Chapter 1061

Gaoxiaodong with teammates suddenly attack, the goal is not all to break, of course, the best to break, do not break nothing, gaoxiaodong mainly want to create a little tension for Barcelona, do not let them calmly control the ball.

Gao Xiaodong's goal was achieved. Manchester United was unprepared when they played Barcelona. In the remaining minutes of the first half, Barcelona were a little nervous when they controlled the ball. They were not as relaxed as before. They did not dare to put in all their forces when attacking. They always left three or two people behind to defend and prevent Manchester United from fighting back.

In the last few minutes of the first half, Barcelona didn't dare to attack with all their strength, and Manchester United didn't get out of the hole easily. Neither side created any shooting opportunities until the end of the first half.

In the first half, Manchester United and Barcelona drew 1-1, and no one took advantage of their opponents in the score. But on the scene, Barcelona had the upper hand. Moreover, they mainly controlled the ball and consumed less energy. If Manchester United did not change their strategy, it would be very difficult in the second half.

The fans in the stands didn't care. They thought the first half was wonderful and fierce. Before their team suffered a loss, they were very happy. When the players left the stadium, the fans gave them a warm applause and cheers.

When Manchester United players returned to the dressing room, manager Ferguson was very happy to embrace Gao Xiaodong, Rooney and Evra, who made goals and praised their performance in the first half.

Afterwards, Ferguson admitted that he was wrong in judging the strength of both sides. Ferguson thought that the strength of Barcelona has been greatly improved compared with three years ago. At present, the overall strength of Manchester United is still a little worse than that of Barcelona. It's unwise to attack with Barcelona. Defensive counterattack is still the most promising tactics to win.

Although Manchester United's pre match practice is full court close to attack tactics, but the defensive counter attack is Manchester United's second favorite tactics, playing is also a familiar way, Ferguson does not need to say, simply ordered, to find players one by one exchange, pointing out their problems in the first half of the game.

In the end, Ferguson called Gao Xiaodong to his lounge and asked, "Gao, it was you who decided to press for the top position in 40 minutes."

Gao Xiaodong didn't know the meaning of Ferguson's question. He looked at Ferguson's face. Ferguson's expression was calm and his anger was not in the form of color. Gao Xiaodong had to tell the truth, "yes, I asked my teammates to fight together."

Ferguson still quietly asked: "why do you do this? Don't you know that if Barcelona break our high position, we will be very dangerous?"

Gao Xiaodong said: "yes, but I think if we let Barcelona control the ball like this all the time and we can't do anything, we are also very dangerous. Our psychological pressure and physical consumption will be great."

Ferguson said: "if you can't steal and you can't be hit back, you need to catch up immediately. The physical consumption is not greater."

Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "we are not always fighting, or occasionally fighting, which will not have a great impact on physical fitness, but Barcelona will be scared, I don't know when we will fight them again."

Ferguson laughed this time and said: "you're a ghost. It's a good decision. When I asked you to give up the high position press, it was in the game. I didn't have time to tell you in detail. In fact, my idea is the same as you. We'll play like this in the second half. Grab them from time to time, don't let them control so comfortably, this time is up to you. "

Gao Xiaodong is very happy to be affirmed by Ferguson. This is a legendary coach. He agrees that he has certain tactical options on his field. This is a high honor. At the same time, he also affirms Gao Xiaodong's position in the team, which makes Gao Xiaodong dream of being a captain again.

In another dressing room, Guardiola is criticizing and motivating Barcelona's players. After losing to Manchester United in the semi-final of 2008, with the growing strength of Barcelona in the domestic and European arena, they have been looking for revenge opportunities. Now the opportunity has come, but Barcelona's performance in the first half is not good, only a weak advantage, but also was leveled by the opponent in adverse circumstances Points.

Guardiola thinks that the rhythm of the players is still slow. They can control the ball slowly in the back court. When they reach the front court, they should speed up the passing and receiving of the ball. They should not be afraid of making mistakes and being hit back. If they lose the ball, they should fight back on the spot.

Guardiola said: "Manchester United's midfield is just a high-quality organization that can pass the ball. Can't you stop that? In the first half, United's two most threatening opportunities were created by him. In the second half, it is estimated that United will play Scholes or Giggs, so that their attack will change more, but the closing down and running will be worse. At that time, who can grasp the opportunity better? Three years ago, the opponent stepped on us to reach the final and win the championship. I hope you don't let me down this time, and I hope you can also win Don't let yourself regret it. "

Then Guardiola called Xavi, Iniesta, pique, Mascherano and Messi together to talk about the attack and defense details of the second half.

Manchester United's players returned to their 15 minute break.

Obviously, the score of 1-1 was not satisfactory for both sides, so no one took the lead to replace them, so they continued to fight with the original team.

In the first half of the game, Manchester United started with a full court attack. This time, Manchester United started steadily and stood in their own half waiting for Barcelona to attack.After the adjustment of Guardiola's midfield tactics, Barcelona's playing style has changed a little, that is to let center back pique and Mascherano take turns to break the opponent's defensive formation.

This adjustment is risky, because if the ball is broken to counterattack, the back will be empty, but the advantage is also obvious. In the first half, Manchester United mainly started to press close to the central circle, which not only compressed Barcelona's cross cutting space, but also increased the number of defenders. The sudden insertion of the central defender can make the opponent unable to find the corresponding defender and create space for Messi and Iniesta Or the chance of individual breakthrough.

This adjustment is too risky, and Ferguson didn't expect it. He didn't expect Guardiola to be so bold and dare to do it in the Champions League final, so that when pique and Mascherano were in front, sometimes no one came forward to defend, sometimes two people rushed to defend together, which disrupted the defensive formation of Manchester United's midfield.

The 49th minute, Barca centre back Mascherano quickly inserted the attack.

Javier Mascherano used to be a middle back and was transformed into a centre back in Barcelona. He has the skill and speed to push forward.

In order to defend Mascherano, Fletcher went up, and Evra, United's defender on the left, had to fill the middle, which exposed the gap on the left.

Pedro takes Park Zhixing, Mascherano passes Iniesta, Xiaobai points the ball in the middle, Alves quickly plunges into the penalty area and shoots hard, the ball is blocked by van der Sar, Messi keeps up with high speed in the middle, steals and shoots again, Evra blocks the ball out of the bottom line with his body.

Two minutes later, pike pushed forward again, upset the defense and then passed it to Harvey. Harvey and Iniesta passed the ball for a short time, and Iniesta passed Messi. At this time, Manchester United's defense was already in disorder. When Fletcher came to press, Messi predicted in advance, crossed Fletcher, and then shot hard with his right foot at the front of the restricted area, Van der Sar was not well prepared and was blocked by Vidic. Before he could make a save, the ball went into the lower right corner of the goal.

Messi scored for the first time in England, Barcelona 2-1 United.

This is also Messi's 12th goal, only two goals behind Gao Xiaodong in the Champions League scorer list. If he can perform a hat trick, he will share the golden boot with Gao Xiaodong.