Football’s First Defender

Drogba, Lampard, Malouda! These three men hit the goal with three consecutive threatening shots, but they still failed to knock on the door of Barcelona again. Not only the other Chelsea players, but even the fans watching the game from the sidelines lamented endlessly on the sidelines!

After the shock, the Barcelona players also felt like they had survived the catastrophe. They were just a little bit short, and they might be scored! Although they are still lagging behind, the difference of one goal is definitely much easier to chase than two goals!

"Barcelona's game, after Puyol was absent due to injury, even though Yaya Toure, who is quite a general, was replaced! But Toure is not an orthodox central defender after all. Now Barcelona is obviously on the overall defensive end. I feel that it is still very easy to get confused!"

"And the current Barcelona, ​​after being restricted on the offensive end, has given Chelsea too many opportunities to directly counterattack!"

"The huge threat of Chelsea's counterattack and the instability of Barcelona's own defense make Barcelona's players have to leave more players in the midfield and focus to ensure that there are no major loopholes in the defense. !"

"This has led to Barcelona not having enough manpower on the offensive end, and there is no threatening offense, and Chelsea can easily counterattack!"

"Barca are now caught in a vicious circle!"

Known for its offense, Barcelona's performance in this game is really different from the first round!

Under the outstanding performance of the Chelsea players, Barcelona's stars now seem a bit bleak!

You know, the game went on for almost 60 minutes, and Barcelona had only a few shots, not to mention, not even a chance to hit the goal in the penalty area!

The only shot that was within the range of the goal frame was a long shot of nearly 30 meters in the first half, which was firmly held by Petr Cech!

Barcelona urgently needs someone who can stand up and help the team create opportunities in a crisis situation, even equalize the score, and complete the reversal in the away game!

Messi! The core of Barcelona's future, who is recognized by everyone in Barcelona, ​​it's time to show his core value in this strong confrontation!

"Messi! One person took the ball from the right and moved across to the middle area!"

In Chelsea's defense, there is a line for defending Messi! That is, outside the 25-meter line, Messi is only following the defense, supplemented by interception. As long as Messi does not break through to the dangerous area, the defenders will not block him alone if there are not many people. of!

Therefore, even if Messi dribbles the ball from the right to the center alone, it only attracts the Chelsea defenders to follow, but is not drawn out by Messi, giving Messi room to get rid of others in the midfield!

"Messi wants to drive the ball into the Chelsea penalty area!"

"But with Ashley Cole chasing after him and Lampard and Yang Feng blocking him in front, can Messi succeed?"

Messi is indeed an excellent attacker, but in a real strong matchup, which player can really tear apart a team's complete defense by himself?

Under the iron wall of Chelsea, Messi's breakthrough is really just an attempt to gain luck!

It's just that the state of today's Chelsea players won't leave Messi with even a little success rate!

"Pass the ball!"

"When Messi was trying to break through Lampard, he staggered a little under physical contact. Before falling down, he directly chose to pass through and send the ball to the left!"

"But! Yang Feng!"

"Not far from Lampard's side, he fell to the ground and stretched his legs, blocking Messi's pass!"

"Yang Feng's judging ability, observation ability and reaction ability are still so good. Messi's offensive attempt this time was completely destroyed by Yang Feng, and no offensive results were achieved!"

Yang Feng is Chelsea's overall defense, and finally, the most critical link!

Under the tight and powerful interception ability of Chelsea's midfielder, Yang Feng will be responsible for making up for all accidental balls that slip through the net, so as to prevent the opponent from taking the opportunity to complete the goal!

Yang Feng's task is to hide behind the Chelsea midfielder, and is responsible for interfering with and blocking the opponent's pick pass, through pass and other threatening passes into the penalty area!

And if the midfielder is continuously broken by players with excellent breakthrough ability like Messi or Iniesta, Yang Feng can also be driven out of the penalty area directly to complete the defense, or directly rely on fouls to prevent Barcelona's offensive players from going further. forward!

This is the case. Under Chelsea's defense, in the end, he had no choice but to choose a pass or pick a pass to Chelsea's penalty area. Yang Feng was already in the penalty area and intercepted no less than 5 times!

In fact, Barcelona's pass control attack is really struggling in this game. Many times, under the pressure of Chelsea's defense, they can only choose to see if luck can be on their side and let the pass pass into the restricted area. Too got it!

However, under Terry's physical confrontation and Yang Feng's blocked pass, in this game, he really couldn't guarantee enough contact with the rest of the team!

Eto'ao has a shooting skill and excellent speed, but it is not easy to connect the ball!

"Messi! This time, I want to go straight to the bottom!"

"Ashley Cole's defense followed closely, but Messi's personal ability finally showed this time!"

"A sudden emergency stop, after slightly shaking Ashley Cole's center of gravity, followed by continuous feints and changing directions, and then suddenly reversed and cut back to the penalty area!"

"Foul! Ashley Cole! You can only choose to reach out for the foul at the first moment! Prevent Messi's breakthrough!"

"The referee came over and showed a yellow card!"

But a set kick opportunity, for Barcelona, ​​is really limited in its own ability to create threats!

The absolute disadvantage of the high-altitude ball competition for the top makes the Barcelona players not have much hope for success in the top competition!

In the end, Messi himself directly chose to hit the goal with a free kick, but it flew high above the baseline!

Compared with Barcelona's slightly monotonous offense, Chelsea's counterattack and offense are very well organized, and various tactics are used in turn!

Malouda's breakthrough from the left, Lampard's personal long-range shot from the center, Anelka sometimes turned into a winger, trying to attack the right, or directly go to the middle of the penalty area, and instantly became a double with Drogba Ahead, let's fight for the cross from our two full-backs! Barcelona's defense is indeed getting more and more exhausted!

On this side, Barcelona organizes a decent offense. Chelsea's offensive or counterattack threats may be twice, and the number of shots. Chelsea is now more than double that of Barcelona. Barcelona is at an absolute disadvantage!

Guardiola, counting the time on the sidelines, has been thinking about when to make a substitution!

Chelsea's defense is based on the excellent defensive ability of the midfielders, especially Ballack and Essien's running and defending ability, which combine the pass and cut cooperation that Barcelona is famous for, and restrict it to death. Whether it's a breakthrough or a pass, Chelsea's defensive speed is too fast, resulting in a few-to-many situation, the Barcelona players are simply unable to complete the threatening attack!

Guardiola understands that at this time, instead of replacing the offensive players and making the team's defense more flawed, it is better to continue to wait until the last 20 minutes, the last 10 minutes, when the Chelsea midfielder has physical problems or declines. Time, then try your best!

As for the current consumption task on the offensive end, Guardiola can only choose to trust his players, and trust his most proud disciple-Messi!

"Messi! Back to body on the right half of the Chelsea half!"

Ashley Cole is naturally inseparable from Messi's defense! However, this time, he still underestimated Messi's personal ability!

Messi, with his back to Ashley Cole, shook his shoulders and seemed to turn to the left hand, then went to the right, shaking Ashley Cole's center of gravity, and then directly made the axis with his right foot, and turned to the right hand Turning back, throwing off Ashley Cole's defense, and heading for the middle!

"Lampard, take a step forward and want to steal the ball!"

"Fried meatballs! The frequency of Messi's feet is extremely fast, and he directly made a fried meatball movement, dodged Lampard's upper grab, and continued to enter the penalty area diagonally!"

"Barack! And Yang Feng! The two rushed over together!"

This is Chelsea's defense line. Even if Ashley Cole loses his position and Lampard's attack fails to achieve results, Lampard's defense also buys time for Ballack and Yang Feng!

Messi's forward route with the ball is irreversible, and Yang Feng and Ballack are closing the door with one left and one right!

Although Messi wanted to poke the ball to teammates in other positions at this time, but firstly, after passing Lampard, the position was a bit too forward, and now he could not control it as he wanted, and secondly, it was also an attack invested by Barcelona The number of players is really limited. In front of Messi, there is almost no contact point. The angle passed to Eto'o was almost blocked by Yang Feng and Ballack!

It has to be said that Yang Feng's ability to judge and grasp the opportunity to grab the opportunity has become stronger and stronger with the increase of game experience!

This ball, purely regarding Yang Feng himself, the timing of the grab is the best chance to pinpoint the moment when Messi surpasses others. When the ball is farthest from Messi, the grab is in place, which completely restricts Messi to do whatever he wants. Continue to hold the ball and try to pass the chance!

"Messi! Finish the goal first!"

"It's just a pity, it was too hasty, and I didn't use enough force. This kick flew directly out of the baseline, and there is still a certain distance from the goal!"

Messi can still forcefully reach the ball and complete the goal, but he really can't control his footwork and kicking parts!

Slow motion playback!

Messi went all the way from the right to the middle. Not only were there four people including Yang Feng in front of him, but behind Yang Feng, there was also Bosingwa who was coming to defend from the other side, and Essien was also on Messi's side who was ready to defend!

When Messi passed Lampard, Lampard, Yang Feng, Ballack, and Essien, the four formed a small encirclement, Messi was trapped in it, and there were as many as five people before and after, blocking Messi In front of Xi, a solid defensive wall was cast!

Messi, who was born to be strong, was blocked by the Chelsea players and blocked tightly!

"Give Messi a wall", this was planned by Yang Feng with his teammates and the coach before the game. At least so far, the effect of this wall is still very good!