156 chapter 157

The national derby is always one of the most watched competitions in La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona have been in excellent form so far this season, the league has been played eight rounds, Barcelona are not beaten so far, and Real Madrid have made a wonderful start to eight consecutive wins. Le Van - It's clear that this 'six-point' national derby is key to the league table.

Although Real Madrid won the Champions League and the Copa del Rey last season, they were beaten twice by Barcelona in the league. Real Madrid are looking to win back and Barcelona are also coveting the top spot in the league where Real Madrid currently stand, after all, the two-point gap is not too much of a threat at the beginning of the season.

On the players, Barcelona is currently considered the most stable backline without conceding a goal after eight rounds of league games, the integration of French defender Mathieu has surprised Barcelona one after another, while Real Madrid has scored a total of 30 goals and is regarded as the most powerful forward lineup, Ronaldo is currently the best player in La Liga and even the entire world football, La Liga scored 15 goals in eight rounds and ranked first in the scorer list, and the Champions League also handed over 3 games and 3 goals. Real Madrid's home Bernabeu national derby was a direct clash of spears and shields.

Real Madrid's BBC pair has already proven its power last season, and whether Suarez, who has just been released from the ban in Barcelona's new MSN, can integrate into Barcelona and adapt to La Liga is a key question.

In the eighth round of the league, Messi scored his 250th La Liga goal at the Camp Nou, just one goal short of the all-time La Liga goal record held by legendary striker Sala. As long as he can score at the Bernabeu, Messi will be the all-time first, and if he can score twice, he will surpass Salah to claim the top spot. "Before the game, the commentator talked about 'whether Messi can make history in the national derby', and he also talked about the grievances between the two families, "Barcelona said before the game, hoping that if Messi makes history, the game will be suspended to celebrate the Argentine, after all, Messi looks likely to score twice in the last round against Elwa to make history at Camp Nou. It's a pity that the official did not agree, and Messi did not achieve the goal of scoring two goals. ”

"In the Barcelona vs. Elva game, almost the whole Barcelona team was playing Messi in the second half, hoping that he could brush up the statistics at his home stadium. However, for Messi, if the Camp Nou can no longer become the all-time first, then the Bernabeu is undoubtedly the best choice. ”

Standing in the tunnel between the two sides, Forlan remembered what Carlo Ancelotti had said to himself about the game. "You've attracted attention this season!" the Italian kindly motioned to Fran to sit across from him and not be nervous, Fran smiled helplessly at his words, who would have expected such a way to attract attention?

"Did I call you here just to see what you think of the national derby?"

Fran's heart pounded when he heard Ancelotti's words, but his expression remained silent as he stared at the floor beneath him. Ancelotti didn't press him to speak, and he wasn't embarrassed by the silence at this point. The silence lasted for nearly five minutes, and Ancelotti played with the pen in his hand, and Fran seemed to stare at a flower under his feet before sighing.

With this sigh, Ancelotti knew that he had made up his mind.

"Barcelona will use me as a breakthrough," Forlan did not waver when he looked up at Ancelotti, "and Sergio can be the main player in the two central defenders, and I will cooperate with him." ”

"Good. "Ancelotti should be there.

The two teams lined up, and Fran retracted his divergent thoughts and entered with the team. To the delight of Real Madrid, who were at home, and Florentino, who had come to watch the game, Barcelona took the lead in the fourth minute of the game.

"Suarez's diagonal pass, unguarded Neymar cut into the bottom right corner from the edge □□of the box!

The two sides competed in the midfield as usual at the beginning of the game, and the Real Madrid backline did not have much vigilance, and was caught by Iniesta in the gap and directly kicked up a long pass, and the Real Madrid defender failed to counter offside, so that the hidden Suarez suddenly appeared on his chest and stopped the ball and passed diagonally to Neymar, and the Brazilian cut inside and faked to deceive Casillas and successfully scored.

It was Barça's fastest goal in a national derby since 1999, when it was current manager Luis Enrique who scored the goal. Seeing Neymar and Suarez celebrating together, there was a burst of boos at the Bernabeu, and Ancelotti frowned slightly on the sidelines, and it was a terrible start to the game to concede a goal immediately.

However, the game has just begun, and after the game resumed, Real Madrid showed great attacking power and repeatedly threatened in the Barcelona penalty area. Cristiano Ronaldo came close to equalising a few minutes later when Cristiano Ronaldo's cross from the left was met by Benzema's header in front of the six-yard box, before Benzema crossed the crossbar from behind Mascherano, but his shot from the right side of the six-yard box bounced off the near post.

Benzema clutched his head in disappointment, as if he couldn't believe he had missed such a goal.

The offensive turned, Barcelona's attacking chances. Xavi has the ball in the middle of the field, but he has noticed in his heart that there seem to be some changes in Real Madrid's defense, not only the problem that Forlan no longer supports the midfield many times, but also other changes that are not clear for the time being.

But it's hard to say all this, Xavi can't say whether Real Madrid expected Barcelona to make a fuss about Forlan, because Fran, who began to gradually control the running in the previous league games, did not care about his physical squandering under Barcelona's deliberate involvement.

Seeing Barcelona's favorite inverted foot, Theodore frowned on the sidelines, and the reporter next to him noticed Theodore's expression and said, "Isn't this scene in front of you a little familiar?"

Everything is evident on camera, and even fans who have watched the ball in the stands for a few years can play these two familiar games. Naturally, they could also think of the outcome of that game, it was Spain who lost, but it was also the exhaustion of Fran's opponents.

The few people on the pitch who had experienced it couldn't help but think of the defeat that was engraved in the history of shame, but Francisco Álvarez, who imagined that he would be on his toes because of being involved, did not appear. He still did the same as he did four years ago, his movements were wide open, his expression was calm, and he didn't even have the anger that had been stirred up a few years ago.

Some people are like water, and you can never see that too many stones have been thrown at the bottom of his or her heart. When the wind rose, the spring water symbolically wrinkled slightly, and soon calmed down again. In the eyes of many, it seems that Fran is such a person, he swallows everything around him, good and bad, and finally lazily burps and digests it, without a trace of anger.

But in fact, people gradually discovered that he was not like this.

The man who was almost thirty-four years old showed not the slightest sign of exhaustion, he just ran as ordinary as a man drinking water.

He's worked day and night, he's been through boring basic training, he's been through countless sweat-soaked white jerseys, he's been dreaming of lying down on the empty Bernabeu Stadium...

He ran through the regret of missing out on the championship, he ran through countless nights with loneliness, he ran through the encounters and partings that he was accustomed to...

Fran closed his mouth and breathed through his nose, feeling the air sucked into his lungs through his nostrils, then turbocharged and unleashed a surge of power that propel him to the next and then the next football. It didn't matter if he could stop the football there, or if he would be transferred to someone else before he arrived, he just knew that as long as he had a little strength, he wouldn't stop.

Then people gradually understood that he was more like a mountain than invisible water. You can see which side has been transformed and which side has been moved, gradually forming the muscles and bones that have been forged by fortune the day after tomorrow.

Unconsciously, the reporters on the sidelines and the entire Spectator at the Bernabeu were silently watching the man. Admittedly, he no longer has the light breeze that he had when he was younger, and his fatigue was obvious, and the sweat had soaked through the white jersey, which was stained with the mud from the fall. He stayed in his own half for a short break while Real Madrid was in possession, sweat pooling down his cheeks and slipping over his wheezing Adam's apple into his shirt. He watched the battle ahead, waiting for his next battle.

Ji Yi, who was sitting in the stands, unconsciously held the arm of her best friend next to her, she looked at the man running left and right on the court with red eyes, and for a moment she didn't want to continue watching, so that he could still exist in her memory like a supreme god, so that he would still be the iron man who could never run and die, and no one could defeat. But looking at his sparkling eyes, he was reluctant to look away, so he could only stare at him with wide eyes and tears.

Ji Yi thought, it's always like this, although I don't watch basketball, Zhang Jiawei doesn't deceive me.

At first, you caught a glimpse of him in an inconsequential game, and you thought he was a little different, but he was still a young man with a youthful flirtatious gesture, and a jersey similar to his idol looked earthy on him.

After a while, you hear that he has just done something amazing and has become a rising star that everyone admires. You shake your head, thinking that you already know the routines of these clubs, and that a star-making project has begun again.

Later, his name began to appear online, on television and in newspapers, predicting that he would achieve the same level of success as your idol at the club. You still don't have much interest in him, and even his reputation makes you slightly disgusted with him, and you insist on involving your idol hype. And after that, one day when you watch a game, you look at him with indifferent curiosity and a little bit of pickiness. You want to be like, "Well, I knew he wasn't going to be that great." ”

Then your eyes are drawn and you follow him, and when the game is over you find yourself unconsciously opening your mouth. You think, "Well, this guy is really extraordinary. "It's amazing to take a closer look," I unknowingly became a fan of him. "But you're not disgusted.

News reports, biographies and private interviews about him began to flood the world. You've read it, intentionally or unintentionally, and you have a general idea of this guy's life. You find that he is starting to look like a star, his answers at press conferences are becoming more and more comfortable, his smile in commercials is becoming more and more professional, and even his autograph is becoming more and more chic, making his signature before he became famous incomparably precious.

He became completely popular, his rights and wrongs were published in newspapers and magazines, and as he became a public figure, jokes began to circulate around him. Even people who don't understand sports know to joke about him to appear to keep up with the trend. You'll have a lot of headaches for the mess he's messed up with, but he's so sparkling on the pitch. So you immersed yourself in his victories one after another, and tolerated the rights and wrongs that seemed to be true and false.

The story after that is not so good.

Real Madrid equalized in the 34th minute of the game, Marcelo crossed from the left side of the penalty area, Pique was yellow carded for a handball foul, and Ronaldo scored a penalty kick to equalize the score at 1-1. And after 2-1, it went to halftime.

On the way back to the dressing room, Real Madrid, who was leading the way, was more relaxed, Ramos followed Forlan and laughed as he spoke, Fran was unsteady and did not speak, but he kept smiling with Ramos. On the contrary, the atmosphere at Barcelona was not very good, not only because they were behind the score, but because they felt that they had jumped into the hole dug by Real Madrid in the first half.

"He needs to play like this in the Swedish team, but Real Madrid is not a Swedish team, what effect can Barcelona have if they target him too much? Theodore has now discovered that the isolation that felt in the first half was not an illusion, but a deliberate act by Real Madrid.

"But how can Real Madrid let their defensive generals...", the person who had just spoken understood halfway through, "so this defense line is dominated by Ramos, and Forlan is the one who is put on the surface." ”

Xavi's face in the Barcelona dressing room is not very good-looking, and it is true that he will leave Barcelona at the end of the season, but as long as he is still at Barca, he will try to make himself the most important role in the club. As for Forlan, if it weren't for this match, Xavi would never believe he would have conceded defeat so cooperatively.

Is his form so declining? No, then he shouldn't have conceded in a few games!

"I look down on him!" Xavi gritted his teeth and squeezed out this sentence, Iniesta sat next to him and gasped, to be honest, Xavi was about to be 35, and Iniesta was also in his early 30s, and this kind of physical exertion was not easy for them. But when Xiaobai heard Harvey's words, he swept over his obvious state of detachment, and poked the knife without restraint, "But why does he care if you can afford him?"

Because with Xavi's form, it is obvious that he will be replaced in the first ten minutes of the second half.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the second half, Barcelona adjusted their style of play, and Forlan also retracted his position to defend with peace of mind, and more than ten minutes later, Barcelona took the lead in making substitutions on the sidelines, and Rakitic replaced Xavi. Xavi watched this substitution suddenly surge with fatigue, not only physically, but also mentally. He looked at Real Madrid's opponent who had been exhausted in the half, and suddenly stopped walking outside the field.

He had the illusion that after so many years, maybe this was the last time the two met on the court.

But no one on the pitch will know that Xavi's sadness suddenly came to his heart, Messi, who won the ball, and Suarez, who received the ball, were in parallel with Suarez, and encountered Forlan's defense before bursting into the Real Madrid penalty area. It is Arbeloa who is eyeing Suarez, and it stands to reason that Messi can choose to split Suarez at this moment, which is more successful, but Messi does not.

Before he met Forlan in the starting derby, Cruyff told him that he could only reach the heights he wanted if he gritted his teeth and rushed forward at all times. Instead of withdrawing, dodging, selectively giving up.

Although he may seem like a villain, who cares, now is the time for him to defeat this man.

While controlling the ball at his feet, Messi slightly glanced sideways at Forlan who was defending himself one-on-one, and he suddenly asked, "Are you defending me alone in this game?"

Fran struggled to keep up with Messi's forward steps and didn't have the energy to deal with his intention to chat. Messi suddenly accelerated to Forlan's left, and the Argentine was proud of his speed and explosiveness, but Forlan immediately stopped the all-too-obvious intention. But Messi is not discouraged, even if the slide he blocks is easy, it is only temporary.

Messi instantly accelerates and changes all changes with ease, the football seems to grow on his feet when the ball changes direction, the body coordination is so good that people are jealous, observing Fran's pace and center of gravity, and then changing it is no longer a smash to change direction, but suddenly moving quickly in the opposite direction.

Following Messi's crazy change of direction several times, Fran's footsteps defended left and right, and his knees forcibly switched several times in a short period of time, and he already had a faint feeling of numbness. But he still kept up with Messi's footsteps, but as soon as he accelerated to catch up, Messi's next move made Fran a loser in this attack and defense.

"Messi makes a quick stop and changes direction!" Countless commentators said at the same time as they saw Messi's actions, and Messi on the pitch moved in the opposite direction again when Fran just caught up in front of him. Fran, who was trying to make a sharp stop from the acceleration state, had lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground, and could only watch Messi dribble at high speed.

The Barcelona fans at the Bernabeu erupted in a frenzied scream and cheer, and from an attacker's point of view, it was a typical attack, with the ball changing direction and speeding up to a stop.

Everyone can see that every action of Messi is not a feint, as long as one Fran does not follow up, he will be forcibly overtaken, and in the end he fell out of position and fell to the ground, just like when Fran and Larson defended one-on-one, Larson injured his knee and ligaments due to many forced changes of direction, not that his consciousness could not keep up, but that his body could not keep up with his consciousness.

Messi's attack ended with a shot that flew over the crossbar.

The author has something to say:... I don't know why, but I didn't feel much when I read it again after I wrote it

But when I wrote it, I was really crying in the second half of the book...

Actually, I don't know what I'm crying about

And then I found out that the bitter National Derby couldn't finish a chapter while I was crying and wiping away tears, which was embarrassing.

The idea of Ji Yi in the article comes from Zhang Jiawei and Zhang Gongzi... Speaking of which, I didn't know him in Zhihu, he was pounced.

I don't remember if he wrote that article to Iverson or T-Mac, anyway, when I read it at the time, it hurt to poke me as a second-year teenager.

In fact, it seems that this is really the case, for the natal player in the heart, it is "at first, you saw him at a glimpse in an inconsequential game"

Recently, there have been a lot of three-dimensional things, there are still 20 days of IELTS exam, and I have to write an internship summary report of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan recently.

In addition, I am working on the follow-up development of this article, for fear of a bad ending.

So I'm taking a leave of absence for the time being... There may be a weekly change in between, I don't know, anyway, I came back at 8.20 to start the day and end it.

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