Chapter 305: Enemies
After returning from the press conference, Mourinho's face was clouded. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoHis feud with Barcelona has long been one of the favorite topics of the sports media, and this time his team fell behind, so the media happily brought up the topic again to stimulate him.
On the morning of the 21st, the training ended early, and Mourinho borrowed the small conference room of the hotel to call the whole team for a meeting. Not only the players in the squad, but several players who were not in the squad were also brought to Barcelona and came to the meeting.
As the players walked into the conference room one after another, Mourinho didn't say a word. The players exchanged heads and guessed about the content of the meeting.
When all the players arrived, Mourinho closed the door, turned on the computer, and connected to the large-screen LCD TV, which appeared on the screen of Barcelona against Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the 04-05 Champions League.
There was a sudden silence in the conference room.
Fans who have played the FM series in recent years know that Chelsea have the only non-domestic team to host: Barcelona. That's because in the history of the Champions League, Chelsea and Barcelona have a feud.
The feud between the two teams began in the Champions League in the 04-05 season. And after that, in the 05-06 and 06-07 seasons, the two teams met one after another, and they were forced to become a pair of enemies. It's not so much the fate of Mourinho and Rijkaard that it is hard to tell, but the fate that Chelsea and Barcelona can't escape.
Three encounters, two knockout rounds, and one group stage, in the process of the two coaches fighting each other, both sides have wins and losses, and they eliminated each other once. Maybe the result in the process of the game is not the most important, nor the most lingering, but the slightly hot scene on the field, the endless red cards have planted the seeds of resentment between the two teams.
In the 08-09 Champions League semi-finals, the two teams met again, the first leg was a 0-0 draw at Camp Nou, and the second leg was met at Stamford Bridge. However, it was this encounter that created the eternal harsh cry of conquest on the green field, and it could never be calm. The result has been written, the process has been seen by the world, and the intricate plot cannot be solved by anyone. For various reasons, all kinds of differences, it is fairer for future generations to tell and judge,
In the 11-12 Champions League semi-finals, Chelsea and Barcelona met again, Barcelona was in full swing at the time, on the contrary, the Blues at that time seemed a little lonely, but in the first leg of the meeting at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea still showed an iron side, 1-0 advantage. Later, when they moved to Camp Nou, Chelsea's dense defence and sharp counter-attacks allowed them to win in the end.
No one spoke. Everyone watched those clips quietly, watching the fights.
They watched the first leg of the 04-05 tie between the two teams, with Eto'o, the African cheetah, scoring in the 64th minute to seal the win for Barcelona.
Looking at the second leg, goals from Gudjohnsen, Frank Lampard, Duff and John Terry secured Chelsea elimination. At that time, Terry was still a young boy and a fledgling.
They watched as Chelsea left-back Del Orno was red-coloured in the first leg at Stamford Bridge in 05/06 and Samuel Eto'o struck before the end of the campaign as the Blues lost at home. Chelsea were also knocked out of the competition by watching Ronaldo and Frank Lampard contribute to the second leg at Camp Nou.
When the two teams met for the first time in the group stage of the 06/07 season, the game entered the final stoppage time when the monster Drogba scored with a furious shot from outside the box to retain the victory for Stamford Bridge.
In the second meeting of the season, Frank Lampard scored from a zero-degree angle as Barcelona led Chelsea 2-1 thanks to goals from Deco and Gudjohnsen. Didier Drogba came back in the final moments of the game, and when he opened the scoring in stoppage time, Mourinho rushed all the way to the sidelines, venting his passion with a classic sliding knee.
The 08-09 Champions League semi-finals between the two teams brought the conflict between the two sides to a peak, which led to the "godfather theory". In the first leg at Camp Nou, he replaced Ashley. Cole's left wing-back Bosingwa froze Messi perfectly, and the two teams ended up with a 0-0 draw.
In the final round, Barcelona beat Chelsea thanks to Andres Iniesta's winning goal before the break, and squeezed the Blues out of the final to win the trophy thanks to the advantage of away goals. However, the referee from Norway was unexpectedly the focus of the game, and Chelsea believed that Henin missed at least four penalties that should have belonged to them, and even received a threat of "global death notice" from Chelsea fans after the game.
The two sides met again in the semi-finals of the Champions League in 11/12, with Didier Drogba at Stamford Bridge giving Chelsea the upper hand in the first leg.
In the second leg, Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta scored in succession, with John Terry sent off early. The 10-man Chelsea were unwavering and chased twice in a desperate situation, with goals from Ramirez and Torres in stoppage time to level the score at 2-2 and knock out the surging Barcelona and lift them home that year.
Then there was the game a few days ago, when Chelsea were down three times and tied three times......
When the video ended, everyone was immersed in the atmosphere of the fierce battle, and for a moment they couldn't extricate themselves, and only the sound of the players panting could be heard in the conference room.
After a long time, Mourinho's voice finally sounded: "In the history of the game against Barcelona, do you want to add another defeat, or add another victory!" ”
"Victory, victory!" The Chelsea players shouted.
'Very good,' Mourinho said, 'I can't stand to lose to Barcelona again. Tonight, let's take a look at the accounts of all these years. To be honest, I hadn't figured out exactly what tactics I was going to use at Camp Nou before today. I would have liked to continue with our defensive tactics, but no, if we draw we will be out. ”
Shi Hao snickered below. The simulation of the next game in the system has already given him an idea of Mourinho's choice in advance - against him, of course! Although this option does not necessarily work in the simulation matches, in fact, Chelsea have lost most of the simulation matches.
However, there is one important factor that cannot be simulated in the simulation competition - morale!
Sure enough, Mourinho said: "So I decided that in this game, we are going to attack!" With a big wave of his hand, he swept his sharp gaze over the Chelsea players.
"Do you dare to raise the banner of attack at the Camp Nou, destroy them with attack, defeat them!"
"Beat them!" "Victory is ours!" "We are champions!" The Chelsea players shouted excitedly.