Chapter 99 Against Juventus, Li Mingyu's first battle with Ronaldo
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Luo Yi 36 Chao
Chapter 99 Against Juventus, Li Mingyu's first battle with Ronaldo
At the end of the 90-minute game, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
4:2, in their first Champions League game of the season, Barcelona captured the visiting Blues Chelsea at home, making a good start for their Champions League game.
After the game ended, there was a sensation throughout Europe.
In 2019, a Norwegian player who was only 19 years old completed a hat-trick in his first Champions League game. Since then, his name has shocked the entire football world.
He is the supernova Harland who has now joined Real Madrid.
Two years later, the same 19-year-old Hispanic Chinese player once again made his debut in the Champions League. He was even more brilliant than Haaland.
You know, in the history of the Champions League, there are only 15 players who can complete the big four. Only Messi has twice, one of which was five dollars alone.
In this list, there are all some well-known stars in world football.
And starting today, there is another 19-year-old young man on this list.
But it is foreseeable that this young man will not appear only once in this list.
Before, whether it was Li Mingyu's superb performance in the Spanish Football League, or his brilliant performance in the European competition of the world preliminaries, none of this time's big four in the UEFA Champions League group stage was as eye-catching.
After all, the level of attention to the Champions League matches can basically be said to be the only one in world football.
Maybe only the World Cup can compete with the Champions League!
For a while, the super clubs of the five major leagues in Europe once again set their sights on Barcelona and on Li Mingyu.
However, Li Mingyu's 2.5 million liquidated damages made many teams discouraged.
Only a few clubs with deep pockets did not give up their temptations.
However, Li Mingyu didn't take this seriously. In his heart, it was his childhood ideal to stay in Barcelona and fight side by side with Messi.
If nothing else, he also likes to be consistent with Barcelona like Messi.
After the game, Barcelona got a bad news.
Messi needs to rest for at least two weeks due to muscle fatigue.
Messi's absence made Barcelona, which was already short of major generals, even worse.
Back in the league, this weekend's game, Barcelona came to the Villamarin Stadium to challenge Real Betis.
Li Mingyu did not score a goal in this game, but he sent a wonderful long pass from the backcourt, and Griesmann made it overnight.
In the end, Barcelona made it through 1:2 in an away game and scored a crucial three-pointer at the Villamarin Stadium.
However, since Li Mingyu did not score a goal, Real Madrid's Haaland completed a hat-trick, scoring 8 goals in five games, and came to the top of the scorer list, leading the crowd.
Harland's radiance was so bright that it seemed to overwhelm Li Mingyu.
You know, before Li Mingyu's 2021, Harland and Paris Saint-Germain's Mbappe are called the successors of Ronaldo and Messi.
And after Li Mingyu's superb performance in the first half of 2021, world football added Li Mingyu to their ranks, and the twin stars became a tripartite confrontation.
However, Harland and Mbappe, who have already proved themselves in the Champions League, did not take Li Mingyu to heart at all.
There are too many supernovas, who dominate the domestic arena, but there are not a few people who are soft-footed in the European arena. As long as they have not proved themselves in the Champions League, they are not considered superstars.
Both Harland and Mbappe have their own proud capital. In the UEFA Champions League scorer list under the age of 21, Harland has 20 goals, followed by Mbappe with 19 goals. No.3 Benzema has only 12 goals, Messi has 8 goals, and Ronaldo, before the age of 21, has not scored in the Champions League.
But there is a saying that is good, first fat is not fat, then fat overwhelms Kang, Ronaldo and Messi are now the top two players on the Champions League scorer list.
In the first round of the UEFA Champions League, Juventus defeated the powerful Besiktas team in the Turkish League at their home court.
Ronaldo failed to score in this game, so his number of goals in the Champions League is still 134.
Messi failed to score a goal. His number of goals in the Champions League has not changed, and it is still 120. It is not easy to catch up with Ronaldo.
Ronaldo's scoring efficiency is terribly stable. In the Champions League, he scored 175 goals in 134 games, which is simply a scoring machine.
Don't look at how well Harland and Mbappe are doing so well now, but whether a star is worthy of being praised and remembered depends on whether his career life is long enough.
If you want to take the class of Ronaldo and Messi, first of all, you must first get enough goals and honors in the Champions League, and then let's talk about these!
After the Barcelona team defeated Real Betis, the next two games were all eye-catching battles.
One is at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, where Juventus is at home, and the away game against Juventus is the highlight of the Champions League group stage.
Next, on the weekend after four days, Barcelona will come to the Bernabéu Stadium to challenge Real Madrid's national derby.
These two games are very important games for Barcelona.
A game that allows me to appear first in the group stage, and the other game is related to the possible final ownership of La Liga.
If they can beat Juventus, then Barcelona is likely to become the first group in Group D and get a better draw position in the eighth knockout round.
The league against Real Madrid is even more important. Now, Real Madrid has won all five games in the first five games, and scored a lot of goals.
Harland, who just joined the team, has completely made up for Ronaldo's position, and it is even worse. Today's Real Madrid is in full swing, pointing to the league championship this season.
If Barcelona cannot beat Real Madrid in this game, even if it is a draw, maybe in the following leagues, Barcelona may not necessarily be able to see the taillights of Real Madrid.
The biggest purpose of this game is to suppress the terrifying momentum of Real Madrid.
However, the most important thing now is to solve the immediate problem first.
Due to Messi's muscle tension, it is estimated that Messi will not be able to play in these two key games. All of a sudden, the pressure of Barcelona is all on Li Mingyu alone.
The 19-year-old Li Mingyu took on a heavy responsibility that he shouldn't have at his age.
Soon, it came to the mid-week game. Barcelona flew to Turin, the capital of Piedmont, Italy, one day in advance. This is the home court of Juventus.
Turin is the third largest city in Italy, one of the major industrial centers, Italy's automobile city, and the largest automobile production area in Europe. It is also an ancient city with a long history and preserves a large number of classical and Baroque buildings.
Juventus is one of the oldest football clubs in Italy, with almost countless honors.
36 Italian Serie A championship trophies, the team with the most championships in the Italian Serie A.
Juventus is also the first team in history to achieve the three Grand Slam Cups.
The three major cups are the European Champions Cup, the UEFA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup.
The European Cup Winners' Cup is a European football club competition in which clubs that have won the top cup championships of European member associations participate.
However, the European Cup Winners' Cup ended in 1999. The last European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Lazio in Italy, and Lazio also permanently preserved the trophy.
Juventus plays a pivotal role in European football.
Coming to the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Li Mingyu felt a different football atmosphere.
The football atmosphere in Italy is very different from the football atmosphere in Spain.
In the former world's No. [-] league and today's No. [-] league in the world, Italy's football style remains the same as before. Practical offense combined with consistent defense makes it difficult for Spanish teams that like to pass and control to play smoothly when facing Italian teams.
In the UEFA Champions League group stage last season, Barcelona and Juventus were assigned to a group, but in the first group stage, Ronaldo injured his leg muscles, causing him to miss the first time after leaving Real Madrid.
Coincidentally, this season, the two teams were once again divided into a group. If it was not an arrangement of fate, then someone deliberately manipulated it.
What is incredible is that this time, Ronaldo has been determined to participate in this game, while Messi also missed this game due to muscle fatigue.
The peerless twins, the first matchup in two seasons, were perfect misses.
However, this game still attracted a lot of attention. Although there was no Messi, the Barcelona team had Li Mingyu, one of the "three pillars" today.
Before the game, a reporter asked Ronaldo in an interview whether Mbappe, Harland and Li Mingyu would put him under pressure.
Ronaldo said very disdainfully, "Let's discuss this issue after they catch up with my number of times and goals in the Champions League!"
A group of young people in their early 20s want to challenge their position, which is simply nonsense.
Facing the challenge of Barcelona, Ronaldo is also well prepared.
Although he said he was dismissive of Li Mingyu, in the last game, Li Mingyu's big four also put Ronaldo under great pressure.
Although Cristiano Ronaldo scored a lot of goals in the Champions League, he only scored four goals against the underdog Malmo team in the 2015-2016 UEFA Champions League group stage, completing the feat of the big four.
For a veteran team like Chelsea, it will be twice as difficult to complete the big four on him.
Not only Ronaldo, but Juventus coach Andre Pirlo also attaches great importance to this game.
When they knew that Messi could not play, they let go of half of the big stone in their hearts.
Although Li Mingyu put them under a lot of pressure, Messi was the thorn in their throats.
The Allianz Stadium in Turin is the first stadium in the history of Italian football that belongs exclusively to a team.
The total area reaches 35 square meters, which is almost equal to that of the Vatican. Among them, the stadium covers an area of 9 square meters, the commercial area is 3.4 square meters, and the green space is 3 square meters. It includes 64 boxes, 275 press seats, coffee bars and other facilities, and can accommodate 41000 people.
The 86-meter red, white and green steel mast is the symbol of the new stadium and symbolizes the Italian flag.The original design was to use green at the top, but in order to meet the requirements of ENAV, the Italian air navigation service provider, the red was finally placed at the top, and green is difficult to identify in the air.The new stadium also cancels the runway between the audience stand and the stadium, bringing the distance between the audience and the players closer, and the atmosphere of watching the game is better.
The Barcelona players set off from the hotel where they stayed and took the team bus to the outside of the Allianz Stadium in Turin.
It is around 15:00 in the afternoon, and today's game will start on time at 17:00 local time.
The outside of the Allianz Stadium in Turin is already full of people.
The Juventus fans in zebra jerseys were singing and dancing outside. They didn't behave aggressively towards the Barcelona bus, but Li Mingyu could hear their roars clearly through the thick window glass.
This is the cruelty of the away game. You feel like you have come to a strange place alone, surrounded by some unfriendly people. Often, many superstars behave very mediocrely when they are away from home.
Psychological quality is also a very important part of a superstar.
Wearing earphones, Li Mingyu, wearing a black sportswear, without any expression, got off the bus, walked into the player tunnel, and came to the visiting team's locker room.
The Allianz Stadium in Turin is indeed a very modern stadium, and even the visiting team's locker room is not as closed as other stadiums.
After everyone was here, coach Koeman started the pre-match arrangement for the game.
Messi was not able to come to Turin with the team, but was in his villa in Barcelona, waiting to watch the live broadcast of the game.
What makes Messi more troublesome is that although his three sons, the eldest son Thiago Messi, is full of praise for Li Mingyu's performance, he is still a die-hard fan of Ronaldo. In this match between Juventus and Barcelona, Thiago wore Ronaldo's No. 7 Juventus jersey at home, and kept provoking his brother.
Messi's second son, Mateo Messi, originally admired his father, but after seeing Li Mingyu's performance, he simply betrayed his father and joined Li Mingyu's command.
Ciro Messi, who was only three and a half years old, looked at his two older brothers in a daze, arguing whether Ronaldo was better or Li Mingyu was better.
Messi stood aside, sighed, put his arms around his wife Antonella, and said helplessly, "As a father, I don't even have a son who worships me!"
Antonella kissed Messi lightly, and said affectionately, "I adore you!"
(End of this chapter)
At the end of the 90-minute game, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
4:2, in their first Champions League game of the season, Barcelona captured the visiting Blues Chelsea at home, making a good start for their Champions League game.
After the game ended, there was a sensation throughout Europe.
In 2019, a Norwegian player who was only 19 years old completed a hat-trick in his first Champions League game. Since then, his name has shocked the entire football world.
He is the supernova Harland who has now joined Real Madrid.
Two years later, the same 19-year-old Hispanic Chinese player once again made his debut in the Champions League. He was even more brilliant than Haaland.
You know, in the history of the Champions League, there are only 15 players who can complete the big four. Only Messi has twice, one of which was five dollars alone.
In this list, there are all some well-known stars in world football.
And starting today, there is another 19-year-old young man on this list.
But it is foreseeable that this young man will not appear only once in this list.
Before, whether it was Li Mingyu's superb performance in the Spanish Football League, or his brilliant performance in the European competition of the world preliminaries, none of this time's big four in the UEFA Champions League group stage was as eye-catching.
After all, the level of attention to the Champions League matches can basically be said to be the only one in world football.
Maybe only the World Cup can compete with the Champions League!
For a while, the super clubs of the five major leagues in Europe once again set their sights on Barcelona and on Li Mingyu.
However, Li Mingyu's 2.5 million liquidated damages made many teams discouraged.
Only a few clubs with deep pockets did not give up their temptations.
However, Li Mingyu didn't take this seriously. In his heart, it was his childhood ideal to stay in Barcelona and fight side by side with Messi.
If nothing else, he also likes to be consistent with Barcelona like Messi.
After the game, Barcelona got a bad news.
Messi needs to rest for at least two weeks due to muscle fatigue.
Messi's absence made Barcelona, which was already short of major generals, even worse.
Back in the league, this weekend's game, Barcelona came to the Villamarin Stadium to challenge Real Betis.
Li Mingyu did not score a goal in this game, but he sent a wonderful long pass from the backcourt, and Griesmann made it overnight.
In the end, Barcelona made it through 1:2 in an away game and scored a crucial three-pointer at the Villamarin Stadium.
However, since Li Mingyu did not score a goal, Real Madrid's Haaland completed a hat-trick, scoring 8 goals in five games, and came to the top of the scorer list, leading the crowd.
Harland's radiance was so bright that it seemed to overwhelm Li Mingyu.
You know, before Li Mingyu's 2021, Harland and Paris Saint-Germain's Mbappe are called the successors of Ronaldo and Messi.
And after Li Mingyu's superb performance in the first half of 2021, world football added Li Mingyu to their ranks, and the twin stars became a tripartite confrontation.
However, Harland and Mbappe, who have already proved themselves in the Champions League, did not take Li Mingyu to heart at all.
There are too many supernovas, who dominate the domestic arena, but there are not a few people who are soft-footed in the European arena. As long as they have not proved themselves in the Champions League, they are not considered superstars.
Both Harland and Mbappe have their own proud capital. In the UEFA Champions League scorer list under the age of 21, Harland has 20 goals, followed by Mbappe with 19 goals. No.3 Benzema has only 12 goals, Messi has 8 goals, and Ronaldo, before the age of 21, has not scored in the Champions League.
But there is a saying that is good, first fat is not fat, then fat overwhelms Kang, Ronaldo and Messi are now the top two players on the Champions League scorer list.
In the first round of the UEFA Champions League, Juventus defeated the powerful Besiktas team in the Turkish League at their home court.
Ronaldo failed to score in this game, so his number of goals in the Champions League is still 134.
Messi failed to score a goal. His number of goals in the Champions League has not changed, and it is still 120. It is not easy to catch up with Ronaldo.
Ronaldo's scoring efficiency is terribly stable. In the Champions League, he scored 175 goals in 134 games, which is simply a scoring machine.
Don't look at how well Harland and Mbappe are doing so well now, but whether a star is worthy of being praised and remembered depends on whether his career life is long enough.
If you want to take the class of Ronaldo and Messi, first of all, you must first get enough goals and honors in the Champions League, and then let's talk about these!
After the Barcelona team defeated Real Betis, the next two games were all eye-catching battles.
One is at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, where Juventus is at home, and the away game against Juventus is the highlight of the Champions League group stage.
Next, on the weekend after four days, Barcelona will come to the Bernabéu Stadium to challenge Real Madrid's national derby.
These two games are very important games for Barcelona.
A game that allows me to appear first in the group stage, and the other game is related to the possible final ownership of La Liga.
If they can beat Juventus, then Barcelona is likely to become the first group in Group D and get a better draw position in the eighth knockout round.
The league against Real Madrid is even more important. Now, Real Madrid has won all five games in the first five games, and scored a lot of goals.
Harland, who just joined the team, has completely made up for Ronaldo's position, and it is even worse. Today's Real Madrid is in full swing, pointing to the league championship this season.
If Barcelona cannot beat Real Madrid in this game, even if it is a draw, maybe in the following leagues, Barcelona may not necessarily be able to see the taillights of Real Madrid.
The biggest purpose of this game is to suppress the terrifying momentum of Real Madrid.
However, the most important thing now is to solve the immediate problem first.
Due to Messi's muscle tension, it is estimated that Messi will not be able to play in these two key games. All of a sudden, the pressure of Barcelona is all on Li Mingyu alone.
The 19-year-old Li Mingyu took on a heavy responsibility that he shouldn't have at his age.
Soon, it came to the mid-week game. Barcelona flew to Turin, the capital of Piedmont, Italy, one day in advance. This is the home court of Juventus.
Turin is the third largest city in Italy, one of the major industrial centers, Italy's automobile city, and the largest automobile production area in Europe. It is also an ancient city with a long history and preserves a large number of classical and Baroque buildings.
Juventus is one of the oldest football clubs in Italy, with almost countless honors.
36 Italian Serie A championship trophies, the team with the most championships in the Italian Serie A.
Juventus is also the first team in history to achieve the three Grand Slam Cups.
The three major cups are the European Champions Cup, the UEFA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup.
The European Cup Winners' Cup is a European football club competition in which clubs that have won the top cup championships of European member associations participate.
However, the European Cup Winners' Cup ended in 1999. The last European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Lazio in Italy, and Lazio also permanently preserved the trophy.
Juventus plays a pivotal role in European football.
Coming to the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Li Mingyu felt a different football atmosphere.
The football atmosphere in Italy is very different from the football atmosphere in Spain.
In the former world's No. [-] league and today's No. [-] league in the world, Italy's football style remains the same as before. Practical offense combined with consistent defense makes it difficult for Spanish teams that like to pass and control to play smoothly when facing Italian teams.
In the UEFA Champions League group stage last season, Barcelona and Juventus were assigned to a group, but in the first group stage, Ronaldo injured his leg muscles, causing him to miss the first time after leaving Real Madrid.
Coincidentally, this season, the two teams were once again divided into a group. If it was not an arrangement of fate, then someone deliberately manipulated it.
What is incredible is that this time, Ronaldo has been determined to participate in this game, while Messi also missed this game due to muscle fatigue.
The peerless twins, the first matchup in two seasons, were perfect misses.
However, this game still attracted a lot of attention. Although there was no Messi, the Barcelona team had Li Mingyu, one of the "three pillars" today.
Before the game, a reporter asked Ronaldo in an interview whether Mbappe, Harland and Li Mingyu would put him under pressure.
Ronaldo said very disdainfully, "Let's discuss this issue after they catch up with my number of times and goals in the Champions League!"
A group of young people in their early 20s want to challenge their position, which is simply nonsense.
Facing the challenge of Barcelona, Ronaldo is also well prepared.
Although he said he was dismissive of Li Mingyu, in the last game, Li Mingyu's big four also put Ronaldo under great pressure.
Although Cristiano Ronaldo scored a lot of goals in the Champions League, he only scored four goals against the underdog Malmo team in the 2015-2016 UEFA Champions League group stage, completing the feat of the big four.
For a veteran team like Chelsea, it will be twice as difficult to complete the big four on him.
Not only Ronaldo, but Juventus coach Andre Pirlo also attaches great importance to this game.
When they knew that Messi could not play, they let go of half of the big stone in their hearts.
Although Li Mingyu put them under a lot of pressure, Messi was the thorn in their throats.
The Allianz Stadium in Turin is the first stadium in the history of Italian football that belongs exclusively to a team.
The total area reaches 35 square meters, which is almost equal to that of the Vatican. Among them, the stadium covers an area of 9 square meters, the commercial area is 3.4 square meters, and the green space is 3 square meters. It includes 64 boxes, 275 press seats, coffee bars and other facilities, and can accommodate 41000 people.
The 86-meter red, white and green steel mast is the symbol of the new stadium and symbolizes the Italian flag.The original design was to use green at the top, but in order to meet the requirements of ENAV, the Italian air navigation service provider, the red was finally placed at the top, and green is difficult to identify in the air.The new stadium also cancels the runway between the audience stand and the stadium, bringing the distance between the audience and the players closer, and the atmosphere of watching the game is better.
The Barcelona players set off from the hotel where they stayed and took the team bus to the outside of the Allianz Stadium in Turin.
It is around 15:00 in the afternoon, and today's game will start on time at 17:00 local time.
The outside of the Allianz Stadium in Turin is already full of people.
The Juventus fans in zebra jerseys were singing and dancing outside. They didn't behave aggressively towards the Barcelona bus, but Li Mingyu could hear their roars clearly through the thick window glass.
This is the cruelty of the away game. You feel like you have come to a strange place alone, surrounded by some unfriendly people. Often, many superstars behave very mediocrely when they are away from home.
Psychological quality is also a very important part of a superstar.
Wearing earphones, Li Mingyu, wearing a black sportswear, without any expression, got off the bus, walked into the player tunnel, and came to the visiting team's locker room.
The Allianz Stadium in Turin is indeed a very modern stadium, and even the visiting team's locker room is not as closed as other stadiums.
After everyone was here, coach Koeman started the pre-match arrangement for the game.
Messi was not able to come to Turin with the team, but was in his villa in Barcelona, waiting to watch the live broadcast of the game.
What makes Messi more troublesome is that although his three sons, the eldest son Thiago Messi, is full of praise for Li Mingyu's performance, he is still a die-hard fan of Ronaldo. In this match between Juventus and Barcelona, Thiago wore Ronaldo's No. 7 Juventus jersey at home, and kept provoking his brother.
Messi's second son, Mateo Messi, originally admired his father, but after seeing Li Mingyu's performance, he simply betrayed his father and joined Li Mingyu's command.
Ciro Messi, who was only three and a half years old, looked at his two older brothers in a daze, arguing whether Ronaldo was better or Li Mingyu was better.
Messi stood aside, sighed, put his arms around his wife Antonella, and said helplessly, "As a father, I don't even have a son who worships me!"
Antonella kissed Messi lightly, and said affectionately, "I adore you!"
(End of this chapter)
