Chapter 254 The showdown begins
In this game, Lucescu would not dare to use the 4-1-4-1 formation against Stuttgart.
At least, double midfielders are necessary, which is common sense for almost all teams to deal with Barcelona.
So, Lucescu placed Fernandinho and Czech midfielder Hubuchman on the back midfielder.
The central defenders are Kuchel and Ziglinsky, and the configuration of Left Rightserner has not changed.
In the frontcourt, Lucescu released three extremely fast players, William on the left, Douglas Costa on the right, and Xu Qi on the middle!
In this game, Lucescu placed Judson, who was good at organizing offense, on the bench, and chose to let Xu Qi serve as the midfielder to organize counterattacks. It was obviously to use the speed of these three to counterattack the Barcelona team's defense.
At the same time, Lucescu also made more important arrangements, that is, he hopes that William will attack more of the area guarded by the opponent's right-back Alves.
In Barcelona's attack, Alves's attack poses a great threat. Lucescu very much needed William to take advantage of the huge gap left behind when Alves was attacking in front of him.
Compared to Abidal, who doesn't like to go forward on the other side, Lucescu did not let it go. After all, Douglas Costa's speed is not at a disadvantage, and he is very hopeful to use his speed to gain the upper hand in the confrontation with Abidal.
On the front line of the Donetsk Miners is Adriano.
At the same time, Barcelona's starting roster was finally released.
Many people sighed in shock after watching it, and this lineup is definitely the main force!
Except for Iniesta, who was unable to play due to injury, did not start in the starting lineup, Barcelona team has set up all the main lineups they can set up. I believe they are bound to win this Super Cup championship!
Goalkeeper Valdes and central defenders are captain Puyol and the rising star Pique who performed outstandingly last season.
This guy Pique played with Manchester United last season to win a Champions League title. This season, after returning to Barcelona, he relied on his real skills to help the team win a Champions League title.
He won the Champions League with both teams for two consecutive years, which is enough for Pique to play for a while.
Right back Alves and left back Abidal.
In terms of midfield, Yaya Toure, Keita and Xavi are respectively.
Iniesta's position is replaced by Keita, who is also a player with very comprehensive technical skills and strong enough. Such a team is worthy of the main force when it comes to any other team. However, in Barcelona, he can only be regarded as a substitute.
On the front line, Barcelona put on their new super trident!
Such a forward line combination makes all the defense lines in the world frightened.
Right winger Messi, left winger Henry, center forward, Ibrahimovic!
Guardiola chose to exchange Etoo for Ibrahimovic, and he also took a fancy to Ibrahimovic's bigger and stronger body, which would make Barcelona's offense more three-dimensional when facing intensive defense.
Of course, although Ibrahimovic is tall, he is a player who likes to get balls and plays with his feet. Whether he can adapt to the new positioning given to him by Guardiola is also a question.
At present, Ibrahimovic seems to be adapting well, and the La Liga has also started a round. Ibrahimovic started and scored a goal in the first round of the league.
In the player channel, the players of the two teams were ranked in two teams and took the lead in entering the field.
Because it is a Super Cup game, after entering the game, the two teams are listed in two teams again, waiting for the captains of the two teams to enter the game with their respective championship trophys and receive applause from all the fans.
Then, Serna and Puyor walked side by side, each holding their own huge trophy and entering the stadium.
Xu Qi looked at the big ear cup in Puyor's arms and swallowed his saliva. He was very eager to go forward and touch it, and feel the texture of the legendary big ear cup.
"If I can hold this trophy high up in the future by the shouts of many fans, it will definitely feel wonderful!" Xu Qi sighed.
Then, the players of the two teams began to shake hands with each other and prepare for the start of the game.
Louis II Stadium is a relatively special stadium, and its architectural style is indeed quite different from other stadiums.
This stadium is located in the Principality of Monaco, the second smallest country in the world. It is close to the southern coastline of the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by France on the other three sides, making it a French country China.
Even this stadium is built on the border between Monaco and France, with one goal in France and one goal in Monaco.
The area of this country is indeed much smaller than that of many cities and has a very small population, with only more than 30,000 people. Therefore, the number of spectators at the Louis II Stadium is only more than 18,000, but only more than 18,000 people is comparable to two-thirds of the population of the Principality of Monaco.
Of course, the audience actually came from France and Spain, and some came from Donetsk, Ukraine, and there were a small number of Chinese fans at the scene.
There is also a professional football club in this country, namely the French Ligue 1 team Monaco. This team once reached the Champions League final in 2004, but eventually lost to Porto led by Mourinho.
The fans were almost full in the stadium.
The players of the two teams also ranked in two halfs, ready to go.
The referee looked at the time and blew the whistle to the start of the game.
Barcelona kicked off first, with Messi and Ibrahimovic standing in the middle of the field. Messi pushed the ball to Ibrahimovic and Ibrahimovic quickly passed back.
At the same time, Xu Qi, Adriano and William have already rushed across the center line and entered the Barcelona team!
These three people want to use their speed and impact to compete for the ball from the beginning of the game.
However, the Catalans who are good at controlling the ball are not afraid of pressing at this level.
Xavi took the ball, and he pulled the ball away Adriano. Facing Xu Qi who rushed over, Xavi turned his back to Xu Qi and made a move to pass the ball to Yaya Toure. However, when Xu Qi rushed to Yaya Toure, he found that Xavi had turned around and easily threw him behind him. Then, he easily passed the ball to Alves on the right.
"Is this Harvey's strength? Everything is fake! There is no way to judge what he is going to do next!" Xu Qi suddenly felt that he was really far away from the master's midfielder like Harvey for the first time.
Although he has sent many exquisite passes, and some wonderful passes on the outside instep have been named a master-level pass, he has indeed felt that gap when facing the real master this time.
"Strong, really strong!"
"If I were asked to defend Iniesta, because I had practiced dribbling skills with Iniesta in the Real Dream Training Camp, I might have some hope to predict Iniesta's dribbling ideas, but Xavi, I could not predict them at all. Unfortunately, Iniesta could not play in this game due to injury, otherwise I would really want to practice with him." Xu Qi sighed and returned to defense immediately.
After all, Barcelona had already burned the war to the half of the Donetsk Miners through a series of passes.
There, Messi, Henry, Ibrahimovic and others have already advanced, and just waited for the Donetsk Miners' defense to be exposed.
Chapter completed!