Chapter 154 Advancement to the Europa League Round of 16
The next thing is simple. Qiao Anchen, who has already formed a single goal, strides to hit the ball outside the penalty area. Before the Blue Eagle defender who returns to defend can cause interference, Qiao Anchen chooses to face goalkeeper Basavi who attacks into the penalty area.
With perfect shooting skills, he easily lobbed the ball over Bashavi's head and into the empty goal.
In the 30th minute, Atletico Madrid took advantage of Lazio's heavy pressure to launch a quick counterattack. Captain Gabi made a long pass and Qiao Anchen countered offside and scored with a single lob.
Atletico Madrid leads Lazio 4-1 on aggregate and has a three away goal advantage.
Lazio must score at least three goals in the following time and cannot allow Atletico Madrid to score again in order to drag the game into overtime.
There is no doubt that this is a very difficult and almost impossible task.
This conceded goal destroyed almost all Lazio's confidence. Everyone was stunned and looked very frustrated.
In any football game, falling behind by three goals is extremely disappointing.
Qiao Anchen and his teammates didn't care what their opponents thought, and celebrated heartily amidst the applause and cheers of more than 50,000 fans in the audience.
Especially Qiao Anchen, this is already his 9th consecutive game with the first team where he has scored. Such stability and efficiency are simply crazy.
The fans, led by live broadcaster Ever Woodrow, kept chanting Qiao Anchen's name and paid homage to him.
In the rest of the first half, Lazio, which lost confidence, could no longer play any decent threatening offense, and the 1-0 score was maintained until the end of the first half.
During the halftime break, Joan Chen was replaced by Falcao by Simeone to rest and prepare for the next league game against Barcelona.
At the beginning of the second half, Lazio mustered up the courage to launch a fierce attack, trying to make another desperate attempt.
As a result, not only did they fail to score, but they suffered a fatal blow from Falcao in the 69th minute. Falcao used a header to completely kill all the suspense of the game.
The total score of 5-1 completely sentenced Lazio to death.
For the rest of the game, both Atletico Madrid and Lazio gave up. The two sides saved each other's energy and consumed the remaining time. They ended the Europa League this season with a 2-0 in the second round and a total score of 5-1 in the two rounds.
The competition for the 1/16 finals.
Atletico Madrid successfully advanced to the top 16 of the UEFA Europa League in the 2011/2012 season and is steadily moving towards higher goals.
After the game, Qiao Anchen gained game experience of 200,000 starting points, 1 goal, 200,000, and winning prizes of 200,000 = 600,000. The total experience increased to level 31, 4.64 million/5 million.
As the match between Atletico Madrid and Lazio ended, the media and fans, in addition to talking about Qiao Anchen's consecutive scoring record, were even more enthusiastic about discussing the upcoming 25th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona.
Including the game against Lazio, Qiao Anchen's total goals in 2012 have reached 15; while Messi only scored 13.
Qiao Anchen is already the player with the most goals since entering 2012. Neither Messi nor Ronaldo can catch up.
But Qiao Anchen is just a rookie, while Messi is a superstar who has already won countless honors.
In particular, his three consecutive Ballon d'Or awards have put him on par with Platini as the only two great players to win three consecutive Ballon d'Or awards.
At the same time, winning the Ballon d'Or three times also made Messi, together with Platini, Cruyff, Van Basten and others, the player who has won the most Ballon d'Or.
One is the youngest talented striker in the five major leagues today, and the other is the hottest superstar in today's football. Countless people are looking forward to what kind of sparks the direct dialogue between the two will create.
Long before the game started, the media began to catch Joan Chen, Messi, Simeone, Guardiola or other star players for interviews, previewing the duel between the two, or the game.
Guardiola boasted: "Qiao Anchen is the most talented player I have ever seen. The biggest contributor to Atletico Madrid's nine consecutive victories during this period is Qiao Anchen. He is also the biggest threat to Barcelona in this game. We must be enough for Qiao Anchen."
Pay attention. If we are negligent towards him, we may lose at his hands."
This is already a bit flattering and creates conflicts within the Atletico Madrid team, and it is obviously not Guardiola's sincere words.
Therefore, Simeone said in an interview: "Atletico Madrid's results during this period are the result of the joint efforts of everyone on the team. However, Qiao Anchen is indeed the most outstanding product of Atletico Madrid's youth training camp, just like Messi is to Barcelona. But he
He is still young and has just entered the first team. He is not yet an adult and cannot be compared with Messi. But I believe Qiao Anchen will have an outstanding performance in this game."
Messi was as humble as ever: "I have paid attention to Qiao Anchen's performance during this period. His shooting skills are much better than mine, and I am not as good as him. No matter what the result of this game is, I will exchange jerseys with him."
Qiao Anchen also expressed his respect for Messi: "Messi's breakthrough ability and combination of man and ball are unparalleled in the world. He is an example for me to learn from. This game is an opportunity to observe Messi up close, and I will definitely cherish it."
And, I’ve long wanted to get his jersey, and I hope my teammates won’t compete with me.”
Other players spoke less kindly.
Atletico Madrid captain Gabi said: "Atletico Madrid's goal has always been to challenge the status of Real Madrid and Barcelona. In this league, we will naturally go all out to let Barcelona bury itself in the Calderon stadium with more than 50,000 people."
Barcelona midfielder Busquets said: "Atletico Madrid has performed well during this period, because they did not meet us. In this game, we will let Atletico fans see how we massacred the army. As for Qiao Anchen,
He is a good young man, but I will let him know what a midfield choke is."
In addition to the verbal spats between coaches and players of both sides reported in the media, fans from both sides also attacked each other online.
Especially Chinese fans, many of them seem to be confused.
Because of various factors such as Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, and Messi, who won six crowns in 2009 and five crowns in 2011, Barcelona has quite a lot of supporters in China, and Messi’s fans are also quite large.
But Qiao Anchen is not bad either. Although his debut time is short, he is a Chinese and a compatriot after all. Therefore, many people also hope that Qiao Anchen can perform well and continue to set the record of consecutive goals.
In the end, the wish of most Barcelona fans is: Joan Chen and Messi both score, and Barcelona wins.