(Cat flutter Chinese It is not surprising that Pep Guardiola will put all his bets on Messi. After all, Messi is also considered to be one of the few people closest to the Ballon d'Or, and it is always much better to press him than to press Eto'o.

And Messi did not live up to Guardiola's trust, not long after the game started, after getting a pass from Xavi, he rushed directly to the penalty area. Although Pepe immediately chased after him, Messi dodged with a light dodge and dodged Pepe's upper grab. Pepe took a step slower and kicked Messi's leg, knocking Messi directly to the ground.

Messi rolled over and sat up. Since the beginning of this season, he has started to lose the injury basket he used to be. Pep Guardiola's training and diet changes have been a good way to get him out of the injury. Moreover, the most important thing is that now with Alves sprinting back and forth with the ball, Messi does not have to run back and forth with the ball in a wide range as before, so that his injury risk is naturally much smaller - technical players need this kind of protection.

"Pepe's yellow card...... He probably didn't mean it, but he was a little out of control. Barcelona free-kick ...... It's a tactical ball. ”

This is also a very interesting feature of the Barcelona team. Generally speaking, a strong team has a good ability to attack and defend from set-pieces. The teams with more technical players in general also have free kick masters, but Barcelona never launches direct or indirect attacks on free kicks and corners, and their habit is to kick the ball out and attack with the ball.

It's a rather unique approach, and in fact, there is no other team than them that has such a weak set-piece tactic. Even teams that Barcelona have derided as lacking skill like to attack from set-pieces. But on the contrary, a team like Barcelona, which prides itself on being a master, has instead played all the set-pieces into short combinations. It would have been better if Barcelona had been given a bit more set-piece attack – that's everyone's opinion, but Barcelona themselves never study set-pieces.

'For this question, I think it's a question of the quality of the players at Barcelona. Barcelona's passes, most of which are short passes, not many long passes, and they lack the corresponding tactics of long passes to grab points. Free kicks have a lot to do with long balls, and without enough long ball tactics and players lack the appropriate training, set-piece tactics are difficult to achieve. Barcelona already had a serious problem with air dominance, and there was no corresponding tactic to grab points, so they gave up direct attacks from set-pieces. ”

Serville coach Sergio Ramos spoke his mind, and sitting next to him was Bosque, the head coach of the Spanish national team and former Real Madrid coach.

'I think there's another reason why Barcelona is doing that. Bosque said, "Let me ask you a question: what is the highest efficiency of a free kick goal?" ”

"As far as I know, Juninho was able to reach the stats of one goal in seven shots and one assist in six passes. When Riquelme was playing, he could shoot a goal out of five shots, but he needed to choose some chances, he shot at the better ones, and he didn't try the bad ones. Zhao Yaning is now the best free-kick player in La Liga, but it takes eight or nine times to get a goal. ”

"So, that's where the free-kick attack is the most troublesome." Bosque said, "It's not very efficient. In addition to the problems you mentioned, the lack of efficiency is also the main reason why Barcelona players do not want to play like this. It's hard for them to accept that kind of inefficiency. ”

Although the free-kick goal is beautiful, it is really not very efficient. One goal per shot, if converted into a game, can even be said to be very low. It is conceivable that if you make 30 shots in a game and only score three goals, it must be said to be inefficient. And this is the problem that set-pieces have always faced: no matter how good a free kick is, it is impossible to kick a free kick out with a single knife.

That's why Barcelona are giving up set-pieces: what they need is a safer way to score goals.

Watching the game, Bosque also spoke, "I don't know how to evaluate Guardiola's approach, obviously, he is a very good coach and he has been able to bring the team to this point, he is amazing. But I have to say that his approach, always and everywhere, shows not aggressiveness, but conservatism. Slowing down attacks in order to prevent opposition attacks, sacrificing opportunities for other players in order to enhance the status of key players, converting all set-piece opportunities into absolute possession in order to increase attacking efficiency – in fact, this is a very conservative approach. However, this approach does have benefits, and Barcelona is really strong now. And this is also a great thing for the Spanish national team. ”

Bosque knew that after all, he was from Real Madrid, and when he spoke, it was inevitable that people would find fault, so he also quickly praised Barcelona for helping the national team, which was regarded as a round game. He is a delicate man, and he is not willing to do things that offend people.

But after he praised Barcelona's excellence, Real Madrid also snatched the ball from Barcelona's feet. And at this time, Real Madrid's attack began immediately.

And not surprisingly, the focus of the attack is naturally Zhao Yaning. However, Real Madrid's attack routine surprised everyone a little.

Ibrahimovic was in front, Marcelo and Ribery were inserted together on the left side, Ivanovic and Raul were inserted together on the right side, and Zhao Yaning took the ball and reached the top of the arc and started organizing there.

"Zhao Yaning is really playing more and more like a front midfielder now......"

Since the beginning of this season, Zhao Yaning has a lot less diagonal insertion in the ribs, a lot less halfway running, but there are a lot more forward insertions and shots in the middle. His style of play has obviously changed a lot, but the most important one is that he's playing more and more like a midfielder.

As a core midfielder, the pass cannot always aim for the goal of assist. More often, the forward midfielder has to be responsible for controlling the rhythm of the game and mobilizing the running position of teammates - in modern football, because the scramble is becoming more and more active, this task is generally handed over to the back or the wing, but now, Zhao Yaning's style of play is extremely retro: he stands near the top of the arc of the penalty area, directing the team's attack.

In modern football, everyone regards this as an impossible task, but now, Zhao Yaning has told everyone with his style of play: Who said it was impossible? I'll be done.

Indeed, he has the ability to pull off a style of play that is strong enough to be in a position where he can use his back-to-back skills to take the ball, catch the ball, pass the ball, and play with ease. This is something that most of the other so-called technical forwards cannot do. Gourcuff in Ligue 1 and Ozil Ozil in Bundesliga are both known as strikers, but in fact, the problem of not being able to hold the ball when encountering high-intensity defense is obvious in them. In modern football, when it comes to the big game, it is a sure thing that two backs will hit the front midfield, and if the body is a little weaker, you can't hold the ball. However, Zhao Yaning didn't care about these problems, if he could hold the ball, he would naturally be able to organize the team's attack.

And more importantly, Barcelona's defense is really not strong: relying on tactics, their defense is very characteristic and can give them the upper hand, but the problem is that their individual one-on-one ability is really unable to compete against a guy like Zhao Yaning. Butzques was born in the front midfield, and he barely played in the back midfield, let alone against Zhao Yaning. And Pique's defensive skills are, to put it bluntly, a shovel to break the gambling defense, and after using it a few times, Zhao Yaning saw through it, and naturally he was no longer afraid of him.

Barcelona's style of play is strong in that they force their opponents' passing efficiency to drop and achieve the upper hand. An 80 per cent success rate and a 90 per cent success rate are two different concepts, and then to 70 per cent, that's another concept. 90 per cent for Barcelona, 85 per cent for Real Madrid, 80 per cent for Chelsea, and 70 per cent for Everton's pass completion rate. Barcelona themselves are close to 90% of the success rate, and if the opponent's pass success rate is reduced to 70%, it is equivalent to pressing the opponent into the attack of the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, and they can naturally win easily. However, their problems are also obvious. Relying too much on passing attacks makes them less capable of tackling the ball. When they meet opponents with strong ball handling, they are at a loss. When Zhao Yaning met them, he didn't fight back, but took the ball in the front court, and the effect was even more obvious.

He holds the ball, can easily get rid of it, and can pass it easily. Relying on him to get the ball in the front court, Real Madrid's front court does not have to be overworked, and it can easily achieve efficient cooperation - this is the role of the front midfield, directly improving the attack level of their own front court.

And this has become Real Madrid's current way of playing: relying on Zhao Yaning's organization in the front, he pressed the opponent's formation and had to retreat. If the opponent does not retreat from defense, Zhao Yaning can lead this group of players to smash the opponent alive, which is not considered a strong backline. If the opponent retreats from the defense, with the rhythm of Barcelona's football, they are squandering their chances by being compressed once and returning to the next attack for five minutes. And if you are lucky, Real Madrid will break the ball a few more times, and it may even be possible to directly suppress the whole field, so that the opponent has no chance to take advantage of it.

Ancelotti expected that Guardiola would slow down the pace, so he naturally arranged this tactic: if Guardiola does not speed up, then he will be slowly tortured by Zhao Yaning. If it is speeded up, Zhao Yaning's quick counterattack is a direct stab.

Ancelotti's arrangement is quite a bit of a scoundrel: No matter how advanced your tactics are, I relied on perverted players to directly bombard your tactics. Whether it's a diamond cut, or an all-out attack or defense, whatever it is, it has to be implemented on people. Now, I'm going to give you a player who, by his individual ability, can mess up your tactical backline – I have a player like that, what are you fighting for me?

This approach made Guardiola frown.

Pep Guardiola did not react in time, and this led to Real Madrid's attacks immediately starting to destroy their defence.

After Zhao Yaning got the ball, he ignored Butzkes next to him and directly gave the ball to Ribery on the left side. A player like him, even if he has his back to the player, Butzques does not dare to relax in the slightest, and he has the courage to run in front of him to intercept the pass, which Butzques does not have. Ribery, on the other hand, received the ball and immediately took two steps forward before smashing it straight into Marcelo, who was plugged in along the touchline.

Marcelo directly kicked a long pass and kicked the ball into the penalty area, Pique won the top of Ibrahimovic and threw the ball in, but Zhao Yaning rushed in front of Butzques and grabbed the ball with one kick. Butzquez immediately made a sliding tackle, but Zhao Yaning pulled the ball back, avoided his somewhat rough movement, and then passed the ball to Raul, who was inserted.

Raul immediately hoisted the ball down the left flank, where Ribery got his hands on it and kicked it to Ibrahimovic. And Ibrahimovic was resisted by Puyol, couldn't turn around and shoot, and returned it to Zhao Yaning.

Barcelona's defense was kicked by Real Madrid for a while. And this time, Zhao Yaning took the ball and ran a few steps to the left side, and after seeing Butzkes catching up, he directly picked up the pass and picked the ball to his back!

"Zhao Yaning's wonderful behind-the-back pass!"

At this time, Ivanovic had already intervened. Pique defended Ibrahimovic while Puyol took care of Raul, Ivanovic had no one around him to defend, and he smashed the ball directly into the goal with a fierce header!

“gooooal！！！！ Zhao Yaning assists Ivanovic!! Real Madrid led Barcelona, nice attack, nice goal!! "Cat flutter Chinese