Barcelona had two important games last week, winning 5-1 and 4-1 respectively. The results looked great, the process actually looked pretty good, and of course the fans blew it even more. But in reality, for a lot of players, these are probably just "basic operations". Here's a look at some of the most impressive "basic" plays by players last week.
"Big Brother" group: "Mei boss" passes and shoots twice, "Pi chairman" carries the gun as a striker
Soccer data website whoscored is a website that relies on a big data platform to automatically score players based on some of their data in the game, corresponding to their positional information. But there is a bug in this system, that is, when a forward player reaches a certain number of goals and assists at the same time, its scoring automatically becomes a full 10, and even if you continue to swipe upwards, it will still only give you 10 points - and this is what has happened to Lionel Messi in recent times. Messi got a ten from whoscored when he broke through the devilish home of Pizjuan Stadium; and last week, after taking down Lyon and Real Betis, with two passes and two shots against Lyon and a hat-trick against Betis, Messi got two more tens back in one go. In him, we seem to vaguely see the obsessive study-obsessed college bully who used to be at the head of the class, who was always able to get full marks no matter how difficult the exams or how strange the papers were. And that's just the basics for him. He doesn't seem to stop until he's done with the additional questions to get the extra points and then help other students with the questions they don't know.......
Of course, there are other people who are also happy with their goals. Last time, we said, Piqué is extremely obsessed with the role of the knife guard role-playing, from time to time not to do their job to press up as a striker over the addiction, and I think Piqué is far away from the "knife guard" type of player in the ancient gods, came up with the "let Van Dijk play center forward" this I thought Piqué was still a long way from the ancient god of the "blade player" and the current Dutch national team manager Ronald Koeman who came up with the brilliant idea of "playing Van Dijk in the center". As a result, in the midweek Champions League, Piqué broke one of Koeman's records - he scored 11 goals in the Champions League, thus surpassing Koeman to become the highest scoring ...... defender in the history of Barcelona's Champions League. Now, I'd just like to say that given the pie-making ability of everyone else on the front line right now, and the trend of goals becoming a basic operation, I'm afraid that it's probably only a matter of time before Piqué puts Coman's goal total over the top next.
"Youth" group: "Mosquito" with injuries is really fragrant, Cubao recovery is delightful
Dembele and Coutinho, the two high-priced 90-year-olds have been the most important players in the last two years, and they have been the most important players in the last two years. Barcelona fans and executives have high hopes. And under the media spotlight, their every move has been magnified infinitely. So much so that Valverde couldn't help but spit out in a press conference, "You used to come and ask me about Dembele, and now you're asking about Coutinho ......" And in the Champions League in midweek, we were delighted to see them all put in a very good performance.
Dembele's "veil of mystery", since the "real incense" after we have basically unveiled - in addition to kicking the ball, he is a love of playing games and watching Japanese comics otaku, but also a bit of simple childishness. He's also a bit of a child. In fact, I'd liken him to a character from the anime Pokemon Sun and Moon series, Kotoshi's Kiki-Lord. In the anime, Kiki-Lord's biggest hobby is sleeping, although he sleeps all day and night, not during the day after staying up all night like Dembele. But when it comes to battle, the Wooden Lord will show potential assassin attributes, in the critical moment will also explode their strong potential, which is a bit similar to Dembele. In the mid-week Champions League, Dembele still showed his strength when he took the field with the injury, creating a goal, although the price is that he needs to rest for half a month, but we can also see his toughness, and the basic operation of the "real flavor" ......< But the heavy pressure and some shifts in the team's tactics seemed to leave him a little confused for a while, to the point where there were rumors that the brass and coaches had asked him to have a heart-to-heart talk. After surviving a difficult personal period, Coutinho finally broke out in the Champions League in midweek, and beyond the stats, more importantly we saw how well he works with his teammates and how he reads the game and understands it better than before. It looks like Cubo has learned Dembele's basic operation "Zhen Xiang". I hope that Coutinho will continue to play with confidence and value.
"Center" group: "Suga" bakery new opening, "flying squirrels" renewed and then linked
In the first few weeks, Suarez's form was not as good as it should have been, and he was not as good as he could have been. In the first few weeks, Suarez's form was a head scratcher, no matter how many pies Messi made, he could spit them all out for you. And judging by last week's performance, we can probably probably guess what's going on. During that time, in the place we can not see, Suarez may have worshiped a master, want to learn a more advanced pie making craft, but after doing so, you must taste the flavor good or bad, he kept doing ah do, keep trying ah try, finally ate too much pie, so much so that once you taste the pie, even the most delicious pie, the only feeling is to want to vomit. Luckily, after a while of puking and starving, Suarez's appetite returned and he learned to make good pies. So, in addition to we have been accustomed to daily long queues of "Messi brand delicious pancakes", and now we see "Su's pancake store" in Barcelona's front stadium opened, and now estimated to do their own pancakes while eating next door to Messi's family of pancakes is also about to become Su's teeth! The first step is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.
Alba, the "flying squirrel brother," renewed his contract last Monday. There's no doubt that the familiar Brazilian link-up will remain a fundamental part of Barcelona's offense for the next few years, and that's a fundamental point that probably won't change. And after the Champions League promotion, Alba also very lovingly invited the whole team of Barcelona players and coaching staff to the vice-chairman of the hotel to eat a meal, but also for everyone to celebrate a good time.
The coaching staff: watertight on the outside, turbulent on the inside
Summary
After this week, 15 players from the Barcelona squad will be traveling to their respective national teams (with Ale?a heading to the U21s) to play in international matches. Some of the remaining players will be able to rest a bit, and after the national team games, on the last day of March, Barcelona will start the next period of the devil's schedule of consecutive weekly double matches, which also includes a head-to-head with the league title rivals Atlético Madrid, as well as two rounds of the Champions League against the Premier League giants Manchester United. Let's hope the players heading to the national team don't get too tired or injured while fighting for their country, and let's also hope that upon their return, Barcelona can come back with a bang and survive this tough schedule. vis?a Bar?a!