Chapter 299: Lightning Goal

In the midst of Lu Wenbin and Ibrahimovic's "sympathy", soon, the time came to the evening, and the game began.

Barcelona had a lot of fans in this game.

Not only fans from Spain, but also many fans from Europe, and even other countries of the world, flock to Monaco like a pilgrimage to watch Barcelona live matches.

Barcelona is already a world-class giant, with countless fans, and the Spanish national derby with Real Madrid is the most watched football derby in the world.

Barcelona's beautiful football, artistic football, and last season's treble have once again made Barcelona a fan of countless fans around the world.

In addition, Barcelona has always had no shortage of superstars, Cruyff, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Henry, Messi, etc., have brought countless foreign fans to Barcelona.

Therefore, in today's European Super Cup, although there are not many Spaniards from China, there are indeed many fans in Morocco and other countries, so that Barcelona's supporters account for at least half of the audience.

In comparison, Hoffenheim has a much smaller number of fans.

In addition to the more than 10,000 German Huocun fans who have arrived from China, there may be only a few thousand local and foreign fans.

All that's left is pure neutral fans and a small number of political and business celebrities, celebrities, and so on who use this platform for football diplomacy.

Barcelona received much more cheers than Hoffenheim at the entrance ceremony before the start of the game.

A typical war between a poor country boy and a wealthy nobleman.

When the two sides shook hands, all the players in Hoffenheim, including Lu Wenbin, followed Ralph's instructions and were expressionless.

It was only when they shook hands with Ibrahimovic that everyone deliberately stepped up their efforts and smiled to show respect for Ibrahimovic.

Naturally, this greatly satisfied Eevee's vanity, and his heart drifted a little.

Glancing at Messi, who is only 1.7 meters tall, Ibrahimovic said in his heart: "Look, even the opponent only respects and values me so much, and sure enough, only I am worthy of being the core of Barcelona!" ”

At 20:30 local time on the evening of August 28, with the referee's whistle, the 2009 European Super Cup kicked off at the St. Louis II Stadium in Monaco.

The two sides are Barcelona the 2008/2009 UEFA Champions League and Hoffenheim, the last winners of the UEFA Cup.

Although Barcelona's name and starting line-up put a lot of pressure on Ralph, after thinking about it again, Ralph still did not back down and still sent an attacking football formation of 433.

On the one hand, Hoffenheim is more familiar with 433, and the players are easy to play better on the field in this system.

On the other hand, Barcelona's football, it is difficult to rely on general defensive counterattacks, otherwise Barcelona would not have won the treble last season.

It's not that there are no teams that play defensive counter-attacks against Barcelona, but most of them fail in the end, proving that it is difficult to apply that tactic to Barcelona.

Only Jose Mourinho's Chelsea can be compared to Barcelona, but Hoffenheim clearly don't have the muscular jungle player configuration of Chelsea.

In this case, it is better to use the offensive football tactics that you are best at to fight with Barcelona.

Anyway, Hoffenheim also has a European golden boot like Lu Wenbin in the team, and he may not be able to beat Barcelona in terms of goals.

When the game officially started, although the whole Hoffenheim team expected how difficult the game would be, no one expected Hoffenheim to concede a goal in the first minute.

The reason for conceding the goal was that Barcelona were attacking too fast.

Barcelona won the kick-off in this game.

After the referee blew the opening whistle, Ibrahimovic kicked the ball to Thierry, who kicked it to Xavi in the back, and Xavi kicked it to Yaya Toure.

It looks like an ordinary opening return kick.

However, just as everyone including the Hoffenheim players was thinking so, Yaya Toure passed the ball back to Xavi in the gap.

It happened that Lu Wenbin was nearby, so he ran over to grab the ball.

However, Lu Wenbin had just started, and he was still a few meters away from Xavi, when Xavi suddenly raised his leg and kicked the ball to the front.

Lu Wenbin stopped, followed the ball kicked by Xavi, and waited for a teammate to stop the ball and pass it.

However, the football crossed most of the stadium, and Salihovic, Gustavo and Nelson along the way were all narrowly unable to intercept the ball.

Then, as Hoffenheim players and fans watched in increasing horror, Henry successfully countered offside and stuck Jankel's body to receive Xavi's long pass.

After receiving the ball, Henry only adjusted his pace slightly, and then shot straight at the line of the big no-go.

Jaisler, who rushed to the side, jumped into a flying tackle and failed to destroy the ball.

Thierry Henry's powerful shot flew past the fingertips of goalkeeper Ozcan and into the back of the net.

The commentators, who hadn't even finished introducing the list of starters on both sides, suddenly roared:

“Goooooooooooooooooooooooal”

"Oh my God, Barcelona scored a lightning goal just after the game started!"

"Xavi's through ball was horrible, Hoffenheim didn't touch the ball once before the goal was lost!"

"In the first minute of the game, Barcelona scored a goal from midfield maestro Xavi and Hoffenheim fell behind!"

"The Hocun miracle is coming to an end here in Barcelona!"

On the field, all the Hoffenheim players were collectively sluggish, and Lu Wenbin looked at Xavi, who passed the ball more than 40 meters, and was even more like a fairy.

It was unthinkable for him to pass a ball from the ground at such a distance without being intercepted on most of the pitch.

The giants are really different, and it is impossible for anyone in the Hoffenheim team to reach Xavi's level, whether it is Salihovic, Eduardo, or Copado, there is no such a through ball of more than 40 meters.

After scoring the goal, Henry and his teammates did not celebrate, but simply high-fived and returned to their own half, as if they had scored a trivial goal.

The Barcelona fans in the stands were not very excited, on the one hand, everyone was a little unresponsive to the goal in the first minute, and on the other hand, everyone felt that the opponent was too weak.

The Huochon miracle only made Hoffenheim famous and intrigued fans, but it didn't make most people put them in the same position as the supergiants.

Barcelona scored ahead of Hoffenheim and even beat Hoffenheim to win the title, which was taken for granted by most people.

Although the lightning goal in the first minute of the opening game was a bit unexpected, it was not too surprising to everyone.