For many years, the European Super Cup has always been a useless existence.

Every year, it is arranged to be held after the Champions League group stage draw, which is at the gap between the start of major leagues and the national team competition in September, making such a game invisibly a burden for the two participating teams.

Therefore, the European Super Cup has never been paid much attention to.

Otherwise, I would have moved away from the Louis II Stadium with a capacity of less than 20,000 people.

But this year's European Super Cup is obviously different.

As the entire European football world knows that Guardiola was born in Barcelona and was the direct disciple of Cruyff, but as a professional coach, he has been influenced by Gao Han for a long time. Not only did he personally witness the rise of the bed sheet army at Atletico Madrid, he also assisted Gao Han to reach its peak in Inter Milan.

It can be said that Guardiola's strengths are consistent with the passing and control style he advocated after coaching Barcelona.

At the age of 37, he coached his debut season and won the Champions League triple-winning champion. Guardiola reached his peak as soon as he debuted.

Although Gao Han has always deliberately avoided talking about Guardiola, everyone can see that the Barcelona coach was personally told by Gao Han. His philosophy is very similar to Gao Han, but his personal understanding of football is different from Gao Han.

The same situation also happened to another head coach, that is Valencia's new coach Unai Emery.

This head coach, who is the same age as Guardiola, can be said to be one of the most amazing coaches in La Liga this past season.

All fans familiar with Gao Han know that Emery was Gao Han's right-hand man when coaching Atletico Madrid. Later, after coaching alone, his performance was always good. In 2006, he was spotted by Almeria of the Spanish Second Division and took this Spanish Second Division team to the Spanish Second Division in one season.

As a result, in his first season in La Liga, Almeria won the ninth place in La Liga as a dark horse, and performed quite well against giant teams in many games, especially the home game defeated Real Madrid 2-0 and drew Barcelona 2-2, which left an extremely deep impression.

With his outstanding coaching last season, Unai Emery became famous and was valued by the powerful Valencia. He coached the Bats. In the first round of La Liga, he knocked Real Mallorca down 3-0 and achieved a good start.

What is even more impressive is that Unai Emery's coaching style is also deeply influenced by Gao Han. He focuses on high-level pressing and oppression, and insists on passing and controlling playing style as the core. This instantly makes people see the high-altitude mark on him.

The two former assistants shine in La Liga and European football at the same time. In addition, Gao Han's Spanish national team, who served as technical consultant, won the European Cup, all of this has made Gao Han's football philosophy unprecedentedly respected.

Even the UEFA Technical Committee attached great importance to this European Super Cup, and invited all the famous coaches who are about to participate in the annual European Head Coach Summit to sit in the chairman's stands and watch the game on the spot.

There is no doubt that this game will become the core topic of the upcoming European head coaching summit.

Moreover, Gao Han and Guardiola will both give keynote speeches, which is also the second time Gao Han has delivered a speech on such an important occasion.

At this moment, in the stands, many famous European coaches were watching the game attentively, and were constantly discussing every move of the game.

"Barcelona's possession is really good, and they almost incorporated this idea into their blood and bone marrow."

"Yes, look at Xavi and Iniesta, they have a tacit understanding. In addition, Busquets, Pique and Puyol are all from the youth training department. They are quite tacit understanding themselves. One kick is fast and stable."

Tacit understanding and passing are the most troublesome things in Barcelona last season, and they are also the core element of their ability to maintain an amazing ball possession rate. Many people present suffer deeply but can't do anything about it.

"But you see, from the first half so far, has Barcelona got a decent chance except Etoo's goal?" Ferguson asked, pointing at the stadium.

All the famous coaches present, and they all knew that Etoo's goal was at least 80% of the credit to Messi, and Messi relied on his personal performance purely on his own. The kind of performance with a flash of inspiration was simply unpredictable.

Strictly speaking, Marcelo did not make much mistake in that defense, but unfortunately, he met Messi. If Bayern Munich finally lost in this game, Marcelo would become the target of all fans' criticism.

But in fact, he has tried his best.

If it were any defender that defense, it would be difficult for Messi to defend against it.

"The defensive style of Gao Han's game is very distinctive. It is a wide range of activities than Dal and plays a sweeping role. Schweinsteiger and Modric are more important to stand, check for missing and fill in the gaps, and Barcelona's midfielder has been curbed."

Ancelotti thinks Gao Han’s midfield arrangement is very interesting and worthy of careful study.

To some extent, Vidal is like Gattuso, playing the role of a shit-smuggling stick.

"Not only that." Wenger shook his head. He is a well-known European tactical master and is very good at passing and controlling.

"I remember Gao Han once told me that the most threatening thing about the passing and controlling style is to push the team's ball control area to the front of the opponent's 30-meter area. The reason is very simple. In this area, control the ball and pull the opponent's defensive formation. As long as there is a loophole in the opponent's defense line, you can immediately catch it and launch an attack, create a threat, or even score a goal in the shortest time."

Wenger said this, it happened that Barcelona's ball was in the frontcourt and handed it to Henry, but Henry was defended by Ram and was forced to pass it back to Iniesta. Robben returned to the center line, forcing Iniesta to pass it back to the defense line, and the Dutch Pan also rushed towards the defense line as soon as possible.

Barcelona's three midfielders were forced to retreat to their own half to meet the pass from the defense line, while Bayern Munich's midfielders all pushed forward and launched a siege in Barcelona's halftime.

"Gao Han's defense in this game is very strong. The focus is on Barcelona's three midfielders, using three forwards to suppress the defense line, and then using Vidal to grab Busquets, forcing Barcelona to withdraw the midfield and thus to suppress Barcelona's three midfielders in the half."

Heinkes also agreed with Wenger's judgment, "After the midfield withdrawal, the distance between the three offensive players in the frontcourt was widened, and by blocking the three midfielders' shots and advancements in the frontcourt, Barcelona's offense was disconnected."

Judging from the game process, Bayern Munich's defensive formation is very meticulous and orderly. Barcelona has the ball in control, but it is difficult to pass the midfield and it is difficult to break into Bayern Munich's 30-meter area. They can only keep moving back and forth on the outside.

Busquets dragged in the end, Xavi and Iniesta were both suppressed in the center line, and there was a gap between the three offensive players in the frontcourt, making it difficult for the team to effectively pass the ball to the frontcourt.

If everyone was speculating before the game, how Gao Han would use to restrain Barcelona's ball-control tactics, then now, Gao Han can be said to have given a satisfactory answer.

But this style of play is not something that any team can use. At least one Vidal, and two Schweinsteiger and Modric with high tactical execution.

"But in this case, Bayern Munich is still at a disadvantage. Barcelona has already scored a goal and has a certain advantage. If Gao Han still fails to come up with a more powerful counterattack, it will be difficult to win this game."

"The midfield and frontcourt are so pressing up so well. Once the pressing tactics fail to work and Barcelona quickly hit the defense line, the possibility of conceding another goal is very high. Being two goals behind is already desperate for Bayern Munich."

Barcelona is good at controlling the ball, and now most of the balls are at Barcelona's feet, so more people are optimistic about Guardiola's Barcelona.

But Heinx doesn't think so.

"The ball is idle in Barcelona's halftime. You can say that Barcelona has the ball in possession and can create a threat when it passes to the frontcourt, but I can also say that Barcelona's midfield and backcourt are full of minefields. As long as there is a mistake in passing and receiving, it is caught by Bayern Munich and counterattack, they will be dead."

Ferguson nodded and sighed, "Yes, the scene is very stalemate. Both sides have opportunities and insist on it. Whoever can't stand it first will make mistakes. Barcelona's goal advantage is just to make their mistakes slightly larger than their opponents."

When the competition comes to this point, both sides are no longer competing with strength, but who is less likely to make mistakes.

But sometimes, the more critical the moment comes, the more likely it is to have problems.

Busquets was entangled by Vidal since the beginning. During a pass, he accidentally passed the ball a little less. Although Xavi also passed the ball back to Busquets before Vidal, Aguero suddenly returned to defense from the frontcourt, jumped out from behind, and poked the ball to Modric.

The Croatian midfielder did not wait for the ball to stop and directly made a curved ball to transfer the ball to the left.

Ribery quickly stepped forward and finally caught up with the ball on the left side of the penalty area. However, Alves returned to defense very quickly and got stuck behind Ribery and forced the Frenchman to the sideline.

Barcelona's central midfielder Puyor also went forward to attack left and right as soon as possible, while Pique stood in the penalty area and was ready to help.

After seeing Ribery's back facing the penalty area, she protected the ball, and before Puyol and Alves formed a cross-strike, she suddenly made a fake move and tricked Puyol and led the ball to the bottom line.

Alves and Puyol caught up with each other at the same time, Puyol even rushed to the bottom line, and Pique also blocked the situation immediately.

The intention of the three defensive players is very obvious. I block the passage to enter the penalty area and you can directly lead the baseline.

But Ribery was not tall, but she was very flexible. She dribbled the ball to the bottom line and suddenly stopped. Puyol thought he was going to cross. She was so scared that she stopped and turned around to block it. At this moment, Ribery grabbed a gap between Puyol and the bottom line, poked the ball into the penalty area, turned it out of the bottom line, and quickly caught up.

Three Barcelona defensive players surrounded Ribery at the same time, but even so, French Scarface still brought the ball out of the three of them with Lingbo's micro-step footwork.

Valdes blocked the left post and blocked Ribery's shooting angle. Abidal and Busquets no longer cared about anything else and rushed forward.

As soon as Ribery caught up with the ball, he passed it back from the bottom line. Vidal, who quickly followed the ball in the middle, directly faced the ball and shot it naturally, sending the ball into Barcelona's goal.

At this moment, Gao Han on the sidelines jumped up from the ground, grabbed his fists and shouted.

The audience cheered all over the sky, while Gao Han turned his head, looked at Guardiola, and smiled provocatively.

Is the goal first amazing?
Chapter completed!