(Three more tomorrow, there is only one chapter today)

El Prat International Airport is located in the small town of El Padro Breguet, about 13 kilometres from the city of Barcelona, and when the Liverpool players arrived at the airport, the luxury buses sent by FC Barcelona had been waiting here for a long time.

The airport may be far from the city, but that doesn't stop some enthusiastic fans from coming to the airport to greet Liverpool.

However, these enthusiastic fans are not only Liverpool fans, but also many Barcelona fans, who have come to the airport not to welcome Liverpool, but to put pressure on Liverpool.

"Long live Barcelona! Liverpool must lose. ”

Barcelona fans in blue and red jerseys shouted slogans to announce to Liverpool's players whose turf this is.

"Long live Liverpool! Liverpool must win! ”

Liverpool's fans are not weak, they are more numerous than the local Barcelona fans, and at the moment they are surrounding the Liverpool players, also chanting slogans to cheer for Liverpool.

The Spanish fans, while enthusiastic, were not as fanatical and rogue as the English fans, who were just shouting slogans around and no one was attacking the Liverpool players and fans.

The Liverpool players signed autographs, took photos of the fans who came to support them, and half an hour later got on the bus and left the airport for Juan in downtown Barcelona. Carlos Grand Hotel.

Barcelona is the capital of art, football, and one of the most densely populated cities in Europe, and the roads become congested after the bus enters the city, with black-haired Spanish girls, blonde Catalan handsome guys, dark-skinned and snow-white blacks, people of all races, and a distinctly cosmopolitan fan.

Arrival in Juan. After the Carlos Hotel, Benitez first held a press conference, which was attended by the troublesome Reese and Bellamy.

The person who can attend the press conference with the manager is never chosen randomly, either the core of the team or the coach's favorite player, and this time Benitez brought Reese and Bellamy, which is obviously to show the outside world that there are no internal problems at Liverpool and that Reese and Bellamy are in good shape.

Benitez is different from other Liverpool fans, he is originally Spaniard, he is very familiar with Barcelona, the city, the country, although he does not feel at home here, but he is very relaxed, even the clothes are casual.

Benitez first thanked the Liverpool fans for their support, "It's exciting to see the Reds fans in an unfamiliar city and hear them sing the Liverpool anthem, and I am very grateful to the Liverpool fans, facing a strong opponent like Barcelona, their enthusiasm is one of the weapons we have to defeat the opponents." ”

Benitez then praised his opponents, Barcelona, saying, "I've played against Barcelona many times, it's a team that has always been feared. Their style of play is unique, and even if we change shirts with Barcelona, an unfamiliar fan will be able to recognize at a glance which is Barcelona and which is Liverpool. It's very difficult to beat them, especially at Camp Nou, but we'll try to do that because we haven't lost here yet, it's a good record and we're going to stick with it. ”

Finally, Benitez talked about Liverpool's current situation, "The team is very good now, it should be said that there is no better team than us in the whole of Europe, we have won 15 consecutive games in the most competitive Premier League, which is something to show off, because no team has done it before, Chen Yu is the biggest magic weapon for us to win, I believe Barcelona will treat him specially, but it is useless, the whole Premier League is studying him, he still scores every game, I hope his goalscoring efficiency in the league will continue in the Champions League. ”

Benitez didn't say a word about the fight between Bellamy and Reese, but the meaning of his words was already what he wanted to say.

Later, Bellamy and Reese also expressed their views on the game, but these two people were obviously here to be puppets, and their speeches were all prepared in advance, and now they are recited, and it is only when they are asked by reporters that Bellamy reveals a little personal thought.

'I don't know if I'll be able to play, we have a lot of good strikers, I'm not the main attacker, our killer is Chen, I really admire Chen, because I know he's under a lot of pressure every day, everybody talks about him, in the dressing room, in the bar, on the pitch. I know how hard it is to live in this environment. But it's amazing that Chen is always able to score goals under such pressure, and if I play, I hope to be able to help Chen take some of the pressure off and make up for my mistakes with goals. ”

While his teammates and coach held a press conference, Chen Yu was locking himself in his bedroom to compete with the star's crash system.

As a player who has played against Barcelona three times, Chen Yu understands the terrible of Barcelona than all his teammates, if it is a Barcelona in full form, Liverpool's hope of winning at Camp Nou is not higher than 5%, although this is a Barcelona team full of problems, but Liverpool's hope of winning will never exceed 50%.

So Chen Yu really wants to help the team as much as possible, but he has just asked the football elf Coffey to scan the body several times, he is not enough to bind the intermediate superstar, can only bind the junior superstar, in the number jù given by the system, technology, consciousness These two aspects, Chen Yu has recovered to the original level, the body, the explosiveness and flexibility are a little worse, not up to the level of the intermediate superstar, and the spirit, Chen Yu is a lot worse, but he barely reaches the level of the junior superstar, obviously, The injury to Chen Yu was mainly mental, not physical.

At this time, let Chen Yu skip the bound, Chen Yu definitely wouldn't dare, the cost is too great, Chen Yu is now almost dead to the bound, but Chen Yu is still seriously searching for the number of jù library, hoping to find a more suitable star to bind and improve the possibility of winning tomorrow's game.

Against Barcelona, Liverpool has no possibility of gaining an advantage in the midfield, Barcelona's problem is in the backline, according to a series of training before the game, Chen Yu knows that his starting position must be a striker, one is a winger, providing ammunition to Crouch, and the other is an opportunistic striker, using Crouch as a cover and taking the opportunity to score, but thinking of Benitez taking the two of them despite Bellamy and Reese's fight, Chen Yu understands that Benitez will make him the main scorer in the vast majority, not a passer.

After repeated screening, Chen Yu's final choice of striker is his opponent Inzaghi in Serie A, this person has an excellent sense of grabbing points, with a mediocre physique, mediocre skills can reach the superstar level, because he has good consciousness and can always score goals.

After Benitez met with reporters and fans at the press conference, he came back and held a team meeting, one is to announce the team's schedule and training plan in Barcelona, Barcelona is a city with a very rich nightlife, and the Spanish girl is enthusiastic, Benitez is very worried that something will happen to the players, and the current brawl has not been completely settled, if something happens again, Benitez can't stand it. The second is to internally announce the team's starting and substitute lineups, and explain the positions that the players will play.

Sure enough, as Chen Yu expected, Benitez did not dare to waste Chen Yu's scoring talent when facing Barcelona, and put him in the middle to partner with Crouch, Benitez has enough side raiders, and there is no need for Chen Yu to create opportunities, in fact, when facing Barcelona, it is difficult for them to take the initiative to create any opportunities, it depends on whether Barcelona makes mistakes or not.

In the afternoon, Liverpool's players went to the European Dream Factory Camp Nou to experience it, and the Camp Nou, which can accommodate 100,000 people, has opened the eyes of many Liverpool players who come for the first time, and they are more eager for the new owner to build a new stadium as soon as possible.

Each round of Champions League matches is usually played over two days, with Liverpool's match coming on the second matchday, and that evening, the Liverpool players watched the matchup between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich on the first matchday in the conference room of the hotel, and the result was not surprising, with Real Madrid narrowly beating Bayern 3-2 at home.

Although Real Madrid's tactical style of play is different from Barcelona, some common characteristics of La Liga teams can also be seen from Real Madrid, that is, they focus on offense and light defense, otherwise they would not have played such a high score.

In the remaining three games, Arsenal suffered a shock defeat to PSV Eindhoven, Celtic drew 0-0 with AC Milan and Manchester United beat Lille 1-0 away.

The two giants Arsenal and Milan in the first round did not play well, which also reminded Liverpool that after playing to the knockout round, no matter what the state of the team is, any team will not take it to heart and will definitely go all out, so Liverpool can't want to steal a game at Camp Nou by luck, but should show the spirit of Istanbul to play the second half of AC Milan.

If the focus of the first matchday was the battle of Real Madrid and Bayern, then the focus of the second matchday was the battle between Liverpool and Barcelona.

February 22. The long-awaited Champions League quarter-final match between Liverpool and Barcelona has arrived.

Barcelona has become a city surrounded by football, and every street seems to be waiting for a chance to cheer when the Olympics are just around the corner.

Camp Nou is undoubtedly the focus of Barcelona and the whole of Spain, if you sit on the plane and look down, you can clearly see the dense crowd of ant-like fans converging towards the stadium, and every Barcelona fan who enters the stadium has a cheerful smile on their faces, they are discussing the upcoming final with great interest, and there is little worry on their faces. Obviously, Barcelona fans think they have won this quarter-final!

In fact, Barcelona fans should really think like this, because if they can't win at home, are they still ready to go to the terrifying Anfield to qualify?

At the moment, the players have not yet come, reporters are interviewing fans outside the stadium, whether Barcelona fans or Liverpool fans are full of passion, and they do not forget to shout the slogan "Barcelona must win" or "Liverpool must win" when being interviewed, making the atmosphere before the game more lively.

Soon, the Barcelona bus arrived, and before the bus reached the stadium, there was a deafening cheer outside the Camp Nou. When the Liverpool bus came, it was the opposite, and the sound was not small, but unfortunately all you could hear was boos.

10,000 Liverpool fans are like a wave in the ocean in front of Barcelona fans who don't know how many times they are.

Listening to the boos on the Anfield pitch against the visiting team, Liverpool's players and fans did not look good. They are worried about what level the team will be able to play in such an environment.

The whole Liverpool team, who arrived twenty minutes early, had already entered the dressing room.

Chen Yu sat in front of his cabinet to change his training clothes, which happened to be used when he played at Camp Nou in Florence, which made Chen Yu sigh with emotion.

Chen Yu has mixed feelings for Barcelona, he defeated Barcelona and won the club's highest honor, but was kicked by Barcelona's player Valdés and missed for more than half a year.

Today's Chen Yu certainly not only wants to continue the taste of last season's victory, but also hopes to find the thrill of revenge from Valdés.

The Camp Nou, which can accommodate 100,000 people, was packed with reporters today.

When the two sides played in the warm-up, the Liverpool players were once again booed unreservedly by Barcelona fans, especially Chen Yu, who was a thorn in the side of Barcelona fans, in the eyes of Barcelona fans, it was Chen Yu who snatched Barcelona's second Champions League trophy, although Chen Yu was injured, but he couldn't withstand the anger and regret of losing the trophy. So? Barcelona fans seized the opportunity and time to put pressure on Chen Yu.

But the Liverpool players were indifferent to this, they didn't even lift their heads, and concentrated on warming up.

After the warm-up, Liverpool returned to their dressing room.

Benitez, who has always been as calm as water, is rarely loud to encourage the players.

?“ The game is about to start and it can be said that this is the most important and difficult game of the season for us, but we have made a lot of preparations, I am sure that you will get the job done, draw the opponent and get an away goal, as long as you complete this task and go back to Anfield, we will be able to eliminate Barca, if we eliminate Barcelona, we will have hope of reaching the final, the Champions League, it will always be the proudest battlefield of the Reds, I don't want you to lose the honor of your predecessors, here, Liverpool have never lost. I, Benitez, haven't lost here and today, I don't want to see you lose this game. ”

"We won't lose!"

"Kill Barcelona!"

"Liverpool must win!"

The Liverpool players were demoralized by Benitez, clenching their fists and roaring one by one, and the boos that came from outside the stadium from time to time could no longer be heard at this time, because their hearts were full of courage.