Chapter 693: A Mind Knows Something
When facing Barcelona, many teams will always deliberately study the opponent's tactics, and then formulate a set of tactics that they think can be successfully restrained, but when it comes to the game, they are always led by the opponent's nose, completely losing their own characteristics, resulting in the inability to win.
But Lippi's choice today is different, he didn't deliberately care about Barcelona at all, but followed Real Madrid's established tactics, so that it became Real Madrid, not Barcelona, who drove the rhythm of the stadium.
When the data of both sides were played on the electronic screen, people were surprised to find that Barcelona, which has always been good at ball possession, actually lost to Real Madrid in possession today, although it was only a slight advantage, Real Madrid's possession rate was 52%, Barcelona 48%, just a little bit worse, but this has shown that Barcelona can't control the situation.
Under normal circumstances, Barcelona wants to win, at least possession must be more than 60%, for them, the higher the possession, the greater the hope of winning, but today is not as good as Real Madrid, which actually reflects the bad situation of Barcelona from one side.
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Valdés, who narrowly escaped, shouted at Pique: "Guard against that guy, don't be careless, don't be careless, that guy is not easy to deal with!" ”
"Got it!" Pique was really unhappy in his heart, of course he knew that he couldn't defend successfully, but the problem now was that he couldn't find any other way to deal with Lin Yu.
"Don't be discouraged, you can do it, as long as you don't be afraid of Lin Yu. You'll be able to defend it. Valdés encouraged.
Peake thought about it and thought that maybe it really made sense. I may really be afraid of it, so I can't play well.
Well. Not a possibility, but a certainty!
Peake nodded, and suddenly confidence came again, he patted his face and told himself that he could do it, and that it would be irresponsible not to give up on defense because of fear.
In fact, Pique is confident, and there is a reason. Lin Yu's height is only 1.87 meters, but his height is 1.92 meters, in terms of height, he definitely has an advantage, since this defensive header is not successful, it can only be explained that he failed to use his full strength!
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Valdés had a point, not because his ability was worse than Lin Yu's, but because he didn't have confidence himself, as long as he had confidence. You won't lose to Lin Yu.
Wait and see, Lin Yu, next time as long as you dare to use the header again, I will definitely let you know how good I am!
Pique also made up his mind secretly and decided to give Lin Yu a little color to take a look. He didn't want to live in the shadow of Lin Yu for the rest of his football career, it would be too tragic.
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Pique felt that he was not playing well because he was afraid. The Barcelona commentary on the scene also thinks so.
"I think it's a big defeat in the league. It made our team all feel a sense of fear for Real Madrid! Especially Pique, who directly faced Lin Yu, had no confidence to confront Lin Yu at all. In fact, if he could adjust his mentality, I don't think it would be the situation he is in now! ”
"Fear aside, this is our home stadium, this is the Camp Nou! It's not the Bernabeu, you can't let that defeat become a shadow in your hearts, stand up and let them see how good you are! ”
These words are also what Barcelona fans want to say, they really don't think that their team is worse than Real Madrid, and the reason why they are behaving like this is purely because they are afraid, it's as simple as that, they feel that as long as their team can solve this psychological problem, they can take revenge for the last time.
However, even if Barcelona wants to shake off their fears, they will have to see if Real Madrid agrees.
Whether it's because they're stronger than Barcelona or because they're scared, Real Madrid have the advantage on the field anyway, and now they have to convert that advantage into goals, and then suppress Barcelona to the death, so that Barcelona can always breathe, in that case, they will win.
Although Lin Yu's goal was blown away by the referee, it also aroused the fighting spirit of the Real Madrid players, who were mentally prepared that the referee might be biased towards Barcelona in the decision, so the more you are biased, the better we have to play!
Lin Yu succeeded in competing for headers three times in front, which also made Lippi firm in his new tactics, since this ball is not close, then let's continue again, no matter how strong the city wall is, there will always be a time when it will be blasted away, anyway, there are many opportunities now.
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Regardless of whether Martino has transformed Barcelona or not, one thing is for sure, possession is still Barcelona's best tactic.
They don't like to play too fast-paced, they don't like to play high-pitched, they like to keep the ball at their feet, through constant passing, and then to find or create a flaw in the opponent to launch a fatal blow.
But this kind of thinking, this kind of tactics, is completely disrupted by Real Madrid today.
The lightning trident, the best thing is speed!
Real Madrid is playing a fast-paced game with the whole team today, when the ball is in the middle and back, they never choose to dribble, not even do the inverted foot, just play two wings directly, and then go to Lin Yu, there is no change at all, there is no fancy style of play.
For such a tactic that is not beautiful at all, Barcelona's players feel that it is very unaesthetic and very backward! It's also very non-technical.
But no matter what they say, Real Madrid are playing well now, and offensively, they rely on the cooperation of the lightning trident, holding high and making Barcelona's backline miserable.
Defensively, the active pressing and pressing also made Barcelona very uncomfortable when they fell to the ground, unable to accurately judge the position of their teammates, and even the ball was not as sharp as before.
Lippi did not deliberately arrange players to defend Messi, Iniesta and others, because that would make little sense, and no one could defend Messi or Iniesta with the ability of one person.
Even Lin Yu had a hard time doing it. So he simply abandoned the strategy that many teams use and switched to zone defense. In this way, it doesn't matter which Barcelona player gets the ball. Real Madrid will not have less than two players in defense, and this kind of defensive strategy is much better than assigning one player to defend to the death.
Of course, this also requires good coordination between players, otherwise the effectiveness of zone defense will be greatly reduced.
After the big win over Barcelona, the mentality of the players in Real Madrid's backline has also changed, and now they will not be afraid to face Messi or Iniesta, at least psychologically. It's already a change from the decadence of the past.
In addition, because of Lin Yu's super sparring partner, Real Madrid's defenders often have to do things that are more difficult than defending Messi or Iniesta to defend Lin Yu, and their ability to improve is also quite fast.
Of course, Messi is Messi after all, and Iniesta is Iniesta after all, and he wants to completely prevent them from death. It's almost impossible unless Real Madrid can score first, or take a big lead, so that the two lose their fighting spirit.
And the goal thing. Naturally, it will be handed over to Lin Yu, if Lin Yu can't score, then no matter how good the defense is. It can't wear down Messi's fighting spirit, once Messi is allowed to soar. That's very scary.
Varane and Ramos finally cut off the ball at Messi's feet through a combination of slots. But the two of them are already out of breath at this time, and defending Messi, even if they can defend it, their physical strength will be a huge consumption point, and it will be very troublesome.
Khedira kicked the ball to Isco, then put his hands on his waist and gasped, the game was only twenty minutes on, but he had to defend Messi and Iniesta, it felt like an hour had passed, it was really tired.
"Please, Lin Yu, hurry up and score a goal, otherwise I won't be able to bear it!"
He looked at the attacking players in front of him and said secretly in his heart.
Of course, this kind of thing can't be said, but the fatigue on his face is very clear, there is no way, defense is a very tiring thing, and he has to face Messi, face a very flexible player like Iniesta, and defense is more like a torment.
That's a lot of pressure!
Isco gave the ball to Bale on the side, Bale broke through quickly with the ball, the same way, the same path, but he just relied on his speed to throw away the Barcelona players who were chasing behind, as long as he could pass Alba, the ball could be passed to Lin Yu.
Damn it! Come on, Bell! Come on, Lin Yu! Today's Messi is not easy to deal with!
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Bale broke through with the ball, Alba stepped forward to defend, this time Alba was very smart, he didn't go to grab the ball, because the last few times he grabbed the ball, as long as he stretched out his foot, he was directly passed by Bale, and Bale's speed was very fast, he couldn't catch up at all, so instead of that, it was better to take some small actions to interfere with Bale.
So, Alba pulled and pulled, just not letting Bell pass.
Bale was waiting for the referee to blow the whistle, but who knew that the referee didn't see it, so he had no choice but to give the ball to Isco in the middle again.
Isco also had to face Fabregas's defense, and instead of sticking to the ball, he made a wall-hitting combination with Lin Yu and passed Fabregas.
Fabregas's defense is not a strong point, so this pass is relatively simple. But past Cesc Fabregas, he had to face Butzques again.
Butzques' defense is much better than Cesc Fabregas, Isco knows that he will not be easy to pass, so he does not stick to the ball, after all, it is not easy for his defenders to defend Barcelona, and he must not concede the ball because of himself, he distributed the ball to Cristiano Ronaldo on the left wing.
When Cristiano Ronaldo saw the ball flying over, Alves also rushed over, so he didn't stop the ball, but hit the ball with his back, and then turned around Alves directly and received the ball that had not yet landed.
His novel way of stopping and shutting has been used before, and the best way for the opponent to want to defend is to use foul tactics to hit his person, but today he was smarter, and turned around at the same time when he stopped the ball, just avoiding the direction that Alves hit and successfully received the ball.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who got the ball, did not choose to continue dribbling, because Alves had already turned around to chase it, so he directly chose to take the high ball and cross.
At this time, Lin Yu had not yet reached the penalty area, and the ball was passed to the edge of the big penalty area, and there was still a long distance from the goal.
"Did you miss the pass?"
"I can get it, after all, it's Lin Yu!"
"It's impossible, it's impossible, even if you catch it so far, you can't shoot!"
The commentators don't seem to be sure if Lin Yu can get this ball, and even if he does, whether he can attack effectively is also a question.
However, they may have forgotten that Lin Yu and Cristiano Ronaldo had a long period of heading training, at that time Lin Yu just wanted to make a show, let his teammates and the outside world know that his header was practiced hard, but they didn't expect that later they really had to train with their friend Ronaldo for a month, and the judgment of headers between them has reached the point where they have a clear mind. (To be continued......)