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Chapter 405 The No. 1 Battle of Camp Nou (two-in-one chapter)

"This is Camp Nou, maybe this may be the most important game of the La Liga in the 008/09 season." Dolores said loudly in the commentator's seat of Camp Nou, "Barcelona is playing against Ibiza at home, the second place in the league against the first in the league, the real top battle."

Players on both sides have already appeared.

When the broadcast introduced the names of Barcelona players, Camp Nou cheered loudly. When introducing the names of Ibiza players, the booing on the scene was so tinnitus.

The lineup of both sides was released today during the live TV broadcast.

Barcelona's lineup: 1-Valdes; 0-Alves, 4-Marcos, Cáceres, 16-Silvinho; 6-Xavi, 4-Ayature, 8-Iniesta; 10-Messi, 9-Etoo, 14-Henry;

"Compared with the first leg of the two sides in Ibiza, Barcelona has only two changes. One is that Cáceres replaced the injured Pique, and the other is that Sylvinho replaced the suspended Puyol and played as the left-back."

"In the first leg of the two sides, Barcelona suffered a crushing defeat on the away game. Guardiola's layout was also questioned after the game, especially in the midfield lacking necessary protection, Yaya Toure became Ibiza's breakthrough point. However, this time, Guardiola still arranged a midfield lineup that was exactly the same as the first leg. The reason is very simple." Dolores paused for a moment, took a sip of water, and continued, "Ibiza suffered a serious injury. Modric, Reus, Alba and Aubameyang will all be absent due to injuries. Ibiza's attack ability will be greatly affected, and Barcelona's central defender will be under much pressure."

Ibiza's home team:

Goalkeeper: 13-Claudio Bravo;

Defence line: - Bolaruz, 3 - Koscheerney, 15 - Hummels, 4 - Henrik;

Midfielder: 4-Marklele, 5-Clement, 3-Mark Corosas, 7-Juan Mata, 10-Sebastian Deisler;

Forward: 9-Robert Lewandowski.

"Compared with the first leg of the two sides, Ibiza's lineup has changed a lot due to injury, especially in the frontcourt, Reus, Modric and Aubameyang are absent."

Fang Jue stood by the visiting team coach's seat, put his hands in his pockets, staring at the field.

Assistant coach Sebalos signaled Fang Jue to return to the coach's seat to sit.

Because the visiting team coach's seat is close to the Camp Nou stand, you can clearly hear the insulting voices of Barcelona fans.

There is no hatred between Ibiza and Barcelona. Of course, Ibiza used to want to make a grudge with Barcelona but couldn't reach this big boss. However, after Fang Jue coached Ibiza, he first gave Barcelona a "shamed exit" in the Copa del Rey. In the first leg of the La Liga and the 9th round of the league this season, he beat Barcelona to a six-to-two and was killed by the newly promoted team. This was regarded as a great humiliation by Barcelona, ​​so even if this is a grudge.

"It's okay." Fang Jue shook his head indifferently. In his opinion, the more the booing the Barcelona fans were, the more they were afraid of him. He was even a little proud of it. Not all cats and dogs could make Barcelona people boo you crazy.

Sebalus ignored Fang Jue. He didn't want to be scolded by Fang Jue on the sidelines. His psychological quality is not as good as Fang Jue.

At this time, the players on both sides lined up, shook hands, exchanged team flags, guessed coins, picked sides, and completed the routine before the game started.

The camera gave Barcelona's star Messi a close-up. After Ronaldinho transferred to Milan, Messi became Barcelona's well-deserved number one star. This young star, who is under one year old, won applause from the media and fans with his outstanding performance.

In the coin guessing session, Ibiza captain Desler won Barcelona captain Xavi, so Ibiza got the right to pick the side and Barcelona kicked the ball first.

...

With the whistle from referee Gilles, the entire court was drowned in the huge cheers of Camp Nou.

Henry passed the ball kicked by Etoo to Messi.

Messi passed the football to Iniesta behind him, and he ran forward by himself. At this moment, Henry and Etoo were already sprinting.

Iniesta made a move to pass back to Xavi, but suddenly started. He first spiked the ball over Desler, and then continued to move forward, passing the ball out before the double-team between Corosas and Mata was completed.

Messi received the ball and turned around. Clement's flying tackle came. The Argentine was startled and jumped up, avoiding the flying tackle. The football went out of the sideline, and Barcelona's front-court sideline ball.

"Messi! Clement! This flying tackle is fierce, but it did not have a foul, and the shovel was very accurate." Dolores shouted.

"The rough tackle is a flying tackle with injustice!" Barcelona's commentator obviously didn't see it this way, because Clement's flying tackle really looked fierce. If Messi hadn't jumped up to avoid it on his own initiative, it might have caused Messi to be injured.

Guardiola frowned. Although this was only the first offensive and defensive battle since the start of the game, he still made him more vigilant and captured a trace of information.

Is this to deal with Messi with a tough and fierce defense?

Guardiola decided to continue to observe. If he only used this simple method to defend Messi, this would disappoint Guardiola.

Guardiola is not worried because this method is very common. Nowadays, many teams use this method to restrict Messi when facing Barcelona. At most, one person is staring at people, but the effect is very average.

Guardiola looked at the young and handsome colleague not far away and hummed in his nose. He felt very unhappy when he saw Fang. This was a natural rejection. To be honest, in the past year, Guardiola coached Barcelona, ​​Barcelona's performance has been quite outstanding. Currently, he is 6 points ahead of his arch rival Real Madrid in the league. This is not easy. You should know that Real Madrid is the defending champion, and his playing style and lineup are very stable and mature. Guardiola took over a bit of chaos. At the same time, the star Ronaldinho has just left Barcelona; in addition, in the European Champions League, Barcelona has also reached the quarterfinals, and Barcelona has also reached the final of the Cup of del Rey. It can be said that he is in the third line.

This result was achieved in the first coach of the first team, which can be said to be a very brilliant record. It is logical that Guardiola should be flowers and applause and endless praise. However, unfortunately, none of these, or much less than expected, because these flowers and applause belong to Ibiza head coach Fang Jue. This La Liga promoted team ranked first in the league, which attracted a lot of attention and applause.

Moreover, Ibiza can be said to have stepped on Guardiola and Barcelona to take the lead, which made Guardiola even more depressed.

He stared at Fang Jue's handsome face, and finally glared at Fang Jue's thick and beautiful black hair fiercely, Guardiola hummed unhappily again.

However, soon, Guardiola had no energy to envy Fang Jue's hair because he noticed that his team was in trouble.

Obviously, Ibiza and Fang Jue have sufficient preparations for this game. They have very complete plans for how to defend Barcelona, ​​especially Messi, and actually present these plans.

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"Ibiza's midfielder and back line are very close, giving Barcelona any room for activity," Dolores said. "Ibiza's defense will try to push up. If the defense line is dragged back, the team's midfielders will also be slightly behind, so that the space between their midfield and defense lines will be very small."

"Yes, that means it will be very difficult for Messi to catch the ball in this area."

"It's even more difficult for Messi, whether it's Etoo or Henry and Iniesta to easily get the ball and push the ball."

"Marklele, Clement and Corosas, and Ibiza will even change the lineup into three midfielders at the right time, while Desler and Mata also retreated deeply."

"I even have a feeling that Alba, Reus and Modric's injuries were absent, which prompted Fang Jue to make up his mind to adopt this more practical and direct conservative tactic in this game." David Zamora spread his hands and said, "because they have no choice."

"It's not surprising that such a performance happened to Ibiza. The team created by Coach Fang Jue is very strict in terms of iron and discipline. They run actively and fight for money. They are like a precision machine, and every player can complete the coach's deployment." Dolores praised, "and this also makes Messi very depressed in the game."

"Ibiza is also very focused on helping each other," said David Zamora. "Ibiza has Marklele, Clement, and Corosas. They always keep two people looking for Messi. Other players in Barcelona always look for Messi in the game and want to pass the ball to him, so it makes it easier for Ibiza to defend. They will always limit Messi and there will always be at least two players looking to defend him."

From the commentator's praise of Ibiza's tactics and performance, it can be seen that Ibiza is quite successful on the defensive end, especially in the strategy of defending Messi.

At this time, it was already forty-one minutes of the first half. Although Barcelona had absolute initiative in the game and their possession rate was as high as 71%, they could never get too good opportunities on the offensive end. The score on the field was still zero to zero at this time.

"Maybe, Guardiola should try to change his tactics and choose to seek an offensive route from Etoo or Henry without going through Messi for the time being." Dolores said.

"Yes, Ibiza's defense against Messi was successful, especially Bolarus. He pressed Messi very successfully. As long as Messi gets the ball, either he or Clement will always go up and force it as soon as possible."

"Because the Ibiza people know very well that if Messi gets the ball comfortably, it will become very difficult to deal with. So they have to make sure that there are enough people around him to defend him before Messi gets the ball, or the moment he gets the ball. Because once Messi raises the speed, it's hard for you to defend him."

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"Messi has been restricted by us. Why doesn't Guardiola change his tactics?" Sebaslos asked in confusion.

"He is training troops." Fang Jue said, "Because Barcelona is taking the initiative now and we don't have much threat on the offensive end, so Guardiola is not in a hurry. He is practicing the tactics when Messi is being defended by a key defense."

"This is a top-ranked battle." Sebaslos exclaimed. That guy really dares to play like this in such an important game?

"This guy is very confident." Fang Jue said, "He has a clear goal. Let's put it this way, he has a complete tactics and team building plan. In this team building plan, Messi is crucial. He needs to formulate various tactics around Messi and needs to withstand a lot of tests."

"Maybe it's not the plan, it's just this guy's sudden decision, but, in fact, this guy is training us for troops." Fang Jue was very upset and continued.

Sebalos still felt incomprehensible, "He doesn't want to win or win the La Liga title?"

"Of course I want it." Fang Jue said with a bad expression, "So, it's just like this in the first half. If Messi can get out of the predicament in this situation and help Barcelona score a goal, then it's naturally the best. But if not, you watch it, Guardiola will change the lineup in the second half."

As he said that, Fang Jue glanced at the home team coach's seat and snorted heavily. This bald man is so unique and proud. Do you think Barcelona can solve the battle in half a game?

When the referee finally blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the score on the field did not change, and there was no goal. In the first half, both sides played zero to zero.

"Haha, let's see, it's logical that Ibiza can accept zero to zero, but Barcelona is not very satisfied with the situation. After all, Barcelona has a firm initiative in the first half, but" Dolores shouted, "We see, Fang Jue looks angry and has a bad face, while Guardiola has a smile."

The broadcasting camera captured such a scene, and the commentators were amused, and they felt a little puzzled.
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