Chapter 382 Stalemate

Chapter three hundred and eighty second deadlock

Barcelona has made adequate preparations for this game!

In Guardiola's team, almost every player has a defensive task, even Messi!

Starting from striker Villa, as soon as Barcelona loses the ball, they will immediately press on the spot!

Messi and Pedroka dominate the two ribs, Xavi and Iniesta behind him are always close to Atletico Madrid players who may receive the ball, and Mascherano is behind them!

And Barcelona's two full-backs have simply become two midfielders, they are on both sides of Xavi and Iniesta!

Barcelona formed three dense circles in the frontcourt! The purpose is to block the forward pass of Atlético de Madrid.

In fact, Barcelona's defense has always been like this, and the only difference today is that they work much harder than other games!

However, after Atlético de Madrid experienced the rush at the beginning of the game, Navas' high-resistance helped Atlético de Madrid keep the goal, and Atlético de Madrid, who were playing at home, gradually woke up.

Barcelona's attack was slowly pushed out of the danger zone by Atletico Madrid, and Kante's role came into play during this time.

Kante is not a very tall and does not look too strong, but his running ability is very grabbing. In front of the back line, Kante's presence protects the back line very well!

Barcelona gradually lost the attacking advantage they had in the opening stages.

And of course Navas did not have the dazzling opening stage-perhaps this is a bad thing for the media who want to see Navas' performance, but this is the best for Atletico Madrid.

A team always sees the goalkeeper is brilliant, which shows that the team's back line has a big problem!

Barcelona are still in possession of the ball, but they can only pass from the outside of the box.

Atlético de Madrid held their ground.

Atlético de Madrid fans in the stands breathed a sigh of relief.

This also includes Atlético de Madrid president Cerezo.

Barcelona's offensive in the opening phase was very violent,

This made Cerezo once doubted whether the team could withstand the opponent's offensive. However, Navas's wonderful performance, while trying to keep the goal, also left a deep impression on Cerezo.

"Navas......" Cerezo pondered the name of the Costa Rican. He was considered a footballer, but he was sure that he had never heard of Costa Rica's ability to make The footballer he remembers the name!

This is actually normal. Costa Rica is currently ranked 73rd in the world, while Spain is ranked first.

Will the Chinese table tennis team pay attention to a table tennis team from a country at the bottom of the world rankings?

The answer is obviously impossible.

"His performance is really good!" Although Cerezo hadn't heard much of the name, it didn't prevent him from admiring Navas.

Anyway, the player now belongs to Atlético de Madrid.

"I really don't know where Gao Bo recruited this player..." Gilmarin shook his head aside.

Gao Bo seems to have a database in his head. What players the team needs, he can immediately find a player with outstanding strength - and it is cheap.

Cerezo smiled. After handing over the transfer rights to Gao Bo, he really didn't know that it was working so well now.

If you maintain such a rhythm of buying low and selling high... I am afraid that Atletico Madrid will become the number one black shop in Europe.

But Cerezo woke up immediately.

Atletico Madrid is a team that wants to move to a higher level, and it must not be greedy for the small profit of the current transfer fee.

If Atlético de Madrid becomes a big team like Real Madrid, its annual commercial revenue is one of the best in Europe, and the transfer fee will only be a small amount of money.

However, to reach the level of Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid may have a long way to go.

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Guardiola is very sorry.

Without scoring a goal while Atlético de Madrid was on the verge of gaining a foothold, the rest of the game would not be so easy.

Barcelona's attack was thwarted, and now the game is slowly coming to a deadlock.

Barcelona couldn't even do a back pass from the front of the penalty area of ​​Atlético de Madrid. Atlético de Madrid's players tried their best to push the front line to the midfield. While staying away from their own dangerous area, they also let the two sides fight in the midfield!

In the 27th minute of the game, Harvey dropped back to the back line to get the ball.

The two central defenders of Barcelona pulled away to both sides. The two midfielders, Mascherano and Iniesta, responded one by one. At the same time, the full-backs pressed on. Messi returned to the center circle. Pressing in the middle, Villa pulled to the right in neutral.

This is a standard Barcelona-style attacking formation.

However, Atletico Madrid's response is obviously very targeted!

Aguero went to interfere with Xavi. The two strikers were stuck in the ribs, which hindered Xavi's passing lines to both sides. In the midfield, Atletico Madrid's players also targeted almost every Barcelona one-on-one. The players, as long as Harvey passes the ball, they immediately post it.

Messi is a key figure, because his ability to dribble forward can help Barcelona get rid of the current situation of being completely marked and difficult to find passing lines.

Messi recovered all the way to his own half, then turned around after receiving the ball.

Modric had posted before Messi received the ball.

It's just that after Messi made a fake move, he received a pass from Xavi before Modric could react.

When Messi turns around, there is a price to pay to stop Messi.

Modric wants to give Messi a body, even if he commits a foul.

Messi stumbled, but instead of falling to the ground, he continued to dribble the ball forward.

Modric has at least some effect in this way. Although he did not keep Messi, he succeeded in slowing Messi's speed, and then gave Kante a chance!

Kante grabbed the ball and succeeded in stealing the ball when Messi's center of gravity was a little unstable by Modric!

After Kante grabbed the ball, he was immediately surrounded by Barcelona players.

Kante passed the ball to the other side, at the feet of Raul Garcia!

However, before Raul Garcia got the ball, Mascherano made a fierce tackle and tackled the ball away!

The ball changes hands again!

That's basically the tempo of the game in the second half of the first half.

The fighting between the players of the two sides in the midfield was very fierce, and the ball was constantly exchanged. In such a high-intensity pressing, it was difficult for the two teams to organize the attack calmly.

Gao Bo stood on the sidelines with his chest crossed, his face expressionless, no one knew what he was thinking.

His team is leading in aggregate score, so although this situation is not very good, for Gao Bo, he can accept this situation!

Even if the whole game was like this, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Atletico Madrid's goal is only to advance to the quarter-finals. If the game situation does not change much, even if it is zero to zero, Atlético de Madrid can also advance.

And for Barcelona, ​​they can't accept 0-0 - because then they will be eliminated!

Guardiola was a little anxious, but he wanted to adjust. But it's not halftime yet, he needs at least a halftime break now!

Football games are not like basketball or rugby. There can be timeouts, and the coach can use timeouts to intervene in game tactics.

For football coaches, when they want to make relatively large tactical adjustments, they can only pass halftime. Even if it is a substitution, it is sometimes difficult to clearly explain the coach's tactical intentions.

Guardiola touched his head and sat back on the coach's bench. In his opinion, the first half of the game was like this.

The situation of the game is indeed the same. The first half of the game passed in the stalemate between the two sides.

After one minute of stoppage time in the first half, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half.