Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Stroke of Genius

The players in Barcelona were stunned, they never thought that Li Qingshan could actually be a dragon. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info In the general impression, a one-stop goal should be like Messi, continuous dribbling to change direction, past defenders, and even past the goalkeeper, and score the ball.

But Li Qingshan, like a tank, resists one defender after another, and has no technical content at all........

And the goal was too big a blow for Barcelona, and now it is the eighty-fourth minute, less than ten minutes before the end of the game. This means that there is not much time left for Barcelona.

The TV screen was replaying the goal, Li Qingshan started to take the ball from the middle circle and turned around, and successively carried down Baltra and Mascherano with his body. Then continue to dribble and rush in and score the ball.

"There's definitely a foul on this ball!" The Catalan commentator didn't think so much, as long as a Barcelona player fell to the ground, it must have been Li Qingshan's foul!

It's just that even the Barcelona players didn't argue with the referee. Mascherano sat on the ground for a long time and did not get up. In fact, Li Qingshan did not foul at all, his arms were not opened, and the collision of the torsos of the two sides was a completely reasonable body collision.

"Li Qingshan scored the first goal of a Chinese player in the history of the Champions League!" Duan Xuan was very excited on the commentary platform, "We originally thought that this ball could arrive very early, but it was not too late. It's the eighty-fifth minute of the game, and time is running out for Barcelona! If Atletico Madrid win 1-0 away from home, they will have a good chance of competing in the Champions League semi-finals when they return to their home stadium in the second leg! ”

Atletico's players celebrated wildly, while the 100,000 Barcelona fans in attendance responded with huge boos.

It's a bad game for Barcelona, but it's a two-legged match. Barcelona still have a chance to turn the tables in the second leg, so Barcelona fans don't feel that the end of the world has come.

Martino was also helpless about the goal. In the next ten minutes of play, he could only ask the Barcelona players to step up their attack and equalize as much as possible. A 1-0 and 1-1 score is not the same concept at all.

It's just that he didn't make substitution adjustments. If he wants to strengthen his attack, who else can he replace? Now on the field, it is already the strongest attacking lineup of Barcelona. He has a pawn in his hand that can strengthen the attack, but Sanchez, Messi, Neymar, and Xavi, Iniesta, and Busquets in the midfield. Who can he replace?

If he chooses to replace a defender with an attacker, such a desperate style of play may certainly allow Barcelona to score a goal and equalize, but it is also possible for Atletico to take advantage of the weakness of the defense and take advantage of the defensive weakness to win another goal, 0-1 down may still be able to come back, but if it is 0-2............ This basically means that Barcelona are out of the Champions League knockout stage of the season.

After thinking about it for a while, Martino decided not to make such a risky substitution for the time being. The 0-1 ending was not the end of the world, and Barcelona still had a chance to turn the tables when they got to the road.

Simeone, however, quickly made a substitution.

He replaced Cork with Mario Suarez. Replacing an attacking midfielder with a defensive midfielder, Simeone's intentions are already clear.

Atletico Madrid should strengthen their defense and strive to rely on defense to defend and hold on to this one-0 advantage.

When the game resumed, the Barcelona players began to press on the attack. However, Atletico Madrid had been mentally prepared for Barcelona's onslaught, and Barcelona's offensive did not have a good effect, but Atletico Madrid's counterattack created some threats. In the end, Li Qingshan's shot slid out of the goal, and he was just a little short of scoring another goal.

Li Qingshan held his head in his hands and turned around and ran to the backcourt regretfully. Now it would be better for Atletico to score another goal, but the most important thing is not to allow Barcelona to score and maintain the advantage of the away scoreline.

Barcelona were quick to send in the ball and they didn't have time to go back and forth in midfield, with Busquets passing the ball straight to Iniesta up front.

Iniesta is now positioned very far forward, closer to the Atletico Madrid penalty area, and of course, he is facing more defensive pressure.

However, Iniesta's possession skills are very good, and although he does not look as strong as the defenders of Atletico Madrid, the football is still firmly controlled at his feet.

He tried to turn around, but found that he couldn't hold Godin at all. In desperation, he passed the ball back to Xavi.

As the minutes ticked by, the fans at the scene couldn't care about booing Atletico Madrid, they nervously and anxiously watched the players on the field who passed the ball on the periphery of Atletico's penalty area.

Iniesta also slowly retreated to midfield to get the ball, and for him, the dense personnel in the front field and the pressure of the defense caused him a lot of trouble.

In the ninetieth minute of the game, the fourth official on the sidelines raised the stoppage time sign.

The game had three minutes of stoppage time.

Then the fans at the scene erupted into a huge boo - this boo was naturally for the referee team, and for Barcelona, who were eager to equalize, the longer the stoppage time, the better.

After a couple of links between Iniesta and Xavi, he dribbled diagonally to the left front from the middle.

Seeing that Iniesta had plans to advance with the ball on his own, Juanfran hurriedly stepped forward to defend.

Iniesta's eyes kept looking at the wing, and Alba on the side was already plugged in at high speed at the moment.

Juanfran turned slightly to the flanks to prevent Iniesta from splitting the side.

Atletico Madrid's defence is also ready for Iniesta's split, and they are not worried about Barca's passing on the flanks, but the necessary defensive positioning is still needed.

When Iniesta lifted his right foot and almost everyone thought he would push straight to the side to create a chance for Alba to go down the wing, he suddenly shook his ankle and suddenly sent a straight kick with the outside of his right foot.

The football passed past Juanfrán, who was already sideways and outward, and Juanfran didn't have time to turn around, and the ball passed between Godin and Miranda. The power and line of the ball are just right!

Neymar cut in from the wing and received the ball with ease. Andres Iniesta is such a genius that he completely disrupted Atletico Madrid's defensive deployment with a light stroke.

Neymar didn't need to stop the ball and fired a right-footed shot into the far end of the goal. This time Courtois is powerless!

The ball went around his ten fingers and flew into the goal!

"Iniesta !!!!!!!!!!" The Catalan commentator roared loudly as the ball flew into the goal. "Genius pass! Assists of genius!! ”

"Iniesta!!! Duan Xuan also said with some regret, "Although this goal was scored by Neymar, 95% of the credit for this goal should be attributed to Iniesta. In the final moments of the game, Barcelona equalized! ”

The score was 1-1 until the end of the match.

The 1-1 result was actually going to be in Atletico Madrid's favor, but because it was a drawaway in the last minute of the game, the Atletico players walked back to the dressing room with gloomy faces one by one.

Not to mention Barcelona's side, who equalised in a thrilling way to make their second leg away from home a little easier..........

It's just a one-to-one score, which is not safe for double reversal.

In this way, the second leg of the match between the two sides is destined to be full of suspense.