Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 723 The Booing of Camp Nou
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He won two consecutive victories and stopped the downward trend, but Mourinho is not too satisfied. In his vision, even if he does not expand the lead at this time, he must at least maintain the advantage of four points before the new year. Newcastle has done quite well, but Chelsea's results are even better. After the new year, they won one more game than Newcastle. The advantage of one point is not enough for Newcastle's players to breathe a sigh of relief.

The most important thing is that the knockout stage of the Champions League is about to begin. After winning the championship last year, Mourinho has no reason to relax about this competition. The Champions Cup is different from the FA Cup and the League Cup. Higher honors also mean more lucrative income.

Fortunately, there is an FA Cup match before the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals, and Newcastle has already been eliminated in this match, that is to say, Newcastle can do well before the first round. Take a break and recharge your batteries to conquer your opponents.

However, this opponent is not so easy to conquer.

Perhaps it was because Newcastle's three opponents in the group stage were too unsatisfactory, so Newcastle easily qualified two rounds ahead of schedule and won the first place in the group one round ahead of schedule. UEFA selected the strongest second in the eight groups One team was assigned to Newcastle. After the matchup came out, Pei Wei was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother.

His acquisition of Newcastle was already low-key enough. He didn’t buy whoever he wanted to buy like Abramovich’s Chelsea. It can create a giant that dominates Europe, but why did Chelsea's experience in history be placed on its own head?Isn't it just winning a European Champions Cup? As for dealing with Newcastle so deliberately?

No one knows better than Pei Wei how strong Barcelona has been in the two seasons since the beginning of this season - the La Liga title this season, the La Liga and Champions League double next season - such a brilliant result is simply impossible. It can be regarded as a dynasty, and more importantly, the current Barcelona has the strength of the championship but does not have the honor of the championship. Such a team is even more terrifying, because their players have a strong motivation to get whatever they want. honor.

Complaints belong to complaints, Pei Wei also knows the significance of UEFA's arrangement, no matter what, they don't want a team in Europe that can sweep everything and win all championships. Zhong and Bayern met, because at that time Bayern was the only team with the highest winning percentage against Real Madrid, and Chelsea later did the same. Even if Pei Wei keeps a low profile, Newcastle will inevitably become the target of public criticism after winning the Champions League last year.

Now that the match has come out, it is useless for Pei Wei to get angry again. After all, Newcastle must abide by the rules set by the opponent in matches hosted by UEFA - even if the rules are sometimes not so fair.

So after learning about this matchup table, Newcastle began to prepare for this game-Mourinho also attaches great importance to this game, the reason is simple, Barcelona can be said to be the starting point of his coaching career, where he He learned a lot, but left in an unpleasant situation. It was for this reason that he was more eager to defeat this opponent.

Even after such a long time, Pei Wei still remembers the two matchups between Chelsea led by Mourinho and Barcelona led by Rijkaard this season in history, but he does not think Newcastle is sure It will be risky as it has been in history.

I have already affected history. Chelsea is not led by Mourinho. Although Newcastle now has several Chelsea players in history, Barcelona is not that Barcelona. At least Deco, the absolute main force of Barcelona in history, is not in Barcelona now. .

Now that history has changed, to paraphrase Li Ning's advertising words, everything is possible.

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February 24, Camp Nou.

At 08:30 pm local time in Spain, a match in the first round of the quarter-finals of the 04-05 UEFA Champions League was played in one of the most famous stadiums in Europe, which can accommodate nearly 9000 people (originally the No. Kemp can accommodate 11 people and is the largest professional football stadium in Europe. After changing all the standing seats to seats in 5000, the seating area has been reduced, but it is still the professional football stadium that can accommodate the largest number of fans in Europe.) The Camp Nou was packed an hour before the game.

The number of Newcastle fans who came from afar reached 1. There is an old saying in China that "there are no boundaries if there are more than 1 people". No matter where you are, [-] people is a number that cannot be ignored. Wan Newcastle fans seem so insignificant.

Barcelona is the spiritual backbone of the Catalans, and this is so evident at the Nou Camp.

Playing football under the boos of nearly 9 people is not that simple. Even Real Madrid only won one victory at the Nou Camp during the heyday of the Galacticos. In some ways, Barcelona Much like Newcastle, their fans are crazy to the point of paranoia, and both home games are among the most difficult to conquer in their respective leagues.

Before this game, the two sides also had some similarities - both are the current leaders in their respective leagues, and both started their revival last year - except that Newcastle had decades of honors vacant before last year During this period, Barcelona's honor vacancy period is only a few years.

The fight between the two coaches is also interesting. Although Mourinho's tactics used in Newcastle are not lacking in classic offense, Newcastle still uses defensive counterattack tactics in most games, which also makes Mourinho O was dubbed an ugly coach, and although Rijkaard is much uglier than Mourinho, he has always insisted on using gorgeous offensive tactics in Barcelona, ​​​​while making Barcelona steadily rise. The Spanish fans who have a paranoid love for beautiful football, especially in the first half of the season, won Rijkaard's reputation to the peak in the [-]-[-] victory over his old rival Real Madrid at home.

In the eyes of Catalan fans, Mourinho, who has been an assistant coach in Barcelona for four years, has reason to show respect for this century-old club, but Mourinho obviously does not want them to do so. Two days before the start of the game, Mourinho confidently announced the starting lineup for the game - goalkeeper Petr Cech, defenders Maicon, Lucio, Dawson, Hart, midfielder Makelele, Essien , Franck Ribery, Nie Fei, striker Ibrahimovic and Drogba - no change in the main lineup, anyone can see that this is Newcastle's main lineup this season, although Mourinho has done a good job in rotation, Other players have also played a lot of times, but this lineup is still Newcastle's main lineup, and it is difficult for other players to shake the position of the main players in this lineup. The transformation was successful.

Moreover, except for Makelele who is over 25 years old, the other players in this lineup are all young players in the golden age group of 27 to 25 or under the age of [-]. If it works well, Newcastle can maintain the lineup in the next few years Integrity means being able to maintain its brilliance.

It's not uncommon to announce a starting lineup ahead of a game, but it's not uncommon, it's just that most of the time it's done to boost the morale of the team, or to break the morale of the opponent - look, we You don't need to use any tricks to beat you, you can kill you directly with your strength - that's pretty much what it means.

The proud Catalan naturally thought that this was Mourinho's contempt for him, so he tried his best to be provocative in the pre-match interview, and Mourinho is a person who never suffers from his mouth. He kept the media down with his famous vitriol, so tensions were high before the game even started.

There was nothing special when the players from both sides came on the field. Both Barcelona and Newcastle fans in the stands gave out huge cheers, although their cheering targets were different.

Then when Rijkaard came out of the tunnel, he was greeted with the same cheers - although the Newcastle fans booed, but amidst the overwhelming cheers of the home fans, their boos Difficult to reach Rijkaard's ears.

Half a minute later, Mourinho and Pei Wei walked out side by side. The moment they appeared at the entrance of the players' tunnel, the entire Camp Nou was silent for a second, and then there was a huge heart-stopping sound. hiss.

Almost all Barcelona fans stood up from their seats. Rulin pointed his middle finger at Mourinho, and the overwhelming curses and boos poured down from the stands. Rinho and Pei Wei were buried alive.

Even the players on the field stopped their warm-up and looked at Mourinho and Pei Wei in a daze. Even the Barcelona fans did not expect that Mourinho's move to announce the main lineup in advance would actually cause Catalan Rhonians are so disgusted.

Looking at the ferocious faces that were almost deformed, Mourinho walked towards the coaching bench of the visiting team without changing his expression. Pei Wei shrugged his shoulders, followed him and said with a smile: "Jose , I didn’t expect you to be able to enjoy the treatment that Figo had back then.”

"I thought about it." Mourinho said without looking back.

(End of this chapter)