[football] walk side by side

La Liga is a league where teams as a whole place more emphasis on offense than defense.

This has also led to the fact that most teams in La Liga may have a smooth and brilliant offense, but their defense is often unsatisfactory, and big goals conceded abound.Once you fail in the midfield press, it is very likely that you will be hit by the defense and even lose points.

Cyril raised his head and looked at Cesc Fabregas in the Barcelona half.

At this time, almost all European teams adopted the attacking style of the front midfielder, and the midfielder was more responsible for the team's defense at this time. , The organization and scheduling of the team is not his responsibility, but the responsibility of the front midfielder.

But Cesc Fabregas, who is standing in the midfielder position, obviously prefers offense to defense.Cyril once thought that only Real Madrid's defenders would take ups as a daily routine. Later, he gradually realized: it's not that Real Madrid's defenders love to attack, but the teams in this league, defenders generally like to attack.

Thinking about it now, this should also be due to the characteristics of La Liga.

But it's no wonder that La Liga teams generally fail to defend.

Such thoughts just flashed through his mind, and Cyril quickly put away his messy thoughts and concentrated on dealing with the situation in front of him.

After falling behind with a score of 0-1, it is not surprising that Barcelona's offense has become more ferocious. It is strange that Barcelona, ​​a majestic La Liga giant, does not attack aggressively after conceding a goal in order to recover the score.

Cyril did not organize another attack.

At this moment, he is honestly doing the defensive work of the midfielder. It's not that he doesn't want to attack, but that he has replaced the rookie Porto. It can be said that the defense line at this time cannot be more fragile. Give up the offense and look for opportunities to counterattack through a solid defense.

It is not easy to get out of Barcelona's attack.

From Porto's goal to the start of Barcelona's aggressive attack, Barcelona launched three attacks, two of which were played by the player named Leo Messi.

And these two times, Cyril was passed by him.

Although this player is short in stature, his movements are really like that of a loach. Even if you try to stop his movements by fouling, you may not be able to hit someone.The most important thing is that Messi's body balance and the ability to stop and change directions at high speeds are excellent. With his speed, he can often change directions before encountering defensive players.

Cyril was not depressed either.

He knows that his defensive ability is not strong. Although he also studied the defensive skills of world-class defensive players during the injury period, the improvement in defense does not happen overnight. Even if it is Cristiano's attack, Cyril may not be able to Grasp can defend him successfully.

Of course, a large part of this is that Cyril is not a pure defensive player, so he will not feel any failure in the offensive and defensive confrontation between the two, because it is like Cyril can easily pass Messi, we can’t because When a striker passes another striker, it is judged that the former is better than the latter, because defense is not the forward's strong point.

This is also the case between the striker and the playmaker.

But not being depressed doesn't mean not working hard.

For a long time, the goal in Cyril's mind has been Deco - excellent defense, excellent offense, excellent organization.Such an all-round midfielder is what he wants in his heart. With the development of modern football, the demand for multi-attribute players will only increase in various teams, which will also enrich the team's tactics.

When Leo Messi came up with the ball again, Cyril was not in a hurry to grab it.

He maintained the posture that he was directly in front of the opponent, and he was thinking quickly while keeping the angle of the opponent's advance.

Physical defense is not his forte, and it is impossible to guard against Messi who is like a loach, so he can only consider anticipation or blocking the main attacking space.So... If it was me, facing this defense, how would I choose to surpass others?

He stared closely at Messi in front of him, whose body was slightly tilted to the right, but Cyril had no intention of making a move until then. At the moment Messi moved, Cyril made an accurate prediction Judgment: This is a one-man goal!

Many defensive players will hesitate for a moment when faced with the ball passing by. They will consider whether to chase the ball or chase the man, but Cyril, who made a successful prediction, did not hesitate at all. What is the use of chasing people?Chasing the ball of course!

Because of this, when Messi pushed the ball to the left of Cyril, he started to run to the right of Cyril.At this moment, Cyril, who had predicted success, also completed his turn and ran towards the ball as well!

Therefore, what appeared in everyone's sight at this time were two players who were facing off one after the other. They suddenly increased their speed and ran towards the rolling ball together!

The speed of the two people is about equal, but Cyril started earlier than Messi, so without thinking, Cyril, who arrived one step earlier than Messi, directly sent the ball to Jorge Costa with a short pass. .

After completing this action, Cyril didn't talk to Messi again, he didn't even hesitate, he turned around sharply again, and ran forward without looking back.

With Costa's ability, it is impossible for those young Barcelona players to steal the ball from his feet. That is to say, if Barcelona's defense can be opened, the defense this time can be transformed into a counterattack, but the premise is , Someone in the frontcourt responded.

Costa's long pass ability is not good. Even if he has a beautiful long pass, it is impossible to pass the ball from Porto's half to Barcelona's half. At this time, there must be a midfielder between the two. Cohesion, to ensure the fluency of this attack.

After observing for the first 10 minutes, Cyril did not dare to hand over this responsibility to the second team—the difference between the second Porto team and the second Barcelona team is really not a star and a half.Fortunately, Costa obviously also understood his thoughts, and a short oblique pass sent the ball to Cyril's feet accurately.

After unloading the ball easily, Cyril glanced ahead and frowned slightly. Obviously at this time, Barcelona also found that Porto's frontcourt was weak, and put the focus of defense on Del Rey. Cyril looked at it critically. Looking at the other players from the second team, he frowned and decided to take the ball by himself.

the first person.

He stepped over the ball with one foot, flicked his right foot, the ball rolled to the inside of his left foot, and pushed the ball forward with his left foot, and ran forward without slowing down.

second person.

Cyril wrapped his legs around the ball, jumped up and turned around, stepped on the ball with one foot and pulled it to the other foot, and finally used the sole of the other foot to pull the ball back, piercing the crotch!

Intending to stop the crotch-wearing Barcelona player by bringing his legs together, he couldn't control his balance for a while, and fell to the ground with his body leaning forward too much.

third person and fourth person.

He glanced at the Barcelona players who were approaching unhurriedly in front of him. The nearest one was two meters away from him, and the other one was waiting patiently at an angle of two meters.

Two-person defense is different from single-person defense. When two players cooperate to defend together, the first player will often come forward, and the second player will hold it down until he sees through the attacking side's thinking before making a decisive move. Steal the ball with the help of a player.Even if the first player fails to defend, he will try to create a better defensive opportunity for the second player.

This situation is actually very dangerous.

Cyril is now close to the sideline, and there are two defensive players on the left front ready to go. If they are not careful, the ball may be intercepted or kicked out of the boundary. In this way, a good counterattack opportunity will be wasted.

Everyone thought it was time to call it a day.

But Cyril didn't seem to think so.

The corners of his mouth were slightly curved, and with a flick of the ball under his feet, he pulled it, accelerated suddenly and ran along the sideline!

This move stunned everyone who followed the game, because no one expected that Cyril would take the ball to the sideline. Anyone who knows a little about football knows that once the football is close to the sideline, it will be kicked out of bounds by the defensive player in all likelihood. It meant that the attack was interrupted, but no one thought that Cyril would do the opposite!

The two Barcelona defensive players were even more frightened. They also did not expect that Cyril would take the initiative to take the ball and run to the sideline. Their movements were unavoidably slow. At this time, Cyril had already rushed past the two of them. It's too late to defend!

Now there is only one defensive player left between Cyril and the goalkeeper.

fifth person.

After passing four defenders, the last defender was Rafael Marquez, the main Barcelona defender who had given up the technical interception. He looked at Cyril's thin body and decided to use a foul tactic Keep this little guy.

However, just when he was resisting Cyril with his strong physique, the latter squeezed hard from his left side with a force on his shoulder!

And now, there is only one Barcelona goalkeeper left who can hinder Cyril.

At this moment, the vast majority of people in the stadium stood up, staring at the stadium in shock and nervousness. The Porto fans held their breath, looking forward to the arrival of the last wonderful moment. On the coach benches of both sides, all the coaches could not help themselves stood up and looked towards the field.

Will this ball go in?

Cyril unloaded the ball calmly, and accurately kicked the outside of his right foot to one-third of the ball.

Valdes threw himself to the right.

In fact, Cyril's ball was indeed kicked to the right.

However, Valdes still failed to save the goal. Although the ball was kicked to the right, it was a big curved ball.

The entire stadium was dead silent.