20demayo Chapter 223
Chapter 223
Rijkaard stood on the sidelines, looking at Li Shiguang, who was celebrating wildly with the players and smiling, and shook his head secretly.
This is too uncomfortable!
In the locker room before the game, Rijkaard repeatedly emphasized to the players that they must put enough pressure on the opponent in the frontcourt after the opening, and strive to score first, so as to give the opponent the greatest threat both psychologically and tactically!
Barcelona is best at passing and sudden changes. If they score first, the opponent must attack. At that time, they can use repeated passes in the midfield to make the mentality of Leeds United players more and more anxious. Once the opponent is anxious, they will definitely find an opportunity to expand the score through sudden changes!
But now it seems that the situation is developing a bit counterproductive.
Leeds United has already got a valuable away goal. In the Champions League series, sometimes it is just one or two away goals that sometimes determine the fate of the team!
So now, the side that must rush out has become Barcelona...
At the top of the Camp Nou, except for one or two reporters from England, most of the people in the media seats and commentary seats were silent. After the home commentator weakly introduced that it was Torres who scored the goal, he also began to comfort the audience: "Anyway, the current situation is indeed unfavorable to Barcelona, but in Rijkaard's tactical plan, he must have considered the possibility that the opponent might score first! It's still early, less than 1 minute into the game, and we still have 89 minutes to equalize or even overtake!"
What the commentator said was also the thoughts of most Barcelona fans who watched the game.
They have come back from their initial confusion. Yes, there is still so much time in the game, and we are only one goal behind. There is no reason for the great Barcelona to lose to Leeds United at the Camp Nou!
This is indeed the case. After Saviola and Messi restarted the game, Barcelona began to officially demonstrate their strong offensive capabilities.
Li Shiguang on the sidelines also discovered a problem. The Barcelona players seemed to be much more aggressive in the fight on the field than before Leeds United scored. And from the looks of these players, they seemed to feel a little... ashamed that they lost the ball first while playing at home?
Li Shiguang was right. The Barcelona players did feel a little ashamed. They were scored by their opponents in the way they were best at, and with only two or three passes. For them, this was undoubtedly a naked provocation!
This made the players feel angry.
In any case, they must use more goals to fight back against Leeds United's provocation. This is their home court, not a place where these British guys can have fun!
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But Leeds United and Li Shiguang are not weaklings.
While the players were still celebrating on the sidelines, Li Shiguang, who was the first to calm down, had loudly reminded them that they must pay attention to defense after the game resumed, and try to shrink the defense more tightly.
Everyone was very obedient. When the ball was in Barcelona's side, except Torres, other Leeds United players would return to their own half to participate in the defense, and under the coordination of Modric and Cannavaro, the distance between the three lines was also well controlled.
Barcelona has never found a chance to suddenly change and send a threatening ball to the striker. More often, Xavi and Deco could only pass the ball left and right, trying to use the width of the court to pull Leeds United's defense and then send a fatal blow.
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But Leeds United's retreat is not without disadvantages. This kind of retreat is equivalent to handing over the ball. Football is under Barcelona's control most of the time.
In addition, there is another problem, that is, Barcelona began to play the high-pressure tactics, and as the originator of this tactic, they seem to play it more perfectly than Leeds United!
As long as Leeds United gets the ball, they will immediately start to counter-grab in the frontcourt! Saviola, Ronaldinho and Messi were like three mad dogs chasing after Leeds United's back line, so that Leeds United could only rely on long passes to kick the ball across the half court most of the time.
Li Shiguang was also constantly learning from the short passes and frequent movements of Barcelona players.
Although he had a complete understanding of the tiki-taka tactics in his mind, it would not be accomplished overnight to fully convey this understanding to his players.
It took more than a decade for Cruyff to coach Barcelona to become what it is now.
Accurate passes and playersThe tacit understanding between them is the key to this set of tactics!
The most impressive thing about the football style of Barcelona and the Spanish national team is that they can constantly pull the opponent's defense line through one-touch passes and frequent running in the offense, and once they enter the defensive state, they can limit the opponent's ball route through running positions in the first time and counter-rob!
It was in this situation that the game was in the 31st minute.
Schmeichel kicked a long ball in front of the goal.
Max took the lead in the header with Torres and headed the ball to Xavi who was in the middle circle.
After Xavi received the ball, he looked up and observed it, and found that there was no good point to pass the ball, so he didn't rush to pass the ball, but slowly carried the ball to Leeds United's half.
Alonso saw that he didn't seem to intend to pass the ball. Since Li Shiguang specifically reminded him to keep an eye on Xavi, he immediately came up and planned to take the ball away from Xavi's feet.
But at the moment when Alonso kicked, Xavi, who was still dribbling forward, stopped suddenly, then stepped on the ball, pulled and flicked it, and seemed to easily avoid Alonso who was rushing over. Then he suddenly accelerated and rushed to the penalty area of Leeds United with the ball!
Because Deco needed to be taken care of next to him, his good partner Modric did not rush up to intercept the ball at the first time. With no other choice, Cannavaro, who was still slowly retreating, could only shake off his steps and turn around to rush towards Xavi. If Xavi was allowed to get within 30 meters of the Leeds United goal with the ball, the threat would be too great!
But this is the midfield master Xavi after all, and his pass has always been the most deadly!
When seeing Cannavaro rushing forward, Li Shiguang already felt the danger.
Sure enough!
Xavi just rubbed the bottom of the football with his right foot, and people saw the ball slowly passed over the head of Cannavaro who was running towards him.
At the same time, the live commentator shouted passionately in the Camp Nou stadium.
"Ronaldinho! He rushed from the left!"