Barcelona's players are stuck in a vicious cycle. Can't control the ball, feel angry at the field, and then can't play the best in the game, impatient technical movements, can't control the ball, blame the cause on the bad field, continue to be anxious and angry......

And so on and so forth. The offensive players are agitated, the defensive players are nervous, and no one is in a normal state of mind.

Even a player like Messi, who seems to be calm, will make two consecutive mistakes with the ball - if the force is small, the ball may not be able to go, and if the force is too high, the football may not know where to go. After a series of mistakes, Messi stepped on the turf under his feet in some annoyance, he knew that the cause of the mistakes was under his feet, but there was nothing he could do. So far, he's been lucky that he hasn't broken his foot in the sprint......

Pep Guardiola has yet to give any indication of the situation, with the Barcelona players already starting to make adjustments on their own.

They cut back on dribbling and passing, as well as the idea of trying to break into the Forest penalty area, and instead shot from distance.

Once the ball is played in front, all Barcelona players threaten Akinfeev's goal with long-range shots. But such a long-range shot is of little use to Nottingham Forest...... It's just the end of the crossbow.

On the other hand, Nottingham Forest's attack was impressive.

Defenders intercept the ball and make long passes, and midfielders intercept and make long passes...... All of them are making long passes.

Football is always flying in the sky, and the Barcelona players are looking up at the sky for so long that their necks are sore. The footwork and awareness that technical midfielders like Xavi and Iniesta are best at are completely unplayed, and Donn has lost their effectiveness without even sending a special person to mark them.

Yaya. Toure is the only player who can compete with Forest in midfield so far, but he can't beat the wolves with two fists and four hands, and he can't stop Nottingham Forest's multi-point attack alone. George. Wood has more energy to attack, so you can imagine what the situation is like in Barcelona's midfield. Pep Guardiola insisted on playing 433, with the three midfielders completely unable to compete with Nottingham Forest's four midfielders.

Nottingham Forest always have an easy way to get past midfield with high balls, as well as Aaron. Mitchel retreated to answer Yaya. Toure has no advantage at all...... Whether it is height, heading ability, or bounce, he is not as good as Mitchel. Mitchel, who is two meters and two meters tall, also has excellent jumping, as long as he pulls back to respond, Yaya. Toure's best thing to do is to wait below for the second spot.

But when Mitchel retreats, he actually has the Forest players around him, so he knows where to pass the football, Yaya. No matter how powerful Toure is, he is only one person, he can only empty one second landing point, he can't control all the other second landing points. Mitchel wouldn't be stupid enough to jack a football to where Toure was, and when he jumps in the air, he has plenty of options. He can pass to Lennon, to Bentley, to his partner Abonlaho and even to George. Wood and Thiago, no matter how bad he is, he can still stop the football with his chest and control it himself.

So Yaya. Toure is actually very difficult to do......

He couldn't defend himself against this attack from Nottingham Forest. That's not what he's good at.

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"Nottingham Forest's attack has been unimpeded! There was no obstacle...... Yes, because Barcelona doesn't have a Royal Air Force! Akinfeev kicked the ball forward and Mitchel headed it over to George. Wood, Wood then splits the ball to the wing, Bentley crosses with his feet, and Abang Lajo jumps to the top! Narrowly missed, the ball was saved by Valdés...... The whole process was done in the air and Piqui became the most important man in Barcelona's backline, with only one Piquay sadly for Barcelona. ”

Twenty minutes into the game, Piqué was already out of breath. He's under pressure, Nottingham Forest's attack is all in the air, he's the only guarantor of the team's defense, so he's going to be everywhere, he's going to be everywhere. It's a bit of a tough thing for him, he's not George. Wood's kind of pervert.

Puyol has a lot of experience, but he is not tall, and as he gets older, his physical confrontation ability also decreases. Against strikers like Abang Lajo and Mitchel, who rely on excellent physical fitness to break through, they are very temperamental.

Alves? He's busy with assists, and the opposition didn't take advantage of the space behind him to hit Barcelona, and Piquee has to thank goodness. As for Ram...... He's also a full-back who likes to assist, but he's better than Alves because he's still a "rookie" who has only been with the team for less than a season, so he's not so reckless in assisting, and sometimes he's aggressive back to help defend.

In the back, there is the goalkeeper Valdés, who is absolutely not reassuring.

Looking around, Piqué suddenly felt so lonely. If he had Pepe by his side, at least he wouldn't have to be so tired when it came to defending high balls. Bale and Raphinha are also assist-oriented full-backs, but a single word can keep them in the vicinity of the box for the whole game. At Barcelona, Pep Guardiola encourages defenders to assist, and Barcelona's style also allows defenders to make assists their first task.

He's a centre-back and sometimes it's really tiring to play in such an environment.

Soon Nottingham Forest made a comeback, this time with Bentley's cross from the wing, and Mitchel leaping high up the middle to head home. Piquee used his sufficles to get a win over Mitchel, pushing the ball off the line and giving Forest a corner.

"Forest veteran Piquee was quite active in the game, stopping Nottingham Forest's attacks on several occasions. His performance reassured Pep Guardiola. Even the commentators are praising Pique's performance, but this is definitely not what Piqua or Guardiola want to see, and it is not at all "reassuring Guardiola". If given the choice, Pep Guardiola Ninken would have disappeared in this game, as that would have meant that Nottingham Forest's attack was not threatening.

On the other side, Donn shook his head in the stands. If he had a choice, he would have preferred Piquee to be out injured before the game. In that case, the game will become the world of Nottingham Forest, and there will be no one in the Barcelona squad who can stop the Forest's progress. Now only Piqué is still resisting, or to put it mildly...... He was still tenacious like a lone warrior.

From a Forest's corner, Piquee got in front of Mitchel and headed the ball out. He was really red-eyed, and after the ball, he roared at his teammates: "Pay attention to defense!" Victor, you're going to get some out, and you're going to have a little more control! They're hitting us over the head, and if we can't get a header, we're going to interfere with them below! ”

At this moment, he doesn't seem to remember playing for Nottingham Forest. All he wanted was to help Barcelona keep the goal.

Don scratched his head, as if to completely arouse Pique's state...... It's not going to be easy.

Mitchel is not the kind of strong defender who has a lot of physicality, and if Piqui is called close to him, his performance will be greatly reduced. He hoped Mitchel could get tough, but it was obviously tough in this fight, he needed to build his muscles, and that was after the fight.

If Mitchel is targeted by Pique, it will obviously be bad for Forest, because Forest's entire attacking tactics are tailor-made with Mitchel at the core.

Maybe something to change?

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The Forest team is coming again. The football was still passed to Mitchel from the air. This time, Mitchel landed early and stuck in position, and he didn't get around, but planned to go toe-to-toe with Pique.

Due to his stature, after Mitchel got stuck in his position, Piquee had some trouble trying to fight for the top again, so he sprinted and jumped for the top, but at the same time as the two men made physical contact, Mitchel fell to the ground screaming. The referee's whistle sounds, and Piqui hits someone and fouls!

Piquee was a little wronged, he felt that he was just a normal aerial battle, he crossed his arm to confirm with the referee, and the referee made an arm up motion, signaling that he had just put his arm on Mitchel's neck during the aerial battle.

Piqué knew it was Mitchel's deliberate doing, but there was nothing he could do.

Nottingham Forest have been working on set-pieces for a week and are finally looking forward to the first free-kick of the game.

Pep Guardiola may be thankful that Bale has already suffered a serious injury, as Bale is the only free-kick master in his team. But in reality, Donn has been practising indirect free-kicks all week.

There are two types of free kicks, one is a direct free kick and the other is an indirect free kick. There are no restrictions on direct free kicks, while indirect free kicks require at least two attacking players to touch the ball for a goal to be valid. Therefore, a direct free kick can be kicked directly into the goal, or it can be used as a tactical match.

Mitchel won a direct free-kick for Forest, but Nottingham Forest had to take it as an indirect free-kick.

Bentley walked to the ball, Mitchel was desperately squeezing into Barcelona's human wall, which caused a small friction between the players on both sides, the referee stepped in to maintain order, and finally Mitchel still squeezed the box as he wished. His place will be a point for Nottingham Forest to exploit and football will slip through it without any suspense – that's what the Barcelona players think. So behind Mitchel, there was also a Barcelona player. It was to prevent Mitchel from suddenly running away from a free-kick for Forest, which turned into a gap.

But it's all fake, Nottingham Forest's tactics like this......

After the referee blew the whistle, Bentley ran up, but instead of shooting directly, he pushed the ball into the middle!

George, who had been lying in ambush behind. Wood runs to keep up, catches the ball and shoots!

He didn't play his best half-high ball, and the ball flew against the turf towards Barcelona's goal. Because the speed of the friction ball is not too fast, but such a ball causes Valdés a lot of trouble......

The soccer ball bounces on the uneven causeway in an irregular direction. Valdés had expected the football to fly directly into his arms along the trajectory, but he didn't expect that at the last moment, the football hit a bulge on the field and suddenly flew towards the goalpost!

Valdés leaped forward and rubbed the ball out of his fingertips in embarrassment!

All Barcelona fans were shocked into a cold sweat.

"George. Wood's long shot! Almost got in the door! The poor pitch did them a favor, but thanks to Valdés' undivided attention, he didn't make any low-level mistakes......"

It didn't go in, and Wood was a little sorry that he didn't always shoot a long-range shot of that quality.

Valdés' heart was beating wildly for the ball, and to be honest, he was a little scared, the change of direction in the final moments of the football was too ...... It was thrilling, his heart was cold at that moment, but fortunately, the magnitude of the change of direction was not too large, and it was still within the controllable range. But this ...... Who knows if you'll be so lucky the next time Nottingham Forest kicks it again?

The corner kick was taken, and Mitchel headed the ball high under Pique's close interference.

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Pep Guardiola looked at his watch, and the first half had been going on for 27 minutes, and Nottingham Forest was getting stronger. To his relief, he didn't miss his goal during the period when Nottingham Forest's attack was at its highest. The sudden explosion of Pique's form helped a lot. We had to adjust in the second half......

After 20 minutes of binge, Nottingham Forest also decided to slow down the tempo a little to allow the players to allocate their energy reasonably and avoid premature exhaustion.

Barcelona, for their part, decided to regain control of the situation on the pitch, keeping the football at their feet and looking for holes in Forest's defence. They didn't believe that Nottingham Forest didn't have weaknesses, but they were just beaten in the face by the Forest team just now, and they didn't bother to look for it......

When they were ready to reinvigorate their attack, they found that Nottingham Forest's defence was solid and did not leave them with much of a good chance.

What to do against a team that is on the defensive? Barcelona decided to dip their feet at the back and draw Forest out. Nottingham Forest need to score goals and should be anxious about them, not to put Barcelona.

After figuring this out, Barcelona were not in a hurry, they fell to the back of the field, and if Nottingham Forest did not come up, they fell further and further back, and finally passed back to the goalkeeper, and Valdés attacked again.

In the thirtieth minute of the game, when Barcelona made another inversion at the back, Abonlaho came out of the middle circle and went straight to Puyol, who was getting the ball. Puyol is in no hurry to get out of the ball as he wants to attract Abang Lajo to come up a little more, and at the same time attract other Forest players to pounce. He beckoned to his companions, motioning for them to step back and answer him.

Piquet turned and ran back, but Puyol didn't pass the football to him, because the person who was following Piqui was Mitchel. Like wolves, they run behind the butts of their prey, waiting for an opportunity to sneak up.

Puyol spun around and passed the ball to Alves, who had retreated down the wing.

Lennon saw Alves receiving the ball and immediately rushed up.

Alves could have played a long ball straight to the front, but he raised his leg and lowered it, hesitating. So taking advantage of this, Lennon forced up.

Alves turned to protect the football and found that it was dangerous to pass to anyone, so he simply passed back to the goalkeeper!

He fended Lennon and then passed back to the goalkeeper, and the ball rolled against the turf towards Valdés, who came out to pick it up.

Seeing that Barcelona continued to pass back, Abonlaho did not stop there, but threw Puyol and pounced on Valdés with mensity.

Valdés wanted to stop the ball and pass it to the defender, but he obviously underestimated the speed of Abonlaho, and in the blink of an eye, the two of them were very close, and stopping the ball at this time was simply looking for death. He changed his mind and decided to kick the ball straight forward.

Barcelona's main goalkeeper struck a big foot and waited for the ball to hit him......

Abangraho was less than ten metres away from him and it was a clearance that could not afford any mistakes.

In the next second, all the Barcelonans couldn't believe their eyes......

The ball rolled towards Valdés, not very fast, and a big kick was as simple as breathing for a seasoned goalkeeper. Valdés is already in a pose and everything is ready......

When there was still a little distance from the point of contact, the soccer ball, which had been rolling against the turf, suddenly jumped up!

At the same time, Valdés' right leg was also turned out!

The soccer ball and his right leg thus made a beautiful "passing by......

Valdés, who was overforced, lost his center of gravity and spun around before falling to the ground, and he immediately reacted and kicked himself empty! Then he watched in horror as Abang Laho passed past him......

"Mistake! Valdés made a mistake! This is an opportunity for Abang Laho, this is the ...... of Nottingham Forest Shot!! gooooooooooooal——！！ ”

If you can't get in the face of an empty door, Abang Laho can go to hit the wall. When Valdés kicks into the air, Abonlaho doesn't have a single defender around him, and he can even stop the ball, adjust and then shoot, without any suspense. When Valdés fell to the ground, cheers from the Nottingham Forest fans rang out from the stands.

Don jumped up from his seat like John and Bill beside him, stretched out his arms and roared loudly.

"Forest Forest! Nottingham Forest!! ”

The aircraft carrier Barcelona capsized in the gutter......

(To be continued)