Chapter Ninety-Nine: UEFA Super Cup (Part II)
Bristol, as a master player and a midfielder, is naturally not bad at defense, and his attributes are even higher than Wang Shuai. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
But after counting the bonuses of various skills, whether it is speed or ball control skills, Bristol is not as good as Wang Shuai. Especially after Wang Shuai has been in motion, it takes a lot of effort for Bristol to follow up with Wang Shuai, let alone break the ball from under Wang Shuai's feet.
Then, just five minutes after the first goal, Villa had another chance to open the scoring.
In the 23rd minute, Wang Shuai received the ball on the left side, shook off Bristol with two consecutive changes of direction and then directly cut into the penalty area, and then shot with his foot on the edge of the penalty area, and the football hung in the far corner of the goal.
It's a pity that Wang Shuai's shot is far away after all, and Barcelona's goalkeeper is a world-class goalkeeper, and his reaction is not slow, and he knocked the ball out at the last moment, and the ball returned to Barcelona's feet.
Although Wang Shuai's shot did not score, the whole Barcelona team was still shocked into a cold sweat, because the ball was too hanging, and the Barcelona coach who had been standing on the sidelines also opened his throat and shouted:
"Imari! Assist in the defense of Wang Shuai! ”
Imari is Croatia's centre-back, who plays in the same position at Barcelona and has been keeping an eye on Zhou Aniu. Although Imari is a central midfielder, he is actually an attacking midfielder, and Zhou Aniu has not been involved in the attack before, so Imari did not retreat to participate in the defense in the first half of the first half.
Hearing the head coach's instructions, Imari glanced at Zhou Aniu, recalling the scene in the World Cup, and he clearly knew Zhou Aniu's offensive power. However, thinking that Zhou Aniu had not participated in the attack before, Imari felt that maybe Wang Shuai had not given Zhou Aniu an offensive order at all in this game, and even if he retreated to defend, he could keep an eye on Zhou Aniu at any time, which should be no big deal.
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Time passed minute by minute, and after Imari began to contain Wang Shuai, the latter did not have many offensive opportunities. Bristol is a master player after all, so even if Wang Shuai can get rid of the opponent, he will lose his speed after this, and naturally he will not have the ability to break through the second person's bag. It's just that Wang Shuai's skills are there, so it will take a lot of effort for Imari to resist Wang Shuai's breakthrough before Bristol returns to defense.
In the 40th minute of the game, the score between the two sides was still 1:0.
Villa's lack of attack is due to the fact that Wang Shuai has been limited, while Barcelona have not scored because they have always been a slow-burning team.
Someone has made statistics that in the last five seasons, Barcelona has scored 2.3 times as many goals in the second half as in the first half. And in the last three seasons, Barcelona have been unbeaten when their opponents scored fewer than two goals in the first half. This shows how fierce Barcelona's offensive was in the second half.
And according to this rule, if Villa can't score another goal in the first half, then the best outcome for Villa is a draw in regulation time and then a penalty shootout (author's note: there is no extra time in the UEFA Super Cup).
It's just that even if it enters the penalty shootout, Barcelona is not a defensive-minded team like Manchester United and Chelsea, it can be said that Villa is at a disadvantage in the penalty shootout, and the disadvantage is not small, after all, Barcelona's other three master players are all forward players, not to mention shooting skills.
So, seeing that there was not much time left in the first half, and the two teams were about to enter the second half with a score of 1:0, the coach of Barcelona had a relaxed expression, and he himself knew that the team was really starting to exert its strength in the second half, so now the one-goal deficit is really nothing.
It was also at this time that the mutation abruptly occurred.
Imari has been preoccupying his full attention on helping to defend Wang Shuai, and then he made the same mistakes that the previous two midfielders made.
He ignored Zhou Aniu.
In the 42nd minute, after Wang Shuai broke through Bristol again, Imari instantly assisted in defense. And just when he thought that Wang Shuai's attack this time would also be in vain, Wang Shuai made a move that made him frightened.
Sideways!
Imari clearly knew that David and Ribery were guarded by fullbacks, Wu Shi and Ibrahimovic were in the penalty area, and Wang Shuai was still ten meters away from the penalty area, so there was only one target for his crossing, that is, Zhou Aniu.
Thinking of this, Imari quickly turned around and prepared to defend against Zhou Aniu, but Zhou Aniu was plugged in at full speed from the rear, and the speed had risen at this time, but Imari had just accelerated, and he knew that Imari could no longer catch up with Zhou Aniu.
Indeed, after Zhou Aniu received Wang Shuai's pass, he took a kick forward by inertia, and then pulled out his foot and shot angrily, and at this time, Imari was still half a body away from Zhou Aniu, even if he wanted to stop Zhou Aniu, he couldn't do it at all.
It is also a long-range shot, but Zhou Aniu and Wang Shuai's shooting habits are different. Wang Shuai focuses on technique, so Wang Shuai's long-range shooting power is not large, but the angle is tricky, and the arc drawn by the football is also very weird. Zhou Aniu is accustomed to using all his strength, but he does not have so many requirements for angles, so although Zhou Aniu's strength attribute is not as good as Wang Shuai, the ball speed of his shooting is much higher than that of Wang Shuai.
It is precisely because of this that although the goalkeeper of Barcelona is a world-class goalkeeper, his reaction is exactly the same as that of the previous Costa Rican goalkeeper, that is, no reaction.
So, before the goalkeeper could make any moves, the football had already hit the net.
2:0!
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With two goals behind, Barcelona's "unbeaten tradition" is naturally out of the question. And the Barcelona coach also knows that if he goes into the second half with two goals down, even if the team performs well in the second half, the outcome of the game is really difficult to say. So he immediately gave the team the order to attack aggressively, hoping to pull a goal back before the end of the first half.
It's just that when Wang Shuai saw that there were less than five minutes in the first half, he also understood that Villa had no offensive opportunities, so he simply let the team shrink the defense, and he himself withdrew to the position of the back midfield.
And even if Barcelona want to attack, it will take some time to fully attack, and before that, Villa's defense is not so easy to penetrate. By the time their offensive was unfolding, the time for the first half had arrived.
"Toot ~! Honk~~~!!! ”
The score of 2:0 remained unchanged until the end of the first half.