Volume 1 Chapter 534 Three-Minute Storm
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With a long sound of a goal from the on-site commentator, all the Tottenham Hotspur fans in the stadium quickly rushed out of their seats and quickly rushed to the grandstand fence, and there was a cheer of surprise.
After seeing the goal, Ribery turned and rushed out of the penalty area, and kept walking towards the stands where Tottenham Hotspur was located, which was dyed white by the fans' jerseys, stretched out his right hand, and kept making a kissing motion.
"Frank Ribery Tottenham Hotspur scored the opener in the 24th minute by French left winger Frank Ribery, which was Tottenham's second attack into the Barcelona penalty area of the game and their second shot of the game, but they scored"
"It was a very, very, very efficient goal, and it came very suddenly, Tottenham Hotspur took advantage of a sudden acceleration at right-back Alves to break away from Barcelona's defence on the right flank."
The live TV camera was constantly replaying the whole process of the goal in the game, and under the stands on the side of the Tottenham Hotspur fans, all the Tottenham Hotspur players rushed to Ribery, all celebrating the Frenchman's goal.
"Throughout the goalscoring process, we can see the attacking style of Tottenham Hotspur, Messi used a run off the ball to pull away Mascherano and give Van Persie a chance to play one-on-one with Pique, and Alves obviously passed the ball to Van Persie, not Messi who was closer to the goal, and Van Persie followed up with two consecutive stops, which made people have to be amazed."
"Two very skillful stops, and then passed to Ribery, the Frenchman did not hesitate at all, directly pushed the ball into the goal, it can be said that this attack not only reflects the technical skills of the Tottenham Hotspur players, but also reflects the tacit understanding and excellent sense of cooperation of the Tottenham Hotspur players.
All the Tottenham Hotspur fans chanted Ribery's name, and the Frenchman kept applauding the fans in the stands, even if he was out of action for a long time this season due to injury or was seriously out of shape, but this group of fans still did not give up on him and still did not forget him.
Perhaps, Franck Ribery used a flying kiss to dispel rumours that he wanted to move to Real Madrid, because at Tottenham Hotspur, he played two Champions League finals in a row and had just won the Premier League, and he could get such a chance at Real Madrid? Can he have such a good teammate? And the tactics that suit him? ”
The TV camera showed Guardiola, Barcelona coach and assistant coach Vilanova both showed panicked looks after seeing Ribery score, and Guardiola rushed directly out of the command area, but this still could not prevent Ribery's goal.
'It's going to be a very, very bad goal for Barcelona because they're going to have to come to terms with being behind, and for Pep Guardiola, conceding a goal is the start of the nightmare, because he now has to make a choice in the shortest possible time, whether to press it out or to defend?
"Time waits for no one, the game resumes, what will Barcelona choose?"
Obviously, Guardiola wants to stabilize first, so he keeps walking to the sidelines, keeps waving, signaling the players to be calm, don't press up, adopt defensive tactics, stabilize the situation first and then slowly counterattack, and strive for goals.
But Ye Qiu also looked very excited, walked to the sidelines and shouted loudly at the players on the field, he even shouted loudly in English to this group of Tottenham Hotspur players who had just finished scoring and celebrated and returned to the game, "Keep attacking, don't relax, continue to press me up, attack"
After the game restarted, Tottenham Hotspur reversed the laziness and laxity just now, but adopted a step-by-step pressing tactic, pressing directly at the back, and the midfield launched a fierce press on Barcelona, forcing Barcelona to have to speed up the pace from the beginning.
The five minutes after conceding a goal are often the easiest to concede again, because at this time the players' mental and mental state is still in the hesitation of the moment they just conceded the goal, and they are still trying to adjust their mentality, after all, 0:I is a completely different situation, especially in the Champions League final.
The lagging side will definitely start to suffer from gains and losses at this point, and begin to doubt whether their tactics are correct, while the leading side will be demoralized and even show the momentum to swallow the opponent in one go.
Of course, there are also some very tenacious teams who can overcome the pressure of falling behind, and then take advantage of the momentum and laxity of the opponent after scoring a goal to counterattack and equalize, but there are very few such examples, but there are countless cases of conceding a goal again within five minutes after conceding a goal.
It's like Barcelona this time.
When Tottenham Hotspur scored first, when Tottenham Hotspur restarted, reversed the steady and steady tactics at the beginning, began to press on them all, and launched a wolf-like crazy rush against them, they were all obviously frightened, and they all began to be a little overwhelmed, and they didn't know what method they should take to deal with it.
Tottenham Hotspur pressed fiercely, Barcelona habitually passed back, but when the ball was about to pass to Xavi from the feet of Busquets, because of the influence and disturbance of Fabregas, Xavi did not receive the ball, but was tackled by David Silva in advance, and the latter got the ball and passed diagonally.
David Silva's pass was obviously found on the right side of the small penalty area vacated by the Barcelona defense, because after David Silva broke the ball, Messi cut to the middle for the first time and brought Abidal directly, while Van Persie ran to the right and pulled away from Mascherano, while Ribery rushed into the penalty area
Van Persie faced David Silva's half-high ball, raised his foot lightly on the right side of the penalty area, and the ball seemed to become heavy, hitting his foot, bounced slightly, but was quickly stopped by his chest.
Mascherano was always close to Van Persie, he was peeking at the right time to get his feet, and when he saw Van Persie using his body to stop the ball, and it was stopping to the baseline, he wisely chose to let Van Persie take the ball out of the baseline, so he continued to get stuck in the position steadily.
But Van Persie insisted on a stop-and-go smash before the ball was about to go out of the bottom line, and shook off half of his body with Mascherano, although the Argentine was in a very good position, preventing Van Persie from cutting inside, and not allowing him to have the slightest chance to directly threaten the goal, but after being shaken off half of his body, he couldn't stop Van Persie from knocking back and inserting Messi.
Messi stopped the ball behind Mascherano, and Abidal was obviously startled by Messi, who suddenly rushed to the goal again at the edge of the penalty area, and lost to Messi in explosiveness, so he could only follow Messi
Stopping the ball, Valdés almost didn't hesitate at all, and chose to attack at the first time, but Messi suddenly accelerated, grabbed before Valdés, and poked the ball with his foot.
The ball follows almost a straight line, against the turf in the small penalty area, and into the bottom left corner of the net
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"Oh my God, Leo Messi scored"
'In less than three minutes, Tottenham Hotspur scored again'
"Two goals in a row, this time it was Leo Messi, after receiving a knockback from Van Persie, a cool stab shot through Valdés' defense and scored the second goal for Tottenham Hotspur, 0"
"In less than 27 minutes of the first half, Tottenham Hotspur took a two-goal lead"
After Messi scored, he frantically rushed out of the penalty area along the way, ran all the way forward crazily, and ran directly to the coach's seat of the away team, rushed to his head coach, and then hugged Ye Qiu directly.
Don't look at Messi's small stature, but his strength is not small, he actually took advantage of Ye Qiu's lack of attention and directly picked him up by the waist.
All the Tottenham Hotspur players rushed out of the stadium quickly, rushed to the coach's bench quickly, and tightly surrounded Ye Qiu and Messi in the middle, and all the Tottenham Hotspur fans in the stadium once again let out a deafening shout.
"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it, Tottenham Hotspur didn't start well, but they broke out with crazy attacking power in just three minutes, relying on the cooperation of the front trident and the player's excellent individual ability, they just broke Barcelona's defense"
"Let's take a look at the whole process of scoring again, from the diagonal pass after breaking the ball, to Van Persie's sudden stop after stopping the ball, knocking back, Messi inserting back, calmly stabbing the shot, the whole process happened in the blink of an eye, but Tottenham Hotspur expanded the score again with lightning attacking speed"
"Messi, and Tottenham Hotspur manager Ye Qiu"
A big close-up of Ye Qiu and Messi appeared in the live TV camera, and now Ye Qiu's Versace suit is obviously stained with the sweat of the players, fortunately, he doesn't need to pay for this brand-name suit at all, otherwise, I believe he will be distressed.
"It was previously reported that Messi will move to Manchester City this summer, and there have been media reports before that Messi's agent, who is also his father, Jorge Messi, had a secret meeting with Barcelona's top management before the game, which made many people suspect that Messi would transfer to Barcelona in the summer."
But regardless of the pre-match rumours and how the post-match transfer market works, Messi proved that he is indeed the most trusted attacker of Tottenham Hotspur fans with his outstanding performance, and he is also using his celebration to show everyone his gratitude to Tottenham Hotspur and Ye Qiu.
"Sometimes, the operation of the transfer market is not enough to explain the true emotions of the players, as if Messi really transfers, it does not mean that there is a problem between him and Ye Qiu, he uses this hug to tell everyone that he and Ye Qiu are still the best mentors and apprentices."
"Another noteworthy player in this game is Robin van Persie, strictly speaking, although Ribery and Messi scored, they didn't perform very well, especially Ribery, but Van Persie's performance in this game was impressive, he provided two assists, and both times showed his exquisite stopping skills, very solid fundamentals."
The players on the pitch were still celebrating, the referee was already calling for them to return to the pitch, and the live camera was replaying Van Persie's two assists just now.
"Now some people are commenting on Van Persie and Ibrahimovic, frankly speaking, these are two more alternative technical attackers in today's football, but compared to Ibrahimovic playing the arrow center position and assuming the core responsibility of the team's attack, Van Persie's tactical role will be relatively weak, and his physical fitness is not as good as Ibrahimovic."
'Ibrahimovic is the kind of centre-forward who is very physical, very delicate, he can take chances when he has chances, he can create chances without chances, he can adapt to almost any team and any tactic, but only if you have to play around him in attack so that you can play his strongest fight."
'Van Persie will be relatively weak in terms of tactical role, he doesn't have the physicality of Ibrahimovic, which is a disadvantage in the opposition box, but his sense of movement, passing and stopping is outstanding, which allows him to create chances with interspersed runs up front and catch balls from teammates from any angle.
'It's hard to say which of the two players is better because they fit into two different styles of play, but overall Van Persie will be more adaptable because Ibrahimovic needs the team to organise the attack around him, while Van Persie can play in the middle of the pitch, on the wing, and even as a second striker.
As if frightened by the momentum of Tottenham Hotspur scoring two goals in three minutes, after the restart, Guardiola began to consciously keep the team's three lines compact, and arranged in the front of the penalty area of the goal.
Obviously, Pep Guardiola has been shocked by Tottenham Hotspur's two consecutive attacks, I believe that before the goal, he would never have thought that the situation would be so round, otherwise, he will strictly abide by the pre-match arrangement, five minutes of attack, five minutes of receiving, so that maybe he will not concede the first goal.
Without conceding the first goal, the second goal can be avoided naturally
But it's too late to say anything, Guardiola knows very well that Barcelona has been beaten by Tottenham Hotspur in the first half and has completely lost his confidence, and what he needs to do now is not to score, but to stabilize the situation first, and then adopt the strategy planned before the game to let Tottenham Hotspur press.
But Tottenham Hotspur didn't seem to be in a hurry, after scoring two goals in a row, and seeing Barcelona shrinking the defense in an orderly manner, Ye Qiu quickly signaled the team to stabilize and began to methodically adopt a steady tactical strategy after the opening.
In the key finals, the word is the first
Now with two goals in hand, Ye Qiu is more qualified than Guardiola to slowly waste time, because it is beneficial to Tottenham Hotspur, and it is best to consume it directly until the end of the game, then Tottenham Hotspur will win the opponent.
But it may have been the quick offensive that had left the Tottenham Hotspur fans in the stands hooked up for three minutes, and now seeing both sides slow down a bit, the crowd of fans from England are chanting for attack and goals.
Hearing the fans' voices, Ye Qiu shook his head at Mauro Tasotti with a wry smile, "If we press up and fight now, it will be equivalent to running into Barcelona's trap, and they can't wait for us to press up and attack now, that is the best for them." ”
If it weren't for the Champions League final, Ye Qiu would have agreed to continue attacking, but this is a Champions League final, and winning the game steadily is the first place, so he still signaled the players on the sidelines to adopt a patient and steady tactical play.
After scoring two goals in a row, Barcelona's possession rate fell sharply, and Tottenham Hotspur's possession time kept rising.
But the problem is that Barcelona just doesn't want to grab too hard
As the minutes passed, perhaps seeing that both sides played very well in the first half, the game was not interrupted, and both sides had obviously lost the idea of continuing to forge ahead after reaching the bottom, so the referee from Switzerland, Busaka, only gave one minute of stoppage time, and then announced that the first half was over early.
"It's almost a Tottenham Hotspur stormy attacking showfield" The on-site commentator was a little helpless, but felt that this was normal, because this is the Champions League final, and for Tottenham Hotspur, as long as they win the opponent, they will become the first goal to successfully defend the Champions League since the Champions League was restructured this year
"The first 20 minutes of the game were tight and always felt like a storm was coming, it was more like a brew, it was also a kind of hibernation waiting for the right moment, but at that time it was difficult to tell who was the hunter and who was the prey, until Tottenham Hotspur suddenly picked up the pace and rushed straight into the Barcelona goal."
'The overall quality of the team, as well as the individual quality of the players, played a key role in this match-up and Tottenham Hotspur scored after the goal, the defending champions were clearly more experienced and better equipped with the situation than the Barcelona group, so they continued to strengthen their attack after scoring and soon got their second goal'
"Here, we also have to mention Guardiola, this game he was obviously limited by Ye Qiu's tactics, although he maintained an active attack for twenty minutes after the opening, but did not create the slightest threat, if it is an experienced manager, at this time should see the danger, should choose to stabilize the defense, but he does not have such a sense of crisis."
Speaking of this, the on-site commentator shook his head and sighed with embarrassment: "Perhaps, the young Guardiola is paying for his lack of experience, and we all have reason to believe that after taking a two-goal lead, as long as Tottenham Hotspur does not make mistakes in the second half, Barcelona will have a hard chance to reverse." ”
"After all, whether it is from the experience of the Champions League final, or from the experience of coaching, as well as the level of targeted tactics, Ye Qiu is firmly superior to Guardiola"