Chapter 748: Defeat Barcelona

"Force! Force! Forcing ......"

With Puyol's final header deflected, referee Fade blew the whistle for the end of the game.

Time is running out after Chen Yu's goal, Barcelona has used up three substitutions, unable to provide any changes in tactics, their talented stars have no fitness and space, and it is like a fish without water, and there is no inspiration, although the referee Fade gave 4 minutes of stoppage time, Barcelona still could not break Liverpool's goal again, and could only accept the result of being defeated by Liverpool at home.

After the game, most of the Barcelona fans stayed in the stands, they did not boo, they did not give applause, they just stood in silence in the stands.

The pressure of the silence of 70,000 or 80,000 people was suffocating, and the embarrassed Barcelona players remained on the pitch without a face, and they quickly walked to the mixed lane, forgetting even the basic etiquette of thanking the fans.

The Liverpool players didn't feel the pressure of the Barcelona players and beating Barcelona away from home was definitely something to celebrate, with the Liverpool players cheering on the pitch and celebrating with the Liverpool fans in the stands.

When the Liverpool players were celebrating for an interview with reporters, water suddenly erupted in the Camp Nou field, and many faucets gushed together, and the Liverpool players could not hide, and they were sprayed wet all over.

Liverpool manager Benitez angrily approached Rijkaard, Rijkaard said he didn't know why he sprayed water, Rika Barry found Barcelona general manager Begiristan, Begiristan pretended to ask the stadium manager, saying that this was normal turf maintenance.

It's hard to believe this kind of deception to primary school students, because if Barcelona wins, it is impossible for the players not to celebrate in the stadium and directly spray water to maintain the turf, but since people are not happy to see Liverpool celebrate on their field, Liverpool has no choice, except for Chen Yu, Gerrard, Bellamy three interviews with reporters on the sidelines, the other players can only go back to the dressing room to celebrate.

The first question the reporter asked Chen Yu was, "Do you think you still have any hope of winning the top scorer in the Champions League?" ”

Chen Yu smiled: "Then you might as well ask if we are likely to eliminate Barcelona in the next game." ”

The reporter was also smart, and continued: "You mean that if you knock out Barcelona, you will get the top scorer? ”

Chen Yu smiled bitterly: "You deliberately, or your understanding is like this, I mean that only by eliminating Barcelona can I have the possibility of competing for the top scorer." ”

The reporter said: "Do you have any confidence in the next elimination of Barcelona? ”

Chen Yu said: "Of course there is confidence, but confidence alone is useless, there are many factors that determine the outcome of the game, and the result can only be known after the next game." ”

The reporter asked: "This is your seventh goal against Barcelona, it only took four games, why are you always so excited about Barcelona?" β€œ

Chen Yu touched a handful of wet hair and said: "It's not that exaggerated, I'm excited about any important game, not against Barcelona alone." ”

The reporter then asked: "What do you think of the result of this game?" Is the top 2:1 and 8 stable? ”

Chen Yu smiled: "Are you stable?" 2-1 is definitely the best result, back at home, as long as we don't lose two goals to advance. However, Barca's attacking power is very good, they have the quality to win both of us away from home, so it is possible and we have to be ready. ”

The reporter said: "The two goals given to you today were assisted by Bellamy, why did the brawl between him and his teammates before the game not affect his performance, you must know that Eto'o did not even enter the squad......"

Chen Yu said with a smile: "Eto'o is in conflict with the manager, Bellamy is in conflict with his teammates, of course the result is different, Bellamy is very fast, he plays a great role in counterattacks, his temper is a little irritable, there is no fuss about conflicts with teammates." ”

In this focus battle, Chen Yu, who won two goals alone, is of course the focus, but Bellamy, who assisted him with two goals, is not inferior to Chen Yu.

Before the game, he had a big fight with his teammates, and many people thought that Bellamy had no chance to start, but he didn't expect Benitez to use people without suspicion and sent Bellamy and Reese to the field, and Bellamy did not live up to Benitez's trust, and two assists helped Liverpool beat Barcelona away and laid a solid foundation for advancing to the quarterfinals.

When the reporter interviewed Bellamy, the first thing he asked was, "After the fight with Risse, did you ever think that you would start?" ”。

Bellamy looked like a hanger, "Does my starter have anything to do with fighting?" It's all about quality to start, I have the quality to start at Liverpool, and my watch proves that, at Liverpool, no one is better than me except the captain and Chen. ”

The reporters were all sweating, this one was indeed a little lacking in heart, and he dared to speak like this in front of reporters, but they liked it very much, because such a player is too easy to attract the attention of fans.

"You gave both of your assists to Chen in this game, is it because you have a better relationship?"

Bellamy shook his head and said, "No, because they can't hit the ball I pass to the others." ”

"Did you think about beating Barcelona away from home before the game?"

Bellamy said: "I didn't think we would lose, we haven't lost since Chen came to Liverpool, today is my son's 10th birthday, I wanted to give him the goal, but two assists are also good, I'm sure my son will like it." ”

"What do you think of Ronaldinho and Chen Yu's performance today, in today's world football, they are the hottest stars."

Bellamy said, "What do you think? What do you look at, Ronaldinho plays very well, but what's the use of looking good, Chen can score goals, he can win, that's the best. ”

Compared with Bellamy, the captain on the other side, Gerrard, has a bit of the style of head coach Benitez when he is interviewed.

"The game is very difficult, the opponent is very strong, it is already good to be able to get a draw, it is a pleasure to win, 2:1 allows us to take the initiative in the two-legged knockout round, but Barcelona is a strong team, the score of 2:1 must not be safe, the second game will be more difficult, for the big team, there is no home and away difference, the strength determines a qiΔ“......" Speaking of this, Gerrard seemed to feel a little too arrogant, so he added: "...... For example, Barcelona has a lot of opportunities today, but they have not been able to score, and we grasp the opportunity better, Chen's arrival has given us great help, it turns out that our biggest weakness is not to grasp the opportunity, and now, grasping the opportunity has become our biggest strength. ”

Bellamy and Gerrard are praising Chen Yu, especially Gerrard, he is Liverpool's banner figure, spiritual leader, after Chen Yu came to Liverpool, he helped Chen Yu integrate into the team a lot, but on outside occasions, Gerrard is still very cautious about Chen Yu's praise, but now that this win, Gerrard is so happy that he can't help but praise Chen Yu directly to the media.

Not only was Gerrard praising Chen Yu, but at the post-match press conference, Benitez and Rijkaard also praised Chen Yu.

This is the battle between two giants who have won the Champions League, and there are a lot of reporters who come, and the press conference hall at Camp Nou is already very wide, but it is still not enough for reporters to sit, and there are many reporters standing outside the door.

Rafael Benitez returned to his home country to play today, and the result was an away win against Barcelona, and he happily wanted to announce it to the world, and arrived in the press conference hall early, but Rijkaard was almost five minutes late.

The two are also old friends and old rivals, shaking hands with each other, and then Rijkaard took the lead to speak.

"First of all, congratulations to Liverpool for winning the game, they played very well, the game was very aggressive, and it was not unreasonable to win, but it was us who controlled the game today, except for goals and fouls, we were better than Liverpool in all aspects, but our ability to grasp the opportunity was too poor, and we only scored one goal after creating so many chances, so it is not a loss to lose such a game...... There will definitely be people who criticize ValdΓ©s after the game, his mistake did cause us a lot of difficulties, but this is not the root cause of our loss, ValdΓ©s's overall performance is still very good, the loss is definitely a problem for the whole team, you can't blame one player...... In addition, I hope the fans can understand our current difficulties, Eto'o can't play, Messi has just recovered from injury, these two geniuses are decisive in the game, just like Liverpool today, if there is no Chen Yu to seize the only two opportunities, this game is likely to be our 1:0 win, Chen Yu helped Liverpool a lot, he almost single-handedly raised Liverpool by half a notch, after this game, we estimate that Liverpool is now the favorite to win the championship...... It's been a game and we've been looking at things positively, but it's also realistic that it's going to be difficult to get over. There were still 90 minutes to go, but all Liverpool had to do was try to keep the ball in their possession. We have to go into this game with confidence, we have to believe in ourselves. ”

Rijkaard said quite emotionally and helplessly, Barcelona and Liverpool are equal, now Barcelona lost 1:2 at home to Liverpool, it is too difficult to turn the tables away from home, although Rijkaard did not carefully check how many times he turned the tables after losing 1:2 at home in the Champions League, but the probability is certainly not large, Rijkaard is very familiar with Benitez, in the Champions League, people like Mourinho are deflated in his hands, and Rijkaard does not have the confidence to turn the tables in such a disadvantage.

Benitez must have been overjoyed, and when he spoke, although he was still suppressing his feelings, his words were still full of pride.

"Thank you to both teams for a great game, I said in the pre-match press conference that the atmosphere between the two teams is going to be very good and as you can see today, they gave a lot to the team, to the club and to the supporters.

For me, I'm happy that Bellamy and Chan scored the decisive goals and I'm happy that the team won the game. The players played very well, they trained hard, they were very committed to the game, and it was not easy to play Barcelona because of this game. I think the team did a fantastic job of playing counter-attacks.

It's not done, and of course we've got a good chance to qualify, but as I've said before, we have to be more careful. Barcelona are also good at counter-attacking, and they have a group of counter-attacking masters.

At the end of the game, you have to thank the fans for winning, and with so many supporters coming to support you away from home, it means even more to win. I could hear them singing the whole time, which gave us positive factors and I really have to thank them. ”

Then the reporter asked Rijkaard and Benitez respectively, and compared to Benitez, who won, the reporter threw all the questions to Rijkaard, who failed.

"Losing at home, I don't know if you've thought about it, are you mentally prepared?" The Spanish journalist asked aggressively.

Rijkaard groaned for a moment and finally said: "I thought about it, but I was not mentally prepared because it was a game that we couldn't lose, we were preparing for this game for a long time, but the pressure of the league was also very high, and we had a hard game with Valencia before, which caused us to have some problems with our fitness in the final stage and we couldn't equalize in the end. ”

"What do you think of Ronaldinho's table, is he the root cause of Barcelona's defeat today?" The Spanish journalist continued.

Rijkaard said: "Ronaldinho was not in form today, but he had a lot of shining moments on the pitch and it wasn't that one's responsibility to lose. ”

'Why didn't Samuel Eto'o play, and if he did, would the result of the game change?'

Rijkaard's biggest annoyance now is that someone mentions Eto'o, if it weren't for Eto'o's bombardment, Barcelona's forward line would definitely not be the current Saviola, with Eto'o's speed, the result of this game is really difficult to say.

"Eto'o didn't play because of physical reasons, even if Eto'o played, the result of the game is difficult to say, Liverpool didn't create many chances in this game, but their striker Chen's ability to grasp the opportunity was too strong, and their chances to create a zΓ o were almost all grasped by him."

Finally, a reporter asked Benitez, "Did you ever think that Bellamy would play so well, did you think about not letting Bellamy play?" ”

Benitez smiled: "Bellamy is our main force and his pace is an important weapon for us when we play defensive counter-attacks. However, I didn't expect him to play so well, maybe it was the pre-match incident that affected him a lot, and today he was holding back his strength to explode. ”

Benitez and Rijkaard are not Mourinho's kind of people, so the reporter didn't have any special interview questions.

After the questions were asked, and after the post-match press conference, Rafael Benitez returned to the dressing room to celebrate with his players before leaving Barcelona in Spain overnight to prepare for another game against Manchester United.

There are three other games played at the same time as Liverpool and Barcelona, and unlike this one, the other three games have all ended in draws, including Inter Milan and Valencia 2:2, Porto and Chelsea, and Florence and Lyon.

At this point, all eight games of the championship quarterfinals are over, two giants, Real Madrid and Liverpool have the last laugh, while Bayern and Barcelona have been hit by defeat, Bayern is a little better, two goals away from home, only a small loss, back to the Allianz Arena still has a big chance.

Barcelona is different, the 1-2 defeat at home almost knocked them out early, because away they need to score more than two goals to win to eliminate Liverpool, for Liverpool, who has always been known for their strong defense, Barcelona will definitely have more difficulty winning away from home.

After the game, the English media attached great importance to this victory, in their opinion, Liverpool has basically reached the quarterfinals, although Chelsea and Porto draw, but considering the strength of Porto in general, Chelsea eliminated them is certainly not a problem, even if it is Arsenal who lost, because they lost to Eindhoven in the Eredivisie, the media is also optimistic that they will enter the quarterfinals, if you add Manchester United who won away, "The Sun" believes that "this season's Premier League will shine in the Champions League, as long as the luck is not too much, Maybe half of the top eight is not a big problem. ”

The Times commented: "Out of eight games, the Premier League teams have won two, drawn one and lost one, but all four Premier League teams are playing away, and in this case, they can achieve two wins, one defeat and one draw, and they are very optimistic that they will all qualify...... Before the game, Liverpool was the least favored, because their opponent was Barcelona, but now just after the first leg, the best shape shΓ¬ is Liverpool, the score of 2:1 has not been overturned in the history of the Champions League, can Barcelona be the first? It is estimated that it is difficult, Benitez's defensive counterattack is not covered, and back to Anfield, Barcelona is only afraid that it should lose less and win. ”

Other European media are also optimistic about the outbreak of the Premier League team this season, the German "Bild" commented: "The only seedling of the Bundesliga Bayern lost away, and it is difficult to say whether it can turn the tables back at home, the two teams are similar in strength, and there is a reason for who will advance in the end." The three teams in La Liga have one win, one loss and one draw, the table can only be said to be decent, the three games of the Serie A team are all drawn, for Inter Milan and AC Milan, promotion may not be a big problem, but for Fiorentina, the away side is dangerous, only the Premier League is the best, maybe they can all be promoted, after so many years of prosperity, the Premier League is finally going to produce results. ”

La Liga football is almost the world of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the Spanish media is also divided into two factions, one is pro-Real Madrid and the other is pro-Barcelona.

Now that Barcelona is losing and Real Madrid is winning, the "As" and "Marca" newspapers that support Real Madrid naturally praise Real Madrid vigorously and belittle Barcelona vigorously, while the "Daily Sports" and "World Sports" believe that Real Madrid's victory is not worth boasting about, and Bayern will lose with two away goals, and although Barcelona is dangerous, it is not hopeless.

However, both the media supporting Real Madrid and the media supporting Barcelona unanimously believe that Liverpool is already the favorite to win the championship, which is not a theory, in fact, Liverpool already has the strength to win the championship after Chen Yu joined.