Chapter 388: Messi and Jones

There was a huge exclamation on the pitch, and Messi made a two-handed gesture on the pitch, and this goal had a lot of luck!

In Messi's career, goals are like numbness, individual honors and team honors are all soft, and his goal celebrations are not so diverse!

The celebratory action of the two-finger day is in honor of his grandmother!

When Messi was 5 years old, his grandmother took him to the Grandolly Club, 15 blocks away from home, as usual, to watch the game, 7 against 7 baby games, one less person that day, and his grandmother begged coach Salvador to let Messi play and play with 13 children who were 1 year older than him.

Messi scored two goals on his debut, Messi's grandmother is Messi's first agent and first fan, she doesn't like to watch football and doesn't know much about football, but she always takes the children of Messi's family out to play football.

When Messi played, his grandmother would cheer him on hoarsely, shout at other children to pass the ball to Messi, and even smashed the head of a sworn enemy fan with a bottle.

Messi's grandmother died of Alzheimer's disease on May 4, 1998, when Messi, who was about to be 11 years old, climbed into the coffin and cried.

Since then, Messi will look up after every goal, and point to the sky with both hands, Messi said: "I miss her very much, I want to give her all my goals, I wish she could watch me play here now, but she left before I could achieve success, and I always regret it." ”

With two minutes of stoppage time in the first half, Chelsea were eager to equalise, but two minutes later Pedro's shot went high and Chelsea returned to the dressing room with a score of 1-2, and when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the Chelsea fans were a little disappointed!

The Chelsea commentator was pessimistic at this time: 'In the first 45 minutes, both teams had close to seven or three shots on goal, 10 shots on goal and an even more staggering 416 to 103 passes.

But there was nothing wrong with Kodic's tactics, as he had three defensively good players in midfield, but there was no way to stop Barcelona's attack. ”

"N'Golo Kante, who is responsible for defending Messi, has worked very hard, and Messi didn't get too many chances in the first half, but Barcelona's overall strength is too strong, and only one Messi is not enough for them to lose control of the game, not to mention, Kante did not freeze Messi."

His words are not wrong, the most one-on-one midfielder in the Chelsea team does not completely limit Messi, Kante only has Messi in his eyes, in order to defend Messi, he will never even participate in the team-mate's joint defense against other Barcelona players, but even so, Messi still got a lot of opportunities.

Messi's absolute speed is probably slightly slower than Ronaldo's, and his dribbling speed is not incomparable, but his super fast cadence and super man-ball combination ability have allowed him to get a lot of opportunities in 45 minutes!

Kante naturally can't say that he doesn't have nothing to defend Messi, but in the face of Messi's dazzling and unguardable footwork changes, he does feel his helplessness, and he has no way to master Messi's passing rules

Messi rarely strides the ball in a straight line during the game, the football is like being tied to his left leg at any moment, even when he is speeding up, every change is without warning, and Kante has no chance to drop his foot at all, and once he does it, it is equivalent to a foul.

Although Messi is more adept at dribbling with his left foot, Messi's other foot is equally flexible, with the toe, arch, inner instep, outer instep, heel, soles of the feet, ......

In addition, Messi's balance is also amazing, and only those who have fought against him can really know what huge energy is contained in this seemingly thin body!

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"You did a good job, at least Messi barely got into the box in the first half, and the goal you scored showed that he shot in a hurry, and I had a lot of luck with this goal." Cordic saw Kante bow his head and not speak, and went over to comfort him.

Kante raised his head and replied: "I must admit that with my ability, it is not enough to freeze Messi, he was forced by me, and he was able to find three chances to shoot on goal, this one-on-one battle, I failed completely!" ”

Kodic glanced at Jones, who was also bowing, and sighed: "In the first half, our tactics were not executed thoroughly enough, Hazard I need you to increase the frequency of retreats and help teammates control the midfield ......"

The atmosphere in the locker room was dreary, and only Kodic's voice echoed intermittently.

Jones suddenly interjected: "We're down by one goal now, we need to change, coach, we can't defend all the time at Stamford Bridge!" If we don't step up our attack in the second half, we will only be slaughtered by them! ”

'I also want to be able to strengthen the attack, coach.' Hazard also opened the way.

Kodic opened his mouth, but he didn't speak, yes, he has been playing offensive football this season, how come he started to give up when he met Barcelona! And at the moment they are lagging behind! You can't stick to it!

Kodic figured it out, it was his own gains and losses, he took a deep breath and nodded vigorously: "Okay, let's attack!" Let Barcelona see our attacking football! ”

Even if we can't score, at least let our fans see our attack!

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At the beginning of the game, Jones passed the ball to the back, and he began to run towards the Barcelona half, and it didn't take long for Cesc Fabregas to launch a long pass with a big foot and attack quickly!

Pique didn't make a mistake this time, pushing Eden Hazard back to the Chelsea backfield, and the two sides fought fiercely again, and in the 49th minute of the second half, the picture of Barcelona fans was terrified!

Suarez fired a shot from outside the box and Courtois pounced on the ball before getting up from the turf and throwing it to Jones near the centre circle, where Alba and Sergio Busquets stepped up to get around.

Jones unloaded the football, after Jones took the ball, he quickly ran towards the Barcelona penalty area with the football, but only rushed a few steps, and had to slow down, Barcelona back Busquets has already met him, Busquets knows that Jones is very fast, so he did not rush to grab it, but stared at him, and fought and retreated.

His purpose is to hold Jones back, so that Jones can't quickly form a breakthrough, or advance, and wait until his teammates return to the defense in place, and then try to break through the defense, it will be difficult.

Jones also knew what Busquets meant, but he didn't say anything, slowly pacing forward with the ball, while observing the movement of his teammates around him.

Cesc Fabregas was pulling to the wings, Moses was following from the full-back position, and Eden Hazard and Pedro were running up front, pulling back and forth, both looking for space and helping Jones distract the defence!

Jones looked around out of the corner of his eye, but Busquets kept his eyes on him, and Busquets lowered his center of gravity to guard against Jones' breakthroughs and passes.

"Jones received the ball from Courtois, and then rushed forward with the ball, Busquets came up, he always followed Jones, did not directly steal, but waited for Jones's action, now it depends on what Jones will do!"