Zhuo Yang was very depressed, he didn't expect the opening to be so unsmooth in 2010.

In the first match after the New Year, Barcelona welcomed their 16th round of league opponents, the yellow submarine Villarreal, at the Camp Nou. Before the game, the two teams lined up outside the passage, and Zhuo Yang was welcomed into the arena with the double trophy in his hand.

But that wasn't the case at the beginning of the game.

Messi and Xiaobai were recovering from injury, Guardiola didn't dare to let the two of them go, Keita and Toure returned home to participate in the Africa Cup of Nations, and the midfield was immediately stretched.

Speaking of this Africa Cup of Nations, it is really a headache for the giant team. There are three monsters in the Africa Cup of Nations: first, due to the climate, the game is scheduled to be played in January, which conflicts with the schedule of the five major leagues; Second, it is held every two years, and it is said that it has to be so frequent in order to improve the overall level of African football. Third, African internationals have more headaches than giants.

Many African internationals are very resistant to the Africa Cup of Nations because returning to the competition will delay their competition at the club and affect their competitive status at the club. Especially in the second-rate teams in Africa, it is very obvious that it is unlikely to win the championship anyway, and there is no honor, and the participation bonus is even more nonsense, so it can be pushed if it can be pushed.

Of course, except for Cameroon, the star players of the African Lions are all difficult to call, and it is also 10,000 reluctant to ask grandpa to tell grandma Eto'o.

Keita and Toure were not absent, but fortunately Barcelona still has Zhuo Yang, otherwise the midfielder would have to play in the second team, such as dos Santos and the like.

Zhuo Yang, Sergio Busquets, Xavi make up the midfield, and Pedro, Ibrahimovic and Thierry Henry in front of him are almost the only midfield line-up for Barcelona, and the thinness of the personnel reserve can be seen.

Villarreal are no weaker opponents, having drawn with Barcelona in the previous two seasons and the Camp Nou the year before.

So it was no surprise that the game ended up 1-1, and the youngest in the attacker, Pedro, made a new contribution. It's not surprising that Zhuo Yang didn't score, he is a midfielder, and it's not surprising that Henry doesn't score, he is a post-70s. It's a bit too much to say that Ibrahimovic doesn't score, he is the main point of attack, and Zhuo Yang and these people are all around him. After a busy game, Ibrahimovic only received a yellow card.

The referee of this game, Gonzalo Vazquez, understood what it meant to be Zhu Bajie, who was not a person inside and outside the mirror, and both teams denounced him after the game. Barcelona thought that his whistle was too soft and biased, and he turned a blind eye to Huang Qian's repeated incursions and fouls; Huang Qian criticised him for deliberately favouring the home team with two missed penalties.

Xavi, a famous good old man in La Liga, blocked Gonzalo Vazquez in the passage and pointed at his nose: "You are really a fucking talent!" ”

This draw prevented Barcelona from winning at home in the new season, but fortunately, Real Madrid drew 0:0 with Osasuna, allowing Barcelona to stay at the top of the table.

Three days later, before the New Year's feelings were fully dissipated, Barcelona suffered a defeat on their home turf as they lost 1-2 to Sevilla in the 1/8 Copa del Rey tie.

In 11 days, Barcelona had to play three games in a row against Sevilla, two Copa del Rey and one league game, but this first game gave the opponent a disadvantage.

Keita and Toure are still in midfield, with Cho Yang still guarding the midfield. Spanish media have joked that Pep Guardiola has his shirt ready and ready to put himself on the pitch at any time. Fortunately, Messi and Iniesta returned to the starting lineup, and they formed a trident with Ibrahimovic.

In the game, Zhuo Yang recovered the ball from the back line and directly launched a long pass counterattack, and the football flew accurately to the feet of Ibrahimovic who was running with long legs throughout the half.

Ibrahimovic took advantage of the situation and after passing the attacking goalkeeper Paplo, he volleyed home from a tight angle.

The goal was full of fairy spirit, and Ibrahimovic was still a cool mess after scoring the goal. But today's 22-year-old Spain international, left winger Diego Capel, was a bit on fire as he led Sevilla to victory.

First, he received an inverted triangle cross from Keylor Navas on the flank and broke through Puyol, feintmed forward and then quickly turned the ball around, flashed Max to the ground, and then pushed a right-footed shot past Pinto's goal.

This time it was the Mexican Marques who was deflated.

Shortly after Ibrahimovic equalised, Sevilla counter-attacked, and the 173cm Capel embarrassed the 190cm Ziglinski in his struggle, and finally threw himself to the ground with his legs, bringing Capel down with him, just inside the penalty line.

Negredo, a center forward from Real Madrid's academy, broke the old Pinto again with a penalty, and Barcelona lost 1:2.

Although the opponents are not weak in these two games, one draw and one loss, they also expose Barcelona's biggest shortcomings. In the absence of a player in form, Pep Guardiola's interchangeable pieces are pitifully poor. Not to mention substitutions, Gua Shuai saw who fell on the field, and his heart was sudden.

After two games, no one gets hurt is more important than the score.

Zhuo Yang behaved decently in these two games, and he was not responsible for conceding the goal. But because he is a freshly baked Mr. Double Award, the target of the fan media, and Barcelona's embarrassing score is there, Zhuo Yang's post-game rating is a bit shabby.

Messi is the same, but because of Zhuo Yang's big man blocking in front, the spittle star basically can't spray him.

The game is not a big problem for Zhuo Yang, and it is not a final that determines the outcome of the game, so it is good to play back next time. But what happened next made him angry, because he lost something.

There are three games against Sevilla, but after the first game there is also a La Liga round 17 with Tenerife.

Tenerife is almost the only place where other teams in La Liga play away games because they are too far away from Spain on the first day.

Tenerife is the largest island in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, which is actually Africa, more than 2,200 kilometers from Barcelona, equivalent to the distance from Beijing to Guangzhou. The northernmost part of Spain is only 800 kilometers away from the southernmost point, which is equivalent to Beijing to Zhumadian in Henan.

It takes more than three hours to fly from Barcelona to Tenerife, plus other fragmentary time, this one can't get off for five hours without tossing for a single trip, obviously you can't go to the same day to fight, even if you are Barcelona, you can't be so big.

So this afternoon, after the Barcelona players trained at the Gamble Sports City, they were ready to wash up, and then take the team bus to the airport and rush to Tenerife to prepare for tomorrow's game.

However, when Zhuo Yang finished washing and was about to change clothes, he opened his cabinet and found that the Cartier watch placed inside was missing.

This Cartier Sandoz men's watch with a shiny black band, which Zhuo Yang has worn for eight years, is also his only watch.

This was the first gift Li Xiaoqing gave him when he was in Hanover, a Christmas gift.