There are many people in Tianya who analyze Barcelona’s tactics. Some analyze his weaknesses from the perspective of opponents, while others explore his strengths from the perspective of praise. In any case, the topic of discussion is always inseparable from his offense. As well as the rationality of the existing staffing, but for those fans who have always talked about their godfather, let’s not talk more here, because this post may not be suitable for you. As for the rules, I will also open it. Discuss in detail in one post.

Is Barcelona’s offense strong? In my opinion, compared with Barcelona in the last period, it is only about the same, but at present, it seems that the deterrent power of Barcelona today is greater than that of Barcelona in the last period. What is the reason? I think the answer is actually defense! (The most direct data comparison is the number of goals conceded in previous seasons and the number of goals conceded this season)

If today’s Barcelona’s offense ranks among the top three in all previous seasons, then today’s football The team's defense should rank first in the past, and what is strong is not the personnel, but the defensive system!

Barcelona has always emphasized attack, but now its biggest feature is not offense, but defense. Is it strange? Barcelona has achieved so many honors in the past two years and can exert such a great deterrent effect on its opponents. The key lies in its defensive system and not just its offense.

There is a famous saying in the NBA: Offense wins audiences, defense wins championships. Today's Barcelona still interprets this sentence very well.

Our early appreciation of the charm of Barcelona is that if the opponent can score his goals, he can often score three goals. I think this may be Barcelona's earliest offensive football concept.

But, to be honest, this concept is flawed, because you can’t guarantee that your opponent will only score one goal, and you can’t guarantee that you can score three goals, especially the super goal. In the team's competition, this kind of thinking is undoubtedly flawed, and the defeat of AC in the finals well proved this.

In the minds of those who advocate offense, offense is actually the best defense, but who can do this? Often during the transition between offense and defense, there will always be a gap in the opponent's quick pass. Especially in the later period of Van Gaal's coaching of Barcelona, ??the opponent hit the gap behind Barcelona and hit it accurately. At that time, Barcelona's offense was acceptable, but The defense is really worrying.

Actually, I have never understood the saying that offense is the best defense. Why? Because the two systems themselves are contradictory to each other. There is only one football system. Isn’t the one with the ball the offensive side, and the one without the ball is the defensive side? How to talk about offense without the ball? You can't hold the ball for 90 minutes in a game, so isn't offense without the ball nonsense?

Barcelona taught me a good lesson. Now Barcelona’s style of play truly integrates offense and defense. I will now summarize Barcelona’s defensive characteristics and hope everyone can discuss them together.

1. Players’ long-term tacit cooperation and regional understanding

2. Clarity of defensive division of labor

3. Application of replacement and assist defense

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4. Defend subsequent attacks

The fourth point actually tells us that Barcelona uses defense again and again as the starting point of the attack. Generally speaking, in a team game, once Losing the ball and returning to defense is the first reaction. Now it seems that it is the first manifestation of passive defense, or that the main focus of defense is on the midfield and backfield. After Barcelona loses the ball, except for Xiaobai and Xiaobu, Withdraw, Xiaobai's retreat was due to physical reasons, Xiaobu's retreat was a matter of filling in and assisting in defense. When others lost the ball, their first reaction was not to return to defense but to counterattack on the spot.

Nowadays, many teams are used to counterattacking in the midfield and frontcourt. For example, Bayern asked Inter Milan at the time, and Arsene Wenger asked for it. But there is an obvious difference. The pressing in the frontcourt relies more on personal ability rather than overall defense. In other words, their current defensive system in the midfield and frontcourt is not perfect. It belongs to individual defense of team players, so the effect is still very different. The physical requirements are also different.

When the Dutchman Michel proposed the concept of total offense and total defense, getting the ball moving was the basis, and the emphasis was on offense and passing. In fact, it also illustrates the concept of player zoning. If total offense and total defense is a man-to-man defense, no one can play for 90 minutes. Therefore, Barcelona's current defense can definitely be a regional defense.

We can find the movement diagram of Barcelona players in a game on the Internet. You will clearly find that the areas where Barcelona players run are relatively fixed, especially in defensive situations.

Localization of defense saves the physical energy of the personnel to the greatest extent (I have always believed that Xavi’s greatest role is to adjust the rhythm of the team. In layman’s terms, it is to reasonably allocate the physical energy of Barcelona players. And that fatal direct pass is only ranked second), and it is easy to form a situation where there are more and less in the area. Another advantage is that it can form cooperation when grabbing the ball. Once the ball is successfully grabbed, it is easy to form an attack locally. Barcelona's defense is actually the beginning of the offense. Many teams can also fight for the ball in the frontcourt, but the offense often ends in vain because of the lack of follow-up. You can see that this situation will basically not happen in Barcelona's games. Thanks to their In concept, once a local defense is formed, the next step must be the beginning of the attack. Many of Barcelona's goals come from this, and this is what is scary about Barcelona today.