"The way Portuguese sports play is a classic idea of weak teams playing strong teams."

In the audience. Thiago, a former youth team coach, watched the game nervously.

As a coach of a South American league, he is all too familiar with these things.

Weak teams often do not have a technical and tactical advantage when facing strong teams.

At such times, use tactical fouls to cut the rhythm of the game. That's how it's handled.

As for how the strong team will counteract, it depends on the presence of the coach and the players.

"At the start of the second half, Barcelona replaced midfielder Sergio Busquets. It looks like they're going to make huge changes in the midfield and will likely change the pace of the game. "

Sergio Busquets has been a central figure in Barca since he became a regular player at Barca.

As one of the few players in this era who can shoulder the responsibility of 433 squad and single back. The shameful play of immortality and the scope of functions on the field almost determine the direction of the entire Barça midfield.

Now, replacing Busquets means Valverde changing his original formation and arrangement.

Sure enough, it was exactly as everyone predicted. As soon as Paulinho came on, Barsana's entire midfield arrangement changed.

Rakitic has played the most of the three midfield roles, but compared to Sergio Busquets, he doesn't look like a complete single back.

Digne stayed more at the back and no longer took on the task of attacking forward. The frequency of Semedo's forward insertion is also limited, and Pique runs more forward, pulling to the lower back area.

In this way, Pique effectively shares the responsibility of the back with Rakitic. The remaining three defenders, I prevented the lack of defensive end after Pique pushed forward,

and the young Roberto and the stronger Paulinho were freed to fully engage in the midfield because of the task of handling dangerous balls in midfield.

Malone went from a striker, more retreating to the midfield position. Participate in the midfield strangulation of both sides to make up for the numerical disadvantage.

Such tactics are actually born out of the thinking of legendary Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola.

Whether it's Bayern or Manchester City, Pep Guardiola has used similar thinking.

In his football philosophy, a single back plays a crucial role.

And if Rodri is considered as a single back, it is not up to the level of peak Busquets.

Pep Guardiola's solution chose to make Walker a fullback frequently in defensive rounds. Including the later development of Stones' frequent front-to-back position, he also used a defensive round to help Rodri.

Valverde is well aware that he wants to get the other two midfielders to go all out in the midfield strangle. Then they must be freed from more backfield tasks.

Busquets has a better ability to handle dirty balls, but he can't use all three substitutions in midfield.

With the intensity of this game at Sporting Portugal, Busquets may not be able to stick to the whole game. Weighing it up, Valverde still used Pep Guardiola's thinking.

Use Pique to push forward to help Rakitic, who has slightly inferior back ability, defuse the pressure.

The tactical change clearly paid off

, with Barcelona threatening a Sporting Portugal goal just five minutes into the second half.

Taking advantage of a stoppage error by B Fei, Malone successfully seized on his shortcomings of insufficient reverse foot technique. Seize the opportunity to launch a quick counterattack.

William Carvalho wanted to step forward and press, but after fusing Torres' speed, Malone was faster than William Carvalho had previously learned in the video.

Picking the ball on the inside of his footbow, Marlon swept past William Carvalho and completely threw him away with a light croquette.

Taking advantage of Sporting Portugal's rare opportunity to disconnect from the midfield, Malone instantly adjusted his body, completed the acceleration and rushed to the Sporting Portugal penalty area at full speed.

William Carvalio, who was fully defensive, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately chose to slap Malone from behind.

Although it is at his home stadium, such a move has undoubtedly caused dissatisfaction among away fans.

"Fuck, these guys really can't afford to lose! Is this a kick, or a fight?

"These Portuguese dogs, their balls kick like a piece of!"

"Incompetent coward from Portugal, kicking like a piece of shit!"

The away fan area erupted into boos, and the old horse head in the VIP box stood up excitedly and cursed William Carvalho.

But in fact, such tactical fouls are more from the careful arrangement of head coach Jesus.

Before the game, he made it clear to the players. In the face of Barcelona, once you feel that you can't prevent this move, you must not hesitate to take a tactical foul.

William Carvalho knew that Malone started quickly, and immediately chose to foul after realizing that he was likely not to catch up.

And this also gave Barcelona a set-piece opportunity up front. This set-piece is given a relatively long distance and it is impossible to hit the goal directly.

Messi's set-piece chose to be hoisted into the Sporting Portugal penalty area.

One of the few highs in Barcelona's front, Suarez jumped high and smashed the ball into Sporting Portugal's goal.

Coates subconsciously stretched out his leg to intercept, just blocking the path of the ball's fall, but this caused the ball to change its line and fly towards the goal of Sporting Portugal at an extremely tricky angle.

Such a ball path, Patricio can only look at the ball and sigh.

In the 51st minute of the match, Barcelona managed to pry open the door of Portuguese sport with an own goal created from a set-piece in front.

The appearance of this ball instantly changed the trend of the entire game.

Portuguese Sport, which originally planned to keep the situation chaotic and then look for an opportunity to steal chickens, had to take the initiative to attack.

Barcelona, who have a one-goal lead, have been able to wait for the space revealed after Sporting Portugal has pressed forward.

In the 50th minute of the match, Sporting Portugal, who attacked aggressively, got a rare opportunity up front. Striker Dumbia scored the ball and pushed all the way to the edge of Barcelona's penalty area.

However, in the face of the defense of Pique and Umtiti, Dunbia lacked confidence and chose to continue to break forward, but found an opportunity to hook his foot towards Pique and then fell forward.

But the experienced Pique had already seen through all this timely seizure and gave up his place. Seeing this, Dunbia wanted to take advantage of this gap to shoot. Forcibly twisting itself already leans forward. But he still fell to the ground after a scream, and a tearing pain came from his ankle.

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