Chapter 370: The Gap
After Ronaldinho used his genius to help Barcelona get a good attacking chance, there were huge cheers at the Camp Nou.
Barcelona fans will be confident of winning this game.
Even Werder Bremen fans were dumbfounded by Ronaldinho's performance just now.
How can a man play a ball to such an extent...... That's unimaginable!
Werder Bremen's players have also been affected by this atmosphere.
So when it was Werder's turn to attack, their attack was far less threatening than Barcelona's attack.
Miku wanted to get the ball to a dangerous place, but couldn't find the right space.
In the end, because he had possession for too long, his ball was cut off by Portuguese midfielder Deco.
Barcelona then launched another attack.
The football was soon passed to Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho dribbles the ball to the front!
Just now, he had been participating in the attack in front, waiting for his teammates to pass the ball to his glory, and when he saw this, he quickly turned around and ran back.
Use his speed to be actively involved in defense.
In attack, he has not yet had a chance to perform, so he can only sell his strength in defense.
He chased after Ronaldinho.
"Rong's speed is very fast, he is returning to defense!"
The German commentator saw that the glory was back on defense, and his heart was somewhat calmer.
But just when Glory was about to catch up with Ronaldinho, Ronaldinho sent the football away.
So the glory ran for nothing!
After passing the ball, Ronaldinho ran into the air, and Glory was stunned for a moment.
He looked at football, he looked at Ronaldinho, and he wasn't quite sure who he should follow - he was a striker, not good at defending, so Schaff didn't arrange his defensive tasks in normal games, and generally the defense didn't need to be honorable.
So Glory is now in trouble.
In the end, he chose to follow Ronaldinho.
But Ronaldinho didn't take the ball.
Ronaldinho is talented, but Barcelona is not alone.
For the giants Barcelona, they have a squad full of superstars who can dominate the outcome of the game.
Glory follows Ronaldinho.
Barcelona passed the football to Deco.
The Portuguese midfielder regrouped and after a series of beautiful back-and-forth short balls, the ball fell to Samuel Eto'o.
Eto'o was at the edge of the penalty area, facing the defense of Werder Bremen, without any feints, just forcing a breakthrough. Using his speed and skill, he erased Werder Bremen's centre-back Ismael and squeezed in!
"Eto'o! He's in the box! ”
Amid the exclamations of the commentators, Werder Bremen goalkeeper Reynke dropped the goal.
In the Bundesliga, the veteran goalkeeper Reinke is still a relatively good goalkeeper, but in the Champions League, facing the best strikers in Europe, he seems a little powerless......
In front of Eto'o, Reynke was noticeably half a beat slower!
Samuel Eto'o got past Ismael before catching up with the ball and stabbing his foot before Reinke blocked the angle!
Reynke falls to the ground and blocks the shot.
The soccer ball sped forward with the turf and rolled into the goal before it could be blocked by Reinke's body!
In the seventh minute, the home team Barcelona took the lead!
The cheers that had been echoing over the Camp Nou since the start of the game suddenly increased at this time.
"Ae-to-O-——!!!" The Catalan narrator lengthened his voice and roared. "It's only been ten minutes before we get to the game and we're taking the lead at home! That's the gap! This is the difference in strength! See, Germans? We're not the same as the shit-lucky defending champion! ”
In the last game, Werder Bremen scored a goal against the defending champions in less than three minutes, and after the game, many media outlets blew Werder Bremen into the sky, believing that they would replace Porto and play Barcelona in this group. And at that time, after the two group stage games, Werder Bremen did overtake Barcelona in the rankings and ranked first, which seems to provide evidence for that statement.
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When Ronaldinho saw his team score, he first glanced back at Rong Guang who was following him, and he spread his hand to Rong Guang and grinned.
Then he turned around and ran to celebrate with his teammates.
Leaving a glorious figure standing in place, staring blankly at his figure running away.
Depend on!
He clenched his fists hard.
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Barcelona's goal seemed to justify the pre-match favour on the home side.
Even if Werder Bremen beat Porto in the first round of the group stage, it only shows that the defending champions are too weak.
After the start of the game, Barcelona controlled the tempo with their possession of the ball, and they deliberately slowed down the tempo of the game.
Werder Bremen are best at attacking with speed, and Barcelona know how to deal with them.
So twenty minutes passed, and there weren't many opportunities for Glory to get.
Rijkaard sent a special man to deal with Glory, and that was Puyol, who was known as the "Mad Dog".
The 26-year-old centre-back, with great physicality, not slow pace and a tenacious style, could not be more appropriate against a player like Glory who is fast but not particularly experienced – that's the opinion.
In the twenty-fourth minute of the first half, Rong Guang finally got his best chance so far in this game!
At that time, Barcelona were attacking, and Rong Guang also retreated with his teammates - he wanted to stay up front all the time, if only there was no offside rule......
As a result, Barcelona's attack did not work, and Werder Bremen broke the ball halfway through.
Bowman broke the ball and then gave the ball to Miku.
Miku sent the ball up again, and the ball fell to Glory's feet.
Because Glory had a pullback, Puyol was not around when he received the ball, and he distanced himself from the rest of the Barcelona players.
He can calmly turn around and adjust after receiving the ball without interference.
And just like that, he turned around.
In front of him is Barcelona's back line, as well as ...... There is a huge void behind them!
It's simply for glory!
He got the football out of the way.
Barcelona's players also reflected at this time, Puyol did not directly pounce to block the glory, he knew very well that at the speed of glory, he was meeting at this time, which was the rhythm that he ruthlessly passed.
So he immediately turned around and ran, retreating.
As for the glory, leave it to your teammates in the midfield......
Adecco is chasing back at high speed.
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For more than 20 minutes, Rongguang almost didn't have a good performance, and it also gave Barcelona the lead. He didn't set off for a while, and now he finally had such a chance.
Glory has only played football twice, and he has raised his speed.
Puyol was retreating, and he was chasing Puyol.
Glory can see that Puyol is in charge of guarding himself in this game, so what he has to do now is to tell Rijkaard that it is impossible to stop him by this person!
On his third trip, he was already close to Puyol.
"This is Rong's attack! He's coming—" Marcel Leif shouted with raised arms, and as a German commentator, he naturally wanted the German team to win.
The Werder Bremen fans in the stands at the Camp Nou let out a long-awaited cheer, and of course, their cheers were quickly drowned out by the boos of the Barcelona fans who were ten times their size, and they couldn't even make a splash.
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Puyol didn't really turn around and run, it was an escape, not a retreat. He ran backwards, turning his head to look at the glory.
When he found out that Glory had chased after him with the football, he realized that he couldn't go any further.
So he turned away, slowed down, faced the glory, and fought and retreated. The defensive strategy is still mainly to delay time, give teammates time to defend, and bring glory to the circle.
But Puyol did not give up the opportunity to stop the glory head-on.
He lowered his center of gravity and speed, his eyes fixed on Glory's ball, and if Glory was going to break through him, then try to stop it!
All eyes were on Puyol, who was almost 30 metres away, with an empty space behind him and then the team's main goalkeeper, Valdés.
If Puyol can't stop the glory here, then Valdés' goal will be in danger......
Rijkaard stood on the sidelines, also staring nervously at Puyol and Glory.
The distance between two people is rapidly decreasing.
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Glory knows what Puyol is doing this for, so he won't give the other party this chance!
In the running with the ball, he didn't even make a feint, and when there were still five or six meters away from Puyol, he directly drove the football out of the ball for more than ten meters!
At the same time, he accelerated his strength and rushed past Puyol's side!
Puyol still wants to fight with Glory, but they don't give him such a chance at all!
When Glory rushed past Puyol, Puyol didn't even make a turn - he was completely caught off guard!
"Rong-rushed over!!"
Rijkaard, who was on the sidelines, bit his lip and twisted his brow into a rope.
This outstanding person of Glory has no technical content at all, but it is such a simple and crude method, but it is surprisingly easy to use!
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Valdés chose to abandon the goal almost the moment when the glory threw the football out of the slate.
It turned out that he was right.
It was because of his preemptive step that he rushed to the front of the football a little earlier than Glory!
However, he still couldn't block the ball with his hands, and in order to be faster, he had to choose to defend with his feet.
For a goalkeeper, it means that there is no backhand, and if it doesn't work, it fails!
Two people stretch out their feet and kick the football at the same time.
Valdés' foot hit the soccer half a second early, and the glorious soccer made him a flying tackle and kicked it back!
Glory didn't hold his foot and stabbed his toe into the shin guard of Valdés' calf bone.
Rongguang couldn't stop at all during the high-speed running, and was thrown forward by inertia, and his body even took a hundred and eighty degrees in the air, facing directly on his back and slapping on the ground!
Splash grass clippings!