Chapter 193 The Threatening Shots That Are Emerging
The game continues.
After the connection between Qiao Anchen and Falcao was called for offside, the mentality of the two was somewhat unbalanced. They performed poorly in the subsequent games and failed to create any threatening offense.
On the contrary, Real Madrid took advantage of its huge advantage in overall strength to constantly threaten Atletico Madrid's goal.
In the 41st minute, Joan Anchen tried to break through Khedira with the ball but was intercepted. Real Madrid launched a quick counterattack. Kaká took the ball from the midfield and ran long distance, passing Thiago and Gabi, and swayed to the right of the top of the penalty area.
After driving Diego Godin, he took a shot and hit a threatening long shot.
Fortunately, Courtois was very focused and reacted immediately, saving Kaka's ball from the bottom line.
Then Di Maria's corner kick was grabbed by Cristiano Ronaldo in front of the small penalty area and headed towards the goal. Fortunately, he missed the ball and the ball hit the side netting.
But just two minutes later, Real Madrid made a comeback again, using a wave of tacit teamwork to tear apart the defense of the home team Atletico Madrid. Di Maria suddenly cut in from the left and then crossed the goal. Benzema flew and shot, and
Courtois, who jumped out from the side, collided with each other.
The ball was tackled first by Benzema, but it bounced off Courtois' legs and continued flying towards the goal.
Fortunately, captain Gabi, who returned to defense, arrived in time, made a flying overhead kick, and kicked the ball out on the goal line. Then, center back Perea kicked the ball out of the sideline.
But after Gabi fell, he hit Courtois again.
Originally, Courtois was tackled by Benzema who couldn't hold his feet after completing a flying shovel shot. Before he could recover, he was dropped and hit by Gabi. It was quite uncomfortable.
Courtois suspended the game and the team doctor came in for inspection. Real Madrid also complained to the referee, believing that the ball kicked out by Gabi just now had crossed the goal line and should be counted as a goal.
However, after consulting the line referee, the referee believed that the ball had been kicked out by Gabi before it completely crossed the goal line, so it did not count as a goal.
Real Madrid stars are quite dissatisfied, but there is nothing they can do.
At Atletico Madrid, Courtois stood up after two minutes of relief with the help of the team doctor, saying that there was no problem and the game restarted.
However, there was not much time left, and neither side made any more threatening shots.
After 2 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half. With Qiao Anchen and Ronaldo scoring goals for their own teams, the two sides entered the halftime break with a score of 1-1.
During the halftime break, Simeone specifically told Qiao Anchen to control his emotions in the second half and never get fouled again.
He has already received a yellow card in the 3rd minute. If he receives another card, he will be sent off with a red card. Atletico Madrid's hope now lies in him and Falcao.
If Qiao Anchen is not on the court and Real Madrid concentrates on defending Falcao alone, Atletico Madrid will have a harder time scoring goals and will probably lose.
Therefore, Qiao Anchen must not have an accident, let alone be sent off early with a red card, leaving Atletico Madrid without an offensive point and one less person to fight.
Qiao Anchen also reflected on his performance after his pass was called offside in the 38th minute of the first half, and made up his mind to focus on the game in the second half and not be affected by such things again.
After a 15-minute rest, the two sides changed sides and played again in the second half.
Real Madrid replaced Kaka at the beginning of the second half and replaced him with No. 10 Ozil. In fact, since transferring to Real Madrid, Kaká has played very little time due to injuries and condition.
Although the performance in this game was acceptable and there were several good shots, he failed to score in the end and failed to fulfill the responsibility of the attacking midfielder to organize the offense. Therefore, Mourinho removed him and replaced him with a player with better organizational ability.
Strong Ozil.
After Ozil came on the field, Real Madrid's ability to organize and attack has taken a step further.
In the 47th minute, Ronaldo and Di Maria changed positions and went down. Ozil made a diagonal pass and sent the ball to the baseline.
Cristiano Ronaldo made a pass before Juan Fran blocked the passing route. Benzema grabbed the first header from the front point and sailed it to the penalty spot in the penalty area.
After completing the side pass, Ozil rushed into the penalty area and fired a powerful volley straight to the upper right corner of the goal.
Courtois was shaken by Benzema's header just now. He didn't have time to fight back and could only stand on the goal line and watch the ball fly to the upper right corner in despair.
Just when Ozil raised his hands to celebrate and the Real Madrid fans were ready to cheer, they heard a "bang" and the ball hit the post.
Ozil's high-quality volley missed the target!
Everyone at Atletico Madrid breathed a sigh of relief. The full-back Felipe Luis who was closest to the landing point did not dare to control the ball. He directly kicked the ball that bounced off the post and out of the boundary. It was completed.
Rescue.
Neutral fans and commentators felt sorry that Ozil's volley failed to score.
The game continues.
Two minutes later, Real Madrid made a comeback again. This time, Di Maria dribbled the ball from the left and was about to cut into the penalty area when he was tripped by Thiago, giving Real Madrid another free kick from a good position on the left side of the frontcourt.
However, this time the free kick was a little closer to the goal, only about 23 meters away. Although Ronaldo's curved free kick successfully bypassed the wall, it was slightly higher than the crossbar and failed to score twice.
Help Real Madrid take the lead.
Amid Real Madrid's constant attacks, Atletico Madrid's goal looked a bit precarious, but it never conceded a goal.
Instead, in the 51st minute, Atletico Madrid used a wing attack to allow the Real Madrid defender to block the ball out of the baseline and get a corner kick opportunity.
Perea, Diego Godin, Gabi, Falcao and other players with good height and headers all entered the penalty area to fight for the top. Qiao Anchen, Arda Turan and others were outside the penalty area preparing to fight for the third.
Two drop points.
Then, Diego took a corner kick and landed in front of the small penalty area, just above the heads of Falcao and Real Madrid monk Pepe.
Although Falcao is not very tall, only 177cm, as a center, he is excellent in running, grabbing points, positioning, physique, jumping, heading, etc. Otherwise, he would not be able to play center, and in
Didn’t he break the Europa League single-season scoring record last season?
This time, Falcao overpowered the famous monk Pepe and successfully grabbed the first point. He looked back at the moon and headed the ball towards the near corner.
The flight path of this ball is very tricky, going straight to the near-end corner. If it were an ordinary goalkeeper, he might not be able to save the ball.
However, standing in front of Real Madrid's goalkeeper was Casillas, the super goalkeeper who is firmly ranked among the top three in the world. Standing in the near corner, he jumped up based on his instinctive reaction and stretched his hand up, successfully touching the ball and holding it up.
Out of the crossbar.
A world-class first reaction allowed Casillas to save Falcao's extremely threatening close-range header.
In the stands and in front of the TV, countless Atletico Madrid fans sighed in unison, feeling sorry that Falcao's header failed to score.
But then, everyone still applauded Falcao's header. After all, this was a header that threatened the goal. If the ball didn't go in, I can only blame Casillas for being too good, not Fall.
This header test is not good.
Of course, Real Madrid also gave warm applause and cheers to Saint Cassie, who made this amazing save, and applauded him for this wonderful save.
If it weren't for Casillas' amazing save, Real Madrid would have fallen behind again.