Fame with a ball

In retaliation, Lin Zhigao decided to ignore Messi's claws when the two players shook hands before the game.

Fabregas can't take care of it either.

...However, counting the number of people laughing in the player tunnel just now, it seems that he was ridiculed by the crowd, right?

Lin Zhigao's face was stinky after seeing some kind of disastrous facts. He wanted to be self-willed to the end, but several cameras were aimed at them from the beginning to the end. Messi gave Messi a condescending handshake.

Messi's face was almost distorted from the suppressed smile. When he walked past Lin Zhigao, he whispered: "I invite you to dinner after the game."

"Hmph." Lin Zhigao turned his face away, and immediately turned back after a pause: "I want a big meal."

"You can eat whatever you want, even with your family."

The camera faithfully captured the scene of their conversation. In the Nou Camp TV commentary room, Liu Jianhong said to the microphone with envy: "A while ago, European media reported that Messi and Lin Zhigao had a very good personal relationship. Many fans still don’t believe it, but looking at how they shake hands now, it’s almost the end of the game and the two are still talking so happily, it seems that Messi and Lin Zhigao are indeed friends!”

Zhang Lu continued with a smile: "Many domestic Barcelona fans are eager for a signed Messi jersey, but they may not even meet Messi in person, let alone ask for his signature. But I think Lin There must be no shortage of such things in Zhigao's family—"

"Are you suggesting that Lin Zhigao open a store selling Messi's signature jerseys?" Liu Jianhong continued.

Zhang Lu laughed loudly: "I hope he can watch the game we commented after the game, and then ask Messi for some jerseys, and give us one for each of us!"

Of course Liu Jianhong and Zhang Lu were joking, but one thing can be seen from their words, that is, the powerful Barcelona has indeed expanded their fan base to the whole world.In fact, there has always been a saying in China, that is, the host commentators of CCTV, almost everyone is a Barcelona fan, evidence?Just watch them treat Barcelona with a completely different attitude from other teams when they do the show.

……

Barcelona and Juventus fans occupy the Nou Camp with clear barriers, trying their best to create the greatest momentum to cheer for their respective teams. At this moment, almost all of them regard each other as enemies.

On the court, the atmosphere at the start of the game was not so tense-the victory or defeat of this game will not affect the result that Barcelona must qualify, so the Barcelona players are relatively peaceful.As for the Juventus players, they were originally nervous, but after the commotion in the player tunnel, they laughed and relaxed themselves, and they were not so uneasy anymore.

However, there was one person on the field who was ready to fight hard, and that person was Thiago Alcantara.

A Spanish-Brazilian who grew up in Barcelona's youth academy and joined the Spanish U16 national team as a teenager, Thiago has everything that other young talents have - talent, skill, expansiveness. The future, and pride or a little bit of ego.

In 08, he finished training in La Masia (Barcelona Youth Training Camp), signed a contract with Barcelona Club, and then played in the league. His performance was amazing and attracted the attention of the world.

It can be said that Thiago has been trained as Harvey's successor since he entered Barcelona. The media called him this way, and the head coach trained him this way. Even he himself felt that after Harvey retired, Barcelona's midfielder It must be supported by itself.

Even though Cesc Fabregas returned to Barcelona in 11, and he was only four years younger than Thiago, Thiago still felt that Fabregas could not threaten him, just like Harvey today, no one can replace him, Thiago also feels that his future self must be irreplaceable in the team.His jersey is No. 11. Doesn't this number represent what Barcelona expect of him?

Barcelona's current brilliance has fueled Thiago's own pride and self-confidence. When the European Golden Boy Awards were selected last year, he was the same popular candidate as De Gea and Gotze, but Thiago is particularly confident in himself—— Although he is the main player in the rotation of the first team, he has many honors, such as a European Youth Championship, a European Youth Championship MVP, three league championships, a Champions League trophy, a Spanish Super Cup champion, and a European Super Cup Champion... With so many honors, who can compare to him between De Gea and Gotze?

However, the reality gave him an extraordinarily cold blow.Gotze actually won the European Golden Boy Award in 2011.

Even though he was very dissatisfied at the time, Thiago still had to perfunctory reporters with a forced smile, comforted his parents, and told his teammates: I actually don’t care about this award at all, and so many superstars in the world have never won this award , such as Ronaldo, but who can deny their excellence?

However, these are superficial efforts.In his heart, Thiago secretly gambled and vowed to win this award this year.

There are still a few popular candidates for the European Golden Boy Award in 2012. The biggest competitor De Gea is already old. Hazard is far away in Ligue 16. The biggest threat is No. [-] from Juventus Forward, Lin Zhigao.

Although it is said that Thiago has won more collective honors than Lin Zhigao, Lin Zhigao has more personal honors than him, not to mention other things, but the record-breaking Premier League Golden Boot will attract many more people to Lin Zhigao Look sideways, not to mention his amazing performance against Barcelona in the last Champions League group stage.

Both Juventus and Barcelona are giants. Although Barcelona is now more brilliant than Juventus, Lin Zhigao is the main player in Juventus!And it will take at least a few years for him to become the absolute main player. Harvey and Cesc Fabregas still have a few years to play.

In terms of media attention, the two are on par. Looking at the performance of the national team, Thiago is not yet the main player in the Spanish national team without a shortage of players, while Lin Zhigao has already started to compete for the Chinese team in the World Cup...even if the Chinese team It is a weak chicken team, and it also has bonus points in the eyes of various media.

The more Thiago calculated, the more frightened he became. He even had a premonition that he might lose again this year.As soon as he thought of this, he became anxious, and as soon as he became anxious, he desperately wanted to find a way to defeat Lin Zhigao.

And when the last stop between Barcelona and Juventus is approaching, Thiago suddenly shines: the opportunity is here!If he can completely defeat Lin Zhigao in this world-renowned game, not only does it mean that Barcelona wins, but he scores goals for the opponent but fails to score, wouldn't it be able to greatly increase the points in the hearts of those media judges?

And Barcelona's first-line players joked about guessing who would win the European Golden Boy Award, which added fire to Thiago's heart.Thiago's status in the Barcelona locker room is not important, and he is still in a dispensable state, so no one puts a bet on him because he deliberately wants to make friends with him to please him. Said that Messi and Cesc Fabregas supported Lin Zhigao because they were personal friends with Lin Zhigao, and left him aside.

Just do it!Thiago sharpened his sword and couldn't wait to fight Lin Zhigao on the field.

……

Thiago made a good plan, but Guardiola didn't let him do so.

Originally, he was not the team's absolute starting force. It would be good to replace him once in two or three games on average. Want to start in such an important game as the Champions League?Let's wait until Xavi or Cesc Fabregas is injured and truces.

Thiago sat on the bench off the field, staring at the green lawn so hard that his eyes almost popped out.But no matter how he radiates resentment, it cannot change the fact that Juventus has Lin Zhigao in the starting lineup, but Barcelona does not have him in the starting lineup.

The Catalan commentator didn’t know if he had a heart-to-heart with Thiago. He happened to talk about the topic of the European Golden Boy Award at the moment: “Juventus’s starting lineup has Lin, a new player they only joined this season. I believe Most of the fans in front of the TV were deeply impressed by the extraordinary stunt he showed when he played against Barcelona last time. I remember this teenager named his stunt "Neon Light Superman"? Haha, what a joke Interesting name."

"When you mention Lin, you have to talk about Thiago who is sitting on the bench at the moment. As far as I know, the two of them are the most likely to win the European Golden Boy Award this year. Lin was born in 93. , this year is only 19 years old, he still has two chances, and Thiago is already 21 this year, this European Golden Boy Award is the last one he can win, and next year, he can only make efforts for the Golden Globe Award gone."

"Given that both Thiago and Lin Zhigao are popular candidates in the eyes of the media, I actually hope that Guardiola can put Thiago on the field in this game, so that everyone can see Thiago and Lin Zhigao head-to-head After fighting against one another, it will be clear at a glance who is better among them, and who will be the best candidate for the Golden Boy Award at that time, will there still be any suspense?"

The words of the Catalan commentator are full of confidence in Thiago.It was as if he felt that as long as Thiago played, he would be able to beat Lin Zhigao to the ground—even if Harvey hadn't done it yet.

……

The singing of "Barcelona, ​​Barcelona" filled my ears, and Lin Zhigao was sweating on his forehead.

All that echoed throughout Camp Nou were the cheers and cheers of Barcelona fans for their team, and the voices of thousands of Juventus fans seemed to be drowned in the sea and could not be heard.

This kind of home atmosphere is a nightmare for many players, but for Lin Zhigao, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, no matter how fierce the fans were, they couldn't jump off the stands to hurt him, so those noises?Just think of it as an annoying background sound.

In this game, Capello chose a defensive counterattack formation.To be honest, after many world-class coaches found that the full offensive formation could not beat Barcelona, ​​and the full defensive formation could not prevent Messi from scoring, they stopped doing more under formation tactics. More and more teams are facing When playing in Barcelona, ​​I still chose the most convenient way to play. In this way, I unexpectedly won several victories against Barcelona.

The goalkeeper is still the god-level figure Buffon. In the first 10 minutes of the game, he has stopped Messi's two shots.Rao is a person like him who is as calm as he is, and he also feels that if Messi continues to attack with such unscrupulousness, the Juventus gate he guards will miss sooner or later.

Fortunately, Juventus' defense has always been very strong. The three-back formation formed by Chiellini, Caceres and De Qielie kept a close eye on Messi and did not give him a second chance to shoot in the first half.

In contrast, Juventus' striker was also closely guarded by Barcelona players.

Because Quagliarella was injured and unable to play, only Lin Zhigao and Iaquinta were on the Juventus striker.Vucinic also sat on the bench in this game. In fact, it is useless even if he played. He is in poor form this season, and Capello often makes him sit on the bench.

It's not that Capello is unwilling to strengthen the offense, but that there are too few powerful attacking players available in the team. Many of Juventus' goals in the league are actually mostly completed by midfielders. This has to be said is a sarcasm.

Capello wanted the team to score goals, desperately hoped, but the people he had high hopes for were defended tightly.

In front of Lin Zhigao stood Barcelona defenders Alves and Pique, behind him was Xavi, not far away Fabregas was still looking over here.

The goal of each of them is the football under their feet, but Lin Zhigao is not willing to give it to them, let alone being cut off (this is a dream!), even if he directly chooses to shoot and is blocked, it hurts him. no.

So he let the football shake back and forth in front of his feet, his spirit was highly tense, and he always made the illusion of breaking through.

This really deceived Pique and Alves. Although Harvey didn't believe that Lin Zhigao would make an extraordinary shot, Lin Zhigao's extraordinary neon lights left a deep imprint on his mind, and he did not dare to rule out this possibility, so he will not rush to steal the ball from behind, but just follow Lin Zhigao and observe his every move.

Lin Zhigao blinked, and his eyes flashed around: very good, Iaquinta is 20 meters to his right, and only Mascherano is watching by his side.

His body suddenly sank to the right, and Pique was so nervous that he almost stretched out his hand to stop him, but Lin Zhigao didn't want to shoot, he just gently poked the football through the gap between Pique and Alves He went out, and then his body seemed to be deformed, he suddenly accelerated, and passed between the two of them!

The bodies of Pique and Alves were hit at the same time, but it was not heavy. This action is not considered a foul, so the referee will not blow the whistle, but Pique and Alves were hit hard in their hearts. They both felt With his own defense, Lin Zhigao would not break through!

Almost at the same time, Harvey started to run fast, chasing Lin Zhigao. What he has to do now is to snatch the football from Lin Zhigao's feet!

But Lin Zhigao surprised them again.

After breaking through Pique and Alves, he didn't choose to continue running with the ball until he found a position that was good for shooting, because from the corner of his eye, he had already seen Harvey following behind him and the French who were about to start. Bregas, plus there is a Barcelona defender and goalkeeper Alibas in front of him, if he chooses to shoot, it must be an impulsive and arrogant behavior!

So Lin Zhigao made the decision to raise his left leg high and make a long pass!

He chose to pass the ball to Iaquinta!

"What a smart and wise move! Although Lin is not yet 20 years old, he has learned not to play football with his body, but with his mind!" The Italian commentator made no secret of his praise for Lin Zhigao: " Obviously, in this situation, it is much easier for Iaquinta to finish the final shot than Lin, so Lin gave up his chance to shoot without hesitation and gave him to his teammates! This behavior is very unselfish!"

As soon as the football was passed, Xavi and Cesc Fabregas rushed in front of Lin Zhigao. They stopped in time, but they had no time to catch up with the football that was already flying in the air.

Lin Zhigao triumphantly made a face at Cesc Fabregas: "I didn't expect me to pass the ball, did you?"

Fabregas raised his eyebrows: "I don't think your decision is wise. You know, letting your teammates complete the shot is not as good as your direct long-range shot."

Lin Zhigao curled his lips and ignored him.

But Fabregas was right.

Lin Zhigao's pass is excellent. He has already attracted half of Barcelona's defense players. Iaquinta has only Mascherano and the goalkeeper next to him. As long as he receives the ball, he will immediately choose to shoot. very big.

But Iaquinta made a mistake...

Lin Zhigao's pass was a bit high, and Iaquinta had to jump up to receive the pass.

Barcelona player Mascherano almost took off with Iaquinta. Iaquinta rushed to the top of the ball before him, but he forgot to shoot directly!

Maybe it was because Iaquinta was not good at heading the ball, or maybe it was because he was too nervous and he forgot.

But because of this small mistake, Mascherano cut off Iaquinta when the football just slipped under his feet!

A powerful long shot, the football was passed to Fabregas by him, and Barcelona immediately launched another wave of attack!

……

Liu Jianhong sighed sadly: "What a pity! What a pity! What a good chance to shoot!"

"Lin Zhigao has attracted most of the defense for Iaquinta. Although the pass is a bit high, the angle and timing are excellent. If Iaquinta chooses to shoot at the moment he touches the football, maybe Juventus will now Si is already leading by one goal!" Zhang Lu echoed him.

"Juventus' striker is still not strong enough."

"Yes."

A small mistake may have huge unpredictable consequences, and the same is true on the football field.

After Cesc Fabregas received the pass from Mascherano, he immediately turned around and rushed towards the half court. Harvey waved his hand and directed several Barcelona players to form an offensive chain.

Cesc Fabregas' dribbling caught the attention of the Juventus midfielders and, as they swarmed towards Fabregas, he passed the ball to Xavi.

Xavi ran with the ball and passed the football to Sanchez.

Sanchez to Fabregas, Fabregas to Xavi, Xavi to Messi.Several players passed the ball up to eight times within a distance of tens of meters, turning several Juventus defenders around, showing a typical Barcelona-style attack.

Capello stood up from the coach's bench with a "thump". He clenched his fists nervously and stood on the sidelines of the court and shouted: "Pay attention to Messi! He is going to shoot! Watch out for him!"

Just when Juventus' defense immediately shrunk nervously because of Capello's reminder, Messi had already rushed into Juventus' penalty area at some point, and raised his back high. Right foot!

"GOOOOOAL!" The Catalan commentator cheered vigorously: "Messi's shot! Barcelona leads 1:0!"

"Barcelona! Barcelona! Barcelona!" the Barcelona fans stomped, clapped their hands, and shouted heart-rendingly in the stands.

"Damn! Their heads are all paper!!!" Capello's face was gloomy.

"God!" The Italian narrator covered his face, afraid to watch this scene.Just over half of the first half, Juventus lost this crucial goal, which will definitely cause great damage to their morale, and if this game cannot be won...

"This is Barcelona, ​​this is Messi." Liu Jianhong sighed: "How to beat Barcelona is a topic that must have troubled European coaches and players for several years."

Iaquinta missed the opportunity, not only lost the opportunity for Juventus to lead, but also allowed Barcelona to score first, which he did not expect.

If Iaquinta knew that his mistake would cause such a huge consequence, he would probably try his best to kick that shot when Lin Zhigao passed the ball to him.

……

At the end of the first half, Barcelona led Juventus 1:0.

Most of the Juventus players who returned to the locker room looked ashen, half because of the unfavorable situation of the game, and half because they were afraid that Capello would go crazy during the intermission.

But Capello did not vent his anger on the players, probably because he knew that even if he scolded these players, it would not help the game to improve in the second half.

This is actually even worse, because no one knows how Capello will treat them when they return to Turin if this game is completely lost...

The players were very anxious. After returning to the locker room, they wiped their sweat with towels, or hurriedly replenished energy and water, and did not even dare to talk to each other.

Perhaps the only player in the team with a good mentality is Lin Zhigao. He is comforting Iaquinta at the moment: "Man, Messi's goal is not your fault."

"No, the mistake I made was a fatal one. If I could have shot that kick, even if I couldn't score, it would have caused a little chaos for Barcelona, ​​​​and they would not have attacked so quickly." Iaquinta covered his face with his hands, depressed and hoarse.

"No one on the football field can predict everything, Vincenzo." Lin Zhigao patted him on the shoulder: "It's not a man who only complains about himself. If you think you are a real man, then cheer up. There is a second half to play! Can't you work hard and make up for that mistake?"

Iaquinta put down his hands and gave Lin Zhigao an ugly smile: "You are right, Lin. I failed your pass, and I will give you another one in the second half. You must make good use of it." Opportunity, don't learn from me."

Lin Zhigao nodded with a smile, and was about to say something more, when he looked up and saw Capello standing not far from them, expressionless.

So he immediately shut up, for fear that he would become the chicken for the head coach to kill the chicken for the monkey to see.

But Capello didn't reprimand him, and didn't even give him a warning face. He just walked among the players and said, "I just got a piece of news from your assistant coach, Mr. Ferrari, but I I don't know if that's good news or bad news."

All the players pricked up their ears and listened to Capello's speech. Their intuition told themselves that the news probably had something to do with the match between Marseille and Pilsen held at the same time.

The first half of the match between Marseille and Pilsen was also over, and their results caused the faces of the players to suddenly become subtle.

"I didn't expect Pilsen to play so desperately when the situation of elimination was already determined?" Capello said coldly: "I didn't expect this either. However, I don't want you to put your hope of qualifying in the group on Pilsen. Those who have a fluke mentality in their body will surely suffer a crushing defeat."

The players immediately corrected their expressions and put on a rigorous and serious look.

"In the second half, I don't want to see you playing football without doing anything. The striker should look like a striker—" Capello glanced over everyone's heads, and Iaquinta lowered his head regretfully.

"But defenders, as the best defenders in the world, can't you even stop Messi's goal? In the second half, I don't want to see Barcelona's goal again."