Chapter 118: The Next Opponent: Barcelona

We're victorious again, long live Liverpool! "When the referee blew the full whistle, the whole Anfield stadium suddenly turned into a sea of joy, and even the whole city of Liverpool became a sea of joy

No way, although Liverpool City has two teams, no matter who it is, I'm afraid even Everton fans will not expect their team to reach the Champions League, let alone enter the knockout stages.

Although unwilling, at this time, the Everton fans in the entire Liverpool city could only choose to be silent, watching the Liverpool fans of the city's sworn enemies, celebrating wildly in the streets and bars, and in all parts of the city.

When the Juventus players left the scene with a lonely and lost back, when the entire Anfield stadium became a sea of joy for Liverpool fans, the entire Liverpool team members stayed quietly in the dressing room, quietly waiting, waiting for the news that was most concerned and concerned at the moment.

That is, in five minutes, between Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund, there will be Liverpool's next round opponents. Although the victory over the powerful Juventus, the Liverpool players had no intention of celebrating at this time, and everyone was quietly waiting for the news, although everyone was praying in their hearts at the moment, hoping that Dortmund could be a little more gentlemanly and kill Barcelona.

"Lads, I think, you guys are really good, you have once again won against the mighty Juventus, once again come back from behind. So it doesn't matter if it's Barcelona or Borussia Dortmund next, you don't have to worry because we have the quality to take out every opponent. ”

Looking at the players with serious faces, I always felt that the atmosphere was indeed a little depressing, so I comforted and encouraged the players.

If the next hand is Dortmund, then Liverpool naturally does not need to worry about anything, although Dortmund's strength is strong, there is still a gap between Liverpool and Liverpool. Now the most feared is that the next opponent is Barcelona, well, according to the strength of the two sides, Barcelona even has nine layers of promotion.

You know, in the first leg, Barcelona defeated Dortmund away with a score of 2:1, and at this time, at home, Dortmund wants to stage a big reversal, and there is almost no hope.

But even so, the player is still quietly waiting, waiting for the next opponent to be confirmed.

"How. Is the result out. Who are we against? Just as Lao Bei was still comforting the team. The assistant coach hurried into the locker room to meet Thompson. Lao Bei hurriedly asked.

"The results are in. Nothing but it: points: 1. Barcelona advances. "Looking at the nervous look of Lao Bei and the players. Thompson smiled bitterly helplessly. Tell the most concerned and the worst outcome.

"Well, I already knew. Distance between Dortmund and Barcelona. It's still too far. Barcelona advances. This is a very normal thing. Looks like it's time for us to prepare an opponent that won't be easy to deal with. ”

When it was learned that the next opponent was La Liga side Barcelona. Lao Bei said with a wry smile helplessly.

"What is the situation like in other places?" After thinking about it, Bei continued to ask.

"Except for AC Milan meeting Ajax. The rest of the matches are strong collisions. "Apparently Thompson has done a lot of work on this, and went to Old Bedee to ask. Suddenly said.

"The championship league has already reached this point, the team that can come this far, the team that is not the one who dominates in its own league." Lao Bei sighed and said lightly.

"Barcelona, such a strong team!" George couldn't help but marvel when he heard that Liverpool's next opponent was the mighty Barcelona. Indeed, compared with Liverpool and Barcelona at this time, there is still a significant gap in comprehensive strength. But then again, Liverpool is only a quasi-giant team at this time, referring to the comprehensive strength of the team, and it seems to be the bottom of all the current promotion teams.

Powerful Barcelona, this time not only George thinks so, I am afraid that the entire Liverpool team, when they get the news, will also think so.

"Well, boys, it's not a big deal for Barcelona, you know, I've played against Barcelona before, I still know a lot about them, but they don't know much about us. Now you don't have to worry about anything, all you need to do now is to celebrate, and then have a good rest, and then we have to prepare well to receive the guests from Spain. ”

Although he felt a headache that the next opponent was the powerful Barcelona, when he saw the players with a worried face, Lao Bei still deliberately pretended to be very indifferent, looked down on Barcelona, and comforted the players.

"Yes, Boss used to be the head coach of Valencia, and when he was coaching Valencia, he also overturned Barcelona and Real Madrid, our Liverpool strength is much stronger than Valencia, and of course we can also take out the powerful Barcelona under the leadership of Boss."

Listening to Lao Bei's words, Yeppeston said with a smile. And George and the others heard Yepes's words, and when they thought about it carefully, there was some truth in Yepes's words, and when they thought of this, the psychological pressure suddenly reduced a lot, and everyone couldn't help laughing.

"Yes, it's not a big deal for Barcelona, as long as we train well and don't give our opponents a chance, we can finish them and qualify." For Yepes

Lao Bei didn't think so, but seeing that the mentality of the players at this time had been changed, Lao Bei didn't say anything, and took advantage of Yepes's words to say.

"Okay, kids, we've played the whole game, and everyone is tired, so let's rest early." Thompson wasn't relieved by Yepes' words, but as an assistant coach, Thompson knew exactly what he needed to do when. So after hearing the words of Yepes and Lao Bei, Thompson also said with a smile.

Under the comfort of Lao Bei and Thompson, the mentality of the Liverpool players also began to be happy, laughing and playing with each other, walking out of the locker room, ready to go home and have a good rest.

When George and the others all left the locker room, Lao Bei and Thompson couldn't help but glance at each other, and both of them had heavy worries in each other's eyes.

"The Great Liverpool, Staged a Reversal Again, Successfully Qualified" The next day, the Liverpool Post suddenly praised Liverpool's fighting spirit on the front page of the day, saying: If the last reversal of Juventus was lucky, then this time to eliminate Juventus again shows that Liverpool at this time is fully capable of dealing with every strong opponent in the Champions League.

"The Great No. 7, Liverpool Continues.

Compared with the Liverpool Post, the Yang Newspaper highlights the role of a certain person, and this person is George, the captain of Liverpool's No. 7 team.

In the report, it was written that after George returned from injury, he performed very well, and even the impact and pressure on the opponent's backline was greater than before. At the same time, after the injury, George's talent for recovering to a very high level of competition in a very short period of time is simply amazing.

Of course, The Sun also pointed out that George, like Kevin Keegan, the former owner of the No. 7 shirt, and Kenneda Glish, are leading Liverpool's ancient giant wheel to victory.

Well, I know that "The Sun" is not a sports newspaper, and its third page Lang is the biggest selling point and highlight, and he has also made secret photos of the private life between George and Ellie in the past.

But I have to say that after some people's warnings, the "Sun" was very polite to Liverpool, and did not dare to insult and slander the Liverpool players in the slightest, so that even Riese, the favorite playboy of "The Sun", did not have any private news about Liese at this time.

And Liverpool's captain George is like the God of "Taibao", sacrosanct, George makes mistakes, his form is sluggish, "The Sun" reports comfort and understanding and understanding, when George is fierce, it is praise and infinite praise.

If everyone didn't know that George had nothing to do with The Sun, I'm afraid outsiders would still think that George was the chairman of The Sun, or the illegitimate son of the chairman.

For the obvious difference between "The Sun" and Liverpool, the outside world did not say anything, after all, this kind of thing is put on Liverpool, it is naturally a very good situation, and other clubs will also say something about "The Sun" because of this, after all, the paparazzi of "The Sun" is notoriously powerful, and there are countless stars and celebrities who have been secretly photographed by it, and people who want to say "The Sun" or something must first consider their nude photos and some unsightly things, which will suddenly appear on the front page of a certain issue of "The Sun".

For these, George doesn't care, because George knows very well how much energy his family has, although George has never asked about the family, and deliberately pretends not to know, but George knows very well that the power and influence of the family are definitely much greater than he imagined.

George won't pay attention to these little things at all, or he doesn't have to worry about them at all, after all, there are some things that he, the so-called George family, will help him do. At least since the public relationship with Ellie, George has not heard any rumors about the two in England, and even if there is, it will disappear in an instant the next day.

At this time, George's main concern is that in the case of Liverpool's next opponent Barcelona, George already has the honor of the English League champion, and he is the absolute main force and top scorer of the team to help the team win the league championship, so George can be said to have no regrets in the English League.

But the Champions League trophy, George has not tasted it at least so far, and last season was also after Juventus, because of the team's physical overdraft, was bloodied by the powerful Real Madrid. So at the moment George's thoughts are concerned about the Champions League.

When George returned home, the first thing he did was to turn on the computer and start looking up the information about Barcelona, and when two hours passed, George lay on the sand and had to sigh that Barcelona was indeed very powerful.

Barcelona is one of the best clubs in the world, and the history of the team should be more than 100 years old, and the history of Barcelona should be the emergence of countless stars and star eras.

Kubala in the 50s, Cruyff in the 70s, Maradona in the 80s, Romario in the 90s and Ronaldo, and of course the current representative player, the Brazilian Ronaldinho.

Moreover, Barcelona is also the representative team of the world art football, and its slogan of attacking football has been called for half a century, while the Dutchman Cruyff has brought Barcelona art football to the top.

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Ronaldo's lineup can tell how strong Barcelona is. Valdés, a young goalkeeper trained by Barcelona Youth Training Camp himself, is now only 211 years old, and he has already squeezed Turkish goalkeeper Rustu on the bench.

You must know that a team, especially the goalkeeper position, generally speaking, the older and more experienced, the better. However, Valdés relied on his outstanding individual talent to become the team's main goalkeeper at the age of 211 and had just been transferred from the Barcelona B team to the first team, which shows how good Valdés' strength is.

Nonsense, if Valdés is not a dignified Barcelona, then Barcelona will not rest assured that Valdés will not be at ease to hand over the team's door and the last line of defense to Valdés.

In terms of central defenders, Edmilson, the main Brazilian central defender in the 2002 World Cup, is in Barcelona Although Edmilson is easily injured, he can't tolerate his strong defensive ability, and Edmilson is also an excellent all-rounder at the back.

The other centre-back is the current Barcelona captain and defender Puyol, who has grown up in Barcelona's youth academy. Although Enrique was still the captain of Barcelona at this time, a discerning person knew at a glance that Enrique could do it, and Puyol had gradually grown into Enrique's successor.

According to Enrique's calculations, the days of Yol's succession are not short.

Puyol, known as the little lion king, is only 178cm, his body is very strong, his body is very strong, and his excellent bounce power makes Puyol not at all inferior in terms of high-altitude balls. Fast, filled, fierce in steals, steady in defense, and a desperate character, Puyol is definitely an opponent for an offensive player like George.

In terms of midfield, Serona is the most powerful, Xavi, Deco, are definitely the best midfielders in the world, and they are also the players that any team wants to get.

The two are excellent in both defense and breakthrough, of course, the most important thing is the passing of the two, it is precisely because of the passing of the two that the huge machine of Barcelona has been driven, so that Barcelona's artistic football can be played smoothly.

In Barcelona's offensive line, Sweden's legendary goalscorer Larsson is at the front, although he is over 30 years old, but since he is a legendary goalscorer, no matter how old Larsson is, as long as he stays on the field, he is a mortal threat.

And the two wings, one is the Frenchman, who is a very fast player with excellent dribbling. He has excellent individual breakthroughs and shooting and passing ability, and is an opponent to be taken lightly from the right side of Barcelona.

On the right side of Barcelona is the king of Barona, Brazilian Ronaldinho. Excellence, skill at the feet, and imaginative breakthroughs and passing are all characteristics of Ronaldinho.

It is precisely because of the presence of Ronaldinho that Barcelona can resist the gorgeous and powerful Galaxy battleship in La Liga, even if the two sides meet each other, Barcelona will not be at a disadvantage under the leadership of Ronaldinho.

"Damn, that's tough!" Looking at the ceiling, George couldn't help but sigh. Others don't know, but George is very aware of Barcelona's strength, not to mention the fact that he later completed the first six-time championship in history.

Of course, these George are not worried, George is currently most worried about three people, one is the biggest opponent he is about to face, Puyol, George knows very well that this guy is about to become the captain of Barcelona, of course, what worries and values George the most is Puyol's defensive ability in the backfield.

When the two sides met for the first time at Anfield a few days later, how to break through Puyol's defence was what George was most concerned about.

The second is Barcelona's midfielder Deco, a Brazilian who has become a Portuguese citizen and has an excellent sense of the big picture and accurate passing ability. It can be said that Barcelona's attack was completely organized by Deco alone. Although Xavi is the brain of Barcelona in the future, at this time, Xavi is still Deco's younger brother and has not yet officially taken the position.

The third is naturally Brazilian Ronaldinho, a football genius who is about to reach the peak of his career, and will definitely become a nightmare for the Liverpool backline.

The flashy dribbling, the bizarre breakaways, and the imaginative and creative passing were all deadly. Of course, Ronaldinho's own free-kicks and breakaway shots were also fatal.

"Damn, forget it, don't think about it, let Lao Bei think about these things." The more I thought about it, the more George felt that Ronaldinho was powerful, and at the same time, the more he felt the strength of Barcelona. Thinking about it, I started to worry again, and before the game started, I felt the pressure brought by the strong Barcelona. George muttered quietly and gave up thinking about Barcelona.

George's idea is not wrong, it is useless to think too much, it is better to let Lao Bei worry and find a way. At this time, in a room in Liverpool, Lao Bei was looking at Barcelona's information and La Liga games, and was sighing while watching.

(Now the main purpose of this book is to focus on the Champions League, so it needs to be written in detail, and as for the league, the content is slowly decreasing.) )