Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid

Header!

Another header!

Or a header!

Barcelona fans can't remember clearly. This is the first time they have been scored by Li's header!

It seems that since Li Ang went to Milan to "study" and returned to Real Madrid, Barcelona's defense will suffer from high-altitude balls every time they encounter him.

It's not that Li Ang's current header ability and his height advantage are no longer something that the Barcelona defense can't handle.

In these two aspects, he is not considered to be at the top level in football.

But he is the second header that has made Barcelona's defense feel palpitated in recent seasons.

The first is of course Ronaldo.

Of course, it is Lao Mu and the coaching team behind him who have increased Li Ang's ability to reach the top to the point where he can now intimidate Barcelona's defense.

When he was still at Real Madrid, Mourinho had already initially created this specific style of play for Li Ang, which included a header and a header.

At the beginning, Lao Mu also learned from Uncle Jon's usage of Li Ang in Serie A.

I want Li Ang to disrupt the opponent's defense when he joins the attack, so as to create more threat opportunities for other offensive players on Real Madrid's front line.

In the end, he didn't expect - until now, he didn't understand - how did Li Ang give Ronaldo and Benzema the ecstasy soup?

He just let the two big players on Real Madrid's front line at the time serve as tactical bait for him many times, and he himself turned into the main attacker from behind!

There is a more threatening forward brother in front to attract more defensive pressure, while Li Ang uses the advantage of rushing to the top to find opportunities to hit the weak points of the opponent's defense.

This tactical design may seem simple and crude, but it is effective!

Until now, Li Ang still likes to use the ability of his forward brother to influence the opponent's defense and then wait for opportunities to move forward to find shooting opportunities.

Ibrahimovic is of course a good target that naturally attracts defensive firepower.

If anyone else wanted to do this, Ibrahimovic would naturally be unwilling to do so. When Arsene Wenger wanted Ibrahimovic to go to Arsenal for a trial training, Ibrahimovic arrogantly refused.

He is old now, and his playing style has changed a lot compared to before, but he is still the arrogant Zlatan. It is not that easy to force him to be a tactical green leaf.

But if the person who needs him to make sacrifices is Li Ang...then Ibrahimovic will be fine!

Zlatan laughed and cursed at most, and then told Li Ang to remember to pass the ball to him more in the future.

For example, at this moment, after the collective celebration of his teammates ended, Ibrahimovic pulled Li Ang into his arms, and then rubbed the "lion's head" angrily.

"Brother, you know me well. I will definitely pass the ball to you more when I have the chance. Are we still talking about this..."

Li Ang patted Ibrahimovic's butt and said quickly with a smile. Ibrahimovic also grinned when he heard this.

The two brothers hugged each other and walked back while chatting. This scene made the commentator of Sky Sports Italy sigh with emotion.

After all, of the two brothers, one was Milan's present and the other was regarded as Milan's future.

Now they are still on their way to the top of football glory, but Milan has inevitably begun to sink.

The double championship in 11 years was regarded by many Milan fans as the beginning of a revival of glory, but unexpectedly it was the last afterglow of the dynasty.

The decline of the giants in the past and the prosperity of the careers of its former players formed such a sharp contrast at this moment.

All I can say is that things in the world are impermanent, and things are impermanent...

Enrique took a deep breath, then pretended to be calm and sat back on the coaching bench.

Subconsciously taking the bottle of water handed over by the assistant, Enrique's mind was thinking rapidly.

The current game situation completely deviated from his pre-match expectations. In the first half, Barcelona squatted and defended in order to avoid a premature asymmetrical decisive battle with Chelsea.

As long as Chelsea cannot score first, Mourinho will always need to find ways to make adjustments on the offensive end.

With the temptation of away goals, he didn't believe that Mourinho would move the decisive battle to the second round.

In this case, Barcelona, ​​which is fighting back, will always have the opportunity to make Chelsea's defense empty.

But now that Chelsea scored the goal, his tactical design was completely in vain.

With an away goal, Chelsea had no reason to risk taking the initiative to attack Barcelona's defense.

Then Barcelona still fights back as far as the air?

Barcelona, ​​which cannot defend against counterattacks, will eventually have to go back to the old way of controlling the ball.

No matter how reluctant Enrique was, no matter how dangerous he felt, he could only take the risk.

After all, his tactical experiments at the beginning of the season had offended many old Barcelona players and the huge Barcelona fan base.

His current coaching position is stable because he has made tactical changes and can lead Barcelona to win and continue to win.

But he is sure that if he is a coward in this game and still defends when he is lagging behind, then he will once again be at a disadvantage in public opinion after the game!

There were too many local Catalan media and local fans who were dissatisfied with him, and those people were waiting to bite him back!

If he fails to pass Chelsea by then, even if he leads Barcelona to win the La Liga championship this season, there is still a high probability that he will be dismissed directly after the season.

So now he must bite the bullet and play the offensive tactics that all Barcelona fans are most proud of.

This is very helpless and very realistic.

When he thought of this, Enrique couldn't help but look at Li Ang who broke the balance of the game.

When Guardiola left Barcelona, ​​many Western media wrote news.

It is said that Guardiola has been at a disadvantage in the subsequent competition with Real Madrid because he was completely unable to deal with Li Ang.

From this point of view, Li Ang's outstanding performance at the time could be regarded as indirectly accelerating Guardiola's dismissal.

Enrique's predecessor, Martino, was basically dismissed as coach by Li Ang's outstanding performance in two rounds of the Champions League quarter-finals.

"Is this kid really born to restrain Barcelona's head coach?"

A bad thought suddenly came to Enrique's mind.

But the game soon restarted, and the tight situation and the passing game time left him no time to think too much.

The Barcelona players who were also nervous did not wait long this time before receiving tactical adjustment instructions from the coaching staff.

At the same time, Harvey also started warming up early on the sidelines.

Neymar was delighted when he saw the tactical gestures Iniesta made for him.

He doesn't like the passive counterattack style. From the beginning of this game to the present, he has had too few chances to get the ball.

Although he can also adapt to playing without the ball, his effectiveness without the ball is far less than that of focusing on the ball.

Barcelona is switching from defense to offense at this moment, and naturally the biggest beneficiaries are him and Messi.

If you don't attack, where will you get more opportunities to hold the ball?

Neymar needs a lot of offensive rounds to trial and error and show his ability.

Compared with other teammates who are slightly worried now, Neymar is still more confident.

Well, after all, he only played against Li Ang's team last season, and he didn't play against Li Ang much at that time.

It is definitely difficult for Li Ang to break through, but against other Chelsea defensive players, Neymar feels that he still has a great chance to be the comeback hero.

Barcelona lost to Chelsea last season and was eliminated from the Champions League, but Neymar had only just adapted to European football at the time.

He is at the age where he is full of energy, and this season has led to a data explosion. Of course it’s normal to have a surge of self-confidence.

After Barcelona adjusted its tactics and began to press forward, Neymar's left wing quickly became the main area where Barcelona's offensive resources are tilted.

Li Ang retreated to the midfielder position shortly after the game restarted.

His field of vision has broadened, and he can better observe the changes in the main ball holder after the Barcelona team changed their playing style.

In previous quick counterattacks, the connection between Barcelona's midfield and frontcourt was basically Iniesta-Messi.

As the main ball carrier on the offensive line, Messi basically chose to attract the firepower of Chelsea's defense before sending threatening passes.

His style of play can help Neymar and Sanchez get threatening forward opportunities more easily.

This counterattack routine is actually a bit deformed.

After all, normally speaking, if you set up a fulcrum ball supporter in the middle to help the wingers on both wings get in, the counterattack will be more efficient.

But Enrique had no choice. His predecessor did not leave him a reliable center. He wanted to sign players last summer, but he looked down on all the candidates provided to him by the transfer department.

Later, he took the initiative to hook up with Lewandowski, but was directly criticized by Bayern.

Bayern's top management made a direct showdown. Lewandowski can either stay in Bayern's first team and play well, or he can stay in the second team until the end of his contract and leave the team for free.

This warning directly caused the distracted Lewandowski to quickly cut off communication with Barcelona.

As a result, Enrique and Barcelona's transfer department's efforts for almost a month went to waste. In the last moment of the transfer, Enrique tried to hook up with Suarez.

As a result, Suarez has been persuaded by Gerrard and agreed to stay at Liverpool for at least one more year.

So after a busy period, Enrique couldn't get the two centers he wanted most.

It's really better to continue to let Sanchez play as a guest center.

Therefore, in the absence of a positive center, Enrique can only devise such a tactic for Messi to counterattack with the ball.

This set of tactics is really stable, but when it ran into Chelsea's iron wall today, it really had no effect.

At least at this moment, after the main ball carrier in the frontcourt becomes Neymar, Barcelona's offensive threat seems to be much greater than before!

Neymar is younger than Messi and has more physical fitness. He has the ability and the courage to make strong breakthroughs.

In order to better "take care" of Messi today, Li Ang and Matic directly changed positions. Li Ang was on the left side of his own half, and Matic was on the right side.

Speaking of blocking, Matic will definitely not give Barcelona offensive players too many opportunities to cut inside.

But Neymar mainly breaks through from the side, and Matic seems to have a hard time facing him.

Given his height and size, no matter how good his positioning sense is, Matic will find it difficult to limit him one-on-one against the agile and fast Neymar.

So Neymar successfully broke through Matic several times. In the eyes of the fans, it was equivalent to Barcelona successfully tearing apart Chelsea's solid defense.

Even if this gap is opened, many Barcelona fans can see hope.

What they are most worried about now is that Liang once again changed positions with Matic and came to defend Neymar alone.

But to their surprise, Li Ang remained unmoved. He still stayed in the left midfielder position, staring at Messi and Iniesta on the defensive end who might make some moves.

After the offensive and defensive changes, Chelsea returned to their defensive tactics, while Barcelona took the initiative to attack. This situation immediately matched the conflict in the minds of the fans.

And Neymar's role on the breakthrough end is indeed very significant. Barcelona is about to enter the rhythm of the game that they are best at.

Messi also successfully retained his physical fitness, leaving Barcelona with a back-up for subsequent attacks.

But just when the Barcelona team felt like they were playing and were completely on the line in the 30th minute of the first half, Chelsea failed to defend!

In other words, Chelsea changed its passive defensive attitude at this point in time.

As if a spring rebounded after being pressed to the extreme, he took the initiative and started a crazy oppression and sweep!

A few individual defensive players pressing forward are likely to cause partial defense line failure, which in turn creates better threatening passing opportunities for the offense.

But Chelsea's entire third line rebounded and pressed forward!

Ibrahimovic, who had previously returned to his own half, did not hesitate to run at this time, cooperating with Hazard and De Bruyne to continuously press the ball holder in Barcelona's midfield.

At the forefront of Chelsea's defensive third zone, it is the main battlefield where the two teams compete at this moment.

Barcelona finally pushed the front line into the hinterland of Chelsea. How could they give up the initiative so easily? !

Even if the pressure is high, Iniesta and Messi with the ball are still looking for opportunities to penetrate Chelsea's defense with direct passes.

But Li Ang dared to tackle boldly at the critical moment!

This time, he made a tackle directly from Iniesta's side and successfully shoveled the football to his left!

Iniesta naturally fell to the ground, and Messi and Sanchez, who were closest to him, raised their hands together to signal the referee Li Ang for a foul.

But the referee was just behind Li Ang, so he saw Li Ang's tackle action very clearly.

Li Ang did bring down Iniesta, but he also tackled the football first!

In this case, Li Ang did not move up after taking the kick, nor did he make any other defensive actions.

Therefore, Li Ang's tackle this time does not constitute a foul. It is an extremely beautiful sideways tackle!

Mourinho was shocked when he saw Li Ang making the tackle.

Because this area will soon be close to Chelsea's penalty area line, it is too dangerous to give Barcelona a free kick in this place.

But when the referee signaled that the game should continue, Mourinho immediately lost the slightest resentment in his heart. Instead, he wished he could rush onto the field to hug Li Ang's head and kiss him hard!

"Fight back!!!"

Holland rushed to the sideline one step ahead of Mu, roaring with all his strength!

And Bertrand, who had already received the ball, subconsciously led the ball and rushed out!

What other tactical tips are needed at this time?

The gene of counterattack has been deeply imprinted on this Chelsea!

Bertrand ran wildly along the sideline with the ball, and in front of him, Ibrahimovic retreated, and Hazard and De Bruyne were already pushing forward in tacit understanding!

Almost instantly, Chelsea's front three formed the best counterattack position.

Before Cross reached the best receiving area, Bertrand had already brought the ball across the center line.

Without giving Raphinha a chance to intercept, Bertrand directly pushed the ball to Ibrahimovic who came back to take over!

And Ibrahimovic once again held Busquets, and before he wanted to make any further fouls, he distributed the football to the right.

At this moment, Li Ang jumped in at full speed and just passed by Ibrahimovic!

And De Bruyne, who successfully caught the ball, also penetrated Barcelona's defensive hinterland like a sharp knife!

In just a few seconds, Chelsea switched from defense to attack, but Barcelona had to switch from a vigorous offensive role to a full-scale retreat!

But Barcelona's offensive and defensive transitions are too slow, their retreat is slow, and their thinking changes even slower!

De Bruyne's advancing speed is not considered the best in football, but he has a threatening passing ability that is unique in football.

If people can't reach the threat area, it's okay. As long as the ball can reach it, that's fine!

After De Bruyne observed for a moment on the right, he drew his bow and arrow, and then directly sent a big arc cross!

The football spun quickly and flew into the sky above Barcelona's penalty area. Pique was fully prepared this time. He rushed to the back point. At this moment, Li Ang also rushed to the same area as him!

However, this time De Bruyne's cross dropped very quickly, making it difficult for Pique to take advantage of his height.

So facing Li Ang's charge, Pique chose to defend first. He may not be able to control the football, but similarly, it is impossible for Li Ang to complete the goal!

The two took off together in the entanglement, and Li Ang took advantage of the summit and slightly knocked away Pique's position.

But that's it, he definitely won't be able to connect the action and complete the shot.

But the football was stopped within the control of his body under Li Ang's intentional protection.

The first time after landing, Li Ang took the ball to the back of Barcelona's penalty area!

Mascherano was double-teaming Li Ang, but as soon as Li Ang passed the ball, his defense missed it!

At this moment, Ibrahimovic, who caught up with the horse, did not stop the ball and directly completed the putt shot from close range!

The football clung to the turf, quickly passed by Ter Stegen's fingertips after he came down to save, and dived into the net in the lower right corner of Barcelona's goal!

At the critical moment when the Barcelona team worked together to counterattack, Chelsea used a classic quick counterattack to severely damage their confidence!

At this moment, Enrique felt dizzy!

Two consecutive offensive and defensive changes, in front of Chelsea who are experienced in offensive and defensive transitions, his Barcelona looked like an ordinary La Liga team, defeated at halftime!

Li Ang jumped on Ibrahimovic's back, and the two of them roared excitedly toward the Barcelona South Stand!

"Don't be stunned, Barcelona, ​​the fun has just begun!"