Chapter 523: Away against Barcelona

With nine points in hand, Inter Milan sent to Camp Nou to challenge defending champions Barcelona. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After four rounds, the situation in Group F is in chaos, among which Inter Milan is in the best situation, they are in first place with 9 points, Rubin Kazan and Barcelona are in second and third place with 6 points, and even Dynamo Kyiv in fourth place has 3 points and still has hope of qualifying.

The fifth round is the most crucial, Inter Milan can qualify as long as they don't lose, and even if they lose, they will also qualify if they don't lose to Rubin Kazan at home in the final round.

And Barcelona must not lose if they want to take the fate of qualifying into their own hands, otherwise they may be killed by Inter Milan and Rubin Kazan in the final round.

In the first leg of the match in Meazza, the focus of media hype was Messi, Ibrahimovic, Eto'o, Mourinho and Gao Xiaodong, and two months later, the focus of media hype was on Messi and Gao Xiaodong.

Now Messi is the biggest favorite for the Golden Ball Award, and Gao Xiaodong is the biggest favorite for the Golden Boy Award, and he has also been selected for the Golden Ball Award squad.

The match between Barcelona and Inter Milan was also called the Golden Ball and the Golden Boy by the media.

Compared with Inter Milan with a relaxed mentality, the defending champion Barcelona is much nervous, before the game, the Inter Milan generals are down-looking about this game and have not made too many speeches, but the Barcelona generals are gearing up and have said that they want to take revenge at home.

The Camp Nou can accommodate 100,000 fans and is known as the European Theatre of Dreams, but on the day of the game, the stands at the Camp Nou were full, and all the black presses were Barcelona fans wearing red and blue jerseys, while Inter Milan fans wearing blue and black jerseys were only a few thousand.

Inter Milan president Moratti and Barcelona president Raburta were both in the box to watch the clash of highlights.

The relationship between the two clubs is good, in the early years, Inter Milan bought the alien Ronaldo from Barcelona, and this season, Barcelona bought the Swedish god Taib from Inter Milan, Moratti came to watch the game, Laburta personally accompanied, and brought Moratti a bottle of treasured red wine.

Although Inter Milan is in a good situation, because of the special relationship between Mourinho and Barcelona, Inter Milan is still playing its best in this game and going all out to win.

Having beaten Barcelona 2-0 at home, Inter Milan were not afraid to come to Camp Nou, and Mourinho also deliberately sent a 4231 formation that has performed well in recent rounds.

Compared with the original 4312 formation left by Mancini, the 4231 formation has stronger attacking power and stronger counter-robbery ability in the front court, because the victory or defeat is not so important to Inter Milan, Mourinho certainly hopes to play more beautifully, so that the Barcelona people who originally looked down on him can see, and his Mourinho's team can also play the same attack.

However, Mourinho soon discovered that the Camp Nou was not Meazza and that the troubled Barcelona were no longer the arrogant defending champions they had been.

From the first minute of the game, Barcelona launched a tidal wave of attacks against Inter Milan.

Inter Milan also tried to defend their own half to play Barcelona's counterattack, but the Barcelona small universe in a desperate situation completely exploded, the rhythm of passing and receiving the ball was fast and incoherent, from the front to the back, almost all of them were one-foot passes, even if it was an extremely narrow space, they were able to use fast passes to keep the ball out, so that Inter Milan's players could not guard against it, and had to adopt foul tactics against Barcelona.

However, the German referee Stark was very strict in enforcing the law, and in the first five minutes, he warned Cambiaso with a yellow card, and three minutes later gave Gao Xiaodong, who retreated to tackle Messi, a yellow card.

Stark has played four previous games against Inter Milan: Manchester United 2-0 Inter Milan on 11 March 2009, Valencia 0-0 Inter Milan on 22 April 2003, Ajax 2-2 Inter Milan on 22 February 2006, November 25, 2003 Inter Milan 1-5 Arsenal, Inter Milan has never won, seeing Stark's enforcement of Inter Milan is so strict, Inter Milan players are limited in defense, and they dare not easily foul again, which gives Barcelona stronger confidence and greater freedom of attack.

Barcelona's attack was like mercury, easily hitting the 30-meter area of Inter Milan.

In the first eight minutes of the game, Barcelona completed three very dangerous shots, and although there was no shot on goal, Iniesta's overhead ball from the left was very tricky, Xavi inserted into the penalty area and formed a shot from three meters in front of the goal, once Xavi touched the ball, goalkeeper Cesar could not stop the ball into the net even if he was a god.

Compared with Barcelona, who are in super form, Inter Milan played very slowly and sluggishly today.

The defense could not stop the penetration of the opponent, and the attack continued to make mistakes, and Barcelona launched a counterattack after a direct steal in the midfield.

Gao Xiaodong is the midfield engine of Inter Milan, and now Inter Milan's players also trust Gao Xiaodong and are willing to pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong, but Barcelona has made careful preparations for Gao Xiaodong's defense, Keita is staring at Gao Xiaodong, and other players are standing around Gao Xiaodong to cut off the passing line that Inter Milan players give Gao Xiaodong.

Barcelona's move is very ruthless, because Barcelona's players are all technical, very accurate in judging the way of the ball, and have a strong ability to predict, Mota, who is called a technical player in Inter Milan, can't play in Barcelona, which shows how big the gap between the technical level of the two teams is.

Inter Milan began to boldly pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong, and after being tackled a few times, there was no good line, and no one dared to pass the ball again.

Barcelona's possession ability is so strong, Inter Milan has less than 30% possession, and the mistakes are terrible.

Gao Xiaodong couldn't get the ball, and he ate a yellow card for the defense, which played a very small role.

It is dangerous to be passive all the time, and in the 10th minute of the game, Barcelona won a corner, and Xavi came to take this corner.

Inter Milan may be the only better than Barcelona in defending high balls, and seeing the opponent's corner kick, Inter Milan felt a little relaxed, feeling that Barcelona could not threaten them on this.

However, the Inter players did not expect that the safest place was the most dangerous place, and Xavi's corner did not find Ibrahimovic or Pique, but found Henry accurately.

Thierry Henry, the king of Highbury, was not very good at heading, and Inter Milan did not particularly defend him, but although Henry did not have a direct header, his header gave Pique a chance to shoot.

It was Samuel who was defending Pique, but Xavi's ball was looking for Henry, Pique retreated, and in the confusion Samuel lost his marker, Pique met the ball and volleyed the ball into the gate guarded by Inter Milan goalkeeper Cesar.

1:0

Just 10 minutes into the game, Barcelona got off to a fantastic start with a goal from Gerard Pique.