Chapter 715: Tie Before Halftime!
With Neymar's goal, the Camp Nou fans were boiling, and the game played for half an hour, Barcelona had the advantage, but the delay in scoring would have hit the morale of the players in the long run, but fortunately, the small talent from Brazil drew a successful end to Barcelona's attack.
Enrique was happy, but Inzaghi was not, not because of the performance of his disciples, but simply because of the goal conceded. Although he also understands that any team that meets Barcelona cannot guarantee that they will be able to keep a clean sheet.
Chen Hui wrote down the goal conceded. Zhang Shujie didn't speak, but just kicked the ball kicked by his teammates and dribbled it to the middle circle with his feet and placed it.
With this goal, Barcelona played more steadily, more relaxed, and the fans sang louder. In the 33rd minute, Mathieu crossed the penalty area on the side, Suarez shot before Yan Tao, and was saved by Lopez bravely; only 30 seconds later, Messi shot at the corner of the penalty area, and the ball grazed the crossbar out of the bottom line; in the 36th minute, Rakitic shot hard at the penalty line, which was blocked by Yan Tao with his body.
"AC Milan are very passive now, since Barcelona scored, the game has been completely into their rhythm and AC Milan can only defend with all their might. ”
Zhang Shujie retreated very deeply at this time, and Baka was about to retreat into the penalty area. Inzaghi really wanted the team to attack, but Barcelona's attack, this possession, the Rossoneri had no way at all.
The ball went to Messi again, Messi shook off De Jong and Montolivo successively, stuffed the ball to Alves, Alves forced Desiglio, and after that, the inverted triangle knocked the ball back to Messi who inserted into the penalty area. At this moment, Messi was unguarded, and Yan Tao could only give up Suarez, who was closest to the goal, and posted it to Messi's side.
Messi glanced at Yan Tao, using his extremely fast kicking frequency, trying to make a gap in front of Yan Tao, Yan Tao stared at the ball at Messi's feet very carefully, but was still flashed out of the gap by the Argentine king.
Barcelona's No. 10 used his own good left-footed shot, Yan Tao fell to the ground and raised his leg to block, touching the ball out of the bottom line, and Barcelona got a corner.
This is still the first corner kick in the first half, Yan Tao's blocking is very crucial, if he doesn't block that, even if Lopes pounces on the ball, Suarez, who is guarding in the small penalty area, may also get a second chance to attack, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Yan Tao saved Milan's life.
When Neymar walked to the corner kick area, Zhang Shujie looked at the time on the big screen, it was already the forty-third minute, and Milan was one goal behind. If Barcelona's corner doesn't result in a shot on goal, then maybe AC Milan can play a wave of counter-attacks. Of course, this requires the players to switch from defense to attack quickly enough.
Barcelona has never been very good at corner kicks, for the control of high-altitude balls, this team with foot control, this team with foot control is relatively at a loss, only a few players such as Pique and Suarez have a certain internal force to compete for the top, their first card Messi is not good at heading, unless the ball lands very well, Messi, who is only 169cm tall, has almost no possibility of success in the battle.
Messi is also considered "conscious", standing on the edge of the penalty area, and will not go deep into the penalty area to grab a header with those tall men.
Neymar's ball went to the penalty area, and Pique, who ran up from the back to grab the header, really won this point, but Yan Tao's interference with him was not small, so he couldn't top the power, and Lopes easily got the ball.
Zhang Shujie started to run and shouted at López: "Diego, hurry up and pass over!"
Lopes threw the ball to him vigorously, after receiving the ball, Zhang Shujie knocked it to Abate, although Abate's speed is not particularly top-notch, but he is not slow, he saw that Barcelona's defense was still on the way back, not neat enough, so he went forward and accelerated to Barcelona's backfield.
"AC Milan is starting to counterattack! This should be the last offensive opportunity in the first half, Barcelona in order to fight for corners, many players have gone to the front, the space in the back is relatively large, in the face of Zhang Shujie such a fast player, this kind of backfield is almost undefended. ”
Yan Tao also went up at this time, this kind of counterattack is not available at any time, he must do his best to give Zhang Shujie the greatest help. After Abate caught up with the ball, in order to control the ball so that it would not be snatched away by Mathieu, who was chasing back, he had to reduce his speed, Yan Tao inserted next to him and shouted: "Here!"
Abate boldly sent the ball forward this time, Mathieu's leg touched the ball, but it didn't matter, the ball didn't go out of bounds, Yan Tao got the ball smoothly, Mascherano moved from the middle to the wing, to fill the position left by Mathieu. Bertolaci stepped forward to pull Rakitic again, Busquets also had Montolivo on his side, and only Andres Iniesta followed Zhang Shujie.
Yan Tao glanced at Zhang Shujie's position, and then at Mascherano, who had run in front of him, he knocked the ball between Mascherano's legs, and bypassed him. Mascherano turned around to squeeze Yan Tao, but Yan Tao's body was very strong, and Mascherano couldn't squeeze it at all, but was squeezed to the ground by Yan Tao.
I don't know what the reason is for "Little Pony", he looked at the referee and protested loudly: "He fouled!
The referee ignored his protests, Yan Tao's action didn't look like a foul, this Mascherano probably stayed in Barcelona for a long time, as long as he fell, he habitually went to the referee to appeal.
Yan Tao has reached the end corner of the left side of the penalty area, if Yan Tao's shot is completely feasible now, Mathieu and Rakitic both ran towards him, and both of them were basically blocked in Yan Tao's shooting path. But Yan Tao didn't shoot at all, he pushed the arch of his right foot, pushed out a very fast internal spin, and went around to the goal.
Zhang Shujie started suddenly, instantly threw off Iniesta, who was still following him, and before Ter Stegen saved, he shot with the outside of his left foot, and the ball rolled under Ter Stegen's body, rolled over the goal line, and slowly stuck to the net.
1:1! Zhang Shujie equalized the score for AC Milan in the 45th minute!
Outside the field, Enrique was so angry when he saw Zhang Shujie's goal that he turned around and shouted to an unknown corner. It's rare to see him so angry, the biggest factor is that the first half is about to end, the team conceded a goal, and it may be difficult to keep calm with any coach.
Inzaghi was the opposite of him, so excited that he raised his arms and shouted, and his tie was crooked. Zhang Shujie ran to the sidelines, hugged Yan Tao to celebrate, the players all came up and surrounded them in the middle, and the Milan fans in the stands were also cheering for Zhang Shujie, dancing with excitement for the goal.
(End of chapter)