Chapter 937: The Three Great Corridors of Football

The game restarted, and Barcelona's attack soon hit the 30-meter area of Valencia's defense, and Iniesta's breakthrough was ready to find Messi.

Suddenly, Valencia's backline began to tense.

Equally nervous were the Valencia fans in the stands.

At the beginning of this year, CIES, an authoritative football statistics agency in Europe, made a detailed analysis of the number of breakthroughs and breakthrough success rates of tens of thousands of career players in world football, and finally concluded that the third breakthrough maniac was transferred to Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo, the second was Messi of Barcelona, and the first was Valencia star Aelo.

And since last year, the mainstream media in Europe has described the three of them as such.

The left incut is called Cristiano Ronaldo Corridor, the right incut route is called Messi Corridor, and the 30-meter attack area where Iroh appears is called 'Ai Shen's Road'

This shows the importance of Iello in European football.

But to get back to the point, Messi is dribbling the ball in his own corridor, and the defenders of Valencia's defensive system feel extremely nervous, as has been verified in the past against Barcelona, Messi dribbles the ball super quickly, and there is no way to defend correctly after he makes a move.

In other words, if Valencia's defensive system wants to succeed, Messi can only start from two aspects.

The first is to rely on the strength of the team to cut off Messi's breakthrough route, and the second is to predict Messi's ball route in advance, so as to cut off his connection with football.

Obviously, the first one is no longer applicable to Valencia, because Iniesta's breakthrough disrupted Valencia's first line of defense, and now Messi's defensive system is not complete.

Therefore, we have to start in the second way.

But the biggest reliance on this method is luck......

Amid a huge boos from the home fans, the team's lone midfielder, Javi Martinez, rushed forward to form an effective connection with centre-back Godin.

Javi Martinez stepped up the path of Messi's ball with his right foot and leg on the run, and at the same time slammed his shoulder into Messi's left shoulder, a standard defensive move that cut off the attacker's connection to the ball in advance.

However, Messi's feet are super fast, and he pulls the ball to the right with the sole of his left foot while crashing his left shoulder into the upper body of Javi Martinez, and the right foot that he follows to dunk the ball towards him.

Immediately afterward, Messi felt the power from Xavi Martinez.

Seeing this, the referee on duty also put the whistle in his mouth, and blew the whistle as soon as Messi fell to the ground.

If it is true that according to Messi's experience, he will be knocked to the ground by Javi Martinez, and as a result, Godin, who stepped forward to make up for the defense, acted as Messi's 'meat pad'.

The two forces have reached an almost balanced level in Messi's body.

So the fans sitting in front of the TV can clearly see that Messi was first knocked to the right by Javi Martinez, and the next moment he was knocked back by Godin.

At this time, Messi's short body and flexible body and low center of gravity are vividly reflected.

Messi stumbled under his feet but did not fall to the ground, the referee's whistle was in his mouth, and his arms were raised flat to signal that the game continued.

Another centre-back, Albiol, had to take Godin's place to defend Messi, who had stabilized his form, and the two full-backs, Jordi Alba and Cesar Azpilicueta, naturally returned to the middle to protect the box.

Messi chose to sink his right shoulder in the face of Godin's defense, and pretended to dunk the ball to the right with his left foot, which is the position where Godin rushed over.

So Godin made a sharp stop at his feet and turned back to the left side again.

At this moment, Messi used the flexibility of his left ankle to flick the ball to the left with the outside of his left instep.

The range of action was small, so Godin didn't react at first.

It wasn't until Messi's left foot adjusted the ball for the second time that Godin realised what he should do.

But it was already too late.

Godin made a sharp stop at his feet while trying to hook the ball with his right foot, which was dragging behind.

However, the results were not ideal.

Messi's left foot slid the ball forward and slammed hard to dodge Godin's last-ditch attempt.

Goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei knew that he couldn't solve the problem by sitting still, so he chose to attack as soon as possible.

Just when Wang Xiaolei hit near the penalty spot, Messi rubbed his left toe with his left foot at the front of the big penalty area directly below the football, and the football took off very obediently.

Jordi Alba and Cesar Azpilicueta's downhill tackles did not touch the football.

"Messi, Messi!" The Catalan commentator slammed into his seat and shouted: "Hang!" ”

At the same time, the hearts of Valencia fans are in their throats.

The parabola of the football was not high, but it just flew past the fingertips of Wang Xiaolei's right arm when he stepped back and jumped.

Then, under the unwillingness of the home fans, he fell to the empty goal......

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As Messi's goal flew into the goal, the Catalan commentator raised his voice an octave and shouted: "Goooooooooal!!" The ball is in, the ball is in! Wonderful sling. ”

As soon as the words changed, his voice was obviously a little trembling, but it was still very incendiary to the fans watching the live TV: "This is Messi's second goal of the game, and it is also his 41st goal of the season, which means that he has equaled the number of goals scored by the damned Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo, congratulations to Messi!" ”

"I hope our little ball king Messi can make persistent efforts and score another goal to help Barcelona overtake the score on the field!"

CCTV commentator He Wei sighed and said: "What a surprising result, Messi actually used his personal ability to equalize the score when Valencia just exceeded the score!" Sure enough, it's the focus of the world's attention! I believe that at this time, many fans feel that they have made a wise choice to get up and watch the game during this time period......"

"In less than half an hour of the game, Ai, who scored a goal and an assist, helped Valencia overtake the score for a while, but Messi used his personal ability to equalize the score, which is really an unbelievable game!"

"Regardless of the final outcome of this match, Ai and Messi's performance will go down in history! Messi's two goals in this game also equalled the 41 goals of Cristiano Ronaldo, who kicked off two hours later......"

"Light hanging shots, four or two thousand pounds, Messi stepped forward when the team just fell into a crisis and helped the team solve the dilemma that it was about to face! Go for it and make this game even more exciting!! ”

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While the camera was on Messi celebrating the goal, the commentators in the on-site commentary seat gave their own comments.

The Valencia fans in the stands saw Messi celebrating unbridledly, and immediately felt that they couldn't stand this kind of situation, and they tacitly erupted into huge boos in an attempt to interfere with the celebration of the Barcelona players.

But unfortunately, Barcelona fans did not seem to hear their boos, hugging or kneading Messi, sharing the joy of equalizing.

You must know that a minute ago, many Barcelona fans thought that the defeat of this game was decided, but what they really didn't expect was that Messi would break out in this situation and help the team equalize!

This is a huge boost to the morale of the team.

Coach Pep Guardiola is even more excited to use practical actions - jumping and dancing with his hands.

It didn't take long for the live director to switch the camera to Guardiola's shot, allowing fans in front of the TV to see the excited Guardiola.

The still excited Barcelona commentator covered his mouth and quipped: "It seems that the previous score deficit really made Josep feel a lot of pressure, and now he is showing the same situation as he scored a crucial goal for Barcelona ten years ago......"

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After giving a close-up shot of Pep Guardiola, it was given to Valencia manager Carlo Ancelotti.

The live director wanted to see what kind of expression Ancelotti would have when he was dancing a minute ago.

However, Ancelotti's expression did not change significantly, which disappointed many on-site commentators.

But only Ancelotti himself knows...... In fact, he just hasn't accepted the reality of the team conceding a goal.

Immediately, the live director gave a close-up to Iro, who performed almost the same as Messi in this game.

It's a pity that there is also no obvious change in the expression on Iroh's face.

But if you look closely, you will see that the corners of Iroh's mouth are slightly raised, which is a bit playful.

In fact, Iello was not surprised by Messi's outburst, football matches are like this, it can't be played by himself, there will always be other opponents who show their best selves.

And many of Iroh's key matches in the past have almost been his one-man show, which doesn't mean much at all.

Well, Messi's outburst just caused the desire to fight in Iroh's heart.

The game restarted, and both sides were clearly much more cautious than before, with more troops hoarded in the midfield and back, and unless there was a good chance, the central midfielders would not easily over-move.

This also directly led to the inability of both sides to organize a more threatening attack, and the game entered a stalemate.

In the blink of an eye, the game came to the end of the first half, and the score was still 2:2

Although neither side scored in that time, the process was quite exciting.

Both Messi and Iroh showed their best selves and every breakthrough and shot caused a stir throughout the stadium, especially Iro.

In the 38th minute, he hit the crossbar and the left-hand post with a stunning long-range shot, which directly burned the atmosphere of the Mestalla Stadium to the highest value.

However, the clock passed quickly, and the 45 minutes of regular time ran out quickly, with the fourth official on the sidelines standing next to the halfway line holding aloft an electronic card with a minute of stoppage time.

In the space of one minute, both Valencia and Barcelona organised an efficient attack, and it was a little unfortunate that neither of them could score.

In other words, when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the score was still fixed at 2:2