Chapter 695 Subconscious

Compared with Barcelona's side, which had to be forced to break the kettle, the mental state of the team on Crystal Palace's side is much more complicated, and their complexity is not something that Friedman or Li Yi can solve in a sentence or two.

To put it simply, the players on the field of Crystal Palace, at this time, are burdened with the ambition of wanting to win and being afraid of losing.

What does it mean to win? The fact that the number of away goals is behind means that Barcelona must invest more offensive firepower in the next games, after all, the current score on the field is unacceptable to them.

And once Barcelona invests more troops, if you want to correspond, the counterattack opportunity of Crystal Palace will also rise, in this case, if Crystal Palace can seize it again, even if it is an opportunity, perhaps, they can completely defeat the opponent psychologically. Not afraid of 2-1 and 3-1 for Crystal Palace, in fact, the difference is really not big. It's just that Barcelona scored another direct promotion, and it became that the two sides needed to play extra time.

So why be afraid of losing? At present, the aggregate score is 4-4, but there are more away goals than Barcelona, as long as the score of 2-1 can be maintained until the end, Crystal Palace is the ultimate winner, in this case, most of the Crystal Palace players involuntarily walked into a dead end, the name of this dead end is called - to keep the score.

Stick to the score, to tell the truth, in today's football, there is only one coach who can put this seemingly correct idea into practice, and this person's name is Mourinho.

Obviously, the person standing in the coach's seat of Crystal Palace today is not Uncle Bird, and it is even more obvious that this group of players from Crystal Palace is not the group of defensive elites under Uncle Bird who have integrated defensive blood into their bone marrow. In addition, standing in front of Crystal Palace today is Barcelona, which is known as the first in the history of attack power, in fact, it is foreseeable that if Crystal Palace really defends to the end, maybe, no, not maybe, and it will be a fiasco to meet them in the end.

What, didn't Crystal Palace defend all the time before conceding the goal?

Here, it must be pointed out that the problem of stubborn defense, and defensive counterattack, are completely two concepts.

In the previous game, the general tone of Crystal Palace is that there is nothing wrong with defense, but this defense is not a dead defense, while stabilizing their defense, Crystal Palace will give the other side a pain, Li Yi's 2 goals, is the best evidence of Crystal Palace's counterattack.

Moreover, it can be said responsibly that it is also because of Crystal Palace's counterattack, after having a top soldier like Li Yi, it is too sharp, which also leads to the fact that when the Barcelona players attack, they actually dare not press with all their strength.

One thing is certain, if, just if, Barcelona can be sure that Crystal Palace wants to defend to the death, give up counterattacking, and devote all their energy to attacking, no matter how tenacious your Crystal Palace defense is, and how pitted the grass field is today, they will definitely be able to find an opportunity to break down Crystal Palace with one blow when there is still plenty of time to play.

If you can't defend it, then, Crystal Palace will simply attack? Isn't it said that offense is the best defense?

Hehe, if the Crystal Palace really chooses this way, then it will definitely be a failure to meet them.

Barcelona is used to pressing others to play, which does not mean that they will not fight back, on the contrary, Barcelona, which has Henry, Eto'o, and Messi, is one of the most threatening teams in the world, even if they don't usually play counter-attacks.

In front of such an opponent, Crystal Palace pounced to give the opponent a chance, and what awaited them was nothing but defeat, and Friedman could not think of any second ending.

Offense doesn't work, and defense doesn't work either.

Seeing that the Crystal Palace goal on the field was like a glass bottle that drifted with the flow, it could collapse at any time, and Friedman's whole person couldn't help but follow for a while.

He rubbed his temples very helplessly, knowing that what the disciples needed most at this time was to give a new round of instructions by themselves, but he really didn't know what decision he should make at this time, to help the disciples on the field, Friedman, who was slightly painful, closed his eyes.

In this situation, until the 73rd minute of the game, Messi's shot from outside the penalty area hit the Crystal Palace goal frame for the second time in 10 minutes, and Friedman finally couldn't sit still.

With a wave of his hand, he called Muntari, and Friedman, who had already told the former to warm up, did not give Muntari any time, and after giving him the order to nail Messi, he immediately took advantage of the dead ball state and put Muntari on the pitch-

"Huh?" For some time before, Crystal Palace has been in a passive defensive state, and for some special reasons, Li Yi, who cannot participate in the defense, is definitely the most idle person on the field.

It's just that being idle doesn't mean being stress-free. Li Yi, who desperately hopes that Crystal Palace will have the last laugh in the end, is also the one who pays the most attention to Friedman.

Why follow Friedman? Do you need to ask this question? Friedman, as the coach of Crystal Palace, shouldn't he stand up and reverse Crystal Palace's decline on the field at this time?

After holding back for more than 10 minutes, Friedman finally made a move and played his first card of the day, replacing the slightly weaker defense of Modric with Muntari.

Replacing Luka Modric with a defensive midfielder, Friedman has made it clear that he wants to defend.

Moreover, it is not enough to replace Modric with Muntari, 3 minutes later, taking another chance of dead ball, it seems that Friedman, who found that Muntari's arrival only made the situation a little better, and it was not enough, made another substitution, using Sissoko, another-stirring stick of Crystal Palace, to replace Naslie, who played well in this game.

As a result, the formation of Crystal Palace instantly changed from the previous 4231 to the current 4321.

3 midfielders, 2 of which are pure defenders, even Yaya Toure, their defensive ability is not much weaker than the other 2 full-time midfielders. Friedman's general idea, in fact, is not too much of a problem, that is, to control the midfield and try to keep the battlefield away from its own door, so that even if Barcelona continues to attack, its power will drop a few notches from before.

Theoretically, Friedman's two substitutions in quick succession are definitely decent enough, and even if there is no credit, there are no mistakes.

However, I don't know why, after finding out that Sissoko was on the field, Li Yi couldn't help but have an uneasy thought in his heart. As for the specific reason, if you ask Li Yi, he can't say why.

However, just 2 minutes after Sissoko came on the field, Barcelona directly used a goal to tell Li Yi the source of his uneasiness.

At that time, it was Barcelona, like the previous attacks, that slowly controlled the ball in the midfield.

In this game, Barcelona used the same rhythm and played almost 70 minutes with Crystal Palace. In the face of Barcelona's rhythm, although there will be no slack in the heart, there is a thing called involuntarily, and it is obvious that after getting used to the slow rhythm of the other party, although the Crystal Palace players have nothing on the surface, and they will not admit it, but they will inevitably have some slackness for Barcelona's pure consumption of people's will, this kind of slackness is hidden in people's subconscious, and they will not be discovered.