Less than five minutes into the game, Spain National Team already led the Kosovo team 2:0 at their home court.
This made Kosovo's head coach, Switzerland's Challandes, very angry.
Although I no longer have any hope for this competition, after all, Kosovo has completely missed World Cup this time.
But this game can't just be ruined. If there is a ten-to-zero massacre, then he will be nailed to the pillar of shame forever, which will also be a very unfavorable situation for him to find a job in the future.
Therefore, Challandes immediately adjusted his formation, letting the two full-backs recover and become two full-backs. Try not to press out to attack, and defend his two weak wings.
High center forward Vida te Muriqi retreated and was directly pulled back to the defense line to act as a free defender.
The faster Milot-Rashica is left in the frontcourt as a surprise player. If there is a chance, he can make a quick counterattack.
In less than five minutes, the head coach had to adjust his lineup, which is a humiliation for any coach.
Challandes looked at the high-spirited Li Mingyu and couldn't help but shook his head. It was this young man who broke all his arrangements with a wonderful free kick and an exquisite indirect assist.
Next, team Kosovo was completely overwhelmed by Spain National Team.
At the end of the first half, Spain National Team led Kosovo 3:0 at home.
Kosovo's defense at the end of the first half was still very successful, leaving Spain National Team somewhat helpless. Moreover, they were very careful and basically did not give Spain National Team a good free kick opportunity.
At the end of the first half, Spain National Team finally found a chance.
From a corner kick of Li Mingyu, Pique jumped high in the crowd, overpowered the opponent's forward Vida te Muric with a score of 1.94, and smashed the football into the goal.
Pique has not scored a goal in a national team game for a long time. Last season, he was in poor form and did not get many opportunities to play in the national team. This season, Pique seems to be rejuvenated and has also scored wonderful goals in the league.
In the second half, the Kosovo team made adjustments in the midfield and their morale improved a bit, while Spain National Team's state relaxed a little because they were already leading 3:0.
Li Mingyu made a pass when Pedri made a mistake when returning the ball. The football hit his foot and bounced high. The defensive player behind him stretched out his head first and pushed the football out.
Kosovo's midfielder Halimi received the ball and made a very beautiful through ball, sending the football to Spain National Team's half.
Eric Garcia and Ramos chased back crazily, but Rashica, the opponent's only forward, was so fast that he took the first kick and pushed the ball forward. Then he squeezed past Ramos.
Ramos was squeezed and staggered a little. He watched helplessly as Rashica rushed into the penalty area with the ball.
One-shot opportunities.
The goalkeeper of team Athletic Bilbao, Simon, was so angry that he just wanted to curse, "What's going on, brother, why did he attack alone so easily?"
Simon rushed to attack, but Rashica didn't give Simon any chance. He pushed the ball directly into the goal from his armpit.
3:1, Rashica got a goal back for team Kosovo.
This goal made Kosovo fans, who came from afar and dozens of people, overjoyed.
They held high the national flag of Kosovo, sang the national anthem of Kosovo with tears in their eyes, watched Rashica run all the way in front of them, and saluted everyone.
Instant tears.
Spain National Team once again suffered the bitter consequences of their relaxation.
Enrique off the court was furious after seeing the goal and started yelling on the sidelines.
Pedri also looked embarrassed. He was entirely responsible for the ball just now. It was because he was a little careless when catching the ball that he hit the ball on his feet and got out of his control.
But this goal also reminded Spain National Team that the game is not over yet, and the opponent has not really surrendered. If the opponent really makes a big effort to equalize the score, or even go ahead, then these people on the field will probably not have the face to see their hometown elders!
All of a sudden, the spirits of Spain National Team's players were all lifted up.
Kosovo Due to the lineup, he simply cannot fight head-on with Spain National Team.
After the kick-off, Li Mingyu organized the team to make a steady advance towards Kosovo's defense, constantly directing the movement of his teammates on the field.
Enrique couldn't help nodding in the audience. This young man is becoming more and more like a leader now.
After two cross passes, Li Mingyu caught the ball in the middle and made a fake move to continue the cross pass, which caused an obvious loophole in Kosovo's defense in the middle. So he made a very sharp pass and hit the football into the space.
"Du--"
The referee's whistle sounded.
A player from Spain National Team fell on the penalty area line of Kosovo. However, judging from the position where he fell to the ground, it was probably a penalty kick.
Pedri fell to the ground. When he saw the referee running over, he quickly raised his hand to signal the referee that this was a penalty kick.
Just now, Li Mingyu and Pedri were in sync with each other again, and their passing and running coordination was very tacit.
But when Pedri was about to pass the defensive player, the opponent's defender directly put Pedri in front of him.
Pedri fell in the penalty area, but the opponent's defender said that he committed a foul outside the penalty area.
The referee cannot make arbitrary penalties. After all, everything happened too fast, just a fraction of a second. His position is not very good and he cannot directly judge the nature of the ball.
So the referee signaled both of them not to talk nonsense and he wanted to watch the video replay.
The referee ran to the sidelines, put on his headphones, and prepared to watch the video replay to confirm whether the ball was a foul outside the penalty area or a foul inside the penalty area.
Players from both sides stood near the penalty area, nervously looking at the referee's back, waiting for the penalty to come.
Li Mingyu stretched out his hand to pull Pedri up and asked, "Penalty kick?"
Pedri said with a wicked smile, "It should have been a free kick, but I rolled forward. I don't know if I can deceive the referee!"
Li Mingyu couldn't help but rolled his eyes. You are such a drama queen. If I didn't know your background, I would have thought that you were from La Masia just like me!
Sure enough, the referee quickly put down his headphones and gestured for a free kick.
Pedri also shook his head helplessly, but he didn't get a penalty kick.
The referee came over and first gave the defensive player a topaz War God card. After all, this was a serious foul. If Pedri was applied, it would most likely result in a shot.
Li Mingyu came over, picked up the football, placed it about one meter away from the penalty area line, and stepped back more than ten meters.
This distance made the Kosovo players who were preparing to line up the wall turn pale. Damn it, is it another powerful shot?
Li Mingyu's direct free kick Cannon Shot at the beginning, the intensity, already let them know that Li Mingyu's heavy free kick is definitely not ordinary.
When Alan Smith of the Manchester United team blocked the free kick of the Liverpool slugger Riise, his left leg was directly broken by the opponent's free kick. It was terrible to watch.
At that time, Cristiano Ronaldo was at the scene and witnessed this scene with his own eyes. The young Cristiano Ronaldo was too frightened to come close. He held his head and squatted on the ground with a look of horror.
And Roberto Carlos also had many free kicks hit the wall, and the person hit was knocked unconscious.
Even Barcelona's head coach Koeman had an astonishing record when he hit an opponent's player in the stomach with a free kick, and the player was carried off the field on a stretcher.
Therefore, after seeing Li Mingyu's actions, Kosovo's players felt uneasy.
Why? I haven't seen you have this book before. Why did you take it out when you met us? Shouldn't this be your trump card? Shouldn't you use it in the last game against Sweden?
Are we, Kosovo, worthy of you using atomic bombs to blow us up?
Regardless of what the Kosovo players were thinking, Li Mingyu adjusted his breathing and stared in the direction of the goal.
Since this free kick is very close, in fact, at this distance, the goal rate of free kicks is very low. Whether it is Knuckleball or Banana Kick, after the football crosses the wall, there is no time to drop, so Cannon Shot is a better choice.
You can take advantage of the fear in the opponent's players who are lining up the wall, and directly break through the wall, catching the goalkeeper off guard.
I remember there were many pictures of Roberto Carlos taking free kicks. Every player in the opponent's wall looked like a suicide squad, with a look of death on their faces. However, when Roberto Carlos took a shot, these people often couldn't control their inner fear and made evasive movements.
Many times, Roberto Carlos takes advantage of the gaps in the wall to score free kicks.
The referee drew a line at 9.15 meters and signaled the wall to stand behind the line, but this line had already reached the line of the small penalty area.
The goalkeeper let the wall block his right goal post, and he came to the side near the left goal post, feeling nervous in his heart.
The referee blew his whistle, and the atmosphere in the entire stadium solidified.
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, a crowd of 80,000 people, suddenly fell into silence. No one dared to make a sound for fear of disturbing Li Mingyu's shooting.
The atmosphere in the restricted area became even more solidified.
The players of Kosovo looked at Li Mingyu who had already started running with a look of horror on their faces.
Li Mingyu adjusted his rhythm by running in small steps, with murderous intent in his eyes.
The speed became faster and faster, and soon Li Mingyu came to the front of the football. His right leg was raised high and swinging rapidly. With a loud "bang", Li Mingyu kicked the football out with one kick.
The players of Kosovo are really brave. When they saw Li Mingyu swinging their legs, they were all ready to take off and prepare to block the angle of the shot.
When Li Mingyu kicked the ball, they all jumped high, looking death ready to block the ball with their own flesh and blood.
But what surprised everyone was that Li Mingyu's kick did not hit a high ball, but a ground ball.
The football was close to the ground, like lightning, flying quickly from the foot of the wall to the goal.
When Kosovo's goalkeeper saw the football, the football had already rushed into the goal.
The goalkeeper looked at the football dumbfounded, where did the ball come from?
When Kosovo's human wall jumped up, they saw the football flying past their feet close to the ground. They wanted to let themselves fall down quickly. How could it be so easy? Did you lift the lid of Newton's coffin?
Santiago Bernabeu fell into the carnival again.
In this free kick, Li Mingyu really battled wits with the opponent. He used an unusual free kick to hit the ground and sent the football into the opponent's goal.
4:1, Li Mingyu used this smart goal to tell Kosovo that if you want to be reckless here, you are not qualified!
This goal also knocked down the hope that Kosovo had finally raised.
Facing a big devil like Li Mingyu, the players of Kosovo were a little desperate.
In the next game, Kosovo was defeated.
In the 65th minute, Li Mingyu launched an attack in the midfield and passed a concealed short pass to Asensio.
Asensio didn't take any credit when facing the attacking goalkeeper. He reciprocated by passing the ball to Pedri. Pedri faced an empty goal and scored in one stroke, 5:1.
In the 75th minute, Enrique replaced Pedri with Manchester City's Fei Lan-Torres, and replaced Busquets with Casemiro from Real Madrid.
In the 80th minute, Enrique was about to replace Li Mingyu with Rodrygo from Manchester City, but just as he was about to make the substitution, Spain National Team got a direct free kick opportunity in the frontcourt.
It is about 28 meters away from the goal and directly opposite the goal.
Li Mingyu also saw that he wanted to change his brand, so he made a gesture to Enrique to indicate that he wanted to finish the free kick.
Enrique also gave a helpless smile and asked Rodrygo to wait a moment.
This free kick made the players of Kosovo fearful again.
Because the position of this free kick is very good, it can be said that it is the best free kick position, not far nor close. For top free kick masters, this kind of free kick is almost like a penalty kick.
This time, Li Mingyu did not continue to retreat very far, but stood on the left side of the football like an ordinary free kick player, about three meters away.
It seems that Li Mingyu will use Banana Kick or Knuckleball to shoot this time.
Thinking of this, Kosovo's wall of people felt at ease.
As long as it's not Heavy Cannon Shot.
However, for the goalkeeper, the feeling is the same. Heavy Cannon Shot still has a chance to be blocked by the wall, but a skillful free kick is very unfriendly to the goalkeeper.