Chapter 970: Physical Contact in Mid-Air

Messi was full of confidence after planning the team's third goal equaliser, and he even thought that he could lead Barcelona to three goals and four goals in a row at the Mestalla Stadium to win the Copa del Rey final and lead Barcelona

Defeat Valencia, led by the so-called 'King of the Finals' Ello.

It not only washed away the humiliating record of Valencia not being able to score points this season, but also justified its name.

So Messi worked very hard after the team equalized, his cooperation with Iniesta was a perfect match, and Xavi was organized from it, and the plot should have developed as he expected, but what he never expected was that Valencia would still overtake the score again under the leadership of Iro.

Although this goal was not scored by Iro, anyone who knows the ball knows that he was the biggest contributor to this goal.

Messi worked harder during the period when the team was back behind, but this effort did not actually help Barcelona as Valencia launched a more aggressive attack under Aelo.

He also used his super individual ability to make the team's backline chaotic, and even made almost every defender receive a yellow card.

This result will have a profound impact on the nearly twenty minutes remaining.

Iroh's personal ability is super strong, and under normal circumstances, two or three people can't limit him, so he needs to use unconventional moves to defend a lot of the time, and such unconventional moves are often foul in nature.

Maybe the referee doesn't count once or twice, but it is inevitable that the referee will remember the accumulation of fouls by the defenders, and what if he gets a yellow card again?

Again...... Sometimes, unconventional defensive moves may not be able to limit Iello and must be stopped by tougher fouls, which are often yellow cards......

Thinking of this, Messi knew that he could not continue to stay and must help the team equalize the score in the shortest possible time, otherwise once the game entered the 75 minutes, the result of the game was almost a foregone conclusion.

With the Champions League semi-finals in the middle of next week, it is impossible for the team to give it their all for the Copa del Rey, not to mention that the dawn of victory is almost out of reach......

A few minutes passed, and Messi took the initiative to ask for the ball, using his super dribbling ability to create opportunities.

However, there were not many such fleeting opportunities, as the initiative of the game was in the hands of Valencia, who had the advantage of being at home.

As the game time dwindled, Valencia's attack was rarely forward, and unless they had excellent forward rally, they were dominated by crosses and backballs.

In this context, Barcelona did not show the momentum of breaking the boat.

Messi's efforts seemed very weak and could not support the attack of the whole team.

The local Barcelona commentator who was a bystander said depressedly: "Barcelona's attack is obviously problematic, Leao is working very hard, but his individual ability cannot support the whole team, and he must invest more troops in the attack, what is Hesaip still thinking?" ”

At this point, the live director switched the camera to Guardiola's face and pushed it to a close-up of the face.

In the camera, Guardiola looks gloomy, purses his mouth, and looks directly at the pitch.

Of course, he wasn't too imaginary, but he was thinking about when to make the third personnel adjustment of the game.

With less than 75 minutes to go, it's clearly not appropriate to make a third substitution for the attack.

In the final analysis, Guardiola is still afraid that reducing the number of defenders will lead to an empty back, and when the time comes, it will be really powerless to be scored if there is a strong attack......

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The reason why Guardiola has this idea is directly related to the fatal crisis of switching from attack to defense after he instructed Busquets to press boldly.

Once it was scary enough, and he didn't want to do it again.

Because no one can pack a ticket, when the same situation occurs, it will save the day.

In particular, no defender other than Puyol is clean in the defensive system......

In the blink of an eye, the game entered the most difficult 75 minutes.

Whether it is the attacker or the defender, the running has dropped significantly.

However, at this moment, Cavani, who had only been replaced for a short time in the second half, switched positions with Elo and came to the wing to look for opportunities.

After a succession of passes, Cazorla suddenly passed straight to the right of the penalty area, who unhurriedly crossed the ball to Cavani on the left flank.

The defender who defended Cavani was Alves, who had a yellow card on his back.

In this regard, Cavani first made a fake action to dribble horizontally, and then slammed the ball towards the baseline with the arch of his right foot, and Alves did not dare to use a foul because of the yellow card when he lost the opportunity, so he could only chase with his head down.

Although Alves is very fast, Cavani, who was born as a winger, is not slow, and Cavani is taller and covers a larger area.

Alves' attempt to break the ball behind Cavani, who has experienced the test of Italian defence, is undoubtedly a dream.

Cavani dribbled forward as he looked up into the penalty area, and he could clearly see the index and middle fingers of Iro's left hand, which was inserted forward.

This is...... Signals a quick cross to the ball.

And he also has a rough cross route in his mind, because these are explained in detail during training.

With Alves out of position, right-centre-back Pique had to make up for it, thus handing off Iello in the middle of the pitch to Puyol and Sergio Busquets.

Because of entering the penalty area, neither Puyol nor Busquets dared to make much of a move, but only consciously sandwiched Ailo in the middle.

"- Cavani!!"

With a chant from Martin Taylor, Cavani quickly kicked the ball with his left foot and crossed.

Neither Alves' flank nor Pique's normal outstretched foot stopped the ball as it flew quickly towards the edge of Barcelona's six-yard box.

Goalkeeper Valdés glanced up at the incoming football, and he chose to stand on the goal line.

Busquets looked up at the ball as he approached Elo, knowing that football must not slip through his eyes, otherwise it would be unrealistic to expect Puyol, who is less than 1.8 meters tall.

Seeing where the ball would land, Busquets kicked hard with his right foot, trying to jump up to clear the siege.

But just as he was halfway through the jump, he felt like he had hit a solid wall.

Where did Busquets not know what he had hit at this time?

The mid-air collision also disrupted Busquets' upward jump, not to mention the landing point of the football.

However, the more prepared Eloh was an exception, his body still kept up, and he accurately found the landing point of the ball, twisted his waist and shook his head, and pushed the ball towards the far corner of the goal......