Chapter 042: The Race Everyone Wants to Win

The match against Lazio was not as tough as Simeone had expected.

Although Klose's header once made him feel that all the preparations before the game were necessary, when Ding Yue and Falcao scored one goal each in the second half, Simeone finally had a preliminary understanding of his style of play.

The media also gave full affirmation to Simeone's eight consecutive kills in various competitions, but the bars still gave Simeone a passing score, the only reason was that he had not played a strong team and the test was insufficient.

The strong teams in the Spanish Football League, perhaps in the eyes of those people, are Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Three days later.

Madrid, Barcelona.

Atletico Madrid is at home, facing Barcelona.

On the flight back to Lazio from Rome, Boggs and Simeone got into an argument. More precisely, it is a process in which the two of them swear each other out of control when there are irreconcilable differences of opinion at work.

"Fuck you Simeone, don't change you for three games in nine days, just wait for the Barcelona guys to come home with a bunch of footballs, Messi one, Sanchez one, Puyol all fucking take one as a souvenir!" Boggs lowered his voice.

Simeone's face flushed, his determination was as strong as his face, "So what? If you can't even play this, what kind of professional player is you, I played five fucking games in half a fucking month, and only one played for 70 minutes, and I didn't survive!"

"Do you think everyone is a freak like you?

In the end, Simeone compromised. But some people still have to.

……

Ding Yue, Turan and Falcao sat in a row of three. It's a little unsatisfying.

"Hey, I said, is Chinese kung fu really that awesome?" Falcao picked up the magazine on the back of the seat in front of him and flipped through it boringly, just turning to the beautiful woman who starred in Kill Bill 2, and asked Ding Yue.

Ding Yue smiled, "The Colombian drug lord can pull out ten people to kill hundreds of masters in China." ”

"Huh?"

Turan turned around in surprise.

"I mean, they have a guy in their hands. ”

"Hahahaha, you!"

"By the way, I haven't seen your sister. Falcao stared at the movie star in the magazine and continued.

"Still reading. Ding Yue said casually.

"Falcao's girls are almost a pickup, and your sister is still studying?" said Turan in surprise, in fact, Turan also has a lot of girlfriends.

"Can you talk about something related to the next game? Ding Yue feigned anger.

"We're lost. Turan leaned over and whispered.

Syllable!

Falcao knocked a chestnut on Turan's head, "Fuck your uncle!"

Ding Yue snatched the magazine in Falco's hand and knocked it on Turan's head!

If Manzano continues to lead the team, the only suspense between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona Real Madrid can only be to lose a few goals.

But now the feng shui has turned...

Barcelona were in fact not having a good time before this round, having won La Liga and the Champions League last season, but this season in the league they are a full 13 points behind Real Madrid after 23 games, which was unthinkable in the past.

The arrival of the intellectual Rosanchez was originally a complement to Barcelona's forward line, but it also objectively affected last season's golden "" combination. Pedro can't find his form, on the one hand, because of his own reasons, and on the other hand, there is a vicious circle of not getting a chance to play, the worse he plays, the worse he plays, the less he gets a chance to play.

What is even more tragic is that Villa's unexpected serious injury at the beginning of the season completely ruined the entire season. Accidents and human factors have made Barcelona's league this season feel like sleepwalking.

……

No one knows Guardiola's suffering, as if everything he did this season was wrong.

In fact, in November 2o11, during the last training session before leaving for Milan, Guardiola began to reveal a secret to the players, a fact that he, Vilanova and the doctors kept from the players, but he could not articulate what he wanted to say.

The heaviness of that moment made him speechless and choked. Anxious, uncomfortable, his voice trembled, and then he stepped aside. As the doctors took over and explained the gravity of the situation to the players, Guardiola kept his eyes on the ground, trying to drink water to make his voice less shaky, but at that moment, it seemed futile.

The medical staff explained that Tito, Guardiola's right hand and close friends needed immediate surgery to remove the parotid tumour, so he would not travel with the team to Milan.

Two hours after the Barcelona players left Barcelona in shock, Pep Guardiola paced in isolation from the crowd and fell into deep contemplation. In the end, the players beat Milan 32 in a thrilling match at the San Siro to top the group.

Both teams did not back down in this game, allowing the crowd to enjoy a great battle full of opportunities from start to finish. However, despite the victory, Guardiola remains in a state of melancholy.

As they like to say, things happen when you're busy with other plans, and they often give you the fatal blow, making you stumble when you think you're invincible and forget that failure is part of life.

When he became ill with Villanova, he began to think about everything around him, just as he had learned the previous season when he had a tumor in Abidal's liver. The French left-back returned to the second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, a night that Guardiola described as the most emotional night in Camp Nou history.

In the 90th minute of the game, when the score was 1-1, relying on the victory in Madrid in the first leg, Barcelona had one foot in the final of the Champions League, Abidal came on the stage, and he was greeted with a very rare, warm applause from the audience.

Catalonia is similar to the British, and it is only when the people around them are expressing their emotions that they release their innermost emotions. A few weeks later, without the knowledge of Pep Guardiola and the rest of the team, Puyol gave the captain's armband to Abidal and asked him to represent Barcelona in Platini's hands and lift the Champions League trophy. Nearly a year later, doctors told Abidal that previous treatment had failed and that he needed a transplant.

The health problems of Abidal and Vilanova have been a huge blow to Guardiola. These unforeseen and uncontrollable situations can be difficult for someone who likes to be predictable, to control everything in the team in detail, and to have a contingency plan when things don't go their way. But when they were born, he was helpless, he couldn't do anything, and more importantly, the lives of these people he felt responsible for were at stake.

After Milan's victory, Barcelona have to travel to Madrid to play a league game against Getafe. Defeat meant that Pep Guardiola and his players, despite dominating the game, were unable to respond to the opposition's goal and bring the victory to Vilanova, who had just undergone surgery to remove the tumour and was recovering.

In this cold and somewhat empty stadium, Barcelona lost the game in O1, and it was extremely difficult for these players and coaches who have won so many glory and become the protagonists of many big scenes to provoke them in such an ugly game. Pep Guardiola was disappointed to drop three points, and the season came too soon.

In the same round, Real Madrid are five points clear of Barcelona after beating Atletico Madrid 41 in the same derby, looking unstoppable, hungry for success and looking forward to ending the era of Pep Guardiola.

La Liga wasn't the only thing frustrating Pep Guardiola, with his image after the game worrying everyone in the team.

On Sunday, November 27, on an early flight back to Barcelona, Pep Guardiola looked lonely, depressed and silent like never before: far more painful than he had ever faced defeat. On the plane, there was an empty aisle seat next to him, and no one wanted to go there, it was a seat belonging to Villanova.

It's hard to find a time in Pep Guardiola when his fighting spirit is lower than he is at the moment.

Although it has now been more than two months since his lowest period, Guardiola is smiling reluctantly, but his heart is helpless and confused.

13 points, it seems that it is already irretrievable.

But in Madrid, Pep Guardiola, Messi, and all the Barcelona players can't accept losing, even against that team.

But they couldn't accept their frustrated departure from Madrid.

Before the game, the media hyped the fall of Pep Guardiola and the Barcelona dynasty and the rise of Simeone to Atletico Madrid. It's also a race for breath.

It's not that no one can't afford to lose, but everyone wants to win.

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