Seven Crowns

Chapter 462: On the edge of the cliff

Other teams are waiting for Inter Milan to attack and defend passively, but Barcelona actively defends with the ball.

Without the ball at Lu Wenbin's feet, Lu Wenbin will naturally not be able to break through and create free kick opportunities.

Even if the ball is occasionally intercepted by Inter Milan, Barcelona will actively counter-rob the whole team, often before the ball is passed to Lu Wenbin's feet before being intercepted by Barcelona.

Barcelona's Tiki-Taka not only has high requirements for possession, but also has high requirements for full court press.

Obviously, Barcelona's idea is to use the ball defense to drag a 0-0 draw home in the away game, and return to the Nou Camp in the second round to make a final decision.

Mourinho has already seen this point.

After returning to the Nou Camp, Barcelona has always been more popular with UEFA. The referees are more biased towards Barcelona. With the superb acting skills of La Masia Film and Television Academy, Mourinho really has not been able to play in the Nou Camp. Win the confidence of Barcelona.

Half an hour later, Barcelona's ball possession rate is still as high as 75%, but they are basically passes in the backcourt and rarely go to the frontcourt.

Sometimes the passing of the two defenders back and forth not only caused the fans to boo around, but even many commentators who used to think that Barcelona was playing technical football could not stand it, and the criticism continued.

However, the Barcelona players on the field will not be affected by the boo. As for the commentator's criticism, they couldn't even hear it, so they didn't even care about it.

Barcelona has a high ball possession rate, but does not move forward easily.

Inter Milan is playing a defensive counterattack, with a low ball possession rate and can't get the ball. Naturally, there are very few offensive opportunities.

Half an hour passed in the first half, and the combined shots of the two teams were only a pitiful 3 times.

Barcelona had two shots, of which Messi's shot was within the range of the goal frame, but did not score and was thrown out by Cesar.

Inter Milan had only one shot in 30 minutes. It was Eto'o's long shot from outside the penalty area and hit the plane.

When football is controlled by Barcelona most of the time, Lu Wenbin's few touches within half an hour are just ordinary passes and not even a single shot.

The situation is more severe for Inter Milan.

Inter Milan played a defensive counterattack, and the two strikers Lu Wenbin and Eto'o generally used the frontcourt to counterattack.

But in the face of Barcelona, ​​where ball-handling skills have reached the pinnacle, Lu Wenbin and Eto'o's counter-grab can only become a harassment. When they were almost unsuccessful, they became the monkeys of Barcelona's backcourt players in the monkey game.

And the teammates in the backcourt did not dare to easily help Lu Wenbin and Eto'o.

Because Barcelona midfielder Xavi, Iniesta and breakthrough king Messi are waiting for Inter Milan's defense to reveal its flaws!

Once the defensive line is pressed forward and there is a flaw in the backcourt, Barcelona will speed up the passing rhythm and suddenly hit the frontcourt.

With the passing skills of Xavi and Iniesta, and Messi's breakthrough ability, any team exposed to Barcelona is fatal.

This has led Mourinho to see Guardiola's plan, but he has not dared to let the team's defense act rashly.

The draw is still an acceptable result, but if the defense line is rushed to help steals in advance, revealing the flaws, it may create an offensive opportunity for Barcelona.

Amid the boos of Inter fans, Barcelona firmly insisted on holding the ball and defending until the end of the first half.

Lu Wenbin only ushered in the first shot from outside the penalty area in the 39th minute, but was blocked by Pique Fei, who rushed over, and the ball was blocked from the baseline.

This is still the situation where Lu Wenbin played only one shot within 45 minutes of the first half since he participated in the professional game.

During the intermission, the commentators who supported Barcelona regarded this as a great success of Guardiola and Barcelona's tactics.

Inter Milan and the neutral commentators referred to Barcelona's backcourt as ugly football, contrary to Barcelona's technical football label.

In the locker room, after Mourinho considered it for a long time, his inner gambling factor prevailed.

As a result, Mourinho asked the team to press forward in the second half, strengthen the press, and strive to steal the ball in the frontcourt and fight back on the spot.

Including Lu Wenbin, all the players were jubilant.

In fact, everyone played very frustrated in the first half.

Barcelona's ball defense, or the defensive backcourt, makes everyone feel aggrieved.

Now the head coach finally lets everyone press forward and grab the ball as a whole, not watching the opponent fall from the backcourt, which is quite exciting.

Lu Wenbin and Eto'o naturally raised their hands to support them.

They didn't understand the tactics, but they were amused by the Barcelona backcourt players in the first half.

The laughter of Barcelona fans in the stands also annoyed the two.

Now, the head coach finally let the whole team press forward to support them, Inter Milan will certainly have more opportunities to counterattack the ball in the second half, which is beneficial to both Lu Wenbin and Eto'o.

After a 15-minute break, the two sides changed sides to fight again, and Inter Milan followed Mourinho's tactical arrangement to advance the overall formation and also began to press for the audience.

The game suddenly became fierce, and the neutral commentator and spectators suddenly refreshed: This is how a normal game finally looks like.

Inter Milan fans in the stands were also excited, cheering loudly for Lu Wenbin and others.

Inter Milan's entire team pressed and snatched, and it really made Barcelona suddenly tense, and no longer dared to tease monkeys easily in the backcourt.

Because not only Lu Wenbin and Eto'o, but Sneijder, Stankovic, Biyabiani and others all pressed up to grab the ball, Puyol, Pique and others can no longer easily be in the backcourt. It's upside down.

Of course, Barcelona can develop the pass to the point where it is now, and it is impossible for the opponent's full court to easily crack it.

Inter Milan’s front pressure and full court press, although forcing Barcelona to speed up the passing and receiving speed, it also increased their chances of turnover ~www.ltnovel.com~, but Inter Milan's own defense is bound to show flaws.

Xavi and Iniesta's passing and Messi's breakthroughs and shots are not in vain.

As a result, in the 68th minute, Inter Milan's full counter grab had not yet achieved results. Instead, Barcelona used Inter Milan's formation to beat an efficient counterattack.

Xavi avoided Zanetti's interception with a straight kick, hit behind Lucio and Samuel, and penetrated the entire defense of Inter Milan.

Messi succeeded against offside and received a through ball from Xavi behind Lucio.

Although Lucio pursued with all his strength and even reached out to grab Messi, Messi still finished the shot at the top of the arc in the penalty area before he was pulled down by Lucio.

The ball flew over from the right of Cesar and flew into the goal.

Messi scored before Lu Wenbin, Barcelona not only achieved an away 1-0 lead, but also scored an away goal.

Inter Milan was forced to the edge of the cliff.

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