Chapter 264 – Vs Barcelona (4)

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I put one foot up to trap a ball flying high, but suddenly my spine feels chilly.

“Red!!”
“Behind!!!”

The moment I reflexively looked back at the screaming screams, the Barcelona uniform approached with the sound of using the ground.

‘Tackle!’

As usual, I jumped up and tried to avoid it, but I realized it soon.

‘It’s late… !’

That it was late.

Standing on one foot to trap an already high ball.
Time is too short to jump in this state.

If so how?

Whether it’s because of tension or a sense of crisis, concentration rises rapidly and time slows down when you become immersed.
A tackle slowly sweeping the floor.

It is a tackle towards the leg standing on one foot, and directly towards the weight-bearing ankle.
The malice felt by the player’s gaze at the stud raised high.

The slowed down time, the rapidly spinning head derives the correct answer.

‘Fuck, I really decided to soak it.’

It’s soccer 3. I went as far as going to Barcelona.
… I can’t help it when it comes to this.

Relieve strength from your body and face the tackle.
The moment the raised stud strikes the ankle, the weak leg naturally pushes away and the body tilts as it is.

In still slow time, twisting the body floating in the air as much as possible…
Puck!!

* * *

The Champions League is the stage that every soccer player dreams of.
Europe, which can be called the center of modern football, is the league of stars where the best clubs gather.

Europe’s strongest football team, where the best of the best go to war… No, the dream stage to determine the world’s best soccer team is the Champions League.

So, it is only natural that soccer fans around the world are paying attention even if it is a match in the quarterfinals rather than the final.
However, interest in the match between Barcelona and Newcastle in the quarterfinals was more than that.

The match between Top Dog and Under Dog always draws people’s attention.
In that sense, the match between the world-renowned ‘Top Dog’ Barcelona and the ‘Under Dog’ Newcastle, who advanced to the Champions League for the first time in their long history, is sure to be an interesting match.

But the bigger factor is the story of Newcastle’s ace and superstar Hong Min-joon and Barcelona.

Here, the ‘former’ Barcelona player met Barcelona on the big stage of the Champions League quarterfinals and gave an interview saying that he would go to Real Madrid.

If you are a football fan, your eyes will naturally be drawn to this exciting game.

The beginning of the game, which was filled with great interest as much as the final, was boring.

“Oh, the game is getting boring. Barcelona players continue to turn the ball over the first five minutes. Barcelona, ​​we only give and receive passes that are too stable.”
“Originally, Barça Suns like ball control. There is no pole touch from Newcastle players right now. So the Barça players are doing well~ That’s what they say.”

It was a game with high anticipation as much as people’s attention was high.
However, there was nothing to eat at the rumored feast, and the beginning of the game was a series of boring balls for Barcelona.

“A mistake comes out as soon as the words are finished. Newcastle winning the ball. Baum Johann to Jose Gaya. Jose Gaya catches the ball and kicks it! Counterattack, counterattack opportunity!!”
“Ah, isn’t that a good opportunity!? Uh, but after… Uhh… ”
“Tackle Fernando! It is deep!!”
“Uh…….”

Silence descends.
But still for a while.

“Oh My God! What is this!?”
“Blood… Blood… “

Blood gushed out along with a chilling sound that reached the relay booth through the ground boom microphone.
The two players collapsed on the ground side by side.

“It was a dangerous tackle!! Fernando, this is a very, very dangerous tackle!! The two players got entangled and collapsed! Oh, I hope it’s not a big deal… Fernando player, grabs his face and wallows. Blood… It keeps flowing….”
“OMG… Hong Min-jun also grabs his legs and can’t stand up.”

Medical staff rushed into the bloody ground.
The devastation revealed was serious.

“Fernando, you were hit exactly by the elbow of Hong Min-jun, who was falling. This… It looks like a pretty big injury.”
“It is a serious injury suspected of orbital fracture. Grucio, we need to get him to the hospital right away.”
“Fortunately, Hong Min-joon woke up.”

Hong Min-joon, who stood up limply with a grimacing expression in pain, looks worriedly at Fernando, who passes by on a stretcher.

“Our player Minjun Hong, this is a friendly expression. I think the worries about the downed Fernando come first.”

* * *

Pretending to be sick as much as possible, using arrogance, grabbing his ankle and rolling around the ground, but something is strange.

‘… Why is it so quiet?’

There is no way that his acting skills, which have already reached the peak, have been exposed.
If it was a full-body Hollywood action that reached my peak, it wouldn’t be strange if the pissed-off kids on my team ran into it, but the surroundings were too cold.

When I slowly open my eyes and look around, the atmosphere is uneasy.
Luke quickly closes his eyes and groans as he sees the urgently rushing medical staff.

“Hong, are you okay?”
“Ugh… It hurts, but luckily I don’t think I’m seriously hurt. … But what’s the mood like?”
“That is… “

With the help of the medical team, he gets up and sees the grass covered in blood.

‘Oh Jesus.’

Just looking at the stretcher passing by,

‘It’s completely destroyed.’

I see a player with one side of his face covered in blood.
It looks so painful.

Somehow, the elbow hurt, it seems that the elbow went straight into the bun.
No matter how vicious a player is with a dog tackle, seeing his face covered in blood and sunken like that, far from being pitiful, it’s fucking fucking embarrassing.

‘Camera, camera. I can’t laugh.’

He restrained his twitching lips and acted out a gloomy expression.

“Minjoon. It’s not your fault.”
“It will be fine. Don’t worry too much.”

Because of the corners of his mouth that kept rising, he bit his lip and just nodded.

“Red. Can you run?”
“I can run.”
“Then go out and treat yourself and then come in.”

After signaling to the referee that he would understand, I was touching his leg pretending to be sick.

“What!? Hey, leaving is too much!”
“Referee! Hey, hey!!”

In the meantime, the Barcelona players, who were gloomy as if they had taken out a red card, poured out fierce protests around the referee.

As I limped as much as possible and deliberately passed between them, the Barcelona players kept their mouths shut.

‘Ah~ that’s fucking funny.’

I come out of the line for treatment and sit down,

‘Why is that human being like that again?’

There was someone sitting down before me, so it was Jose Matheus.
The Barcelona coach was sitting on the ground with a dazed expression.

* * *

Barcelona, ​​who received a red card before the 10th minute of the first half, fought hard even in the 10:11 situation.

Home fans who had been frozen also sang cheering songs with enthusiasm, and coaches who had sat down cheered them on by shouting loudly, but cheering and encouragement alone could not fill the lacking players.

Barcelona, ​​which was dangerously well defended even with a lack of personnel,

“… Goal. Newcastle’s number 7, Hong Min-jun’s goal.”

In the 24th minute of the first half, Hong Min-joon’s stunning 30m out-front mid-range shot, starting with the first goal—

“Ah… This is the second goal. Hong Min-jun’s consecutive goals this time.”

In the 26th minute of the first half, right after the goal was conceded, Hong Min-joon, who intercepted the ball bounced off by a trapping error by the defense team, conceded a second point on a shot that he made without delay.

“It’s a hat trick. Newcastle take a 3-0 lead.”

In the 33rd minute of the first half, a fantastic single dribble led to a hat-trick for Hong Min-joon, who beat 3 players and scored a goal.

“Newcastle’s Hong Min-joon scoring the 4th, 4th goal.”

In the 44th minute of the first half, Hong Min-jun, who connected a long pass from the defense with a one-touch shot, conceded the fourth goal,

“At Camp Nou… Scored the 5th goal in the first half… Hong Min-joon….”

And finally, in the 46th minute, just before the end of the first half, Hong Min-joon’s dribble, which stirred the defense like a joke, broke through and scored the 5th goal.

The announcer’s trembling voice, unable to contain his passion, announces the fifth goal, and soon after, the referee blows his whistle.

First half finally over.
Even though it must have been difficult, holding on for more than 35 minutes with one player missing, none of the Barcelona players moved.

Athletes standing stunned as if frozen.
A strange silence falls on the world’s largest soccer stadium with 100,000 seats.

It is the first time in the long history of Barcelona that one player conceded five goals in the first half at Camp Nou.

Barcelona players and 100,000 home fans were all devastated by the unbelievable and unbelievable reality.

Barcelona players leave bitterly as they watch the crowd turn into a sea of ​​tears belatedly.

And-

“Ah… Second half… Red… Player Minjun will appear again.”

At the announcer’s crying voice, everyone looks at the display board with a bewildered expression.

An Asian with a charming face with a faint smile.
It’s a handsome face that will surely draw admiration, but why is it like this…

Hong Min-joon, who entered the arena, whether or not he knew that everyone had the same impression—

『5 goals in the first half, 4 goals in the second half!! ‘Former’ Barcelona player drives a dagger into the heart of Barcelona heading for the Champions League!!