Chapter 905: Uneasy and Unwilling
Full of momentum and at ease, this is Lin Dong's header, even though Lin Dong has been in the European League for four seasons, but his ricochet and header are still amazing.
But what is even more amazing is the speed of Lin Dong's progress, especially the Italian fans and media, who know best what Lin Dong was like at the beginning and what is the situation now.
"Barcelona seems to need to work harder if they want to surpass Lin Dong" Barcelona Trident scored one goal per person, Atletico Madrid's Lin Dong scored two goals and created a penalty, and the role of one person can be comparable to that of the Barcelona Trident.
And this is Barcelona's trident, Messi, Neymar and Suarez, which almost represent the highest level of football in today's football, the best group of players.
Of course, the game is not over yet, and it may be too early to say this, as the well-known Barcelona commentator did, because of Lin Dong's goal, the commentator's face has been swollen.
On the pitch, Atletico Madrid's morale was high because of Lin Dong's goal, and they immediately chased it back from behind, which boosted the morale of the players more than any words.
On the other hand, Barcelona, who should have been high morale, was depressed because of this goal, and the situation of the two sides was completely reversed.
However, not everyone in the Barcelona team is like this, such as Enrique on the sidelines, the Barcelona coach is more depressed and angry, and even has hidden uneasiness in his heart.
Originally, after Messi's goal, the uneasiness in Enrique's heart began to be slowly suppressed, and with Suarez's goal, Enrique felt that this game would be completely different.
But only a minute had passed, and the previously suppressed uneasiness began to loom again, and this time more intensely than before, and this intensity made Enrique restless.
Substitutions, driven by this intense uneasiness, Enrique made Barcelona's first substitution of the game, with Pedro replacing Rakitic.
Barcelona will not strengthen their defense, and with the situation of Barcelona's backline, all the useful ones are already on the field, and in the face of players like Lin Dong, it is sometimes useless to have one more person.
Besides, Barcelona don't have a tradition of strengthening their defense, they are Barcelona, they are the Cosmos, they are the best players in football today, they have always crushed their opponents with attack, and when they have won games by defending.
If Enrique really dares to do this, it will not be far from his dismissal, why Barcelona chose the past merits, is not to implement Barcelona's own football philosophy.
If Enrique is uneasy in his heart, then Messi is a strong unwillingness, who is he? He is Rio Messi, the best player in football today, who has led Barcelona to a series of impressive results, and since his debut, he has never encountered such a situation, being suppressed by someone.
Crisis, a strong sense of crisis, Messi is not as outgoing as Ronaldo, but this does not mean that Messi does not have the pride and ambition of Ronaldo, in the past few years, Messi has successfully suppressed Ronaldo, and he is getting closer and closer to the ambition in his heart.
But now, Messi suddenly found that in addition to Ronaldo, there is a roadblock in front of him, no, it should be a roadblock, an Oriental Dragon, and this Oriental Dragon is now suppressing himself, Messi will obviously not be reconciled.
On the pitch, the game has restarted, the ball has crossed the halfway line into the Atletico half, and with Rakitic replaced by Pedro, Barcelona's formation will also change to 424, which will undoubtedly make the Barcelona midfield more vulnerable.
Rakitic is indeed not as good as Xavi, but Rakitic is gradually replacing Xavi, because no one can beat time, as one of the biggest enemies of players, time makes Xavi grow old, making him unable to maintain his peak, and even increasing injuries.
The front four will indeed put more pressure on the Atletico backline, but as the pressure on the midfield eases, the Atletico midfielder will have more energy to return to the backline, and don't forget that the Atletico midfield has a certain defensive ability.
And in order to deal with Barcelona's front four, Simeone immediately made the first substitution of the game, Raul Garcia replaced Thiago, who had a yellow card and was physically exhausted.
Atletico Madrid's veteran is actually in very good shape, which can be seen from Simeone's starting in every important game, but Thiago's physical fitness has declined greatly.
Especially when Thiago is facing a big team, the confrontation is more intense, and he needs to do more, and when he Thiago needs to do more, it means that this consumption is greater.
Raul Garcia's appearance is also obviously deliberate by Simeone, Barcelona with one less midfielder will undoubtedly increase the probability of long passes, and Raul Garcia, who has better physical fitness and excellent header ability, is invisibly a kind of restraint.
This was proven in the subsequent matches, and although Barcelona did not have long balls with high balls, Raul Garcia could have used his physicality to suppress Barcelona's forward line.
Barcelona's forward line is notoriously short, and if it weren't for Suarez's arrival this season, Barcelona wouldn't even have a player more than 1.8 meters in the front.
In the 10 minutes after Lin Dong's goal, although Barcelona had most of the ball, they could not form a real threat, and Atletico Madrid almost completed the comeback again.
With the lessons of the first half, Simeone will naturally not do anything to destroy his martial arts, while defending, Atletico also pays attention to attack, and the troops invested are not ambiguous at all.
Raul Garcia beat Suarez, and Barcelona adjusted quickly, allowing Suarez, the tallest and most physical, to retreat and compete with Raul Garcia, and the ball flew from the heart of Atletico to near the halfway line to Mandzukic's feet.
Busquets, after Rakitic left, Busquets was even more afraid to cross the half, and when facing Atletico Madrid, Barcelona often let Busquets return to defense because of lack of height, although the effect is not very obvious, Lin Dong should fight for a header is not missing.
However, Busquets was more likely to find Mandzukic in this game, and Busquets also sent a yellow card to Mandzukic, so that Mandzukic needed to be careful when he returned to defend in the future.
Mandzukic was already fully aware of Busquez's shamelessness through the previous time, so Mandzukic did not give Busquets any closer to his end this time, passing the ball as soon as he was attracted to him.