Nine Hundred and Ten "Barcelona" And the Decisive Battle of Barcelona

In the tenth minute of the game, after Barcelona stole the ball in their own half, Iniesta quickly passed the ball to Messi who was retreating in the middle. The Argentine superstar immediately took the ball to instigate a counterattack.

I saw that Messi first dribbled the ball diagonally to the right, as if he was going to find Pedro for cooperation, but just after the center line, he suddenly turned his direction and cut to the center, a sharp acceleration, forcibly broke through the defense of David Xi. elva.

After the breakthrough, Messi continued to drive the ball forward, and with a skillful fake move, after dunking Busquets, he continued to drive the ball to the top of the penalty area and slammed the ball straight from Kompany and Pepe. In the middle, a big restricted area was introduced.

Joe Hart's original position was at the front of the small penalty area, but after Kompany and Pepe retreated, he also retreated his position to the goal line. The moment he saw Messi passing the ball, He obviously wanted to attack, but hesitated for a while, and when he abandoned the door to attack, he was a little slower, and Villa was ahead of him.

It might be the time difference of tenths of a second.

Just a little bit, Villa took the lead to dunk the ball over Joe Hart, let the England national goal pounce in the air, kicked up and played again, the ball drilled directly into the empty goal behind him, one-to-one!

The entire Louis II stadium burst into cheers again.

Villa's goal successfully equalized the score for Barcelona, ​​but also allowed Barcelona to regain morale.

From zero to one to one to one, the two teams adopted a point-to-point attacking strategy against Maimang.

"In the first ten minutes, we saw City and Barca play quite aggressively."

"Both teams did not back down, but took the initiative to press and press with their best high positions. When pressing and pressing opponents, they tried their best to push forward as soon as they grabbed the ball."

"The game was very intense and at the same time quite exciting."

"We can clearly see that Su Dong and Messi are the backbones of their respective teams, and both have played a key role in scoring and assisting their teams respectively."

"Now that the game is back on the same starting line, we'll see how the two teams play next."

...

At the moment when Villa scored, Mourinho rushed out of the coach's command area directly and excitedly. The whole person jumped high and waved his right fist, looking extremely excited and excited.

Obviously, this goal means a lot to him.

Because the player who steals the ball is Yaya Toure.

From defense to offense, Yaya Toure stole the ball and instigated it. After Messi drove the ball straight in, he broke through two Manchester City players, especially the second player Busquets, who was directly passed by Messi.

Thinking of this, Mourinho returned to the command area under the persuasion of the fourth official on the sidelines, but did not forget to glance at Vilanova in the coaching seat, as if asking the assistant, Yaya Tourezhen Is it a hazard?

Why did I just see his role and contribution?

However, through the first ten minutes of the game, Mourinho also believed Vilanova's judgment, Guardiola really did not intend to adopt defensive tactics, but to play against Barcelona.

This is really fun.

This group of Barcelona players, from Messi to Xavi to Iniesta, have been playing together for at least eight years. Pedro and Pique are both in their own youth training, as are Villa and Alves. La Liga player for many years.

It can be said that the tacit understanding of this batch of Barcelona players is very good.

What about Manchester City?

But it is a mercenary that has been created for a year. Guardiola can use his tactics to restrain them and play a similar pass and control the ball. Does he really want to grab the ball with Barcelona?

Are they qualified?

Mourinho turned his head and glanced at Guardiola next door.

He was under a lot of pressure, and Guardiola wasn't easy either.

do you know?

In the past few years, all teams that played against Barcelona have died miserably in the end!

Manchester City is no exception!

...

Guardiola noticed Mourinho's provocative look,

But he didn't respond and walked back.

"If Joe Hart stood a little further out and attacked a little more decisively, the goal would not have been scored at all."

Guardiola is really depressed.

Joe Hart has really become the weakest link in Manchester City's passing and possession system, and the biggest hidden danger.

It felt as if City were playing with Yaya Toure and Barcelona were playing with Joe Hart.

Every time the goalkeeper is returned, the Barça Trident will press Joe Hart.

Needless to say, the reason is to force England to make mistakes.

"Our team is like a chain on a bicycle, every player is a link on the chain, Joe Hart is loose in this link, usually when there is no pressure, or when the pressure is not strong enough, he seems to be at ease. It’s not a big problem, but once it’s such a high-intensity and high-pressure race, it’s like the bike is climbing a hill with loads of loads, and no one knows when the chain will come off.”

Guardiola uttered a metaphor that came to his mind temporarily, and regretted letting Joe Hart start.

This has been a feature of City's first few games of the season.

Joe Hart took turns starting with Courtois to see who played better.

The Community Shield and the European Super Cup are both single-game finals. Joe Hart is more experienced, so the coaching staff wanted him to play, hoping that he could stabilize, but he still made a mistake.

"He's probably a little nervous, and he's under a lot of pressure," Winsue analyzed.

Joe Hart's ability is actually not a problem, if he is simply guarding the goal, it is enough.

But in Guardiola's tactics, the goalkeeper has to do more than just keep the goal. Some tasks make Joe Hart unable to do what he wants. Coupled with the competitive pressure brought by Courtois, he gradually changed his mind. Nervous, even a little anxious.

Sometimes people are like that.

Without the competitive pressures last season, Joe Hart was completely indulgent, and now with the pressure, he's nervous and anxious again.

...

With Barcelona successfully leveling the score, the two teams returned to the same starting line.

The two sides still adopted the tactics after the opening, and neither of them gave in.

Barcelona also gradually felt the difference between Manchester City and all the other teams they had encountered before.

The first is pressing and pressing from a high position. Like them, Manchester City is very active in pressing in the midfield and frontcourt. Even big names such as Su Dong have actively pressed and pressed against Barcelona's midfield and backcourt.

Di Maria and Sanchez are also very involved, which makes Manchester City's midfield pressing not only not lost to Barcelona, ​​but even better. These two players are more invested in counter-attack than Pedro and Billy. Asia is better.

The two side lanes are like this, as is Su Dong in the middle lane.

In addition to facing Barcelona's two central defenders, Su Dong also actively retreated and harassed Yaya Toure, which made Barcelona's entire passing and control system frequently stuck in the position of the midfielder.

And this is reflected on the pitch. In terms of statistics, Manchester City actually has a slight advantage in passing and controlling the ball.

Fifty-one to forty-nine, Manchester City are still two percentage points ahead.

This also reflects the role of Busquets.

The combination of Barcelona's Xavi and Iniesta is better than David Silva and Toni Kroos in terms of passing ability and tacit understanding, but Manchester City can have a slight advantage in ball control. Z has contributed a lot.

However, Yaya Toure also has its own advantages.

Another thing that makes Manchester City different from other teams is that they can always pass the ball quickly after they steal the ball.

In the past, when facing other teams, Barcelona's core weapon was to press and press from a high position. After grabbing the ball, pass the ball backwards, instigate the attack, and immediately throw the ball back into the counter-attack after losing the ball. Lose the ball.

But after encountering Manchester City, Barcelona players found that after Manchester City grabbed the ball, they were not afraid of them grabbing the ball.

This is what shocked them the most.

They had a feeling as if they were not facing a Premier League team, but another Barca.

What's more terrible is that this "Barcelona" team may not be as good as them, but their ability to pass and control the ball is not inferior, and their ability to press and press is even slightly better, which makes them unbelievable.

...

The game was going on under the slaughter of the two "Barcelona" teams.

Both sides have created a lot of opportunities, but neither is a perfect opportunity, and neither can seize the opportunity.

The mood of the fans at the scene went up and down as the game went on, just like a roller coaster.

Until the 34th minute, Manchester City attacked on the left, David Silva kicked the ball and sent the ball to the bottom line. Di Maria was stuck by Alves and could not pass the ball to the bottom line. Su Dong in the penalty area was forced to grab the ball before it crossed the baseline, stopped the ball with his foot, and passed it back to Marcelo who came in later.

Marcelo stopped the ball in the left corner of the penalty area. Facing Xavi, who was returning to defense, he made an emergency stop and then suddenly started. After shaking off Xavi, the ball with his left foot passed into the penalty area.

Su Dong, who was on the left side of the penalty area, caught Pique with his body and stopped the ball.

Mascherano was behind the two, ready to help defend Pique and block Su Dong's shooting angle.

It can be said that in this case, Su Dong basically has no possibility of kicking his feet.

After Su Dong stopped the ball, he glanced at the surrounding situation and knew this clearly, so he turned slightly to the right and passed the ball back directly to the top of the arc with his right foot.

I saw a sky-blue figure quickly inserted into it, facing Su Dong's pass, kept the ball, pulled the bar and pushed and shot directly, kicking up and hitting.

Valdés also reacted quickly, changed his position immediately, and quickly flew sideways.

The ball almost in a straight line, against the turf, got into the lower right corner of the goal.

The Barcelona goalkeeper was ultimately out of reach.

At this time, everyone saw clearly that at the forefront of the penalty area was Manchester City's German midfielder, Tony Kroos.

Yaya Toure, who was supposed to stand in front of Tony Cross, failed to get stuck in time at this moment, resulting in an empty area at the front of the Barcelona penalty area, which allowed Toni Cross to start smoothly. Shot, broke Barcelona's goal.

Two to one!

Manchester City another city!