Messi's goal made Barcelona fans celebrate wildly, and also gave Barcelona players more confidence in playing ball control and defense.
Before that, we also need to find some offensive space, try to score an away goal, and take both offense and defense into consideration.
Now we not only have an away goal, but are also leading the score, so all we have to do is focus on defense.
In the following time, as long as the Barcelona players had the ball, they basically kept passing, passing, and passing, trying their best to prevent Inter players from getting the ball.
If two defenders pass the ball to each other and no one presses them, they can pass the ball back and forth seven or eight times in a row, not caring about the boos from the fans in the stands.
Even attackers like Messi and Villa, as well as goalkeeper Valdés, have become transit stations for passing the ball, and they will not easily break through to shoot or kick the ball.
It is easy to lose the ball by breaking through, shooting or kicking the ball.
Barcelona's current goal is not to expand the score, but to control the ball under their feet and not give Lu Wenbin the opportunity to dribble through and shoot or create a free kick.
After Inter Milan intensified their pressing in the second half, Barcelona made more mistakes and lost the ball, and Inter Milan's possession rate increased.
However, when Barcelona scored a goal and began to use ball possession defense more extremely to delay time, Barcelona's ball possession rate began to rise again and Inter Milan's ball possession rate began to decline again.
When it came to the 80th minute, Barcelona's ball possession rate reached 80%, while Inter Milan only had 20%. Barcelona was four times that of Inter Milan.
Such a comparison of ball possession rates is absolutely rare.
Inter Milan fans in the stands booed continuously, but Barcelona fans cheered. They believed that Barcelona could not only keep Lu Wenbin scoreless, but also take away a victory from the away game, laying a solid foundation for advancing to the final in the second round.
As a proud madman, Mourinho naturally gritted his teeth watching on the sidelines.
He had replaced Zidane with Yuto Nagatomo and Biabiany with Coutinho, but the appearance of the two new players did not change the situation on the field.
There was also an all-around defensive midfielder Cambiasso who was good at intercepting the ball sitting on the bench, but Mourinho did not want to replace Zanetti.
Although Zanetti is very old, as the captain, he is very self-disciplined and keeps his physical fitness quite well. As Mourinho pays attention to rotation on a regular basis, there is no problem for Zanetti to play the whole game.
The question is, if we don’t replace Zanetti, who should we replace him with
The only forwards who could interfere with Barcelona's defense were Lu Wenbin and Eto'o, and their ability to steal the ball was very poor.
Although midfielders such as Sneijder, Stankovic, Coutinho and others occasionally cooperated with Lu Wenbin and Eto'o to interfere with and steal the ball in Barcelona's backcourt, it was not the norm.
What's more, Sneijder, Stankovic and Coutinho are not good at stealing the ball, and sometimes they are easily broken through by the opponents in one-on-one situations.
Therefore, Barcelona could easily control the ball and pass the ball back in the backcourt. Although it was not as comfortable as in the first half, it was not that difficult either.
As for Lu Wenbin and Eto'o, Lu Wenbin was okay. Although he did not have many successful steals, he kept running with his full physical strength to interfere with Barcelona's backcourt passes.
But Eto'o was already a little tired and was strolling in the frontcourt, greatly reducing the threat of Barcelona's backcourt defense.
Seeing this, Mourinho made a crazy decision: he called Cambiasso, who had been warming up, and after giving him some instructions, he asked the fourth official to play a sign to replace No. 9 Eto'o with No. 19 Cambiasso.
When the commentators saw that Inter Milan was going to make substitutions, they were cheered up, thinking that Mourinho was going to make the final substitution and give it a try.
However, when everyone saw the replacement number, their eyes popped out.
"What? Mourinho replaced Eto'o with Cambiasso when the score was behind. Is this to strengthen the defense?"
"I don't understand. Inter Milan is trailing in the score. Mourinho is taking out a striker and adding a defensive midfielder. What does he want to do?"
"Did Mourinho want to use two defensive midfielders to keep the score of 0-1 until the end? This is crazy, I don't understand!"
Amid everyone's puzzled gaze, Inter Milan completed the substitution, and then Cambiasso came on the court, but he did not run to the backcourt and stand in the same line with Zanetti, but ran to the frontcourt and stood in the same line with Lu Wenbin.
Moreover, there was no going back when the game resumed.
After Cambià came on the pitch, he played not as a defensive midfielder, but as a striker like Lu Wenbin: this was a crazy substitution.
Everyone knows that Cambiasso is an excellent all-around defensive midfielder who can defend, organize attacks, and take a couple of long shots, but he has never played as a striker deep behind enemy lines.
Mourinho's substitution caused an uproar among all the spectators and commentators.
The commentators supporting Inter Milan and the neutral commentators widened their eyes and explained:
"Oh, my-god, Mourinho is crazy. He asked Cambiasso, who has never played as a striker, to replace Eto'o and let him partner with Lu Wenbin as a striker!"
"Is Mourinho stunned by Messi's goal? If he wants to change the striker, Inter Milan still has Milito and Pandev on the bench. Why would he use Cambiasso as a striker?"
"What an incomprehensible substitution! The madman Mourinho is really incomprehensible!"
"I thought Mourinho was going to replace Cambiasso as defensive midfielder, but I didn't expect Cambiasso to play as a striker. This is a position Cambiasso has never played before. I don't understand it at all!"
"Mourinho is crazy, he doesn't want to win anymore!"
While the Inter Milan fans were confused and puzzled, the commentator supporting Barcelona was laughing.
"Haha, the madman Mourinho was also driven crazy by Barcelona and actually made such a substitution!"
"Inter Milan replaced striker Eto'o with defensive midfielder Cambiasso when the score was behind, but Cambiasso did not play as a defensive midfielder after he came on the field, but as a striker!"
"I think Mourinho must have made the wrong substitution. He might have wanted to bring Milito on."
"Perhaps Milito is injured?"
"No, Milito should not be injured, it's Mourinho who is injured! He has a brain injury!"
On the field, players from both Inter Milan and Barcelona were also confused and puzzled by the substitution.
When Barcelona first saw Cambiasso replacing Eto'o, they thought Mourinho was going to surrender and strengthen his defense to avoid losing more goals.
Many Inter Milan players also think so.
This is still a normal understanding, although it is a bit frustrating.
But when everyone saw that Cambiasso did not play as a defensive midfielder with Zanetti after he came on the court, but partnered with Lu Wenbin as a striker, everyone was a little confused. (Seeking monthly votes)