When the Liverpool team's mentality calmed down again, they did not become conservative. They did not intend to work hard to defend their current advantage. Instead, they wanted to expand their advantage!
In the 72nd minute of the game, Barcelona's attack in the front field was once again interrupted. Iniesta passed the ball back to the middle from the front side to Xavi. Under the attack of Gerard and Alonso, Xavi's ball was intercepted for the first time in the game!
After the ball was intercepted, Barcelona immediately launched a counterattack. Alonso decisively passed the ball to the left side.
Liverpool intended to repeat the same trick.
Aurelio went to the side to press on and assist. He strode the ball and rushed through the midfield.
But when he passed the ball to Qin Xiong, he made a mistake. It could only be said that the timing of the pass was not the best.
This time, Alves rushed directly forward to intercept Aurelio. Aurelio hurriedly passed the ball, but the football was intercepted by Boots.
Barcelona suddenly changed from defense to offense and played a very fast counterattack.
Boots passed the ball to the front. Yaya Toure retreated to the side of Gerard and knocked the ball to Xavi. Then, he turned and plugged in.
Xavi kicked the ball and gently knocked the ball to Yaya Toure who plugged in. Yaya Toure also kicked the ball. Xavi also plugged in. The two played a continuous one-two combination. Gerard and Alonso's defense was broken through.
When they came to the front of the penalty area, Lucas and Mascherano had to sandwich the middle.
After Yaya Toure passed the ball to Xavi again, the Spanish midfield commander calmly stuffed the ball diagonally behind Mascherano.
There, Messi, who was not closely marked by Aurelio, cut in front of Skrtel. When he received Xavi's pass, he directly took the ball and accelerated. He rushed through the gap between Skrtel and Carragher!
Messi, who drove the ball into the penalty area, formed a one-on-one ball. He faced the attacking goalkeeper, Reina, and calmly used his left foot to shoot at the bottom left corner of the goal.
The speed of the shot was not fast, but the angle was tricky. Reina did not make a save and turned his head to look. The football rolled smoothly into the lower left corner of the goal.
Applause came from the Camp Nou stadium. The Barcelona fans were not very excited by Messi's goal. It could only be said that hope was still very slim because Barcelona still had to score two more goals to achieve a comeback.
Ibrahimovic rushed into the goal and held the ball in his arms. Messi looked as usual as he trotted toward the midfield.
Barcelona had no time to celebrate the goal. They were in a race against time.
"Barcelona gets a goal back again! The score of the game had become 4: 2, and the total score was 5: 6, but Barcelona still had to score two more goals to advance.
It had to be said that this goal was beautifully scored by Barcelona. It was a classic team goal.
Xavi and Yaya Toure's consecutive one-two combination in the front field produced a quicksilver effect. Xavi then assisted Messi, who used his superb dribbling ability to break through into the penalty area and calmly shot the goal.
There are still about 20 minutes left. Does Barcelona's miracle still exist? "
Guardiola kept boosting the morale, and Comain also asked the players to hold on. At this stage of the game, it was often the players' willpower that was tested.
As time passed, Liverpool's attention to defense would definitely increase, but they would not give up on counterattacking.
The physical fitness of the Barcelona players also began to fluctuate due to the huge consumption, which would affect the consistency of the whole team, especially in the battle.
In the five minutes after the restart, Barcelona had difficulty finding a breakthrough in the frontal attack. The biggest reason was that Yaya Toure played with an injury. His performance was more obvious, especially in the confrontation, began to decline.
This led to Barcelona's overall formation pressing to a greater extent in order to score goals and investing more players in the attack.
In the 83rd minute of the game, Bouzquez also assisted. Almost all the Barcelona and Liverpool players were concentrated in Liverpool's half of the field.
The space became more narrow, and it was almost impossible to find a passing route.
After Xavi and Bouzquez exchanged passes, he passed the ball to Yaya Toure.
Gerard bravely used his body to squeeze Yaya Toure, trying to make Yaya Toure lose his balance. The two players fiercely confronted each other. In the confrontation, Yaya Toure's speed was slow, and the football under his feet was intercepted by Gerard.
After the ball was intercepted, Yaya Toure tried to counterattack, but in the end, he was knocked to the ground by Gerard in the physical confrontation.
Barcelona's players raised their hands to complain, but the referee was indifferent, thinking that it was a reasonable confrontation.
Xavi immediately tried to counterattack, but this time, Gerard directly passed the ball to Torres, who retreated deep, near him.
Torres received Gerard's pass in the center line. Behind him, Bouzquez came to intercept. Barcelona's defense could not retreat. In the current situation, they had to counterattack immediately!
When Bouzquez's foot came, Torres pulled the ball horizontally and gently kicked behind Bouzquez. Then, he dodged Bouzquez from the other side and dashed forward!
He bypassed Bouzquez!
This might be the furthest Torres touched the ball in the whole game, but it was also the most exciting of his long-distance attacks!
In the process of him dribbling the ball forward, Maxwell rushed from the side to intercept. Torres was as agile as the wind. He dribbled the ball and changed direction to avoid Maxwell. Then, he strode toward Barcelona's penalty area.
Alves followed Qin Xiong closely. Puyol and Piqué kept retreating. The defensive midfielders could not retreat when they were defending, but the defenders had to retreat. They were afraid of Torres's speed!
Torres dribbled the ball forward and got closer to the penalty area. Puyol and Piqué retreated to the penalty area line and stopped to prepare for the next step of the defense.
Qin Xiong ran diagonally at this time, and Alves followed closely like a shadow.
But Alves was still passive because he could only chase behind Qin Xiong. He could not block Qin Xiong's path forward.
When Qin Xiong inserted diagonally in the gap between Puyol and Piqué, Torres's dribbling rhythm paused and he flicked the ball horizontally out of the gap. At the same time, Qin Xiong suddenly stopped and turned back to behind Puyol. Torres's pass came on time!
Qin Xiong's positioning confused all Barcelona's defenders, including the goalkeeper, Valdés!
At first, he pretended to insert diagonally behind Piqué, which made Puyol and Alves shrink to that side.
And when he turned back and ran behind Puyol, he widened the distance between him and the Barcelona defenders with one round of running back and forth.
Valdés was also moving toward Piqué's side of the goal. But after Qin Xiong changed his route, the other side of the goal was presented to Qin Xiong.
After Torres passed the ball over, Qin Xiong did not stop the ball. He easily swept the ball toward the open goal in front of him with the arch of his foot. The football also rolled smoothly into the goal!
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