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"...After the game started, after ten minutes of the game, we could already see very clearly that Sampdoria took a defensive counterattack in this game, which is not surprising at all. Sampdoria can only do so. Otherwise their goal will be sieved..." the commentator of Catalan TV jokingly said.

Di Francesco's Sampdoria is indeed playing a defensive counterattack, basically giving up possession of the ball completely, handing over the football to Barcelona, ​​and letting them back and forth in their own half, as long as Barcelona can't reach the center line, then Will not go up to grab. If Barcelona cross the halfway line, the intensity of the pressing is not very great.

Only when Barcelona approached Sampdoria's thirty-meter zone did their defensive intensity increase.

If Barcelona tried to break into Sampdoria's penalty area, they would encounter stubborn resistance from Sampdoria.

This is the tactic that most teams will adopt when facing Barcelona, ​​commonly known as "putting the bus".

When Mourinho led Inter Milan to face Barcelona away in the Champions League semi-finals, when they were sent off, Mourinho asked the team to put the bus decisively, and finally relied on the bus to defend until the end of the game. Although they lost the game, they still eliminated Barcelona with an overall score advantage, entered the final, and finally won the championship.

The bus tactic made Barcelona fans very upset. They thought it was an ugly tactic that killed the excitement of football and was a retrogression of modern football.

This is because once the opponent sets the bus like this, Barcelona cannot easily score goals and win the game without bloodshed, so Barcelona fans will be unhappy.

How can they be happy?

If there is a team that starts a match against Barcelona, ​​the full-back becomes a winger, and they will not come back if they press up, and the team's defense line has a lot of space behind them, they can run around at will, and they are also very polite when defending Barcelona players, try to avoid physical contact, if The players who were likely to knock down Barcelona immediately pulled back their strength, put their hands behind their backs, and watched the Barcelona stars dribble the ball away like butterflies around flowers with admiring eyes, and finally scored.

The Barcelona fans will definitely give their 120% respect and applause to such an opponent who knows how to appreciate the beauty of football and how to maintain beautiful football.

But what makes them feel very regretful is that this world is still ugly after all, and there are too few opponents who are willing to do this...

So it's not surprising that Barcelona are facing a defensive team. They also have a way to deal with this kind of team. Although it is a little troublesome, it does not mean that they cannot win.

In fact, Barcelona's traditional style of play happens to restrain this intensive defense.

The reason why Inter Milan was able to eliminate Barcelona by placing a bus is due to special circumstances. First of all, Inter Milan lost that game, just because the Champions League knockout matches are two rounds. Secondly, because the total score gap is too large, it is useless for Barcelona to score a goal, and the players are impatient, so it is naturally difficult to play what they are good at. Thirdly, the Inter Milan players were also united in that game, and the goalkeeper Cesar was just as open.

But many times, the teams trying to beat Barcelona by busting the bus didn't have such luck and circumstances.

As long as the Barcelona players are not in a hurry, deal with them patiently, and constantly use passing moves to find openings and mobilize the opponent's defense, they will always find the openings, and then they will suddenly speed up in the slow-paced back kick A straight pass can tear through the opponent's line of defense and create a murderous opportunity.

This is Barcelona's tried and tested trick.

Now they are using it on Sampdoria.

Sampdoria didn't come up to grab, they just passed back and forth in front of the Samp penalty area, waiting patiently for the opportunity.

Sampdoria's offensive method is very simple. If the ball is on their side, they will basically not overwhelm the offense, nor will they use short passes to advance the offense, which has a high success rate but requires a lot of manpower. Instead, he directly made a long pass to find Gao Zheng who was at the top.

Gao Zheng, as the arrow in this game, is the center forward. He is the closest player in the Sampdoria team to Barcelona's goal.

After he got the ball, he used his foot skills to find opportunities for Sampdoria.

But this kind of opportunity is really too rare. After all, the quality of offense still needs to correspond to the number of people. If there are not enough people, it will be very difficult.

So it is difficult for Sampdoria to threaten Barcelona's goal.

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Sampdoria is taking care of Messi. As long as Messi gets the ball, two players will immediately surround him and follow him closely to prevent him from getting the ball easily.

But even so, it can still be seen that the two Sampdoria players defending Messi seem to be struggling.

The strength of Messi is not only the strength of his personal ability, but also in the tactical system of Barcelona, ​​his strength can be effectively amplified, and in the cooperation with his teammates, he can produce a chemical reaction.

For example, when he tries to cut in from the right, whether it is the Barcelona striker near the penalty area or the midfielder, he can form a connection with Messi. Pass forward to the retreating striker, or pass the loan period to the midfielder who is supporting him, and then make an empty cut to make a variety of triangular cooperation with his teammates.

It makes it difficult for defensive players to defend - after all, when Messi passes the football, it is impossible not to defend the player who has the ball. The other players in Barcelona are not fuel-efficient lamps. If you defend Messi, you will lose the ball. Even if they can keep Messi scoreless throughout the game, but in the end they still lose the game, what's the point?

"Messi is here!" Italian commentator Carresa exclaimed when Messi began to dribble the ball from the wing to the center again.

Every time Messi dribbles like this, he can make him nervous, for fear that Sampdoria's defense will not be able to hold on and collapse.

This time Messi made a wall-hitting cooperation with Sanchez during the horizontal dribbling process.

He passed the football to Sanchez who retreated to respond, and then he accelerated violently, breaking through the middle of the two Sampdoria defenders. At the same time, Sanchez passed the football back to him. He stepped lightly and avoided Samp. Doria centre-back Alberto Massi's left-footed shot went straight to the goal after a tackle.

"Dangerous!" He Ping yelled.

The ball draws a clear arc around the back corner of the goal.

Although Romero made a save, the ball was still quite far away... Just when everyone thought that Sampdoria was going to concede the ball this time, the ball flew out of the baseline against the outside of the goal post!

"It's dangerous!" Caresa let out a sigh of relief.

The collective exclamation of the Sampdoria fans also sounded in the stands.

Messi, who didn't score, shook his head slightly, a little regretful.

Although Messi didn't score a goal, Barcelona coach Martino sat firmly on the coach's bench, neither anxious nor regretful.

The goal was indeed missed, but he has seen the crumbling of Sampdoria's defense in this attack. I believe that if this continues, Barcelona will definitely be able to score in a short time.

It's all just a matter of time.

Yes, and this time will not exceed the end of the first half at the latest.

He is very happy that his players have not underestimated the enemy and the game is developing on the right track.