The Day I Played with Ronaldo - Chapter 630
In fact, before the first round, the English media did not look bad at QPR.
Except for a few newspapers such as Spain’s World, Everybody, etc., clamoring for Barcelona to kill QPR away, most of the neutral media believe that the QPR currently ranked second in the Premier League will not be too embarrassed at home.
Facts also prove the professionalism of these media.
QPR is not only embarrassed, but also won the game at home-although the process is not smooth, but the results are pretty good.
However, after the first round of the game, most media were pessimistic about QPR’s promotion prospects.
Barcelona had two away goals in their hands, which was deadly.
Back home, Barcelona only need to win a 0-1 or 2: 1 to qualify.
QPR wants to tie opponents away? It’s too difficult.
Even Messi couldn’t make it.
Not that QPR is not strong.
But Barcelona is too strong.
How domineering to enter the Champions League semi-finals for 6 consecutive years!
Although QPR has strength, after all, it is the first time to participate in the Champions League and lacks experience. The grasp of the rhythm of the game, the distribution of physical fitness, and the standards of the referees are not clear enough.
So they can perform amazingly at home, but at Camp Nou, they may not be able to play so well.
In this regard, Ricardo said mischievously in an interview: “Football is round, anything can happen on the football field, and teams with stronger paper strength may not always win, don’t they?”
QPR is still stepping up training, and it is assumed that the enemy is Barcelona.
However, before the second round, they will play a league game.
Their league rivals Manchester United have been eliminated in the Champions League and are now preparing for the league with no hesitation, which is not good news for QPR.
On the evening of April 7, the exhausted QPR played at home against Wigan Athletic.
Wigan Athletic currently ranks second to last in the relegation zone. They are 2 points behind the third last Sunderland and 5 points behind the fourth last Newcastle. For them, every point is valuable.
Faced with a strong QPR, they certainly can’t play away.
In the game, Simone rotated most of the players, and Wigan Athletic put out a bus. In the first half, the two sides reached 0: 0.
In the 54th minute of the second half, Ricardo suddenly showed his strength and ran for 40 meters in the midfield. After 3 people, he shot an angry hole through the edge of the penalty area and penetrated Wigan’s goal.
However, the tenacious Wigan Athletic did not reconcile, they began to fight back.
However, QPR’s physical problems occurred, and it was unable to maintain high-intensity snatches.
In the 86th minute, their goal was finally lost.
The score of 1: 1 allowed QPR’s points to reach 77 points. At present, they share the same points with Manchester United, but Manchester United has one less match.
However, Manchester United’s opponent in this round is the rival of Manchester City, so QPR players still have a little expectation in their hearts.
A day later, Manchester United played against Manchester City at Old Trafford. At this time, QPR was on a plane to Barcelona.
In the case of 0: 0 in the first half, Manchester City scored two goals from Aguero and Silva. At the last moment, Manchester United recovered a goal by Evra.
Manchester United lost 1-2 at home.
In the 32 rounds of the league, Manchester United and QPR together scored 77 points. Manchester United temporarily topped the list with a marginal advantage.
The third Manchester City and the fourth Chelsea, they are a dozen points behind Manchester United and QPR, the championship must be born between Manchester United and QPR.
The relieved QPR was able to focus more on preparing for the match against Barcelona.
At 8:45 pm on April 10, the game started on time.
Messi failed to return to the starting lineup in time for injury. Mascherano was suspended due to accumulated yellow cards. Barcelona’s lineup today is not complete.
Goalkeeper Valdes, defenders Alves, Pique, Adriano and Alba. Adriano is a full-back and today he is a guest defender.
The midfielder is Habbe and the forward line is Pedro, Villa and Fabregas. Huluwa pulled to the sidewalk today, with Fabregas acting as a pseudo-nine.
QPR’s lineup has also been fine-tuned, with goalkeeper Handanovic, defenders Alex Sandro, Van Dijk, Miranda and veteran Maicon, midfielder Fernandinho, midfielder Modric and Nadine Ingrande, three Brazilians at the front, Ricardo, Ronaldo and Neymar.
There are six Brazilians in the starting lineup, which can be regarded as half of the Brazilian national team.
After the opening, QPR did not start a fierce high-level rush, posing a stance of guarding against death, and put soldiers in the backcourt.
Barcelona has always had the ball.
Within the opening 20 minutes, each side created several dangerous situations but did not really create a threat, and then QPR recovered even more.
Camp fans booed one after another, expressing dissatisfaction with QPR’s shrinking.
Simone didn’t care.
If the first round of the fight, he just wants to play QPR style, don’t care about the outcome.
So at this time, all he thought was how to advance to the next round.
QPR resolutely played a defensive counter-attack, and their counter-attack was indeed sharp enough. Barcelona didn’t dare to care, the back line didn’t dare to press the assist, and maintained the integrity of the line.
In the 22nd minute, Villa sent a pass, Fabregas shot blocked in the penalty area. Pedro grabbed the second drop pass and hit the defender. He snatched the ball again and hit the ball.
Although the goal was not scored, the QPR fans at the scene were startled.
After 2 minutes ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ Villa passed the ball after the breakthrough. Iniesta took the ball in the penalty area for the first time and was blocked by the defender.
QPR’s defense is very dense and Barcelona can’t come up with a very good solution.
At this point, QPR counterattacked, and the football naturally came to Ricardo’s feet. After rushing the ball across the midfield, he began to cut inwards, passing Xavi and Adriano consecutively. He suddenly split the ball at the front of the penalty area and the football was delivered to Marr.
Neymar made a single step in one step, but this step was a bit big, he had to shoot down, and Valders was very timely. When Barcelona fans burst, he bravely hit the ball with his fingertips. After dialing it, the football flew to the bottom line.
Naingland inserted a shovel to shoot the empty goal at high speed, but he was a bit short and couldn’t hit the ball.
Very thrilling.
QPR fans are holding their heads. If this goal is scored, the rest of QPR’s game will be very good.
But unfortunately, if you miss it, you miss it.
After 3 minutes, QPR created another killer. In the counter-attack, Modric sent more than 30 meters of accurate direct passes. After Ricardo took the ball, he broke through Alves’s defensive pass. Neymar used a header that he was not good at when he was unmarked at a long distance. The goal was scored a little bit more and Valdes saved the ball from the baseline.
Corner taken by Neymar, Van Dijk grabbed a point and ejected a rebound, but the trajectory deviated slightly from the goal.
But as the football was about to fly off the bottom line, a foot suddenly appeared and swept the ball into the goal.
Ricardo started running to celebrate.
But after the referee whistled, he pointed to the penalty area and signaled Barcelona to take a free kick.
The lineman has raised his flag, and Ricardo was offside when he relayed.
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