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Chapter 140 Intermission

After the first half of the Champions League, TV stations from all over the country used the intermission time to analyze the first half of the game.

Everyone agreed that the first half belonged to two midfield commanders. Xavi and Chu Zhongtian both performed well in the game. Xavi directly assisted Barcelona to break the deadlock, and Chu Zhongtian also directly assisted Real Madrid to equalize the score.

Both goals are important, and both organizers are very involved in the offense, and they have made great contributions, almost incomparable.

"I think it's so lucky that we can see these two world-class midfielders in the Champions League final!" The guest and commentator from the United States said in such a deep break.

"No matter who wins or loses in this game, Chu Zhongtian will be the winner. He has proved his strength in front of Xavi, the strongest midfield commander in the world today, and is not weaker than him at all!" In the studio in Beijing, Duan Bin was commenting on the first half with two guests Xu Yang and Gong Lei, who invited him. Duan Bin gave Chu Zhongtian a very high evaluation.

"I think Chu's performance is excellent. Look at the goal he assisted Ronaldo. From the beginning to the end, he participated in the whole process and showed a crucial role in every step. With such a midfielder, there is no need to worry about Real Madrid's midfielder during the validity period of his contract." Sky TV from the UK said.

Only Catalonia's TV station was not very willing: "We were a little relaxed after the goal, or were too eager to score, but instead gave Real Madrid the opportunity to equalize the score. When Chu was working with his teammates in a row, our people were still not good enough for him! He was tied only eight minutes ahead. This is not a calm and acceptable result! We should have entered the intermission with a 1:0 lead!"

Some people also disagree with this: "1:1 is a very fair and reasonable result. Both sides had opportunities in the first half and both seized one of the best opportunities. Now it depends on what kind of adjustments the head coaches of both sides will make during the break."

※※※In the Real Madrid locker room, Mourinho praised the team's performance, but the praise was limited because he immediately reminded the players that there were still 45 minutes left in the game, and anything could happen in these 45 minutes.

"...We may be scored by them at the beginning of the second half, or they may not be scored by the opponent until the injury time of the game... These are all possible. Just like they did in the first half, we equalized the score less than ten minutes before they were ahead of us. This hit their morale a lot. It can be seen from the fact that they tried to take the lead again but failed to do so."

"But your defense is worthy of appreciation. We need to maintain this state in the second half of the defense. Then there are more changes in the offense. If we lead, Barcelona will definitely launch a large counterattack. At this time, don't continue to push out and fight against them. Slightly shrink to ensure that the defense does not lose the ball, and then attack after they have endured their offense."

"Remember, be more patient than them."

After Mourinho finished talking about tactical matters, he began to say something else.

"Gentlemen, this is the Champions League final, this is our ultimate goal for a season. As long as we can win this championship, our season will be successful. Is there anyone who doesn't like the Triple Crown?"

"No one!" Ramos shouted.

"Ha!" Mourinho laughed. "Yes, and we all know that Real Madrid has not won the European Cup for a whole decade. For a super giant who once won nine Champions Leagues, this is untolerable. Now it is time to restore order. We deserve this championship. We will become the first team in the world to win ten European Cups! Think about it, gentlemen, what will people call you when you go out? 'A member of the 10 European Champions League'!"

Although this title is a bit longer, it is very good. Many players yearn for it.

"I know that some of the team are old players who have been with the team for many years. You have experienced the dark era of Real Madrid - for six consecutive years, they can only stop in the Champions League quarterfinals. You have all been ridiculed, who would like to continue like this? Now is the time for us to take revenge, and it is the time for us to take revenge on the entire continent of Europe. Here, let us become the top ten champions!"

※※※ At the same time, in the locker room in Barcelona, ​​Guardiola criticized his team: "I have to criticize you because of your performance after the goal - you put Real Madrid in insufficient pressure after the goal, which led to their chance to score a goal. Mascherano."

Argentina, who was called, looked up at Guardiola with his head, and he was a little confused. He didn't know what the head coach said about his name at this time. To be fair, he felt that his performance in the first half was excellent.

"In the attack when Real Madrid scored, you didn't put enough pressure on Chu," Guardiola criticized.

Mascherano remained silent. He felt that his defense had been done perfectly, but in the end he had no choice but to make mistakes.

"When he pulls horizontally, you shouldn't run with him at this time. You should decisively block him while he is holding the ball! No matter what method you use, whether it is normal defense or foul, you have to stop him anyway!"

Guardiola was waving her arms a little excited.

Every time he falls into Chu Zhongtian, he is like his nemesis. How can Guardiola not be excited?

Mascherano asked: "So can I foul in the second half?"

Guardiola shrugged: "You judge by the situation yourself."

Mascherano stopped talking, and he lowered his head again. He was thinking in his heart how to completely freeze Chu Zhongtian in the second half. Since the head coach is not satisfied with him, he will continue to work hard, improve himself, and strive to make the head coach impeccable to him.

However, the idea proposed by Guardiola is indeed worth considering - fouls. He was too civilized in the first half, maybe this has something to do with the beginning of the game. Frequent fouls in the first half can easily make the referee notice him. If he gets a yellow card, it will be a disaster? As a defensive player, he knows that his defensive task is very heavy. If he holds a yellow card, it will inevitably affect his defensive performance.

But the second half was different. In the second half, he could appropriately use fouls to stop Chu Zhongtian. At the end of the moment, even some foul actions that were given yellow cards were willing to do so.

After the first half of the game, he realized that it would be very difficult to deal with Chu Zhongtian without foul.

After criticizing Mascherano, Guardiola turned to the others and said, "I don't need to say much about the importance of this game. I know you all know it very well. I just want to remind you that there are still 45 minutes left before the end of the game. These 45 minutes are very important to us. We must play these 45 minutes well to ensure that we win the championship. The second half of the game is Real Madrid kicking off. After their attack is over, we must quickly take the initiative!"

As for how to take the initiative, Guardiola believes that the key is to the midfield, and it is necessary to suppress Real Madrid's midfield. Butzkes has to move forward a little further. Although he had assists in the first half, he was too few to put any effective pressure on Chu Zhongtian and Khedira.

Guardiola saw that Chu Zhongtian struggled to deal with Messi and Xavi alone, while Real Madrid's defense was divided into regions, and each person had his own fixed defense zone. This means that at the forefront of their penalty area, the strength of both sides was balanced. At this time, as long as Busquets bravely stepped forward, he could break this deadlock and disrupt the opponent's defense.

Buzquez was considered a powerful weapon for Barcelona in the second half, so he gave Buzquez an in-person instruction and asked him how to plug in, when to plug in, what can you do, and what to do under what circumstances... Anyway, he told Buzquez all the questions he could think of.

Xavi is already old. For Guardiola, Barcelona wants to continue to be brilliant. The hope is not on Messi, Pedro and others, but on Butzquez. He has the qualities to become a comprehensive midfielder. With a little point of guidance and training, he can take the lead. As long as he is here, no matter who changes in front, he can be stable.

As long as Buzquez can continue to grow, Guardiola has hope for Barcelona's future.

※※※ Guardiola seizes the fifteen minutes of the halftime break to make adjustments, because football matches are not like basketball matches. You can call a timeout at any time during the game, and then concentrate everyone to make adjustments. If the halftime break is not adjusted well, or is wrong, it will directly affect the performance of the team in the second half, and may even become a turning point in a game. Your team originally had the advantage, but because the adjustment was not done well during the halftime break, they lost the game.

This is not uncommon.

This is one of the reasons why there are so many unpredictable factors in football games - what people can consider is always limited. No matter how many arrangements you make during the halftime break, you may be wasted on the court because of these or such very subtle changes.

This is the Champions League final, and there is no tolerance for any mistakes. Moreover, this final is of great significance to Barcelona. If he loses, he can fully imagine what kind of environment Barcelona will be in the next few seasons - the morale and confidence of Barcelona players will suffer a heavy blow. They reached the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons, but they both ended up losing in the final and becoming the runner-up. This is really heartbreaking. In order to avoid such a situation, he must do his job well at halftime.

He almost used up all fifteen minutes of the halftime break before letting the players leave the lounge and go out to play. When they left, the tactical board in the locker room was already drawn so that the content was completely unrecognizable. This chaotic tactical board records the entire result of Guardiola's halftime break. Unfortunately, it looks like alien words now, completely confused.

On the other side, Mourinho did not keep talking like Guardiola. After saying his words, he left all his time to the players and went out by himself.

The Real Madrid players held a small meeting, which was just to boost morale.

Next, when the time came, they left the locker room and walked back onto the court.

※※※When they came back, the camera shots gave close-ups of important players one by one. Messi, Cristiano, Ronaldo, Kaka, Chu Zhongtian, Xavi, Butsques, and Mascherano, all of these players were swept one by one.

The commentator introduced the performance of these people in the first half one by one. When talking about Chu Zhongtian, he said this: "Chu performed very well in the first half. He is the absolute hero of Real Madrid's equalization. His connection in the midfield made Real Madrid a whole. In the competition with Xavi, he was not at a disadvantage!"

Seeing the players step out of the passage and enter the stadium one after another, the fans who were still resting before also returned to their seats, waiting for the start of the second half of the game.

Emily guided her mother and Chu Zhongtian's parents back to the box. As soon as she sat on the chair, Chu Zhongtian's mother asked Emily: "How long will it take to score a goal every day?"

She knew that Chu Zhongtian scored in the final last year in the Champions League. Based on her understanding of football, as long as she can score goals, she will perform well.

Chu Zhongtian has not scored yet, so he has not performed well.

Emily comforted her: "Don't worry, you will definitely score."

But Emily himself doesn't know whether she can actually score a goal. In Hoffenheim, it depends on Chu Zhongtian to solve the problem, but in Real Madrid, he has many teammates of sufficient level, and they can also solve the problem. Chu Zhongtian only needs to assist them.

Just like the goal in the first half.

※※※After both players stood on the court, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.

Higuain passed the football to Ozil, and Ozil turned around and passed the football directly to Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian was not in a hurry to fight forward, but continued to pass it back to the central defender Pepe.

Then he looked at the situation behind him, and all the Barcelona players ran up. He left the central area and pulled out a passing angle.

Then he motioned Pepe to pass the football to him.

Pepe obediently passed the football over.

After Chu Zhongtian received the ball, he turned around, but he did not continue to dribble the ball, but turned around and sent the ball to Marcelo on the side.

Marcelo rushed forward with the football. Chu Zhongtian followed him. Once Marcelo could not rush, he could pass the football to him as soon as possible so that he would not waste time or miss the opportunity.

Marcelo did not hand over the football to Chu Zhongtian in the end. He chose to drive the ball in one dragon, and cooperated with Ronaldo in a two-pass-one wall-to-one collision with Ronaldo on the wing, and then hit the bottom line and then made a cross. His cross was pushed out by Pique, and no one in either Higuain or C. Ronaldo encountered the football.

Although the cross was pushed out, Real Madrid's attack did not end there.

The football was pushed out and flew straight to Chu Zhongtian in the middle.

Chu Zhongtian made a move and made a move to shoot from a distance, but when the football really came, his feet were lifted, just a fake move!

Then he gently sent the football forward with his leg pretending to shoot, preparing to break through and intercept Mascherano, who intercepted him from the front.

At first, Mascherano thought Chu Zhongtian was going to shoot directly, because he had already set his posture and was waiting for the football to come, so he was going to turn his back and use his body to block the shot. Now he is glad that he didn't turn around just now, otherwise he would have been fooled by this kid... He wants to be extraordinary!

The football had already rolled over from the other side of him. It was not possible to defend without fouls. Mascherano simply ignored the football and directly crossed his body and crashed towards Chu Zhongtian.

He knocked Chu Zhongtian to the ground and rushed to Chu Zhongtian, while raising his hands high to signal his innocence.

But this approach is meaningless. The referee's whistle sounded and he awarded Real Madrid a free kick.

The booed the Real Madrid fans in the stands. They were not targeting the referee, they were targeting Mascherano's foul. If Argentina's midfielder did not foul, Chu Zhongtian could directly face Barcelona's central defender. With his long-range shooting skills, even if he directly shot from a long distance, the success rate of the goal would be quite high.

"Mascherano made a foul! He gave Real Madrid a chance to have a free kick!"

"Chu Zhongtian's extraordinary personality is quite beautiful! If it weren't for Mascherano..."

Ronaldo ran up and picked up the football on the ground, and then came to pull Chu Zhongtian.

This position is slightly to the left, about twenty-seven or eight meters away from the goal, which is exactly his range.

Guardiola was a little nervous. This position was too dangerous. Ronaldo's free kick was quite outstanding... Real Madrid fans in the stands were also full of expectations.

Unfortunately, Ronaldo's free kick was slightly higher than the crossbar and did not complete the elevator ball that suddenly fell.

A huge sigh sounded in the stands. This was all from Real Madrid fans.

If this goal is scored, that's great. It's still a draw now. Anyone who scores the goal can take the lead. Real Madrid did not seize the opportunity. They are worried that Barcelona will seize the opportunity. After all, Barcelona's attack power is also very strong.

Barcelona is planning to seize the opportunity to score. Real Madrid's offensive instigation by taking advantage of their kick-off opportunity has ended, and now it's Barcelona's turn.

Buzks is eager to try, he is ready to become a hero to save the entire team in the Champions League final!
Chapter completed!
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