Chapter 043: Provocation from Busquets
There were about five minutes left before the start of the game, and the players from both sides came to the players' tunnel one after another under the reminder of the staff of the Spanish Football Federation to make final preparations.
Through the live broadcast of television, fans sitting in front of the TV can see the mental outlook of the players on both sides of the game.
Most of the players at home Barcelona and away Real Madrid are a little nervous, because the next game will directly affect the competition for the league title this season, so the players on both sides are under a lot of pressure.
Including Barcelona's star Messi, his brows are tightened and his heart is heavy.
When the close-up of the live director was given to Tang Zheng, the No. 10 of Real Madrid, He Wei, the commentator of the Central 5 Commentary, said with a smile: "It's exactly the same as the Tang Zheng we knew in the past, Tang Zheng doesn't know what it means to be nervous!
Because the game was too important, there was no communication between the two teams' internationals, at most they nodded hastily.
This shows the importance of this national derby.
For about two minutes, referee Laos and his assistants led the players from both sides of the game into the stadium through the tunnel of the players.
"Whoa—"
Suddenly, the full Camp Nou stadium resounded with a huge shout like a tsunami.
A few seconds passed, and the loud cheers subsided.
IT TURNED OUT THAT THE LIVE RADIO SOUNDED THE BARCELONA TEAM SONG "HIMNE-DEL-BARCELONA", WHICH TRANSLATED INTO Chinese IS: BARCELONA ODE.
The Barcelona fans chanted the Barcelona carol, and the neat and tacit singing made the frenetic atmosphere at the Camp Nou come to the clouds early, so that hundreds of millions of Barcelona fans in front of the TV felt a sense of pride from the bottom of their hearts.
And Real Madrid fans and neutral fans also have a special feeling, called ...... Shock!
In order to prepare for this high-profile national derby, Barcelona fans can be described as painstaking.
Barcelona fans sang and held up mosaic boards placed under their seats, and in the stands opposite the main station, the main stand, Barcelona fans pieced together a Barcelona home jersey with the Arabic numerals '12'.
The implication speaks for itself, Barcelona fans compare themselves to Barcelona's twelfth twelfth!
In the other three stands, there are red and blue horizontal stripes, which make up the traditional colors and emblem of the Barcelona team.
Those fans who did not have the opportunity to watch the game can directly feel the frenzied atmosphere of the scene through the live TV, and the Real Madrid players in the stadium have the most intuitive feeling.
Feeling the frenzied atmosphere blowing on his face, Tang Zheng, who was still calm, also felt a little more uneasy.
In this way, Barcelona fans tell the Barcelona players on the pitch that they have been preparing for this game for a long time, and that the Barcelona players should put on a satisfactory performance.
Messi, who has been sluggish in the past few national derbys, feels the hope of the fans, Messi secretly clenches his fists, and he wants to perform well in the next national derby and prove himself!
He has missed the FIFA Ballon d'Or for two years in a row, and if he wants to regain the FIFA Ballon d'Or, he must first put on a convincing performance in the direct national derby!
"Beep~"
With the whistle of the referee on duty, Laos, the 28th round of the 2014-2015 La Liga season was officially announced!
Barcelona fans with the advantage of kick-off quickly launched a wave of threatening attacks under the leadership of Messi, if it were not for Tang Zheng's timely supplement, Messi was very likely to take the ball and go directly into the goal when Messi received Suarez to make the ball back in time.
But Tang Zheng, who stopped the football, did not dare to control the ball too much, and handed it directly to left-back Marcelo, who was pressed by Iniesta and lost the passing angle, so he had to choose to kick the ball out of the sideline and give Barcelona a frontcourt sideline ball.
"Whoa—"
Although Barcelona only won a touchline goal, the Barcelona fans in the stands seemed to have seen the team's hope of winning, so they created a huge cheer to cheer for the team, hoping that the team would score as soon as possible!
In addition to Messi's excellent competitive level, Neymar and Suarez have played well, but the Real Madrid defense is still unable to score in a short period of time in the face of the united Real Madrid defense.
The first five minutes passed quickly, Barcelona with the advantage of home control of the rhythm of the game, the league leader Real Madrid can only defend passively, and Tang Zheng, who has been in excellent form recently, can only be in a defensive posture in the overall passivity.
Even Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez retreated to the half-court to assist in the overall defence, leaving only one Benzema to roam between Barcelona's two centre-backs as tactical press.
Messi once again did not choose to break through directly in the face of Tang Zheng's assistance defense, but chose to cooperate with his teammates around him, and waited until he ran away from Tang Zheng's coverage before taking the ball to break through or pass the ball.
It's not that Messi doesn't dare to go one-on-one with Tang Zheng, it can only be said that Messi is more stable and mature.
Horseman's courage doesn't mean anything in a soccer game, after all, football is a team sport, and you need to link up with other teammates to play good football.
The effect of Messi's wide run is obvious, and he can give Neymar space to break down the left.
Whether it is Toni Kroos or Modric, their defensive skills are very poor, and they can only suppress Neymar through numbers.
However, before the game, Barcelona coach Enrique focused on telling Neymar to break through decisively after Messi attracted Tang Zheng's defensive attention, and opened the gap from the left side of the attack, so he chose to break through even in the face of the tight marking of Real Madrid players.
Neymar is skilled and explosive at his feet, so he often has a very high success rate in breaking through with the ball.
It's a pity that the cross after the breakthrough is almost meaningless, otherwise Suarez, who has a strong ability to grab points, could directly threaten Casillas to guard the goal......
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During this time, Tang Zheng felt a lot of pressure, and this pressure came from the more mature Messi.
If Messi chooses to break through with the ball, Tang Zheng is confident to limit Messi, but Messi chooses to cooperate with his teammates, and Messi has a good control of timing, knows when to break through, knows when to pass, and how to bring the greatest threat to the opponent's defense.
With the passage of time, Tang Zheng truly felt Messi's horror.
However, Tang Zheng was able to get the glory that countless players dreamed of at the age of twenty-five, and he naturally had something extraordinary.
Don't admit defeat!
When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!
Barcelona during Pep Guardiola's tenure was known as the Dream Three, in which the key player was not Messi, but the core Xavi.
Now, as Xavi grows older and no longer meets the needs of the focus of the battle, Iniesta and Messi need to take on Xavi's responsibilities, but some players are irreplaceable, Messi has his own playing characteristics, and his changes will inevitably affect the quality of Barcelona's attack.
Messi's goals in the past two seasons have not been as good as Cristiano Ronaldo's, not because his shooting skills have declined, but because he is more involved in the midfield attacking organization, which directly leads to a decrease in goals and an increase in assists.
You must know that Messi's most worrying thing is to score goals, and now let him share more of the burden of offensive organization, on the surface, it does solve the problem of offensive organization caused by Xavi's absence, but it is actually sacrificing Messi's scoring ability.
Before the game, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti talked about this problem, to keep Messi away from the goal as much as possible, so organizing an attack in the midfield is an indirect solution to a big problem at the defensive end of Real Madrid.
Although Barcelona has the absolute initiative, the actual threat to Casillas to guard the goal has not yet appeared, the Barcelona fans in the stands are very enjoyable to watch, high spirits, but Enrique, who is standing in the command area of the home team's coach, is frowning and uneasy.
Winning the momentum without scoring is a taboo in football matches!
In the blink of an eye, the game came to the eighteenth minute, and Barcelona's attack came from the right to the left.
Neymar tried to break through the help of Carvajal and Modric, and when he saw Suarez asking for the ball, he flicked the outside of his right foot very stealthily, and the ball rolled to the feet of Surarez, who was pulling out of the box and attacking the left rib.
I don't know if Pepe has been under tremendous pressure from Suarez in the past ten minutes, and his follow-up action is very big, even if Suarez is facing away from the goal and knocking down Suarez behind him, the referee on duty Laos decisively blew the whistle and gave Barcelona a direct free kick attacking the left rib.
Because the position is relatively wide and the angle of the shot is small, the best solution is to choose to pass the ball to the middle of the penalty area, and the tall player is responsible for the overhead.
The Real Madrid defenders didn't care, because they had an absolute height advantage in the box and were not afraid of Barcelona's high balls at all.
Immediately, the broadcast scene came from the Real Madrid penalty area to Messi and Neymar - they covered their mouths with their hands and said something.
It's not hard to guess that they were debating how to take the free-kick.
"Beep~"
Soon, referee Laos blew the whistle, and the players on both sides in the Real Madrid penalty area became nervous.
At the same time, Neymar and Messi, who were standing in front of the football, started to run, but Neymar stopped after taking two steps.
"-Leo Messi!!"
Messi touched the ball with the inside of his left instep and the ball flew into the air past the double wall of Tony Kroos and Carvajal towards the middle of the box.
Tang Zheng, who was entangled, jumped at the same time as Busquets and Pique, but no one hit it, and the football flew to the back point.
Ramos didn't expect Tang Zheng to be unable to top the football, so Ramos, who was defending Mathieu, did not fully jump and was pushed up to the football by Mathieu, who jumped high.
The ball changed direction and flew towards the bottom right corner of the goal, and goalkeeper Casillas made a subconscious save, but it took time for his body to sink......
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"Whoa—"
Suddenly, the Barcelona fans at the Camp Nou released their energy passionately, creating a huge shout like a tsunami.
Mathieu, who scored the goal, was even more selfless to vent the thrill of the goal, because Real Madrid can be said to be the guarantee of his goal account.
Mathieu has scored seven goals since joining La Liga in the summer of 2009, three of them against Real Madrid, and is now thrilled to have scored for Barcelona in the national derby.
The Barcelona players celebrated excitedly, while Tang Zheng walked up to referee Laos and complained about the obvious fouls committed by Pique and Sergio Busquets during the aerial battle.
Immediately, the on-site director gave Tang Zheng and referee Laos a close-up shot - Tang Zheng was holding the deformed and torn jersey with his right hand and saying something to the referee Laos.
Looking at the slow-motion replay given by the broadcast screen, Yang 5 commentator He Wei was very excited, and his tone was a little dissatisfied: "Busquets and Pique's movements are very obvious, especially Busquets in front of him, he even tore Tang Zheng's shirt, there is no doubt about it! This is a foul!
As soon as the words fell, He Wei had to shake his head again: "It's a pity! Referee Laos didn't notice this, otherwise with Tang Zheng's bounce ability and control of the landing point, how could he get Mathieu's turn to reach the football?"
Real Madrid captain Iker Casillas and vice-captain Sergio Ramos also tried to convince referee Laos, but Laos insisted on his judgment, believing that physical contact between Tang Zheng, Pique and Sergio Busquets was normal.
For the referee's decision, the Real Madrid players were very helpless.
Not many people noticed that Busquets, who was celebrating the goal, shook his right index finger towards Tang Zheng intentionally or unintentionally as he walked back, and then said "waste" in a very low voice.
Although the momentum of the Camp Nou is huge, Tang Zheng can know what Busquets wants to express based on the shape of his mouth.
However, Tang Zheng did not slap back on the spot, because he knew that the best slap in the face was to ignore it, and then hit back with a goal.
In the past few seasons, Tang Zheng has been playing for Dortmund to Real Madrid, and as long as he has played, he has never lost a game, and I don't know where Busquets got the courage to provoke.
In order to better fight back, Tang Zheng, who was full of anger, held back his strength, thinking about giving Busquets the most direct slap in the next game!
Busquets looked at Tang Zheng who had turned his face and grinned, he thought that this was a sign of Tang Zheng's lack of self-confidence, and his mind suddenly opened up, thinking about whether to continue to provoke in the next game.
In Tang Zheng's resume, there has been a record of emotional out-of-control, even if there are very few in recent seasons......
Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti's habitual frowning, coupled with half of his silver hair, gives people a sense of worry.
Before the game, he thought that he would fall behind away from home, but he didn't expect to concede the goal in this way, because Real Madrid has an absolute advantage in the air, which is equivalent to saying that Barcelona scored in the usual way of Real Madrid.
Of course, Mathieu's score was a certain foul, but this is a football game!
The game restarted, and Real Madrid, who had the advantage of the kick-off, did not rush to attack, but organized the attack step by step.
After passing a few kicks in a row, the football came to Tang Zheng's feet, Tang Zheng saw a Barcelona player on the side speeding up, and subconsciously pulled the ball back with his right foot to make a standard ball protection action.
But Busquets did not close his foot and kicked Tang Zheng's heel directly, and the referee Laos's whistle sounded.
"Don't pretend!"
Tan Zheng covered his aching heels and felt like he was about to explode when he heard Busquets's verbal provocation, but his emotional control ability was very strong, and he laughed instead of anger: "Sun Tzu, you can! Wait for me!!"