Chapter 446: Reversal of the Situation
Compared with the Inter Milan team, the Barcelona team's preparation is not so easy.
Until the final round of La Liga, Barcelona still fought for the league title, although they finally won the 2019-2020 La Liga championship, but the team spent far more energy than they expected.
With only five days left between the final round of La Liga and the Champions League final, Barcelona can only use the limited five days to prepare for this important match.
Although the Barcelona team has been upgrading, compared with the Inter Milan team, the average age of their main squad is still older, with Messi and Suarez, one is thirty-three years old, and the other is thirty-four.
Under the scientific training, although the competitive state is maintained well, after a long season, there will inevitably be some problems with physical fitness.
This makes the Inter Milan team, in the match against Barcelona, a bit of a relaxed posture.
Inter Milan is not ashamed of this at all, football matches are like this, in order to win, you must do your best to create more favorable conditions for yourself!
On this night, the Ataturk Stadium, which can accommodate 80,000 fans, was packed, and the number of fans of Inter Milan and Barcelona was about the same.
A large number of Dragon Country fans came from thousands of miles to watch the duel between Shen Feng and Messi on the spot.
In this battle of the century, Dragon Country fans did not choose a position, even if there was Shen Feng in the Inter Milan team, it still could not erase everyone's love for Messi.
Because Shen Feng already has a Champions League trophy in hand, the attitude of Longguo fans towards this game is relatively indifferent, regardless of the result of this game, in the end, it is Inter Milan and Barcelona who wins, they are sincerely happy.
The Inter Milan team won, happy for Shen Feng; Barcelona won, happy for Messi.
Messi is always such a charm!
It's a pity that Messi didn't play the form that fans wanted to see in this game.
After a long season, Messi's state is already at the end of his strength, and the short five-day repair time before the game is not enough to restore his condition to 100%.
In addition, the Inter Milan team knows the importance of Messi to the Barcelona team, and at the beginning of this game, they launched a strict defense of maximum pressure on Messi, so that every step of Messi on the field seems to be walking in the mire, although it is not to the extent that it is difficult to move an inch, but every time you get the ball and break through, it takes more energy and physical energy than in previous games.
This is not ideal for Messi, whose physical condition is not ideal, can be said to be worse, so that the physical energy accumulated in the preparation stage is quickly consumed, and the frequency of running slows down before half the game.
In this final, Inter Milan adopted a completely different tactic from before, no longer focusing on attack like in the games against Real Madrid and Juventus, but focusing more on defense in the first half.
This is actually the right place to open the finals.
After going through the hardships to reach the finals, everyone wants to be the one who has the last laugh!
Before that, it was the quarter-finals and semi-finals, because it was a two-legged system, and there was still room for waves; The current final is a winner, and the strategy of the game must be cautious.
Inter Milan's conservative style of play made this final not very good-looking, but at the tactical level, the excitement was not bad at all.
The Barcelona team also knows their own situation and knows that if they play a protracted battle with the Inter Milan team, they will not be able to take advantage, so at the beginning of the game, the Barcelona team pressed out to attack, trying to take advantage of the fact that the players were in good physical fitness and condition at the beginning of the game, and took the lead in the score as soon as possible and took the lead.
However, Barcelona's attempt was in vain in the face of Inter Milan's tight defence.
Compared with last season, the strength of the Barcelona team has not changed significantly, and the strength of the Inter Milan team has risen to a new level after the addition of Modric.
In last season's Champions League final, Inter Milan was the unfavored side before the game, and this season, the situation has been reversed 180 degrees, and the unfavored side before the game has become the Barcelona team.
In last season's Champions League final, Inter Milan defeated Barcelona 4:2 without being favored, returning to the top of Europe after nine years.
This season, Barcelona have not been able to replicate the momentum of Inter Milan last season, and in this final, they are at a comprehensive disadvantage.
In last season's Champions League final, the two teams combined to score four goals in the first half alone, setting a new record for the total number of goals scored in the Champions League final in recent seasons.
However, in this game, Inter Milan and Barcelona fought hard for 45 minutes, and the score was still 0:0 on the screen on the sidelines to record the score.
This situation was not broken until the fifty-seventh minute of the second half, Inter Milan launched a quick counterattack after one of the Barcelona team's attacks was futile, Shen Feng shook off the Barcelona team's defenders with speed, and successfully countered offside, in front of the Barcelona goalkeeper, with a light shot, the ball was sent into the Barcelona team's goal.
Like last season, it was not Barcelona who broke the deadlock on the pitch first, but Inter Milan, who took the lead.
This goal, although it came much later than last season, still came.
After falling behind by one goal, the Barcelona team completely let go, pressed with all the players, and tried to equalize as soon as possible.
The Inter Milan team was not frightened by the Barcelona team's attack, but changed the previous conservatism and also attacked, and fought against the Barcelona team.
This kind of situation is actually what the Barcelona team prefers to see, because after the Inter Milan team attacks, the space in the backfield will become larger, which will give the Barcelona team an opportunity to take advantage of.
It's just that the Barcelona team has not seized the gap in the premise of the Inter Milan team's defense and equalized the score, and the obviously strengthened offensive of the Inter Milan team knocked on their door again.
This time, it was Icardi who got up near the Barcelona team's big penalty area line, shot hard, and was blocked by the Barcelona goalkeeper who flew sideways, Shen Feng cleverly grabbed the landing point of the ball, and the header point was given to Perisic, who was ambushed in front of the Barcelona team, Perisic used his thigh to block the ball into the Barcelona team's goal.
2:0!
With just over twenty minutes left in the game, time is running out for Barcelona.