We agreed to play football together, and you will be the head coach?

Chapter 308: Guagua's rage, Villa's three-center-forward strategy

"GOAL! One to one! Barcelona quickly equalized the score!"

"Pedro's shot was very brilliant. When he was in Palermo, it was this big shot that won the favor of He Tianqi."

"This player's goal efficiency is not high, and his playing style is not flashy, but he can always score goals at critical moments. He is a typical savior player."

"Many people think Pedro is a low-profile version of Messi, but I think he is more like a mini version of Cristiano Ronaldo!"

On the sidelines, He Tianqi was slapping his arms and complaining to the fourth referee: "Handball, this is obviously a handball, Pedro used his hands when he stopped the ball!"

Screen playback, this is indeed a controversial part.

However, the referee believed that Pedro stopped the ball with his shoulder and upper arm, and it was not considered a handball.

He Tianqi's face turned red with anger.

Guardiola came over to persuade He Tianqi to stay calm immediately: "Don't be angry. If you get angry and get sick, no one can replace you. Life is like a play. It's fate that makes you..."

Guardiola then reacted.

He is no longer He Tianqi's minion.

He is now the head coach of Barcelona, ​​so he quickly distanced himself from He Tianqi.

But the camera recorded everything honestly.

Barcelona's top management was somewhat dissatisfied with this scene, which is why they are promoting Messi.

The label of "He Xi" on Guardiola is too heavy. If he really succeeds, whose credit will it be?

Barcelona has suffered this kind of loss once and will never suffer it a second time.

The so-called "suffering this kind of loss" refers to the tiki-taka tactics currently used by Barcelona. In fact, Barcelona has long been studying all-out attack and defense and full-court ball control under the leadership of Cruyff.

But after He Tianqi opened up the source code, everything became He Tianqi's.

As a result, Barcelona's opportunity to improve its status in tactics and youth training has disappeared.

In the 24th minute, Messi used his personal dribbling ability to create a free kick in an excellent position in the frontcourt.

Messi took the penalty himself.

However, Motta jumped high and headed the ball away, but the ball failed to bypass the wall.

In the 29th minute, Bale received the ball on the right, accelerated and slowed down continuously to shake off Adriano and sent a cross.

Valdes took the initiative and punched the ball out of the penalty area before Giroud.

One Punch Man!
In the 35th minute, Dong Fangzhuo received the ball and cut inside, then went down the flank, walked along the penalty area line to the bottom line and made a horizontal pass.

Giroud held off Mascherano and prepared to stop the ball and shoot.

Unexpectedly, although Mascherano was not as good at positioning as Giroud, he suddenly fell to the ground and destroyed the ball from behind, performing a risky defense in the penalty area that showed his great skill.

The fans at the scene couldn't help but applaud.

Anything produced in Palermo must be of the highest quality!

In the 37th minute, Messi pulled to the right and took down Azpilicueta.

His breakthrough with extremely high flexibility, fast pace and strong center of gravity change is simply the nemesis of Azpilicueta who has torn his cruciate ligament.

Messi sent a cross.

But Schmeichel also took the initiative and saved the ball.

Boateng swung his left foot outward to clear the ball, but because the action was awkward and he couldn't exert enough power, the football didn't fly far and was slow.

It was equivalent to giving an assist to Alves outside the penalty area.

boom!
Alves made a powerful shot and scored a world-class goal.

The net rippled.

Barcelona fans started celebrating.

But the referee awarded a goal kick.

Because the ball did not go in, but hit the side of the net from the outside, it just looked like a goal.

Alves' shot was at a slightly smaller angle.

Vera escaped death.

In the 43rd minute, it’s still Messi!
He made consecutive breakthroughs on the right rib, entered the penalty area and shot at the goal under a three-person double-team.

However, shots of this quality were difficult to get past Schmeichel, who continued to set new save records.

Xavi received the ball outside the box and took a long shot.

This time, Bonucci kicked the ball out of the baseline.

Guardiola clapped his hands to convey to the team that he was very satisfied with the current attack.

That's it, as long as there is a wave-like attack, Villa's defense will collapse sooner or later.

But the next moment, as Iniesta took a corner kick, Guardiola's face suddenly changed: "Fak! Who told him to take a corner kick like this?"

Guardiola questioned the assistant coach around him.

The players on the bench looked at each other.

Everyone knows who Guardiola is angry at.

"Fuck that high corner kick!" Guardiola clenched his fists as he looked at Iniesta and Messi.

In order to make Messi more competitive for awards, Guardiola adjusted Messi's position to center forward and arranged a series of tactics with him as the core of the offense.

As a result, Messi's goal and assist data have exploded.

The consequence was that Ibrahimovic was dissatisfied and left.

After Messi occupied the center position, Barcelona also lost the high point in the frontcourt, which was a blow to its own tactical changes.

The recruitment of a center forward has also reached a deadlock.

This is a shortcoming of Barcelona, ​​and Guardiola has been asking for it to be corrected, but this problem cannot be solved as long as Messi plays as a center forward.

Therefore, Guardiola's requirement for corner kicks and free kicks in the front court is to use ground coordination as much as possible and to play tactical balls.

Too many tactical corner kicks will lose their suddenness.

So Iniesta wanted to take the opponent by surprise and steal a direct corner kick.

The idea is good.

But he only paid attention to the suddenness and ignored Vera's configuration.

Giroud, Boateng, Bonucci, Motta... Villa has four or five tall guys around 1.9 meters tall.

Dong Fangzhuo, Bale and De Bruyne, who are around 1.85 meters tall.

Can these 1.7-meter-tall players of Barcelona still score headers again when the opponent is caught off guard?
boom!
as predicted!

Boateng easily cleared the ball over the head of Abidal, the tallest player in the Barcelona team.

Messi controlled the first point from the outside, trying to dribble past the defense and find a shooting angle.

As a result, Kante accurately predicted Messi's dribbling intention and stretched his foot to complete the steal.

Messi is very good at dribbling, but that doesn't mean he won't be intercepted.

Messi counterattacked immediately.

Kante blocked Messi and made a through ball before falling to the ground.

Dong Fangzhuo took the ball and launched a counterattack.

After being blocked by Mascherano, Dong Fangzhuo made a horizontal pass.

De Bruyne got in on the ball and passed it past the wall.

Dong Fangzhuo then shook off the exhausted Mascherano and took the ball to attack the Barcelona goal.

boom!
Dong Fangzhuo made a diagonal pass to Bale who was in a better position.

Bale accelerated and took the lead as soon as he received the ball.

Valdez strikes out.

Bale dribbled the ball and used his speed to get past the goalkeeper before shooting from a small angle.

Compared to using fake moves to shake off the goalkeeper, Bale's method is more violent.

"GOAL! 2-1! Bale scores twice!"

"Dong Fangzhuo's pass is so selfless!"

“Aston Villa are ahead once again.”

"Barcelona was counterattacked at the last moment of the first half, and the corner kick was not successful. No wonder Guardiola was so angry on the sidelines." "It has been rumored that Guardiola has no dominance over the Barcelona team. Now it seems that this is true. He Tianqi has always been known for his strict requirements on the players on the field. Why didn't Guardiola learn from him?"

"Simeone is better at this."

Then the first half of the game ended.

Guardiola severely criticized Iniesta in the Barcelona locker room.

He should have been furious with the Thunder, but considering there was still the second half of the game, he could only try to control his emotions.

Who would have thought that even after all this, Messi would hide behind Xavi and mutter, "It's all an accident."

It sounds fine, but it actually excuses Iniesta.

Guardiola also couldn't say anything directly to Messi, lest Messi's agent and team executives think he was targeting Messi and demanding control of the team.

Guardiola could only pull out the tactical whiteboard and start explaining the tactics for the second half.

But if the score was one to one, his tactics would be more certain.

……

The second half.

"We can see that in the second half, both sides focused on ball possession and the offensive slowed down," Huang Jianxiang explained. "But this does not mean that there is no competition. On the contrary, it is a hidden confrontation."

"This is a test of both sides' internal strength, which is also their basic skills."

It was not until the 65th minute that both sides tacitly chose to make substitutions.

The bayonet is about to be unsheathed.

On the Villa side, Lukaku replaced Dong Fangzhuo who had a yellow card.

The latter often retreated to participate in receiving and defending during the passing and control during this period.

He consumed more energy than Bale on the other side.

Because Messi on the Barcelona side also mainly pulled to the right to launch the attack.

On the Barcelona side, Guardiola replaced Pedro with new signing Fabregas.

In terms of strength, Fabregas is stronger than Pedro.

Pedro is also the player with the least influence from fans among the Barcelona trident.

In addition, Guardiola also replaced Xavi with Thiago Alcantara.

Thiago will become famous in Bayern in the future, become a first-class midfielder, and be invited by Klopp to Liverpool to achieve the technical upgrade of the Red Army. As a result, he was frequently injured as soon as he arrived at Liverpool. He played for four years, played 98 times, scored three goals, and assisted six times. It is hard to say that he was successful.

He retired early at the age of thirty-three.

At that time, it would have been easy for a technical midfielder like him to play until he was 36 or 37 years old.

However, Guardiola's substitution caused dissatisfaction among Messi and Iniesta.

They thought Xavi should have played the whole game.

They are Barcelona's golden triangle, they have long been bound to each other and advance and retreat together.

Therefore, they, who originally liked to play on the right, completely stopped going to Thiago's left side.

In the 69th minute, Messi and Iniesta really put in a phenomenal performance. The two cooperated continuously and broke through Villa's left side defense.

Messi even dribbled the ball into the penalty area and challenged Boateng.

He used continuous shaking to knock Boateng down, creating a famous scene.

Messi then made a diagonal pass, and Fabregas, who had cut inside early, shot into the empty net in front of the goal.

Two to two!
Barcelona equalizes the score!

Fabregas cheered.

But teammates flocked to Messi.

With one instigation and one assist, Messi dominated the game!
Fabregas then joined Messi in the celebrations.

In the 74th minute, Motta launched a long pass directly from the right rib and launched a traditional English attack.

Lukaku's header at the back post was saved.

Although Barcelona fans were very satisfied with this defense, Guardiola looked unhappy.

Villa has a variety of attacking modes.

On the one hand, it can have a truly defenseless effect.

On the other hand, you can choose the most threatening style of play based on the opponent's reaction.

And now...long passes are very threatening to Barcelona.

Especially the long passes from a team like Villa that has the ability to easily push the ball across half the field.

Because this attack directly threatened Barcelona's goal.

The traditional English long pass is often forced because the ball cannot pass the midfield.

This kind of pass does not threaten the goal essentially, it just creates a wave of scramble in the midfield and frontcourt, and is much less efficient.

In the 75th minute, He Tianqi made another substitution.

Arteta replaced Kante who was given a yellow card.

Vera blew the clarion call for the final battle.

Take down a defensive stalwart and free Messi.

But at the same time, Arteta is the new offensive core.

Villa will have to compete with Barcelona in offensive efficiency.

In the 77th minute, Bale passed the ball back after failing to break through on the right.

Arteta passed the ball directly to the middle.

Giroud heads the ball into the goal.

The football bounced off the ground and hit the post and bounced out.

A little bit of luck.

In the 81st minute, He Tianqi replaced Bale with Fellaini.

Lukaku, Giroud and Fellaini, three players stood in Barcelona's penalty area.

Three centers tactics!
The target is Barcelona's height disadvantage.

Barcelona fans booed on the spot, expressing their contempt for this unscientific tactic.

"Mundo Deportivo" immediately stated that Villa's personal attacks on Barcelona were too vicious!
How can you put three big centers in just because we are short?
In the 83rd minute, Fabregas made a cross from the right.

Messi, who was making a forward run, suddenly shook his hands to express his dissatisfaction.

He asked Fabregas to give him the ball.

Fabregas was a little stunned.

His teammate at Arsenal, Eduardo, is not much taller than Messi. In the same standing position, Eduardo can always find opportunities to attack, and his headers are actually not weak.

Especially his header and rub after getting to the front point is a unique skill.

In the same situation, why can't Messi do it?
The answer is that Eduardo's footwork is far inferior to Messi's. He likes to let his teammates do everything and he is only responsible for the final kick.

Commonly known as eating cakes.

Therefore, he cherishes every shooting opportunity and has developed various shooting methods.

Messi is so good at dribbling that if there are no good opportunities, he will dribble to create better opportunities.

Both of them turned a six-point chance into an eight-point chance, the former relying on imaginative fancy shots, and the latter relying on talented continuous dribbling.

Therefore, Messi needs to develop his ball skills sustainably, even if the chance is a little short.

What Eduardo wants is the best possible opportunity.

If Fabregas doesn't fully understand this, his cooperation with Messi will never be pleasant.

Bonucci headed the ball to the side and Trippier passed it to Motta.

Villa pressed forward from all sides.

Guardiola signaled the players in the frontcourt to press and not let Villa cross the center line.

But Messi and Iniesta were already in a bad mood, and due to lack of physical strength, they were not aggressive in pressing, so Barcelona's pressing in the frontcourt collapsed.

Villa's control of the ball in the midfield and backcourt became increasingly easier and more powerful.

(End of this chapter)