Chapter 142 Barcelona
When the players of the Gosho team heard the remarks of the Barcelona players, Egman just smiled: "Even if I don't score a goal, as long as the Gosho team can win the final victory, that's enough. Of course, it would be better if I could help the team win with my own goals.
When asked what he thought of Pique's words, Egman said, "Did he say that I could prevent it?" So it turns out that he didn't defend against Barcelona last time because he didn't say before the game that he could defend me, right? In this way, as long as Pike says before every game that he can defend the opponent's player and don't let him score, then Barcelona will be invincible.
Egman's words made all the reporters laugh.
The other players of the Gosho team expressed dissatisfaction with Messi and Pique's words. Avazzini said, "We all respect Messi. He is one of the best players in the world. But he doesn't always have to talk about the fact that he won four Golden Globe Awards. I think it's very demeaning."
Cowdingho said, "I'm optimistic that Egman's number of Golden Globes will exceed Messi in the future."
Holensten said, "I hope Pique's defensive kung fu can surpass his kung fu."
Salihovic said that he could not wait to participate in the game, and he would defend Messi with all his strength.
The two teams were already tense a few days before the game, which made the reporters who interviewed them very happy. The more popular the players' comments are, the better their newspapers will sell.
On April 21, Lin Fenglei led Gosho to Barcelona to prepare for the first leg of Gosho's match against Barcelona two days in advance. After coming to Barcelona, in an interview with the Catalan media, he replied that he had already said what he had to say, and now he is no longer being interviewed.
At the same time, Lin Fenglei also issued a silence in the team, allowing the players to pay all their attention to the game. The training of the Gosho team two days before the game was also closed and not open to the public.
Guardiola coincidentally adopted a closed training practice to let his players focus on the game itself.
The two teams suddenly stopped fighting, but behind the silence, people could still see the secret battle between the two teams.
At 7:45 p.m. on April 23, Barcelona's home game against Gosho started as scheduled at Camp Nou Stadium.
Duan Xuan, the CCTV football commentator who came to the scene, introduced the lineup of the two teams: "The lineup of the home team Barcelona today is goalkeeper Pinto, left-back Alba, right-back Alves, central defender Pique and Baltra, and the three midfielders are Fabregas, Harvey and Inies. Tower, the three strikers are a combination of Villa, Messi and Trio. Barcelona's starting lineup is very strong, but their former starting goalkeeper Valdes is sitting on the bench because he announced last year that he would not renew his contract with Barcelona. His contract with Barcelona will expire this summer. If he doesn't renew his contract with Barcelona, Barcelona will not get a penny of transfer fee. Putting him on the bench is a punitive measure for FC Barcelona.
"Let's take a look at the starting lineup of the visiting team Gosho. Their goalkeepers are Checarelli, left-back Ribeiro, right-back Gugelman, central defenders are Salihovic and Chevali, two midfielders Antunović and Sampedero, left winger Avânzini, right winger Horensten, and two strikers are Eg. The combination of Man and Codingho. The two midfielders of Gosho, Ivanovic and Lima, could not play due to injury, so this starting lineup is basically the strongest lineup that Coach Lin Fenglei can play.
"The starting lineup of the two teams is star-tight, their attack power is also very strong, and their tactics today are not conservative. I believe that the two teams will work together to dedicate a wonderful game for the fans."
"With the referee Chris of England. Martin whistled and the game officially began. The home team Barcelona attacked from left to right in the first half, and they opened the ball first. Messi knocked the ball to Villa, and Villa knocked the ball back to Fabregas. After several times, Messi made a long-range shot about 35 meters from the goal at the front of the penalty area, but the ball did not hit the goal and did not pose any threat.
After Messi finished the shot, he tightened his shoelaces. The location of the foot shot was a little far away, and he didn't feel good. The shot was just a test of his foot style. He is very eager to score goals in today's game. I don't know why, as soon as he saw Egman, he felt very unhappy, and he had to overwhelm him on the court.
After Checarelli sent the goal ball, Egman handed the ball to Sampedero in the front court. Sam Pedro took a few steps. After getting rid of Harvey's entanglement, he divided the ball to Avanzini on the left. After Avanzini took the ball to the front court, he directly sent a 45-degree diagonal pass and passed the ball to it in time. Returning to Egman's head in the penalty area, Egman jumped high and headed the ball to the goal. Under the interference of Pike, his shot was not strong and was pressed under him by Pinto.
Pike's face turned a little pale. Just now, he had used both hands and feet, and some movements were almost foul, but he was still grabbed by Egman to head the ball. How can he defend him? Fortunately, today's referee is an Englishman. Such a degree of confrontation may be common for him. In addition, Egman is not a striker who likes fake falls. Otherwise, when he jumped up and grabbed his jersey, he fell down, and he had nothing to say if the referee awarded a penalty kick.
The game has only started for a few minutes, and there are still nearly 90 minutes left. Can you really defend Egman? Pike couldn't help but have some doubts about himself.
Guardiola walked to the court. His face was very serious. It seemed that he was a little dissatisfied with the team's defense just now. Gosho's attack only put in two or three attacking players, which gave them a chance to make a header in the penalty area. He yelled at Pike, and Pike nodded repeatedly, and Guardiola sat back in the coach's seat.
In the following games, Barcelona controlled the ball more. They were very patient in the midfield and backcourt, looking for opportunities to attack, while Gosho's midfield defense was very hard. Antunović's running ability was super, good defense, and excellent steal ability. With the help of Sampedero, he came to the midfield. Sweeping back makes it difficult for Barcelona's pass and catch to the ball smoothly in the front court.
Avazzini and Holenstein's position today is also closer to the back than usual. Their position today is more like a full-back than a winger. The four-person midfielder composed of them and two midfielders will compete with Barcelona in the midfield. They are not allowed to force the opponent to fall more in the backcourt.
Barcelona's pass and catch is difficult to pass through the midfield. They can only rely on long passes to find more opportunities for goals, but this kind of play is exactly what Barcelona is not good at. They did not have a strong tall center in the front court as the offense pillar, so their long passes were basically pushed out by two tall centre-backs of Gosau.
The two high-solders, Egman and Kauddinjo, with excellent physical fitness, firmly nailed Barcelona's entire defense to the backcourt like a nail, so that their back line did not dare to cross the minefield. Their two full-backs with excellent assist ability, Alves and Alba naturally have no way to exert their assist ability. .
Although Pike said before the game that he wanted to prevent Egman, Guardiola was still very sober. Egman is the best center in the world now. Of course, Barcelona will focus on attack in this game, but Egman is also unpreventive. In addition to using Pike to keep an eye on Egman, he also arranged Alves to pay attention to Egman's defense at all times.
In addition to Egman, Guardiola also noticed that Codingho. Although Codingho does not score like Egman, if he relaxes his defense, his scoring ability can not be underestimated.