Chapter 868: Villa Park Stadium Tragedy (Part 1)
"Strange, where did Guardiola go?"
More than one commentator raised this question. Five minutes into the second half of the game, the coach of the visiting team Barcelona still didn't show up.
At this time, the score on the court was three to one.
Just two minutes into the second half, Barcelona pulled one back.
This is Barcelona getting a free kick from a good position in the front court. Messi's free kick is of high quality and flies into the dead corner of the goal.
After pulling back a goal, this gave Barcelona a glimmer of hope and launched a fierce offensive.
"Critical interception!" John Mortensen yelled, "Clement, he's always in the most critical position at the most critical moment."
Iniesta broke into the penalty area and sent a horizontal cross. Clemente slashed down and slid the football out with a sliding tackle.
"Counterattack, chance for Aston Villa to counterattack."
Milner saved the ball before it went out of the touchline, and then went straight to Modric.
Modric did not choose to take the ball himself, but directly launched the attack with a long pass.
Bell stopped the ball beautifully on the wing, got rid of it in one go, and then began to accelerate the ball.
He made a gesture to go down, but he passed the football to Suarez who came to meet him.
Suarez has the ball in the half-space and Bale drives in behind him at high speed, attracting Alves' attention.
Suarez took the opportunity to cut inside suddenly and tea entered (not a typo) the penalty area!
Alves was shocked and rushed back to defend.
Suarez immediately poked the football to Bale just in time.
Bell wiped the football and rushed into the penalty area along the baseline!
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"Breakthrough! Beautiful cooperation!"
After seeing Bell break through, there was chaos in front of Barcelona's goal.
Klose is fighting for position with Mascherano, and the German veteran is pushing forward desperately, trying to grab the front point.
The Barcelona defenders rushed to Bale in a panic, intending to stop him before he passed the ball or shot, blocking the ball out of the baseline with their bodies.
Bell didn't give them a chance to form an encirclement. Before the encirclement was completed, the Welshman swept the football with his left foot and swept the football towards the goal!
Klose throws his body and shovels.
However, under the close defense of Mascherano, Klose could not completely throw his body out, and he could not touch the football.
In the middle, Mane stepped in and pushed directly at the football.
The football flew into Barcelona's goal without any suspense...
Valdes had no time to react, he could only watch the football fly into the net.
"Goooooooooooooooooooooooooal"
"Four to one! Aston Villa quickly opened the score to three goals again, Mane, this is a very crucial goal!"
After the goal, Mane was very excited. He turned and ran to Bell who passed the ball for him, and the two embraced tightly.
Off the field, Fang Jue was applauding, cheering for the goal.
At the same time, Fang Jue turned his head and glanced at the coaching bench of the visiting team, but Guardiola still did not appear.
...
A minute later, Guardiola returned to the coach's bench.
His face was ugly.
He broke his throat by shouting in the bathroom, and finally a staff member found out what was going on here.
However, what broke Guardiola was that the staff told him that the spare toilet paper in the bathroom was somehow wet with water.
Guardiola could only wait for a few more minutes until the staff brought toilet paper before being rescued.
"I want to complain!" Guardiola said angrily.
"Whatever." The staff ignored him, and UEFA didn't expressly stipulate that the bathroom must ensure sufficient toilet paper at all times.
"It was intentional. I asked to adjust the monitoring after the game to see who did it." Guardiola believed that the wet toilet paper was not an accident.
"Will your family install monitoring in the bathroom?" Guardiola was speechless when the staff said a word.
This is the reason for the long overdue arrival of his bad complexion.
‘One to four? ’ Guardiola looked up at the scoreboard, asked his assistant, and learned about the situation, his face became even uglier.
Although one-to-four is better than zero-to-three, although they all have to chase two goals, but in the case of zero-to-three, two-to-three can only equalize the total score, and three-to-four can eliminate Aston Villa. but--
As soon as Barcelona pulled back a goal, Aston Villa quickly surpassed the score again. This situation shows that Aston Villa's strong offensive ability continues to show off. Barcelona wants to ensure that they do not continue to lose goals. It was too difficult to chase two more balls.
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Five minutes later, at the fifty-ninth minute of the game, Guardiola couldn't sit still and made substitution adjustments.
Xavi was replaced and Thiago came on as a substitute.
Harvey is the brain of Barcelona's midfielder. However, in today's game, Harvey was closely marked by Clement.
His performance today can only be said to be quite average.
Perhaps this has something to do with Harvey's injuries. Given the key to this game, Barcelona's midfielder played with an injury today.
In addition, there is another point that Harvey has a yellow card. When Busquets was sent off with a red card, Harvey also had to undertake certain defensive tasks, which made the yellow card on Harvey very dangerous. Once the card is sent off again, Barcelona will be completely out of play.
Barcelona made adjustments, and Fang Jue immediately followed suit.
After De Bruyne finished warming up, Fang Jue called the little guy nicknamed 'Ding Ding' over.
"It's four to one now and there's nothing stopping us from qualifying, so don't stress."
"I know, boss." Hearing Fang Jue talking to himself in a rookie tone, De Bruyne was not happy, "This is not the first time I have played a game."
Fang Jue laughed when he heard him say this, "That's right, you are not a rookie, you are a veteran with two assists in the Champions League."
De Bruyne scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.
"Xavi was replaced, Fabregas is still on the field, he has a card on him, I tell everyone to make more use of this." Fang Jue said.
De Bruyne nodded, indicating that he understood.
De Bruyne came off the bench and replaced the veteran Klose.
Mane's position was advanced to the front line, and De Bruyne played the original position of Mane.
Guardiola saw this substitution on the coach's bench and swears in a low voice.
Fang Jue is too cunning.
Replacing a veteran who consumes a lot of physical strength and replacing him with a fast young man means that Barcelona must be pushed out so that Barcelona can counterattack.
Guardiola looked very impatient...
From time to time, he got up from the coach's bench and walked to the sidelines.
Occasionally, I will look up at the score on the big screen, then check the time on the watch, or turn my head to communicate with the assistant.
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"Pep, have you noticed that the referee is back to normal."
Guardiola snorted, and of course he noticed that after the start of the second half, the referee no longer seemed to favor Aston Villa or deliberately target Barcelona.
The current law enforcement standards can be said to be relatively fair.
However, Guardiola will not be grateful to Dade. In his opinion, this is more like the referee'After completing the task in the first half of the game, he thought that Aston Villa could be guaranteed to advance, so he resumed The so-called fairness.
In Guardiola's view, Aston Villa's second goal and third goal are problematic, especially the third goal and that penalty kick, it is simply out of nothing, he can't imagine, There is such a shameful punishment in Langlang Qiankun.
In my impression, it can be said to be "comparable" to the 2002 World Cup.
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Time passed by every minute and every second, and Barcelona's offense still had no effect.
On the contrary, Aston Villa's counterattack was impressive.
The sixty-ninth minute of the game.
Aston Villa hit a quick counterattack.
After Mane took the ball from the wing, he suddenly cut inward and took a shot.
The football thrown by Valdes hit Javier Mascherano's forehead, rebounded and hit the crossbar again and then went out of the bottom line.
Aston Villa's corner.
Guardiola was taken aback. If the goal was scored again and Barcelona fell behind by four goals, it would basically be over.
At the same time, Guardiola was also a little helpless. He felt that the team's luck today was terrible. Mane's shot was not a big threat, and Valdez obviously had a problem with his hand shape when he caught the ball.
Of course, the football was saved at any rate, but it was almost an own goal by Mascherano with a header.
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Gareth Bale stands on the corner, ready to take the corner.
This made Valdes a little nervous.
well known. Barcelona players are generally not tall. In the past, their air defense mainly relied on Pique and Busquets. Now, Busquets was sent off with a red card. Only Pique has a high point, and the air defense ability has been further weakened.
Bell takes the corner kick.
Suarez took the lead and Pique followed him closely.
This is exactly one of Aston Villa's corner kick tactics.
Pique was drawn away.
The football went to the back post, where Papastathopoulos headed straight into the goal.
It was Puyol who was defending him. The experienced captain of Barcelona found this landing point. Almost at the same time that Papastathopoulos took off, Puyol followed suit.
However, after all, he is a veteran who is about to turn 34 years old, and he was directly overwhelmed by Papastathopoulos and completed the header.
Valdes felt his right hand touched the ball, but, to his despair, he had no strength to stop the ball from advancing.
The football flew into the net, rolling up the snow-white net.
"Goooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaal!"
"Papastathopoulos! The Greek scored his first goal in the UEFA Champions League this season, 5 to 1. Aston Villa leads Barcelona by 4 goals. They have almost locked the ticket for promotion."
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