Chapter 308 Battle with Real Madrid in Drizzle
Puyol is really a brick of the revolution, and he can be moved wherever it needs to be. Both Coffee and Ade were unable to play due to minor injuries. Guardiola did not want to take risks with the young players of the second team. The Barcelona captain started at left back today.
This is Pu's 100th Champions League game. In fact, it's not something worth boasting about. As the second-strongest team in the Spanish Super League, Barcelona basically occupies the Champions League spot in La Liga every year. The 33-year-old Puyi has been in the first team for 12 years, averaging 39 games per year.
Only the group stage has six games. The Champions League has not been restructured since Puyi became the main force in the first few years. There is also the second stage of the group stage, which is another six games. Let's look at Zhuoyang. Today is his 61st Champions League game, and he has only played at the top level for seven years. In these seven years, he did not participate in the Champions League for two seasons due to team relations.
This also shows that Barcelona's previous results in the Champions League are mostly inconsistent with their status as a giant. The fact that there is only one Champions League trophy in history is also very illustrative. Zhuo Yang has three.
In 2006 and 2009, Barcelona reached the Champions League finals twice, but was beaten twice by Zhuo Yang. If he hadn't come out of nowhere, Barcelona would never be so shabby in this honor. Their rival Real Madrid has won nine Champions League trophies so far, ranking first in the world.
Even if you put aside the five consecutive championships in ancient times, the other four can leave Barcelona behind even the tail lights can't be seen. Therefore, no matter how hard they double beat Real Madrid in the league, Barcelona will not dare to compete with Real Madrid for the Champions League, lest their face be rubbed on the ground.
The two teams met in the Champions League semi-finals this season. Barcelona took advantage of the prestige of winning three consecutive domestic doubles and took the lead with two goals in the first round. It would be crazy to think that a genius could let Real Madrid escape at Camp Nou.
In Barcelona's game, apart from Mascherano playing as a central defender and partnering with Pique, Puyol went to the left back, and the main players in other positions were full, Zhuo Meihuha Baibu, Dan Erye and Valdes.
Apart from the short-handed defense, Barcelona's biggest hidden danger in this game is the goalkeeper. Old Pinto was banned by UEFA, and 22-year-old Ruben Mino was brought up from the second team to become the only substitute behind Valdez.
Although Ruben Mino is called 'Little Valdez', this is actually a self-deprecating name for his family. His overall strength is mediocre. He has no experience in La Liga, not to mention Champions League experience. Valdez wants to There was a mistake, and it was really suspenseful.
Real Madrid is even more miserable. Their head coach Mourinho was sent off with a red card in the last game. This time he can only stay in the hotel and watch TV. It’s not that UEFA didn’t allow him to come to the stage, it’s that Madman Mu himself didn’t come.
I can't help here, I have to listen to the boos all over the Camp Nou, I have to endure the proud faces of the Barcelona people after being eliminated, and I only came after eating too much.
Ramos was suspended due to fatigue, Pepe suffered a leg injury, and Khedira suffered a leg injury. In addition, Real Madrid was behind by a big score. Real Madrid arranged a 4-2-3-1 formation today. The double defensive midfielders Detu and Alonso, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, and Di Maria lined up in front of them, are facing Higuain, who is returning from injury.
Marcelo is miserable. The last defeat of Real Madrid started when he was easily knocked down by Afellay. Although his assist ability is getting stronger and stronger, Marcelo's clumsy and easy-to-lose defense is increasingly driving Mourinho crazy.
According to well-informed sources, after losing 0:2 to Barcelona in the last game at the Bernabeu, head coach Mourinho had a secret and detailed discussion with chairman Florentino. The specific content of the conversation is unknown, but Lafayette reiterated his trust in Mourinho in the media the next day.
Not only did he show that Mourinho would have no worries about his position next season, Lafayette also personally contacted the Portuguese club Benfica to inquire about the possibility of transferring 22-year-old left back Fabio Coentrao.
Coentrao was selected into the top ten rising stars in last year's World Cup. He is a rare pearl in the defender market that has been rich in wolves and short in meat in the past two years. He, Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo are all clients of Mendes. This move by Lafayette is obvious Out of Mourinho's wishes.
There's no way, Real Madrid has had a lot of famous coaches over the years, ten of them have come and gone in seven years, like a revolving door, and then they fired Mourinho.
Looking around the universe, who else dares to take over immediately? Moreover, Lafayette has also suffered from the lack of longevity of the head coach over the years, so he simply gave Mourinho another year.
As for what Mourinho promised and asked for Lafayette in private, outsiders don't know.
Belgian referee Debrekli blew the whistle, and the second leg of the Champions League semifinal between Barcelona and Real Madrid began in the drizzle at Camp Nou.
Barcelona is a bright city with relatively scarce rain. Naturally, Barcelona players are not as 100% adaptable to playing football on sunny days. Except for Zhuo Yang, Milan had more rainy days than Barcelona had sunny days in those three years.
Real Madrid people may be even more uncomfortable with it, because among all the big cities in Spain, Madrid ranks first with 310 days of sunshine per year, and they are more afraid of rain than Barcelona.
Of course, modern professional clubs can imitate various scenes under various turfs during daily training. Flooding the turf is nothing, but having rain on your face, nose, eyes, and mouth full of water makes it difficult to imitate in advance.
Before the first five minutes, the drizzle gradually turned into light rain, the raindrops turned into raindrops, and a small amount of water began to appear on the court. Carvalho's tackle couldn't hold back at all. After knocking Zhuoyang over, he rushed out of the stadium on a water truck.
When he returned from the sidelines, he was greeted with the first yellow card of the game.
In the 11th minute, the brave and tenacious Carvalho defeated Boss Mei in the same midfield. Zhuo Yang excitedly directed the referee: "Yellow him, yellow him! Two yellows become one red."
Carvalho was so angry that he drank heavily from the rainwater. Mr. Debrekli frowned and ignored Zhuo Yang.
The referees are also under a lot of pressure. After the last game, Real Madrid denounced the unfairness of the referees in the media on a large scale. The whole world screamed for injustice and made UEFA's brain hurt. Today, he received a red card at the beginning of the game. Mr. Blakely was afraid that he would not be able to hold on after the game.
Therefore, in the 18th minute, Zhuoyang fired his bow in the rain and the football hit Carvalho's open arm outside the penalty area. Referee Blakely still didn't take out a yellow card and just gave Barcelona a free kick.
In the 43rd minute, Carvalho overturned Zhuoyang again, but was still pardoned by the referee. The person who was so angry that he spit out water became Zhuoyang.
The entire first half was not very exciting. Barcelona had a certain advantage and shot 7 times, while Real Madrid didn't even have one. Of Barcelona's seven shots, there were 3 of Zhuo, 2 of Dan, 1 of White, and Messi, like Ronaldo, did not shoot.
Cristiano Ronaldo has no shot, but Boss Mei doesn't shoot if he has a goal. He passes the ball to Zhuoyang wholeheartedly and serves him like an ancestor.
This was the case in the last twenty minutes of the last game against Real Sociedad, and with these forty-five minutes, by now, smart people can already see some clues.