After twenty minutes of play, everyone has discovered that Manchester City ’s use of the game is not called ‘OS-F’ offensive football system tactics, but a set of slightly defensive counterattacks!
But a defensive counterattack is a defensive counterattack!
No matter how complicated it is, this style of play always makes the game look bad. No matter how high the technical strength of the two teams is, it is impossible to make the defense exciting, so many media and fans are very dissatisfied.
Those who are related to the game are very surprised.
Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard is also one of them. Once in the era of players, Rijkaard was famous [pig ^ pig ^ island ^ fiction] [www]. [Zhu] [zhudao]. [Com] One of the "Three Dutch Musketeers", together with Gullit and Basten, won many championships for AC Milan and the Dutch national team.
After retiring, Rijkaard first served as Hiddink's assistant and won the fourth place in the French World Cup with the Dutch team. After that, he succeeded Hiddink as coach and led the team to participate in the European Cup held in the Netherlands in 2000.
Earlier, the smooth-running Dutch team encountered a stubborn resistance from the Italian team in the semi-finals. After a thrilling game, the Dutch team regretted to be out, and Rijkaard subsequently resigned as the head coach of the national team.
Although he was a little defeated as the head coach of the Netherlands, Rijkaard served as the head coach of the Barcelona team in Spain in 2003, and gave the team a deep impression of Dutch football.
Barcelona won the La Liga title for two consecutive seasons and won the European Championship in 2006.
Rijkaard also won the "Best Coach in the World" award that year. ,
Throughout Rijkaard's experience, he can know that he is a true 'actual faction' successful coach. As a professional player, he is expensive as the 'Three Dutch Musketeers'. It can be said that he is one of the most successful professional players. The coach, whose coaching started from the position of head coach of the Dutch national team, has also achieved considerable success in Barcelona.
Rijkaard ’s idea is “high-end”. He insisted on putting the Dutch all-attack and defensive concept into Barcelona. After several years of coaching Barcelona, he also successfully completed the “infiltration of this tactical concept” .
After succeeding, Rijkaard became more determined.
He insisted that 'Football can be played beautifully and practically', and now Barcelona is like this. The combination of the Spanish and Dutch football styles gives Barcelona a very strong strength. They have become the most powerful ball in Europe. One of the teams, every year is the most powerful contender for the Champions League.
In fact, Rijkaard is also very looking forward to playing against Manchester City, because he always believes that Wansheng has the same coaching philosophy as him.
Wan Sheng and Rijkaard, they have an age gap, they are not coaching the same league, they do not fight each other, they do n’t even know each other, their growth experience can be said to be very different ... even if there are so many gaps , But one thing is enough, that is, Manchester City led by Wan Sheng, in the Premier League that emphasizes confrontation and rhythm, used offensive football to kill a road to success!
Rijkaard believes that Wansheng will surely be the perseverant of the offensive football concept. For this game, the two sides will undoubtedly dedicate to the world a classic battle that can be recorded in history.
Rijkaard's idea was very good, but unfortunately when it came to the game, he found that this was not the case.
I seem to lack understanding of that Chinese?
Manchester City did not play offensive football at all, but used toughness, and even said that some rough defense was against Barcelona!
"Defensive counterattack?"
Rijkaard was unbelievable. He did n’t want to believe it was true. The gap between the game and the “Classic Offensive Football War” he thought was a little too big.
For a while, the Dutch couldn't even accept it.
Also unacceptable are Barcelona fans, who also think that this will be a classic offensive battle, not that when Barcelona encounters other Premier League teams, the game will become so ugly ... but now they I found that my thinking was wrong. Manchester City did not play cards according to the routine. Like other Premier League teams, they used a defensive counterattack when they played against Barcelona.
Some Barcelona fans feel their hearts are broken.
Some of them even praised the opponent ’s head coach before the game, thinking that the opponent is good at training players and has a friendly attitude towards Barcelona players. It is believed that if Rijkaard leaves the coaching position, then this young Chinese is likely to coach Barcelona.
He will be the future head of Barcelona!
Now Barcelona fans don't think so, and watching the games on the court, they are all a little unbelievable. Why not play good and good-looking football, but play the game with tough confrontation and unsightly defensive counterattack?
What is this Chinese man pretending to be?
Many fans couldn't accept it for a while.
The commentator at the Camp Nou also said, "We all think that this will be a feast of offensive football, but by now, we can be sure that Manchester City will be playing a defensive counterattack. Why?"
Yup!
why?
In the Champions League, Barcelona and the Premier League have a lot of matches, 407 / \ '> Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, etc., when they play against Barcelona, they mostly use defensive Law, but the effect is not very good, the game scene is ugly, not to mention, in the end, it is difficult to beat Barcelona.
Even in the La Liga, there are some small clubs and Barcelona will also play defensive counterattack, so Barcelona is still very experienced in breaking position defense, strong midfielder and technical ability , Enough to make them not afraid of any solid defense.
So in the eyes of many people, Wansheng's choice is very unwise.
If it wasn't for defeating Barcelona ... Was it the Chinese, or the entire Manchester City, was afraid of Barcelona? Fear of Barcelona's powerful offensive ability? In order to concede fewer goals on the road and then return to the home court to decide the outcome, they chose to fight back?
This ... really makes sense!
Many British media reporters discussed nodding frequently, and they all felt that this was the real answer.
They feel that this choice is not bad, after all, this is the Camp Nou, Manchester City want to take away the victory from the Camp Nou, it is too difficult, a few fewer goals.
It is wise to go back to Manchester Stadium and decide the outcome!
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Soon many people thought that Manchester City wanted to keep the goal and leave the suspense to the second round. At Manchester Stadium, they won against Barcelona, but as the game progressed, they found their ideas wrong. Especially wrong.
After the players of the two teams gradually invested in the game, Manchester City's defensive counterattack began to play a role.
Manchester City's defensive counterattack is not a traditional dead zone or goal.
They run a lot, and they are very tough on defense. They frequently make physical contact with Barcelona players, especially on Messi's defense.
When Messi just received the pass, he felt a huge impact. He finally stabilized his body and controlled the ball under his feet. When he wanted to pass the ball to his teammate, the teammate had already Run through the best position.
Then Messi felt that the defensive player beside him was interfering with his hands and feet.
Messi is very uncomfortable.
After all, he is not the future international superstar, just when Barcelona has just emerged, so when facing this tough defense, I do n’t know what to do, so Messi is waiting for his teammates to respond, just standing Elano Bloomer behind him would not let him go so easily.
Elano Bloomer comes from the Miners team. Compared to those young stars, he still has some fame, but his experience in the Ukrainian league gives him more 'small action experience' than others. Then, when Messi was hesitant, Blumer put a foot on the opponent's right foot.
Messi suddenly felt a huge pain.
He could no longer control the ball for a while, the football was easily stabbed by Brumer, Messi wanted to wave to signal the referee the foul, but the referee ignored him.
This scene was seen by everyone, but not many people noticed Brumer's small movements.
Wan Sheng did not notice.
However, when he felt that it was too easy for Blumer to steal the ball, he guessed what Brumer did, so he couldn't help laughing.
In this game, he made Bloomer start, the focus is on his defensive ability.
Compared with David Silva, Blumer's offensive ability is much worse, but his defensive ability is much stronger, especially the one-on-one defense, his experience is definitely not comparable to Silva.
Let Blumer deal with Messi's excellent new technology ... really the right place!
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Bloomer cherishes his starting opportunity.
Among Manchester City's third line, the midfield competition is the most fierce. As a midfielder, he has to face the competition of Morris, Silva, Ozil, Yongberg and others. It is not necessary to occupy a place. Easy, in the Champions League, this is only his second start, Wan Sheng has given him the task, the most important is the defense, especially the defense against Messi ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Bloomer remembers Wan Dedication to victory, he paid great attention to Messi in the game and tried his best to do his job. He knew that if he could perform well, he would definitely have more opportunities to play in the next Champions League.
That's very attractive!
Until Manchester City can reach the Champions League final, there are only two games left, these two are the Champions League semi-finals and finals!
The appearance of this kind of game is what every professional player wants. The opportunity is at hand. He must cherish it, so in fact, of the 11 Manchester City starters, Blumer is the most motivated and active.
His efforts have also yielded results.
Messi is under his defense, the game has not done much until now, and the entire Barcelona team is also threatening.
There is a saying that 'offense is the best defense', but when the offense is constantly blocked, the opportunity becomes the opponent's.
So when Barcelona's attack is blocked, Manchester City has a chance. (To be continued.)