Chapter 259: A Little Bit Worse
Chapter 259 is a little bit closer
"Equestrian !! Equestrian !! Our Team !! ”
Atletico fans sang the team's anthem.
At this time, the war on the pitch was already heating up, there was not much time left in the game, and Atletico Madrid was still one goal behind. The fans stood up one after another, standing on the pitch and cheering hoarsely, hoping to add even a little help to the Atletico Madrid players with their singing!
For Barcelona, they only need to survive the last seven or eight minutes to lift the trophy for the fifth Champions League in the team's history!!
The Barcelona fans are also singing-for-tat at the moment, and there are not a few Barcelona fans in this stadium.
The gathering area for Barcelona fans is the South Stand of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, while the corresponding Atletico Madrid fans gather in the North Stand.
The two teams are head-to-head, and the differences are clear.
At this time, Barcelona has also begun to defend on all fronts. Now the score is 2-1, they are ahead, and the game time has come to the 86th minute!
At this time, Barcelona retreated back to defend and survived these few minutes, which was undoubtedly the most rational choice.
At this moment, Atletico Madrid has no choice, they must press the attack aggressively, and even the central defender Godin did not stay at the back to defend at the moment, but pressed through the half and came to the Barcelona penalty area as a center forward.
Atletico Madrid constantly started the ball from the back, passed the ball into the Barcelona penalty area, and let the players in the front field of Atletico Madrid go hand-to-hand with the Barcelona defenders.
By this time, Enrique was finally ready for a substitution, with Rakitic standing on the sidelines and he was about to replace Neymar.
When a long ball from the back of Atletico Madrid was headed off the touchline by a Barcelona player, the referee signaled that Barcelona could make a substitution.
Neymar glanced at Rakitic on the sidelines. Of course, he knew what it meant to be replaced at this time.
The Brazilian high-fived the Barcelona players around him, then crouched down and slowly removed his shin guards.
It wasn't until the referee came forward to urge him that Neymar got up and jogged to the sidelines. It's just that his speed really made the anxious Atletico Madrid players unbearable, and Saul ran over and motioned for Neymar to hurry up.
It's just that in this way, Neymar simply stopped and theorized with Saul. Gabi came over and pulled Saul away, then complained to the referee about Neymar's stalling.
However, in the end, the referee only stepped forward to warn, and Neymar got off the donkey and jogged out of the field.
This is Barcelona's first substitution, and this substitution certainly has a certain tactical significance, which is to add a player in the midfield and increase the thickness of the midfield. But overall, it may be that there is more point in delaying time.
Just by completing this substitution, Barcelona managed to delay for a minute.
At this point, the game time has come to the eighty-eighth minute.
Atletico Madrid's touchline ball was quickly delivered, and every Atletico Madrid player knows how important time is to Atletico Madrid at this moment.
Saul received the ball and passed it straight back to Miranda's feet, by which time all the Atletico Madrid players except goalkeeper Oblak had already pressed through the half.
And all the players of Barcelona also retreated to their own half, and even Messi and center Suarez were working hard to participate in the defense at the moment.
Li Qingshan is at the front, because there are many Atletico Madrid players in the box at the moment, and good headers such as Mandzukic and Godin are also around him at the moment, so he is under much less pressure than before.
At least for now, Pique is the only player left who specializes in guarding him.
Pique was about a meter or two away from him, a distance that only took a step or two to stick.
After Miranda stopped the ball slightly, he directly passed the ball to the front court.
Pique had to come up again, he had to fight for this kind of ball, although he knew that he couldn't fight for it, but at least he couldn't let Li Qingshan attack the goal directly.
Li Qingshan got stuck in front of Pique and gave the ball to Juanfran who was plugged in behind.
At this point, on the wings, Atletico Madrid's two full-backs were already used as wingers.
'Atletico put their hopes of an equaliser in the air and they started relying on long balls.
"Although this style of play is rough, this season's Atletico Madrid frequently relies on long passes to break down the opponent, and Li Qingshan's header advantage is very obvious!"
"Again, this uncreative approach, using such a backward tactic in a long river like the Champions League final, Simeone really has no other way." The Catalan narrator is gone. But in fact, when the commentator said this, he was still very nervous - how Barcelona lost last time, he knew very well.
Atletico Madrid's offensive gradually made the Barcelona goalkeeper feel loud.
However, with the lead in the scoreline, the Barcelona players knew they only needed to survive the final few minutes.
Despite the intensity of the attack, there weren't many shots that could really threaten the goal.
This is also the characteristic of the tactic of long pass rushing, although the number of attacks is very frequent, and the tactics are very simple, but the success rate of the attack is difficult to guarantee.
It's just that Atletico Madrid can't care so much now, time is not on their side, they have to keep kicking the ball into the 30-meter area of the Barcelona goal in search of a goal.
In the 90th minute, the fourth official raised a sign on the sidelines for stoppage time - the stoppage time of this game is ......... Three minutes!
Atletico Madrid only have three minutes left!
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"Siqueira comes to deal with this throw-in, let's see who he throws the ball to....."
In fact, Siqueira didn't intend to throw the ball out like that.
He took a step back, and it seemed that he was going to throw a strong hand directly to throw the ball!
The players in the box are very dense and almost all the players have been strangled in one goal. Even Messi is already standing on the line of the penalty area at the moment to participate in the team's defense.
When he saw Siqueira take two steps back and throw the ball directly with his strong hand, Messi turned his head and followed the football to focus on the penalty area.
Li Qingshan suddenly stepped forward a few times, got rid of the entanglement between Pique and Mathieu, and then stopped the ball with his chest.
He should pass the ball to Siqueira on the wing, right?
No!
Li Qingshan did not play cards according to the routine!!
"Li Qingshan catches the ball...........Oh oh oh oh my!!"
The commentator suddenly widened his glasses, only to see that after Li Qingshan stopped the ball, he did not pass the ball, but turned around directly, and then picked up his right foot...............
"Bang" exploded in everyone's ears.
Messi's glasses widened, and he looked at the football flying towards the goal with some horror.
All the fans in the stands held their breath.
The football went to the far corner of the goal under everyone's gaze.
Bravo jumped up at the front and stretched out his arms.......
Didn't touch the football.............
Bang............
Another bang............