Kick-off at midfield.
Sweden National Team After taking the lead by one goal, the players' spirits obviously relaxed, which made them more determined to take back the ball.
Ibrahimovic pressed near the center circle, making Spain National Team feel like it was stuck in its throat, like a thorn in its back, and Enrique off the court was on pins and needles.
Li Mingyu used skilled techniques to thread the needle in Sweden's frontcourt, trying to use short passes in a small area to create some loopholes in Sweden's defense.
However, although Sweden National Team's defense is very rough, every player's position is very reasonable, which basically does not give Spain National Team a good opportunity and space.
Penetration of the ground, due to the density of the opponent's personnel, makes it difficult to create an opening and give a good through ball.
However, the aerial attack and the opponent's height advantage made it impossible for Spain National Team to compete with the opponent for air supremacy.
Spain National Team, who was helpless, could only try some long-range shots from the outside to test the goalkeeper Sweden's touch.
However, what makes Spain National Team scratch his head is that Sweden goalkeeper Nordfeldt is the main goalkeeper of Swansea City who was just promoted to the Premier League league this year.
This year's Swansea City is impressive in the new season. In the current 7 games, Swansea City has actually achieved 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. Currently, it has 14 points, ranking sixth among Premier League.
The most surprising thing is his goalkeeper Nordfeldt. In 7 games, he kept clean sheets 4 times and only conceded 3 goals.
Among the opponents he had zero blocks against, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur were among them.
As the main goalkeeper of Sweden National Team, Nordfeldt is also in very good condition today.
Li Mingyu's two very high-quality long-range shots were steadily resolved by him, and Pedri's long-range shot also made him make a wonderful save.
Until the forty minutes of the first half, there was still no change in the score.
Enrique on the sidelines couldn't sit still for a long time. He kept walking around on the sidelines, looking at the anxious scene on the sidelines and scratching his head anxiously.
Sweden National Team's tactic of placing a bus in front of the goal was very successful. Moreover, this time, the Sweden players on the field were basically all tall men above 1.85 meters. Even if Spain National Team was given a free kick or a corner kick, they were not very afraid.
It seems that Spain National Team's weakness was found by Sweden National Team.
All the focus is on Spain National Team, the young midfielder.
Li Mingyu is still too young. Although it can be seen that his talent, his organization, and his passing control are definitely among the top levels in the world, he lacks experience.
When facing Sweden's intensive defense, Li Mingyu seemed helpless. None of the things he was good at seemed to work.
In the first half, Sweden National Team had already given Spain National Team two good free kick positions. However, Li Mingyu's second shot was blocked by the wall once, and the other time the arc was specially adjusted to avoid the wall. As a result, the football flew directly over the crossbar.
After all, the probability of scoring a goal with a free kick is still very small.
Even with the skills of multiple free kick masters, Li Mingyu cannot guarantee that every free kick will be scored.
[It is detected that the host's team is in trouble, automatically activate Iron-Blooded Fighting Spirit.]
In an instant, Li Mingyu felt that the fatigue on his body disappeared. Even the mental fatigue due to the failure to break the deadlock was swept away, and his whole body was filled with strength.
At this moment, the opponent's midfielder, the tall Larsson, rushed towards him, trying to steal the football at his feet.
This Larsson looks like a wild man from Northern Europe. He has golden hair, even the beard on his lips is golden, and his burly figure makes him look like a lumberjack.
In the first half, Li Mingyu had been knocked down twice by this "lumberjack", but because the foul action was not big and this guy was very smart, he quickly reached out to pull Li Mingyu after the foul.
The referee did not show him the topaz War God card.
This time, Li Mingyu moved the ball to the right, preparing to pass. Larsson was ready to repeat the same trick, using his body to squeeze Li Mingyu, preventing him from controlling the ball easily.
But what surprised Larsson was that when his shoulder collided with Li Mingyu's shoulder, Larsson felt as if he had collided not with Li Mingyu, but with his own boss Ibrahimovic.
Since the passive skill "Iron-Blooded Fighting Spirit" is activated, Li Mingyu will have a hidden attribute that increases strength by 10 points after recovering physical strength, improving status, and improving resistance to injuries.
Now Li Mingyu has 91 power points. Although it is not comparable to Ibrahimovic's 98 power points, it is still pretty good.
After adding 10 points of strength, Li Mingyu directly becomes a humanoid tank.
As soon as Li Mingyu exerted force on his shoulder, Larsson was knocked directly and staggered.
This scene made all the fans in the audience let out huge exclamations.
Because in the first half, although Li Mingyu's passing and control was still so good, he still couldn't gain any advantage in the physical confrontation with Sweden National Team.
Larsson can be said to be the strongest man in the Sweden National Team after Ibrahimovic. Unexpectedly, he was overturned by the "weak" Li Mingyu.
Now, there are no obstacles on Li Mingyu's way forward.
Sweden National Team's formation was immediately thrown into chaos, because they never expected that Li Mingyu could charge forward so easily.
Facing the opponent's defender, Li Mingyu showed great concentration. The movement of Pedri and Asensio made Sweden National Team's defense suddenly lose sight of one thing.
Although Sweden National Team has many defensive players, they cannot all stand in the penalty area.
Li Mingyu knocked over a defensive player and passed him cleanly with a simple Croqueta.
At this time, Sweden's defensive players all fell into passive defense. Facing Li Mingyu's sudden advance, they could only stand on the spot, stretch out their long legs, and try to destroy the ball at Li Mingyu's feet.
But Li Mingyu, who has an absolute sense of the ball, has been teammates with Barcelona and Messi for more than half a year, and Messi has learned a lot about handling the ball at his feet in a small area.
In the constant exclamations of the fans in the audience, Li Mingyu used his own feet to move around in extremely small spaces. Sweden National Team's defenders also tried their best, but there was no way they could touch the football at Li Mingyu's feet.
After Li Mingyu passed three defenders of Sweden National Team in a row, he had already arrived in the penalty area.
At this time, Sweden National Team's players became more passive in defense and hesitated when taking action.
If it's a foul, it's a penalty kick.
But Li Mingyu didn't think as much as they did. After entering the penalty area, he opened a small space and volleyed directly with his right foot. The football passed between the legs of the center defender and hit the blind spot of the goal.
Sweden Goalkeeper Nordfeldt is very focused, staring at the football at Li Mingyu's feet. Since there are too many people in the penalty area and there are many people and legs, from time to time, the football will be blocked by people's legs.
At this moment, in Nordfeldt's eyes, when the football was blocked by the legs of the defensive player in front of him, he heard a "bang" sound. Although the stadium was very noisy, as a goalkeeper, he was very keen to hear that it was the sound of sneakers hitting the football hard.
It's a shot!
Nordfeldt was ready to make a save when he saw the football suddenly come out from between the legs of the defensive player in front of him. Nordfeldt felt nervous and quickly flew out to his right.
Nordfeldt felt as if his fingertips had touched a football, and he felt happy, but when he turned his head and looked over, he found that the football had still dived into the goal behind him.
Nordfeldt fell to the ground and rolled on the ground due to inertia. Looking at the football in the goal, he hit the turf hard with a look of frustration.
He looked helplessly at Li Mingyu, who had rushed to the sidelines to celebrate.
How on earth did he complete this ball?
Li Mingyu passed five players in a row in the middle of the goal, and finally tied the score with a low shot.
After scoring the goal, Li Mingyu was ecstatic and ran all the way to the camp of Spain National Team fans on the sidelines. He raised his fists excitedly and roared loudly, shouting out all the depression in his heart during the first half.
After seeing the goal, the other players of Spain rushed to Li Mingyu crazily and hugged each other fiercely.
This goal came too timely and restored the confidence of Spain National Team, who was already a little desperate.
The head coach Enrique on the sidelines was as excited as if he had scored a goal. He hugged his assistant coach fiercely and raised his fists high, which also relieved the tension in his heart a lot.
Watching Spain National Team's passionate celebration, Ibrahimovic, who was standing near the center circle, had a very ugly face. He was very dissatisfied with his own defense. How could Li Mingyu move around in the crowd so easily and complete the shot.
Looking at Li Mingyu who was surrounded in the middle, Ibrahimovic curled his lips and felt unhappy for a while. I, Great Fengxian, will also give you a goal that beats five people in a row.
Back to the game.
The two sides have returned to the same starting line again, but Sweden National Team still has the psychological advantage. After all, as long as there is a draw, Sweden National Team can directly qualify first in the group.
However, this goal also injected hope into Spain National Team.
After the kick-off, Sweden National Team quickly handed the ball back to Spain National Team.
However, there was not much time left in the first half, and the fourth official had already raised a sign to indicate that there would be one minute of added time in the first half.
This time, even Ibrahimovic returned to his own 30-meter area, because this was Spain National Team's last attack, and Sweden National Team would basically not be given a chance to counterattack.
The referee is also constantly looking at his watch, and has put the whistle in his mouth, always ready to blow the whistle to end the first half of the game.
At the last moment, Li Mingyu made a pass from 40 meters away from midfield. After receiving the ball, Pedri turned around forcefully, allowing him to shoot a very beautiful shot.
However, although this shot is very powerful, the angle is not very tricky.
Nordfeldt, who was in a very good position, did not dare to neglect, and directly used his fists to knock the football out of the penalty area.
The football came out of the penalty area and flew towards the center of the field.
Spain's last attack was fruitless. When the ball was hit, the ball was still in mid-air, and the referee blew the whistle to end the game.
But a shocking scene happened. Just where the football landed, Li Mingyu had already made a bow and arrow action. Just as the referee's whistle sounded, Li Mingyu kicked the football directly towards the goal.
As the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, the opponent's goalkeeper also relaxed. Moreover, the kick was very sudden and the angle was tricky enough, and it hit the dead center of the goal.
Nordfeldt looked at the scored football with a dull look on his face, and quickly looked at the referee near the midfield.
The referee also had a black line on his face at this time, but he quickly made a gesture to invalidate the goal.
After all, this goal was scored by Li Mingyu when he blew the final whistle of the game, so it must be an invalid goal.
The players Li Mingyu and Spain were very angry, and they all rushed to the referee.
Ramos, the captain of Spain, no longer cared about his personal grudge with Li Mingyu, and rushed over, complaining to the referee.
The ball just now, in a strict sense, is not really the end of Spain National Team's attack. After all, first, the football did not go out of the sideline, and second, the football was not obtained by Sweden National Team, which means that Spain National Team still has a chance to attack again.
The referee's basis is also very simple. Before this goal, strictly speaking, before Pedri shot, the one-minute stoppage time was already up. I have already given you some time. Your shot was saved, so I blew the whistle to end the game. No problem.
As for the subsequent goal, it was really unexpected.
The players from Sweden National Team also came over and confronted Spain National Team after getting scared.
For a time, the smell of gunpowder on the field became stronger and stronger.
The referee was also scolding his mother in his heart, saying that any bullshit thing could happen to me.
The referee called the captains of both sides to his side, and then stated his decision again, declaring that the goal was invalid, and told them to stop making trouble and quickly return to the locker room to rest.
Ramos also saw that the referee could not change his decision, so he could only curse and leave.
Ibrahimovic had a snicker on his face.
Not counting this ball, the blow to Spain National Team was still quite big.
If it weren't for Li Mingyu's kick, it would be okay to go back to the locker room with a draw. Play hard in the second half and try to score goals.
But scoring a goal and being disallowed is such a psychological gap, which is really hard to accept, especially in such a crucial game, every goal is crucial!
I hope their mentality can be maintained!