Chapter 396: Who Said Iniesta Was Stronger?

Barcelona's key players were Ronaldinho and Andres Iniesta.

Andres Iniesta is even better, after all, he is the core of the midfield, of which the 'midfield' is more important, and Ronaldinho is the only forward in front of Barcelona, Giuli and Eto'o are on both sides, Ronaldinho attracts a lot of defense for his team-mates' attacks.

He's kind of doing a blue-collar job.

This is not a common situation, but the effect of the work is also immediate, with Ronaldinho in front, the pressure on the rest of Barcelona's players is much less.

'Ten minutes into the second half, neither side has scored, so far, Barcelona have been attacking, Liverpool want to counterattack very difficult, in ten minutes, they only have one shot on goal, and Barcelona have three shots, but they want to open the door to victory, they have to score, now it seems that they want to break Liverpool's direction not only need strength, but also a little bit of luck."

Barcelona made another substitution – Van Bommel was replaced by Larsson.

Larsson is a veteran.

The best seven years of his career came at Celtic in Glasgow, Scotland, when Larsson opted to renew his contract with his former club and became a free agent after the 2003/04 season. Although he was almost 33 years old at the time, his prowess and his impressive performance at Euro 2004 that summer earned him the hearts of several teams, and he opted to sign a one-year contract with La Liga giants Barcelona (with an option to add another year).

Although Larsson missed most of last season's game due to a serious injury sustained in the 'Spanish Derby' against Real Madrid, Barcelona decided to sign him on a contract for another year until the end of the season.

In Barcelona, Larsson often shows his experience and value.

A veteran who plays on the playing field, also with experience and stability. Rijkaard's substitution of him was to make the team's attack more stable, and he always believed that with Barcelona's tactics and strength, as long as he was steady, he would be able to win against Liverpool.

The substitution proved to be very effective.

"Iniesta! Iniesta! The Spanish commentator shouted wildly, and just now Iniesta received a pass from veteran Larsson and scored another goal to help Barcelona take the lead.

The home fans in the stands raised their arms and shouted: "White! White! White! ”

They used the nickname of the shouting player to express their love for Iniesta. Although Andres Iniesta is only 22 years old and is currently a substitute for the team, most Barcelona fans have long been conquered by his appearance, and in their opinion, Iniesta will definitely start next season, and the only thing he lacks now is experience.

The camera points to the Barcelona fans at the scene.

Many fans made various gestures to the camera to celebrate the goal, and many shouted at the camera, "This is Barcelona!" This is the genius Iniesta! He's got two goals! Your number 13 also scored two, but Iniesta only played fifteen minutes! ”

There were two goals in 15 minutes in both halves. Iniesta's table xiàn is indeed too good.

This also made Barcelona fans breathe a sigh of relief, every fan wants the best players to come from their own club, before the game, many media compared Ronaldinho and Zhang Tiehan, saying that these two players are the best in their respective teams, but Zhang Tiehan scored two goals, Ronaldinho did not score a goal, the two are obviously stronger than Zhang Tiehan, and now Iniesta's table is stronger than Zhang Tiehan!

That's how Barcelona fans see it!

The Spanish commentator was also pleasantly surprised. "Iniesta! He scored twice! It's the tenth minute of the second half, counting the time of the first half. Not counting stoppage time, Andres Iniesta didn't play enough for fifteen minutes, but he had already scored two goals, and he was doing a fantastic job! ”

Liverpool fans are upset.

The most outstanding thing just now was their thirteenth, and in a blink of an eye, they became this white-faced short man, they were quite dissatisfied, and they hoped that Zhang Tiehan would stand up. Sue everyone that they are wrong to think that Iniesta is better.

on the pitch.

The Liverpool players were all standing in place and ready to kick off again, and many of them had a little helplessness on their faces, and they also scored two goals, one of which was considered a 'sneak attack'. The other also relied on Zhang Tiehan's personal ability to score, of course, Alonso also contributed to it, but it was not easy to score this goal after all.

What about Barcelona?

They just attacked normally, passed the ball normally, and didn't have the sudden play of the stars, but they still equalised quickly.

Is this the difference in strength?

Many people are unwilling, and the two-ball advantage is gone, which is really unacceptable.

Gerald told everyone to keep a normal heart, but Zhang Tiehan stood still and said nothing, and if you look closely, you will find that his arms are tense.

Zhang Tiehan didn't expect Barcelona to score so easily, but he also saw that Barcelona was indeed very powerful, this was not blown out by the media, but it was really strong, and their cooperation and other aspects were much better than the team.

Such an opponent made Zhang Tiehan feel enthusiastic!

Only when facing stronger opponents can he feel this way, and beating Barcelona and beating those small teams is not a difficult level at all, which also makes Zhang Tiehan look forward to scoring goals!

Score again!

"Don't worry! It's just 2:2, they don't take the lead, you guys get the ball and pass it to me, and give it to me as soon as you get it! I'll let them know it's Anfield, not Camp Nou! He said to everyone.

The rest of the team nodded, hoping that Zhang Tiehan would score so that the team could get out of a dangerous situation and win the first leg

The Spanish commentator was still talking about the goal, "That's right! This is Barcelona, great Barcelona! It was just a mistake to score two goals in the first half by Liverpool, and now that they have regained their form and feeling, we can look forward to Barcelona's next appearance! ”

"Now the game. We can already announce that the game is going into the rhythm of Barcelona! The rest of the game belongs to Barcelona! ”

When the Spanish commentator said this, I don't know how many other fans lamented.

Anyone who knows the game right now knows how terrible Barcelona are, and when this team plays with rhythm and feeling, it's really hard to have any other team that can compete with them, Chelsea is an example of this. Chelsea played well against each other, they defended solidly, but so what?

In the face of Barcelona's powerful attack and a strong full-court pressing defence, Chelsea can only be consumed to death in their rhythm.

This is Barcelona.

But is that really the case?

No.

The Liverpool players didn't think so, and the rest of the game didn't go as the Spaniards had hoped, and when the two teams restarted, Liverpool and Barcelona began a clash of simple and flashy football.

Liverpool's attack was simple. Go straight, cross from the side, hang straight in the air, in short, how simple and fast, they play how they want, everyone in Liverpool knows that they have to use the team's speed and simplicity to compete with Barcelona. Can't let the game go into the 'slow pace' of Barcelona.

Barcelona are still looking for flashy, slow goals, when football is at their feet. They dragged the game down and started making all kinds of passes to their feet in order to bring the game into their rhythm.

Two diametrically opposed collisions together.

Maybe Barcelona's football is more advanced and better-looking, but Liverpool are not without resistance, they are not inferior to Barcelona on the field, especially the counterattack led by Zhang Tiehan. It always brings crisis after crisis to Barcelona's backfield.

The biggest threat is from the sky!

Puyol had always thought that he and Marquez were enough to contain Zhang Tiehan, but when Liverpool's passes flew through the air again and again, he suddenly realized that the idea was really naïve.

He knows that many Premier League teams have a hard time limiting Zhang Tiehan.

He didn't know why, like the Chelsea back. The combination of John Terry and Claude Makelele, both of whom are very strong players, why would defending together also allow Liverpool's number 13 to score a hat-trick at Stamford Bridge?

He didn't understand.

In the end, he attributed the reason to their technical roughness, yes, compared to Barcelona, no, compared to him, Terry and Makelle are both technically rough, but now he doesn't see it that way, because defense actually has little to do with technology, he has to rely more on his body, still experience, still decisive and even all kinds of small actions to defend, these aspects have nothing to do with technology.

Compared with Liverpool's No. 13, he and Max have an obvious disadvantage, but it is a lack of height, which he didn't think was a disadvantage before, but there will be advantages due to lack of height, such as more flexible body.

But now that's the disadvantage!

When the other party jumps, he can almost only watch, because he knows that it is difficult to fight the other party when he jumps, and physically, he is not as strong as the other party.

All-round disadvantage!

Zhang Tiehan doesn't know what Puyol thinks, anyway, what he is thinking about now is - to blow up Barcelona's defenders!

Only then can he score in stride.

Another time the football flew from the air, Zhang Tiehan jumped up directly regardless of the rampage, Puyol grabbed his jersey behind him, and Max squeezed him with his body, but Zhang Tiehan still jumped, and after clicking the ball with his head in the air, he couldn't help but fall directly on Max.

Pujol innocently raised his hands.

But the referee saw it clearly and still gave Puyol a yellow card, his first yellow card of the game, and Liverpool also won a free kick of more than 30 meters.

The free-kick position was not very good, and Zhang Tiehan handed it to Gerrard.

When Barcelona lined up the wall, Zhang Tiehan went to the front to prepare for the top, and he still had to face the combination of Puyol and Max.

The football flew over.

Zhang Tiehan jumped up again, he jumped very high, at the highest point even a head higher than Max who jumped at the same time as him, and then, he shook his head fiercely!

Boom!

The soccer ball smashed on the forehead and went straight to the goal!

The whole stadium watched the football fly towards the goal, watched Valdés in front of the goal pounce in the direction of the ball, and watched the football fly over Valdés's hands and plunge into the net.

“Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!”

The live commentator shouted in surprise!

No one expected the goal to come so quickly, Barcelona didn't expect that their fans would even wait to see Barcelona's wonderful performance, let alone that it was Liverpool who scored first, and Liverpool fans also didn't expect that they felt that Barcelona had the upper hand in an all-round way, and their only idea was to let the team stabilize, and then stabilize, don't let the other side score, who knows that it didn't take long for their team to score.

What a surprise!

"Zhang! Third goal, header! Well done, Zhang helped Liverpool to go ahead again, and he scored his third goal of the game! He scored a hat-trick! It's Zhang again! It's Zhang again! Scoring goals is really as usual for him, it's too easy and too easy! ”

'We can see that Puyol and Marquez's defence can't do much for Zhang, when Gerrard gets up, he's ready to take the spot, he jumps, he finishes the shot, he does it!'

"Third goal, a header!"

"I think any words of praise are lacking for Zhang, he is so perfect and so good, his three goals, and also made Barcelona's magnificent attack achieve two fruits, which seems very colorless"

"Now, who would dare to say that Iniesta is better than Zhang's table!?"

No!

Barcelona fans were silenced.

Just now they thought Iniesta was very good, and some people even sang a song written and directed by themselves, 'Liverpool has Zhang, we have Iniesta, our attack is more gorgeous, our team is better', but Zhang Tiehan's goal immediately silenced them.

Speaking of which, even just now, both of them scored two goals, but is it really comparable?

The two scored the same goal, and even Iniesta only played 15 minutes, but the team they played was completely different, what a strong team is Barcelona? What kind of teammates does Iniesta have?

What about Liverpool?

In the past games, Liverpool attacked very little, and the attack near the Barcelona penalty area was even less pitiful, every time Zhang Tiehan got the ball, he had to face Barcelona's strong defense by himself, his pressure can be imagined, even so, he relied on his ability to help the team lead 2-0, and now he has scored the third goal.

On the other hand, Barcelona was almost attacking throughout the game, they were in possession, various midfielders frequently took the ball, and there were many opportunities for frontcourt players.

The two are really not comparable.

It is almost unimaginable if Iniesta and Zhang Tiehan are hung in a position, it is estimated that Liverpool fans will be blown up, and Iniesta can only stand in the Barcelona half and can't get the ball in the whole game. (To be continued......)