The clash between Barcelona and Millwall attracted many fans to watch, and the crowd at the BJ Workers Stadium was filled because the game was very exciting and the support of the fans did not stop.

Amid the support from the fans, there is even more support for Millwall.

There are two reasons for this--

One is Millwall head coach Zhang Yang, is a Chinese, Chinese led foreign teams, is still very rare, Millwall is Zhang Yang's single-handed, can give domestic fans a lot of intimacy, compared to Barcelona, they Millwall is closer.

Also, Millwall are the 'underdog' team.

Millwall won last season's 'treble', and the Premier League and Champions League double titles are full of gold, but most fans don't buy it.

A champion is a champion, and strength is strength.

In the eyes of the vast majority of Chinese fans, Millwall is still the weak side compared to the top giants Barcelona, which means that Barcelona has a greater chance of winning.

Anyone will have a sympathetic mentality for the underdog, and because of this, more fans will support Millwall.

They were very excited to see Millwall score --

"I said long ago, Millwall can do it!"

"Zhang Yang will not be bad at leading the team!"

"That's amazing! The one who scored the goal was a newcomer to the team, right? What is Luca called...... What the? ”

"This wave of counterattacks is so fast, Barcelona is completely confused!"

"It's still Braniff who is doing well, I feel like he's better than Ronaldo!"

“……”

The fans discussed and cheered, delighted with Millwall's goal.

The opponent is Barcelona.

In the hearts of the vast majority of Chinese fans, Millwall and Barcelona are completely two-grade teams, Barcelona is so famous, and the names of each star are quite big.

Millwall was a bit worse.

Perhaps it is also the departure of the leading scorer Darren Bent, it is not easy to find top stars in the Millwall lineup, other players, including Pire, Zambrotta, Morris and others, seem to be a bit 'second-rate', and there is still a certain gap between the top stars, among the new stars, Luka Toney and Sneijder are tens of millions of stars, but they are not well-known in China, Luca Toney is better, fans who follow Serie A will know, Sneijder is almost no one knows.

Millwall, who is so 'civilian', can score first against Barcelona, which makes the fans very excited.

The cheers from the crowd continued for a long time, and Luca Toney's name was also shouted by the fans, many of whom shouted Tony's name to show their support for him.

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on the pitch.

Luca Toney celebrates with his team-mates after scoring the goal.

Toney is still a newcomer to Millwall, there are few familiar teammates in the team, and Zambrotta can speak, the language barrier, and no one else has spoken a few words, but the moment the goal comes, language and strangeness are no longer obstacles.

Luca Toney ran back excitedly and immediately hugged Braniff and said in Italian, "Thank you!" That ball was amazing! ”

Braniff was stunned.

Seeing the new teammates complete the goal, Braniff is also in a good mood, after all, it is his assist, but he has a little cleanliness, maybe not physical cleanliness, but 'mental' cleanliness, to the game, Braniff will also hug his teammates, but only with very familiar teammates, usually not close, some annoying teammates, and never hug.

Teammates who are familiar with Braniff know what is wrong with Braniff.

It doesn't matter if Braniff takes the initiative to hug or do anything, otherwise don't initiate 'physical contact' with Braniff.

Unbeknownst to Luca Toney, he hugged Braniff and celebrated excitedly with the others.

Braniff reacted and ran to the bench with a look of disgust, the others didn't know what he was doing, and the fans thought he was celebrating.

There was also a celebration in front of the coach's bench, and no one noticed Braniff.

The only thing left was Zhang Yang, and when he saw Braniff rushing over with a face full of 'disgust', he almost knew what to do, and he said to Pierce, "Go to which bottle of water and pour it on his head." He pointed his finger at Braniff.

Pierce complied, confused.

Braniff really took the initiative to accept the baptism of clear water, and then took a big sip, spit it out, and then took a big sip, and went back and forth several times, until the bottle could not squeeze out the water, and he regretted to give up.

After Braniff left, Pierce asked Xiang Zhang in confusion, "Is he hot?" ”

Weston, who was next to him, smiled and took the initiative to explain, "Mr. Pierce, you probably don't know that Kevin has a cleanliness fetish...... No, I should say that he is different from other people, and I don't know how to explain it, anyway, he is weird and does not like physical contact with strangers. ”

"But he's going to play?" Pierce was referring to the fact that in a match, there is a lot of physical contact during the confrontation.

"I'm talking about hugging, or other gestures of reaching out to each other." Weston went on to explain.

Pierce was completely blindsided.

"He's just a strange person, just don't look at it with normal human eyes. We're all used to it. ”

Zhang Yang finally summed it up.

Pierce thought about it carefully and found a reasonable reason: geniuses are different from ordinary people, and it is indeed always strange to look at them from an ordinary perspective.

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Braniff is indeed a talent who has been praised for his lack of skill in the Premier League.

As a Northern Irishman, Braniff came from the Premier League and is absolutely remarkable to have such a good and well-rounded technique.

Branifer is also one of the best players in the world, narrowed down to the Premier League, where he is considered one of the best, and narrowed down to Northern Ireland football, where Braniff is almost called 'St Kevin Braniff'.

The four regions of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, of which Northern Ireland football is the worst, Northern Ireland can rarely produce a world-renowned star, and it is easy to imagine how popular Braniff is.

Millwall's team-mates also admit that Braniff is a genius.

Luca Toney, for example, is now amazed by Braniff's skills.

Luca Toney has always played for a small club, and the biggest club he has played for is only Fiorentina in Serie A, Fiorentina can be regarded as a big club, but compared to AC Milan, Inter Milan and other giants, the strength is too bad.

The experience of the small club has made Luca Toney accustomed to solving problems on his own.

Teammate?

Maybe the support of teammates is also good, but the average strength of the club, it is difficult to play a smooth coordination, many times, Luca Toney has to find a good opportunity to catch the ball, or complete the shot with awkward movements, his goals, direct and simple headers, occupy a large proportion.

Luca Toney doesn't have any top-level ball experience and doesn't know what it's like to play at a top-level goal.

Now he knows.

The pass that Braniff gave just now was so comfortable that all he needed to do was keep running forward and swing his foot at the rhythm of his body.

That's all.

Many fans in the crowd were cheering on the goal and some were shouting his name, but Luca Toney knew that most of the credit for the goal went to Braniff, who just finished the shot.

Luca Toney never thought before that finishing a shot would not be the biggest contributor to the goal.

Now he knows why.

While Luca Toney admired Braniff's skills, he also felt that Braniff didn't seem to be easy to get along with, he didn't do anything out of the ordinary just now, and the other party seemed to be a little tired of him?

From that disgusted look, Luca Toney read something.

He's a little baffled.

With the game restarting, Luca Toney doesn't want to think so much, he's just joined Millwall, he's new to most of his team-mates, and he'll need a long time to get used to.

At the same time, Barcelona was feeling a little depressed.

Barcelona still had a bit of an advantage before, but they didn't expect Millwall to score first, and the situation behind was not very good, even if it was a friendly match of a commercial nature, they didn't want to lose to Millwall.

Barcelona's England rivals are Chelsea, who were knocked out of the Champions League once and placed in the same group once and failed to beat them home or away.

Millwall seems to be Chelsea's sworn enemy.

Chelsea have been beaten in domestic cups, leagues and the Champions League, and Millwall seem to be Chelsea's nemesis.

There is a saying that 'the enemy of the enemy is the touch', which is absolutely not used in football, and Barcelona hope to beat the 'enemy of the enemy' to prove that they are no worse than the 'enemy'.

Then Barcelona continued to attack, but their offensive almost unchanged, when they got the ball, they will still continue to slowly control the ball, the anxiety of the mentality did not show in the game, but the number of forward passes increased, but it did not play a role, because the number of failures is also increasing, Millwall's counter-attacking opportunities are also increasing.

The impact of Ronaldinho's poor form was already evident in the game.

When Ronaldinho didn't play much, Barcelona didn't seem to be able to find the backbone, and there was always no key pass or key breakthrough in the forward pass, and as a result, Millwall's original 'not too tight' defense made Barcelona's forward passes return again and again.

Barcelona's performance, or Ronaldinho's performance, was a bit of a disappointment for manager Rijkaard.

Ronaldinho has always been the core of Barcelona and has always been the best performer in the team, Rijkaard has always relied on Ronaldinho since he took office, he has confidence in Ronaldinho, but in this game, the Brazilian seems to be in poor form.

What now?

Rijkaard thought it over and decided to make a substitution, glancing at the bench and deciding to put youngster Lionel Messi on the pitch.

Messi has been the future of Barcelona.

As early as the day Messi joined Barcelona, Barcelona seriously cultivated Messi, Messi suffers from hormone deficiency, that is, dwarfism, which will hinder his bone growth and make him unable to grow taller, Barcelona experts specially formulated a series of leg exercises for him to help Messi grow.

Now Messi has gradually matured.

Messi is still only a substitute because of his overlapping positions and experience, but his appearances have started to increase, and last season's 26 appearances for Barcelona and 14 goals were quite impressive.

Messi will definitely be reused in the new season.

When Ronaldinho did not perform well, Rijkaard remembered Messi and asked Messi to play in the hope of a good performance, but he still had confidence in Ronaldinho and kept the Brazilian on the field, Messi and Ronaldinho have always had a good relationship, and the cooperation on the field is also very tacit, Rijkaard hopes that Messi's appearance can arouse Ronaldinho's desire to win.

Messi's appearance did not attract much attention.

Chinese fans know Barcelona, most of them only know Ronaldinho, Eto'o and other stars, compared to other teammates, Messi's reputation is still a little worse, not many fans will pay attention to a young player, there are also players who know Messi, know that he is the future of Barcelona.

But the future, just the future.

The future does not mean the present, Messi is indeed not very famous, and the appearance feels like a normal substitution, and not many fans expect Messi.

Zhang Yang also noticed Messi's appearance, but he didn't care too much because Messi was too young.

Young, on behalf of immaturity.

The current Messi is still too immature, it is difficult to reach the level of the core of Barcelona in the future, and it will definitely be different in a few years, but at least there is no need to worry about Messi now.

Then the game went on as normal.

Barcelona's performance has not changed because of Messi's appearance, they still keep possessing the ball, still constantly looking for opportunities, and occasionally play threats, but Millwall's defense as a whole is not facing too much pressure.

However, Millwall continued to use fast attacks to threaten, and when they forced Barcelona to attack, they also had to pay more attention to defense.

In the 44th minute of the game, Braniff made another contribution, this time with the cooperation of the 'brain hole duo', Braniff passed Vardy diagonally, Vardy passed back, Braniff shook off Messi, and suddenly crossed the middle to find Vardy's point.

Jamie Vardy was coquettish in his movements, but Barcelona were very constrained against him.

Braniff's pass was precise, but when Vardy jumped, he was squeezed in by Puyol, who couldn't fully control his body and had to head the ball down a bit.

At this time, Vardy made an amazing move, completed the turn the moment he landed, and with his body very unbalanced, he almost forced a step forward, and when he adjusted his balance, the football just rolled to his feet.

Puyol was also unbalanced and unable to defend at all, but he was not too worried because Vardy had his back to the goal, but the next moment, Vardy let him know that the slightest negligence could lead to fatal results.

Turn around!

Volley!

Vardy's action was in full swing and the ball flew just past Puyol.

It was too late for Puyol to do anything, he could only turn his head in the direction of the ball and see goalkeeper Valdés standing on the other side, unable to do anything about the goal.

The ball is in!

2 to 0!

At the moment when the football flew into the goal, the fans shouted in surprise, most of them looked at the goal, and no one noticed that Zhang Yang stood up from the coach's seat violently, waving his fist full of excitement, as if he was excited about Vardy's goal, but in fact, those who know Zhang Yang know that he will not be so excited to see the goal, especially if it is just a goal in a commercial friendly match, is it worth being so excited?