Chapter 57: Victory Without a Fight

When Barcelona's attack began to become unbearable, and the state was not good because of the dilemma, Atletico Madrid still maintained an extremely high fighting spirit.

Now they have no baggage at all, because the news came from the other venue that Numancia were 1-0 down at Racing Santander away – and it is clear that Racing Santander did not want to let go of the water!

This is certainly good news, but the other is bad news for Barcelona, with Deportivo La Coruna leading Celta Vigo on the road......

The Barcelona players didn't know the news, but they knew that the league situation was already going badly for them.

However, because of the concern for the Champions League, Barcelona's attack still did not show too sharp things, and their attack failed to create too much threat in the entire second half, but in the 73rd minute, Atletico Madrid scored again!

After receiving Solari's pass, Juninho went into full swing and drove the ball through the midfield, shaking off Cocu and Frank de Boer in succession, and then calmly pushed into the net in the face of the attacking Hesper!

This goal became the last straw that crushed Barcelona.

Van Gaal calmed down when Atletico scored the second goal, shook his head, and then replaced Rivaldo with Dani, announcing his waiver of the game, and for the remainder of the game, the Atletico defenders were united to hold the lead until the end.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, all that remained at the Camp Nou was the cheers of more than a thousand fans from afar!

The news of other games has already arrived, Numancia desperately pulled back a point in the second half, and finally drew with Racing Santander away, Atletico Madrid's points tied with Numancia, just because of the relationship between each other ranked behind Numancia, and the other relegation zone team Real Betis did not bounce back as hard as Atletico Madrid, they lost 0-4 away to Mallorca, and the points were surpassed by Atletico Madrid by three points!

After winning three consecutive league games for the first time of the season, Atletico are infinitely close to the relegation zone, and now they are in a good situation!

And Barcelona is worried about the future, Deportivo defeated Celta on the road, got three precious points, and once again stretched the gap with Barcelona to five points, in the league only three rounds left, Barcelona wants to make up for the five-point gap, it is already quite difficult, Deportivo only needs to get five points in the next three rounds of the league, Barcelona will definitely not win the league championship!

And in the Copa del Rey match, if there is no miracle in the second leg, it will be difficult for them to reach the final of the Copa del Rey, which almost means that Barcelona, who want to win the treble this season, has suffered a heavy setback on both the Copa del Rey and the league in a row in this week!

And what brought them a heavy setback is Atletico Madrid, which has not even succeeded in relegation! It's not even an official head coach yet, just a twenty-one-year-old young man who has led Atletico Madrid's second team for half a year and coached a regular first-tier top club for the first time!

Now, the arrogant young man is celebrating wildly with his players on the field.

"How? Did I say that? Even if the whole of Barcelona is hostile to us, it won't stop us from winning! No matter how annoyed they are, they can't stop us from celebrating at the Camp Nou! Even if it sprays us with water at this time, it will only add a different color to our celebration! ”

Dick patted Belleron on the shoulder and laughed loudly to the other players.

Belleron secretly moved his shoulder that was hurt by Dick, he had been running on the field for a long time, and he didn't want to be slapped by this energetic manager anymore......

"Let's go, let's go back to the locker room, get ready to rest, tomorrow we have a day off, let's go out and have fun together tonight!" Jimmy and Paulista are in for a treat! ”

Dick pointed at Hasselbaink and Juninho.

"Why us?" Hasselbaink and Juninho said unconvinced at the same time: "You are the head coach, it should be you who have a treat!" ”

"Because you have the highest income." Dick gave a convincing reason: "I want to have a treat, but my weekly salary is only 250,000 pesetas, which is not enough for you to go to a nightclub and drink a bottle ......of wine."

"You won the $100,000 jackpot in the winter!" Barraha immediately pointed out the inaccuracies in Dick's words.

"I was treated by the group of boys in the second team, and I spent it!" Dick's face didn't change and his heart didn't beat.

"Hoo......" Atletico's players booed at the same time, they all knew Dick was lying, but there was no evidence......

But with such a wonderful victory, it's also a joy to have a treat!

The reason for the celebration was in Barcelona because there was a Copa del Rey semi-final at Camp Nou and Barcelona in midweek, but the Atletico players were confident that the three-goal advantage in the first leg would have allowed them to reach the Copa del Rey final for most of their lives......

This night, the players of Atletico Madrid can be said to have a good relaxation, they began to like Dick as the head coach more and more, although this guy threatened all the players with the deterrent power of the old Hill as soon as he took office, but then led the team to win again and again, so that the team has a great hope of relegation, and they don't talk nonsense on the training ground, and they won't scold them indiscriminately when they are off the field, and more importantly, Dick played more crazy than them in the nightclub last night, and he had to let go, So much so that the players, who were a little restrained at the beginning because they drank and picked up girls in nightclubs with the head coach, completely returned to the state of coming out in groups to have fun......

What reason is there not to like a coach who can lead them to victory on the pitch, mingle with the players off the pitch, and make vulgar jokes without being annoyed?

However, having fun on the turf of Barcelona was naturally discovered by Catalan reporters, but lost two games in a row to Atletico Madrid, conceded five goals and did not score a goal, at this time it is obviously an unwise move to criticize the players of Atletico Madrid for not having professionalism - people have no professionalism and win you, so how can the professional Barcelona players be embarrassed......

So the reporters just said a few words in the media, and the rest of the pages were all left to criticize Barcelona's players and coach Van Gaal, and Mr. Rodriguez was even more annoyed, Barcelona lost these two games, if he couldn't win the Champions Cup, he would have to eat the microphone openly - there are foam, plastic blocks, metal sheets and wire microphones, this thing eats, isn't the stomach full of holes?

Of course, he can also play tricks and not eat, but in this way, it is estimated that he will not be able to do it as a reporter......

So Mr. Rodriguez is looking forward to Barcelona day and night that they can explode in the next game, complete a big reversal, eliminate Atletico Madrid and then win the Copa del Rey - you can do it without the Champions Cup and the league! As long as I have a King's Cup, I can get you to run naked in downtown Madrid! Barcelona, you have to be a little more aggressive!

Two days later, a bolt from the blue struck Mr. Rodriguez on the head.

Breaking news.

"This afternoon, FC Barcelona submitted an application to the Spanish Football Federation not to participate in the second leg of the Copa del Rey in midweek, because the members of the Dutch national team in the team went to a warm-up match of the Dutch national team, and they could not get enough people to participate in this game, and at the same time, the Spanish Football Federation issued a warning to them because they were about to go to the Champions League to save energy, but Barcelona insisted on giving up the game, and in desperation, the Spanish Football Federation agreed to their request, The announcement that Atletico Madrid have gone straight to the final of the Copa del Rey is undoubtedly good news for Atletico as they can concentrate more on preparing for the league......"

"I have to say that this kind of move is not quite in line with the image of FC Barcelona...... Even if they don't value the Copa del Rey, which is the most important tournament in Spain after the league, they are now announcing that they are abandoning the second leg! Even if there is a good reason, it is difficult to justify......"

"If they had won the first leg away from home, would they have given up the second leg? No kidding! It was because they felt that it was difficult to catch up with the three balls, so they found a reason to give up the game to concentrate on preparing for the Champions Cup! If you completely give up the game because you don't pay attention to it, then what's the point of the Copa del Rey? ”

Barcelona's approach caused a lot of media dissatisfaction, and even the Spanish Football Federation once wanted to deprive Barcelona of the right to participate in the Spanish Copa del Rey next season, but finally canceled the punishment and agreed to Barcelona's request not to participate in the game.

Dick's reaction to this was quite violent.

"Damn, if you want to escape, run away early, leave us in Barcelona for two days, what kind of thing is this!" He complained to Marina in private.

In an interview, he shrugged his shoulders: "I think Barcelona did the right thing, because they can't get to the final of the Copa del Rey, so it's better to save a little energy and be good for everyone...... Why, you don't believe it? I don't use any other tactics, just use defense to counterattack, as long as I don't concede three goals in 90 minutes, Barcelona has concerns, to stay in the Champions Cup, how can I fight with us? However, I still have some opinions, because for the second leg of the semi-finals, we have been stranded in Barcelona for two days, of course it doesn't matter if there is a game, but now that there is no game, should the Barcelona club reimburse us for the food and accommodation in the past few days......"

After this passage appeared in the newspaper, I don't know how many readers squirted milk in their mouths after seeing this passage!

"This guy is really ......" Countless readers shook their heads at this passage, and really didn't know what adjective to use to describe Dick, or rather...... This guy is a big slut?

At this time, the big slut Di had already returned to Madrid with his team, he didn't expect that the three consecutive games against Barcelona were originally regarded as three thirty minutes of a game, but only sixty minutes were played, and the next thirty minutes became garbage time, and people just stopped playing with you......

Beat them directly, what a rebellious existence I am - this thought made Dick feel very proud, and now, he only has four games left to play this season, three league games, and one Copa del Rey final!

It doesn't matter if it's against Real Madrid or Espanyol, they have to play 90 minutes to make it to the next 90 minutes and we win without a fight, which is a great feeling......