Real Madrid need to decompress and concentrate on re-finding the team's technical and tactical balance, which is a problem of technical and tactical system, and Barcelona's two consecutive defeats seem to be more serious, but in Cruyff's eyes, it is only a small problem of on-the-spot performance, which is better and easier to solve.

Immediately afterwards, the team's manager Pep Guardiola stepped in to protect the team from further mental pressure on the players, and Guardiola was interviewed before the Copa del Rey trip in midweek.

"I'm responsible for my failures."

Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola said.

In the young coach's opinion, after a period of slump in the team, it is his turn to stand up and speak for the team.

Previously, when Barcelona were on a triolatory stride, Pep Guardiola had repeatedly stated that the players, not the manager, were the key to the team's success.

Now, Barcelona have been underperforming in successive games, and Guardiola does not want to find a scapegoat, but has taken the initiative to take the blame.

At the same time, he also expressed optimism about the team's prospects.

'I think we're going to be champions,' said Pep Guardiola.

"We now have a two-point lead and we will extend that in the future. If we don't win in the end, then I'll suffer the consequences, and I'll congratulate the champion."

After suffering two defeats in a row, Barcelona is under pressure.

At this critical moment, Guardiola, who has always kept a low profile, did not choose to back down, but bravely stepped into the spotlight and played the leading role.

He didn't want to be as strong as his master Cruyff - if I lost, you were right. If I win, it's on my side – it's about facing reality and fighting the pressures around me.

Training players is the first step out of a difficult situation.

"You have to trust me and what I say." Pep Guardiola spoke to his players as a savior.

"You've done a great job before. Now you know what to do. I don't ask you to do any miracles, you just need to do what you have done before. Believe me, there's only one path ahead, and we know how to do it. ”

Pep Guardiola then continued to cheer on his players, saying: "I'm the boss of this team. I am a leader. If you keep following me, we'll get there, I never doubt that. If anything happens, I'm here to take it, and the news media just needs to target me."

The club side does not seem to be doing everything possible to protect the team.

On the plane to the second leg of the Copa del Rey semi-finals, only 25 fans travelled with the team.

But Pep Guardiola laughed it off, quipping: "The plane is full." ”

On this expedition to Mallorca, Guardiola brought everyone he could, including injured players.

Andres Iniesta, who passed a medical on Tuesday, will be on the bench and ready to play.

Even the team's medical staff traveled with the team. There were 40 people in Barcelona.

Pep Guardiola is adamant: "We've worked together so far, and we're going to work together to reach the Copa del Rey final. ”

In the face of a mob of journalists, Guardiola said: "I'm not as worried as you say. It's your job when and what kind of articles you have, you can come up with the wording as you want, but what I'm telling you is that I believe in my team, I believe in my players, and I believe in myself. One word. If I lose, you are the winners; But if I win. Then I'm the winner."

At the moment, Pep Guardiola has not decided which goalkeeper to start.

Pinto was the main goalkeeper in the previous Copa del Rey games, but Valdés, who had been frustrated by his confidence, also needed to be appeased at this time.

In any case, leaving aside the question of the goalkeeper, Pep Guardiola will give it his all in this game, despite Barcelona already taking a 2-0 lead in the first leg.

Pep Guardiola said: "We will attack. Attack, attack again, and try to win the game in one fell swoop. ”

'We should get back to our old form in this game, be as ambitious as we used to and play aggressive football. I don't ask people to believe in these players. But no one else will stop me from giving them full credit."

Before the game, Real Madrid club president Boruda claimed that Real Madrid had actually taken the lead over Barcelona because Barcelona were bound to lose away to Real Madrid.

When asked about this, Pep Guardiola simply said lightly: "He seems to have correctly predicted their outcome against Liverpool." - Boruda had said before Real Madrid's home game against Liverpool that Real Madrid would beat Liverpool 3-0 at home and then "flatten" Liverpool away, only to have Real Madrid draw 2-2 at home.

'I have a lot of respect for the president of Real Madrid, but he doesn't have the ability to dampen my morale and enthusiasm, even though he is the president of Real Madrid.

Guardiola finally said.

In a difficult period for both La Liga giants, there is a huge contrast between the roles played by the two clubs in addition to the players and coaches.

Real Madrid's president, Boruda, seems to have followed Calderón's stinky faults and likes to talk about it.

Sometimes it boosts the team's confidence, and sometimes it puts the players under more pressure and the fallout from the outside.

Like before he said that Real Madrid would beat Liverpool, and the result? slapped his face, which also made the team quite embarrassed, after all, he is the president, and what he said made Real Madrid "everyone's responsibility".

Now it is clear that the team needs to face the future calmly, keep a low profile, and even do their best against the rest of the world, but he has made a big deal of judgment that Real Madrid will win the future national derby.

This is simply unreasonable.

Perhaps Boruda has only seen a positive change in Real Madrid's numbers in the standings from six points down to two points behind after two league games.

And did not take a closer look at the difficulties faced by the teams in the matches between Real Madrid and Liverpool and Espanyol!

To put it simply, Real Madrid's past style of play is no longer viable!

Liverpool have opened the door and used a textbook game to show the world how to play Real Madrid, and most effectively.

The Madrid derby is just around the corner, but Real Madrid travel to Anfield next week for a Champions League clash with Liverpool. (To be continued.) )