Chapter 147: Covering in the gutter

Barcelona players were trapped in a vicious cycle. They couldn't control the ball and felt angry about the field, thus creating an anxious mood, and thus could not perform at their best in the game. They were impatient and deformed in their hearts, and they could not control the ball. They blamed the bad venue and continued to be anxious and angry...

This cycle. The offensive players are anxious and the defensive players are nervous. No one has a normal mentality.

Even players like Messi, who seem calm, make two consecutive mistakes in dribbling. If he uses less force, he may not be able to walk away. If he uses more force, he may not know where the football has gone. After making continuous mistakes, Messi stepped on the grass under his feet in anger. He knew that the reason for the mistake was under his feet, but he could not do anything. So far, he has not sprained his ankle while he is constantly sprinting...

Guardiola has not given any instructions on this situation yet, and Barcelona players have begun to make adjustments on their own.

They reduced the idea of ​​dribbling and passing, as well as trying to break into the Forest's penalty area, and changed to how long they shot.

Once the football hits the frontcourt, all Barcelona players will use long shots to create a threat to the goal guarded by Akinfeyev. But such long shots are of no use to Nottingham Forest... just at the end of their strength.

In contrast, Nottingham Forest's attack was very exciting.

The defenders intercepted the ball and passed the ball for a long time, and the midfielders intercepted the ball for a long time... everyone was passing the ball for a long time.

Football always flies around the sky, and Barcelona players look up at the sky for a long time and their necks are sore. Xavi and Iniesta's most skilled midfielder is not able to exert their footwork and consciousness. Don't even send someone to guard them, and they have lost their function.

Yaya Toure is the only player who can compete with the Forest in the midfield, but two fists are hard to beat four hands, and only tigers are hard to beat a pack of wolves. He can't stop Nottingham Forest's multi-point attack at all. George Wood has more energy to invest in the offense. You can imagine what the situation is like in the Barcelona midfield. Guardiola insists on playing 433, and the three midfielders are completely unable to compete with Nottingham Forest's four midfielders.

Nottingham Forest can always easily pass the midfield with a high ball. When Aaron Mitchel retreated and responded, Yaya Toure had no advantage at all... He was not as good as Mitchel in terms of height, heading ability, or bounce. Mitchel, who is two meters and two meters tall, bounced very well. As long as he retreated and responded, Yaya Toure's best way was to wait below to grab the second landing point.

However, when Mitcher retreated, there must be Forest players around him to support him. So he knows where to pass the football. No matter how powerful Yaya Toure is, he is only one person. He can only have a second landing point, and he can't control all the other second landing points. Mitcher will not be stupid enough to push the football to the place where Toure is. When he jumps in the air, there are many options for him. He can pass it to Lennon, Bentley, and his partner Abonrajo. Even to George Wood and Thiago. If he doesn't help, he can stop the football with his chest and control it himself.

So Yaya Toure is actually very difficult to deal with...

He could not resist such an attack from Nottingham Forest. That was not what he was good at.

"Nottingham Forest's offense was unobstructed! There was no obstacle... Yes, because Barcelona did not have the Royal Air Force! Akinfeyev kicked the football to the frontcourt, Mitchel used his head to the top of George Wood. Wood. Wood then divided the football to the side. Bentley made a cross, and Abonrajo jumped up and rushed to the top! It was a little bit worse, the ball was saved by Valdes... The whole process was completed in the air. Pique became the most important person in Barcelona's defense line. Sadly, Barcelona only had one Pique. "

The game was only twenty minutes into the beginning, and Pique was already out of breath. He felt extremely stressed. Nottingham Forest's offense all came from the air. He was the only guarantee of prevention and control on the team's defense line, so he had to go anywhere and had to be everywhere. This was a bit difficult for him. He was not a pervert like George Wood.

Puyol is experienced. But he is not tall, and as he grows older, his physical ability to fight has also decreased. Facing Abanglaho and Mitcher, who rely on excellent physical fitness to make a tough forward, he has no temper.

Alves? He is busy assisting, and his opponent has not used the space behind him to attack Barcelona. Pique is already grateful. As for Ram... he is also a full-back who likes to assist, but he is better than Alves because he is still a "newcomer" who has only joined the team for less than a season, so he is not so unscrupulous in assists. Sometimes he will actively return to defend and help defend.

Behind it is the goalkeeper Valdes who is absolutely unreliable.

Looking around, Pique suddenly felt so lonely. If he had a partner with Pepe, at least he wouldn't have to be so tired in defending high-altitude balls. Although Bale and Rafinia are also assisted full-backs. But a word from the head can make them stay near the penalty area for the whole game. In Barcelona, ​​Guardiola encourages the defenders to assist, and Barcelona's style also makes the defenders use assists as their first task.

He, a central defender, is sometimes very tired to play football in such an environment.

Nottingham Forest soon made a comeback, this time Bentley made a cross from the wing, and Mitcher jumped high in the middle to head the ball. Pique used his energy to barely win Mitcher, pushed the ball out of the baseline, and gave the Forest a corner kick.

"The Forest team's former player Pique was quite active in the game. He stopped Nottingham Forest's attack several times. His performance reassured Guardiola." Even the commentator praised Pique's performance, but this was definitely not what Pique or Guardiola wanted to see. There was no saying "reassurance to Guardiola". If you can choose, Guardiola would rather Pique disappear in this game because it means that Nottingham Forest's attack is not threatening.

On the other hand, Don En shook his head in the stands. If he could choose, he hoped that Pique would be injured and missed before this game. In that case, this game would become the world of Nottingham Forest. There is no one in Barcelona that can stop the Forest from moving forward. Now only Pique is still fighting stubbornly, or to put it nicely... He is still tenacious like a lonely warrior.

The Forest team took a corner kick, and Pique pushed the ball out in front of Mitchel. He was really red in his eyes. After the ball was shot, he roared at his teammates: "Pay attention to defense! Victor, you have to come out, and your control range is larger! They are hitting our heads. If you can't compete for the header, interfere with them below!"

At this moment, he didn't seem to remember that he had played in Nottingham Forest. He was full of his mind to help Barcelona defend the goal.

Tang En scratched his head, as if he had completely stimulated Piku's condition... This was not easy to deal with.

Mitcher is not the kind of defender who is strong. If Pique is asked to target him closely, his performance will definitely be greatly reduced. He hopes Mitcher can get hard, but it is obviously a tough game in this game. He needs to train his muscles, which is also a matter after the game.

If Mitcher is stared at by Pique, it will obviously be unfavorable to Forest, because all the offensive tactics of Forest are tailored with Mitcher as the core.

Maybe some changes need to be made?

The Forest team attacked again. The football was still passed from the air to Mitcher. This time Mitcher landed early. He stuck the position and did not bypass it, but planned to fight Pique head-on.

Because of his tall figure, after Mitcher stuck his position, it would be a little trouble for Pique to fight for the top. So he sprinted and jumped up to fight for the top, but at the same time when the two of them had physical contact, Mitcher screamed and fell to the ground. The referee's whistle sounded, and Pique hit someone and committed a foul!

Pikui was a little unfair. He felt that he was just a normal fight for the top. He held his arm to confirm with the referee. The referee made an arm lift, indicating that he had put his arm around Mitcher's neck while fighting for the top.

Pique knew that this was a place that Mitcher deliberately did, but he had no choice.

Nottingham Forest practiced set pieces for a week and finally looked forward to the first frontcourt free kick in this game.

Guardiola may be glad that Bale was seriously injured long ago because Bale is the team's only free kick expert. But in fact, Donne has been practicing indirect free kicks this week.

There are two types of free kicks, one is a direct free kick, and the other is an indirect free kick. There is no restriction for direct free kicks. For indirect free kicks, it is required that at least two offensive players must touch the ball before the goal is effective. Therefore, a direct free kick can be kicked directly into the goal or tactical cooperation.

Mitcher won a direct free kick for the Forest, but Nottingham Forest wanted to use it as an indirect free kick.

Bentley walked to the ball, and Mitchel was desperately squeezing into the Barcelona land wall, which caused a small friction between the players of both sides, and the referee came forward to maintain order. In the end, Mitchel still squeezed into the penalty area as he wished. His position will be a point used by Nottingham Forest. Football will pass through this place without any suspense - this is the idea of ​​Barcelona players. So behind Mitchel, there was also a Barcelona player standing. It is to prevent the free kicks of the Forest. Mitchel suddenly ran away, and it became a gap here.

But all this is false, Nottingham Forest's tactics like this...

After the referee blew the whistle, Bentley assisted the ball but did not shoot directly, but pushed the football into the middle!

George Wood, who had been ambushing behind, followed up with the run and shot as soon as he caught the ball!

He did not kick the half-high ball that he was best at, and the football flew towards Barcelona's goal against the turf. Because the friction speed was not too fast, this ball brought great trouble to Valdes...

The football jumped on the uneven dike, with a non-fixed direction. Valdes originally judged that the football would fly directly into his arms along the track, but he did not expect that at the last moment, the football hit a bump on the field and suddenly flew towards the goal post!

Valdes jumped and rubbed the football out in a mess!

All Barcelona fans were shocked and sweated.

"George Wood's long shot! Almost entered the door! The bad field helped them a favor. Fortunately, Valdes's concentration was full of attention and he did not make any low-level mistakes..."

Wood also felt a little regretful that he didn't score this goal - he didn't always shoot such high-quality long shots.

Valdes' heart beat wildly, to be honest, he was a little scared. The change of direction at the last moment of football was so...thrilling, and his heart was cold at that moment. Fortunately, the change of direction was not too large and was still within a controllable range. But in this field... who knows if he will be so lucky when he kicks another shot in Nottingham Forest next time?

The corner kick was taken, and Mitcher raised the football with Pique's close interference.

Guardiola, off the court, looked at his watch and it had been twenty-seven minutes in the first half.                                                                                                                  

After 20 minutes of fierce attack, Nottingham Forest also decided to slow down the pace a little, so that the players' physical fitness can be allocated reasonably to avoid premature exhaustion.

Barcelona decided to regain control of the situation on the court, control the football at their feet, and look for the forest's defensive loopholes. They did not believe that Nottingham Forest had no weaknesses. They were just beaten by the Forest just now, and they didn't have time to find it...

When they were about to revive the offensive, they found that the defense of Nottingham Forest was impeccable and did not leave them any good opportunities.

What should I do when facing a team that is defending? Barcelona decided to fall in the backcourt and attract the Forest team. Nottingham Forest needs a goal. They should be anxious, not Barcelona.

After figuring this out, Barcelona was not in a hurry, they fell down in the backcourt. If Nottingham Forest did not come up, they would fall backwards and eventually pass the goalkeeper back, Valdes launched another attack.

At the 30th minute of the game, when Barcelona fell to the ground in the backcourt again, Abanglaho broke out from the middle circle and headed straight for Puyor who was getting the ball. Puyor was not in a hurry to get the ball because he wanted to attract Abanglaho to come up. At the same time, he attracted other players from the Forest team to pounce. He waved to his companions around him and signaled them to retreat to meet him.

Pique turned around and ran back, but Puyol did not pass the football to him, because the landman following Pique was Mitcher. They were like wolves, running behind the prey's butt, waiting for an opportunity to attack.

Puyol turned around and passed the football to Alves, who was retreating from the wing.

When Lennon saw Alves catch the ball, he rushed up immediately.

Alves could have directly passed the football to the frontcourt. But he raised his legs and put them down. He hesitated. So he took advantage of this skill and Lennon forced him up.

Alves turned to protect the football. He found that it was a bit dangerous to pass it to anyone, so he just passed it back directly!

He resisted Lennon, then passed the goalkeeper back, and the football rolled out to Valdes who was responding to the turf.

Seeing Barcelona continue to send back, Abanglaho did not stop, but threw Pjol away and rushed towards Valdes with great momentum.

Valdes originally wanted to stop the ball and pass it to the defender, but he obviously underestimated Abanglaho's speed. In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two people was very close. Stopping the ball at this time was simply asking for death. He temporarily changed his mind and decided to kick the ball directly into the frontcourt with his feet.

Barcelona's main goalkeeper took a big foot pose and waited for the football to hit him...

Abanglaho is less than ten meters away from him, which is a rescue that does not allow any mistakes.

The next second, all Barcelona people couldn't believe their eyes...

The football rolled towards Valdes, and the speed was not fast. It was as easy as breathing for a goalkeeper who had been through many battles. Valdes had already set up his pose and everything was ready...

When there was a slight distance from the touch point, the football that had been rolling against the grass suddenly jumped up!

At the same time, Valdes' right leg also took turns out!

Football and his right leg made a beautiful "passing by"...

Valdes lost his center of gravity and turned around for a while, and then he immediately realized that he had kicked empty! Then he watched Abanglaho pass by him in horror...

"Road! Valdes made a mistake! This is Abonrahodi opportunity, this is Nottingham Forest...shot!! goooooooooooooool-!!"

If he can't get in the empty goal, Abanglaho can hit the wall. When Valdes was empty, there was no defensive player around Abanglaho, and he could even stop the football, adjust and then push and shoot, without any suspense. When Valdes fell to the ground, the cheers of Nottingham Forest fans sounded in the stands.

Donn jumped out of his seat like John and Bill, and stretched out his arms and shouted loudly.

"Forest Forest! Nottingham Forest!!"

The aircraft carrier Barcelona capsized in the gutter...
Chapter completed!