Chapter 124: The New European Devil's Home Arena

The Barcelona team set off for London on April 19.

When they arrived at London airport, enthusiastic English reporters surrounded them.

"Mr. Enrique, you lost the game at home and are now 1:2 behind. Tottenham still have two away goals, and this time Barcelona is playing away. Have you ever thought about the difficulty of this game, such as Two consecutive defeats?"

Looking at this smug English reporter, Enrique glanced at him and said in Spanish: "Sorry, I don't know English!"

After finishing speaking, he directly passed through the stunned crowd of reporters.

The Barcelona players did not accept any interviews. They will keep the news silent until the end of the game. They will not make any subjective speeches and comments.

For them, this game is really difficult, but they never give up.

All the way was low-key and silent, quickly passed the security check, and the atmosphere of the whole team carried a strong belief in fighting.

After arriving at the hotel where they stayed, Barcelona settled down and transferred directly to closed training, during which they still refused all interviews.

In the Tottenham club, the head coach Villas-Boas looked at the news that the "Barcelona team arrived in London" and felt a little dignified in his heart.

 …

On April 20, the whole Barcelona team left the hotel, took a bus, and headed to the White Hart Lane Stadium.

The bus headed towards White Hart Lane. Along the way, the atmosphere of the Champions League was extremely strong. Fans on both sides of the road waved flags and held up various slogans to tell everyone that this night belonged to the Champions League, Tottenham and Barcelona.

Along the way, there were many Barcelona fans. They set out with the team, they sang the team song all the way, and the red and blue army sent their final challenge declaration to White Hart Lane.

At White Hart Lane, which can accommodate more than 60,000 people, Tottenham only provide 3,000 tickets to Barcelona fans. This is their small revenge. After all, Camp Nou has 100,000 seats, so you only gave us 4,000 tickets ticket?

According to statistics, there are more than 10,000 Barcelona fans traveling with the team, but only 3,000 can enter the stadium to watch the game, and the rest of the fans can only wait outside the stadium.

For the creation of the home atmosphere, Tottenham fans are now a good hand.

In the past, their grades were not going up or down, and there was no need for them.

But now as Tottenham's performance is getting better and better, they feel that the team is so good that the atmosphere at home should not be too low.

Therefore, there are a lot more Tottenham team flags in the stands, which are densely packed when viewed from a distance.

Especially in the diehard stands.

Tottenham's diehard stand is the South Stand, diehards are a special group, they will be different from other fans, so they tend to gather in one stand.

Such as Liverpool's KOP Stand, Old Trafford's West Stand, Highbury's North Stand, etc...

And Tottenham's South Stand is such a diehard stand.

There are diehard fans gathered here, and the most eye-catching ones are undoubtedly 'Mad Dog' and 'Cockfighting'.

Two huge jigsaw puzzles are propped up on both sides of the south stand, corresponding to 'Spike' and 'Tottenham' respectively.

On the sidelines, some mascots dressed in fighting cock dolls also took the lead in cheering, and the atmosphere at home was extremely strong.

After about an hour, all the fans entered the stadium.

England's BBC TV station rented a helicopter to take a bird's-eye view of this emerging "European devil's stadium", and you will find that the Barcelona fans in red and blue jerseys only occupy a small corner, and the rest is a white tide, rolling and roaring.

 …

The referee Lister from France blew the whistle to start the game.

In the frenzied atmosphere of the audience, the second round of the Champions League quarter-finals of the season, Tottenham sits at home, and the game against Barcelona officially begins.

"I feel now that in the crater, Tottenham's home atmosphere is too strong!!" Zhan Jun was on the live commentary stand and shouted.

He couldn't do without yelling, otherwise he would be covered by the voices of fanatical fans.

PP Sports attaches great importance to this game and warmed up frantically long before. Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu partnered to the White Hart Lane Stadium, and they were at home for the first time to commentate on the game.

In fact, domestic tourism routes have also been developed, especially the "Champions League Tour" is very popular. Many Chinese fans go to Europa, wanting to watch Yi Le play football with their own eyes.

However, most of the tickets were taken by the home and away fans, and the travel agency could only provide a small amount of tickets. There were more monks and less meat. In the end, Chinese fans could only watch the game in bars around London.

And this indirectly caused the shocking situation that the bars around North London were almost booked out by Chinese fans.

Five minutes into the game.

Both sides are in the trial stage. Tottenham's raid in the last round made Barcelona learn a lesson. They put on a cautious stance at the beginning of the game.

In this regard, Tottenham didn't feel much. The raid was a pre-match design, and it was gone after one use. They would not be naive to think that Barcelona would suffer twice in the same place.

Barcelona's pass control played very well. Iniesta and Busquets frequently tested in the midfield, which made Tottenham dare not boldly press forward.

Moreover, Barcelona slowed down the pace, obviously in response to Tottenham's large-scale running + fast-paced tactics.

For this physical monster team, Barcelona is very helpless. Who would have thought that the mighty Barcelona would be run out of physical fitness by Tottenham.

Of course, this kind of slow-paced game is also very good for Tottenham.

After all, Tottenham have the advantage, they are not in a hurry, if you want to procrastinate, then we will procrastinate.

Ten minutes into the game, Barcelona's temptations began to become more frequent. Messi and Parker also kept pushing forward on the wing to pull the gap, and Barcelona began to move around.

Suarez was at the forefront, which prevented Tottenham's defense from pressing forward.

And relying on controlling the rhythm, Barcelona began to slowly press forward...

Watching Iniesta step into Tottenham's half with the ball, Yi Le and Kanter looked at each other, and the two surrounded them directly.

Fuck him!

Iniesta has just stepped into the Tottenham half, and he has prepared for Tottenham's reaction, but he did not expect it to be so intense.

It was a hand-to-hand fight between Yi Le and Kanter, and Iniesta was squeezed a little too much.

Moreover, Busquets is not on the side, this is their style of play, one of the two is responsible for the offensive organization, and the other is responsible for the defensive organization.

Therefore, in this case, Iniesta seemed a little helpless.

Just as Iniesta was protecting the ball and struggling to support, Messi retreated to meet him.

Iniesta was about to pass the ball immediately, but just as he was about to kick, Yi Le immediately appeared on the passing path and blocked it directly.

Yi Le's stealing ability is not strong, but the attribute of conscious interception is very good, so when Messi retreated, he had already observed this and appeared in time.

The offensive path was blocked, and Iniesta grinned, sighed inwardly, and made a conservative return pass.

The offensive intention this time is too obvious, and Tottenham's defense in the midfield has also been strengthened a lot. He feels that this game will be extremely difficult to play.

The pace of the game is very slow, but the fans are very excited, especially the Tottenham fans. They hope that this is the case, and they hope that Barcelona will continue to do these useless passes and control. When the time comes, they will naturally advance to the semi-finals.

But for the audience in front of the TV, this game is very ugly, the pace is too slow.

Many people sipped their beers sullenly, feeling that the game really lost their appetite.