Chapter 177: Choose One of Two!

March 23rd, 7 p.m. sharp.

The focus of the Champions League quarter-finals will start on time at the "Philips Stadium"!

When the players of both sides played, in this stadium that can accommodate more than 30,000 people, you can see the wrong Tai Chi flags everywhere.

These sticks dare to copy this kind of thing if they don't know much about it, they are really not afraid of the destruction of the country and the destruction of the family!

Tonight, it is conservatively estimated that at least thousands of baseball fans have come all the way to show solidarity with the Asian civil war hyped up by the European media.

When the Chinese fans stayed up late again and received the live broadcast signal, the players on both sides had already finished greeting and taking photos, and were about to get ready to start.

At this time, on the TV screen, the starting lineups of both sides slowly played out.

Barcelona starter -

Front: Zhang Desheng (91, 1985, 183cm), Jiuli (89, 1976, 164cm)

Midfielders: Xavi (90, 1980, 170 cm), Motta (86, 1982, 187 cm), Ronaldo (91, 1980, 182 cm), Maniche (87, 1977, 173 cm)

Back: Van Bronckhorst (87, 1975, 177 cm), Oleg (86, 1980, 187 cm), Puyol (88, 1978, 178 cm), Belletti (88, 1976, 179 cm).

Goalkeeper: Valdés (87, 1982, 183cm)

Barcelona's starting XI today was a rare 4-4-2 formation, with Motta being the real defensive player in the game, and Ronaldo being the attacking midfielder at the back.

It's not Rijkaard's ideal formation, but if Ronaldo is not paired with a defensive partner, then the defense in the middle is indeed too leaky.

They have conceded a lot of goals in their last few league games, and it would be fatal if it were to come up in the Champions League.

So in order not to be counterattacked in the Champions League, he could only compromise with his ideals.

PSV Eindhoven starters –

Frontcourt: Heiselink (83, 1978, 191cm), Beasley (81, 1982, 173cm)

Midfielders: Vogel (83, 1977, 175cm), Koku (83, 1970, 185cm), Van Bommel (86, 1977, 187cm), Park Ji-sung (85, 1981, 175cm)

Back: Bouma (82, 1978, 180cm), Alex (83, 1982, 188cm), Oyer (85, 1974, 184cm), Lee Young-pyo (84, 1977, 176cm)

Goalkeeper: Gomez (84, 1981, 191cm)

Today, Hiddink, the old fox, is also not as conventional as it seems, but has made targeted arrangements in the arrangement of troops.

Park Ji-sung, an all-round midfielder, was not fixed on the side today, but moved freely on the left and right ribs.

Van Bommel, Vogel, and Cocu, all three of them are actually active in the middle and generally don't go to the wing.

Such a crowded mid-lane station is to prevent Xiao Luo's back-row assault.

At the same time, once they defend with all their might, the three of them can also support their defenders at any time, so as not to let Zhang Gongzi live too comfortably.

As for the defense of the two wings?

Then you can only work hard for Park Ji-sung, an iron man, and they will only deal with the in-cut of the Barcelona players.

This is tantamount to letting go of the two ribs and the wings under the compromise, including the defense outside the big box on both sides.

If Xavi and Maniche can be as awesome as Piero in the two ribs, especially outside the big penalty area on both sides, then they will admit it!

This is Hiddink's defensive tactics, which are actually very varied, and in the end it doesn't work for another reason, but it's obviously tailor-made for Barcelona, targeting Zhang Desheng and Ronaldo.

As for the attacking end, PSV Eindhoven's tactics were much simpler today.

Park Ji-sung is responsible for breaking through and splitting the ball in both ribs, and he has to shoulder it on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends today, and Hiddink is using him to the death.

Hesselink and Beasley, the high-flying striker pairing, are designed to play counter-attacks and receive long passes or crosses.

And then it's gone, because PSV Eindhoven's players are limited after all, and if you let them do everything in attack and defence, it's really hard for them.

If we can keep a draw today, it will already be a good result.

Hiddink really didn't dare to hope to beat Barcelona, because when the Chinese went to that station, to be honest, few people had the confidence to beat his team.

The arrogance and self-confidence of Koreans who come from inferiority complex is estimated to be understood only by the third brother.

But as long as he is a normal person, he knows how terrifying Zhang Desheng is, just with his two stick disciples, he really can't touch porcelain!

However, looking around, the thousands of baseball fans in the "Philips Stadium" today are actually holding all kinds of slogans and posters that mock, belittle, and insult Zhang Desheng, the most of which is the poster of Zhang Gongzi's ugly portrait kneeling under the banner of Tai Chi.

"Ding!"

"Get a new mission - break that stick!"

"Quest Requirements: Ravage the Sticks Hard!"

"Task reward: Add 1cm or 10,000 luck points, this task can be completed repeatedly!"

When Zhang Desheng stood in the midfield, he was directly hit by this repetitive task!

When the thunder hit yesterday, he was not so shocked!

", I'm going to kill the stick!"

Zhang Desheng can't be calm!

This mission is too BT, right?

Is this really reasonable?

"But it's not good if it's too long!"

Zhang Desheng thought about it again, his work was enough!

So, if it's time to choose a reward, should you choose the second one?

"Toot!"

A sharp whistle interrupted Zhang Gongzi's entanglement of learning from his strengths or making up for his weaknesses.

PSV Eindhoven attacked first, but the other two of the three midfielders, except for Van Bommel who had some attacking power, were defensive midfielders.

Therefore, after PSV Eindhoven attacked, in the face of Barcelona's pressing, the offensive triangle composed of these three had limited impact and it was difficult to keep moving forward.

At this time, Park Ji-sung came up from the left rib to respond, and Cocu, who was still playing as the main midfielder in Barcelona last season, immediately distributed the ball.

Park Ji-sung is actually an all-round midfielder who is good at both offense and defense, and immediately after receiving the ball, he wants to use the involvement of three central teammates to break through directly from the ribs.

This is also one of PSV Eindhoven's attacking tactics, with the three midfielders pulling the defensive forces in the middle, and Park Ji-sung being responsible for attacking from the left and right ribs at the offensive end; If you don't have a chance, then pass back, and then make a long pass directly to the high school striker Hesselink; Of course, if they have the chance, they can also find the fast American Beasley with a through ball.

This time, they were clearly looking for Park Ji-sung.

However, before Park Ji-sung could turn around and accelerate, Maniche kicked a flying tackle and even shoveled the ball away.

"Toot!"

The Italian referee decisively blew for a foul on Maniche, but did not pull out Park Ji-sung's cards because he was rolling on the ground.

"Good!"

Zhang Desheng secretly shouted in the distance, "Okay, you have to kick the stick like this!"

Park Ji-sung bared his teeth and rolled for a long time, and finally could only stand up with the hard injury of -3.

Zhang Gongzi naturally saw Park Ji-sung's real-time combat power, and according to his experience, he predicted that this kind of hard injury would take at least ten minutes for Park Ji-sung to recover.

For a while, I have to continue to him!

But Zhang Desheng, who was bent on playing the stick, didn't expect that Eindhoven's free kick more than 40 meters away from the goal almost broke through the gate guarded by Valdés.

Kocu took a free-kick and high school striker Hesse Rink beat Oleg for the ball.

At this time, Beasley, an explosive black American striker, came out of the crowd and completed a point-grabbing shot in the penalty area, and the football rolled out of the bottom line less than 5 centimeters against the post.

"Damn, fortunately, this cargo archery is not good!"

Zhang Desheng and the rest of the Barcelona players were just as scared as their hearts pounded, which is too TM dangerous!

But it also shows that this Eindhoven team is really not a dish, especially the squad composition is very complete and reasonable, and they are afraid that they may really overturn away from home if they relax a little.

Barcelona attacked, and they naturally played the point of Xiao Luo.

But when Vogel and Cocu went one after the other, they tailor-made a set of defensive routines for Ronaldo.

The first attack of the Brazilian elves hit the streets!

Xiao Luo's breakthrough is still that problem, his ball control accuracy and cadence adjustment are too poor.

This allows him to have a historic touch reaction, but still lack the ability to pass continuously under the targeted defense.

PSV Eindhoven squeezed the space very hard in midfield, especially in the middle.

Cocu has been a teammate with Xiao Luo for a year and knows what flaws there are in his breakthrough.

So, when Ronaldo used an exaggerated touch reaction and a completely unexpected pick to play John Vogel, nicknamed "Sweden's Makelele", one-on-one.

Coku is like he has been waiting for a long time, just when he is about to catch up with the football, not only take the first step to control the football, but also use his strong body to make Xiao Luo crash up like a wall, and then it is a classic scene of people turning over on their backs!

The referee naturally did not blow for a foul, and after Cocu's tall body shook for a moment, he immediately passed the ball to the space behind Barcelona.

Although Cocu is old now, he was also the absolute main force of the giant team when he was young, and his passing skills are still there.

At this time, Beasley also completed the start, and the American Flyer only took two steps to shake off Puyol, who had a pulling maneuver.

Valdés was a little confused at this moment, he didn't expect Xiao Luo's breakthrough to be cut off directly in the backfield, and he didn't expect the opponent to pass the ball over in the next second.

At this time, he had no time to attack, so he could only retreat to the small penalty area and stare at Beasley, who was extremely fast.

However, Beasley is not only average in shooting, but also in his possession and stopping.

At this time, under extreme tension and excitement, he actually made the ball bigger after receiving the ball, and even a little crooked.

This made Puyol, who was desperately chasing back, see an opportunity, even if both of them had rushed to the penalty area at this time, but Puyol, who had a big heart, still decisively let go of the shovel behind him.

Beasley is indeed the weakest link in Eindhoven's starters, such a good single chance to play badly, his sense of space is obviously also very poor, this ball actually did not have the slightest vigilance and perception, and was directly shoveled out of the bottom line by Puyol's lying big football, and even the task of making foul penalties could not be completed.

The best thing about this ball was that Puyol didn't even tackle Beasley after tackling the football.

So the referee awarded a PSV Eindhoven corner instead of a foul on his backtackle under the new rules.

The current tackle rules have changed a lot, for example, even if the back tackle is tackled first, and then the person is tackled, it is still a foul, and even cards can be eaten in the penalty area.

Of course, generally speaking, the referee will not give that heavy a sentence.

As for not being fouled at all this time, it is natural that Puyol tackled the ball from behind, but did not tackle Beasley, which is only a problem if a foul is awarded.

"Mine!"

Xiao Luo had already rushed back at this time, and then said to his teammates with a little apology.

Zhang Gongzi shook his head in the midfield at this time, he just saw the scene of Xiao Luo being cut off.

It was clear that Cocu knew him very well, and the former Barcelona main midfielder had a very good sense of position, and he got stuck in a position where Ronaldo didn't have time to adjust his body and then overturned him with a reasonable confrontation.

The biggest flaw of Xiao Luo's breakthrough, in addition to the accuracy of ball control, is that he needs to adjust his body posture when passing people continuously, and to put it bluntly, he needs a certain amount of space to operate.

This is very similar to Cristiano Ronaldo, so they rarely have a continuous small range of dribbles under dense defending, and there must be a certain amount of space to complete consecutive dribbles.

PSV Eindhoven took a corner and this time Van Bommel headed in with Xavi.

Valdés was clearly not in good shape today and couldn't react in front of goal.

Fortunately, the veteran Van Bronckhorst stepped up, and he ambushed in front of the goal just in time to see the football attack, and immediately kicked the barb in front of the goal to complete the clearance.

"Awesome!"

Zhang Gongzi was almost scared to pee outside the penalty area!

These Dutchmen are actually average in their footwork, but they are really tall and strong, which is very good for these Barcelona boys.

"Chinese, die!"

Li Rongpyo muttered behind Zhang Desheng at this time, but unlike his hard mouth, his body actually kept pulling and pulling behind him, just hoping to interfere with Zhang Desheng to get the ball and let his teammates quickly return to the defensive position.

That's right, Van Bronckhorst's world-class clearance got the ball right in their way.

Zhang Desheng secretly cursed a little rabbit cub in his heart, and then stuck the opponent behind him, facing the incoming ball was a backward pick-up action, and at the same time, his body quickly turned to the side.

Li Rongpyo was startled when he saw this, and he immediately guessed that Zhang Desheng wanted to use a back-to-back action to turn around and get rid of himself with his strong body.

So, he immediately turned around in the direction of Zhang Desheng, ready to use his position advantage to destroy the football that was provoked!

"Nani? West Eight! ”

But Lee Yong-pyo, who turned around in a hurry, didn't see the football being picked up.

"Of course! Bastard! ”

Zhang Desheng smiled proudly in his heart, he picked the ball, but looking at the action of picking the ball, he only gently padd the ball when he really touched the ball, only picking the ball to the height of his eyes.

As for his quick turn, he was also only halfway through, and immediately turned back in the opposite direction.

But the awesome thing is that he turned back and used his other foot to complete a real back-to-back lob.

At this time, Li Rongpyo naturally had no time to stop him, and even almost sprained his ankle because of the excessive force of the second change of direction.

"Stop him!"

Hiddink sat up from the bench at this time, and he already had a premonition that this counterattack might be fatal!

(End of chapter)