Section 788 The ascent of the spiral
(Cat flutter Chinese) "I regret it now that I didn't stick to it and introduced Zhao Yaning to Barcelona."
In the locker room, looking at the injured Messi, Puyol faced his teammates and spoke.
Why is it that at this time, Messi will be injured? 8 points gap, injured Messi, is this God asking Barcelona to admit defeat?
No one expected that just before the start of the game, Messi, the hope of Barcelona, was suddenly injured.
"You mean to think it's my mistake?" Xavi immediately looked up at Puyol, "I admit I made a mistake, but it was a mistake in football, this season, we didn't play well enough, if you scold me for not playing well, I admit it." But when it came time to move, I made the right choice: we didn't need one person to play with LeΓ³n. β
"I didn't say it was your fault, you didn't make a mistake. This kind of thing should have been for me to convince you, not for me to be persuaded by you. Puyol lightly suppressed Xavi's words, "It was me who made the wrong decision, and it was my fault." β
"There's nothing wrong with that, Real Madrid just played a few good games while we were napping. Afraid of what? We're definitely going to win. They just jump to their feet now, and when our state is adjusted, what are they fighting with us? β
ValdΓ©s' words made Puyol look at him, but he didn't speak. The difference of 8 points is simply a boulder on the head for a league championship team. Under such pressure, saying anything is just a nap, which is contempt for the opponent and a lack of attention to oneself.
Where is this snooze? With such a big difference, it was clear that he was asleep and slaughtered as a dead pig.
"Perhaps, what the media said is right, what he showed us is not how strong a strong team can be, but a new era of play." It took a long time for Puyol to speak: "This style of play is even more strategic than tactical: that is, against a team that is weaker than you, try to make as few mistakes as possible. Use a better record to make up for the lack of strong dialogue - such as the current Real Madrid, even if they lose to us? With so many points difference, it's too difficult for us to catch up. β
"I don't really like the way they play." Xavi said slowly, "But I also admit that it's really scary for them to kick like that. When that guy faces a weak team, he is a big killer, he can easily crush all the teams, and he doesn't lose a single point, this kind of play is simply forcing us to do our best to fight against them all season, but if we put all our physical strength on the league, we don't have enough physical strength in the Champions League. Sometimes, I think Zidane is really right when he says that football has reached a certain level, and the fundamental problem is simply the distribution of individual forces. β
Puyol didn't speak, Xavi is putting gold on his face, in fact, where is the current Barcelona to keep the energy to play in the Champions League? I can't even cope with the league.
Real Madrid has a lot of money, and it costs money to buy people, and Barcelona is desperately buying people in order to confront Real Madrid. In the six years of Real Madrid Florentino, Real Madrid has invested 272 million yuan, and Barcelona has also reached 190 million, and in the same period, Real Madrid's income has been 244 million more than Barcelona.
If you want the strength of the players to be equal, Barcelona has to buy big names, although it has its own youth training as a subsidy, you can spend less money, but in doing so, the salary is high, when Barcelona is the highest, the salary expenditure accounts for 90% of the total expenditure, and Real Madrid in the same year is only 84%, Barcelona can't support this kind of picking, in terms of the thickness of the lineup, they are not a little worse than Real Madrid.
Zhao Yaning can't run to death, his teammates will always be tired. However, Real Madrid can rely on rotation to complete the game, Higuain, Mata, Gago, De La Red and others are on the bench to see for opportunities. And what about Barcelona? This season, because the poor are useless, they all have to promote Boyang. Although it can be said that he is unparalleled in talent to the outside world, far surpassing Messi, and the unborn geniuses are jumping out one after another - but what is its real strength, who does not know? Barcelona has self-knowledge and no thickness, how to fight the league?
"Sometimes, I really think it would be nice if we were still in the '50s."
Iniesta's words made Puyol frown. He knew what he meant. In the 50s, there was no ban on doping in football, so doping was not a big deal in those days. The Germans famously wondered about the Bern miracle, and afterwards they all admitted that doping was used in the game - but it didn't matter if they did, in those days, it was not a foul, and in the 50s, doping was not banned in football.
Seeing Puyol frowning, Iniesta knew that he was speechless, and he also lowered his head, he just said that.
The newspaper said that Zhao Yaning had brought football into a new era - but there was no way to achieve such an era. In this world, apart from his monster, how many people can play so many games without getting tired? This is simply beyond human practice. β
Regarding the statement in the newspaper that Zhao Yaning has brought football into a new era, the Barcelona players, on the one hand, have to admit it, but on the other hand, they are also a little unconvinced: in their opinion, such an honor should be attributed to Barcelona, how can it be someone else's? Therefore, they also do not agree with those claims.
"Actually, Inter Milan and Manchester United's approach seems to be a bit like Real Madrid."
Eto'o was on the sidelines, and suddenly spoke.
Inter Milan's approach relied on Ibrahimovic's play. Manchester United are relying on Ronaldo. Their practices also have such a prototype, but they are not as far as Zhao Yaning.
"He's just getting a head start."
"Sometimes, being one step ahead is all that." Puyol said, "I went to ask Mr. Cruyff, and he also recognized Zhao Yaning's greatness, but he said something: the role of tactics is to limit geniuses, since there are unborn geniuses, we should use unborn tactics to deal with them, instead of complaining." β
This made everyone's eyes shine, but one question was just as prominent: what is the so-called unearthly tactic?
They didn't know, and no one thought about it, to ask Rijkaard. Rijkaard was good on the field and was kind, but the tactics were so advanced that everyone was not prepared to look for him.
"Isn't there a way to defeat that guy?" Eto'o was unconvinced.
"If there were, we would have used it a few years earlier, as for being abused by him every year?" Edmilson reluctantly agreed.
"Yes, there are ......," Xavi thought, "who of you have been following our Academy lately?" β
"You're talking about La Masia?" Puyol asked rhetorically, "There seems to be some changes under Pep's guidance, but I remember that a lot of the media seems to say that our team plays wiper football, that is, brushes around the backfield, and doesn't seem to pass forward...... I've watched a few of them and think they're right. β
"Is there anything you can believe in the media?" Xavi shook his head, "I just like the way they play, whether it's the wipers or the backwards, but at least the ball is at our feet. β
"What's the use of not being able to attack the ball?" Eto'o asked rhetorically.
'If we have the ball at our feet and we don't attack, then we can run less. Xavi said, "And if the opponent wants to attack, he must come to our feet to grab the ball, and the counter-robbery of the frontcourt players is extremely physically demanding, so that our physical strength is much better than that of the opponent." If we apply this tactic to the league, we can use less energy, so that we can stay in shape at all times like that guy, and we can not fall behind in fitness and condition. β
"And if we match it with a certain tactic and counterattack in the second half......" ValdΓ©s patted his head, "this tactic sounds good." β
"However, this style of play, it doesn't sound like offensive football." Puyol hesitated for a moment before speaking, "We rely on our passing skills, conserve our energy, consume the opponent's energy, use up the opponent's energy, and then we control the ball and kill it - it sounds like it's close to some kind of counter-attacking thinking, not like our football philosophy." β
"What is our football philosophy? Passing, technique, offense. Xavi replied, "We didn't set up a bucket formation, we didn't defend to the death, our passive defense relied on our excellent passing and receiving skills - this kind of technology, other teams, want to play can't play, this is our most unique advantage of Barcelona, relying on technical advantages to play, how can it be defensive football?" β
"You're talking about technology, I'm talking about ideas." Puyol shook his head.
"Is there any significance to the idea? If you want me to say, it's good to win. Eto'o spoke.
Xavi frowned, but did not contradict him, but spoke towards Puyol, "We can play the style of football we need by making full use of our technical advantages. Passing at the back may seem simple, but it is based on technology, which is attacking football. Rely on the consumption of the opponent's stamina and then defeat the opponent - we play like this when we are against the weak team, it is to save stamina, what's wrong? When it comes to playing against strong teams, it doesn't necessarily work, and we don't necessarily use it. β
'Defensive football always brings results, so he's like a drug, and once you get it, it's hard to get rid of it.' Puyol objected, "I don't like this philosophy of football, I don't think it's good. β
"Pep and I are on the same page." Harvey insisted.
Puyol was silent, he still respected the team's veterans enough, but he still didn't think this concept was good enough.
"Pep's command is not just a backcourt down, there are other things." Messi was on the sidelines and spoke quietly. Seeing the eyes of his teammates sweeping over, he waved his hand, "I don't know, I just watched the game, and I had a feeling - Pep's tactics are very good, if we use them, we can go further." But I don't know why it's good, the tactical problem, I don't understand, Pep's tactics, I just know that it's not just the backcourt, it seems, there are some other things to pay attention to. β
Harvey didn't speak, he knew, sometimes, the feeling was deadly. Messi is a genius, and when geniuses look at a tactic, sometimes, they do have that feeling: I can't say what's good, but I just like it, I can't say what's bad, but I'm sure that I can easily break it.
Puyol was also silent, and he also knew how talented Messi was. In his opinion, like Zhao Yaning opposite, Messi is a genius who surpasses the entire football world, and he also supports Xavi's words, so that Puyol can't say anything.
"Actually, there is nothing to fight for. This time against Real Madrid, why don't you just give it a try? In the first half, we tried, and if it didn't work, in the second half we played the same way we played. Henry stood up and played the round, "There is no harm in trying, and besides, we don't have to worry about failure - whose team can talk like us, not about sports cars, women, making money, endorsements, but about the development of football technology, the progress of football technology?" Our approach determines that we must be the one who is better than everyone else. This is the atmosphere of a championship team. β
"However, we still have no way to deal with that monster's perverted play in the league." Harvey said, "It's humiliating enough to be forced by a monster to have a big family behind closed doors and discuss how to deal with him." β
"There's no shame in that, there's always a way. Genius and tactics are the driving force behind the upward spiral of football. Zhao Yaning is a genius, but if we have better tactics, we can defeat him. Let's see, who is more genius Zhao Yaning, or Pep's tactics are greater! β
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PS: The spiral of genius and tactics is the law of football. Personally, I think that if you want to reflect the strength of the protagonist, his enemy, should be a certain tactic, not a certain person. Cat flutter Chinese