Barcelona trails Real Madrid in the league and was eliminated by Valencia 3-4 in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey. The UEFA Champions League can be said to be Rijkaard and Barcelona's last chance this season.
Faced with the desperate situation of scoring a goal, Rijkaard also had to gamble. Although he was well aware of the danger that the space after pressing out could bring, Barcelona could no longer care so much at this time.
However, it is obvious that Li Ang and Inter Milan were well prepared for Barcelona's violent attack. Barcelona surrounded Inter Milan's goal for ten minutes to no avail. Inter Milan retreated across the board like a turtle. Such intensive defense did not
What chance does it give Barcelona.
Barcelona in the Rijkaard era focused on controlling the ball, and emphasized large-scale mobilization in offense, as well as deep penetration. In particular, Ronaldinho attracted the defense in front of the penalty area or kicked the wall for a two-on-one, or passed diagonally in front of the penalty area.
For Giuly on the other side, this kind of offense was common in games at that time. Deco can be said to be good at both offense and defense. He was basically the player who violated and was violated the most in every game, which supplemented the strength of the defense to a certain extent. However,
, now, Ronaldinho has almost been deposed, Deco has moved to Inter Milan, and the two aces Rijkaard relied on most are gone.
In addition, Rijkaard's Barcelona has always had two problems that have not been solved, one of which is breaking through dense defense.
Breaking dense defense is a worldwide problem, especially after Barcelona began to show their powerful offensive capabilities. Facing Barcelona, the La Liga team took the initiative to retreat and retreat bilaterally, forming a local personnel advantage, resulting in excessive density in the half.
If the field is equipped with a strong midfielder, Barcelona will have to pass back more often, unable to pass out in depth, and unable to score goals. At this time, Rijkaard's Barcelona's backpass cannot effectively consume the opponent's physical strength, because
Barcelona's return passes at that time were mostly static and had not yet reached the level of pass control that Guardiola's Barcelona later achieved.
Of course, when faced with the problem of breaking dense defenses, Rijkaard also has his own methods and attempts. He has been pursuing high center forwards, from Maxi Lopez to Good Johnson. Rijkaard's choice just illustrates his ability to break dense defenses.
He was helpless and had to pin his hopes on the high center forward.
At this time, Rijkaard repeated his old tricks again. He replaced French star Henry with Good Johnson. He wanted to use Good Johnson's broad vision and excellent passing ability to achieve offensive effect. Of course, the key is Good.
Johnson's header ability is better.
However, Rijkaard's change of tactics did not achieve effective results. Italian football clubs are always good at defense. Li Ang's Inter Milan has always done a good job in defending high-altitude balls, whether it is Samu
El and Chivu are both fearless when facing Gudjohnson.
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Li Ang sits firmly on Diaoyutai. Although his team is besieged by Barcelona, he is not worried at all.
He knows this Barcelona team very well.
Barcelona's ability to break through dense defenses is not strong, and he knows that.
He also knows that there are problems with Barcelona's defense, especially the defense against the opponent's counterattack. When he was in Sporting Gijon, Leon's Sporting Gijon once saw it with a knife.
Barcelona's bloody defensive counterattacks made Barcelona 'constantly Chaos': Barcelona's defense did not form a whole, especially in air defense and fast counterattacks. The so-called lack of a whole means that after the frontcourt players lost the ball, although they were actively pressing
, but the opponent can always find the passing point. The opponent does not entangle in the midfield, and passes the ball to the frontcourt to find the center. The center will either sit on the pile and pass to the fast forward, or directly play behind. This is what Barcelona encountered at this time.
The reason why Yellow Submarine Villarreal, Valencia and Atletico Madrid, as well as Liang's Sporting Gijon at that time, have always been difficult to win.
It had been besieging Inter Milan's goal for nearly ten minutes, but had been unable to score. Just when Barcelona was getting more and more impatient, the dagger behind Inter Milan's solid defensive wall suddenly stabbed out with a cold light.
Inter Milan made substitutions, youngster Toni Kroos was replaced, and Modric, who had been out for two months due to injury, came on as a substitute.
When the Croatian Magic Flute came on the field, the fans in the audience gave warm applause to welcome the return of the team's midfield brain.
Rijkaard was not particularly vigilant or attentive to Li Ang's substitution. When the team was leading by two goals in total, it was normal to replace players who had returned from injury to find a feeling. Of course, it was also more
Mostly because Barcelona only had one way to attack at this time and couldn't care about anything else.
At the beginning of the game, commentators Ferrari and Rossi talked about Modric entering the game squad for the first time after two months of absence due to injury. They pointed out that Modric now wants to find a game as soon as possible.
Feel.
Obviously, the commentator does not think that the Croatian, who has been absent for a long time, can perform amazingly at the beginning of his return.
Even Li Ang was like this. Although he told his teammate to sort out the team's offense and strive for accurate counterattacks when he sent Modric to play, Li Ang didn't have much performance for Modric.
As long as I can no longer get hurt and slowly find the feeling, it will be fine.
However, Modric still surprised everyone!
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This was originally another fruitless attack by Barcelona. This was after Messi passed the ball continuously and sent the football to the wing. Iniesta took the ball high into the penalty area and Good Johnson's header hit Samuel.
Unable to withstand the interference, the football was firmly held by Cesar.
Cesar did not take the kick this time, but quickly rushed to the penalty area. He threw the ball vigorously to launch an attack. Obviously, this change showed that this counterattack was purposeful.
After Muntari received the ball, he passed the ball directly to Luka Modric!
When the Croatian 'Magic Flute' received the ball, he actively observed the situation in front. He did not stop the ball and directly made a wonderful long pass to the wing.
On the wing, Mata quickly intervened, he stopped the ball beautifully, and then tried to continue dribbling the ball forward, but instead of continuing to dribble forward, he pulled the football sideways and glanced at the front.
After the situation, he chose to directly pass the ball diagonally and passed the football to the front of the penalty area.
Adriano followed up with long-legged strides, and beside him was Marcos who hurriedly followed up to defend!
Mata unexpectedly did not pass a lob this time, but a ground ball.
This time, Barcelona was caught off guard. When Mata passed the ball just now, Marcos almost subconsciously wanted to jump for the high ball.
Due to the ground ball being passed and Mata's special effort, the football was rolling on the turf very quickly.
Adriano and Marcos pounced on the football almost simultaneously.
"Mata's pass!"
"Adriano and Marcos are chasing the ball!"
"Marcos! Beautiful! He followed Adriano, a successful defense!" the Catalan commentator shouted. In his opinion, Marcos followed Adriano. With Marcos'
Although the defensive ability cannot be said to completely prevent Adriano, with the interference of Marcos, it is difficult for Adriano to control the ball easily, and if Adriano wants to stop the ball and then seek a breakthrough or
If it was a shot, Abidal, who quickly defended behind him, would have been able to get into position.
However, no one expected that Adriano had no intention of controlling the ball!
When he was about to get close to the football, Adriano suddenly leaned back, lowered his center of gravity, and flew towards the football!
Adriano shovels!
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Marcos had been guarding against Adriano's possible shot after catching up with the ball. At this time, he really didn't expect Adriano to suddenly shoot!
Not just a shovel shot!
Still a quick shot!
suddenly!
In front of the goal, Barcelona goalkeeper Valdes, who was originally planning to attack, saw Marcos following Adriano. He hesitated and now retreated without attacking!
However, later, seeing Adriano getting closer and closer to the ball, Valdez chose to attack again. He wanted to block the angle of the shot and interfere with Adriano.
However, Valdes didn't expect that as soon as he rushed out of the goal, Adriano suddenly made a tackle.
Adriano successfully tackled the football, and the football changed direction and flew directly towards the goal!
Valdez made a subconscious save halfway through the attack, but the football suddenly flew up. The football passed in front of his fingertips, then continued forward, fell, bounced on the ground in front of the goal, and continued to bounce up.
, bounce towards the goal...
After Adriano made a tackle, Marcos quickly threw his weight away. He slid on the turf, hoping to stop the football. However, the Moscow defender who slid towards the goal eventually missed the kick.
Before he touched the football, the football had already jumped into the goal, and Marcos continued to slide into the goal due to inertia. He watched helplessly as the football that landed in the net continued to bounce!
"4:3! Adriano! Third! Hat trick! Hat trick! Adriano scored a hat trick in the Champions League semi-finals! This is the first time in the last ten years to perform in the Champions League semi-finals
Hat-trick player!!!”
"Four to three! Inter Milan exceeded the score again! This goal was a huge blow to Barcelona. They needed to score three goals in less than ten minutes to reverse the score. This is almost God's fault.
Mission impossible!"
At this moment, the entire Meazza stadium was plunged into unprecedented carnival and excitement.
