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When the game resumed, Barcelona's players followed coach Enrique's instructions and passed the football at their feet. And the passionate Atlético Madrid players who wanted to strike while the iron was hot rushed to grab the ball, but they could only run after the football and became the target of the Barcelona players.

This is Barcelona's football. When they are passed quickly, it seems to be a tightly designed machine, with a tight fit and a sense of order. But those who hate them think this kind of football makes people sleepy and insults opponents.

So now when Atlético Madrid players follow the football and get slid around by Barcelona, ​​there is a deafening booing from the stands of the Calderón Stadium. Atlético Madrid fans are using this method to express their dissatisfaction.

However, the Barcelona players have long been used to this kind of treatment. When they go to other teams' home games, as long as they are so sloppy, they will almost certainly hear boos. After all, these teams are their enemies, and the enemy will not appreciate their artistic football philosophy.

They will not give up their style of play just because they are booed by the home team fans.

So no matter how much Atlético Madrid fans booed, the Barcelona players were still back and forth, and no mistakes were made because of the boos.

The Atlético de Madrid players are not fools either. When they saw that it was difficult to grab the ball from the Barcelona players, they stopped chasing the football foolishly to avoid unnecessary waste of physical energy.

This caused the morale of Atlético Madrid players to drop when they just got up. After all, if you can't even touch the ball, what's the use of high morale?

If you don't touch the ball for a long time, you will lose all passion.

Conversely, this is where Barcelona is so powerful. When they have the upper hand, they can create a lot of attacking opportunities with the ball and keep putting pressure on your defence. And when they don't have an advantage, they can use their strong ball possession to kill the opponent's momentum and gradually regain the initiative.

In fact, Barcelona in the past also had such control power, but why was Barcelona at that time not as strong as Barcelona in the 21st century?

Before Cruyff coached Barcelona, ​​​​Barcelona could only compete with Real Madrid at home, and most of the time they could not win, and they were far behind in terms of the number of league titles. You can only dominate the King's Cup. Knowing Cruyff, he brought the Dutch football concept of total attack and defense, starting from the youth training camp to transform Barcelona, ​​and finally created a dream team.

But even the world-famous Dream Team only won the Champions League once, and lost 0:4 to AC Milan in the Champions League final at the peak of the Dream Team. If Blanco said that Barcelona was a dynasty at that time, he would have been laughed out of his teeth.

But why has Barcelona become invincible all of a sudden after entering the 21st century?

Because they ushered in their golden generation.

First Ronaldinho, Deco, Eto'o, Puyol, then Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Pique.

Especially Messi.

His super personal ability can bring some changes to Barcelona football, which is dominated by pass control, and this change is very sharp. This gives Barcelona the ability to change the tempo and suddenly strike a fatal blow.

Some people say that Messi is a system player. The implication is that without Barcelona's football system, Messi would not have his current status at all.

But I'm afraid the opposite is true. It's not that Messi can't live without Barcelona, ​​but that Barcelona can't live without Messi. Without Messi, Barcelona's performance will definitely not be better than it is now. It is very likely that after Ronaldinho and Deco's dream team, they will return to the level of the 1990s. A very strong team, but it is absolutely impossible to win six championships.

Take this season as an example,

Messi has played 54 times this season, has scored 53 goals, and has 27 assists. If these goals and assists are reduced, we can see what Barcelona's results will be...

Now the most terrifying thing about this team is Messi, because this is a person who alone can change and break the deadlock, change the direction of the game, and decide the final outcome of the game.

In today's football, there are many people who can do this, but those who can do it stably are rare.

Barcelona has Messi, Real Madrid has Cristiano Ronaldo.

That's why these two people can be called "peerless double pride", although many Messi fans think that Ronaldo is purely "forced double pride".

Because of the existence of Messi, when Atletico Madrid found that they could not grab the ball from Barcelona for a long time, they gave up their plan to continue to press, so as to avoid being caught by Barcelona in the back line, and then handed over the football to Messi. Messi alone resolves the fight.

In the last few minutes of the game, the leading Atletico Madrid shrunk their defense instead. It wasn't that they didn't want to strike while the iron was hot and expand their lead before the end of the first half, but that they couldn't do so. Letting Barcelona steal one and level the score before the end of the first half would have collapsed.

And even if Atletico Madrid shrunk their defense, Barcelona did not overwhelm the offense, but continued to boo the football upside down, fully demonstrating their football philosophy, which looked like an internal training for Barcelona.

In the end, amidst the boos, the first half ended.

Although Atletico Madrid has achieved a one-goal lead, neither they nor the commentators will feel that there is anything to be happy about this score.

Because from the reaction of Barcelona after conceding the ball, it can be clearly seen that Barcelona were not messed up by Atletico Madrid's goal.

Even Jose Maria had to sigh with emotion at the end of the first half: "This Barcelona team is terrible. They can calm down quickly after conceding the ball. I think that although Atletico Madrid led by a goal in the first half, but It's best not to be too happy in the second half, or be careful of conceding goals in the second half..."

This made Dong Jin, who was holding the radio, very depressed. Obviously we are leading and our home field, but why does it sound like our prospects are worrying?

Is there any reason in this world!

In the dressing room, Diego Simeone was indeed reminding his players: "... be careful defending, don't think everything is fine just because we are one goal ahead. Did you see Enrique's expression? The end of the first half When he was playing, he looked calm, why? It was because he felt that Barcelona would definitely come back in the second half, so we had to stop them in the second half and tell them it was wishful thinking!"

Every Atletico Madrid player nodded seriously in response to his coach.

They trust Diego Simeone's words very much, and they believe everything Simeone says. Since the head coach said that the second half is dangerous, they will naturally face the second half with 120,000 points.

Meanwhile, in the Barcelona dressing room.

Enrique praised the team's performance after conceding the goal in the first half: "That's it! This is what you have to do if you want to win the championship! What's the booing? The opponent's booing is the best recognition for us! The second half let They booed louder!"

Then he fine-tuned his tactics, mainly to get Messi closer to Atletico Madrid's goal. Obviously, Atletico Madrid's defense is very tight. Opening the Atletico Madrid defense, so Messi needs to make a more direct breakthrough. Whether it is a breakthrough with the ball or an air cut after cooperating with teammates, it must be closer to Atletico Madrid's goal.

This will greatly increase Messi's threat, put pressure on Atletico Madrid's defense and make them more chaotic.

And once there is chaos, Barcelona can take advantage of the chaos to win.

Messi didn't express his confidence very loudly, he just nodded with a sharp light in his eyes.