Players from both sides came to the court, stood on different sides, and waited for the referee to blow the whistle and the game was about to begin.
The referee looked at his watch and blew his whistle hard. The semi-finals of Spanish Super Cup began.
The fans at the scene also gave loud cheers to the players of both teams.
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Sevilla kicks off first.
Barcelona's counterattack in the frontcourt is very fierce, especially in the last game, Barcelona was defeated by his opponent at his home court. This broke the 10-game unbeaten record at home, and also broke the 23-game unbeaten record across seasons since the end of last season.
Therefore, in this game, the head coach did not need to be mobilized. The players of Barcelona all expressed that they wanted to give Sevilla some color.
In less than 1 minute, Barcelona suppressed Sevilla and was unable to pass the ball. He could only pass the ball back to the goalkeeper, who kicked the football towards the midfield with a big kick.
Busquets spotted the landing point, lightly headed the ball back, and passed the football to Pique behind him.
Transition of possession.
The Sevilla players finally breathed a sigh of relief. The terrifying pressure they were put under by Barcelona just now made them afraid that they would lose the ball in the backcourt and be caught off guard by the opponent. That would be terrible.
Pique handed the ball to De Jong. De Jong pushed the arch of his foot and kicked the football to the feet of Li Mingyu who retreated to catch the ball.
The football quickly passed the midfield and came to Sevilla's half.
Now, Barcelona's offensive efficiency is very high. He rarely makes mistakes in the backcourt. Most of the time, he quickly passes through the midfield and leaves it to Li Mingyu to organize.
After Li Mingyu received the ball, he moved the ball with his right foot beautifully and passed the oncoming Rakitic. He started to speed and rushed towards the middle of the penalty area of Sevilla.
However, Sevilla did a very good job in defense and soon formed a small three-person siege on Li Mingyu.
Li Mingyu didn't dare to neglect, quickly kicked the ball towards Pedri who was responding from the wing.
Sevilla implemented the tactical concept when defeating FC Barcelona in the last game and never let Li Mingyu easily get the ball and pass the ball.
Even Messi has not received such treatment.
It can be seen that in the mind of head coach Sevilla, the threat level of Li Mingyu has surpassed Messi.
In the last game, it was because Li Mingyu was completely frozen by Sevilla's midfielder, which caused problems with the ball transmission in the frontcourt.
Messi could only go back to his old business and start sorting out the competition, which made Barcelona's already lacking attack power even worse.
A Griezmann cannot pose much of a threat to Sevilla's goal.
However, for this game, Li Mingyu had already thought of a countermeasure.
Since you want to use midfielders to freeze me, then I will do the opposite.
Li Mingyu did not move forward after passing the ball, but ran away in the opposite direction of the ball.
This weird movement made Sevilla's defensive player briefly stunned.
But seeing that Pedri was already dribbling the ball forward, they did not dare to neglect, leaving one Gomez to guard Li Mingyu, and the other two chased in the direction of Pedri.
Although Gomez was approaching Li Mingyu, his eyes were still looking in the direction of the football. He just put one of his hands on Li Mingyu's body to judge Li Mingyu's position.
Li Mingyu started to circle towards the left. When he saw Pedri passing the ball to Messi in front, Li Mingyu accelerated, leaving Gomez with no time to react, and rushed directly to the front of the penalty area.
Due to Li Mingyu's weird running position, the distance between him and the football has been widened. Therefore, it is impossible for Sevilla's defensive players to surround him. This causes the midfielder and backfield players to focus all their attention on Pedri and Messi on this side.
Seeing Messi taking the ball, Sevilla's defense players also became more vigilant. After all, the shadow of the human life tree, Messi, although Messi is now blocked by Li Mingyu, the name Messi will make any team's defense players shudder.
When all the defensive focus of Sevilla was on Messi, Griezmann suddenly came forward from the center, which also caused Sevilla's center defense to panic, but Messi's ball was not passed to Griezmann.
However, due to Griezmann's intervention, the opponent's center back has been taken away from the defensive position of the arc of the penalty area.
Messi made a fake move to break through to the baseline, swinging defender Acuna's center of gravity away, and pushed the football directly into the center of the penalty area with his left foot.
This is a vacuum zone.
Two of the opponent's midfielders were taken to the wing, and the other one chased Li Mingyu crazily behind him.
The central defender who should have been there was also driven back two steps towards the penalty area by Griezmann's sudden intervention.
In just a few seconds, Barcelona, through the tacit understanding of the three frontcourt players, successfully opened a huge hole in Sevilla's seemingly iron-clad midfield defense.
The next thing happened naturally.
Li Mingyu stepped in from the back row, took off his foot and fired angrily at the ball, venting all his frustrations from the previous game on this ball.
The football flew past the defensive player like a bullet.
Sevilla's goalkeeper Yasin-Bounou had no time to react. He felt that from the time Li Mingyu kicked the football to the time the football appeared in his goal, it would not take more than 0.5 seconds.
Unless the ball hits him, he won't be able to react at all.
With Li Mingyu's roar, all Barcelona's players rushed over, surrounded him in the middle, and celebrated excitedly.
Sevilla's defensive player looked helpless. There was no problem with the defense just now. It's just that the opponent has two offensive cores. If you restrict one, you can't control the other. Unless, like in the last game, you restrict one and the other is not in good condition.
But it can be seen that both Li Mingyu and Messi are in good condition today.
Now, Sevilla is in trouble.
After all, the Spanish Super Cup semi-finals are a decisive battle, so the Sevilla team, which is lagging behind, must attack.
The next game was completely under the control of Barcelona.
At the end of the first half, the Sevilla players returned to the locker room dejectedly.
The score of 3:0 made them understand how unstoppable Barcelona is in full form.
In the first half, Li Mingyu, Messi and Griezmann each scored a goal, and both teams were hit by rain and dew.
Pedri assisted twice and performed very well.
Three goals directly brought Sevilla back to its original shape.
In the second half of the game, Li Mingyu was substituted in the 65th minute.
The final score was fixed at 5:0.
Barcelona vented all his anger at losing to Sevilla in the league, kicking Sevilla into confusion.
In another semi-final of Spanish Super Cup, Madrid Duo started a goal battle. In the 90 minutes of regular time, the two sides tied at 3:3.
In overtime, Ibrahimovic was exhausted and was replaced. Atletico Madrid was left in the frontcourt with Suarez, who had been suspended.
With Haaland taking the lead, in the 120th minute, Suarez successfully countered offside, passed goalkeeper Courtois, and scored an empty goal, tying the game and dragging the semifinals into a penalty shootout.
In the penalty shootout, Real Madrid was even better. Goalkeeper Courtois performed bravely and saved two penalty kicks from Atletico Madrid, helping Real Madrid advance to the finals of Spanish Super Cup.
The final of Spanish Super Cup, reproduce El Clasico.
Four days later, it will be the finals of Spanish Super Cup.
The intensity of the schedule made Real Madrid feel deeply exhausted.
This month, Real Madrid's schedule is almost double matches a week.
And Barcelona is not much better than them. Basically, they have one game to play in four days.
Therefore, when the team secured the victory, Koeman substituted both Li Mingyu and Messi to prepare for the upcoming final.
At the beginning of this season, although Real Madrid has a good record, whether in the league or in Champions League, the intensive schedule has caused many Real Madrid players to have varying degrees of injuries.
Fortunately for Barcelona, the main players haven't suffered any frequent injuries, and Fati has joined regular training. According to the doctor's speculation, he started to come back in the finals of Spanish Super Cup.
As an outstanding player of the La Masia Youth Academy, Fati entered La Masia Youth Academy almost at the same time as Li Mingyu, but in the youth training camp, Fati is much better than Li Mingyu.
Fati is almost one year younger than Li Mingyu, and he was recruited into Barcelona's first team half a year earlier than Li Mingyu.
In the 2020 Golden Boy Award, Fati lost to the popular Haaland and won the second place.
This shows how talented this young man is.
However, God is jealous of Yingcai. At such a young age, he had to undergo three surgeries in a row due to his knee injury, and only then was he able to return to the game.
However, partial removal of the meniscus will definitely have an impact on his career. It depends on whether he can overcome his own psychological shadow first.
Because many stars come back after serious injuries, their condition immediately collapses.
In fact, this is the psychological impact that makes players afraid to make moves.
When a player has concerns on the court, his performance is unlikely to be good.
Therefore, this time, when Fati comes back, it depends on him whether he can perform like the super new star he was before.
Four days later, the Spanish Super Cup final was held at La Rosaleda Stadium, the home stadium of the Spanish second division team Malaga CF.
Malaga CF used to compete in the La Liga league for many years, but due to poor performance in the past few years, he has been in Segunda Division.
This time Spanish Super Cup's final is arranged here, which is also a subsidy given by Royal Spanish Football Federation to Malaga.
Before the game started, La Rosaleda Stadium, with more than 30,000 people, was already packed. Fans from both sides and local fans supporting the two teams from afar had blocked the roads around the entire stadium.
This is the charm of Spain El Clasico.
This time, the duel between Real Madrid and Barcelona brought football enthusiasm to the city.
"Good evening to all the viewers of Tencent Sports. Welcome to our program today. The game we bring to you today is the final of Spanish Super Cup. The two sides facing each other are Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, who are very familiar to everyone."
"This is the second time these two teams have met this season. The first time was in the league. The final score was 4:3. Barcelona's golden boy Li Mingyu scored a very handsome goal at the last moment of the game, beating Real Madrid, in that game, the two sides fought fiercely. Pique and Haaland of Barcelona both got a Red Gem Promotion Card in the game, and they both ended the game."
"In today's game, players from both sides made harsh remarks before the game, especially Haaland. He wants everyone to know that Real Madrid is the greatest team on the planet. He will use goals to help the team win the first championship this season."
"And Li Mingyu of Barcelona said very relaxedly that the ending of this game will be the same as the last time. Although Li Mingyu said it very relaxedly, everyone who understands knows that Li Mingyu is qualified to speak like this. He scored 8 goals in two games El Clasico. This kind of scoring efficiency is simply amazing. I wonder how many goals Li Mingyu can score in this game?"
"First let's take a look at the lineups of both sides today."
"Real Madrid's lineup is a 4-3-3 lineup. The goalkeeper is Courtois, and the four defenders are Marcelo, Nacho, Varane, and Carvajal., the four midfielders are, Casemiro, Isco and Luka Modric, and the three forwards are Haaland, Karim Benzema and Hazard, who is returning from injury."
"Hazard returns from injury, adding more tactical possibilities to Real Madrid's forward line."
"Real Madrid's lineup definitely wants to use offense to break down Barcelona's defense in this game. An offensive battle is about to come."