Most of the time, the Bernabeu Stadium at Real Madrid is full, but only in this game, the Bernabeu stands gave Chu Zhongtian a different feeling.

The packed stands looked no different from usual, but Chu Zhongtian could feel the difference. This was an indescribable feeling, stimulating the capillaries around Chu Zhongtian and making him feel like blood rushing to his head.

This is not the first time he has played against Barcelona, ​​but the feeling of this game is very special and different from usual.

This is the national derby!

The captains of both sides were called to pick the side together. The referee of this game, Munis Fernandez, said to the two captains: "This is just a league game, please pay attention to controlling your emotions!"

The two captains nodded, and Casillas also took the initiative to extend his hand to Puyol to show friendship.

The referee was satisfied with the two captains' actions, and then began the side-picking ceremony.

When the captain was picking the sides, Chu Zhongtian stood in his position and was doing a simple warm-up activity.

Now he is no longer the captain, so he is not his turn to take the side, and his super prediction ability cannot be used. However, after thinking about it, he felt that there was no need to use the kick-off first or not to play the game, which is a bit boring.

The other players stood in their respective positions, and waited for the captain to come back with the result of picking the sides, and the battle of the century was about to break out.

In the end, Casillas won the right to pick the side, while Barcelona won the kick-off.

According to Barcelona's strength and habits, Real Madrid may have to stay for a while.

But Chu Zhongtian doesn't think so. This is at Real Madrid's home court. They have a natural advantage. They can launch a fierce press against Barcelona, ​​cut off the ball and control the football on their own side, and then launch a fierce attack on Barcelona's penalty area.

This is how football matches are. The situation is constantly changing. No one dares to say what will happen in the next second and where will the game go in the next moment.

TV broadcast took advantage of the game to give close-up shots of important players one by one before the game started. Starting from Messi, next is C. Ronaldo, the star of the two teams and the most popular players. Then there are Xavi and Chu, the confrontation between the two midfield commanders is also one of the highlights of the game. Alonso and Iniesta, Valdes and Casillas, Ramos and Pique, Higuain and Villa... Next is the bench for both sides. From the depth of the bench, Real Madrid is better than Barcelona. Beside Mourinho, there are powerful stars like Kaka, Ozil, Benzema and Adebayo, and the bench for Barcelona is a little unknown.

The practice of TV broadcasting obviously makes the audience full of longing and expectations for the upcoming game, and even those who watch the game will feel a little nervous.

He Ping sat in the broadcast seat and looked downwards. He couldn't see the player's back number clearly, but he still found Chu Zhongtian at a glance.

"Friends, the game is about to begin, and the players on both sides are now standing in their respective positions. In this game, Mourinho sent all three of his back midfielders, but Chu Zhongtian's position in this game is not like a back midfielder. Now he is standing in the position of... the front midfielder! Behind him are escorting him are Alonso and Khedira, these two back midfielders. This is the first time Chu Zhongtian used to be a midfielder to participate in the match with Barcelona. Before that, he fought with Barcelona three times, with a record of one draw and two wins, and remained unbeaten. What kind of performance will Chu Zhongtian perform in the front midfielder? Let's wait and see!"

※※※After everyone stood in their respective positions, the Bernabeu Stadium became a little quiet. The referee's whistle was clearly audible.

"A whistle! The game has begun! CCTV! CCTV! Audiences, good morning! Welcome to the 16th round of the Spanish Football League in the 11-12 season, and it is also the first national derby of La Liga this season! Against both sides are Real Madrid and Barcelona!"

Amid He Ping's commentary, Villa knocked the football out, Messi passed it back, and the football fell to Xavi's feet.

Almost as Messi did this, Chu Zhongtian and forward Higuain rushed out. The two were at the front. Chu Zhongtian, who was the front midfielder, had different tasks when he was the back midfielder, so the actions he needed to take were naturally different.

If he was playing a midfielder, he would not rush up like this, but chose to keep his position firmly and wait for Barcelona to come.

Now, he has to take the initiative.

In fact, although he played as a front midfielder, he was different from the traditional front midfielder. Before the game, Mourinho had privately communicated with Chu Zhongtian in his new position in this game. Mourinho pushed him to the front midfielder position according to the understanding of others, he must have hoped to maximize Chu Zhongtian's ability in offense and let him organize the team's offense. Chu Zhongtian himself thought so at the beginning.

But in fact, it is exactly the opposite.

Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised when Mourinho told Chu Zhongtian that the purpose of letting him play the front midfielder was to use his defensive ability.

Mourinho's intention is very simple, which is to use Chu Zhongtian's defensive ability to defend in the area closest to the opponent's penalty area. Once the ball can be cut off, it will launch a counterattack immediately. Such a counterattack will be more threatening and lethal.

Generally speaking, most front midfielders are not good at defending, or even do not defend at all. Therefore, the opponent's back midfielder and defender will not deliberately pay attention to the opponent's front midfielder coming up to press. This provides a chance for Chu Zhongtian's steal.

In order to cooperate with this tactic, Mourinho has been instilling in the players the idea of ​​immediately counterattacking after intercepting the ball in the frontcourt. For example, after Chu Zhongtian successfully intercepted the ball, everyone must immediately turn defense to offense and rush forward to catch Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian cannot let Chu Zhongtian fight alone there. Once the time is extended, the advantage caused by a sudden steal in the frontcourt will be lost. Barcelona is not an ordinary team... After listening to Mourinho's explanation, Chu Zhongtian thought carefully that this is the case. It seems that the task of a midfielder is only responsible for organizing the offense or scoring. Who would have thought that he mainly defends and grabs the ball? Once the opponent is robbed by himself, a chaotic situation will inevitably form, and Real Madrid will win in chaos.

This is indeed very feasible.

Chu Zhongtian has always been very confident in his defensive ability. Even Messi cannot easily get rid of it, let alone people like Buzquez.

So when Xavi, who was holding the ball, thought Chu Zhongtian and Higuain were just acting, Chu Zhongtian was very cleverly stuck on his way forward.

Harvey originally planned to take the football forward and then split it out, but now he found that he was stopped by Chu Zhongtian, so he had no choice but to turn around and pass it back.

The football was directly passed to central defender Pique.

Higuain continued to run forward and made an attempt to steal Pique. What few people noticed was that he seemed to unintentionally blocking Pique's route forward to Xavi during the run.

So when Pique was about to pass the football to Xavi again, he found that the route of the pass was gone. If he had to pass, he had to take risks. Higuain was very likely to cut the football off. If he was over the top, the accuracy of the pass was not guaranteed, so he could only choose a more stable approach and pass the football to the front midfielder Busquez.

And just as he passed the football out, he suddenly saw a person flashing from behind Butskes, which was Chu Zhongtian!

He was surprised - Chu Zhongtian was still away from Harvey just now, when did he run to Busquets?

He shouted to remind Butsques: "Sergio! There is someone behind him!"

Buzks also realized the danger. Before he could even look back and see who it was, he suddenly stepped forward and faced the football.

This step is very critical, because he got the football just a little earlier than Chu Zhongtian. If he didn't step forward, the football would definitely be snatched by Chu Zhongtian!

Seeing Chu Zhongtian unable to intercept the ball successfully on the sidelines, Mourinho raised his head in annoyance. If the ball was successfully intercepted, Real Madrid might even score a goal in less than a minute of the game... Despite this, Barcelona's head coach Guardiola was still shocked to stand up from his seat.

At this time, a layer of cold sweat even appeared on Bootsques' back.

He had controlled the football, but he could not turn around, because Chu Zhongtian was close behind him. If he wanted to turn around, the ball would probably be cut off. He really didn't have the courage to take the risk of turning around just five meters away from the penalty area.

Higuain turned around and saw that Buzquez had got the ball and was entangled by Chu Zhongtian. He immediately turned around and pounced on Buzquez.

"Come back to goalkeeper!" Pique shouted from the other side. The positions of the two were awkward, and even if Busques wanted to pass the football to him, there was no way.

Now, only the safest thing is to pass the goalkeeper Valdes back.

Buzkes didn't dare to delay and passed the football to Valdes cleanly. Then he turned around and got rid of Chu Zhongtian's entanglement. He had not forgotten to look back at Chu Zhongtian. This opponent in the Champions League final is now even more powerful and put more pressure on him. Just the moment Chu Zhongtian walked around from behind to prepare to grab the ball, he almost thought that he had lost the ball. Fortunately, he took a step forward and stuck in advance, otherwise it would be really mysterious... He saw Chu Zhongtian also looking at him, his eyes unavoidable, as if he was challenging him.

He had seen this kind of look in the penalty shootout in the Champions League final.

That penalty shootout was a complete shame for the Barcelona players, especially for him, Buzquez. His penalty kick was saved, and then he was saved by Chu Zhongtian incredibly. He didn't know how to describe that feeling. Anyway, his mind was blank at that time.

When Chu Zhongtian was punishing the penalty kick, he also looked at him like this. He couldn't tell what he was feeling, but his eyes made him feel a little upset, so he didn't score a penalty kick in the end.

※※※A minute at the beginning, Real Madrid did not score, but Barcelona, ​​who was the kicker, did not successfully organize an attack. Real Madrid advanced to the front of the opponent's penalty area, forcing the opponent to pass the football all the way back until it finally reached the feet of goalkeeper Valdes.

Barcelona also planned to give the opponent a warning at the opponent's home court, telling them that both home and away games were the same, and Barcelona wanted to kill doubles. As a result, they almost made the opponent a warning... Chu Zhongtian's attempted steal made Barcelona fans' heartbeat very quickly after that. At that time, they almost thought Buzquez was going to concede the ball, but fortunately... Catalonia's commentator exclaimed at the time: "Chu! Chu! Chu - Oh! So dangerous... So dangerous, Fortunately, Sergio made a very correct decision. He took a step forward and blocked Chu's steal..."

He Ping shouted: "Chu Zhongtian showed his aggressiveness at the beginning of the game! This is very good, it seems that he is getting into the state very fast! This is his first national derby, but he does not show any stage fright. He is a player born for the big scene!"

※※After receiving the return pass from Buzquez, Valdes did not kick directly in front of the game. Barcelona's football philosophy is to control the football as much as possible and advance through delicate transmission and coordination, rather than a simple long pass from big feet. Catalan artists are disdainful to do this.

Valdes passed the football to the central defender Puyor who came back to pick up his back, and Puyor passed the football to the front.

The person who received Puyol's pass was Buzquez. Barcelona's overall formation was roughly like this - goalkeeper Valdes was at the end, four defenders were in the front, two full-backs Daniel Alves and Adriano were a little higher than two central defenders Puyol, Pique, followed by Buzquez. His midfielder was very critical because he played a role in connecting the past and the future. Only football like Barcelona could he maximize his ability.

He took the ball from the back and provided shells to Xavi, Iniesta and others. His role is so important, and Buzquez did a good job, so when a master like Mascherano came to Barcelona, ​​he could only play as a substitute... Before Buzquez, Xavi and Iniesta were a little bit behind. Then there were three forwards, with Villa in the middle, Pedro on the left, and Messi on the right.

Barcelona hit 433, with clear layers and extremely aggressive power.

Real Madrid is still 451, or strictly speaking 4231, goalkeeper Casillas, central defenders Pepe and Carvalho, left defender Marcelo, right defender Ramos, and the two back midfielders are Xavi, Alonso and Khedira, the right forward is Di Maria, and the left forward is C. Ronaldo, the middle midfielder is Chu Zhongtian, and the forward who is in the front is Higuain.

The only difference between this lineup and the starting lineup of Real Madrid before is that Chu Zhongtian replaced Ozil's position and became the front midfielder.

※※※Botsks received the ball from Puyor, and Harvey immediately retreated but responded to Butsks. The distance between the two is quite suitable, not far or near.

This time, before Chu Zhongtian could force him to go up, Harvey passed the football away.

Obviously, the pressing after Chu Zhongtian started the game left a very deep impression on Harvey.

Now that the two meet again, Barcelona players no longer dare to look down on Chu Zhongtian. This person they looked down upon before had just defeated them in the Champions League final and defeated Barcelona alone to win the Champions League championship trophy.

This is an opponent that must be taken seriously.

In addition, Mourinho unexpectedly pushed Chu Zhongtian to the front midfielder, and his intentions were unclear and he had to be cautious.

When Barcelona attacked, Chu Zhongtian returned to defend, but he did not return to the front of the penalty area in one breath like he was in the midfield, but instead intercepted near the center circle according to Mourinho's request.

Xavi passed the football to Iniesta. When Iniesta was moving forward, he encountered an interruption from a Real Madrid player. There was no way to continue moving forward. He could only divide the football into the side. The left back Adriano also tried to move forward but failed. Finally, he turned around and returned to Xavi's feet.

Chu Zhongtian almost arrived at Harvey with football.

Xavi is the brain of this Barcelona team. It can even be said that Barcelona's current glory actually has nothing to do with Messi. Without Xavi, Barcelona would have been just an ordinary strong team and would definitely not reach the dominant level.

But with Xavi, everything is different. He is the heart of Barcelona, ​​providing impetus for the team's progress. At the same time, he is also Barcelona's brain, pointing out the direction for the team's progress. Any team, as long as they can freeze Xavi and Iniesta, they can basically freeze the entire Barcelona team.

This is also one of Mourinho's tricks against Barcelona.

Why has Messi never scored a goal when playing against Mourinho's team? It's not because Mourinho's capable men can always freeze Messi like Chu Zhongtian, but because Mourinho cut off Messi's connection with Xavi and Iniesta and lost the support of these two midfielders. Messi can only fight alone more often, and the threat will be greatly reduced.

One of Chu Zhongtian's defensive tasks in this game was to cut off the connection between Xavi and Messi, mainly by freezing Xavi.

Without giving Harvey any chance, the whole game was pressing for 90 minutes and defending with high intensity. Such things could not be done before, and could only stay on paper. Because no one's physical strength and ability can meet such requirements at the same time, some people have outstanding physical strength, but limited abilities, and some people have good abilities but poor physical strength.

Now that Chu Zhongtian has arrived, Mourinho can be assured and boldly handed over this tactic to him to achieve it.

When he was at Hoffenheim, Chu Zhongtian volunteered to guard Messi. For Mourinho, he did not need a person like Chu Zhongtian to defend Messi, because this is really a waste of talent... Good steel should be used on the blade, and defending Xavi is obviously more important than defending Messi.

In this way, Chu Zhongtian let Messi go, and it was Xavi's turn to have a headache.

※※※ps, I don’t know if the defensive front midfielder is considered an innovation. In addition, May is coming. I think this book will end in about two months... But I can’t guarantee that there are a lot of things in May and June, and it may take until July and August to settle down. In May, I will usher in the most important thing in my life - a wedding with my wife who has been verified. Although it is legally a husband and wife, it has to go with another form. I have invited many author friends to attend the wedding. If readers and friends are interested, they are welcome to come to Chengdu to watch the ceremony on May 21st!

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