Chapter 253: The Counterattack Begins at This Moment! [Ask the bigwigs to subscribe! ] 】
Messi's goal seemed to open an outlet, allowing countless Barcelona fans to cheer and vent their frustration at Li Ang many times at this moment.
And one thing to say, Messi's goal is indeed beautiful.
Even if he didn't play against Leon this time, Messi is facing the Premier League's top defensive defender Nemanja Matic.
It's really as easy as drinking water, and Messi's shot after shaking off Matic is even more promising!
It can only be said that Messi deserves to be Messi.
As the only two superstars in today's football who can use their personal strength to blow up the defense of the top teams in football.
Messi used this goal to perfectly demonstrate his tactical value and level of ability.
It was only at this time that Messi made his first response to Leon on the pitch today.
A slightly sly winking motion.
The live camera didn't capture it, but Leon could see it clearly, and he even saw the happy smile hidden under Messi's beard!
"He did it on purpose, he must have done it on purpose!"
Leon yelled in frustration in his heart.
But yes, who let Messi lead the team ahead of him today?
Li Ang also really experienced the depression of Messi always watching Real Madrid lead Barcelona in the past two seasons.
To be honest, in the game against Real Madrid, Messi's performance has always been very good, not bad at all.
But in the past two seasons, as long as he doesn't break out, Barcelona will always be led by Real Madrid.
The feeling that he didn't do anything wrong, but he just couldn't resist his opponent, made him very uncomfortable.
And in most Spanish countries, the main culprit for this situation is of course Leon.
So looking at Li Ang's depressed and helpless face at this time, Messi also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
"You kid has today!"
Messi, who was in a good mood, celebrated happily with his teammates, but Li Ang was not as depressed as he imagined.
After muttering a few words, Leon took the initiative to return to his own half, and cooperated with Terry to boost the morale of his teammates.
Depressed to depressed, the first thing that comes to mind when encountering difficulties is not Li Ang's character.
He found Matic first and comforted Little Pony.
However, in the short communication, Leon did not teach Marić any skills to defend Messi.
Because those precautions are basically only for him, Matic is much taller than him, and his body flexibility and turning speed are not as good as him.
He just taught Matic, and Matic couldn't use his method to limit Messi.
Therefore, it is still necessary to use a more affordable way to limit Messi's play.
Don't go one-to-one, just go straight to the bag clip.
If you can't stop it, then it's a foul!
"You just don't go for the malicious offense, the normal tactical foul referee won't blow it, remember, there are more small gestures that interfere with his progress and shooting.
If he passes you, he will be in the position of Kathane and force him to go to the side, and I will pay more attention to the defense......"
After a few words of advice, Li Ang did not say anything more, he believed that Matic could put down his body and cooperate with Ramires to restrict Messi.
Alexis Sanchez and Neymar are also dangerous, but compared to Messi, who can shoot at any moment, the targeting of them can be put to rest.
In the case of falling behind by one goal first, it is impossible for Leon to take the initiative to retreat to the defensive end to mark Messi one-on-one.
What Chelsea need more urgently now is attacking and scoring goals.
So he can't withdraw, at least until he helps the team get back to the same line as Barcelona, he can't retreat easily!
Mourinho clearly shares the same tactical thinking as Leon.
With Leon still behind at the moment, it is even more difficult for Leon to drop back, and Chelsea must also raise in attack.
However, the way of attacking could be changed a little.
The current Barcelona is no longer in its prime, but in any case, playing against Barcelona at Camp Nou is not a wise choice after all.
Jose Mourinho made a quick tactical gesture on the sidelines. Seeing this, the Chelsea players on the field also reminded each other to change their positions slightly.
And as the game resumed, commentators and fans in front of the television quickly spotted a deeper change in the positioning of Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne.
And Leon is also assisted by Ibrahimovic to make more pressing against Xavi, the playmaker of Barcelona's backfield.
Such a change in tactical detail is a common occurrence in Jose Mourinho's side.
But for Barcelona, even if Xavi was targeted, their midfield played the ball. It won't be affected too much.
Like Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta and even Gerard Pique, they all have a very good ability to get on the ball.
When necessary, Alves can also plug in and participate in the team's organizational scheduling.
So after just getting used to it a bit, Barcelona picked up the pace again and looked for opportunities to continue attacking Chelsea.
From this point, it can be seen that Barcelona coach Martino still has great ambitions for today's game.
He values the offensive initiative and wants to take a one-goal lead and then seize the time to extend the lead.
If it were a change, Pep Guardiola would be on the sidelines at the Camp Nou at the moment.
He signaled the pace to slow down and force Jose Mourinho's side to further focus on attacking and make more mistakes.
If that happens, it's a big problem for Chelsea.
Fortunately, Martino didn't want to play any dirty routines today, and the main thing was to play an offensive positive.
And seeing that the whole Barcelona team was still tirelessly pressing forward to find offensive opportunities, Li Ang was immediately relieved.
Further retreat from Eden Hazard and De Bruyne's positions is justified at this point.
The duo assisted Bertrand and Cesar Azpilicueta in flanking off Barca's flanks.
Nemanja Matic and Ramires will be able to devote more energy to locking up the ribs of their own half.
Although it is impossible for Li Ang to go directly back to his own big penalty area at this time, it is no problem to carry out a large-scale coverage sweep before and after the top area of the arc in the center circle.
And after instigating Matic to make him unable to resist and take the initiative to make tactical fouls on Messi, Li Ang took the lead in giving Xiao Ma a correct demonstration.
However, the target of his foul was not Messi, but Iniesta, the engine of Barcelona's attack.
From the eighth minute to the fifteenth minute of the first half, Leon received two fouls from the referee, and in addition, he also made several hidden defensive moves against Iniesta.
All of them are very injurious and torturous interference movements.
Such rogue defensive tricks and decisive foul rhythm immediately reminded Iniesta of their first league clash of the season against Atletico.
In that game, Atletico's midfield four made Andres Iniesta and Xavi suffer.
The shattering of the rhythm of that game, Atletico's tough defensive confrontation and the bloodiness that was not afraid to eat cards are still fresh in Iniesta's memory.
At this moment, Leon used the same disgusting trick, and Iniesta immediately understood.
Leon specified that he had studied Barcelona's first game against Atletico Madrid in the league this season before the game!
In the eighteenth minute of the first half, after being dragged down on the turf by Leon again, Iniesta finally couldn't help but complain to the referee.
More Barcelona players around also rushed up, but the referee quickly blew the whistle and signaled the Barcelona players who surrounded him to retreat quickly.
Li Ang snickered on the side, he was not stupid, he dared to use this trick must have tried to figure out the scale of today's referee's blowing penalty first.
However, when the referee looked at him with a serious face, Li Ang quickly restrained the smile on the corner of his mouth and walked aside with the referee honestly.
"Watch your defensive moves! The number of fouls you have committed is in my head, and after accumulating to a certain level, I will not be stingy with yellow cards in my hand! ”
"Understood... I'm just too involved in the game, I'm really sorry, Mr. referee, I'll have to pay more attention to the future! ”
Messi, who came over and happened to hear Leon's assurance, rolled his eyes.
If the rest of Chelsea's defenders had said that, Messi might have believed it.
But when Li Ang spit out such words from his mouth, he didn't have to think about it, and he would treat it as a lie!
Sure enough, when the game resumed normal operation, in the face of Neymar who retreated to the midfield to receive the ball, how could Leon have the slightest look of reflection and restraint?
He immediately posted it and gave Neymar a confrontation lesson!
Neymar is not as experienced as Iniesta.
His movements on the ground were a little exaggerated, and the speed at which he fell to the ground was too fast.
The referee looked at him twice, then said nothing.
And after Leon squeezed him away and grabbed the ball, he rushed to Barcelona's half!
The blockbuster Barcelona fans at Camp Nou were shocked to watch, and their mouths were full of swear words!
"Stop Leon! Stop this bastard and don't let him dribble any more! ”
"Tackle direct foul, shovel him!"
"TMD Sergio, you go straight on! What are you afraid of him for?! ”
Sergio Busquets stared at Leon's dribbling and retreated.
It's really not that he doesn't want to be a defensive hero too, stopping Leon's dribbling and finally losing this counterattack from Chelsea.
It's that he's just too self-aware.
After all, in the past encounters, he has not taken any advantage in the hands of Li Ang.
The number of confrontations between the two is not very much, but it is also a lot, and they barely know each other.
Busquets would rather put Leon in front of his own penalty area and interfere with Leon's potential long-range shot.
I don't want to rush out and be cleaned by Leon, and then let Leon and Ibrahimovic face their own central defenders directly.
I have to say that Busquets' heartfelt and cautious defensive effect this time is quite good.
At least Leon had the option to give the ball to Kevin De Bruyne, who was better on the right, in the final moments.
De Bruyne's cross was cleared by Gerard Pique in the middle of the box, and Chelsea could not directly threaten the Barcelona goal.
Leon clapped his hands with some pity as he watched Eevee's final failure to compete for the top, and finally glanced at Professor Bu a few more times.
"Why are you getting more and more cowardly?"
After leaving these words, Leon shook his head and slowly retreated, making Busquets angry enough.
A counterattack failed, Leon was not discouraged at all, and Mourinho on the sidelines did not look dissatisfied.
This time, the quick counterattack in the middle can be played, and the effect is not bad, and it seems that it is still a feasible plan to seek opportunities in stability.
With the first half of the game not even halfway past the game, Mourinho was still able to sit still.
Even if it didn't take long after, Messi received Sanchez's return ball and completed another in-cut forced shot.
But Mourinho is still relatively calm and is not in a hurry to change tactics.
Nemanja Matic listened to Leon in this defence.
He interfered with Messi's final shot with a hidden little move, so Cech was able to keep Messi's shot out of goal.
Barcelona, who had been attacking for almost 20 minutes, had the lead they wanted the most, as well as the attacking initiative.
But as the game progresses, the fitness of Barcelona's starters is also passing rapidly.
Now playing on two fronts and with more rest, Chelsea are slowly showing their physical advantage.
Just when Barcelona wanted to control the ball and reduce the pace of the game, the whole Chelsea team stopped!
Li Ang took the lead and his teammates launched a strong high pressure on Barcelona!
This time, it was not Leon alone, or he and Ibrahimovic, who were interfering with Barcelona's single organization.
The high post system is the extreme compression of one team's overall space for another team to hold the ball.
To put it more simply, it is necessary to use stronger running ability to form a defensive strategy in the local area many times, and make a bag and press the ball carrier!
A one-on-one stoppage is not a high-level press.
Leon was a well-deserved Chelsea heart in such a massive tackle.
Whether he is cooperating with his teammates in the left or right half, he can do it with ease.
And Mourinho's courage is also big enough, either he doesn't grab it, or if he wants to rob it, he will rob Barcelona upside down!
In their own half, Chelsea were almost reduced to two defenders, John Terry and Nemanja Matic.
Bertrand and Cesar Azpilicueta had already followed their team-mates into Barca's half.
Originally, many Chelsea fans would have worried that their high-pressure pressing mode would not be able to snatch the ball from Barcelona's control.
But with Leon and Ramirez making two consecutive tackles in a short period of time, they launched a counter-attack on the spot.
The Chelsea fans in front of the TV were also quickly reassured.
They found that Barcelona were not as strong as they thought they were.
In other words, they still underestimate the strength of their team's current style of play.
After two quick counter-attacks in quick succession, Chelsea were a serious threat to the Barcelona backline.
Pique yelled in his heart to ask his midfield team-mates to pay more attention to not allowing Chelsea to switch between attack and defence so often.
But Busquets and Xavi and others also have bitterness that they can't say.
As soon as they get the ball, they will basically face two or more Chelsea players!
And with the physical running at the moment, every Barcelona ball-handler in the midfield will basically get such defensive treatment.
In such a situation, it is really difficult for a strong man to ensure that the ball is not lost once.
In the 27th minute of the first half, Leon once again combined Ibrahimovic and De Bruyne to tackle Iniesta.
Iniesta, whose retreat was blocked, had no choice but to drive the ball forward.
The accuracy of his long balls was still good, but Sanchez was a bit comical as he battled for the ball with Nemanja Matic.
Nemanja Matic played Andres Iniesta's long ball back into the Barcelona half with great ease.
And this time, Leon, who stuck Xavi with his back, also easily stopped the ball with his chest, and then swept the ball directly to Hazard.
Ibrahimovic and Ramirez plugged in at full speed from the middle as soon as possible!
Busquets and Pique passively commanded the defence while hurriedly retreating.
Eden Hazard, on the other hand, did not have another head in the face of Alves' marking, and he tucked the ball forward. Directly help Bertrand to set the edge of the bottom successfully!
Bertrand took two steps inside to take the ball, and after a little observation, he sent a beautiful cross with an inspin!
Ibrahimovic strode forward and Ramires tangled with Mascherano on the halfway line of Barcelona's penalty area.
Pique naturally had to choose to keep an eye on Ibrahimovic at the first time, not letting the Swedish mill tower grab a little.
But Bertrand's cross landed completely around the front point of Ibrahimovic and flew straight to the other side of the Barcelona penalty area!
Sergio Busquets, who had been ready for a long time, was trying to stand up and fight for the top.
But Li Ang, who rushed in from outside the penalty area, used his strong inertia to kick the ground with all his might, and then squeezed away Busquez and completed Peugeot's head-shaking attack in the air!
This sudden scene made countless Barcelona fans panic!
However, in the eyes of commentators from various countries, this is completely a premeditated attack by Chelsea!
"Bertrand has gone down, it should be a cross! Chelsea have a natural advantage when it comes to playing for golf... Pilling! Leon at the back point—!!! ”
He Wei couldn't care about his reserve and demeanor at this moment, and the moment he saw Li Ang shaking his head to attack the door, he completely released his passion, opened his throat and roared excitedly!
Under the night sky at Camp Nou, Leon was like a bomber with wings outstretched and angrily spitting out shells!
His hideous, metallic body completely enveloped Barça's penalty area.
And in the roaring explosion, the safe pure land guarded by the veteran Pinto was easily leveled by the metal storm!
Pinto's save was just too slow!
It was so slow that when the commentators from all over the world had already begun to exclaim and celebrate for Leon's goal, his save had not yet landed!
After Leon confirms that the ball has crossed the line. He pouted at the live camera, then spread his arms and reproduced the celebration of the bomber gliding near the bottom line!
The frantic cheers of thousands of Chelsea fans at Camp Nou fell to the ears of Barcelona supporters, making it so ironic.
In the box, Brother Long, Nacho and others were overjoyed, laughing and high-fived each other and hugging, as if it was Li Ang who represented Real Madrid who scored the goal at the moment.
And Mourinho, who also attracted the attention of the live camera, did not disappoint the reporters.
Although the madman is getting older, he still has that passion in his bones.
After running out of the coach's box, Mourinho, who was wearing a trench coat, ran thirty or forty meters on the sidelines!
Trailing by one goal in the opening period, so what?
He is good at leading the team to play Barcelona, and he still has Leon, the biggest sufferer of Barcelona in recent seasons!
The counterattack officially begins from this moment!
(End of chapter)