"Drip, drip, drip..."

When Scotland's referee Thomson blew the whistle to the end of the first half, Van Basten was speechless.

He even felt a little lucky.

Barcelona's two big strikers - Messi and Villa - didn't even score a goal, but his team had already conceded three goals in 45 minutes.

When Van Basten was frustrated, he would always give him sympathy to the Dutch TV commentator De Kur, who saw him disliked:

"Marko may not have to blame himself too much. He has done everything he can. After all, Ajax is not an Italian team. Although they are used to oppressing and pressing, their opponent is Barcelona after all..."

The commentator Yang Sen's words may have become more direct:

"Before this game, we should have been mentally prepared. Although Ajax has many young talents, the talents of these people are not on the same level as those of Barcelona players. Their best striker is worth only 20 million in the transfer market, and Messi's value is probably more precious than ten Suarez."

Duan Yixuan, thousands of miles away, seemed very pessimistic at this time:

"In the first 45 minutes, the ball possession rate of the two teams was close to 73, with 10-2 shots and 416-103 passes. No matter which aspect, Ajax was completely at a disadvantage. But there seemed to be nothing wrong with Van Basten's tactics. He set up three players with excellent defensive skills in the midfield, but he had no way to stop Barcelona's attack."

"Long Shute, who is responsible for defending Messi, works very hard, and Messi has not gained much opportunity, but Barcelona's overall strength is too strong. Only defending one Messi is not enough to make them lose control of the game." Zhang Lu shook his head, "What's more, Long Shute cannot completely freeze Messi."

His words are not wrong. Ajax's midfielder with the strongest one-on-one defense ability does not completely limit Messi.

Long Shute's spirit is unprecedentedly concentrated. He only has Messi in his eyes. In order to defend Messi, he will never even participate in the teammates' joint defense against other Barcelona players. But even so, the Argentine flea still has many opportunities.

Messi's absolute speed is probably slightly slower than Ronaldo and Kaka, and his dribbling speed is not unparalleled, but his super fast pace frequency and unique human-ball combination ability make him play Long Shute like a fool in 45 minutes.

Vice Captain Ajax, who has played professional games for two years, has long been no longer considered a recruit, but when facing Messi's dazzling and unpredictable footwork changes, he did feel that he was a fool.

After playing with a genius like Suarez for more than two years, Long Shute's football quotient has increased significantly, but he still cannot grasp Messi's extraordinary rules.

Suarez's many dribbling skills were enough to open Longshu's eyes, but when he saw Messi still able to perform various magic jugglings under his strict defense, he realized that his imagination was still too poor.

In this game, Messi rarely strides along a straight line. The football is tied to his left leg at any moment, even when speeding up. Every change is without warning. Long Shute has no chance to step on his feet, and once stepping on the feet, it is almost like a foul.

Long Shute remembered the feeling when he was against Ibrahimovic, but the Swedish God Tower was more likely to be at low speed. If he was running at high speed, he might not be able to get rid of himself, while Messi was even more desperate, because the Argentine's extraordinary seems to require no conditions.

Although he is better at rigging the ball with his left foot, Messi's other foot is also flexible, with toes, arches, inner insteps, outer insteps, heels, soles... Even the shoelaces on sneakers seem to be used to surpass others!

In addition, the balance of Barcelona's king is also amazing. Only those who have fought with him can truly know how huge energy this small and thin body contains!

Barcelona's third goal came from a corner kick opportunity near the 40th minute. Xavi's corner kick found Pique ambushed at the front of the penalty area. The highest defender in the game accepted the gift without hesitation.

When the football scored the third goal, many Ajax fans couldn't help but cover their mouths, and the morale of the players on the field also fell to the bottom.

There are only two exceptions.

Suarez's eyes turned red, while Long Shute's face turned pale.

"You did a great job, at least Messi barely entered the penalty area in the first half and did not score."

Perhaps feeling the disappointment in his beloved disciple's heart, Borgkamp specially comforted him.

But Long Shute had no reaction. He just lowered his head slightly and quickly walked into the player's passage.

Prince Ice glanced at Van Basten, who was also pale, and could only sigh.

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"Our tactics were not thorough enough in the first half. Sim, I need you to increase the frequency of retracement and help your teammates control the midfield..."

Van Basten, who returned to the locker room, began to explain the tactics.

The atmosphere in the locker room was very dull, and the voice of the head coach was echoing intermittently.

Suarez raised his eyes, his eyes seemed to be redder.

His heart seemed to have blood dripped: in the first half, De Jong was the only teammate who could help him share the pressure of offense. Once De Jong also retreated to defend, even if he had a few more heads and legs, he would not be able to overturn the entire defense line of Barcelona!

"Coach..." He couldn't help but open his mouth.

But as soon as his voice came out, he was drowned out by another voice.

"Coach, I have an idea, or suggestion."

Long Shute, the youngest in the starting lineup, raised his head and interrupted Van Basten's lack of confidence in tactical explanation.

"Tell me," Van Basten might want to thank Long Shute for his speech, otherwise he would be very doubtful that how many people listened to his explanation...

"In the second half, Iyengar came to defend Messi, and my position was on the front, taking into account both defense and attacking Xavi."

Long Shute looked at Ennuo and expressed his opinion.

Suarez is certainly happy that someone can help him attack, but Van Basten has to ask the most critical questions:

"Defending Messi... for Iyenger, it may be too difficult."

Other coaches and players were probably thinking this way, and some people nodded repeatedly.

Enno's face did not show any unpleasant expression, because any player in the world would find it difficult to defend Messi.

"I know, but we all work hard."

Long Shute shrugged:

"I must admit that with my current ability, it is not enough to freeze Messi. Under my pressure, he was able to find three more shots. I have failed in this one-on-one match."

Van Basten did not agree: "But you still gave him a lot of restrictions. His long shots were all outside the penalty area..."

"But we're behind three goals now, we need to change, coach."

Long Shute interrupted the head coach again:

"We cannot defend at Camp Nou! Even the Italian team, which is known for its defense, cannot hold on for 90 minutes in front of Barcelona. If we still do not strengthen our offense in the second half, we will only be massacred by them!"

"I hope to strengthen the offense, coach."

Captain Suarez finally spoke:

"If I had to choose a way of death, I would rather die in the offense."

Van Basten opened his mouth but made no sound.

From when did he become so conservative?

Why do you almost forget the traditions in Dutch football?

He took a deep breath and nodded vigorously:

"Well, young people, let Barcelona see Ajax's offensive football!"
Chapter completed!