Chapter 365 Lai. Specializing in strong teams. Wan (Part 1)
Regarding Barcelona's possible starting configuration, Ibiza conducted targeted tactical drills.
When the players on the court saw Yaya Toure starting and Barcelona played as a single midfielder, they knew what they should do.
According to Fang Jue's arrangement, under this situation, Ibiza's response was very direct: concentrating all offensive forces to attack Yaya Toure.
This does not mean that Yaya Toure is not capable, on the contrary, this is a very strong player. However, in Barcelona, in this starting lineup, the Ivorians, who is a single midfielder, is the breakthrough point for Barcelona selected by Fang Jue.
The game has been going on for more than ten minutes, and at present, his strategy is quite successful.
From the beginning of the game, Ibiza, who played at home, launched an offensive against Barcelona, and frequently put pressure around Yaya Toure in the midfield.
Barcelona seemed to be unprepared for this. On the one hand, they did not expect that Ibiza would play so proactively and aggressively against Barcelona. In addition, they also lacked the necessary preparation for Ibiza's concentrating the offensive firepower of the entire team to attack Yaya Toure, so that Yaya Toure was a little embarrassed by the impact. Xavi and Iniesta had to come and help. The most direct reaction was that Barcelona's midfielder was passive, exhausted from defense, and could not support the forward line.
This is Guardiola's first season in coaching Barcelona's first team. Barcelona lost to the newly promoted Manumancia 0-1 away from home in the first round of the league, which caused a big upset and directly aroused doubts and distrust of Guardiola by the media and fans.
Especially in the second round of the league, after Barcelona was tied by Santander at home, the Catalan media "World Sports" has even begun to discuss whether Guardiola should be dismissed.
However, starting from the third round of the league, Guardiola's team began to slowly get on track. They massacred the newly promoted Sporting Gijon 6-1 away in the third round. From this game to this round, until they met Ibiza, Guardiola's team had won six consecutive league wins. Among these six wins, in addition to the 6-1 victory over Sporting Gijon in the third round, they also beat Atletico Madrid 6-1 at home and defeated Almeria 5-0 at home.
It can be said that Guardiola's Barcelona has begun to show strong offensive strength, and these three big wins have one characteristic. These three teams tried to play against Barcelona, and then they were slaughtered by Barcelona.
Especially in the third round of the league match against Sporting Gijon, I don’t know if Sporting Gijon found inspiration from the match against Atletico Madrid, who was also a newly promoted team. They held high the offensive banner in the match against Barcelona, played against Barcelona, and then were tortured.
The same is true for Atletico Madrid. According to Madrid media, after Atletico Madrid lost to Ibiza 3-8 away from the first round of away games, Aguirre carefully summarized his experience and finally concluded that Ibiza used counterattack tactics well. Facing the powerful Atletico Madrid, this tactic was unexpected and caught Atletico Madrid off guard. Aguirre was a good person at summarizing. Then when facing Barcelona away, he took the inspiration from this game, held high the offensive banner away, and tried to create a "Camp Nou Miracle". In the end, Barcelona created a new "Camp Nou Massacre" against Atletico Madrid.
These victories have greatly improved their confidence in Barcelona's entire team, especially Barcelona coach Guardiola. Guardiola has a sense of confidence: the team that dares to attack Barcelona has a commendable courage, but they will die miserably!
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So, after the game began, Guardiola was surprised at first. He thought Ibiza would be more conservative in the face of the powerful Barcelona, but he did not expect Ibiza to insist on attacking.
Then, Guardiola was happy. Since Ibiza was overestimating her abilities and did not know how to live or die, he didn't mind sending Fang Jue and Ibiza a trip.
In this mental state, even if Barcelona are a little passive when they see Ibiza besieging Yaya Toure, Guardiola doesn't care much about it. He has confidence in his team. As long as he withstands this wave of offensive, Barcelona, who has recovered, will teach Ibiza a good lesson.
However, Guardiola ignored one thing, a very important point: he lacked the most direct understanding of this Ibiza.
Although Barcelona lost a away game last season at Ibiza, as Guardiola said in an interview with the media, it was not his Barcelona, and he would not pay attention to it. Guardiola has his own pride and he does not think that situation will happen to his Barcelona. Moreover, Guardiola knew that Barcelona had a certain rotation in that game, and the home victory in the first leg also made Barcelona underestimate the opponent. Various factors caused that shameful defeat.
This game was the first time Guardiola and Fang Jue had fought. He obviously lacked the most direct and deep understanding of Ibiza, who was the opponent.
Although Guardiola also watched the 8-3 match between Ibiza and Atletico Madrid, and watched the video of Ibiza's seven-to-two Valencia's game, he thought he knew the tactical system of this Ibiza, but it was like watching flowers in the fog. Without clearing the clouds and fog, you will never know whether you are the sister Wen Wanxiang or the real stinking brother in front of you.
What Guardiola could not imagine was that in the face of Ibiza's continuous impact, his Barcelona seemed to be unable to withstand it.
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Yaya Toure is Barcelona's single midfielder. He is besieged here and it will be very dangerous once he is broken through. Therefore, this forces Xavi and Iniesta to come and help. Faced with Ibiza's high-intensity push-up tactics, Barcelona's midfielder is very passive.
Fang Jue watched from the court, his fists clenched, loosened, and clenched, and he was nervous.
Now, the only thing that can relieve his tension is to score a goal.
"It's intercepted!"
Yaya Toure chose to pass the football to Iniesta in the face of Modric's press. However, Mata had been prepared for this. The former Real Madrid talented star suddenly stepped forward and stabbed it first. Then Marklei grabbed the football before Xavi counterattacked and quickly passed the ball. The football was passed to Modric.
Beautiful job!
Fang Jue applauded on the sidelines, and the players' siege and cooperation were very tacit.
Modricilla's ball, made a little adjustment, and then looked at the front.
"Modric's straight pass! Aubameyang! Speed! Speed! Very fast speed! Divided the side, Alba made a cross! Pique! He cleared! Flawed... Lewandowski - gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!"
"gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Robert Lewandowski! He scored! One-to-zero! Ibiza led Barcelona one-to-zero, and it was Lewandowski, it was him, it was him, or him! Last season in the two rounds of the Spanish Cup of Dec, Lewandowski scored four goals against Barcelona, and now facing Barcelona again, he scored again. In addition, in the first leg of the league, he scored a goal, facing Atletico Madrid in the fourth round of the league, facing Valencia, Lewandowski scored five goals in nine minutes, and in the Spanish Super Cup, Lewandowski also scored a hat trick. This 20-year-old Polish young scorer bursts out with huge energy every time he faces a strong opponent."
"In the ninth round of the league, Lewandowski scored his ninth goal! One goal per game!"
Along with the roars of commentators Dolores and David Zamora, huge cheers burst out from the Athletic Stadium in Ibiza.
Lewandowski, who scored the goal, ran to the corner flag area with his arms wide open, followed by the excited Ibiza players!
Chapter completed!