The first reason is that Messi has been a dwarf since childhood. He was not found in time and his treatment was interrupted. Although he overcame his illness with the help of Barcelona, his physical defects can never be made up. Messi, who returned to the stadium the day after tomorrow, was far less physically fit than ordinary people. It is not that he doesn't want to run, but that he really can't run.
Secondly, because of his age, Messi of 1987 is 32 years old. Although this age is the peak of athletes, it is not the case for Messi who suffers from dwarfism. In recent years, Messi's physical condition has declined slightly, even worse than before. In order to break through the opponent's defense at the critical moment, we can often see Messi walking around the court, but this is actually the best way to save energy.
The third reason is that Messi has become a "ball friend". Although Messi's physical condition has declined to a certain extent, his other conveniences are improving, especially his reading ability and understanding of the game, which basically puts him in a "God's perspective" and Messi can basically complete the most threatening pass or shot with the shortest running distance. Whenever Messi receives the ball, the opponent will basically send more than three players to defend, but it is hard to prevent, which is the main reason why Messi has become the most threatening stadium.
In fact, your guess here is correct. There are both drug reasons and technological changes.
Here we can analyze why Messi runs less and less from his physical problems and changes in his position in recent years.
1. Messi has been suffering from the disease of insufficient secretion of growth hormone since he was a child, so he began to receive medication when he was in Argentina. After going to Spain, he still received long-term drug treatment and gradually reduced his drug intake until he reached adulthood. Although these drugs did not have any influence on Messi's speed and running ability in the early or even peak period, it is undeniable that these drugs are having some side effects on Messi's later career.
2. Excessive consumption in the early career changed Messi's physical function. In the early and peak period of Messi's career, Messi's fast pace and explosive power often make the other side elusive, and this technical ability has been maintained for more than ten years, which will cause great damage to Messi's knee joint and even the motor function of the whole lower limb. This is why Messi often suffers minor injuries in recent years, which is closely related to muscle fatigue and muscle injury.
3. Tactical adjustment and changing positions to reduce movement. In recent years, everyone can see that Messi's running position has been reduced in a cliff-like manner. In some games, the running distance is even only 7.5km, which has a lot to do with the coach's tactical arrangement in recent years. Messi has gradually become the only player in the team who doesn't need to defend. He only needs to provide organization and attack for the team in the middle and front court, reducing most of the running. In addition, Messi gradually recovered from the forward position to the midfield position. More often, he chose to use penetrating assists or direct insertion and various key passes to help his teammates complete the goal, while he reduced more direct sprints and runs to extend his career.
At present, these three points are the reasons why Messi runs less, while the latter is more likely to prolong his career and reduce his running position.
First, there will definitely be an age effect. 20 18 Russian world cup, 3 1 year-old Messi, compared with 65438+ year-old Mbappé.
Second, people who have played football games should know that passive running is much more tiring than active running. For example, the company is also working overtime. Leaders who work overtime will not be as tired as employees who work overtime. There is a simple reason. Leadership goal is clear, take the initiative to work overtime. Employees passively work overtime to force themselves to do things. The workload will almost certainly be very different. Messi is a player who can change the pace of the game and affect the result of the game. His "active overtime" mostly happens when the game is anxious, and those players who have run a lot of distances are generally passive in my opinion, because the team can keep the game in the air with them, but the real victory still depends on Messi.
Third, Messi likes everyone's self-centered way of playing football, that is, I command the offensive direction of the team and don't like others to mobilize their own offensive direction. So on the court, Messi's style is that you must control the ball with your feet, run without the ball or pull the space without the ball. What he did more was that the ball was under his feet and his teammates ran to find space to pick him up. Of course this is the case.
There are more people running to meet than coordinating.
Inzaghi averaged 1 1000. But many fans said they couldn't see others. Because running without the ball is really running without the ball most of the time, and you can't catch the ball. If you don't stare at it, it's easy to ignore it.
Run if you can't catch the ball, because you need to give your teammates the possibility to catch the ball for their opponents.
This kind of running is slow and uninterrupted. If you are interested, you can watch the player's perspective video of 14 World Cup, which is the kind of game video that German TV stations stare at a player.
I suggest visiting Ozil, and you will find that he almost never stops. At the same time, you will find that this is a boring game perspective. Many times, 272 just rambles endlessly at the speed of old people's morning running. You stared at him for three or four minutes, and the ball finally appeared in the picture. A second later, he kicked the ball away.
It's amazing that Messi is more than 7,000. He has hardly seen more than 8,000 people, just because he didn't get into the habit of walking around endlessly at the speed of the elderly in the morning. He would often stop and stand quietly.
I've watched Messi play football since his debut, and I've been catching up with him ever since. It can be said that Messi's way of playing football has become refined, and his reading ability and understanding of the game have surpassed most players. I remember the match between Barcelona and Bilbao last season. After the game, I saw that most of the runners' running distances were in double digits and single digits, but they were all close to 10 km. Only Messi is 7.2 kilometers, and the key is to score.
When I was a child, Messi passed the ball to run. After all, my age is there now. Messi has a good physical fitness, a sense of ball, not to mention his technical ability. His unique frequency and fake movements make him one of the top three in La Liga even in his thirties. He has a low center of gravity, good physical coordination and is not afraid of confrontation. Messi often observes the position of his teammates when kicking and running, and the passing accuracy is high, including straight ball, oblique ball, long string and short pass. Barcelona teammates and Messi also have a tacit understanding, so there are many assists and threats. Messi likes to play with small balls, and also likes a double double-team that will attract the opposing players to break through, which often causes the opposing players to foul. Macy's at its peak was not called for nothing. Needless to say, Messi's shooting skills, it is worth mentioning that many people have an illusion that Messi is not good at long-range shooting. In fact, Messi's long-range shot is very good, and his free kick ability has also improved in recent years. In a word, the man hovering between cow A and cow C.
With the proper adjustment of personal age and physical fitness, Messi was once famous for running hard when he was young, so he was called a flea. Because you don't know when he will arrive. Now Messi is more of an organization because of his age, tactics and position. You saw him running. In fact, he is also observing the overall situation while containing the opponent's defense. How to break the opponent's defense! If you don't start, you will get something, and once you start, you will get something, so you see that Messi often walks now, but the time is always accurate. There is a saying in China that "the bystander sees clearly", so you can know the fatal place.
A person's physical strength is limited. If he wants to use it at a critical moment, he must save it when it is time to save his strength. At the same time, we should use our brains to play football and pay attention to the situation and its changes on the field. This is the difference between top stars and ordinary players. Messi is the best person who can play football with his brain and speak with his feet. He cooperated well with his teammates and persuaded his opponents. This is Messi, the walking emperor Messi.
Because Messi and his teammates cooperate very well, they can reduce a lot of unnecessary running. In fact, Messi has always been famous for running less. It's okay to play on the court for a long time. Some people will say that "Messi plays better than most players when he moves". However, in the first two games of the World Cup group stage, I believe that the criticism of running less will also bring great pressure to his title of king of the ball.
In fact, there must be a reason to think that Messi can do this. In any team, if the running distance is the lowest for a long time, then the coach will definitely not. Obviously, this is a state of destruction. It's always an attitude problem anyway. Messi is less involved in defense in most cases, which is not to say that he is not, but that he is more used in attack. At the same time, so many people are still tired.
Many netizens remember last year's Champions League, when Chelsea came to Camp Nou. To tell the truth, the first round is still very threatening. Professor Bu can hardly cope with William, and his pace has not accelerated. However, after arriving at the home of Barcelona, the situation was basically one-sided. Messi is getting smoother and smoother in his position now. As long as he pulls the ball away, it shows that the opponent's defense is still necessary.
At this point, he and his teammates must move forward carefully through constant cooperation. As long as Messi takes the ball, the Barcelona teammates around him basically start running, either waiting for the ball or making room for Messi to pass the ball. On the other hand, which team needs physical strength to gain an advantage on the football field? If there is absolute power to crush, then there will be less natural running. Physical strength can be regarded as the embodiment of professional attitude, but it is also a compensation for the lack of talent.
Messi's physical strength is not his strong suit. The young Messi is about 5kg lighter than now, and the midfield support is stronger. Everyone knows what Iniesta is doing in the back.
Now Messi, 169, is between 72 and 74 in height and weight. It stands to reason that this weight is definitely a burden for physical strength. Self-respect is one aspect, and it is certain that his absolute speed is not fast enough. Now that he is old, he will find that his passing rate is not as good as before, not to mention his physical strength. Now Messi is very much like diego maradona in the later period, retreating from the winger to the shadow striker. This kind of kicking method itself is a kind of playing method that needs short-distance explosion to break through. Messi was not slow when the explosion started. Messi is similar to the function of the converter between midfield and striker. This function once belonged to Iniesta and Harvey. Messi has strong breakthrough ability and good long-range shooting, and his ability to handle the ball in a crowded small space is absolutely top-notch. Let alone Rakitic's engineer midfielder busquets, and the incompetent six gladiators Roberto and Dembele? Which can be used as an offensive converter? So I think Barcelona smashed Coutinho for this position and found someone who could connect the midfield and the front line when Messi was short of physical strength.
Goals don't have assists. I call Messi a bully with the ball. There is no physical defense for goals and assists. I am speechless? Do you want the corner post of Meixi Station when defending? Do you want to add a lung to Messi's operation? Goal, breakthrough, assist, participate in defense, or save a goal in front of the door? Oh, you will still be black and uncompetitive.
Yes, physical fitness is really poor, but Messi also suffered a lot, walking west.
A professional football player, no matter who he is, usually reflects two problems: physical quality and attitude.
Messi belongs to physical deterioration after getting old. Compared with Ronaldo's injury and old age, he reduced the breakthrough of holding the ball, emphasized running and shooting without the ball, and reducing running was also Messi's transformation way, allocating more physical fitness to threatening attacks. For example, in Four-wheel Drive Brothers, the American team made a jet acceleration sprint in the final stage of the game, and just after the finish line, it exhausted all the battery power.
For example, Messi runs less and has poor defensive enthusiasm, which can be understood as playing a big ball. Generally speaking, only the super giant of the team, the absolute core of the team can play a big ball. However, a team can only have one player on the court. When there is only one player, other players can make up for it by running and defending more actively, but if there is more than one player, it may be ok to abuse food and the possibility of serious injury is higher.
By the way, analyze the problem of Bassa Coutinho. Coutinho's performance was not good because he was placed in an unfamiliar and bad winger position by the coach. The reason why he is placed in the winger position is because he is not motivated to defend in the middle, and there is already a Messi playing a big ball in the middle …
I vaguely remember Messi saying that he would help Neymar win the Golden Globe. It can be seen that Messi ignores dedication and likes to assist teammates. In addition, even after the goal, he ran to his teammates first, instead of celebrating alone in front of the fans like Cristiano Ronaldo. How can such a Messi make people not love him?
Then the question is, why does Messi have a lot of assists and goals when he runs very little on the court? It is understood that in a match between Barcelona and Bilbao last season, the running mileage of both players was around 10 km, while Messi was only 7 km, but he also scored the most goals. Valverde couldn't help shouting: Messi, you need to run more, or I will lose my trust in you.
It is concluded that there are two reasons why Messi can score more goals than assists with less movement: 1, and cultivate versatile players to score goals without running blindly. Messi practiced playing football from an early age and came to professional Barcelona for training in his teens. His skills have long been perfect and he has long been indifferent to honor. On the court, he spent more time not on offense, but on defense and continuous passing. In a match between Barcelona and Chelsea, Messi Station was pinched in front of three central defenders in Chelsea's backcourt. The commentator couldn't help shouting that it was a waste of resources to keep it. Three defenses and one, netizens said that three is not enough.
2. Messi is more and more comfortable in the position of 10. As long as you get the ball, the opponent should be careful whether to cooperate with his teammates to attack and advance. So as soon as Messi gets the ball, his teammates will start running and wait to catch it. In this case, Messi can watch his teammates perform. If teammates can't turn the tide, Messi will try his best to help the team win, so Messi will assist more and run less on the court.
Messi is not a player who likes to run without the ball. Messi, as the number one ball king today, has unparalleled skills. He can organize passing, personal breakthrough, goal and set the ball, which can be said to be omnipotent! Messi is a player who needs absolute possession of the ball. Around the state of having the ball, he either directly broke through, or passed 2 passes 1, 2 passes 2, and hit the wall and directly took the ball into the restricted area ... The intuitive seal for many spectators during the game was that there were few running positions, but Spanish TV stations did some running heat maps of Messi League, which were basically concentrated in the center of the middle and front court.
The real data is that the official statistics of Barcelona show that the average running distance of Messi in the 20 18 season is close to 9000m, which is considerable for the king of Messi. In the century when the Champions League reversed Liverpool, Messi ran an amazing 1.2 million meters! Considering that Messi hardly goes to work all the year round, his physical strength and will are even more admirable. Therefore, Messi's running is more about the state of the ball, and there are more sprints in a small range. This feature requires the player's anaerobic conversion ability to be extremely high! Generally speaking, Messi is not only an excellent player, but also conscientious and never slack off on the court.