Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Barcelona of the Saipan System

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It's not just three points dropped in the league.

The direct collision of the two teams also gave Atletico Madrid an absolute advantage.

According to the final ranking rules of La Liga, in the case of points, it depends on the relationship between winning and losing, if the season is over, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have the same points, then Atletico Madrid will become the league champion, that is to say, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are not only three points apart, but also lose in the relationship between wins and losses, they want to beat Atletico Madrid in the league competition, they must have more points than Atletico Madrid.

But the two-legged meeting between the two teams is over, Barcelona has no chance to collide directly with Atletico Madrid, even if they win the next dozen rounds of the league, it depends on Atletico Madrid's performance, in other words, they have to look at Atletico Madrid's 'face' in the league.

It's not a good situation.

In addition, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid still have to compete for the Copa del Rey title, and the two teams have two league games, and Barcelona has lost all of them, which will definitely have some impact on the hearts of the whole team.

This is likely to affect the team's performance in the Copa del Rey.

After this round, Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola was even more silent.

Now he understands Mourinho a little.

A few years ago, Jose Mourinho's Chelsea and Manchester City were direct rivals in the Premier League, but the two teams have never won against each other, and after coming to Spain, the two have won so far.

Many media regard this as Mourinho's 'coaching stain', maybe he himself sees it this way, but it is actually the same for Barcelona, whether it is three years ago, or now, Barcelona and Wansheng have never won against each other, the only difference is that the Barcelona coach three years ago was Rijkaard, and the current Barcelona coach is himself.

But it's always a failure!

So when it comes to the Copa del Rey final, what chance does Barcelona have of beating Atletico Madrid to lift the cup?

Pep Guardiola feels uncertain.

The two-legged defeat in the league also hit Pep Guardiola hard, after coaching Barcelona, he hoped to build a dynasty with his own hands, dominating Spain, sweeping Europe, and a 'dream three' dynasty full of champions, but now he has suffered this blow, and Guardiola is even a little disheartened.

He kept telling himself: "It's just a league, an accident!" ”

But it didn't work very well.

If Wansheng knew Guardiola's mentality, he would definitely laugh, Guardiola ...... What a glass heart!

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Three days later, it was the international break, and Atletico Madrid still had many players leaving, and Wan Sheng had a headache and told them to pay attention to their health.

The good thing is that Atletico Madrid doesn't have many national team players.

For example, some young players will naturally not enter the national team, Aguero and Godin are all South American players, too far away, they have not been called up at all, even Raul Garcia has not entered the Spanish national team squad, Wan Sheng is worried about Ozil, Morris and others, they will definitely go to the national team competition.

Fortunately, there is only one international break, and the duration is only three days.

After three days, the departing players all returned to the club.

Wan Sheng asked the club to do the medical examination of the players, and Ozil and Morris both had a decline in fitness, but fortunately there were no injuries.

Soon the 23rd round of the league came, with Atletico Madrid hosting Valencia.

In the home team dressing room at Calderón Stadium, Wan Sheng stood in front of all the players and said with a serious face, "We just won Barcelona and returned to the top of the league, but that doesn't mean the championship." If we want to win the championship, we have to keep going and keep going! Now it's time to challenge for the league title! ”

Every player was in good spirits.

After the victory over Barcelona at the Camp Nou, Atletico Madrid was full of joy, with every player starting to revere the champions, every fan talking about the team's results, and the media revering the "two 10th crowns".

The atmosphere of the club also makes the team full of fighting spirit.

Now facing Valencia, who is the leader in the 'third pole of La Liga', they all don't care a little, it's not careless or anything, but a kind of mental outlook of a strong team.

Previously, Wansheng kept emphasizing, "We are already a strong team in Europe, and we must have the heart of a strong team." ”

After the victory at Camp Nou, Wan Sheng does not need to be emphasized, every player has full confidence in the team, they have begun to revere the champion, and naturally Valencia will not be taken seriously.

But contempt does not mean carelessness, there is a saying in China, "strategically despise the opponent, tactically attach importance to the opponent", for the game itself, the team still did a lot of work.

This Calderón Stadium game is a must-win.

In such an atmosphere, Atletico Madrid walked into the Calderón stadium, and under the cheers of Atletico Madrid fans, Atletico Madrid launched a crazy offensive against Valencia.

They seem to be going to vent their depression in the last game with Barcelona!

From the first minute, the game entered the 'Atletico rhythm', they were in control of the ball, and the initiators attacked wave after wave, forcing Valencia to shrink the defensive line.

In the 17th minute, Raul Garcia crossed diagonally into the middle, Diego Costa pushed the pass again, and Isco followed up to send the ball into the goal.

1 to 0!

Calderón Stadium erupted in a tsunami of shouts!

"The two teams are not at the same level at all." Juan Andrés said excitedly on the Calderón Stadium broadcaster, "Atletico Madrid has a complete advantage with half of the main lineup, Valencia has no power to fight back at all, and now I dare to say that Atletico Madrid has the style of a strong team!" ”

After the restart, Valencia let go of the attack, seemingly trying to try to equalize, and they did well, playing two waves of dangerous attacks, but in the end they gave Atletico Madrid a chance, Isco, who started the game, counter-attacked with the ball, and after a one-two with Raul Garcia, he sent the ball to the left side of the box.

Diego Costa meets the ball and shoots hard to break the Valencia goal!

2 to 0!

'By now I can say that there was no suspense in the game and Atletico had finished the game in just 25 minutes.

As Juan Andrés said, at the Calderón Stadium, Valencia was already in little form, and after conceding two goals in 25 minutes, they had little fighting spirit.

Next, they wanted to attack, but they were afraid of Atletico Madrid's fast attack, and they wanted to defend but were two goals behind.

What to do?

Valencia was at a loss.

The next nearly 70 minutes of the game can be described as 'no suspense', Valencia did not play well, and Atletico Madrid played quite well.

The final score was fixed at 5-0.

Diego Costa scored two goals throughout the game, Isco had a goal and another belonged to Felipe Luiz, and Wang Qiuming, who came on as a second-half substitute, scored the last goal from a free-kick opportunity.

After the game, public opinion has completely changed.

Even after beating Barcelona in the last leg, many media believe that Barcelona still have a good hope of winning the league title, after all, there are still more than a dozen rounds in the league, and Atletico Madrid's "winning streak cannot last long".

Again, this is the evaluation of the neutral media.

It is also only the Madrid media that thinks 'Atletico Madrid can win the championship', and they use various analyses and Catalan media to play the ring, constantly praising Atletico Madrid, and at the same time criticizing and satirizing Barcelona.

There is nothing to say about the fact that the media reports on both sides are tendentious, but after beating Valencia by a large score with a semi-main lineup in this round, public opinion has changed, and even the neutral media believe that Atletico Madrid can win the championship.

Perhaps the point is not how well Atletico Madrid is doing, but how poor their rivals Barcelona are!

In the 23rd round of the league, Barcelona drew 1-1 with Sporting Gijón away!

In this draw, Sporting Gijón contributed 50 percent, Atletico Madrid contributed 20 percent and the other 30 percent went to FIFA.

Needless to say, Sporting Gijón itself played well.

Atletico Madrid's defeat of Barcelona at Camp Nou in the last round will certainly do some damage to Barcelona's morale.

The final reason is to be found in FIFA.

When it comes to FIFA, one has to raise the term 'Virus-FIFA'.

In the case of the increasing intensity and density of professional football matches, there will inevitably be conflicts between the national team and the club in terms of employment, and the injuries and fatigue of players in the national team games will affect the club's performance, which is jokingly called the "FIFA virus" by the media.

This season, Barcelona was infected with the "FIFA virus" for the third time.

The first time was in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup away to Sevilla, when the Spanish international was pulled away from Mexico for a friendly match, and Barcelona lost 3-1 away.

The second time came in the second round of the league at home to Hercules, the week before the international break, which Barcelona lost 2-0 at home.

In this game against Sporting Gijón, Barcelona was knocked down by the "FIFA virus" for the third time, and if it weren't for Villa's flash of inspiration, it would probably not even be able to get 1 point.

Although Barcelona controlled the ball throughout the game, they did not create many chances, and it can even be said that they never really threatened the opponent's goal in the first half, but continued to be in danger at the back.

If it weren't for the lack of individual ability of the Sporting Gijón players, Valdés would never have opened the goal just once.

Sporting Gijón may have learned from Atletico Madrid's defensive experience, they have a large number of personnel in the middle, and Messi has struggled to find opportunities in the middle of multiple players.

Xavi and Andres Iniesta both looked tired, with Pedro only getting a chance to play in the second half, Villa being lacklustre for most of the time other than scoring, and Pique taking responsibility for conceding a goal and a very dangerous return pass in the second half.

Even the Catalan media said that Barcelona who appeared in this game was a 'relegated' Barcelona, "If the Barcelona team that beat Real Madrid 5-0 was installed with the IOS system (iPhone operating system), then Barcelona installed the Saipan system (the operating system abandoned by Nokia) in this game." (To be continued.) )