The days of playing football with Da Luo

Chapter 401 Dramatic scene

Under Capello's nervous eyes, a dramatic scene suddenly appeared on the court.

Barcelona poured the ball back and passed it back to Valdes.Ruud van Nistelrooy immediately stepped forward to press, Valdez seemed a little flustered, kicked the ball hastily with his big foot, and the football flew crookedly towards the bottom line.

Zambrotta immediately went to the rescue and finally saved the ball before the football flew out of the baseline.

But the Bernabéu suddenly burst into a huge cry!A figure wearing the No. 10 white jersey quickly approached him. Before Zambrotta stopped the ball and had no time to turn around, the figure hooked the ball back, took advantage of the trend towards the goal, and then raised his leg to shoot.

Valdés made a desperate save, but the arc of the ball was so wide that it went around his fingertips and flew into the dead corner of the goal.

The audience was in an uproar, and the flags were flying!
"Riccardo Goal!!!!" The commentator seemed to have unlimited lung capacity, and he shouted in a drawn out voice, "In such a critical game, Ricardo scored twice in the first half! He caught Barcelona A mistake, with a beautiful arc to help Real Madrid expand the score!"

Most of the more than 8000 Barcelona fans at the scene covered their faces with their hands, and couldn't believe that their team would lose points because of such a low-level mistake.

The Real Madrid fans are all elated, and they like to watch the embarrassment of the enemy most.

"In the 34th minute of the game, Real Madrid led 2-0 at home!" The commentator sighed, "This score really does not reflect the content on the field. Barcelona's ball possession rate is 71%, and the pass success rate is as high as 90% %, almost completely overwhelmed Real Madrid on the field. They also created good chances many times, but today they finished poorly."

After applauding Ricardo's goal with a smile on his face, Capello sat back safely on the coach's bench.He looked at the gloomy Rijkaard on the opposite side, and thought easily: What else do you have now?
Rijkaard did not immediately make adjustments to the team.

In his view, the team's backwardness is entirely caused by mentality and luck, not ineffective tactics.

Although there is not much time left in the first half, he believes that the team has every chance to get back a goal, and it will not be too late to adjust after entering the second half.

He is still very confident about Barcelona's offensive power.

Although Gudjohnsen is not a sharp knife, he can make the ball for Ronaldinho and Messi behind him.

Needless to say, Ronaldinho, the winner of the Golden Globe Award, has no doubt about his offensive ability.

As for Messi, regardless of his young age and stature, Rijkaard believes that one day he will amaze the whole world.

And Deco and Iniesta, the old and the young, are also players with both organizational and offensive capabilities.

Coupled with Harvey's superb midfield organization and scheduling, Rijkaard does not believe that there is any team in the world that can seal this Barcelona team.

Real Madrid's offensive ability is very good, that is because they have the world's top striker; and Barcelona's offensive ability is no less, because they have the best team and exquisite coordination.

Shortly after the restart, Barcelona played an attack that satisfied Rijkaard.Xavi's exquisite through ball sent the football to Messi's feet accurately. Messi's feet did not move.

Ronaldinho didn't wait for the ball to hit the ground, headed the ball directly, and then sent the ball to the empty space. Messi stepped in to take the ball and entered the dangerous area.Roberto Carlos was also daring, and even put a shovel in the penalty area, but he neither touched the ball nor touched anyone. Messi showed first-class skills, picked the ball up, and then volleyed directly.

The football bounced off Iker Casillas, Messi sprinted to catch up, saved the ball before the baseline, and passed it to the penalty spot in an inverted triangle, but Deco wasted this golden opportunity, his shot Anti-aircraft guns were fired.

Rijkaard couldn't help but sigh.Except for no goals in this offense, every link was impeccable.

In the 38th minute, it was Messi again, dribbling the ball continuously. After attracting the attention of three defenders, he suddenly slanted the ball into the space. Ronaldinho took the time to insert a direct shot, but was chased back Robert Carlos blocked it.

The closest Barcelona came to a goal was in the 42nd minute, when Ricciardo fouled Messi after returning to the defense, Ronaldinho took a free kick, the ball went around the wall, but the arc was not big enough to spin Into the goal, but slightly off the post.

"During this period, due to the increase of Real Madrid's backcourt, Barcelona's ball possession rate has declined. Now their ball possession is 67%," the commentator judged the game situation, "But it can be seen from the scene that, Barcelona still have an absolute advantage, but they have been winning and they have not scored, and now the score is still two goals ahead of Real Madrid."

"Barcelona's finishing needs to be improved. They created so many chances, but only 9 shots were on target after 2 shots. On the other hand, Real Madrid was much more efficient, 5 shots, 4 shots on target, and scored 2 shots. [-] goals."

"Rijkaard has to think of a way. This situation of gaining power and not scoring rarely occurs in Barcelona. He has to figure out what happened to the team."

What can Rijkaard do?He is also very helpless.He can't play himself.

In the backcourt of Real Madrid, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half.

In the locker room of the visiting team, the atmosphere was as solemn as in a coffin.The players did not whisper to each other, some were downcast, and some looked at Rijkaard expectantly.

Rijkaard spoke slowly: "I admit that I made a mistake. Even though I already knew that Ricardo is the most threatening player in Real Madrid, I still underestimated him and didn't pay him enough attention."

"In the second half, I hope you can concentrate more and don't give them another chance. Kars, I will leave Ricardo to you," Rijkaard looked at Puyol with trusting eyes, "tell me, Can you freeze him?"

Puyol did not speak, but nodded solemnly.He knows the task is daunting.

The best defenders in the world, Thuram, Cannavaro, Maldini have all tried to freeze Ricciardo, but with little success.

Puyol is not confident that he will be able to complete the task.

"We actually played not badly. We created a lot of chances, but we didn't grasp them for various reasons. I hope you can improve in the second half, otherwise I will give other players chances," Rijkaard said, "In the second half , we kick like this..."

(End of this chapter)