After Qin Xiong passed the corner kick back to the vicinity of the right midfield, Johnson came up to control the ball, and then passed the ball to Alonso in the middle.

Pep Guardiola frowned from the sidelines.

Liverpool playing like this will more or less consume Barcelona's physical energy.

It is conceivable that when defending corner kicks, Barcelona needs to retreat in the overall formation, and if it can successfully defend a wave of forward attack, then it is good to say that Liverpool passed the ball back, and the prerequisite for Barcelona to press up from the back to the front formation is to regain the ball.

And in the process of regaining the ball, not to mention 10 players, at least more than 6 players are running back and forth, but what about Liverpool's consumption? Very small, actually.

In the 27th minute of the game, Liverpool's attack ended in a long-range shot from outside the Torres penalty area, and Torres' shot was a little outrageous and sent the ball directly to the stands.

Barcelona began to reorganize the attack, Xavi and Iniesta ran back and forth in the midfield, and then connected the attack, they first focused on creating opportunities for Messi, but Messi was drowned in the dense defense of Liverpool's midfield, especially after Liverpool played the characteristics of the Premier League's stronger physical confrontation in the defense, Messi lacked space and was frequently fouled by Liverpool players, not fierce, but enough to make him very uncomfortable.

Messi tried to create chances for his team-mates, but Ibrahimovic was not as flexible as Samuel Eto'o, which made the attacking activity drop significantly.

Barcelona saw that Messi's side could not play the expected effect, Xavi and Iniesta immediately shifted the direction of attack. This has created some difficulties for Liverpool.

The 31st minute of the game. Andres Iniesta slid the ball forward in the middle. He was on the verge of finding a way between Lucas and Mascherano after breaking through Alonso with a masterful control of the ball, and Iniesta slammed the ball back with his heel to Xavi, who delivered a through-ball with masterful passing footwork.

The ball rolled through the gap to the left side of the Liverpool penalty area, and even if it was a small gap, Xavi saved the opportunity.

Pedro cut inside to meet the ball and fired straight at goal.

The ball flew to the top of the far corner of the goal, and Reina looked out of reach, and the Reds relaxed as they looked nervously at goal.

The football grabs the edge of the crossbar and flies into the stands!

"Barcelona almost equalised! Pedro's shot was a fraction of a second on goal. If the football is lower, this goal will definitely be scored! ”

Liverpool's counter-attack came down a minute later.

Torres latched onto Gerrard's pass from midfield and began to dribble forward along the right-hand side of the centre.

When he came to the front and back of the penalty area, he passed the ball diagonally to the feet of Qin Xiong, who cut from the side to the middle of the penalty area.

After the ball, Torres immediately stepped forward, Pique retreated and stared at Torres, Qin Xiong faked a passing action in front of Keita but changed direction to break through, Keita couldn't resist Qin Xiong's explosive force that instantly started on the spot, after Qin Xiong broke through horizontally in front of him, Qin Xiong turned to the front of Pique's defensive area, using Torres as a cover. Found the angle of the shot.

Qin Xiong saw Valdés moving towards the near post, and he shot on the spot. Fired the ball into the far corner of the goal, exactly the opposite of Valdés' running line.

Valdés stopped moving, and when he saw the ball flying by, he realized that he couldn't make a save, so he could only turn his head to look at the ball and watch its trajectory.

Qin Xiong deliberately shot at the far corner of the goal, the ball speed was not fast, and even gave people a sense of lightness and beauty.

While!

In the expectation of countless Reds fans, the football did not fly into the corner of the goal, but gently brushed the outside of the post and popped up the bottom line.

Qin Xiong stomped his feet on the spot with some annoyance!

I don't know why, he always felt that he felt good about the footwork control of the shot today, but the effect was just a little bit worse.

It's a sense of state that can only be understood but not expressed.

Liverpool's coaching staff, the players on the bench, and the fans all felt sorry for Qin Xiong's failure to score this goal.

"Qin Xiong's shot has beaten all the Barcelona defenders, but in the end it couldn't beat the Anfield post, if this goal is scored, it will definitely be a wonderful goal, but unfortunately it is not a small difference."

Barcelona's midfield commander Xavi has been thinking about how to break down Liverpool's dense defence.

Although Messi's point did not have an effect, Messi himself was a huge threat, and the containment of the Liverpool defense was an invisible contribution.

Pedro's side can't be said to have no effect, it can only be said that Pedro is not a world-class striker, that's all, in such a confrontational level, coupled with the technical and tactical encounter, Liverpool compresses the attacking space, and it is normal for Pedro to not play magically.

The right side, the left side, all played intensively.

Harvey's heart sank, and he had to gamble on the middle of the road again.

The fact that Ibrahimovic is not integrated into Barcelona's system, at least not perfectly, is well recognized.

So at a critical juncture, if you want to bet on Ibrahimovic to turn the tide, not many Barcelona players will probably be full of confidence.

But now that the situation is forcing Barcelona, Barcelona has no choice.

However, if Barcelona wants to shift the focus of attack, they will not really play directly in the middle, they will still use passing to shape the offensive situation, and then pass the ball back and forth horizontally and vertically to disrupt and tear the opponent's defense, and finally in the fatal blow that changes the pace of the game to speed up, the real offensive center of gravity will be exposed.

In the 39th minute, Xavi played an exchanging passes with Keita in front of the game to avoid Gerrard's pressing, and then he passed the ball to the retreating Pedro.

The ball rolls to the left and the Liverpool defence makes a slight tilt to the left.

Pedro was in front of Lucas and Johnson after a conscious block, and then passed the ball to Maxwell, who came up from behind.

Maxwell overdid it, passing the ball to Xavi in the middle.

Xavi immediately made a pass transfer, and when tearing the opponent's defense, even if it is a pass, the most important thing is speed and pass success rate!

After Xavi played the ball to Messi, the Liverpool defence leaned to the left and then immediately to the right to try to keep Messi out.

Before Messi touched the ball, Messi had already read what Xavi meant, because Xavi was still looking at Messi after passing the ball and running towards him.

Without saying a word, Messi passed the ball back to Xavi's feet again.

After shifting from left to right and tearing up and disrupting Liverpool's defence, there was more space in the middle and Xavi began to really instigate lethal attacks after stopping the ball.

Now is the time to see the real end! (To be continued.) )