Chapter 53 Let's Go Home With Three Points

Chapter 53 Let's Go Home With Three Points

The embarrassing situation that Figo encountered in the offense is just a microcosm of Barcelona's offense.

In La Liga, it is rare to encounter such a thorough defense. After all, among the four major European leagues, La Liga is a relatively strong league to watch, but no matter what the league is, there will always be exceptions.

Mallorca is such an exception, so even though they don't play well and they don't get enough support, they are always one of the most difficult bones for the top teams in La Liga.

Facing eight full-time defensive players and two part-time defensive players, as well as guarding the penalty area like an iron barrel, the Barcelona players made a difficult mistake. Although Figo and Rivaldo have excellent breakthrough ability, facing A group of defensive players who hardly steal the ball, just sticking to the defensive players who interfere with your offense, it is also difficult for them to create effective opportunities. The boos in the Nou Camp stadium have not stopped since the beginning of the second half, but they cannot let Marlowe Ka's defense showed the slightest hesitation.

"From the current point of view, the situation is not bad. At least with this kind of defense, even Barcelona, ​​which is trying its best, can hardly create any good opportunities. We can only count on the superstar's flash of inspiration."

Jose sat firmly on the visiting team coach's bench as if sitting on a Diaoyutai, turning a deaf ear to the loud boos and insults from the stands, and just kept observing the situation on the field.

Jose is very satisfied with the current situation on the field.

At least from the situation of these 20 minutes, it seems that Mallorca's offense can basically completely block Barcelona's offense, so that Barcelona cannot create too good opportunities. This proves that Mallorca's defense is indeed trustworthy. Especially in the case of not giving the opponent too much space, the weakness of a group of old guards with poor physical fitness and slow speed will hardly become a flaw, while the advantages of accurate positioning and rich experience have been brought into full play. Barcelona's offense is helpless, and it can also make Arsenal's offense equally helpless.

Turning his head to look at the dissatisfied Barcelona fans on the stage, who thought that Mallorca would not dare to have an upright attack with Barcelona, ​​Jose smiled slightly in his heart.

Why is he unwilling to use beautiful offensive tactics to play a world for Mallorca, but he accepts halfway, and there are no signings, and there is not enough time for him to set up tactics. Why should he attack with a team like Barcelona? ?

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat. Regardless of offense and defense, winning is a good tactic.

Jose has always firmly believed that a head coach who uses his own tactics to form a team and then win the championship is a good head coach. Can test the ability of the head coach.

For the current Jose, the pressure on performance is not particularly high, so this half of the season is also an opportunity for Jose to test his coaching ability, how to integrate the existing resources at hand to achieve better results, or It is a breakthrough in a certain aspect-so far, Jose is quite satisfied with his performance.

Their eyes returned to the court again. Barcelona's onslaught has been approaching 25 minutes. Although their offense is still quite fierce, after such a long period of continuous attack, their offensive momentum has slowly begun to decline.

No team in the world can maintain a fierce attack for a long time to reach the entire half, and Barcelona is impossible. Although Mallorca recovers and defends quite thoroughly and powerfully, it is impossible for Barcelona to complete the shot in a while. Football The game time is said to be 90 minutes, but no matter how beautifully the offense is played, the offensive time to actually complete a threatening shot is no more than ten minutes, and the rest of the time is basically back and forth, probing, dragging... …

When Barcelona's offense was slightly exhausted, Mallorca began to take the opportunity to launch a counterattack!

Maybe it's because Mallorca's attitude that the tiger doesn't come out of the hole made Barcelona think that they have given up their offensive intentions, so that when Mallorca started to attack, the overall reaction of the Barcelona team was a little slower. shoot.

When Stankovic and Ngonga played consecutive two-for-one cooperation and broke through to the center circle, Barcelona's defenders hastily launched their defense. At this time, a huge gap was exposed on their right. , Stankovic immediately lifted his foot and passed the ball long to the right!

Ibagaza cut in from the right at high speed and rushed towards the ball's landing point. In the attack just now, Sergi pressed very forward. At this time, he was running back in a panic, but he couldn't interfere for a while. Go to Ibagaza to get the ball!

Another quick counterattack!

The small-scale cooperation between the few people in the frontcourt that Jose has worked so hard during this period finally played a huge role. When Ibagaza plugged in from the side like an electric motor, several Mallorca offensive players Also started a layered run elsewhere!

Tristan rushed forward in the middle, and Eto'o followed quietly on the left...

Counterattack sometimes does not require too many people to follow up, a few just right moves are enough!

After driving the ball all the way to the place parallel to the penalty area line, Ibagaza immediately raised the ball and passed the ball to Tristan in the middle.

Tristan supported Abelardo and Frank De Boer with his body, then stretched out his foot to stop the ball, then immediately swung his right foot and volleyed directly on the penalty area line!

This shot was very powerful. The ball quickly flew between Abelardo's legs, and then flew to the lower left corner of the goal. Although Hesper reacted a little slower, he still made a save. , after falling to the ground, he stretched his right hand as far as possible, and then blocked the ball with one palm!

Feeling the touch of the ball, Hesper was refreshed, and he immediately wanted to stand up and press the ball that had bounced back into the penalty area under his body. Blocking this shot, getting up now will inevitably be a little slower...

Then he heard the huge exclamation of the Barcelona fans from the stands!

Then when Haisp looked up, he saw a black shadow rushing into the penalty area like lightning, rushing to the front of the ball!

"Ibagaza pass... Tristan, shoot! Oh, Hesper saves the ball, but he misses it... Who is that? Fast! Samuel Eto'o! Welcome The ball is shot! GOAL! The goal is scored! Clever shot in front of the goal, Eto'o scored twice! Eto'o, who came on loan from Real Madrid, scored twice at Camp Nou! This is the last few seasons. Real Madrid What a player can do at Camp Nou! But a young striker who can't be the main player in Real Madrid and is out on loan has done it. This is an irony for both Real Madrid and Barcelona..."

After the supplementary shot, Eto'o's celebration was exactly the same as the first goal, holding his head high, puffing out his chest, swinging his hands exaggeratedly on both sides of his body, and ran to the coach's bench of the visiting team with his head held high Nearby, and then opened his arms, and hugged Jose tightly!

Eto'o expressed respect to Jose in this way, although he also brought many goals to Mallorca, but for him personally, Mallorca gave him a rare opportunity to exercise, from this From a point of view, without him, Mallorca can also use other players, but without Mallorca, Eto'o has no chance to show his style at the Nou Camp!

Then came Tristan, then Ibagaza, Stankovic...

The Mallorca players embraced Jose excitedly. They like to play under this head coach, because under this head coach, they can play quite comfortably, and the veterans don't need to drag their bodies to run up and down. Under this situation, the young people have more room to develop, each takes what they need, and has good grades-how could they not like playing under Jose...

Jose, surrounded by the players, was also in a very good mood.

This counterattack can be regarded as a pleasant surprise. Perhaps the last defeat hit the state of the Barcelona defenders. In this counterattack, they made several unforgivable mistakes-the full-backs were pressed high, and the defense was not timely enough. Ibagaza did not cut off the passing line between him and Tristan when he broke through from the side, allowing Tristan to complete the shot easily, and even when Eto'o made a follow-up shot, Reziger could not return. Defense to the restricted area...

In this ball, Barcelona's defense collectively made a mistake!

With the advantage of two goals, Mallorca's defense can be more resolute and more handy. With the training of this kind of game, even if this defensive tactic is adopted at the beginning of the UEFA Cup final, it will not be too much. Many questions!

"Keep defending and let's go home with the three!"

When the players returned to the court, Jose raised the three fingers of his right hand high and shouted vigorously.

Van Gaal sat on the coach's bench without any movement. It was the 72nd minute of the game. He knew that Barcelona basically had no chances in this game.

Against Mallorca's intensive defense, Barcelona has no chance to break through the opponent's defense line. They can still attack patiently when they are one goal behind. Seizing a chance is a victory. However, now, they are two goals behind...

Even if Jose held up three fingers extremely arrogantly, Van Gaal did not respond at all.

He knew that he had lost the game, and he lost without temper, even though there were countless reasons to find - he didn't care about Mallorca at the beginning, he put Figo on the bench in the first half, and the opponent almost Rogue defensive tactics... But for Van Gaal, a loss is a loss, and it is useless to say anything else.

Mourinho was lost in thought—whether it was in Porto or Barcelona, ​​whether it was with Robson or Van Gaal, or when discussing tactics with Cruyff, he studied the most. , It's offense, because the team he stays for and the head coach he learns from all advocates offense.

However, this defeat made him see the importance of defense.

Don't control the ball, don't look good, tightly block your offensive line, and then seize the opportunity, quickly and sharply counterattack, small-scale cooperation between two or three people in the frontcourt, seize the opportunity, it will cost your life !

For Mourinho, a brand new world began to appear in front of him, and a brand new football theory began to have a vague shadow in his heart.

"This Jose is really outstanding." Mourinho couldn't help thinking in his heart.