Chapter Ninety-Six: The General
Acknowledgments before the chapter: Thank you to the two book friends for their tips from wandering in dreams, the moon and the wood.
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Linson replaced Alba, which was active and passive.
The initiative is naturally because he wants to continue to keep the team running at a high speed, and Rosato is obviously not as good as in the first half, and the most obvious change is that the Brazilian defenders are barely half-time. As for passivity, it is because Rosato has already carried a yellow card, not that Lin Sen does not believe that Rosato has the ability to control himself and not turn yellow into red, but whether it is the scale of the referee or Messi's state, Lin Sen cannot leave a fullback on the field who cannot do his best.
When Alba came on the field, Linson instructed him to pay attention to the position, and the other was to tell him to go up and tell Sù Royce to pay attention to the defense.
In the first half, Linson let Reus achieve good results by attacking instead of defending, especially after the goal, Alves was suppressed in the backfield, but in the second half, it was obvious that Guardiola made some changes, with Busquets's conscious filling, Alves began to be active again, at this time it is no longer meaningful to let Reus "hit the wall", fast players often need more space, this also applies to Reuss, although he can also perform well in the narrow middle, But apparently if there is space, his lethality can be maximized.
So, Linson brought Reus back to assist the defence, and his speed combined with Alba's flexibility could compensate for the defensive hardness on the left side of Rosato's departure on the maximum distance.
In addition, Lin Sen also paid attention to the running position of captain Gamez from time to time, and he was relieved when he found that Games was always staring at Henry from a distance away.
Barcelona's attack in the second half is very obvious, it seems to be trying its best to open the gap on the right side, in comparison, the left side seems a little idle, but as a Chinese Lin Sen will not know the "sound of the east and the west", the thirty-one-year-old Henry is a veteran in this Barcelona team, but if you question him "can still eat", it is undoubtedly self-defeating.
Football is like a game.
Pep Guardiola opened the game unfavorably, allowing Lin Sen to seize the opportunity, and then although he tried his best to regain the lost ground, Lin Sen was not afraid of his attitude towards his son, so he could not get any benefits, except for the situation in the wind, in fact, it did not pose much threat to Malaga in the nine palaces. The coach is the chess player, and the player is naturally the pawn on the chessboard.
Messi is undoubtedly the best player on the pitch.
This field refers not only to Barcelona, but also to Malaga, even Reus, who scored a world wave in the first half, throughout the game, there is still a gap between the table and the Argentine.
If this is a game of chess, Messi is undoubtedly the straight rook, not that the Argentine will not be flexible, but because of his almost unstoppable individual ability. The three cages that Linsen specially gave Messi are in order, but the game has been going on for nearly an hour, and Malaga has received a total of four yellow cards, three of which are directly or indirectly related to the Argentine, and it is not difficult to imagine the Argentine's lethality to Malaga's defense.
There are chess players, and there are chess pieces, which was originally a good game of chess, but now, it has come to disrupt the game.
And this spoiler is the referee.
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“…… Messi, Messi got the ball, he faced Alba, the young Alba looked a little nervous, but he still stepped forward to make a close press...... Pretty! Messi broke through! It's just a simple acceleration to get rid of, Alba can't stop Messi at all, I don't know if Linson regrets replacing Rosato now, although Alba is more physical, but his experience is far inferior to Rosato...... Wait, Royce is fouled! ”
This season, any commentator, no matter which country, as long as he commentates on the Barcelona game, Messi must be the name that appears most frequently, and He Tian is no exception. Favoritism is a taboo for commentators in commentary games, but this generally refers to the team, and for the players you like, this ban is obviously not so strong. Therefore, when He Tian saw that Messi, who had just gotten rid of him, was brought down by Royce who rushed up from behind, his voice suddenly became louder.
However, the game did not stop immediately, Messi, who was pulled down, still sent the ball out at the moment of the end, and Eto'o, who received the ball, was about to continue to attack, but he did not expect that the referee's whistle sounded at this time.
Pep Guardiola on the sidelines was so angry that he shook his hand in the air, while Eto'o, who had the ball, spread his hands at the referee, saying that he couldn't understand it, and in his opinion, it should be advantageous to attack.
The referee ignored Eto'o's displeasure and ran straight to Reuss to show a fifth yellow card to Málaga before awarding Barcelona a free-kick.
For this penalty, Lin Sen, who was still a little happy in his heart, was suddenly unhappy, how could this be a yellow card? Royce didn't have any fouls before, but now he just took Messi, this action is not dangerous at all, and although Messi's breakthrough at that time was beautiful, Barcelona's attack did not take off, strictly speaking, Reuss is not even accused of obstructing the attack, at most it is to hinder Messi from dribbling the ball, why did he give a yellow card?
Lin Sen has just replaced Rosato with Alba, and avoiding the hidden danger caused by the yellow card is one of the reasons, and now it is good, the referee directly helped Lin Sen "make up".
The referee looked confident, and he first ran to the coaches on both sides and raised his index fingers at Linson and Pep Guardiola to show that he had no more to say, and then ran to the scene of the incident so that Barcelona was ready to take a free kick.
The place where the incident occurred was on the left side of the Malaga's penalty area, about 30 meters away from the goal, not close, but not too far, you can shoot directly, but you need foot strength.
It seems that Barcelona wants to pass the ball, because it is Xavi who takes the penalty.
At this time, almost all of Barcelona's midfielders have entered the Malaga penalty area, naturally, there is also an excellent header Puyol and tall Pique, Málaga's goalkeeper Godia shouted and commanded his teammates to defend, as for the human wall, although the rules only stipulate that the distance from the penalty spot must be nine meters away, but the number of people is not hard and fast, the distance of the general free kick is inversely proportional to the number of people on the wall. Therefore, because the free kick was not close, Málaga only sent two symbolic people to the wall, namely Apono and Gundogan, and the others all went into the penalty area.
Xavi, who was about to take the penalty, did not take advantage of the referee's inattention to deliberately narrow the distance, but directly bent down to put the ball away, took a few steps back, and looked at the penalty area like a vegetable market.
Although Barcelona has played smoothly this season, free kicks are still Guardiola's most important offensive means, because Guardiola understands that the better Barcelona attacks, the greater the opponent's determination to defend, at the beginning of the season and now, Barcelona encountered a qiē is proof, at the beginning of the season, there are teams trying to compare with Barcelona to attack, but in the second half of the season, almost all teams put defense first against Barcelona, which is a smart choice, Just look at what will happen to Real Madrid, who refuses to bow their heads. Therefore, as a great weapon to break the dense defense, the free kick is naturally impossible to fall.
According to the usual training, after excluding other tactical cooperation, Xavi has three points to pass in the penalty area at this time: Pique at the front point, Henry at the back point, the most chaotic middle is the last selection, and the chance is also the largest. Xavi's face was so blank that it was impossible to guess which point he would choose, or if he still had a surprisingly direct shot.
Lin Sen, who was standing on the sidelines, looked a little solemn at this time, he predicted almost all the situations in this game, including how the free kick should be defended, but the chance also made the free kick the most powerless X factor.
At this time, the referee blew the whistle.
Xavi took a few quick steps and hung in an arc towards the penalty area......
Beforehand!
As soon as Ranocchia's heart tightened, Pique, who was in charge of marking, pushed himself away with one hand, temporarily broke free of his defense and ran towards the landing point of the ball.
It was Pique who fought for the landing point.
However, because Ranocchia, who was jumping at the same time, had already stuck his body, he couldn't exert any force at all, let alone attack the goal, so he made an instant decision, only to see him make a header to the back point, and the ball flew over the chaotic area in the middle like a relay and flew directly to the back point.
Seeing this change, Gamez, who had previously changed from marking to assisting defense, hurriedly turned around, but Henry had already broken away from his defense when he was still in control of the range, and the French striker did not rush to the goal with the large force at all, but retreated a few steps, but these few steps, as soon as he went up, he was already completely unmarked.
The noise over Calderón's north stand suddenly became a little louder: this is the best chance for Barcelona to score so far in the game!
Gamez was stunned!
It was impossible for Henry to give Gamez any chance to come up and block again, and directly swing his leg to win the volley!
Henry's shooting action stretched, and the speed of the football in the right part was extremely fast, almost in the blink of an eye, it was in front of Gamez's eyes, at that moment, Gamez seemed to feel that time had slowed down, and his body only had time to make a subconscious action, that is, to throw his body in the direction where the football came.
It's like plugging a gun's eye!
Then, almost closing his eyes and resigned himself to fate, Gamès felt his arm tingle, and his heart suddenly became ecstatic, but then he became worried again......
Sure enough, the whistle blew!
At the same time, Lin Sen, who saw the direction of the referee's finger, seemed to suddenly hear the sound of falling pieces on the chessboard in his heart, and that sentence that made people's hearts cold.
Checkmate!