Five Hundred and Twentieth Chapters Away Barcelona
With 9 points in hand, Inter Milan challenged the defending champion Barcelona at Camp Nou.
After four rounds, the situation in Group F was chaotic. Among them, Inter Milan was in the best position. They ranked first with 9 points. Rubin Kazan and Barcelona ranked second and third with 6 points. Points, there is still hope of qualifying.
The fifth round is the most critical. Inter Milan can qualify as long as they don't lose. Even if they lose, they can qualify if they don't lose to Rubin Kazan at home in the final round.
However, if Barcelona wants to control the fate of qualifying in their own hands, they must not lose, otherwise they may be defeated by Inter Milan and Rubin Kazan in the final round.
In the first round at Meazza, the focus of media hype was on Messi, Ibrahimovic, Eto'o, Mourinho and Gao Dong, and two months later, the focus of media hype was on Messi and Gao Dong's body.
Now Messi is the most popular for the Golden Globe Awards, and Gao Dong is the most popular for the Golden Boy Awards, and was also selected for the Golden Globe Awards. Although Gao Dong has no hope of winning the award, he has great hopes of entering the top ten.
The game between Barcelona and Inter Milan was also called by the media as a battle between the Golden Ball and the Golden Boy.
Compared with the relaxed Inter Milan, the defending champion Barcelona was a lot more nervous. Before the game, the Inter Milan generals were downbeat about the game and did not say too much, but the Barcelona generals were gearing up for revenge at home. .
The Camp Nou stadium can accommodate 100,000 fans and is known as the theater of European dreams. However, on the day of the game, the stands of the Camp Nou stadium were full, and all of them were Barcelona fans wearing red and blue jerseys. There are only a few thousand Inter Milan fans.
Inter Milan President Moratti and Barcelona President La Burta both came to the box to watch the battle.
The relationship between the two clubs is good. In the early years, Inter Milan bought the alien Ronaldo from Barcelona. This season, Barcelona bought the Swedish god Tayeb from Inter Milan. , and brought a bottle of preserved red wine to Moratti.
Although the situation of Inter Milan is very good, but because of the special relationship between Mourinho and Barcelona, Inter Milan still played the main force in this game and went all out to win.
Because they defeated Barcelona at home, Inter Milan is not afraid after coming to the Nou Camp. Mourinho also specially sent a 41 formation that has performed well in recent rounds.
Compared with the original 41 formation left by Mancini, the 41 formation has stronger attack power and stronger counter-attack ability in the frontcourt. Since the victory or defeat is not so important to Inter Milan, Mourinho certainly hopes to be able to play well. It's more beautiful, let the Barcelona people who looked down on him look at him,
His Mourinho's team can also play the same attack as flowing water.
However, Mourinho soon discovered that the Nou Camp is not Meazza, and the troubled Barcelona is no longer the arrogant defending champion before.
From the first minute of the game, Barcelona launched a tidal offensive towards Inter Milan.
Inter Milan also tried to play Barcelona's counterattack in their own half, but the Barcelona universe was completely exploded in the desperate situation, and the rhythm of passing and receiving the ball was fast. They can also keep the ball out with a fast pass, making Inter Milan's players hard to defend and have to resort to foul tactics against Barcelona.
However, Stark, the German referee, was very strict in law enforcement. He warned Cambiasso with a yellow card in the first five minutes, and gave another yellow card to Gao Dong, who retreated and shoveled Messi, a minute later.
Starck has played Inter Milan's games four times before, namely: Manchester United-o Inter Milan on April 11, 2009, Valencia o-o Inter Milan on April 1, 2006, Ajax-Inter Milan on April 1, 2006 Milan, Inter Milan 1-5 Arsenal on November 5, 2000. Inter Milan has never won a ball. Seeing that Stark's law enforcement standards against Inter Milan are so strict, the defense of Inter Milan players has been restricted. Foul again easily, which gave Barcelona more confidence and greater freedom to attack.
Barcelona's offense was like mercury pouring down the ground, easily reaching the 30-meter area of Inter Milan.
In the first eight minutes of the game, Barcelona completed three very threatening shots. Although there was no shot, Iniesta passed the ball from the left very tricky. A slight difference in the meter distance formed a shot. Once Harvey touched the ball, goalkeeper Cesar, even if he was a god, had no way to stop the ball from entering the net.
Compared with the state-god Barcelona, Inter Milan played very slowly and dullly today.
The defense couldn't stop the opponent's penetration, and the offense kept making mistakes. Barcelona counterattacked after being directly intercepted in the midfield.
Gao Dong is the motivation of Inter Milan's midfielder. Now Inter Milan's players trust Gao Dong and are willing to pass the ball to Gao Dong. However, Barcelona has made careful preparations for Gao Dong's defense. Keita marks Gao Dong. Other players stood around Gao Dong, cutting off the passing line of Inter Milan players to Gao Dong.
Barcelona's move is very ruthless, because Barcelona's players are all technical, with very accurate judgments on the ball, and a strong ability to predict. Motta, who was called a technical player in Inter Milan, played in Barcelona. Not going to the game shows how big the gap in the technical level of the two teams is.
At the beginning, Inter Milan boldly passed the ball to Gao Dong. After being intercepted several times, there was no good line, and no one dared to pass the ball again.
Barcelona's ball possession ability is so strong, Inter Milan's ball possession rate is less than 30%, and mistakes are terrible.
Gao Dong couldn't get the ball, and got a yellow card when he returned to defense, which played a very important role.
It is very dangerous to defend passively all the time. In the first 10 minutes of the game, Barcelona got a corner kick and Harvey came to take the corner kick.
Inter Milan may be the only one better than Barcelona in defending high-altitude balls. Seeing the opponent take a corner kick, Inter Milan felt a little relaxed, thinking that Barcelona could not threaten them in this regard.
However, the players of Inter Milan did not expect that the safest place is the most dangerous place. Harvey's corner kick did not find Ibrahimovic, nor Pique, but found Henry accurately.
Henry, the king of Highbury, is not good at headers, and Inter Milan did not particularly defend him. However, although Henry did not have a direct header chance, his header gave Pique a chance to shoot.
Originally, Samuel was defending Pique, but Harvey's ball was looking for Henry, and Pique retreated. In the confusion, Samuel lost his marker. Pique volleyed the ball and shot it in. Through the gate guarded by Inter Milan goalkeeper Cesar.
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Just 10 minutes into the game, Barcelona got off to a fantastic start with a goal from Pique.