Heavy is the crown
It is well known that the pressure for the best team on paper is massive, tell to Barça. Best players but still no european titles. Portugal is still dominating in Europe. While they are not dominating the okliga as they are supposed to do. I feel you. Being always on the spot is not easy.
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Do you remember when we talked about the differences in between the different defences? Well here there is an example of one. The problem of a high 20 metres defence. Do you remember when we talked about huge mistakes in defence? If that mistake was not from Barça, it would not have been that bad. But this team has an amp for this.
The good thing for us is: this is a big mistake, so we can easily learn from it, and as there is a lot of space, it will be so easy to see. Sometimes a goal is not thanks to the attacker, it is thanks to the mistake on defence.
First things first, Noia with the high pressure that Barça is putting on them brings the ball down to 7. Noia here is doing a 2 on 2. Leaving 2 players at 0 and another 2 around 3, 4 and 7. Pablo Najera (Noai N7) has the ball. When Najera skates out from 7 to 3 and stops at 3. The other Barça defenders get closer to the Noia attacker at 0. Leaving a huge space is around 9. This is a free space. Well there is a Noia player on the floor.
Najera skates back to 7 bringing the defence down again. We can easily see how Najera has 2 defenders on him. Najera tries to surprise the goalie from behind the cage. Bringing even more attention to the 4 defenders. I don't know if this was his intention, but it worked.
At the same time Barça defenders are getting closer again, a second Noia attacker is coming, getting the back of the free defender, Eloi Cervera (Barça N72). Eloi was defending the Noia player that fell before. Who is not on frame any more. For me that was the first mistake, there is a standing tower. Some that are protecting a space while everybody else is defending a player.
