Seven Crowns

Chapter 464: The Role of Cambiasso

It is well known that Cambiasso does not hit his midfielder after playing, but runs to the frontcourt to partner with Lu Wenbin to play forward. What kind of routine is this?

After a while of confusion, the Barcelona players were determined, thinking that Mourinho must have been beaten and played a bad move.

The Inter Milan players were also confused, not knowing what Cambiasso, who had never played as a striker, was doing in the frontcourt.

Does Cambiasso have the talent to play forward? Does he have the ability to run without the ball? Does he have super dribbling breakthrough ability? Does he have a good shot?

Nothing at all!

Cambiasso is not a striker at all, this is the truth that ordinary fans know.

I don't know what Mourinho's intention is to replace Eto'o with Cambiasso as a striker?

Could it be that he was really mad and played a bad move?

The director kept switching the camera to Mourinho on the sidelines, saying that Mourinho was the focus of the game during this period.

Only a very small number of people have guessed the real purpose of Mourinho's substitution.

On the sidelines, the much-anticipated Mourinho was sullen and didn't say anything.

His heart is definitely not as peaceful as it appears on the surface.

Using Cambiasso to replace Eto'o as a striker was his last substitution and the craziest gamble.

Before his goal is achieved, everything is empty talk, and everything depends on Cambiasso's performance.

Cambiasso performed well and even helped Inter Milan score and equalize the score. This is undoubtedly a resurrection substitution.

But if Cambiasso, as most people think, does not adapt to the position and performs poorly, then Mourinho will definitely become a sinner and a joke after the game.

After the game restarted for a while, everyone saw Mourinho's purpose of replacing Cambiasso as a striker.

Cambiasso didn't come to play as a striker, but to play as a frontcourt stealer with Mourinho's instructions.

Although Lu Wenbin is fast and has good physical fitness, he is naturally far behind Cambiasso in terms of interception selection, prediction, and tackles.

Therefore, in the face of Barcelona's backcourt possession and inversions, Lu Wenbin has few options, only harassment, and it is difficult to break the ball.

But Cambiasso is different. His professional position is the defensive midfielder. He is definitely the top in the world in terms of one-on-one defense, interception selection, prediction, and tackle.

Moreover, Cambiasso's own physical fitness is very good. When playing as a defensive midfielder, he can completely cover his own half, and sometimes even rush to the frontcourt to participate in the offense.

Now that he has just been replaced, his physical fitness is more abundant, and he can chase the ball unscrupulously and steal.

Coupled with the interference of Lu Wenbin, who is also physically fit, and the occasional cooperation of Sneijder, Coutinho, and Stankovic, everyone soon found that the situation was different.

In the 84th minute, under the interference of Lu Wenbin, Puyol had to pass the ball to Mascherano.

But before Mascherano received the ball, he saw Cambiasso rushing towards him: Cambiasso predicted Puyol's passing route under the interference of Lu Wenbin.

Mascherano didn't dare to play tricks against the stealing expert Cambiasso in the back court, so he ran two steps quickly, received the ball in advance, and then passed it back to goalkeeper Valdes.

However, when he kicked the ball towards Valdes, he discovered that Cambiasso had turned ahead of time and rushed towards Valdes.

On the other side, Sneijder and Stankovic also rushed towards Pique and Alves respectively, and Valdes had no place to play the ball.

Under Cambiasso's menacing pressure, Valdez didn't even dare to hold the ball, and finally drove out with a big kick to meet the ball.

Then, the ball is grabbed by Zanetti and it is pushed to Maicon: Barcelona loses the ball this time.

This is rare.

Although Lu Wenbin and Eto'o could sometimes force Barcelona to pass the ball forward, they rarely forced their opponents to make a clearance.

Barcelona's ball-handling tactics themselves rarely use big feet. What's more, they want to use the ball to defend in this game, so they will not use big feet at will to lose the ball.

Although Cambiasso didn't grab the ball directly, forcing Valdez to give the ball to Inter Milan is enough to prove the role of Cambiasso.

Only by getting players, Inter Milan will have more opportunities to attack.

All of a sudden, exclamations from the commentators resounded from the commentary seats:

"Mourinho made a wonderful substitution, and Barcelona can no longer delay the time easily in the backcourt!"

"Great, Mourinho's gamble-style substitutions have achieved good results. Using Cambiasso's stealing ability to force Barcelona to easily fall in the backcourt, Inter Milan regained some ball possession."

"It's a pity that there is not much time left. I wonder if Cambiasso can really help Inter Milan change the score?"

Lu Wenbin, Sneijder and others have naturally felt the role of Cambiasso after he came on the field, and their spirits were immediately lifted, and they fully assisted Cambiasso to interfere with Barcelona's backcourt possession.

The Inter Milan fans in the stands also saw the change in the situation, and immediately cheered up, cheering for the team at the top of their lungs, hoping that Inter Milan would score a goal to equalize the score and retain the hope of advancing in the second round.

As the minutes passed, Barcelona were still trying their best to delay time with their possession defense, while Inter Milan kept pressing and then counterattacked as soon as they got the ball.

However, Lu Wenbin is naturally the object of Barcelona's focus.

Even if Inter Milan grabbed the ball and handed it to Lu Wenbin, Lu Wenbin failed to make a breakthrough in a short time.

In the 88th minute, Lu Wenbin broke through the defense of Iniesta and Mascherano after taking the ball, but was still shoveled away by Pique's beautiful tackle at the front of the penalty area.

Seeing that the game is coming to an end, Inter Milan's players are pressing more and more frantically, and there are more and more loopholes in the backcourt.

In the 90th minute, Messi was almost counterattacked. Fortunately, Cesar concentrated and threw Messi's shot into his arms.

However, Inter Milan no longer cares about whether they will be counterattacked in the backcourt. They just want to score goals.

Finally, in the 92nd minute, when the game was about to end in one minute, Cambiasso forced Pique to pass the ball without careful observation.

Pique passed the ball to full-back Alves, but Stankovic had already rushed over, and Alves did not dare to stop the ball, so he quickly kicked the ball and passed the ball to Harvey who was a little ahead.

As a result, Sneijder predicted the pass from Alves, rushed forward desperately, tackled the ball before Harvey received the ball, and passed the ball to Bin.

At the end of the game, Barcelona lost possession of the ball, and the ball was about to fall to Lu Wenbin's feet.

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