“I found out about the false 9 the day before the match. That afternoon at the training ground, Pep told me:
‘I want to play with a false 9, so the central defenders won’t have a reference point and you’ll be one more in the middle of the field. To win in Madrid, we need to have possession, be protagonists. If we want to win, we have to be far superior to them. I want you to come back into midfield, link up with Busi, Xavi, and Andrés. If their central defenders come out, we have Samuel and Tití who will run into space.’
“And well, that’s how we did it.”
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