I still remember that when I was coaching Inter in the cold, when I taught many Italian coaches in corvicano, some students asked me if I could face this kind of passing and controlling ball playing method of Inter, but I couldn''t solve it except to guard against sticking.
This is a very popular topic at that time, because there was no Barcelona dream team at that time, Inter''s passing and controlling ball playing method was unique in European football, even Rijkaard''s Barcelona were inferior.
Gao Han clearly remembers that Guardiola was also at the scene.
To this question, Gao Han answered with certainty, No.
He thinks that there are no perfect tactics in the world. The so-called tactics must have some choices. Moreover, no matter how careful the tactics are, there must be problems in the lineup configuration of a team, so there can be no solution.
At best, it can only be said that the threshold of the answer to this puzzle itself will be very high.
At that time, alpine gave three requirements. First of all, the opponent should have a unified tactical thinking and be good at high-level pressure.
If we don''t take high position pressure, we will give the ball control to the opponent. Only 30%, or even less than 30%, is doomed to be defensive and have no other way.
Therefore, if we don''t want to defend ourselves, we can only press and oppress from a high position.
As everyone knows, the development of football tactics to the present, although the high pressure is not new, but the requirements of a team is very high, especially the front court players'' game ideas and tactical execution is a very big test.
If we can''t form a unified tactical thinking and work in one direction at the same time, then high-level pressure is doomed to be a mess, and the final result is often worse.
The second requirement brought by the first point of high pressure is to have excellent physical fitness.
The physical consumption of football players is quite amazing, especially when this team adopts the tactics of high position press, the physical consumption of the whole team is even more amazing.
Looking at the European football world in the past season, how many teams resolutely adopted the tactics of high position pressing and pressing when facing Manchester City and Barcelona, but because of the lack of physical ability, they finally could not stick to it, resulting in problems in the implementation of tactics, and were finally washed by Manchester City and Barcelona?
Therefore, if you want to press out and play against Manchester City, you can''t get to the end of the game without excellent physical strength. However, with the attack power of Manchester City and Barcelona, as long as the opponent''s physical strength has problems, there is no problem in scoring two goals within 10 minutes.
In fact, there are not many teams that can achieve the above two points, but there are not a few, such as Atletico Madrid, Arsenal and Real Madrid.
The Gunners played Barcelona in the first leg of this season''s Champions League. It was obviously this way of playing. As a result, they beat Barcelona 2-1 at home, which was called a miracle by countless people. However, in that game, the Gunners'' possession rate was still very low, and in the second leg, they gave up completely.
Similarly, in the final of the Copa del Rey, mussio played a three back tactics and took the initiative to attack Barcelona, forcing Guardiola''s team to fail to score in 120 minutes. On the contrary, Real Madrid finally got a goal and took away the championship of the Copa del Rey.
This game has been called epic by numerous media.
So, can such a game be replicated?
The answer is impossible!
Arsenal took the initiative to attack in the first leg and immediately contracted their defense in the second. In the final of the Real Madrid King''s cup, they took the initiative to beat Barcelona to win the championship, but they also paid great attention to shrinking their defense when facing Manchester City.
The reason is very simple, they know the weakness of this kind of play, but also know where their problems are.
It''s that they lack the third element, control.
Everyone knows that the back waist who can only grab the ball is not a good back waist. A really good back waist can not only grab the ball, but also protect the ball and pass the ball.
The reason is very simple. After grabbing the ball, we can''t protect it, we can''t pass it, and we lose it. It''s not only a great consumption to the players'' physical fitness, but also a great blow to the team''s morale.
In the same way, it''s true for the back midfield and it''s true for a team.
It''s not sustainable to just rely on pressing and running with physical stamina. If you can get it down, you have to be able to control it.
In fact, many fans have overlooked one point, whether it is Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich or Manchester City, in addition to the characteristics of passing and controlling the ball, high pressure and excellent physical fitness are also obvious labels of these teams, but passing and controlling the ball is more known.
So is Barcelona in Guardiola.
As everyone knows, the biggest problem of passing and controlling the ball is not the tactics, but the players.
Barcelona''s backwardness is Busquets, Manchester City''s backwardness is Xavi Alonso, all of them are the world''s top midfielders. Barcelona''s midfield has Xavi''s partner Iniesta, and Manchester City''s David Silva''s partner Modric, all of them are the top configuration of the ball control midfield.
It can be said that most of the best ball control players in Europe are in these two teams.
Now many people in European football are optimistic about Hames Rodriguez. One of the important reasons is that the Colombian midfield player has shown excellent passing and control ability, and is very comprehensive.
It''s not difficult to adopt high position pressing tactics, and it''s not difficult to have sufficient physical fitness. The real difficulty lies in how to have excellent passing and control ability on the basis of the previous two points.
This will undoubtedly set a high threshold for all teams.
And this game, the match between Manchester City and Barcelona, has become particularly exciting.
Especially when they played against each other, the scene was even more wonderful, so that all the fans of Wembley Stadium were ecstatic, even forgot the time.
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Twenty minutes after the game, the two teams on the court still maintain the balance of power since the beginning, and no one can beat the opponent on the scene.
But this kind of game is not boring at all, the two teams frequently appear skilled and smooth one foot pass, frequently appear wonderful and fatal pass, every shot is also breathtaking, let the fans exclaim in unison.
Everyone''s feeling is like riding a roller coaster, extremely thrilling, extremely enjoyable.
But what should have come came at last.
When everyone thought that Barcelona''s left side would be a soft spot and Manchester City should open a breakthrough from their right side, blue moon opened a bloody road from the left side in the 22nd minute.
Benzemara went to the outside of the left penalty area to receive David Silva''s pass. They skillfully played two to one in the left corner of the penalty area. After David Silva got rid of the close defense of Harvey, he passed the ball to Cristiano Ronaldo who cut to the front of the penalty area. The Portuguese Man, without thinking about the ball, poked the ball forward.
In this way, the ball from Puyol and Busquets in the middle, oblique to the left side of the restricted area, and just pulled to the outside of the restricted area to meet Benzema, at this time has already quickly oblique behind, with the body to block Alves, after receiving a pass from his teammates, stop the ball, take advantage of Puyol, a right foot straight shot.
In the face of this close shot, Valdes could not do anything but watch the ball hit the lower right corner.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL！！！！！”
"In the 22nd minute, Manchester City took the lead to break Barcelona''s goal!"
"One to zero!"
"It''s a wonderful team cooperation. Cristiano Ronaldo has attracted the defensive attention at the front of the penalty area. Benzema''s cooperation with David Silva is wonderful, but the most surprising thing is the last stab from Cristiano Ronaldo, which is crucial and fatal."
"Benzema was very calm at the critical moment. After Puyol was detained, he took advantage of the situation to hit the goal without any hesitation."
"Barcelona looks a little bit passive now."
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Guardiola on the sidelines, saw Benzema goal, depressed to open his arms.
The Portuguese and Kaka attracted defensive attention at the front of the penalty area, leading to the hollow in the penalty area, which gave Benzema the opportunity to insert the penalty area. This cooperation is really wonderful.
"Alpine cold is alpine cold in the end, we know that the left side is a soft rib, but after the opening, it seems that we are not willing to play on the left side, but attack our right side, which is a bit surprising."
Assistant coach bilanova also nodded frequently, alpine is very experienced in targeted tactics, always unexpected.
"Tell Alves that he''s responsible for getting the ball back for me!" Guardiola pointed to the field and said fiercely.
The game started again. After losing the ball, Barcelona quickly organized a counterattack, but Manchester City did not show any weakness. They still used high pressure and did not mean to step back.
The two sides fought in the vicinity of the central line, without reservation.
But soon, Barcelona saw a chance. Messi got the ball on the right side, suddenly started, forced to break through kompani, and then cut into the middle with the ball. After getting rid of Xavi Alonso, he failed to break through Xavi Martinez and was shoveled to the ground by the latter with the ball.
The referee, Casey, signaled that it was a successful defense, not a foul.
Barcelona were slightly controversial about the penalty, but they soon returned to the game. Manchester City took the opportunity to launch a counterattack and once again entered Barcelona''s penalty area.
However, when everyone thought that Manchester City would create another killing opportunity and create a threat, Barcelona suddenly completed a defense. After Harvey successfully intercepted the ball from the middle, he quickly skewed the ball to the right.
Alves strode along the right side of the road with the ball forward, Barcelona began to launch a counterattack.
Messi to the middle, the whole right channel to Alves, and Ibrahimovic is dead top in the front, so that Manchester City defenders do not dare to have the slightest carelessness.
Barcelona''s counterattack speed is very fast, David Silva and Modric and others are quickly back to defense, but still fall behind.
Alves dribbled into the 30 meter area of Manchester City and cut inside decisively.
Kompani came forward to defend, Xavi Alonso stuck in the middle, but Alves suddenly rubbed his right foot to the front of the area.
Ibrahimovic turned his back to the goal, blocked Harvey Martinez with his body, pushed forward slightly in the face of Alves'' coming ball, and saw Messi, who had been ambushing in the middle, facing the coming ball, stopping the ball in front of him, swung his left foot, and directly hit the goal with a curved ball.
In the penalty area, Petr Cech has made all the preparations, but he can''t do anything to face Messi''s parabolic curve ball. He can only watch the ball almost wipe the crossbar and hit into the top left corner.
One to one!
Guardiola on the sidelines to see the whole person jumped up, cheering excitedly clenched his fist.
Barcelona have problems, but Manchester City don''t?
Of course, the three four three formation makes blue moon''s attacking power amazing, but there are also many weaknesses in the side.
Other teams may not be able to take advantage of this, but Barcelona definitely can!
Think of here, Guardiola turned his head, looked at the cold, as if to say, we are half weight, each other.
Both of them smile at the same time, and their eyes project inexplicable excitement.