Barcelona's strength has declined slightly compared to last season, but the front trident still has the strongest offensive power in the five major leagues.
Messi, Neymar, and Suarez are all superstars who can pass and shoot.
To guard any of them, you need at least two defensive players.
What's more, behind this trident there are midfielders like Iniesta and Busques who are good at passing.
The Barcelona Trident attacked in the frontcourt, and the Espanyol team had no way to expand their formation.
Otherwise, it will definitely be broken into a sieve.
The formation is shortened and too far away from the opponent's goal. The Spanish trident of Zhao Yang, Moreno and Caicedo cannot exert its advantage.
They can only hope to get a chance to counterattack and use the huge space in Barcelona's backcourt to break Barcelona's goal.
When Barcelona was laying siege at halftime, their biggest weakness was the empty half of the stadium.
However, Barcelona often besieges its opponents, and there are not many teams that can exploit this weakness of Barcelona.
Even teams like Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid that are good at counterattacks find it difficult to do so.
Barcelona mainly has two ways to defend against the opponent's counterattack. One is to counterattack on the spot after losing the ball, and the other is to leave Mascherano in the backcourt who is fast and has strong pursuit ability.
Only by avoiding Barcelona's high counterattack and getting rid of Mascherano's pursuit can we have a chance to challenge goalkeeper Ter Stegen.
The Spaniard was able to upset Barcelona in the away game in the first half because he seized on Barcelona's weakness and Zhao Yang had extremely superb shooting skills to seize the limited shooting opportunities.
This time, Barcelona absorbed the lessons from the last loss. Although they were also attacking the Spaniard with all their strength, they were always on guard against the Spaniard's counterattack.
Zhao Yang is in the middle, Mascherano is right next to Zhao Yang, and Busques blocks in front of Zhao Yang to prevent his opponent from passing the ball to Zhao Yang.
Zhao Yang was unable to make a difference, and the Spaniard's counterattack was half in vain.
Under Barcelona's constant attacks, in the 16th minute of the game, the Spaniard's defense once again showed flaws.
Neymar made continuous breakthroughs on the wing and went directly to the bottom line.
When everyone thought Neymar was going to pass, Neymar passed the ball, broke through the defense of full-back Rocco, and cut into the penalty area.
Fortunately, almost all the Spanish players were in their own half at this moment, and two more players immediately went over to intercept Neymar.
The space in the penalty area was small and there were two defensive players. Neymar did not dare to push the ball forward. He immediately passed the ball back to the front of the penalty area in an inverted triangle.
Neymar's players passed the ball very decisively, and Suarez, who was at the center position, had a tacit understanding with Neymar when Messi was injured.
The ball passed by Neymar arrived, and so did Suarez's men.
Suarez took a shot, and Spanish center back Duterte flew over to block Suarez's shot angle.
The ball hit Duterte's arm and bounced out.
The referee was right at the edge of the penalty area. He could see clearly and immediately blew the whistle and awarded Barcelona a free kick outside the penalty area.
This is a good opportunity to score a goal.
Suarez wants to compete with Zhao Yang for the top scorer and needs to score goals urgently.
Messi graciously handed over the right to take the penalty to Suarez and let him take the penalty.
Suarez was not polite either. After the whistle blew, he volleyed hard into the gap between the walls.
The Spanish wall was very tight, and Suarez's free kick failed to penetrate the wall and bounced off Diop.
Everyone went to grab the ball, but the ball still fell to the feet of the Barcelona players. Taking advantage of the chaos of the Spaniard's formation, Barcelona continued to besiege the Spaniard's penalty area.
After Barcelona's continuous passes, Iniesta suddenly sent a through ball towards the Spaniard's penalty area.
This was the only gap in the Spaniard's penalty area, and Iniesta saw it and passed it accurately.
Suarez did not run into place, but Messi happened to appear at the passing point.
With a flick of his instep, the ball flew straight to the lower left corner of the goal.
The shot in the penalty area was taken from such a tricky angle that goalkeeper Arlaoujis couldn't get to the ground in time and stretched his foot without touching the ball. The ball flew past Arlaoujis' feet.
Just when Messi was about to celebrate, the ball hit the post and bounced back.
But before the Espanyol players and fans could breathe a sigh of relief, they saw the ball bounce right in front of Suarez.
Suarez reacted quickly, raised his foot and shot, and the ball flew into the net against the lower edge of the crossbar.
2:0
Suarez scored his 33rd league goal.
Only 3 goals away from Zhao Yang!
Suarez was so excited that he raised his arms high, rushed to the stands, and roared at the fans in the stands.
The last thing Espanyol fans want to see is Suarez scoring.
I was very angry when I saw this guy scoring a goal and even running to the stands to provoke him.
In an instant, many Espanyol fans threw the debris in their hands at Suarez and booed.
The Chinese commentator was very sorry. He Weidao said: "If you lose, you lose, but how can you let Suarez score? The top scorer is the only honor that the Spaniard can win this season."
Fang Jiandao: "We should keep an eye on Suarez, others can't get in if they like."
He Weidao: "There is still a gap of three goals. Suarez must not be allowed to score again, otherwise Zhao Yang's top scorer will really be in doubt."
The Spaniard tried every possible means to prevent Suarez from scoring.
Barcelona, on the other hand, tried every possible means to create opportunities for Suarez to score.
In the 22nd minute, Rakitic made a pass from the right. Neymar inserted his foot on the left baseline and passed the ball to the middle of the penalty area. Messi followed up and missed the left goal post.
In the 25th minute, the Spaniard got his first shooting opportunity.
Perez made a big kick in the backcourt to make a clearance. Zhao Yang fought for a header and passed the ball to Caicedo.
Caicedo almost carried Mascherano into the penalty area, and despite Pique's pressure, he still took a shot, but Caicedo failed to exert any force and the ball was easily confiscated by goalkeeper Ter Stegen.
Two minutes later, the Spaniard's Zhao Yang was knocked down on a breakthrough from the wing, and the Spaniard won a free kick from the left side of the frontcourt.
Zhao Yang personally took the penalty, and he kicked a falling leaf, but the distance of the free kick was a little far. Goalkeeper Ter Stegen had time to react and flew to hit the ball away.
Caicedo followed up with a complementary shot into the empty goal, but the ball was narrowly blocked by Barcelona center back Pique on the goal line.
After two consecutive shots, the ball and initiative fell into Barcelona's hands again.
Barcelona may have heard that Real Madrid also scored a goal and became even more nervous. They may feel that two goals are no longer safe and continue to attack aggressively.
In the 40th minute of the game, the Spaniard made a big clearance and kicked his teammate and bounced to the feet of Iniesta. Iniesta took the ball and immediately passed it to Messi.
Messi dribbles the ball towards the penalty area.
Diop came to intercept but did not stop him. Seeing that Messi was about to enter the penalty area, Diop quickly reached out to pull Messi, preferring to foul rather than let Messi break in.
Messi was too flexible and too fast. Diop didn't catch him this time. He subconsciously grabbed another one.
This time it was caught, and Messi, who was caught, also fell in the penalty area.
The referee's whistle also sounded at this time and pointed to the penalty spot.