Chapter Seventy-Three: Monolithic

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At the beginning of the second half of the game, Chu Zhongtian found himself being the target of everyone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

Barcelona have been fighting with him both offensively and defensively. When they were defending, they kept Butzques close to each other, while Xavi, Andres Iniesta, or Piquee and others were interfering and waiting for an opportunity. In the offense, it is to break through Chu Zhongtian in turn.

Although Chu Zhongtian is a forward midfielder, in defense, he will still actively return to his penalty area, basically looking like a back midfielder. If he doesn't defend like Mesut Ozil, then what's the point of Mourinho making him a defensive striker?

However, what made Chu Zhongtian puzzled was that he had warned them in the first half, and it was impossible to open a breakthrough from himself, why did Barcelona still do this tirelessly in the second half? They had already relented in the first half after being warned, could it be that Guardiola asked them to do so at half-time?

If that's really the case...... Chu Zhongtian shook his head, he felt that Guardiola was underestimating himself too much.

I've fought with myself three times, and he still doesn't know what kind of person he is?

Well, then continue to tell him what kind of person he is - anyone who dares to underestimate me and anger me will have the privilege of knowing what kind of person I am.

※※※However, Barcelona's tactics of taking turns to attack Chu Zhongtian are not the same as in the first half, Barcelona's approach in the first half is spontaneous by the players, with some traces of fighting alone, and the sense of cooperation is not strong enough. This is also the reason why Butzks' football was stabbed by Chu Zhongtian.

Maybe Pep Guardiola thinks that as long as he strengthens cooperation, he can open a breakthrough from Chu Zhongtian...... Anyway, after the second half, Barcelona obviously strengthened the offensive cooperation against Chu Zhongtian. Barcelona are good at passing in small areas within five to ten metres, and two or three people in a small space can often create forward opportunities with quick passes and a single kick to turn defenders around.

That's the strength of Barcelona and what makes defenders uncomfortable.

So will Chu Zhongtian feel uncomfortable about this?

If Chu Zhongtian faced the quick pass of three Barcelona players in the midfield alone, unless he was a god, he could not do anything.

Defense is not just relying on the courage of the puppet to single-handedly pick up the opponent's entire team, which Chu Zhongtian has long been deeply aware of. When he played for the international student team at Wimbledon, no matter how hard he worked alone, he was played by Borger and Russell. Later, he was in Hoffenheim, the Champions League final met Barcelona, also at the last moment, Barcelona played their ball control to the fullest, Chu Zhongtian if he went up to steal alone, he was used as a monkey to play, fortunately this time he had a group of equally good teammates around him, helped him break Barcelona's ball, and finally completed the equalizer goal.

Therefore, one person cannot defend Barcelona's pass in any way, only by relying on teammates or compressing them in space.

Therefore, Chu Zhongtian will never defend too closely against Barcelona's attack near the center circle, he will choose to fight and retreat back to the midfield position, just in front of Alonso and Khedira, maintaining a very suitable distance, not too far. In this way, when he stepped forward to steal, he was protected by Alonso and Khedira behind him, so that the back door would not be wide open and the opponent would enter easily.

In this way, his defense can be distracted.

To be honest, don't look at Chu Zhongtian's dominance in defending Xavi in the first half, in fact, Chu Zhongtian's pressure is also quite large. He's never been so tired in a game, and that's all because of Xavi, the best midfielder in the world. If you want to defend him, how can you not use all your skills?

Despite this, Chu Zhongtian was still undaunted.

He wants Pep Guardiola to know how outrageous his adjustment was in the second half.

※※※ Iniesta gave the football to Xavi, and Chu Zhongtian did not rush directly to break the ball, just like in the first half. This time, he chose to keep a very suitable distance, so that Xavi could not easily break through, and at the same time, he could block most of the passing lines, so that Xavi could choose very few passing lines, and was limited by Chu Zhongtian to a controllable range.

Xavi obviously also noticed that Chu Zhongtian's choice of defensive position was very particular, because there were really few passing routes in front of him, and he didn't dare to break through with the ball rashly, he knew that as long as he took the football out, then the football would be cut off by Chu Zhongtian before he touched the ball next time. This is very evident in Messi, Xavi has a lot of memory.

Xavi eventually passed the ball to Butzkes, who was plugged in behind.

Butzques is the link between the team's attack and defence, and his role is also quite important. Pep Guardiola saw this and let him dominate the attack.

Chu Zhongtian didn't know what Guardiola said to his men at halftime, but "Butzques is a very threatening figure" doesn't need to be told to him.

He pounced on Butzkes almost without hesitation, and as for Xavi behind him? Behind him is not only Harvey, but also his teammates!

Butzkes saw Chu Zhongtian rushing towards him, and hurriedly poked out the football he had just received.

In the first half, it was his dribbling that allowed Chu Zhongtian to break the ball successfully, played a counterattack, and almost scored. This time, he learned to be obedient, and instead of going head-to-head with Chu Zhongtian, he chose to pass the ball. Barcelona are unbeatable in their passing from a small area, and he doesn't believe they can concede a goal.

In fact, his football was also passed to Xavi, and after passing the ball, he ran forward on his own, so that Xavi could play a one-two with him, and he could also attract Real Madrid's defensive attention and create space for the rest of his team-mates.

Chu Zhongtian quickly turned around and ran back at the same time as he passed. He ran towards Harvey, pointing his hand at Butzkes on the other side, and he shouted at Khedira, "Defend him!" ”

That means Harvey, I'm coming.

Xavi saw Khedira in front of him suddenly dodge a void, obviously attracted by the back-inserted Butzkes, this was a great opportunity for him to break through!

But just as he was about to get the football out, he stumbled under his feet! He kicked a foot!

"It's Chu!"

"Shovel people in the back!"

"Wrong! It's tackle! ”

"It's a tackle! Clean tackle! Chu Zhongtian tackled the ball first! He's going to be down too fast! Harvey didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to reappear by his side so soon and make a decisive tackle defense! Pretty! ”

Harvey fell down with doubts, and he turned around to see Chu Zhongtian who was climbing up.

What about football?

He had already been shoveled out by Chu Zhongtian...... The Bernabeu stadium resounded with a loud cheer that was deafening and could stop the beating of the heart for a while.

Of course, the loud noise was drowned out by the angry roar of the Barcelona fans: "Foul ......"

Xavi was planted on the ground and still raised his hand to avenge the referee, but the referee ignored it, turned around and ran towards the half of Barcelona - just now Chu Zhongtian broke a shovel and shoveled the football to the feet of Alonso, and Real Madrid just played a counterattack!

Xavi couldn't understand why Chu Zhongtian was able to return to his side so quickly and make a tackle.

In fact, this is the reason why Chu Zhongtian wants to compress the space of Barcelona with his teammates - when the space becomes narrow, the passing accuracy of the players is higher, which is equivalent to increasing the difficulty of Barcelona's passing, and at the same time, the space is smaller, which also makes his replay need to run less distance, and the return defense is easier and faster. This is the reason why Chu Zhongtian can quickly chase back and tackle the ball immediately. It's not subtle and clever at all, but where do you get so many subtleties and tricks on the football field? Many seemingly inconspicuous and simple things can often play a decisive role.

Chu Zhongtian's defense is like this, this is not definitely not the strangulation of the "Real Madrid muscles" against the "Barcelona artists" promoted by the media, but it returns to reflect Chu Zhongtian's defensive wisdom, cleverly set up the game, and quietly compressed the space when the Barcelona players did not notice, and finally caused this successful defense.

Although Real Madrid's counter-attack did not result in a goal in the end, it still won the cheers of Real Madrid fans in the stands.

And Chu Zhongtian's name was naturally mentioned repeatedly by the commentators again.

The Madrid commentator thinks that Chu Zhongtian's defense is very beautiful, while the Catalan commentator is still entangled in whether this is a foul, and Chu Zhongtian's tackle seems to add a "criminal evidence" to "Real Madrid was taken care of by the referee at their home stadium".

But this can't change the reality that Chu Zhongtian just successfully prevented a small-scale transmission that Barcelona is best at.

※※※Barcelona is still tirelessly attacking Chu Zhongtian, and they seem to recognize Chu Zhongtian as a breakthrough here.

According to common sense, this is the case, but in Chu Zhongtian, common sense usually does not work.

And Chu Zhongtian felt that Guardiola's arrangement was quite appetizing to his own appetite - this time he was rushing all over the field to find Barcelona's players with the ball to defend more efficiently and more conveniently. Most of the time, he just had to stand here and wait for the other person to come to the door.

Xavi has planted a head in him, and so far Xavi has not played well, as Barcelona's midfield commander, he has not played at all in this game so far, and has not contributed any wonderful passes to the team's attack, and Barcelona has not had any shooting opportunities that can threaten the Real Madrid goal so far, which is related to his slump in the midfield.

Chu Zhongtian's defense against Xavi was very successful.

However, Pep Guardiola doesn't care if Xavi's form is sluggish, and it was Butzques who dominated Barcelona's attack in the second half.

It's a pity that Butzques didn't have time to show his offensive talent just now, and Xavi was cut off by Chu Zhongtian.

Despite this, Pep Guardiola has stuck with this style of play, with Barcelona playing with maturity and few changes to offer. Butzkes: That's a change.

Because Xavi was frozen by Chu Zhongtian, Messi's performance was not satisfactory. Although Iniesta is still working hard, he is relatively close and cannot take on the responsibility of organizing the whole team's attack.

Now the problem for Real Madrid is that as long as they can solve Butzks, the game is over.

Villa, Pedro and Messi are no threat without midfield support, Villa is almost gone, Pedro has a relatively low one-on-one success rate, and there is no way to take the fierce Ramos.

As for Messi? Although his dribbling is still sharp, his threat is greatly reduced by being pushed away from the goal by Real Madrid's backline, and he can only choose to pass after the breakthrough, and Pedro and Villa are not in shape and waste his passing, so Messi is even less threatening.

There are quite a few teams who believe that if they want to beat Barcelona, they must contain Messi. The idea itself is good, but in terms of how to contain Messi, their understanding is not the same as Mourinho, Mourinho did not simply let two or three people to surround Messi, his approach is to solve the problem at the root - freeze Xavi and Iniesta, cut off the connection between the two of them and Messi, and then besiege Messi, naturally there is no problem.

Jose Mourinho has also spotted the problem of Buzques replacing Xavi. But he can't simply let Chu Zhongtian throw Harvey to defend Butzkes simply because Harvey is no longer a threat, you must know that Harvey is not a threat because Chu Zhongtian does not relax his restrictions on him at any time, if he really does this, I believe that Harvey will definitely regain his vitality.

So how do you limit Butzx?

Mourinho's strategy is to ignore him at all, as long as Real Madrid hold the line, keep the formation intact, and then compress the space, Butzques can only advance to an area of more than 30 meters from the goal at most, and then it will be difficult to move an inch if he wants to go inside.

With Butzques going forward, Barcelona's backline will also press forward, with Piquee already pushing past the centre circle and Real Madrid building an impregnable wall in the 30-metre zone.

The two teams' defenses were only fifteen meters apart, but in such a small space, nearly twenty players were crammed in, and all eyes could see legs. Such a small space is a test and a disaster for Barcelona, not to mention that these legs are not stationary, they are full of aggression, they are rough and reckless in defence, and they are on the verge of fouling and not fouling, and it is really difficult to organize an attack in such a situation and find holes in Real Madrid's backline.

If Barcelona's attack has the ability to drip, then Real Madrid is an iron plate, not a stone.

At the Bernabeu, in front of the most discerning fans, Mourinho openly used the tactics that Real Madrid fans disdain the most to deal with their sworn rival Barcelona, but unexpectedly, no one on the scene booed the "conservative and negative" Mourinho, but sang "Jose. Mourinho's brother" ...... This puzzled the Catalan commentators. Before the game, Cruyff also posted that he expects Real Madrid to return to the Michel era and return to the era of playing beautiful football, because as a giant club with tens of millions of fans around the world, it is not only satisfied with bringing victory to supporters, but also shouldering the responsibility of promoting the good side of football.

He also said that all Real Madrid fans are eager to be able to use attacking football against Barcelona in their home stadium, rather than having to choose Mourinho's defensive counter-attacking tactics...... These paintings are quite inflammatory, and on the surface it looks like he is praising Real Madrid and its glorious past, but in fact it is just sowing discord. Because he knows what kind of manager Jose Mourinho is, he hopes that through these words, Real Madrid fans will be disgusted with Mourinho.

However, judging from the current atmosphere on the scene, his wishful thinking did not succeed...... Mourinho's position at the Bernabeu is unassailable. I am afraid that if Fiorentino wants to fire Mourinho after the end of the season, it will cause protests and demonstrations from fans...... Not to mention the Real Madrid players who are sworn to follow Mourinho.

Real Madrid is really united nowadays, and there has never been such internal unity as now.

Three years without a title have deeply stung the players of Real Madrid, and now they are like hungry lions, full of hunger for victory and glory.

Not only the players of Real Madrid, but also the senior management and fans of Real Madrid, since Mourinho fulfilled Fiorentino's wish and was poured five goals in the attack between Camp Nou and Barcelona, there has been no voice from the club's hierarchy that is similar to "I think Real Madrid should play a little prettier".

In the past, Real Madrid's home stadium would always boo their players, which used to make Real Madrid's players unable to withstand the pressure of playing at home and refused to play. But today, there is no such problem. Real Madrid fans have a strong obsession with beating Barcelona, as long as they can pull down the invincible Barcelona in the universe, they don't mind whether to counterattack with defense or go all-in!

In such an atmosphere, Barcelona is feeling a lot of pressure...... Since the 36th round of the league in the 07-08 season, Barcelona lost 1:4 to Real Madrid, who won the championship in advance, at the Bernabeu, Barcelona has never lost to Real Madrid away in the league. So before the game, there were a lot of people who felt that they could still beat Real Madrid here.

Now it seems that it may not be as they hoped...... ※※※ Butzques once again rushed up under the cover of Xavi and Iniesta. Previously, Andres Iniesta and Xavi played a succession of passes, which attracted the attention of the Real Madrid players, and everyone thought that they would send the football to the front with such continuous passes.

Unexpectedly, Xavi passed the football with his heel to Butzkes, who was plugged in behind.

But just when Butzkes bypassed Xavi and received the ball, he also saw Chu Zhongtian in front of him!

China's moving walls were as if they had never been moved in the first place, and Butzkes slammed on the brakes and turned around to protect the football...... The football was protected, but the voids and opportunities that Xavi and Iniesta had not easily created before were all gone with his turn......

(To be continued)