In the end, Manchester City defeated Wigan Athletics in his home B0, disappointing Chelsea.

But as John Mortson said, the 22-day Devil schedule has only started in less than half, and there are still four games. No one can tell what will happen between these four games.

Let's take a look at the first match between Manchester City and Barcelona.

It came four days later, saying it was fast or not, and saying it was slow or not.

Everyone turned their attention to the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals four days later.

Manchester City itself is even more so.

In fact, just after the game ended, the whole team turned their attention to the Champions League.

Benitez only gave the players half a day to rest, and then began to prepare for the Champions League.

The coaching staff prepared for the competition even earlier.

After confirming that his opponent was Barcelona, ​​Benitez began preparations. He used his connections in Spain to help him find out about Barcelona's confidence, and found details of every player, and even every substitute player with few chances to play had a game report.

Next is tactical research and countermeasures for Barcelona.

Barcelona is at their peak now, and they have played their pass and ball control style to the extreme.

The players cooperate tacitly, offensive and defensive balance, and they also have such an amazing existence as Messi, which is why he prevents Barcelona from becoming mediocre. He has the ability to change the situation. When Barcelona cannot use the overall situation, it is time for Messi to use his sharp knife to play.

That's why Barcelona's opponents are in pain.

They can often defend against Barcelona as a whole, but cannot defend against Messi. After putting too much defensive attention on Messi, they also gave other Barcelona players an opportunity to take advantage of.

Especially Iniesta, the low-key killer.

He plays in the midfield, not the kind of striker who scores goals, and he does not score many goals.

But his goals are critical.

Plus midfield brain Harvey.

There are also midfielders like Buzquez who controls the rhythm in the backcourt. From the perspective of the cards, Barcelona is almost impeccable.

Last year, Manchester City remained unbeaten in all competitions, but they only won one FA Cup and one Community Shield Cup, and the value of these games was overshadowed in front of Barcelona. Many people mentioned the past 209 years, and the first thing they thought of was Barcelona, ​​not Manchester City.

Barcelona made their rival Real Madrid bow down in the league and defeated all sides in the Champions League.

It seems that no one can stop them anymore.

This is a bit like the glory of the past, and almost no one can stop him from glory of the past.

But Rongguang is one person, Barcelona is a team. If one person is missing, the combat effectiveness of this team may decline, but it is still above the level.

Moreover, before this game, Barcelona's main players were not injured or sick.

How to deal with Barcelona?

The difficulty for Benitez is that the first game was at home, and he couldn't even play a defensive counterattack.

You have to score goals and win at your home court. If you win less, you will not be safe. If you can win, you will have to win a big score. However, considering Barcelona's strength, Benitez doesn't want to win a big score anymore. As long as you can win, you can even lose the ball.

In this way, when they go away in the second leg, Manchester City can play the defensive counterattack they are best at and familiar with, relying on the speed of Glory to harass them in front, and everyone hoards the backcourt.

In this way, the first round cannot be a defensive counterattack.

But if you play against Barcelona...

In this world, the team that played against Barcelona lost badly in the end...

Benitez is unwilling to take this risk.

Once you lose the ball in the first leg, the away game in the second leg will be more passive.

What should I do?

Benitez grabbed the hair that was not much above his head and thought in distress.

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When Benitez racked his brains to deal with Barcelona, ​​the most eye-catching picture of Glory on the computer screen on Barcelona.

Guardiola has studied Glory to the point where he uses Glory's photos to do his own work on the computer desktop.

As for other Manchester City players, he has never been so concerned about it.

He knew very well that Manchester City's team was different from Barcelona. Even without Messi, Barcelona is still a very competitive team. What about Manchester City? Without glory, they will be nothing.

So it is not so much about "how to deal with Manchester City", but rather about "how to deal with glory".

Guardiola has long heard of how great the glory is, but he has not studied it in depth.

Now taking advantage of this opportunity, he found that the more he studied, the more he felt more scared.

Because this glory is almost without weakness

In terms of physical fitness, you can't tell that he is like a person with serious ankle injuries. His speed is slower than before the injury, and his explosive power is stronger.

Although Rongguang is not the kind of player who looks very muscular at first sight, his strength is not weak. He can play easily in the Premier League, which is known for his toughness and physical confrontation, which shows how good his physical confrontation is.

Physical energy? "The lack of physical strength" never happens to Rongguang. He is like a nuclear engine with wireless energy. For this reason, a special institution has done statistics. Rongguang's sprinting speed at the beginning of the competition is almost the same as his sprinting speed at the end of the competition. Even if there is a decrease, it will only drop slightly. Compared with the ninety-minute game time, it can be ignored. Even in some competitions, Rongguang has also run faster than the beginning of the competition.

Physically, Glory has no weaknesses at all, and he is a player who is very consistent with the requirements of modern football.

Technically, Glory is also very powerful. He is very skilled in ball control. Although he may not be as "flower" as those players who rely on fun to please fans, if you think about him being a person who can use a oxtail to fake moves in high-speed running, you can understand how good his ball control is.

There are many players who are good at controlling the ball at a standstill or slow speed, so let them take a high speed to see it? The ball control is terrible. It is recognized that it is difficult to control the ball at a high speed, but this is no pressure for Rongguang. If you want to grab the football from his feet? Maybe you have to get a little bit of a sudden.

Rongguang's passing skills may not be as good as Xavi, but for a player like him, it is completely enough. He occasionally makes a dazzling move like heel assist. But more often, he tear open the opponent's defense line during the dribbling process and then sends the football out. As long as it can pass accurately, it does not require that the pass be imaginative.

Not to mention Rong Guang's shooting skills, just look at his goals. You can tell that it is impossible for a player with poor shooting skills to score so many goals in his career, let alone most of the time when he is not a former striker.

Rong Guang's shooting ability is also reflected in his colorful shooting methods. In addition to the normal shot with his right foot, he also has an outer arc ball on the outside of his right foot, which is often effective when cutting in the right side. In addition, his strong shooting with his left foot is also excellent. In addition, his heading is also very powerful. His excellent speed gives him excellent bounce ability. Many of his headings rely on excellent bounce force to beat the opponent's top score. Unless the defensive player's position is very good, he may suffer from Rong Guang's losses in the top.

In addition to his left and right feet and headers, Rongguang is also an excellent free kick player. His free kick has only been practiced in the last two seasons, but he has made rapid progress and has mastered the free kick skills of calculating the left foot arc and the right foot elevator ball.

If there is any technical problem, it may be that the glory of long passes and crosses is not particularly good. But as a midfielder closer to the goal, no one will blame him for his crosses and long passes - it is almost impossible to use them. Of course, he will also break through crosses on the wing, but his crosses are different from those in the traditional sense. It is not a cross from the arc high ball outside the penalty area, but a cross from the wing to the penalty area, causing a crowd in front of the goal to overturn the ball, and then send the football to the middle.

Such a ball does not require any arc, just send it to the space accurately on the ground.

The glory is also very strong in terms of mental quality. This can be seen from his rapid recovery after suffering from a serious ankle injury. He seems to have no shadow of the ankle injury.

And it can be clearly seen that Rong Guang is a player in a big scene. The more important the game is, the stronger the opponent is, the better his performance will be. It seems that he feels like "when you meet strong", it is strong."

There is another very powerful example of reflecting the good quality of the will of the glory, that is, the penalty kick.

Rongguang is not the number one free thrower in any team, but this is not because Rongguang’s penalty kick is not good. In fact, Rongguang has sent several penalty kicks, and all the penalty kicks he scored, with a shooting percentage of 100%. The reason why he did not play penalty kicks was once asked by the media, and Rongguang’s answer at that time made many people speechless.

Because scoring a penalty kick is too simple, Rong Guang disdains to rely on penalty kicks to increase his goals.

Only those who are glorious can say such things...

The glory in the past was still a bit "independent", but after Benitez put the captain's armband on him, his problems in this regard were much more restrained, and he focused more on assisting his teammates, creating scoring opportunities for his teammates, and hiding himself behind the scenes.

So you can't defend Glory by increasing the number of defenders. You can arrange four people to follow Glory all the time, but what should other Manchester City players do? The balance of this game is completely broken.

Even if Manchester City players are not good, isn’t it the same as in training if they want to score without anyone to guard against?

Moreover, Sneider, David Silva and Berbatov are not unknown people in international football.

But if you only arrange one person or two people to defend the glory, it doesn't make sense...

Although only one person is required to deal with Manchester City, there is actually no difference, and Barcelona has no more advantages than Manchester City.

Guardiola kept rubbing the top of his head, which had few hairs without a few, and wanted to pull his hair in trouble, but every time he grabbed it, all he could only catch it...
Chapter completed!