Taking advantage of the mistakes of both sides, commentators from all over the world also began to introduce the starting lineups of both sides to fans. The U.S. team takes a throw-in from the right side of their own half.

Although Rafael is not familiar with the American team, there are still many familiar figures in their team.

Like their goalkeeper, Howard. He used to be the main goalkeeper of Premier League giants Manchester United, but because he played too nervously and was not stable enough, he eventually left the Red Devils and is currently playing for Toffee Everton. He was also the first-choice goalkeeper for the United States, helping them reach the final of the 2009 Confederations Cup, including a clean goal against Spain in the semi-finals. After the game, Howard was voted the best goalkeeper in the Confederations Cup.

Then there's Donovan, who plays as an attacking midfielder on the pitch today, a six-time American soccer man of the year, a brief spell in the Bundesliga for Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich, and currently team-mates with David Beckham at the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.

In addition, midfielder Maurice Edu, who plays for Glasgow Rangers in the Soviet Super League, Oneu, who was a substitute centre-back for Serie A giants AC Milan, and Dempsey, a versatile midfielder for Fulham in the Premier League, are more familiar to fans who only focus on the Europa League than Rafael.

The first kill of the game came from the United States.

In the 3rd minute of the game, Zanetti looked for Messi from the middle of the backfield, Dempsey, who was lurking next to Messi, suddenly started and intercepted the ball before him, Messi quickly chased back, and under the double attack of Zanetti and Messi, Dempsey who broke through into the forbidden area from the left could only shoot low, and the ball was held in the arms of Andujar, who was highly concentrated.

Rafael felt that their formation was not so much a 433 as a 4231 in this game, with Messi and Di Maria both circling in midfield, and he felt a little lonely as the only striker.

He did not touch the ball once in the first 5 minutes, because the United States team also strengthened the midfield control, the ball was all passed in the midfield, plus the crowding, in order to seek stability, Cambiasso and Banega often passed the ball back to the backfield, in order to open up the gap in the midfield.

Rafael turned around in the front court and found that it was Rojo on the left side on the same level as him, Rafael and he lip-synced to each other, hi ~ brother, there is a ball passed to me→_→.

Rojo: But you're too heavily defended there⊙⊙.

Raphael: It's okay, just go to a place where there's no one next to me, and I'll just run over ̄3 ̄.

Rojo: Okay.

As it turned out, Rafael's eyebrow flirtation was still necessary, and Rojo had many more chances to get the ball than him. After the ball had once again bounced around midfield, Cambiaso distributed the ball to Rojo, who was less than five metres from the corner, because there was space around him.

Rojo took two steps to stop the ball, and when he looked up, the midfield was still dense, there was only one right-back in front of Rojo, and in addition, there was a large gap in front of his right hand, but the American players were quickly returning to the defense. He saw Rafael, and there were two centre-backs staring at him, one left and one behind, was he going to pass the ball? He only thought about it for less than 0.1 seconds, because there was no time, cross!

But I don't know if he was still hesitating, his side cross was not strong enough, and the ball passed the defender directly in front of him, and it had already slowed down!

'This is No. 21 Rojo, an attacking left-back, this goal...... Well, it looks like the pass was wrong. CCTV commentator Fang Shen shook his head.

Although midfielder Cambiaso was quick to move forward, he couldn't move as fast as Edu, who was closer.

However, Edu also did not start quickly as Raphael fast!

Before the ball reached Rojo, Rafael had already adjusted his face, and when Rojo played the ball, he rushed to the side like a cheetah, directly throwing the two central defenders around him behind, and the ball that was hurriedly crossed, because the ball was not fast enough, was easily picked up by Rafael who was catching up.

At the moment he has the opponent's forbidden area on the right, Edu on the left, Onneu in front of the right, and two defenders in the back, he has no time to adjust to the past people, and his best solution is to pass the ball back to Rojo, and even this is a bit difficult, in short, he is surrounded.

Rafael was upset, he had the ball for the first time.

The psychological feeling didn't stop him from making the next move, he didn't stop the ball at all, slammed the inside of his left foot into the slow-rolling ball, and then quickly turned and ran past Oneu, who was headed by the baseline.

As for the ball, as soon as he touched it with his left foot, it had already changed direction and rolled under the crotch that Oneu had struggled to break the ball.

Wearing a crotch is like this.

Rafael skimmed past Oneu, and in order to be quick, he hit the ball a little harder, he chased it all the way to the baseline, and with a turn he stopped the ball in front of the baseline, and his left arm was two meters away from the goal of the United States.

In the face of the pressing American player, he only glanced at it, crossed directly to the baseline, and the ball flew high to the back of the goal.

"Yun Yi! Yun Yi got the ball before the American, see what he does! Oh beautiful, he took the ball to the baseline, he turned, he passed the ball?!Messi -- !!" Fang Shen was commenting Raphael's movements, and suddenly, his voice was an octave higher, with obvious excitement.

Because at the point behind the goal, it was Messi who once disappeared out of the camera!

He was also in front of the captain of the U.S. team, Bocanegra, who played as a central defender.

But it doesn't matter anymore, in the eyes of the people in front of the TV, they only see Messi jumping up, Bocanegra reacts half a beat slowly, and Messi has already surpassed him by half a position when he jumps.

The ball flew over as if it was being precisely guided, and slammed into Messi's head......

Mei Xiaoxi was dizzy, and when he fell, he was still a little unsteady, and he felt that the ball was a little bit like he pushed out, but was bounced out.

But at this moment, no one is paying attention to Messi, and everyone's eyes are firmly locked on the ball that he pushed out.

American goalkeeper Howard reacted very quickly, but he stood in the near corner, but the ball flew towards the far corner, too far away!!

So no matter how fast he reacted, the side pounce with all his strength was only slightly touched by his fingertips, and although the ball was a little forced, it only hit the post and bounced into the net again.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL！！！”

"MACY GOOO!!OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The commentator of Argentine TV shouted hysterically, "Messi received an angel's bottom cross, header on goal, perfect header! Who said Messi is not good at heading!"

Batista in the dugout stood up, he didn't expect the first goal to come so quickly!

U.S. head coach Bradley also stood up with a "poof", and he didn't expect to concede the first goal so quickly!!

This TM can score!

As soon as Messi came over, he looked at the goal, confirmed that the ball had fallen into the net, touched his head, and immediately grinned, Rafael had already rushed over, he opened his hands, and the two hugged each other. Raphael said excitedly: "Great, Leo, in fact, I still regret kicking it out, I'm afraid it's too high and you won't be able to catch it......"

Messi's hot heart instantly cooled half: "...... I'm good at bouncing!!"

How dare you discriminate against short people!

"Although Messi is not tall enough, it does not mean that he will not head the ball, when in the 09 Champions League final, Xavi crossed over Ferdinand's head from the right, Messi headed the goal unguarded at the back post, and the goalkeeper Van der Sar, who is close to 2 meters tall, can not do anything about it. In the last game against Portugal, Messi and Ronaldo were still competing for the top. The commentator seemed to have a heart in his heart and began to praise Messi's header endlessly.

The scene erupted in bursts of boos mixed with cheers, making people wonder if there were Argentine fans wearing American team uniforms undercover inside.

The mood of the American people is very conflicted, on the one hand, they want to applaud Messi's beautiful header, and on the other hand, they are annoyed that the opponent broke through their own goal so lightly.

CCTV Fang Shen just praised Messi's goal, and as soon as he changed his words, he said: "This ball is thanks to Yunyi! Let's take a look at the replay." Yunyi easily passed the ball under Onewu's crotch, then broke away from the defense and turned and crossed the ball as it was close to the baseline. ”

Gong Shi also nodded in agreement: "Yes, because his series of actions are very fast, especially the one where Yunyi doesn't stop the ball and directly passes through the crotch, the Americans didn't react at all, and Oneu almost collided with Edu, so there was a delay here." So that gives Rafael room to start with the pass. And Rafael turned around and passed the ball directly, the adjustment was very small, and the pass was very accurate, look here! Messi was inserted in the back row, and he didn't know if there was anyone there when Rafael passed, but Messi didn't waste this opportunity, his top reaction was much faster than Bocanegra!"

This is not Yunyi's bloodline filter is too thick to be touted by the two of them, in fact, after watching the playback, they convincingly admitted: "Raphael's on-the-spot response is really amazing." ”

Not everyone can find the most suitable solution between the lightning and flint of the besieged.

Even Messi is a little strange: "I haven't run there yet, why do you dare to pass the ball?"

At that time, Rafael was too fast, and the speed was fast, when he turned around to pass, he almost subconsciously passed it, in fact, he could have waited for a while to pass again. But in that case, it is estimated that it will not be so easy for Messi to compete with Bocanegra, after all, he is more than ten centimeters taller than him.

Raphael thought for a moment: "I think it's a good space there, I'm sure you'll come." ”

According to his thoughts, there should be no one else without Messi.

However, his sentence "I believe in you" made Messi very happy, his eyes were shining, and there was a wonderful feeling flowing in his heart.

Messi really scored this ball very easily, he only needed to rush over and jump, and the ball fell on his head so right, which was only when he first practiced heading, he could receive such a comfortable pass.

After hugging Messi, Rafael ran to Rojo and hammered him on the chest with one hand, smiling brightly: "Thank you Marcos, that pass just now was amazing!"

Rojo was a little embarrassed, could he say that he was kicking?

Rafael obviously relied on his own ability to achieve the assist, and he also came to thank him for his behavior that moved Rojo and scratched his head and smiled.

Rafael thought for a moment and said, "Well, as long as you don't mention that game again, we will be good brothers in the future!"

Luo Huo was stunned for a moment: "Which one?" After a pause, he suddenly realized, "Ah, is it the scene where the underwear is exposed?"

“……”

"Okay, okay, I don't know you care about this, I won't talk about it in the future, hahaha. ”

“…… Well, it's a shame after all. ”

"However, do you still wear white now, pure white looks too pure, you can consider wearing some patterned, what do you think of printing a little sheep?"

“…… Hehe. ”

Raphael smiled and pinched his fingers.

Rojo, how did you grow so big?