Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 732 The Perfect First Half
After passing back and forth through the midfield, the ball landed at the feet of Janus. Seeing Mota coming up to defend himself, Janus turned half-turned and controlled the ball at his feet. At this time, he saw that Nie Fei was already speeding along the right. Plugged in and immediately passed the ball.

"Van Bronhorst was a good breakout point."

Mourinho said to himself off the court, he has said this sentence many times in the pre-match preparations, and he emphasized that in the game, as long as there is a chance, he will fight to the left of Barcelona ——He absolutely believes in the offensive ability of Nie Fei and Maicon on the wing.

The left wing is responsible for defense and the right wing is responsible for offense. This is Newcastle's basic tactic in the first half of the game.

Nie Fei received the ball. As a well-deserved organizer among Newcastle's four midfielders, he has not appeared on the right side much so far in the game, but it was his previous breakthrough on the right side that brought Newcastle the first a goal.

Due to the task of organizing, Nie Fei did not completely follow Mourinho's arrangement to fight to the death on the right - Newcastle's attack on the right is often completed by Maicon - Nie Fei is a very mobile player A player who plays with his brain, his skills are not the best in Newcastle, but when it comes to judgment and vision on the court, almost everyone is willing to bow down.

In doing this, in addition to balancing the midfield, he also had to paralyze Van Bronhorst—so that he would not feel the pressure on his defense, so that he dared to step forward and assist.

That's how the first ball was scored, and now Nie Fei wants to do it again.

After Nie Fei received the ball, the Dutch defender retreated to the penalty area line - he almost assisted Newcastle's bottom line just now. Although Newcastle's attack was not a quick counterattack, it was also very fast. Van Bronho Ster's absolute speed is not fast, and it is indeed very difficult to return to defense like this.

Seeing that Van Bronhorst's footing was not stable, Nie Fei did not give his opponent any chance to adjust, and immediately swiped the ball near the baseline, ready to break through.

Van Bronhorst had no time to adjust his pace, so he immediately turned around and chased after Nie Fei. He knew that Nie Fei was fast, but on the wing, sometimes he can break through not only by speed, but as long as he can block the opponent's pass and breakthrough. If you can't catch up with your opponent, then the defense can be regarded as a success.

Seeing him rushing towards him, but his feet were obviously unstable, Nie Fei showed a smile, and suddenly knocked the ball back while dribbling. Rolled over, and then Nie Fei quickly stopped, turned around and rushed past Van Bronhorst!

The Dutch defender turned around again tenaciously, stretched his legs and shoveled at Nie Fei who had just controlled the ball-as long as he could shovel the ball away, even if he fell to the ground, the defense was considered a success.

It's a pity that Nie Fei had expected this a long time ago. After catching up with the ball, he took a step sideways with the ball, not only dodging Van Bronhorst's back tackle, but also wading out of the shooting route!
After taking a step, Nie Fei no longer hesitated, and immediately took a strong shot with his left foot!

The ball quickly passed between the two central defenders and rushed to the upper left corner of the goal!

Nie Fei's shot was very tricky. After the ball flew into the penalty area, it slid upwards. Valdes didn't realize that he could not catch the ball smoothly until after he saved it, and even switched to a single punch to hit the ball. I can't do it even if I go out, I can only stretch out a single palm in a hurry to block the ball!
The ball was blocked, but Barcelona immediately faced greater danger!

The ball was blocked back into the small penalty area, and Essien, who was plugged in, rushed into the penalty area and grabbed a volley shot in front of Puyol!

This supplementary shot is not beautiful, but when facing a huge empty goal, such a supplementary shot is enough!

The ball flew into the goal amidst the huge cheers of nearly [-] Newcastle fans!Two to zero, Newcastle expanded the score at the end of the first half!

"Two to zero! Newcastle's sixth shot of the game! Sixth shot inside the frame for two goals! Horrific shooting efficiency! Newcastle's efficiency in this game Played to the max and Barcelona should be ashamed compared to them who have created more than 30 shots in two legs and only scored one goal so far!"

Essien roared and ran wantonly on the court. The young Ghanaian came to Newcastle under heavy pressure in the early days, worth 2000 million pounds-as a player in the Ligue [-] outside the four major leagues For young Africans, it is too high, and sometimes high transfer fees can become a huge burden.

But Essien withstood the pressure. With his abundant physical fitness and professional attitude, he quickly occupied the main position, so that Newcastle's midfielder partner Makelele and Janus last season could only compete for another midfielder position. , and as a newcomer, he also enjoys the privilege that only veteran players can enjoy-in Newcastle's 24 first-team players, he has been rotated the least number of times.

And this goal is the first goal he scored in the Champions League after he transferred to Newcastle-although he also scored in the previous league, but no matter when, the first goal Always exciting.

"Haha, this guy, 2000 million pounds is really worth it!" Pei Wei applauded excitedly in the stands, while laughing and said to everyone around him, including those UEFA staff: " I love this guy! He is Forrest Gump of Newcastle!"

No one has any objection to his words. In the last four games, Essien has played all the games, and his running distance on the field is also the longest. It may not be a big deal for an African player-black skin The meaning brought to them may not be backwardness, ignorance, poverty, and physical ability beyond other races, but what is valuable is that Essien does not run around on the court, he always appears where he should appear most, no matter Whether it is offense or defense, he can be seen in any corner of the court.

Such a midfielder is exactly what all coaches dream of.

"It seems that we can breathe a sigh of relief." A fan next to him said with a smile: "Leading by two goals, I don't believe that Barcelona will be able to score us two goals in the next time, even in their home court, they didn't do it. Pass."

"Hey man, we can't be so careless...Barcelona is a strong opponent, and their offensive ability is now the strongest in Europe. What's more, they also have Ronaldinho, who has been a superstar this year. We should not underestimate such a player."

Pei Wei told the fan that he is very aware of how high Ronaldinho has shown on the court in recent years, and he is well-deserved No.1 in the world, especially on the left side where Ronaldinho is used to activities. That is Newcastle's right flank. In order to focus on dealing with Van Bronhorst, Newcastle sent two offensive players and did not use special personnel to mark Ronaldinho. He didn't perform very well in many games, but a player like Ronaldinho may be able to make the opponent's efforts come to naught with a flash of performance.

Mourinho off the field thinks the same way. Others can be optimistic, but he can't. As a head coach, he must consider the worst result. lax.

However, before the end of the first half, he seemed to be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Essien's goal came in the No.607 minute and Barcelona's men also seemed to take a huge hit with the second goal conceded, after the re-kick their attack started to look restrained and it was clear that Newcastle's counterattack It made them afraid. They were afraid that if they continued to attack like this, not only would they not be able to recover the score, but Newcastle would use a sharper counterattack to break through the gate again.

The pressure of being one goal behind is obviously not comparable to the pressure of being two goals behind, and the pressure of being two goals behind is also not comparable to being behind more.

In the next few minutes of the game, not only did Barcelona fail to fight back, but Newcastle quickly took possession of the ball and began to attack the gate guarded by Valdés wave after wave. Lu was continuously attacked by the opponent. Under the repeated attacks of Nie Fei Maicon and even Janus and others, Van Bronhorst's deficiencies in defense were fully revealed, and he was repeatedly broken through. If it weren't for Puyol and Barr If Des performs well, Newcastle can even expand the score again!
Rijkaard's yelling from the sidelines also failed to reverse Barcelona's disadvantage on the field. Fortunately, after scoring the second goal, Newcastle's players also seemed a little too easy in attack, with two feet The shot appeared to be in a hurry, which prevented the gate guarded by Valdes from being breached again.

Mourinho shook his head on the sidelines. It is true that Newcastle scored two goals to make people happy, but it is a pity that they took advantage of the field in the past few minutes but failed to calmly expand the score. Maybe Mourinho is a bit demanding Yes, after all, they have gained a huge advantage, and players are not machines. After spending more than 30 perfect minutes, they seem to be qualified to be willful.

As the referee Corina blew the whistle for the end of the first half, there was a long cheer in the sky above St. James' Park. Everyone knew what the score meant. If Barcelona could not score two goals in the second half If so, then they will definitely be eliminated.

Mourinho stood up and let out a sigh of relief.

It was a perfect first half, now, it's up to the second half.

(End of this chapter)