Volume 6 Chapter 31 The Strength of the Enemy
When you're in front of the eyes of more than 80,000 people, and they're all your enemies, there's always something different.
After the handshake, Mackin called his men to his side, and they formed a circle, shoulder to shoulder, as many teams do before the game.
"Listen, guys, don't think too much, we need to focus on this game, we're going to qualify, it's that simple", he exclaimed, to make his voice drown out the noise of the field.
"When you get to the Champions League final, you'll also find out that it's just an ordinary game, we haven't lost to them this season, and we won't do it this time, forget it, it's us who are two goals ahead."
"Come, give me your hands", he held out his hand, and everyone put up their hands.
"1, 2, 3, Go, take out Barcelona"
"Kill the ...... Barcelona", his Atletico team-mates also shouted.
Atletico's players had serious faces, like warriors waiting to charge, they were mentally prepared, they knew what to expect here.
Yes, they are nervous, but you, who won't be nervous, we're going to qualify, that's what we want, whether it's Barcelona or whatever!
Before the whole game even started, it was filled with slaughter.
"Audience friends, audience friends", Zhan Jun looked at the signal screen that had just been transmitted, and said excitedly, "The game is about to start, the starting lineups of the two sides have not changed much compared with the first game, but Pedro has replaced Fabregas"
"It seems that Guardiola has made some fine-tuning in this game", Zhang Lu immediately sensitively realized, "Atletico Madrid's defense against Messi in the last game can be said to be very good, which is also the reason why Atletico Madrid was able to win in the end"
On the other hand, Peterson and McManaman are also nervously broadcasting the starting lineup before the game, and now only one Chelsea in the Premier League has reached the quarterfinals, which can be said to be the saddest moment in the Premier League in recent years.
And there are no Premier League teams playing today, compared to Bayern's unsuspenseful game, "Sky Sports" of course chose this focus of the Spanish internal war.
Messi firmly stepped on the ball in the center circle alone, waiting for the referee from Belgium to blow the starting whistle, Villa and Pedro stepped on the halfway line, ready to sprint.
Seeing this posture, Mackin after the center circle was very surprised, Messi kicked off?
"Toot", a long whistle cut through the air, Messi quickly kicked the ball, Aguero and Gabi pressed it together, it was still the old way, Mack Qin cut the ball behind.
Barcelona's attack was fast, Xavi received the ball and hit it directly to the side, Alves quickly inserted and advanced, and after encountering Sanchez's defense, handed it to Messi.
Messi? Mackin hurriedly greeted him.
Messi received the ball directly to the right of the center circle, and his appearance in this place as soon as the opening moment still surprised Mackin a little.
As he ran, he glanced at Pedro on the right and thought that Barcelona might have made a positional adjustment, but how to deal with it depends on how Messi will play.
How to fight? This guy is crazy!
This is the feeling of Mackqin, when Mack is still two steps away from him, this guy completes the catch and turns, and directly breaks through from the gap between Gabi and the sandwich that he has not yet completed.
"Messi, Messi, he made a tough breakthrough in the middle at the beginning", Zhan Jun also shouted in surprise, Ma Qin quickly turned around and followed him closely, it was really a gust of wind.
The half-time was short-lived, with Messi taking straight to the box before being stopped by Martinez and then slotted diagonally to Andres Iniesta on the left.
At this time, the different displays at the Camp Nou are vividly displayed, when Atletico Madrid contracted, they could not even cover the big penalty area, and in order to ensure the defensive distance, the two sides could only rely on the recovery of Mata and Sanchez.
Barcelona's pass was very fast, with Andres Iniesta bringing the ball to the bottom line, pressing back into Atletico's defensive depths before turning back to Enrique, who cut diagonally inward.
In this wider field, their intersperses are more like a fish in water.
"Stuck in position", Mata followed Enrique, Gabi quickly stuck to the route he inserted into the penalty area, while shouting to command the defense, good guy, this is going to let him cut through the corner of the penalty area, and the danger level skyrocketed.
As soon as Enrique turned his back, Iniesta came back just in time, took the ball in one step, and then began to cut inside the dribble, and Makqin had to go up to it.
Maybe Iniesta played this idea, and when he saw Makqin coming over, he pushed directly sideways and handed it to Messi, who had been cruising in the middle.
"Messi, hand it over to Villa", Villa turned his back directly in front of the penalty area at this time, and the two pushed and knocked horizontally, two over one, and it was Martinez who passed.
Messi's feet are too fast, Martinez is a step slower despite trying his best to turn and destroy the ball, and he is only more than 2 meters away from the back line, but it is this distance that makes Messi play.
"Messi, Messi ......", Zhan Jun just shouted this name, only to see Messi directly dribble to the ball, Godin came up, wiped it directly, quickly!
Atletico Madrid's defense instantly shrank towards him, but Messi was faster, and he faked a shot, causing Godin to stretch his foot and pause, and then follow up with a flick and a shot!
"Shooting ......", a series of actions just now, Messi's breakthrough is like a knife, allowing him to walk out of a way without a road.
He had already reached the left flank and fired a low shot into the far corner, and De Gea, who had sealed the near post early, fell straight to the ground and swooped down, the ball was extremely fast.
"Bang", but he still pounced, even if it was only half a palm!
The ball swerved and slid straight towards the far post, but the danger was still not cleared as Pedro was running frantically to try to make up for it.
"Silva, this tackle is too timely", when Zhan Jun saw De Gea rushing over, and Pedro was about to make a follow-up shot, a foot suddenly appeared and swept away the ball.
The ball was swept straight to the flank around 40 metres of half-time and was picked up by a retreating Alves, who bluffed off the sidelines.
It's really dangerous, he almost thought he was going to be beaten at the beginning!
"Gabi, you guard the back", Ma Qin and Gabi completed the transposition with a word, and the two of them knew that Ma Qin decided to go out.
With Messi's dribbling breakthrough ability, he directly broke through the area defended by Mackqin, he couldn't keep up, which is not his forte, his defensive advantage is to get stuck and cut off the ball, rather than one-on-one defense.
And in that way, Messi can not only attack, but also consume his physical energy, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, and such a stupid thing Macqin will naturally not do it.
A crisis was alleviated, Atletico immediately reorganized the defense, De Gea's heart was pounding, he was also nervous, and the save just now was almost subconscious.
"Oh ......", there was a huge exclamation in the stands, and when it gathered on the field, it was a thunderstorm, and then the shouts of "Barcelona, Barcelona" were overwhelming.
Just like Barcelona's overwhelming attack, they want to steal the opening.
The attack is starting again from under Alves' feet!
Seeing that Mack Qin and Gabi had switched places, Ancelotti nodded inwardly, and sure enough, Mark Qin interpreted the situation very quickly, and reacted in an offensive round, without needing to prompt himself.
"The opening of Barcelona's game is really full of momentum", Zhan Jun shouted, as if he was also stirred, "Atletico Madrid should be careful, Barcelona is going to play with their lives......"
"Messi ran in the middle of this game ......", before Zhang Lu finished speaking, Messi moved to the right midfield, received Alves's cross-knock, and turned to face Atletico Madrid's backline again.
Mack went over to help defend and let Martinez and Gabi hold the line firmly, Camp Nou is a real annoyance, and the length of the need to help defend is too long.
Seeing Atletico Madrid reorganize the defense so quickly, Messi handed over a ball to Buzketz, who pulled over, he and Xavi began to control in the midfield again, and Mackin quickly pressed it again.
Villa, Iniesta, and Pedro in the front line took turns to retreat to receive the ball and cooperate, but did not break through with the ball, intending to bring out Atletico Madrid's defense.
The two teams tugged back and forth in front of Atletico's penalty area, testing and filling in the gaps, and although there was no shot on goal again, Barcelona's pass was still quite fast.
Atletico had no choice but to move the defence back and forth with the ball, and the ball went to the side again, this time with Pedro and Alves combined.
Alves pulled to the bottom line, pretended to cross, and with a button, it was handed to Pedro near the corner of the penalty area, Pedro also pretended to break through the penalty area, and after the deceived Sanchez recovered, he turned around and handed it to Messi who pulled out of the penalty area again.
"Messi, Messi is here again", Zhan Jun shouted, Camp Nou is like the most suitable grassland for this little man to gallop, I don't know if he has the ability to add here.
This time Martinez helped defend the past, maybe he was a little nervous, after all, he was broken through once just now, and this time Messi deceived him with a quick flash, and broke through to the penalty area.
Then Messi quickly shifted his center of gravity and broke through directly horizontally, and the fast Martinez fell to the ground and put the tackle but could not touch the ball.
A good Messi, with the outside of his left foot, went straight back, so that Macqin didn't pull it even if he wanted to, when he caught up with the ball, he had reached a distance of about 3 meters in front of the arc of the big penalty area, and he didn't wait for Gabi to come up again, and he directly picked up a long shot, extremely resolute!
"Messi, ...... long shot", Zhan Jun shouted loudly, and the ball went around a sharp arc and went straight to the upper right corner of the goal, like a free kick.
This is unreasonable!
Mack Qin looked back and chuckled in his heart, the arc of the ball, he was too familiar, this feeling was ...... To be bad!
He saw De Gea push out and leap up, stretch his arms out, but couldn't touch the ball.
Then, the rapidly spinning ball drew a rainbow-like trajectory and plunged into the angle between the beam and the column, a theoretical dead end.
"Boom ......", the whole field boiled in an instant, the red and blue players on the field were like attracted by a magnet, and rushed to the corner flag area frantically, Guardiola jumped up from his seat all of a sudden, and ran excitedly along the sidelines for more than 20 meters, about to catch up with Mourinho.
"The ball went in? The ball is in ......", Zhan Jun shouted incredulously, "In the tenth minute of the opening game, Barcelona knocked on the door of Atletico Madrid, Messi is indeed unstoppable at Camp Nou"
At this time, Messi ran to the sidelines to celebrate in ecstasy as if he had scored the first goal of his career, one is still missing, one is still missing, and he secretly said ruthlessly in his heart.
“Goaaaal…… lololololo......, Messi, Messi, great Messi", the live commentators of Catalonia and Camp Nou almost all went berserk, screaming with their lives.
Ma Qin shook his head slightly, and said in his heart that his luck was really good, this kind of half-turned long-range arc ball could also hit so accurately.
"Hey, Harvey (Martinez), it's none of your business, don't blame yourself," he said, walking over to look down at Martinez.
"It's all right, it's okay, how to kick and how to kick", he clapped his slap and shouted, "Don't let a dribble affect your mentality......"