number one striker

Chapter 435 Unexpected Start
"Guardiola has undoubtedly prepared for this game for a long time. After all, this is the last time he coached Barcelona. But I think in all his plans, there should be no record of conceding a goal in the first minute."

At the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid's midfielder cut off Barcelona's ball, and then transferred the big foot to Costa.

With Mascherano's back on his back, Costa unloaded the ball without any difficulty, then smashed the ball and turned around, directly choosing to hit the goal.

The game was played by Pinto instead of Valdes, a decision that became the only loophole for Barcelona in this game.

"Costa shot from long distance! Too far! Pinto saves! Huh?! Pinto made a mistake! He missed it!"

Pinto, with pigtails, once helped the team resolve the crisis with a vivid whistle when the team was in crisis.

In 2010, Barcelona beat Copenhagen from Denmark 2-0 in the Champions League and jumped to the top of the group. An interesting episode happened in the game.

In the first half, Barcelona relied on Messi's goal to take the lead.In the 26th minute, Copenhagen player Sandin had an excellent opportunity to help the team equalize the score, but he did not seize this opportunity.At that time, Sandin stopped and mistakenly thought that the referee called him offside, so he did not pass the ball to Ndoye who was facing the opponent's goalkeeper alone.Copenhagen coach Saul Baken was furious on the sidelines because of this.

After the game, the video of Spanish TV [-] showed that Pinto deliberately whistled to confuse the opponent before and after seeing the opponent attacking the goal, causing Sandin to mistakenly think that he was offside.The video also shows that after blowing the whistle, Pinto proudly turned his head to face the Barcelona bench, signaling to his teammates there that he had blown the whistle.

However, Pinto is not in the mood to whistle now, because Caesar's movements are so fast that he has no time to whistle, and the ball is kicked into the goal by Caesar.

Pinto's error put Atletico ahead and Caesar scored the opener.

Guardiola's eyes widened on the sidelines, and then he spread his hands with helplessness.

Isn't this too low-level to let go?

Although Costa's shot is powerful, but the distance is very long, and he lost his strength when he came in front of Pinto.As a result, Pinto actually let go, and the ball allowed Caesar to seize the opportunity.

Caesar, who scored the goal, couldn't believe it himself. He looked back at the linesman, then at the referee, and started to celebrate after confirming that the goal was valid.

Costa rushed up and pulled Caesar to the ground, and a face of prosperity and beauty was pressed down, making Caesar feel a little palpitation.

"I didn't expect Atletico Madrid to take the lead at the very beginning of the game! This is extremely bad news for Barcelona! It's time for Messi to work hard! He has scored a terrifying 50 goals in La Liga this season, which can be described as unprecedented, and it is estimated that he will never come again! Today he must use a victory to help the team win. Can Messi, who is in excellent form, win the score?"

Pinto had a dejected look on his face, but looking at Messi and other big shots, he didn't seem particularly disappointed.

"It's better to concede the ball now than to concede the ball later," Harvey said.

Messi nodded and said: "If you lose the goal in the first minute, you can recover it in 1 minutes. Give me the ball, and I will attack."

Today, Barcelona sent Messi, Pedro and Sanchez's three forwards. After the last defeat, Sanchez's mood has grown a little, and he is not so selfish.

Today his task is to be responsible for harassment, and then give the ball to Messi.

The Chilean was dissatisfied with Messi from the beginning, and later he was convinced by Messi's incredible performances.Although I am still a little unconvinced now, at least I have recognized the fact that Messi is far stronger than myself.

"Sanchez receives the pass! Pass back to Xavi! Xavi passes to Xiaobai, Xiaobai passes back, Busquets transfers! Alves is blocked, passes to Messi, Messi passes back, passes to Messi, Messi passes to Busquets"

Barcelona stepped back unhurriedly, and Atletico Madrid laid out the defense line unhurriedly.

Simeone observed for a while, and he saw that Barcelona wanted to use the width of the field to widen the horizontal distance of Atletico Madrid's defense line, just like a sieve, elongated, and there would be more holes in the middle.

Boggs also saw this, and quickly asked Caesar to retreat to the left, and Cork came to the center to ensure the thickness and width of the team's midfield by increasing the number of midfielders.

Guardiola didn't expect to break through Atletico Madrid's defense so soon. The two teams are not in a hurry, after all, there is still a lot of time.

Although it seems that the game is calm, as long as Barcelona speeds up, no one can stop it.

Godin kept looking at Messi, this active guy running up and down, constantly dropping back to respond, or just pushing forward.

However, Atletico Madrid's formation has been maintained very well and did not give Messi a chance.

On the contrary, Atletico Madrid used the counterattack to cause several threatening attacks.

"Vidal cut off Xavi's through pass! Sanchez came to fight back! Two Chileans competed in the midfield! Vidal raised his arms, resisted Sanchez, and then gave it to Gabi! Gabi crossed Turan! Turan kicked the ball and then gave it to Costa!"

The goal just now was scored by Caesar using Costa's cover, so when Xiao Ma looked at Costa, Pique stared at Caesar.

"Costa goes straight! Caesar catches the ball! Pique counters! The action is very fast!"

Pique, who broke the ball, did not choose to go forward. After all, he also saw the news of the Europa League and knew Ferdinand's fate.

Pique was originally a player who liked to attack, but for this game, he suppressed his inner impulse and used all his energy to ensure defense.

It's all about Guardiola, giving him a big send-off party.

"Pique to Busquets! Busquets to Messi! Messi accelerated!"

After 20 minutes of silence, Messi finally started to act.

The first step is to use personal ability to tear Atletico Madrid's defense.

"Messi is here!" Gabi yelled, and then rushed up by himself.

"Messi beat Gabi! Simple change of pace!"

"Then Vidal! While Vidal is defending, Koke retreats to make up for it!"

Messi didn't give Vidal much time to think, he sent the ball directly behind Atletico Madrid's defense, Pedro understood and ran to the position.

"Pedro!"

The Spanish winger was about to hit the goal when a leg protruded from his armpit and poked the ball over the baseline.

Courtois only saw one foot poke the ball towards the goal, but it was well above the crossbar and there was no threat.

"Godin successfully cleared the siege! Although the action was a bit big, he did not foul! Pedro was complaining, meaning that Godin raised his foot too high! But the referee ignored it, Barcelona's corner kick!"

(End of this chapter)