Chapter 309: The First Attack
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Chu Zhongtian regarded calmly passing Villa as a provocation to Barcelona, a letter of war. How could the proud and sensitive Barcelona not feel www.biquge.info pen, fun, and pavilion?
The same thought crossed their minds at the same time - Guardiola was right, this man was Hoffenheim's heart, and if he got it, he would get Hoffenheim. This could be their most relaxed Champions League final, as they will face not the whole Hoffenheim team, but a Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian quickly confronted Butzks.
After the football fell in the middle of the back line, it returned to Chu Zhongtian's feet. At this time, Chu Zhongtian was already in the middle circle, and Butzkes unceremoniously posted it.
Chu Zhongtian was not confused by Butzks's pressing, he turned his back to protect the football, stretched out his hand to support Butzks, and then passed the football out.
Everyone originally expected him to pass Butzkes again, but Chu Zhongtian didn't do it. In the beginning, I did this because it was to create an atmosphere and boost morale. There's no need to be a hero now, it's better to be calm and practical.
After passing the ball, Chu Zhongtian ran to other places and widened the distance between him and Butzks. Butzques did not follow, he is the only player in the Barcelona midfield who can defend, if he rushes out without permission and loses his position, Barcelona's back line will directly face the impact of the opposing attacking players, once that situation occurs, it can only mean that his midfielder is derelict in his duties.
So seeing that Chu Zhongtian ran to other positions, he also returned to his position.
Anyway, Chu Zhongtian has other Barcelona players to deal with.
Chu Zhongtian had heard of Buzques' name for a long time, but it was because of last season's Champions League semi-finals, when Barcelona hosted Inter Milan. At that time, in the scramble with Inter Milan midfielder Motta, he suddenly covered his face and fell to the ground, looking injured, but the slow motion showed that Motta reached back while protecting the ball, and only touched Buzkes's chest, which was not a wave of action at all, but because of Butzkes's realistic acting skills, Motta was sent off with a red card, which also made what was originally a close and exciting game become a half-court offensive and defensive battle between Barcelona and Inter Milan. After the game, everyone said that the game was extremely ugly and that Inter Milan's performance was a step backwards for football. However, no one wondered why Mourinho suddenly changed his tactics and couldn't hold on...... One of the most amazing performances of Butzques in that match was when he was rolling on the ground, not forgetting the shot of the referee peeking through his fingers to see if the referee had a card. Not much attention was paid at the time, but soon a British broadcaster replayed the footage during the match and he really became famous.
Chu Zhongtian watched the game at the time and was very impressed by this scene. Because he himself hated to cheat to win the game, he remembered it very well.
On the Chinese Internet, there are many fans who hate Barcelona and jokingly call La Masia, where Butzquez was born, "La Masia Film and Television Academy", and Butzquez has also won the title of "actor". After that, as long as Butzques is mentioned, most people say the actor, not his name, just like everyone says Cristiano. Ronaldo is called "diving Luo".
This practice of peeking through the fingers of the referee was soon inherited. At the World Cup, this time Kaka became a victim. In the match between Brazil and Ivory Coast, Kaka waved his hand backwards and hit the chest of Ivory Coast's Keita as he ran forward with the ball, and Keita immediately covered his face and fell exaggeratedly, while not letting and looking through his fingers to see if the referee had carded Kaka.
In order to prevent Butzkes from dealing with himself like this in this game, Chu Zhongtian paid attention to his hand movements, and absolutely could not give the other party the slightest handle that could be used.
Just now, Butzques slammed him in the back, and he just put his arms up, and didn't swing it, so that the opponent had nothing to do - in such a state, he covered his face and fell down, he was challenging the referee's IQ...... Although there is a stain on the fake fall acting, it cannot be denied that Butzques is an excellent player. His presence can largely be said to be the cornerstone of Barcelona's glory in recent years. In a sense, he is somewhat similar to Chu Zhongtian, both are characters in the midfield, he was born in the La Masia academy and has excellent ball handling skills, and when the football falls to his feet, he will not easily lose it, which brings stability to Barcelona's attack. In addition, he has excellent long passing and big picture vision and can launch attacks. He is also excellent in interception and can protect Xavi and Iniesta.
Pep Guardiola has a high opinion of the midfielder, even calling him the successor to Puyol and Xavi as the future leader of Barcelona. At the beginning of this year, FC Barcelona just renewed his contract with him, and the contract was renewed until 2016, with a contract break fee of up to 150 million euros!
He is also an indispensable figure in the Spanish national team, and he was one of the key contributors to the Spanish national team's World Cup victory.
Such an outstanding player is Chu Zhongtian's opponent in today's game.
Although he despised Butzx's deceptive behavior, Chu Zhongtian had to admit that Buzkes was very strong, and he had the ability to cause some small trouble for himself in the game. You can't take it lightly and let your guard down.
Why is it a minor nuisance? Because in Chu Zhongtian's opinion, Butzkes is not too much of a threat, and it can be seen from his running position that once he retreats to the halfcourt, Buzques will not follow. This has to do with Barcelona's formation and tactical style, Barcelona is 433, only one of the three midfielders is Butzques has defensive ability, Xavi and Andres Iniesta's defense is mostly just a show. So his only midfielder is very important, and all the qualities of the midfielder are the most important, once he leaves his position without authorization, it may bring disaster to the team, so Buzques is destined to only interfere with himself in a limited area, and he is not a player who will be fixed in a certain place, so he is not too worried about Buzkes.
He wasn't worried about Barcelona's defense, he was worried about Barcelona's attack.
Compared to the defence, Barcelona's attack is more formidable, and any one of them is capable of solving a game on their own, which adds up to a more terrifying combination. Nearly half of Barcelona's games this season have been played in the first 30 minutes, with the rest of the game looking like it was redundant. It is necessary to pay special attention to Barcelona's blitzkrieg ability, so Chu Zhongtian is coming to the tee-off, just hoping that he can grasp a little more initiative in the game at the beginning of the game.
In addition, Barcelona's attacking squad is so strong that many of their games have been won by big scores, with 16 games in which they have scored more than five goals this season, 15 last season and 17 last season. Before the game, some experts believed that Barcelona would beat Hoffenheim by a big score in this game, maybe 3:0, maybe 4:0, maybe 5:0, or even more.
It's not about looking down on Hoffenheim, it's about having enough faith in Barcelona.
The first key to beating Barcelona is to never concede a goal in the first 30 minutes of the game.
Hoffenheim is not good at defense, even if they all shrink back to defend, they can't withstand Barcelona's offensive frenzy for 30 minutes, so Chu Zhongtian believes that the team should attack, replace defense with offense, and use their equally sharp attacks to suppress Barcelona's attack, forcing Barcelona to switch to defense, rather than letting them rein in their own half.
This point was jointly researched by Chu Zhongtian and Rangnick, and then it was deployed to the team in the pre-match training, and everyone knew that they were going to attack at the beginning of the game, keep attacking, attacking all the time, attacking and attacking, in addition to attacking or attacking, in order to put pressure on Barcelona.
Barcelona are used to controlling the rhythm of the game, so don't let them find the rhythm of this game.
Control the pace?
Chu Zhongtian is very good at it.
※※※ Chu Zhongtian re-received the football in the backfield, at this time a minute and a half has passed since the start of the game, and the football has been controlled by Hoffenheim at his feet, but they did not launch even one offensive, and the football is more often in the second half, without the intention of going forward. The closest thing he came to moving forward was when Chu Zhongtian had just taken two steps forward after opening the game past Villa, but under Pedro's pressure, he immediately passed the ball back.
Will football just go around in the back this time?
Chu Zhongtian, who was holding the football, was in the backfield, although it was in the backfield, it was not safe. Pedro was right away from him.
That's what sets Barcelona apart from most other teams - in the opposition half, Barcelona will press aggressively, and definitely not one person, but several people. The first person comes up to be responsible for entanglement of the player with the ball, and then more people come up to surround the opponent in the middle, take advantage of the local number advantage, grab the ball, launch a counterattack on the spot, and the two-to-three passes between the three people can open up the situation.
Now Chu Zhongtian is like an extra-large magnet, attracting Pedro and Villa.
Pedro was almost close, just when he thought he could catch the other party, Chu Zhongtian ran forward violently, and then looked at his feet, where is there any football?!
Chu Zhongtian knocked the football to Srna not far away with a small movement that was not too eye-catching before running, which happened to be out of the blind spot that Pedro was observing, so he didn't see it at all.
When he realized that the football was not at Chu Zhongtian's feet, he hesitated, and then pounced on Srna.
How could Srna wait to be entangled by him? directly sent the football forward and gave it to Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian broke into the midfield with a football. Iniesta and Buzques rushed up.
Chu Zhongtian did not turn around and pass the ball back under the interception of the two midfielders this time, he flicked the outside of his right foot with the instep of his right foot during the run, handed the football to Quaresma, who was receiving him on the sideline, and then continued to run forward, and at the same time raised his hand to signal Quaresma to pass the football over.
Two over one!
Such an obvious idea of cooperation can be seen by a fool, let alone Buzkes. He immediately followed Chu Zhongtian and retreated, and Iniesta was also shaken by Chu Zhongtian's hand, and he didn't defend Quaresma at the first time.
Quaresma saw two fingers sticking out of Chu Zhongtian's raised hand, he knew that this was a fake two-one-one, and his obvious move was just to help himself attract the opponent's defensive attention, so as to create an opportunity for his breakthrough.
So I took the football out and broke through!
Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, Quaresma rushed forward. His task is very simple, which is to push forward with the football, as far as he can, and use such a simple and crude breakthrough to press the opponent and force the opponent to defend.
If you can't break through...... It's also very simple, pass the football out. It is absolutely impossible to break through, and it is necessary to forcibly break through.
Rangnick repeatedly reminded his players before the game not to be brutal. Because once they lose possession, Hoffenheim's backline will face a very dangerous situation, and Barcelona can control the football at their feet and they can regain the initiative.
In fact, this game will be very tiring for the Hoffenheim players led by Chu Zhongtian, in order not to let Barcelona control the situation, they must always keep the game in a high-tempo and high-confrontation state, but it is very, very tiring to play like this consistently. That's why many teams can hold down the big teams at the beginning of the game by relying on aggressive scrambling, but they can quickly collapse in the second half because they don't have the stamina and can't run.
In order to prepare for this game, Hoffenheim's whole team focused on physical fitness, Hoffenheim was originally excellent in the Bundesliga civilization with excellent physical fitness, and their training intensity was one of the best in Germany, and they really couldn't stick to it without any physical fitness. The long-term high-intensity training has allowed Hoffenheim to continue to attack quickly for 90 minutes. It's just that this game is different from the ordinary Bundesliga, the intensity of this game is much higher than the ordinary Bundesliga game, and the set of experience of the Bundesliga game may not work here.
This game will be more physically demanding.
So even if he focused on physical fitness, Rangnick, who was standing in front of the coach's box, didn't know if he could last the whole game.
Quaresma's breakthrough did not continue, and he soon encountered an interception by Abidal. He didn't choose to force a breakthrough, although it was not impossible, but it was better to be safe at this time, someone could make a better choice than him.
That person was Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian received a pass from Quaresma. He didn't pick it up in the middle of the box, where Butzques was. After pretending to play Quaresma to catch the attention of Butzquez and Iniesta, he jerked and turned, retreated, and ran behind Quaresma.
Quaresma found that he could not break through, and directly passed the ball back, and it fell to his feet.
Chu Zhongtian didn't stay, and he didn't give any Barcelona player a chance to force up, he directly took a long diagonal pass!
The ball flew over everyone's heads, straight down the right side of Barcelona and the left side of Hoffenheim. Because Hoffenheim's attacking focus was on their right side and Barcelona's left side, it was natural that Barcelona's entire formation was tilted to this side, and Alves, a full-back, was also withdrawn into the penalty area, looking more like a central defender than a full-back, which created favorable conditions for Kolarov to receive the ball when unmarked on the wing.
If Chu Zhongtian stops the football, looks around, and hesitates, then the fool can find the loophole over there, Alves will immediately pounce to fill the position, and Messi, Xavi and others will also rush back to defend.
Now, because Chu Zhongtian made a direct long pass, he caught Barcelona off guard.
Kolarov didn't have a Barcelona player around when he received the ball!
In the process of Chu Zhongtian passing the football to that side, Hoffenheim quickly completed the transfer of the offensive direction, and the players who pressed Barcelona also ran in which direction.
After Kolarov took the ball, he took the diagonal line inside, Alves rushed up, Kolarov did not go head-to-head with Alves, but gave the football to Salihovic in the ribs, and then cut straight in, and it was another two-over-one trend!
Before the game, all Hoffenheim players need to be aware of the fact that their individual quality is not high enough compared to the Barcelona players, and there is nothing to be ashamed of, and only by recognising this reality can they beat Barcelona. Because after recognizing it, they will realize that if they want to beat Barcelona, it is absolutely impossible to rely on themselves, but to rely on the strength of the team, and the gap in individual strength depends on the team to make up for it, I am worse than you alone, but the two of me are not necessarily worse than you, and the three of me are definitely better than you alone!
With such an idea, the level of tactics and something is much easier to execute.
However, Salihovic did not pass directly to Kolarov who cut in, because Barcelona had guessed that he would do so, and Alves immediately retreated to target Kolarov.
Salihovic passed the football to Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian has always been a person that Butzkes pays great attention to. Summing up the experience of previous generations, it is very likely that you will lose attention to this person for just one minute in the 30 metres in front of your goal. As long as he receives the ball, he can shoot by himself, and he can also divide the ball to the side, or go straight into the penalty area, there are many options and possibilities, and the chances of trying to prevent him are naturally reduced.
So he won't give Chu Zhongtian a chance to get football here.
What he didn't expect was that Chu Zhongtian didn't plan to catch the ball at all, he directly leaked the football and ran forward into the penalty area.
Next to him receiving the soccer ball was the back plugged in by Lorik. Sana!
"Lorik. Sana! ”
Butzkes was stunned by Chu Zhongtian's false shot, and he didn't react when Chu Zhongtian slipped in from him.
Then he saw Sana receive the ball, and before he could understand what was going on, Sana had just received the ball and sent the ball out - straight stopper!
Chu Zhongtian, who was inserted into the penalty area, ran diagonally to the east and found an opening, and Sana happened to pass the football over.
Two over one!
Chu Zhongtian half-turned to catch the ball, and Barcelona's central defender and captain Puyol pressed up like a mad dog.
Chu Zhongtian didn't give him a chance to stick himself, he just received the ball and turned around and shot!
The action is done in one go, but also very suddenly. Valdés saw the football rushing over, and hurriedly fell to the ground to save, but still didn't touch the football!
"Chu Zhongtian shot the goal!!" He Ping shouted, for fear that the Chinese fans in front of the TV would not hear it.
In fact, Wembley Stadium also let out an exclamation the moment he shot.
Everyone watched as the ball flew over Valdés' hand and towards the far corner of the goal, the hearts of the Barcelona fans were hung and the Hoffenheim fans stood en masse and prepared to cheer for the goal.
Valdés turned his head to look at the football, a little desperate and surprised in his eyes.
But instead of flying into the goal, the ball slashed out of the outside of the post.
"Ball...... The ball didn't go in! What a pity! Ah! Oops—" He Ping held his head in his hands and sighed loudly as he lay on the commentary seat.
He was joined by Hoffenheim and Wimbledon fans.
Hoffenheim's previous attacks were very successful, and the only regret was that they didn't score...... But they proved to Barcelona and to those around the world who doubted them that Hoffenheim were capable of attacking Barcelona with a way to threaten the Barcelona goal!
(To be continued)