Chapter 191 It's Gao Zheng's turn!
Although Messi's free kick failed, it still greatly boosted the morale of Barcelona players. Because they knew that Messi was in good shape today, they had nothing to be afraid of.
Even at Atletico Madrid's home court, as long as Messi performs well, they firmly believe that the final victory must belong to them.
So what if Atletico Madrid has Gao Zheng?
Gao Zheng's performance this season is indeed excellent, but he is still far behind Messi!
After the game restarted, Barcelona continued to firmly control the situation on the court.
Messi is more involved in getting the ball, and as long as he gets the ball, Atletico Madrid will be facing a big enemy. Whether it is the Atletico Madrid players on the court or the Atletico Madrid fans off the court, they are all very nervous.
Every time he defends Messi, there will be two or three people coming here. Messi alone can still disrupt Atletico Madrid's defense line. Atletico Madrid players basically have to pull and pull to defend him.
Moreover, Barcelona is not only Messi. After Messi attracted Atletico Madrid's defensive players to his side, he can quickly divide the football and create a threat to Xavi or Iniesta.
This makes Atletico Madrid's defense very uncomfortable.
In the first two leg matches in the league with the Copa del Rey this season, Messi made Atletico Madrid defenders complain.
Under Messi's leadership, Barcelona launched a wave of attacks towards Atletico Madrid's goal. With the cheers of Barcelona fans who went out with the team, it really makes people wonder whose home court is...
The TV broadcast cut to the face of head coach Simeone. In the close-up, Simeone looked solemn, and walked to the sidelines from time to time, constantly giving orders to Atletico Madrid players on the court.
"Barcelona, which is determined to revenge and win the championship, still burst out with extremely strong combat power even on the away game, making Atletico Madrid completely unable to fight back. Even Gao Zheng did not get any decent chance..." He Ping could only say that even if he wanted to brag Gao Zheng, Gao Zheng did not show any performance to make him brag during this period.
I have to say that in the first 35 minutes of this game, except for Gao Zheng's two shots, Atletico Madrid was at a disadvantage in all respects.
Although Atletico Madrid was very passive on the scene, after resisting Barcelona's attack that was higher and higher than the wave, they gradually had the power to fight back and began to make some counterattacks.
However, unlike Barcelona's overall strength, Atletico Madrid can only rely on personal strength when attacking.
So these counterattacks are not very threatening.
The protagonists on the court are still Barcelona and Messi.
After Gao Zheng himself retreated to the center line, he did not directly participate in the team's defense. Head coach Simeone specifically advised Gao Zheng before the game, telling him not to focus on defense and not to retreat too deeply. Otherwise, when Atletico Madrid wants to counterattack, he will not be able to play because he cannot find the support point in the frontcourt.
So when Barcelona besieged Atletico Madrid goal, Gao Zheng was observing Messi's performance like an observer.
Seeing Messi alone able to drag two or three teammates on his side, making them exhausted, as if facing a big enemy. Gao Zheng sighed in his heart that he is truly the number one person in football today...
Although many Cristiano Ronaldo fans will not be convinced, nowadays, Messi is indeed a more powerful existence than Ronaldo. Even if it is just a little more powerful, it is also powerful.
Messi's personal technical characteristics complement Barcelona's overall football style, and the result is that one plus one is greater than two.
Barcelona's pass control controls the situation on the court, while Messi's super personal ability is a fatal blow that changes the rhythm. It is a blaster, and he will complete the last one.
Moreover, Messi seems to have a strong desire to win in this game. He definitely hopes to win the league championship at Atletico Madrid.
Looking at his performance, Gao Zheng felt more and more that he had chosen to come to Atletico Madrid.
If you are going to the Premier League and Bundesliga teams, how can you have the opportunity to compete with these two best players in today's football every year?
He has fought with Ronaldo for six games this season, winning and losing each other. This is his first time in a fight with Messi.
Perhaps those Atletico Madrid fans would not want to see Messi perform well, but Gao Zheng is the opposite.
Messi's performance can only make him more fighting spirit!
When Atletico Madrid finally successfully blocked Messi's ball in the backcourt, Barcelona, who lost possession, did not retreat quickly, but forced it up as soon as possible. Two Barcelona players launched counter-attacks on the spot.
Barcelona has very strong anti-attack ability in the frontcourt. They rely on strict discipline and flexible feet to achieve the head coach's tactical requirements for compressing space and time.
So although most of Barcelona are small players who do not have the advantage in physical confrontation, their frontcourt pressing is very good, and they can often steal the opponent's ball through the frontcourt and then directly organize counterattacks.
This is not Enrique's original tactic. This is Barcelona's football philosophy. Whether it is Guardiola or Enrique, this football philosophy will be implemented.
At the same time, in addition to creating more secondary offensive opportunities, this kind of frontcourt scramble can also create panic for the opponent's players who get the ball, making the opponent unable to organize the attack calmly under pressure.
Atletico Madrid had several interceptions in the backcourt, but they all pressed in Barcelona's frontcourt and chose to kick forward with a hasty kick.
However, this kind of long pass and counterattack is basically ineffective. Gao Zheng is the only one in front of him. This ball with very low accuracy is basically impossible to pass to Gao Zheng's feet.
Therefore, Atletico Madrid's counterattack has never posed a threat.
This time, just as Ardatulan, who was holding the ball, was planning to drive the ball forward with big feet again, Pedro and Iniesta had already rushed over from both directions.
Just as Ardatulan was about to kick forward with a big foot, he heard Gao Zheng’s shouting: “Don’t worry, under your feet!”
From the corner of his eyes, he glanced at Gao Zheng's figure. Because the figure was so tall, he could guess that it was Gao Zheng without looking at his face.
So he didn't think much and quickly passed the ball over.
When Gao Zheng received the ball, he was in a state of back-to-offensive state. He did not try to take the ball and turn around by himself, but directly passed the ball to Griezmann, who was responding next to him.
Then he turned around and penetrated forward decisively.
After taking the football two steps, Griezmann also passed the football forward to Gao Zheng who was in the forward.
While Gao Zheng was about to catch the ball, Busquets cut across and blocked him in front. As long as he couldn't brake the car after receiving the ball, he would most likely hit Busquets. Moreover, because Barcelona's midfielder was stuck in position in advance, if there was a collision, Busquets would not be ordered to block the foul, but would be called by Gao Zheng to hit someone.
Busquets played a good plan, but he didn't expect Gao Zheng to lift up his right foot and pull the football back in front of him, and then use his left foot to hit the football forward.
The football happened to pass between Busquets' legs.
At the same time, Gao Zheng also walked around him!
In front of Gao Zheng, who was not as flexible as a big man, Busquets, who was also a big man, was like a wooden stake!
A tsunami-like cheer erupted from Calderon Stadium.
The long-suppressed emotions of Atletico Madrid fans were vented by Gao Zheng's beautiful extraordinary personality.
When the team was being pushed by Messi, every Atletico Madrid fan was looking forward to Gao Zheng being proud of them.
Now, this moment is here!
Chapter completed!