novelonline Chapter 399: Barcelona, Standing in Arms
Chapter 399: Barcelona, Standing in Arms
Chapter 399: Barcelona, Standing in Arms
Chapter 392 The Battle of Barcelona
Barcelona, Gamper training base!
In an outdoor football stadium in Gambo Sports City, the Barcelona first team is having a group match!
In this team game, which should have been a relaxed atmosphere, the atmosphere seemed a bit dignified.
If it was the past, such a game must be full of laughter.
Barcelona's players would laugh at a player who was dumped by a continuous pass, and applaud Messi's one after another.
Even when someone gets a one-on-one, the defender will hug the opponent and shout fouls.
In the team's training match, it is normal for the players to relax. Therefore, the tense atmosphere like now is very abnormal!
Messi took the ball past Alves, and then collided with Pique, and both fell to the ground.
Although Pique did not shovel, such a collision already shows that the current Barcelona players are in a highly tense state!
Guardiola and Vilanova on the sidelines were taken aback. Fortunately, they saw Messi and Pique patting the dust off their bodies and continuing to devote themselves to training.
Vilanova breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is there really no problem with this? Pep?!" Vilanova looked at his boss Guardiola, "Why do I look a little scared!"
Guardiola was actually a little worried about the collision just now, but when he thought of his opponent two days later, Guardiola immediately made up his mind!
"Attitude! Tito!!" Guardiola didn't look back. He continued to watch the fierce confrontation on the training ground.
"We have to show our attitude!! They have already won us three times this season. If we lose this time, we will lose everything in the league!"
Guardiola looked serious!
The Copa del Rey was eliminated. In the domestic arena, the only thing Barcelona can fight for is the league championship!
It is naturally impossible for Guardiola to give up this championship, so Barcelona must win this game against Atletico Madrid!
It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most critical battle in the league!
Vilanova sighed secretly, only Gao Bo and his Atletico Madrid could push Guardiola and Barcelona to this level.
In the past two days, almost everything in the Barcelona team revolved around this game.
From offensive tactics to defensive tactics, from game details to player mentality!
Guardiola prepared for this game almost as if he was preparing for a Champions League final!
That night, the lights in Guardiola's office were still on.
When Vilanova finished his last job and was about to go back, he saw the lights in Guardiola's office.
After hesitating for a moment, he came to the office and knocked on the door.
He found that Guardiola was sitting in front of the TV, still staring at the screen, frowning, and writing and drawing in his notebook from time to time.
Vilanova leaned over and found that the video of the match between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona was shown on the screen, which was already the third time the two sides had played against each other.
"Have you watched all three games? This is four or five hours?" Vilanova asked in surprise.
"No!" Guardiola turned his head and glanced at him.
Vilanova breathed a sigh of relief, but what Guardiola said next left him dumbfounded.
"I've watched Atletico Madrid's games against strong teams this season!"
Guardiola picked up the notebook, he paused the screen, and then continued to record something in the notebook.
Vilanova shook his head.
The two have worked together for a long time, and Vilanova also knows that Guardiola is a workaholic, but like now, this is the first time that such a detailed research has been done on an opponent!
Guardiola is a fan of Barcelona football philosophy. Under Guardiola, Barcelona, with the triangle of Messi, Xavi and Iniesta as the core, played amazing football.
So they get everything.
Barcelona's football philosophy is almost Guardiola's belief. He always thought that as long as Barcelona's own characteristics are brought out, they will be invincible in the world!
And now, the appearance of Atletico Madrid has given Guardiola a sense of crisis in his heart!
Atlético de Madrid under Gao Bo also plays a football that focuses on offense. They are fast and powerful. They fly with both wings and intersperse in the middle. They do not pursue ball control and are more direct and sharp.
To some extent, Gao Bo's tactics are very flexible. Within the framework of this set of tactics, Gao Bo's team can play the offensive flow of the frontcourt, or they can use both sides to play counterattacks. They can even learn from Barcelona to play ball control.
They seem to know everything.
Therefore, when facing such a team, Guardiola found that it is really not easy to find Atletico Madrid's weaknesses!
Since there is no weakness that can be exploited in the opponent, the key to this game is that Barcelona's own performance! !
It's just a head-to-head match!
"It's hard to imagine that they can achieve such a tacit understanding in just half a season."
After seeing a continuous pass from Atletico Madrid on the screen, Vilanova shook his head and sighed.
Barcelona is also very good at continuous passing and cutting in the frontcourt, but Vilanova knows that Barcelona does this because their core players are their own youth training products. From the beginning of Barcelona's youth training camp, their players have already played the same football, so La Masia's students are almost seamlessly connected to the first team.
But what about Atletico Madrid?
"No, they don't understand each other well enough!"
Guardiola smiled.
Although Atletico Madrid's passing looks good, compared with Barcelona's fusion after several seasons, Atletico Madrid has less of a taste of perfection.
"If it's just about passing control, we're definitely better than them, and we're even better than that!"
Guardiola said confidently.
"It's a pity that they won't compare with us in this aspect. The purpose of every pass they pass is to shoot. Have you noticed? Tito!"
Guardiola turned to look at Vilanova.
"They have more than twenty shots per game!"
Vilanova nodded. Atletico Madrid felt like a sharp knife this season. They seemed to be able to create threats all the time.
"Yes, I know this too." Vilanova looked at the thick notebook in Guardiola's hand, which was densely filled with various tactical information, "Have you found a way to deal with them?" Vilanova's eyes lit up.
Guardiola shook his head: "Not yet!"
Then he paused: "But... I've got some feeling."
Speaking Guardiola stood up.
"Come on, go have a drink with me!"
Guardiola picks up his coat which is lying on the back of the chair.
"I haven't had dinner yet."
(End of this chapter)