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Chapter 337 Disrupting Barcelona's Rhythm

Watching Southampton put on a defensive posture from the beginning of the game, Martino is still a little relieved. After all, Barcelona is still very strong in the midfield and there is no problem. The most worrying thing is goalkeeper Pinto. In this link, if Southampton is defensive, then this problem will not be a problem.

However, what he overlooked was that Southampton's counterattack seemed to be sharper.

Moreover, their counterattacks are different from ordinary counterattacks. Through simple long passes and individual performances of frontcourt players, opportunities can be created.

This is also the biggest headache for Barcelona's defense.

Do you expect Alba and Mascherano, who are only 1.7 meters tall, to mark the rushing Lukaku?

Even if Pique is barely able, he can't always pull to the side to defend. Pique on the side is not as good as an ordinary full-back.

Martino ignored this, and Kiya never gave up the idea of ​​dealing with Barcelona.

The previous pressing tactics can’t be said to be useless now, but that kind of play consumes too much energy. It doesn’t matter if it’s just a final, but two rounds of games, plus the game against Manchester City in the middle, of course need to save money. A little stamina.

Southampton's defense seems to have declined recently, because they have begun to adopt more of the offensive football of last season. In that attack, Suarez has become the biggest beneficiary, scoring twice recently, brilliantly.

But in such a tactic, Lukaku looked a bit bleak.

It also makes it easy to overlook his big man.

But with Lukaku's ability, no matter who ignores his threat, he will definitely suffer retribution, or very bad consequences.

Barcelona faced Southampton's defense after the opening, and the offense was still relatively difficult. It was not until the 7th minute that they made a free kick through Messi's breakthrough. Casemiro brought him down, and Messi I personally took the free kick and hit it on the wall. After the ball bounced back, Fabregas followed up with a kick. Otamendi made a block. After the ball bounced out, Navas took it.

Southampton launched the attack, after a quick pass through the midfield, seeing Lukaku switch to the middle, De Bruyne immediately passed the ball into the penalty area, Lukaku jumped high to fight for the top, and Pique did the same Jumping up, the two collided with each other, neither of them could touch the ball, and the ball was caught by Pinto who was attacked.

Just as the game was about to continue, the referee stopped the game and he ran into the penalty area.

After the top fight just now, Lukaku just staggered to the ground and stopped, but Pique fell on the lawn...

The stretcher entered the field urgently, and then carried Pique out. Ji Ya looked over there in some surprise, and then found that Barcelona's central defender Batral, who was on the bench for Barcelona, ​​was urgently warming up and preparing to play.

"Fuck, are you really hurt? No way, this wife is so fragile..." Ji Ya couldn't help muttering.

"Perhaps it was too much physical exertion on Shakira." Benelli said in a very wretched whisper.

That is to say, he was saying this in a low voice, otherwise the people at Barcelona would have heard it, and they would have to fight...

Lukaku also had an innocent face on the field. He really felt that he was quite innocent. He was very clean in the fight for the top just now. any idea?

Now the Barcelona fans are desperately booing him, he is also very innocent.

But Southampton's counterattack also surprised Martino. He didn't expect Southampton to play so simply and so effectively.

And now that Pique is off the field, the only anchor in the back line is gone. Only relying on Batral and Mascherano, can they withstand Southampton's counterattack?

Martino suddenly discovered the problem...

Among other things, Lukaku, who is more than 1.9 meters tall, rushed up, hoping that the current defense line can withstand it?

This is trouble!

Just when Martino was very depressed and didn't know what to do, the Barcelona players still launched an attack according to their established goals.

After all, with so many people in the frontcourt, it would be a waste not to attack.

However, in front of Southampton's complete defensive system, it is difficult for them to create opportunities.

Moreover, once the Southampton players see that Messi or Neymar are about to break through, they immediately choose to foul and interrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm. Southampton's defensive players are more brainy, and their fouls are also It's a very tactical foul, and such fouls are often not punished so severely.

However, Barcelona's offense was interrupted to pieces during such a foul, and the kicks were completely unable to show their own characteristics.

When a team is habitually interrupted, it is actually very fatal.

It is difficult to organize the offense smoothly. Even if Harvey keeps passing the ball in the midfield, the effect is not very good-the key to this problem is that Harvey is old. He is almost 34 years old. If it is A central defender or a goalkeeper is not too old, but as a central midfielder who has to run more than 150 meters per game and has more than [-] passes, he is indeed not young at this age.

In fact, since last season, his appearances have begun to decrease.

As a player who has always had a high attendance rate, in the first eleven seasons, he played more than 29 league games in nine seasons. In the remaining two seasons, one was due to injury and only played less than two times. Ten times, and in the other season, he played [-] times, which is infinitely close to [-] times.

But last season he only played 24 times in the league.

It is because of his declining physical fitness that he cannot concentrate on showing his full strength in more games. This season, this problem has become more obvious.

Without Harvey as the core, Xiaobai was pushed to the front line again. Barcelona's ability to create opportunities in the midfield is indeed much worse.

So they can only give the ball directly to Messi and Neymar, and create opportunities through their breakthroughs and balls.

However, just as Neymar started to break through with the ball, he was brought down by Casemiro.

Although Casemiro received a yellow card for this, it interrupted another Barcelona attack.

It was not until 23 minutes that Barcelona re-launched an attack. Harvey picked the ball from outside the penalty area and passed it into the penalty area. Neymar took off and shook his head to attack the goal, but under the defense of Otamendi, he was a little weak. Navas saves the ball with ease.

There were disappointing sighs from the Barcelona fans in the stands. Up to now, the game has not improved in offense, which makes them all look a little disappointed.

This is also normal. Under the pressure of Southampton, Barcelona's offense did not create too many opportunities, but their offensive state will always play slowly.

Barcelona is slow.