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In order for their teams to do well in the Champions League and UEFA Cup, Serie A has brought forward the league match between Inter Milan and Inter Milan, who are in the semi-finals of the Champions League, to Saturday, while La Liga have brought forward the match between Barcelona and Espanyol to Friday in order to deal with the volcanic ash.

Espanyol is not only Barcelona's sworn enemy in the same city but also Real Madrid's follower, blocking Barcelona is their entire task every season, as for whether Barcelona can win honor for La Liga, they don't care, and Barcelona The Spaniards went all out to pull Barcelona down.

Although only three points ahead of Real Madrid, out of confidence in his own strength, Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola and Mourinho sent a starting lineup mixed with the main force and substitutes.

In fact, Barcelona, with a mixed lineup of main players and substitutes, is also stronger than Espanyol, but every Barça player who appears on the pitch sees the game as a routine. Everyone is saving up energy and spirit for the Champions League semi-final in midweek, and it seems that only that game is the real contest. The excessive hype in the media made the match between Inter Milan and Barcelona prematurely arouse people's interest.

If such an attitude is not to play the derby, Barcelona will have no problem winning the game, but it is not enough to beat the rival Espanyol in the same city, in the face of the Spaniards who fought to cramp, Barcelona was not able to play the world's best attacking power, and was finally forced to draw by the Spaniards, and the advantage of leading Real Madrid was only one point.

This result is obviously not good for Barca, as it means that Barça cannot hold back at all in the league between the two semi-finals with Inter Milan, and both lines will have to give it their all.

After the game, the media believed that it was not easy for Barcelona to win the game this time, after all, Barcelona faced another Champions League soft egg Arsenal in the quarterfinals, and Barcelona failed to win away from home.

But Guardiola didn't care, he said at a press conference when he led the team from Barcelona to Gamble Sports City, "" There is no way, we can only choose to take the bus to Milan, we can wait for the flight, but if the flight is still not available on Tuesday, we will not be able to go to Milan, according to UEFA rules, we will be judged to lose 0:3 if we miss the game, the bus is a little slower, a little more tired, but I think as long as we can be on the pitch, we will definitely be able to achieve a positive result of 0:3, it is a 180-minute game, the place that decides the promotion is at the Camp Nou, not Meazza. ”

Messi, the core world footballer of Barcelona, also said that the volcanic ash will not affect Barcelona, as long as the referee is fair and Inter Milan is not allowed to play with martial arts and wrestling, Inter Milan can win in Meazza.

Although the Barcelona players and coaches said that the ash did not have much impact on Barca, the club was well prepared for this long trip.

Barcelona had only 40 players, but the club found two buses with 38 seats and four drivers, as well as a small bar with players on one bus and Pep Guardiola and the coaching staff and other members of his entourage.

In order to make the players not bored during their journey, the club also prepared two films for the players, one is "Success in Man", which tells the story of former South African President Nelson Mandela who uses the national football team to reconcile racial conflicts, and the other is "Inglourious Basterds", which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Pep Guardiola edited the Barcelona match video with "Gladiator" in last year's Champions League final to motivate the team. However, this time the club's vice-president Yous said that the two films were shown purely for entertainment, and that Barcelona did not need to be motivated now, and that they were more than capable of beating Inter Milan.

Due to the departure three days in advance, in order to ensure the safety of the road and the rest of the players, the club did not rush overnight, and divided the journey into two stages, the first stage from Barcelona to the French coastal city of Cannes, a total distance of 634 kilometers, and the second stage from Cannes to Milan, a total distance of 351 kilometers, a total distance of 1,060 kilometers.

In the past two seasons, Barcelona have faced La Liga and European powers a total of 26 times. In La Liga, 13 times against Real Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, Villarreal and other teams, Barcelona's record is 9 wins and 4 draws, and 11 times against Europe's top teams, Barcelona has only lost one game, this time to Inter Milan in the Champions League group stage.

In recent years, Barcelona has almost played invincible opponents all over the world, although the influence of many factors has increased the difficulty of Barcelona winning at Inter Milan's home, but no one thinks that Barcelona will be eliminated by Inter Milan, and Barcelona itself does not think that the famous Champions League soft egg, Inter Milan, which has not reached the final in 45 years, can stop itself from entering the Bernabeu, so this forced and helpless long march has almost become a star-chasing journey.

The Barcelona bus was painted with the club's logo and was cheered on by the fans along the way. After learning about the route, many fans marched for Barcelona at the toll booths along the highway, and even in the service area, there were fans who came to Messi to take photos and sign autographs. Barça's fame also gave them special treatment, and when they crossed the border, they were not required to queue up for inspection like other vehicles and were allowed to pass through. Even when there is a traffic jam, many drivers waiting for the bus excitedly make way for them after seeing that it is the bus of the six-time champion Barcelona.

At 14:45 p.m. on Monday, two buses from Barcelona arrived at the Meliá Hotel in Milan, which had departed at 14:41 on Sunday at the Gamble Sports City in Barcelona, a full day after arriving. And without the impact of Icelandic volcanic ash, the flight from Barcelona to Milan would only take an hour and a half.

Today, in the 21st century, Barcelona has experienced a "back to basics" journey, as if returning to the 50s of the last century.

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When Barcelona rushed to Milan, Inter Milan had been training behind closed doors.

When Mourinho first entered Inter Milan, whenever he trained in a closed session, the media ridiculed him for pretending to be mysterious, and the fans cursed him for being cold and arrogant and not taking the fans seriously, but as Mourinho's record in the Champions League got better and better, Mourinho's closed training was gradually accepted by fans and the media, and Mourinho's fans also regarded closed training as Mourinho's secret weapon and killer weapon。

Sometimes Mourinho is really playing tricks, but this time Mourinho's closed training is really a secret weapon against Barcelona.

Barcelona have no secrets for Jose Mourinho.

Since the 96s, Mourinho has been working as a translator and assistant coach for Bobby Robson at Barcelona, when Guardiola was still a Barcelona player, and both were deeply influenced by Barcelona's tactical philosophy, but the world is so wonderful, influenced by the same club, the two have the same goal, and many years later, one of them has become utilitarian, the defense is invincible, the other is called a master of art, and the attack is like mercury.

Later, Mourinho became the head coach of Chelsea, he and Barcelona met again, time has passed, the former assistant coach has become Barcelona's opponent today, the first time Mourinho's Chelsea eliminated Rijkaard's Barcelona, the second time, Barcelona eliminated Mourinho's Chelsea, the third group stage meeting, Mourinho's Chelsea won one win and one draw, six times, Mourinho and Barcelona played 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

Jose Mourinho then stepped down at Chelsea to take over as Inter Milan's head coach, and he and Chelsea met again in the group stage, with one win and one defeat between the two sides, and the aggregate score became 3 wins, 3 losses and 2 draws.

No one could have imagined that the two sides would meet again in the semi-finals.

Barcelona is hardly the same as Barcelona in the group stage, but Inter Milan have brought in Pandev and Sneijder.

Although Pandev and Sneijder will not allow Inter Milan to improve their level, they can enrich Inter Milan's tactics and make Inter Milan's style of play more varied.

With Pandev and Sneijder, plus Gao Xiaodong, who can play in all positions, for the tactician Mourinho, he can completely put out a set of formations and playing styles that his former friend Pep Guardiola did not expect.

In this match with Barcelona, Mourinho and his coaching staff conducted in-depth analysis and research, in fact, after the draw for the top 8, Inter Milan vs. CSKA Moscow, Barcelona vs. Arsenal, at that time Mourinho knew that he was going to meet Barcelona again, and began to let Faria and others start to collect materials and prepare ways to deal with Barcelona.

In the backfield of Inter Milan, Mourinho will never move, the foundation of Mourinho football lies in a solid defense, and a solid defense needs a stable defense line.

The position of the center Mourinho will not move, Inter Milan has no more suitable center than Milito, no matter whether Barcelona has a targeted defense Milito, Milito will play the center, Mourinho needs Milito to be a fulcrum, threaten the opponent's defense, and assist his teammates.

The combination of midfield is the position where Mourinho has taken the most painstaking care and is the best position to make tactical adjustments.

Now the most commonly used formation of Inter Milan is 4231, sometimes it becomes 433, sometimes it becomes 4213, but Mourinho does not want to use the 433 formation, except because when he was in Chelsea, Mourinho has been using the 433 formation, Barcelona must have been familiar with this style of play, and there is a way to deal with it, in addition, Inter Milan and Chelsea have different configurations, Inter Milan's four back Muntari, Cambiasso, Stankovic and Motta, these four people are not the kind of beasts that can't run, and their bodies are not strong enough, even if Mourinho discharges three midfielders, he may not be able to block Barcelona's attack.

Therefore, Mourinho decided to continue with the 4231 formation that he had built this season, but in terms of specific positions, it was very different.

First of all, the original Inter Milan's double backs are basically a technical midfielder Motta or Cambiaso, plus a power midfielder Muntari, Stankovic plays as a substitute, and now Mourinho has decided to use two technical midfielders Motta to drink Cambiaso to improve the ability to counter-attack.

Barcelona are the best at pressing high and the two technical midfielders will definitely be overwhelmed by Barcelona, so in order to assist the two defenders in the defense, the three defenders Mourinho decided to use must put attack and defense in equal positions.

Most of the three forwards turned out to be Gao Xiaodong, Sneijder and Eto'o, Pandev played as a substitute, of which Sneijder was in the forward position, Gao Xiaodong and Eto'o were separated on both sides, but in order to have a surprise effect, Mourinho decided to let Gao Xiaodong return to the position of the forward midfield, and let Sneijder play left midfielder, Eto'o played right midfielder.

Here, Sneijder is a surprise man as he rarely plays left wing-back. Jose Mourinho placed him in this position to deal with right-back Alves, an important figure in Barca's wide attack.

Two of the best right-backs in the world are now in Brazil, one is Inter Milan's McCone and the other is Barcelona's Alves.

McCone and Alves are both the kind of defenders who are good at attacking and defending, but their biggest asset to fame is the offense, because their offense is so strong that the opponent can't attack even the slightest bit of defense.

Mourinho put Sneijder in the left-back position, and in addition to letting Sneijder assist left-back Zanetti, he also hopes to let Sneijder organize the attack on the wing and seize the space after Alves' assist.

Needless to say, Gao Xiaodong's position in the front midfield, among all the players in Inter Milan, only Gao Xiaodong has the ability to have the physical strength to go up to play the front midfield, and retreat to play the back midfield.

If Sneijder is a wonder soldier, then Gao Xiaodong is the hub and center of Inter Milan's attack and defense, if Gao Xiaodong can't play well in the forward and back positions, it will be difficult for Inter Milan to have a chance to beat Barcelona.

It can be seen from Mourinho's formation that he is very ambitious at home, and he hopes to take advantage of the opportunity to win Barcelona at home and win in one fell swoop, at least to seize the opportunity, rather than keep the draw.

However, Mourinho's squad and tactics now face a problem, which is Sneijder's reluctance to play on the wing.

Sneijder is not Gao Xiaodong's alternative, he is not an all-rounder, he is a pure forward midfielder, Sneijder plays in the back, but the strength and height are not enough, Sneijder has also played left winger, but the left winger without speed is still very catchy, so Sneijder still wants to be the most familiar and favorite position of himself - forward midfield.

Mourinho and Sneijder had a tentative talk, Sneijder disagreed, and now that Barcelona is about to arrive in Milan, time does not allow any further delay, Mourinho decided to talk to Sneijder seriously.