There is a dream called football

Chapter 351 Changes in Barcelona

"Li Qiao, why are you unhappy?" Van Persie laughed.

Li Qiao laughed, because he was always worried that the plot of the previous life would repeat itself. After all, the plot of the previous life was the same last year and the year before. Although the process was completely different, the winner was still the winner.

So what about this time?
Li Qiao hopes that this time is different, Arsenal will be the final winner, and Arsenal is also capable.

"There's nothing to be happy about leading by one goal with one less man, is there?"

Van Persie nodded, "That's true, that red card is really terrible."

"Hopefully that's the last bad luck for Arsenal in this game."

"Yes."

Wenger is more cautious than players, maybe because he has lived a long time. As a football veteran, he has a lot of experiences of being reversed.

"Before I left the field just now, I saw that Iniesta, Xavi and Larsson were all warming up. They will definitely play in the second half. Barcelona will work hard, and they have such strength. A goal is nothing to us."

The big guys nodded.

Arsenal has always longed for a Champions League trophy, and so have the players, but at this time, Wenger instead downplayed all of this, because not only the Chinese understand the truth of half a century, but he also understands it.

The closer to the goal, the more error-prone people are, so what Wenger has to do at this time is to relax the mind for everyone.

"Did you know that in France, people have a saying that a person has only one bad luck in a day."

Wenger spread his hands, "We received a red card, and our bad luck quota has been used up, haha."

The big guy also laughed.

"Hopefully."

In fact, people who play football are very superstitious. Later Qi Xuanzong Zidane is a better example, so there are often things that you have to believe in.

"One more thing, what I want to tell you is to forget everything I usually tell you."

"What do you mean?"

"What do I usually ask of you?"

"Beautiful football, smooth delivery."

Wenger nodded, "Yes, if we were still 11 people, then I would still ask you this, but it is different now, my request is to win this game, no matter how ugly the game process is."

Everyone was surprised, because Wenger had his own belief in football. In his previous life, no matter what the results of Arsenal were, it seemed that he had never heard of Arsenal playing ugly football to win.

Li Qiao was also surprised. Could it be that Wenger in this world is different. He is not only an idealist, but also a pragmatic person?

but……

Wenger laughed: "We can learn from Chelsea when necessary, and I can also learn from Mourinho."

"Isn't Jose the person you hate the most?"

"Haha, I don't hate anyone. Football has nothing to do with personal grievances. It's all about winning."

Everyone nodded.

Once the tactical thinking is unified, everyone will have a firm mind. This is very important. What a team fears most is wanting to win and being afraid of losing.

*****
In Barcelona's locker room, the players' emotions are a bit more complicated. After all, they are now behind, and in this kind of game, the final winner may be just one goal.

This is not difficult to understand, because if you look at the finals in the past few years, you will understand that there are almost no wins by big scores.

Rijkaard.

Dutch football.

La Masia.

Barcelona.

In fact, these are all related. The reason why Cruyff, the godfather of Barcelona, ​​is so important to the team, in fact, all of this can be said to come from the total attack and total defense thinking of Dutch football. Later Barcelona is also like this. Pass control football is just an upgraded version of total defense.

So Rijkaard understands Barcelona's football philosophy.

"Some of you people here came out of La Masia, and even if you didn't enter La Masia, you came here because you understood Barcelona's football thinking. I don't think I need to talk about Barcelona's football philosophy again."

"Our progress in the first half was still a bit slow. On the one hand, the opponent's defensive hoarding in the midfield, on the other hand, we were unable to pass the kind of penetrating pass, that is, the kind of pass like a knife."

Barcelona's philosophy is that the pass is more important than the shot because the shot is the end result and a great pass creates that result.

"I can tell you that I will make substitutions in the second half, but it's not against anyone, it's my dissatisfaction with the overall tactics."

Everyone nodded.

In the first half, Presas and Van Bommel can only be said to be quite satisfactory, and they themselves know this.

Their performance should be good, but not very good. This is like the gap between a good student and a top student.

"In the second half, our passing was faster. I want to tell the world that breaking the dense defense is not only about long shots, long passes and set balls, but also tearing apart the opponent's defense with fast passing."

"Remember, we are Barcelona."

*****
During the intermission, the romantic French prepared some small cultural performances. After a few cheerful songs, the 15-minute intermission passed quickly. Iniesta and Xavi watched happily, but they also knew that their responsibilities would be heavy in the second half.

When Rijkaard came out, he patted the two of them first, "Go on."

"Ah."

Wenger was still shocked when he came out. He expected that Barcelona would make substitutions in the second half, but he didn't expect to make two substitutions at once. What if someone gets injured?What if overtime is played?
The players who were replaced at halftime went directly to the bench. Presas and Van Bommel sat on the bench, while Xavi and Iniesta ran onto the pitch after being checked by the referee.

Martin Taylor said: "At the beginning of the second half, Barcelona made two substitutions, while Arsenal didn't make any substitutions."

"This should be taken seriously by Arsenal. I think Barcelona in the second half should be completely different from the first half."

Li Qiao looked at Harvey and Iniesta. Later, these two could be said to be the top stars in the world, but at this time these two big shots were not so famous, and maybe only Li Qiao and Rijkaard knew their power.

Wenger didn't quite understand it. In his opinion, replacing Van Bommel was a bit too hasty, because the Dutchman's performance was actually pretty good.

But after ten minutes, he won't look at it that way.

The referee looked at his watch, and after a whistle sounded, the second half began, and the camera showed the big shots in the stands.

It seems to be saying, after 45 minutes, who will these big shots hand over the trophy to?

(End of this chapter)