Ultimate Demon Sword

Chapter 294

Barcelona was not well prepared for Wen Zhihao's sudden acceleration. Dennis Suarez did not make a counter-attack immediately, but committed a big taboo. His brain short-circuited for a few seconds, and he stood there in a daze.Busquets has a good defensive awareness, and immediately moved to Wen Zhihao's sprint route, but his goal was too big. Wen Zhihao had already included his supplementary defense in the plan. At this time, he directly made a long pass and moved to the other end in a wide range. Griezmann stopped the ball steadily on the other side.

"Perfect vision! As long as Wen is willing to play, he is a midfielder with a God's perspective!" Garcia has not hesitated to praise, although this is Wen Zhihao's only bright spot so far, the evaluation is also extremely high.

Griezmann gave Wen Zhihao a thumbs-up in his heart. In front of him was a flat surface. Barcelona's defensive center of gravity had been completely attracted by Wen Zhihao's sudden acceleration. He played a simple two-to-one with the inserted left-back Felipe and easily passed Barcelona's right-back Alex Vidal. Griezmann immediately outflanked the front of the penalty area and quickly formed a two-point outflank with Costa.Wen Zhihao was on the outside of the penalty area, ready to launch a second wave of attack at any time.

Barcelona's two central defenders, Piqué and Vermaelen, are both tall and big, and they may not be able to gain an advantage when fighting for high balls. Felipe wisely chose a low and flat ball to sweep in front of the goal. Their height advantage is a disadvantage when defending the ground ball, with a high center of gravity and a slow landing speed.

Felipe's pass is very precise. This routine has been repeated hundreds of times in training, and there is no need to observe it. He has already imprinted Griezmann's position in his heart.

Griezmann has also lowered his center of gravity in advance, waiting for Felipe to feed the cake, and then poked the ball into the goal from the gap between the post and Ter Stegen's left hand.

The Barcelona stands, which were so excited just now, were instantly silent—well, to be precise, there should be sporadic boos, but they were easily overwhelmed by the crazy cheers erupting from the Atletico Madrid stands, which were basically negligible.

Wen Zhihao quickly rushed up, and like everyone else, threw himself on Griezmann to celebrate.Most of the Barcelona stars who are still in the circle are left behind.

Of course, this is not Atletico Madrid's home court, and the on-site director also took care of a close-up of Messi.Compared with the high spirits when he passed Godin to instigate the goal 2 minutes ago, the expression of frustration at this moment stung the hearts of Barcelona fans.

However, Atletico Madrid fans cheered, and most of the focus of the camera was also on Atletico Madrid.In the commentary booth, the commentaries of the major media platforms tried their best to mobilize the passion.Based on their professionalism, it can be completely judged that these two goals are just appetizers, and the real contest has only just begun!
Only 2 minutes after Barcelona opened the scoring, Atletico Madrid equalized in lightning!

This kind of lead and equalize, lead again, equalize again, until the final overtake, the twists and turns of the reversal process is the most in line with the fans' definition of a classic matchup.However, most of such wonderful duels do not appear in the finals.The reason is simple. The two teams that made it to the finals both aim to be champions. The head coaches of both sides emphasize defense on the premise of not making mistakes first and giving the opponent a chance. Therefore, the finals are often more than intense but not exciting enough.

Like today, both sides scored a goal in half an hour, which is quite rare between two final teams with similar strengths.

But this game is destined to be an exception.

After being equalized, Atletico Madrid gave up their counter-defense strategy and took the initiative to fight against Barcelona. Atletico Madrid is not as good as Barcelona in overall control of offensive rhythm, but their style is simple and direct.Wen Zhihao is the baton to organize the offense. Griezmann and Costa run around him to meet him and then shoot.Most of Atletico Madrid's offensive routines can be easily completed by relying on three people. If it is not possible, the most full-backs will assist and help.Although simple and rude, the effect is good. The reason why Valverde used two tall central defenders and Busquets in the final is to enhance the defense's confrontation ability, but the mobility of Wen Zhihao and Griezmann has always been a difficult problem for Barcelona to solve.As a coach, Valverde has already thought of a lot of restraint in tactics, but ability is everything.The three defense generals of Barcelona are at the top level in the world individually, but combined together, they still cannot isolate the chemical reaction of the WCG combination.

Four to ten minutes passed in the first half, and when everyone subconsciously felt that the two sides would pursue a stable situation in the last 10 minutes in order to facilitate another battle in the second half, the scene started again (climax).

Atletico Madrid seized an opportunity to attack from the backcourt. Oblak passed a long pass directly across the midfield and found Costa, the bridgehead of the striker.

It is a new trend in recent years that the goalkeeper serves as the starting point of the counterattack and participates in the team's counterattack.Oblak rarely took the initiative to take on such a role in the previous season.It's just that at this moment, he saw that there was only Vermaelen behind Costa, and Wen Zhihao, Costa and Saul were moving in the opponent's restricted area!He realized it was an opportunity.

I have to say that this sneak attack tactic was very successful. The Barcelona players were still walking back slowly, but they were caught off guard by Atletico Madrid.Costa won the first point by relying on better positioning judgment, and passed the header back to Wen Zhihao cleanly.

The biggest failure of Barcelona at this moment was not that Vermaelen lost to Costa in the process of fighting for points, but that Vidal's position was not highly coordinated with Barcelona's defense line.

The scene was enough to force everyone to let out a shout of excitement in an instant, almost like a [-]-meter sprinter battle on the track and field - Atletico Madrid took the lead with Wen Zhihao leading the way, shooting three arrows at once, while there were only two people on the defensive line in front of them, and more Barcelona players gritted their teeth and fought for speed behind the three.

The focus of the audience was on Wen Zhihao who was running with the ball.

Seeing this situation, Vermaelen had no choice but to give up on Costa, and rushed towards Wen Zhihao. Wen Zhihao didn't even look at it, and directly accelerated the ball to pass.

Facing ter Stegen, it was easy for Wen Zhihao. With an extremely light lob shot, the ball drew a beautiful parabola, flew over his head, and fell into the goal behind him half a second later.

Wen Zhihao was already kneeling in front of the Atlético stands, enjoying the cheers and excited embrace of his teammates.

"Ah--beautiful! With his best speed, Wen Zhihao helped Atletico Madrid take a strong lead. He has scored three goals against Barcelona three times. And the first two times were key goals to help Atletico Madrid win. I think it is not an exaggeration to give him the title of Barcelona's nemesis. Even in the whole of Europe, no player can do it consecutively."

Fans commented on CCTV's mobile client: "Barcelona's nemesis? No problem, but Poet He did his homework well! Including the Club World Cup two years ago, Wen Zhihao has faced Barcelona four times and scored four goals. With this efficiency, I won't help (conquer) the wall if it falls. I will convince our Jia Zhihao, and he will soon treat the Barcelona penalty area as his own back garden..."

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