"In the past two days, Marca and Ace have been frantically reporting a piece of news," Maria said to her partner Morrison, flipping through the tablet at hand with interest.

"It says that Pep Guardiola is tired of the Barcelona managership and that if nothing comes of it this season, he will consider resigning as Barcelona manager", Maria said with a playful face, "The newspapers in Madrid reported the news at this time......

"Didn't you read the news from the Daily Sport?" Morrison said, "The news that Mark wants to return to Liverpool has been dug up, and it is said that he is tired of Spain"

He shrugged, genuinely concerned about the professionalism of the Spanish newspapers, which, before the end of the century, had focused solely on gossip rather than professional interpretation.

This is obviously a clash between the Madrid political camp and the Catalan political camp, and since the rise of Atletico Madrid, Barcelona has faced the encirclement of the two giants, and this season has really struggled.

Last season, they beat Atletico Madrid in the league and eliminated Real Madrid in the Champions League, which can be said to have made Catalonia as a whole excited for a summer.

But this season, it is clear that the Madrid camp has turned around.

Compared to this obviously confrontational media coverage, Germany's "Kicker" is more professional, analyzing the upcoming pinnacle trifecta from a tactical and all-round performance!

Kicker: It's undoubtedly the best game in football today, no less than the Spanish derby, and it's about the success or failure of both teams over a season.

Barcelona are undoubtedly one of the best teams in the world, and Pep Guardiola brought the team to the top more than three years ago, only last year when they reaped the most fruitful results.

They are at least five years ahead of world football in terms of passing, and with Argentina's Lionel Messi playing at a dominant level under Pep Guardiola, no team can match them.

But their problems this year are also obvious, whether it is Torres, Villa, Pedro, can carry Barcelona's current forward line, this is their biggest concern.

And Atletico Madrid, this is the most crucial season for them to ascend to the throne!

The trajectory is very similar to Chelsea's, with a golden dollar invasion, a star-studded crowd, and again, apart from Mark, they didn't buy any top stars, but all of them were quality first-line stars.

This is a team built around Mark, whether it is a striker, a midfielder or a defender, and only Mark, who won the World Cup, is eligible.

After a season of grinding and Mark's adaptation to the Spanish style of football, this season, we have seen diamonds exposed in the mud and sand.

It also relies on passing, but it is not as delicate as Barcelona, but incorporates Ancelotti's steady style and Mark's playmaking talent.

Yes, they don't rely on the system, they rely on superstars, which is what Carlo Ancelotti is good at, and let's not forget, it was he who single-handedly led Andrea Pirlo into a playmaker at the back.

Each player has his own role, Aguero's cruising, Sanchez's in-cutting, Mata's playmaking, Gago's interception, and Mark's control, the whole Atletico complements each other.

There is no doubt that this will be a collision between Mars and Earth, a battle between two different styles of pass-and-control football and two Golden Ball superstars.

Mark VS Messi, the peak is coming!

The whole of Europe, and even the world, are attracted by this early Champions League quarter-finals, Chelsea vs Benfica, Real Madrid vs Milan, Bayern vs Marseille are much inferior in comparison.

"Let's look forward to the first Champions League semi-final in 37 years", Atletico Madrid's official website released this big title early.

One can imagine what Atletico fans are looking forward to in this round, yes, the last time they reached the semi-finals of the Champions League was in 1973-74, a full 37 years ago.

And in the past 60 years, they have only reached the Champions League semi-finals a pitiful 3 times, and only 1 final, with zero champions, which is a blank sheet of paper waiting for Mack Qin and his group of soldiers to write!

……

Outside Maha Da Onda, there are many journalists.

"I remember my first season of debut," he recalls in the middle of countless microphones, recalling that some good times are always nostalgic.

'We were competing with Manchester United for the league title,' he smiled, as if recalling something very exciting, "everyone knows how many years Manchester United dominated the Premier League"

"At that time, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool were like Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid now, there was always a moment when everything that was familiar to the fans changed"

"Now that this moment has come, I still have to use the words I once said to show our attitude: the old king is dying, the new king is alive!"

In the Premier League, he subverted Manchester United, then in La Liga, he is going to subvert Barcelona.

Now he is no longer the teenager who would be nervous about sleeping well before the game against Manchester United, and he is no longer the teenager who needs the team's big brother to pass on his experience.

He is a banner, the banner of champions.

"Marc, Carlo Ancelotti said that you are the best player he has ever coached, even more than Andrea Pirlo, and this series is your best stage, Atletico Madrid will rise strong like Liverpool at the beginning, become a regular in the championship, what do you think?" , a reporter said with a microphone in his hand.

"Oh...... everybody knows that my idol before my debut was Andrea Pirlo and I've been learning how he plays for a long time, so meeting him at this year's European Championships will be the most exciting moment for me," he says, with some wistfulness.

'It's always exciting to be compared to my former idols and I've had a lot of fun working with Carlo Ancelotti, always be, he's the kind of manager who gets the best out of all his players and a lot of us have made great strides under him'

'When I came to Spain, I was looking forward to this moment, just like I was looking forward to knocking down Manchester United, and it always makes my blood run to challenge for the throne that I once had'

He smiled and held out a finger and pointed to the camera: "Barcelona, your rule, it's over......"

"Whew", "Great", the fans gathered around the periphery were immediately incited, and there was a burst of cheers, the old king is dying, the new king is alive, and your reign is over.

What a powerful line!

They never imagined that they would one day be able to stand in La Liga so domineering, and this is the moment, and they have only been in less than two seasons.

With the afternoon sun, Mackin turned and returned to the training ground, ending his routine midday interview, and tonight, they will start their first big game in Calderón.

The first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.

At this moment, under his calm exterior, a raging fire has been ignited, and he has a premonition that this is the end of his story with Guardiola.

Sometimes things are frustrating, and before he came to Spain, he was in contact with Pep Guardiola much more often than he is now, and many of the exchanges were more open.

When he came here, he and Pep Guardiola didn't have so much intersection, and every time they met, they didn't face each other, but they showed their best selves.

Defend? Limit? Those are non-existent and disdainful.

They are the kind of people who believe that the best version of themselves can defeat all enemies, and Mackin now, like Pep Guardiola, has his own football philosophy.

Position, is no longer his shackles, assists or goals, is no longer a choice, get completely free Macklin, in Ancelotti, met the road to the best of himself.

Carlo Ancelotti didn't give him any restrictions, not at all, position, style of play, arguably more than Guardiola had promised Mackin more freedom.

As Carlo Ancelotti has always said: my job is to lead the team to win, I don't stick to one way or the other, I tune the whole and Mark will naturally fit in.

He, Makqin, is on the road to the temple of football art, moving forward.

Pep Guardiola has turned his team into a passing machine with incredible precision, and Mackin has inadvertently moved further and further away from that path, taking a personal style path.

Just like you used to envy the top students in high school, but after entering the society, you drank a lot with others, and as he understood football more and more, he finally understood that good is not necessarily suitable for him.

At this moment, he is also a little lucky, due to various reasons, he has not been able to join Guardiola several times, otherwise, there may not be the current Mack.

It is everyone's nature to declare this existence, and Mackin is no different at this time, he wants to use the corpses of strong opponents and championship trophies to prove his football path and prove that his choice is right.

To others, but also for yourself.

The ball went into my foot, and flowers bloomed everywhere!

"Guys, run...... Run", Ma Qin, who returned to the training ground, shouted excitedly, "We want to get off to a good start in the evening"

"That's for sure"

"We didn't win Barcelona at home once, it was the same this time"

"I haven't played in the Champions League semi-finals yet......"

Mahada Onda was suddenly in full swing, full of vigorous youthful vigor, like spring grass breaking through the ground.

And this time Aguero is not as depressed as he was last time against Real Madrid, because he is the starter, and Aguero's presence is more conducive to Atletico Madrid and Barcelona fighting for possession.

At 6 p.m. sharp, the fully ready Atletico bus departs from Mahada Onda and heads to Poseidon Square, Calderón, where the match will start at 8:45 p.m.

The scorching breath, the overwhelming Calderón as the center, spreads endlessly, and if you feel the population density in Europe right now, you must go to the football stadium.

The whole of Calderón and Inside and Outside, was completely crowded with needles at this time, and Poseidon fans have been waiting for this semi-final for 37 years, and have been looking forward to it for almost two generations.

That hunger for victory is indescribable.

"Boom ......", the steeply rising decibels, the slowly moving bus, and the passionate picture on the opposite side, you can't help but have a sense of pride from the bottom of your heart!

You cheer, I fight, rightly so!

"Shh......h Needless to say, the cause of the shaking on the other side can be understood, and Barcelona has also arrived.

They arrived in Calderón almost at the same time!

Get out of the car, change clothes, warm up, cheer harder, and you're all set!

It's like a memory scene in a movie, where everyone is methodical, doing what they are supposed to do, or the calm before the storm.

"Get out and defeat them!" , Ancelotti said only one sentence at the end.

"Guys, are you ready?" , Mack Qin took the lead in standing up, and the loud Atletico Madrid team song outside the locker room was faintly audible.

"It's all right!" Like a soldier, his teammates stood up in unison.

"Tears or glory?" , Mackin shouted again.

"Glory, glory, glory!"

Makqin finally sorted out the armband on his arm, waved his hand, and led the way to the locker room door that had been opened by the assistant coach, "Let's go......"