1147 Extremely fast battle
Today Barcelona changed the attack group combination.
With Andres Iniesta replacing Pedro, he will provide more playmaking and breakthrough ability on the left flank, although the ability to score is slightly reduced, but Guardiola prefers to free Messi and Ibrahimovic.
At the same time, in the midfield defense, Guardiola expects more from Butzques than Keita, and although Yaya Toure is not as delicate as Iniesta at the feet of the midfield, he is far stronger than Iniesta in terms of physical confrontation, which is also a change made by Guardiola from the experience of the previous game.
Barcelona were trying to play fast today and they didn't have the patience to go back to their drowsy feet because they were in a race against the clock.
In such a situation, Barcelona's pass success rate is still very high!
This is the embodiment of the excellent quality of the strong team under pressure.
In the 5th minute of the game, Liverpool finally had a chance to counterattack, Messi broke through Mascherano on the right and fell into the bag of Aurelio and Alonso, he crossed the ball to the middle and tried to hand it to Ibrahimovic for another one-two collision into the wall, but Skrtel decisively intercepted forward to destroy the attack.
The ball rolled to Gerrard's feet, where he dribbled sideways to dodge Xavi's pressing before half-turning and sweeping the ball to the left of the pitch.
Qin Xiong was there to prepare to respond, Alves was just about to put his foot in front of him, Qin Xiong buckled the ball from behind him to the middle with his left foot, and got rid of Alves directly.
When Qin Xiong began to advance the offensive towards the middle of the front, the 100,000 Barcelona fans at the Camp Nou were worried.
Yaya Toure and Butzkes were ready to defend together, but Qin Xiong sent a straight stopper over the top directly on the spot!
The Barcelona generals turned their heads and were shocked.
Torres, who was in the middle of the pitch in front of Pique and Puyol, suddenly started to cut diagonally behind Pique.
The space behind them gave Torres plenty of room to sprint.
The cooperation between Qin Xiong and Torres has reached the realm of heart.
The timing of the pass is perfectly matched.
The ball flew swiftly over the heads of Barcelona's defenders. Pique is turning and chasing back. The soccer ball begins to fall from above the head.
Torres came to the right of the penalty spot in the penalty area. Pique was still about two metres away from him when the ball fell in front of him.
Valdés tried his best to block the near corner of the goal, but he did not dare to abandon the goal, for fear that Torres would change direction at the moment when he stopped the ball, then he could be directly passed.
Torres looked at the falling football, felt good about himself, and directly raised his foot to volley!
Bang!
After Torres shot the ball, he shocked the Barcelona people into a cold sweat.
I saw the football fly to the far corner of the goal. It's a pity that the arc was not hit, and the football flew over like a cannonball, grazing the outside of the column and flying out of the bottom line.
"Liverpool almost scored with a simple and direct counter-attack! That was the secret to their last win over Barcelona in their last game, and today at Camp Nou, they did it again and it looked like it was working well. Qin Xiong's overhead through ball showed his superb footwork, and Torres' sharp movement and volley showed the quality of a world-class striker, but it was too difficult for Torres to send the ball inside the net with just a little more deflection. ”
Pep Guardiola's mood is heavy. He had thought of countless ways to restrain Qin Xiong, but in the end he couldn't achieve it.
Especially when Qin Xiong has cultivated a good tacit understanding with his Liverpool teammates. His individual play has been integrated into this team!
Barcelona regrouped after relieving the crisis and began to put pressure on Liverpool's defence.
Andres Iniesta was the centre of gravity in the attack, and in the eighth minute of the game, he met Yaya Toure's pass on the left and faced Johnson one-on-one.
Liverpool are still focusing on the centre and right of the back, so Lucas will drop back when defending this side but will not support the wings.
Iniesta made a feint to break down in front of Johnson, and after Johnson took two steps back, Iniesta made a sharp stop and changed direction and began to dribble laterally.
He stopped the ball in front of Lucas and when Gerrard rushed back to get in on him, Iniesta calmly crossed the ball diagonally into the box.
Xavi was there to pick up and Alonso stepped up to press for the ball to slip in front of him, a leak that caught the Liverpool defence by surprise.
The missed ball rolled to Yaya Toure's feet.
He took the ball and stepped forward, Mascherano crossed to stop him, and Yaya Toure crossed diagonally to the right in front of the box.
Mascherano looked back, but saw that before Messi cut the penalty area strongly, Aurelio could only shrink the penalty area, but did not dare to chase Messi, which could not catch up at all!
Messi cut horizontally into the front of the penalty area, Mascherano and Alonso were already unable to stop Messi, which seemed to be just a gap, but Messi grasped it!
At this time, Skrtel took a step forward, and he was not ready to step forward to block Messi, but just compressed Messi's dribbling space.
Messi immediately passed the ball to Ibrahimovic in the middle and then stepped forward behind Skrtel himself!
Ibrahimovic played the ball diagonally behind Skrtel without stopping, and it looked like the attack was going to be done, as Skrtel needed to turn and his pace couldn't stop the nimble Messi.
Just as Messi was about to receive the ball and shoot, someone in front of Messi slid sideways and shoveled the football in front of him to the middle of the goal.
Aurelio!
The danger was not over, the football rolled to the middle of the goal, Ibrahimovic immediately rushed forward, and Carragher used his body to block Ibrahimovic's forward.
Reyna walked out of the goal, sped forward and then didn't dare to kick the ball head-on, afraid that the kicking ball would hit Carragher or Ibrahimovic and bounce back to the goal, so he could only kick the ball diagonally!
When Reyna successfully cleared the siege, Liverpool's dangerous situation in front of the goal finally came to an end.
The Barcelona fans in the stands at Camp Nou sighed in disappointment.
But the next picture shocked everyone.
The football that was cleared out by Reina happened to fly to the left side of Qin Xiong's midfield.
Qin Xiong watched the falling football from the side, and Alves rushed up to engage Qin Xiong in a physical confrontation.
When the football fell, Qin Xiong directly cushioned the ball forward with the outside of his right foot, and at the same time rushed past Alves's side!
Even stopped!
After Qin Xiong rushed past Alves, he regained possession in front of him, and now there are only Barcelona defenders in front of him, Butzques and three defenders.
And after he dribbled the football and began to advance the offensive of the inward line, the Barcelona defense was like a big enemy! (To be continued.) )