Chapter 1011 The Fury of Camp Nou
On the evening of April 24, Camp Nou.
When the referee from Turkey blew the whistle for the end of the 90-minute game, the Camp Nou stadium, which was filled with 95,845 fans, became silent and fell into a dead silence. .
At the moment when the whistle blew, the Barcelona players on the field were paralyzed weakly on the field. Many players even covered their faces and burst into tears. The opposite of them were Real Madrid players, everyone. Everyone was cheering, and many players even rushed to the sidelines to celebrate with Ancelotti and Zidane in front of the visiting team's coach.
The scoreboard shows the final result of this game, zero to three, international practice, the home team is in the front, the visiting team is in the back.
0-5 away, 0-3 at home, 0-8 on aggregate, Barcelona suffered an unprecedented humiliating defeat and were sadly eliminated from the Champions League.
That's why the Camp Nou stands are silent!
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In fact, it wasn't a hopeless game.
After a 5-0 away defeat, Guardiola returned to home with a three-back formation, showing his determination to win.
The three backs composed of Puyol, Pique and Alves are already very aggressive. Midfielder Busquets is dragged behind, Iniesta and Xavi are in the middle, Cesc Fabregas is in the front, forming a formation. The small diamond in the midfield is also the offensive formation that Barcelona has washed its opponents many times this season.
Sanchez, Messi and Cuenca form a trident, of which Cuenca is Barcelona's most eye-catching rookie this season.
It should be said that Guardiola has already formed the strongest attacking lineup he can, and at the beginning of the game, Barcelona also showed a strong attack, suppressing Real Madrid very embarrassingly throughout the first half.
Ancelotti still has a double midfielder, but this time it's a combination of Xavi Alonso and Mascherano.
Marcelo, Pepe, Ramos and Abeloa play the main defense in the back line, while Kaka is in the frontcourt, Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Robben form a trident.
Both Real Madrid and Barcelona played with the strongest lineup, and neither side was slack in the slightest.
If it is said that in the first half, Barcelona controlled the scene one-sidedly, then after the intermission, Real Madrid’s sudden counterattack at the beginning of the second half caught Barcelona by surprise.
In just three minutes, Real Madrid launched an attack on the left, Yang Yang planned the attack, Marcelo moved a long pass to the right and handed it to the unguarded Robben. The Dutch Flying Man then dribbled the ball inward from the right, throwing off Puerto Rico. Joel then kicked and hit the goal, opening the scoring for Real Madrid.
After that, Real Madrid used another corner kick for tactical cooperation and passed to the outside of the penalty area at the feet of Yang Yang. Yang Yang picked a pass with his right foot to the front of the penalty area, and Ramos hit a header from close range, giving Real Madrid another victory.
Four minutes later, another assist from Yang Yang helped Kaka score a goal and help Real Madrid seal the victory.
This is the whole process of the game.
Real Madrid ripped apart Barcelona's defense three times in a row through this efficient counter-attack and set-piece tactics, and finally pushed Guardiola's team completely into the abyss of despair.
It was 0-3 at home and 0-8 on aggregate. This was definitely the most humiliating defeat in Barcelona's century-old history, and it was even more humiliating when it lost to the arch-rival Real Madrid.
The dead silence of the fans at Camp Nou is only temporary. They are holding back the volcano that is about to erupt in their hearts. They are dissatisfied with the management, the coaching staff, the players, and everything!
They want to vent, they need someone to take responsibility, whoever he is!
Gradually, faint boos sounded from the stands, then became louder and more obvious, and finally the whole stadium was booing, and it was unclear whether they were booing Real Madrid or Barcelona.
But soon, some fans began to draw slogans on the spot, shouting slogans and slogans asking Guardiola to sack and Roselle to get out, and some more extreme fans directly attacked the Barcelona players, thinking that they were a bunch of useless people. He was beaten like this by his opponent at his own home.
The public opinion was raging, as if the sky was falling apart, sweeping the entire Camp Nou stadium, showing a monstrous trend.
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Guardiola stood upright in front of the coach's bench, looking directly at the pitch and the fans.
The experience of this season has taught him a lot, and it has taught him hard lessons.
In the past, he always thought that football was a game of probability, like possession of the ball. As long as Barcelona held the ball in their own hands as much as possible, and kept the ball in the opponent's hinterland for a longer time, the probability of winning would be reduced. constantly improving.
In fact, his first season in charge was the most successful, winning almost everything except one Champions League.
Benitez came to La Liga with the great success of Liverpool, and the restoration of Florentino also brought superstars such as Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Kaka to Real Madrid, and their strength has improved by leaps and bounds.
Guardiola has been reflecting on the transfer in 2009 recently. He feels that Barcelona's biggest regret is that the team missed Yang Yang, which has led to Real Madrid's rapid progress, and has a player who can compete with Messi and even surpass May. West's top star, and beyond that, there is one player Guardiola regrets.
That's Mascherano.
Argentina's midfielder joined Real Madrid, allowing Real Madrid's weak waist for many years to straighten, and then Florentino and Valdano also tasted the sweetness, and took advantage of the opportunity to introduce Barcelona's interest in Harvey Martine from Athletic Bilbao. s.
One and the other, Real Madrid's extremely successful team formation strategy has allowed them to suppress Barcelona for the past three years.
Of course, the most important thing is Yang Yang, known as the [Barcelona Nemesis].
In the past four years, Guardiola has been evolving and improving with Barcelona. He has continuously improved the team's playing style and kept trying various changes, which has enabled him and Barcelona to win great respect in world football.
Yes, they are not as good as Real Madrid in terms of performance, but their football concept beyond the times has won them the respect of everyone.
No one can ignore such a team, including Real Madrid.
But Guardiola has seriously overlooked one thing, and that is the human heart.
In the past few years, Spanish football has been extremely successful. After winning the European Cup, it won the World Cup. This year, the goal is directly aimed at the European Cup. This will become a historic event in European football, and the Spanish national team is based on Barcelona players. For the team, this makes Barcelona players inevitably self-inflated.
Simply put, it's getting harder and harder for Guardiola to make these people work for the team.
Xavi and Puyol have gone from their teenage years to veterans, they are battle-hardened and world champions; Pique has become more flamboyant and active in various occasions, and he has found a beautiful entertainment superstar as a Girlfriend, this is not a bad thing, but he is no longer the unhappy Pique who returned to Barcelona from Manchester United.
There is also Messi, who was still a fledgling young talent back then, but is now the top superstar in world football. He is bent on surpassing Yang Yang and ascending to the podium at the FIFA Awards Conference in January.
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Too many entanglements of interests are intertwined in the Barcelona dressing room, and even Guardiola can't fully sort out.
At this moment, he stood in front of the home team's coaching bench, thinking how similar the Barcelona he coached to the Barcelona at the end of Cruyff's management?
It's a series of humiliating fiascoes, and it's all turmoil in the locker room.
Guardiola has enough prestige to press the dressing room. In fact, in the Barcelona dressing room, no one has dared to challenge his authority so far, including Xavi and Iniesta who were once put on the bench by him, They all chose to obey.
But no one is provocative, it does not mean that everyone is sincerely convinced.
Who should start more, Cuenca or Pedro?
Can Thiago replace Xavi?
In this game, is it appropriate for Cesc Fabregas and Messi to act as free agents in the middle of the field?
Do players have no doubts in their hearts?
Doubt is like a seed, buried in the soil, will soon take root, sprout, and finally emerge from the soil.
Guardiola clearly felt this change in the atmosphere within the team, and although everyone still obeyed his arrangements and orders as always, he could feel the estrangement between him and them, a kind of Something called "doubt".
Doubt is followed by a fear of the unknown.
They start to worry about whether they will fall out of favor, they start to worry about whether they will be purged, they even worry about whether they will lose their main position...
Guardiola has personally experienced the end of Cruyff's coaching period. He knows very well what the Barcelona dressing room looked like at that time, so he also understands that he is now in the same environment that Cruyff was in. .
The Dutch chose to flee, what about him?
Guardiola began to realize that one thing he had forgotten for the past four years was that football was always played by players.
He pursues that kind of tactical realm that integrates offense and defense. He hopes that his players can regard tactical creeds as an instinct. In the past four years, Barcelona has indeed achieved this, but in the last year, they have begun to Doubt.
First, the league made a series of away mistakes and began to lag behind Real Madrid by a large score. Then, until now, the Champions League has also been humiliated by Real Madrid's humiliating score. At this moment, Guardiola doesn't even know how to play the next two derbys of the century?
Can you still kick?
From the moment he made a big bet on Thiago and other young players and failed, he was no longer an unquestionable authority in the Barcelona dressing room. He fell from the altar to the mundane world, and he began to accept criticism and accusations, even doubts .
Guardiola has no way to tell others why he chose Thiago, Tello, Cuenca, as if he had no way to tell others why he trusted Pique, who was not favored at Manchester United.
He has no way to solve the locker room problems, he has no way to eliminate the players' doubts about him.
Then he had only one choice left.
So, as soon as the game ended, Guardiola stood in front of the home team's coach for a while, his face extremely ugly, then turned around and walked back to the player tunnel, took out his mobile phone as he walked, and sent a text message to Roselle in the stands. .