Chapter 68: Defensive Forward
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Most of the time, Real Madrid's home Bernabeu stadium is full, but only this game The full Bernabeu stands gave Chu Zhongtian a different feeling. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The full stands looked the same as usual, but Chu Zhongtian could feel the difference. This was an indescribable sensation that stimulated the capillaries around Chu Zhongtian's body, making him feel like blood was rushing up his head.
It's not the first time he's played against Barcelona, but the feeling of this game is special, it's not the same as usual.
This is the National Derby!
The captains of both sides were called together to pick a side, and the referee of the game, Munis. Fernandes first said to the two captains: "It's just a league game, watch your emotions!" ”
The two captains nodded, and Casillas also took the initiative to extend his hand to Puyol as a gesture of friendship.
The referee was pleased with the two captains' approach before starting the side picking ceremony.
When the captain was picking sides, Chu Zhongtian stood in his position and did simple warm-up activities.
Now he is no longer the captain, so it is not his turn to pick a side, and his super prediction ability cannot be brought into play. However, he thought about it and felt that there was no need to use whether to kick off first or not to play the game, it would be too boring.
The rest of the players were in their positions, and when the captain came back with the results of the pick, the battle of the century was about to begin.
In the end, Casillas won the right to pick the edge, while Barcelona won the right to kick off.
According to Barcelona's strength and habits, Real Madrid may have to defend for a while.
But Chu Zhongtian didn't see it that way. This is at Real Madrid's home stadium, and they have a natural advantage to press hard against Barcelona, break the ball and control the football on their side, and then launch a fierce attack on the Barcelona penalty area.
Football is like that, the situation is constantly changing, and no one dares to say what will happen in the next second or where the game will go in the next moment.
The TV broadcast took advantage of the close-ups of the important players before the start of the game, starting with Messi, followed by C. Ronaldo, the star of both teams and the most talked-about player. Then there was Xavi and Chu, and the confrontation between the two midfield commanders was also one of the highlights of the game. Alonso and Iniesta, Valdés and Casillas, Ramos and Pique, Higuain and Villa...... Next up is the bench for both sides, with Real Madrid having the better side of Barcelona in terms of bench depth. With the likes of Kaka, Mesut Ozil, Karim Benzema and Bam Adebayor sitting next to Mourinho, the bench at Barcelona is a little more nameless.
The televised broadcast was clearly a way to make the audience look forward to the upcoming game, and even those watching the game would feel a little nervous.
He Ping sat in the broadcast seat, looking down at the past, and couldn't see the player's back number clearly, but he still found Chu Zhongtian at a glance.
"Crowd friends, the game is about to start and the players from both sides are now in their respective positions. Mourinho sent all three of his midfielders in this game, but Chu Zhongtian's position in this game did not look like a midfielder. Now he's standing ...... The position of the front waist! Behind him are Alonso and Khedira, the two midfielders. This is the first time that Chu Zhongtian has participated in the match with Barcelona as a front midfielder, and he has played Barcelona three times before that, with a record of one draw and two wins, and remains undefeated. What kind of performance will Chu Zhongtian have in the front waist? Let's wait and see! ”
After everyone had taken their seats, the Santiago Bernabeu pitch was a little quieter. The referee's whistle is therefore clearly audible.
"A whistle! The race is on! Cctv! Cctv! Good morning, audience! Welcome to the 16th round of the Spanish Primera 11-12 season and the first national derby of the season! The two sides are Real Madrid and Barcelona! ”
In Heping's commentary, Villa knocked the football out, Messi kicked it back, and the football fell to Xavi's feet.
Almost at the same time as Messi did this, Chu Zhongtian and striker Higuain both rushed out. The position of the two people is the front, Chu Zhongtian, who is the front waist, has different tasks when he is doing the back waist, and the actions that need to be taken are naturally different.
If he was playing as a midfielder, he wouldn't rush like that, but chose to hold his position and wait for Barcelona to come.
Now, he's going to have to take the initiative.
In fact, although he plays as a striker, he is not the same as the traditional striker. Before the game, Mourinho had privately communicated with Chu Zhongtian about his new position in this game. Mourinho pushed him to the position of the forward midfielder, according to other people's understanding, he must want to maximize Chu Zhongtian's ability in attack and let him organize the team's attack. Chu Zhongtian himself thought so at the beginning.
But in reality, it's quite the opposite.
When Mourinho told Chu Zhongtian that the purpose of letting him play in the front midfield was to use his defensive ability, Chu Zhongtian was still a little surprised.
Mourinho's intention is very simple, that is, to use Chu Zhongtian's defensive ability to defend in the area closest to the opponent's penalty area, and once he can break the ball, he will immediately launch a counterattack, which will be more threatening and lethal.
Generally speaking, the vast majority of forwards are not good at defending, or even not defending at all. Therefore, the opponent's midfielders and defenders will not deliberately pay attention to the opponent's forward midfielders near the front of their penalty area. This provided an opportunity for Chu Zhongtian's steal.
In keeping with this tactic, Mourinho has been instilling in his players the idea of attacking immediately after a break up front. For example, after Chu Zhongtian successfully broke the ball, everyone had to immediately turn defense into offense, rush up to meet Chu Zhongtian, and couldn't let Chu Zhongtian fight alone there, once the time was prolonged, the advantage caused by the sudden steal in the front court would be lost. Barcelona are no ordinary team...... After Chu Zhongtian listened to Mourinho's explanation, he thought about it carefully. It seems that a striker's task is only to organize the attack, or to score, who would have thought that he would mainly defend and steal the ball? And once the other party is robbed by himself, it will inevitably form a chaotic situation, and Real Madrid will win in chaos again.
It's really doable.
Chu Zhongtian has always been very confident in his defensive ability. Even Messi can't get rid of it easily, let alone someone like Butzks.
So when Xavi, who was holding the ball, thought that Chu Zhongtian and Higuain came up just for show, Chu Zhongtian was very cleverly stuck in his forward path.
Xavi originally planned to take the football forward a little bit and divide it again, but now after finding that he was stopped by Chu Zhongtian, he had no choice but to turn around and pass back.
The ball was passed directly to centre-back Pique.
Higuain continued to run forward, making a gesture to steal Pique, but what few noticed was that he seemed to inadvertently block Pique's path to pass the ball forward to Xavi during his run.
So when Piquee was about to pass the football to Xavi again, he found that the route of the pass was gone, and if he had to pass, he would have to take a risk, and Higuain would have a good chance of intercepting the football. If he goes over the top, the accuracy of the pass is not guaranteed, so he can only choose to be more secure and pass the football to the defender in front of him, Butzks.
And at the moment when he passed the football out, he suddenly saw a person flashing out from behind Butzks, it was Chu Zhongtian!
He was taken aback - Chu Zhongtian was still with Harvey just now, when did he come to Butzks' side?
He shouted a reminder to Butzx: "Sergio! There's someone behind you! ”
Butzques also realized the danger, and he didn't even have time to look back to see who it was, so he took a sharp step forward and headed for the football.
This step is very crucial, because he only got the football a little bit earlier than Chu Zhongtian, if he didn't step forward, the football would definitely be snatched by Chu Zhongtian!
Seeing on the sidelines that Chu Zhongtian was unable to successfully break the ball, Mourinho raised his head in frustration. If the goal is cut off, Real Madrid could even score a goal in less than a minute of the game...... Despite this, Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola was shocked to get up from his seat.
And Butzkes even had a layer of cold sweat on his back at this time.
He controlled the football, but he couldn't turn around, because Chu Zhongtian was close behind him. If he wanted to turn around, there was a good chance that the ball would be broken, and at only five meters away from the penalty area, he really didn't have the courage to risk turning around.
Higuain turned around and saw that Butzks had got the ball and was entangled by Chu Zhongtian, so he immediately turned around and pounced on Buzkes.
"Return the goalkeeper!" Piqué shouted on the other side. The position of the two is awkward, and even if Butzques wants to pass the football to him, there is no way.
Now only the return goalkeeper Valdés is the safest.
Butzquez didn't dare to delay and passed the football to Valdés cleanly. Then he turned around and got rid of Chu Zhongtian's entanglement. He hadn't forgotten to look back at Chu Zhongtian, the opponent in the Champions League final was now even more powerful, and the pressure on him was even greater. At the moment when Chu Zhongtian came around from behind and was about to grab the ball, he almost thought that he had lost the ball, but fortunately he stepped forward and got stuck in advance, otherwise it would be really mysterious...... He saw that Chu Zhongtian was also looking at him, his eyes did not shy away, like a challenge book, provoking him.
He had seen that look in a penalty shoot-out in the Champions League final.
It was a complete humiliation for Barcelona's players, especially for him Butzques, who couldn't describe the feeling of having his penalty saved, followed by an unbelievable shot from Chu Zhongtian. Anyway, his mind was blank at the time.
Chu Zhongtian also looked at him like this when he took the penalty, and he couldn't see what emotion he was, but his eyes made him a little upset, so that he didn't score the penalty in the end.
In the first minute, Real Madrid did not score, but the kick-off side Barcelona did not succeed in organizing an attack. Real Madrid pushed to the edge of the opposition penalty area and forced them to pass the ball all the way back until it finally reached goalkeeper Valdés.
Barcelona also plans to give the opponent a dismount at the opponent's home stadium, telling them that the home and away games are the same, and Barcelona will have a double kill. As a result, it almost made the other party get off the horse...... Chu Zhongtian's attempted tackle made the Barcelona fans' hearts beat fast after that, when they almost thought that Butzques was going to concede the goal, but fortunately...... The Catalan commentator exclaimed at the moment: "Chu! Clear! Chu-oh! It's dangerous...... It's so dangerous, but fortunately, Sergio made a very correct decision, he stepped forward and blocked Chu's steal......"
He Ping shouted: "Chu Zhongtian showed his aggressiveness at the beginning of the game!" It's good, it seems he's getting into the groove very quickly! It was his first start in the national derby, but he didn't show any stage fright, he was a player who was born for the big scenes! ”
After receiving the return pass from Butzkes, Valdés did not directly kick forward, and Barcelona's football philosophy is to control the football at his feet as much as possible and push forward through delicate passes, rather than simply long passes with big feet. It's the kind of thing that Catalan artists don't bother to do.
Valdés passed the ball to centre-back Puyol, who came back to pick him up, who then passed it to the front.
The man who received Puyol's pass was Butzks. Barcelona's overall formation was roughly like this, with goalkeeper Valdés at the back, four defenders up front, and two full-backs Daniel. Alves and Adriano are a little further forward than the two centre-backs, Puyol and Pique, followed by Butzques, who is a very crucial midfielder because he plays a role in connecting the past and the next, and only a football like Barcelona can make the most of his ability. He latched on to the defenders' passes and forwarded to Xavi and Andres Iniesta. His role is so important, and Buzquez is doing very well, so a master like Mascherano comes to Barcelona and can only play as a substitute...... Ahead of Buzques are Xavi and Andres Iniesta, who are a little further on the side. Then there are three strikers, Villa in the middle, Pedro on the left and Messi on the right.
Barcelona played 433, which was layered and extremely attacking.
Real Madrid's side is still 451, or strictly 4231, goalkeeper Casillas, central defenders Pepe and Carvalho, left wing-back Marcelo, right wing-back Ramos, and the two in the back are Xavi. Alonso and Khedira, Di Maria on the right, Cristiano Ronaldo on the left, Chu Zhongtian in the middle, and Higuain in the front.
The only difference between this lineup and the previous starting lineup of Real Madrid is that Chu Zhongtian replaced Mesut Ozil's position and became the striker.
※※※ Butzquez received the ball from Puyol, and Xavi immediately stepped back to meet Buzques. The distance between the two is quite appropriate, not far and not close.
This time, before Chu Zhongtian could force it, Xavi passed the football away.
Obviously, Chu Zhongtian's pressing after the start of the game left a very deep impression on Xavi.
Now that the two have met again, Barcelona's players no longer dare to despise Chu Zhongtian. The man they had previously looked down on had just beaten them in the Champions League final to lift the Champions League trophy with a single-handed victory over Barcelona.
This is an opponent that must be taken seriously.
In addition, Mourinho unexpectedly pushed Chu Zhongtian to the position of the front midfield, and his intentions were unknown, so he had to be cautious.
Barcelona attacked, Chu Zhongtian returned to the defense, but he did not return to the front of the penalty area in one breath like in the position of the back midfield, but intercepted near the center circle according to Mourinho's requirements.
Xavi passed the football to Iniesta, who was blocked by Real Madrid's players as he moved forward, and there was no way to continue the game, so he had to split the ball. Left wing-back Adriano also tried to get forward to no avail, and finally took a turn and the ball was back at Xavi's feet.
Chu Zhongtian almost arrived at Xavi's side with the football.
Xavi is the brain of this Barcelona team, and it can even be said that Barcelona's current glory has nothing to do with Messi, if there is no Xavi, Barcelona will always be an ordinary strong team, and it will definitely not reach the point of dominance.
But with Xavi everything is different, he is the heart of Barcelona, he is the driving force for the team to move forward, and at the same time he is the brain of Barcelona, showing the way for the team to move forward. Any team, as long as it can freeze Xavi and Iniesta, can basically freeze the entire Barcelona team.
This is also one of Mourinho's tricks against Barcelona.
Why did Messi never score against Jose Mourinho's side? It's not because Mourinho has capable people who can always freeze Messi like Chu Zhongtian, but because Mourinho has cut off Messi's connection with Xavi and Iniesta, and lost the support of these two midfielders, Messi can only play alone more often, and the threat will be greatly reduced.
One of Chu Zhongtian's defensive tasks in this game is to cut off the link between Xavi and Messi, mainly by freezing Xavi.
He didn't give Xavi any chance, and he kept pressing and defending with high intensity for 90 minutes. This kind of thing could not be done before, it can only stay on paper. Because no one's physical strength and ability can meet such requirements at the same time, some people have outstanding physical strength, but their ability is limited, and some people have good ability but poor physical strength.
Now with Chu Zhongtian, Mourinho can rest assured that he can boldly hand over this tactic to him.
When he was in Hoffenheim, Chu Zhongtian volunteered to keep an eye on Messi. For Mourinho, he doesn't need a figure like Chu Zhongtian to run to defend Messi, because this is really a waste of talent...... Good steel has to be used on the blade, and defending Xavi is obviously more important than defending Messi.
In this way, Chu Zhongtian let Messi go, and it was Xavi's turn to have a headache.
※※※ps, I don't know if the defensive forward is an innovation~ In addition, the time has entered May. I guess the book is about two months away...... But I can't guarantee that there will be a lot of things going on in May and June, and it may not be until July or August that we really settle down. In May, I will usher in the most important event in my life - the wedding with my wife, who has already been licensed, although legally it is already a husband and wife, but it still has to go through a formality. I have invited a lot of author friends to attend the wedding, if you are interested, you are also welcome to come to Chengdu on May 21 to watch the ceremony!
In June, it is natural to go on a honeymoon according to the custom, although it is less than a month to play, but at least a week is still necessary.
So if it's such a toss, there will be less time to write the book, but I try to make sure that there is a manuscript to keep changing, but it will explode or something...... Well, as you know, that's impossible...... Finally, ask for a double commuter pass as usual!
It's the ninth anniversary of the starting point, and I've been writing books online for more than eight years, so let's reward me with a monthly pass!
(To be continued)