After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

Chapter 35 Today's Milan is Different

Barcelona's starting lineup today is similar to what the coaching staff predicted before the game.

Sure enough, they formed a 433 formation:

Forwards: Pedro, Villa, Messi

Midfielders: Iniesta, Xavi, Busquets

Defenders: Adriano, Mascherano, Abidal, Alves
Goalkeeper: Valdes

Xia Chuang's newly transferred forwards Cesc Fabregas and Sanchez did not play, and the newly injured captain Puyol also sat on the bench.

On the Milan side, they are dealing with a 433 mainly young players:

Forwards: Mane, Ibrahimovic, Salah.

Midfielders: Kante, Gattuso, Boateng.

Defenders: De Sciglio, Van Dijk, Thiago Silva, Abate.

Goalkeeper: Abbiati.

In this starting lineup, except for Gattuso and Abbiati, the other players are all under 30 years old, and the average age of the team is even only 24 years old.

In this destined to be difficult defensive battle, Allegri also agreed with Pan Yi's opinion and sent more young players who can run better.

In the midfield position, the three players are all good at defense, and they are full of body and aggression, also in order to better perform defensive tasks.

At this time, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.

In today's away game, the Milan players in white jerseys quickly set up their positions.

Barcelona's players also got the ball naturally.

In midfield, Villa handed the ball to Messi, who kicked it back to Xavi.

At this time, Milan's Gattuso and Boateng approached Harvey immediately, which made him transfer the ball to the left and hand it over to Adriano who came in later.

But Salah had already come up to block his way at the first time, forcing Adriano to pass the ball to Busquets again.

Busquets then passed back, handed over to the central defender Mascherano to deal with.

Mascherano made a few simple passes with another central defender, Abidal, only to find that no Milan player was pressing.

Seeing this, Guardiola on the sidelines frowned.

This seems to be different from the usual tactics he has studied in Milan this season?
What about the agreed frontcourt press and full-court press?

But now most of the Milan players seem to be just standing in their own half, and did not take the initiative to press the Barcelona defender.

This kind of scene is actually not what Gua Shuai wants to see.

His instructions to the players are to first turn their feet in the backcourt, wait for the opponent to grab the defense and then give the ball to Harvey or Iniesta, and then quickly start the attack.

But now, this style of play feels a bit useless.

Back on the field.

At this time, the ball has been passed to the middle, and Barcelona's overall formation has begun to press forward.

The position where Mascherano holds the ball is already close to the middle circle.

He glanced ahead and found that no matter who it was in Habaibu, there were Milan players staring at him, and it was difficult to catch the ball.

In desperation, he had to split the side and handed it over to Alves who inserted on the right.

Alves tried to get in touch with Messi, but his forward ball was tackled by Kante and rolled out of bounds.

After Barcelona issued a throw-in, Alves chose to pass directly into the penalty area this time.

Villa is already there.

But Van Dijk, who was on the side of Villa, had already suppressed him with his body, making it difficult for Villa to hit the ball comfortably.

It's just that this main striker of Spain is not an idler. Under such a difficult situation, he still looked back at the moon. Before Van Dijk, he headed the ball towards Milan's goal and completed Barcelona's first goal of the game. .

It's just that the ball was light and didn't have too much power, and the angle was not tricky. Milan goalkeeper Abbiati lightly stretched his arms and held the ball firmly in his hands.

There was sparse applause in the Nou Camp.

Some were given to Villa by Barcelona fans, and some were dedicated to Abbiati by fans of the visiting team Milan.

……

The first attack failed, and Barcelona quickly launched a second.

After Busquets took the ball, he passed it to Harvey who came to meet him.

But just when Harvey was about to start dribbling the ball, Gattuso, who followed closely, suddenly fell to the ground and shoveled the ball out of Harvey's control.

Milan's iron-blooded midfielder did not return to the defense immediately, but followed Harvey closely, and returned to his position after seeing that he had no intention of turning back to ask for the ball.

Kante, Gattuso, Boateng, Salah, Mane, now these five Milan players are all pressed in the midfield area, and the distance between them and the four defenders behind is also very short.

This caused the Barcelona players to encounter a lot of trouble in passing and cutting in the frontcourt, and it was difficult to smoothly deliver the ball to the attacker's feet.

After several crosses from the middle circle to the top of the restricted area, Iniesta chose a low-threatening long-range shot to complete the attack hastily.

……

Milan's bench here.

Allegri couldn't help looking at Pan Yi, showing a satisfied smile.

The current situation on the court is developing as they expected.

He remembered what Pan Yi said at the coaching staff tactical meeting:

"Barcelona have a very strong midfield three and we have to limit what they can do."

"Busquets, he's good at receiving the ball from the goalkeeper, channeling from the back, playing the ball under pressure, he's the best midfielder I've ever seen. He's very clear on the ball, and Will do some feints to turn around and then go forward and finish the wash."

"On either side of him is Habai, and even if you put pressure on them, they can get the ball comfortably. Because they have good individual skills and are good at handling the ball in small spaces. Even if we send five people to Strangling them, they can also play through midfield with quick passes."

"So, these top midfielders of them can cooperate under pressure, and they are very smooth, and they also exert a numerical advantage locally, so high-position pressing is not easy to use. The only solution is... to block the space!"

"The most critical point is to make our two frontcourt and wide players narrower, keep the five midfielders in a close position, and then pay attention to the distance between the midfield and the backcourt."

"Once there is too much space, Barcelona can make a fuss between the two lines, and can find Messi between the two lines, which will cause big trouble. Therefore, the distance between the midfield and the backcourt must be tight and tight. .”

"They can get the ball before the midfield line, it doesn't matter. As long as we keep the distance between the back four and the five midfielders, even if Barcelona has a bunch of talented players, they can only stay away from the goal!..."

Pan Yi's thinking is very clear, and his analysis of Barcelona's midfield style of play and player characteristics is also extremely thorough. This is why Allegri has to admit the brilliance of this tactic and adopt it.

For Pan Yi, this is his variant tactic against Barcelona based on Klopp's tactics.

Now the personal ability of Milan players is not as good as that of Barcelona. If they play against them, the chances of losing are too great.

Therefore, after a long period of analysis and research on Barcelona's tactics and player characteristics, Pan Yi proposed this combat plan-turning high positions into low positions, compressing Barcelona's space, and waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.

Now, the Milan players on the field are strictly implementing this set of tactics and consuming the patience of the Barcelona players.

As long as the time is right, Milan will show his fangs and deal a fatal blow to his opponent...

(End of this chapter)