[football] walk side by side

"goooooooooooooal! Cristiano Ronaldo!! Cristiano Ronaldo!" On the TV live in Madrid, the commentator in charge of explaining the game shouted Cristiano's name twice excitedly: "The goal is scored! Ronaldo Opened the scoring for Real Madrid with a beautiful header! 1-0! After a stalemate that lasted half an hour in the first half, Real Madrid scored the first goal in the away game!"

Beside the Real Madrid coach's bench, Mourinho smiled and applauded Cristiano. In the stands, the area belonging to the fans of the visiting team was full of cheers. Our more intense enthusiasm and praise!

Guardiola's complexion sank.

Not only because the team is one goal behind the opponent, but also because he blamed himself for not realizing Real Madrid's purpose in time——

This series of actions can be regarded as allowing Guardiola to fully understand. From beginning to end, Cyril Slade's goal in defense is only Messi, and it may sometimes look like he is freezing. Wei, but in essence, this may just be a deliberate disguise made by Cyril after discovering Barcelona's intentions, or just incidentally.

His goal has always been Messi alone.

Because of this, the changes he made not only failed to prevent Harvey from being frozen, but were equivalent to putting Messi under Cyril's nose, which is the most dangerous place!

At this moment, he understood Cyril's intentions, but the problem is... Guardiola looked up at the scoreboard hanging above the stadium, and could only show a helpless wry smile.

He has been worried that Mourinho will repeat his old tricks and come back to his defensive and counterattack tricks, but what he never expected is that this time, Mourinho did not trick him, but he was slapped by the opponent. The disciples brought out are here!

At the same moment, in the stands belonging to the home team's fan area, the boos of Barcelona fans immediately sounded-of course, this sound was not for the Barcelona players, but for the Real Madrid players who scored a goal.A goal is not enough for Barcelona fans to be angry enough to attack their own family.These boos soon filled the entire Camp Nou stadium, repressing the cheers belonging to the Real Madrid fans.

Barcelona fans did not lose confidence in the team because of this, in their view, they still have a chance to reverse.Many fans may not see it as accurately as Guardiola, but they also have a close question in their hearts.

Ever since Cristiano transformed from a striker who can pass, pass, and shoot to a pure offensive finisher, many people will talk about a ridiculous saying when evaluating Ronaldo and Messi: Ronaldo is nothing special, the opportunity and position of the ball passed by others are so good, even if it is an ordinary person, or kicks by himself, can't he still score goals?What's so great about it?

In fact, this is a very low-level misunderstanding.

In the final analysis, the essence of football is not to surpass others, nor to pass the ball.No matter how many good or bad, good or bad passes in the middle, the goal is to get that ball into the net, not to look good in a circus on the pitch. Performance.

If you can't score a goal, no matter how good-looking the pass in the middle is, it is meaningless!

And Cristiano played exactly such a role.

It seems that as long as there is an excellent midfield partner and a good pass, anyone can easily score, but in fact, if they are really replaced, I am afraid they really cannot score.

If shooting itself is really a simple matter, then why did the number of shots, the number of shots on goal, and the number of goals scored by Real Madrid drop a lot after the lack of Cristiano?

This principle is actually the same for Barcelona.

They have the best midfield combination in the world, the best ball possession in the world, the highest pass success rate, Depero and Villa are also the most efficient top scorers in La Liga, but the problem is that they The person who can make the final decision is missing!

Under such circumstances, even if Harvey is not frozen, even if Barcelona's midfield runs smoothly and freely, what's the point?

Barcelona fans may not be able to fully understand the reason. However, at this moment, when they saw Ronaldo, who hated them to death, scored first, they inevitably had a question: Ronaldo scored first, so... May where is west

Thinking of this, the fans immediately turned their heads and looked at the player they had high hopes for.

Messi took a few deep breaths, looking at his own goal, there was nothing but helplessness left at this time.

He couldn't guarantee that the previous few shots that were handed over to Villa and Depero would be able to score if they were replaced by himself.He didn't have time to think about this at the moment, because at this moment, he suddenly understood Cyril's real purpose of defending himself.

Indeed, so far, Cyril has never successfully defended himself, but through constant marking and entanglement, Messi has no time to participate in the final blow of Barcelona's offense. Stealing the ball at his feet, but when Messi passed him, the time it took was enough for Barcelona to lose the best time to attack!

After realizing this, in order to prevent the overall offense of the team from being delayed again due to the "confrontation" between Cyril and Messi, when Barcelona's pass passes through Messi's ring, it will either be at a distance from Real Madrid. Where the goal is farther away, either pass it out quickly, because once Cyril is entangled, the next Ramos or Pepe who comes over will quickly complete the tackle!

Cyril didn't really defeat Messi in one-on-one defense, but in essence, he had actually completely frozen Messi!As for Barcelona, ​​after losing Messi, the most efficient point on the front line, their overall strength has also suffered a blow!

So now, what should Barcelona do?Let Messi return to the striker?

This idea flashed in Guardiola's mind, but he hesitated again.If it was another player, he might not have to worry too much about it, and just ask the opponent to return to the frontcourt, and just discuss it with the opponent after the game, but this person is Leo Messi.

Bring Messi back up front?

This behavior is indeed the best solution for Barcelona, ​​but what will Messi and the media after the game think?In order to deliberately avoid Slade and return to the front line?

If you stick to this formation, of course it is not impossible. With the abilities of Villa and Depero, and Barcelona's midfielder is there after all, it may not be difficult to score goals, but compared to Messi That said, it will definitely be worse.

In ordinary games, this small gap may not be a big deal, but this game they are facing is a national derby, and it is Real Madrid, which is by no means inferior to Barcelona in strength today!At this level of contest, sometimes, the most critical point to change the situation may be some seemingly dispensable things!

How to do?

Guardiola was hesitating about the choices and gains and losses. At this moment, Messi, who was still in the midfield, suddenly took the initiative to run back towards the striker!

He may not know how much this seemingly simple move will cause him to be ridiculed by other media after this game, but for Messi, the interests of the team are always his first priority.As long as Barcelona can win this game, he doesn't really mind what others think of him.

"Uh..." Seeing that Messi suddenly returned to his original position, the commentator at the scene couldn't help but feel a little stuck. He didn't know how to continue explaining. He also understood the deep meaning of Messi's move, but it was precisely because of this reason, On the contrary, he was not very good at saying these things.Isn't that slapping Barcelona in the face?

Fortunately, the pace of the game is fast at the moment, which allows him to choose to skip this topic directly and return the focus to Barcelona's offense.

In the 40th minute of the game, Messi got the ball near the center line.After taking the ball, he started directly from the right side where he was, and quickly rushed towards Real Madrid's penalty area!

At the same time, there is Cyril chasing Messi - among the defensive players, Cyril may be the only one who can compare with Messi in terms of speed, which leads to Messi's forward dribbling speed although very fast , but still could not completely get rid of Cyril through acceleration.

But this time, Messi did not intend to entangle with Cyril anymore.

He maintained the speed of running forward, but he didn't stop the ball while dribbling the ball at high speed, and kicked the football directly to the middle. Seeing Marcelo approaching, Villa met the ball flying close to the ground. The football is a cross, the football continues to move left along the middle, and goes to Depero's feet.

Depero's progress came to an abrupt end 17 meters outside the Real Madrid penalty area.

Carvalho's close fit and Pepe's position allowed him to passively slow down outside the penalty area. The two Real Madrid defenders cooperated very well, but they failed to stop Barcelona's attack. When another figure galloped from the right When passing, Depero quickly kicked and hoisted the football to the right!

In the anticipation of the Barcelona fans, football finally returned to Messi's feet.

In this highly anticipated game, the long-awaited "Messi Corridor" finally showed its style on the court again!

Without the entanglement of Carvalho and Pepe, Ramos who is closest to him is also in the middle at the moment, unable to return to the defense, Messi calmly stopped the ball on the right side of the penalty area, and looked at Casili who was waiting in front of the goal. Yas.

Just at this time--

In the shocked eyes of the Barcelona fans, before Messi raised his foot to shoot, the lingering figure appeared in their sight again, and quickly grabbed the moment Messi raised his foot, taking the first step to shoot the football He controlled it under his feet, and then quickly fired a high ball, hoisting the football to the return line!

Beside the coach's bench, Mourinho glanced at the dignified Guardiola, with a haughty smile on his lips.

What's the use of passing the ball?

What he asked Cyril to guard was always Messi, not football itself!