Chapter 702: Cheetah

It's the nineteenth minute of the first half. The score remained unchanged. The 1-0 score on the big screen made Barcelona football 'fans' a little silent. For a while, the Stadio Olimpico in Rome was only singing from Manchester United's fans.

This situation was broken at this point.

Messi picked up the ball in the box and went down after making contact with O'Shea.

"Penalty. Penalty!penalty!" The Catalan commentator immediately shouted, and if possible he would even swear that it was a penalty, "It's a penalty without a doubt! O'Shea brought down Messi!

Barcelona's players are raising their arms in celebration.

The United players were arguing to the referee, and O'Shea ran to the referee with his hands outstretched, shouting at the referee to signal that he had done nothing.

O'Shea didn't touch Messi. The Manchester narrator said.

"There is no evidence that O'Shea committed a clear foul. Lineker said, however, then he kept silent, and the slow motion showed that when Messi stopped the ball and was about to 'shoot' the goal, O'Shea did come up from behind, pushed Messi, and then the Argentine fell to the ground. Although O'Shea's action was very hidden, and he stopped immediately after pushing it, but, considering that Messi was stopping the ball with one foot at the time, he would definitely fall to the ground with an unstable center of gravity if he was pushed from behind. So, strictly speaking, O'Shea's foul is a zài.

Referee Rizzoli pointed to the penalty spot and he made the decision: penalty!

The Barcelona fans in the stands erupted in loud cheers, while Manchester United's fans booed.

There are some 'chaos' and 'chaos' on the field, Manchester United players are still justifying, trying to get the referee to take back the fate, and Barcelona seems to be a little dissatisfied with the referee's decision, because the referee only awarded a penalty, and did not give a card to O'Shea, Barcelona is most happy to see the situation is naturally to take out a card and add a penalty, O'Shea's foul is not enough for a red card, but if it is given a yellow card, this is also a big benefit for Barcelona.

The referee ignored the protests of both sides: the foul was a penalty...... Only penalties, no yellow cards.

Ferguson stood up angrily, swearing in his mouth, in his opinion, O'Shea's defense is very unintelligent, to be precise, O'Shea's cleverness has been punished, thinking that such a small action can be effective, but it is in Messi's hands.

Pep Guardiola jumped up and cheered, then he realised it was too early to rejoice, and although the referee awarded a penalty, it was only when the penalty was actually awarded that it was scored and celebrated.

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Messi picked up the football and he was going to take the penalty himself.

Placing the football at the penalty spot, Messi took a few steps back and stood still. [To read the latest chapters of this book, please search]

Countless Barcelona football 'fans' watched this scene in front of the TV.

The TV screen is now a close-up of Messi, who is looking ahead. His eyes are firm and his expression is stern.

The commentators stopped talking, and only the live boos could be heard on TV, which were sent by Manchester United football 'fans'. Other than that, there was no other sound, a feeling of depression in the hearts of Barcelona football fans.

"God...... "There are Barcelona ball 'fans' who can't stand this pressure and are praying.

"Messi, will he be able to withstand the pressure?" muttered the Catalan commentator, less like a commentary voice and more like a self-talk.

"Toot" referee Rizzoli finally blew the whistle.

Messi runs. Kick up, 'shoot' 'goal'!

Van der Sar pounced in the wrong direction, he pounced to the left and Messi 'shot' in the other direction!

The soccer ball flew into the net without any suspense.

"Hooray!" the Barcelona fans jumped up and cheered.

"Hooray!!" burst into a loud roar that filled the night sky in the city of Barcelona, which had just fallen silent.

"Long live Messi! Long live Barcelona!!"

"Messi scored! He scored his own penalty! Now the score is 1-1! Barcelona equalized! Worthy of Messi, he didn't let us down!" the Catalan commentator was a little incoherent with excitement.

'The referee awarded a penalty, which is debatable. The Manchester commentator was still dwelling on the penalty award, but he also had to look at Messi, "Messi scored the penalty!

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The Barcelonans celebrate a goal.

After giving Messi a close-up, the camera gave Yang Fan and Cristiano Ronaldo a close-up.

Yang Fan looked coldly at the celebrating Barcelonans.

And Cristiano Ronaldo's face also has a stern expression, he is now a little irritable, not only because the opponent equalized, but also because Yang Fan and Messi have scored successively, only he has not been particularly 'colorful', which is something that the proud Cristiano Ronaldo cannot tolerate. He would never allow himself to be the worst of the three. He wants to be the brightest one.

"The game has been going on for 20 minutes, and the score is 1-1! Yang Fan and Messi scored respectively...... It was definitely the most 'fine' Champions League final in the last decade. The narrator exclaimed.

Indeed, as he said, after Barcelona's equaliser, the Catalan giants began to show their superior quality, and Manchester United naturally showed no weakness. These two goals also put the two sides fully into attacking form.

In the ensuing game, the two sides showed all their strength to go head-to-head, and the pace of the game's offensive and defensive transitions was very fast. It was clear that both sides wanted to score first.

Manchester United originally relied on the degree of attack, Cristiano Ronaldo began to be active, Yang Fan's ghostly running position and his speed and Rooney's impact made Barcelona very jealous, and Barcelona's mercury attack was even more fluid, and the speed of advancement was also quite fast.

The beautiful and unbelievable passes, 'fine', 'shots', 'goals' and saves on both sides made the audience addicted.

Another 10 minutes passed, and both sides had good scoring opportunities, but the score did not change, and the backlines and 'goalkeepers' of both sides defended desperately and finally did not concede another goal.

Pep Guardiola rose from his seat, leaning back on the side post of the dugout, his chin in his hands.

For Manchester United's attack, Barcelona is actually very jealous, which can be seen from Henry's frequent defense.

After all, Yang Fan, Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney, Manchester United's offensive trident is definitely the offensive combination that can rank among the top few in today's football, not to mention the superstars who can have a flash of inspiration and instantly change the outcome of the game when they are Yang Fan or Cristiano Ronaldo.

Manchester United's attacking combination in the front line is no less 'good' than Barcelona's vaunted attacking line.

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The game was in the thirty-ninth minute.

At this time, a Manchester United attack on the field.

Giggs, who received Carrick's pass, passed the ball diagonally to the feet of Cristiano Ronaldo, who managed to dribble past Xavi and then pass the ball out again.

It was Wayne Rooney who received the ball, and he drove forward with the ball intending to play to his impact advantage. This time, Pique managed to complete a defence and the Spanish defender, who had moved to Barcelona from Manchester United, was timely and accurate.

Cutting off Wayne Rooney's ball, Pique didn't go out blind, he passed the ball to Puyol, who came to pick it up.

Puyol then passed the ball to Sergio Busquets.

Sergio Busquets also didn't pass the ball on the first hand, he rushed forward with the ball. Cristiano Ronaldo, a symbol of 'sex', came up and stopped him, but didn't stop him, and let him go. Because Park Ji-sung came up.

Park Ji-sung came up and stuck to Busquets to slow down the man's dribbling, and Busquets knew that if time dragged on, it would only be to his own detriment. So he leaned on Park Ji-sung with his body. Then the ball was passed and it was Xavi who caught it.

Manchester United, of course, know that Xavi is the brains of Barcelona's midfield and take him very seriously, and when they saw Xavi on the ball, Carrick immediately came up.

Carrick's defence was unambiguous at all, and he pulled and pulled, preferring to use a tactical foul to interrupt Barcelona's attack.

Just as Xavi was about to go down in exchange for a set-piece, he spotted Andres Iniesta.

Without the slightest hesitation, he passed the football to Iniesta. Then Harvey jerked around and ran away.

Xavi put it aside, Carrick almost fell to the ground because he lost his center of gravity, he steadied his center of gravity, looked at Xavi first, the football was not at his feet! So where is it? Then he saw Iniesta with the ball, Carrick didn't have time to think, he could only turn to Iniesta.

Andres Iniesta's beautiful change of direction accelerates past Carrick. Then continuing to drive straight with the ball, Iniesta's long run caught the attention of the United defence, with Patrice Evra coming up to intercept and the rest of the defence leaning towards this one.

It was at this time that Iniesta passed the ball. The goal is Henry!

Vidic pounces on Henry!

The French star didn't stop the ball, but leaked the ball through.

Xavi takes the ball!

There's no one around him right now!

"Look at him......" Vidic shouted in shock, and then he saw a figure lunge towards Harvey. This is Yang Fan who returned to defense.

Almost at the same time, Messi raised his hand for the ball.

Xavi didn't expect that it would be Yang Fan who would come up to defend him, but he was not ambiguous at his feet, and before Yang Fan got close, he suddenly made a long pass!

The football flew over Yang Fan's head and flew to the side.

Xavi's pass was not aimed at Messi, but on the other side, and Samuel Eto'o, who had been lying in ambush there, received the football.

It seemed to have been planned for a long time, as Barcelona's series of passes had completely mobilized United's defence, and now Samuel Eto'o was not a single defender by his side.

Samuel Eto'o received the ball without a single defender around him, and Rio Ferdinand, who was closest to him, was also five metres away and was desperately trying to intercept it. This gives the star nicknamed 'Cheetah' room to sprint.

"Eto'o!

Samuel Eto'o didn't break down the flank, picking up his speed and slashing diagonally into the middle.

Then, he didn't give Ferdinand time to 'force' up, he grabbed before Ferdinand intercepted, and suddenly got up to 'shoot' the 'goal'!

The ball passed Ferdinand and bypassed O'Shea, who had built strategic depth in the back, creating a beautiful arc in the air. The arc finally looped past Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar's right-hand flank before continuing on its way......

Then, as everyone saw it, the ball flew into the net and threw the net up.