Chapter 54 Let's take three points home

The embarrassing situation that Figo encountered in the offense is just a microcosm of Barcelona's offense.

In La Liga, you rarely encounter such a defense that implements defense so thoroughly. After all, among the four major European leagues, La Liga is a relatively strong viewing league, but no matter what league, there are always exceptions.

Mallorca is such an exception, so even though they play poorly and don’t receive enough support, they are always one of the hardest bones for the strong La Liga teams.

Facing eight full-time defensive players, two part-time defensive players, and the penalty area that guards like an iron barrel, Barcelona players have suffered difficulties. Although Figo and Rivaldo have excellent breakthrough skills, facing a group of defensive players who hardly make a foot breaker and just interfere with your offense, it is difficult for them to create effective opportunities. The booing over the Camp Nou Stadium has never stopped from the beginning of the second half, but it cannot make Mallorca's defense hesitate at all.

"From now on, the situation is pretty good. At least for this kind of defense, even Barcelona, ​​who has made all their efforts, it is difficult to create any good opportunities. You can only expect the superstar's inspiration to appear."

Jose sat firmly on the visiting team coach's seat like a Diaoyutai, deafing the huge booing and insulting from the stands, but was just constantly observing the situation on the field.

Jose is very satisfied with the situation on the field.

At least from the situation in these twenty minutes, Mallorca's offense can basically be completely *** Barcelona's offense, which makes Barcelona unable to create too good opportunities. This proves that Mallorca's defense is indeed trustworthy, especially without giving the opponent too much space, a group of old defenders with poor physical fitness and slow speed will hardly become a flaw, while the advantages of accurate positioning and rich experience have been greatly utilized, which can make Barcelona's offense useless, and also can make Arsenal's offense equally unsuccessful.

Jose smiled slightly in his heart when he turned to look at the Barcelona fans who looked dissatisfied and thought Mallorca would not dare to have a dignified attack with Barcelona.

He was also unwilling to use his beautiful offensive tactics to play the world for Mallorca, but he accepted it halfway through and had no signings, and there was not enough time for him to set up tactics. Why should he attack with a team like Barcelona?

No matter whether it is black and white cats, catching mice is a good cat, and no matter whether it is offense or defense, being able to win is a good tactic.

Jose has always firmly believed that the head coach who can win the championship with his own tactics is a good head coach. However, with the resources at hand, he can get a better result and better test the head coach's ability.

For Jose now, the pressure on performance is not particularly great, so this half season is also an opportunity for Jose to test his coaching ability. How to integrate the existing resources at hand to achieve better results, or to make breakthroughs in some aspects - so far, Jose has been quite satisfied with his performance.

The eyes returned to the court again. Barcelona's fierce attack had been nearly twenty-five minutes. Although they were still very fierce, after so long, their offensive momentum began to decline.

No team in the world can maintain a fierce offense for a long time to reach the entire half, and it is impossible for Barcelona to do so. Although Mallorca recovers the defense very thoroughly and vigorously, Barcelona cannot complete the shot in a short while. The time of the football game is said to be ninety minutes, but no matter how beautiful the offense is, the time for truly completing the attack that threatens the shot is only ten minutes at most. Other times are basically back and forth, temptation, and involvement...

When Barcelona's attack was in decline, Mallorca began to take the opportunity to launch a counterattack!

Perhaps it was because of the attitude of Mallorca's appearance that he could not get out of the hole that made Barcelona think that they had lost their offensive heart, so when Mallorca started to attack, the overall reaction of the entire Barcelona team was a beat slower.

When Stankovic and Ngongga made two-by-one consecutive matches and broke through to the near-center circle, Barcelona's defenders rushed to defend. At this time, a huge gap appeared on their right. Stankovic immediately raised his foot and passed the ball to the right!

Ibagasa entered the right highway from the right and rushed to the landing point of the ball. Sergi was pressing forward in the attack just now. He was running back in panic, but he couldn't interfere with Ibagasa's getting the ball for a while!

A quick counterattack again!

The small-scale cooperation between several people in the frontcourt that Jose had worked hard during this period finally played a huge role. When Ibagasa plugged in like a wind-chi electric engine from the side, several offensive players from Mallorca also started running with a level of running elsewhere!

Tristan rushed to the middle, and Etoo was quietly following up on the left...

Sometimes there is no need for too many people to follow up in counterattacks. The just-right few runs are enough!

After dribbling the ball to a place parallel to the penalty area line, Ibagasa immediately raised his foot and passed the ball to Tristan in the middle.

Tristan used his body to hold back Avelado and Frank Debor, then stretched out his feet to stop the ball, then immediately swung his right foot and shot directly on the penalty area line!

The shot was very powerful, and the ball quickly flew between Averado's legs and then flew to the lower left corner of the goal. Although Hesp's reaction was slower, he still made a save. After falling to the ground, he tried his best to stretch his right hand and blocked the ball with one palm!

Feeling that he touched the ball, Hesp was excited and immediately wanted to get up and press the ball that had bounced back into the penalty area under him. However, when he saved the game just now, he used a lot of force and almost threw himself out to block the shot. Now that he gets up, he will inevitably be slower...

Then he heard the huge exclamation from Barcelona fans coming from the stands!

Then when Hesp looked up, he saw a black shadow breaking into the penalty area like lightning and rushing to the front of the ball!

"Ibagasa passes the ball... Tristan, shot! Oh, Hesp saves the ball, but he doesn't hold it... Who is that? So fast! Samuel Etoo! Welcome the ball and shoot! Goal! The ball enters! A quick follow-up shot in front of the goal, Etoo scores twice! Etoo, who came on loan from Real Madrid, scores twice at Camp Nou! This is something that no Real Madrid player can do in Camp Nou in recent seasons! But he was done by a young forward who cannot play as the main player in Real Madrid and is loaned out. This is a irony for both Real Madrid and Barcelona..."

After scoring the goal, Etoo's celebration was exactly the same as the first ball. He held his head high, raised his chest, swung his hands exaggeratedly on both sides of his body, and ran to the visiting team coach's seat with his head held high, then opened his arms and hugged Jose tightly!

Etoo is using this method to show respect for Jose. Although he has also brought many goals to Mallorca, for him personally, Mallorca has given him a rare opportunity to exercise. From this perspective, without him, Mallorca can also use other players. Without Mallorca, Etoo has no chance to show his style at Camp Nou!

Then came Tristan, then Ibagasa, Stankovic...

The players of Mallorca hugged Jose excitedly. They like to play football under the head coach because they can play very comfortably under the head coach. Veterans don’t need to drag their bodies to run up and down, while young people have more room to play, each getting what they need, and their results are good - how can they not like to play football under the head coach...

Jose, surrounded by the players, was in a very good mood.

This counterattack was considered an unexpected surprise. Perhaps the last defeat hit the Barcelona defenders' state. In this counterattack, they made several unforgivable mistakes - the full-back was pressed up and the return to defense was not timely enough. Ibagasa did not cut off the passing route between him and Tristan when he broke through the side, allowing Tristan to easily complete the shot. Even when Etoo's supplemental shot, Rezig was not able to return to defense to the penalty area...

In this ball, Barcelona's defense made a collective mistake!

With the advantage of two goals, Mallorca's defense can play more resolutely and more skillfully. With such a game training, even if this defensive tactic is adopted from the beginning of the League Cup final, there will not be too many problems!

"Continue to defend and let's take three points home!"

When the players returned to the court, Jose raised his three fingers of his right hand high and shouted with great enthusiasm.

Van Gaal sat on the coach's seat without any movement. Now it was the 72nd minute of the game. He knew that Barcelona had basically no chance in this game.

With the intensive defense against Mallorca, Barcelona has no chance to break the opponent's defense line at all. When they are one ball behind, they can still attack patiently. Seizing one chance is victory. However, now, they are two balls behind...

Even if Jose raised three fingers extremely arrogantly, Van Gaal did not react at all.

He knew that he lost in this game and lost without any temper, although there were countless reasons to find - he didn't care about Mallorca at the beginning, put Figo on the bench in the first half, and the opponent's almost rogue defensive tactics... But for Van Gaal, losing is losing, and saying anything else is useless.

Mourinho fell into deep thought - whether in Porto or Barcelona, ​​whether by Robson or Van Gaal, or when discussing tactical links with Cruyff, what he studied most was offense, because the team he was staying at and the head coach he studied advocated offense.

However, this defeat made him see the importance of defense.

Don’t have a ball possession rate, don’t have a good scene, block your offensive route tightly, and then seize the opportunity and counterattack quickly and sharply. A small-scale cooperation between two or three people in the frontcourt. Seizing the opportunity will take your life!

For Mourinho, a new world began to appear before him, and a new football theory began to have a vague shadow in his heart.

"This Jose is really outstanding." Mourinho couldn't help thinking in his heart.
Chapter completed!