The strongest winger

Chapter 968 Body Contact in Midair
Messi was full of confidence after planning the team's third goal to equalize the score. He even once thought that he could lead Barcelona to score three or four goals in a row at the Mestalla Stadium, directly win the King's Cup final, and lead Barcelona
Defeat Valencia led by the so-called 'King of the Finals' Aiello.

It not only wiped away the humiliating record of Valencia's inability to score points this season for the team, but also justified itself.

So Messi worked very hard after the team equalized. His cooperation with Iniesta was a perfect match. Coupled with Harvey's organization, the plot should have developed as he expected.

Although this goal was not scored by Ai Luo, anyone who knows the ball knows that the biggest contributor to this goal is him.

Messi worked harder when his team fell behind again, but this effort did not actually help Barcelona, ​​​​as Valencia launched a more violent attack under the leadership of Aiello.

And he also used his super personal ability to make the team's defense chaotic, and even made almost every defensive player get a yellow card.

This result will have a profound impact on the game with nearly 10 minutes left.

Ai Luo's personal ability is super strong. Under normal circumstances, two or three people can't limit him. Therefore, it is often necessary to use unconventional actions to defend, and such unconventional actions are often foul in nature.

Maybe the referee doesn't care about it once or twice, but it is inevitable that the referee will remember the accumulated fouls of the defensive player. What should I do if I get another yellow card then?
Besides... Sometimes the general unconventional defensive actions may not be able to restrain Ai Luo, and more tough fouls must be used to stop it, and these tough foul actions are often of the nature of yellow cards...

Thinking of this, Messi knew that he could not continue to stay strong and must help the team equalize the score in the shortest time, otherwise once the game entered 75 minutes, the result of the game would almost be a foregone conclusion.

With the UEFA Champions League semi-final mission in the middle of next week, it is impossible for the team to work hard to win the Copa del Rey, not to mention the dawn of victory is almost out of reach...

A few minutes later, Messi asked for the ball more actively, using his super dribbling ability to create opportunities.

However, there are not many such fleeting opportunities, because the initiative of the game is in the hands of Valencia, which has the advantage of home court.

With game time reduced, Valencia's attack was rarely forward passing, and unless they had an excellent forward assembly, it was all about crosses and back passes.

Against this background, Barcelona did not show the momentum of breaking the boat.

Messi's efforts seemed very weak, unable to support the entire team's offense.

The local Barcelona commentator, who was clear by the bystanders, said depressedly: "Barcelona's offense obviously has problems. Leo worked very hard, but his personal ability cannot support the entire team. He must invest more troops in the offense. What else is He Saipu thinking?"

At this time, the on-site director switched the camera to Guardiola's face and pushed it to a close-up of the face.

In the camera, Guardiola has a gloomy face, his mouth is pursed, and his eyes are looking directly at the pitch.

Of course, he was not wandering too far, but thinking about when to make the third personnel adjustment for the whole game.

Now less than 75 minutes, it is obviously inappropriate to make a third substitution adjustment for the offense.

After all, Guardiola is still afraid that the reduction of defensive players will lead to emptiness in the rear. At that time, if the attack fails and the goal is scored, it will really be powerless...

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The reason why Guardiola has this idea is directly related to the fatal crisis of turning from offense to defense after he instructed Busquets to press forward boldly.

It was scary enough to happen once, and he didn't want it to happen again.

Because no one can guarantee that when the same situation occurs, the danger will be saved.

Especially in the defense system, except for Puyol, no defensive player has maintained his innocence...

In the blink of an eye, the game entered the most difficult 75 minutes.

Whether it is the offensive or defensive side, running has dropped significantly.

However, at this moment, Cavani, who had not been replaced for a long time in the second half, changed positions with Ai Luo and came to the wing to look for opportunities.

After passing the football several times in a row, Cazorla suddenly passed a direct pass to Aiello, who was on the right at the top of the penalty area, and the latter calmly passed the ball to Cavani, who was pulled to the left.

The defensive player defending Cavani is Alves with a yellow card on his back.

In this regard, Cavani first made a fake move to dribble horizontally, and then slammed the ball with the arch of his right foot towards the baseline. Alves lost the opportunity and did not dare to foul because of the yellow card on his back. He could only lower his head and chase.

Although Alves is very fast, Cavani, who was born as a winger, is not slow, and Cavani is taller and has a larger body coverage.

Alves wants to steal the ball behind Cavani, who has experienced the test of Italian defense, it is undoubtedly a dream.

While dribbling the ball forward, Cavani also looked up at the penalty area. He clearly saw the index and middle fingers of Aiello's left hand, who was thrusting forward.

That's the signal for...a quick cross.

And he also has a rough crossing route in his mind, because these have been explained in detail during training.

When Alves lost his position, the right center back Pique had to make up for it, thus handing Aiello, who was pulled forward in the middle, to Puyol and Busquets.

Because of entering the penalty area, neither Puyol nor Busquets dared to make too much movement, but consciously sandwiched Aiello in the middle.

"-- Cavani!!"

With a shout from Martin Taylor, Cavani quickly kicked the football with his left foot and made a cross.

Neither Alves' side-to-back extension nor Pique's normal extension of the foot stopped the football, and the football quickly flew to the front of Barcelona's small penalty area.

Goalkeeper Valdez looked up at the incoming football, and he chose to stand on the goal line.

Busquets approached Aiello while looking up at the ball. He knew that the football must not be missed in front of his eyes, otherwise it would be very unrealistic to expect Puyol, who is less than 1.8 meters tall.

Seeing where the football will land, Busquets kicked hard with his right foot, trying to jump up to clear the siege.

But just as he was halfway through the jump, he felt he had hit a solid wall.

How did Busquets not know what he hit at this time?
This mid-air collision also interfered with Busquets' upward jump, not to mention the landing point of the football.

But Ai Luo, who was more prepared, was an exception. His body remained upward, and he accurately found the football landing point, twisted his waist and shook his head, and headed the ball towards the far corner of the goal...

(End of this chapter)