507 Nightmare Night
Three to one, Liverpool won a great victory!
This is not the boast of Yang Yang and others, but the evaluation given by a Spanish media reporter at the post-match press conference.
Speaking to the media, Benitez also said, "It's a game to remember! ”
"At the pre-match press conference, a lot of media reporters were worried that it would be a game of Spanish football crushing England's rough football, and I said, no, on the contrary, I think the atmosphere of the game between the two teams will be very good, and today you also saw that both the result and the process are really good."
After listening to this, many reporters at the scene were embarrassed, and they couldn't help but feel a wave of slander in their hearts.
Of course you think everything is fine when you win, but what about Barcelona when you lose?
Ask the awkward Rijkaard next to you, does he think the atmosphere is good?
Benitez was clearly not enough to get enough of it, and he went straight to a problem that the Catalan media had made difficult for him before the game.
At that time, a media believed that in this game between Barcelona and Liverpool, there was a huge difference in strength between the two sides, and even thought that in the eyes of Barcelona, Liverpool was never regarded as an opponent.
Benitez responded at the time that Liverpool were the Champions League winners in '05 and Barcelona were Champions League winners in '06, a matchup between the Champions League winners of the past two seasons, and the difference in strength was far less than that.
But now, as the winner, Benitez said with a smile: "Maybe in the eyes of many Barcelonans, we were never one of the opponents, but it was tonight, at Camp Nou, that the opponent who was not an opponent managed to take away a away win. ”
Benitez didn't provoke too much, but the words were enough to slap him in the face.
Not only was Rijkaard embarrassed, but even many media reporters at the scene were very embarrassed.
Before the game, almost most of the Spanish media reporters looked down on Liverpool because Barcelona were too strong.
In the past two years, in European football, who doesn't praise the Barcelona Dream II team and Ronaldinho?
But tonight, this high-flying and invincible dream team was pressed to the ground by Liverpool and rubbed.
For this game, Benitez said that the team won in the efficiency of the counterattack, and Yang Yang was the key to the team's victory.
'I'm very happy with the performance of the players, they played very well, they trained hard, they were very committed to the game, we all gave a lot to win this game, and everyone knows that it is never easy to play Barcelona, especially at the Camp Nou, but we did a great job on the counter-attack.
"I'm very happy to see an all-powerful Yang Yang, he's a player I can't fault with anything, he's always trained the hardest, he played the hardest, and the three goals tonight were all beautiful."
'Last season he scored a hat-trick at the Bernabeu and this season he scored a hat-trick at the Camp Nou, which I think should be a good story, but I think he has a lot of potential to tap into, he's only 20 years old.
Rafa Benitez believes the team's 10-day training camp in Portugal has been crucial and effective, but he doesn't think the team has secured the right to qualify.
'With the second half to go, we can only take the lead at best, but we still have to be cautious, Barcelona are a team full of mystery and any team that slackens can suffer a heavy defeat.
And in the end, Benitez also thanked the Liverpool fans who came to the away stadium.
In the final stage of the game, a very small number of Liverpool fans sang the team song "You will never walk alone" at the Camp Nou, and the momentum even overwhelmed more than 90,000 home fans, which shows the madness of Liverpool fans at that time.
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In contrast to Benitez's good mood, Rijkaard is very sorry for the loss.
According to the Dutch boss, the reason for the defeat was that after taking the lead, the team played a bit well and lacked the passion for the game.
'We unknowingly slowed down the tempo on the offensive end, and it cost us a lot.
Rijkaard also admits that a lot of the players are out of shape.
'Our opponents had 10 more days to prepare than we did, but we had to keep playing back-to-back and that caused the players to be a little out of shape, which was even more evident after the draw.
"There is no doubt that Yang Yang was the key to this match, he was the best player in the game, we didn't find a good way to restrain him, and it was a terrible blow for us, and the second leg was very crucial."
"We have to think about it, if we want to beat Liverpool away from home and turn it around, then we must first find a way to freeze Yang Yang."
At the end of the press conference, Rijkaard was also asked by media reporters about Eto'o, the Cameroonian striker was absent from this important matchup, and Saviola, who replaced him, and Gudjohnsson, who came on in the last ten minutes of the second half, obviously lacked the strength to replace him, so many media were concerned about Eto'o's next situation.
Rijkaard said that Eto'o did not make the squad because of the player's own request, mainly because his recent form has not been particularly ideal, and there is a lot of pressure.
As for Valdés, who made a series of mistakes, Rijkaard comforted him, saying that everyone could understand his mistakes.
'We have to accept it because it's part of the game of football and the real team, whether you win or lose, you have to stay together, especially at this point in time, we have to be more calm.'
Rijkaard also did not give up hope at Anfield, saying the team still has a chance.
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Not only Rijkaard, but also a number of Barcelona players have publicly stated in post-match media interviews that the team has the ability to turn the tables away from home, including Valdés, who made a major mistake.
Yang Yang, who also gave post-match interviews to Spanish, British and Chinese media, was very pleased with his hat-trick, but kept saying that it was all about the support of the team and his team-mates.
"I think it's too early to say that you will advance, and the second leg is still full of suspense, and it's hard to say who will win or lose."
As for his two consecutive seasons, he has defeated the world's most difficult devils' home venues, the Bernabeu and Camp Nou, with a hat-trick, Yang Yang smiled and said that it was pure coincidence.
'These are two great club teams and I'm proud of myself to score in a game like this.
When asked by the Catalan media, when he and Messi competed in this game, Yang Yang smiled and said that Messi is a player full of strength, but he may not be in his best condition now.
"Actually, I never cared about who played better, me or Messi, I was more concerned about how to help the team win."
But it is clear that Yang Yang's answer did not please the Catalan media.
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Nightmare Night!
The next day, World Sport ran a front-page headline.
In the report, World Sports pointed the finger directly at Rijkaard, believing that there were serious problems with the Dutch manager's line-up, and he lost the battle with Benitez in a comprehensive way.
'The most obvious example of this was that Benitez's first substitution came in the 80th minute, and two minutes later Rijkaard used his last substitution, when the Liverpool boss had two more substitutions at his disposal.
"Of course, this doesn't explain the problem, but it can prove that in this pinnacle matchup, whether it is the manager or the team, or the team itself, Barcelona is defeated in all aspects!"
World Sports' second accusation against Rijkaard is to pull out the seedlings and help them, and it is obviously a big failure to hide Jiuli and reuse the young Messi in such an important game.
"In this crucial game, Messi played the whole game, 39 touches, 26 passes, six tackles, which is definitely not the statistics that a qualified main player should come up with."
"After a long period of injury, Messi only made two substitute appearances and started such an important game, only to have a sluggish performance throughout the game, and was completely frozen by Arbeloa, who temporarily moved from the right to the left.
World Sports News has not forgotten to create contradictions and conflicts between Yang Yang and Messi.
"In the eyes of many people, Messi has always been compared with Yang Yang, but in fact, Yang Yang has squeezed into the top five in the world footballer rankings, he alone led Ajax to the Champions League semi-finals, he leads the Premier League scorer list this season, and also leads the Champions League scorer list, but what about Messi?"
"Cruyff once said that in Real Madrid, it is simply a crime to use young players like Gago and Higuain as saviors, but in Barcelona, it is absolutely sad to play the younger Messi as a savior!"
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If the World Sports Report is considered to be undisciplined, then the Daily Sports Report is no less than that.
The next day, the daily newspaper Sport openly stated, "Barcelona need Samuel Eto'o!" ”
Headlines on the front page believe that Rijkaard is risking the future of the team as a tool to assert his authority.
'In the post-match press conference, when Rijkaard was asked about Samuel Eto'o, he said something like this: when Eto'o personally told me that he was ready, I would put him in the squad.
'It's clear that the reason why he left Eto'o out of the squad was to get the Cameroonian striker to be soft.'
'But in this game against Liverpool, we could see that the team created a lot of chances throughout the game but never managed to create a threat, and the team needed a key scorer like Samuel Eto'o.
'The Cameroonian striker scored five goals before his injury in September and is still fifth in the squad, before Ronaldinho scored nineteen goals and Saviola scored twelve, but seven of them came in the Copa del Rey and Gudjohnson scored ten goals and five in the Copa del Rey and Club World Cup.
"It can be seen that the team lacks a solid scorer, but it is definitely a crime for Rijkaard to shut out Eto'o because of a personal vendetta!"
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But apart from Catalonia's scramble to hold Liverpool accountable, the world's media is basking in a chorus of praise for Liverpool.
Especially Yang Yang, who scored a hat trick and once again led the Champions League scorer list!
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