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Chapter 415: Single-handedly defending Messi, a flying arc over Camp Nou

"The referee blew the whistle and the first half ended!"

"I believe this first half of the game was beyond most people's expectations."

"Manchester United scored two goals in less than 35 minutes in the first half, leaving the Camp Nou stadium in complete silence."

"When the team was in trouble, Messi stepped up and scored a goal with a wonderful free kick, narrowing the score and making the game more suspenseful."

"The second half of the game will definitely be more exciting. We'll take a short break and come back soon."

During the half-time break, the popularity of this game even became a hot search topic in various countries.

Originally, the attention paid to the Champions League was higher than that of the domestic league.

What's more, the two teams facing each other are Barcelona and Manchester United, two of the most powerful clubs in the world in terms of global influence and number of fans!
According to statistics from BT Sport, the exclusive broadcaster of the Champions League, the first half of this powerful dialogue attracted 300 million viewers!
You have to know that the combined population of the United Kingdom and Ireland is over 70 million.

So 300 million viewers is equivalent to a viewership rating of over 4.2%!

This is already a very high number!
It is also enough to prove Manchester United's huge influence in the UK.

The ratings in the first half reached their peak when Ling Feng scored the second goal!
More than five million viewers witnessed Ling Feng score twice at the Camp Nou.

And these are just the viewing figures in the UK and Ireland!
In other words, more than ten million people around the world watched this game and witnessed with their own eyes the whole process of Ling Feng's lightning strike at the beginning of the game to defeat Barcelona and score twice!

The most direct impact was that Ling Feng’s personal social media fans saw a visibly surge in just 45 minutes of the first half!
It is worth mentioning that as a mortal rival, Real Madrid’s official social media is also paying close attention to this game.

In addition to the transactions with Beckham, Van Nistelrooy and Ronaldo, the relationship between Real Madrid and Manchester United is still pretty good.

Whenever Ling Feng scores a goal, the social media account will release the score immediately, and will also release high-definition photos of Ling Feng scoring the goal and celebrating.

Even more frequently than Manchester United's official social media account.

For Real Madrid, as long as it can make Barcelona unhappy, they are willing to do it!
Some Real Madrid fans also flocked to the comment section of Real Madrid's social media and Ling Feng's personal social media account, leaving comments:

"Good job man!"

"Why didn't we buy Lingfeng?!"

“Buy him!”

"Are you interested in coming to Real Madrid?"

Of course, this summer, Ling Feng, who was sought after by wealthy clubs, also had a scandal with Real Madrid.

There were even media reports that Real Madrid chairman Florentino Perez personally called Ling Feng and invited him to join the club.

But he was politely declined by the latter!

Of course, Real Madrid Club firmly denied this inside information known only to the parties involved, and then clarified that the team's lineup is very healthy, and Morata, who was repurchased from Juventus, is the only target in the summer window.

After all, Florentino, a big shot in the football world, called personally to recruit him, but was rejected by Ling Feng.

How embarrassing!
Of course, when facing media interviews, Ling Feng also specifically denied this fact to save some face for Karl Lagerfeld.

Football, after all, is not about fighting, but about human relationships.
As for those who questioned Ling Feng's performance against the giants before the game, they were all slapped in the face by Ling Feng and shut up.

The number of players who can score twice in their first match against Barcelona can be counted on one hand!
However, some media outlets are still very stubborn, holding the idea that black and red are also red, and continue to raise doubts:

"Although Ling Feng scored two goals, he will definitely be restricted in the second half. Just wait and see!"

"Barcelona has woken up and will not give Manchester United any chance!"

"Messi is showing his strength, how far can Suarez and Neymar be?!"

Of course, the turmoil outside the field did not disturb the good mood of Mourinho and Manchester United players.

For the visiting team, being able to take the lead at Camp Nou was definitely an unexpected result.

Of course, it's a good thing.

"Well done! Well done! Well done!"

As soon as he entered the locker room, Mourinho gave three consecutive "good jobs".

Mourinho was very happy and relieved by his disciples' performance in the first half.

He thought the team would be a little nervous at Camp Nou and expected the team to be beaten by the opponents.

But no one expected that the team would have the upper hand from the very beginning of the game.

Especially Ling Feng's personal performance, it is simply unstoppable!
Looking at Ling Feng who was sitting there calmly and drinking electrolyte drink sip by sip, Mourinho wanted to grab this boy and kiss him on the forehead a few times!

Although he had previously claimed in public that Ling Feng's level had reached that of Messi and Ronaldo.

But, that's more of a motivation.

However, he never expected that in this first head-on confrontation with Messi, Ling Feng would directly explode!
In the first half of the game, he was not only on par with Messi, but his explosive personal performance even surpassed European Golden Boot winner Suarez, Brazilian ace Neymar, and five-time Ballon d'Or winner Messi!
It was not until this time that Mourinho finally realized the joy of coaching Ling Feng!
Mourinho naturally watched the first half of the game.

His opinion coincided with Ling Feng's.

indeed.

Barcelona's MSN combination is so strong that they put tremendous pressure on Manchester United's defense with just a little effort.

Therefore, if they want to win this game, they must continue to adhere to the high-pressure tactics in the first half, suppressing Barcelona's midfield and backcourt as much as possible, so that the MSN combination in the frontcourt cannot get the ball more and attack!
This requires maintaining high-intensity pressing in the frontcourt, forcing Barcelona to have difficulty passing the ball from the backcourt and even causing more mistakes.

Looking around, Mourinho clenched his right fist, hit the palm of his left hand, and said in a deep voice:
"The first half of the game is over. We have to forget about it, because in the second half of 45 minutes, I hope you won't think about us leading, but play with us falling behind!"

"In the second half, we will continue to adopt the high-pressure tactics!"

"As long as we suppress them, we can score the third goal! The fourth goal!!"

“I have faith in you!!!”

Although Ibrahimovic's speed and pressing ability are average, and pressing consumes a lot of energy.

But as the team's center, he plays a fulcrum role in the frontcourt.

Moreover, his height and heading are a powerful weapon for Manchester United in set-piece tactics!
You know, among the ten goals scored by Ibrahimovic in all competitions this season, five were scored with headers!

And these five headers all came from Ling Feng’s crosses!

From this we can see how seamless the combination of Ling Feng and Ibrahimovic is!

Taking into account that Barcelona's back line is not tall enough, creating more set-piece opportunities in the first half would be a very effective way to score goals.

Therefore, Mourinho did not forget to remind Ling Feng to break through with the ball on the right more often, and it would be best if he could directly complete a 45-degree cross.

Even if they can't, creating free kicks or corner kicks opportunities can still pose a huge threat to Barcelona's goal!
Height limit at Camp Nou?
He insisted on using his header to smash open the Nou Camp goal!

. . .

After a short halftime break, players from both teams returned to the field amid cheers.

After the change of sides, Barcelona kicked off.

The Barcelona players, who thought their opponents would retreat to the half court, were stunned when they saw the Manchester United players rushing forward again. Damn, won't these guys get tired?

However, even though they cursed in their hearts, the Barcelona players still quickly speeded up the passing and did not dare to pass the ball back in the backcourt.

The key to cracking the high-pressure tactics is to take the ball away.

If it was the previous Dream Three Barcelona, ​​they would not be afraid of the opponent's pressing at all.

However, Barcelona's current ability to pass the ball from the backcourt is not enough to effectively pass the ball to the feet of the MSN combination.

After being robbed of the ball by Manchester United in the first half, Enrique also took countermeasures:
Let Messi retreat to the defensive midfielder position to support Busquets who is the single defensive midfielder, and thus successfully take the ball away.

This move did alleviate Barcelona's ball crisis.

However, as Messi retreated, Ling Feng, who was playing in the attacking midfielder position, was truly facing Messi for the first time in this game!
Barcelona No. 10 VS Manchester United No. 7!

It was not until this time that everyone was surprised to find that not only on the offensive end, Ling Feng was able to break through Barcelona's goal on his own.

On the defensive end, he can do better than any offensive player!

And the standard to measure his defense is to mark Messi!

"Busquets takes the ball, passes it to Messi"

"Ling Feng came up to press closely, Messi lowered his shoulders, but he couldn't shake Ling Feng off!"

"Wow! Ling Feng used a sliding tackle to poke the ball away."

Compared with Kante, Ling Feng has stronger physical confrontation ability, is faster, has longer legs, and can defend a larger area.

Although as an offensive player, his defensive awareness and skills are average.

However, his explosive physical fitness is enough to make up for his lack of defensive awareness.

What's more, when defending Messi, awareness has never been the key factor.

Because no matter how good your awareness is, it will be useless if your body can't keep up with Messi's pace!

Messi also suddenly felt the defensive pressure from Ling Feng.

Originally, the black midfielder who was defending him was a little slower than him in pace.

However, after Ling Feng took over the defense, he suddenly found that even if he suddenly accelerated, stopped or changed direction, the opponent would be able to keep up with him!
It can even constantly interfere with yourself physically!

You know, Messi hasn't had this kind of difficult feeling for a long time!

The last player who put himself under such great defensive pressure was Ashley Cole, who was known as the "No. 1 left back in the Premier League".
Under Ling Feng's close entanglement, Messi's retreat did not have much effect.

As a result, both the fans of both teams in the stadium and the audience in front of the TV were surprised to find that the situation on the field had returned to the situation in the first half of the first half!

The Manchester United players in white jerseys seemed tireless, running non-stop and constantly pressuring Barcelona's formation.

As for Barcelona's midfield and backcourt, it seemed as if the ball was burning their feet. They did not dare to let the ball stay at their feet for more than two seconds and had to pass it away immediately.

Under Manchester United's high pressure, even though Messi had retreated to the midfield to get the ball, there was not much change.

On the contrary, after Messi retreated, it became more difficult for him to dribble the ball to the front court under Ling Feng's single defense, which resulted in greater physical energy consumption.

Without Messi's dribbling breakthrough, Neymar and Suarez could only retreat frequently and then move forward again.

This will keep Barcelona's threatening attacks away from the offensive third zone, making it easier for Manchester United to form a tight defensive formation and form a zone defense.

Although such crazy high-pressure defense consumes a lot of physical energy of the players.

However, the results achieved are still considerable.

When the game reached the 56th minute, Barcelona made a mistake in the backcourt and Umtiti's pass was intercepted by Rooney.

The latter immediately passed the ball to Ling Feng who moved to the right.

However, the moment he received the ball, Barcelona's left-back Alba came up and pushed him down.

This was the most obvious change on Barcelona's defensive end in the second half.

Whenever Ling Feng tries to get the ball, the nearest player will knock him down!
Even if he commits a foul, he can't be allowed to break through or complete the cross!
However, this action was a bit too scare.

Although Ling Feng was not allowed to take the ball and complete the next step, it gave Manchester United a chance to take a set piece in the front court.

When Manchester United's two central defenders and Ibrahimovic and others entered the penalty area, Barcelona players and Enrique on the sidelines realized that something was wrong.

There are three high points over 1.9 meters in the restricted area.

They are Ibrahimovic and Smalling from Manchester United and Mathieu from Barcelona.

Mathieu was entangled by another Manchester United central defender Bailly and was unable to do anything.

At first glance, you can see that there is a big height difference between Ibrahimovic and the players beside him, Smalling and Rakitic in the penalty area.

Seeing this scene, the hearts of tens of thousands of home fans at Camp Nou were in their throats again.

They know how deadly the cross from the Red Devils No.7 is.
really.

The lack of high-point protection in the penalty area defense also allowed Ling Feng's 45-degree cross to draw a beautiful arc above the Nou Camp and find Ibrahimovic's head very easily and effortlessly.

The Swedish giant who once played for Barcelona jumped up, used the strength of his waist and abdomen, and headed the ball into the goal!

With a bang, the ball mercilessly hit the white net!

Ter Stegen on the goal line opened his arms, but it didn't help at all.

Or maybe it just became the background for Ibrahimovic's wonderful header goal
"The ball went in!!!"

"The goal was scored by Manchester United's number nine, Zlatan~~~Ibrahimovic!!!"

"One to three! Manchester United is leading!"

After scoring the goal, Ibrahimovic just opened his arms, raised his head proudly, and showed his domineering spirit!

Then, he high-fived Ling Feng who ran over, bumped his chest with him, grabbed Ling Feng's head excitedly, and roared:

"Fuck! Your pass is so damn accurate!"

As the score was widened again, Manchester United's morale was even higher, as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they continued to exert pressure in the frontcourt.

In the 60th minute, seeing that Captain Lu's physical strength had obviously declined, Mourinho replaced him with Lingard to increase his running ability in the frontcourt.

Strictly speaking, Lingard's talent is average.

But, I can run!
When Barcelona center back Umtiti got the ball and looked up, all they saw were Manchester United players in white.

How did this get spread?!

(End of this chapter)