Chapter 73 Monolithic
At the beginning of the second half, Chu Zhongtian found that he was targeting the target of public criticism.
Barcelona fought with him both during the offense and in the defense. When they were defending, they made Butzques press close together, while Xavi, Iniesta, Pique and others were interfering and waiting for an opportunity to move. In the offense, they broke through Chu Zhongtian in turn.
Although Chu Zhongtian is a front midfielder, he will actively return to his penalty area in defense, basically looking like a back midfielder. If he doesn't return to defense like Ozil, then what's the point of Mourinho's asking him to be a defensive front midfielder?
But what puzzled Chu Zhongtian was that he had warned them in the first half, and it was impossible to open a breakthrough from him. Why did Barcelona still do this tirelessly in the second half? They had already restrained after receiving the warning in the first half. Did Guardiola ask them to do this during the break?
If this is true... Chu Zhongtian shook his head, he felt that Guardiola underestimated him too much.
He has had three fights with him, but he still doesn't know what kind of ability he is?
OK, then continue to tell him what kind of person he is - anyone who dares to underestimate me and anger me will have the honor to know what kind of person I am.
※※ However, Barcelona's tactics for attacking Chu Zhongtian in turn are different from those in the first half. Barcelona's approach in the first half was spontaneous, with some traces of fighting alone, and their sense of cooperation was not strong enough. This is also why Buzquez's football was knocked off by Chu Zhongtian.
Perhaps Guardiola believes that as long as he strengthens his cooperation, he can open a breakthrough from Chu Zhongtian... Anyway, after the second half, Barcelona obviously strengthened his offensive cooperation against Chu Zhongtian. Barcelona is already good at small-scale transmissions within five to ten meters. In a very small space, two or three people can often create opportunities to move forward through quick transmission and one kick, and make the defensive players play around.
This is the advantage of Barcelona and the point that makes defensive players feel uncomfortable.
So will Chu Zhongtian feel uncomfortable about this?
If Chu Zhongtian faces the quick pass from three Barcelona players alone in the midfield, he will be powerless unless he is a god.
Defense is not just about relying on the courage of a man to fight the opponent's entire team alone. Chu Zhongtian has long experienced this. When he was playing football at Wimbledon's international student team, even if he tried his best, he was tricked by Borger and Russell. Later, he met Barcelona in the Champions League final in Hoffenheim. At the same time, Barcelona played their ball control to the fullest. If Chu Zhongtian went up to steal alone, he would be fooled by monkeys. Fortunately, he had a group of equally excellent teammates around him, who helped him cut Barcelona's ball and finally completed the equalization goal.
Therefore, a person cannot defend Barcelona's transmission no matter how much, and he can only rely on his teammates or compress them in space.
Therefore, Chu Zhongtian will never defend Barcelona's offense from the center circle. He will choose to fight and retreat to return to the midfielder position, just in front of Alonso and Khedira, keep a very suitable distance, not too far. In this way, when he goes forward to steal, there will be Alonso and Khedira's protection behind him, so that the back door will not be wide open, allowing the opponent to enter easily.
Only in this way can his defense be focused.
To be honest, don’t look like Chu Zhongtian had the upper hand in defending Xavi in the first half, Chu Zhongtian was actually under a lot of pressure. He has never been so tired in the game, because of Xavi, the best midfielder in the world. How could it be possible to defend him without showing all his skills?
Despite this, Chu Zhongtian was still not afraid.
He wants Guardiola to know how outrageous his adjustment was in the second half.
※※※Iniesta distributed the football to Xavi, and Chu Zhongtian did not rush up to intercept the ball directly, just like in the first half. This time he chose to keep a very suitable distance so that Xavi could not break through easily, and at the same time blocked most of the passing lines, so that Xavi could choose very few passing lines, and was limited to a controllable range by Chu Zhongtian.
Xavi obviously also noticed that Chu Zhongtian's choice in defensive position is very particular, because he has very few pass routes in front, and he dare not rashly drive the ball to break through. He knew that as long as he dribbled the ball, the football would be cut off by Chu Zhongtian without waiting for his next touch. This is very obvious in Messi, and Xavi remembers it deeply.
Harvey eventually passed the football to Busquets who was inserted.
Buzquez is the team's offense and defense, and his role is also very important. It was Guardiola's interest in this that made him dominate the offense.
Chu Zhongtian didn't know what Guardiola said to his men during the halftime break, but he didn't need to tell him about the matter of "Butsques is a very threatening person".
He rushed towards Butsques almost without hesitation. As for Harvey behind him, not only Harvey, but also his teammates!
When Buzks saw Chu Zhongtian pounce on him, he quickly poked the football he had just received.
In the first half, it was his dribbling that made Chu Zhongtian intercept the ball successfully, and he made a counterattack and almost scored a goal. This time he learned his lesson and did not fight against Chu Zhongtian head-on, but chose to pass the ball. Barcelona's pass through in a small range is invincible, and he doesn't believe that he can still concede the ball like this.
In fact, his football was also passed to Xavi. After passing the ball, he ran forward by himself. In this way, Xavi could cooperate with him with two or one, and he could also attract Real Madrid's defensive attention and create space for other teammates.
Chu Zhongtian quickly turned around and ran back while passing the ball. He ran towards Harvey, and pointed his hand at Butsques on the other side. He shouted at Khdira: "Defend him!"
That means Harvey, I'll do it.
When Harvey saw Khedira in front of him suddenly dodged a gap, and was obviously attracted by the Busques who were inserted behind him. This was his great opportunity to break through and move forward!
But just as he was about to wade the football, he staggered! He kicked one foot!
"It's Chu!"
"Shut people behind!"
"Wrong! It's a tackle!"
"It's a tackle! A clean and neat tackle! Chu Zhongtian tackled the ball first! His footing speed was too fast! Harvey never expected Chu Zhongtian to reappear with him so quickly and make a decisive tackle defense! Beautiful!"
Harvey fell into trouble, and he turned around and saw Chu Zhongtian who was climbing up.
Where is football?
Chu Zhongtian had already kicked it out... A huge cheer sounded from the Bernabeu Stadium. Such cheers were deafening and could temporarily stop beating.
Of course, the angry roar of Barcelona fans was also drowned by this huge wave of sound: "Foof..."
Xavi fell to the ground and raised his hand to seek justice from the referee, but the referee ignored it and turned around and ran to Barcelona's halftime - Chu Zhongtian's tackle just now, tackled the ball to Alonso's feet, and Real Madrid happened to fight back!
Harvey couldn't understand why Chu Zhongtian was able to return to him so quickly and tackle the ball.
In fact, this is exactly why Chu Zhongtian wants to compress Barcelona's space with his teammates - when the space becomes narrower, the accuracy of passing the players will be higher, which is equivalent to increasing the difficulty of Barcelona's passing. At the same time, the space is smaller, which also makes his replay require less distance to run, making it easier to defend faster. This is why Chu Zhongtian can quickly chase back and tackle immediately. It is not mysterious or clever at all, but where do so many mysterious and masterful tricks come from on the football field? Many seemingly inconspicuous and simple things can often play a decisive role.
This is how Chu Zhongtian's defense is. This is definitely not the strangle of the "Real Madrid muscles" against the "Barcelona artists" promoted by the media. Instead, it returns to reflect Chu Zhongtian's defensive wisdom and cleverly sets up the game, quietly compressing the space when Barcelona players did not notice it, and eventually resulting in this successful defense.
Although Real Madrid's counterattack did not result in a goal in the end, it still won the cheers of Real Madrid fans in the stands.
Chu Zhongtian's name was naturally repeatedly mentioned by the commentators again.
The Madrid commentator thought Chu Zhongtian's defense was very beautiful this time, while Catalonia's commentator was still entangled with whether it was a foul. Chu Zhongtian's tackle seemed to add another "evidence" to "Real Madrid was taken care of by the referee at his home court."
But this cannot change Chu Zhongtian just successfully defended Barcelona's ability to convey this reality in a small way.
※※※ Barcelona still tirelessly attacked Chu Zhongtian. They seemed to have recognized that Chu Zhongtian was a breakthrough.
According to common sense, this is true, but in Chu Zhongtian, common sense usually does not work.
Chu Zhongtian felt that Guardiola's arrangement was quite good for his appetite - he ran all over the field to find Barcelona players to defend the ball to be more efficient and easier. Most of the time, he just had to stand here and wait for the opponent to come to his door.
Xavi suffered a fall from him. Xavi has not performed well so far. As Barcelona's midfield commander, he has not performed at all in this game so far, and has not contributed any wonderful passes to the team's offense. Barcelona has not obtained any shooting opportunities that threaten Real Madrid's goal so far, which is related to his sluggish midfield.
Chu Zhongtian's defense against Harvey was very successful.
However, Guardiola no longer cares whether Xavi's form is sluggish. In the second half, Busques was the leader of Barcelona's offense.
Unfortunately, Buzks didn't have time to show his offensive talent just now, so Xavi was intercepted by Chu Zhongtian.
Despite this, Guardiola still insists on this style of play. Barcelona's style of play is very mature and can provide very few changes. Buzquez has already been considered a change.
Since Xavi was frozen by Chu Zhongtian, Messi's performance was not satisfactory. Although Iniesta still worked very hard, he was relatively aside and could not take on the responsibility of organizing the entire team's offense.
The problem with Real Madrid now is that as long as they can solve Bootsques, the game will be over.
Villa, Pedro and Messi were not threatened when they lost midfield support. Villa almost disappeared. Pedro had a relatively low success rate of one-on-one, and there was no way to get the fierce Ramos.
As for Messi? Although his dribbling is still very sharp, his threat will be greatly reduced by being pushed away from the goal by Real Madrid's defense. In addition, he can only choose to pass the ball after the breakthrough, and Pedro and Villa are not in shape, wasting his pass, so Messi is even less threatening.
Many teams believe that if they want to defeat Barcelona, they must curb Messi. This idea itself is good, but their understanding is different from Mourinho in terms of how to curb Messi. Mourinho did not simply let two or three people surround Messi. His approach is to solve the problem at the root of the problem - freeze Xavi and Iniesta, cut off the connection between them and Messi, and then surround Messi, and naturally there will be no problem.
Mourinho also discovered the problem of Butsquez replacing Xavi. But he couldn't simply let Chu Zhongtian leave Xavi to defend Xavi because Xavi was not threatened. You should know that Xavi had no threat because Xavi did not relax his restrictions on him at all times. If he really did this, I believe Xavi would regain his vitality.
So how to limit Butzx?
Mourinho's strategy is to ignore him at all. As long as Real Madrid defends the front line, keeps the formation unchallenged, and then compresses the space, Buzquez can only advance to an area more than 30 meters away from the goal, and then he will be unable to move in.
Since Bootsques wants to step forward, Barcelona's defense line will also be pushed forward as a whole. Pique has already pressed through the middle circle arc, while Real Madrid has built a copper and iron wall here in the 30-meter area.
The defense lines of the two teams are only fifteen meters apart, but nearly twenty players are stuffed into such a small space. They all have legs. Such a narrow space is a test and a disaster for Barcelona, not to mention that these legs are not still. They are full of aggressiveness, with rough and reckless defensive movements, wandering on the verge of fouls or not without fouls. It is really difficult to organize the attack in such a situation and find loopholes in Real Madrid's defense line.
If Barcelona's attack has the ability to wear away stones, then Real Madrid is a iron plate, not a stone.
At the Bernabeu, in front of the most discerning fans, Mourinho openly used the tactics that Real Madrid fans most disdained to deal with his arch-rival Barcelona, but unexpectedly, no one gave the boo to Mourinho, who was "conservative and negative", but instead sang "Jose. Mourinho's Brother"... This made the Catalonian commentator very puzzled. Before the game, Cruyff also posted a special article saying that he looked forward to Real Madrid returning to the Michel era and returning to the era of being able to play beautiful football, because as a giant with millions of fans around the world, he is not only satisfied with bringing victory to supporters, but also shoulders the responsibility of promoting the beautiful side of football.
He also said that all Real Madrid fans are eager to use offensive football to win and lose in their home court, rather than having to choose Mourinho's defensive counterattack tactics... These paintings are quite inflammatory. On the surface, he is praising Real Madrid and praising Real Madrid's glorious history in the past, but in fact it is just sow discord. Because he knows what kind of head coach Mourinho is, he hopes that through these words, Real Madrid fans can become disgusted with Mourinho.
However, judging from the current atmosphere, his wishful thinking has not been successful... Mourinho's position at the Bernabeu cannot be shaken. I am afraid that if Florentino wants to fire Mourinho after the end of this season, it will cause protests from fans... Not to mention Real Madrid players who swear to follow Mourinho to the death.
Real Madrid is really united and has never had such internal unity as it is now.
Three years of uncrowded have deeply hurt Real Madrid's players. Now they are like crazy lions, full of hunger for victory and honor.
Not only Real Madrid players, but also Real Madrid's senior management and fans are the same. Since Mourinho fulfilled Florentino's wish and after Camp Nou and Barcelona were thrown into five goals against each other, the club's senior management has never heard of another voice like "I think Real Madrid should play a little more beautifully."
In the past, Real Madrid always booed their players at home, which once made Real Madrid players unable to bear the pressure of home games and refused to play. But now, there is no such problem. Real Madrid fans have a strong obsession with defeating Barcelona. As long as they can pull Barcelona, which is invincible in the universe, they don’t mind whether to use defensive counterattack or full attack and defense!
In such an atmosphere, Barcelona felt tremendous pressure... Since the 36th round of the league in 2007-08, Barcelona lost to Real Madrid, which won the championship 1:4 at the Bernabeu, Barcelona has never lost to Real Madrid away in the league. So before the game, many people felt that they could still beat Real Madrid here.
Now it seems that it may not be as they wished...※※※Butsques rushed up again under the cover of Xavi and Iniesta. Previously, Iniesta and Xavi worked continuously to attract the defensive attention of Real Madrid players, making everyone think that they would send the football to the front through such continuous transmissions.
Unexpectedly, Harvey used his heel to pass the football to Busquez who was inserted behind him.
But just as Buzques bypassed Xavi and received the ball, he also saw Chu Zhongtian standing in front of him!
China's moving city walls seemed to have never moved there before. Buttskes suddenly braked suddenly, and at the same time, in order to protect the football, he turned around... The football protected it, but the space and opportunities that Xavi and Iniesta had not easily created before disappeared with his turn...
Chapter completed!