Chapter 533: Advance to the semifinals
After the restart, Jimenez, who was stimulated by the wind, finally returned to his old style, not only becoming more active in defense, but also actively inserting into the opponent's half to participate in the attack when the team launched a counterattack.
In the 23rd minute of the first half, Feng Quan broke through the corner of the penalty area along the left wing and passed the ball to Alda Turan at the edge of the penalty area, and then started to insert into the penalty area.
Alda Turan flanked the goal, swinging her left leg backwards to shoot from distance as the ball was about to roll into her control. However, when Sergio Busquets came in from the flank to try to block the shot, he sent a through ball into the space on the left side of the box.
Feng Quan, who had just inserted into the penalty area, adjusted his pace slightly, and chose to shoot low into the near corner of the goal without stopping the ball.
While nearly 50,000 fans jumped from their seats to celebrate the goal, goalkeeper Valdés blocked Fengquan's shot with his foot in extremely difficult circumstances.
However, Valdés' heroic performance only helped Barcelona escape for a while.
Due to the general low height of Barcelona's players on the field, when defending corners, Pique and Busquets, the two "big guys", can only list the most impactful Diego Costa and Feng as their targets.
As a result, against other players such as Godin and Raul Garcia, who are good at heading points, the rest of the Barcelona players can only defend through hidden small movements or by taking advantage of accurate judgment.
Gabi, who was about to take the corner, observed the situation in the penalty area and immediately raised his left arm to signal his teammates. Immediately afterwards, Feng Quan and Diego Costa, who were originally standing on the line of the big penalty area, rushed to the front and back points respectively, while Godin, who was standing behind the penalty spot, rushed directly to the small penalty area.
As the wind pulled all three of them, most of the defenders in the Barcelona penalty area were drawn over.
However, Gabby's corner was not sent towards goal but towards the penalty spot.
The next moment, Jimenez, who had been ambushed at the top of the penalty area, suddenly started to shake off Alba's defense and jumped high, and a powerful lion flicked his head into the top right corner of the goal.
Jimenez, who helped his team pull a goal back, raised his head to the sky and let out a roar of anger to vent the pent-up resentment in his heart.
Immediately afterwards, Feng Quan, who had almost clashed with him before, came to Jimenez before all his teammates, and then grabbed the opponent's head with both hands and shook it excitedly: "Well done, Jose." I knew you weren't a bitch! ”
Although he was almost shaken by the wind and had dizziness symptoms, Jimenez, who came back to his senses, still said with a sincere face: "Feng, thank you, if I hadn't been woken up by you, maybe I would have become the sinner of the team today." ”
After that, Jimenez gave Fengquan a big bear hug.
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Although the two goals in the opening ten minutes greatly boosted Barcelona's morale, Jimenez's header was like a rainstorm extinguishing a fire, which dealt a huge blow to the confidence of Barcelona players to turn the game around.
On the contrary, the Atletico Madrid players, who were worried that the team would suffer a shocking reversal, regained the initiative to advance to the next round of matches after taking a "reassuring pill".
In the face of the other's strengths, although the Barcelona team, which has better passing and control energy, still seems to be in control of the initiative on the field, in front of the united Atletico Madrid team, the threatening attack that can be created is very limited. At the same time, the Barcelona team, which is pressing the attack, must always be on guard against the sword of Damocles that may fall at any time, which is suspended above Fengquan's head.
As a result, Barcelona, whose attack was frequently blocked and always worried at the back, not only failed to break through Atletico Madrid's goal again in the remainder of the first half, but also seized a counterattack opportunity to equalize the score in the 41st minute of the first half.
After the change of sides, the desperate Barcelona team left only two central defenders at the back, and the rest of the players were all pressed into the opponent's half to participate in the attack.
In the face of Barcelona's desperate fight, Diego Simeone unexpectedly chose to attack against attack.
Although Barcelona are stronger overall, Diego Simeone believes that even if they fight against the opposition, the sharpest attacking combination of Feng Quan and Diego Costa in Europe this season will never disappoint.
As a result, the two teams presented a wonderful offensive battle for the audience in the second half of the game.
In the 6th minute of the second half, A. Sanchez sent an inverted triangle pass after a sudden penalty area along the right wing, helping Messi who was ambushed near the line of the penalty area to score a hat-trick.
Ten minutes later, Gabi teamed up with Juanfran to steal Neymar near the box and passed the ball to Koke five metres in front of him. Koke received the ball and adjusted slightly, and sent a through ball into a huge space on the right side of the frontcourt.
Feng Quan, who had been lying in ambush near the halfway line, took advantage of his superior speed to shake off defenders to get the ball, and after dribbling to the top of the penalty area, Valdés, who had abandoned the goal, sent the ball into the unguarded goal.
In the 24th minute of the second half, Iniesta broke the ball slightly to the left in the middle of the front field, and sent a scalpel-like through pass directly to the left side of the field.
Cruising on the left flank, Neymar won the ball and shook Juanfran into the box and fired a low shot into the bottom left corner of the net.
After another five minutes, Messi changed direction on the right side of the front to get rid of three defenders, broke through to the corner of the penalty area and forced Atletico Madrid's overall formation to shift, but then crossed the ball to the feet of Iniesta near the top of the penalty area.
Andres Iniesta, who was almost unguarded, made a slight adjustment and curled the ball into the top right corner of the net.
When the Barcelona players saw the dawn of the reversal again, Feng Quan, who scored one goal in each half, stepped forward again, and in the 34th minute of the second half, he used the [heavy artillery] skill nearly 30 meters away from the goal to knock on the opponent's goal again.
Seven minutes later, Feng Quan, who broke into the box with three defenders in a row along the left flank, and assisted Diego Costa, who grabbed the penalty in front of the goal, to make the score 5-5.
In the end, Atletico Madrid eliminated Barcelona with an aggregate score of 10-6 and advanced to the semifinals of the Champions League with a "double hat trick" in the two-legged match and three goals from Diego Costa.
After this game, Feng Quan, who has scored 16 goals in the Champions League, not only surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo to occupy the top spot in the scorer list, but also broke the single-season Champions League goal record of 14 goals held by AC Milan legend Altafini (1962-1963 season) and Argentine king Lionel Messi (2011-2012 season).