1009 The Wrath of Camp Nou
On the evening of April 24, at the Camp Nou.
When the head coach from Turkey, Kakir, blew the whistle for the end of the 90-minute game, the Camp Nou, which was filled with 95,845 fans, fell silent.
The Barcelona players on the field were paralyzed on the pitch weakly at the moment of the whistle, and even many players hid their faces and cried bitterly, while on the contrary were Real Madrid players, everyone was cheering, and even many players rushed to the sidelines to celebrate with Ancelotti and Zidane in front of the away team's coach's box.
The scoreboard shows the final result of the match, 0-3, international convention, with the home team in front and the away team behind.
0-5 away, 0-3 at home, 0-8 on aggregate, Barcelona suffered an unprecedented humiliating defeat and was sadly eliminated from the Champions League.
That's why the Camp Nou stands are silent!
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In fact, it wasn't a hopeless game.
Pep Guardiola returned home to a back three after a 5-0 defeat at home, showing his determination to win.
The back three of Puyol, Pique and Alves are already very aggressive, with midfielder Sergio Busquets dragging behind, Andres Iniesta and Xavi in the middle, and Cesc Fabregas rushing forward to form a small diamond shape in the midfield, which is also Barcelona's strong attacking formation that has bloodied opponents many times this season.
Alexis Sanchez, Lionel Messi and Cuenca form the trident, with Cuenca being Barcelona's most eye-catching rookie this season.
It should be said that Pep Guardiola has put out the strongest attacking lineup he can put out, and at the beginning of the game, Barcelona also showed great aggression, suppressing Real Madrid very badly throughout the first half.
Carlo Ancelotti still lined up with a double midfield, but this time it was a combination of Xavi Alonso and Mascherano.
Marcelo, Pepe, Ramos and Arbeloa were the main players at the back, while Kaka burst forward and Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Robben formed the trident.
Real Madrid and Barcelona both played with the strongest lineups, and neither side had the slightest slack.
If Barcelona controlled the scene in the first half, then after the break, Real Madrid's sudden counterattack at the beginning of the second half caught Barcelona off guard.
In just three minutes, Real Madrid launched an attack on the left side, Yang Yang planned an offensive, Marcelo's long pass was transferred to the right side, handed to the unguarded Robben, and the Dutch Flyer then cut inside with the ball on the right side, shook off Puyol and hit the goal with his feet, opening the scoring for Real Madrid.
After that, Real Madrid used a corner kick opportunity to carry out tactical cooperation, passed to the foot of Yang Yang on the periphery of the penalty area, Yang Yang picked up the front of the penalty area with his right foot, and Ramos hit a header from close range to make another goal for Real Madrid.
Four minutes later, it was another assist from Yang Yang who helped Kaka score a goal and help Real Madrid seal the win.
That's how it goes.
Real Madrid's efficient counter-attacking and set-piece tactics tore apart Barcelona's defence three times in a row, and finally pushed Pep Guardiola's side into the abyss of despair.
0-3 at home and 0-8 on aggregate, this is definitely the most humiliating defeat in Barcelona's 100-year history, and it is even more shameful to lose to sworn rivals Real Madrid.
The silence of the fans at Camp Nou is only temporary, they are holding back the volcano that is about to erupt, they are unhappy with the management, they are unhappy with the coaching staff, they are unhappy with the players, they are unhappy with everything!
They want to vent, they need someone to step up and take responsibility, whoever he is!
Gradually, there was a looming boo from the stands, then louder and more obvious, and finally the whole stadium was booing, and it was not clear whether it was booing Real Madrid or Barcelona.
But soon, some fans began to draw slogans on the spot, shouting slogans and slogans asking Guardiola to leave class and Rosell to get out, and some more extreme fans directly attacked the Barcelona players, thinking that they were all a bunch of wrecks who were beaten like this by their opponents in their home stadium.
Public opinion was rampant, like the sky falling apart, sweeping the entire Camp Nou stadium, showing a monstrous trend.
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Pep Guardiola stood straight in front of the home team's dugout, looking straight at the pitch and facing the fans.
This season has taught him a lot and taught him a hard lesson.
In the past, he always thought that football was a game of probability, like possession, and as long as Barcelona held the ball in their own hands as much as possible and kept the ball in the opponent's hinterland for a longer time, the probability of winning would increase.
In fact, his first season in charge was the most successful, winning almost everything except a Champions League.
Rafael Benitez arrived in La Liga with Liverpool's huge success, and Florentino's restoration also brought superstars such as Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Kaka to Real Madrid, and their strength has grown by leaps and bounds.
Pep Guardiola has been reflecting on the transfer in '09 lately, and he feels that Barcelona's biggest regret is that the team missed Yang Yang, which led to Real Madrid's strength by leaps and bounds, and has a top superstar who can compete with Messi, or even surpass Messi, and in addition, there is another player that Guardiola regrets.
That's Mascherano.
The Argentine midfielder joined Real Madrid, so that Real Madrid's waist that had been weak for many years could be straightened, and then Florentino and Baldano also tasted the sweetness, and took advantage of the situation to bring in Javi Martinez, who is interested in Barcelona, from Athletic Bilbao.
Real Madrid's extremely successful team-building strategy has allowed them to keep Barcelona at bay for the past three years.
Of course, the most important thing is Yang Yang, known as [Basak Star].
Over the past four years, Pep Guardiola has led Barcelona to evolve, constantly improving the team's style of play and constantly trying various changes, which has earned him and Barcelona a great respect in world football.
Yes, they are not as good as Real Madrid in terms of results, but the football philosophy that is ahead of their time has earned them the respect of everyone.
No one can ignore such a team, including Real Madrid.
But Pep Guardiola has seriously overlooked one point, and that is the hearts and minds.
In the past few years, Spanish football has been extremely successful, after winning the European Cup, winning the World Cup, and this year aiming at the European Cup, which will become a historic event in European football, and the Spanish national team is based on Barcelona players, which makes Barcelona players inevitably self-aggrandize.
To put it simply, it is becoming more and more difficult for Guardiola to get these people to work for the team.
Xavi and Puyol have gone from their playing years to veterans, they are experienced and world champions; Pique has become more flamboyant and active in a variety of different situations, and it is not a bad thing that he has found a beautiful entertainment superstar to be his girlfriend, but he is no longer the depressed Pique who returned to Barcelona from Manchester United.
And Messi, who was a fledgling young talent back then, but now he is the top superstar in world football, and he is bent on surpassing Yang Yang and getting on the podium of the FIFA Awards in January.
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There are too many entanglements of interests in the Barcelona dressing room, and even Pep Guardiola can't fully sort it out.
At this moment, he stood in front of the home team's coach's box, thinking to himself, how similar is his Barcelona to Cruyff's Barcelona?
It's all humiliating fiascos, it's all turmoil in the dressing room.
Pep Guardiola has enough prestige to overpower the dressing room, and in fact, no one in the Barcelona dressing room has dared to challenge his authority so far, including Xavi and Iniesta, who were once put on the bench by him, who have chosen to obey.
But no one provokes, it does not mean that everyone is truly convinced.
Who should start Cuenca or Pedro?
Can Thiago replace Xavi?
When it comes to this game, is it appropriate for Cesc Fabregas and Messi to act as libero in the middle of the frontcourt?
Don't the players have any doubts in their hearts?
Doubt is like a seed that is planted in the soil and quickly takes root, sprouts, and finally breaks through the soil.
Pep Guardiola is clearly feeling the change in the atmosphere within the team, and while everyone is still following his arrangements and instructions as always, he can feel the estrangement between him and them, which is something called [suspicion].
Doubt is followed by a fear of the unknown.
They began to worry about whether they would fall out of favor, they began to worry about whether they would be purged, and they even worried about whether they would lose their main position......
Pep Guardiola himself experienced the end of Cruyff's tenure and knows exactly what Barcelona's dressing room was like, so he also understands that he is now in the same environment as Cruyff was back then.
The Dutch chose to flee, so what about him?
Pep Guardiola is beginning to realise that he has forgotten one thing over the past four years: football is always about the players.
He pursues the kind of tactical realm that integrates attack and defence, and he wants his players to be able to take tactical creed as an instinct, and Barcelona have indeed done this in the last four years, but in the last year, they have started to doubt.
First, a series of away mistakes in the league, starting to fall behind Real Madrid by a large score, and then now, the Champions League has also been humiliated by Real Madrid's humiliating score, at this moment, Guardiola doesn't even know how to play the next two derbies of the century?
Can you still kick?
From the moment he gambled on young players such as Thiago, he was no longer the unquestioned authority in the Barça dressing room, he fell from the altar to the mundane, he began to accept criticism and accusations, even doubts.
Pep Guardiola has no way of telling people why he chose Thiago, Tello and Cuenca, as if he couldn't tell people why he trusted Pique, who was not favored at Manchester United.
He has no way to solve the problem in the dressing room, he has no way to dispel the doubts that the players have about him.
Then he had only one choice left.
So, as soon as the game was over, Guardiola stood in front of the home team's dugout for a while, his face was extremely ugly, and then turned and walked back to the players' tunnel, taking out his mobile phone as he went, and sent a text message to Rosell in the stands.