Enrique reminds Paris Saint-Germain: Messi and his teammates should not be underestimated

Let's watch this game. Paris Saint-Germain vs. Miami International, and before the game, the head coaches of both sides talked a lot. On the surface, it seems to be mutual politeness and statements, but if you analyze it carefully, it is said that it is for your team members to listen to, which is a preparatory preparation for tactical thinking.

Look at Louis Enrique's side first. Why did he repeatedly emphasize Miami's lineup strength and say that after watching their several games, he was very impressed? We said that he is not complimenting, but "cooling" his team and doing psychological prevention. As a European giant, Paris is prone to relaxing in its mentality when facing a team from the American League and feels that it can be easily won. This is the most taboo thing when a strong team plays a weak team. Enrique took out the points of Busquets, Messi, Suarez and Alba one by one, and was actually reminding his players: what you have to face is not an ordinary team, but a group of players with top experience and ball players.

He mentioned Bootház's ball possession, Messi's talent, Suarez's shooting skills and Alba's interlude. This set of things is most familiar to Barcelona fans and the whole world knows them. The key to the problem is that you know they want to play like this, but you just can't defend it. Because this cooperation has been integrated into their football instincts. Especially, when these people form a local small group on the court, their reasonableness in handling the ball is very high and they can find loopholes in your defense in the easiest way. Enrique said this to make the Paris players look 100% focused from the beginning and not have any subjective underestimation of the enemy.

Looking at Miami again, Mascherano's posture was very straightforward. He first admitted that we are the relatively underestimated side. This is very important, first throw the pressure on the opponent. Then he said immediately, but that doesn't mean you can defeat us easily. This has established a mentality for our players: we are challengers, we have to compete for opponents, but we are not without opportunities.

What is the most core point he said? "No team has no weaknesses." We say that this is the fundamental idea of ​​weak teams fighting against strong teams. Mascherano himself is a midfielder. He has a deep understanding of the game and his defensive system. He knew very well that the overall athletic ability and lineup thickness of the Miami team would definitely not be able to fight against Paris head-on. Then how to kick? It depends on experience, tactics, and the grasp of the timing of the game. What they have to do is to keep the formation compact on the court and patiently look for the gap that Paris has exposed during offense and defense conversion or positional offense.

So you see, Enrique mentioned that Mascherano and Busquets will be good coaches in the future, and also said that Busquets is an extension of Mascherano on the court now. This sentence points to the essence of the problem. Now this Miami International team has a highly unified football philosophy, both on the field and off the field coaches. They just need to use their rich experience and a deep understanding of football to make up for their physical functions.

In this game, Paris Saint-Germain's advantage lies in its overall strength, age structure and impact. Miami International's advantages lie in the experience of core players, tacit understanding and super high ball players who handle key balls. Mascherano's task is to lead the game to a more test of tactics and details, while Enrique's task is to enable his team to play the advantages of his body and lineup, and use continuous oppression to defeat his opponent's experience. So, this will be a very interesting game.