For football players on the court, it is a battle of wits and courage, while for coaches on the sidelines, it is a deception.

Barcelona's strength and tacit understanding can allow Guardiola to respond to changes without changing, but Manchester City cannot. Even if it is playing at home, Lin Sen still needs to use some "wrong ideas" similar to Tian Ji's horse racing.

When discussing the tactical strategies of this game with the coaching team, Lin Sen came to three conclusions that may be nonsense in many people's opinion.

In fact, there are only three terms: Messi, Xavi, and midfielder.

Be careful Messi, this is something that all teams that don’t want to lose too badly when playing against Barcelona. Be careful Xavi, this is something that all teams that don’t want to lose to Barcelona need to know. Be careful of the midfield is something that all teams that try to beat Barcelona need to remember.

Barcelona's strongest is the midfielder.

Even if Messi is assigned to the front line and the Barcelona midfielder with Xavi, Iniesta and others is still the strongest link in Barcelona's third line. This is not only because of the names of these people, but also because the foundation of the Barcelona team was originally in the midfield. Therefore, the midfield will be the key to the victory or defeat of Manchester City in this game.

Regarding this, there were also differences among the coaching staff. Tang Hua believed that it was possible to bypass Barcelona's midfielder and play British long passes and rush. The so-called long passes and rushes can actually be understood literally. "Long passes" refer to long-distance passes, "rushes" refer to high-speed movements, and "hangs" refer to high-altitude headers. This tactic that has declined in mainstream leagues is actually still popular in low-level leagues, because this tactical goal scoring process is more direct, and personal technology is less used to organize offensives and score goals. To put it bluntly, this is a tactic of fighting for the body.

Therefore, a simple and direct long pass rush can theoretically "avoid weaknesses" to the greatest extent for Manchester City at present. However, this suggestion was eventually rejected by Lin Sen because although it "avoids" it cannot "promote strengths". The most basic hardware requirements for long pass rushes are two: players with excellent long pass skills and tall forwards, both are indispensable. And these two points are good for Manchester City, while the latter is very reluctant.

The former is the best in Manchester City team, except Yaya Toure, which is actually a relatively unexpected name, Xavi Martinez.

This season, Xavi Martinez has made great progress compared to last season. Last season's substitute is now ranked among the four major midfielders. It has reached the second place. When Lin Sen was impressed by Lin Sen, he asked Lin Sen to directly activate the contract termination clause to dig him from Bilbao to Manchester City, it was Martinez's defensive ability, but now, what makes him squeeze into the starting lineup is his offensive progress, and the most important thing is the improvement of dispatching ability. It is supported by the Spanish national team, or simply by the support of Barcelona, ​​the back midfielder produced by Spain. They have some organizational talent, and the talent skills are long passes.

As for the latter, Suarez, Adriano and Falcao, this is Manchester City's current forward configuration. Suarez can be ruled out first. Adriano's physical condition is in line, but unfortunately heading is not his strength, and Falcao is good at it. Unfortunately, his physical condition does not really take much advantage in the opponents Pique, Mascherano and others.

Kidd is the one who disagrees with Tang Hua. He believes that this game must not allow Barcelona's midfield to run smoothly.

Lin Sen stood on Kidd's side this time. They absolutely could not avoid Barcelona's midfield, so they could only fight head-on. Of course, this is not an egg to hit the stone, because since you know that the opponent's hand is a stone, if you still touch the egg, it's just a damn death by yourself, so you need to change the way.

Lin Sen's way is to set up four sweeping stages in the midfield, two professionals, and two minors.

Two wings Bell plus Robben.

"No front-line formation?"

Lin Sen knew that his chance could only be at home, and Guardiola knew what the opponent wanted to do. For this reason, he and Biranova had imagined no less than five situations to speculate that Lin Sen would use "strange moves" in this game, but Lin Sen was beyond their expectations after all.

To put it bluntly, there is no forward formation. Lin Sen set up a formation similar to the Christmas tree, but there is no forward. The three back midfielders, including Harvey Martinez, De Jong and Vidal, are lined up. Yaya Toure, who are also back midfielders, stood directly in the front midfielder position, and on both sides of him were Robben and Bale.

Such a formation must have made some sacrifices in offense, but the midfield has been strengthened unprecedentedly.

"This is really surprising. Lin ruled out a formation that no one expected." The espn's commentator did not hide his surprise at all.

"This formation seems to be similar..." The commentator sitting next to him showed a strange look on his face, "Do you remember the Spanish national derby a while ago? It was the one-to-one draw."

"You said that." After being reminded, the commentator thought for a while and immediately came to his senses.

The most recent national derby was on April 17, more than a week ago. Mourinho, who played against Barcelona for the second time this season, changed his most familiar 4231 position and changed his formation 4333. The most significant change in the midfield was to mention Pepe's excellent stealing ability to the midfield.

In that game, Real Madrid, which was almost defeated by Barcelona in the first leg, beat the opponent one-to-one, ending its five-game losing streak against Barcelona. Of course, the greater significance of this draw is to rebuild Real Madrid's confidence and also build Real Madrid's confidence in Mourinho.

Lin Sen’s current formation is hard not to remind people of Real Madrid at that time.

At this time, Mourinho, who was sitting at his home in Madrid, saw Manchester City's starter, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and a hint of helplessness.

Is this plagiarism?

Not all, because Lin Sen was obviously more thorough than him, and even the only forward was removed by him.

So, is this a reference?

To learn from this, this is really a rogue word. You should know that Mourinho paid the tuition fee for the formation, and it was very high.

Guardiola frowned. Needless to say, such a starting lineup made him feel someone's shadow.

The competition began with a burst of applause and then took place in a song.

The long-lasting singing in the stands has always been a feature of the Premier League. Unlike other leagues who like to use banners or slogans to express their support for the team, singing is the most common way for English fans to support. Singing to the end is also the basic qualities of loyal fans. In this regard, other European leagues are incomparable to the Premier League.

As if in line with the fans' singing, Manchester City entered the rhythm of the game from the beginning of the game.

The main battlefield, no suspense appeared in the midfield.

Guardiola's expression quickly became serious, because, in the three midfielders composed of Xavi, Busquets and Keita, except for Xavi's occasional passes some balls, the other two were soon lost in Manchester City's midfielder group.

Barcelona's three-midfield system, Xavi's side attack, Butzquez's side defense, and Keita is between the two. Of course, the responsibilities are not fixed, because Barcelona's midfield is actually only one job in the offense, that is, passing the ball, and passing the ball constantly penetration. Therefore, Barcelona's passing line is very particular, and the most common scene is triangle transmission.

Such passes are almost invincible with the cooperation of several major stars in the frontcourt. However, now, Manchester City has blocked such a pass route in a simple and crude way: it is to accumulate numbers by relying on the midfield.

In fact, Guardiola has not encountered such moves, and even the number of people has not been seen. Many weak teams faced Barcelona, ​​such a formation as May 41 is not uncommon, and their forwards often retreat, saying it is 550, but the trouble they caused to Barcelona is far less effective than Manchester City at the moment.

Seeing Xavi's pass being cut off by Yaya Toure again, Guardiola began to bite his finger.

This is not the first time, and obviously not the last time.

Xavi Martinez, Spain's new international, De Jong, the Dutch main midfielder, Vidal, Chile's main midfielder, Yaya Toure, and the Ivory Coast midfielder... A midfielder composed of four people, once they defend wholeheartedly, is simply a flesh-and-blood mill with almost no weaknesses, whether it is height or speed, defense depth or width, or even, in order to make this mill more powerful, Lin Sen also wrote about the specifications of the court.

Of course, the most troublesome thing is Yaya Toure. The Ivorian who was just let go last summer has made Guardiola feel a little misleading. He knows Yaya Toure's defensive talent, but he did not expect that the opponent's offensive talent is also so outstanding. Now, the opponent is using his familiarity with the Barcelona system to become the most troublesome existence in Barcelona's midfield.

The game has been going on for nearly half an hour, and both teams have only a handful of shots. In the words of the commentator, the two teams have put too much energy into the entanglement of the midfield.

At this time, Guardiola put down his hands and inserted both hands into his pocket, as if he had stopped thinking.

He came up with a way to deal with it?

No, he just figured it out a little.

Manchester City used this method to "disrupt" Barcelona's offensive rhythm, but also "disrupt" its own offensive rhythm?

The last time, Mourinho did this because they had an omnipotent Ronaldo in the frontcourt, which could solve the problem. Now, Lin Sen, who is doing more thoroughly than Mourinho, wants to rely on to solve the problem?

After all, this is Manchester City's home court. If Manchester City doesn't attack, then the best result they can get is to take a draw to the Camp Nou Stadium.

That's a big stadium!

"You won't forget that you are the more you should attack, right?"

Guardiola said something in his heart.

However, his eyes did not look at Lin Sen, who was standing not far away from him. (To be continued, please search Piao Tianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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