Chapter 277: First Blood (Part I)
Before Liu Han left for Barcelona with the team, Ana returned to Madrid. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Look, stupid, is my gold medal pretty?"
Anna happily showed off her lover the gold medal she had won last month.
Anna was not able to return to Madrid immediately after participating in the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in early April, and she had to return to Ukraine with the national team to receive a commendation.
Anna's individual gold medal is of great significance to Ukraine, since the independence of the former Soviet Union in 90, Ukraine has been promoting de-Russification, but because of their long history of more than 80 years of domination, so in Ukraine, in fact, some things are still greatly influenced by Russia, such as sports, so far, all kinds of sports training in Ukraine still follow the tradition left by the former Soviet Union, and in the projects in which Russia has an advantage, Ukraine has almost never won a decent championship, and Anna's victory this time can be said to have greatly boosted the morale of the people, so she must return home to receive recognition first.
"It's beautiful, Anna, it matches your skin tone, and all the gold medals I get in the future will be in your hands, okay?"
Seeing Anna's love for this gold medal, Liu Han also felt happy.
After settling down Anna, Liu Han followed the team to Barcelona, and they will play against this sworn enemy three times in the next two weeks, so even if the team has won the championship in advance, the players still can't relax, and the next games are still hard, and Barcelona, which has not improved in the league this season, will not have any slackening in the next three games, and they will be much more serious than the usual national derby.
As everyone in Real Madrid imagined, Barcelona attaches great importance to the next game against Real Madrid, and now they are still trying to keep the top four places in the league, in line with the principle that Real Madrid's unhappiness is Barcelona's joy, in the case of no hope of winning the league title, Barcelona focused all their attention on the next three games, and they even adopted a wide range of rotation in the 35th round of La Liga because of this, which led to Barcelona being defeated by Vigo Celta 2-1 away, but even so, Barcelona did not waver in the slightest, and they devoted themselves to active preparations.
On April 24, 2002, the first leg of this season's Champions League semi-finals began.
Once again, the Real Madrid players are worried, after all, the owners of this place are the sworn enemies of their team, and from the moment they arrived at Barcelona, they have felt the malice of the whole city towards them.
For this game, Bosque still uses a more conventional lineup, and now the performance of this Real Madrid team is relatively stable, there is no need to use any strange tricks at this time, after the first leg of the quarterfinals with Bayern Munich, Bosque clearly knows that he is not the kind of coach who has the ability to change formations.
On Barcelona's side, Rexage is actually incompetent as the head coach of the team, he has a very accurate vision for young players, but in terms of tactics, he has not changed much, plus the club president Gaspar is a guy who likes to point fingers, so Rexage can only set up troops according to the convention.
With the referee's whistle, the game officially began, with Real Madrid kicking off first.
Liu Han turned around and ran straight forward after dialing the ball to Raul, he didn't have too strong feelings about this game, he just wanted to win the game.
Real Madrid launched a very direct attack at the beginning of the game, the two sides are old rivals, and they know each other's strength very well, so there is no need to test again, and Real Madrid's offensive strength is strong, but there are many loopholes in the defense, so Real Madrid's plan in this game is to attack instead of defend.
As soon as Liu Han ran to the front, his side Cocu posted up, and another defensive midfielder from Barcelona, Abelardo, was always moving around Liu Han.
What Barcelona is most worried about in this game is Liu Han's play, this Oriental has made Barcelona lose face many times, and now Barcelona can't tolerate the other party humiliating them again.
Because the defensive midfielder and the core of the midfield are aimed at Liu Han, Real Madrid has a great advantage in the midfield, not only Zidane can calmly dribble the ball, Figo and Guti are also frequently changing positions and running, which has caused great difficulties for Barcelona's defense.
Barcelona's arrangement in this game is not intentional, but out of helplessness, they have a more accurate understanding of Liu Han's strength, that is, they can't let this Oriental move wantonly in the front court, in Barcelona's view, Liu Han's importance is more than everyone else in Real Madrid.
In the first 20 minutes of the game, Real Madrid were almost besieging Barcelona, who struggled to find the right space to play and they couldn't even touch the ball.
Just when everyone in Barcelona thought that Real Madrid's attack would stop a little next, Real Madrid successfully made Barcelona's defense in the first 20 minutes useless with an extremely smooth midfield cooperation.
The game entered the twenty-third minute, Zidane took the ball in the middle of the field and burst to the goal about 35 meters, which was Cocu had to give up Liu Han and choose to supplement Zidane, but at this time, Zidane suddenly sent a very fast ball in the direction of Liu Han, Liu Han quickly started to run to the football, but when he touched the ball, he used the heel of his right foot to knock his body diagonally behind the ball, and the football changed direction and rolled towards the side, where Figo was inserted at high speed.
At this time, Barcelona's defense had been pulled by a series of passes from Real Madrid, and Figo stopped the ball outside the box without observing and sent a half-high curling cross.
In front of him, Liu Han pulled again and shook off the defender, while Raul in the middle stepped in and fell to the ground and stabbed the door guarded by Bonano, Real Madrid took a 1-0 lead and also won a significant away goal.
The Real Madrid players were very excited after the goal, and this goal brought their last Big Ears Cup closer.
Although Real Madrid's goal was not completed by Liu Han, at least half of the credit should be attributed to him, if it weren't for his continuous pulling and Miao Chuan Figo, Raul would not have gotten the space and opportunity to insert.
Barcelona is very frustrated with this goal, after all, this is their home stadium, and Real Madrid has broken the door so easily at home, so they will definitely be even more difficult to play away from home, and now Barcelona players are much less loyal to the team because of the turmoil in the team than before. (To be continued.) )