Chapter 7: Top 3 B2B in the World

In anticipation of the crowd throughout the stadium, the players from both teams returned to the field.

Levi looked at Barcelona's formation, and sure enough, Busquets was missing, replaced by a black player with a strong force and a tower-like body.

His appearance will mean that Barcelona's midfield hardness will be directly improved by more than one notch.

After all, in this era, Yaya Toure can almost be said to be the world's No. 1 B2B player.

That is, box to box, penalty area to penalty area, refers to the all-round midfielder whose range of activity is from the own penalty area to the opponent's penalty area.

Hibernian kicks off.

The referee blew the whistle and Fletcher passed the ball to Levi, who watched his teammates as soon as he got the ball.

Back to Alan O'Brien.

And Barcelona's midfielder also began to methodically block Hibernian's attacking path after Guardiola updated his tactics.

The young Sergio Busquets continued to be at the back, but with Yaya Toure and Hleb, Barca's midfield hardness skyrocketed.

Alan O'Brien burst into midfield with the ball.

He looked up at his team-mates and saw that there were only a handful of his own players crossing the halfway line, and Hibernian's tactics in the second half were mainly defensive, so with the exception of Fletcher, who was up front.

Levi was the only one on his flank, followed by a few Hibernian players, but they maintained a more conservative defensive formation, with the main focus on the likes of Messi, Samuel Eto'o and Bojan next to him.

Timid and timid, he didn't grab the start at the first time, and immediately fell behind.

With a lack of points on the wing, Alan O'Brien has only two options, one is to try to advance with the ball himself and wait for an opportunity to pass to Fletcher, who is cutting forward.

The other is to pass it to Levi and let him show his personal ability to see if he can find a breakthrough opportunity.

Levi asked for the ball, and Yaya Toure immediately understood, clinging to Levi and getting stuck in the passing line between Alan O'Brien and Levi, Levi turned to run back and try to create new passing opportunities.

But Yaya Toure was like a bullshit plaster, always following him.

Eto'o, the African cheetah, has also retreated to the centre circle, cutting off a possible link between Levi and the backfield, and is ready to combine Yaya Toure to put pressure on him the moment he receives the ball.

At the same time, Busquets has kept his eye on Fletcher, and this time Allen's line is completely blocked, and the retreating Bojan cooperates with Hleb to force Alan O'Brien.

Hleb was not in a hurry to steal, but forced Alan O'Brien to be unable to pass or break through, and had to try to go outside, but was forced to go farther and farther, and the retreating Bojan blocked his return route.

At this point, Hleb saw the timing and suddenly broke the ball from the feet of Alan O'Brien.

Hibernian's first chance to attack was invisibly denied by Barcelona.

The key to this is that Levi was not under much pressure in the first half, and he was as easy as a walk in one-on-one defense, and Barcelona always had to have two or three players to limit him.

But Yaya Toure can keep an eye on him when he's off the ball, and he can't be sure when he has the ball.

This kind of psychological pressure is something that Busquets can't give when he is lagging behind.

It's not that I look down on Busquets here, firstly, he is still very young, and secondly, Busquets's strength lies in cooperating with midfield masters such as Xavi and Iniesta to be a metronome for the transition between attack and defense between the center and back.

His speed and body are not strong points, but the focus is on cooperating with Habai, making it more difficult to find flaws in the already unsolvable control.

And Barcelona's stormy counterattack unfolded almost at the same time, Hleb made a tackle and passed directly to Bojan, who faced the incoming ball, and his thin figure turned back dexterously, and the arch of his foot was on the verge of dunking the ball.

Samuel Eto'o, who was supposed to help defend Levy, suddenly inserted diagonally into Bojan's side, and his position was a few steps forward, which could instantly hook up Messi, who was struggling to be guarded by the defender on the right.

Guarding Messi at this time is a false proposition, and when he walks among several players, it must be when his own side has not yet had a suitable offensive opportunity.

Bojan only had to give Eto'o a half-pitch tandem that spanned half the pitch, but instead of passing, Bojan made a feint and twisted the hook to try to get past him.

But then he gave up his attempt under the siege of two strong men.

He tried to pass the ball to Samu Eto'o again, only to find that Levi had retreated and blocked the passing opportunity.

Sometimes the combination of attack and defense on the football field is like playing backgammon, with attacking and defending players constantly running around the field, looking for opportunities to pass and block.

And a successful tandem means that the first to connect into five sons, one blow is fatal.

But Levi's run was clear, filling a black disc in his move.

And told him that the fifth son could not do it.

Bojan had to turn around and do it back to Hleb, and the Belarusian took the ball again and sighed.

He stood at the back and saw it clearly, this was a very beautiful offensive opportunity, but Bojan estimated that he watched Messi on the bench in the first half as if he was in a no-man's land, and he also wanted to show off after he came on the field.

It's a pity that the strength does not allow it.

Hleb passes the ball to Yaya Toure, who faces the pressing Alan O'Brien, stepping on the ball to deftly pull away and flick a sideways pass to Busquets.

The black charcoal mass of 1.87 meters is extremely dexterous.

In the next few minutes, the situation in the midfield was controlled by Barcelona again, coupled with a backline that is not weak in footwork and ball ability, and Valdés, who is almost tailor-made for passing tactics and has a strong ability to play the ball.

Hibernian was far inferior to the forces that could be invested in the frontcourt, and Levi and others almost all fell into their own half, passively watching Barcelona fall in their own half.

And every time the slightest chance of pressing arises, a pass back to Busquets, who is handy enough to observe the situation on the pitch and create new chances again by diverting.

Levi felt very aggrieved by this, but there was nothing he could do.

Perhaps all the teams that played against Barcelona and Spain in the next few years will have this feeling, and the gentle and precise control of the situation on the field makes people almost feel lazy.

And at any time there will be new threats.

In the 50th minute, Fletcher pressed Busquets forward, who deftly stepped on and pulled, his eyes quickly scanned ahead, and then he slammed into the bottom of the ball, and the ball arced past the heads of several defenders.

The ball landed right on the right side of the pitch, where a short, stocky man was waiting, behind him Hibernian defender Paul Hanlon was clinging to him, and Messi's body was already leaning.

Seeing that he is not tall, he is unusually stable.

Just as the two were wrestling for possession, he took a step forward, and the ball landed right on his thigh, unloading at the same time as contact.

The body starts like a spring in an instant, and the two feet constantly touch the ball, changing the path of the ball subtly.

Instantly deducted Rob Jones, who came to make up for the defense.

Samuel Eto'o had already stepped forward, just in the middle of the two defenders.

Messi smashes a straight shot to find Samuel Eto'o.

The defender wants to follow, and at most he is on a parallel line with Eto'o, but the distance is getting bigger and bigger.

Hibernian defender David van Zanten could only struggle to get stuck to his side.

The African cheetah smiled at the corner of his mouth, leaning back on the defender and flicking his right foot right past the foot of another defender on the left.

Bojan, who caught up, cut in and fired into the near corner from eight yards.

Barcelona expanded the score again, 5:2.

Bojan, who had long hair, squinted his eyes and smiled with satisfaction.

And a thumbs up to Eto'o.

You're amazing, give you a thumbs up!

Levi sighed, Hibernian was already too far behind, and every opportunity had to be taken advantage of.