The Godfather of Football

When Pique was cruising behind Mascherano and saw Cavani who was still carrying the ball, but suddenly he kicked his heel and passed it to Messi who came from behind, he was frightened. The first reaction was that Messi could not stop the ball, so he rushed in Messi's direction as fast as he could.

This is a last resort, and there is no room for hesitation, because as long as he is slow, Messi may shoot directly.

Messi was also a little surprised when he received the ball, which caused him to be a little messy when he stopped the ball. The ball was stopped in front of him, but he reacted quickly, especially when he saw Pique rushing up, he immediately Just stretch your right foot forward and buckle the slightly larger ball back to your left side.

This dunk made Pique's foot stretched out to steal the ball go into the air, and it also allowed Messi to win a space, because when he dunked the ball to the left, coupled with his short stature and flexibility, Pique He was tall and turned slowly, so he quickly gained a time difference. Even if the time difference was only a few tenths of a second, it was enough for him to create a slight gap.

He buckled his right foot, stopped his left foot forward, took a step forward, and rolled out a curved ball with the inside of his left foot that hit the goal!

Valdes made a quick save and reacted quickly, but Messi's kick hit the upper left corner of the goal. This was indeed too difficult for him who is only 1.83 meters tall. This is an absolute blind spot!

The moment the ball hit the goal line, Messi rushed out of the stadium excitedly. He clenched his fists with excitement and roared. He rushed to the front of the fans' stands on the sidelines. He still clenched his fists with a ferocious face. This time This look made all the Tottenham Hotspur fans in the stands excited and roared and cheered along with him.

"1:0, less than two minutes into the game, Tottenham Hotspur took the lead in knocking on Barcelona's goal!"

"It's really unexpected. No one would have thought that the start of this game would be like this. Barcelona encountered a strong attack from Tottenham Hotspur at the beginning of the away game and directly caused the goal to be conceded!"

The slow-motion replay repeatedly played the entire process of the goal, from Pirlo's diagonal long pass, to Messi stopping the ball and cutting inside to find Cavani, to Cavani dribbling the ball to attack. But the bottom line suddenly hit back, and Messi stepped in from behind. The whole process seemed to be a one-on-one fight between two players, but in fact it represented Tottenham Hotspur's sophisticated offensive line.

"Diagonal attack, after the introduction of Pirlo, Tottenham Hotspur is very good at playing this kind of attack. Pirlo's diagonal long pass from the backcourt has caused headaches for countless teams. Barcelona's There was obviously no focus on Pirlo in this game.”

"Cavani's dribbling also attracted Mascherano's attention, and then he suddenly passed the ball with his heel, which was indeed beyond everyone's expectations. Obviously Messi was also surprised. The first stoppage failed. Stopped, but he reacted faster than Pique. He passed Pique with one click of his right foot, and then shot with his left foot. The whole process was dizzying, a very brilliant attack! "

Tottenham Hotspur players hugged each other excitedly on the sidelines, and Messi even hugged Cavani at the waist. There is a big height difference between the two. It is indeed a bit strange to stand together, but they The cooperation on the court is quite tacit.

Cavani's technique has always given people a feeling of being very simple and practical, but not delicate enough. But the heel assist just now made people admire him. Of course, such an assist is not difficult, but this A sense of awareness is very rare, especially since he didn't look behind him at all, which shows the tacit understanding between the two.

"The current game is very unfavorable to Barcelona!" The live camera showed Guardiola on the sidelines. Barcelona's head coach was wearing a white shirt and pacing back and forth on the sidelines, looking a little lonely and helpless. "Guardiola should think about it carefully. Thinking about what to do next in this game!”

"Obviously, Ye Qiu is just as everyone guessed. He wants to defeat Barcelona in one breath at his home court, so he will continue to attack. Barcelona's defense is a weak point, especially the high ball defense. How to contain Toto? Tenham Hotspur's attack, that's a problem!"

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Although they were the first to score, Tottenham actually did not give up, but continued to work hard to score. As the game restarted, and as the game situation unfolded, everyone Everyone began to clearly see Tottenham Hotspur's tactics, which was to fight head-on.

Many teams will adopt a conservative attitude when encountering Barcelona's ball possession tactics. For example, Mourinho's Inter Milan will adopt a compact Italian-style defense to contain Barcelona's offense, that is, freezing the three The ten-meter zone is similar to AC Milan's defense against Tottenham Hotspur.

But the disadvantage of this is obvious, that is, you must give up the initiative and control of the game.

This is definitely a fatal injury to a team like Tottenham Hotspur, because Ye Qiu cannot accept that the team loses the initiative and control of the game, and Tottenham Hotspur's offensive philosophy also makes it impossible for Ye Qiu to accept the team losing the initiative and control of the game. It is impossible for him to adopt a style of play similar to Mourinho's Inter Milan.

Therefore, Ye Qiu combined his own characteristics and advantages and made appropriate adjustments to the game, that is, the defense line was not pressed.

You know, it is easy for Barcelona to maintain its possession advantage, but it is not so easy to create threats on the offensive end, because it must maintain its possession at the front of the 30-meter area, that is, the possession area between Xavi and Busquets. If the ball is lost in this area, Barcelona's possession time will be useless.

The reason why the possession in front of the 30-meter area is fatal is that as long as there is a loophole, it can create a threat with a pass.

So Ye Qiu expected Barcelona's mentality of pushing the possession area to the front of the 30-meter area. He appropriately retracted, but blocked Barcelona's possession area in the middle line, trying not to let Barcelona get close to the 30-meter area to control the ball, and arranged the focus of the two sides' competition for the ball on the middle line.

But if you just do this, it is far from enough. The reason is very simple. This can only be defended, but not attacked.

Ye Qiu also arranged a special targeted tactic in this game. That is, before the game, he specifically told the players that the offense and defense transition in this game must be fast, but there are differences.

First of all, defense. When the ball is lost, we must immediately launch a closed-in pressing and oppression. It must be fast, but orderly. In the past week and a half, the team has fully trained this pressing and oppression.

This set of tactics is what Barcelona is best at, but many people don’t know that Barcelona always plays at a fast pace when they don’t have the ball, and they will slow down the pace when they have the ball. The reason is very simple. They use ball control to restore their physical strength, and when they don’t have the ball, they will launch crazy pressing.

So Ye Qiu’s attitude is, I will fight you with real swords and guns. If you can steal my ball, I will immediately engage in counter-grabbing, not letting you slow down the pace, and force you to speed up the pace with me, so as to ensure that Barcelona’s attack is contained to the greatest extent.

On the offensive end, Ye Qiu also has targeted arrangements, that is, flexibility.

What is flexibility? That is, I will shrink back first and then play out!

As we all know, once Barcelona loses possession of the ball, they will immediately counter-attack and press the ball like crazy. At this time, Tottenham Hotspur will pass the ball back, because the key area for grabbing the ball is in the midline, and there is ample tactical depth behind them, so passing the ball back is not dangerous.

When Barcelona wants to fight for the ball and wants to grab the ball again, but finds that you pass the ball back, what will they do? Rush forward at the first time, because they like to press in the opponent's half the most.

That is, during the period when we pass the ball back and the opponent rushes forward, there will be a large gap behind Barcelona!

Tottenham Hotspur has Pirlo, Thiago Silva and Kompany, who are all good at long passes in the backcourt. Especially Pirlo, his long pass attainments are one of the best in the world, so Ye Qiu's approach is that after I steal the ball, I will pull you out first, let you reveal the flaws behind you, and then I will use long passes to hit your flaws.

In this case, the offensive force invested in the front court does not need to be large, just efficiency!

But this tactic has its problems, that is, you need to have a good and stable ball point in the backcourt. At the same time, your players must have enough ball handling ability and good passing skills, and Tottenham Hotspur has all of these.

If we look at the level of players' skills, Tottenham Hotspur is slightly inferior to Barcelona in today's football, but even Real Madrid may not be more delicate than Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu specially arranged such a set of targeted tactics before the game. The goal just after the opening seemed accidental, but in fact it was still such a routine. After the first goal, the players were more determined to implement the tactics.

We saw Messi in the frontcourt of Tottenham Hotspur wanted to break through with the ball, but was double-teamed by Barcelona players. The Argentine passed the ball, but Cavani was successfully intercepted by Mascherano, and Barcelona wanted to counterattack.

Cavani's tactical execution is very high. He went straight to counter-attack after losing the ball. When the ball was passed to Busquets, Ramsey and Vidal quickly formed a siege. With Cavani behind him, Busquets had to pass back. Tottenham Hotspur quickly organized defense in the backcourt.

When Cavani rushed forward, he interfered with Pique, forcing Pique to pass to Puyol, and Ribery also pressed Puyol, who passed the ball back to goalkeeper Valdes. The Barcelona goalkeeper kicked the ball forward with a big foot, but Tottenham Hotspur's central defender Kompany steadily headed the ball back to the midfield. Pirlo had a defensive player behind him, and he knocked the ball back to Thiago Silva without stopping.

The Brazilian center back didn't stick to the ball, but passed it to the right. Alves stood on the right sideline. Iniesta rushed towards him immediately, and Sanchez also wanted to come over to double-team him. Vidal and Messi who retreated in front were obviously disturbed by the defensive players, so Thiago Silva immediately ran to the back near the right sideline to receive the ball after passing it.

Alves knocked the ball back to Thiago Silva who was at least 15 meters away without stopping. After the Brazilian center back got the ball, he saw Sanchez approaching and immediately made an overhead pass. The arc was not large, but the speed was very fast.

The ball was close to the right sideline, and the rebound force was not strong after landing. Messi ran back, and Adriano, the Brazilian left back, followed him, so Messi had no choice but to pass the ball from 25 meters away to Alves who came from behind.

Alves followed Iniesta, and when he ran forward, facing Messi's pass, he also pushed the ball directly to Cavani who was pulled to the right in the front court and blocked Mascherano with his body. After the Uruguayan blocked the defender with his body, he stopped the ball directly to Vidal who followed behind.

"Good ball!!!!" This time the continuous pass was not only fast, but also very accurate.

After Vidal stopped the ball, he made another low and diagonal pass to the right. Messi rushed forward quickly. After receiving Vidal's pass, he used his signature small steps to dribble the ball, and Busquets who was returning to defense was behind him. Adriano was slightly in front of Messi and kept retreating.

At this moment, the rhythm of the game was raised to the fastest.

Messi's ability to adjust with the ball in small steps is very fast. When he entered the right corner of the opponent's penalty area slightly outside, he decisively dribbled the ball diagonally inside. Adriano also adjusted quickly and immediately followed Messi to move horizontally to block Messi's direct shooting angle, while Cavani rushed into the penalty area in the middle and took Pique and Mascherano away, leaving the entire front of the penalty area.

Messi dribbled the ball all the way from the right to the top of the penalty area. Adriano finally couldn't help it and made a shovel move because he saw Tottenham's attack coming out. Ramsey and Alves came up, and Alves on the right had already rushed into the penalty area.

But Messi seemed to have noticed Adriano for a long time. As soon as the Brazilian left-back fell to the ground, he pulled the ball outward and pushed it with his left foot. The ball finally passed into the penalty area. Ribery faced Messi's pass on the left and stopped the ball directly to the bottom line. He also started quickly. The whole stop and start were very well connected, and he passed Puyol directly.

The Spanish defender also started quickly, but Ribery rushed head-on and was faster. He made a low pass with his left foot. Cavani followed in the middle and overpowered Mascherano. With a header, the ball once again passed the Barcelona goal, 2:0!

The entire White Hart Lane Stadium was completely blown up at this moment!

Cavani, with a head full of Argentine-like long hair, rushed out of the Barcelona penalty area frantically, waving his hands along the way, and hugged Ribery and Messi who rushed up excitedly.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"In the 16th minute, in the 16th minute, Tottenham Hotspur once again broke through Barcelona's goal, 2:0!"

"A header from Uruguayan center forward Cavani scored!"

"A very, very exciting attack. We can clearly see that Tottenham Hotspur's players have fully utilized their advantages and characteristics in the entire attack process!"

The live broadcast of the game repeatedly played the entire process of the goal just now, and it did not just start from the few passes before the goal, but directly from Kompany's header back to Pirlo, who then passed it to Thiago Silva, and then several Tottenham Hotspur players passed the ball quickly in a small area on the wing almost close to the right sideline.

"The passing distance is more than 15 meters. In such a narrow range on the wing, the ball can be passed so quickly and smoothly. The passing ability of Tottenham Hotspur players is really amazing. It can be seen that Ye Qiu's training of them is really in place. Even players like Cavani and Vidal can have such passing ability. It is very pleasing to the eye!"

"It can be said that it is this continuous passing in the narrow range of the wing that passes the ball back and forth, stretching Barcelona's defense, and then Messi's He rushed inside with the ball and passed it to Ribery. The Frenchman stopped the ball and dribbled past the defense in one go, showing his strength as a top star. His cross was also very comfortable, and Cavani scored with a header without hesitation! "

Throughout the process, many Tottenham players participated in it and completed multiple passes. The process was very fast, but very targeted, especially the retreat of Messi and Cavani. The two of them maintained a wave-like running position in tacit understanding. When one retreated, the other pressed forward, and when one pressed forward, the other retreated to respond.

"2:0, Barcelona has become very difficult to play against now, especially since they were two goals behind in the 16th minute. This is definitely a painful blow to Barcelona."

After Tottenham scored again, Guardiola looked very depressed, raised his right hand, and looked puzzled and helpless. He obviously had no way to deal with such a goal. The opponent passed the ball directly to the side with this almost juggling pass. How could Barcelona, ​​which is known as the best ball control player in the world, feel?

At this point in the game, Guardiola began to realize the problem of the team, that is, Tottenham deliberately wanted to pull Barcelona into the quagmire of the midfield, and then use their skilled and fast passes to attack the space behind Barcelona, ​​which is really fatal.

In the two goals just now, Cavani played a big role, especially his pivotal role in the game. It is obvious that Ye Qiu is trying to make Cavani a very comprehensive and versatile center forward.

Standing on the sidelines, Guardiola looked at the players on the field. He found that the two-goal deficit made the Barcelona players on the field look very disappointed and helpless, and even looked a little overwhelmed.

Perhaps, it was because the past two years were too smooth, so smooth that they thought they were invincible, and forgot a very important fact, that is, Barcelona, ​​which is called the strongest in Europe by countless people, has not encountered Tottenham Hotspur in the past two seasons.

Although it was only a dozen minutes, Guardiola was very clear that in the past two years, Ye Qiu had left him and his Barcelona behind at least at the strategic level!

"He is right. This Tottenham Hotspur is completely different from the Tottenham Hotspur two years ago and one year ago!"

Guardiola seemed to be talking to his assistant Vilanova, but also seemed to be muttering to himself.