Two goals behind, weak offense, and full of defensive loopholes... This situation has made many Barcelona players who have experienced the miserable defeat in the Champions League three years ago recall the fear they have forgotten.

No! No matter what you say, you can't let such a thing happen again to Barcelona! With this idea, Guardiola began to plan to let the formation retreat slightly, at least compress the space in the backcourt, so as not to be successful in the backcourt line by the hateful Ronaldo again and again.

However, not everyone in Barcelona agrees with Guardiola's idea. Several players in the frontcourt, such as Figo and Enrique, have not experienced that crushing defeat in person. They are eager to win back the score and are still constantly rushing to Fiorentina's defense in the frontcourt.

As a result, something Guardiola did not expect happened - the players in the frontcourt were burying their heads on the attack, while the players in the middle and backcourt planned to shrink their defense. The inconsistency between the two sides directly led to a serious disconnection in Barcelona's on-court formation!

"There is nothing to watch in this game, and Barcelona's formation is completely out of touch." Seeing this scene, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but be happy. "If Van Gaal does not make adjustments as soon as possible and let the Barcelona players on the court unify their opinions, unless God possesses it, then it is a foregone conclusion that Fiorentina won the European Super Cup championship."

As the head coach who once led the Ajax youth army to the top of Europe, Van Gaal naturally could not see the problems that the team has now. The Dutch shouted loudly on the sidelines regardless of his image, asking everyone to continue to push the offense and not worry about defense!

In Van Gaal's view, since the team is now behind the score, it is better to push the offense and fight with a big shot than to lose the final chance of a comeback because of fear of continuing to lose the ball and losing ten goals. In this kind of game of winning or losing, there is no difference between losing one ball and losing ten balls in terms of the result.

Although Van Gaal's idea is very good, he overlooked a very important point, that is, the psychological state of Barcelona players at this time.

When Ajax was coaching, Van Gaal's players were either veterans with high professional qualities like Rijkaard and Blinder, or young people with insufficient reputation such as Cruivet and Debor brothers. Therefore, even if they don't understand the arrangements of head coach Van Gaal, they will obediently implement Van Gaal's tactical intentions; and in the minds of Barcelona players, especially those former members of the "Dream Team", Van Gaal does not have enough prestige to convince them in adversity.

Just imagine, when the opponent scored two goals in a row with two counterattacks, the team fell behind by zero to two on the court, and the coach's prestige in the team was not enough, how many players would agree with the coach's seemingly decisive tactical adjustment?

Anyway, those players on the defense will definitely not be happy with Van Gaal's adjustment.

For example, Nadal, who was in a mess for most of the game under Ronaldo and Vieri, was extremely dissatisfied with Van Gaal's request at this time. If he hadn't been a professional player, he could control his emotions. If it weren't for his strong-tempered players, he would have cursed on the court: Do you still have to attack? Apart from attack, what else do you see? I've been so embarrassed by these two Fiorentine strikers? Can't you think of a way to strengthen the team's defense?

Not only Nadal thinks so, but Barjuan, Ferrer, Guardiola and others who have suffered from Fiorentina's counterattack in this game also have the same view. After experiencing the glory of the Cruyff period, they are not interested in some of the behaviors of Van Gaal, an outsider. They thought that even the world-famous old Robertson coached in Barcelona, ​​they would have to have a good relationship with us local players. Who are you van Gaal? As soon as you took office, you got a bunch of your fellow villagers and former subordinates, but you still want to use them to replace us? Are you tired of your life?

In this game, Van Gaal did not consider how to improve his defense when he was behind in the score, but instead asked the players to press the attack to the point where they felt even greater dissatisfaction. Many of them began to think that Van Gaal planned to use this game to make his direct troops stand up smoothly, rather than wanting to win the game.

Van Gaal's weakness in dealing with interpersonal relationships was fully exposed in this game. Due to his stubbornness and lack of necessary communication and communication with the players, Van Gaal's iron-fisted team management methods had just begun in the team, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the veterans in the team.

Under the control of this dissatisfaction, Nadals naturally were less likely to obey Van Gaal's orders, but instead started the game according to their own ideas.

When seeing some Barcelona players did not obey the coach's arrangements, but still insisted on playing football, which led to a serious disconnect in the overall formation, the Fiorentine players couldn't help but be overjoyed: Isn't this obviously giving us a chance to further expand the score?!

Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, this is one of the key points that Capello and Ranieri teach Fiorentine players.

Faced with such a good opportunity, the Fiorentines naturally would not let it go easily, and immediately strengthened the pressing of Barcelona offensive players. At the same time, Vieri and Ronaldo in the frontcourt also began to adjust their running positions so that they could receive passes from the backcourt more easily.

In the 72nd minute, Figo's dribble on the right was intercepted by Davis and Carlos, and then Fiorentina launched a quick counterattack. Although the Barcelona players narrowed their defense and curbed Ronaldo's speed, they were defeated again when they lacked strength. After pulling out of the penalty area, the Italian new generation center took over Redondo's straight pass and then turned around and shot hard with his left foot to score, rewriting the score to three-to-zero!

Faced with a three-goal behind, the Barcelona players had no choice but to put on a big push to attack. However, after ten minutes, Da Inzagi, who was substituted, used a counterattack to attack again, and the score turned into a bloody four-zero!

Finally, when the referee Merck blew the whistle to the end of the game, the score on the field was frozen to four-one! As the game entered the injury stoppage stage, Rivaldo took advantage of a set piece in the frontcourt to score a goal that saved his face, and a pretty good free kick shot.
Chapter completed!