Chapter 1085: This Is Football!
When Chinatown shocked fans around the world by beating the Bernabeu 4-0 away, Barcelona also completed the victory over Bayern Munich at their home stadium.
With Messi's brace and assist, Barcelona beat Bayern Munich 3-0 at home.
Pep Guardiola suffered a defeat on his return to Camp Nou, and after this game, everyone basically agreed that Bayern Munich would have no chance to reach the final again, and that the Bundesliga giants would be in the semi-finals for the second consecutive season.
Chinatown and Barcelona will almost meet in the final after taking such a big advantage in the first leg.
Sure enough, in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals a week later, Chinatown defeated Real Madrid 2-0 at home, and then eliminated the Galaxy Battleship with an aggregate score of 6-0, reaching the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons.
Although Barcelona lost 2-3 to Bayern Munich away, it still entered the final with an aggregate score of 5-3 and completed the meeting with Chinatown.
This is also the second consecutive season that the Champions League final has been monopolized by La Liga teams, which has allowed fans all over the world to see the prosperity and strength of La Liga, especially Chinatown, which has reached the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons, which is even more admirable.
But before the second leg, La Liga played the thirty-sixth round.
While Chinatown beat Valencia 2-0 at home, Barcelona also beat Real Sociedad 2-0 at home, Atletico Madrid beat Levante away and Real Madrid lost away to Granada.
After this round of matches, the top four of La Liga have been set, Atletico Madrid is still in third place, Real Madrid is in fourth, the only suspense is the ownership of the league title, China City and Barcelona are only two points apart.
With two rounds of the league remaining, as long as Barcelona draw a game, China City will catch up with Barcelona in points, and then reverse Barcelona to reach the top with the results of the two teams this season.
The La Liga title has become extremely tense, and all the media and fans are worried.
Especially in the 37th round of La Liga, Barcelona will face Atletico Madrid away.
Speaking to the media ahead of the game, Simeone, head coach of the Sheets Army, said that the team will do everything in their power to snipe Barcelona, "I prefer Chinatown in comparison. ”
Luis Enrique also said with a solemn face before the away game that playing Atletico Madrid away will be an extremely difficult game, and the team must give it their all and not miss out.
Interestingly, before Barcelona went to Madrid to challenge, Chinatown took the lead in Barcelona and challenged Espanyol away, and Chinatown was unequivocal, with Jesse's brace, Firmino and Moreno's goals, 4-1 away to beat Espanyol, taking the lead and leaving all the pressure to Barcelona.
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On the evening of May 17, in the 37th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid hosted Barcelona.
Gao Han quietly sat in the stands of the Sheets Legion, silently watching the game.
In this game, Simeone, as said before the game, lined up Atletico Madrid's strongest lineup, put on a four-two-three-one formation, arranged Schneiderlin and Gabi to play as a double midfielder, and Herrera played as a central midfielder.
This is clearly a signal that Simeone wants to force down the Barcelona midfield.
The home team also caused a lot of problems for Barcelona after the game started, especially Sanchez on the left, Torres in the middle and Navas on the right.
In the eighth minute, Atletico Madrid won a corner on the flank, and Ramos headed in from close range, but it was saved by goalkeeper Bravo in what was the most dangerous goal of the game.
After that, the Sheets Corps put a lot of pressure on Barcelona.
It can be clearly seen that after Chinatown won 4-1 away to Espanyol yesterday, it brought a lot of trouble to Barcelona, especially the psychological pressure, which made them want to win the opponent, but they were a little impatient and made a lot of mistakes on the field.
Atletico Madrid, on the other hand, clearly played more patiently.
Simeone knows very well that he doesn't need to be in a hurry at all, as long as he doesn't concede a goal, Barcelona will be in chaos sooner or later.
Therefore, after the opening attack, the Sheets began to focus on defense, and Barcelona's attack was difficult to threaten.
That continued into the second half, and it wasn't until 60 minutes later that Barcelona finally started to press forward.
In the stands, after Gao Han saw this sign, he couldn't help but feel a little dignified in his heart.
As long as it is drawn, the championship belongs to Chinatown.
But if Atletico Madrid fail to win Barcelona in this game, they will return to the Camp Nou in the final round to face Deportivo La Coruna, who will hardly be a threat to Enrique's side.
It can be said that this is Chinatown's only chance to win the championship.
It's really uncomfortable to leave your fate in the hands of someone else, but that's the way the league is.
It's too long, full of ups and downs in state, and all kinds of troubles, and it's hard to prevent.
Strictly speaking, Chinatown has performed well this season, scoring more than 100 goals, but the defense is slightly worse, but it is indeed a little helpless to meet a more outrageous Barcelona.
"Don't worry, look at this battle, Barcelona is afraid that there is no chance. Little Hill reassured.
Atletico Madrid is already hopeless of winning the title this season, but if they have to choose between Barcelona and Chinatown, then they will definitely choose Chinatown without hesitation, who makes the two teams brothers?
Therefore, Atletico Madrid is ambitious in this game, and it will knock Barcelona to the death.
"Don't be careless. Gao Han shook his head and sighed, "Suarez and Messi are both superstars who can decide the trend of the game at critical moments. ”
That's the truth, and Hill Jr. and Cerezo nodded their heads.
Isn't the role of a superstar to step up at a critical moment and solve the battle for the team?
"By the way, what do you think of Carrasco in Monaco?" asked Little Hill abruptly changing the subject.
It can be seen that he wants to use the excuse to divert Gao Han's attention.
"Carrasco?" Gao Han remembered the player, "are you going to bring him in?"
"The technical team has a very high opinion of him and we are already in contact with Monaco. Atletico Madrid said.
"In that case, why bother asking me?"
"Doesn't this mean that you are sharp-eyed, let you help check it, hurry up and talk about it. Little Hill urged honestly and unceremoniously.
In all of Europe so far, only he, an old friend, dares to be polite to Gao Han like this.
No way, who made the relationship between the two so iron?
"It's pretty good, but as soon as possible, now the whole of Europe is scrambling for people, and a young rookie like Carrasco must be stared at by the team, so don't hesitate to start, I guess the value of young players will have to rise next." ”
Little Hill didn't speak, but Cerezo sighed sympathetically, "I don't know what's going on in this damn transfer market?
He is in charge of finances, and he is dripping blood for such a transfer.
The scarcity of first-line stars, and after the price skyrocketed, it directly drove the potential of young players to follow suit.
As things stand, what a wise choice it was for Atletico Madrid to snatch Alexis Sanchez a year ago?
And since Gao Han decided that Carrasco was worth, then they didn't plan to hesitate any longer, and it was only right to hurry up.
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When the three Gao Han were talking in the stands, the time in the stadium passed minute by minute.
Eighty-five minutes were fast in, and the game was coming to an end.
Enrique finally made a change, bringing on Xavi for Rakitic and Mathieu for Jordi Alba on the left.
After the substitution, Barcelona began to press hard, and anyone could see that he was going to give it a go.
Simeone also made a quick substitution, with Mario Suarez coming on for Gabi to take on a powerful double midfielder.
The two teams have entered the final showdown, but even at this time, Barcelona's midfield is still not chaotic at all.
Xavi and Andres Iniesta are both midfielders who have experienced storms and waves, and they are calm at key moments.
Messi and Suarez are frequently running and pulling, crossing and transposing, hoping to find loopholes.
In the 88th minute, seeing that the 90-minute game was about to end, but at this moment, Xavi suddenly passed the ball forward to the feet of Messi at the edge of the penalty area.
Messi dribbled the ball to the left side under the attack of two back midfielders of Atletico Madrid, passed to Pedro, turned around and rushed into the penalty area, and at the critical moment, Pedro knocked the ball back with understanding.
After a narrow one-two, Messi caught up with the ball in the penalty area, surrounded by three Atletico Madrid defenders, but no one had a chance to get off his feet, watching Messi tear a bloody hole from the defensive formation of several people, and fired a low shot at the edge of the small penalty area on the left rib, piercing Oblak's goal.
At this time, the clock on the scoreboard had skipped exactly eighty-nine minutes, and the fourth official on the sidelines had just raised the sign for three minutes of stoppage time.
In the stands, Gao Han exhaled heavily, and the whole person sat in his position, shaking his head helplessly.
At the critical moment, Messi relied on his personal ability to solve the battle.
There are so many defenders in Atletico Madrid, and none of them can stop him.
1 to 0!
Messi's goal is worth a league title and Chinatown's efforts in the past season.
After conceding the goal, Atletico Madrid launched a frantic counterattack, but Barcelona retreated across the board, Enrique made another substitution to stall for time, and the Bianconeri struggled to find Barcelona's goal for a long time.
In the end, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
With Messi's goal, Barcelona narrowly defeated Atletico Madrid 1-0 away.
"Messi is still Messi after all!" Gao Han sighed helplessly.
When encountering such Messi and such a goal, what else can he say?
Little Hill and Cerezo were also full of disappointment, just a few minutes away, the championship belonged to Chinatown, but they didn't expect that at the critical moment, Messi stepped forward and solved the battle alone.
It can be said that Atletico Madrid defended well throughout the game, except that some flaws were revealed in the last moments of the game, and they were exposed under Messi's pressure.
But it was precisely this flaw that allowed the Argentine superstar to seize the opportunity to score.
Such a superstar, such a goal, people have to be convinced.
"It's okay, maybe there's a chance in a week?" Gao Han said bitterly.
That's football.
It can not only give Chinatown a 4-0 thrashing of Real Madrid away, but also allow Chinatown to miss out on the title in the last minute.
"That's right, you keep up the good work, even if there is no league, there is still the Copa del Rey, and there is the Champions League. ”
"Yes, try to be the first team to successfully defend the Champions League since the restructuring. ”
Both Hill Jr. and Cerezo comforted helplessly.
(End of chapter)