At this time, Deportivo Deportivo coach and former star Arsenio Iglesias were arranging the most difficult tactics in the dressing room, and this time Lao Lei felt the madness of Deportivo La Coruna. In terms of the information given by the system, this Barcelona led by Cruyff is known as the Dream Team, and it is conceivable that they are capable. There is also a dream team in basketball, with the U.S. men's basketball team made up entirely of NBA superstars at the Barcelona '92 Olympics. At the Barcelona Olympics that year, the team won the last championship with a crushing attitude, telling the world that basketball can still be played like this. Their head coach at the time, Chuck Daley, didn't even call a timeout for the entire Olympics.

The people of Barcelona witnessed the crazy performance of the American men's basketball team, and the title of Dream Team was added to the Barcelona football team led by Cruyff. You can imagine how proud, trusting, and adoring the Barcelona people were in this team at that time. At that time, Barcelona under the leadership of the legendary Dutch superstar Cruyff, played an attacking football that was popular on the European continent, which was both pleasing to the eye and infinitely powerful.

At that time, in Barcelona, there was a powerful attacking iron triangle of Romario, Stoichkov and Haji in front, Pep Guardiola, one of the best midfielders at the time, and a solid defensive line composed of Coman and Nadal. With such a luxurious lineup, coupled with the tactical concept of all-attack and all-defense brought by Cruyff, their attacking power is undoubted, and they have scored 103 goals in 34 games in La Liga, with an average of more than 3 goals per game, which is amazing enough.

And against such a team. Deportivo La Coruna, who was still unknown at the time, chose to attack at the home of Barcelona, which was really crazy in the eyes of Lao Lei. Although Deportivo La Coruna have beaten Barcelona 1-0 at home this season. But that was in Riazol, not at Camp Nou. It's a little irrational, though. But I don't know what Lu Dao is for, Lao Lei felt that the blood on his body was burning.

When Lao Lei came out of the players' tunnel with Deportivo La Coruna, he immediately had a feeling in his mind, which was really big. The Camp Nou is the largest stadium that Lao Lei has seen so far, and the Stadium of Light in Benfica, Portugal, has the largest capacity of 64,000 people, but it is a little smaller than Camp Nou. Looking at the red and blue in the audience, okay, let Lao Lei be a hillbilly a little.

During a series of pre-match ceremonies, Lao Lei stood with the Deportivo players and looked at the Barcelona players opposite. I had some information about Barcelona that I had heard from Jose Mourinho. As for Barcelona's football philosophy, Mourinho, who used to work as a translator at Barcelona, is quite dismissive. Barcelona's tactics are generally based on all-out attack and defense, playing high-possession and high-pressing football.

The so-called all-offense and all-defense, strictly speaking, is a loose degree of freedom, strict discipline, blurring the traditional football to limit the position and function of the player, and at the same time strictly cooperating as a whole, once the position and function of a player change. There has to be another player change to take his place. In order to achieve this effect, the all-attack and all-defensive tactics require a certain distance between the central defenders and the strikers, and the back line must also keep up when attacking, and the forwards should also retreat appropriately when defending. There is a certain distance between the three lines, and at the same time the distance is much shorter than in other tactics.

And the reason why Barcelona passed Michels and Cruyff is also a perfect inheritance of the tactics of attacking and defending. It was brought to the fullest. Combined with Barcelona's own possession-based style of play, the power is even higher. Some teams won't even be able to get past half time against Barcelona. Barcelona's defensive philosophy is simple, if your ace player will have 20 breakthroughs per game. Then rely on your super high possession rate and limit it to only 10 times, and the threat will naturally decrease.

However, there is no such thing as a perfect tactic in the world. High possession and high pressing do not mean victory. In the case of Barcelona, although the possession rate is high, under Cruyff, there are not many useful passes, and the actual utility is not high. In addition, many times, Barcelona's victory comes from the opponent's own collapse, no matter how much you grab the ball, the mental will can't support it and you knock yourself down. However, once you encounter a team with a strong mental will, high possession rate becomes a burden, and the football is always under your feet, but no matter how you try, you can't beat the opponent, and then the mental pressure comes to you.

In addition to this, the two flanks of the all-attack and all-defense tactics are also its weaknesses. When a full-back inserts an assist, once the opponent is successfully defended and quickly counterattacks, the two wings can easily become the main weakness of the opponent's attack. At this time, it can only be relied on at the high level of the central defenders, but it only takes one mistake to make a mistake and it is likely to lead to a conceded goal. In addition, because the position of the central defender in the all-move and all-defense tactic is too high, and the distance between the goalkeeper is too large, once the anti-offside position fails, the opponent's fast player will create an excellent counterattack opportunity.

This situation is different from Porto, although Porto sometimes play possession tactics, but Porto's possession is based on the running of Lao Lei. In the overall formation, the distance between the three lines has not been widened. For Mourinho, if the distance between the central defender and the goalkeeper is too far, it is tantamount to chronic suicide, unless it is necessary to press the onslaught, he asks Costa, Valente and others not to step forward to assist, and it is enough to do their own defense.

And this is also the weakness of Barcelona that Mourinho told Lao Lei, defending to the core, seizing every mistake in its midfield, and attacking its defense with high-speed counterattacks. Even if it's Barcelona, there are still mistakes in every game. At that time, as long as you have a strong opportunity to grasp your ability, you will have a steady stream of good opportunities. In a word, what Barcelona is most afraid of is the kind of team with a strong impact, once it encounters this kind of team, the distance between Barcelona's central defender and the goalkeeper is too large, it will become their dead end, and there is no cure.

It's a pity that Lao Lei knows a good way to deal with Barcelona. But he is not the head coach and can only play according to the offensive tactics arranged by the head coach. Corresponds to Barcelona's 4-4-2 formation. Deportivo La Coruna lined up a 4-3-3 formation on the road to the manager's arrangement, looking at a star-studded name across the road. As the defensive core and midfield commander of Deportivo at this time, Lao Lei feels a lot of pressure.

With the referee's whistle, the key battle for the championship officially began. After the start of the game, Barcelona had the ball. Looking at the skillful possession of Barcelona on the opposite side, Deportivo played not conservatively at all, rushing up and pressing fiercely. However, the effect is not good, and Barcelona has long been commonplace in the face of this kind of pressing. Under Pep Guardiola's organization, Barcelona were pressed by Deportivo La Coruna's players. Firmly controlled the ball and slowly pushed forward.

At this time, Lao Lei, who is currently Mauro Silva, began to sweep back and forth in the midfield, creating a high wall for Barcelona's advancement. Mauro Silva has the title of the king of tackles, and there is no doubt that he is one of Brazil's main midfielders in terms of defensive skills. Mauro Silva, who had previously been infamous, quickly relied on his defensive tandem skills to establish himself in Deportivo La Coruna.

Although his offensive performance is not commendable, there is still no pressure to complete the basic offensive and defensive transitions. At this time, Lao Lei's performance on the court is simply seamless with Mauro Silva. Barcelona's advance was blocked by Lao Lei's full force in the midfield, and he fell into the quagmire created by Lao Lei. Since short penetrations didn't work, Guardiola quickly switched ways and started playing more long balls. Open up the situation by inserting a full-back.

The wing attack, as an important offensive means of Barcelona, was completely manifested at this time. It's two full-backs. They all can't sit still and press on the edge of the sleeve to attack. In the 11th minute of the first half, Ferrer pressed for an assist. Forming a tacit understanding with Amor on the wing. When he received Amor's deft forward cross, Ferrer completed the edge to get rid of. After getting a ball near Deportivo La Coruna's penalty area, he attracted enough defensive force to cross to Hadji in front of the box.

Known as the maestro of midfield schemes, Haji has a fantastic left foot and is often able to make stunning dribbles and long-range shots. It was not good news for Haji to receive the football at the front of the penalty area, at this time Lao Lei returned to the defense in time, brutally used his body, squeezed from behind him, grabbed him, and passed the football to his teammates with a kick, defusing the attack of Barcelona this time.

When the football came to the feet of Deportivo La Coruna, the Deportivo players were not to be outdone and played possession tactics as well. As a team with a mix of Brazilian and Spanish players, Deportivo La Coruna's footwork is no worse than Barcelona's. Barcelona's high pressing, with the help of Lao Lei's various runs and the good foot skills of the Deportivo players, did not achieve the same effect as in the usual games.

Lao Lei was very comfortable guiding Deportivo to his midfield at this time, and he didn't sigh in his heart that Spain really deserved to be a paradise for technical players. It is important to know that even in Portugal, which pays attention to ground coordination, such a smooth pass is rare, not because the technique is not in place, but often in the process, it should be stopped by the defense with no fouls and live fouls. Compared to his team-mates in Porto, the Deportivo team has a higher level of skill at their feet.

Deportivo La Coruna, who admires the control of the midfield, used non-stop passes in the front court, pulling Barcelona's defensive formation, patiently looking for opportunities. Suddenly, Lao Lei's eyes lit up, he suddenly stepped forward with the ball, changed the direction of the ball with a pluck, and after forcibly throwing off Barquero with his body, he directly sent a straight plug in the face of Guardiola and looked for Bebeto. However, Bebeto didn't move at all, and he didn't expect Lao Lei to pass the ball at all.

At this time, Lao Lei suddenly remembered that he was not in Porto, but in a completely new team, and he needed to slowly get acquainted with each other. And compared to Mauro Silva, Lao Lei's style of play is completely different from him. He's a defender-oriented player who doesn't do anything like that.

Old Lei scratched his head, it seemed that things were more difficult than he imagined. (To be continued......)