Chapter 386: Exhale and raise your eyebrows
After Barcelona fell behind, they continued to organize their offensively.
Guardiola's substitution adjustment was very decisive. He replaced Mascherano and replaced Pedro, which was obviously a signal to strengthen the offense.
Busk used the second-time play for a single midfielder, allowing Pedro to go to the frontcourt with Messi and Villa to form a "VP" trident forward combination.
This is the most complete configuration for Barcelona's midfield and frontcourt.
Xavi, Iniesta and Buskès' super midfield iron triangle, plus Messi, Pedro and Villa, three killers with their own characteristics on the front line.
At this moment, Guardiola was only taking his ultimate move.
The key league game is here, Guardiola has no intention of retaining his strength in the Champions League knockout match with Arsenal in the middle of next week.
It seems that Guardiola still has strong self-confidence in advancing to the Champions League, even if his opponent is Arsenal, and now Arsenal has won 2-1 at home in the first leg.
Guardiola's adjustment immediately achieved results. After Pedro came on the court, he immediately pulled out space for Messi with his active running.
Messi finally got room to break through in this game. Messi's horizontal corridor that has always belonged to Messi appeared again. Messi dribbled the ball and escaped sideways again. Then, Messi shot with his left foot!
Guaita was powerless to do anything about this goal, and the Barcelona team, who was behind, completed the task of equalizing the score within ten minutes.
At this moment, there is still a lot of time before the game ends.
The two teams returned to the same starting line. Messi's goal hit Valencia really a big blow. They originally thought that three-pointers had hope, but now it seems that the three-pointers are still quite slim.
Even if the score was equalized, Valencia did not want to attack, and Xu Qi could only bear all the team's firepower output, and even Mata hurried in the backcourt to participate in the defense.
The game process returned to the first half. Barcelona controlled the ball, Valencia compressed the midfield space, and the game pace began to slow down.
However, unlike the first half, the physical fitness of the Valencia team had some problems at this stage, and more loopholes in their defense line began to appear, exposing more problems.
They then gave Barcelona a lot more chances than they did in the first half.
If this continues, Valencia may lose this key league game.
Fortunately, luck still favors Valencia, and Barcelona also feels that they have encountered a very difficult bone. Although they have created opportunities, they have not scored any goals.
Finally, in the 72nd minute, Barcelona had another problem under their complete control of the situation, and Valencia made a counterattack.
In this counterattack, Xu Qi acted as a fulcrum. The long pass initiated by Valencia was relatively flat and not high. Such a ball was very suitable for Xu Qi to deal with.
If you let Xu Qi and Pique compete for the header, Xu Qi's disadvantage is of course very big, but if Xu Qi is asked to deal with some flat fastballs, Xu Qi will handle it very well.
Xu Qi raised his right leg directly backward, bent his knees, and gently removed the ball with the outside of his right foot, and then directly transferred the ball to Huajin, who was unguarded on the right side.
A pass like Xu Qi directly disrupted the deployment of Barcelona's defense line. With the rapid advancement of Valencia, Barcelona's defense line also had problems.
Then Hua Jin made a cross and Mata, who followed, pushed the ball into the goal!
Two to one, Valencia once again surpassed the score, and Valencia, who played at home, won another goal. This situation is quite unfavorable for Barcelona.
The eleven Barcelona players on the field were completely feeling the chill of the sea breeze from Valencia at this moment.
A small upset in this round of the league is about to appear.
Barcelona, which has set a new winning streak, is about to end the winning streak.
Of course, Barcelona doesn't want to lose this game, but Valencia also united as a whole, and luck is more on the side of Valencia.
Although Barcelona won several more opportunities during the last period, they still couldn't rewrite the score again. Messi, Pedro, Iniesta, and Villa all waste good opportunities.
In the end, two to one, Valencia won a wonderful victory!
Although the content of the game does not seem to be particularly exciting, at least the three goals in this game are very beautiful and exciting.
The moment the referee sounded the end of the game, the Barcelona players could not hide their disappointment. They did play in this game very aggrieved.
Even though the loss of this game did not prevent them from continuing to top the standings, they seemed to be sure to become champions.
However, this game also gave Valencia's entire team greater confidence, especially Xu Qi, which was the first time he felt the feeling of defeating Barcelona.
This feeling is really wonderful.
Xu Qi will always remember this league.
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After the game, Xu Qi was once again praised, and even Messi expressed his praise for Xu Qi in an interview after the game.
"I want to say that Xu Qi's several outstanding performances changed the trend of the game. We have never taken the lead in these ninety minutes. This was an unusual situation before. We have always tried every means to equalize the score and get the lead, but we still did not get the results we wanted." Messi seemed a little frustrated.
"But you scored a goal, and Ronaldo did not score in this round of the game, so you caught up with Ronaldo on the scorer list again." The reporter comforted.
"This doesn't make sense. I want to help the team win. Without victory, there is no point in scoring. But next we need to do our best to prepare for the Champions League match against Arsenal." Messi said so.
Xu Qi also praised Messi in an interview: "We originally took the lead, but Messi's goal put us in a passive position. He is a magical player, which is well known. Although we have taken him enough attention, we still did not block his goal. Fortunately, we scored another winning goal. Mata's goal is very exciting. It's time for him to treat him today." Xu Qi smiled and answered the reporter's questions and expressed his thoughts.
After a league focus game, it created a huge popularity of football. This game can be said to be a showdown between Xu Qi and Messi. The Valencia team where Xu Qi is located finally won a victory, ending the embarrassing record of not beating Barcelona for many consecutive games.
Chapter completed!