Football: Banned for life, forced to travel to Europe

Chapter 498 "Cage" Defense

The commentator can only analyze the situation, but the head coach can see the problem.

Enrique kept asking the Barcelona players to concentrate on the sidelines, don't think about attacking, and straighten the ball first.

Mourinho caught Enrique by surprise in the opening attack, but his tactical thinking was also exposed.

He spared no effort to carry out all kinds of fierce fighting to disrupt Barcelona's smooth passing and cutting cooperation. At the same time, he pressed several Barcelona's core players to defend and cut off their connection with each other.

As long as the ball is broken, Chelsea's offensive players will fight back without stopping, without sloppy, and they will switch offenses.

It is easy to say, but it is actually very difficult.

Many teams have chosen to press Barcelona when they play, but very few have succeeded.

The reason is not complicated. When pressing, there will also be gaps. Barcelona players have excellent skills at their feet, and can often pick the ball out through passing, and then form conversions and counterattacks.

Especially in Dream Three, Guardiola kneaded the Barcelona players into a whole. Everyone knew very well what they should do, and the tacit understanding was very high.

At that time, pressing would not make Barcelona overwhelmed, it would only expose the loopholes in their defense, thus providing Barcelona with opportunities.

Even if the players of Mengsan have been able to walk and grow old in the past two years, Barcelona's dominance is still maintained at a relatively high level, and ordinary teams can't win it at all.

So you know how strong Inter Milan was in the 09-10 season?

But this game is different. In the first 15 minutes of the first half, not only did the Chelsea players fight fiercely, they once prevented the Barcelona players from getting the ball, and their defensive rate was very high. Even if the Barcelona players managed to get the ball off Come out, it is also difficult to form a counterattack in the first place.

A little slower, Chelsea's defense was in place again, which made Barcelona's players a little at a loss.

And the most critical point is that many teams could not prevent Barcelona's offense before, largely because of foul problems.

Even if their defensive strategy and pressing did play a role, but there is a referee in football games, and if you move too much, you will inevitably get a card.

Especially for the players defending Messi, a yellow card can make him shoot a rat, and the defensive strength and formation are disrupted at once.

But today Chelsea's players were very good at foul control. In the first 15 minutes, they had five fouls, four of which were in the Barcelona half, and the other time Messi dribbled the ball and was brought down by Fabregas Yes, the referee Rizzoli did not show a yellow card.

This made Barcelona's players very dissatisfied. They surrounded Rizzoli to ask for an explanation. Even if they couldn't let him make up a yellow card now, they could still put pressure on him so that Chelsea would not dare to foul again unscrupulously.

But the tactics that were invincible in the past did not work today. Rizzoli was very tough. He dispersed the Barcelona players who surrounded him, and even warned their captain Iniesta, telling them that if they besieged the referee again, he would not Repulsion first gave them a yellow card.

There was a burst of boos from the Olympic Stadium, but Rizzoli was unmoved. He wanted to be unselfish today...

The Barcelona players dispersed resentfully. They did this with the idea of ​​taking a breath. Chelsea put too much pressure on them.

Just now, the wishing header almost broke Barcelona's goal.

1 minute ago, through a high-position press, Wishing and William worked together to steal the ball from Butsquets. After the steal, Wishing did not advance with the ball, but directly assigned the football to the right.

Sanchez got the football.

Just when Sanchez was advancing with the ball, the right back Azpilicueta advanced at high speed. The Chilean right winger did not hesitate at all. After attracting Alba's defense, he pushed straight and passed the ball to the set Azpilicueta next to him.

The Spanish right back kicked the ball straight without stopping the ball, and the follow-up wish jumped up in the penalty area.

Pique jumped up with the wish, and Mascherano didn't take off at all due to the huge gap in height.

But he didn't look at it, he grabbed the wishing jersey, and then let it go immediately, hoping to interfere with the wishing jumping height.

The wish was indeed disturbed a little, but even so, he and Pique competed for the header... There is really no pressure.

When the wishing forehead hit the football, the hearts of all Barcelona fans rose in their throats, but after a few seconds, they let out a sigh of relief.

The wish was wrong!

Ter Stegen, who flew sideways, didn't touch the football in the air, and he was scared to death.

When he turned back to look at the goal and found that there was no football inside, he let out a sigh of relief.I have never experienced a wishing header, so I really can't feel the oppressive feeling...

That is, after this attack, Mourinho waved his hand and everyone retreated.

When Pique received a goal kick from Tergen Stegen, he nervously observed the movement of Chelsea players in advance.

But soon he found that Wish, Hazard and Sanchez did not push forward. After being stunned for a while, Piqué realized that Chelsea adjusted their strategy at this time and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, if you think about it, you know that this kind of high-position pressing cannot last for a whole game. As long as the physical strength of the Chelsea players declines, there will be empty spaces behind them.

Barcelona began to organize the offense calmly, and the core of their offense was naturally Messi.

But Mourinho is ready. He has prepared a complete set of defensive traps for Messi, which he calls "cages".

As the name suggests, it is to "shut up" Messi, just like Mourinho did when he was at Inter Milan and Real Madrid a few years ago.

Soon the Barcelona players discovered that Chelsea did not completely lay down their defense. Their first line of defense made a wish and stood firmly in the middle circle.

As soon as Barcelona entered Chelsea's half, the oppressive pressing came again.

Of course, the focus of this press is Messi.

After 15 minutes, Willian was almost inseparable from Messi.

Mourinho didn't let him steal or intercept the ball, but to entangle Messi and prevent Messi from taking the ball comfortably.

In addition, whoever Messi is in the defense zone will immediately step forward to double-team, and Matic will also grab or fill in at any time. As long as Messi shows signs of breaking through with the ball, the three will immediately surround him.

If Messi enters the 30-meter danger zone, Stones will immediately grab and form a four-person encirclement.

Three or even four people formed a small encirclement, like a cage, enclosing Messi firmly.

Not only that, Mourinho also asked Chelsea's players to cut off the link between Messi and other Barcelona players.

Wishing was responsible for harassing Butskets, Hazard kept a close eye on Rakitic, and Sanchez entangled Iniesta.

Messi, who was isolated and helpless, had to retreat frequently to organize the ball or seek cooperation, and the offensive efficiency was greatly reduced.

The two sides have reached a stalemate...