Chapter 742 - Controlling the Ball and Controlling the Man (II)
After shrinking the defence, Liverpool were very successful in disrupting the ball, they did not have the ball and did not pursue it, but only disrupted Barca's passes, tackled and then quickly launched counter-attacks. Especially Ronaldinho, which is not only the main launch point of Barcelona's attack, but also the end point of Barcelona's attack, has been taken care of by Liverpool today, whether it is Gerrard, Alonso, or Sissoko, Arbeloa, all took turns to force and foul Ronaldinho, and directly prevented Ronaldo from dying.
Breaking the dense defense and not being counterattacked by the opponent is Barcelona's biggest weakness, and Barcelona's failed games are basically because of being counterattacked by the opponent, which is not because Barcelona's back line is too poor, mainly because of Barcelona's goals
The offense is pressed in the opponent's half, leaving too much space for the opponent to counterattack, and in such a space, any top defender will be blasted into slag by the striker.
Barcelona has a certain deployment for this dead hole in their own tactics, the two fullbacks did not all press up to attack, and the two backs rarely plugged in together, leaving at least one so that there can be players to supplement the defense when Liverpool counterattacks.
However, this kind of defense is still not enough in front of the huge space of most of the stadium, and now there is no problem in front of Barcelona's goal, mainly because Liverpool has too few counter-attack opportunities, and the ball is basically controlled at Barcelona's feet. But now that the game has only been played for ten minutes, Liverpool will certainly have more counter-attacking opportunities as the game progresses, and the time will come to test the Barcelona backline.
Short pass penetration is Barcelona's fame, unique in the world, many people will use the flow of mercury when describing Barcelona's offense, but even the extremely accurate Barcelona in the attack also needs space, now Liverpool recycled to their own half, equivalent to the pitch reduced by half, at this time Barcelona passed a lot more mistakes than the original.
But Barcelona's offensive weapon is not only the trick of short pass penetration, in the big-name Barcelona, when the team can't open the situation, the individual breakthrough of the star is also an important means.
Before this game, Barcelona mainly relied on Ronaldinho's crazy breakthrough and Eto'o's speed to solve the problem, but today Eto'o is not there, Ronaldinho was robbed by the opponent and almost became a resentful woman, and only Deco, Saviola and Messi can solve the problem in terms of individual ability.
Messi is the youngest of the 22 people on the field, and the Argentine talent, who will only turn 20 in June, is the strongest breakthrough ability of the 22 people on the field, and his current problem is that he has just recovered from injury, and he does not dare to use his full strength when breaking through and accelerating.
But seeing his teammates playing more and more passively, Messi began to speed up.
In the 12th minute of the game, Messi received the ball on the side, Sissoko saw the opportunity to rush over and steal, but he didn't expect Messi's speed to be faster, and Messi pulled the ball away before his foot touched the ball.
Easily flicked past Risissoko, Messi quickly broke through the middle along the edge of the penalty area with the ball.
Liverpool's current formation is very good, each Barcelona player has a corresponding Liverpool player to take care of, Messi burst into the penalty area from the side, and Liverpool's players quickly rushed over to cover Messi to defend it.
At this moment, Messi has only played professionally for more than a year, and his sense of experience cannot be compared with old players such as Ronaldinho.
But a genius is a genius, and in the bag of Liverpool's three players, Messi flashed and moved and broke out of the bag.
Seeing Messi shoot with his feet, Sissoko had no choice but to reach out and drag Messi down from behind.
Referee Fade's whistle blew decisively, and he showed Sissoko a yellow card for a free-kick from the edge of the box.
Ronaldinho walked to the penalty spot with a stern face, he played very uncomfortable today, with the ball, breakthroughs, and passes, and now it is easy to get a free kick in a good position, Ronaldinho hopes to use this to break the deadlock for Barcelona.
As the referee's whistle blew, Xiao Luo ran slightly, swung his calf lightly, and kicked a free kick with a lot of spin.
The ball went around the wall, landed at the highest point, and went straight to the top left corner of the goal.
"Deciduous balls!"
There was an exclamation from someone in the stands.
Indeed, this is a beautiful ball of fallen leaves, and the great thing about this kind of free kick is that it falls quickly after going over the wall, and it is the best way to kick a free kick when you are close to the goal.
However, today's opponent of Ronaldinho is Barcelona's former player Reina, Reina has a deep study of Ronaldinho's free kick, this leaf ball did not deceive Reina, Reina flew to the side and hit the ball with one palm to the bottom line.
Seeing such a wonderful free kick saved by Reina, the Barcelona fans in the Camp Nou stands all sighed, in addition to regretting that Ronaldo's free kick did not score, but also regretting that Reina, such a good goalkeeper, was sold to Liverpool.
"Attack beautifully, defend wonderfully." CCTV's commentator He Hui was amazed, and then had hidden worries about Liverpool's defense, "Undoubtedly, in the first ten minutes, Liverpool's man-to-man defense was successful, under the joint strangulation of Alonso, Gerrard, Sissoko and others, Ronaldinho, Saviola, Xavi and others did not play, Barcelona almost did not get any decent shooting opportunities, but don't forget that Barcelona has a lot of big-name stars, and their flash of inspiration may destroy the reinforced concrete defense line built by Liverpool." ”
Benitez has not forgotten Jì, but he has no way to limit the talent of every Barcelona star, and it is not easy to prevent Ronaldinho from Liverpool, a little guy like Messi, a star like Saviola, Benitez can only hope that his defensive players can also play extraordinarily.
In the 14th minute of the game, Messi made a comeback, he even passed several people from the side to the middle, Alonso saw that this little guy was in a no-man's land, and he didn't dare to say that he could steal his ball, so he decisively put the shovel, wanting to use a yellow card to stop Messi's breakthrough, and at the same time shock the Argentine, don't rely on a little skill, fast and unscrupulous.
But Alonso still underestimated Messi's speed and technique, he was running for people, but it was so fast that he imagined, he looked like he was about to shovel Messi's feet, but only to shovel into the air, and Messi was already gone.
Then all eyes were focused on Messi who was dribbling like a madman, almost all the Liverpool players also surrounded Messi, they had no way to take care of other players, Messi had already passed Liverpool's four players, and let him go on, he could even pass all the defenders to face goalkeeper Reina.
Messi looked too high, but before the Liverpool players could close in, he made the most sensible choice, flicking the outside of his instep and distributing the ball to Saviola, who was standing at the edge of the box.
Saviola didn't seem to realize that Messi could pass the ball and could pass it, and he was stunned for a moment before rushing over to grab the point and stab the far corner of the goal.
Saviola was stunned and the Liverpool players arrived, and Carragher's flying tackle blocked the ball.
The ball blocked the middle and fell in front of Deco who was running at high speed, the ball popped up too quickly and suddenly, Deco was not ready, so he could only push it with his knee, and the ball grazed the post and flew out of the bottom line.
After successive chances on goal, the Barcelona players were excited, and the two full-backs also switched from taking turns to flying on the wings, breaking through on the flanks and opening up space for the players in the middle.
Messi and Ronaldinho strengthened their individual breakthroughs, forcing Liverpool's players to use two or three players to defend one person, which also gave other players room to play.
In the 21st minute, Belletti failed to make a strong penetration, he distributed the ball to the middle, Xavi split the ball to the side, Ronaldinho attracted all the attention of the wing, Zambrotta took the opportunity to gallop past Arbeloa's side and cross underneath.
Under tremendous pressure, Liverpool's tight defense finally showed a flaw, Saviola in the middle flicked in front and attracted the attention of Carragher, while Messi in front took Agger and Sissoko away, and no one in the middle grabbed the ball, and the ball flew to the back post.
The back post was protected by full-back Reese, but Reese was just watching the ball and didn't notice Deco cutting in from behind him, and just as Reese was about to clear the ball with a header, Deco jumped high and headed the ball into the near corner of the net before Reese.
At this moment, Liverpool goalkeeper Reina is still in the middle of the goal, and the position of Deco's header is at most four or five meters away from the goal.
1:0
After 20 minutes of hard fighting, Barcelona finally blasted open the door guarded by Reina.
Deco was so excited after the goal that he picked up the ball from inside the goal, kicked it into the stands, and then ran towards Zambrotta, who was passing the ball, with his hands raised in the air.
There was applause and roars in the stands, and the raised arms seemed to grow a forest out of thin air, and the earth-shattering sound made the whole Camp Nou hear no other sound than applause.
“goalgoalgoal…… Deco! Deco! Deco! Barcelona 1:0, the deadlock was broken, and Barcelona's attack finally paid off...... It's not a pretty goal, but it's very important, and with this goal, the Liverpudlians will definitely press it out and the games will definitely be more exciting......"
The Spanish commentator at the scene roared passionately.
Of course, the Chinese commentator He Hui is on the side of Liverpool, seeing this goal, He Hui said helplessly: "Liverpool's defense is very good, and they limit stars such as Ronaldinho very well, but it is still very difficult for them to stay at Camp Nou for 90 minutes, Barcelona has enough stars, any star can change the trend of the game, this time it is Deco, no one knows who is next, Liverpool actually does not need to be so conservative, now it is away, as long as you score a goal, Even if you lose, it is acceptable, with Liverpool's attack power and Chen Yu's ability to seize opportunities, it is not a luxury to score a goal. ”