Chapter 967: Goal Battle
As Airo's long-range shot went around the fingertips of Valdés' outstretched right arm, the Valencia fans in the stands chanted and cheered for the lightning goal to come.
However, the heavens are not beautiful, and a 'clang' makes them hold their heads and regret.
But before their exclamations were over, a Valencia player dressed in white fans appeared in front of the drop point of the football, with a big '21' on the back telling everyone in the world who he was......
"- David Silva!!"
Valencia No. 1 Stadium commentator Hyde's voice jerked an octave higher and shouted.
The pupils of the Valencia fans at the scene collectively shrank suddenly, and the adrenaline hormones suddenly soared, raising their arms and shouting.
David Silva kicked hard with his left foot on the line of the penalty area, dived with his upper body, and then smashed the flying football with his unfamiliar forehead.
Although David Silva is not very good at controlling the ball with his head, he is very clever when Valdés is still on the ground, and he does not choose to exert power, but naturally spreads his arms to keep his body balanced, and pushes the ball firmly towards the middle of the goal.
At this time, Valdés hurriedly wanted to make a second reaction.
His second reaction is indeed very fast, but it is still too slow compared to the speed of football......
The soccer ball is contained in a net with the ball slightly to the right in the middle of the goal......
"--Whoa"
Accompanied by the shouts that erupted from the scene, Mario Coke, the announcer at the Mestalla stadium, shouted excitedly: "It is the ...... who scored the goal David—"
Nearly 30,000 Valencia fans responded in unison: "--Silva!! ”
They all know that a 3-1 score would be enough to guarantee Valencia a Copa del Rey final against Barcelona!
David Silva, who scored the widening goal, was directly pressed to the ground by David Villa before he could celebrate the goal.
Then Iro, Mata, Cazorla and others swarmed and pressed on it, and no one cared about David Silva's 'screams'......
The Valencia players on camera were thrilled and they all knew what the goal meant......
Ancelotti and Pep Guardiola's expressions are different, with a clear contrast.
The former celebrated the goal with a frantic hug with his assistant, while the latter sat in the dugout with his head bowed.
This scene happened to be captured by the live director, and after repeating the whole process of the goal, he switched the close-up shots of the two teams' managers and core players to the faces one after another.
Commentator Howy scored less than half a minute into Valencia's opening kick-off, first expressing regret that Aillo's long-range shot hit the left post, and then praising David Silva: "Aillo's long-range shot hit the left post a bit unlucky, but David Silva's aggressive forward sent the goal that originally belonged to Valencia into the net, changing the score from 2:1 to 3:1, which was really what we all expected......
"Haha...... David Silva had a lot of luck scoring goals today, one after the other, and if Valencia win the game, he will be one of the biggest contributors to the team's victory. ”
"Valencia's goal is not complicated, it can only be said that the attention of the Barcelona defenders has not been adjusted back at the beginning of the game, otherwise there would be no situation where the two midfielders were accelerated by Ai and no one was left behind......"
“…… Barcelona is coming to an end! Ai didn't fully exert his strength in the second half, and the score became 3:1, and the championship finally went to Valencia! ”
When the commentator analyzed Valencia's goal, Mourinho, who was sitting in the stands watching the game, continued to record in his notebook: You must pay attention to Valencia's sudden attack after kick-off!
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Valencia scored a lightning strike at the start of the second half to make it 3-1, and everyone expected Valencia to win the game completely, but the game changed five minutes later.
Barcelona replaced Pedro in the 50th minute with a slight argument to increase the ability of the frontcourt players to carry the ball and at the same time free up Messi.
The substitution worked very quickly, and Messi caused a lot of trouble for Valencia's backline with a slight cover.
In the 53rd minute, Messi suddenly accelerated in attacking the right rib, and David Silva, Cazorla and Xavi Martinez did not keep up with Messi's dribbling rhythm and were shaken over.
Bernardia had to pull out of the box and kick Messi to the ground as if he were in no man's land, ending Barcelona's dangerous attack with a yellow card.
But what they didn't expect was that a direct free-kick from about 26 meters from the goal, slightly to the right, would be within range of Messi's left-footed free-kick.
Wang Xiaolei had nothing to do with Messi's free kick, and the football almost grazed the crossbar and the right post to drill into the goal, which is the legendary 10-point goal.
Even Wang Xiaolei, the world's top five goalkeeper, has nothing to do about this goal......
Barcelona rewrote the score to 3:2 with Messi's out-of-the-sky direct free kick, and the difference between them was narrowed to one goal.
So the game gets delicate......
If a two-goal gap would have guaranteed Valencia a great chance of winning the title, a one-goal gap minimizes that chance.
Because no one knows if Barcelona will score another goal when they get a goal back and their morale is boosted.
The Valencia players were emotionally flustered by Messi's goal, and they thought they would win the game when David Silva extended the score to two goals.
However, Messi's goal made the outcome of the game uncertain.
Sometimes what you are afraid of is what will happen, especially on the football field.
Three minutes later, Messi was also on the right side of Barcelona's attack, and his continuous horizontal dribbling caused panic in Valencia's defensive system, and Javi Martinez did not dare to foul because of a yellow card on his body, so he had to fight and retreat.
And Messi suddenly changed his attacking style, rubbed his left foot into the penalty area, and slightly pressed Godin to do the ball back, Iniesta pulled out his foot in the left penalty area and shot angrily, and Azpilicueta, who was in place, fell to the ground to block.
Originally, a defender should have done to fall to the ground and block, but this time Azpilicueta's luck was not good, the ball hit the inside of his calf and refracted, and the ball that was supposed to fly to the near corner flew strangely towards the far corner.
What's worse is that Wang Xiaolei has already made a move to the near corner, and he can't do anything about the football that is refracted to the far corner.
That's it...... Barcelona scored twice in just four minutes!
No one expected that in less than 15 minutes of the second half, the two sides would contribute three goals, and the second half of this final turned into a goal battle!