Chapter 11: Identifying Opponents
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At this moment, Bale's eyes had a sharp light, his eyes were staring directly at the figures standing between him and the goal, and he keenly captured the position of Casillas in front of the goal.
Then Bell took three steps back, then rushed forward and got to his feet!
The powerful ball flew through the crowd with an unstoppable momentum towards the goal.
Is this a shot?
Cristiano Ronaldo, who has a brilliant nose in front of goal, looked at the trajectory of the shot, and at that moment he saw Torres, who was jumping up from the side and rushing forward to send a header into the woodwork.
At the moment when the shot broke through the crowd and came towards the goal, Casillas, who was standing in front of the goal, seemed to feel that time had slowed down, and even his heart had stopped. He could almost already foresee what he was going to lose when he battled the figure in the number 9 blue jersey......
However, Casillas had no other option.
Casillas swooped to the right with his body and struck the ball with one hand towards the half-high ball, which looked like a shot.
Yes, what makes Casillas uncomfortable is that Bale's pass is a half-high ball in front of goal, a situation that is easier for attacking players to deal with than goalkeepers.
Torres kicked forward with his right foot and stabbed the ball before Casillas' right hand touched the ball.
Later, Torres, who was knocked to the ground by Casillas, was facing the goal, and he watched as he was sent to the woodwork with a stab from himself, and then there was an unconcealable joy on his face.
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
"Blackburn overtook the score, 2:1, Torres used his fifth Champions League goal of the season to help Blackburn overtake Real Madrid, at this moment he is worthy of the prince of the Blue Devils!" Lineker cheered loudly.
At the moment when the football entered the net, the earth-shattering cheers resounded throughout the audience!
Covered by such cheers are the voices of the Real Madrid players in frustration, the uncontrollable cries of the Real Madrid fans.
Torres scrambled to his feet, smiling shy and throwing his fist into the sky, before he was quickly overpowered by his equally happy teammates, who rushed up five or six of Blackburn's men in a row, almost crushing him to the point where he could barely see a human figure.
The game continued, and the game entered the final twenty minutes, and no one wanted to lose to anyone. The change in the score once again made both teams unite and burst out with a steely will.
When the game reached this moment, the physical strength of all the players on the field had decreased to a great extent, and it was already at the stage of competing will.
Real Madrid once again took the lead, Mourinho replaced Benzema with Higuain to maintain the attacking firepower against the Blackburn defence, and then replaced the slightly indifferent Kaka with the defender Gago, who was clearly ready to stop.
For Real Madrid, the 1:2 defeat away from home is also a relatively satisfactory result.
However, 2:1 is not a very acceptable score for Blackburn, Ancelotti also made timely adjustments, using up all the substitutions in one go, Di Maria replaced Lampard, Beckham replaced Cambiasso, Balotelli replaced Drogba, who was a little sluggish in this game, obviously to continue to strengthen the attack.
The three new Blackburn Rovers players showed what Carlo Ancelotti had just given them on the sidelines.
Di Maria on the side is like riding a speeding train, and the constant conflict makes Marcelo unable to defend at all, and has become the background emperor of Di Maria's outstanding highlights many times.
Beckham, who served as the team's midfielder, also looked particularly active in running back and forth, and his exquisite long passes after many midfield breaks made Mourinho on the sidelines also break into a cold sweat.
The energetic Balotelli is like a tank rampage on the field, and this tank also has extremely agile movements, which can change direction at the most critical moments, making it impossible to judge his true intentions.
He attacked Real Madrid's backline, coupled with the clever running Torres, so that Carvalho and Ramos, the old and young centre-back combination, could only run for their lives.
At this moment, the thickness of Blackburn's bench made Mourinho, a proud madman, admire, especially when he saw a group of players sitting on the Real Madrid bench, Mourinho was even more depressed.
Although after Florentino returned to the Bernabeu, the second phase of the Galaxy Battleship was brilliant, but in fact, after leaving the main team, Real Madrid's squad did not have as many capable soldiers as Blackburn.
Blackburn's first-team squad has not been large, but there is no idler, except for the special position of goalkeeper, even Chen Tao, who has made the least appearances this season, has also played the role of a wonder soldier several times in the Blue Devils' Premier League journey.
At this stage of the game, everyone's physical strength was actually a little unable to keep up. But they're still running, they're scrambling! Everyone wants to win at the end of the game, and it's their side.
It was a very intense game, and the drop in stamina made both sides make some mistakes in midfield from time to time, but both sides still tried their best to make up for their mistakes or seize every opportunity.
However, at this time, the game has come to the 76th minute, leaving little time for Blackburn, and Real Madrid's current counterattacks are still very threatening, and Ancelotti does not dare to let the players on the field press forward regardless of it.
"Real Madrid had two very threatening attacks, and in the end it was Branislav Ivanovic who came back to destroy the ball from behind and shovel the ball. However, this kind of tackle is easy to be judged as a foul, but fortunately, the referee made the correct decision and did not give a bad penalty to the Blue Devils who were playing at home. However, it also serves as a warning to Blackburn Rovers that Jose Mourinho's side are not weak pets when it comes to counter-attacking. Lineker was talking in a cliché tone about the fierce battles that had just taken place. It was at this moment that the situation on the field took another exciting turn.
As the saying goes, one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion.
After being besieged by Blackburn for more than ten minutes, Blackburn's attack obviously began to weaken, and the experienced Real Madrid soldiers wanted to slow down the tempo and see if there was a chance to sneak attack.
But just when the Real Madrid people thought that the Blue Devils were all going to take a breath, they ignored one person - Fernando Torres.
For Torres at his prime, at the slightest opportunity, Torres will immediately launch a counter-attack, looking for a lethal opportunity.
Higuain, who came on as a substitute, dribbled the ball to see if there was any pie in the sky, and he dribbled the ball on the left side of the Blackburn penalty area - a place where the Blue Devils would not dare to foul easily, because in previous seasons, Ronaldo had scored directly from free kicks in this position many times.
It's a pity that while Higuain was dreaming, he ignored the fact that his ability to dribble the ball was just a general one.
Higuain focused all his attention on Thiago Silva in front of him, but Di Maria, who had crept back, stabbed the ball out from under his feet with a tackle.
After successfully grabbing the ball, Thiago Silva immediately stuffed the ball to Beckham near the centre circle.
Beckham only looked up slightly after getting the ball, and then kicked the ball directly into the front court with a long pass.
The heartthrob's pass did not go to Torres, but chose to lead Torres forward with the ball and kicked it directly behind the Real Madrid backline.
Fernando Torres and Real Madrid's rearmost defender Sergio Ramos started at the same time.
But in terms of pace, Torres has clearly left Ramos far behind.
At that moment, he was like a whirlwind, blowing directly behind the enemy, and by the time Ramos wanted to drag him, it was too late.
At this moment, Ramos and Mourinho have paid tuition fees for the price of growth - Torres, who has changed to a central defender under Mourinho this season, has not yet had the awareness to make a foul on the spot, and Ramos, who is still used to right-backs, still has the habit of fighting for speed with opponents in his mind, and he has already had a yellow card before, which has also become Ramos's inner scruple at this moment.
There were exclamations from the stands, and the Real Madrid fans seemed to have forgotten the boos, they were so nervous that they could only raise their hands and hope it was an offside goal.
But the linesman and the referee ignored it, and no matter how black the whistle was, the referee didn't dare to blow offside.
David Beckham was a perfect player in terms of passing skills, and although Casillas ran out of the box in the first place, hoping to get the ball out before Torres did, it was clear that he was further away from the ball than Torres did.
In particular, the speed of the goalkeeper cannot be compared with that of most strikers, and opposite Casillas is Torres, who has reached the highest speed of his life, which can be said to be a gust of wind on the field.
Just as Casillas pounced on the ball, Torres also struck it, and while Casillas was still looking at the ball in mid-air, Torres had already stretched out his foot to push the ball aside.
After seeing Torres jump over Casillas, who fell to the ground, and catch up with the ball again, all the Blackburn Rovers fans stood up - because there was no more obstruction between Torres and the goal!
Needless to say, the only thing that can meet football is Real Madrid's unguarded goal!
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
At the moment when Casillas didn't pounce on the football, Mourinho on the sidelines closed his eyes, and the score of 1:3 was definitely not something that the proud Portuguese could accept happily.
Casillas was still lying on the ground, smashing a punch on the ground with hatred, chagrin and regret swept over, he felt that he shouldn't have attacked just now, if he knew that Torres was so fast, instead of rushing out, it would be better to directly block the angle and fight Torres in front of the penalty area, in that case, it would be possible to block Torres's shot.
But now it's too late.
"The ball is in!" Late roar, but no less excited, no less exciting.
Like a thunderclap in the winter, the Rose Theater resounded with hymns belonging to Blackburn and Torres!
"Torres's goal helped Blackburn Rovers seal the win, 3:1, Real Madrid has no chance at all!"
"Hat! Hat! Hat! Hat-trick! What a state this is! What a performance this is! So players! Such a state! ”
The Rose Theatre has really become a sea of joy, but if the previous cheers were still a little nervous, a little restrained, and afraid of the team being equalized, now the Blue Devils fans are celebrating wantonly, cheering wantonly, as if the flood swept the entire stadium, and the huge waves are the cheers of the fans.
Torres raced around the pitch to receive congratulations and blessings from the fans!
His right hand was held high, and three fingers were outstretched.
The fast camera on the court followed him all the time, and various cameras on the sidelines also pointed at him, his excited expression, his three fingers, have become the most classic scene.
The pride that Torres suppressed in his heart completely exploded at this time, and he roared at the cameras on the sidelines, like an angry lion!
Torres at this moment is the king of the football field!
Ronaldo was standing not far from Torres' celebration site, and when he saw the radiant Spanish shooter at the moment, Ronaldo, who had a stronger sense of competition than anyone else, suddenly felt a thrill in his heart.
"Maybe my opponent is not only the Argentine kid in Barcelona, but this guy in front of me is also my fierce rival for the next few years at the Ballon d'Or."
In the following ten minutes of the game, hesitation made Mourinho not immediately let the Real Madrid players on the field counterattack, but still defended step by step, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
After all, the big score of 1:3 gives Real Madrid a chance to return to the home stadium, and if it is 1:4, then it will announce the death sentence of the Galaxy Battleship.
Blackburn also took it as soon as it was good, and with the exception of Balotelli, who was at the top, all the frontcourt players retreated to near the center circle line.
For the current score, Blackburn is also more satisfied, although the opponent got an away goal, but as long as the second leg is not beaten by the opponent with a score of more than 2:0, then the Blue Devils will still advance.
And lost with a score of 0:2 or more?
Blackburn would never let that happen!
In this way, after playing the last ten minutes of the "tacit ball", Blackburn defeated Real Madrid 3:1 in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, and seized a very advantageous advantage in the battle between "blue sky" and "galaxy". (To be continued.) )