Yesterday's review: Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid gave gifts to each other, and won the Italian Cup and the English League Cup.
Yesterday focused on Atletico Madrid's header and set-piece, I didn't expect to open through this way after the goal, immediately lost the header, what is even more strange is that Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid (extra time) have scored a similar own goal, in addition to Griezmann's personal ability to score and Dias's overtaking leak, there was no front-court player to score yesterday, and finally the winner or loser in extra time was successfully judged, but I didn't expect this game of mutual gifts, and finally ended in such a way.
The two games of the Italian Cup and the English League Cup are consistent with the pre-match fundamental judgment, yesterday excluding the non-mainstream games, the mainstream games are still more logical, by the way, the red card suspension of the Italian Cup and Serie A is not interchangeable.
Barcelona have been playing like a man on the verge of drowning in the last two months, and the water is up to the neck, so will defending the Super Cup be a chance to go ashore?
January 11th
Spanish Super Cup semifinals
03:00 [Barça-Osasuna].
1.Referee: Two emotional emperors, the penalty recording will be released simultaneously after the game].
Xavi has played against Osasuna 5 times since taking office, including 4 red cards in 4 games, the referee of this game Munis is actually not qualified enough to enforce the Super Cup, after all, La Liga has only been enforcing the law for 3 seasons, He was actually affected by the retired "little princess" Lahoz last year, and 30% of the cards in the game were made up because of the players or coaches.
After refereeing Grande retired last season, his performance as a referee was not ideal, and he was also a bit of a referee who preferred to intervene in red cards or penalty fouls.
The only "shackle" given to these two referees in this game is that the Spanish Football Federation decided to make public the recording of the intervention of the referee and the referee by the broadcast partner after the game, which may make everyone pay more attention to their own scale.
2.Barcelona: It is difficult to break through the dense defense, and it is easy to expose the defensive horses
Wounded Inigo. Martinez will travel to Saudi Arabia with the team, and Barca's starting XI will be similar to the situation we played against Las Palmas in the previous round, and it will be up to us to decide whether Felix and Torres will have to settle in that position.
Our comparisons today are the last two games and the first time against Osasuna, Getafe and Mallorca, two similar teams to Osasuna.
This position can see some of Barcelona's problems, the team does not have players who can form a breakthrough on the side, resulting in too many people piling up in the front, the center Lewandowski is not the most advanced player, in addition to the inability to dismantle the opponent's dense defense, the team is actually only De Jong and Araujo, the opponent will face Barcelona's goal as soon as he passes through the midfield, which is why most of Barcelona's clean sheets this season come from opponents close to their own strength.
Xavi also has the same problem as my home club, Arsenal, who have often leaked from set-pieces this season.
3.Osasuna: Squatting to defend, slow to counterattack].
Osasuna: I compared the appearances of the four Champions League teams this season and the most recent Copa del Rey, the game with Barcelona at the beginning of the season because Osasuna had just finished the UEFA Europa League play-offs, so they chose to rotate the lineup, playing against Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, Osasuna is considered a normal formation, as for Real Sociedad with Alrasate's friend Alguacil, Osasuna chose a squatting defensive formation with three central defenders.
They are likely to continue to opt for this formation, but Argentine striker Avila is out of the squad due to injury, which may weaken their counter-attack.
The most recent Copa del Rey team also played in extra time to advance, and the physical consumption was also relatively large.
Osasuna's position is actually more left, and the team's offensive promotion under normal circumstances mainly relies on long passes and crosses, so the center forward position is more critical, but once it sinks to the position of 3 central defenders, the lack of a speed striker in front will lead to the rhythm of the counterattack can not be played, and you can only hope for set-pieces to form a transformation.
4.Conclusion: Barcelona may still be the same].
In the position map of the two teams, Barcelona's midfielders can easily play the red zone, and Osasuna's defense will be more difficult to break through in the left half of the zone and form a blue zone.
The key to Barcelona's breakthrough in this game may be the long-range shot attempt and the Brazilian teenager Roque, after all, Osasuna is not very familiar with Roque's habits, and it is easy to play a surprise.
But Roque is likely to come off the bench, Barcelona this season outside the box shot attempts in the league is also in the middle of the league, Raphinha, Felix, Gundogan is the only player to shoot more than 10 times outside the box, so Barcelona's final promotion to the final should not be very happy.