Chapter 257 The Highlight Is a Torture, Crying? Crying Also Counts as Time

Boos, all I could hear were boos!

There might also be a lot of angry curses mixed in.

Li Ang couldn't hear clearly because the noise at Camp Nou was too loud.

He could only judge by the middle finger gestures of many Barcelona fans in front of him, the angry expressions on their faces and their mouths that couldn't be closed.

The words uttered by these fans must be unpleasant, but for Li Ang, this scene was also the most familiar to him.

Maybe he was still nervous when he first stepped into the Camp Nou stadium, but now he didn't feel any pressure at all.

After the gliding celebration, Li Ang climbed up from the grass neatly, and then opened his arms directly as if nothing had happened, and turned to meet his teammates.

The Barcelona fans near the side of the stadium were almost mad at Li Ang's arrogance!

But they soon discovered that their boos and various insults had no effect on Li Ang's mood at all.

This guy even smiled more happily when he hugged his teammates on the court!

Barcelona's players on the court also felt powerless at the moment.

Even though Messi quickly entered the game in today's game, and even broke his own record of never scoring against Chelsea.

But this damn Li Ang quickly stood up to help Chelsea equalize the score!

Really, even if Chelsea replaced a player to score the equalizer, Barcelona's players would not feel so uncomfortable.

It happened to be Li Ang. When he was in Real Madrid, he always broke the deadlock in the game against Barcelona, ​​but after the transfer, he still had trouble with Barcelona!

Most of the Barcelona players on the court even had a trace of self-doubt in their hearts.

"Is there really nothing we can do about the team that Li Ang is in?"

It's not that they are afraid of the enemy, but the fact that Li Ang always performs exceptionally well against Barcelona is too metaphysical.

One or two times can be considered a coincidence, but now Leon has played more than a handful of games against Barcelona, ​​and it's the same every time, so it's no wonder they're thinking too much.

Even Messi's eyes looking at Leon at this moment have become a little different.

But this abnormal emotion didn't last long on Messi's face.

Before the live camera turned to his face, he shook his head and walked away.

As always, Messi didn't try to use his body language to boost the morale of his teammates at such a moment.

He's better at speaking with his performance.

The work of boosting morale is still done by Xavi and Mascherano.

Martino on the sidelines seemed to be still a little unaware, and he was discussing countermeasures with the assistant coaches.

"Chelsea will not give up the initiative of the game easily, Mourinho is too cunning!"

"Their high pressure will not last the whole game, which is more troublesome. We don't know when they will change the rhythm of the game."

"Their physical condition should be better, we can't get too involved in the struggle with them."

"Let's seduce them to attack us actively, and give up some ball rights appropriately..."

In the short discussion time, the coaching staff of Barcelona gave several tactical suggestions.

Although Martino was not very satisfied with their statements, at least he also got two important tactical information.

One is the initiative of the game rhythm, and the other is the physical difference between the two teams.

Obviously, Mourinho can give up a large part of the ball possession, but he is absolutely unwilling to give the initiative of the game to Barcelona.

And Chelsea's high pressure tactics that can be played at any time is Mourinho's magic weapon to seize the initiative of the game.

Chelsea's physical condition is undoubtedly healthier than Barcelona.

So Mourinho can safely and boldly let Li Ang command the team to change the high-pressure defense.

Chelsea can afford a war of attrition.

But Martino dare not let Barcelona let go and fight Chelsea with all their strength.

Messi's attendance rate this season has dropped significantly compared with the previous three seasons.

Previously, Martino used Messi more "economically".

To put it bluntly, even if this game is fought, other Barcelona players will be fine.

But as long as Messi cramps or his old injury relapses, Martino can basically prepare to resign from Barcelona's coaching position in advance.

This season, Barcelona's three-line battle can still hold on to the final stage, and Messi's strong performance in the second half of the season is indispensable.

The lineup problems that Guardiola failed to solve before leaving Barcelona, ​​Martino can't solve them now.

Barcelona's offense seems to be quite efficient, and it still relies on Messi in essence.

Although Neymar's current statistics are not bad, the Brazilian rising star who has just entered Europe and has not even played a full season cannot be the main offensive force of Barcelona.

Next season's Neymar will be interesting.

Barcelona is now on a tight rope, in decent shape, but its physical fitness problem has not been alleviated in the continuous three-front battle.

As long as Messi can still hold on, this Barcelona can still fight.

But the cruel reality makes Martino dare not make any gambling decisions on Messi's physical health.

Barcelona will of course continue to take the initiative to attack at home. But Martino knows that this offensive method will have a time node to end.

Unless they really see a great opportunity to force a battle to defeat Chelsea, Martino can only stop while he is ahead.

After celebrating, Li Ang and his teammates returned to their own half and waited for Barcelona to kick off again.

At this moment, he didn't know Martino's inner entanglement.

But he actually vaguely guessed that Barcelona did not have the determination of Chelsea to go all-in in a competition.

In fact, it is easy to understand.

Chelsea has already won a domestic cup championship this season, and the Premier League championship is also within reach, so the whole team does not have too much competition pressure.

In the Champions League, Chelsea is holding a relaxed mentality that reaching the quarterfinals is already a success, and reaching the semifinals will make a fortune. They will fight Barcelona for two games.

On the other hand, Barcelona is now fighting on three fronts. They have the same points as Atletico Madrid in the league, and temporarily rank first in La Liga because of the advantage of goal difference.

In the King's Cup, Barcelona eliminated Real Sociedad in the semifinals and once again entered the King's Cup final, where they will play Real Madrid in the final.

So don't think that their current three-front championship situation is very good, but if you are not careful, both the league and the King's Cup may be lost.

The pressure of the schedule and the physical pressure are piled on the Barcelona players, so it's no wonder that they can't fight hard in the Champions League.

In order to keep the Champions League and the league last season, didn't Mourinho directly give up the King's Cup to reduce the burden?

Li Ang has experienced the six-time champion and the defending season, and has personal experience in this regard, so he naturally has more say.

After the game resumed, Li Ang, who felt that the Barcelona players' strength in fighting and confrontation had suddenly decreased, had a flash of enlightenment in his mind.

However, he was not in a hurry to continue to command his teammates to put high pressure on Barcelona throughout the game.

After all, they came to Camp Nou to play away today.

Now the score is 1-1, and Chelsea does not seem to have an advantage, but they got a valuable away goal!

Victory is certainly what Li Ang desires more, but if he can get out of Camp Nou more stably, then Li Ang feels it is okay.

On this point, Li Ang and Mourinho have a highly overlapping tacit understanding.

Getting one or two goals away from home, tying with Barcelona, ​​and returning to the home court to beat Barcelona hard, this is completely acceptable for Chelsea.

That's why the whole Chelsea team, which played a high morale of counterattack, soon played Tai Chi push hands with Barcelona under Li Ang's deliberate rhythm suppression.

Xavi and Iniesta, who had not yet received Martino's tactical hint, wanted to take the initiative to show weakness and let Chelsea press further.

As a result, they really didn't expect that Li Ang would not attack if he said so. The key is that other Chelsea players have not disagreed with Li Ang.

So at the time when many neutral fans thought that the two teams were going to attack each other, Chelsea and Barcelona tacitly slowed down the rhythm of the game.

Of course, this strange temporary calm did not last long.

Three minutes later, Martino made his tactical adjustment more decisively.

Barcelona still needs to attack more actively. If they tie with Chelsea with the advantage of home court, then Barcelona will be too passive.

Xavi had no objection to this. Martino made the right tactical choice, and Barcelona could not play any defensive counterattack with Chelsea.

After the whole team quickly unified their ideas, Barcelona forced the rhythm of the game's offense and defense.

Messi is still very confident, and his confidence comes from a clear understanding of his own strength.

And the defensive tricks of Matic and Ramirez before could not be difficult for him.

At least compared to Li Ang, Matic's defense did not make him feel irritated and depressed.

Messi felt that he still had the ability to help Barcelona open up the situation on the offensive end.

Until he got the ball again, the defender he faced was no longer Matic...

"Don't look at me so surprised, I didn't defend you at the beginning because I wanted to participate in the attack, but you are so amazing, I finally tied the score, I don't want to see you score again... Hey, don't run!"

The familiar teasing sound was heard again, and Messi's face lost his smile again.

He ran away, but Li Ang followed him closely.

This was not a targeted defensive tactic arranged by Mourinho, but a retreat decision made by Li Ang on his own initiative.

After all, fans all over the world have seen the effect of Matic and Ramirez defending Messi before.

Li Ang also didn't think Mourinho wanted to take such a big defensive risk and really play a self-destructive attack with Barcelona.

In the first round of away games, we have taken advantage of the situation, so we should stop while we are ahead.

Five minutes ago, Li Ang, who had just helped Chelsea score the equalizer, was also very excited.

He also wanted to score one or two more goals to help the team win the game completely.

But after calming down, Li Ang quickly changed his mind.

If Chelsea had a peak Kante now, Li Ang would not say a word and would definitely stay on the offensive end. He would also be relieved to have Kante defend Messi.

Unfortunately, this is just an assumption. He feels that he needs to limit Messi's performance himself. Matic still looks a bit clumsy against Messi.

So without Mourinho's signal, Li Ang took the initiative to retreat to the defensive midfielder position and let Ramirez go to the front.

And Chelsea quickly changed from a state of rapid attack and slow defense to a state of rapid defense and slow attack.

Messi's performance was soon affected. After all, Li Ang's persistence has reached a new level.

After Leon and Messi "disappeared" from the game, it was still difficult for Barcelona to tear Chelsea's defense system with Sanchez and Neymar.

It would be possible to replace Sanchez with Suarez or Henry five years ago, but unfortunately, it was not possible.

Seeing that Leon's defense against Messi was still very effective, Mourinho also acquiesced to Leon's active retreat.

And this change in position prevented Barcelona from rewriting the score again until the referee blew the whistle for the halftime break.

Chelsea did a good job of interrupting the rhythm of the game in the last period of the first half.

Without Messi, Barcelona's offensive rhythm really had a big problem of interruption.

Martino was a little anxious, and the rest of the Barcelona players had no smiles on their faces.

After the 15-minute halftime break, Barcelona, ​​who kicked off first, once again took the initiative to launch a fierce attack on Chelsea's half.

Perhaps they wanted to seize the initiative in the game after their physical strength was slightly restored.

Barcelona's attack started very quickly. Their two full-backs also pressed forward a little too much.

But in front of Chelsea's three-back formation, Barcelona's surging attack seemed to hit three solid reefs!

The splash was huge, and the shots were frequent, but they just couldn't penetrate these three reefs, and Barcelona couldn't further threaten Chelsea's last gatekeeper-Cech!

Messi rarely got anxious with the whole team, and he resolutely raised his hand to ask for the ball in another attack.

Iniesta certainly chose to trust him 100%.

However, at the moment when Messi turned around and wanted to advance after moving sideways to get the ball, Li Ang and Ramirez's double-team defense was also very determined!

Messi immediately cursed in his heart.

Because just half a minute ago, Li Ang kept chattering in his ear that he would have a 1v1 man battle with him in the second half.

It wasn't long after that, and Li Ang took what he said as fart, saying double-team and double-team, there was no psychological burden at all!

Messi, who was holding back his anger, stubbornly accelerated his pace. He still wanted to force his way out of the double-team.

But Li Ang saw the opportunity and made a decisive tackle!

The scene was so chaotic that Li Ang fell down, and Messi fell down with him, but the football was shoveled to the side by Li Ang.

The referee did not call a foul on Li Ang.

Because he just saw clearly that Li Ang's shovel was very smart this time. When Messi accelerated, Li Ang stabbed the ball away.

As for Messi's knockdown, it was more out of helplessness due to physical inertia.

And after Li Ang stabbed the ball away, he subconsciously retracted his foot.

So the referee directly gestured to signal the game to continue. The other Barcelona players did not even have time to appeal, so they could only hurriedly start to defend.

Bertrand, who was smartly advancing forward, had already rushed out three or four meters with the ball.

Li Ang didn't care about lying on the grass and talking about his ideal life with Messi. He got up from the ground and started to accelerate with all his strength!

After attracting the defensive attention of Busquets and Xavi, Bertrand did not pass the ball to Hazard who was on the side.

He was very bold and unexpectedly sent a long diagonal pass that broke the half court and transferred the ball to his own right side!

The pass was average, but fortunately, Barcelona's left defense was also relatively empty at this moment.

Alba and Alves had previously made too many forward runs. The two were still desperately gritting their teeth to chase back, but how could they catch up so easily when they were behind?

De Bruyne did not make any mistakes in stopping the ball. After perfectly unloading the ball, he dribbled the ball to the right edge of Barcelona's penalty area without hesitation.

This position is already a great passing area for De Bruyne.

Martino and many Barcelona fans at the scene subconsciously clenched their palms.

Li Ang's forward run and De Bruyne's cross were almost perfectly coordinated!

Commentators from various countries exclaimed again at this moment!

Exactly the same offensive routine, will Li Ang play his second header in this game? !

However, after seeing Pique's figure who changed his defensive target and rushed towards him decisively, Li Ang decisively changed his header to a header in front of the Barcelona penalty area!

His sassy operation directly made Pique's targeted defense vanish!

At this moment, at the back of the Barcelona penalty area, Mascherano could only jump up with Ibrahimovic to compete for the second point.

This scene was as funny as Sanchez and Matic competing for the high ball in the first half.

Ibrahimovic didn't seem to jump hard, and he overpowered Mascherano and headed the high ball that Li Ang passed to the middle of the Barcelona goal!

Pinto rushed to the near corner of the goal, but he was completely in the wrong direction!

And watching the birth of this goal, countless Barcelona fans were heartbroken!

Obviously, they are different opponents.

But why can they still see Li Ang's restriction on Messi's performance, the opponent's interruption of Barcelona's penetration rhythm in the middle line, and this damn high-altitude bombing! ! !

Two years ago, Real Madrid used this mixed style to pull Barcelona down from the top of Europe.

Now Mourinho, who has returned to Chelsea, has reproduced this set of tactics that makes Barcelona fans feel extremely disgusted!

Torture!

Such opponents and tactical play are simply torture for Barcelona fans!

Angry boos once again enveloped the sky above Camp Nou, but at this moment, the smiles on Li Ang and Mourinho's faces are even more prosperous.

This is the familiar feeling.

Torture? Torture is right!

Don't cry too long in your heart, crying also counts as game time!