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Chapter 412 A Chaotic Game

Chapter 412 A Chaotic Game

After the game started, Barcelona began their performance.

The real giants in Europe are basically those ten teams, the top four in the Premier League, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Newcastle. Although Liverpool was once the most successful club in England's history, with the rise of Newcastle, they have been squeezed out of the Champions League in recent years. Milan; the Spanish duo Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​plus a Bundesliga overlord Bayern Munich, other teams either have insufficient background, or the current results are not good.

Each of these ten teams has its own characteristics, and the characteristics of Barcelona are the technical flow of play and their "No. [-] tactics" that have been insisted on since the Cruyff era.

The core of their midfield is often not a forward midfielder, but an organizational midfielder. From Guardiola to Xavi, to Iniesta now, and even Cesc Fabregas who came out of their youth team, all of them are the embodiment of this tactical intention.

Although they have had super midfielders like Rivaldo and Ronaldinho, in Barcelona, ​​they are just an assaulter, not a brain or a core.The organizational midfielder under the protection of a powerful sweeping midfielder and a strong attacking midfielder is the soul of the Barcelona team. Under their instigation, Barcelona's offense is like mercury pouring down the ground, which is both pleasing to the eye and irresistible.

Even though it was on a slippery field and even though it was still raining lightly, Barcelona's offense was still like mercury pouring down the ground. It seemed normal, but in fact it was pervasive.

Xavi, Iniesta, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Bojan, Alves...these are all outstanding attackers in today's world football. They all have one characteristic. They have excellent skills and strong coordination ability. Coupled with Villa's erratic movement and precise shooting, few people in Barcelona's offensive line can resist it.

After the opening 10 minutes, Barcelona had the upper hand on the scene, and it was difficult for Hoffenheim to attack.

However, all Hoffenheim players are already mentally prepared. It is not a shame to be beaten by Barcelona. The key is not to allow the opponent to turn their advantage into a goal.

The slippery ground still brought some troubles to Barcelona's offense. Sometimes the ball that could be received suddenly accelerated on the lawn, resulting in a pass error. For example, Xavi made a wonderful through ball in the middle.

After 10 minutes of the game, the Barcelona players began to gradually adapt to the field conditions. After all, they are experienced stars and encountered many situations. However, Hoffenheim also began to recover from Barcelona's attack and began to organize counterattacks.

Hoffenheim did not entangle Barcelona in the midfield at all. Eduardo always distributed the ball to the two sides at the first time, using the speed of the two fast full-backs to cause trouble for Barcelona's two full-backs. Without a full-back, Barcelona's defense on the side basically relied on full-backs and midfielder Keita's fill.

But Hoffenheim's offense didn't work too well, as Long Bisheng, their strongest scoring point in the middle, found himself in a big trouble.

After playing against Pique a year ago, Long Bisheng also left a deep impression on this central defender with excellent physical fitness, but he did not expect that his own progress this year is not small, but Pique's progress is even greater!

Not only is he still excellent in physical confrontation, making it difficult for him to break through the opponent's defense, but at the same time, his defense around the front, blocking ability, judgment of landing, etc. have made a qualitative leap compared to a year ago!

Hoffenheim has made no less than ten successful crosses from the two wings, but he was able to successfully compete for the header only once. That header was still high under the interference of the opponent, and it did not pose any threat to the gate guarded by Valdes.

"This guy is really powerful, much stronger than a year ago."

After another unsuccessful fight with the opponent in the restricted area, Long Bisheng wiped the sweat off his face and thought to himself.

In the first 15 minutes of the first half, Barcelona had the advantage. In the middle 15 minutes, Hoffenheim started to counterattack, but no one could pose a real threat to the opponent's goal. Barcelona was also cautious in the away game. After all, the weather and stadium conditions were not good for them. Hoffenheim was unwilling to attack rashly and lose a goal at home.

In the locker room, Rangnick praised the performance of the players. Although it was disappointing not to score a goal, even if it was a zero-to-zero score at home, it was not a very bad result. After all, Barcelona will definitely launch a fierce attack when they return to the Nou Camp. At that time, Hoffenheim may have many more chances to counterattack.

After the start of the second half, the two sides continued to entangle on the field. Barcelona was still based on the midfield and advanced layer by layer, while Hoffenheim used quick counterattacks to prevent the opponent from pressing aggressively. Both sides played very steadily, and the scene began to become dull.

If things go on like this, maybe this game will be a boring zero-to-zero game. Hoffenheim relied on home advantage and weather to tie their opponents and went to the away game to decide the outcome, but an accident broke this dull situation on the field!

Alves put in the assist and Maxwell defended beside him, but Harvey still seized a chance to pass the ball to him cleverly.

Comper jumped high and wanted to head in front of Ibrahimovic to clear the siege, but when he was jumping, his feet suddenly slipped, and he couldn't use his strength. He only jumped halfway up and fell, falling to the top!

Before the fans of Hoffenheim had time to exclaim, they saw that Ibrahimovic probably underestimated Comper's mistake. He only had time to shake his head and hit the ball, and the ball flew obliquely towards the far corner of the goal.

Just when Rangnick breathed a sigh of relief, Villa suddenly rushed up from the back, fell to the ground with a shovel under Li Jie's entanglement, and narrowly touched the ball. Just a light touch was enough to make the ball change direction and quickly flew into Hoffenheim's gate!

Relying on a slightly lucky goal, Barcelona broke the deadlock in the stalemate and led Hoffenheim by one away goal!

Hoffenheim, who was driven to a dead end, began to launch a fierce attack, actively attacking Barcelona's defense line through long passes, while Barcelona was stably holding the ball in the midfield, constantly killing time, and the game began to look better.

The direct long pass from the backcourt also improved Long Bisheng's performance. In the penalty area, Pique can also deal with Long Bisheng through blocking and interference, but in the case of direct long pass from the backcourt, Long Bisheng can solve everything with his huge body.

With his header ferrying, the other players of Hoffenheim got enough chances to shoot, but the other Barcelona defenders and goalkeeper Valdes also performed very well, constantly blocking Hoffenheim's shots, while their strikers used their personal abilities to create trouble for Hoffenheim's goal time and time again.

In the last 15 minutes of the game, Rangnick had used up his three substitutions, all of them were offensive players, but still had little effect.

The Barcelona players also felt a little tired, and Guardiola began to let them shrink their defenses to keep their one-goal lead at home.

"Dragon!" Kolarov yelled, and then hung the ball into the penalty area under Keita's entanglement. Long Bisheng carried Pique behind him, then took off, and shook his head to attack the goal!

This header has already passed Valdez's hand, but it hit the goal post hard and popped out of the bottom line!

Countless Hoffenheim fans hugged their heads, and Long Bisheng couldn't help but roared, venting his depression.

He already felt that it was becoming more and more difficult for Pique to block his impact. After all, he had been entangled with him for almost the entire game, and Pique's physical energy was also consumed a lot!

A 3-minute stoppage time sign was displayed on the sidelines, and there are still 3 minutes before the end of the game!

Marin's shot hit Abidal's body and bounced off the baseline, a corner kick.

Even Li Jie rushed into Barcelona's penalty area. Rangnick had no extravagant hope of winning at this time. He only hoped to equalize the score. Going away with a draw is much better than going away with a loss!

Eduardo took a tactical corner kick and distributed the ball to the feet of Kolarov who was plugging in. Facing Alves' defense, Kolarov first made a fake cross, then dunked the ball and directly entered the Barcelona penalty area!

Puyol came up to block him, but he had already passed the ball. Long Bisheng leaned on Pique and just shot!

The ball bounced into the air on Pique’s protruding foot. Ibisevic intended to head the ball, but Keita headed the ball out ahead of time. His header was cleared in a hurry and did not go far. Salihovic, who was replaced in the second half, sent the ball into the penalty area.

There was a huge chaos in the penalty area. Long Bisheng controlled the ball near the baseline, turned suddenly and hit the goal from a small angle!

The ball bounced off Valdez's leg, and Marin stretched out his foot in the chaos!

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL—Marco Marin!" Huge cheers erupted from the Rhein-Neckar stadium!

(End of this chapter)