Chapter 592: The Strange Center
Fernando Torres had a one-on-one chance and had a good shot on goal, but Valdés was brave enough to save the ball and make a Chelsea attack fail.
However, the attack failed, but this attack allowed all the Chelsea players to see the opportunity to score, and Mourinho was finally relieved of his arrangement.
Without passing through the midfield, the backfield players go directly to Lin Yu, and then the midfielders all raid to Barcelona's half, and then Lin Yu either rubs the ball back, or passes the ball after taking the ball himself, or collides with teammates to cooperate with the wall, there are many ways to choose.
Lin Yu is a big living man standing there, no player in Barcelona can snatch the ball from his head, in addition to his height and bounce advantage, but also his terrifying judgment, always able to judge the landing point of the ball most accurately, which will become Barcelona's biggest trouble.
Long passing is a very important part of Chelsea's attack, so no matter which player, there is a long passing skill, just like Barcelona is good at short passing, each team has its own different attacking style and good things.
And even if the long pass can't be played, you can also use the speed of the side to break through, and then the side to get a high ball cross, the effect is the same, anyway, as long as Lin Yu is there, there is no fear that the ball will fall to the feet of the Barcelona player.
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'We noticed that after Chelsea conceded the goal, Jose Mourinho opted for a substitution, and he was obviously going to fight for his life!
"And looking at the way Chelsea play now, it's much more concise and practical. Since the short pass is not as good as Barcelona, there is no need to fight for that. Direct and effective long passes, the efficiency will be higher! ”
"Actually, when it comes to technicality. Long passes can be more difficult than short passes! The reason why Chelsea dared to do this, in the final analysis, is because they have a forest feather in the front field and a bridgehead that can stand! ”
This kind of play, some people welcome, some people praise, of course, some people will say some cool words, such as the Catalan commentary said: "Mourinho has been crazy under Barcelona's powerful attack, he actually replaced a midfielder, he is too underestimate Barcelona's attacking line, right?" And such a long pass rush hanging. It's simply a regression in football, and today's football, even the Premier League, has long abandoned this style of play, and most of the time will choose a more beautiful and more coherent short pass combination! ”
But no matter what they said, they still started to worry in their hearts, because the attack just now had already seen the horror of Chelsea's change of tactics, if it weren't for Valdés's bravery. Now the score has been equalized.
Of course, Alcacer did not forget to express his opinion, and he was very disdainful of Chelsea's style of play: "I thought Lin Yu would have some secret weapon, and after making trouble for a long time, he relied on his height to occupy such a little advantage." An attack is a threat, but that's just because Barcelona haven't adapted to this style of play and want to equalize with this simple and brutal attack? It's funny! ”
He expressed great contempt for Lin Yu. He thinks that Lin Yu is really afraid of competing with Messi, because he continues to play like this. Lin Yu is just a bridgehead, just a transit station. There was no chance to score because he had to stand outside the box with his back to goal and just keep distributing the ball to his team-mates.
He thinks it's a sign of cowardice and lack of self-confidence!
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There may be some truth in Alcacer's words......
Of course, this is limited to ordinary players.
If it's just an ordinary bridgehead, an average center, it's already rare to be able to do this, and it's impossible to perform a little better, but Lin Yu is different, who is Lin Yu? Lin Yu is proficient in all eighteen martial arts, do you think he is just a bridgehead? Do you think he's only going to give the ball to his teammates?
If you think so, you're wrong!
Relying on the suppression of local numbers, Chelsea has played vigorously during this period, and the momentum of Barcelona has been suppressed faintly.
If Barcelona's players want to let go of Lin Yu, they have to ignore the breakthrough of the two wings, as well as the interspersed with Oscar next to Lin Yu.
Lin Yu managed to attract the attention of the Barcelona players, and Hazard, Schurrle and Oscar had a number of opportunities to break through the ball, and in just five or six minutes, three balls were passed to Torres' feet, and he also completed two shots, although neither scored, but not at all as passive as before.
The pressure on Barcelona at the back increased, and Messi had to return to the defense, and it felt as if the situation of the two teams had suddenly turned upside down.
In the seventy-fifth minute of the game, Lin Yu made all the Barcelona players break out in a cold sweat.
At that time, Luis passed the ball to Ramirez, Ramirez handed another big foot to Hazard on the side, Hazard crossed the high ball on the side, Lin Yu, who was sandwiched by two people, and forced a burst shot from 30 meters away, Valdés gritted his teeth and blocked the ball out of the bottom line with his legs.
Shoot without stopping the ball, and with such a lot of strength, this makes Valdés complain, and if he gives Lin Yu a few more opportunities like this, he really can't bear it.
Chelsea were given a corner and it was a great opportunity for Chelsea to score and a huge crisis for Barcelona.
Everyone knows that Chelsea has several players with very strong header ability, and Lin Yu is only one of them, on the other hand, Barcelona, except for Pique, there is really no player who can grab the header, so Barcelona has always been reluctant to give the opponent a corner kick opportunity, but this time there is no way to avoid it.
There is no way, then you can only do some small actions in the penalty area, such as pulling clothes, hugging arms, etc., these small actions will not get a yellow card, but you can easily stop the opponent's jumping action, so that your own disadvantage disappears.
All the Barcelona players standing in the Barcelona penalty area have the same idea, they think they have done too much of this. A set of proven lessons has been put together and Chelsea will never be taken advantage of.
Even Pique kept Lin Yu from the beginning.
"Do you want to make a base?" Lin Yu asked Peake with a smile.
"Less nonsense. Can't make you jump anyway! Pique didn't eat Lin Yu's set, and said coldly.
"Then I'll take a corner. You're following me too? Lin Yu said with a smile.
"What?"
Pique was still stunned, but saw Lin Yu waving to Schurrle, who was standing next to the corner flag, and motioned to Schurrle to come over, and he was going to take the corner.
"Damn, don't look for me if you really want to get a base, go find your Messi, I'm going to make free throws." Lin Yu shook Pique away and walked towards the corner.
"Oh? What happened? Lin Yu wants to take this corner kick? Isn't that a waste of his superb heading skills? "The explanation is a little hard to understand.
In fact, what they said is not right, Lin Yu has a good header. But the header he inherited was a defensive header, that is, it was okay to receive the ball, it was okay to defend, but to let him head the goal, it can only be regarded as a first-class level, not a top level, Chelsea's level of headers is better than him, and he doesn't need to stay in the box at all.
When he staggered past Schurrle. Lin Yu winked at Xu Erle, Xu Erle made an OK gesture, the two seemed to have made some decision, but this action was too hidden. A lot of people don't see it.
Lin Yu's approach made all Barcelona fans have an inexplicable feeling, a center forward ran to take a corner kick? Is this self-defeating or self-defeating?
A predetermined defensive strategy. At this time, I had to make some changes, and I couldn't help it. Lin Yu is not in the penalty area now, and the people who defend him have to defend other players instead.
After Schurrle got into the box. whispered a few words to a few of their own players, so the big guys chose to stay away from the goal, although they were still standing in the penalty area, but the position was close to the line of the big penalty area, what do you want to do when you stand so far away?
Barcelona's players also had to stay away from the goal in order to defend, which created a long vacuum between the players and the goal, which had to be handed over to Valdés to defend.
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Lin Yu planned to take a corner kick, but it was definitely not thought out in advance, he just made it temporarily.
Although the level of Barcelona's players is not very good, but to grab this header in the penalty area according to the general method, the probability of scoring is really not large, otherwise Barcelona would have been blown up by those teams with good headers, in fact, this situation did not appear, the reason is that Barcelona players are good at using other methods to make up for their disadvantages, such as some unconventional small actions, as well as accurate positioning and excellent judgment.
Lin Yu is not the kind of player who can have absolute air dominance in attack, he is not Ruud van Nistelrooy, he is not Gadmüller, so he has to play to his best strengths and not expect a header.
Standing there, Lin Yu observed the positions of the Barcelona players and the Chelsea players and expressed great satisfaction, Schurrle executed his idea perfectly, making the situation in the Barcelona penalty area match what he had planned.
However, when he was ready to take the penalty, including the Barcelona players, there were also commentaries from various TV stations, and even the two coaches, Mourinho and Martino, didn't know what he was doing, and couldn't figure it out at all!
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"It's a very interesting situation, Lin Yu takes a corner kick, it's the first time in my memory, what will he do?"
In fact, it's just a very ordinary corner kick, but because the person who takes the penalty kick is more special, the commentators are also very energetic, they all know that Lin Yu is not the kind of person who has no target, since Lin Yu is standing there, he must have his own ideas, what to do, it is really exciting.
"Passing? A direct shot? Or ......"
In the eyes of many people, the possibility of Lin Yu choosing to shoot directly is very high, because everyone knows Lin Yu's footwork, not to mention that this is not a zero degree angle, even if it is really a zero degree angle, he can also play a very beautiful shot, not to mention that no one interferes, he can plan very calmly and then shoot.
There are not a few people who thought that Lin Yu would shoot directly, for example, Valdés hurriedly shouted to Alves: "You stand at the back post, be careful that guy shoots directly, and the near post will be handed over to me!" ”
Alves thought about it, Lin Yu has always liked to do some novel things, if he really chooses to hit the far corner directly, it will be really very dangerous, after all, Alves can't defend the entire goal, his ability is very strong, but there is also a limit.
"It can be seen that Barcelona attaches great importance to this corner, and now they have left Messi alone in the front court, and the rest are all back to defense!"
I can't help but Barcelona don't pay attention to it, now they are one goal ahead, in case they are scored by Chelsea, it will be back to the same starting line, and what is more troublesome is that the previous advantage is gone, and it is not so easy to score goals next.
As a Barcelona player, the last thing they want to drag the game to extra time or even a penalty shootout is that this is Chelsea's home stadium, they are recuperating, but they are thousands of miles away, and they have a physical disadvantage, if they can end the game as soon as possible, no one wants to drag the game on.
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The referee's whistle sounded, and Lin Yu began to run, although it was only a corner kick, but in his opinion, this ball was as important as a penalty, which would determine the situation of the next game between the two teams!
Gotta enter! (To be continued......)