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Chapter 209 Selection of Golden Globe Award and World Footballer

Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​as long as these two names are put together, there will be endless topics to talk about.

The timing of the two century wars this season is very interesting, one is the last round before the winter break, and the other is directly the last round of the season.It seems that last season's La Liga duo were anxious to decide the winner at the last minute, which made the Spanish Football Association think that this season will still be so exciting.

But they are still broken Tucson pattern.

Since the beginning of the season, Real Madrid has been killing enemies all the way under the explosion of Gago, the core midfielder. Since the second round of the league, Real Madrid has firmly occupied the top position in the league, and Barcelona's performance is in accordance with the usual season. It's still good, but compared to Real Madrid, it's not enough.

So far in the Barcelona league, they have achieved ten wins, four draws and two losses. After being tied by the Spaniard in the away game, they realized their shame and then braved it. Killed back under the chrysanthemum of Real Madrid.At present, it has 34 points, second only to Real Madrid at the top of the list.

Usually, this result is enough to win the half-time championship, but Real Madrid is even more powerful, with [-] league rounds, [-] wins, [-] draws and [-] losses. This kind of super high winning rate makes Barcelona have to stay in the second place aggrievedly.

This is the last round before the winter break of the league. The Football Association is also very interesting to put this game on the last day. Other teams consciously finished playing other leagues one day earlier.However, the performance of other strong teams was not very good. It was probably due to the holidays, their hearts were wild, and they didn't even want to play the ball.Villarreal, the third in the league, was tied by Huelva at the Estadio de la Vella, Atletico Madrid, the fourth in the league, was reversed and defeated by the Spaniard at home, and Racing Santander, the fifth in the league, was defeated by the recovering Sevilla 4 :1 massacre, Valencia, who was in civil strife, was tied by Zaragoza with two goals in the away game.

The form of La Liga has now begun to become clear. Real Madrid is far ahead with 38 points. If the No.2 Barcelona wants to maintain the hope of winning the championship, they can only defeat the Los Blancos at home, which has reached its peak due to its winning streak.If Real Madrid wins this game, the point difference between the two teams will expand to 7 points, which is enough to make anyone desperate.

For Barcelona, ​​the battle of the century at Camp Nou is already a battle of life and death with no way out.

As long as Real Madrid is sniped, Barcelona and Real Madrid will still have to play in the second half of the season.If they fail to win even this home game, then in the last round of the league in the Spanish derby at the Bernabeu, I am afraid that Barcelona will be ashamed to line up to welcome their rivals to win the championship.

For Rijkaard, this is a key battle to test whether he can stay in office next season. Due to Ronaldinho's rapid decline this season, Barcelona has lost the invincible edge of the previous two seasons.Although Messi has shown that potential, Xiao Tiaoshao, who has not yet strengthened his strength training, began to usher in tackle fouls everywhere in La Liga after scoring goals with Gago at the beginning of the season.This made the performance of the frail little Tiaoshow instantly less amazing than at the beginning of the season. After being shoveled by the Spaniard's defender in the No. 14 round of the Catalan derby, he has not yet recovered.

Due to the absence of Messi in this round of the century war, there is less gimmick that can be hyped.After all, this is the first time the two Argentine supernovas, Gago and Messi, have faced off this season.

In the just-concluded Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year selection, apart from Kaka's undisputed ascent to the top, the rankings of Messi and Gago have aroused countless discussions.

In the selection of the Ballon d'Or, Kaka and Ronaldo are No.2 respectively, and No.3 is Riquelme who led Argentina to win the America's Cup after 14 years.And No.4 is Gago. The Argentine prince helped Real Madrid win the league championship after many years last year. Coupled with his outstanding performance in the first half of this year, it is expected that he will be No.4.After Messi followed Gago, he ranked fifth with a slight disadvantage.

In the selection of the World Footballer of the Year, it was the opposite. Messi unexpectedly came in third, and Gago came in fourth.This result has aroused many people's doubts. Last year, Barcelona was empty and had no honor. Why was Messi able to score more than Gago, who led Real Madrid to win the championship?

Of course, some experts have stated some facts. They believe that although Gago performed well in one season, he only landed in Europe for one year. Compared with Messi, who has performed well in recent years, he still lacks some convincing .Moreover, Gago's position is the defensive midfielder. As a striker, Messi must have more limelight than the defensive midfielder.At least in terms of goals, last season's Messi was able to finish off Gago, of course, in terms of honor, it's another story.

However, due to the encouragement of Schuster this season, Gago has strengthened his forward attack, and sometimes he was even directly referred to the position of the attacking midfielder, which has greatly improved his scoring statistics.Currently tied for first place in the scorer list with Mallorca's Guisa, the pro-Real Madrid media took this matter as an example, thinking that Messi is not as good as Gago.

It can be summed up in one sentence: Messi, a dignified forward, has not scored as many goals as Gago, a defensive midfielder, which is a shame.

After Real Madrid and Barcelona's media unconsciously compared Gago and Messi to each other, fans all over the world knew that Real Madrid had an Argentine prince named Fernando Gago, while Barcelona had another one. Equally famous Argentine genius Leo Messi!

Now, Messi is injured and unable to play, which instantly reduced the enthusiasm of the fans by one percentage point.Especially in Argentina, the fanatical fans who were looking forward to the Gemini confrontation originally planned to go to Barcelona to watch the battle of the century in person.But all this dissipated with Messi's injury.

However, even if the Argentine twins cannot play at the same time, there is one more to watch.At the beginning of this season, the three Argentine geniuses Gago, Messi and Aguero started to explode at the same time without warning, scoring consecutive goals in various competitions for a certain period of time.As of now, Aguero is second in the scorer list with ten goals because he is not injured, while Messi is third with nine goals.

La Liga has reached the present, if Guiza hadn't exploded this season, I am afraid that the top three scorers will be occupied by the three geniuses of Argentina.

But even if this is the case, it makes Argentina very excited. A few years ago, La Liga was dominated by Brazilians. The top stars of Real Madrid and Barcelona were all Brazilians. The two Ronaldos attracted all the eyes of La Liga. Others Superstars such as Carlos also overshadowed Argentine players.

Since last season, the situation of the South American duo players in La Liga has changed in vain. With the aging of Ronaldo and Carlos, Gago helped the team regain the championship in the first year of landing in Real Madrid, making the Argentine prince in Real Madrid fans. The status in their hearts is as close as that of the princes of the previous generation.And Messi also took advantage of Ronaldinho's willingness to fall, and quickly rose strongly in Barcelona, ​​with a faint tendency to be the number one star.

Aguero, Milito, Heinze, Ayala and other Pampas internationals have also gained a firm foothold in La Liga. After being stimulated by the outstanding performance of Gago and Messi, the Argentine players in La Liga instantly occupied the majority. In Jiangshan, three of the top four teams in the league currently have Argentines at their core.

This situation has also made Argentina more and more enthusiastic about the broadcast of La Liga, and the so-called Spanish Derby will naturally not let go.

The major newspapers sent a large number of reporters early to start tracking and reporting the whole process a week before the start of the game.

This time the game is not a life-and-death battle for Real Madrid, because the Blancos have a relatively large advantage in the league.Even if they lose to Barcelona in the away game, they will still enter the winter break as the top of the list.But since it is known as the Derby, the players of Real Madrid are naturally full of enthusiasm. People are eager for perfection. Now Schuster, including the players of Real Madrid, hope to use this victory as a gift to give the fans a happy Christmas.

This is the last game before the winter break. No matter how hard or tired you are, you have to grit your teeth and persevere. Although it has been a week of double matches recently, Schuster still ranked the strongest winning streak in his hand. come out.However, due to the scruples about Barcelona's offense, the German has a conservative lineup in the midfield.

Guti, who is weak in body and poor in defensive ability, was not able to enter the starting lineup. Instead of playing as a midfielder, he was replaced by Gago, who recently played well because of his frustration in the World Footballer of the Year selection.

Gago has scored goals in four consecutive games since the No.14 round of the league against Racing Santander.Being in good shape made Schuster wake up from his sleep with a smile every day.

As for the defensive midfielder, Schuster used Diarra and Baptista, two muscular sticks, and planned to use their two undead physical fitness to interrupt Barcelona's possession of the ball.Another main player in the midfield is Robinho, who has performed well recently. The performance of "Pelé II" this season is worthy of the title given to him by the fans.His technical breakthroughs, assists and shots are all important means to enrich Real Madrid's frontcourt offense.

The two forwards are Raul and Ruud van Nistelrooy, who are in hot form this season. With the support of a strong midfielder headed by Gago, both of them have scored eight goals in the league and are ranked among the top scorers at the same time. The fourth place on the list.

The back line is known as the most reliable and the most expensive luxury combination in Europe in the past ten years.Heinze, Cannavaro, Pepe, and Ramos have a combined worth of almost 7000 million euros.So far this season, Real Madrid is now the team with the most goals and the fewest conceded goals.Casillas is very likely to win the first Zamora award of his career this season, which is the best goalkeeper award in La Liga, because the regulations are only awarded to the goalkeeper who concedes the fewest goals, so the poor Cassie goalkeeper has arrived He has not won the honor of the best goalkeeper in this country yet.

Real Madrid has the strongest lineup, and Barcelona will naturally not hide it. Rijkaard also announced the starting lineup before the game.

But as soon as this list came out, the media's eyes were broken.

(End of this chapter)