715 Good Ball !!
When Pique was cruising behind Mascherano and saw Cavani who was still carrying the ball, but suddenly slammed his heel and passed to Messi who was plugged in behind him, he was frightened, and his first reaction was that he couldn't stop Messi, so he rushed in Messi's direction as soon as possible, at his fastest speed.
This is a last resort, and he cannot afford to hesitate, because as long as he is slow, Messi may shoot directly with his feet.
Messi was also a little surprised when he received the ball, causing him to stop the ball a little messy, the ball was stopped in front by him, but he reacted quickly, especially when he saw Pique rushing up, the first time was to stretch his right foot forward, and the ball that had just stopped a little bigger was pulled back and buckled to his left side.
This dunk allowed Pique's foot to reach out to break the ball and pounce into the air, and at the same time allowed Messi to win a space, because when he dunked the ball to the left, coupled with his short and flexible stature, and Pique was tall and slow to turn, so he quickly won the time difference, even if the time difference was only a few tenths of a second, but it was enough for him to pull out a little gap.
With a buckle of the right foot, the left foot stops in front of the left, and the instep of the left foot rubs out a curved ball and hits the goal directly!
Valdés made a quick save, and his reaction was fast, but Messi's kick rubbed the upper left corner of the goal, which is really too difficult for him who is only 1.83 meters tall, this is a dead corner in an absolute sense!
At the moment when the ball hit the goal line, Messi rushed out of the field excitedly, excitedly clenched his hands into fists and roared, and rushed to the front of the fan stands on the sidelines, he was still full of hideous clenched fists, this appearance made all the Tottenham Hotspur fans in the stands boil with blood, and cheered with him.
"1:0, less than two minutes into the game, Tottenham Hotspur took the lead in knocking on Barcelona's goal!"
"It's unexpected, no one would have thought that this game would start like this, Barcelona suffered a strong attack from Tottenham Hotspur at the beginning of the away game, and conceded a goal directly!"
The slow-motion replay repeatedly played the whole process of the goal just now, from Pirlo's diagonal long pass, to Messi's inward cut to find Cavani after stopping the ball, and then to Cavani's dribbling to hit the bottom line but suddenly knocked back, and Messi's back insertion, the whole process seems to be a single fight of only two players, but in fact it represents Tottenham Hotspur's fine offensive line.
"Diagonal attack, after the introduction of Pirlo, Tottenham Hotspur is very good at playing this type of attack, Pirlo's diagonal long diagonal pass at the back has caused headaches for countless teams, and Barcelona obviously did not focus on Pirlo in this game."
"And Cavani's dribbling also attracted Mascherano's attention, and then suddenly the heel pass, it was indeed beyond everyone's expectations, obviously Messi was also surprised, the first stop did not stop, but he reacted faster than Pique, the right foot buckled past Pique, and then the left foot rubbed the shot, the whole process is dizzying, a very brilliant attack!"
Tottenham Hotspur players hugged each other excitedly on the sidelines, Messi even hugged Cavani with the waist, there is a big difference in height between the two, it is indeed a bit strange to stand together, but their cooperation on the field is quite tacit.
Cavani's technique has always given people a very simple and practical, but delicate and insufficient feeling, but the heel assist just now makes people have to admire, of course, such an assist is not very difficult, but this awareness is very rare, especially when he didn't look behind him at all, which shows the tacit understanding between the two.
"It's not good for Barcelona right now!" The live broadcast camera showed Guardiola on the sidelines, the Barcelona coach was wearing a white shirt, pacing back and forth on the sidelines, looking a little lonely and helpless, "Guardiola should think about what to do next in this game!" ”
"Obviously, Ye Qiu is just like everyone guessed, he wants to eat Barcelona in one go at his home stadium, so he will continue to attack next, and Barcelona's defense is a soft underbelly, especially the high-ball defense, how to contain Tottenham Hotspur's attack, this is a difficult problem!"
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Although it was the first goal, Tottenham Hotspur did not stop there, but continued to work hard to get goals, and with the restart of the game, as the game unfolded, everyone began to clearly see Tottenham Hotspur's tactics, that is, hard to match.
Many teams tend to be conservative when confronted with Barcelona's possession tactics, such as Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan, who will adopt a compact Italian defence to contain Barcelona's attack, which is to freeze the 30-metre area, similar to the kind of defense that AC Milan did against Tottenham Hotspur.
But the downside of this is obvious, and that is that you have to give up the initiative and control of the game.
This is definitely a fatal wound for a team like Tottenham Hotspur, because Ye Qiu cannot accept that the team loses the initiative and control of the game, and Tottenham Hotspur's attacking philosophy also makes it impossible for him to adopt a style of play similar to Mourinho's Inter Milan.
Therefore, Ye Qiu combined his own characteristics and advantages, and at the same time made appropriate adjustments to the game, that is, the defense line was not pressed.
You know, it's easy for Barcelona to keep their possession, but it's not so easy to create a threat in attack, because he has to keep his possession at the edge of the 30-metre zone, which is the area between Xavi and Busquets.
The lethal reason for possession in front of the 30-metre zone is that it can threaten with a single pass if there is a loophole.
Therefore, Ye Qiu expected Barcelona to advance the possession area to the front of the 30-meter area, he retracted appropriately, but blocked Barcelona's possession area in the middle line, tried not to let Barcelona get close to the 30-meter area to control the ball, and arranged the focus of the two sides fighting for the ball on the middle line.
But if you just do that, it's not enough, for the simple reason that you can only hold on, not attack.
Ye Qiu also arranged a special targeted tactic in this game, that is, before the game, he specially told the players that the offensive and defensive conversion in this game must be fast, but there are differences.
The first is the defense, the moment you lose the ball, you have to immediately start a closing press and press, it must be fast, but it must be orderly, and in the past week and a half, the team has fully trained this kind of pressing and pressing.
This tactic is what Barcelona do best, but many people don't know that Barcelona always play fast without the ball, and when they have the ball, they slow down, for the simple reason that they use possession to restore their physical fitness, and when they are off the ball, they launch crazy pressing.
So the attitude that Ye Qiu adopted is, I will do it with you with real guns, if you can cut off my ball, I will immediately put into the counter-attack, not let you slow down the rhythm, and force you to follow me to speed up the rhythm, so as to ensure that Barcelona's attack is contained to the greatest extent.
On the offensive side, Ye Qiu also made targeted arrangements, that is, flexibility.
What is elasticity? That's me to retract first, and then hit out!
As we all know, once Barcelona loses possession of the ball, it will definitely be the first time to put into the counter-robbery, and it will be like crazy to launch a full-court press, and at this time Tottenham Hotspur will pass the ball back, because the key grabbing area is in the middle line, and there is plenty of tactical depth behind him, so it is not dangerous to pass back.
What do Barcelona do when they try to scramble, when they want to get back on the ball and you pass it back? Rush forward as soon as they like to press in the opposition half.
That is, during this period of time when our side returns and the opponent rushes forward, a large gap will be exposed behind Barcelona!
Tottenham Hotspur have Pirlo and Thiago at the back? Silva and Kompany, these players with very good long passing ability, especially Pirlo, have one of the best long passing skills in the world, so Ye Qiu's approach is that after I break the ball, I will pull you out first, let you show the flaws behind you, and then I will use the long pass to hit your flaws.
In this case, the offensive forces invested in the front field do not need to be large, only efficiency!
But there is a problem with this tactic, which is that you have to have good enough consistent points at the back, and at the same time, your players have to have enough ball handling ability and good passing skills, which Tottenham Hotspur are not lacking.
If you look at the delicacy of the player's skills, although Tottenham Hotspur will be slightly inferior to Barcelona in today's football, even Real Madrid may not be more delicate than Tottenham Hotspur.
Ye Qiu specially arranged such a set of targeted tactics before the game, the goal just after the opening seemed to be accidental, but in fact it was still such a routine, and after the first goal, the players were more resolute in implementing their tactics.
I saw Tottenham Hotspur frontline Messi take the ball and want to break through, but he was caught by the Barcelona players, the Argentine passed the ball, but Cavani was successfully cut off by Mascherano, and Barcelona wanted to fight back.
Cavani's tactical execution is very high, as soon as he concedes the ball, he goes directly into the counter-attack, and when the ball is passed to the feet of Busquets, Ramsey and Vidal also quickly form a circle, plus Cavani behind him, forcing Busquets to have to pass back, Tottenham Hotspur quickly organized a defense in the backfield.
When Cavani rushed forward, interfering with Pique, forcing Pique to pass to Puyol, and Ribery also pressed Puyol, who passed back to goalkeeper Valdés, the Barcelona goalkeeper kicked the ball forward with a big kick, but Tottenham Hotspur's central defender Kompany steadily pushed the ball back into the midfield, Pirlo had defenders behind him, and the ball was knocked back to Thiago without stopping? Silva.
The Brazilian central defender did not stick to the ball either, and was directly distributed to the right side, Alves stood on the right line, Iniesta rushed towards him as soon as possible, and Sanchez also wanted to come over to form a pack, and Vidal and Messi, who retreated in front, were obviously interfered with by the defenders, so Thiago? Immediately after Silva finished the ball, he ran to the back of the box and approached the right touchline to receive it.
Alves knocked the ball back to Thiago at least fifteen metres away? Silva, after the Brazilian central defender got the ball, saw Sanchez coming over, and immediately made a cross over the top, the arc was not big, but the speed was fast.
The ball was attached to the right sideline, and the rebound was not strong after landing, and Messi ran back, followed by Brazilian left-back Adriano, so Messi had no choice, and directly stopped the pass from 25 meters away to Alves, who was inserted in behind.
Alves followed Iniesta, and when he ran forward, he faced Messi's pass, and he also pushed the ball directly to the front court and pulled it to the right, blocking Cavani of Mascherano with his body, and after the Uruguayan blocked the defender with his body, he stopped the ball directly to Vidal, who followed behind.
"Good Ball !!!" This time, the successive one-kick passes were not only fast, but also very accurate.
After Vidal stopped the ball, he made a low flat ball diagonal pass, which was distributed to the right side, Messi rushed forward quickly, and after receiving Vidal's pass, he used his trademark small broken step to dribble the ball wildly, and behind him was Busquets, who was back to defense, and Adriano was in the position of Messi a little bit ahead, constantly retreating.
At this moment, the rhythm of the game was mentioned to the fastest.
Messi's small step adjustment ability is very fast, when he entered the right corner of the opponent's penalty area a little outside, he decisively dribbled the ball diagonally inward, Adriano's adjustment was also very fast, immediately followed Messi's lateral movement, blocking the angle of Messi's direct shot, and the middle Cavani rushed into the big penalty area, and took Pique and Mascherano away, and let the entire front of the big penalty area out.
Messi dribbled the ball all the way from the right side to the top of the arc of the penalty area, Adriano finally couldn't help it and made a move to fall to the ground and put the tackle, because he saw Tottenham Hotspur's attack played, Ramsey and Alves came up, and Alves on the right side had rushed into the penalty area.
But Messi seems to have been paying attention to Adriano for a long time, as soon as the Brazilian left-back fell to the ground, he pulled the ball out, pushed it with his left foot, and the ball finally passed into the penalty area, Ribery faced Messi's pass on the left side, stopped the ball directly to the bottom line, and started quickly, and the whole stop and start were very good, and directly gave Puyol over.
The Spanish defenders also followed the quick start, but Ribery hit head-on, faster, directly with a low left-footed cross, Cavani in the middle followed, pressed Mascherano, and with a header, the ball once again crossed the Barcelona goal, 2:0!
The entire White Hart Lane Stadium was completely fried in this instant!
Cavani, who looked like the Argentine's long hair, frantically rushed out of the Barcelona penalty area, waving his hands along the way, and hugged Ribery and Messi excitedly as they rushed up.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!”
"In the sixteenth minute, in the sixteenth minute, Tottenham Hotspur broke through Barcelona's goal again, 2:0!"
"Cavani from Uruguayan centre-forward scores with a header!"
"It was a very, very wonderful attack, and we clearly saw that the Tottenham Hotspur players played their strengths and characteristics to the fullest throughout the attack!"
The live camera of the game played the whole process of the goal just now, and it didn't just start with a few passes before the goal, but directly from Kompany header back to Pirlo, who then passed it to Thiago? Silva, followed by a couple of Tottenham Hotspur players in a succession of quick passes from the flank, almost in a tight area close to the right-hand touchline.
"It's all more than fifteen meters of passing distance, in such a narrow range on the side, being able to pass the ball so quickly and smoothly, Tottenham Hotspur Hotspur players' ability to pass and receive the ball is indeed quite amazing, it can be seen that Ye Qiu's training for them is indeed very good, even players like Cavani and Vidal can have such passing and receiving strength, which is very, very pleasing to the eye!"
"It can be said that it is this continuous pass in the narrow range of the wing, passing the ball back and forth, pulling away Barcelona's defense, and then Messi's dribbling into the inside, and then distributed to Ribery, the Frenchman's stop pass in one go, showing the strength of his top superstar, and his cross is also very comfortable, Cavani header the goal, without hesitation!"
In the whole process, Tottenham Hotspur has a lot of players involved, completing the multi-foot pass, the process is very fast, but very targeted, especially the successive retreats of Messi and Cavani, the two have a tacit understanding to maintain a similar wave-like running position, one retreats and the other presses forward, and one presses forward and the other retreats to respond.
"2:0, the game has become very difficult to play so far, especially in the sixteenth minute of the game, it was announced that it was two goals behind, which was definitely a painful blow to Barcelona."
After Tottenham Hotspur scored again, Guardiola looked very depressed, raised his right hand, a look of incomprehension and helplessness, he obviously had nothing to do with such a goal, and the side was directly passed by the opponent with this almost juggling pass, which made Barcelona, who is known as the best at ball control in the world, embarrassed?
At this point in the game, Guardiola has also begun to realize the team's problem, that is, Tottenham Hotspur consciously wants to pull Barcelona into the quagmire of the midfield scrum, and then use his skillful fast pass to play the space behind Barcelona, which is really very bad.
In the two goals just now, Cavani played a big role in passing and shooting, especially his fulcrum role in the game, it is obvious that Ye Qiu is working hard to build Cavani into a very all-round center.
Standing on the sidelines, Guardiola looked at the players on the pitch, and he found that the Barcelona players on the pitch looked disappointed and helpless, and even looked a little overwhelmed.
Perhaps, it is the past two years that have been so smooth that they think they are invincible in the world, forgetting a very important fact, that is, Barcelona, which is called the strongest in Europe by countless people, has not faced Tottenham Hotspur in the past two seasons.
Although it was only ten minutes, Guardiola was very clearly aware that in the past two years, Ye Qiu had left him and his Barcelona behind at least at the strategic level!
"He's right, this Tottenham Hotspur team is completely different from Tottenham Hotspur two years ago, a year ago!"
Guardiola seems to be speaking to his assistant Vilanova, but also as if he is muttering to himself. Messi and Cavani retreated successively, and the two maintained a tacit understanding similar to a wave-like running position, one retreated and the other pressed forward, and one pressed forward and the other retreated.
"2:0, the game has become very difficult to play so far, especially in the sixteenth minute of the game, it was announced that it was two goals behind, which was definitely a painful blow to Barcelona."
After Tottenham Hotspur scored again, Guardiola looked very depressed, raised his right hand, a look of incomprehension and helplessness, he obviously had nothing to do with such a goal, and the side was directly passed by the opponent with this almost juggling pass, which made Barcelona, who is known as the best at ball control in the world, embarrassed?
At this point in the game, Guardiola has also begun to realize the team's problem, that is, Tottenham Hotspur consciously wants to pull Barcelona into the quagmire of the midfield scrum, and then use his skillful fast pass to play the space behind Barcelona, which is really very bad.
In the two goals just now, Cavani played a big role in passing and shooting, especially his fulcrum role in the game, it is obvious that Ye Qiu is working hard to build Cavani into a very all-round center.
Standing on the sidelines, Guardiola looked at the players on the pitch, and he found that the Barcelona players on the pitch looked disappointed and helpless, and even looked a little overwhelmed.
Perhaps, it is the past two years that have been so smooth that they think they are invincible in the world, forgetting a very important fact, that is, Barcelona, which is called the strongest in Europe by countless people, has not faced Tottenham Hotspur in the past two seasons.
Although it was only ten minutes, Guardiola was very clearly aware that in the past two years, Ye Qiu had left him and his Barcelona behind at least at the strategic level!
"He's right, this Tottenham Hotspur team is completely different from Tottenham Hotspur two years ago, a year ago!"
Guardiola seems to be speaking to his assistant Vilanova, but also as if he is muttering to himself.