princely elegance

Chapter 199 I would rather Messi not score

While the outside world is arguing about the different performances of Gago and Messi in the national team, Argentina ushered in the last opponent of this year's qualifiers.

The current situation in the South American qualifiers is that Argentina won all three games, scored the most goals and kept 1 goal, and dominated the group.Colombia is tied for third with Brazil with 5 points. Like Argentina, they are two teams without conceding a goal.

And Argentina's last opponent this year is Colombia. After the shameful exit of the Copa America, the Colombian players tried their best in the qualifiers and finally ushered in an explosion.They relied on being shameless and drew Brazil and Bolivia with defensive counterattacks all the way. In the last game, they scored a goal by relying on counterattacks to win the only game.

It can be said that in this South American qualifier, Colombia is the strongest defense.

Argentina scored nine goals in the first three games, averaging three goals per game and is known as the strongest attack in South America.Now the strongest attack meets the strongest defense, which is also a good show.

Anyway, now in South America, the team that attracts the most attention from fans has become the Nerazzurri, because Brazil is so weak.After inserting the two superstars Kaka and Ronaldinho, Dunga's team did not run as smoothly as it did in the America's Cup.

On the other hand, Argentina had damaged Riquelme's core midfielder before the game and was not seen by the outside world, but Gago, who was in full swing in Real Madrid, used his outstanding performance to slap those who said such words.Four goals and three assists in three games, this kind of data may not be available even if Riquelme is intact.

Although there are only a few teams in South America, the others are full of fish, but Gago can show such a performance, but it still makes the media celebrities look up to them.The current Gago has caught up with Riquelme in South America, and in Argentina, his reputation has been rising all the way, comparable to those superstars.

The excellent performance in the first three games also allowed Gago to accumulate more confidence.Anyway, he knew that as long as he didn't meet such strong teams as Brazil and Uruguay, in the South American region, relying on the strength of the stars of Argentina, he could go sideways.

Colombia's strongest defense in South America was not taken seriously by the Argentine prince. 10 minutes after the start of the game, Gago used his own breakthrough to disrupt Colombia's defense and saw a flaw. The scalpel-like pass instantly let Clay Spoelstra faced the goalkeeper single-handedly and opened the scoring for the team.

"It's over, the game only started 10 minutes, Colombia's goalkeeper Julio's record of 874 minutes without conceding a goal was ended by Argentina. Gago's performance is still so good, he played a world-class level in the midfielder position, After seeing this scene, will Schuster advance the position of Argentine prince in the club?"

"Colombia, which still put on a defensive attitude at home, failed to keep its clean sheet record. Gago used his strong personal ability to tear apart Colombia's proud defense. In the end, Crespo seized the opportunity His ability is also worth learning from Messi."

After the goal, Argentina was very happy to celebrate at someone else's home court. Crespo ran over and hugged Gago specially. With such an excellent passer like him, the goal suddenly became easier.

Although Messi also came to celebrate together, but his face was still a bit gloomy. Gago noticed this and patted his head.Although Gago is not tall, he is definitely taller than Messi, a pure short man, and there is no sense of disobedience in the photo.

In the next game, Gago, who intends to fulfill Messi, began to pass the ball more to him.I have to say that Xiao Tiaoshow's personal ability is still very good. After Gago's pass, he constantly threatened Colombia's goal, but he was always a little short of the goal.

However, this also aroused the arrogance in Gago's heart, he did not believe that he could not assist Messi to score a goal.

However, the more deliberate Gago was, the farther Messi was from the goal, because Colombia knew Gago's passing route and cut it off before passing it to Messi.

After being counterattacked several times by Colombia, Gago calmed down and stopped being impulsive. This is the first time he has served as the main core among the stars of the Argentine national team, and he cannot squander his chance.To help Messi where he can, Gago has fulfilled his duty as a friend.

In the following time, Gago began to restore himself to that "selfless" style, organizing the pass so that the Colombian players were no longer so easy to defend.However, there are some things that the more you pursue, the more you will not get them. On the contrary, you have completed them in a state of no desire and no desire.

Before the end of the first half, Gago unintentionally scored a goal from the left, and after receiving the ball, Messi completed a goal that made countless fans clap their tongues.First, he swiped horizontally, accelerated and changed direction to evade a defender, and then he was able to do a job between the two defenders. After entering the penalty area with two cumbersome players, he directly shot low and scored his first goal in this qualifier. goal.

"Beautiful goal, in the last game of this year's qualifiers, Messi finally scored, this goal..."

Countless Barcelona fans breathed a sigh of relief after Messi's goal, and finally this fucking goal.If you don't score, we won't be ridiculed by Real Madrid fans after La Liga resumes.

The commentators used all kinds of gorgeous lines to praise Messi's goal. It has to be said that it is indeed beautiful. The small-scale flashing breakthrough makes people excited.

"This guy must be shaking M, and he can only score goals if it is difficult."

Gago looked at Messi's goal and was speechless. He had created better opportunities for him earlier, and some even scored goals as long as he hit the right position.But the little show was completely blown away. Instead, under the pincer attack of two people, they scored with only a very small angle and high difficulty. This unbelievable situation made Gago, a "simple-minded" boy, very uncomfortable. untie.

However, it doesn't matter if the goal is scored, anyway, it is his own people, and the game is basically won.

During the intermission, Basile, who also had the same thoughts, replaced Gago with Veron.As the team's commander, Gago played every minute in the first three qualifiers, which made Real Madrid's coach Schuster very dissatisfied.

Let's pay the fucking salary, but you don't feel bad at all.You must know that the current Gago is an absolutely indispensable core for Real Madrid. Without Gago, you in Argentina will at least have Riquelme, Veron, and Aimar. Without him, Real Madrid will be half softened.Can Guti be able to control the overall situation like Gago!

Seeing that they have already led by two goals, and seeing that Colombia's proud counterattack failed to break through Argentina's defense, Basile thought that the overall situation was settled, so he replaced Gago and let him rest to please Real Madrid.Don't think that the head coach of the national team can recruit players at will. There are reasons why clubs don't want to let people go.

It's a pity for Gago, but considering that he has played four games in such a short period of time, his physical energy is indeed exhausted, and he needs to rest, otherwise he will be sluggish for a long time when he returns to the club.

However, in the second half, after Gago left the field, the situation on the field suddenly changed suddenly.

The first was Crespo's faulty kick on a shot, which tragically strained his thigh again, and Basile had to replace him with Tevez.However, the beast was sent off by the referee with a red card 5 minutes after he came on the field. The reason was that the Colombian players kept using small moves to deal with him. .

The kick was a bit hidden, the referee didn't see it, but the line referee saw it and reported it to the referee, so the "honorable" end of the beast.

This was just the beginning. Argentina, who had one less player to fight, soon suffered. Samuel sat on the bench in this game, and Basile still didn't like him.Playing alongside Millito at centre-back was Bayern's Demichelis, and Basile soon regretted letting him play.

First, in the No. 60 minute, Demichelis tripped and fouled and gave Colombia a good free kick on the left side of the frontcourt.Bustos broke out and drew a curve ball to hit the close corner, and the ball went straight to the dead corner, and Abendan Shirley was helpless.

1:2, Colombia pulled back a goal.

Basiles was just a little nervous at this point, but soon he was swearing, and it was Demichelis again, and he put the opponent's player in the penalty area.Well, whether it is "put" is still open to question, but anyway, he leaned up and had a little physical contact with the opponent, and then Colombian striker Cuesta fell to the ground as if he was shocked by an electric shock, and he was still unable to control it. The body rolled around a few times.

The referee decisively awarded a penalty kick, and Cuesta immediately stood up and took the penalty kick he made.

Colombia equalized in less than 10 minutes.

"How the hell is that possible!"

Basile on the sidelines expressed his anger, turned around and kicked the coach hard.

"Dry!"

Gago, who was talking and laughing happily with others on the bench, looked dull at this moment.

But what made them even more mad was at the end. In the second minute of stoppage time, Moreno, who came off the bench, succeeded in countering offside. enter!
3: 2!

Colombia's last-minute comeback against a mighty Argentina was a miracle in some respects.

"It's unbelievable. Argentina led by two goals. After Gago was substituted in the second half, Colombia scored three goals in a row to reverse the situation. Can anyone tell me what's going on?"

The DJ who explained the game in Argentina went crazy.

"Is it because of Gago's fate, or Messi's goal?"

This is what a commentator said unconsciously, but it became everyone's argument after the game.

"Basile ruined Argentina's top spot with a stupid substitution!"

"I would rather Messi not score in exchange for this victory!"

……

All of a sudden, the strange argument that "Gago is equal to victory on the field, and scoring with Messi is equal to loss" spread throughout Argentina, and even spread to the whole world.

Although everyone with a heart knows that this is just a joke, some people still agree with it loudly. In football, superstition is also very marketable.Otherwise, why would the curse be brought up by reporters every day to make a fuss about it!

(End of this chapter)