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Chapter 388 stalemate
Chapter 388 stalemate
Chapter 382 Deadlock
Barcelona has made sufficient preparations for this game!
In Guardiola's team, almost every player has a defensive task, even Messi!
Starting from striker Villa, as soon as Barcelona loses the ball, they will immediately press on the spot!
Messi and Pedroka occupy the positions of the two ribs, Xavi and Iniesta behind them stick to Atletico Madrid players who may receive the ball at any time, and Mascherano is behind them!
And Barcelona's two full-backs have simply become two midfielders, who are on both sides of Xavi and Iniesta!
Barcelona formed three dense encirclements in the frontcourt!The purpose is to block Atletico Madrid's forward pass.
In fact, Barcelona's defense has always been like this, and the only difference today is-they work much harder than other games!
However, after Atletico Madrid experienced the flurry at the beginning of the game, Navas' high-resistance defense helped Atletico Madrid keep the goal, and Atletico Madrid, who was playing at home, gradually woke up.
Barcelona's offense was slowly pushed out of the danger zone by Atletico Madrid. During this time, Kanter's role was revealed.
Kanter is not a very tall player, nor does he look too strong, but his running ability is very fast. In front of the defense, Kanter's presence protects the defense very well!
Barcelona gradually lost the offensive advantage they had in the opening stage.
And Navas certainly didn't have the brilliance of the opening stage-maybe this is a bad thing for the media who want to see Navas' performance, but it couldn't be better for Atletico Madrid.
If a team always sees the goalkeeper doing well, it shows that the team's defense has a big problem!
Barcelona are still in control of the ball, but they can only pass it around the perimeter of the penalty area.
Atletico Madrid held their ground.
The Atlético Madrid fans in the stands breathed a sigh of relief.
This also includes the chairman of Atletico Madrid Cerezo.
Barcelona's offensive in the opening stage was very fierce, which made Cerezo wonder whether the team could withstand the opponent's offensive.However, Navas' wonderful performance, while trying to keep the goal, also left a deep impression on Cerezo.
"Navas" Cerezo mulled over the name of the Costa Rican. He was considered a football player, but he was sure that he had never heard of a football player in Costa Rica whose name he could recall a week ago!
This is actually normal. Costa Rica is currently ranked No. 70 in the world, while Spain is ranked first.
Will the Chinese table tennis team pay attention to a table tennis team from a certain country at the bottom of the world ranking?
The answer is obviously impossible.
"His performance is really good!" Although the name Cerezo has not been heard much, it does not prevent him from admiring Navas.
Anyway, this player now belongs to Atletico Madrid.
"I really don't know where Gao Bo recruited this player." Jill Malin shook his head aside.
Gao Bo seems to have a database in his head. Whatever player the team needs, he can immediately find a player with outstanding strength-and it is very cheap.
Cerezo laughed. After handing over the transfer rights to Gao Bo, he really didn't know that the effect was so good now.
If you maintain such a rhythm of buying low and selling high, I am afraid that Atletico Madrid will become the number one black shop in Europe.
Cerezo, however, regained consciousness immediately.
Atletico Madrid is a team that wants to advance to a higher level, and must not covet the small profits of the current transfer fee.
If Atlético de Madrid becomes a big team like Real Madrid, whose annual commercial income is one of the best in Europe, the transfer fee will only be a small amount of money.
However, to reach the level of Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid may still have a very long way to go.
Guardiola is very sorry.
Without taking advantage of Atletico Madrid's shaky foothold to score a goal, the next game will not be so easy.
Barcelona's attack was frustrated, and now the game is slowly reaching a stalemate.
Barcelona couldn't even pass back from the front of Atletico Madrid's penalty area. Atletico Madrid's players tried their best to push the front line to the midfield. While staying away from their own dangerous area, they also allowed the two sides to fight in the midfield!
In the 207th minute of the game, Harvey retreated to the back line to get the ball.
Barcelona's two central defenders stretched to both sides, and the two midfield players Mascherano and Iniesta responded from left to right, while the full-backs pressed up, Messi returned to the center circle Now, Pedro pressed to the center, and Villa moved to the right space.
This is a standard Barcelona-style offensive formation.
However, Atletico Madrid's response is obviously very targeted!
Aguero interfered with Harvey, and the two strikers were stuck in the ribs, which hindered Harvey's passing lines to both sides. In the midfield, Atletico Madrid's players also focused on almost every Barcelona player one-on-one.
Messi is a key figure, because his breakthrough ability with the ball forward can allow Barcelona to get rid of the current situation where it is completely stared and difficult to find the passing line.
Messi recovered all the way to his own half, then turned around after receiving the ball.
Modric had posted it before Messi had the ball.
It's just that after Messi made a fake move, he received a pass from Harvey before Modric could react.
When Messi turns around, he will have to pay a price to stop Messi.
Modric wanted to give Messi a body, even if he fouled him.
Messi staggered, but did not fall to the ground, but continued to dribble forward.
Modric did at least have some effect. Although he didn't keep Messi, he managed to slow Messi down, and then gave Kanter a chance!
Kanter went up to grab the ball and succeeded in stealing the ball while Messi's center of gravity was a little unstable by Modric!
After Kante grabbed the ball, he was immediately surrounded by Barcelona players.
Kante passed the ball to the other side, Raúl Garcia's feet!
But before Raul Garcia got the ball, Mascherano made a fierce tackle and shoveled the ball away!
The ball changed hands again!
That's basically the pace of the game in the second half of the first half.
The battle between the players of both sides in the midfield was very fierce, and the possession of the ball was constantly being exchanged. It was difficult for the two teams to organize the attack calmly in such a high-intensity press.
Gao Bo stood on the sidelines with his chest folded, expressionless, no one knew what he was thinking.
His team is ahead in total score, so although such a situation is not very good-looking, for Gao Bo, he can accept such a situation!
Even if the whole game is like this, it's not a big deal.
Atlético de Madrid's goal is to advance to the quarter-finals. If the situation of the game does not change much, even if it is zero to zero, Atletico de Madrid can advance.
For Barcelona, they can't accept a zero-to-zero-because they will be eliminated in this way!
Guardiola was a little anxious, but he wanted to adjust.But halftime hasn't passed yet, he needs at least one intermission now!
Football games are not like basketball and rugby. There can be timeouts, and the head coach can use the timeouts to intervene in game tactics.
For the football head coach, when he wants to make relatively large tactical adjustments, he can only go through the halftime break. Even if it is a substitution, sometimes it is difficult to clearly explain the head coach's tactical intentions.
Guardiola rubbed his head and sat back on the coach's bench. In his opinion, the first half of the game was like this.
The situation of the game is indeed the same. The first half of the game passed in a stalemate between the two sides.
After one minute of stoppage time in the first half, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half.
(End of this chapter)