Chapter 145 The despised Pike
Guardiola's face is not good. Today, Barcelona's attack is so difficult that it is beyond his expectation. He has made several tactical adjustments in a row without any effect. The key is that the staffing and tactics of the Gosho team are too restrained by Barcelona's control flow, and today's referee's The penalty scale is also unfavorable to Barcelona's technical style of play.
But the problem is that Guardiola still suffers. The referee's penalty scale is the same for both sides. On the contrary, Barcelona scored a controversial goal and was awarded valid. Guardiola now imagines the overwhelming "official whistle" and "god" comments after this game.
Now that the Gosho team can score a goal through a counterattack so simply, Guardiola can't imagine that if the goal can't be taken down in the end, how drooling he will be waiting for him.
Guardiola stood up from the coach's bench with a gloomy face, walked to the sidelines, and shouted at his players to let them continue to strengthen their attack. What Barcelona needs most now is to score goals, not only to score, but also to score more goals in order to build enough advantages at home.
Under the command of Guardiola, Barcelona's midfield players began to run more, change positions more frequently, and their speed has also increased. This is not common in their previous games, because Barcelona is not good at speed. Several of their midfielders are excellent at skill and average speed. They control the ball under their feet, use the pass to mobilize the opponent's defense, and suddenly speed up when they launch a fatal blow.
But now their style of play can't break through the defense of Gosho, forcing Guardiola to take the initiative to speed up the pace of the game, hoping to force Gosho to make more mistakes in the fast-paced attack and defense.
In fact, speeding up the pace is a double-edged sword. Of course, there may be more mistakes in Gosho's defense, but Barcelona's passing success rate is bound to decline. In addition, the average age of Barcelona's main lineup is much larger than Gosho's, and they are now investing more energy in the league than Gosho. There are much more teams, and the accelerated pace of the game is also a big test for their physical fitness.
Of course, Guardiola can't take care of this now. He is bound to win this game, and he can only let his players grit their teeth and stick to it.
In the 59th minute, Messi changed his position to the left side, received Iniesta's pass, turned around and broke through with the ball to the bottom line. Gosho's right defender Gugelman decisively shoveled his foot and shoveled the ball out of the sideline. Messi couldn't stop his feet, tripped over Gugelman and fell to the ground.
Messi reached out to ask the referee for a free kick, but the referee Martin shook his head and ran back, only giving Barcelona a sideline ball. Messi was so angry that he patted his hands on the ground, but there was nothing he could do.
In the 63rd minute, Messi retreated to the middle of the midfield to receive Harvey's pass. When he turned around and wanted to break through with the ball, Antunovic knocked him down from behind him. The referee awarded Antunovic a foul, but Barcelona's attack came to nothing.
In the 68th minute, Messi finally successfully grabbed the ball on the right side. Seeing that Ribeiro and Sampedero were going to come up and bag himself, Messi imaginatively sent a pick pass and passed the ball to the right side of the penalty area. Trio inserted it into the penalty area and received the pass, but Chevally immediately pasted Trio and And he was forced to only carry the ball to the outside line, and finally he could only shoot at a small angle. He was easily got the ball by Checarelli, who had already stood in place.
Cecareli then threw the ball with his hand and launched a counterattack. After Antunović got the ball, he suddenly inserted it. After arriving at the front court, he attracted Fabregas and Harvey to defend. He scored the ball on the right side, and Hollensten rushed in with the ball at high speed. Near the bottom line, Holensten made a In the fake action of the pass, Alba had to stretch out his foot to block it, but Hollensten smashed the ball back and then passed it with his left foot. Egman grabbed a powerful header at the back point and almost broke the goal. Fortunately, he was agile and held the ball out of the bottom line with one hand.
Just now, Pike had tried his best to take off the ball, and one of his hands still grabbed Egman's jersey, but still did not jump over Egman, allowing Egman to grab the point. After Pike landed, he gasped.
In fact, Pike is not very tired physically. After all, he is not very old, and the game has only lasted for about 70 minutes. The main reason is that his psychological fatigue is too serious. Every time Gosho's attack, he has to concentrate on it, do his best, and rely on luck to defend Egman. This is a defense. The defender is very tired.
Gosho got a corner kick. Ribeiro came forward to take the penalty. His corner kick was very good. Just now, he drew an arc and flew to the corner of the small penalty area. Barcelona's goalkeeper Pinto could not attack, and it was Egman. He forcibly took off under the pull of Pike and Alves, a powerful The top pushes the ball to the upper left corner of the goal.
Pinto had no choice about this close-range header. He just threw his body out at his own fate, but obviously, this could not make him touch the ball. Under everyone's eyes, the ball hit the crossbar with a "dang" and popped out of the bottom line.
This loud "dang" sound seemed to hit Guardiola's heart directly. Guardiola's heart tightened. After seeing the ball pop out of the bottom line, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
The whole Barcelona fans breathed a cold breath at the same time, which was also mixed with the regretful sighs of a few Gosho fans.
There was an unconcealed regret in Duan Xuan's voice: "Riebero made a corner kick, and Egman headed the ball. The quality of the ball was very high. Unfortunately, it hit the crossbar, and Egman still pursued the angle too much. However, maybe the pull of Pike and Alves interfered with him. It can be seen from the slow motion that Pike and Alves pulled Egman's arm and Egman's jersey, which was more obvious.
"Maybe as long as Egman falls to the ground, the referee Martin will give him a penalty, but obviously Egman disdains to do so. In his career, he has never had a record of cheating a penalty. No matter how others pull it, as long as he doesn't shovel his support foot, he will try to complete him. The shooting action."
"With the pull of two people, Egman can still complete the rush to the top. His physical fitness and header skills are really good. His header explains the beauty of violence on the football field. There is no doubt that he is the best center in the world. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer centers like this now.
Seeing that the ball hit the crossbar and popped out of the bottom line, Egman himself did not seem to have much regret. He just turned his head and looked at Pike, and his eyes were full of disdain and disregard for Pike. Then he ran to the penalty area line to prepare for the next Gosho attack.
Pick, who was bending over and gasping, was deeply stung by Egman's eyes. He was also one of the best central defenders in the world. How could he be so despised by his opponents? He straightened up and seemed to feel tired all of a sudden. He ran to Egman and clung to him.
Alvis also wanted to run over, but was driven away by Pike waving his hand. He was fierce in his heart. Even if he was desperate in this game, he must defend Egman so that he could not score, and he did not need the help of others. He had to defend Egman alone.
Guardiola on the sidelines saw this scene. He wanted to stop Pike's behavior, but when he opened his mouth, he forced himself to hold back. If he had to let Alves help Pike, he might be able to prevent Egman, but it would definitely seriously hit Pike's confidence. How about that?
After a while, he made up his mind to let Pike defend Egman alone. Maybe Pike can burst his energy to prevent Egman after this stimulation? After all, Pike is also an excellent central defender.