Chapter 576: Come on! High!

Immediately after returning from Barcelona, Atletico Madrid threw themselves into preparing for the Champions League.

The situation is clear to everyone, so not many people are optimistic that Atletico Madrid can turn the tables at home.

In the history of the Champions League, there was a time when the first leg was lost 0-3 on the road, and it was once when it came back to the away game.

That was in the 1986 Champions League semi-finals, when they lost 3-0 away to Swedish giants Gothenburg, and after returning to home in the second leg, Barcelona responded with a 3-0 and finally advanced through a penalty shootout, but except this time, there was no reversal in the same situation.

Not to mention losing 0-3 away, it's 0-2, and if you want to reverse, you can't agree.

This is the Champions League, the evenly matched Champions League, after all. And it's a game like the semi-finals, everyone is equal in strength, how can it be said that the reversal is reversed?

What can be reversed is a miracle, and is a miracle something that happens often?

The answer, of course, is no.

Therefore, it is normal that not many people believe that Atletico Madrid can turn the tables.

Perhaps only the Atletico Madrid players themselves believe they can turn the tables around.

Over the past week, Gao Bo has been instilling in them the belief that "we can reverse it", which is almost becoming a habit before the start of each day's training.

Of course, Gao Bo isn't just a mouthpiece.

The reversal he says is backed up by data.

Because Atletico Madrid has won 5-0 against Barcelona twice, it shows that Atletico Madrid is capable of beating this opponent by a big score. And it was also on their home turf, and the players also established the belief that they could reverse it under such indoctrination.

Now when they think of the humiliation they suffered at the Camp Nou, they are full of fighting spirit and desperate to beat Barcelona to wash away their shame!

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Ahead of the start of the second leg, the media focused more on the match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.

Real Madrid lost 2-1 away to Bayern Munich in the first leg, and although they lost away, they also got an away goal, so it became very uncertain which team would advance in the second leg.

Compared to this match, Atletico Madrid's home game against Barcelona looks like nothing to watch.

No one believes that Atletico Madrid will advance!

The media in Catalonia are optimistic.

"We were three goals ahead in the first leg and now Barcelona can play with Atletico Madrid very calmly with possession.... I'm confident in Barcelona's possession and honestly, if Barcelona don't want to attack, no one can snatch the ball from their feet and I don't see anything that Atletico Madrid can reverse anyway! ”

Daily Sports said this when analysing the game.

“........ In a way, Barcelona are by far the strongest team, with a six-time winning season still in place and manager Pep Guardiola still firmly in control. Despite losing 5-0 to Atletico Madrid twice, it was an accident and when Barcelona got serious, Atletico Madrid didn't have a chance at all! ”

“....... I don't deny that Atletico Madrid is also a strong team, and on their home turf they can score goals and even beat Barcelona, I don't deny that. But it's going to be too difficult to beat Barcelona by more than three goals. You know, before they pursue attack, there will inevitably be gaps in the backfield, and Messi, Villa, and Sanchez will take advantage of these gaps to score one goal after another. Atletico Madrid didn't score away goals, and once Barcelona scored, Atletico Madrid would have to win by more than five goals to qualify – a fantasy given Barcelona's vigilance! ”

The entire Catalan media seems to be at ease.

No one believed that Atletico Madrid would be able to complete a comeback at home.

On the side of Madrid, there are media that Atletico Madrid has spoken 5-0 twice, but this volume is not big.

In general, Atletico Madrid's first season after returning to the Champions League may be stopped in the semi-finals.

But that's a good result.

Atletico Madrid's last Champions League was 17 years ago, and this time they were able to reach the semi-finals in their first season back in the Champions League.

Despite being eliminated by Barcelona, many Atletico Madrid fans are still satisfied with the team's performance.

This season's semi-finals, won't we be able to reach the finals next season?

Atletico Madrid fans are already looking forward to next season.

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Despite the optimism of the media and fans, Pep Guardiola has been cautious in his internal training.

They arrived in Madrid three days early and were in closed training as soon as possible.

There is no media to find out what Barcelona are doing at the training base.

Pep Guardiola's side felt like they had left their 3-0 advantage behind them from the start.

In fact, in his pre-match preparations, Guardiola also stressed to his team many times that this game is a new game, and if there is any relaxation, Barcelona may be reversed!

And Pep Guardiola also used two 0-5 defeats to warn Barcelona's players.

If it was true that Barcelona's players were a little lax from the start, then when they remembered two 0-5s, it was completely gone.

Atletico Madrid is Barcelona's number one enemy in the hearts of their players, even surpassing Real Madrid - after all, Real Madrid has not beaten them 5-0 twice!

Therefore, despite the 3-0 victory at home, Barcelona came to the away stadium, from the players to the coaches, there was no slackness or optimism about this game.

They still treat this game as if it were a battle of life and death!

After all, against an opponent like Atletico Madrid, who has brought them so much humiliation, they can't be too optimistic no matter what.

And in this sense, the more cautious Barcelona is, the more detrimental it is to Atletico Madrid.

From the standpoint of Atletico Madrid, of course, they want Barcelona to be careless.

But Gao Bo didn't expect his opponent to do the same.

Elephants hiding behind rats can't hide.

Atletico Madrid's quality is here, and it would be really stupid to have Barcelona to beat them – Barcelona certainly aren't stupid, otherwise how could they have won the Quadruple and become the most successful team in the last five years.

At the press conference, Guardiola was right, he was cautious.

And Gao Bo didn't say anything at the pre-match press conference.

"We believe in our own strength, Atletico Madrid is far stronger than anyone thinks!"

Just one sentence, there is no dry goods at all.

The Catalan journalist pouted when he heard this.

If you really want to be so strong, how can you lose three goals away?

And when Gao Bo was about to leave the press conference, Rodriguez, who was sitting in the back row, stood up.

This guy is now a CCTV reporter in Spain, so he came to the press conference on behalf of CCTV.

"Come on! High!! ”

Rodriguez shouted.

He shouted in Chinese, and this time also made some Chinese media at the scene reflect.

Their position is inherently on Gao Bo's side.

So here, the only encouragement Gao Bo received was from a group of his own compatriots.

Chinese reporters stood up and cheered for Mr. Gao.

"Thanks, we'll reverse it!!"

Gao Bo stretched out his fist and thanked the Chinese who came to Spain.

He then turned and walked out of the press conference.

He doesn't want to waste saliva here in the media.

With this time, he might as well analyze Barcelona's weaknesses for the players.