Football: After listening to the advice, I became the strongest free man.

Considering that the Premier League championship in the 2015-2016 season ended up with a team like Leicester City that was based on defensive counterattack tactics. We seem to have enough reasons to believe that football has entered an era where counterattack is king and speed is the strongest!

This season's Champions League and La Liga ball possession rate and pass success rate lists, Real Madrid's ball possession rate are far lower than their archrivals.

Judging from the ball possession rate, Real Madrid only has 52.5% in the Champions League, which is almost 10 percentage points lower than the highest Bayern Munich and 8 percentage points lower than Barcelona.

Among all the teams participating in the Champions League, they can only rank 9th.

Even in the passing success rate list, it lags behind Bayern Munich and Barcelona.

If we shift our vision to La Liga, we will still be surprised to find that Real Madrid has the legendary best midfielder Kroos, Modric, Kovacic, Ronaldo, Isco, Bai Ran and other technical masters. Madrid, their ball possession rate is only 55.3%, ranking 4th in La Liga, and even the passing success rate is still behind Barcelona, ​​which has been criticized as the "roughest" in 10 years.

So, how do Real Madrid play their pace?

Can Ronaldo, who is 32 years old, still run faster than when he was 23?

The speed of attack depends on the rhythm of the ball. Passing is always faster than dribbling.

As far as running is concerned, Real Madrid's current team is not that kind of "crazy running" team.

So how did Real Madrid show their speed?

Sitting on the midfield line with the strongest technical ability, Real Madrid's tactics are not as focused on control and rhythm as Barcelona was back then.

They use more long passes and split-side play, threatening the opponent's penalty area through crosses. (Analysis of data from this UEFA Champions League shows that Real Madrid ranks first and second in long passes, crosses and shooting data)

What can be seen is that the statistics of this UEFA Champions League show that Real Madrid ranks first among the knockout teams with Bayern in average long passes per game, and ranks second only to Bayern Munich in average crosses per game. Such data finally brings out Real Madrid ranked first in shots (Bayern ranked second in the list of shots with as many long passes and crosses).

On Barcelona's side, they average only 13.1 shots per game. Even in terms of dribbling per game, the 14 times per game is 2 more than Real Madrid, but it doesn't seem to be of much help.

(Real Madrid and Barcelona offensive tactics board, two different offensive tactics: Real Madrid walking to the side, Barcelona in the middle)

If analyzed from a tactical perspective, Barcelona's offense needs more forward pressure.

They often push the opponent's formation completely back to the 30-meter area, which requires them to complete wrestling and break defense before the penalty area. The main path of the attack is to establish the central axis of Busquets-Messi-Suarez, but due to the lack of wide speed players, the extremely threatening Neymar has to be pulled to the wing.

The overall forward pressing formation is more likely to encounter counterattacks, so Barcelona has suffered many "tragedies" this season in games where the offense is unfavorable.

On the other hand, Real Madrid's offensive line is actually simpler.

Technical players through the midfield take more side splits and transfers.

The midfielders may even position themselves further back to draw out the opposition defence. After the wide players get the ball, they will look for crosses or more direct ways to send the ball into the penalty area, looking for opportunities for Ronaldo to grab points and impact.

Because Ronaldo has excellent spatial insight and impact capabilities, Real Madrid's midfielder, whose formation is relatively deep, can have better local numerical and density advantages.

In this way, Real Madrid, which sometimes uses a 451 formation, has a very obvious advantage in the number of midfielders compared to Barcelona, ​​which has a 433 formation, which makes Real Madrid's midfielder even more outstanding.

Green leaves and red flowers are truly beautiful.

For Barcelona, ​​due to the football philosophy laid down by Cruyff, their advantage must be concentrated in their center.

But in fact, the successful experience of the past many years tells us that a perfect Barcelona is also inseparable from excellent wing players.

The aging and departure of Alves and Messi's movement to the center have greatly affected the quality of Barcelona's offense.

However, they can still establish an advantage by concentrating on the ball through strong points in the middle such as Messi, Busquets, and Iniesta. In the two league games against Real Madrid this season, they have achieved offensive and control advantages. lead.

It can be seen that Barcelona's problem is not that the team's core players are weaker than Real Madrid, but that they have too many "core players."

Alves, who shined in Juventus, if he stays in Barcelona, ​​he will be a "green leaf" player and need to take on heavy defensive tasks, which is precisely the job that he can no longer bear at his age.

Therefore, when Barcelona fans are complaining that their team has given up an excellent player, perhaps they should think about whether Barcelona has retained too many "cores"?

For Barcelona, ​​what they lack most right now is actually excellent "green leaf" players, especially players who maintain a good "green leaf" mentality.

Because for Barcelona, ​​whether it is Habaib in the past or Suarez and Neymar in the future, their success is more based on team tactics with Messi as the core.

We can clearly recall that in 2010, Ibrahimovic, who did not integrate, could ruin the soup of "Dream Three".

Therefore, when Suarez's running declines and Rakitic slacks off a little, we will find that Barcelona has too many good players, but they cannot provide enough protection and help to their teammates. Iniesta, Busquets, Suarez, and Neymar can all consider themselves core players, which is actually too much for a team.

Gradually, when we discovered that Barcelona had become "Argentinian", Messi's helplessness became obvious.

(Real Madrid’s two full-backs have been of great help to their offense in the past two years)

On the other hand, Real Madrid, after accumulating players with the same strong technical ability in the center of the team, arranged a large number of players with fast speed and strong running ability on the wings.

Active running green leaf players such as Asensio and Vazquez have given the team a lot of help.

The biggest advantage lies in the two full-backs. The advancing ability of Marcelo and Carvajal must be the most envied object of Barcelona at the moment.

In the past few years, Real Madrid has given up on outstanding players such as Ozil and Di Maria, and even shelved the 8000 million euro introduction of Ronaldo and the sky-high right back Danilo.

This is because they need more motivated "green leaves" to stay in the team to protect and assist the "red flowers".

When Di Maria scored twice against Barcelona, ​​did Real Madrid need to regret it?

In fact, after winning the Champions League, if Di Maria, who has gradually become a "red flower" from a "green leaf", stays in the team, that will be the beginning of Real Madrid's regression.

Real Madrid does not lead Barcelona in the peak of the lineup, but in rationality and complementarity.

There is only Real Madrid here, hala madrid!

Why is the gap between Barcelona and Real Madrid getting bigger and bigger?

Because of Neymar, Neymar made the two teams completely change their signing ideas. Many young people in Real Madrid now improved their transfer ideas and completed the signings after Neymar failed to sign.