In the early morning of Beijing time today (21st), the 29th round of La Liga focused battle, Real Madrid lost 0-4 at home to Barca, and the 5 consecutive wins in all competitions ended. With this victory, Barca ended their five-game losing streak against Real Madrid.
Before we begin today's article, let's insert a sad message. This afternoon, a Boeing 737 passenger plane of China Eastern Airlines disappeared over Wuzhou while on a mission on a Flight from Kunming to Guangzhou. At present, the crash of the aircraft has been confirmed. There were a total of 132 people on board, including 123 passengers and 9 crew members.
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For many years, Barca fans have accepted that Guardiola can not come back, Iniesta and Xavi have gone away, and even this season even Messi has gone, everyone thinks that the previous Barca dream team seems to never come back, beautiful football has been far away from Barca. However, under the leadership of Xavi, the beautiful Barça and the deadly Barca were revived, and the 4-0 victory over Real Madrid at the Bernabeu was like the 6-2 victory over Real Madrid by Barca coached by Guardiola, which stamped the new dream team of Barca.
Xavi has always been a staunch inheritor of Cruyff and Guardiola doctrine, as he is a legendary player for Barca and has always been a favorite of fans, which eventually led to Laporta choosing Xavi to replace Koeman in the first half of the season. But Xavi is not completely undisputed, Xavi's Barca failed to win Benfica at home, and Bayern still lost the same 0-3 as Coman Barca away from playing, failing to prevent Barca from leaving the Champions League. In the Copa del Rey, Xavi's Barça was eliminated by Bilbao, the Spanish Super Cup was eliminated by Real Madrid, leaving Barca with a situation where the season was empty, and even Xavi praised Barca's performance after the Western Super Cup, believing that Barca should win the game more, and was ridiculed as: Barça has degenerated to celebrate a defeat. A Madrid media outlet once called Xavi a pirate of Guardiola: he studied Guardiola's philosophy and learned Guardiola to speak, but he did not have Guardiola's grades. And some Barcelona commentators who "understand" Xavi often say: Xavi's philosophy is more acceptable to Barça than Koeman, but he and Koeman have encountered the same dilemma, no one can score goals is not scoring, your football philosophy is profound, the player's position is exquisite, and it is not the same without a kick in front of goal.
Whether Xavi's arrival helped Barca complete their rebirth, or whether Barca club's winter signings helped the team to rebirth, it is still controversial. For example, Dani, who firmly supported Harvey, said: "Don't say every day that Koman has no one to use, but what about the people koeman used before?" Now De Jong is playing better than before, Busquets is much better than before, Alva is playing at the best level, Dembele is playing at the highest level at Barca, are these not the credits of Xavi? And the faction that thinks Xavi should not actually be overestimated believes that without a front line introduced by Barca in the winter, Barca is still nothing, at most like the Western Super League against Real Madrid, playing well, but still can't win the game.
In fact, we can't divide Harvey's contribution and the club's winter reinforcements. Barca's rise did begin with a 4-2 win over Atletico after the winter transfer market closed, and it was also the first game after the introduction of three strikers Ferran, Aubameyang and Adama Traore in the winter, Barca scored 24 goals in 7 games from the match against Atletico to the current game against Real Madrid, while in the previous 21 league games Barca have scored a total of 32 goals, and in the last 7 games, 5 of these last 7 games have scored 4 goals in a single game. In their first 21 league games, Barca have only played one game in which they have scored four goals or more, and that is the first 4-2 win over Real Sociedad in the league.
Aubameyang has become a davis-like figure for Barca this season, in the 2003-04 season, Barca had a winter loan juve defender Davis, helped Barca to surpass Real Madrid in 18 points behind Real Madrid and finally won second in La Liga (champions Valencia that year), while Aubameyang helped Barca at the other end, he came to Barca 11 times, except for the first 2 league games to find physical condition as a substitute, since Aubameyang played the main force, scoring 9 goals in the last 9 games, It is only with such goal efficiency that Xavi embraces the offensive style of play to get good results, and even Harvey himself said of signing Aubameyang: "Signing Aubameyang is like a gift that fell from the sky, let alone free." More Barca fans quipped after the battle of the century: The best game should be Arsenal manager Arteta, that is, he and Aubameyang had an awkward fight and gave Aubameyang to Barca. It is amazing that Barca has such a special football system, and the Gabonese striker hardly needs to adapt to time to start the field goal mode. Commentator Minglia said after Aubameyang scored his first goal: "See? That's the gap, that's the player that matters, and now that someone has finally scored, it's been in vain to play fancy before and no one is in front of goal. ”
Xavi has been in charge at Barcelona for 4 months, and if it is not certain whether Xavi will create an era in Barca, then after the big victory over Real Madrid, it can almost be concluded that an era belonging to Xavi has arrived. Commentator Dani said: "We have said so much before, Guardiola will not come back, Barca will not play beautiful football again, saying that Messi, Iniesta and Xavi on the pitch are gone, no one in Barca can play beautiful football anymore, but Xavi proved that even if these people are gone, Barca can still play the world's most famous football with a group of newcomers." We can even not compare Xavi and Koeman, if koeman coached a season and a half the club is financially strapped, it can be compared with Valverde when he was in charge, although he also won the league title, Barca have Messi, Griezmann, the old Suarez, but will only cross back and forth, play boring football, and Xavi's current squad is much cheaper than then, but can play better football, these can not prove Xavi's decisive contribution to Barca? ”
After the 4-0 victory over Real Madrid, the media unanimously called Xavi the new Guardiola of Barca, and "Guardiola" finally returned to Barca. But Harvey himself remained calm and Guardiola-like, "The 4-0 win made me more powerful. I'm still a newbie. I don't need any personal glory, I don't feel like it's a win that belongs to me personally, it's a victory that belongs to the players, to the Barca family. I don't want personal glory either, I just want barcelona glory. We have to enjoy the win, but the work will continue to be done, and after today we will have to think about the match against Sevilla. ”
Real Madrid's dark night ahead of the evil omen, an fat myth who can guess?
Can you imagine such a scenario? Around 70 minutes into the game, Real Madrid fans have begun to leave, this is at the Bernabeu, this is a national derby! Everyone understands that there is no room for redemption by this time. But that's not the point, and I've seen a defeat worse than that. The point is how awkward the game looks: 442 starts, half-time changes to 343, and a black jersey!
The black jersey is a commercial contract, but it doesn't bode well. But you can't blame a rout on the jersey. Then there is only one question: what exactly is Ancelotti thinking? Not the idea of this night, but the strategy of sticking to a lineup for a long time, and finally seeing the negative effects erupt at the most inappropriate time. Benzema's absence is both an anachronistic and theoretically foreseeable, circumvented and remedied. Since it is foreseeable, where are the measures of circumvention and remedy? Not at the beginning, not 3 months ago, not today, and probably not next week.
In fact, in terms of preparation, the biggest surprise of Real Madrid that night was Bale's absence. The pre-match media qualified the starting line-up, and fans disagreed, but the Welshman was the player with the most votes in the centre position. However, 2 hours before the start of the match, Bale was not in the competition list, and the reason was still a muscle problem. Ancelotti looked depressed after the game and said he didn't know what was going on. It seems that according to the original plan, Bell is likely to start. Plan B can't be used on the spot, so what about Plan C and Plan D? After all, there are still 2 regular strikers in Jovic and Mariano, and 3 strikers have been made up with Isco and Asensio before.
As a result, Ancelotti's plan was to play 442 instead! Bring the Modric location ahead of schedule. Xavi was obviously startled, and Barca began with a tentative moment: That's it?! Real Madrid also tried to control the ball in the first 10 minutes of the midfield, sawing with Bassala, but there was no center in the box, only Vinicius and Rodrigo found their own space, and the threat they could create could be imagined. As can be seen from Rodrigo's right shot from brushing the data, such a good opportunity was lost, and it was too difficult for Valverde to run and deliver such a good goal. Indeed, there was a chance that Militao would send a straight plug to create a one-handed opportunity for the transposition of Vinicius. However, Winnie the First Half of the Season is gone, and Vinnie, who was 2 years ago, is back. He obviously missed the best starting opportunity and was already a mistake, and the bigger mistake was that he actually wanted to fake the penalty under the referee's eyes, and he also argued with Pique with a blank face. From that moment on, the game was set and the Real Madrid mentality had already lost.
Ancelotti faced the absence of Felan Mendy at the beginning of his coaching, and whether to let Nacho or Alaba play on the left was a question at the beginning, but it was still undecided at the end of the season. Carvajal was frequently beaten behind him, and Nacho was a frontal defender of Dembele who was completely inferior. Arabba and Militão, one after the other, formally sandwiched Aubameyang, in fact the two sandwiched a lonely. The first time Alaba chose to raise his leg high enough to reach the ball was outrageous enough, and then he was pushed clean and refreshing by Oba again. Ancelotti's prescription for this is: since 4 defenders can't defend, let's play 3 defenders, one-on-one should work.
In the first half, if there is a 0-2 save, in the second half, the audience does not understand to watch, and the players do not know how to play 343 is a complete ruin to the game. To say why in the last 30 minutes, the two sides seemed to play back and forth, mainly because Barca felt that they had won enough. It's not that Casemiro didn't even get a license, and he couldn't afford to mess with it. Looking back at the starting lineup, why is Modric in such a high position, trying to use his combat experience to open up a base behind enemy lines? Ancelotti's explanation probably didn't even believe him: "The original intention was to have more possession and suppress it at a high position, but after losing the ball first, the plan was frustrated." Pre-match planning was not good. The responsibility is all on me. ”
I'm afraid it's not just about game planning. Hazard last started two months ago, played three games in February for a total of 50 minutes, and did not play in March. Jovic and Isco's last appearance was more than a month ago. So when Courtois said after the game that "Barca played European in midweek, but they couldn't see the lack of physical fitness", it was a dumb laugh. So much so that Harvey replaced Alves with a bit of mockery of Ancelotti.
The media has rushed to add 3 points to Barca's low-play match against Vallecano. In that case, the points difference between Real Madrid and Barca would be 9 points. This seems to be an irreversible gap in previous years, but in this situation, can you say that the league championship has no suspense? Ancelotti joked about the night in Istanbul that year. However, after this time, it is not funny to bring up that topic again, but it is terrible.
Wen | Liang Hongye Wu Yifan
Edit | Fat Cat