The referee was also merciful and only verbally warned the opponent's midfielder, but did not take out the topaz War God card to express it.
This made Alba a little dissatisfied. He believed that the opponent had blocked a very threatening offensive opportunity for him, and even giving it to Red Gem Promotion Card would not be an exaggeration.
But the referee let Alba play.
Alba could only curse and leave.
Since Li Mingyu is now famous for his free kick skills, Enrique also makes him the first free kick choice of Spain.
However, what surprised Enrique was that when he proposed to let Li Mingyu serve as Spain National Team's first penalty kicker, Li Mingyu resolutely rejected this identity.
Except for the Barcelona players, the other players were very puzzled. After all, penalty kicks are the easiest way to score goals in football.
It can be said that a penalty kick is basically equal to a goal.
You see, even Haaland couldn't resist the temptation of a penalty kick, and started fighting for it with his teammates.
However, Li Mingyu is such a weirdo. He is not sensitive to penalty kicks.
Since Spain National Team has not entered the competition yet, during training, Enrique has no special training task to prepare for penalty kicks. Therefore, Li Mingyu's weakness of not being able to kick penalty kicks has not yet been known to others.
However, Barcelona's players all knew it very well. Seeing Li Mingyu's righteous words, these people were holding back their laughter and their stomachs hurt from laughing.
Facing this free kick, Li Mingyu stood in front of the football without hesitation.
The goalkeeper of Kosovo has also heard about Li Mingyu's free kick skills. However, the distance of this free kick is still a bit far. Whether it is Knuckleball of Li Mingyu or Banana Kick, the distance of about 35 meters is indeed a bit reluctant to hit the goal directly.
However, Li Mingyu's position made everyone feel very strange.
Anyone who has studied Li Mingyu knows that Li Mingyu is a right-footed player. When taking free kicks, he stands on the left side of the football and uses the inside instep of his right foot to kick free kicks.
However, this time, Li Mingyu was standing directly behind the football, and the running distance was almost thirteen or four meters away.
With this run-up distance, it looks like he needs to use a powerful shot to kick this free kick!
Even the Spain players were very surprised. They originally thought that this time, Li Mingyu would use the Banana Kick method to pass the football to the goal. Therefore, the Spain players gathered around the frontcourt, preparing to try to compete for the top.
Who would have known that Li Mingyu would actually pose in such a pose, which makes people feel a bit embarrassed.
In fact, every free kick master will practice his free kick to the extreme, just like Beckham, one Banana Kick is enough. If you ask him to practice Knuckleball, it is not impossible for him to practice elevator kick, but it is not necessary. After all, human energy is limited.
Therefore, basically no master who takes skill free kicks will suddenly try Cannon Shot. This is actually a lack of confidence in his own skills.
This performance of Li Mingyu made many football-savvy fans and experienced free kick experts scoff.
This kid is really crazy. Who does he think he is? He knows all kinds of free kicks. How can there be such a genius in the world!
The referee also blew the whistle after the opponent's player retreated 9.15 meters, indicating that Li Mingyu could serve.
Li Mingyu looked at the four-man wall in front of them. Although they had doubts about whether Li Mingyu would hit the goal directly from such a long distance, the Kosovo team still attached great importance to the four-man wall.
But Li Mingyu felt very keenly that the opponent's wall was not standing particularly neatly, because the two players on both sides were focused on preparing to return to defense.
After all, the Spain players have already arrived in front of the opponent's penalty area, waiting for Li Mingyu to take a free kick. Whether it is a shot or a pass, the Spain players will definitely rush in.
Not only was the wall very loose, but the goalkeeper's attention was not completely focused on Li Mingyu.
As a goalkeeper, he also has a very deep understanding of free kicks. He does not believe that Li Mingyu will attack the goal with heavy artillery from such a distance. There is a high probability that Li Mingyu just made this action and will pass the ball in the end.
Even if he shoots directly, there is a high probability that it will miss.
Even if he could hit it right, such a long distance would definitely give him enough time to react.
Even if...
While Kosovo's goalkeeper was still "forgetting", Li Mingyu started running on his own.
There is no similarity with Li Mingyu's previous free kick preparations. Li Mingyu took small steps and ran faster and faster. When he finally came to the football, his speed had reached its peak.
I saw Li Mingyu swinging his right foot quickly, facing the football, and kicked the ball hard with the outer instep of his right foot.
Li Mingyu deliberately placed the valve position in front of himself when he was playing with the ball.
All the fans heard a "bang" sound, and the football flew out all of a sudden, just like being shot out of a cannon.
But in the eyes of the wall, they knew from the moment the ball came out that it had gone wide.
Especially the player standing on the far right, behind him is the right post of his own goal.
The moment the football was kicked out by Li Mingyu, he saw that the football was at least one meter away from him. There was a high probability that the football was heading towards the corner flag.
He couldn't help but feel a burst of disdain in his heart. He was indeed a young man. After taking a few free kicks, he felt how great he was and wanted to try other methods.
Although the Banana Kick and the heavy artillery shot are not as separated as a mountain, the difference between these two free kicks is not so easy to learn.
Kosovo's goalkeeper stands closer to his left goal post, after all, the right goal post has been blocked.
When he saw the football, he had the same idea as his teammates, because the ball was basically off track.
He had no intention of making any move, he was about to go out of bounds anyway.
But just as the goalkeeper was about to retrieve the ball that had gone out of bounds and prepare to kick off the ball, he was shocked to find that the trajectory of the football that he thought was bound to go out of bounds had changed dramatically, grazing the goal post on the right and diving into the goal.
Not only was the goalkeeper standing there dumbfounded, but even the Spain National Team players were dumbfounded.
What happened just now?
Only those fans who did not know the truth gave out huge cheers in Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.
The audience in front of the TV immediately saw the slow-motion replay of the ball.
"Oh my God, this goal just now made my skin crawl. How did it score? Let's take a look at the slow motion of this goal."
"Li Mingyu's run-up. This run-up reminds me of Brazil's famous left-back Roberto Carlos's free kick movement. It's really similar!"
"Li Mingyu's speed is getting faster and faster. When he comes to the football, he volleys hard with the outside of his right foot. We can clearly see that the football has been greatly deformed the moment it was kicked out."
"After Li Mingyu kicked the ball, his body almost twisted into a knot in mid-air, which shows how powerful the ball was."
"We looked at the trajectory of the ball, and I saw it correctly. The arc of the ball at the beginning was most likely heading towards the corner flag. Look at the ball, when it crossed the wall, it was about one meter away from the player's body."
"But after the ball crossed the wall, its trajectory changed dramatically. A huge arc that made people go numb, the ball finally scraped the goal post and went into the goal."
"Oh my God, Li Mingyu is simply a weirdo. Please forgive me for using this word to describe him, but in my eyes, he is just a weirdo. As far as I know, no free kick master will use two different free kick techniques to complete the goal, even Juninho and Beckham. There is no free kick master, but Li Mingyu has used Knuckleball and Banana Kick to score free kicks. Today, he used a heavy free kick that looks exactly like Roberto Carlos and scored a wonderful goal. This goal can definitely be selected as the best goal this year."
Li Mingyu used such a shocking free kick to help Spain National Team take the lead at the beginning.
When the Spain players were celebrating with Li Mingyu, they couldn't believe that the goal just now was scored by this young man with a handsome smile.
After Li Mingyu finished celebrating, he came to the camera on the sidelines, pulled his trouser legs up slightly with a showy look, pointed at his thighs, and showed off the strength of his thighs.
What thighs!
Li Mingyu's actions also caused the audience to shout excitedly, especially the female audience members, who were almost dizzy with excitement.
Among the fans watching TV, there are countless ignorant girls licking the screen crazily.
Kosovo's goalkeeper took the football out of the goal and threw it towards the frontcourt with a blank look on his face.
He still can't believe how the ball went in just now.
It's so ruining your outlook!
Li Mingyu returned to his own half, the smile on his face has not faded.
In the free kick just now, Li Mingyu not only used Roberto Carlos's heavy free kick, but also used Quaresma's outside instep curve kick. Otherwise, the ball would have really flown to the corner flag.
Quaresma's outer instep curve ball can indeed work wonders in some cases.
After the restart, the Kosovo players were indeed affected by the weird free kick just now and became a little unfocused.
In the frontcourt of Spain, the Kosovo team passed the ball carelessly, allowing Busquets to seize the opportunity and make a sudden grab, leaving the football at his feet.
Spain National Team's quick counterattack opportunity.
After Li Mingyu saw the opportunity, he quickly took two steps back and received the pass from Busquets. Then Li Mingyu turned on the spot and shook the oncoming midfielder Kosovo behind him. Then he directly kicked off without looking at anyone, and passed the ball to the frontcourt with a long pass of about 30 meters.
When Busquets stole the ball, Pedri smelled the attack and immediately started to penetrate Kosovo's frontcourt.
In training and competition, Li Mingyu and Pedri have already had a very good understanding.
There was no need to look at anyone, Li Mingyu's ball had already been passed to the direction of Pedri.
The ball went directly over Kosovo's entire back line.
Since Pedri started first, the opponent's defenders could only try their best to interfere with Pedri's stopping of the ball.
While Pedri was running, he looked at the landing point of the football. He stretched out his right foot and tapped lightly with his toes. The football stopped at Pedri's feet like a human being.
Faced with two defenders, before entering the penalty area, Pedri very selflessly swept the football towards the center, leaving the attacking goalkeeper in place.
When the football reached the other side, another forward of Spain, Asensio of Real Madrid, faced the empty goal and pushed the football into the goal.
Suddenly, Santiago Bernabeu Stadium fell into a carnival.
Asensio was also very excited after scoring the goal.
The excited Asensio did not first express his gratitude to Pedri for the selfless pass. Instead, he rushed directly to the stands on the sidelines and celebrated crazily.
Seeing this scene, Pedri didn't say anything. He just smiled. When he turned around, he saw Li Mingyu running towards him. He also ran towards him. The two creators of the goal hugged each other warmly.
The other players also hugged Li Mingyu and Pedri very sensibly, and no one paid any attention to Asensio who was celebrating alone. After all, everyone in this team knows who the real leader is.
In the backcourt, Ramos watched this scene helplessly.
Alas, this Spain National Team has become Barcelona's back garden again.
After all, due to the different team building policies of Real Madrid and Barcelona, the players of Barcelona often have the upper hand in Spain National Team.
Asensio After celebrating for a long time, he realized why there were no teammates celebrating with him.
Turning his head, Asensio looked at him with a speechless expression. In front of the penalty area, his teammates were celebrating around Li Mingyu and Pedri!
Asensio was also panicked. He was just celebrating, but he forgot who the real leader in the national team was.
Asensio ran over with a look of panic, but Li Mingyu had nothing to do with him. After seeing Asensio, he hugged him enthusiastically and said, "Asensio, good shot!"
Seeing that the thigh was lifeless, Asensio finally let go of the big stone in his heart.
After all, it's Real Thigh. If I want to score goals, I have to have a good relationship with Real Thigh. As for the grudges between the club and the club, I have nothing to do with it!