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At 20:45 local time on May 27, the 2008/2009 UEFA Champions League final was played at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. It is worth mentioning that not only Inter Milan has three championships in hand before this game, but the Barcelona team has also won the La Liga championship and the Spanish Copa del Rey championship, if this game is Inter Milan in the end, then they will become a "quadruple champion" who won four crowns in a season, and if Barcelona team wins the Champions Cup, they will become the first team in history to win the Champions Cup, La Liga and the Copa del Rey in one season "Triple Crown", And their young manager Pep Guardiola will also become the youngest champion coach in Champions League history. Therefore, regardless of the outcome of this game, new records and legends will be born from it

What is even more rare is that the two opponents in this Champions League final are not only the two teams that are considered to be the strongest, but also represent two diametrically opposed styles of football, with Barcelona's traditional pass-and-possession football carried forward in the hands of young manager Pep Guardiola, whose possession of football has not yet reached its peak, but has surpassed any previous moment in history. On the contrary, although Mourinho also worked for Barcelona, he carried forward the defensive counter-attacking tactics that are diametrically opposed to the concept of control football, Inter Milan this season, especially in the knockout stage of the Champions League, the average possession rate is less than 405%, but it is the team with the most goals in this Champions League, and it is a big cut more than the second place, and its focus on efficiency is obvious.

These factors add up. It makes this highest-level game in world football, which is already a football feast, even more eye-catching, and perhaps because of this, the leadership of CCTV chose Huang Jianxiang, a commentator known for his passion, to host the live broadcast of the game, while his partner Zhang Lu, who commented on the Serie A league, continued to work with him.

"It's not easy, we can be regarded as watching Gao Jun grow up, and now he is only one step away from the highest honor in world football. With his record of breaking a lot of all-time records this year, if he can win the Champions Cup, he will definitely be the undisputed number one star in the world. It's a little incredible to think about the fact that such a number one person can appear in our Chinese football", Huang Jianxiang said with a smile on his face, and it can be seen that he has great confidence in Gao Jun and Inter Milan.

The guest Zhang Lu was more cautious, "I also hope that Gao Jun can become the first Chinese player to win the Champions League, but Barcelona's strength should not be underestimated, even if Inter Milan is terrible this season." It's hard to say that you will be able to eat it. Especially in today's game, Ibrahimovic also made the start, and the abandonment will often play beyond the old club, which is also worth noting."

Pep Guardiola's decision to send Ibrahimovic on the field took into account the factors Zhang Lu said, and there was still a little bit of luck in his heart, what if he suddenly opened up in this game and could integrate into Barcelona's style of play? After all, even if Ibrahimovic's table is not too good this season, his strength is still undoubted, and the ball quotient is actually not bad

Ibrahimovic has not been very aggressive in his scrambles. Since Pep Guardiola sent him to start, it is clear that he is ready to play attacking football. But it's also a smart thing to do. Even if Guardiola put the "black and hard" Yaya Toure in the position of central defender in this game, with the overall height and hardness of the Barcelona backline, it is still difficult to prevent Adriano, who has gradually regained his form, so Guardiola can only choose to attack instead of defending, give full play to Barcelona's traditional possession advantage, and consolidate his own defense by reducing Inter Milan's offensive opportunities. In fact. Pep Guardiola pioneered the pinnacle of control football, the "tiki-taka" tactic, the main purpose of which was not to strengthen the attack, but to solve the long-standing problem of Barcelona's instability at the back

Because of the decision to replace defense with attack, Pep Guardiola deployed an attack-oriented 433 formation today, with Ibrahimovic flanked in attack. Thierry Henry, who has been in clear form this season, and Lionel Messi, an Argentine superstar who is now maturing, both have a strong ability to score goals and can make up for the weakness of the possession style that is easy to waste chances in a large way.

In addition, both of them are also very fast, and not only the absolute speed, but also the speed of the combination of the ball, which is conducive to Barcelona seizing the opportunity to quickly counterattack. You know, even if the team uses the ball control style of play, quick counterattacks and set-pieces still account for more than half of the total number of goals, Guardiola is a smart person, so he will not give up fast counterattacks in order to flaunt that his team is playing pure control football, not to mention that few people know that this bald guy is actually also good at playing defensive counterattacks

Barcelona's forward stars shine, but the soul of the team is the three in the midfield, Xavi, who has grown into the world's top organizational player, is the brain of the team, and Iniesta is better at directly creating killing opportunities, as for the well-known Professor Bu, even if he does not consider his outstanding acting talent as the chief professor of the "La Masia Film and Television Academy", this person's ball control, defense and rhythm mastery in the midfield are also indispensable for Barcelona. In a sense, Barcelona can even do without Messi, and must not lose these three midfielders, they are the soul of Barcelona

Compared with the world's No. 1 midfielder and star-studded forwards, Barcelona's backline is a little weaker, although the old captain Puyol is experienced, the new central defender Pique is tall and big, Yaya Toure is the world's top "tall and hard", and goalkeeper Valdés is also the best scavenger goalkeeper in the world (provided that "goalkeeper" is used as a separate classification), but if you analyze carefully, the problem of Barcelona's back line is still obvious.

The substitute full-back No. 16 Silvinho, who was given the opportunity to start because of the lack of personnel, obviously has a big gap with the main team, and the old captain Puyol is not too much of a problem to switch to full-back for the same reason, because he played as a full-back when he debuted. But the shift in his position has made Barcelona's already weak centre-back even more dangerous

Yaya Toure's physicality is definitely the best in the world, but after all, he is born in a midfielder, lacks the necessary sense of position and concentration at central defender, and this guy's desire to attack is too strong, Guardiola put him in the central defender position because he is unavailable and afraid of Adriano's deterrent, which is actually a very risky approach. Although Pique is young and old, he has empty height, but because of the problem of muscle type, he lacks enough explosiveness, and his air control ability and physical confrontation are obviously weak, although he entered Barcelona's main lineup early because of his strong ball control ability, but it is still difficult to make people completely relieved when facing strong teams.

As for Barcelona's goalkeeper Valdés, although the "butter hand" that appears from time to time is often criticized, as a goalkeeper, his height is also slightly insufficient, and it is easy to have problems when encountering long-range shooting masters, but for Gao Jun, this kind of scavenger goalkeeper is the most annoying, because with Gao Jun's shooting accuracy, the goalkeeper's chance of success is very small, and the bold attack is directly destroyed before Gao Jun catches up with the football, and the success rate is relatively much higher, although once it fails, it will become the background of the wonderful hanging shot

Although there are hidden dangers in the defense, on the other hand, Barcelona's defensive configuration can give full play to their strong ball control ability, so it is not necessarily a bad thing. And Mourinho may have seen this as well, so he cautiously lined up a more defensive-focused back 333 formation

"Interestingly, Mourinho also lined up with a 433 formation today, but the idea was clearly to ensure the solidity of the defense first, which is diametrically opposed to Barcelona's 433, which fully reflects the different football philosophies of the two managers." , Huang Jianxiang seized the time to introduce, "Today, Inter Milan's striker is partnered with Samuel Eto'o, which may surprise many people, because now Adriano's form is getting better and better, and he has almost completely returned to the level of his peak." However, Mourinho's idea is not difficult to guess, it is estimated that he wants to take the lead and use the speed of the first two strikers to counterattack, if he has not scored after a period of time, or even scored by Barcelona, and then replace Adriano to rush, and wait until the opponent's body lì falls, Adriano's impact can be more fully exerted. And if Adriano starts, the power of Inter Milan's quick counterattack will be slightly reduced, once the ball is conceded first, it will not be very helpful to replace Eto'o after going up, so it is better to arrange it like now, and always have a trump card in his hand"

"But even if Ade doesn't start, Inter Milan's forward line is still stronger than Barcelona's, and the back line is also, No. 26 Zivo, No. 13 McConn on two sides, in the middle is No. 23 Lucio and No. 25 Samuel, it is not an exaggeration to call it the world's No. 1 defender, and if you only talk about the level of goalkeeper, Brazilian international Cesar should be slightly stronger than Barcelona's goalkeeper Valdés." , guest Zhang Lu also expressed his opinions in a timely manner, "Of course, in terms of midfield, there is still a certain gap between Inter Milan and Barcelona, although the Saxa team, Stankovic and Cambiaso are all world-class stars, but compared with Barcelona's three midfielders who are not only the world's top, but also have the best tacit understanding and are all from the Barcelona system, the overall gap is still not small." But then again, Inter's three midfielders are both offensive and defensive, and the Inter midfielders formed by them are better than Barcelona's in terms of defensive ability" (to be continued......