Chapter 14: The Secret Weapon
Ronaldo's goal drew neat boos and shouts from Barcelona fans, although he was not in the place of Real Madrid, but as a former member of Barcelona, he now broke the door of Barcelona with his own hands, which is an unforgivable thing for the fans.
However, Ronaldo himself didn't have much to say, hugged Ling Feng who assisted, and slowly ran back to the backfield to accept the congratulations of the Malaga players.
From 0:2 to 1:2, although there is only one goal, the confidence of victory has been established, just like when the Chinese team played with Brazil and Argentina, although there is a gap in the personal strength of the players, but once the confidence is established, it is not easy for the opponent to break through their own door.
In the last five minutes of the first half, Barcelona did not create another chance for Malaga to threaten the goal, but Ling Feng almost broke the door of Baia through a long-range shot in front of the penalty area.
At the end of the first half, the score was 2:1, and Malaga was one goal behind.
For many people, in fact, it doesn't matter if this game is lost, after all, it is at someone's home stadium, even if there are two footballers in charge, if you want to get all three points at Camp Nou, even Real Madrid may not have this ability.
But for Ling Feng and Ronaldo, the three biggest obstacles to the championship this year are Barcelona, Real Madrid and Deportivo La Coruna - the first two are not to say giants, and Deportivo is Ling Feng's goal, because he knows that they are the team that would have won the championship this season.
When encountering these three teams, Malaga must try their best to win!
Some people say that even if you lose this game, won't you win in other games to get it back, but this calculation method is not like this, if you lose to Barcelona, then you will be three points behind the opponent in the standings, and if you win them, you can not only increase your advantage by three points, but also reduce the opponent by three points, which takes together, the gap between the two teams alone is as much as six points, so when you meet these three teams this season, Ling Feng is determined to win, and in the game with other teams, It's okay to play as well as you can, you don't have to win it all.
Now in Malaga, not Fiorentina or Saint-Germain, it can be said that it is impossible to pursue so many complete wins or undefeated records, and only Ling Feng and Ronaldo can minimize defeats.
On the way back to the lounge, the players in Málaga were full of excitement and Barcelona were a little discouraged, the two emotions were completely opposite to the current scoreline, and for many players who had never played in La Liga, it was already an unexpected fact that Malaga could lose by only one goal in the first half against the top giants.
Even if there are Ling Feng and Ronaldo, but ...... Malaga is still Malaga, just two people on board can't take a garbage team to the top immediately.
After a fifteen-minute break, the second half continued.
Perhaps it was Louis van Gaal who reassigned the task at half-time, and there was a noticeable change in Barcelona's tactics in the second half.
It is not a policy of bombing like at the beginning, because Malaga has gradually adapted to this kind of bombing after half the game, even if it is possible to open the door of the opponent, but it may also give the opponent a good opportunity to counterattack because of a mistake, after all, the football field is ever-changing, and the goal conceded in the first half is obviously the result of the Barcelona defenders taking it lightly.
Seeing that the Barcelona players put on a posture of controlling the midfield and playing positional battles, Ling Feng was suddenly a little embarrassed, but he had to admire the Dutchman's coaching level in his heart.
Málaga are a counter-attacking team and the only way to score goals – not entirely the only one – but arguably the majority of the goals are scored by surprise from the opposing defenders through fast breaks.
Especially Ling Feng and Ronaldo, both of them are the world's top offensive players, and their personal abilities are also in the top two among this generation of players, but the problem is that even if they are two of them, facing ant-like defenders, it is impossible to break through, one or two are good to say, if there are more, it can also be said to be a zero probability event.
Maybe the individual ability of the Malaga defenders will not be in the eyes of Ling Feng and Van Gaal, but together, even if it is a row of pillars, it can block part of the attack!
What's more, these players are players who have been working together for several years, although they have not officially played high-level games, but the tacit understanding between each other is still good, once they get used to it, then even Barcelona, may not be able to easily tear apart this backline - after all, Barcelona is not the Fiorentina of 1997, some media have conducted popular surveys among fans, among which the most attacking team was awarded to Fiorentina in 1997, and the second place was Hungary in 1954, The third is the 1958 Brazilian national team, the Brazilian team in which Pele was a member.
There are even some boring experts who input the Fiorentina lineup that Ling Feng is in into the computer, and then calculate how powerful this offensive line is through the computer!
Van Gaal's move is tantamount to giving the Malaga team that is ambitious and ready to counterattack to equalize or overtake the score!
Jokes, playing positional battles, in terms of the control of the midfield and the accuracy of passing, it is strange to be able to fight Barcelona in terms of control and passing accuracy!
Barcelona, who led by one goal, were not too anxious to score, not in a hurry to find holes in the opponent's backline, and created danger in front of goal through some set-pieces.
After all, the presence of Kluivert's high striker has put a lot of pressure on the Malaga backline.
In the same way, when they couldn't break through the opponent's back line through positional warfare, the Málaga people also thought of set-pieces, after all, they have one of the most perverted free kick players in the world - Ling Feng.
In the thirteenth minute of the second half, Kluivert almost doubled the lead again through a corner, but his header was struck out by goalkeeper Arnault.
Ten minutes later, Ling Feng's free kick from 36 meters away was blocked by Baia from the dead corner, Ling Feng shouted depressed, if this ball is a little forward, it is likely to be close, and it is really difficult to break the goal directly at a distance of nearly forty meters.
During this period, Ling Feng also tried to make a personal breakthrough, he took the ball from the midfield three long-distance runs, although they were all past at least three players of the opponent in a row, but twice in front of the penalty area were cut off by the opposing defenders, and once when passing to Ronaldo, Puyol intercepted from it.
Ronaldo also had a good performance, the alien has become more and more fierce since he recovered from the injury, and there have been several very beautiful breakthroughs, but in the face of his old teammates who are very familiar with him, the alien has to make a forced landing on Earth.
Thirty minutes into the second half, neither side found the back of the net.
The second half was clearly much more exciting than the first, even with three goals scored in the first half.
The battle between the two teams around the midfield was particularly intense, and there were often some very beautiful individual breakthroughs and cooperation between the players in the positional battles, and the number of shots and threatening shots was no less than in the first half, but it was not too good luck for both teams to score.
At thirty-one minutes, the situation on the field changed abruptly!
Ling Feng finally broke through near the big penalty area, he got rid of Puyol's defense and knocked his heel to the alien Ronaldo, and the Brazilian was not greedy at this time, but gently pushed his left foot under the ball, and the ball passed through the seams of the two Barcelona defenders, just to Ling Feng!
A fabulous two-by-two tie in front of the penalty area! No, it's two or three, at this time, Guardiola, who was supposed to make up for the defense, also ran to the aliens because of Ling Feng's pass just now, resulting in Ling Feng not having anyone to defend!
Guardiola and Reziger next to him raised their hands at the same time to indicate that the ball was offside, but the linesman ignored it, and Ling Feng didn't care, his right foot easily picked up under the ball, and the ball flew past Baia's body and fell into the goal!
2:2! Ling Feng's goal helped the Malaga team equalize the score!
The goal was assisted by Ronaldo, and the two top players tore apart the door of Barcelona twice in this game!
But for the Barcelona players, the nightmare continues.
Three minutes later, Malaga's attack returned, Romero's long ball went straight to the front of the penalty area, Ronaldo subconsciously jumped up for the top, and at the same time jumped up and Reziger.
The ball was pushed out by Reziger, but the referee blew his whistle.
Rezig presses a foul!
This is a problem that often occurs in defense, and the referee did not give a card, but only gave a free kick opportunity, but at this time, the Barcelona players came forward to argue with the referee, as if the referee gave the opponent a penalty.
Can it not be argued? See where the foul was on this ball?
In front of the big forbidden area, on the arc line!
God, what's the difference between this and a penalty kick for Ling Feng's pervert?!
Barcelona has been paying attention, the movement in front of the penalty area is very small, and would rather use their bodies to block the opponent's shot than give the opponent a chance to take a free kick, basically limiting the free kick of Malaga in front of the team to the side or 35 meters away in the middle in the second half.
But at the last moment, a small accident at the last moment gave a free kick opportunity in the most dangerous area in front of the Malaga penalty area!
If this goal is scored, it will be an absolute black three minutes!
Ronaldo and Ling Feng both stood in front of the ball, the two most skilled in the Malaga team, but Ronaldo ...... No one had ever heard of him taking a free kick, so standing there was definitely just a decoration, and not seeing Fei Luo standing in front of Ling Feng was definitely a feint!
At the urging of the referee, Barcelona's human wall reluctantly stepped back, and then retreated, and when the referee turned his face, they secretly took two steps forward.
Ling Feng was very helpless to negotiate with the referee, and finally made a fuss for almost a minute, and the human wall in Barcelona was finally standing.
The referee blew the whistle, Ronaldo ran first, and Ling Feng followed closely behind him, posing as a shot.
Everyone's eyes were focused on Ling Feng, but when Ronaldo ran in front of the ball, he actually raised his right foot and attacked the goal directly!
Sky! It turned out to be Ronaldo's shot!
The human walls in Barcelona didn't react in the slightest, they all focused on Ling Feng in the back, who knew that it was ......
The ball passed through the gap between the heads of Pep Guardiola and Figo and landed in the middle of the net!
The ball is in! Ronaldo scored a beautiful free-kick!
Malaga overtook Barcelona in the last minute!
After scoring the goal, Ronaldo excitedly rushed to the corner flag, and then was hugged by a group of Malaga players who were more excited than him and pressed him down, from 0:2 to 1:2, and then to 3:2, Ronaldo's two goals sent Barcelona into the abyss with his own hands!
And the fans at Camp Nou, they don't even have the idea of booing this traitor, everyone looks at each other, God, are you watching a science fiction movie, when will Ronaldo take a free kick?!
The corners of Ling Feng's mouth curled up with a sneer, who said that Ronaldo wouldn't take a free kick?!
When it comes to shooting skills and techniques, Alien is definitely the best in the world, with such a good shot, why don't he take a free kick, it's just that he didn't have a chance before!
Ling Feng remembers clearly that when Ronaldo returned to the field in 2001, he scored goals in several consecutive games, one of which was a free kick from 30 meters away.
During training, Ling Feng specially trained free kicks with Ronaldo, the purpose was to surprise at such a time.
You must know that no matter how good Ling Feng's free kick skills are, it can't be a hundred shots, especially the opponent's human wall, which is a big obstacle, and now the human wall always likes to rush forward at the moment of the free throw, so that when you pull in the distance, it will be easy to block the ball that is flying up!
And referees often turn a blind eye to this.
Now is a critical moment, this opportunity naturally cannot be wasted, so Ling Feng and Ronaldo muttered a little, and they used their secret weapons in the first round of the league.
The poor Barcelona people fought back, but except for Ronaldo, everyone including Ling Feng returned to the vicinity of the penalty area to participate in the defense, and the last less than ten minutes passed quickly, except for Rivaldo's shot that grazed the post and missed the bottom line, Barcelona did not achieve anything.
In the end, Malaga defeated the defending champion Barcelona 3:2 and broke the first big upset in the first round of La Liga!