that Barcelona's offense is known to have one hundred and eight weapons, but the most intimidating of them is Messi's "overlord gun", the reason why Messi is called the overlord gun is not because of mocking his size, but to describe his domineering on the field, although everyone knows that he is Barcelona's designated offensive finisher, but no one can stop him.

In 2012, Messi was in great form, scoring a horrific 91 goals in the entire calendar year, surpassing Mudegele's 40-year record of 85 goals, which made the world go crazy, but in fact, he was already famous at that time, and all opponents knew that he was the most important person to mark in the Barcelona team, but even so, no one could stop him from this crazy state.

This proves positively how outstanding Messi's strength is.

It is not surprising that Messi can score goals, but it is strange that he scored goals, Messi, who is less than 1.7 meters tall, scored with his head in the penalty area.

True. Vermaelen's height of 1.80m and Gala's 1.83m are not tall among defenders, but Messi can head the ball into Arsenal's goal in the middle of these two central defenders, which has to be quite chewy.

And this goal not only ignited the passion of the entire Olympic Stadium in Rome, but also put Arsenal in an even more disadvantageous situation in an instant: they had already fallen behind on the pitch, and now they have even been overtaken, and if Wenger does not make adjustments, I am afraid the situation will be even more critical.

In the past, Wenger may not be able to think of any countermeasures at this time, Wenger's on-the-spot command has always been a place of criticism, and Lord Fraternaire often has a good hand to change the situation of the game in the Premier League. Arsene Wenger, however, has rarely achieved success in this area. His substitutions in the 05-06 Champions League final were even more unsuccessful, as he replaced Cesc Fabregas with Flamini, who had made fewer than 10 league appearances, with a one-goal lead in less than one game, causing the team to then lose control in midfield. The opponent scored two goals in a row. 1:2 missed the opportunity to set the Gunners' record.

And coincidentally. Their opponents in that match were Barcelona who were now on the other side of the pitch.

Now that old rivals have once again gained the upper hand, can Arsene Wenger have any surprise tricks to break the pattern?

Of course! If a reporter came to interview him now, Wenger would be proud to tell him: "Saint Seiya will not be defeated by the same moves!" "Because he now has more cards in his hand. That's Descartes who sat on the bench all the time.

"Zen Master" Phil. Jackson was once described by the media as "if Jordan is on the court, give it to him, if Jordan is not on the court, let Jordan go", and now Wenger also has a tendency to be ridiculed by the media, "If Descartes is on the court, give it to him, if Descartes is not on the court, release Descartes".

This is not only a funny joke from the media, but it also illustrates the status of Jordan and Descartes in their respective teams.

What Wenger has to do now is bring in Descartes seven minutes early, oh no, eight minutes early. Descartes' appearance brought not only tactical changes, but also the effect of stabilizing the morale of the army.

In this season's Arsenal battlefields, Descartes has gradually become the team's Dinghaishen needle-like figure, although there are no direct statistics, but many people can see that he is not on the field, Arsenal's morale and morale are very different, Arsenal this season is nicknamed "the second half of the can't be provoked" team, tied for the Premier League's "four can't be provoked", Descartes' performance is crucial.

If you are interested in the Premier League's "Big Four", then I will tell you that it doesn't matter, Weber's Manchester United, Liverpool in the first half of the season, Chelsea who just bought people, and Arsenal in the second half, these are the four major in the Premier League this season.

The meaning of these four sentences is to make fun of Manchester United, who have the help of the referee and can always get extra penalties or extra time; Liverpool, on the other hand, has been unbeaten in the first half of the season for three consecutive seasons, and the attitude of treating every game as a final has made Liverpool amazing in the early days of the season when they are full of energy, and if the league is only counted in the first half of the season every year, they have won the Premier League three times in a row; As for Chelsea, who have just bought people, it is not difficult to understand that Chelsea are as brave as chicken blood after every time manager Abu throws a big dollar, and they are often able to play big wins in the early part of each season and the first few games after the winter transfer window closes.

And Arsenal in the last second half refers to Arsenal after Descartes came on.

It sounds a bit unscientific to change a team by yourself, but in fact it is also a combination of many factors such as psychology, tactics, and on-the-spot adjustment, such as Descartes' diligent running, which will unconsciously affect his teammates and make Arsenal's overall run more positive in the second half, and a positive team, the result is usually not too bad.

It may sound like a "god-making" statement, but in any case, there is no doubt that Descartes can bring change to Arsenal, and Wenger's biggest tactical adjustment now is actually only one move - to replace him!

Although Guardiola specifically mentioned in the tactical preparations before the war that Descartes only needs to pay more attention to Descartes, the focus is still on sticking to his own attack and using Barcelona's attack to suppress Arsenal, but all the players in Barcelona understand. The Italian youngster, who has just turned 20, is Arsenal's biggest threat.

For Descartes, Guardiola did not arrange special personnel to mark him, Barcelona only had one but back in this game, that is, Busquets, who seemed to be a little strong in attack and weak in defense, and their two strongest defensive midfielders, Yaya. Toure and Keita, one dropped back to the centre-back line and the other was on the bench.

It's not that Pep Guardiola is ready to break the jar because he can't do anything about Descartes, but that Guardiola thinks Barcelona is attacking with all his might. It's more than enough to keep Arsenal down. Descartes was in the front court alone, and he made up how much of a problem he had in mind.

This analysis is not blind confidence, and Barcelona's top five attackers, Messi, Eto'o, Thierry Henry, Xavi and Andres Iniesta, each of them are good at passing, leading and shooting. Such as Messi and Henry. Dribbling past two or three people is as normal as eating and drinking. How can such an attacking lineup be able to withstand without blocking it with at least 7 or 8 defenders?

There are only 11 players on a team on the pitch. Aside from the goalkeeper, you take 7 or 8 people to defend, how many people can go into the attack?

In fact, although Arsenal have been trying to fight back against Barcelona, the only player left in front of them is Bendtner, and even Van Persie and Nasri have to retreat to defend near the halfway line.

So when they saw Descartes on the pitch, Barcelona's players were all on high alert, but their tactical play did not change in any way, and they still chose the venue for the decisive battle in Arsenal's half, ready to use the high intensity of the whole field to suppress and abolish Arsenal's attack.

Descartes and Wenger saw this very clearly off the field, so the purpose of his play was not to assist Van Persie and others in the midfield to "defend", he directly stood between Barcelona's back lines, and Pique, Yaya. Toure and the others stood in a straight line.

Is this to play against offside? As a first-class defender who has been in the sand city for a long time, Pique and others' first reaction is like this, Descartes's position is simply towards the tactic of anti-offside, which is like hitting a snake to seven inches, and hitting it is also Barcelona's weakness.

Pep Guardiola's Barcelona is full of offense and defense, fluent in passing and cutting, unparalleled in ball control, and is also praised for its defense, which is sought after by many professionals.

After systematic research, many people have found that a large part of the reason for the success of Barcelona's tactics is that they are very particular about their positioning.

In Pep Guardiola's Barcelona, the two adjacent players almost never stand more than 15 metres between each other, and the farthest distance between their front and back pitches is never more than 60 metres in the squad as a whole, and the defenders never stay in their own box when the front players break into the opposition's penalty area, they spend most of their time in the half, as follow-up support, and sometimes even rush up to participate directly in the attack.

The reason for this position has to mention the tactic of pressing in the high position. The so-called high pressing, is not to say that the front-court players chase the ball to run dozens of hundreds of meters so simple, it is actually a kind of systematic engineering, the players who strike each other are very close to each other, which is not only conducive to their offensive passing and cutting cooperation, in fact, it is also more conducive to them to organize the siege on the spot after losing the ball, which players counter-rob, which players block the ball route, this is all exquisite, the more players around the ball, the greater the chance of breaking off the opponent's ball, everyone understands this truth, As a result, Barcelona's formation is always very close to each other, which is a big reason why they always come back immediately after conceding a goal.

The number of players on the pitch is always limited, in order to form such a tight position, it is necessary to compress the formation, in addition to the goalkeeper, the remaining 10 players are distributed in this area with a length of 60 meters and a width of 65 to 68 meters, which is actually a maximum limit that can be dispersed.

So what is the most feared thing about Barcelona's formation? It's not the kind of team that passes the ball accurately and organizes the attack in an orderly manner, but the kind of chaos master who defends well, but counterattacks are very fast and sharp. Among Barcelona's enemies, Uncle Bird was the first person to say this, and he dared to say in front of the media that "Barcelona have never beaten us in 11 against 11", which is not because he is boasting, but because he has a good record in dealing with Barcelona's all-out attack and defense tactics.

Jose Mourinho's first season at Chelsea saw Barcelona in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. The total score of the two games was 5:4, Chelsea lost 1-2 on the road, only to return home to a classic defensive counter-attack to defeat Barcelona 4-2, allowing Rijkaard's "Dream II" to take off and suffer a heavy blow. Since then, whether it is in Inter Milan or Real Madrid, Uncle Bird has been known as the leader of the earthlings to resist the "Cosmos Team", and his Inter Milan 3 back formation eliminated Barcelona to win the European Champions Cup, which is considered to be a "classic textbook for defensive counterattacks", and the trick he used was to find ways to defend strictly, and then use lightning counterattacks to sneak attack.

To talk about the "lightning counterattack". What other counterattack in the world is faster than the "anti-offside" move? Stand on the same level at the back. As long as the player at the back can drive the ball over the head of the opposing defender, he will have the opportunity to make a single shot or even score at any time!

This tactic, although the success rate is extremely low, can be called simple and crude without technical content. But it only takes one success. will bring disaster to the other party.

If it's a team that's solid defensively. Build the defence on the edge of the penalty area, and there is a goalkeeper behind you at all times, so you don't have to be afraid of this tactic. But like Barcelona, in order to maintain a complete formation, the whole team is almost pressed to the half, and if it is attacked once or twice, it is really painful and fearful.

So we must say that Descartes's position is very "thief", he hasn't even taken the ball, it has already made Barcelona's defenders highly nervous, if it is so deadlocked, then in case the opponent kicks the ball to the backfield ......, but if the defense line retreats and maintains the position advantage of Descartes, then the support for the front is bound to be reduced, and the overall pressure is missing, and the Arsenal players will naturally be liberated, at least not as they are now.

Descartes' appearance looked the same as usual, and even most football commentators didn't notice the mystery, but Guardiola on the sidelines shook his head helplessly, and then he waved his hand lightly, signaling the Barcelona players on the field to retreat moderately to avoid the embarrassing scene of being hit by a kick. Maybe at this time, Guardiola is also thinking, this is the same as two masters, my side has obviously danced the long sword so impenetrable that the other party can't breathe, but the other party only used a very insidious trick to flirt with his yin feet, and I was so scared that I jumped away without delay, which is really ...... Masters!

Barcelona's "inexplicable" retreat made many commentators on the sidelines shout that they couldn't understand it, and even some commentators attributed this to Descartes' "deterrence", but many famous coaches who paid attention to this game saw that Descartes's ball quotient was really the "commander" on the field, and he made Barcelona retreat as a whole with a random position, this kind of insight is not even estimated by the coaches of many teams.

At this moment, Lippi sitting on the pitch, Mourinho, Ferguson and others sitting quietly in front of the TV screen have already flashed dazzling sparks in their eyes, and such a player is enough to comfort his life.

It's just that although Descartes' little tricks scared Barcelona away, they didn't help Arsenal regain the dominant situation on the field, because Barcelona is Barcelona after all, even if they take a step back, the speed of Henry and Messi, Eto'o and others still exists, Arsenal does not dare to easily press out, they just become a little easier in the midfield, and they can launch some counterattacks after slowly organizing.

However, compared with Barcelona's organized high pressing, Arsenal's stragglers' front-court counter-attacks are not at all, and most of the time, they are still bombarded indiscriminately in their own half, and if it weren't for the excellent performance of Vermaelen and Almunia and others, they might have conceded again in the first half.

Seven or eight minutes passed quickly, and when the referee blew the whistle at half-time, many spectators were still unsatisfied, while most of the Arsenal players felt a big sigh of relief, and some even let out heavy gasps, which showed how much pressure they were under in the first half.

Although Barcelona had not yet been crowned "Team Cosmos" for winning the Six-Crown, they are now on this path, and it can be said that this season is the peak of Barcelona's, and the pressure they bring to all enemies is not easy to resolve.

Wenger, who returned to the dressing room, also noticed this abnormal state of the players, and his brow furrowed deeply. Then after a while, he gave a vigorous mobilization speech, but after speaking, even Wenger did not have much confidence, went to the tactical board, and drew some tactical adjustments that he thought of before midfield.

In fact, with the overall strength of his opponents not as good as his opponents, Wenger does not have much to do to solve the current predicament, and the only thing he can rely on now is the wonderful performance of his players, especially Descartes. This is a player who can be trusted more and more when it comes to crunch time. On a number of occasions this season, he has helped the team to salvage and even overtake the scoreline when he has fallen behind or in unfavourable situations, and at times, even Arsene Wenger felt that he was doing better than he could have imagined.

In a situation where there is no way to turn the situation back with tactics. Arsene Wenger can only put his hopes on Descartes and the rest of Arsenal's players.

The 15 minutes of the break passed quickly. At the urging of the staff. A group of Arsenal players once again walked out of the tunnel with excitement but a little apprehension.

The crowd on the sidelines of the stadium was still enthusiastic, especially when Descartes appeared, and hundreds of thousands of people erupted in earth-shattering cheers. Unlike Messi, Descartes was a true Italian, with a neutral Italian crowd of at least 80,000 who had already cheered for him once when he came on the pitch, but after he came on in the second half, the fans couldn't help but cheer him on again.

This huge noise makes the Stadio Olimpico look like Arsenal's home stadium, and many media expected this before the game, so in this Champions League final, many people will call this Arsenal's home stadium, thinking that they will get the same advantage here as a home stadium, because they have an authentic Italian star in their team, which is definitely an important condition for the fans to turn against them.

It's a pity that although Arsenal has the support of most fans, their performance has made the outside world feel somewhat disappointed, although they do not lack the courage to attack against Barcelona, but in the overall tactical design and organization, they obviously still have a certain gap with the opponent.

After all, Barcelona has been playing possession for decades since the era of Michel Cruyff's master and apprentice, and Arsenal has only transformed from the "Iron Division" under Graham to the most gorgeous team in the Premier League after the arrival of Arsene Wenger, and their heritage and tradition are still a little behind Barcelona.

More importantly, Barcelona's decades-long tradition has only blossomed today, Rijkaard taught Barcelona how to use possession to control the situation, and Guardiola blended the team's offense and defense on this basis, making the entire Barcelona team more balanced in attack and defense, this change is not a day's work, even Rijkaard, he is not the one who laid the foundation, he just stood on the shoulders of his predecessors to complete the qualitative change, and really made Barcelona to today, It's more due to their insistence on youth training and the tradition of the whole club.

On the other hand, on the Arsenal side, Wenger's vision is impeccable, but his tactics have never been able to give people a clarity, Wenger also plays possession, but his possession is affected by the overall atmosphere of the Premier League, and some details are somewhat ignored in the gorgeous, his team pursues smooth coordination and the use of personal skills, but in the front of the opponent's penalty area, he does not have a clear and complete shooting arrangement, and the media in England often say that Arsenal's players are keen to "pass the ball into the opponent's goal", This is both a compliment to Arsenal's overall technical excellence, but it is also a mockery of their lack of means of shooting.

When Henry was there, Arsenal's goalmouth strike could still be completed by Henry, but after Henry left, although Adebayor also scored 23 goals in the league, but the entire Arsenal team only scored 64 goals in the league that season, 14 fewer than Manchester United in the first place.

You know, no one has ever said that Manchester United's attack is "gorgeous".

This is the difference between Ferguson and Arsene Wenger, although he is older, he is actually a pragmatist, his team is always looking for victory, whether it is offensive or defensive, as long as it can help the team win, he does not mind using any tactics; But Arsene Wenger is more of an idealist, he is not only looking for victory, but also perfection, and he always wants his team to dominate not only in terms of results, but also on the pitch, so his team sometimes plays beautifully. But they often don't win, and Ferguson's side play ugly at times but always get satisfactory results.

In the past few seasons, also by Chelsea, Manchester United was able to quickly come out of the slump and regain three consecutive titles, but Arsenal has been in a slump, even with a large number of players in the transfer market, they still have not been able to regain a title, I have to say. This is the triumph of the utilitarians.

Now in the Champions League. Encountering Barcelona, who are also good at possession and have better skills than themselves, Arsenal has the feeling of meeting a nemesis, turning and cutting. They are not necessarily more skilled than Barça; Wheel organization. They are also not as tight as Pep Guardiola's team; On the stars. Arsenal have Descartes and Barcelona also have Messi, both of whom are top players who are barely able to defend. The situation can only be the one with the upper hand in overall strength.

So after coming to the second half, people originally thought that Arsenal would cheer up a little and no longer be beaten in the half like in the first half, but the game was just a few minutes into the game, and the situation returned to the same situation in the first half: Barcelona attacked, Arsenal defended.

Barcelona's marking of Descartes is not tight, to be realistic, they estimate that they may be the most "loose" team against Descartes in the past year, they don't even have anyone to mark Descartes who constantly runs in the front court to ask for the ball, but even so, Guardiola's suppression tactics have been a huge success, Descartes simply does not have many opportunities to get the ball, even if he gets the ball, because there are too few frontcourt receivers and fall into Barcelona's heavy surrounding.

When Descartes gets the ball, the Barcelona players will not be polite to him, kick when they should kick, kick when they should kick, although the Barcelona players often chant "to protect the technical players", but in fact they have never been polite to the technical players, their small actions are no cleaner than those so-called "dirty" teams, and they have also added acting lessons to football games, and the difficult technique of "defensive fake falls" is the first created by the great Prussian team.

In the quarterfinals of the Champions League in the 2011-2012 season, Puyol was in Barcelona when he took a corner kick, suddenly "tripped" out of thin air, and then fell on Nesta, Nesta turned around and hit Xavi in order to avoid him, and then Xavi rushed to the referee like crazy to ask for a penalty, as a result, Barcelona reversed Milan 3:2 away and advanced to the Champions League semifinals.

After the game, the media was arguing about whether Nesta had committed a foul or not, but what I focused on was the team's miraculous fall, when he didn't have any Milan players around him, Nesta was still diagonally behind him, but he suddenly screamed and staggered backwards, I doubt that if Nesta hadn't hit Xavi at that time, he would have been the first to run to the referee to ask for a penalty.

To be honest, this ball made my senses of the general team drop a lot, and I used to think that he was a real man, the only hard-core student in the Barcelona Film and Television Academy, but after that, ...... I can't believe in love anymore......

Compared with Barcelona's team that says one thing and says another, Descartes is indeed too pure and naïve, he is often surrounded by several defenders after getting the ball, in this case, even if he is Pele, he may not be able to get rid of it, not to mention that his speed is not excellent, and long-distance breakthroughs are not his strong point, so most of the time, the picture he appears in front of the camera is surrounded and made mistakes, which basically does not bring much help to Arsenal.

This predicament disappointed the Italian fans on the sidelines, and also made Descartes himself feel very disappointed, in his plan, this game should not be like this, this should be a fierce game like Mars hitting the earth, the two teams go back and forth, each other has offense and defense, and finally it is up to you to decide the situation, but the game is played to this part, Arsenal has been completely suppressed by Barcelona, not to mention the decision, it is not easy to hold the ball steadily.

Barcelona's formation doesn't seem to be specially designed for him, but when there are only two kittens left in the front court, Van Persie, the other party has actually made the best defense against him.

Descartes himself understands that if things are allowed to develop like this, then Arsenal will definitely die in the end, don't look at Barcelona now only leading by one goal, but their attack is like a storm, Arsenal's defense looks crumbling at any time, maybe when their city will fall again, if not before this change, this game is basically over.

The problem now is that they don't have any chance to get the ball in the front court, if they want to retreat to the midfield to get the ball, that's better, the Barcelona players are afraid that they can't be upset, they just take advantage of the situation to bring up the formation, so that more players involved in the attack, maybe Arsenal will not be able to hold on to collapse first.

After thinking about it, Descartes suddenly came up with a solution, he turned Walcotra over, muttered to him for a while, and then the two of them went back to the game.

When they came back this time, everyone noticed that Arsenal's formation had changed slightly, with Descartes standing in the right midfield position and Theo Walcott, who was in front of Barcelona's defence!

It was obviously a premeditated change, Walcoat appeared in the striker position, it was obvious that he was ready to use his speed to counterattack, Walcott's time of 9.7 seconds in the 100m was not blown, any team must be wary of his speed, but now the question is, how can Arsenal get the ball at his feet? (To be continued......)