Volume 1 Chapter 314 A Battle in Despair

(Happy Spring Festival, brothers, all the best, on the first day of the 14th lunar calendar, the brothers will vote for a monthly pass, just like the title of this chapter says, there is no hope to fight, this is not only a monthly ticket award, but a fight for honor)

Dense defense is a problem for any team, and it's a true proposition that has been proven in countless games.

And the dense defense of the Italian team is a nightmare for any team, as the defensive counter-attack has penetrated the country's blood.

Fiorentina is an attacking football player in the Italian team, but they are definitely defensive and defensive compared to the Spanish team, and they have shrunk the whole line to their own 30-meter area to defend, so that Barcelona has no good way for a while.

At this time, short pass penetration is no longer the best choice, Barcelona's passing and possession ability is not as brilliant as in the later Guardiola era, and Fiorentina still has a good counterattack ability, short pass penetration is at great risk of being cut off, and personal breakthroughs and long-range shots have become Barcelona's best choice.

In Barcelona's lineup, Van Bommel and Deco both have a long-range shot, but Fiorentina's preparation is also very good, not giving them the opportunity to shoot easily, and Messi has been proven to have a strong destructive ability at the moment, and the Fiorentina players do not dare to take it lightly at all, giving him the same defensive treatment as Ronaldo.

Under such a defense, Barcelona's attack like a frenzied tide could not break through Fiorentina's goal in about ten minutes, and only Messi's several newborn calves were not afraid of tigers to break through in the Fiorentina penalty area, almost allowing Barcelona to fish in troubled waters to break the goal.

A whistle ended the storm of Barcelona in the first half, and also made the worried Fiorentina fans temporarily put their hearts in their stomachs, and the Fiorentina players had no fear when the whistle blew, only a feeling of prostration and relief, because under the onslaught of the opponent, Fiorentina had no time to fear, and could only subconsciously defend.

The road to the mixed channel was a bit scary for the Fiorentina players, because the more than 80,000 Barcelona fans in the stadium were shouting boos them with their halberd fingers, and it was impossible for people who were not there to understand the feeling, 80,000 people booed together in a small place, which can be said to be more sensational than thunder, and the feeling of being pointed at by a halberd is described in a Chinese word as "a thousand people refer to it, and it ends without a problem".

However, after returning to the dressing room, the mood of the Fiorentina players finally improved.

'We held Barcelona to a draw.'

"Damn, Barcelona's offense is fucking horrible."

"This is offensive football, and in comparison, Serie A is an old cow pulling a broken car."

The Fiorentina players are excitedly commenting on the past game.

Chen Yu said: "Let's not be too happy, it's only the first half, and we definitely have a more difficult second half." ”

Although Chen Yu's words are not harmonious with the overall atmosphere, Chen Yu's words are still very weighty, before the game started, Chen Yu insisted on focusing on defending Messi, and the first half of the game also proved that Messi is indeed very strong, and also proved that Chen Yu is correct, indeed, if you look at Messi in terms of age and experience, he will definitely be abused very badly.

Prandelli's first words when he came to the locker room were: "Thank you, thank you, you have given me a surprise and a letter."

This is Prandelli's heart's words, in the last ten minutes of the first half, Prandelli was like a pins and needles, how many times did he think that the Fiorentina players could not stop and were about to lose the ball, but in the end they all supported it, so how could Prandelli not be excited, can he not increase his confidence.

Chen Yu said: "Coach, you have confidence, we don't have the confidence to block the second 45 minutes, their offense is really crazy." ”

Prandelli said: "In the second half, we relaxed and played, it was best to get a point, it didn't matter if we didn't get a point, anyway, our opponent was not Barcelona, our opponent was Bremen and Panathinaikos. Assuming that all three of us lose to Barcelona, then the results with Bremen and Panathinaikos will be the key to our qualification. Of course, I'm telling you to relax, not to give up, and it's certainly the best to be able to play this game. ”

Prandelli first comforted his players, and then arranged the tactical play in the second half, after the first half of the life-and-death struggle, Prandelli has a clear understanding of himself and Barcelona, defensive counterattacks, and even intensive defense occasional counterattacks have become his first choice, the only personnel adjustment is to replace the veteran Pancaro and replace the teenager Pasqueer.

Prandelli does not want to play Pasquier's assist ability, but wants to play his running ability, in a team like Barcelona, a game of non-stop running is a must, and Pancarlo's physical fitness and reflexes can not keep up, in front of Barcelona's fast passing, Pancarlo's experience is not used, and reaction has become his shortcoming.

In the dressing room of the home team, all the Barcelona players were unwilling, yes, they were unwilling, in the first half, they had 73 percent possession, five times as many shots as Fiorentina, and all other statistics were superior, but the score was l:l drawn, and the goals were all set-pieces, which made the Barcelona players how satisfied.

Rijkaard was still slow, he said to his players: "Everyone played well in the first half, played our characteristics, did not give the opponent many chances, the only regret is that we did not score more goals, but I hope everyone is not in a hurry, to think calmly, instead of being blinded by our advantage in the first half, first, the opponent has always been strong, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus have no way to take them, lose more and win less, second, this is an Italian team." Counter-attacking is their nature, and even if the two teams are at the same level, they will use counter-attacking tactics. Third, Chen Yu was the winner of the European Golden Boot last season, scoring an average of one goal per game, which also means that Chen Yu has a strong ability to grasp opportunities

Barcelona's players are all smart people, and they play smart football, otherwise they would not have been called "La Ying" later, but they won the La Liga championship and were called art football, a little arrogant, but now they have not won the Champions League, and they don't have too much proud capital, Rijkaard's words made them sober up, Xavi, Deco, Ronaldinho all began to summarize the gains and losses in the first half, thinking about what they had the advantage of not leading.

Rijkaard did not interrupt the players' reflections, but only analyzed and summarized the problems of the first half of the game at the halftime of the break, and made appropriate adjustments to the tactical play of the second half.

In the first half, Eto'o served as the center, Xiao Luo and Messi played left and right wingers, Messi's side played well, but Xiao Luo's side was seen very dead, and Eto'o's performance in the middle was also average, there was no chance to counterattack, Eto'o's speed could not be played, in the face of Fiorentina's dense defense, Eto'o was not strong enough in strength and skill, and could not provide much help to Barcelona and could not play the role of a bridgehead.

Rijkaard decided to put Ronaldo in the center forward position and let Eto'o play as a winger, although Ronaldinho is not a central striker, but Ronaldinho can play as a false center forward, he can pass the ball to the two players on the wing and in the middle, and Eto'o is more able to play his speed advantage on the wing.

In the second half, Barcelona kicked off first, standing in the center circle were Messi and Eto'o, Fiorentina players and coaches did not feel that the opponent had changed, after the game started, Ronaldinho and Eto'o suddenly changed positions, and Fiorentina was caught off guard.

Ronaldinho's style is very different from Eto'o's, Ronaldinho's central striker position is not purely about shooting, but mainly about playmaking, and Eto'o's pace on the flanks also requires a different way of defending.

In the 45th minute, the ball passed from the backfield to Messi's feet again, Messi forced a breakthrough with the ball, and Fiorentina mobilized heavy defense to wrap Messi on the edge of the penalty area.

Although Messi is young, he has excellent ball control skills, and he did not concede the ball in the Fiorentina trio, and even saw his team-mate's movement, he passed the ball through the gap between Fiorentina's defenders to team-mate Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho was certainly more heavily defended in the middle, but Ronaldinho didn't intend to get the ball, the ball was passed to his feet, he let it go, flicked it with his forefoot, and the ball made a right-angle change of direction to Deco.

After Davies' departure, Deco, who is known as a farmer in China, played a more prominent role in Barcelona's midfield, he is the backbone of the offensive organization and defense, and his non-stop running is his biggest characteristic.

Ronaldinho passed the ball back, Deco just in time to get in and saw a gap between himself and the goal, Deco did not hesitate to shoot.

Deco's long-range shot is also a must in Barcelona, in addition to the high goal rate, there is also a place that other players do not have, that is, there are many goals that change direction, many of the goals he scored are refracted by the defender, and then fly into the net, England's "Sun" once called Deco and Lampard the kings of refraction.

When Deco shot, he saw that there was no one on the direction of his shot, but after the ball left his feet, someone suddenly ran to the line between Deco and the goal, and the ball refracted again, but this time it did not fly into the net, but flew out of the sideline, and Barcelona got a corner kick opportunity.

In the first half, Barcelona won at least five or six corners, but only the first Barcelona passed into the penalty area, seeing that no one could compete for the top at all, and the other corners were sent tactical corners, so Fiorentina's corner kicks against Barcelona mainly prevented them from passing on the side, and did not put much energy into the middle of the penalty area

However, there was a noticeable change in Barca's attack in the second half, with Deco curling a low corner from the left and Samuel Eto'o nodded back before he suddenly ran.

Fiorentina was caught off guard by this corner kick change, and no one touched the ball at the high point in the penalty area, and the ball flew to the back point, where Messi rushed at high speed like a rocket and fell to the ground six meters in the penalty area.

Just like no one thought that Barcelona would take such a corner, no one thought that Messi, a small point, would actually rush into the penalty area to grab a point, so when Messi rushed over to tackle, there was no defender.

However, in the face of a third of the goals open to him, the unguarded Messi actually shoveled the ball off the crossbar with one kick, which was 108,000 miles away from the level of his passing and dribbling, which made everyone stunned.

Messi was lying in the penalty area, staring at the sky, very disappointed with his performance.

Ronaldinho walked over and extended his hand to Messi, "Stand up, Leao, it's good to be able to grab this point." ”

Harvey encouraged: "It would be nice to shoot too much." ”

Seeing this scene, CCTV's commentator Huang Jian thought: "Messi is very good in all aspects, the biggest drawback is that his shooting skills are not fine, and the power of shooting is also small, but this will not affect him to become a superstar."

In the first minute of the opening game, Barcelona played a different attack than in the first half, Fiorentina felt these changes, but did not fail to respond in time, and for a team like Barcelona, which takes attack as its life, a little negligence is fatal.

In the first minute of the game, Messi forced Pasquier on the wing, attracting the defense of three Fiorentina, but the defense of the three players still did not break Messi's ball, allowing Messi to pass the ball from the bag to Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho knocks back down the middle to Deco, who crosses to Xavi and Xavi crosses to Sato'o on the wing.

The passes were all one-footed, too fast for the Fiorentina defenders to keep up to, and it was at this point that Eto'o used his pace to break through Maggio and cut inside into the Fiorentina box.

Fiorentina's defence was in disarray, with Dainelli and Brockchi both pounced on Samuel Eto'o, and the rest of the players quickly moved closer to goal.

At this time, the African cheetah passed the ball back to the top of the arc of the penalty area, where Xavi was standing. Deco and Ronaldinho have both made their way into the box.

Xavi saw that goalkeeper Frei had blocked the right post, and he slotted the ball straight to the left side of the goal to hit the goalkeeper in the opposite direction.

It was undoubtedly a beautiful lob shot, but for accuracy, the ball flew too slowly and was headed out by Ujfarusi on the goal line.

But Barcelona's attack did not end, the ball flew right towards Ronaldinho, Ronaldinho did not rush to shoot at the flying ball, he slyly picked the ball with his foot, the ball just crossed Donader, if Ronaldinho shot directly, it would definitely be blocked by Donadale.

Ronaldinho picked out Donadale with his right foot and volleyed the ball into the back of the net with his left foot, leaving Fiorentina goalkeeper Frei, who had already run over to make a save, unable to do anything.

Ronaldinho put Barcelona ahead with a brilliant shot.

The Alzugna in the stands were halfway up by the time Xavi hung the door, and when Ronaldo scored twice, they all jumped up, clapping and cheering indulgingly.

"Ronaldinho", Ronaldinho

Amid the tsunami-like cheers, Ronaldinho bared his buckteeth and ran to the stands with two fingers in his hands.

At this moment, Camp Nou is Ronaldinho's personal stage.

When Ronaldinho scored, Chen Yu stood not far away, watching the world footballer perform in front of him, watching the opponent play his teammates with a passing like a butterfly, Chen Yu was very helpless, because this is the gap in strength, which he can't make up for by his personal ability, even if he crosses the binding, it is useless, the opponent's camp has a senior superstar like Ronaldinho, and he almost entered the king stage in one step, and his over-level binding is just a level with the opponent.

Although Fiorentina was passive before, but the defense is becoming more and more handy, seeing that Barcelona overtook the score, unwilling and unconvinced, under the instruction of head coach Prandelli, Fiorentina's two fullbacks continued to the premise, advancing the battlefield from their own half to the Barcelona midfield.

In the first half, Barcelona continued to press after taking the lead, but Fiorentina found a chance to equalize, this time Barcelona calmed down a lot and continued to recover, attracting Fiorentina to attack.

Fiorentina's players didn't know that this was the opponent leading the snake out of the hole, and thought that Barcelona was forced back by them, the attack was more fierce, and the desire to equalize was stronger.

With this rush to play with Barcelona is very dangerous, two minutes later, Deco, who has been tepid in organizing defense and long-range shooting, suddenly stepped forward and hit Fiorentina by surprise, at this time they learned that Lu Delco is also produced in Brazil, and the dribbling is not bad at all.

Donadale was forced to commit a foul and pulled Deco down from behind and was shown a yellow card by referee Bennett.

Barcelona won a well-placed free-kick, but Ronaldinho conceded the penalty to Deco, much to the relief of Frei and Fiorentina fans.

It was not long before the Fiorentina were stunned when Deco's free-kick was touched by Toni as he flew over the wall and changed direction, and Frei was ready to make a save, only to watch the ball go into the net.

Deco extended the score to two goals.

For the third time, there was a tsunami of applause in the stands, this time for the unpretentious Deco.

The on-site commentator was obviously a fan of Deco, and he said emotionally: "...... Pretty Deco completed a key goal, he helped Barcelona lock up the win, Deco needs a goal, applause is the honor he won, the professor said that Deco is the first in the importance of Barcelona, this is not an exaggeration, it is a fact, as the two brains of Barcelona, Deco can replace Xavi, but Xavi cannot replace Deco, because Xavi's tackling ability is insufficient, of course, Ronaldinho is the flag and king of Barcelona, but without Ronaldinho, Barcelona can not win at most, but without Deco, Barcelona will lose……“

The entire stadium of Barcelona cheered and celebrated, while the Florentinans fell into an abyss of misery.

Fiorentina not only suffered a major blow to morale, pessimism and disappointment also spread in the hearts of the players, and at this time, even the head coach Prandelli had the idea of giving up this game, because the gap is too big, whether it is overall or individual ability, the opponent is far stronger than them, rather than doing meaningless fight with the opponent, it is better to retain a little physical strength and eat a yellow card.

However, this thought only flashed in Prandelli's heart, and then the Italian marshal quickly issued an order to Chen Yu to stabilize the morale of the army and increase the investment in counterattacks on the basis of stable defense.

Chen Yu is not a person who easily admits defeat, especially in the face of the strongest players in the world today and the strongest players in the world in the future, Chen Yu is also determined to prove himself, he immediately took advantage of the opponent's celebration to gather his teammates together, and said: "Brothers, we can't give up before the game, we know that we are going to lose, but we can't lose dignity, we must prove that we are qualified to stand in the Champions League, we can not have many opportunities to enter the largest stadium in Europe, let's give Camp Nou, Make a big impression on the fans at Camp Nou, believe me, and fight with me."

What is Hero? What is Flag?

It is the hero who can stand up in times of danger, and the one who walks in the forefront in times of danger is the banner.

Chen Yu is the flag and backbone of Florence, after Chen Yu issued a call to fight, the Fiorentina players quickly got rid of pessimism and disappointment, full of fighting spirit to return to their positions, waiting for the start of the battle.