Messi's goal gave Barcelona a 1-0 lead at home. After the aggregate score was tied to 2-5, Barcelona's morale was immediately boosted and they wanted to keep going and continue scoring goals.
But just a few minutes later, Lu Wenbin shattered Barcelona's dream.
In the 43rd minute, it was Barcelona's massive attack that left their defense empty.
Messi's dribbling breakthrough was intercepted by Ramos and Carvalho, and the ball was handed over to Alonso to start a counterattack.
Alonso did not stick to the ball, and before Iniesta, who was nearby, could grab the ball, he kicked it to Lu Wenbin who was making a forward run.
The offense and defense positions on the field suddenly changed. Lu Wenbin, Ronaldo and Benzema attacked at the same time, and because of the attack, Barcelona only left Puyol, Abidal and Mascherano in the backcourt.
Real Madrid's quick counterattack instantly created a three-on-three situation.
Lu Wenbin dribbled the ball through the middle, Mascherano followed Lu Wenbin closely, Puyol and Abidal retreated while watching Benzema, and also had to be wary of Ronaldo's forward advance, so they were seriously short of manpower.
Iniesta and Xavi, who were returning to defense, could not keep up with Lu Wenbin's speed.
When Lu Wenbin was about 30 meters away from the Barcelona goal, Mascherano was gradually left behind by Lu Wenbin.
He couldn't even outrun Lu Wenbin when he was running with the ball, which shows how fast Lu Wenbin is.
There was no choice but for Puyol to hand Benzema to Abidal. He left the penalty area and rushed to the ball himself, preparing to delay Lu Wenbin's breakthrough attack, and then teamed up with Mascherano to steal Lu Wenbin's ball.
As for Ronaldo, there is no time to care about him. We can only hope that Lu Wenbin did not see Ronaldo's movement.
However, with Lu Wenbin's excellent vision and judgment, how could he ignore Ronaldo
Many people thought that Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo were both Ballon d'Or winners. Lu Wenbin's transfer fee, annual salary, and image rights licensing share are much higher than Ronaldo's, so there would definitely be a tit-for-tat situation.
However, under Lu Wenbin's senior leadership aura, this did not happen.
Although the two did not become friends in private, they had no problem cooperating with each other on the court with professional ethics.
Seeing Puyol leaving the penalty area and preparing to intercept him, Lu Wenbin did not give the opponent this opportunity.
If he tried to break through Puyol and failed, he would slow down and be caught up by Mascherano.
With two top players double-teaming him, Lu Wenbin was not 100% sure of successfully breaking through into the penalty area and shooting.
Therefore, before Puyol got close to the ball, Lu Wenbin's perfect judgment allowed him to make a decisive diagonal pass and put the ball into the gap on the ribs of the penalty area.
Puyol rushed forward and Abidal followed Benzema on the other side. There was no one in the direction where Lu Wenbin passed the ball, and only Ronaldo was closest to that place.
Ronaldo did not waste Lu Wenbin's quick pass. He cut into the penalty area diagonally, stopped the ball for a moment and adjusted it. Then, before Pique, who was desperately returning to defense, made a tackle, he volleyed the ball into the far corner of the goal.
Valdés misjudged and dived towards the near corner, going against the ball's path. In the end, he could only turn his head in despair and watch the ball go into the goal from the far end.
The ball had already entered the net when Pique's tackle came late and hit Ronaldo, but it had no effect.
C Lu staggered a bit due to Pique's foot, but he quickly stabilized his center of gravity, rushed out of the penalty area, and celebrated with Lu Wenbin who assisted him.
Real Madrid equalized the score of the game thanks to a counterattack goal assisted by Lu Wenbin and Ronaldo, and continued to lead by four goals with a total score of 6-2.
Moreover, Lu Wenbin's assist to Ronaldo wiped out Barcelona's away goal advantage. Now both sides have one away goal.
Moreover, Real Madrid is playing away now.
If Real Madrid scores again, Barcelona will even fall behind in the away goal race, which will make things even more difficult.
But no matter how difficult it is, Barcelona, which is behind in the overall score, has to focus on offense.
As the mortal enemy in the national derby, even though they knew that this would give Real Madrid more opportunities to counterattack, they could not shrink back and wait for death.
Derby opponents must either win spectacularly or lose miserably. There is absolutely no reason to shrink back on defense and wait for death when falling behind by a large margin.
Barcelona's attack was exactly what Real Madrid wanted.
4231 is not a formation that Barcelona is good at. When they were behind in the overall score, they had no choice but to press forward and attack, which left more loopholes in the backcourt.
So, before the end of the first half, Barcelona not only failed to score another goal, but was almost counterattacked by Real Madrid again.
Fortunately, Benzema actually knocked away the good ball that Lu Wenbin passed into the penalty area in seconds, otherwise Real Madrid would have taken the lead at the Nou Camp and scored an extra away goal.
Even though Benzema's shot missed the target, thinking of the total score of 6-2, no Barcelona player looked happy when they left the field at halftime, and no Barcelona fans in the stands were happy either.
After a 15-minute break, Guardiola made a desperate move and replaced Busquets with Fabregas as a winger. Messi moved forward and partnered with Villa as a double striker.
Barcelona changed its formation to 4132 to strengthen the attack, with Mascherano being the only defensive midfielder.
Even Mascherano basically gave up on closely marking Lu Wenbin and joined the attack.
There was no way out. Barcelona was four goals behind and Guardiola had to take a gamble.
With Fabregas on the bench and Messi moving forward, Barcelona's attack became much more fierce.
Coupled with Barcelona's passing and control advantage, their ball possession rate reached more than 2/3 for a time, and it seemed that they were suppressing Real Madrid, which made the Barcelona fans in the stands quite excited.
However, only insiders can see that Barcelona's defense is actually quite dangerous.
As long as Real Madrid gets the ball, it will be difficult for Barcelona's defense to stop the counterattacks of Lu Wenbin, Ronaldo, Di Maria and Benzema.
Therefore, Barcelona did not dare to lose the ball easily. They passed the ball cautiously on the periphery, did not dare to break through, did not dare to shoot, and let the ball change hands.
But as time went by, the situation of being 4 goals behind was like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of Barcelona players, forcing them to attack.
In the 57th minute, Villa finally couldn't bear it anymore.
After receiving the pass from Messi, he felt that the opportunity was good, so he did not pass the ball back to Messi who was running, but dribbled past Pepe's defense outside the penalty area, created an angle, and then quickly shot.
Villa's shot did hit the goal frame, but the quality was poor and the angle was too straight, so it was easily caught by Casillas.
Casillas, holding the ball, didn't even wait for the players from both teams in the penalty area to run out. He directly threw the ball to Marcelo on the wing and launched a quick attack.