Not only the Barcelona players think the Liverpool players' behavior is a bit strange, but even the fans on both sides of the stands and the audience in front of the TV have this feeling.

Generally speaking, this is not unavailable in professional leagues, but most of them occur in low-level leagues and low-level teams, or in national team competitions.

In the Champions League... everyone hasn't seen this scene for a long time.

Today's professional players are all stars, they all have some tempers and are very proud of their face. This approach is actually to save their face, because no one thinks they are still a rookie, and they need to let the captain lead a circle to boost morale...

So why did Liverpool do this suddenly?

No one knows the reason.

Amid everyone's puzzled eyes, the Liverpool players dispersed and returned to their respective positions. Chen Yingxiong and Sanchez stood in the middle circle, the football was already arranged, and they were waiting for them to kick off.

Chen Yingxiong stepped on the football and turned around. He saw that the teammates behind him were also looking at him.

Then he grinned at everyone and gave a thumbs up.

Seeing him like this, his teammates also gave him a thumbs up.

For a moment, eleven thumbs were raised on the court.

This scene naturally fell into the eyes of Barcelona players and others.

They still don't understand what Liverpool is smoking today.

In their opinion, Liverpool was full of weirdness all over the world today.

However, they had no time to think about why this was and what kind of strange method it was. Because the referee had already blew the whistle to the beginning of the game.

Chen Yingxiong gently knocked the football out. Sanchez followed up and passed the football to Gotze behind him.

Then Chen Yingxiong rushed forward in a straight line, while Sanchez ran to the sidelines with a diagonal line.

The curtain of Liverpool's offensive began.

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Liverpool's offensive will be very strong after the game begins. Barcelona players are very clear about this because head coach Guardiola has repeatedly advised them.

So when Liverpool launched an offensive against their goal at the opening, they were not surprised. Although the offensive was particularly fierce, they didn't take it seriously.

Barcelona's countermeasure against Liverpool's opening attack is not to retreat and defend the game in one breath like other teams.

First of all, with Barcelona's team temperament, they are completely unacceptable to defending so hard in front of their mortal enemies. Because this is really too shameless...

Secondly, even if they are asked to hold on to the death, they will not be able to defend well. Because they have never practiced this tactic at all.

Barcelona's genes are offense, not defense. Although their defense is good, it does not mean that they are good at defense, especially at defense.

It is undoubtedly unwise to let Barcelona choose to defend to the death when facing Liverpool's fierce offensive.

Give up what you are best at, but choose what you are not good at. This kind of mistake may be made by the head coach of other teams, but Guardiola will not.

The strategy he formulated for Barcelona was to use ball possession to compete with Liverpool's offense.

When many people hear about ball control, the first thing they think of is offense. In fact, ball control is also a means of defense.

When you always firmly control the football at your feet (--House. The fastest update.), the opponent can't grab the ball at all, how can you attack?

So as long as you can maintain the ball for most of the game, you can keep your defense away from danger.

This is Barcelona's defense.

In fact, this is not just a strategy for Liverpool. At any time, Barcelona will let go when facing any opponent.

It's hard to see them crouching within their thirty meters and then let the opponent's players pass back and forth outside.

They always try to take possession from the first minute of the game, from the front to the midfield, and then to the backfield. They have strong control.

At the same time, because of such strong ball control ability, Barcelona will not shrink their defense line. Therefore, they need a goalkeeper with a large defensive area, a goalkeeper with a large activity area and a large control range, and a better goal line skill was given up by Barcelona, ​​and chose Valdes, who was not very skilled and did not perform very stably.

Although Valdes often makes all kinds of inexplicable mistakes, it has to be said that he is the most suitable goalkeeper for Barcelona. Because in many cases, Valdes plays a role not only as a goalkeeper, but also as a scavenger.

This is Barcelona's most used to defensive strategy.

Of course, they also used this set to deal with Liverpool.

In the view of Guardiola, this is enough to deal with Liverpool's bombing.

Because as long as football has the opportunity to fall on Barcelona, ​​Liverpool's offensive will be unsustainable. The initiative will fall on Barcelona's hands.

Barcelona will not wait for Liverpool to score a goal like other teams, or the time comes to automatically lift the offensive.

They have to take back the ball, then take the lead, and then bury Liverpool completely!

Guardiola was surprised. No team had ever done such a thing before when facing Liverpool, and that was to go against the trend!

So Liverpool would never have thought that Barcelona could organize an attack under their fierce offensive...

At that time, if you catch them off guard, as long as you score a goal, the initiative in this game will fall into Barcelona. So what if Liverpool plays at home? Are we still led by the nose?

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Liverpool's first offensive was initiated by taking advantage of the opportunity to kick off.

But it did not pose any threat to Barcelona's goal.

It looks like an ordinary attack.

Valdes did not directly pass the ball to Barcelona's kick-off goal, but passed it to the front central defender Pique.

Pikui passed the football up layer by layer.

In fact, Barcelona's goal kick was also big, but in this game, Guardiola specifically reminded Valdes not to open his big foot if he could. Try to let the football roll against the grass so that they can always control the football.

How can you let the football fly around in the air?

The tallest ones on Barcelona are Buzques and Pique. Goalkeeper Valdes is only 1.83 meters tall.

Liverpool has an advantage in striving for top-high balls. Everyone knows that their defense is tall but their speed of turning slowly. This is a good opportunity for Barcelona to fully utilize their small fast spirit characteristics.

As long as you can keep football under your feet... Barcelona is not afraid of anyone!

Barcelona began to advance layer by layer.

But they encountered huge resistance in the midfield.

Liverpool did not retreat directly to the front of the penalty area as usual, but instead launched a crazy siege in the midfield and frontcourt.

In order not to give Barcelona any excuses, Liverpool even didn't want to "defense" in defensive counterattacks. In this way, when Barcelona finally lost the game, I believe they would have no excuses.

For Barcelona, ​​this was also unexpected.

Liverpool's approach made them unexpected.

Because of lack of sufficient mental preparation, when Buzks got the ball in the backcourt and wanted to pass it in the frontcourt, he was blocked by Chen Yingxiong and Gotze.

Even Chen Yingxiong, who has never defended much, ran back to assist in defense, which shows Liverpool's determination in this game.

Buzkes was not prepared enough. Under the clamping defense between Chen Yingxiong and Gotze, his pass made a mistake.

He originally planned to pass it to Alaba in front of him, but he did not expect that the final pass would deviate from the target.

The football flew directly out of the baseline and gave Liverpool an extra-bound ball in the frontcourt.

The ball is back at Liverpool's feet.

Out-of-bounds balls were thrown and Liverpool reorganized the attack.

Of course. This attack eventually formed a shot, but it did not pose any threat to Valdes' goal.

Everything looks no different from any normal game.

Except for that frontcourt press...

Of course, this may be just an accident.

The football was quickly passed to Buskes' feet.

This time, Butsques passed the ball immediately, and the football was at the feet of Iniesta who came back to pick him up.

Almost at the same time, two Liverpool players appeared beside Iniesta.

Of course, it is not difficult to get rid of these two Liverpool players with Iniesta's outstanding efforts.

But after he got rid of it, he realized it was not that simple - he soon fell into the defense of Liverpool players again.

There is only one person this time, but it is the most difficult... Inle.

Inle is strong and has a tough style. It is really suitable to deal with the skilled players in Barcelona!

Once he gets entangled, it will be difficult to get rid of it...

While Inle was entangling Iniesta, the two Liverpool players quickly ran back and blocked the gap left by De Jong.

In this way, Liverpool's defense line did not have any loopholes due to this pressing.

At the same time, they can continue to maintain pressure on Barcelona's offense.

Although Iniesta was able to control the ball under Inle's press, it would be difficult for him to send the ball out.

Messi was in the frontcourt, but seeing this behind, he had to retreat to meet his teammates.

As Messi retreated, other Barcelona players had to retreat.

Because Barcelona has high requirements for the overall situation, their passes require the players to keep a distance of fifteen meters or even shorter as much as possible, so that they can make ground passes. This distance is the most accurate and is also the easiest to tear the opponent's defense line.

Messi, as the core of the team, retreats, so with him as the center, others must retreat with the distance from Messi.

In this way, Barcelona is far from Liverpool's goal...

This is actually Liverpool's real purpose of attack instead of defense.

Crush Barcelona into a very narrow area, keep them away from their goal, and then just stop the ball by themselves, you can launch an offensive nearest to Barcelona's goal.

If Barcelona wants to forcibly attack, the formation will be pulled apart and there will be a lot of gaps, which will fit the appetite of Liverpool, who is going to play against Barcelona.!~!


Chapter completed!