Passing and controlling this should be the hottest topic in world football in the past few years, almost everywhere.

In fact, it is not a novel noun.

As we all know, the basis of football is passing and running.

Although Barcelona was known for passing and controlling football during Guardiola's coaching period, what is really scary is their midfield and frontcourt pressing. Strictly speaking, their football philosophy is not passing and controlling, but reducing the opponent's time to hold the ball as much as possible.

Therefore, many people think that Barcelona regards possession rate as life, but if we say in depth, what Barcelona regards as life is not its own possession rate, but its opponent's possession rate.

An opponent who can't hold the ball will naturally not be able to threaten Barcelona's goal.

In the past decade, European football has two teams that are unique in passing and ball control, namely Arsenal under Wenger, and Barcelona under Guardio.

When Yang Yang was still playing football at Liverpool, he talked to Benitez about Arsenal.

Espanyol believes that Wenger's Arsenal is closer to the Netherlands' full attack and defense in terms of pass-and-control style. It emphasizes that on the basis of stable defense, it intercepts the ball and quickly counterattacks and advances, especially good at creating opportunities with the two wings. Once the counterattack is not completed and the positional battle is transferred, Arsenal will rely on its own pass-and-control advantages to compress the opponent's space, and then pull the defense line through long pass transfers.

In contrast, Guardiola's team attaches more importance to control.

Their philosophy is to first ensure that the ball is in hand, so after intercepting the ball, seek stability, rather than quickly and vertically attacking. After stabilizing the ball, they can tear the opponent's defense through their meticulous passes and receiving cooperation.

The scenes look similar, but the concepts are very different, which leads to the two teams' skills and tactics being completely different, but some of the most essential things are similar, such as running.

Arsenal has always been the team with the most running movements in the Premier League, so many people think that the reason why Arsenal collapsed in the second half of the year was because the bench was insufficient thickness and the players were running too much. They could barely support the first half, but collapsed immediately in the second half.

During the years that Barcelona was at its peak, it was also the best team in European football. However, as the players got older, their running ability declined, and the lack of bench thickness, a drowsy scene gradually appeared, that is, they had a ball-control rate but could not create a threat.

Because, with the development of the overall trend of European football, it is difficult to create opportunities without controlling the ball and not running.

Real Madrid's overall tactical thinking is actually more inclined to Arsenal. It is mainly based on stable defense. After intercepting the ball, it quickly launches counterattacks from both wings, and transfers long passes in positions during wartime to pull the defense line. However, with the players' overall technical and tactical strength, Real Madrid's pass and ball control ability is better than Arsenal.

This makes Real Madrid a bit like they have taken advantage of the strengths of the two companies, but they are still slightly worse than Barcelona's pass and control.

The result of this is not as good as a trade-off. It is not that Real Madrid cannot do it, but that they are unwilling to do it.

Like Arsenal and Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid has very strong running ability, but the difference is that Real Madrid's bench lineup is very strong.

Especially after Zidane took over the team, Pintus's arrival further enhanced the team's strength.

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Naples in Sarri is a unique landscape in the Serie A.

Many people think that he plays gorgeous passes and ball control.

But in front of Real Madrid, Naples easily exposed its flaws.

Naples has a very similar concept to Barcelona. They pursue ball control, that is, they want to reduce the opponent's ball control and try their best to control the ball at their own feet. So like Barcelona, ​​they rarely pass from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and more often push from the backcourt.

In order to ensure the success rate of passing and controlling the ball, Napoli players always maintain a close distance and the overall formation is compact.

Any professional player who can gain a foothold in the five major European leagues has the technical ability to accurately pass the ball to his teammates within ten meters under pressing. Without this ability, he is not qualified to gain a foothold in the European League.

But if the distance is expanded, such as fifteen meters, twenty meters, or even longer, the success rate will gradually decline, which requires examining the player's technical skills.

Napoli's players' technical abilities are not as good as Real Madrid. In order to ensure the success rate of passing, their players' distance must remain tight. In addition, they never play big in the backcourt, so they are more slow to advance, which leaves enough preparation time for Real Madrid's defense and quickly organize effective defense after conceding the ball.

When Napoli slowly dribbled the ball to Real Madrid's halftime, Real Madrid had already organized the defense. At this time, Napoli players didn't know how to pass, and their players did not have the ability to move and flash in a small range and create murderous intent, and the offense immediately fell into a dilemma.

Therefore, in the whole game, except for the wonderful passages that Hamsik gave in the first half, Napoli seemed to control the ball, but in fact it failed to create many threats. More like Barcelona's later-stage passes and downs, controlling the ball for the sake of controlling the ball.

How familiar are Yang Yang and Zidane with Barcelona's pass-through control?

When they realized this, they immediately grabbed Naples's fatal point, decisively changed their tactical style, began to strengthen the pressing and oppression in the midfield, and used Barcelona's tactical style to restrain Naples' [pseudo-pass control].

Real Madrid's high-level pressing, especially the small-scale overall pressing, has continued since the Benitez era to the present. It is very familiar with the players, and the players are very tacit understanding, which immediately caused great difficulties for Naples.

Whenever Napoli wants to throw the ball from the backcourt, under the pressure of Real Madrid, they make mistakes in panic.

After intercepting the ball, Real Madrid always tries to instigate a quick counterattack as soon as possible, but if it fails, they will immediately and patiently control the ball.

It was like this time in the 64th minute, Marcelo stepped forward and intercepted the ball on the left side of the frontcourt with Hazard, but failed to form a quick counterattack, and passed it back to Tony Cross as soon as possible.

Naples counterattacked immediately, but Real Madrid passed the ball continuously and quickly transferred it out.

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"Real Madrid played very patiently and passed continuously outside the 30-meter area of ​​Naples."

“This is dangerous for Naples.”

"Suarez retreated and responded with his back, and Hazard passed the ball."

"Fighting back to the attack direction, Suarez brought back."

"Modric came up and received a cross from Suarez and broke forward."

"He saw Yang Yang's gesture, passed forward, and sent it into the penalty area..."

"Yang Yang stepped forward in the arc top area, stopped the ball with his right foot and shot directly with his left foot!"

"The ball is in!!!"

"goallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!"

"A very clean and neat shot with a left foot!"

"Real Madrid reversed Naples three-to-one!"

"Once, from Yang Yang, I inserted it, and my left foot penetrated Renner's goal."

"This is Yang Yang's strength. At the critical moment, he gave a wonderful assist and two key goals, leading Real Madrid to reverse Naples and scored three away goals."

"Looking at the slow motion replay, Yang Yang's insertion was very smart after this time. He used his body to block the defender on his right side, stopped the ball with his right foot, and hit the ball directly from his left heel without any hesitation. Neither the central defender nor the goalkeeper were able to do anything to him."

"Three to one, Real Madrid really looks like a champion!"

"You know, they have won the Grand Slam for three consecutive seasons, and it seems that this team is not satisfied yet."

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The entire Sao Paulo Stadium was immersed in an incredible atmosphere, and Naples fans were a little confused. Why did the situation in the second half become so fast?

Could it be that Real Madrid players are taking drugs in the midfield?

Otherwise, how do you explain that they suddenly played so well in the second half?

But Real Madrid has obviously caught Naples's fatal point and does not intend to let go easily.

Soon, Real Madrid created another opportunity.

After the midfield intercepted the ball, Tony Cross quickly made a long pass behind him, Yang Yang quickly inserted it, stopped the ball before the defender on the left side of the penalty area, shook the opponent away, and passed the ball across the middle with his left foot.

Suarez followed up, faced goalkeeper Renner with one shot, and made a curved ball.

The ball hit the inside of the post on the left side of the goal and hit the goal of Naples, four to one!

Real Madrid players celebrated unscrupulously on the court, while Naples players and fans in the stands were full of depression. The live TV camera even captured Maradona's helpless expression shaking her head.

Obviously, his arrival did not bring good luck to Naples.

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Soon, Real Madrid intercepted the ball in Naples again at halftime and quickly moved to the right.

After Yang Yang received a pass from his teammate on the right side of the penalty area, he directly faced the defensive player.

After a subtle fake move, he quickly threw away his opponent and walked towards the bottom line. Before approaching the bottom line, another sudden emergency stop was started. He used the speed change to force the ball from the bottom line and broke into the penalty area.

But at this time, Yang Yang was completely limited by his opponent to the bottom line and had no chance to hit the ball. So after breaking into the penalty area, he suddenly gave a kick and knocked back.

Because Yang Yang's dribbling attracted Napoli's defensive attention, the outside of the penalty area was empty. So when Yang Yang's knockback hit the front of the penalty area, Tony Cross directly pushed the ball with almost no defense.

The ball hit Naples goal again, 5-1!

At this moment, the fans of the St. Paul Stadium really couldn't sit still!

It’s OK to lose, but it’s not embarrassing to lose to Real Madrid, but it won’t work if you lose like this!

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Afterwards, Real Madrid continued to attack Naples.

On the right side of the penalty area, Real Madrid planned an attack again.

But this time it was Suarez. He took the initiative to cooperate with Modric and Yang Yang on the right side of the penalty area, trying to dribble the ball into the right side of the penalty area, but was tackled by the opponent's defensive player in time.

The ball went out of the penalty area and landed at the feet of Casemiro who was inserted behind.

Brazil's midfielder didn't wait for the ball to land, and directly shot the ball into the far corner of Naples' goal, five to one!

World Wave!
Chapter completed!