As soon as Messi retreated, Xavi Alonso was behind to remind Toni Kroos to pay attention.
The German not only paid attention to Xavi, but also paid close attention to Messi's movement. Especially when he saw Pique stopping the ball to the right, he guessed that he was going to find Messi.
So, Toni Kroos ran decisively in the direction of Messi.
As soon as Pique passed the ball, Toni Kroos intercepted the ball first and blocked Messi with his body.
The Argentine was blocked by the sudden change and wanted to steal the ball from Toni Kroos, but the German had an obvious physical advantage. After successfully intercepting the ball, he quickly kicked the ball to the left.
After receiving the ball, Ronaldo quickly moved forward and inserted diagonally into the gap on the left rib, attracting both Busquets and Alves.
Benzema's reaction was quick enough, especially after seeing Busquets pounce on Ronaldo, he quickly left the center and ran to the left. Because Pique and Puyol were in the center, he did not get the ball.
Space.
Cristiano Ronaldo understood it and passed the ball diagonally to the left before Busquets. He suddenly accelerated and sprinted forward as fast as possible.
As soon as Benzema stopped the ball, Pique came over, but the French center cut inside with the ball with his right foot, shook off Pique, and made a pass with his right foot, trying to go directly to the top of the penalty area to find C
Luo.
Unexpectedly, Puyol rushed out, got ahead of Ronaldo, headed the ball to clear the siege, and pushed the ball out.
The ball didn't fly very far, but still landed outside Barcelona's 30-meter area.
Toni Kroos was just about to act as the second offensive echelon and rush forward, but at this time he could only retreat and compete with Xavi for the ball, but Xavi Alonso saw the opportunity and rushed forward decisively.
, intercepted the ball first.
As soon as he stopped the ball, Pedro was already approaching to press him.
Xavi Alonso glanced at the situation and saw Di Maria in front of him on the right raising his hand for the ball. He immediately passed the ball over, made a diagonal pass, and passed the ball back to the open area.
There were no defensive players around Di Maria. After stopping the ball, he continued to move forward, rushed into the penalty area, and passed the ball in front of the goal with his left foot. Ronaldo quickly stepped in and wanted to push the ball in front of the goal.
At the critical moment, goalkeeper Valdes abandoned the goal and made a sideways dive regardless of his own safety, grabbing the ball before Ronaldo.
The Portuguese were forced to retreat.
The entire Camp Nou stadium screamed in exclamation of relief.
Real Madrid's attack was very fast.
From stealing the ball to counterattacking to the second wave of attacks, Barcelona barely had any chance to breathe.
"Fifteen seconds!"
The commentator was surprised by Real Madrid's attack.
"From intercepting the ball to counterattacking to Barcelona's clearance, then Xabi Alonso grabbed the ball and passed the ball to Di Maria, then passed the ball to Valdes' attack, the whole process took fifteen seconds."
"Real Madrid's quick counterattack was very sharp. It can even be said that it completely penetrated Barcelona's defense."
"Actually, when Benzema passed the ball to find Cristiano Ronaldo, it was almost penetrated. Then Di Maria's pass directly completely destroyed Barcelona's defense. If Valdes hadn't abandoned it,
I hit the goal and the goal went in."
"Up to now, the game has been going on for 1 minute and 30 seconds, and we can already clearly see Real Madrid's tactics."
"This is the formation of a top coach. He doesn't have any tricks, he just spreads out to fight you."
"Senior's tactics are to defend firmly and counterattack quickly, and the counterattack investment is very strong. We can see that just now Toni Kroos, Modric and Xavi Alonso all rushed into Barcelona's half, and even
It’s a thirty-meter area.”
"On the contrary, the two full-backs, Marcelo and Arbeloa, seemed a bit low-key tonight. This is probably related to their defensive tasks, but Real Madrid's counterattack was very impressive."
"Barcelona must pay attention, this is definitely not an accident."
…
Valdez threw the ball and the game restarted.
The game seemed to have returned to the rhythm it had at the beginning.
Barcelona passed the ball slowly in the backcourt, while Real Madrid defended along the center line.
The difference from just now is that Barcelona's Iniesta began to actively retreat to support, but Modric followed up.
Whether it is Toni Kroos or Modric, many times they are ahead of Benzema, but as long as Xavi and Iniesta have no passing threat, they will retreat immediately.
The high level of tactical execution of Real Madrid players left a deep impression on people.
Even Barcelona coach Vilanova on the sidelines couldn't help but frown.
Even though it was only more than two minutes into the game, the ball was basically in Barcelona's half. The strange thing was that Barcelona couldn't pass the ball past the half, and Real Madrid even created a threat.
Vilanova walked to the sidelines and signaled the players to pay attention to pulling and transferring, especially large-scale transfers, to mobilize Real Madrid's defense.
However, in the third minute, everyone saw another surprising scene.
When the ball was on Barcelona's left, which was Real Madrid's right, Cristiano Ronaldo actually retreated to Toni Kroos' position, which was a deep defensive area, maintaining the compactness and order of the overall formation.
"Is he going to use Ronaldo as a midfielder?" Vilanova muttered to himself.
But combined with Cristiano Ronaldo's quick pass just now, it's obvious that it's not the case.
The Portuguese made a late pass. If Puyol hadn't headed the ball, he would have entered the penalty area.
Later, Di Maria's cross pass was also grabbed by Ronaldo in the middle.
Obviously, Gao Shen did not restrict Ronaldo's offense, but only arranged his defense and positioning.
"Damn it, how could Ronaldo listen to him?" Vilanova was very unconvinced.
If he asked Messi to do this, the Argentinian would definitely give him a straight face, then turn around and leave.
But Vilanova quickly put aside this entanglement and walked straight to the sidelines, signaling Xavi or Iniesta to pay more attention to the retreat and allowing Busquets to press forward.
"I want to see if Benzema will follow Busquets back to such a deep position."
…
It only took two or three minutes to start, but the two head coaches were already going back and forth for several rounds.
But all of this will not be noticed by the fans.
Everyone can only see that Barcelona began to make adjustments, Xavi retreated deeper, and Busquets spotted an opportunity and moved forward with the ball.
At this time, Benzema did not follow up in time, but handed the defense to his teammates in the midfield.
But just when Real Madrid's defensive players switched, Messi retreated and met Busquets.
The two completed a wonderful one-two match at the forefront of Real Madrid's thirty-meter zone.
First, Busquets passed the ball to Messi and rushed forward. When Messi passed the ball back, Busquets swung the ball with his heel and passed it back to Messi.
This kind of continuous cooperation in a small area made Real Madrid's defensive order somewhat chaotic.
Modric and Toni Kroos have overlapping positions.
Messi seized the opportunity and dribbled the ball towards Real Madrid's right rib.
At the critical moment, the more experienced Xabi Alonso accurately targeted Messi and chased the Argentine all the way without missing the target he was marking, showing his maturity and stability as a veteran.
Messi failed to beat Xabi Alonso and was forced to pass the ball to Sanchez on the outside of the penalty area.
The Chilean winger understood this, stopped the ball, cut inside, and dribbled the ball laterally along the edge of the penalty area, forcing Xavi Alonso to change his defensive target, otherwise, Sanchez could directly hit the goal.
Xabi Alonso followed, but Sanchez decisively passed the ball straight to the left side of the penalty area.
When Messi stepped in and stopped the ball, Arbeloa blocked it immediately, with his hands behind his back, without losing his defensive goal.
"Real Madrid's defensive performance was quite good this time."
"Many people have said before that Gao Shen's ability to coach defense is not inferior to his ability to coach offense. Many people have questioned this. But tonight, just from Barcelona's offense just now, we can see
Real Madrid’s defense is really good, especially the players’ movement and connection.”
"If Barcelona's offense is dazzling, then Real Madrid's defense is watertight."
Messi was on the right side of the penalty area, facing Arbeloa one-on-one, and had no choice but to pass the ball.
But at this time, Pepe was stuck in a key position and got the ball out first.
Barcelona's offensive coordination was very exciting, but Real Madrid's defense was also amazing.
Just when everyone thought that both sides were going to breathe a sigh of relief, they saw Pepe's clearance ball fall to the bottom of the center circle of Real Madrid's half.
At this time, Puyol had already judged the landing point and was stuck in the position, but Benzema also came up. He used his back to hold Puyol. Before the ball hit the ground, Benzema had an obvious use.
The action of hitting Puyol with his back.
The Barcelona captain was hit by this collision and his body swayed back involuntarily, and the ball hit the ground just at this time.
Puyol jumped up to fight for it, but Benzema rubbed the back of his head and the ball fell behind him and Puyol. Immediately afterwards, the French center was about to turn around.
As for Benzema's handling this time, he is really smart and experienced. His interference and restriction on Puyol are also very good, but Puyol is also not a fuel-efficient lamp. Although the Barcelona captain did not grab
Got the ball, but he caught someone.
While fighting for the ball with Benzema, Puyol reached out and grabbed Benzema, blocking Benzema who turned to chase the ball. The French center was suddenly unable to rush forward.
The football was between the two of them, and they took two shots at the same time. In the end, Benzema blocked the ball to his left, which was the center circle position, and stepped forward first, blocking Puyol with his body.
, protect the ball.
After protecting the ball, the French center did not wait for Xavi to press him closely, and immediately passed the ball back to the unguarded Toni Kroos in the gap.
When the German midfielder stopped the ball, he glanced ahead and found that Ronaldo was not yet in place, but Di Maria was already ready.
So Toni Kroos made a long diagonal pass and accurately sent the ball to the right in front.
Di Maria spotted the opportunity and sprinted forward at great speed.
Alba followed closely behind, and the two competed for speed.
In the end, Di Maria, who took the lead, got there first and used his head to head Toni Kroos' diagonal pass forward. After rushing out of the sideline of the court, he quickly turned back and got ahead of Alba, breaking the line.
The ball went to the right side of the penalty area.
At this time, Real Madrid's second echelon of counterattack has arrived!
