Any one thing, if you persist at it for twenty or thirty years, you can probably reach the pinnacle and achieve the ultimate.

So it's not surprising that Barcelona has achieved such brilliant results. There's nothing mysterious or amazing about it. This is a just reward for their decades of adherence to their football philosophy.

But will Barcelona become invincible because of this?

The fearless and audacious Napoli was the first to step forward and say no.

From the first minute of the game, the entire Napoli team was like they had been injected with chicken blood, putting immense pressure on Barcelona.

This pressure wasn't just reflected in their attack; Napoli was also working hard on defense. They stuck to the tactics they used in the first leg at Camp Nou, placing heavy troops in their midfield to cut off the connection between Messi and Xavi, while closely watching Iniesta, "Little White's" movements.

In addition, they stationed troops in the back, forbidding the defenders from easily assisting forward and leaving their positions.

After studying Barcelona's football, Mazzarri felt that Barcelona was best at using back-and-forth passing to disrupt the opponent's defense. Once the opponent's defensive formation was torn apart by Barcelona's passing and running, gaps would appear. These gaps might not be fatal when facing other opponents. However, Barcelona's players are all technically skilled and very good at exploiting these small gaps. Their passing is accurate, and the distance is well-maintained, with few long-distance passes, which greatly increases the success rate of deadly through balls.

So, to defend against Barcelona's fierce offensive, the most effective way is actually to keep your defensive formation from falling apart. No matter how the opponent passes and runs, don't let them pull you out of your position.

Mazzarri has been demanding in training that players stick to their defensive positions no matter what.

This kind of defense may be a bit rigid and lack flexibility. It might be a problem against other teams, but it's very suitable for dealing with Barcelona.

In addition, to strengthen the effect of this defense, Mazzarri required the team to retreat all players except Chen Hero back to the thirty-meter zone when defending. Increasing the number of defensive players in a unit space can make up for some loopholes in the defense. After all, a back line only has four people, and there are always areas that cannot be covered.

This puts a lot of demands on the players' physical fitness.

So in the last round of the league, Mazzarri sent out all substitutes to play Lazio, just to keep the main players in shape for Barcelona.

Two games a week in a row is a big burden on the team's physical fitness. For this game, Mazzarri completely gave up on the domestic league.

But he was rewarded. Napoli is currently performing very well in the game, and Barcelona has no way to deal with them for the time being.

In addition to the tsunami-like waves of huge cheers in the Stadio San Paolo, this home stadium is really terrifying…

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Guardiola stood on the sidelines, hands in his pockets, frowning.

The situation and the scene were not optimistic.

The game had started for five or six minutes, and Barcelona had two shots. Logically, this shouldn't make him frown. But what if both shots were hasty and helpless moves?

Continuous passing, looking for opportunities, but after passing for a long time, they couldn't find any, but Napoli's players were pressing closer and closer. In the end, to prevent losing the ball, they had to take a long shot, but the shots were either too high or too wide, and very outrageous.

How could such an offensive make him happy?

Napoli retreated quickly in defense, handing over possession completely. At first, this surprised Guardiola, but he quickly realized that this was intentional. Napoli's tactical thinking should be consistent with the first leg, but the second leg had more improvements, such as giving up possession more completely. They didn't care at all whether the scene looked good or not.

As long as they can eliminate Barcelona, that is the greatest victory.

Faced with such tactics, how can Barcelona break it?

Guardiola stood on the sidelines, thinking hard.

But time waits for no one. A game is only ninety minutes, and the situation of the game is constantly changing, with ups and downs on the field.

By the time he figures out a countermeasure, how far along will the game have progressed?

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Chen Hero felt that he was in very good shape today, burning hot!

Because he had a fire in his heart, which had been suppressed since Cassano got sick. He wanted to go all out and bring a victory to Cassano.

Since he was in such good shape, he naturally wanted to vent it as soon as possible.

Although in the first few minutes, Barcelona was pressing Napoli hard, it looked like Barcelona had the advantage, and Napoli might be breached at any time.

But Chen Hero knew that this was just a superficial phenomenon.

When the team was defending desperately, he was wandering near the center circle, waiting for a counter-attack opportunity. But unfortunately, Napoli had two counter-attacks, but he failed to receive the ball after it was passed over with a big kick. Barcelona really "took care" of him, sending a special person to defend him, still Pique. This time, Pique's attitude was obviously more cautious.

It seemed that he was afraid of being completely defeated by Chen Hero in the last game…

These two counter-attacks failed, in addition to Chen Hero being followed closely by Pique, another important reason was that his other teammates did not come up to support him, leaving him unable to clap with one hand.

However, after six minutes, Barcelona's offensive slowed down. They also needed to adjust their rhythm and couldn't always attack blindly. Because they had already seen that Napoli was playing a defensive counter-attack, and they couldn't wait for Barcelona to press up and attack with all their strength, so that there would be gaps behind them.

This was good news for Chen Hero. He was not afraid of the opponent shrinking their defense, because he was a powerful center forward, a heavy weapon specializing in breaking dense defenses.

On the contrary, Barcelona's withdrawal and slowing down of the rhythm allowed Napoli to press up a little bit appropriately and organize more offensives.

In this way, the support Chen Hero received would also be greater.

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In the eighth minute, Napoli pressed up to attack. Sanchez received a pass from Hamsik on the right. He looked up at Chen Hero. Chen Hero raised his arm, signaling Sanchez to pass the ball to him.

But Sanchez didn't do that, because he saw that Chen Hero was on the edge of the penalty area, a bit far from the goal, and there was also Pique following him closely. The Chilean felt that even if he passed it, Chen Hero might not be able to receive the ball, and even if he did, he would probably lose it under Pique's close defense.

So he just glanced up, pushed the ball forward, and buried himself in breaking through.

Seeing that Sanchez didn't pass the ball to him, Chen Hero had no choice but to run towards the goal. As a result, Sanchez's simple breakthrough was seen through by the opponent. Barcelona's defender Abidal forced Sanchez into a dead end. Helpless, Sanchez had to kick the ball on Abidal's body, and it bounced out of bounds. At least he got a throw-in for the team…

Napoli threw the ball in.

This time, they didn't get entangled with Barcelona on the right side. After receiving the ball, Hamsik quickly transferred the ball to the left side, where it reached Arshavin's feet.

Chen Hero raised his arm high again on the edge of the penalty area.

Arshavin also looked up and saw Chen Hero raising his arm. Of course, he also saw Pique following him closely. In addition, there was another Barcelona center back, Puyol, and Busquets nearby.

But Arshavin resolutely passed the ball over.

"Arshavin crosses directly!"

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The trajectory of this ball was a bit high, only in this way could it be avoided from being intercepted midway.

The ball flew high, everyone saw it, and the Barcelona players were ready.

Even Busquets, who had been watching from the side, decisively gave up the idea of guarding the center and rushed directly to Chen Hero, intending to use his body to squeeze Chen Hero and interfere with him receiving the ball.

At the same time, Puyol and Pique also quickly made a division of labor - Pique jumped up first to compete with Chen Hero for the header, so as to force Chen Hero to be unable to control the ball, and Puyol then waited for an opportunity to steal the ball.

A very perfect defensive tactic.

So when Chen Hero made a gesture to jump up - lowering his center of gravity, then stomping his legs forcefully, and jumping up… Pique jumped up one step ahead of him, he planned to head the ball out before Chen Hero. Although the strategy was to join forces to steal the ball, wouldn't it be better if he could clear the ball himself in one step?

Who would have thought that at the same time as his body soared into the air like a rocket, the corner of his eye caught Chen Hero not jumping up with him, his body did have an upward jumping action, but he just tiptoed!

This was clearly a feint!

Damn it! Damn it!

This was Pique's only thought after discovering this fact.

Because he knew why the other party used a feint, because he was destined not to head the ball…

Chen Hero was indeed quite accurate in judging the landing point of the ball. He used a feint to trick Pique into jumping first, because he couldn't head the ball at this position!

Seeing Pique jump up, he took a step to the other side - that was where the ball was actually landing.

Sure enough, Pique jumped with all his strength, but failed to head the ball, he didn't even brush the ball's skin.

At this time, he could only rely on Puyol!

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Seeing Pique jump up, Puyol thought that Chen Hero had given up competing with Pique for the ball. Who would have thought that Chen Hero would take a step back and actually appear at the real landing point of the ball, while his teammate Pique didn't even touch the ball!

"Pique misses the header!" The Catalan commentator exclaimed, his voice changed.

What does it mean to miss the header by a center back on the edge of the penalty area?

A shooter who is good enough will not let such an opportunity slip from his feet!

So he, like Pique, could only rely on Puyol.

This was the silver lining in misfortune, Puyol, the stabilizer on the team's defense line, had not lost his position. He did not panic, but decisively pounced on Chen Hero.

It was no longer possible to head the ball away over Chen Hero's head.

Now all Puyol had to do was to hit Chen Hero with his body. If the opponent wanted to head the ball directly, he would interfere with his shot. If it was to stop the ball, then he would make him unable to stop the ball well.

Of course, the degree of this collision needed to be grasped well. But as an experienced old center back, Puyol had no problem in this regard.

Even if he couldn't make Chen Hero lose control of the ball, as long as he could prevent him from getting rid of himself, the chance of winning this defense would be quite high!

Because as long as he bought time, Pique and Busquets could come over. The three of them would surround Chen Hero, and even if he was strong, he would definitely not be able to get rid of them.

He was not Messi, and his foot control skills were very poor. This was mentioned in the previous information about Chen Hero.

So as long as Puyol and the others could successfully force Chen Hero to control the ball with his feet, Barcelona's defense would basically be successful.

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Chen Hero seemed to feel that Puyol wanted to hit him, so he turned his body slightly to the side and put his back between the ball and Puyol. Then… get ready to meet this impact!

The impact came almost with the ball.

He opened his arms and stopped the ball with his chest. At the same time, Puyol crashed into his back.

The imagined scene of people falling on their backs did not appear. Chen Hero didn't even shake his body, but the ball didn't stop steadily, but bounced up again!

This was a miscontrol!

Could it be that Chen Hero's chest stop was affected by Puyol's impact?

Perhaps Puyol knew a little reason - when he hit Chen Hero's body, he didn't feel like he was hitting flesh, there would be a soft feeling of buffering. No, it was a hard contact, it felt like hitting metal…

Because at that moment, Chen Hero's upper body muscles contracted rapidly, and the soft flesh became an object comparable to steel in an instant.

Logically speaking, when stopping the ball with the chest, the center of gravity should be quickly shifted back and the chest should be contracted and the muscles relaxed when the ball is falling, when the ball runs to the moment before it touches the chest, to buffer the impact brought by the ball, which is equivalent to using the chest as a pad.

But Chen Hero's approach was completely the opposite. He tightened and tensed the muscles of his chest. At that moment, his chest was like a piece of iron plate. How could the falling ball cushion the downward force and then obediently stop within the range that Chen Hero could control?

Therefore, no matter from the surface or deep-seated reasons, Chen Hero can be said to have miscontrolled this high ball. Of course, if he stopped the ball according to the general chest-stopping technique, then he might not be able to keep his body stable under Puyol's impact, which would actually cause a miscontrol…

Barcelona fans breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the ball bouncing high again.

The air raid alert was lifted.

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