Chapter 403 Not quite right
Camp Nou Stadium.[
The audience was surrounded by 100,000 Barcelona fans staring at the scoreboard of the stadium, staring at the football rolling in the Barcelona goal, staring at the Barcelona players standing on the field, all of whom were looking back at the goal from Liverpool just now.
"Come on Barcelona!"
"We will win! Let those Englishmen know that this is Camp Nou!"
"They will know it's amazing!"
Fans wearing Barcelona home jerseys rushed to express their longing for the game to the camera. Teams of fans holding various supporting team slogans were watching the field in the stands, looking forward to the upcoming game.
The competition officially began under such an atmosphere.
The two teams fought once, but there was no long test at the beginning, so they started fighting each other. Barcelona was the first to attack.
Barcelona's offense has not changed much, and they are still constantly controlling the ball. They use this method to find offensive opportunities. Continuously controlling the ball can make it easier for players to find the feeling of the game and allow the whole team to quickly enter the game. If the opponent cannot find the feeling quickly, it is normal for Barcelona to score first quickly.
However, Liverpool's defense is very tight and Barcelona did not find any chance for a long time.
Constant transmission and continuous running, this is the opening of the two teams. Football has been under Barcelona's feet. The first attack ended with being intercepted, but Liverpool did not make a decent attack. Football was snatched back by Barcelona just after halftime. Such a game made Barcelona fans confident to look forward to a one-sided game.
"Barcelona has controlled the situation on the court. Liverpool is still a little uncomfortable now. They must adapt as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no suspense in this game." The Spanish commentator said.
The English commentator held objections.
They think Liverpool's passiveness is just a temporary moment. After all, the game has just begun, and Barcelona is good at controlling the ball. What's more, they don't get any good opportunities. Although the ball has been under Barcelona's feet, they are just in the backcourt and the midfield keeps passing each other. If someone doesn't know, they think they are delaying the game at the beginning.
This is how the two teams started.
Barcelona made one attack, two attacks. They passed the ball to Liverpool's penalty area until the third attack, but Ronaldinho failed to grab the better point and failed to pass the ball again, so the football came to Liverpool's feet again.
Liverpool's attack was very steady.
They did not rush to attack, but kept the football firmly under their feet. Of course, this also made them lose the opportunity to counterattack. Barcelona retreated calmly and set up a defensive formation to prepare for Liverpool's attack. However, their formation was still ahead overall. Their defensive formation was different from Liverpool's pure defense. More players were concentrated near the midfield. In the midfield, they lined up a dense formation so that they could quickly launch an attack when they got the ball, and it was not easy for Liverpool to hit the ball across the midfield.
Liverpool made three passes to the left side of the midfield.
Barcelona players stepped forward to grab the ball, but Liverpool's passes were on the wing. Flanker Luis Garcia and Alonso completed three passes with each other. After getting rid of Barcelona striker Etoo, Alonso suddenly transferred the ball to Gerald's feet on the other side.
This is a cross-transfer.
Barcelona didn't care much. But when they saw Gerald, who was facing the ball, they did not stop the ball, but instead passed the ball directly to the front of the penalty area with one kick.
A red figure followed and shot straight!
Camp Nou suddenly exclaimed!
Amid the exclamation, the football flew up on the grass and rushed directly towards the Barcelona goal. The goalkeeper Valdes rushed to the side, but the football flew into the goal from the near corner.
The referee pointed his single hand at the middle circle!
The scoreboard score of the court has become 0:1!
The whole audience was stunned.
Neither the media nor the fans expected that the progress would be so fast or so easy, especially this was just the first effective attack launched by Liverpool. The first time the football was actually uploaded across the center line, and then passed through the three or two feet. The football flew directly into the goal, which was really incredible.
Even the English commentator only realized after a few seconds, "The ball... the ball has entered!!!"
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!”
"Zhang helped Liverpool score a goal first. In the fifth minute of the game, the goal was too fast. From Garcia to Alonso on the wing, Alonso to Gerrard to Zhang, almost all the shots were passed by one. It is hard to imagine that Liverpool could score such a smooth attack. Zhang's last shot was of good quality, and a low shot from the outside directly broke through the goal guarded by Valdes!"
"0:1! Liverpool was leading the way away, and they had two goals in two rounds, so Barcelona might be under greater pressure. They had to score at least two goals before they could eliminate Liverpool."
The advantage of a few balls may not be needed for the commentator to say more.
When more people saw the goal, they found it incredible. They didn't expect that Liverpool would score first, and they didn't expect that the goal would come so quickly and so easily.
Yes, easy!
The speed of the ball was too fast, and there was no sign before the shot, just a few passes. Gerald suddenly pushed the ball into front of the penalty area, and then Zhang Tiehan completed the shot, which was quite fast and could not react at all.
When Alonso transferred to Gerald, Zhang Tiehan had just run across the center line.
He seemed to run directly at the shooting point. The Barcelona defensive player was about to go over to defend, and then the football rolled over, and Zhang Tiehan directly shot. Judging from the slow motion analysis, this attack must have been practiced for a long time, otherwise it would be impossible to score so smoothly.
"Liverpool scored a goal, which made Barcelona's next game much more difficult." The Spanish commentator said, "That goal just now shows that Liverpool has also done a very good job in offensive coordination. Barcelona may be more cautious. Although Liverpool is playing a defensive counterattack, their push and offense are also very threatening..."
While the commentator kept talking, the Liverpool players began to celebrate the goal.
Zhang Tiehan and his teammates hugged each other and happily said the goal just now. As the media speculated, this goal was indeed practiced for a long time before the game. Benitez has always wanted to maximize Zhang Tiehan's personal ability, that is, to make Zhang Tiehan's outstanding personal ability more fully demonstrate, which will allow Zhang Tiehan to perform his abilities more smoothly, which will be very helpful to the team's game.
Benitez has always started from a tactical perspective before.
Zhang Tiehan played center, second forward, front midfielder, midfielder, and even back midfielder, etc. Zhang Tiehan played one by one, but only the position change, actually did not have a big impact on Zhang Tiehan's personal performance. More importantly, no matter where he played, the opponent would defend against him.
This is simply inevitable.
Because of this, Zhang Tiehan is very capable, but often he cannot play it out at all. For example, his long shot is very powerful, but for a long time, he does not even have a chance to shoot long shots, especially when playing against opponents like Chelsea and Barcelona, who are of the same level as Chelsea and Barcelona, and even stronger than the team, Zhang Tiehan will be guarded tightly. The opponent will use all means to prevent Zhang Tiehan from getting a shot opportunity. Although his performance is still very good and he still scores a lot of goals, but Zhang Tiehan is now carrying the heavy responsibility of the entire team's offensive, so naturally the better he performs, the greater the help to the team.
So Benitez asked the players to cooperate in a small range of tactical areas.
This offensive cooperation was specially formulated by Benitez to address the characteristics of Zhang Tiehan and Barcelona. In order to pass on these cooperations, several people practiced for more than two hours to kick out smoothly. It was almost difficult to kick out the specific position and specific running. Not everyone can play this cooperation, especially Zhang Tiehan's last kick. If others come to play, this cooperation will have no effect. It is difficult for them to directly score the ball in that position.
Zhang Tiehan is different.
Under normal circumstances, when Zhang Tiehan is in that position, it is almost impossible for the opponent to let him take the ball and shoot, so the football passes first. Zhang Tiehan then inserts the shot. He doesn't need to practice anything except shooting. The important thing is how to pass the ball to the point.
In short, the pre-match drills are still useful.
This extremely smooth offense allowed Liverpool to score a goal. This goal is really important. Although it was a goal at the beginning, the two teams were in the Champions League knockout match, especially in this game, which was the first to break the deadlock, which had a huge impact on the morale of Liverpool.
On the contrary, Barcelona was a little depressed.
Barcelona never expected this to be the case at the beginning. They played very smoothly, but if they continued like this, the rhythm of the game would be controlled by them. The next question was when to score. This was not a difficult problem for them.
But they are still preparing for the goal, but the opponent has already scored?
What rhythm is this? Not right...
On the Barcelona coach's seat, Rijcard also smiled bitterly and shook his head. As one of the former "Three Dutch Musketeers", the current Barcelona head coach, Rijcard can see at a glance that Liverpool's offensive cooperation has been practiced many times just now.
Rijkaard also felt very depressed by such offensive cooperation, and at the same time he was helpless. He knew that such offensive cooperation was definitely unpredictable because the shooting position was too far away, and most of the cooperation was near the midfield and could not perform too effective defense.
Chapter completed!