Chapter 2 Peak Messi
"Lin, Lin, did you hear what I said?"
Seeing his friend's distraction, Deulofeu stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes, asking with a puzzled face.
"Well, I'm listening!"
Lin Quan came back to his senses and replied.
Deulofeu looked incredulous and asked curiously:
"What were you thinking just now, and you didn't respond when I called you several times?"
Seeing his friend's puzzled expression, Lin Quan knew that this guy's curiosity was offended.
So I made an excuse and said perfunctorily:
"I was just thinking, how many goals can Messi score this year?"
Messi is Deulofeu's idol, and as soon as he heard Lin Quan mention his idol, he immediately became interested.
"I thought, there must be sixty or seventy balls, right?"
Messi scored a total of 57 goals in the 2010-2011 season, including 53 for club and four for country.
This season's performance is clearly better than last year's, so there is a good chance that the total number of goals will surpass last year's.
Hearing Deulofeu's answer, Lin Quan shook his head with a smile and said:
"Gerrard, isn't Messi your idol? Why are you so conservative in your predictions? ”
"Conservative?"
Deulofeu looked confused, sixty or seventy goals are still conservative?
He was very curious, in Lin Quan's opinion, how much is not conservative?
"So how many goals do you think Messi can score?"
"I think I can have 80 or even 90 goals!"
Lin Quan replied with a serious face.
"No kidding, do you know what the world record is?"
When Deulofeu heard Lin Quan's words, his eyes widened and his face was in disbelief.
You know, the current world record is only 85 goals.
If Messi can score eighty or ninety goals, doesn't that mean he has a chance to break the world record?
But how can this world record be so easy to break?
Gerd Müller's record was set in 1972, and for 40 years now, no one has been able to break it, not even anyone who has come close to it.
Although Messi is great, Deulofeu does not dare to imagine that Messi can break this record.
"I know, the current world record is 85 goals in a natural year set by Germany's Gerd Müller at Bayern Munich in 1972!"
"But Messi has scored 46 goals in the first five months of the year, and he is less than 40 goals away from Gerd Muller's record."
'It's only been five months since this year, so he's got a lot of time to keep scoring and based on his current form, I don't think it's that out of reach!'
Deulofeu was finally convinced, and he crossed his fingers and began to calculate the probability of Messi breaking the world record, and did not bother Lin Quan again.
Lin Quan withdrew his gaze from Deulofeu and looked back at the arena.
After scoring the fourth goal, Messi walked to the dugout with the rest of the Barcelona team to find their coach Pep Guardiola.
"Thank you, Pep, for those four goals!"
Messi gave Guardiola a hug and whispered it in his ear.
Guardiola patted Messi's back hard, his eyes were a little red, and his nose was a little sour.
"Thank you too, Leo, for deserving the cheers of 100,000 people at Camp Nou!"
The bits and pieces of his four-year coaching career at Camp Nou came to him one by one at this moment, and he had mixed feelings.
He was a Barcelona youth player who joined Barcelona at the age of 13 and spent a total of 17 years at Barcelona.
It can be said that most of his career has been spent at Barcelona.
After retiring and transforming into a coach, the first team he coached was Barcelona's B team.
It is precisely because of his excellent coaching performance in the Barcelona B team that he won the favor of Barcelona and was quickly promoted to the head coach of the first team.
Subsequently, during his four years in charge of the first team, he won three league titles, two Champions Leagues, two Copa del Rey, three Spanish Super Cups, two UEFA Super Cups and two Club World Cups for Barcelona.
During the four years that Barcelona was in charge, Barcelona fans called the Dream Three Dynasty, and it was the best period in Barcelona's history, and there was no one.
Such brilliant results not only give him a very high status in the hearts of fans, but also allow him to win the respect and love of the players.
There are many good players at their peak, and at the peak of their careers, there are not many players who meet a good coach, achieve a series of results, and win a lot of championship trophies.
A group of Barcelona players, including Messi, especially those who have been promoted from the youth echelon by Guardiola, are very grateful to Guardiola.
Without him sending away big names such as Ibrahimovic and Samuel Eto'o, these young players may not have a bright future.
Without his pass-and-control tactics, Barça's record would not have been so good.
Now, such a meritorious coach who has grown with them and achieved brilliant results with them is leaving.
Many young players are very nervous about losing their place in the new manager's tactical system.
Therefore, when they saw Guardiola's true feelings, they all mustered up the courage to reproach him again:
"Stay, coach, Barcelona needs you!"
"Yes, stay, Chief, we need you too!"
Pep Guardiola is in a bit of a bitter mood, he has achieved great results at Barcelona and there are so many good players under his hands.
He didn't want to leave if he could.
However, the club changed its president, Laporta left, and Rosell, who was replaced, did not have a good relationship with him.
In particular, Russell took a drastic approach to purge dissidents in the name of reform, and even stripped him of the title of honorary chairman of the legendary Cruyff, who had made great contributions to the team.
This made Guardiola very disgusted with Rosell, and as the head coach of the club, it will be very difficult for him to do a good job without being able to manage the relationship with the club president.
There have been signs of this season, and some players, led by Pique, have gradually moved out of his control.
This made Guardiola feel that this was a warning from Russell to him through the mouth of the player, forcing him to leave.
So, without negotiating a home, Guardiola decided to leave Barcelona.
In order to show his attitude, he is not a traitor to Barcelona, but he was forced to leave.
Therefore, at this time, when facing the retention of players, he could only smile wryly and shake his head:
"Don't talk about that, kids, it's not over yet, enjoy the game and enjoy the cheers of the fans!"
Perhaps it was Pep Guardiola's refusal to keep the player that had some impact on the player's mood, resulting in Barcelona not only failing to score in the next game, but also fouling one after another.
Tello and captain Puyol were booked in five minutes, and Messi missed a solo shot in the 87th minute, and if that goal had been scored, he would have been able to pull off a miracle for his five sons.
If it were usual, Guardiola would definitely express his dissatisfaction on the sidelines at this time, but this time, he chose to sit on the bench of the coach's bench and drink calmly and did not leave his seat.
It's already 4-0, there is only one minute left in the game, and it is only four minutes including injury time, and it is impossible for the opponent to turn the tables.
As long as the players don't make any more low-level mistakes and get red cards, the rest doesn't matter.
However, even if they get a red card, it doesn't matter, because this season's Barcelona missed the league title early, and they were opened up by Real Madrid with a seven-point gap in the standings, and the win or loss of the last game did not affect the result at all.
Such a wantless game can be played casually for Barcelona.
Four minutes later, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match.
With Messi's big four, Barcelona defeated city rivals Espanyol 4-0 at home, ending all home games in La Liga this season.