Chapter 215: The National Derby
"Barcelona in pursuit of 'glory'", this is the headline published by the newspaper Le Monde Sport before the 205th Spanish national derby, but such a headline is not a good word for Barcelona, who are now fifth in the league, as a regional newspaper in Catalonia that has always supported Barcelona, the reason why Le Monde Sport published such a slap in the face is completely out of disgust for the new president of the club. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
He An? Since being elected as the new president of FC Barcelona in July 2000, Gaspat has made a drastic transformation of the team, in order to stabilize his position, he even started to attack Cruyff, who can be called the "godfather" of Barcelona, in order to eliminate the influence of Cruyff on the team, Gaspat also wants to purge most of the Dutch stars in the team, he wants to build a "pure Catalonia" team, although Gaspart's behavior is in a sense to help the team, After all, Cruyff's influence on the team is too great, because of the previous coach Van Gaal, there are as many as seven Dutchmen in the team, Gaspart's doing this can make the team out of the "Dutch" system and embark on its own path, but Gaspart's too impatient actions have caused the club to fall into turmoil, and the players' minds are completely out of the game, because they are not even sure whether they can play in the next game, which makes Barcelona's record take a sharp turn this season. Although last season's results were also mediocre.
However, although Barcelona is in turmoil right now, the national derby is still extremely important for them, and in any season, Barcelona will try to beat Real Madrid in the national derby even if they can't win the league title, so the team's new head coach Lorens? Ferrer is still out of control of the dressing room, but his words have worked well at least ahead of the national derby.
Compared with the turmoil in Barcelona, Real Madrid has had a fairly smooth ride since the winter break, not to mention the Champions League, Real Madrid has won eight consecutive games in the league, which is the longest winning streak of Real Madrid in recent seasons, Liu Han's joining not only made the team's offensive firepower up a notch, but also allowed Real Madrid to gain more attention from all over the world.
Compared with the embarrassment of Barcelona's new president Gaspart, Real Madrid's new president Florentino is much better, although the outside world's image of Florentino is still the "local tyrant" who wantonly "squandered", but those who are interested can find that Real Madrid's recent series of business activities have actually made a lot of money.
Entering March, Real Madrid began to fully prepare for the next national derby, Bosque intends to let Liu Han return to the front line in this game, and is the center forward position, Morientes will be off, the front line will be the partner of Raul and Liu Han, in order to target Barcelona's lower backline, Bosque will let Liu Han fully play his strength in this game.
On March 3, 2001, the 205th Spanish national derby finally kicked off at the Camp Nou in Barcelona, with both sides ready to deliver a lethal attack.
In the players' tunnel, the Barcelona players looked at the tallest of all the players with strange eyes, in the last season, Liu Han, who was still at Arsenal, led the Arsenal team to leave a deep impact on Barcelona, especially Barcelona's backline, they were played by this oriental in two encounters with Arsenal, and the opponent even completed a hat-trick at Camp Nou, but now this big man who made a deep impact on them wore the shirt of their sworn enemy.
With the referee's whistle, the much-watched national derby finally began.
"The game finally began, the Barcelona boys kicked off first, they were very brave, boldly rushed to the hinterland of Real Madrid, No. 4 Guardiola passed the ball to Cocu, who received in the middle, and avoided the pressure of the Oriental boy, the boys of Barcelona should be careful of this guy, he is the most dangerous man in the Real Madrid front."
In the commentary stand at Camp Nou, the 60-year-old Manel still talks about the game with a passionate and magnetic voice, he has been working at Camp Nou for more than 30 years, has experienced countless national derbys, and he has always been confident in Barcelona in the past, but today I don't know why he has some fear in his heart.
Barcelona played very actively after the start of the game, although the head coach Ferrer replaced Van Gaal and became the Barcelona coach, but Ferrer did not rashly change the team's tactics, after all, the team is still dominated by Dutch players, and he must arrange the game according to the characteristics of the players.
Barcelona pressed the defense line very well as soon as they came up, which was quite a bit of the Dutch "all-offense and all-defense" flavor.
Real Madrid didn't rush on the counter-attack, they played back and forth with Barcelona in midfield, with Claude Makelele doing well from the start of the game.
Makelele has been gradually used by Bosque since Liu Han came to the team, and this dedicated midfielder has finally been recognized by the manager, maybe he will not have many assists, but he is the most consistent in the midfield position.
Barcelona pressed on a large scale after the opening, although it seemed to suppress Real Madrid, but they have not been able to find a better opportunity, Kluivert in the front line is confused, the former Dutch talent has not had a good performance since coming to Barcelona.
Liu Han stood with the Barcelona backline to ensure that he was not in an offside position, while always ready to sprint, because he knew that he would have many such opportunities in this game.
In the first five minutes of the game, Barcelona was besieging Real Madrid, and with the cheers of nearly 100,000 spectators, Barcelona played with their momentum.
However, just when the Barcelona players felt that they were playing more and more smoothly, Real Madrid inadvertently launched their fatal blow.
Although Hierro is now nearly 35 years old and his physical fitness is declining rapidly, his understanding of football is becoming more and more profound, and this "knife defender" who plays from the center forward position to the central defender position has his own set of understanding of the way to judge the ball.
In the eighth minute of the game, Rivaldo and Kluivert in front of the field tried to make a one-two collision with the wall at the edge of the Real Madrid penalty area, but Hierro judged Kluivert's passing line very accurately and cut the ball off directly.
Hierro, who broke the ball, did not look up to observe the situation at all, and directly used his best strength to drive the ball forward, where Liu Han had already gotten rid of Barcelona's backline and inserted at high speed. (To be continued.) )