The cooperation between Braniff and Vardy is so tacit that it is unimaginable. For example, the opportunity just now, as long as the striker with normal thinking, he will definitely shoot directly because he has no time to see the position of his teammates behind him.

But Vardy didn't.

Vardy passed the ball to Braniff. The pass was very clever, using the heels, and the delivery was very accurate, making Barcelona unable to defend at all.

Braniff had an opponent's player around him, and Toure kept following him, and Puyol was also running on the other side, but the two had no time to react. When they noticed that when the football rushed towards Braniff, Braniff had already swung his foot and shot.

The reason why Braniff scored a goal is easy is that Vardy has attracted most of the attention. Even goalkeeper Valdes has already attacked, obviously it is to judge that Vardy will shoot directly.

They were all cheated!

Seeing Braniff easily kick the ball into the goal, the players next to him were shocked. When they recalled the pass just now, they were a little unimaginable.

This is tacit understanding and strength!

Even if Vardy knew that Braniff had followed, it was very difficult to pass the ball to the back. Ordinary players could only turn around and push horizontally, but Vardy used his heels and almost deceived everyone.

In addition, Branif's performance was good enough, Branif dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Valdy.

During this period, Branif showed amazing skills. Puyol and Toure had a deep understanding, and they found that they could not stop Branif.

"How is Braniff like Messi?"

The media paid great attention to this issue before the game, and a large number of reports revolved around Braniff and Messi. The Catalan media supported the media, and the same was true for Barcelona players. They all knew that they were not good at the chance, so naturally they thought Messi was even more powerful.

What about now?

Puyol and Toure both felt that Braniff was even better, even Messi could not bring them any pressure.

Millwall fans in the stands around were cheering for the goal.

They won't go into delving into how difficult it is to pass Vardy. They just need to know that the players played a wonderful offensive, and both Braniff and Vardy performed very well. It would be enough for the two to help the team lead Barcelona together.

Visiting team coach's seat.

Barcelona coach Rijcard, his face was filled with sorrow.

The Catalan media are very confident in the game, or rather, they are very confident in Barcelona, ​​but as Barcelona's head coach, Rijcard will not blindly think that Barcelona will definitely win.

Barcelona is not optimistic.

There are many things that can be seen in the league results. They are completely behind their arch rival Real Madrid in the league competition. The reason is that there are problems outside the team. For example, Real Madrid does perform well in the league, and problems within the team are the main reasons.

The biggest event in Barcelona this season is that core player Ronaldinho is marginalized.

Ronaldinho was given great hope, but his performance in the first half of the schedule was not satisfactory. Rijcard still believed that Ronaldinho could recover, and he gave Ronaldinho many opportunities, but the Brazilian was injured when his condition just got better. After Christmas, Ronaldinho recovered from injury and his position had been replaced by Messi.

Rijcard doesn't believe in Messi.

Messi must be an excellent genius, but when facing the competition, Ronaldinho is still the one who has experienced veterans is trustworthy.

Messi is still too young now.

Rijcard still hopes to give Ronaldinho more opportunities, so that the Brazilian can regain form, become the core of the team again, and become the leader of the whole team.

This is not an internal problem.

Ronaldinho and Messi have a good personal relationship. Messi's rapid improvement is partly due to Ronaldinho's guidance.

If Ronaldinho is allowed to become the core again, Messi will not have much objection to the position adjustment.

But there was a problem with the senior management.

Club executives believe that the team should consider focusing on cultivating Messi, and maintain the current situation and let Messi become the core of representing Barcelona, ​​and Ronaldoño can give up.

Rijkald argued with the senior management, but in the end there was no result.

He is just the head coach.

The club's senior management also has reason to consider, because Messi is young and is enough to become a leader in the next ten years. In addition, Messi's commercial value is far higher than that of Ronaldinho.

After all...ahem.

Ronaldinho looks so ugly!

For professional players, being ugly is not a sin, but there is no doubt that the commercial value of ugly players is definitely not as good as a handsome young man. Messi cannot be considered a young man, but he is at least much normal and has been created according to the standards of being a star.

The origin of Lamania youth training is more authentic than the "foreign" Ronaldinho and more representative of Barcelona.

Messi is Barcelona's logo!

In addition, there is another important thing. Ronaldinho's contract is about to expire. If Ronaldinho continues to play as a core player, he will definitely use a new contract to retain him. But his salary is too high. It is difficult to guarantee what status he will be in the next few years. The risk of continuing to renew the contract is too high.

The above are all the concerns of Barcelona senior executives.

Messi stood up to lead Barcelona, ​​which became an urgent matter.

Rijcard opposes the Barcelona senior management's approach, but in fact, he has little say. He even cannot guarantee his position as his coach. After Ronaldinho confirmed his departure, his departure became almost inevitable.

unless……

Barcelona can win the Champions League!

Rijcard is not obsessed with Barcelona's coaching position, and he is just reluctant to leave. Meeting new challenges may be a good thing, but for the Champions League semi-final with Mirwall, he also hopes to win and lead the team to the Champions League final for the second time to win the Champions League trophy for Barcelona.

This is Rijkald's wish.

For the game, Rijkald knew how difficult it was to win.

The opponent is Millwall!

The Catalan media is blindly confident, but take a closer look at Mirvoor's results. They won three consecutive league championships and set an unbeaten record in the five major leagues. They were also the Champions League champions last season.

Millwall won all the championships this season.

How could Barcelona easily defeat such a team that swept England and Europe?

Braniff's goal is still surprising to Rijkaard.

The two opponents' players cooperated too well.

Anyone can see this.

Rijkaard also has to admit that the dispute between Messi and Branif may have reached a conclusion. At least so far, Branif is much better than Messi. Messi is restricted very much on the offensive end, and Branif easily became the focus of attention with his extremely excellent performance.

"I hope Messi can perform better!" Rijkaard sighed.

In terms of the current game situation, no one can come up with a way to deal with it. Millwall clearly plays defensive counterattacks. Most of the offense relies on Braniff and Valdy, and all other players stay in the backcourt.

The only thing Barcelona can do is to score with their good playing style.

As long as the players perform well and score a few more goals, they will win the first round and gain an advantage in the two rounds of games, otherwise they will have to go back to the Camp Nou and continue their efforts.

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For Barcelona, ​​conceding a goal is nothing, it has not reached the end of the world.

Just one goal.

Barcelona has strong offensive ability and can easily equalize the score as long as they find an opportunity. The Champions League semi-finals are also a two-round match. The home team scored a goal is nothing. It was Braniff's goal process, which hit Barcelona's morale even more.

The fans couldn't see anything, but Barcelona players knew the difficulty of scoring the goal just now.

Braniff is so great!

Players like Puyol, Toure and others all judged that Braniff was better than Messi. The opponent had such a player, which poses too much a threat to defense. Braniff also cooperated with Valdy in a very tacit way, and they all began to worry about defense.

But Barcelona has never been a team that plays defensive counterattacks, they are a team that plays offensive football.

Therefore, temporary strengthening of defense does not exist.

As long as the head coach does not specifically emphasize, they will continue to fight according to tactics and continue to launch an offensive towards Millwall in the first half. When they do this, the offensive launched is indeed very terrifying.

After the game restarted, Barcelona's two waves of offensives hit the penalty area.

Messi also performed.

In the second offensive, Messi successfully threw away Livermore and hung the ball in front of the goal from the outside of the penalty area. Unfortunately, Etoo could not resist Darren Ward's defense, and the football was still driven out of bounds by Ward.

Barcelona's attack continued next.

Mirwall also slightly contracted the defense line, and even Braniff retreated to the penalty area line, making the game one-sided. The situation seemed to be completely controlled by Barcelona. Barcelona fans of the visiting team also cheered up and kept cheering for the team.

but……

For a long time, Barcelona still had no grains.

Millwall's tactics of dealing with the sea of ​​people is the best defense, and targeted arrangements also play a role, such as Messi who was restricted by Livermore.

Messi is the core of Barcelona.

Messi can be said to be the engine of Barcelona's offensive. When Barcelona players pass the front, they like to find Messi's position. When Messi's performance was discontinued, the entire Barcelona's offensive efficiency was greatly affected.

Barcelona hasn't changed anything.

Perhaps Barcelona is not good at changing, and their attacking abilities are reflected on the right side. One is that Messi is used to playing on the right side, and the other is that there is veteran Xavi on the right side.

Although Barcelona's core has always been Ronaldinho, but now it has become Messi, Xavi is the decisive force in Barcelona's midfielder. He leads this Barcelona midfielder with extremely stable performance and efficiency.

Harvey can play multiple positions.

Before, Xavi played as a midfielder and occasionally played as a guest midfielder. When Ronaldinho and Messi appeared together, he often played as a guest midfielder as the core of the team. Now that Ronaldinho is not here, Xavi goes to the right side to cooperate with Messi's performance.

However, Xavi's position transfer did not play a role, but instead hindered Barcelona's performance.
To be continued...