As the game continued, Barcelona's teamwork advantage began to gradually emerge.
After all, they are the world-famous Cosmos team, and Barcelona relies on passing and controlling football. In terms of passing and controlling football, Barcelona is second, and no one dares to be first.
Atletico Madrid can only rely on the numerical advantage in the backcourt and full-court press to defend Barcelona's offense.
In the 18th minute, Qiao Anchen saw Busquets moving forward to participate in the attack and after getting the ball, thinking of what the opponent said in an interview, Qiao Anchen immediately rushed over and knocked down Busquets from behind.
Busquets screamed, fell to the ground in an exaggerated manner, and rolled several times, trying to prove to the referee Lhasa how seriously he was hit.
However, the referee only gave Barcelona a free kick and did not show Joan Chen a yellow card. This made Busquets very dissatisfied. He stood up and complained to the referee, but almost caused Lhasa to show him a card. In the end, Inez was
Star dragged him away.
However, although Qiao Anchen was not given a card, Barcelona gained a lot this time because the free kick they got was in a very good position. It was about 26 meters away from the goal on the left side of the top of the penalty area, and the shooting angle and distance were both good.
very good.
Both Xavi and Messi stood behind the penalty spot. Courtois nervously directed the position of the wall to prevent the two from directly attacking the goal.
After the penalty kick started, Messi took the lead and made a gesture of shooting directly with his left foot, which made almost half of the people in the wall jump.
After all, Messi is too intimidating.
Unexpectedly, Messi's shot was a cover. He ran over the ball and did not shoot. Xavi, who was closely behind him, was the real shot.
Xavi's shot just flew over the head of Miranda, who was tricked by Messi into jumping up and down, and went around to the upper left corner of the goal.
Fortunately, Courtois was not deceived by Messi. He made a flying sideways dive in time and successfully saved the ball from the bottom line.
In fact, Xavi's goal is quite threatening. If Courtois is even slightly less capable, he may not be able to save it.
Therefore, when Courtois saved the ball, the Barcelona players and fans felt very sorry. Atletico Madrid players and fans felt extremely lucky that their teammates in the penalty area also stepped up to save Courtois from the ball.
He stood up on the ground and hugged him to celebrate and express his gratitude to him.
If it weren't for Courtois' save, Atletico Madrid might have fallen behind.
Barcelona did not grab the first point from the subsequent corner kick. After all, their average height was at a disadvantage. No matter whether they were forwards or defenders, they did not have too tall and prominent players.
Barcelona's strength lies in passing and attacking on the ground, not bombing in the air.
But this failure was not the end. As the game progressed, Barcelona, after being fully warmed up, attacked more and more smoothly, becoming more and more frightening.
Atletico Madrid could only rely on fouls to block Barcelona's attack, which resulted in Atletico Madrid receiving two yellow cards in just a few minutes.
Just when many people were worried about the safety of Atletico Madrid's goal, in the 25th minute, Barcelona made a mistake in the frontcourt pass, and Atletico Madrid intercepted the ball and made a quick counterattack.
Soon, the ball was handed over to Alda Turan on the left. Turan successfully made the pass after hitting the wall with Falcao. Falcao also rushed into the penalty area diagonally after completing the pass.
Arda Turan made a pass from the left and reached Falcao in the penalty area.
However, Falcao was not tall enough and could not take advantage of his position this time. Barcelona center back Mascherano took advantage of his position, grabbed the first spot, and tried to head the ball outside the penalty area.
Rescue.
Unexpectedly, although Falcao did not get the chance to compete for the header, he successfully interfered with Mascherano, causing Mascherano to fail to clear the header and turned into a header.
He pushed the ball to the right side of the penalty area.
Qiao Anchen, who originally just rushed into the penalty area to look for opportunities to make up for the shot, when he saw Mascherano beating Falcao to grab the first point, he thought that the ball had nothing to do with him and was about to brake and exit the penalty area.
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Unexpectedly, Mascherano failed to push the ball out of the penalty area due to Falcao's interference, and instead rubbed the ball in front of him.
Moreover, goalkeeper Valdes did not expect that Mascherano would make a mistake after grabbing the first point. Unexpectedly, Mascherano's header not only failed to clear the siege, but also happened to rub the header behind the goal.
Qiao Anchen's point was too late for him to pounce on him.
Naturally, Qiao Anchen did not waste the gift. He volleyed the ball from the back of the penalty area about 7 meters away from the goal without stopping, and kicked the ball towards the nearby goal.
Valdes, who hurriedly rushed from the left, failed to catch up, and full-back Abidal, who followed Qiao Anchen back to the penalty area, failed to complete the damage and watched the ball being kicked into the goal by Qiao Anchen.
In the 25th minute, Atletico Madrid, which seemed to be suppressed by Barcelona's passing control, used a counterattack to make a header clearance error from the opponent's center back Javier Mascherano. Qiao Anchen opened the scoring with a volley to help Atletico Madrid.
Achieved a 1-0 lead at home.
Qiao Anchen scored in his 10th consecutive game with Atletico Madrid's first team on two fronts, bringing his total number of goals to 16.
The key is that this is not an ordinary team, this is Barcelona, the cosmic team led by Messi, who has won the Ballon d'Or three times, and is completely different from other teams.
Therefore, the commentators from various TV stations in the commentary box roared excitedly:
"goooooooooooooooooooooooooooal..."
"The ball went in!!!"
"With a volley, Joan Chen broke Barcelona's goal and Atletico Madrid led Barcelona 1-0."
"Qiao Anchen took the advantage in the face-to-face match with Messi and helped the Shelters win the first victory."
Guan Jianwen, the Chinese commentator, stood up from his stool like crazy, grabbed the microphone and shouted loudly:
"The ball has gone in, it has gone in, it has gone in..."
"Qiao Anchen scored a goal!"
"Joan Chen took advantage of Mascherano's header error and scored the goal of the giant Barcelona with a volley, giving Atletico Madrid a 1-0 lead."
"This is already Qiao Anchen's 8th consecutive game in La Liga and his 10th consecutive game in all competitions."
"Since entering the first team, and even since the beginning of this season, Qiao Anchen has maintained a goal-scoring trend at all levels and has never been absent."
"So far, Qiao Anchen has scored 28 consecutive games against opponents at all levels."
"With amazing stability and efficiency, Qiao Anchen scored the first goal in the face-to-face match with Messi and helped Atletico Madrid take the lead."
"Qiao Anchen became the first Chinese to score the Barcelona goal."