Chapter 113: Barcelona's Hardships
Barcelona are already feeling the pressure. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Atletico Madrid's attack was scary, when Merida won the ball on the wing, quickly handed the ball to Ozil in front, their fast attack began again, Ozil did not take the ball himself, but crossed to transfer the ball to Morris, who then picked up Aguero.
Suddenly Barcelona was nervous!
In this game, Atletico Madrid is not a double striker, the lineup is actually a single striker, Diego Forlan is at the front, and Aguero is a central midfielder - in fact, it is also a half striker, but the position is slightly behind, only a little more vertical than Ozil and Reyes.
Wansheng arranged Aguero to play this position, not because of any tactical considerations, but purely because of Aguero's technical strength and speed, in the case of Morris and Raul Garcia both playing in the back, Aguero is the core player in the middle of the midfield, and he wants to provoke the team's attack.
So when they saw Sergio Aguero get the ball and dribble straight to the penalty line, Barcelona suddenly became nervous.
Sergio Busquets greeted him.
In Barcelona's squad, Sergio Busquets is an important player.
Everyone knows that Messi is Barcelona's number one star and the world's top talent, but in fact, it is just because Messi plays as a striker, has a large number of goals, and is very eye-catching in the game.
Sergio Busquets is also one of the world's top talents, he has become the heart of Barcelona's attack and defence, and he is a year younger than Messi, many people believe that Busquets is even better than Messi, because he means more to the Barcelona squad as a whole than Messi as a striker.
Busquets was born into a footballing family, his father was the son of Barcelona goalkeeper Carlos Busquets in the 90s.
So Busquets is naturally an orthodox 'Catalan player' from Barcelona's academy.
In 2007, Busquets began playing for Barcelona B at the age of 18 and was promoted to the senior team a year later, making his first appearance for Barcelona in the Copa Catalunya Cup in the summer of 2008.
A month later, Butzques made his La Liga debut against Racing Santander in Barcelona's Champions League match, beating Basel 5-0 away in the Champions League, with a 15th-minute goal for Barcelona in the 15th minute.
In December 2008, after just three months of playing in the Barcelona first team, Butzques renewed his contract with the team until 2013, with liquidated damages of up to 80 million euros.
Busquets' progress has been staggering.
As a player under the age of 20 at the time, it only took one season for him to become a regular member of Barcelona's team, and then his position became more and more stable, and Busquets made 35 appearances for Barcelona last season, which can already be regarded as one of the most undecided main players in the team, you know, he is not yet 23 years old.
In January this year, Busquets successfully renewed his contract with Barcelona until 2015, with liquidated damages of up to 150 million euros and an annual salary of 5.5 million euros.
A player under the age of 23 received a high salary of 5.5 million euros, which shows Busquets' ability, and the liquidated damages of 150 million euros also prove Barcelona's determination to keep Busquets.
In La Liga, no player would underestimate Sergio Busquets, even if he is not as famous as Messi, he is younger than Messi, but he is already the core of Barcelona's attack and defense.
The same goes for Aguero.
Even more cautious in the face of Sergio Busquets' defence than against Xavi.
But Aguero didn't pass the ball at the first time, but tried to break through Busquets, as long as he could get rid of Busquets, then he would get the most initiative, whether it was a re-pass or a shot himself.
But Sergio Busquets is not a good breakthrough.
Aguero's feet continued to cross the field, but they couldn't deceive Busquets' center of gravity, so Aguero planned to leave the speed directly, but Busquets suddenly stretched out his foot to block the ball, the football was kicked to the side, Aguero couldn't chase it at the first time, Pique quickly stepped forward and kicked the ball to Xavi.
The Barcelona fan let out a long breath.
They are still worried about Sergio Aguero, even though many people stubbornly believe that the best star is in Barcelona, but the last time he played against Atletico Madrid, Sergio Aguero scored two goals.
No one dares to underestimate Aguero now.
For this Argentine to explode, Barcelona's defence was not necessarily safe, but fortunately Busquets did a good job and he managed to block Aguero.
Annoyed by the loss of the goal, Sergio Aguero covered his face with his hands before waving at his team-mates and signaling to come back next time.
Next time...... Soon to come!
Led by Atletico Madrid, the pace of the game became very fast, and Barcelona followed suit, only to have Iniesta make a mistake as soon as they crossed the ball across the halfway line.
Immediately following Atletico Madrid's fast attack, it's here again!
When Morris passed the ball to Aguero again, Barcelona suddenly found that they were a little unable to keep up with the rhythm, and Busquets, who had deliberately run to Aguero's side, failed to follow up at the first time, and saw Aguero successfully stop the ball before cutting.
"It's Aguero again!"
As Sergio Aguero got the ball again, the audience could see that the whole of Atletico Madrid was moving.
From the back to the front, every player ran forward in a certain line, and everyone was fast, as if they were pressing towards Barcelona as a whole, and the momentum alone was a little suffocating.
As soon as Atletico Madrid ran, Barcelona couldn't keep up.
Other Barcelona players, similar to Busquets, just wanted to defend the players around them for the first time, but Atletico Madrid rushed up, their reactions were a little slower, and any running and defending such as pressing and grabbing were meaningless at all.
The deadliest thing for Barcelona is that Atletico Madrid is too fast!
Some players can only watch Atletico Madrid play together, they want to defend, but they don't know where the ball will go in the next moment.
In fact, Atletico Madrid has no tactics or formations to speak of.
In this extremely fast cooperation, many times it depends on the habits of the players in training and on-the-spot play, what position the football is into, the first reaction of the players in that position is to kick the ball straight to their teammates, there is no time to take care of what formation, but the advantage of Atletico Madrid is that they control the ball, they are the attacking side, have the initiative, and Barcelona can only follow the passive defense.
At this moment, any defensive formation makes no sense!
Some of the Barcelona players didn't even know what to do, and although many of them were experienced, it was the first time they had experienced such a fast-paced game, and their movements and reflexes were a bit out of touch, let alone how to defend.
Players who have ideas go to defend nearby opponents close to each other, and after all, football still depends on people, and those players who are slow to react are constantly running but do not contribute to the defense at all.
Barcelona is clearly in a mess.
At this time, after Aguero and Morris completed a collision with the wall, they suddenly forcibly wiped into the penalty area!
The Barcelona fans in the stands exclaimed!
Pique rushed over to stop Aguero, but Aguero did not entangle with Pique, but chose to pass the ball directly into the penalty area!
"Aguero! Passing ......"
"Fran—"
As the team's only striker, Forlan was in the box and he didn't get involved much, and his most important task was to find an opportunity to shoot.
Now's your chance!
Fran took two steps forward against Puyol, and then he swung his right foot!
Puyol kept pushing on his side, and he couldn't break the ball in the first place, so he could only interfere with Forlan's movements as much as possible.
Forlan was distracted by Puyol and his center of gravity was a little crooked, but in the end he managed to shoot and the ball went straight to the goal, but unfortunately he couldn't hit it and was held in the arms of goalkeeper Valdés.
"It's a pity...... Puyol defended successfully...... He interfered with Forlan's shot ......"
Puyol, who was praised by the narrator, frowned.
In the attack of Atletico Madrid just now, Puyol smelled danger, and he suddenly felt that the game was more difficult than he imagined.
This season, Puyol has had a lot of injuries, and Barcelona has played Atletico Madrid twice in the league, but Puyol has not been able to play.
Puyol didn't understand why the team was at a disadvantage in the league competition, and was even beaten by Atletico Madrid home and away.
Now he understands a little.
This Atletico Madrid team is really hard to deal with!
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Forlan felt a little sorry for not having a shot, but the game didn't end with a shot.
Goalkeeper Valdés immediately sent the ball in the hope that his team could take the opportunity to play a wave of counter-attacks.
Atletico Madrid were quick to return and almost as soon as Forlan had a shot on goal, their team-mates, who had little hope of running to the side of the goal to assist, began to prepare to step back.
This is Wansheng's special advice.
By the time Valdés held the ball, Atletico Madrid had begun to retreat quickly, and the football crossed the halfway line after a few passes, but Atletico Madrid had already set up a defensive formation, and Barcelona had no chance to play a wave of quick counter-attacks.
They can only keep passing the ball on the perimeter and find their timing through possession.
Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines, and felt a little regretful that Forlan didn't kick the ball in, and before he knew it, 30 minutes had passed in the game, and now if he could score a goal, the team would be very advantageous.
It's a pity that I didn't get in.
Wan Sheng didn't care too much, the game is like this, often when you want to score, it is difficult to score, even if you have the opportunity, it is the same, fortunately, the team played the feeling they wanted, and the fast-paced game has made Barcelona a little uncomfortable.
The game continues to go on and is undoubtedly very beneficial to the team.
Pep Guardiola, who was in the Barcelona dugout, was already frowning, and by the time the game had progressed, he had found that his targeted adjustments to increase the depth of the midfield had hardly made any difference.
Pep Guardiola was surprised.
Atletico Madrid has several successive waves of attacks, posing a direct threat to Barcelona's defense and even the goal, and the most important reason is that the pace of the game is so fast that Barcelona can't keep up.
Guardiola was surprised at this point, he always felt that when it came to fast-paced cooperation, Barcelona was the top in the world, and only Real Madrid could compare with Barcelona, but Real Madrid could only choose passive defense in the face of Barcelona.
Atletico Madrid is similar to Real Madrid.
The same team in Madrid, the technical style of the two teams is not much different, so after Atletico Madrid's technical ability improves, they play against Barcelona and choose similar tactical play styles to Real Madrid.
Now Pep Guardiola has found himself wrong.
Atletico Madrid can beat Barcelona twice in the league, relying not only on defense and the play of individual stars, just look at their performance, that kind of fast-paced cooperation, Barcelona is difficult to play, but Atletico Madrid has done a good job.
That's why Barcelona is in a bad situation – the team can't keep up with the pace of the game.
So far in the game, Guardiola has also seen that Atletico Madrid doesn't want to rely on defense to win at all, they are actually playing against Barcelona, but their attack is very fast, and the defense retreats very quickly, so it just looks like a defensive counterattack, but in fact, the two teams are playing against each other.
This kind of fast-paced attack is a great test of the ability of the whole team.
Defensively, the speed of retreat can even affect the outcome of the game, and in continuous fast-paced offensives, if you want to defend well, you must retreat quickly.
Attackingly, the team's overall ability to coordinate has become extremely important, and the quick passing and receiving of the ball is a great test of the player's ability and reflexes, and Atletico Madrid is even better than Barcelona in this regard.
Therefore, Guardiola was very surprised, the tactical adjustment did not work, and the overall cooperation of the team was not as good as the opponent?
He was even a little unacceptable.
Pep Guardiola feels that something is wrong.
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But not only Guardiola, but all the Barcelona players on the field feel that the situation is a little bad.
They didn't think about tactics as much as the manager, but as players involved in the game, they felt the difficulty of the game for a long time.
The last time the two teams met, Barcelona lost the game, but they felt relaxed overall because they have always been on the attacking side, except for the pressure on the goal, when it comes to the game, the pressure is very small, and they can let go and think about how to score.
Now it's different.
They even have a problem keeping up with the pace!
When the frontcourt players are attacking, they also have to worry about the defense of the backcourt, because as soon as they lose the ball, the opponent can quickly pass the ball to the frontcourt.
Defensively, they also struggled to keep up with the pace.
The opponent's coordination is quite fast, and with just one oversight, the ball goes somewhere else.
Every player has to be focused at all times.
The game consumes not only physical energy, but also more energy, so the Barcelona players have found that the game is much more difficult than expected.
If you want to win the Copa del Rey, it's not as easy as the Catalan media say! (To be continued.) )