Chapter 256 The Counterattack Starts From This Moment! [Please Subscribe! ]

Messi's goal seemed to open a vent, allowing countless Barcelona fans to cheer and vent their frustrations of being repeatedly defeated by Li Ang.

And to be honest, Messi's goal was indeed beautiful.

Even though he didn't play against Li Ang this time, Messi was facing Matic, the top defensive midfielder in the Premier League.

It was as easy as drinking water to pass someone, and Messi's shot after shaking Matic off was even more impressive!

I can only say that Messi is worthy of being Messi.

As one of the only two superstars in today's football world who can use their personal strength to blow up the defense of the top teams in football.

Messi perfectly demonstrated his tactical value and ability level with this goal.

At this time, Messi also made his first response to Li Ang on the court today.

A slightly cunning wink.

The live camera did not capture it, but Li Ang saw it clearly, and he even saw the happy smile hidden under Messi's beard!

"He did it on purpose, he must have done it on purpose!"

Li Ang yelled in his heart in frustration.

But there was nothing he could do, who let Messi lead the team to the lead before him today?

Li Ang also truly experienced the frustration of Messi always watching Real Madrid lead Barcelona in the past two seasons.

To be honest, Messi's performance has always been good in the games against Real Madrid, not bad at all.

But in the past two seasons, as long as he didn't explode, Barcelona would always be led by Real Madrid.

The feeling that he didn't do anything wrong but couldn't resist his opponent made him uncomfortable.

And the culprit who caused this situation in most of the Spanish national derbies was of course Li Ang.

So looking at Li Ang's depressed and helpless face at this moment, Messi also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"You have a day too!"

Messi and his teammates were in a good mood and celebrated happily, but Li Ang was not as depressed as he imagined.

After muttering a few words, Li Ang took the initiative to return to his own half and cooperated with Terry to boost the morale of his teammates.

Although he was depressed, it was not Li Ang's character to think of retreating first when encountering difficulties.

He first found Matic and comforted him.

However, in the brief communication, Li Ang did not teach Matic any special skills to defend Messi.

Because those precautions are basically only suitable for him. Matic is much higher than him, and his body flexibility and turning speed are not as good as his.

Even if he taught Matic everything, Matic could not use his method to limit Messi.

So we still have to use a more affordable way to limit Messi's performance.

Don't play one-on-one, just double-team.

If you can't stop the double-team, then foul!

"As long as you don't go for malicious injury, the referee won't blow a big tactical foul. Remember, make more small moves to interfere with his advancement and shooting.

If he passes you, you block his inside position and force him to the wing. I will pay more attention to returning to defense..."

After a few words of advice, Li Ang didn't say anything more. He believed that Matic could lower his posture and cooperate more with Ramirez to limit Messi.

Sanchez and Neymar are also very dangerous, but compared with Messi who may go crazy and shoot at any time, the targeted defense against them can be completely put aside.

In the case of falling behind by one goal, Li Ang could not take the initiative to retreat to the defensive end to defend Messi one-on-one.

What Chelsea needs more urgently now is offense and goals.

So he can't retreat, at least before helping the team get back to the same starting line as Barcelona, ​​he can't retreat easily!

Mourinho obviously has the same tactical thinking as Li Ang.

At this moment, they are still behind, so Li Ang can't retreat easily. Chelsea must increase the attack.

However, the way of attack can be slightly changed.

The current Barcelona is no longer in its prime, but no matter what, it is not a wise choice to play against Barcelona in Camp Nou.

Mourinho quickly made a tactical gesture on the sidelines. Seeing this, the Chelsea players on the field also reminded each other to change their positions slightly.

As the game resumed, commentators from various countries and fans in front of the TV soon discovered the deeper position changes of Hazard and De Bruyne.

And Li Ang, with the assistance of Ibrahimovic, carried out more targeted pressing on Xavi, the organizing brain of Barcelona's backcourt.

Such tactical detail changes are actually very common in the team coached by Mourinho.

However, for Barcelona, ​​even if Xavi is targeted, their midfield organization and passing will not be affected too much.

Like Busquets, Iniesta, and even Pique, they all have excellent ball-handling abilities.

When necessary, Alves can also move inside and participate in the team's organization and dispatch.

So after just a little adaptation, Barcelona accelerated again, wanting to find opportunities to continue to attack Chelsea.

From this point, it can be seen that Barcelona coach Martino still has great ambitions to win today's game.

He attaches great importance to the offensive initiative, and wants to seize the time to expand the lead after taking a one-goal lead.

If Guardiola was standing on the sidelines of Camp Nou at this moment.

He appropriately signaled the team to slow down the pace to force Mourinho's team to further invest in the offensive end and make more mistakes.

If this happens, it will be a big trouble for Chelsea.

Fortunately, Martino didn't want to play any dirty tricks today, and the main focus was an aggressive offense.

Seeing that the entire Barcelona team was still tirelessly pressing forward to find offensive opportunities, Li Ang was immediately relieved.

The further retreat of Hazard and De Bruyne's positions was necessary at this moment.

The two of them assisted Bertrand and Azpilicueta to withstand Barcelona's wing impact.

Matic and Ramirez can then devote more energy to locking down the flank area in their own half.

Although it is impossible for Li Ang to directly return to the front of his own penalty area at this moment, it is no problem for him to conduct a large-scale coverage sweep in front and behind the top of the arc in the middle circle.

After instigating Matic to commit a tactical foul on Messi when he can't stand it, Li Ang took the lead in demonstrating the correctness to Matic.

However, his foul target was not Messi, but Iniesta, the engine of Barcelona's offense.

From the eighth minute to the fifteenth minute of the first half, Li Ang received two fouls from the referee. In addition, he also made several hidden defensive moves against Iniesta.

All of them were interference moves with extremely low damage and extremely torturous.

Such rogue defensive tactics and decisive foul rhythm immediately reminded Iniesta of their first match with Atletico in the league this season.

In that game, Atletico's four midfielders made Iniesta and Xavi suffer.

Iniesta still remembers the broken rhythm of the game, Atletico's tough defense and the bloodiness of not being afraid of getting a card.

At this moment, Li Ang used the same disgusting trick, and Iniesta immediately understood it.

Li Ang must have studied the first game between Barcelona and Atletico in the league this season before the game!

In the 18th minute of the first half, after being dragged down to the grass by Li Ang again, Iniesta finally couldn't help but complain to the referee.

More Barcelona players rushed forward, but the referee blew the whistle quickly, and signaled the Barcelona players who gathered around to retreat quickly with a bad look.

Li Ang laughed at the side. He was not stupid. He dared to use this trick. He must have tried to find out the referee's whistle scale today.

However, when the referee looked at him with a serious face, Li Ang quickly restrained the smile on the corner of his mouth and walked aside with the referee honestly.

"Pay attention to your defensive actions! I have all your fouls in my mind. When they accumulate to a certain level, I will not be stingy with the yellow card in my hand!"

"I understand... I am too involved in the game. I am really sorry, Mr. Referee. I will pay more attention later!"

Messi rolled his eyes when he came over and heard Li Ang's assurance.

If other Chelsea defenders said this, Messi might still believe it.

But when Li Ang said this, there is no need to think about it. Just treat it as a lie!

Sure enough, when the game resumed normal operation, facing Neymar who retreated to the midfield to receive the ball, how could Li Ang reflect on restraint at all?

He immediately came up to Neymar and gave him a confrontation lesson!

And Neymar's experience is not as rich as Iniesta.

His fall was a little exaggerated, and the speed of falling was too fast.

The referee looked at him twice, and then said nothing.

After Leon squeezed him out and grabbed the ball, he rushed to Barcelona's half!

Barcelona fans at the Camp Nou were shocked and cursed!

"Stop Leon! Stop this bastard, don't let him dribble the ball anymore!"

"A tackle is a foul, tackle him!"

"F*** Sergio, just go ahead! Why are you afraid of him?!"

Busquets stared at Leon's dribbling and retreated.

It's not that he didn't want to be a defensive hero, stop Leon's dribbling, and finally block Chelsea's counterattack.

But he was too self-aware.

After all, he hadn't taken advantage of Leon in the past.

The two didn't play against each other many times, but they did, and they barely knew each other well.

Busquets would rather put Leon in front of his own penalty area and interfere with Leon's possible long shots.

He didn't want to rush out and be cleared by Li Ang, and then let Li Ang and Ibrahimovic face their own central defense line directly.

It has to be said that Busquets's cautious defense this time was quite effective.

At least Li Ang could only choose to pass the ball to De Bruyne, who was in a better position on the right, at the last moment.

And the cross sent by De Bruyne was cleared by Pique in the middle of the penalty area, and Chelsea was unable to directly threaten Barcelona's goal.

Li Ang watched Ibrahimovic fail in the final header, clapped his hands with some regret, and finally looked at Professor Bu a few more times.

"Why are you getting more and more cowardly."

After leaving this sentence, Li Ang shook his head and slowly retreated, which made Busquets very angry.

Li Ang was not discouraged at all after a counterattack failed, and Mourinho on the sidelines did not seem to be dissatisfied.

This time the quick counterattack in the middle was able to be played, and the effect was not bad. It seems that it is still a feasible plan to seek opportunities in a stable manner.

Mourinho was still able to sit still before the first half of the game was even halfway through.

Even though Messi completed another forced shot after receiving a pass from Sanchez not long after.

But Mourinho was still relatively calm and was not in a hurry to change his tactics.

Matic listened to Li Ang's instructions in this defense.

He interfered with Messi's final shot with a hidden little move, so Cech was able to steadily block Messi's shot.

Barcelona, ​​which had been attacking for nearly 20 minutes, got the lead and offensive initiative they wanted most.

But as the game progressed, the physical strength of Barcelona's starting players was also rapidly fading.

Now that they only had to fight on two fronts and had more rest, Chelsea slowly revealed their physical advantages.

Just when Barcelona wanted to control the ball and slow down the pace of the game, the entire Chelsea team refused to do it!

Li Ang took the lead and launched a strong high-position pressure against Barcelona with his teammates!

This time, it was not just Li Ang or Ibrahimovic who targeted Barcelona's single organizer.

The high-pressure system is the extreme compression of the space for one team to hold the ball and pass the ball to the other team as a whole.

To put it more simply, it is to use stronger running ability to form a strong defense strategy in a local area many times, and double-team the ball holder!

One-on-one stop is not considered high-pressure.

Li Ang is the well-deserved core of Chelsea in such a huge interception operation.

Whether he cooperates with teammates in the left or right half of the field, he can do it with ease.

And Mourinho's courage is also great enough. Either he doesn't grab, or he grabs Barcelona and turns it upside down!

In their own half, Chelsea almost only left two defensive players, Terry and Matic.

Bertrand and Azpilicueta had already pressed into Barcelona's half with their teammates.

There were many Chelsea fans who were worried that their high-pressure pressing mode would not be able to snatch the ball from Barcelona.

But as Li Ang and Ramirez completed two consecutive steals in a short period of time, they launched a counterattack on the spot.

Chelsea fans in front of the TV also quickly took a reassurance pill.

They found that Barcelona was not as strong as they imagined.

Or, they still underestimated the strength of their team's current style of play.

After two consecutive quick counterattacks, Chelsea has greatly threatened Barcelona's defense.

Pique yelled with lingering fear, asking his midfield teammates to pay more attention and not let Chelsea seize the opportunity of attack and defense conversion so frequently.

But Busquets, Xavi and others also had no words to say.

As long as they get the ball, they will basically face two or more Chelsea players crazy double-teaming!

And with the running at this moment, every Barcelona player with the ball in the midfield will basically receive such defensive treatment.

In such a situation, it is really difficult to ensure that the ball is not lost once.

In the 27th minute of the first half, Li Ang once again joined forces with Ibrahimovic and De Bruyne to double-team Iniesta.

With his retreat blocked, Iniesta had no choice but to drive the ball to the front court.

The accuracy of his long pass was still very good, but Sanchez looked a little funny in the process of competing with Matic for the header.

Matic easily headed Iniesta's long pass back to the Barcelona half.

This time, Li Ang, who blocked Xavi with his back, also easily stopped the ball with his chest, and then passed the ball directly to Hazard.

Ibrahimovic and Ramirez rushed in from the middle at full speed!

Busquets and Pique passively commanded the defense while retreating quickly.

And Hazard did not hesitate to face Alves's defense this time, and he pushed the ball forward. Directly helped Bertrand to successfully go to the bottom!

After Bertrand took the ball and cut inside two steps, he observed for a moment and then directly sent a beautiful inward cross!

Ibrahimovic strode forward, while Ramirez fought with Mascherano in the middle of Barcelona's penalty area.

Pique could only choose to keep an eye on Ibrahimovic at the first moment, so as not to let the Swedish player get any.

But the landing point of Bertrand's cross completely bypassed the front point where Ibrahimovic was rushing, and flew directly to the other side of Barcelona's penalty area!

Busquets, who had been prepared for a long time, was about to stand in position and fight for the header.

But Li Ang, who had just rushed in from outside the penalty area, used his strong inertia to push off the ground and jump, and then squeezed Busquets away, completing a beautiful header in the air!

This sudden scene made countless Barcelona fans panic!

However, in the eyes of commentators from various countries, this was completely a premeditated attack by Chelsea!

"Bertrand is going down the bottom line, he should be going to cross the ball! Chelsea has a natural advantage in competing for high balls... The ball is kicked! Li Ang at the back post--!!!"

He Wei didn't care about his reserve and demeanor at this moment. When he saw Li Ang's head swinging to attack the goal, he completely released his passion and roared excitedly!

Under the night sky of Camp Nou, Li Ang was like a bomber with its wings spread out and spitting shells angrily!

His hideous metallic fuselage completely covered the Barcelona penalty area.

And in the roar of the explosion, the safe pure land guarded by the veteran Pinto was easily ravaged and flattened by the metal storm!

Pinto's save speed was too slow!

So slow that when commentators from various countries had already begun to exclaim and celebrate for Li Ang's goal, his save figure had not yet landed!

After Li Ang confirmed that the ball had crossed the line. First he pouted at the live camera, then he opened his arms and replicated the celebration action of a bomber gliding near the baseline!

The crazy cheers of thousands of Chelsea fans at the Camp Nou sounded so ironic to the ears of Barcelona fans.

In the box, Long Ge, Nacho and others were so happy that they laughed and clapped each other, as if the goal was scored by Li Ang representing Real Madrid.

Mourinho, who also attracted the attention of the live camera, did not disappoint the reporters.

Although the madman is old, he still has that passion in his bones.

After running out of the coaching seat, Mourinho, wearing a windbreaker, ran 30 or 40 meters on the sidelines with his fists!

Falling behind by one goal at the start, so what?

He is good at leading the team to play against Barcelona, ​​and he has Li Ang, Barcelona's biggest victim in recent seasons!

Counterattack, officially started from this moment!