Football: After listening to the advice, I became the strongest free man! - Chapter 371

c371 Earth-shaking news! 2.2 billion transfer fee!

Chapter 372 Earth-shaking news! 220 million transfer fee!

Considering that the Premier League champion in the 2015-2016 season finally fell to a team like Leicester City that relies on defensive counterattack tactics. We seem to have enough reason to believe that football has entered an era where counterattack is king and speed is the strongest!

In the ball possession and pass success rate lists of the Champions League and La Liga this season, Real Madrid’s ball possession rate is far lower than that of its arch-rivals.

In terms of ball possession rate, Real Madrid only has 52.5% in the Champions League, which is almost 10 percentage points lower than the highest Bayern Munich and 8 percentage points lower than Barcelona.

Among all the teams participating in the Champions League, it can only rank 9th.

Even in the pass success rate list, it lags behind Bayern Munich and Barcelona.

If we shift our vision to the La Liga, we will still be surprised to find that Real Madrid, which has the legendary best midfielders Kroos, Modric, Kovacic, James Rodriguez, Isco, Bai Ran and other technical masters, has a ball possession rate of only 55.3%, ranking fourth in the La Liga, and even the pass success rate is still behind Barcelona, ​​which has been complained to be the “roughest” in the past 10 years.

So, how does Real Madrid play their speed?

Can Ronaldo, who is already 32 years old, run faster than when he was 23 years old?

The speed of attack lies in the rhythm of the ball, and passing is always faster than dribbling.

In terms of running, Real Madrid is not the kind of “crazy running” team at the moment.

So how does Real Madrid show their speed?

With the strongest technical midfield line, Real Madrid’s tactics are not as focused on control and rhythm as Barcelona did in the past.

They use more long passes and side kicks to threaten the opponent’s penalty area through crosses. (Data analysis of this UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid is one of the best in long passes, crosses and shots)

It can be seen that the statistics of this UEFA Champions League show that Real Madrid is tied with Bayern for the first place in the knockout stage in terms of average long passes per game, and is second only to Bayern Munich in terms of average crosses per game. Such data ultimately led to the result that Real Madrid is the first in shots (Bayern, which has the same number of long passes and crosses, ranks second in the shooting list).

On the Barcelona side, they only have 13.1 shots per game. Even in terms of average dribbling, the data of 14 times per game is 2 more than Real Madrid, but it does not seem to be of much help.

(Real Madrid and Barcelona offensive tactics board, two different offensive tactics: Real Madrid goes to the side, Barcelona in the middle)

If analyzed from a tactical perspective, Barcelona’s offense requires more people to press forward.

They often completely press the opponent’s formation back to the 30-meter area, so they need to complete the wrestling and defense breaking before the penalty area. The main route for launching the attack is to establish the central axis of Busquets-Messi-Suarez, but due to the lack of fast players on the wing, the extremely threatening Neymar had to be pulled to the wing.

The overall forward-pressing formation is more likely to encounter counterattacks, so Barcelona has suffered “tragedies” many times this season in games where the offense is unfavorable.

On the other hand, Real Madrid’s offensive line is actually simpler.

Through the technical players in the midfield, they adopt more side splits and transfers.

The midfielders will even stand back a little, thereby attracting the opponent’s defense line. After the wing players get the ball, they will seek to cross or send the ball into the penalty area in a more direct way, looking for Ronaldo to grab points and attack.

Because Ronaldo has excellent spatial insight and impact ability, the Real Madrid midfielder with a relatively backward formation can have a better local number and density advantage.

In this way, Real Madrid, which sometimes uses the 451 formation, has a very obvious advantage in the number of midfielders compared to Barcelona’s 433, which makes Real Madrid’s midfield much better.

Green leaves with red flowers are really beautiful.

For Barcelona, ​​due to the football philosophy established by Cruyff, their advantage must be concentrated in their middle.

But in fact, the successful experience of the past years tells us that a perfect Barcelona is also inseparable from excellent wing players.

The aging and departure of Alves, and Messi’s move to the middle, have greatly affected the quality of Barcelona’s attack.

However, they can still establish advantages by concentrating on the ball through strong points in the middle such as Messi, Busquets and Iniesta. In the two league games against Real Madrid this season, they have taken the lead in offense and control.

It can be seen that the problem of Barcelona is not that the core players of the team are weaker than Real Madrid, but that they have too many “core players”.

Alves, who shined in Juventus, would be a “green leaf” player if he stayed in Barcelona, ​​and he would have to bear heavy defensive tasks, which is exactly the work that he can no longer bear at his age.

So, when Barcelona fans complain that their team has given up an excellent player, perhaps they should think about whether Barcelona has retained too many “cores”?

For Barcelona, ​​what they lack most right now is actually excellent “green leaf” players, especially players who maintain a good “green leaf” mentality.

Because for Barcelona, ​​whether it is the former Habasit and Baibu, or the later Suarez and Neymar, their success is more based on the team tactics with Messi as the core.

We can clearly remember that in 2010, an unintegrated Ibrahimovic could also spoil the soup of “Dream Three”.

Therefore, when Suarez’s running speed decreases and Rakitic is a little slack, we will find that Barcelona has too many good players, but they cannot provide enough protection and help to their teammates. Iniesta, Busquets, Suarez, and Neymar can all be regarded as core players, which is actually too much for a team.

Gradually, when we find that Barcelona has become “Argentinian”, Messi’s helplessness is obvious.

(Real Madrid’s two full-backs have been of great help to their offense in the past two years)

On the other hand, Real Madrid has accumulated players with strong technical ability in the middle of the team, and arranged a large number of fast and strong running players on the wings.

Active running green leaf players such as Asensio and Vazquez have provided great help to the team.

The biggest advantage lies in the double-backs. Marcelo and Carvajal’s ability to advance must be the most enviable object of Barcelona at the moment.

In the past few years, Real Madrid has given up excellent players such as Ozil and Di Maria, and even put James Rodriguez, who was introduced for 80 million euros, and Danilo, the right back who was worth a fortune, on the shelf.

This is because they need more motivated “green leaves” to stay in the team to protect and assist the “red flowers”.

When Di Maria scored twice against Barcelona, ​​did Real Madrid need to regret it?

In fact, after winning the Champions League, if Di Maria, who gradually became a “red flower” from a “green leaf”, stayed in the team, it would be the beginning of Real Madrid’s decline.

Real Madrid is not ahead of Barcelona in the peak of the lineup, but ahead of its opponents in rationality and complementarity.

There is only Real Madrid here, hala madrid!

Why is the gap between Barcelona and Real Madrid getting bigger and bigger?

Because Neymar, a Neymar made the two teams completely change their ideas about signings. Now many young people in Real Madrid have improved their transfer ideas and completed the signing after Neymar failed to sign.

Barcelona let themselves go directly after Neymar left, and the failure rate was too high.

Let’s take a quick look at why the gap between the two teams is getting bigger and bigger now, mainly in terms of operations.

Barcelona is because of Neymar. He was indeed successful during his time at Barcelona, ​​but Paris gave him a release clause. After Neymar left, Barcelona had been looking for a new Neymar for several years, but failed, and since then it has embarked on a disastrous transfer and signing road.

At that time, Barcelona was a striker combination of Neymar, Messi and Suarez, which was very strong in La Liga and the Champions League. Neymar was also regarded as Messi’s successor by the team.

But I didn’t expect Paris to give a release clause directly, and Neymar left the team.

Then Barcelona received more than 300 million euros in transfer fees.

At this time, Barcelona began to expand, and no longer began to look for good young people in Brazil, and began to want to buy ready-made players.

Coutinho and Dembele both came under such circumstances, and the transfer fees were all over 100 million euros, right?

But Coutinho’s performance in Barcelona was very average.

As a result, Barcelona sold him at a low price. Dembele has not actually played at the ideal level. Although he renewed his contract to stay in the team, he is still far behind Neymar at that time.

Then the team found that they failed and started to look for Griezmann, and also directly gave him a penalty of more than 100 million euros. As a result, Griezmann did not play well and now he has returned to Atletico Madrid.

The failed transfer of these high-priced players has completely sunk Barcelona. After all, this team rarely went to Brazil to find some good young people to train during this period.

It is also rare to go to other leagues to find some young players to train.

The more critical problem is that this team has not had enough talents in La Masia in recent years. Now it seems that some talents have emerged, but there is a big gap with Messi, Xavi and Iniesta at that time.

The current operational difficulties of this team are related to the fact that Neymar left at that time and has been looking for a suitable successor.

Real Madrid has another idea and succeeded.

After Real Madrid failed to compete with Barcelona for Neymar, it did not say that it would give up introducing young Brazilian players, but chose to upgrade the scout system in Brazil.

Then there was a plan to discover Brazilian talented players. Vinicius and Rodrigo came to this team for this reason.

Now it seems that Vinicius’s training is successful, and Rodrigo is unstable, but his performance is still good.

These two are the successful Brazilian signings of Real Madrid after Neymar failed to sign.

In addition, this team is pragmatic and does not want to sell stars. Except for Hazard, of course, it is because Ronaldo left. The introduction of other players is basically not that kind of star level. This change is also the reason why Real Madrid’s operating cost is lower than Barcelona.

Therefore, this team learned from Neymar’s failed signing to upgrade the scout system, discover more good young people, and train young people.

Success means that a lot of transfer fees can be saved, and there will be a virtuous circle. But it does not mean that there are no problems. Now Real Madrid seems to be less attractive to some good players than before.

But the attraction to free players, that is, free agents, has increased. I don’t know whether this is good or bad.

But at least it is much better than Barcelona. And Real Madrid is now obviously more concerned about young people and more willing to make offers.

This is also the change of the team after Vinicius and Rodrigo succeeded.

Really, everything is caused by Neymar. If Barcelona had successfully recruited Coutinho and Dembele, maybe it wouldn’t be like this now, but there is no if in football.

The first round of the national derby of this season’s league will be staged at Camp Nou. Barcelona, ​​whose form has been slightly up and down recently, will face the current league leader at home. If they can win at home, then Barcelona will not only break Real Madrid’s unbeaten record in the league, but also narrow the points gap between themselves and their opponents to 3 points.

In the La Liga played at Camp Nou, Barcelona has a record of 43 wins, 18 draws and 19 losses, which is a big psychological advantage.

In the two rounds of league confrontation last season, both sides failed to defend their home court. Barcelona took the lead with a big score of 4-0, which made the Bernabeu booed, but Barcelona, ​​who returned to their home court with a 39-game unbeaten advantage in all competitions, was unexpectedly reversed by Real Madrid 2-1.

At present, the two sides have played against each other 232 times in all competitions. Barcelona is slightly inferior with 91 wins, 48 ​​draws and 93 losses, but Enrique’s team hopes to narrow the gap with its opponents with a victory.

In the past 5 league games, although Barcelona remained unbeaten with 3 wins and 2 draws, they only had a 1-goal advantage in the 3 wins. The Red and Blues have been in a slightly sluggish state in the league recently.

In addition, in the last 2 home league games, Barcelona only scored 1 goal. Whether MSN’s firepower can explode and whether the defense in the midfield and backcourt can be stable is the key to their winning the national derby.

On the other hand, Real Madrid is currently leading La Liga with a 6-point advantage, and has remained unbeaten with 10 wins and 3 draws. They have a certain advantage in the standings when they come to Camp Nou to challenge Barcelona.

Both teams are teams with strong offensive firepower in the league, currently leading the scoring list with 36 goals and 33 goals respectively, so whether Barcelona can curb the opponent’s offense will largely determine the trend of the game.

MSN is undoubtedly Barcelona’s biggest weapon for winning the game. After 13 rounds of the league, the three players have scored a total of 21 goals, accounting for 2/3 of the team’s goals.

If they can get enough support, it will be easier for Barcelona to win their opponents at home.

In the midfield, Iniesta (data) was injured in the match against Valencia in October and will miss this national derby, so Busquets and Rakitic’s partner will be Denis Suarez, Turan and Gomez. Whether the three players can fill the vacancy of Iniesta’s injury in this game and stabilize the rhythm of the game for the team will be a major factor in the trend of the game.

Umtiti is still injured in the back line, but the rest of the players are in good physical condition, and striving to shut out Real Madrid is their primary goal.

On the other hand, Real Madrid, Bale of the BBC combination is seriously injured and will miss this confrontation, but their primary goal is to strive to control the rhythm of the game at Camp Nou. The performance of midfielders Casemiro, Kroos and others may have a greater impact on the trend of the game than their forward players.

Since Guardiola became the head coach of Barcelona, ​​Barcelona’s midfield has become the strongest midfield in Spain and even in Europe. Their control of the ball and the pressure they put on opponents when defending are suffocating. However, in the past two seasons, Real Madrid has quietly gained the upper hand in the midfield competition, while Barcelona’s midfield is on the decline.

Barcelona’s midfield control is not as good as before. Barcelona’s passing and control requires extremely high requirements for players. The ups and downs of players’ state and the increase in age will affect the effect of passing and controlling football.

With Iniesta getting older and Busquets’ ups and downs, Barcelona’s midfield line is actually the line that the team needs to change the most.

Enrique actually made changes to this situation, that is, to minimize the time the football stays in the midfield and pass the ball to MSN as soon as possible, but once encountering a crazy frontcourt press like Real Sociedad before, Barcelona’s midfield is difficult to pass the ball effectively, and this black hole will be infinitely magnified.

The midfield formed by Kroos and Modric may not be the strongest, but it is the most suitable for Real Madrid. Compared with the tedious tasks of Barcelona’s midfield, Real Madrid pursues speed and a wide-open style of play, which makes their precise footwork when transferring the ball fully utilized, and Kroos and Modric’s dispatch in the midfield also enables Real Madrid to give full play to their advantages in speed and impact.

Barcelona has obvious shortcomings.

Compared with the right-wing combination of Messi and Alves in the peak period, now with Messi leaning towards the middle, Sergi Roberto has become the only one on the right side of Barcelona, ​​but it is really difficult for Roberto alone to support Barcelona’s right side.

The weakness of the right side actually brought a series of chain reactions to Barcelona, ​​and this has become Barcelona’s biggest shortcoming at present.

This national derby has largely exposed the weakness of Barcelona’s right side.

Messi appeared more in the middle in this game. The pressure exerted by Marcelo and Ronaldo on Barcelona’s right side made Rakitic’s position almost become a right winger. In fact, this is a very dangerous change, because it makes the wider middle road almost rely on Busquets alone to defend.

On the offensive end, Barcelona also has to rely more on Neymar’s ball advancement, which makes Real Madrid’s defense simpler, and they just need to strangle Neymar.

In this game, Neymar encountered great resistance when taking the ball on the left. Even if he took the ball, he had difficulty turning around to face the goal, and most of his passes were back passes. In addition to the shot that shook off Carvajal, Neymar actually created very few threats.

Although Roberto has worked very hard, he is still several levels behind Alves in his peak period. Barcelona’s right side has also become the target of all teams this season.

Compared with Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid does not have such a very obvious shortcoming. After Marcelo presses on the left side, there will indeed be a gap on the left side, but this season Real Madrid has tried its best to fill this gap through effective replacement.

When strong players fight, the slightest mistake may become the key to determine victory or defeat. Compared with Barcelona, ​​which has an obvious black hole on the right side, Real Madrid is undoubtedly more dominant in this regard.