When Martino, Lula, Rubi and others pushed in the door with Fabregas, Barcelona's starting eleven immediately raised their heads and realized that the team was about to make a substitution.
Especially Aguero, who was the first to bear the brunt, his expression changed even more.
Fabregas can play in the midfield and frontcourt, but he basically plays in the middle.
The iron triangle in the midfield is the main force that Barcelona can't touch. In the front three, Neymar is the upstart and Messi is the ace. If neither of them can move, then only Aguero is left.
What's more, Fabregas often played as a pseudo-center before.
After being tempered in the Premier League, Fabregas is not afraid of physical confrontation. More importantly, his passing and coordination awareness are also very good.
In contrast, although Aguero also has the ability to take the ball with his back, and has stronger scoring ability and frontal impact ability, he is indeed not as good as Fabregas in terms of effectively connecting the left and right wings and the midfield.
Sure enough, Lula signaled that Aguero could take a shower first.
Barcelona must make some adjustments in the second half.
After Aguero left, Martino asked his assistant to pull out the tactical board and took the lead in analyzing the team's problems in the first half.
The score of zero to two is indeed relatively bad, but it has not reached the point of despair.
Martino believes that one of the important reasons why the team conceded two goals in the first half was that Barcelona's offense lacked threat.
The game is dynamic. When Barcelona's offense is not threatening enough, Real Madrid stabilizes its defense and will naturally invest more in counterattacks. Then it is inevitable that Barcelona will lose the ball.
No matter which angle you look at it, Barcelona must solve the team's offensive problems as soon as possible.
But Martino still did not intend to change some of the team's tactics in the first half, such as medium and long passes.
This is an effective way to change the tempo of the game, and Barcelona has many players who are good at passing the ball.
What Martino wants to do is reconnect the team.
Neymar is new here and has strong personal abilities, but he doesn't have a good understanding of the team yet, so Martino clearly instructed him that he should stay on the left and continue to create threats.
At the same time, Martino also asked the team's entire midfield and frontcourt to pass the ball to Neymar as much as possible to create more one-on-one opportunities for him to face Carvajal. He believed that Neymar had the ability.
The ability to eat Carvajal's.
"If Real Madrid want to double-team you on this side..."
Martino took a pen on the tactical board and drew a big circle on the left side of the Barcelona penalty area.
"Neymar, then you try to move the ball to the other side, and Alves will meet you on this side."
This is Martino's targeted deployment based on the trend in the first half.
Everyone nodded.
There is no doubt about Neymar's personal ability, and he can create opportunities when facing Carvajal one-on-one.
"Sesk."
After Martino put Fabregas' chess piece on the table, he turned and pointed at Fabregas.
"After you go up, you can face Real Madrid's two central defenders more directly, but I also want to give you a special arrangement."
With that said, Martino pulled Fabregas' chess piece back and placed it in the space between Ramos and Xavi Alonso.
The meaning is obvious, he hopes Fabregas will find an opportunity between Real Madrid's left center back and midfielder.
"Your retreat will definitely attract Ramos' attention. At this time, Messi can diagonally insert into the gap you created, or he can insert forward and hit Ramos behind, and the two of you will form a cross.
transposition."
This time, not only the players, but also Lula, Ruby and others were impressed.
Martino's ability to coach well in South America is truly not lacking in quality.
This move may seem strange, but it actually works wonderfully.
This cross-positioning between Fabregas and Messi can activate Messi to the maximum extent. At the same time, Fabregas's retreat can also effectively respond to Xavi and Iniesta.
You know, Fabregas's final pass ability is very strong.
By that time, Real Madrid's defensive players will probably have a headache.
If you follow, the defense will be loose; if you don't, once Fabregas gets the chance to take the ball and pass the ball, the connection between him, Messi and Neymar will make Real Madrid's defense very deadly.
Lula and Ruby looked at each other, and both saw the admiration in each other's eyes.
Martino's move was obviously thought up during the game and based on the situation on the field. It is really not simple and very imaginative.
Many people don't know that head coaches, like players, also need imagination.
If Barcelona can really create a threat on Messi and Fabregas' side, it will definitely attract Real Madrid's defensive attention. By then, the pressure on Neymar's side will be reduced a lot, and there will be a chance to attack.
"Okay, everyone, believe me, we haven't reached despair yet."
"In the second half, we have to work hard to score goals, even equalize the score, and then return to the Camp Nou to avenge our previous disgrace!"
Martino finally mobilized passionately.
Barcelona players were also inspired and regained their confidence.
…
In Gao Shen's previous life, he met all kinds of people, and slowly, he also gathered some insights.
People living in this world have different personalities, which lead to different behaviors.
Some people are very radical and always want to hit their personal ceiling; some people are extremely conservative, always careful to avoid stepping into pitfalls and always follow the rules.
Of course, in life, these two types of people are not common, and there are more ordinary people between the two personalities.
Take buying a house as an example.
Gao Shen once had a colleague who, for various reasons, missed the best opportunity to buy a house. As a result, when house prices were at their highest and he had no money, he piled up all the loans he could and borrowed
I used all the money I could borrow to buy a small three-bedroom apartment in a school district in a core area.
Later, when house prices fell due to masks, he was willing to do so.
In his words, he was willing to admit defeat. More importantly, he wanted a degree and did not want to sell it at all.
Gao Shen also has a friend who has been holding coins for more than ten years. He saw Guojiang from the core area, the new district from Guojiang, and the suburbs from the new district...
He just watched helplessly as the money in his pocket, which could have been used to buy a house in the core area, turned out to be unaffordable even in the suburbs.
Almost every time, he would wail bitterly, saying that if he had another chance, he would never be so cautious.
But whenever the opportunity comes again, he is still cautious, fearing that he will suffer a loss if he buys at a high position. He always picks and picks, but never picks something that makes him feel relieved.
Gao Shen and the two friends are different.
He is neither radical nor conservative.
When he had saved almost enough for the down payment, he started looking at houses. He made a lot of preparations, including investigating the house prices and rents in popular communities, as well as the occupancy rate. Finally, he came to the conclusion that he thought house prices would rise.
Therefore, he made a decisive move, and when there were no new properties in the core area, he decided to buy a property near the core area across the river.
After that, housing prices indeed ushered in a round of skyrocketing, but Gao Shen never believed in the so-called housing prices that kept rising.
Because nothing in this world is absolute.
Such is the depth of character.
When doing things, he likes to be as prepared as possible, assess the situation and seize the opportunity, neither greedy for success nor shrinking from advancement.
Specifically, in the second half of the first round of the Spanish Super Cup between the Bernabeu and Barcelona, after entering the halftime break with a 2-0 lead, Gao Shen synthesized various information, especially the reference opinions provided by the coaching staff,
He guessed that Martino would attack in the second half.
He was also fully prepared for this.
But he didn't expect that Martino would replace Aguero with Fabregas in midfield, and the team's tactics would change.
When the game reached the 51st minute, Barcelona made another long pass.
This time, Xavi passed the ball directly to the right side of the frontcourt to find Messi.
Messi stopped the ball and walked inside, passed it to Alves who came up from behind, and ran towards the center, but Marcelo was chasing after him.
When Messi received the pass from Alves, Xavi Alonso also ran over immediately, but Messi cleverly took the ball to avoid the Real Madrid defender and passed it back to Alves.
Alves made a long diagonal pass, which was accurately transferred to the feet of Neymar on the other side.
After the Brazilian player stopped the ball in his chest, under Carvajal's close guard, he decisively dribbled the ball inside and accelerated the attack.
During the cut, Neymar quickly passed the ball into the penalty area.
Fabregas stopped the ball with his back to Pepe and quickly passed the ball back to the right side of the top of the penalty area.
At this moment, Messi suddenly rushed over, stopped Cesc Fabregas' pass to the inside, followed up and fired directly with his left foot.
After the ball crossed an arc, it hit the upper left corner of Real Madrid's goal.
Dead spot!
Casillas struggled to make a save, but was unable to do anything.
One to two!
Barcelona recovered a goal!
The entire Bernabeu Stadium let out a cry of surprise.
Barcelona's offensive coordination this time was very exciting, and it was completely different from the previous coordination, with more long passes.
This is also a change brought about by Martino.
It's clear that the Argentines are trying to transform Barcelona.
Gao Shen was standing on the sidelines. After seeing Barcelona score, he made a decisive substitution.
In the 55th minute, Gao Shen replaced Carvajal with Arbeloa.
This is a move to strengthen the team's defense on the right side.
Carvajal's defensive ability is good, but it is still a bit raw and he suffered a bit against Neymar.
Arbeloa's defensive ability specializes in dealing with all kinds of dissatisfaction, and even Messi can't do anything to him.
…
After the substitution, Gao Shen made successive tactical adjustments, and Real Madrid gradually stabilized its position.
Barcelona's offensive attack began to gradually weaken.
But Gao Shen also has his own back-up plan.
Especially after Real Madrid stabilized its defense, Barcelona's problems began to be exposed.
Modric kept suppressing Iniesta throughout the game. Xiaobai also avoided Modric in the beginning, but in the second half he began to attack head-on.
But in the 58th minute, when Iniesta tried to break through with the ball, he was flanked by Di Maria and Modric at the same time.
When Iniesta was dribbling the ball, he was approached by Di Maria and lost his balance. Modric decisively stepped out to steal the ball.
Xiaobai fell to the ground, but the referee did not blow the whistle.
Modric quickly catches up, catches the ball before Busquets and moves forward, creating a counterattack situation in the frontcourt.
But at the critical moment, Busquets made a decisive tactical foul.
The referee also blew the whistle with great certainty.
