Lin Hai Ting Tao
Chapter 454 Some Are Happy, Some Are Sad
Thanks to the advanced television broadcasting technology, thanks to the clear multi-angle replay, everyone remembered the scene of Chen Hero breaking free from Pique's pull in the air, tearing his jersey.
It brought a great shock to many people, especially those Barcelona fans...
They rarely see anyone get rid of defense in this way!
When it comes to getting rid of defense, the first things that come to mind must be words like erratic running positions, superb skills, and keen sense of smell. But how many people have seen this kind of way to get rid of defense?
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh! Hero! Hero! He is so great! So amazing! So incredible! He broke free from Pique's pull in the air by tearing his jersey and scored a beautiful goal!"
"Napoli's free kick was very sudden. Barcelona's defense didn't keep up at all. There was only one Pique, and he was thrown off by Chen Hero in an unreasonable way! No one thought that Barcelona would lose the second goal in this way!"
"It's so domineering! So unreasonable! So..." He Ping couldn't continue here, because he was proud of his eloquence and was known as the "poet commentator", but he couldn't find a suitable word to describe Chen Hero's goal. "How fortunate is Chinese football to have such a player, and how unfortunate is Chinese football... to reject him for two years..."
Amidst the commentators' frantic shouts, Chen Hero didn't run wildly to celebrate. He landed from the air, stood on the spot, then slowly raised his arms and finally pointed to the sky. He just maintained this posture.
Then Arshavin rushed onto him, jumped up, jumped on his back, wrapped his arms around his neck, and hung on Chen Hero's body like a sloth.
Then more teammates rushed up, jumped up and pounced, or hugged him tightly.
He was like a magnet, attracting all the Napoli players on the field, and a super-powered magnet, because even goalkeeper De Sanctis ran up...
The Napoli players celebrated wantonly on Barcelona's territory, disregarding the Barcelona players!
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Seeing Chen Hero break free from Pique's pull and nudge the football into the goal, Guardiola, who was holding a bottle of mineral water and preparing to drink, slammed the bottle in his hand to the ground angrily.
As if it was not enough to vent the anger in his heart, after the water bottle bounced up, he kicked the water bottle out. As a result, water sprayed out of the bottle and splashed all over his pants...just like he had peed in his pants, it was extremely embarrassing!
But he couldn't care about this now. Barcelona on the field was much more embarrassed than him. The score was tied, and the opponent had two away goals. This Napoli team really had a perfect away trip!
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The Italian commentator also went crazy: "Two away goals! Two away goals! Two! Yes! It's two! Napoli has two away goals!!"
He didn't need to say more, he didn't need to explain why these two away goals made him so excited. Because anyone who watches football knows.
That's why Napoli's players were so excited, that's why Napoli fans at Camp Nou let out deafening cheers, with six thousand people overwhelming more than sixty thousand people, so at this moment in Naples, Italy, fans all over the city were cheering and celebrating wildly.
In the next round, Napoli will return to their home court. With two away goals in hand, they are not soft persimmons to be easily handled! The invincible Barcelona is very likely to fall at the feet of the fearless Napoli!
How could they not be excited?
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Pique explained to Puyol: "This time I pulled him, but he didn't fall..."
Puyol couldn't say anything. He just patted Pique on the back and sighed in his heart.
Chen Hero's unreasonable style really countered Barcelona a bit...
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When Chen Hero was celebrating a goal with his teammates on the field, who was the most upset person?
It was another big man sitting on the bench, Ibrahimović.
Who was the happiest person?
It was Ibrahimović, who could only sit on the bench and watch his teammates play.
Who was the most conflicted person?
Ibrahimović.
He was excluded from the starting lineup for this game, and this was not the first time. In fact, since he went to Italy to attend the Serie A Oscar awards ceremony, he had gradually lost his place in the Barcelona team.
Because he had conflicts with Guardiola.
Ibrahimović is a genius, and geniuses are always conceited. The conceited Ibrahimović believes that he has the skills and physique, and should be the core of Barcelona's offense, which means that Barcelona's tactics should be designed around him.
But this is impossible in Barcelona.
Because Messi is the core, and Barcelona's center forwards must serve Messi. Ibrahimović must also do this on the field, attracting the attention of the opponent's defenders, acting as a wall for Messi, passing the ball to him when Messi dribbles horizontally, and letting Messi complete the fatal blow.
For the conceited Ibrahimović, this is absolutely intolerable. Since his debut, whether at Ajax, Juventus, or Inter Milan, he has always been the main player, the tactical core of the offense, and he never works for others.
So he tried to challenge Messi's authority in Barcelona's locker room. He failed, because from teammates to coaches, and even to the club's top management, everyone stood on Messi's side.
In addition, Ibrahimović, who is always complacent and thinks he is superior to his teammates, is not a likable character. So he did not get support.
After finding Guardiola to reason with him to no avail, he fell out with Guardiola and cursed Guardiola in training and in the locker room.
Guardiola's response was to throw him on the bench.
Anyway, Barcelona never relies on center forwards to score goals. The center forward is just used to set up Messi...
Therefore, Ibrahimović sitting on the bench would not only not affect Barcelona's performance, but would also improve Barcelona's performance, because... his absence actually gave Messi, Pedro and other small players more room to play.
Ibrahimović's "palace coup" was thus brutally suppressed...
So Ibrahimović sat on the bench without any suspense in this game. He was in the shadow of the Camp Nou bench, and even the camera could hardly capture his expression.
But now, he was both happy and angry... conflicted.
He was angry because his enemy Chen Hero actually scored twice at Camp Nou and became Napoli's biggest hero, his brilliance even overshadowed Messi. When Chen Hero performed so well, he, who considered himself even more powerful than him, could only sit on the bench, which made him very angry.
He was happy because... Barcelona was in a bitter battle. He was a little gloating—let you put me on the bench! Let you treat Messi as the core! Look, how is his performance today? He didn't score a single goal! If you let me play, this game would have been won long ago!
While he was slandering his teammates, he also forgot that his performance in the Champions League knockout stage had always been lackluster, whether at Juventus or Inter Milan...
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Napoli scored two goals away from home and tied Barcelona in the score, which can be said to have completed the task in advance.
Mazzarri could not ask for a better performance from the players.
However, the entire Napoli team was encouraged by this goal, and they continued to work hard to find scoring opportunities after the game restarted.
Barcelona certainly would not be willing to be tied by Napoli at their home stadium—it was not only related to the team's promotion prospects, but also a great shame.
In fact, being tied at home is not a great shame, but when they thought of their contemptuous attitude towards Napoli before the game, and now they were tied by the team they looked down upon, in their hearts, this was indeed a great shame.
The following game looked completely like another game, and it was not the same as the previous game at all. The two sides fought fiercely, the movements became bigger and bigger, and the atmosphere of gunpowder gradually became stronger.
Mainly, the home team's players gradually increased their tackling actions, after all, they were now anxious. In addition, with the home advantage, the referee's penalty was more favorable to the home team Barcelona, which made the Napoli players feel unhappy.
Since you are making big moves, then I am not a gentleman either.
The two sides just got into it.
When the game reached the eightieth minute, the score was still tied 2:2. Cassano was dribbling the ball on the wing, heading straight for the baseline. Two Barcelona players were chasing closely. Cassano had no chance to cross, so he simply turned and led the football to the corner flag, intending to grind for time there.
Barcelona's full-back Daniel Alves seemed to have seen through Cassano's plan, and did not give him the chance to do so at all. He pushed and shoveled Cassano to the ground from behind, and the football was naturally hooked back by Alves.
As a result, Cassano fell out of the sideline, while Alves ignored him, got up from the ground, and rushed forward with the football. Now Barcelona really had to seize every second.
Alves' obvious foul was not stopped by the referee, which aroused Napoli's anger.
Chen Hero was originally waiting in the penalty area to respond, but when he saw that the referee had no reaction, he rushed up directly.
Then came a "reasonable collision",夹着自己的胳膊,将自己的整个身体都扔了出去 (no suitable translation for this phrase, sorry), throwing his entire body out while accelerating. With his 190-斤 (jin, a Chinese unit of weight, approximately 95 kg) weight and the momentum of acceleration, Alves, who was dribbling the ball, was like being hit by a heavy truck, flying out of the sideline...
This time the referee's whistle finally sounded, along with the Barcelona fans' ear-piercing boos.
"Foul!"
They shouted.
After Chen Hero knocked Alves away, the football also rolled out of the sideline. However, he didn't intend to bring the football over. This was simply to avenge Cassano.
Seeing his teammate suffer, Busquets rushed up to defend his teammate and roared and questioned Chen Hero: "What the hell are you trying to do?"
He used Catalan, which Chen Hero didn't understand.
But it didn't matter. Chen Hero only looked at his expression to know what he was saying, so he also retorted in his hometown dialect: "You son of a bitch!"
Seeing that the two big men were head to head and about to start a conflict, the other players rushed over quickly.
However, there were still differences. Napoli's players rushed towards the two people who had the conflict, while Barcelona's players... spread their arms and rushed towards the referee, shouting loudly.
"Referee, look! He fouled and provoked!"
"Referee! Referee! Look quickly! Fighting—!!"
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The field was in chaos...