The league between Paris and Lille makes people laugh and cry after watching.
The ball king can't connect with his teammates on the field, at this time, blame the ball king, or blame the teammates, or blame the director, blame the head coach, blame the consultant?
The visitors were fifth in Ligue 1 before losing the game and it was not impossible to reach the Champions League. With the ability of Greater Paris, playing Ligue 1 should be more than enough, but the attitude is "like playing field football on the outskirts of Paris".
Start with the goal conceded by Grand Paris.
In the opening 41 seconds, the opponent hit the penalty area for the first time, of course, the second time was 8 minutes and 20 seconds Kimpembe took the initiative to make Lille's second invasion of the box. After 23 minutes of the first half, Paris was attacked into the penalty area only five times by players from Lille, only to pull one back with the fifth tactical corner kick. When the away team crosses diagonally from the left rib position outside the home team's big penalty area, the tactical execution of the entire back line of the home team is completely chaotic...
It can be seen from the GIF that the opponent pressed at five points in the big penalty area, and it is normal for the defender line of the big Paris to collectively press outward to create an offside, but the moment the opponent took off, Ramos in the center was still going up, and another central defender Kimpenbe and left-back Nuno Mendes both chose to run and stare at people, all did not target, and the offside was not successful. Defensive efficiency is touchingly low.
I don't know how much Paris pay much attention to Ligue 1 now, only playing 10 minutes and 50 seconds to get Neymar's pass to open the scoring while also leaving Lille captain and centre-back Fonte injured. The opponent's defensive backbone battle attrition, the side is still ahead, which is already a very good start. After Neymar scored the second goal, the whole team suddenly seemed like a plate of sand, and the intensity of the game fell off a cliff.
It wasn't until the 84th minute of the second half that they were still behind and the whole team was anxious to pick up the intensity of the game again.
The injury of No. 25 Nuno Mendes, left-back at Grand Paris, is an iconic manifestation of a scattered sand. It is a pity that the whole team did not pay enough attention. Lille's intensity continued unabated and led to Neymar's sprain before the end of the first half. The team seemed to see the fate of the second co-operator Munich Allianz Arena to be submerged.
Nuno Mendes broke the ball in the penalty area in the opening 27:02 and was immediately injured by the opponent's No. 7 Bamba. The injury was Bamba's attempt to shoot, but Nuno Mendes later broke the ball with a kick, followed by Bamba's follow-up move straight into place, kicking hard into his Achilles tendon.
This is just the beginning – why say that, see the screenshot.
The attack was a two-on-one from Lille's No. 7 Bamba and No. 9 David on the right corner of the penalty area, with Bamba passing and slashing in and Grand Paris full-back No. 25 Nuno Mendes following up to defend. And David stumbled under the close defense of home captain Kimpembe, and then the scene mentioned above happened.
In fact, Lille's combination of ribs and center attack this time is a typical local four-on-five, who is the person who came back to defend Bamba with Nuno Mendes?
This screenshot shows the crucial moment of Nuno Mendes' injury, it is the single back Verratti who is guarding Bamba, and he has not yet had time to get in place.
This shows that Grand Paris does not see Lille as an opponent to fight at all. Such an opponent "pressed and played" after the opening of the second half, and also earned a penalty directly from Verratti. 56 min: Lille crosses from the right corner, No. 3 Jello is pulled by Verratti when he fights for position, and immediately falls to the ground, the referee is not soft, and the backhand is the yellow dot package.
Why stress the intensity of the game repeatedly, this is the basis of the team's ability to hold each other in a game. The top teams that have the strength to compete for the Champions League can play hotly, so that people can't see that they are sabotaging in disguise, or they can be forced to give 120% to fight their opponents to the end. Such a strong contrast is not unique to Greater Paris, but it is the only one that can turn disguised sabotage into the norm, and there is no semicolon.
The "scattered sand" mentioned here does not mean that after leading by two goals, the three lines of Greater Paris are completely loosened, after all, as a professional player in the top league, the attitude and bottom limit of the game are still there.
However, the attitude has changed, and the intensity of the race has decreased, which can actually be seen in the running and confrontation. You can't see it in a minute, and it's obvious after ten or twenty minutes of consecutive play.
The easy lead has caused many players in Grand Paris to change their attitude to the game habitually and significantly, more relaxed than before, and only tightened when they get a counter-attack; When attacking forward, up to four people, including the "Menem combination", stay away from the midfield, rather than frequently returning to help their teammates reduce the pressure; Then, the other teammates also grinned at the ball carrier in the key area, thinking that the situation of the opponent could not be clearer.
The picture above is a screenshot of the personnel position of the Grand Paris backfield when organizing the attack at 14 minutes and 50 seconds in the first half, that is, more than a minute before 2:0. Verratti picked up his defender teammates at the back and organized the attack with the ball, at which time Meneem's combination, including No. 17 Vitinha, was at least 20 meters away from him, and there was not a single retreat to catch the ball.
According to Messi's game habits, he must have hoped that other teammates would retreat, because his position is far from the right side above the center circle, and the formation is also arranged in this way. And Vitinha, Neymar and Mbappe were there watching, motionless.
Lille's 4-3-2-1 formation has a very good level of three lines, three forwards directly pressed high, and the double backs No. 20 Andre Gomes and No. 21 Angel stood on the edge of the middle circle, ready to press on the line, but Paris did not have a single person in this area. The distance between Vitinha and Verratti is even farther than the distance between Lille's double back and three forwards!
4-3-3 obviously there are fewer heads in the midfield, and the two best positions among the three forwards have not returned, why not? Are you counting on Messi to run forty meters up from the right side, come back to catch the ball and go forward? As long as Messi retreated in this game, he immediately suffered a double attack in the midfield, and was defended like this more than 6 times in the game.
Others have not enjoyed this treatment many times when they first arrived in the middle circle.
The other party is not a fool, only the king of the ball knows that the front line will be tight, as long as you retreat, the middle will beat you fiercely - what about the king of the ball, 35 years old, the enemy is not powerful. The other two? Most of the league is playing big ball, don't worry about it.
It was not until 2:3 behind, and there were two close-ups in the 82nd minute, and the whole team was anxious and desperately increased the intensity of the game, and only then did the 87th minute of Director Mu equalize with a tackle; Coupled with 7 minutes of stoppage time, a total of 15 minutes, the running intensity of Grand Paris, the rate of position at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends is the peak of this game, and in the end, Messi fought hard to personally make a free kick in the middle and personally scored a penalty, and the whole team survived.
Why hasn't Messi renewed his contract - you can not regard him as the most important core of the team, the future is Director Mu's, he will not admit it. Neymar wanted the ball, and Messi didn't fight for it. But if the whole team is such an execution, how do you let Messi renew his contract.