Chapter 422: Capture of Camp Nou

In the summer of 2011, Atletico Madrid experienced a change of owners and a change of manager, but it was all on the positive side.

The new owner, Zhang Huasong, has left the team with star players such as David De Gea, Sergio Aguero and Diego Forlan, and brought in star players such as Tiger Falcao and Alda Turan.

The arrival of iron-clad coach Simeone has turned the team into a strong team with a tough style of play, fierce defense and sharp counter-attacks, and finished second in the final standings of Barcelona in the final table of the 2011/2012 season.

In the 2012/2013 season, except for a surprise loss in the first round of the league, Atletico Madrid have maintained an astonishing winning streak.

Moreover, after Zhang Huasong joined in the middle of the game, Atletico Madrid's counter-attacking speed and goal efficiency reached a higher level, becoming a super team that terrified the whole of Europe.

But, despite this, Atletico are currently behind Barcelona in the La Liga standings. Because in the first 15 rounds, Atletico Madrid was 14 wins and 1 defeat, while Barcelona was 14 wins and 1 draw.

Playing so well and still lagging behind, the whole Atletico team is holding their breath.

For Barcelona, losing to Real Madrid on the road to the championship last season is even intolerable, even Atletico Madrid climbed to Barcelona's head, so that Barcelona only finished third, which is also unbearable.

Although Atletico Madrid's capture of the Bernabeu in the Madrid derby just past, Barcelona media fans cheered and praised Atletico for playing well.

But when it was Barcelona's turn to face Atletico Madrid, the Barcelona media and fans were not so polite. They were eager to beat Atletico Madrid 15-0 at Camp Nou, with every player on the pitch scoring and three substitutes.

This battle for the top spot is also extremely attractive to the outside world.

It turned out that there was only the battle between Messi and Ronaldo in La Liga, but now Zhang Huasong has been added, and the top three in La Liga plus the duel of the three kings have attracted the attention of media fans all over the world.

At 7 p.m. on December 16, Real Madrid's home match against Espanyol started first.

After 90 minutes, Real Madrid were held to a 2-2 draw at home by Espanyol, and Real Madrid began to fall behind.

At 21 o'clock in the evening, with the referee's whistle, the 16th round of the 2012/2013 La Liga season Barcelona hosted Atletico Madrid officially began.

In this game, Barcelona played their passing possession to the extreme. They don't have an absolute chance to pass the ball forward.

And when there is an opportunity, it is a one-hit hit, a miss-hit retreat, and the same rush to fight all over the field, not giving Atletico a chance to play a quick counterattack.

This kind of play has never been encountered by Zhang Huasong in the previous game.

I didn't think it was when I watched the game before, but now I feel terrible when I meet Barcelona on the pitch in person.

The feeling of powerlessness that wants to pounce on the ball but can't grab it no matter what, can easily make people irritated or discouraged.

As long as Atletico Madrid's players have psychological fluctuations and slackness in defense, Barcelona can immediately change the rhythm and pass forward quickly, playing quick passes and receiving the ball to attack the opponent's goal.

However, Zhang Huasong is not an ordinary person! He has seen too many big scenes, even if he was played by the Barcelona backfield personnel as a monkey, he did not give up fighting.

Atletico's high pressing is not to require the frontcourt players to necessarily grab the ball, but to force the opponent to play the ball quickly, and then make a mistake when the preparation is not sufficient, giving Atletico a chance to break the ball.

Although Barcelona's passing and possession level is the best in the world, under Atletico's high pressing, there will be mistakes.

Of course, the opportunities are equal. Barcelona also pressed high and made Atletico players make mistakes and then counter-attack.

The desire for both sides to overcome each other and the aggressive scramble made this game look much more exciting than the first half of the Madrid derby.

In the 8th minute, Barcelona took advantage of the change of rhythm and passed the football from the back to the feet of Messi in the front in a few seconds.

Messi passed the ball to Villa on the line of the small ban zone after passing three people in the Atletico half, and Villa scored in one fell swoop to give Barcelona a 1-0 lead at home to Atletico Madrid.

However, just a few minutes later, in the 15th minute, Atletico Madrid returned the color.

Alda Turan stabbed Andres Iniesta with a vicious tackle in midfield, and the ball fell to Gabi.

Gabi quickly transferred the ball to the full-back, who then passed to Zhang Huasong, who ran into the gap.

Then, Zhang Huasong also started from the midfield with a flashy three, using emergency stop steering, cycling and Marseille slalom to get past Cesc Fabregas, Xavi and Mascherano respectively.

After attracting the attention of Puyol and Pique, Zhang Huasong passed the ball to Costa in the gap in the no-no-go zone.

Costa stretched out his leg in the no-no' zone and swept the ball into Valdés' goal.

Atletico Madrid equalised, with Zhang Huasong and Lionel Messi each providing an assist.

In the 23rd minute, Atletico Madrid won a free kick in front, only for Zhang Huasong's elevator ball to hit the crossbar and bounce back into the no-' zone, which was cleared by Pique's big foot.

In the 27th minute, Barcelona also won a free kick, and Messi's shot flew off the bottom line against the crossbar, making Atletico Madrid's players and fans break out in a cold sweat.

In the 31st minute, Zhang Huasong received a pass from Aguero on the side of the front field.

Facing Alba, Zhang Huasong dribbled the ball to the bottom line and suddenly came to a gorgeous rainbow pass, and then hit the falling ball at a small angle on the line of the small forbidden zone.

The ball slipped into the net from between Valdés and the goal, causing countless commentators and fans to exclaim with excitement.

"Beautiful, Zhang Huasong passed Alba with a rainbow. Shot, Zhang Huasong didn't wait for the ball to land and volleyed the goal......"

“Gooooooooooooooal……”

"The ball went in, the ball went in, Zhang Huasong scored a small angle volley after a rainbow pass, so beautiful!"

"Oh my God, Zhang Huasong scored a small-angle volley after a rainbow pass, which is definitely the best goal in this round of La Liga!"

"1-2, Atletico Madrid leads Barcelona at Camp Nou!"

Rainbow tricks are generally seen as flashy tricks that are rarely used on the pitch and are rarely successful.

And once successful, it's a beautiful person. If you add one more goal, it's definitely a pretty good one.

However, this is for Atletico players, fans and neutral fans.

For Barcelona's players, the rainbow pass is more insulting to the defender than the crotch. Alba stared at the back of Zhang Huasong celebrating the goal, and almost wanted to nail Zhang Huasong to death.

So, only 3 minutes later, in the 34th minute, in the face of Zhang Huasong, who broke through with the ball, Alba directly came to a fierce diagonal back tackle.

Moreover, Alba's feet were raised high, not passing the ball at all, but running towards Zhang Huasong's feet.

Zhang Huasong was caught off guard and was directly shoveled to the ground by Alba, holding his calf and humming in pain.

Zhang Huasong is not only the owner of the team, but also the leader of the team's continuous attack on the city and successive victories. Zhang Huasong was maliciously tackled by the opponent, which naturally caused the Atletico players to be furious.

Costa, who was already short-tempered, stepped forward and gave Alba a kick in the ass, and Alba fell to the ground, pretending to be in pain and rolling on the ground, giving full play to his superb acting skills.

Then the players on both sides broke out into a verbal altercation and pushing, and the conflict between the players was on the verge of breaking out.

Fortunately, both the referee and the linesman rushed to the scene of the incident and separated the players from both sides.

Then the referee looked at Zhang Huasong's injury, Zhang Huasong rubbed his calf for a while and still stood up, no big problem, which made Atletico Madrid's players, coaches and fans breathe a sigh of relief.

Seeing that Zhang Huasong was fine, the Atletico Madrid players also sobered up a little more, and they didn't go to the trouble of the Barcelona players anymore, and the Barcelona players knew that they were at a loss, and they didn't do it again.

However, the referee will not let everyone go.

Alba's malicious tackle and Costa's malicious retaliation were directly sent off with a red card, and then Busquets, who rushed to push Costa away with a palm, was also shown a yellow card by the referee.

The free-kick was wide of goal, and Zhang Huasong's curling ball was confiscated by Valdés.

The game then continued, with Atletico suffering the least impact, losing only the centre-forward, with Falcao and Aguero playing as a double striker with no impact at all.

Barcelona had no left-back, so they had to replace Sergio Busquets, who had received a yellow card, with Abidal, leaving only Mascherano at the back.

This set the stage for Barcelona's second-half rout.

In the 44th minute, Barcelona equalized through a sudden change of pace, assisted by Xavi and Messi's goal.

Barcelona 2-2 Atletico Madrid, Messi drew with Zhang Huasong on the goal again, and the two sides went into the break with a 2-2 draw.

At half-time, Simeone's second-half tactic was to let Zhang Huasong have the ball and make his red and yellow cards or free kicks.

Sure enough, most of Atletico's balls in the second half were passed to Zhang Huasong's feet. And when the ball arrived at Zhang Huasong's feet, he didn't pass it easily, and he was looking for trouble with Mascherano.

Zhang Huasong's speed and technique are not something that a back waist can prevent. Esin, known as the buffalo, was dragged and cramped, let alone Mascherano alone?

In the first half, when Busquets was there, he was able to share some defensive pressure with him. And now, he is the only one who is facing Zhang Huasong's breakthrough, and the pressure is quite high.

In the 53rd minute, when Zhang Huasong used a Marseille slalo to get past Mascherano, he reached out in a panic and pulled Zhang Huasong down directly, giving Zhang Huasong a free kick less than 30 meters from the goal in the front of the big forbidden area.

It was only when he heard the referee's whistle and saw Zhang Huasong swing the ball to the penalty spot with a smile on his face that Mascherano realized what mistake he had made.

Zhang Huasong's free kick is too dangerous.

But it was too late to regret it, and Mascherano could only obediently go to the wall and try to block Zhang Huasong's free kick with his body.

However, the position of this ball is too comfortable, how could Zhang Huasong shoot at the human wall?

When Zhang Huasong's right instep hit the ball, the ball flew over Mascherano's head in the wall, and then went around Valdés' finger and drilled into the corner of the goal.

“Gooooooooooal……”

"Zhang Huasong scored a direct free kick and scored twice, and Atletico Madrid led Barcelona 3-2 away!"

However, both Barcelona and Messi are quite tenacious.

Just a few minutes after Zhang Huasong's goal, Barcelona was played by Messi and Iniesta in the front court after a series of two-by-one collisions with the wall, and Messi kicked the ball into the goal guarded by De Gea.

Barcelona 3-3 Atletico Madrid, both sides have scored 6 goals. This battle for the top spot really made neutral fans fascinated!

However, in the subsequent game, Barcelona lost the magic of this back-to-back equalizer.

In the 69th minute, Zhang Huasong found Mascherano with the ball again.

This time, Mascherano didn't dare to foul easily. Unexpectedly, Zhang Huasong took advantage of his mentality, and easily rushed past him with speed to rush the ball, and it was too late for Mascherano to foul.

Zhang Huasong, who broke into the forbidden zone, faced Barcelona captain Puyol, came to a cross-needle pass, directly deceived Puyol, and then kicked the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal.

Barcelona fell behind 3-4 to Atletico Madrid, and Zhang Huasong scored a hat-trick.

Naturally, the Barcelona players did not want to lose to Atletico at home, and then Barcelona stepped up their attack.

However, in the 77th minute, the miraculous Messi was poked out of the ball by Atletico Madrid defender Felipe in the process of dribbling the ball.

The ball fell to the feet of Alda Turan, who was both offensive and defensive, and Turan raised his leg to take a look at Barcelona's half, and then came directly with a long pass with a big foot.

The ball flew high and landed in the Barcelona half, with Zhang Huasong and Mascherano rushing to the spot at the same time.

However, Zhang Huasong jumped high and gave the ball to Falcao, who rushed up next to him. In the process of heading over, Mascherano lost to Zhang Huasong.

After landing on the ground, Zhang Huasong didn't wait for Mascherano to react, and directly threw him off and rushed to the back of the Barcelona defense. The speed was so fast that Puyol and Pique didn't have time to close the door.

Just as Zhang Huasong rushed into the big forbidden area, Falcao's overhead pass was also sent into the forbidden area. Zhang Huasong hit the ball in the middle of the sprint and fired a volley into the Barcelona goal like a cannonball, but Valdés did not react.

Countless commentators exclaimed: "Big four! Big four! Zhang Huasong staged the big four at Camp Nou, and Zhang Huasong defeated Barcelona alone!"

Barcelona 3-5 Atletico Madrid, Atletico Madrid have a two-goal lead.

However, the frantic goal shootout is not over yet.

In the 88th minute, Villa, who was eager to attack and equalize, did not distribute the ball to Messi in time, which led to the football being broken.

Atletico Madrid centre-back Godin, who broke off the football, did not hesitate and kicked the ball to Gabi, who kept the ball in front of the field.

After receiving Gabi's pass, Zhang Huasong passed Mascherano with a ball in a high-speed dribble, and then used a croquette past Pique to pass the ball to Aguero in the gap before Puyol's tackle.

Sergio Aguero met the ball and fired a furious shot, but Valdés couldn't make a save. Atletico Madrid scored another goal as Barcelona trailed 3-6 at home to Atletico Madrid.

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