I brush achievements in football

When Enrique led the team to Southampton, his mentality was very stable.

Leading Barcelona in the past few years, the results are not as good as Guardiola, but he also won two consecutive La Liga titles before, and reached the final of the Champions League once.

However, this season, Barcelona's performance has declined as a whole. Although the Champions League entered the quarter-finals, they stumbled a bit. In the league, they were suppressed by Real Madrid. Under such circumstances, his pressure was relatively high.

However, Enrique does not have much pressure, because even if he dismisses get out of class from Barcelona, ​​he will not worry about having nowhere to go.

He knows what's wrong with the team this season. The lack of fighting spirit of the whole team is the key. Suarez is not as good as the previous two years, and then Messi wants to give Neymar his seat, so he is willing to play as a support many times, although This allowed Neymar to show his top form this season, but it still damaged Barcelona's overall combat effectiveness.

Messi is still the most important person to Barcelona.

It's just that Messi may have performed too well in the past few years, and he was hit too hard in the World Cup, and he was a little bit down.

With such a Barcelona team, Enrique also thinks very openly - he can play as far as he can lead the team, and if the club wants to fire him, then fire him, anyway, there is no place to go.

So when he knew that he was going to stop Southampton, Enrique couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart-UEFA really thinks highly of Barcelona now.

In any case, they have to perform better away, and then try to perform better at home.

It's just that what Barcelona didn't expect was that in this game, they would encounter an unprecedented, at least an extremely rare fiasco!

Kiya actually started to prepare for this match long ago.

Press down, speed up the counterattack.

How he beat Pep Guardiola's Barcelona back then, he is going to do the same in this game.

Southampton back then was much weaker than it is now, but he still did it, while Barcelona's strength has dropped a lot, so he can do it even more.

And from a tactical point of view, this approach has also reached an extremely sudden.

After all, from the perspective of Barcelona, ​​the most likely way for Southampton to deal with them is to compete with them in the midfield through possession of the ball, and then fight for the striker's scoring ability.

Such an idea is actually not bad, but it is not what Ji Ya wants.

Especially after getting Barcelona's starting lineup, he became more determined that his idea was correct.

"The focus of the 2016-2017 European Champions Cup quarter-finals will be held at St. Mary's Stadium! The opponents are Southampton and Barcelona! Although this is the first round of the game, it is also very important. All Everyone knows that for Southampton, they are heading towards an even more terrible record. If they want to win the Champions League for four consecutive times, they need to beat Barcelona!"

Amidst the chanting of the commentator, the players of both sides were ready to play, and the starting lineups of both sides began to be shown on the broadcast.

"Southampton still sent out the four-three-three they are used to, goalkeeper Gullac, defenders Cancelo, Maguire, Van Dijk and Chilwell, midfielders Phillips, Prowse and De Bruyne. , Forwards Coutinho, Du Yue, Dembele! This is Southampton's usual main lineup! Barcelona sent the same four-three-three formation, goalkeeper Ter Stegen, and the two full-backs are Sergi Roberto and Mathieu, with Pique and Umtiti at centre-back, Mascherano comes in to replace Busquets in midfield, and forms a three with Rakitic and Iniesta The midfielder and the striker are still mns, Messi, Neymar, Suarez! This game must be a battle between dragons and tigers!"

In the chanting of the commentator, players from both sides began to disperse on the field.

Enrique didn't exchange pleasantries with Kiya, which made him unaware that although Southampton's starting lineup looked normal, in fact, there had been a huge adjustment in tactics.

In fact, some information was exposed on Ji Ya's face, but Enrique ignored it, which also made him lose his last chance.

Players from both sides are scattered on the field, and the game is about to start.

At least at the beginning of the game, no one noticed that anything was wrong.

In less than 1 minute of the opening, Southampton, who took the lead to kick off, created a chance. After passing through the defenders, Southampton passed the ball to the frontcourt. Coutinho took the ball on the left, Then he passed back, and Prowse, who followed up, took a long shot without stopping the ball, and the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.

After being dismounted by Southampton, Barcelona quickly launched an attack. It is impossible for their lineup not to attack. Although Barcelona's defense was actually very good before, it was based on super high ball possession. rate, and on the basis of compressing the opponent's offensive space.

And in the defense of that lineup, there are a few people who are quite important.

The first is Pique and Mascherano, the central defender partner. Mascherano filled the gap after Puyol retired, and Pique's performance in those years was called the world's first defender. Now Pique His state has declined sharply. His distraction and misjudgment on the field are fatal. Mascherano has gone to the midfield position he has not played for a long time. Although Umtiti has excellent physical fitness, he Not robust enough either.

On the two wings, their classic wing combination of Alves and Alba is gone, replaced by the mediocre Roberto and the better defensive Mathieu, which makes their defense speed and on-the-spot interception ability , seems much worse.

If they stick to the defensive tactics, their line of defense is not a big problem, but if they press the offensive...then there are too many loopholes.

The other is that Busquets is not there.

Professor Bu has many criticisms, but he is a very special midfielder, so special that without him, Barcelona may not have the glory of that period.

His contribution in transitioning from defense to offense and getting rid of the spot is unmatched. When counterattacking, he can avoid the opponent's local press, and then pass the ball accurately. When defending, he can pass his own Blocking and interception prevent the opponent's offense from playing well.

This is why it is said that Busquets is a ball blind filter-the ability to get rid of in situ and the sense of position, these two points are very inconspicuous and not easy to find, but they are extremely important.

Now that he is not here, Barcelona's offensive tactics are also missing a key link.

On this basis, it is extremely necessary to carry out defensive counterattack tactics against them.