Lord of Greenery

Chapter 280 The Invincible Mask

The news that Li Ze was going to play the first UEFA Champions League game in his career was soon known to all Hua Guo fans.

As a professional player, the highest honor that can be competed for is nothing more than the World Cup in the national team and the Champions League in the club.

Fans know what the Hua Guo team looks like, and the only thing Li Ze can compete for is the Champions League.

And last season, he already won the Europa League in Naples.

"In the first game of the Champions League, against the dream team Barcelona? This script is a bit hateful."

"Whether Li Ze is a superstar or not, and what his personal ability is, we will know after this game."

"Come on Li Ze, beat Barcelona!"

All Huaguo fans hope that Li Ze can perform well in the Champions League.

On the highest stage of this club competition, the Chinese people have not performed much yet.

To be precise, there are not many Hua people who have played in the Champions League, and now there is not even one who has scored a goal.

Messi and Ronaldo can score 10 goals in a season in the Champions League, but the Chinese have not scored a goal for so many years, the gap is so big.

However, Li Ze, who bears the expectations of all Huaguo fans, has not even accepted interviews from the media, including Huaguo reporters.

This inevitably disappointed reporters from Huaguo and even Huaguo fans.

At this moment of making history, everyone wants to hear what Li Ze will say.

But even if the war of words between the two sides has already started, and the players and the head coach are slowly joining the battlefield, Li Ze is still like a normal person, and has no intention of participating at all.

"That's always been his style, we only see him after games."

"Such a rare moment, I really hope he can make an exception."

Li Ze was not in the mood to respond to the expectations of the reporters. He was studying information on Barcelona.

After some research, Li Ze found that the Dream Team [-] was not the same as the Dream Team [-] in his imagination or impression.

What is the biggest impression of the Dream Team [-], or Barcelona under Guardiola?
It is pass control, which Barcelona has insisted on for decades.

In addition to being taken care of by the referee, this Barcelona team has been criticized the most for their frequent inversions in the backcourt.

This kind of "transmission and control" is not beautiful at all, it is rather ugly.

It is very boring to watch the players fall all the time. This kind of boredom makes Barcelona not worthy of the nickname "Dream Three".

But after carefully studying Barcelona's performance in the past season, Li Ze found that this is not the case.

In the 2008-2009 season, at least this season, Barcelona is actually not that kind of extreme possession style.

"Very traditional Barcelona style." Li Ze commented in this way.

In other words, this style has been passed down by Barcelona over the years. There are Cruyff's shadows and other people's shadows.

Guardiola's credit for it is actually not much.

However, this does not mean that he has no level.

Guardiola was able to produce results later, so it is naturally impossible to be out of stock in his stomach.

The biggest possibility is that he just arrived last season, did not prove himself, and his words had no weight, so he chose to keep a low profile.

And after winning the Triple Crown, to be precise, after he reached the Champions League final last season and won the league championship ahead of schedule, his words already carried a lot of weight.

Since then, he has slowly shown his own style.

Control!

Take Barcelona's already strong pass control to the extreme again!
This is what Guardiola does.

And it turns out that he succeeded, and during this time he also left behind the classic battle of 6:2 Real Madrid.

So, are Guardiola and his Barcelona invincible?
the answer is negative.

Especially Guardiola's tactics, with Li Ze's eyes from later generations, also saw the flaws.

In fact, as the subject of much attention, Guardiola's own coaching talent is not too strong, and everyone can see his tactical loopholes.

However, being able to see it does not mean that the problem can be solved.

If it was before, defensive players could still use fouls to deal with Barcelona.

However, after the offside judgment rules were changed and the penalties related to the Barcelona game were adjusted, their weakness almost disappeared.

And the personal strength of the players, such as Messi, Iniesta and Harvey, their terrifying personal abilities, and the same tactical understanding from La Masia make their overall strength amazing.

If Mourinho goes to Barcelona to coach, he may not be able to win many championships last season.

However, even if a puppet is sent as the head coach, Barcelona's record will not be worse.

As long as he carefully arranges tactics according to Barcelona's style, as long as he starts Messi, who is getting stronger and stronger, this head coach can become a decoration.

Later, Guardiola changed his tactics. Although it was different from the traditional Barcelona tactics, the concept and required skills were not much different, so the players quickly adapted to this tactic.

Those who couldn't adapt were basically sold by Guardiola, including Eto'o and the future Yaya Toure.

Therefore, in the eyes of some people, he has become a hypocritical and incompetent person who relies on the personal ability of the players to achieve results, but denies his personal ability, and only wants players to match his tactics.

The representative figure who thinks this way is Ibrahimovic.

In fact, Guardiola is far from being a tactical master now.

He has no way to change for players who don't match his tactics, and this is his biggest embarrassment.

At this point, Ancelotti did the best. Ancelotti's ability to see the lineup and change tactics is a must.

Guardiola doesn't know so many tactics, and it's outrageous to say something. In a sense, his tactical philosophy is about the same level as Mourinho's.

Their tactical abilities are relatively monotonous, and there is no way to make major changes to their only tactics.

It's just that Guardiola played football that was more in line with the rules and in line with the times, so he was able to perform better.

At least another ten years of precipitation, as in the original history, after shining in the Premier League, Guardiola began to really change.

But at least Guardiola is still half a rookie now.

In fact, he didn't know that his tactics had a lot of flaws.

What is more exaggerated is that Guardiola didn't realize his mistake because there were too many strong teams in the team and anyone could win.

Unless there is a team that can compare this Barcelona in terms of the personal strength of the players, and at the same time be tactically restrained, at least to match the Barcelona tactics under the rule advantage, only in this way can it be possible to beat Barcelona.

Once, this Inter Milan team had a group of players who were eager to prove themselves, and they were also a group of outstanding players who had been buried, and they narrowly defeated Barcelona.

And now...

Li Ze took a look at his ability points, and felt that he could kick Barcelona off the throne and tear off the false mask called "Invincible".

(End of this chapter)