Green Journey

Chapter 401 Controversy and Punishment!

"Manchester City is actually a three-back system in the current sports game."

"Kolarov and Otamendi stretched left and right, Stones in the middle, Zabaleta on the right often passed Fernandinho when attacking, and controlled the midfield with Chu Zheng, Gundogan and others .”

"But in fact, Manchester City's possession rate today is not high, and they are at a disadvantage compared with Barcelona."

"Except for Chu Zheng on Manchester City, it is difficult for others to hold the ball in the midfield."

"Manchester City faced Barcelona in the midfield without delaying the ball and quickly kicked the ball. They could not establish a numerical advantage when advancing and running at high speed."

"This caused Fernandinho and the three defenders to often face the impact of Messi, Neymar and Suarez."

"This is a big defensive hidden danger!"

"From this point, we can also see Guardiola's desire to win today. He would rather attack at the risk of the defense line being penetrated."

Zhang Lu's analysis made countless fans in front of the TV nod along, because his analysis fits the current game situation very well.

Fernandinho is now on the court. Once Chu Zheng and Jing Duoan are both on the court, he is often alone and helpless in the face of the impact of MSN. When he gets the ball, he is like a hot potato. Go out and be hit back and forth by Barcelona.

Guardiola on the sidelines is also very clear about the dilemma facing Fernandinho.

But this is not caused by the wrong use of his tactics, but caused by the too strong and too fast connection in Barcelona's offense today.

In fact, only one of Chu Zheng or Gundogan needs to be withdrawn to share the huge pressure that the three of Messi put on Fernandinho.

But Guardiola didn't want to do that, because once Gundogan or Chu Zheng retreated, they would have one less attack point in the frontcourt, and they would not be able to maintain the pressure on Barcelona's midfield and backcourt.

Especially Chu Zheng, Guardiola needs Chu Zheng's rare creativity in football.

In the 21st minute of the game, Kolarov was confronted by Rakitic at the top of his own arc, and Suarez robbed him left and right.

Seeing Rakitic cut off his connection with Fernandinho, Kolarov quickly kicked the ball away.

Immediately the ball crossed the middle circle and went straight to the ribs of the right half.

But the advance of this pass was too outrageous, and Aguero, Sterling, and Digne, who started the right rib and right side of the center circle at the same time, failed to catch up.

The ball rolled straight out of the touchline.

Soon, Digne sent a throw-in.

Aguero rushed forward along the sideline of the penalty area and pressed Umtiti who was holding the ball.

Umtiti was also very straightforward, quickly turned and crossed Ter Stegen in front of the goal.

But before the ball stopped completely, Gundogan entered the penalty area.

Ter Stegen immediately continued to cross to Mascherano on the right, but in a panic, his passing line was a bit off, and he rolled directly to the baseline.

Gundogan quickly switched targets and went straight to Mascherano.

When Mascherano turned around with the ball in front of the baseline, he was already rushing forward.

At this time, De Bruyne also came along the left road, cruising near Robert.

Before the bottom line, the experienced Mascherano has a wide field of vision. He quickly made a low and long pass before Gundogan approached him.

The ball bounced directly to Rakitic who retreated along the ribs.

But Rakitic was still following Stones behind him, preventing him from turning around.

At this moment, Rakitic couldn't find a point of entry to break through the high position in his vision.

Chu Zheng, De Bruyne, Stones, and Fernandinho cut off his passing line to the center, to the side, and to the left rib area at the top of the arc.

It was such a hesitation and distraction that caused Rakitic to make a mistake in stopping the ball, and the ball stopped a little too big.

But fortunately, Rakitic has solid basic skills, the ball is not very far away from him, about 1 meter, and he can catch it back.

But when Chu Zheng started it, his heart sank.

Against the background of Chu Zheng's ejection, he was as slow as a tortoise.

In the blink of an eye, Chu Zheng rushed in front of Rakitic, who was about to take the ball, and fell directly to the ground with a swift sliding tackle.

In the next second, Rakitic was directly overturned by Chu Zheng, but the ball stayed at Chu Zheng's feet, a shovel left the ball.

After leaving the ball under his feet, Chu Zheng, who was still skating, supported himself on the lawn with one hand, quickly got up, turned around and threw a pass.

Before the penalty kick, Aguero was unmarked.

Aguero was onside at all because Mascherano was farther back.

Facing Chu Zheng's pass, Aguero quickly opened his arms and unloaded the ball firmly with his chest.

But when he turned around, he saw that Umtiti had jumped in front of him and sealed his right foot.

At this time, it was too late to switch to the left foot to hit the goal, so Aguero suddenly shifted the ball to the right from the outside of his right foot, and then started to pass Umtiti.

Just when he was about to run away, Umtiti's left foot stretched out to grab the ball directly chopped on Aguero's right foot.

Suddenly there was a scream, and Aguero fell in Barcelona's penalty area.

"Oh!!!!!!!" All of a sudden, Ittihad boiled, and even the damp and cold air became hot at this moment.

"Fall in the restricted area!!!!!!!!!"

"Penalty kick?????" Zhan Jun exclaimed in the LeTV live broadcast room!
In the sideline coaching area, Guardiola and Enrique also realized that a turning point that changed the game might be coming.

Guardiola's face was joyful, while Enrique's face was gloomy.

However, at this moment, the referee Kasai came out to disrupt the situation.

Continuous sharp whistles sounded, and Kasai rushed to Aguero who was sitting in the penalty area, directly buckled his pocket and took out the yellow card and held it high.

At this moment, Chu Zheng was dumbfounded, what the hell is this all right?
"Whose home is this?" Chu Zheng muttered to himself, and when he saw Fernandinho and others quickly surrounded him, he also rushed over.

On the sidelines, Guardiola jumped into a rage, went straight to the fourth official on the sidelines, and protested with an extremely excited expression.

Enrique next to him has an expression of the rest of his life.

In the stands, after the shock of the Manchester City fans, there was another burst of boos!

"Oh! The referee judged Aguero to dive!"

"Yellow card warning!!!"

"Hey hey hey..." Zhang Lu shook her head and laughed. In fact, he didn't see the ball clearly just now, so it's hard to make a conclusion whether Aguero dived or not.

On the field, Aguero quickly got up and saw the referee's extremely firm penalty, he shook his hand directly, then turned his back and said WTF.

At this moment, the live footage began to replay.

From the slow motion, it is obvious that Umtiti is indeed the toe of Aguero's right foot.

"This was a misjudgment!!!" After watching the slow motion replay, Zhang Lu directly came to a conclusion.

"This should really be a penalty kick!" Zhan Jun couldn't laugh or cry, "Manchester City is really bad luck recently!"

"Not a flop, at least not a flop!"

"It's not necessary. If Umtiti doesn't touch Aguero, then Aguero can go directly to hit the goal. There is no one on the right side of Barcelona's penalty area. There is no need for Aguero to ask for another one at this time." Penalty!"

"Eh! Yes!"

Guardiola soon paid the price for his wait-and-see mentality.

In the 26th minute of the game, Barcelona's temporarily built defense line made another mistake under the high pressure of Manchester City. They could only use a tactical foul to send Manchester City the second free kick of the game.

But this time the position is still not very ideal, 40 meters away from the Barcelona goal.

At the front of Barcelona's arc, Manchester City and Barcelona players lined up.

The referee Kasai made a long whistle, and Fernandinho, Aguero, Otamendi and Chu Zheng rushed into the Barcelona penalty area at the same time.

De Bruyne was a smoke bomb, and Kolarov took the penalty with his left foot.

Kolarov directly made a long pass to the right and back, trying to find Chu Zheng who was charging forward on this side.

After entering the penalty area from the right rib area at the top of the arc, Rakitic and Suarez in front of Chu Zheng's left and right front wanted to give Chu Zheng a closed-door defense.

But Chu Zheng was faster and forced his way past.

However, Chu Zheng rushed outside the upper right corner of the small penalty area, but the ball did not come over.

Kolarov's free kick was so strong that Umtiti, who was in front of the small penalty area on Chu Zheng's left side, looked back at the moon and headed the ball towards the left rib area at the top of the arc.

But City's attack wasn't over yet.

Zabaleta quickly crossed the penalty area line and got the ball.

But at this moment, Digne was very close behind him, leaving no room for him to turn around.

Chu Zheng saw Zabaleta rushing over with the ball. In order to prevent the two from overlapping and colliding, he quickly retreated to the right line of the penalty area to establish a support point.

But Zabaleta didn't give him the ball, but suddenly made an inverted triangle pass to the middle.

The ball luckily rolled out of the gap and went straight to Aguero on the right side of the penalty spot.

In the next second, Aguero stopped the ball with his left foot and took advantage of the situation to complete the turn.

But Mascherano in front of him also loves small defenders, and his movements are no slower than Aguero.

And the two are teammates of the Argentine national team.

Mascherano knows Aguero very well. He didn't go up and stretch his feet to steal the first time, but quickly prepared to move laterally to the right.

Sure enough, after Aguero stopped the ball with his left foot, he quickly moved the ball horizontally to the left with his right foot, and then followed up and shot directly with his left foot.

bang!
Aguero's shot was blocked by Mascherano.

Immediately, the ball bounced high, and the front edge of the flying arc leaned against the area.

Messi, who was at the front of the left rib at the top of the arc, moved quickly laterally, and De Bruyne behind him was not slow, and quickly started the pursuit.

However, Messi had no intention of stopping the ball and took it himself. Instead, he made a leisurely pass, and the ball went straight to the left rib area of ​​​​the middle circle.

At this time, Neymar has fully accelerated and advanced along his left rib.

On the right back of Neymar, Gundogan retreated very quickly, and he blocked Messi and Neymar's passing line.

But Messi's pass was very thief, and he walked behind Gundogan.

Seeing the ball flying behind him, Gundogan quickly hooked up with his left foot, but unfortunately he didn't touch the ball, and he was just short of destroying the ball with a single throw.

But Messi's ball was too thief and Neymar had to slow down and run to the side.

When he got the ball and rushed again, Gundogan in the ribs and De Bruyne in the center had already returned to the defense, which can be said to have gains and losses.

At this time, Chu Zheng was also retreating along the ribs. Seeing that Messi in the middle was unguarded, he pulled up his speed and rushed away.

At this moment, the situation of Barcelona's counterattack was very clear in Chu Zheng's mind.

Neymar will be forced to the wing by Gundogan. Although Suarez is also in the ribs, Stones is behind him, so he needs to watch Messi.

Chu Zheng now has a very strong intuition. He has a premonition that the last shot in this attack will probably be completed by Messi.

He has experienced the finishing ability at the feet of the Argentine football champion last time. It is really the strongest among all the players who have played against Chu Zheng. It gives Chu Zheng the feeling that he can almost lift his feet.

In terms of finishing ability, Chu Zheng felt that both Neymar and Suarez were slightly inferior to Messi.

In a blink of an eye, Neymar reached the area outside the upper left corner.

Gundogan, Stones, De Bruyne, and Otamendi formed an irregular wavy line in front of their own penalty area.

Chu Zheng also followed Messi in the blind spot, deliberately preventing Messi from seeing him.

At this time, Messi also took care of Chu Zheng flawlessly, and his eyes had already been attracted by Neymar.

Seeing that Neymar gave up the breakthrough and turned his right foot to face the top of the arc in the middle, Messi instantly understood his intentions, accelerated his steps, and went straight to the top of the arc.

The next moment, Neymar made a cross.

At the same time, Chu Zheng also suddenly accelerated and went straight to Messi.

In the area to the left of the top of the arc, De Bruyne just turned around and before he could stretch his feet, Messi dribbled the ball and rushed towards him, followed by Chu Zheng on the right back.

Seeing Chu Zheng also roaring past, De Bruyne's panicked heart instantly stabilized.

After entering the penalty area, facing Otamendi who ran across from the right to block, Messi took the ball directly to the left.

After taking out the shooting space, facing the attacking Caballero, Messi quickly pushed the near corner with his left foot.

But the next moment after the shot was completed, a long leg wearing white knee-high socks suddenly appeared and blocked the ball precisely.

Suddenly the ball changed course and rolled out of the bottom line, and then Messi was also brought down.

On the sidelines, Enrique, who was sitting on the Barcelona coach's bench, slapped his thigh in anger when he saw Chu Zheng's very clean sliding block on the right and rear.

"Ooh!!!"

"Chu Zheng, chased all the way back from the Barcelona penalty area, and blocked the ball in time!"

"A very beautiful defense, the timing of blocking is perfect!" Zhang Lu and Zhan Jun were amazed.

On the field, Chu Zheng was still in shock, and he himself was terrified.

Messi's foot frequency was too fast, and he almost missed it.

Seeing that Messi was still sitting on the ground, Chu Zheng got up and stretched out his hand to pull him up.

In Barcelona, ​​at Messi's home, a kid was cheering on the TV.

"Chu! Get rid of Pretty!"

"Get rid of Leo!!!!" Thiago was bouncing on the soft sofa with two short legs, and his white face was full of excitement.

If you don't know it, you will never think that this little guy's father is Messi!
Next to Messi's wife, Antonella, covered her face directly, with a dumbfounding expression.

She really couldn't figure out how her son became a fan of Chu Zheng. Even though her father was better, he worshiped outsiders.

This child seems to be out of the question!

Antonella shook his head and smiled, Ji'er looked down at the second son Mateo who was still sleeping in his arms, fortunately they still had a baby.

(End of this chapter)