Aside from Guardiola's thoughts about the summer signings, he observed Real Madrid's offensive style in today's positional play.
In fact, the core tactical thinking was Bosque's formation of a changing shadow striker.
Snede, Van Der Vaart, and Qin Xiong took turns plugging in and switching roles. They all had the strength to play as shadow strikers or attacking midfielders, so this would make Barcelona's defense more difficult.
But this was not a big headache for Guardiola, because Barcelona's positional play defensive strength had withstood the test in the process of continuous run-in and strengthening this season and would not be easily broken down by Real Madrid.
And there was one thing that Guardiola was extremely confident about.
As the game went on, Real Madrid's opportunities to play positional play would become fewer and fewer.
Because Barcelona would make the opponent unable to control the ball!
The core idea of tiki-taka was to make the opponent unable to control the ball at all.
On the football field, there was only one football. The ball was at Barcelona's feet. What could Real Madrid use to attack?
When Barcelona constantly shaped the game through passing and control, tore apart the opponent's formation, and made the tight and orderly formation fragmented and chaotic, Real Madrid wanted to play positional play?
Wishful thinking!
This was the collision point of the two completely different football ideas and philosophies to create a completely different game situation.
The game situation was as Guardiola expected. The young manager's confidence was not blind arrogance.
Barcelona controlled the rhythm of the game on the track they were familiar with by constantly passing and controlling the ball, and then constantly pressured and threatened Real Madrid's defensive line, forcing Real Madrid's players to keep retreating and retreating in a large area. In this way, even if Real Madrid's defense was successful, the communication between their teammates would become chaotic. After all, the players could not just stand in their own defensive zone and position in defense, especially when the defense was in progress, the defensive positioning would make it extremely difficult to reset the formation when changing from defense to offense.
In the 14th minute of the game, Barcelona had the ball for more than three minutes this time. They were patiently looking for opportunities. When they did not see a good opportunity for their teammates to run into position, they passed the ball back. They only took the risk when they could create a situation where they could kill.
Alves assisted from the right side and suddenly rushed behind Marcelo. Xavi accurately stuck to the ground in the middle of the front field and sent the ball to Alves' feet. At this time, Marcelo ran directly into the penalty area to form a joint defense with Cannavaro. Alves passed the ball to the top of the penalty area arc. Messi, who cut into the middle behind Eto 'o, was originally marked by László Diarra.
At this time, Messi took the initiative to run to the football. After his left foot stopped the ball, he paused and then flicked the ball horizontally. Diarra happened to use his foot to intercept and the football rolled over Diarra's crotch.
Messi dodged Diarra and brushed past him. Then, he rushed to the football. He did not wait for the slow-moving Metzelder and Cannavaro to come up and block him before he shot a volley!
The football flew directly into the top left corner of the goal, the dead corner!
Casillas's save was useless. He stood up from the ground helplessly. There seemed to be a faint look of grievance on his face, as if he wanted to explain his save.
It was not that there was a problem with his play, but Messi's shot was too beautiful!
"Barcelona has scored! Messi opened the scoring at the Bernabéu. He helped Barcelona take the lead over Real Madrid.
Barcelona, who suddenly accelerated their attack, tore apart Real Madrid's defense on the left side. Alves delivered an assist to Messi. After passing László Diarra, Messi decisively raised his leg to shoot. The ball was powerful and flew straight to the top left corner of the goal. Casillas was powerless to reverse the situation!
0: 1, Real Madrid is behind at the Bernabéu. Now the pressure is completely on Real Madrid's side. "
Messi rushed to the visiting fans' stands and showed a flamboyant smile. His teammates flocked to him and picked him up high.
Guardiola smiled and applauded on the sidelines. If Barcelona had carelessly lost in the first half of the league tournament, then today, Guardiola believed that Barcelona would never give Real Madrid any more chances.
In particular, Barcelona had been going up almost all the way this season. They were in a period of rising team strength. They constantly improved the team's overall fighting power through high-quality and challenging games.
They only fell into a short slump in February, but the team soon adjusted.
Guardiola did not believe that the turbulent Real Madrid could improve more than Barcelona and improve more!
Real Madrid, which had stumbled up and down this season, could be said to be in a difficult world. First, there was a gang rebellion within the team itself, and then there was a high-level earthquake. It was not surprising that the overall development of the team fell into a decline.
It was a miracle that they could get to where they were today.
In any case, they were already here. No player would give up. No matter how difficult it was, they had to give it a try.
Before the restart, Qin Xiong said to his teammates in the midfield, "We can only play defense and counterattack. Don't expect too much from positional play. It will make it easier for Barcelona to break through our defense."
Everyone agreed with Qin Xiong's point of view.
Barcelona was not a team with frequent tactical changes this season. The so-called winning team did not change, and the tactics were the same. Since it was successful and many opponents could not solve it, then why change?
Real Madrid did not have to go out in full force. Barcelona would not take the initiative to shrink back, not to mention there was so much time left in the game.
After the restart, Qin Xiong and Van Der Vaart did a vertical two-over-one in the midfield. He rushed past Xavi's defense and welcomed the football rolling behind him.
Touré defended in front of him, and Qin Xiong directly turned to the left after he stepped on the bicycle.
Touré made a mistake in his prediction. He thought Qin Xiong would turn to the right to make a better shot.
Qin Xiong passed the ball to Raúl in the middle in front after he dodged Touré's defense.
Then he ran to the right side of the penalty area to cut in.
Raúl knocked the ball horizontally when Qin Xiong ran diagonally.
Qin Xiong faced Qin Xiong. He did not slow down as he ran. He gently kicked the ball behind Pic's right side, and then he rushed past Pic's left side. Pic, who still lacked top-level game experience, could not stop Qin Xiong at all. He was hit by Qin Xiong's ball!
When Pic turned around, Puyol had already started to fill in the defense. At the same time, he pointed to Raúl toward Pic. His meaning was clear. He wanted Pic to follow Raúl. Qin Xiong, leave it to him!
Qin Xiong rushed into the penalty area and did not control the ball. Instead, he directly chose to shoot. He knew he did not have much chance to control the ball and adjust.
Valdés made a lateral save and narrowly hit Qin Xiong's shot with his fist out of the end line!
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