"We're more than just a football club!"

This is a sentence that is often on the lips of the president of Barcelona Club and the most ordinary fans.

It does have some truth to it.

As if no football club had ever held an art competition, Salvador Dalí, the surrealist painter known as the king of psychedelic art, submitted his paintings for the competition.

At that time, there was also a saying that more people visit the Barcelona Museum every year than the Picasso Museum.

The famous football writer Phil Bauer described in his book "Morbo": In Catalonia, everyone tells you that Barcelona is the flagship team that represents Catalan nationalism.

"In 1992, when the Dream Team won the Champions League, it was more fantastic than any other team won the title."

"At that moment, even the toilet at the Camp Nou smelled of roses."

Since then, whenever Barcelona is at the Camp Nou, facing a team from Madrid, there are always slogans from the stands.

"The flagship team of Catalan nationalism, the rude and savage Madridians!"

That's why, before Atletico prepare to travel to Barcelona to take on Barcelona, the Catalan media will frantically play up Atletico's rudeness and savagery, and will constantly attack Atletico for benefiting from referee enforcement.

In the past, such treatment was more given to Real Madrid.

But since the beginning of this season, Atletico Madrid seems to have begun to enjoy this "honor".

And when Yang Hao led the team into this palace-level stadium, the more than 90,000 Barcelona fans in the stands shouted this slogan frantically, it was really shocking.

There's even a thrilling feeling.

Enemies of 100,000 people!

This is Yang Hao's excitement at this moment.

……

Ferrer is not Catalan, much less Barça, and even he hasn't been in Catalonia for long, he's from Mallorca.

Before coming to Barcelona, he helped Mallorca get promoted, and later coached Real Betis to finish third in the league and participate in the League Cup, and the results were not bad.

After that, he was poached by Barcelona with a lot of money, but instead of being the head coach of the team, he served as the head of the academy.

To put it simply, he took over La Masia.

It was '97.

It was in that year that the Dutchman Louis van Gaal arrived at Barca.

Ferrer's relationship with Van Gaal is that of an ordinary colleague, but he has heard Van Gaal say something about it more than once.

"We should be more pragmatic!"

Yes.

It's not just Louis van Gaal's feelings, it's felt by many Barcelona employees, coaches and even players.

Barcelona has been endowed with too much aura and emotion, and has been burdened with too many responsibilities, which has caused it to become extraordinarily formalistic on many issues, even with a surrealist Dali style.

No, even Cruyff's team back then was called: the Dream Team.

Ferrer didn't feel much about the problems of the first team when he was in charge of Louis van Gaal, but now that he has taken over the team himself, he finds himself facing a whole host of problems.

And a lot of it was a problem he couldn't solve.

Figo went to Real Madrid, which was seen as a disgrace by Barcelona.

In order to calm the anger of the fans as soon as possible, the management led by Gaspart had to sign Overmars from Arsenal for 30 million euros, Gerrard from Valencia for 21.6 million euros, Petit from Arsenal for 15 million euros, plus 16.5 million euros for homegrown striker Alphonso......

But after the management's commotion, Ferrer glanced at the first-team lineup and was surprised to find: What about the central defenders?

Bogard moved to Chelsea in the Premier League on a free transfer, while Dehu moved to Paris Saint-Germain for €6 million.

Barcelona has brought in such a lot of reinforcements in the midfield, but what about the already weak backline?

Frank De Boer and Abelardo are both 30 years old, so should Ferrer rely on these two mid-tails to cope with the whole season?

Cocu has played at centre-back and is not a big problem.

Petit looks like he can adapt to the central defender, there is no way, now that there is a shortage of manpower, it will be a moment.

But as soon as Ferrer made an arrangement, Petit stabbed it out.

Labor and management are midfielders, not central defenders, get out!

Ferrer was directly stunned.

The media outside also fried the pot.

The fighting in the locker room is the media's favorite big news.

That's it?

Younger.

How do new strikers Alphonso and Kluivert get even?

How does the heavily signed Gerard and the veteran captain Pep Guardiola arrange?

Is Barcelona going to adopt 433 tactics in the new season? Or do you want to improve other ways of playing?

Rivaldo was ruthless, he just wanted to play in the number 10 position.

What?

Can't do it?

I don't care, it's the manager's business, I'll play as a midfielder, if you have the ability, don't let me play.

Gabri, who played well under Louis van Gaal last season, was aggrieved and felt that the competition in the midfield was too fierce......

and Luis Enrique, who thinks he can continue to shine; In 98, he transferred to Lazio for 15 million euros, and he didn't adapt to Serie A, and he didn't know whose relationship he was looking for, so he came back on loan; Ferrer's favourite second-team youngster Mikel Arteta was in the first team and had no chance to play......

All the questions, one by one, were piled up in front of Ferrer.

It was better during the summer training camp, but since the start of the season, more and more problems have come to light.

Especially in recent times, the team's results have deteriorated, and the pressure on Ferrer has been increasing.

After finally beating Real Madrid and catching his breath, the Champions League was on the verge of exit, losing 0-2 away to Mallorca, and forcing Ferrer into a quagmire of despair.

What's even worse is that before facing the leader Atletico Madrid, President Gaspart actually stood up and publicly issued a nirvana order in front of the media, which put Ferrer in a dilemma.

Although the opponent is Atletico Madrid, it is the league leader, Chairman!

Let's be pragmatic, okay?

But soon, Ferrer found out that it really didn't work.

Who is particularly interested in Atletico?

Isn't this the soft persimmon that the previous Barcelona slaughtered?

Last season's three consecutive defeats are all to blame for Van Gaal's wastewood!

Whether it's for revenge or to reverse the team's recent decline, this game must be won!

From the chairman to the management to the technical director to the media to the fans and even the players, everyone basically thinks so.

Legendary player Luis Enrique even publicly asked for a game in the media, saying that he is in very good shape.

"Our eyes must be on Atletico Madrid, the battle at Camp Nou can only be won and not defeated, otherwise we will be further separated and miss the hope of winning the La Liga title."

There is also De Boer, who has always been very unhappy with the team selling his brother, and now his position has been shaken again, and he has repeatedly shouted at Ferrer in the media, saying that he must contribute to the team's difficult times.

Inside and out, Ferrer is overwhelmed.

In the end, he got from!

In this game against Atletico Madrid, he insisted on his opinion, believing that Barcelona should be more pragmatic and adopt the 4231 tactic.

Goalkeepers: Arnault;

Defenders: Petit, Cocu, De Boer and Puyol;

Midfielders: Xavi and Gerard in a back two, with Simao, Rivaldo and Luis Enrique in front;

Forward: Alfonso.

On the one hand, Ferrer actively responds to the current mainstream trend of La Liga and adopts a two-back tactic.

Counting down from the very top of the points scale, how many teams play in the back two?

The choice of players was accommodating to their wishes, with Rivaldo playing in midfield, Luis Enrique and De Boer all on the pitch, and only Petit continuing to play at centre-back.

No way, the central defender is really nobody.

……

Barcelona is difficult, Atletico Madrid is equally difficult.

This led to Yang Hao's battle at Camp Nou, and he did not dare to take too many risks, but started with a steady defense, allowing Barcelona to control the ball, and still focused on the defensive area in the middle line.

Up front, the trident of Vicente, Pandiani and Joaquín attacked.

Winning Deco, Yang Hao adopted a three-back combination of Cambiaso, Graveson and Baraja.

This makes Atletico look like a 433 formation.

Barcelona took advantage of the situation and kept attacking from the start, but Atletico's defense was really good.

The two sides were locked in a bitter battle from the first minute, but neither was able to create good chances, especially Barcelona, who seemed to have the initiative and the advantage, but there were few really threatening attacks, more on the periphery.

The first half was a 0-0 draw, but no one could score.

But just over a minute into the second half, Rivaldo was fouled by Gravison when he broke through with the ball in the middle.

The referee blew the whistle and gave Graveson a yellow card, while giving Barcelona a direct free-kick from the edge of the box.

Rivaldo, the Brazilian knife, calmly took the penalty and blasted a curling ball straight to the left side of the goal.

Van der Sar judged the bearings but couldn't prevent the ball from going into the net.

1 to 0!

Barcelona take the lead!

……

"Wow! Wow! ”

Yang Hao was startled by the sudden shout.

Turning his head, he saw Ferrer, who was originally sitting in the coach's seat of the home team, rushed out excitedly as if he had eaten a gun, and shouted in an unbelievable state of loss of control, and rushed straight out of the coach's command area.

Even the fourth official couldn't stop him.

Yang Hao was a little stunned on the side.

Isn't it an exaggeration to just score a goal?

"He's been under too much pressure lately." Juanma Lillo shook his head with a wry smile.

can force an adult who is nearly half a hundred years old to be like this, it is conceivable that now Barcelona's position is no longer roasted under the fire, but directly buried in a volcano that will erupt at any time.

But it's no wonder.

After Barcelona's Waterloo, Ferrer hibernate for a few years, and after his comeback, whether he coached Real Betis or AEK Athens, the results were not very satisfactory, and then he transformed into a behind-the-scenes role, such as a sports director or something.

That's all for later, though.

Yang Hao doesn't care about what Ferrer will do in the future, he cares about how to get rid of Barcelona at Camp Nou tonight.

Conceding a goal?

Well, that's what he expected.

When Yang Hao saw Rivaldo's free kick, he had a vague sense of foreboding, and when Rivaldo scored a goal, he shook his head helplessly.

This is a man who can score two direct free kicks in a single game against AC Milan!

"Juanma, get ready, let them see, our Atletico Madrid head team is amazing!"

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