Nine Hundred and Twenty-Nine Real Madrid Tonight Is Different!

afternoon.

In a skyscraper mansion next to New York's Central Park, Guardiola is sitting in front of the TV in the living room, watching the live broadcast of the upcoming Derby of the Century.

Under the leadership of the referee team, the players of the two teams walked out of the player channel one after another.

Tonight's referee Guardiola is also very familiar, Carlos Delgado Ferrero, forty-two years old, experienced.

On the live screen, the starting lineups of the two teams were displayed.

Barcelona still discharge their iconic four three three.

Goalkeeper: Valdes.

Defense: Alba, Puyol, Pique and Alves.

Midfielder: Busquets dragged behind, Iniesta and Xavi centered.

Forwards: Sanchez, Messi and Pedro.

Aguero did not play this game, but sat on the bench, as well as Cesc Fabregas.

Obviously, Vilanova is still more inclined to let Barcelona players start.

Real Madrid's starting lineup is also four, three, and three.

Goalkeeper: Courtois.

Defense: Marcelo, Ramos, Pepe and Arbeloa.

Midfield: Xavi Alonso drags deep, Toni Kroos and Modric center.

Forwards: Ronaldo, Benzema and Di Maria.

Before the game, many people were speculating whether Gao Shen would arrange Casillas to start in the Derby of the Century, but it seemed that he still let Courtois play.

The Belgian teenager has performed very steadily this season. After Casillas made a few mistakes before the season, he was directly suppressed in the competition, and he couldn't even play in such an important game.

It is not difficult to see that Casillas is gradually at a disadvantage in this competition. Now if he wants to restore the situation, he needs to rely on his outstanding performance in the Champions League. Watts replaced.

The starting lineups of both sides are actually not too surprising.

What really caught Guardiola's attention was the public opinion before the game and the various statements of both sides.

Especially Gao Shen's provocation against Barcelona at yesterday's pre-match press conference.

It is far from simple!

...

"Honey, didn't you say that you will never touch football again this year?"

His wife, Christina Serra, came out of the bedroom with a lazy expression on her face that had just woken up.

The two children should still be playing with toys in the room now. They always have endless energy at this age.

"I'll just take a look, don't touch it." Guardiola turned his head and smiled wryly.

This is what he promised his wife before coming to New York from Spain to take a good rest for a year.

The United States is known as a football desert, where football's influence is very limited.

But it turns out that Guardiola seems to have guessed wrong.

In fact, football is okay in the United States, especially for focus games like the Century Derby, and there is also the depth.

He was really surprised. He didn't expect his good friend to be so popular in the United States, especially on Twitter.

Where is Christina Serra not knowing her husband?

After sitting down next to him, he glanced at the TV screen and found that it was a game between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The live TV camera just switched to the front of the coach's bench, giving a close-up of the home team's Vilanova and the visiting team.

She immediately understood why Guardiola wanted to watch this game.

"How? Who do you think will win?" Sierra asked.

The game was about to start, and Guardiola's attention fell on the live TV, and he replied casually: "Advanced Real Madrid."

"So sure?"

"Ok."

"But this is Camp Nou."

"The impact of home and away games has become smaller and smaller, especially for Gao Shen."

"But don't Barcelona have a chance?" Serra asked again.

Guardiola narrowed his eyes, thought for a while, and said: "From the moment the two sides entered the field, it's gone!"

"why?"

"I don't know, intuition."

Perhaps because he felt that this answer was perfunctory and unconvincing, Guardiola thought about it again, "Gao Shen is never reckless in doing things. He tried every means to provoke before the game, and even made some violent remarks. Obviously To piss off Barcelona."

"and then?"

"Tito fell for it, he fought back, he wanted to prove himself too much, and this emotion will also affect the Barcelona players."

"No, I don't understand, why is it wrong to want to win?"

Guardiola was silent for two or three seconds before looking at his wife, "Barcelona football requires patience."

Christina Serra couldn't say anything more.

It is impossible for her to be more familiar with Barcelona than Guardiola and understand the depth.

"Gao Shen is different from me. He often says that he is a pragmatist with a little idealism, so he launches psychological warfare before the game."

Guardiola's analysis made sense, but Christina Serra still couldn't believe it.

Can a football match really guess the result the moment the two sides walk into the field?

...

Guardiola was not the first to guess.

In front of the visiting coach's bench at Camp Nou, Gao Shen also guessed.

Because he has been playing for a while, but Tito Vilanova is still reluctant to come up and shake his hand.

Interestingly, instead of feeling angry, he was enjoying himself.

"He should still be angry with me now." Gao Shen laughed.

Zidane, Carlo, Hierro and others all looked at each other, all speechless.

Some of Gao Shen's remarks before the game are undoubtedly hitting Vilanova's life.

This summer, Barcelona changed coaches, and the brothers Vilanova and Guardiola broke up. This is the Achilles heel of Vilanova.

It's all like this, and you still expect people to give you a good face?

Now listen to the noise in the stands of the Camp Nou Stadium, they are all criticizing Gao Shen.

99345!

This is the number of fans entering the Nou Camp tonight, one hundred thousand people!

"Seriously, you should thank Figo." Zidane also laughed.

"Because of the pig's head?" Gao Shen asked back.

Zidane and others all laughed, this kid is still a little self-aware.

After Figo was attacked by a pig's head at the Nou Camp that year, the entry inspection of the stadium became more stringent. Things like pig's heads could no longer be brought into the stadium.

Otherwise, Gao Shen is now afraid that he will be crushed to death by the debris thrown by the fans, becoming the first head coach in history to be crushed to death on the coaching bench by fans of the visiting team.

...

It wasn't until the players from both sides had established their positions on the field that Vilanova came over reluctantly and shook hands with Gao Shen.

From the beginning to the end, he shook hands, said welcome to the Nou Camp, and then turned and left.

It's perfunctory, but Gao Shen doesn't care.

Players from both sides set up a formation on the court. From the formation, one can see Barcelona's determination for this game.

Iniesta and Messi stood in the center circle, ready to kick off, while Sanchez and Pedro separated the wings.

Obviously, Barcelona wants to eat Real Madrid from the start.

"Last season's Champions League knockout match, our opening attack caught Barcelona by surprise. Obviously, Vilanova also learned a lesson, so he had to take the initiative directly at the beginning of this game." Gao Shen turned back and said.

Carlo also experienced the UEFA Champions League last season, so he is naturally very clear about the thinking of both sides.

But this time, Real Madrid did not intend to attack.

Gao Shen's focus tonight is on the organization of the defensive formation.

In his opinion, facing Barcelona, ​​as long as the defense is well organized and the counterattack is played, it is almost one-on-one.

Of course, defense must not be the kind of blindly shrinking, that is slow suicide.

Therefore, Real Madrid's defense is still arranged in the area from the center line to the 30-meter area of ​​their own side. If the situation is not right, they will gradually retreat.

...

With the referee's whistle, Messi gave the ball to Iniesta.

The Barcelona midfielder quickly passed back, directly to the feet of Busquets at the bottom of the center circle.

Benzema rushed towards Busquets in the first place, and the latter crossed Xavi, who was also near the bottom of the center circle.

It seems that Barcelona does not intend to pass the ball back to the central defender.

Benzema made a false shot, seemingly about to pounce on Harvey, allowing Barcelona's core to pass back to Busquets again.

Ronaldo has always been on the left side near the center line, staring at the opposing Barcelona right back Alves, but Toni Kroos rushed towards Harvey immediately.

Busquets passed back to Xavi but this time Toni Kroos approached and Xavi was forced to pass back to Puyol.

Benzema followed Busquets to retreat to meet Puyol, while Toni Kroos followed Harvey to the middle circle, preparing to return to his defense zone, and at the same time cut off Harvey's receiving line.

But what surprised Barcelona was that after following Busquets back, Benzema directly ignored Puyol who was holding the ball not far away, but continued to follow Busquets, which surprised the Barcelona players.

It's so close, why don't you grab it?

According to Barcelona's usual practice, if Benzema goes up again, Puyol, Pique and Busquets will be able to form a passing triangle and directly play the French center.

But now, Benzema didn't even grab it, which made Barcelona feel like punching cotton.

Especially when Benzema slowly retreated with Busquets' advance, Puyol and Pique looked at each other, and they both realized that the trend of the game was not as they wished.

Real Madrid is different tonight!

As a last resort, Barcelona's defense can only move forward.

When advancing near the middle circle, Busquets and Pique had a back and forth pass, but Benzema kept following Busquets, which made Barcelona's midfielder afraid to let the ball stay under their feet.

As a result, Harvey retreated again, but Toni Kroos also followed up the first time, forcing Harvey to catch the ball with his back, and then knocked back to Pique.

No way, Pique moved to his left.

Busquets began to find Alba and Iniesta to cooperate on this side, but Benzema, Di Maria and Modric also actively moved, forcing Barcelona to pass back again.

The ball went round and round in this way, passing under Barcelona's defense line and Busquets' feet for more than a minute, but it did not pass the center line.

"Real Madrid's defensive formation tonight is very careful and orderly."

"Barcelona's passes cannot be easily advanced over the halfway line."

There is no way, Messi can only retreat to near the center line to respond.

Pique couldn't find a way to get the ball out. When he saw Messi retreating to the gap between Real Madrid's Toni Kroos and Ronaldo, he decisively made a direct pass. He wanted to find Messi and let the Argentine come. Go on the offensive.

At this time, the rhythm of the game was suddenly accelerated.