Chapter 402: Different Paths to the End
The game passed minute by minute in a stalemate.
Chinese fans followed the two matches, watching the live TV broadcast of the Atletico Madrid match and holding their mobile phones to refresh the live scores of the other match.
But no matter how many times it was refreshed, the score didn't change.
Barcelona still leads Granada 2-0.
Atletico Madrid is still silent.
Although Gao Zheng is one goal ahead of Suarez in the scorer list, everyone is still worried that Suarez will score a goal at the last moment of the game, and there may be no time for Gao Zheng to react at that time, and the last two people tied and shared the honor of top scorer.
Although Gao Zheng also won the top scorer, the thought of equalizing with Suarez made many people feel uncomfortable and felt nauseous and wanted to vomit.
Suarez's image in the hearts of many Chinese fans is not very good, the 2014 World Cup biting incident, so that Suarez was ridiculed by many people, of course, there are good intentions in these ridicules, but many are also malicious.
Another reason is that the war between Gao Zheng and the Barcelona media before made everyone have a bad impact on Barcelona, in order not to let the Barcelona media get carried away after the game, everyone hopes that this award should not have any intersection with Barcelona.
This is the only way to silence Barcelona journalists.
Although Gao Zheng is now leading by one goal, Chinese fans are also anxious to watch.
Some people can't help but think that if Gao Zheng didn't refuse the penalty after the game started, but hit the penalty, there should be no suspense in this Golden Boot battle now, right?
But alas, there are no ifs on the football field......
They now only hope that at the end of the game, Gao Zheng will not regret choosing to give up that penalty.
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The second half of the game went very quickly in a stalemate.
In the blink of an eye, everyone suddenly realized that there were only ten minutes left in the game!
"In the 80th minute of the game, the score was still 4:0, Atletico Madrid was ahead, and Gao Zheng was still only one goal ahead of Suarez......" He Ping reminded the audience.
The Catalan commentator is doing the same: "There are only ten minutes left for Suarez and the whole Barcelona team...... Gao has yet to score, but he is still one goal ahead of Suarez. Even if Suarez had scored in those 10 minutes, it would have been just a tie......"
Before the game, Barcelona fans hoped that Suarez would be able to enjoy the Golden Boot exclusively, which was the same mentality as Gao Zheng's fans. Barcelona fans don't like Gao Zheng......
But now it seems that they may have to tone down their expectations of Suarez.
Try not to think about Gao Zheng getting the Golden Boot - let Suarez get the Golden Boot first.
They also know what the attitude of Gao Zheng's supporters is towards this matter, so if Suarez can get the Golden Boot, even if it is only tied with Gao Zheng, they can successfully disgust Gao Zheng's supporters, even if they succeed.
In the final ten minutes, Barcelona's attack intensified – they made some adjustments and slowed down in the previous stalemate, otherwise they would not have been able to hold on to their fitness.
After the adjustments, Barcelona began to speed up and slammed into the Granada defence.
And Granada, who had held Barcelona's wave after wave of attacks, thought their defense was successful, forcing Barcelona to score in the second half.
How did they think that now they have found out that the Barcelona they defended before was not Barcelona with full firepower...... Today's Barcelona is a bit overwhelming for them.
They doubt they will be able to withstand Barcelona's attack.
There are also players in Granada who wonder if it is worth it to try so hard to prevent Suarez from scoring...... After all, Atletico Madrid didn't really give them money to work for Atletico Madrid.
So whether Suarez wins the Golden Boot or not, in fact, has nothing to do with them.
Is it necessary to hold on like this?
This mentality has affected the performance of the Granada players.
The Barcelona players were very keenly aware of this, so they attacked more aggressively and targetedly, putting the breakthrough in attack on the hesitant Granada players.
In the 85th minute, Barcelona organized the attack, and they had passed more than 20 kicks back and forth from the back to the front, without allowing a single Granada player to touch the ball in between.
The Catalan commentator enthused: "This is the traditional way of playing at Barcelona, they control the football with the opponent at their feet, make full use of the opponent's movement, and then look for the killer!" By now they have pushed the football to the front of the pitch and are getting closer and closer to the goal of Granada! ”
And the Granada players are also very powerless in the face of Barcelona's monkey-like attack - they can't grab the ball, and they waste their physical strength, and the game has been played for more than 80 minutes, and everyone is already close to running out of gas, how can they still have the physical strength to run after the football?
So in the face of Barcelona's back and forth, the Granada players were a little numb, and most of the time they just stood and watched, but did not come up to grab.
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Meanwhile, at the Calderón Stadium, Atletico Madrid also launched an attack.
Unlike Barcelona's way of passing the ball forward slowly, Atletico Madrid's attack is much simpler and more straightforward.
Godin picked up the ball at the back and saw an opportunity on the left side of the pitch, so he played the ball over with a big foot.
Antoine Griezmann showed up there and received the ball.
Celta Vigo's backline was well packed, with all but one full-back coming out to defend Antoine Griezmann.
Gao Zheng was at the top of the free throw arc, and he was in front of the serious-looking Celta Vigo central defender and captain Hugo Marlow. Marlowe didn't care about anyone, just stared at him.
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Barcelona have pushed their attack to the point where the attack is dispersed, and the Granada players are just standing in their positions and not easily stepping forward.
It may be difficult to penetrate the Granada defence if you rely only on passing.
When the ball was passed to Messi's feet, the Argentine genius made a gesture to pass the ball but slammed it to the side, dodging the Granada players who came up to defend him, and then did not pass the ball out, but dribbled horizontally towards the Granada penalty area.
"Messi !!"
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Griezmann didn't kick the ball directly into the middle after receiving the ball, he knew that Gao Zheng was now being closely targeted by the opponent, so he needed to do something to make Vigo Celta's back line have some changes, so that Gao Zheng could have a chance.
He dribbled the ball to the middle, and when Celta defender Jonny Otto thought he was going to cut inside, his right foot suddenly slammed the left side of the ball, and at the same time, the whole person stopped and changed direction, and Otto, who was retreating step by step, parted ways - Otto watched Griezmann turn the direction of the baseline in front of him and wanted to go down. He remembered that his steps were all out of order, and he took a few steps back in a row, but finally he couldn't maintain his balance and sat down on the ground.
There were huge cheers at Calderón Stadium to applaud Griezmann's beautiful breakthrough.
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Seeing Messi suddenly cut in, Granada's left central defender Robin quickly looked back and found that Suarez was not by his side, so he quickly grabbed it, intending to block Messi first.
Suarez was not on his side, and he was followed in the middle by another Granada centre-back, Ricardo Costa.
Seeing Robin stealing, he immediately snambled to run forward to the open post, and Costa quickly followed, not giving him a chance to get the ball alone.
Messi didn't pass the football right away, but gently flicked the football with the outside instep, and then dodged Robin who grabbed it!
After passing two Granada defenders in a row, Granada's backline suddenly opened the door in front of Messi.
Messi didn't stop, this time he took the ball into the box and killed it.
The plan is to kill the danger zone from the vacancy that Suarez has taken.
Costa, who was originally following Suarez, quickly turned around to defend Messi when he saw this.
And just as he turned around to pounce, Messi sent the football out sideways and gave it to Suarez, who had been pulled into the air!
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After Griezmann easily broke through the defense of Celta Vigo's defenders, it caused a flustery in Celta's backline, because there was no one in front of him, and he could cut inside to take the football into the penalty area and directly threaten Celta Vigo's goal!
Someone has to guard against him!
At this time, the closest to Griezmann was Celta Vigo's central defender Marlo, who was the one who was guarding Gao Zheng.
Marlowe watched Griezmann dribble into the penalty area, and a look of struggle flashed on his face - does it matter if Gao Zheng goes to save Griezmann? Or stay in front of Gao Zheng and then watch Griezmann directly threaten Celta Vigo's goal?
Just when he was hesitating, Gao Zheng beside him moved first - instead of rushing to the door, he suddenly retreated and opened the angle!
At this time, Griezmann obviously still had room to continue dribbling the ball, but he resolutely passed an inverted triangle pass and kicked the ball towards Gao Zheng.
Marlowe no longer hesitated, and hurriedly pounced on Gao Zheng!
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Suarez had already picked up his right foot in advance in the face of the rolling football, and although Granada's goalkeeper Andrés Fernandez pounced, the expression on his whole face was extremely desperate - his attention was on Messi just now, and now it was too late to pounce, and a third of the goal he couldn't control......
And Suarez's first shot is so strong that it's impossible to adjust it at all, and then give yourself time to come back and block the angle!
Sure enough, Suarez did not stop the ball, and Messi's pass was indeed very good, so it can be said that the nanny assisted.
He shot the rolling soccer ball into the goal!
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Gao Zheng faced the rolling football and Marlowe, leaned back slightly, raised his left foot and pulled the rolling football behind his body, and at the same time he grabbed the right foot as the axis before Marlowe pasted it, and completed the turn, just blocking Marlowe behind him, and the football was in front of him.
"Nice turn!"
Gao Zheng, who completed the turn, simply kicked the football with his right foot, and the football was shot by him towards Vigo Celta's goal!
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"Messi's assist, Suarez – GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" The Catalan commentator raised his arms and shouted.
Football has flown into Granada's goal!
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On another court, the football shot by Gao Zheng was like a cannonball, and it sank vigorously.
Despite Vigo's Celta goalkeeper Alvarez making a save, he couldn't save the ball.
The soccer ball flew into the goal by grazing the far goal!
“GAO! GAO! GAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!! ”