Thanks to "Thieves" and "Qingqing Little Wolf" for the reward!
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Camp Nou is silent.
The voice shouting "Barcelona" disappeared.
In just 20 minutes, Barcelona fans' hopes for the team's comeback against Millwall began to extinguish.
In the stands sat a Barcelona star and godfather, Cruyff.
It is difficult to say that the current Barcelona is his ideal Barcelona. It is impossible to talk about the passing and controlling style. If you look at the configuration and characteristics of the players, you will know that the style of this team will definitely not be the ideal passing and controlling technique and tactics.
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Rivaldo and Overmars are all players who put more emphasis on individual ability. As for the midfielders Cocu and Rosenbach's style of play, how do you expect them to establish a strong midfield advantage through passing and control?
And then can we still keep in touch with the front line to provide strong support?
In Cruyff's eyes, Millwall has a golden midfield configuration.
Gattuso is in charge of defense, Nedved is in charge of attack, and Pirlo is in charge of organization. What a clear division of labor!
With Pirlo as the center, with defensive support at the back and offensive cover at the front, he is the heart, commander, and brain of Millwall's overall technical tactics!
Barcelona actually has a similar playmaker at this stage, but because he is young, the coach does not dare to use him. To put it bluntly, he thinks the risk is too high!
Xavi is already in the first team, a teenager who was promoted before Van Gaal left. If you say he is young, he is also 22 years old. Compared with Pirlo, is his youth an excuse that cannot be trusted?
Cruyff shook his head and sighed. Pirlo's growth was cultivated by Aldridge. He had no doubt that if Aldridge was the coach of Barcelona, a player like Xavi might have been there two or three years ago.
It’s already in place!
Although the current Barcelona coach Rexach was once his assistant, he was not his puppet. Cruyff could not make Rexach completely listen to him.
Judging from these two games and his performance in the league, Rexach's time in Barcelona is coming to an end.
Cruyff watched the game for another five minutes and then left early in disappointment, not even finishing the first half.
Because Barcelona was timid and retreated to defend at home.
After Rexach lost the first ball, he was already in a panic.
Losing 3:6 in an away game is already a nightmare. Losing another big score at home, he could not imagine how angry the Barcelona fans would be.
No matter how much he tried to stay calm before the game and encouraged the team to try to reverse the game at home, when Barcelona lost the ball first, he knew that the reversal was impossible. Even now, a bigger crisis is in front of him: Camp Nou.
Will fall!
We must defend and we can’t let Millwall score any more goals!
Rexach is at a loss at this time and dare not hope to reverse his opponent, maintain a draw at home, and symbolically retain his dignity. This is his biggest hope now.
However, it backfired!
He suddenly asked Barcelona to withdraw to defend on the spot, and the players on the field were at a loss. This is not only different from what the head coach emphasized in preparation and before the game, but it is also the ultimate opposite!
When preparing for the game, we have been studying how to attack. Before the game, we even boasted in the locker room that we could reverse our opponent.
The game hasn't even lasted 30 minutes, are you starting to deny yourself?
Barcelona has some inconsistent steps on the field. Some people want to attack and some want to defend, especially the defense. The second game has not been finished yet. Millwall has already scored the seventh goal. As a defensive player, this is no longer a face.
The question of whether they can hold on or not, after the last confrontation, the criticism and accusations they received was simply a shame!
As a result, Barcelona's front and rear formations were out of sync!
Aldrich saw that Barcelona's front line was stretched and the three lines could not be tightly integrated, and he immediately guessed that the opponent had collapsed!
How could Millwall miss such an opportunity?
Pirlo firmly controls the initiative in the midfield, and he also feels relaxed, because Barcelona's forward players do not participate in defense. There is almost no pressure behind him first, and he does not worry about being counterattacked. He can focus on displaying his offensive talents.
In the 32nd minute, Pirlo started a forward offensive from the midfield.
Pass the ball to Schneider, and the opponent takes a step forward and passes the ball back to Pirlo, who is running forward.
Pass to Ronaldinho again, and then pass it back to him two steps later, Nedved, Larsson.
When Larson passed the ball back to Pirlo, Pirlo advanced all the way to Barcelona's penalty area and formed a one-man attack.
Facing goalkeeper Bonanno, Pirlo shot into the blind corner with ease and scored a goal as bright as snow!
"2:0, Millwall leads Barcelona with a total score of 8:3. This goal is as beautiful as poetry. Just looking at Pirlo's goal, it is very ordinary, but if we watch the entire attack process, we can find that Pirlo started from the instigation
From attack to goal, every pass he made, the movement of Millwall's offensive players, and the coordination of passing and cutting were superb.
Even though Henry has never touched the ball, he plays a very good role in containing the defense on the front line. Looking at Pirlo's technical movements in handling the ball, it is concise and clear. Before he touches the ball, he has already thought about how to play the ball.
, without being sloppy, this is Millwall, who can not only play violent and oppressive attacks, but also defeat opponents layer by layer like peeling off cocoons."
Pirlo and his teammates celebrated at the Nou Camp. Aldridge jumped out when he saw the goal and roared crazily.
The scoring process was so picturesque that Aldridge had no reason not to be excited.
In April, which is full of passion, Millwall is naturally aiming for the final peak in May.
European powers, are you ready?
Are you ready for a trembling realization?
Rexach's mind went blank.
Offensive, lost the ball.
Defense, lost the ball.
Male Gobi, what should we do?
Barcelona players are very frustrated. Seven days ago, they lost 3:6 in London. Three days ago, they were tied at home by the relegation team Las Palmas. The league championship can be declared out. Now it is 0:2 at home.
Behind, what team are they wearing?
Barcelona!
It is a team that aims to win the championship and strives to win honors at all times!
Within a week, the championship battle between the two fronts failed, and the players had negative emotions. It is normal!
No player would join Barcelona and not pursue the title!
This is the level, status, attitude and ambition of this team.
Now that it has reached this point, the players on the field no longer care what the head coach thinks on the sidelines.
Facts have proved that in the early 120 minutes of the contest with Millwall, the head coach's formation and on-the-spot command failed to lead the team to victory. It is even getting worse now.
The charismatic players in the team boost the team's morale and unify the team's thinking: don't think about the score, don't think about advancing or being eliminated. At the Nou Camp, you must show Barcelona's momentum, not for anything else, but for the people in the stands.
One hundred thousand fans wearing Barcelona jerseys!
After some exchanges between the Barcelona players on the field, they reached an agreement. After the restart, they used their usual tactics, but Rexach was completely clueless. They didn't know how to deal with the current situation, so they could only let the players play freely.
At the same time, Barcelona increased their defensive aggression and their movements were a bit too big. Every time they fought, they were murderous.
In this way, Millwall had the advantage in terms of tactics, but in the personal confrontation, Millwall began to gradually fall into a disadvantage.
Aldrich naturally discovered this, but he did not make any adjustments. Even if Ronaldinho actively avoided the situation, he remained indifferent.
Under normal circumstances, he would definitely not tolerate it, but at this time, he could turn a blind eye.
To put it bluntly, Barcelona is barefoot now. Millwall is wearing shoes.
I can’t afford to fight with you!
Why should I fight head-on with you?
8:3.
I'm 5 goals ahead of you.
I'm going to play in the semi-finals, and I'm also aiming for the finals.
I was bitten here by you crazy dogs. What should I do?
This was the mentality of the players at this time, so when they saw that Barcelona was overplaying their game, Millwall simply took the initiative to take it back, be more balanced, and no longer play a pressing attack.
Aldridge also feels that it is not cost-effective for a main player to be injured at this time. It is not cost-effective at all. Even if he scores 10 more goals for Barcelona, he will still lose money!
So he can tolerate the players lowering their awareness of confrontation, which is actually excessive self-protection!
Barcelona's hard work paid off. Before the end of the first half, Kluivert scored a header to rewrite the score to 1:2.
Rexach finally came to his senses at halftime and discovered that Kluivert had scored a goal. He felt that Barcelona might have a chance to play like this!
So Barcelona still played the same way in the second half.
Since the opponent did not play art and went wild, Aldridge did not pretend to be an elegant gentleman. As soon as the second half started, Millwall played counterattack, with no chance to counterattack. The midfielder controlled it. Anyway, as long as Millwall didn't look like it was shrinking on the scene.
Just be completely defensive.
Rexach scolded all eighteen generations of Aldrich's ancestors.
Millwall stopped attacking again and instead launched a surprise attack.
In the 66th minute, Henry went into the penalty area against offside and was knocked down by De Boer while defending from behind. Millwall won a penalty kick. Larsson made the shot and the score was rewritten to 3:1. Millwall continued
A two-goal lead away from home.
After this goal, Aldrich changed players and the trident was withdrawn. Klose, Villa and Larmour went up to charge, while Nedvěd retreated to strengthen the defense at the same time.
Ten minutes later, Larmour assisted Klose with a pass from the wing, and Camp Nou was booed!
Barcelona, which was furious, relied on Overmars's shot in front of the goal to get another goal back at the last moment of the game, but at this time the overall situation was decided.
Barcelona fans could not accept seeing their team suffer another disastrous defeat at home. The reversal that was announced before the game really did not even shine for a minute.
In injury time, Rosenbach rushed up and fouled Pirlo, causing Aldridge to angrily yell at Rexach.
"If you lose, you lose! There is only one fucking minute left in the game and it will be over! What are your players doing? Can they score 5 goals in 1 minute? Don't say it's a fighting spirit, his pedaling is just a hooligan.
Behavior!"
Rexach saw another side of Aldrich. He had always thought that this young marshal was elegant, gentle, and had the heroic courage of a champion. Now, at a glance, he was almost the same as a street boss who took the lead in looking for trouble.
Look, Millwall's coaching staff are following behind him, their faces full of frost and anger!
Think about it, if Pirlo is injured, will Millwall win or lose the game?
After the first round, they were basically declared to have advanced to the semi-finals.
Aldridge launched an attack, but the Barcelona coaching staff did not respond. Rexach turned around and took two steps back. He did not want to conflict with Aldridge, and he was in the wrong.
Fortunately, Pirlo was fine, otherwise Aldrich really felt that the gains outweighed the losses in this game. In the final sprint, many players in the team were indispensable, and Pirlo's importance must be ranked among the top three in the team.
"After 180 minutes of battle, the quarter-finals of the Champions League came to an end. The match between defending champion Millwall and Barcelona ended with 6:3 in the first round and 4:2 in the second round. The total score was Millwall.
Erdogan defeated Barcelona 10:5 to advance to the semi-finals. The second round was far less exciting than the first round.
, but with double wins against La Liga giants at home and away, Millwall deserves to be the top team in Europe. They have also been undisputedly the favorites to win the championship. What they are most concerned about now should be tomorrow's result, which will determine their semi-finals.
Opponents, maybe, they don't care because no team seems to be able to beat them." (To be continued)
