Chapter 395 A major turning point! This undercover agent did a good job!
Chapter 395 A major turning point! This undercover agent did a great job!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 395 A major turning point! This undercover agent did a great job!
During the intermission, after the commercial, the camera returned to the LeTV live broadcast room, where Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu began to review the first half of the game between Manchester City and Barcelona.
"The score of 1-1 in the first half actually explains a lot of problems!"
"More than 20 minutes before the start of the game, Manchester City suppressed Barcelona through high-position pressing, and even cut off the connection between Barcelona's midfield and backcourt and MSN, making it impossible for Barcelona's MSN frontcourt combination to display their powerful offensive capabilities."
"But after Messi helped Barcelona equalize the score, Barcelona increased their pressing and pressure on Bravo."
"In the last 20 minutes of the first half, Barcelona clearly entered the game. Both sides pressed the opponent with high pressure. Overall, the two sides were evenly matched."
"On Manchester City's side, in the last 20 minutes, Messi, Neymar, and Suarez came to the city in succession, creating a huge impact and deterrence on Manchester City."
"When the defense continues to be tight, Fernandinho, the defensive midfielder, keeps making mistakes, and the forwards are under tremendous pressure from the high position, and the personnel on the Manchester City defense begin to make mistakes. This is actually the melon-style passing and controlling play.
A concentrated expression of the fact that Manchester City is not sufficiently rooted in it!”
"That's right!" Zhang Lu nodded cheerfully, looking at Zhan Jun with admiration and agreeing very much with Zhan Jun's tactical analysis.
"The goal Manchester City conceded in the first half was both accidental and inevitable!"
"The accident is Fernandinho's fall, but the inevitability is that Manchester City's defense in the middle of the midfield is a bit weak!"
"Iniesta's run, coupled with the movements of other Barcelona players, directly emptied the middle of Manchester City's penalty area. Coupled with Fernandinho's fall, it was inevitable that both sides would work together, which resulted in Messi's death.
Goal!"
"Chu Zheng actually realized the defensive void of the single midfielder in the middle. He came back in time, but after all, he was still not as fast as Messi!"
In Zhang Lu's view, the technical and tactical confrontation between Manchester City and Barcelona in the first half was the best in the world and can be used as a classic teaching case.
From the beginning of the game, Barcelona and Manchester City, which lacked enough offensive depth, were trying their best to find and create offensive depth.
Both sides concentrated their forces in the midfield to compete.
Both teams played the same passing and control tactics - high press in the frontcourt, marking in the midfield, emphasizing competition and control of the ball.
The tactical ideas and player movements are similar.
However, the combination of personnel combination and execution ability is different, so the level of performance, detailed execution and rhythm control produce different effects.
In comparison, Manchester City has done better.
Manchester City relied on the tacit cooperation between Chu Zheng, the fleet commander, and Gundogan, De Bruyne, Nolito, Sterling and other attackers to find Barcelona's gaps on both sides. The tactical execution can be said to be excellent.
It was a huge success.
At the same time, the atmosphere in the Barcelona dressing room was relatively relaxed.
Although they were suppressed for a while in the first half, they played better in the second half and continuously threatened Manchester City's goal.
Barcelona players basically didn't think much about winning the game.
Because this is Camp Nou, the great Camp Nou.
Whether it's the Galacticos next door, the Bandits, or a foreign team, it's not that simple to win a victory at Camp Nou.
This is not because Barcelona players are blindly confident, but because Barcelona's super high winning rate at home gives them strong self-confidence.
In the home team's dressing room at Camp Nou, Messi sat quietly in his seat, closing his eyes and resting.
But at this moment, Messi's mind is thinking about the fight with Chu Zheng in front of the Manchester City goal in the first half.
For Messi, the feeling at that time was terrifying.
It was also this time that Messi had a clear understanding of Chu Zheng's strength for the first time.
In terms of starting speed and acceleration ability, Chu Zheng is evenly matched with him.
As for the frequency under his feet, although he won, he was still frightened by the victory. Even now, he feels a little scared when he thinks about it.
Because the frequency of Chu Zheng's feet did not slow him down too much, as long as he was a little slower at that time, Chu Zheng could get ahead and destroy the ball.
Game after game over the years, Messi's pace has almost always been a dimensionality-reducing blow to his opponent's players.
He leads the way in terms of foot movement frequency.
But today Chu Zheng gave him a huge surprise. Chu Zheng's equally fast foot frequency made him feel threatened for the first time and gave him a strong fright.
Next to it, Busquets and Rakitic, Barcelona's two world-class midfielders, are also a little silent.
In the first half, the two faced off against Chu Zheng frequently and even jointly defended Chu Zheng many times.
But Chu Zheng also created huge defensive pressure on the two of them, and the two of them were beaten by Chu Zheng more than once.
So the two of them were in a bad mood at the moment and were thinking about how to deal with Chu Zheng in the second half.
But the two of them could only think about tactical fouls, otherwise it would be difficult for them to defend against Chu Zheng, who has comprehensive skills and extremely fast footwork.
Especially Chu Zheng's unbridled imagination and creativity gave Busquets and Rakitic a headache.
Fifteen minutes later, players from both sides took to the court again.
Seeing Pique, the core player of the team's defense, disappearing, countless Barcelona fans in the stands suddenly felt their hearts skip a beat.
Sure enough, the fourth official soon appeared on the sidelines and held up a substitution sign.
"oh!!!"
"24, Mathieu replaced Pique!" Zhan Jun said in a very surprised tone.
"I guess I can't continue the game!"
"At the end of the first half, Gundogan made a tackle from behind. At that time, Pique almost didn't stand up. He must have been injured!"
After listening to Zhang Lu's words, Zhan Jun shook his head and said with a smile: "Barcelona was a bit unlucky today. They were forced to use two substitutions in the first half!"
On the sidelines, Guardiola's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw Barcelona's substitution, and he seemed to have thought of something.
Mathieu moved to Barcelona from Valencia in 2014 for 20 million euros.
Although this guy is not the absolute main force in Barcelona's defense, he is still an indispensable member. His attributes that can be hit or miss have solved Barcelona's urgent needs many times.
In other words, this is a fire-fighting player in Barcelona's defense, and his ability cannot be compared with Pique.
But after thinking about it carefully, Guardiola temporarily suppressed the idea of replacing Aguero in his mind and prepared to observe it first.
In today's game, so far, except for Fernandinho's outrageous slip, Guardiola is still quite satisfied.
Not long after, Mazic blew the whistle and the second half of the game officially started.
Different from the first half, at the beginning of the second half, the rhythm was obviously faster than that of the first half, and Barcelona and Manchester City seemed to be fighting.
As soon as the game started, Barcelona pressed forward with the entire team, intensifying the pressing and attacking in the midfield and front, trying to retaliate in kind.
Then Barcelona launched a fierce attack in the blink of an eye.
In the 46th minute of the game, Umtiti suddenly launched an attack with a long pass from the left side of the backcourt.
Neymar and Umtiti formed an excellent passing and running understanding, leaving behind Zabaleta and Otamendi who were chasing after them.
Neymar had just entered the Manchester City penalty area from the upper left corner. Facing Bravo's attack, he jumped up and tried to take the ball in mid-air.
But Bravo didn't give him this chance. With a precise pounce with both hands, the ball was blocked.
In a blink of an eye, Manchester City responded in kind.
In the 48th minute of the game, Kolarov took the ball from the backcourt and pushed it to the left side of the center circle, and then quickly passed forward diagonally to the right to Chu Zheng on the left rib of the center circle.
Chu Zheng did not take the ball, but directly knocked Gundogan in front of him, and then made a diagonal pass into the middle.
But as soon as Chu Zheng left, Gundogan was surrounded by a triangle of Busquets, Iniesta, and Mascherano.
But Gundogan was really lively at his feet. After stumbling, he actually pushed the ball forward from the gap to Chu Zheng.
Chu Zheng, who was on his back, stretched out his leg, stopped and turned around, and faced Nolito who was thrusting forward from his left rib.
At this time, due to Mascherano's move, there was no one around Nolito.
Rakitic who was on the wing just now didn't cover the position for Mascherano at all.
Chu Zheng did not pass the ball immediately, but dribbled the ball straight in front of Umtiti who was retreating.
In the blink of an eye, Chu Zheng came to the left rib area at the top of the arc, and then made a pass to the left side of the penalty area.
Outside the upper left corner of the small penalty area, Nolito rushed in front of the ball and blasted directly into the near corner.
Umtiti made a sliding tackle and blocked the ball without touching it.
But Ter Stegen at the near corner reacted quickly. After quickly judging Nolito's shooting route, he tilted his body to the right and used his knee to block the ball out of the baseline.
Soon, De Bruyne took a left corner kick and directly found Chu Zheng in the back.
Among the short men in Barcelona, Chu Zheng successfully took off, and his distance from the ground was outstanding.
Under the gaze of everyone, Chu Zheng's body was like a tight bowstring, but the ball came in front of him, he pushed forward suddenly, and the ball hit the near upper corner.
Duang!
A loud sound caused the hearts, livers, spleens, lungs and kidneys of everyone in the restricted area to tremble.
Ter Stegen was almost scared out of his mind. After reacting, he found the right time, took a step forward and jumped up with his knees, and firmly grasped the ball that was going straight up and down with both hands.
“Oh yo!!!!!”
"Oh yo!!!!!!!!!"
In the LeTV live broadcast room, Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu exclaimed at the same time!
"Chu Zheng's jumping ability is really bug-level in football!"
Zhan Jun adjusted his glasses and said with a smile: "The key point is that Chu Zheng's physical resistance is very strong, you can't stop him from jumping at all."
"Look just now, Busquets and Mathieu, who were 189, were pulling and pulling. They couldn't do anything to Chu Zheng and could only watch Chu Zheng take off."
On the sidelines, Guardiola also held his head in regret.
In the stands, no matter how brilliant and outstanding Chu Zheng's performance was, the boos from Barcelona fans were still there and getting louder.
Unfortunately, from the beginning of the game until now, they found that Chu Zheng was not affected by them at all, and his performance was getting better and better.
This made countless Barcelona fans feel frustrated.
The game then became deadlocked.
Both sides' frontcourt pressing and midfield defense were done to the extreme, resulting in both sides' formations showing an extremely compressed three-line situation.
The high-tech mutual damage makes neither Barcelona nor Manchester City dare to widen the width of the midfield and frontcourt.
As soon as the attacking side moves the ball side, the defensive side will immediately follow suit, and the high position press will be in place.
The tactical execution of Manchester City and Barcelona amazed countless people who watched this game.
Just when everyone thought the game would continue to be a stalemate, a sudden turn came that made Barcelona fans ecstatic and Manchester City fans vomited blood.
In the 58th minute of the game, Chu Zheng received a forward pass from Zabaleta on the left center line of the center circle.
But because Mathieu quickly climbed up behind him, he could not turn around.
With Neymar quickly approaching from the right, Chu Zheng had to pass back to Otamendi on the wing, and at the same time signaled others to take control of the ball.
So near the center line, Chu Zheng, Zabaleta on the flank, and Otamendi formed a continuous triangle pass.
Neymar, who was in the middle of the three, was forced to grab the circle and was beaten!
But Barcelona are so familiar with this triangular ball control method that they are not in a hurry at all, they firmly occupy the key positions and prevent the ball from going to the center.
Chu Zheng was forced by Iniesta behind him to cross the center line and return to his own half.
But in the next moment, Chu Zheng suddenly turned to the right and shot a cold arrow with his left foot.
The ball jumped between Iniesta and Busquets, who were standing parallel to each other on the center line of the wing, and went straight to Gundogan outside the arc of the center circle.
Gundogan saw Zabaleta moving forward, he stayed on the spot and stretched out his foot to touch the ball, and the ball jumped in front of Zabaleta.
But Gundogan didn't do it right, and the ball was given too far in advance.
Let Digne on the wing get in front of Zabaleta and kick the ball out.
Digne's kick didn't look like a clearance, but a long pass over the top, directly behind the Manchester City defense.
The landing point is on the left side of the center, 36.7 meters away from the Manchester City fans.
Suarez increased his speed to the extreme, and Otamendi also chased back from both sides, trying to close the door for Suarez.
But after the ball hits the ground, it rolls forward very quickly.
Seeing that it was impossible to catch him, Bravo also came out, and the three of them slowed down at the same time.
Stones quickly moved to the top of the arc in the middle to establish a release point.
However, the next second, everyone was dumbfounded.
I saw Bravo coming out from the left rib at the top of the arc, and then kicked the ball with his right foot.
Everyone could see that Bravo wanted to pass the ball directly to Fernandinho, who was ten meters away and retreated along the center.
However, he did not fully exert his force on this ball, and the line was very close to Suarez.
As the top striker in the world football pyramid, how could Suarez miss this opportunity.
Facing the flying ball, Suarez stretched out his foot to directly intercept the ball, then quickly adjusted his position and pace, raised his right foot and directly hit the goal.
"Ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Bravo gave me a gift!!!!!!!!!!!!" In the live broadcast room, Zhang Lu and Zhan Jun were both dumbfounded.
At the same time, Gary Neville, Pettit and Harland Sr. in the live broadcast room of Sky Sports in England were also dumbfounded.
It is incredible that such a low-level mistake occurs in such a super-level confrontation.
At this moment on the court, Bravo was confused.
Facing Suarez's goal, he subconsciously jumped up and directly blocked the ball with his hands raised.
"Beep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The next second, the referee Mazic's sharp whistle sounded, and he ran over and took out a red card from his trouser pocket to signal to Bravo.
In the middle circle, Chu Zheng's eyes were wide open and he couldn't believe what he saw.
At the scene, Guardiola, Enrique, Barcelona and Manchester City fans all stared with wide eyes at the drama unfolding at the front of Manchester City's penalty area.
Guardiola's mouth twitched twice, then scratched the back of his head, turned and walked towards Caballero on the bench.
Next to him, Enrique was grinning from ear to ear!
Not long after, huge and warm applause broke out at Camp Nou.
"This is Guardiola's second return to Camp Nou after leaving Barcelona!"
"However, today Guardiola's two most trusted generals made major mistakes in the first and second half!"
"Haha!" Zhang Lu was also happy, "Bravo was recruited to Manchester City by Guardiola because of his good footwork."
"But the mistake this time was really too big!" At the end of her words, Zhang Lu shook her head.
"The fans at Camp Nou also applauded Bravo's righteousness! This undercover did a great job!!"
"Hahaha!" Zhang Lu was overjoyed, "Now it's hard to beat Manchester City with 10 men!"
At the scene, taking advantage of the substitution time, Guardiola quickly called Chu Zheng to the sidelines, and then made a series of gestures to Chu Zheng.
In the camera, Chu Zheng, who was listening to Guardiola's tactical arrangements, kept squeezing the orange bottle, squeezing the special drink into his mouth, and then spitting it out, nodding his head.
But because of the huge noise at the scene, no one could hear what Guardiola and Chu Zheng said in the camera.