Chapter 187: Ace Freeze Ace
"Whew-"
When Tang Zheng used the shaking of his upper body to smash Busquets, the Dortmund fans at the Louis II Stadium burst into loud cheers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Barcelona fans felt a 'pop' in their hearts, and they felt bad!
However, at this moment, Tang Zheng used the flexibility of his ankle and used the outside of his right foot to give the ball to Lewandowski, who suddenly stepped forward in front of Abidal.
Because the anti-cancer fighter Abidal was already the last defender, he did not dare to foul or be punished with capital punishment.
You must know that the game has only been going on for more than 20 minutes now, and it is definitely not a wise move to get a red card at this time.
Fortunately, Abidal has a lot of experience in the game, and he predicted it in advance and stuck in the position directly.
Lewandowski met the ball and pushed it towards the left side of the penalty area.
And such a choice also made Lewandowski even further away from the goal.
But another central defender, Mascherano, did not take it lightly, he saw that Abidal was attracted by Lewandowski to his original position, so he filled Abidal's position, which is equivalent to the two to swap positions.
Sergio Busquets, as the team's lone midfielder, had to play a protective role at centre-back, and now Abidal is facing Lewandowski directly and he has to speed up his recovery.
At this moment, Lewandowski just stepped on the left side of the big penalty area line and suddenly picked up his left foot and hit the goal!
"Robert!" Marcel Leif shouted: "Lewandowski!"
Abidal realized that Lewandowski was going to shoot, and he subconsciously made a move to fall to the ground to block.
Lewandowski's left foot was only used to confuse Abidal, which is known as a feint.
Instead of finishing the shot, he took the ball back with his left foot.
This frightened the Barcelona fans, as well as Mascherano, who had to rush to his zone to put pressure on Lewandowski, who had adjusted his shot.
Busquets was also gritting his teeth and picking up the pace in hopes of getting in place before Lewandowski could shoot.
Lewandowski did look up at the position of goalkeeper Valdés after the fake shot, and then adjusted slightly, changed to the familiar right foot, and picked it up!
Mascherano has excellent defensive awareness, makes split-second judgments, and expands the defensive area like Abidal.
Fall to the ground and block!
"Whoa, whoa—"
With the exclamations of the Barcelona fans behind the goal, Lewandowski made the calmest choice at this time!
He flicks the ball to the right with the outside of his right instep!
It's not an over-the-top adjustment.
But...... Pass!
"Don—"
In the lower right corner of the broadcast camera, slightly to the left, a yellow figure suddenly appeared, with a big number ten behind him, and Marcel Leif's voice was an octave higher.
Busquets, meanwhile, was glad he wasn't so fast that he could turn to the right as the ball moved, and could even block Tang's direct shot.
"Don't let him shoot!"
Goalkeeper Valdés quickly moved from the near corner to the middle before ranting at Busquets.
But the momentum that erupted at the scene was so fierce that Busquets didn't hear it at all.
Despite this, Sergio Busquets, who is the only midfielder for Barcelona in the Cosmos team, also knows what to do at this time.
Tang Zheng, who followed up at high speed, did a good job, and everyone thought he was going to shoot.
In fact, Tang Zheng did not shoot, but after receiving the football, his body twisted to the left, raised his right foot and sent the ball to the right rib of the penalty area.
Because left-back Adriano and right-back Alves both have deep assists, it will take time to pull back.
Dortmund's attack was involved through Tang Zheng and Lewandowski's passing, Mascherano returned to his right central defender position, but Abidal did not have time to recall, which means that Tang Zheng's passing position does not have a Barcelona defender!
“Fuck!”
Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola flicked his arm angrily to vent his frustration with the defence.
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"Beautiful!" Yang 5 commentator He Wei stood up from his seat suddenly, leaned forward with his upper body, and shouted excitedly: "Tang Zheng passed the ball to Gotze, who was inserted at high speed!"
Goalkeeper Valdés' brilliant sense of abandonment was on full display at this point, and he rushed towards Gotze with a loud roar.
Götze, who changed into the No. 11 jersey in the new season, stretched out his right foot to park the football passed by Tang Zheng during the run, and he picked up his right foot without even looking up to look at the position of goalkeeper Valdés!
Gotze shoots from the right side of the penalty area about 12 meters from the goal!
Valdés froze in place, adjusting his pace in small steps, his center of gravity reduced to a minimum, ready to make a save at any time.
And at this time, the football shot by Gotze also arrived as promised.
Looking at the incoming ball, Valdés' pupils shrank suddenly, and the two legs adjusted by small broken steps reflexively closed.
But it turned out to be half a beat slower, and the ball scrambled between Valdés' legs against the turf and crashed into the snow-white net behind him.
"Mario Gotze!!" Marcel Leif shouted hysterically, "Gooooooooal-"
Watching Gotze's shot break through the net, the Dortmund fans and Chinese fans in front of the TV raised their arms and cheered.
"Long live Dortmund!"
"Victory belongs to Dortmund!"
The Louis II Stadium also fell into a brief frenzy over Gotze's goal, with the Dortmund fans leaping to their feet and chanting almost frantically.
Gotze, who scored the goal, looked particularly frantic against this backdrop, spreading his arms like an eagle soaring through the sky, and then roaring at the Barcelona fans at the back of the goal: "Victory belongs to Dortmund!"
"Isn't it just a goal?
"Don't be arrogant in front of us, boy! The game is ninety minutes!"
"Go home and get milk! we're European champions!"
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Barcelona are known as the Cosmos team, and as fans, they are very proud, and they erupt in huge boos and insults towards Gotze.
The German may not understand Spanish, but Tang Zheng, who has played in the Arab League for two years, can hear it clearly.
As the captain, he has to stand up for Götze!
Of course, Tang Zheng did not scold the Barcelona fans, but put his arms around Gotze's neck and attached his left hand to his ear to listen.
"Woo-woo-"
The Barcelona fans erupted in even louder boos, bordering on madness.
Lewandowski, Gundogan, and Piszczek followed suit.
The meaning is obvious, that is, the boos are louder!
Valdés, who was scored through the crotch, was already in a bad mood, and now the Dortmund players celebrating the goal actually provoked the fans as a whole?
Intolerable!
Valdés pulled Dortmund captain Tang Zheng to theorize, but Tang Zheng ignored it, and he continued to celebrate his own goal.
As soon as the live broadcast camera showed Dortmund coach Klopp, who was celebrating wildly, he noticed Valdes and Tang Zheng, who seemed to have physical contact on the sidelines.
Seeing the broadcast footage, Yang 5 commentator Duan said unhappily: "Is Barcelona a rhythm that can't afford to lose the ball?"
Seeing that Valdés was not in the right mood, Abidal hurried over to grab him.
Referee Bonn Kujpels, who had just noticed that something was wrong, tapped his chin and stepped back.
At an angle that the referee didn't see, Tang Zheng spat out a Spanish word towards Valdés: "La-basura!"
Chinese meaning: garbage!
Suddenly, Valdés was furious.
But Abidal was very hard, and at the same time he was persuading: "Victor, if you are serious, you will lose! Don't forget that we are Barcelona!
The referee did not notice Tang Zheng's provocation, but the live director captured it, and the Catalan commentator frowned: "This Chinese is too rude! Isn't it just to take the lead? Is it necessary to do this? Barcelona is invincible! Wait for the loss!"
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Messi, who was standing in the half-circle arc of Dortmund, crossed his hands on his hips and looked helpless.
Barcelona's goal is directly related to him.
If it weren't for the mistake of dribbling the ball and being cut off by Tang Zheng, the loss of the ball would not have happened.
It was only then that Messi realized Tang Zheng's horror.
Looking at Tang Zheng and the Dortmund players who were still celebrating the goal at the far end, the corners of Messi's mouth suddenly curved into a beautiful arc.
Those who are familiar with him know that this is a serious smile!
The on-site camera focused on Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola, whose expression was ugly.
The lack of Pique at the back is a big problem!
The Catalan commentator seemed to be comforting himself: "It's only half of the first half, we have enough time to equalize or even overtake!"
The Dortmund players slowly walked back, delighted to face the Dortmund fans, clapping their palms above their heads in response to the desperately chanting fans.
In the 24th minute of the first half, Dortmund took the lead, which many media reporters did not expect, just like Dortmund had the advantage at the beginning of the game.
With a whistle from referee Bonn Kujpels, the game resumed.
Tang Zheng clearly felt that the Barcelona players were murderous, and the passing was rarely as horizontal as before the ball was lost, and they passed the ball more forward.
So Tang Zheng frowned tightly, commanded his teammates to set up defenses, and at the same time prevented Messi from breaking through.
With five consecutive breakthrough failures, Messi did not try to break through, at least not when Tang Zheng was deployed, he needed an adjustment period to adjust to his best state.
After taking the lead, Dortmund could only defend and have no time to attack.
As Barcelona's offensive increased, Messi's one-on-one chances began to increase.
And he also got a heads-up chance with Schmelzer for the time being.
Schmelzer is not Tang Zheng, he slowly became timid in the face of the extremely fast Messi, he just chose to jam Messi's inward cutting route, so as to let him cross.
However, Messi's dominant foot is the left foot, and the right foot is limited to stopping the ball and supporting, and Messi eventually has to switch back to his left foot to handle the ball, so Schmelzer's defense did not make mistakes.
Bottom-line crosses are also not Barcelona's usual tactical routine, and Villa is less than 1.75 meters tall, so they can't take advantage of the Dortmund center-back combination with an average height of more than 1.9 meters.
The combination of ground passing and cutting is what Barcelona like the most.
However, Borussia Dortmund have been very restrictive in Barcelona's penetration of the middle, allowing them to play only two wings.
Wide crosses are not Barcelona's preferred way of doing so, and Pep Guardiola has banned players from blindly crossing from the wings on the sidelines unless the opportunity is particularly good.
Of course, this opportunity is particularly good and it is not a high pass, but a boccia cross after a combination of side and middle.
In the blink of an eye, the game entered thirty minutes.
The broadcasters gave the percentage of possession between the two sides of the game at this time, and Barcelona, who were good at possession, led Dortmund with 59% and 41%.
Marcel Leif spoke of his concerns: "I think Jurgen Klopp has to find a way to control the situation on the pitch, otherwise it will be dangerous once the game is completely in the rhythm of Barcelona!"
The Catalan commentator also shared his concerns: "Not scoring is the most feared thing in football, and this is the case with Barcelona now, hasn't the previous goal made them aware of the danger?"
Jurgen Klopp, who was standing in the coach's technical command area, was worried about the situation on the pitch, and he adjusted the position of the players on the pitch from time to time through tactical gestures.
Pep Guardiola is not the exuberant manager of Jurgen Klopp, he seems much quieter, even if the tactical adjustments are only passed to the field through the players, compared to Klopp's immediate adjustments, Guardiola seems to be half a beat slower.
As Barcelona's number one star, Messi has worked hard during this time, and he hopes to help the team through his ability, but Tang Zheng is much more difficult to deal with than he imagined.
So in order to bypass Tang Zheng's order, his running used to run much more distance in the race.
Despite this, Messi failed to find a chance.
Because Tang Zheng has a high degree of freedom in Dortmund's tactical system, Klopp did not arrange a fixed position for him on the defensive end, and Tang Zheng did not live up to Klopp's expectations, he relied on his excellent defensive awareness to ensure the safety of the defensive line.
In other words, no matter which side Messi changes, Tang Zheng will follow.
This is also the fundamental reason why Messi was frozen by Tang Zheng.
Yang 5 commentator He Wei was very satisfied with Tang Zheng's performance in the past half an hour, and he said proudly: "Tang Zheng's growth is really amazing, he completely froze Messi in the past game time, you must know that throughout this European football, no one has been able to stand up and say that Messi can be completely frozen! But Tang Zheng did it! It's just that his next task is a long way to go, and there is still a long time before the end of the game, and he wants to continue to play at the top now!"
Five minutes into the game, the situation was not much different from the first five minutes, and Barcelona still dominated the field.
The only difference was that Dortmund had two quick counter-attacks, one of which also resulted in centre-back Mascherano receiving a yellow card.
In this regard, Barcelona's attacking organization has become much more cautious.
The atmosphere at the Stade Louis II is still frenetic, and the Dortmund fans are particularly excited, as they are backing a team that is ahead of the Cosmos Barcelona and if this score ends the game, they will be the best of the best of the best of the bests in Europe in 2011!
It's really exciting to think about......