Chapter 684: True Despair (2-in-1)
The players from both sides returned to the pitch and Atletico Madrid's lineup did not change, but Barcelona made a substitution, Sanchez was replaced and Neymar came on.
Sanchez actually has the quality, but his way of playing is not suitable for Barcelona, so he has never been able to really integrate into Barcelona's system, which is why he performs well, but he is often substituted.
As for replacing Neymar, he naturally wants to strengthen the attack, although Neymar's performance is not as good as Sanchez at present, but there is one point that Neymar is much stronger than Sanchez.
Or because of the system, Neymar integrated very smoothly, which has a lot to do with Neymar's life, and as soon as he joined, he showed that he was here to be a younger brother.
And most importantly, Neymar's skills are better than Sanchez's, and his ability to break through with the ball is stronger, although the impact is not as good as Sanchez, but Barcelona is not a team that is known for its strength.
"Are Barcelona ready to step up their attack in the second half?" López hit the nail on the head, exactly what Simeone thought.
After seeing Barcelona's substitution, Simeone immediately turned his head to look at Martino, and it was clear that his compatriot was ready to give it a go.
In fact, when the referee blew the whistle for the start of the second half, Barcelona decisively scored into the Atletico half, and substitute Neymar frequently raised his hand.
Geniuses are all pride, not to mention Neymar, who is known as the future king of the ball and the leader of the new generation of Brazil, no, it can't be said that the new generation, although Neymar is only twenty-one years old, he is no longer the leader of the Brazilian national team.
Messi won the ball again, but after the first half, Messi also recognized a reality, that is, his condition is indeed not very good, and injuries have indeed affected him.
Pass, pass to Neymar, who took the ball and attacked the Atletico penalty area, and also entered the Atletico penalty area smoothly, yes, he tore apart the Atletico defence, with excellent technique and the lack of preparation of the Atletico defence.
Although Simeone had expected that Barcelona might counterattack in the second half, Simeone did not expect Barcelona to launch a counterattack at the beginning of the second half.
"Danger ~~~ Neymar ~~~ No~~~ Neymar is in a hurry, he can take it easy, and even has the option of passing" After bursting into the penalty area, Neymar couldn't wait to get up and hit the goal, but the ball was directly confiscated by Courtois.
Atletico Madrid immediately launched a counterattack, Courtois made a long pass to Lin Dong, Lin Dong header knocked back to Koke, Koke was returning Gabi, and at this time, Lin Dong and Costa had both rushed into the heart of Barcelona, and for a time the Barcelona back line was in turmoil, and the defenders were highly concentrated.
Lin Dong is all-round, almost perfect and has no shortcomings, but Lin Dong is not invincible, and in the face of Pique and Busquets, who are highly focused, it is not so easy for Lin Dong to break through.
Lin Dong is not the kind of person who must break through with the ball by himself, even if his skills and dribbling have improved now, but the influence of center-forward training in the past few years on him can be described as deep-rooted, and he is obviously more accustomed to waiting for the ball in the penalty area than breaking through with the ball himself.
Passing, Lin Dong sent the ball to the feet of Costa with a diagonal pass, Lin Dong without the ball is undoubtedly more conducive to running, but unfortunately, Lin Dong obviously forgot that Costa has been secretly competing with him, Lin Dong has scored a hat trick before, but the performance is very few, how can it be possible to pass back to Lin Dong at this time, not to mention that Lin Dong is still firmly stared at by Pique and Busquets.
Mascherano's ability is undoubted, but Costa is not a vegetarian, indeed, Costa is not as good as Lin Dong, but after this half season of catching up, Costa has made great progress in all aspects, to put it mildly, Costa is now capable enough to partner with the main force or even the offensive core in any giant.
And Costa, like Lin Dong, not only has a good body, but also has good skills, don't forget, although he is a Spanish national, he is from South America.
Speaking of which, in fact, Costa is somewhat similar to Lin Dong now, both are very comprehensive, of course, Costa is definitely not as perverted as Lin Dong, which can be seen from both his usual performance and goal data.
"Accelerating the change of direction, Costa broke through Mascherano, Atletico Madrid immediately gave a counterattack, Costa entered the penalty area ~~~ Shot ~~~ Valdés ~~~ The ball was blocked by Valdés" This World Cup will be Valdés' last chance.
Just like the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid, Valdés and Casillas have been entangled for a lifetime, but contrary to the results of recent years, Valdés has never been able to defeat Casillas in the national team.
Now Valdés has ushered in an opportunity, Casillas's form has declined, and he can't even sit in the main position in Real Madrid, which is great news for Valdés, Valdés is only one year younger than Casillas, and if he can't become the starting goalkeeper of the Spanish national team in this World Cup, he will not have a chance in this life.
However, this game must have been terrible for Valdés so far, especially the opening goal, which nailed him to the shame post completely, unless someone can break Lin Dong's record of 7.01 seconds, or his name will appear as soon as someone mentions this goal in the future.
But even so, Valdés' mentality is quite good, and he is still remarkable on the street, just say that in the subsequent corner, Godin fought for the first landing point, and even topped a header from a dead corner, but he was still held out by Valdés.
The corner kick after the side change was nothing to do with Atletico Madrid, although Valdés was not tall, but this attack was quite accurate, and a ball blasted the ball out, directly allowing Barcelona to launch a wave of rapid counterattack.
The ball fell at the feet of Iniesta, who turned and passed straight to Messi, who immediately rushed towards the Atletico penalty area after winning the ball, and reacted like Messi and Neymar.
Felipe and Juanfran had already retreated, but in a two-on-two situation, Felipe and Juanfran did not have any advantage at all.
In this case, Atletico can only bet, and Felipe did so, he rushed to Messi, trying to entangle Messi, and will create opportunities for other players to retreat, even if it is just a little time.
In fact, Felipe did it, Messi wanted to score too much, and from the start of the game to the present, except for driving back against Lin Dong, Messi has hardly done anything in the following time.
On the field, when a person is obsessed, it can be very scary, but it can also be very dangerous, good and bad are actually just a thought, and Messi is no exception.
On the other side, Neymar kept signaling, but Messi didn't care about Neymar at all, holding the ball and rushing all the way to the Atletico Madrid penalty area, but Messi's speed was not fast, and he was entangled by Felipe.
Although Messi finally relied on explosiveness and excellent technique to shake off Felipe and rush into the Atletico penalty area, Messi failed to complete the final shot on goal.
At the moment when Messi got up, another foot appeared, and he touched the ball before Messi, and finally shoveled the ball out of the bottom line.
"Lin Dong~~~ He retreated from the Barcelona penalty area to his own penalty area, stopped Messi's shot, and shoveled the ball away" It was Lin Dong who chased back, and it was indeed only Lin Dong who could do it, and in a very short period of time, he chased back his own penalty area from the Barcelona penalty area.
"It's a pity~~~ It's a pity" Catalonia also felt extremely sorry for Messi to miss the opportunity this time, "Perhaps, in the coming summer, Barcelona can work hard, after all, the team is now lacking a regular center forward." ”
With Lin Dong's current performance, many people think that Lin Dong can't stay in Atletico Madrid for a long time, the Atletico stage is too small, the background is insufficient, and even Lin Dong's annual salary can't be paid.
Even with Lin Dong's current performance, the termination clause can't stop the poaching of other giants, after all, there are many local tyrants in European football now, and 150 million is not something that no club can pay.
Well, this is Barcelona's wishful thinking, Lin Dong is not willing to give Ronaldo a hand in Real Madrid, would he be willing to go to Barcelona to be Messi's wingman?
On the pitch, Atletico Madrid also responded to Barcelona with a wave of quick counter-attacks, Xavi sent a big foot, Miranda cleared in the penalty area, and the ball came to the feet of Turan, who passed the ball decisively.
Lin Dong spun with the ball, attracted Sergio Busquets and Pique and passed to Costa again, but this time the well-prepared Mascherano was unable to keep out Costa.
Although he didn't stop Costa, Costa couldn't really get rid of Mascherano and finally shot wide of Mascherano's interference.
But Costa's shot wasn't over yet, and the pace of the attack was frighteningly fast from the start, before Barcelona scored again into the Atletico half and finished with a shot.
A long-range shot from Cesc Fabregas, the former Arsenal heart bent on returning to Barcelona has not been very happy at Barcelona because he has never been able to play in the positions he is good at and enjoy.
The ball was confiscated directly by Courtois, or Atletico Madrid's counterattack, this time Lin Dong did not pass the ball to Costa, after all, the first two times were gone and never returned.
Lin Dong has never given the impression of being a selfish player, but Lin Dong himself knows very well that he has a ruler in his heart, and in the final analysis, his so-called non-selfishness is only relative, just like now, Lin Dong is very dissatisfied with Costa.
So Lin Dong knocked the ball back to Turan, but unfortunately, this time Turan did not pass the ball back to him, or Costa, when Atletico Madrid counterattacked and passed Lin Dong, Costa immediately turned around and prepared to attack the Barcelona penalty area, which has almost become Costa's subconscious behavior.
This act also made Costa get his third shot since the start of the second half, and Turan spotted Costa's running position for the first time, so after receiving a pass from Lin Dong, Turan sent the ball to the Barcelona penalty area.
It's the entanglement between Costa and Mascherano again, Costa has never been able to get rid of Mascherano, and Maschangela's speed and explosiveness don't have to be bad for Costa.
This point Costa is obviously inferior to Lin Dong, if it is replaced by Lin Dong, it is estimated that it will be a single knife, which also indicates that this game is completely over.
Since he can't get rid of it, he can block it with his body, and in terms of physicality, Costa is still much better than Mascherano and then stabbed the shot, Costa showed excellent shooting opportunities as a first-class center forward.
"Chance~~~Costa~~~Stab~~~Dead Corner~~~No~~~~ Valdés, the Barcelona goalkeeper's world-class save, he actually blocked Costa's almost dead corner stab."
"No~~~ Atletico Madrid's attack is not over yet, No. 9~~~ Lin Dong~~~ He rushed to the ball that bounced out~~~ to shoot."
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~ The ball was scored ~~~ The ball was scored ~~~4:1~~~4:1~~~ The game is over, the game is completely over."
"Barcelona lost the bet~~~ The first goal in the second half was Atletico Madrid~~~Lin Dong~~~ This is his fourth goal in this game~~~ It is also Atletico Madrid's fourth goal in this game."
"Supplementary shooting ~~~ It is also supplementary shooting ~~~ The strongest supplementary shooting king in La Liga this season, the strongest supplementary shooting king in Europe" Lin Dong not only tops Europe in terms of goal rate, but also crowns Europe.
"The senior is happy~~~The big four~~~ And it is still facing Barcelona to stage the senior happiness~~~ It seems that the hat trick can no longer satisfy Lin Dong," Zhan Jun was excited with a hint of ridicule.
"Who can stop Lin Dong" Some people are excited and happy, and some people are depressed and desperate, but what can they do? Use boos and abuse to influence Lin Dong's performance? That's impossible? Kill Lin Dong with your eyes? That's even more unlikely.
The city was carnival at halftime, with a score of 4:1 and a three-goal lead, even if the opponent was Barcelona, there was no suspense about the outcome of this game.
In the half, the city was depressed and angry, and the better Lin Dong performed, the more depressed and angry they became, because Lin Dong once belonged to them.
In the stands, Zheng Xiuyan and Zheng Xiujing's eyes were full of admiration and pride, even people who don't understand football know what it means to have such a performance in the face of Barcelona.
On the other side of the stands, the Barcelona fans were full of despair, and like them, there was the head coach Martino on the bench, because he knew that he had lost the bet, lost badly, lost to one person.
"Lin Dong defeated Barcelona alone, four goals, and defeated the once unbeatable Cosmos team with four goals" Exaggerated? No~~~ It's not an exaggeration at all, because this is no longer Lin Dong alone to beat Barcelona, last season in Real Madrid, Lin Dong left endless pain on Barcelona with three hat tricks.
It's just that Lin Dong was not the absolute core when he was in Real Madrid last season, Real Madrid is the team of the Portuguese, and the current Atletico Madrid team has been branded by Lin Dong, and he is the absolute core of this team.
This can also be seen from the reaction of the fans in the stands, Lin Dong's current status in this team.