super storm

Chapter 1011 The Rage of Camp Nou
On the evening of April 24th, Camp Nou.

When the referee Kakir from Turkey blew the whistle for the end of the 10-minute game, the Nou Camp Stadium, which was filled with 840 five fans, became silent and fell into a dead silence.

The Barcelona players on the field were all limp and paralyzed on the field at the moment the whistle sounded. Many players even covered their faces and burst into tears. On the contrary, they were Real Madrid players.

The scoreboard shows the final result of the game, zero to three, according to international practice, the home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

With [-]-[-] away, [-]-[-] at home and [-]-[-] on aggregate, Barcelona suffered an unprecedented humiliating defeat and was unfortunately eliminated from the Champions League.

This is why the Nou Camp stands are silent!
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In fact, this is not a hopeless game.

After Guardiola's [-]-[-] defeat in the away game, he returned to the home court and set up a three-back formation, showing his determination to win.

The three backs composed of Puyol, Pique and Alves are already very aggressive. The midfielder Busquets lags behind, Iniesta and Xavi are in the middle, and Cesc Fabregas rushes forward, forming a small diamond in the midfield.

Sanchez, Messi and Cuenca form a trident, among which Cuenca is the most eye-catching rookie in Barcelona this season.

It should be said that Guardiola has formed the strongest attacking lineup he can. At the beginning of the game, Barcelona also showed a strong aggressiveness, suppressing Real Madrid in a very embarrassing situation throughout the first half.

Ancelotti still has a double midfielder, but this time it is a combination of Harvey Alonso and Mascherano.

Marcelo, Pepe, Ramos and Arbeloa are the main players in the defense, while Kaka advances in the frontcourt, and 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 it was Barcelona who controlled the situation one-sidedly, then after the intermission, Real Madrid's sudden counterattack at the beginning of the second half caught Barcelona by surprise.

In just 3 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 Robben who was unguarded.

Afterwards, Real Madrid took advantage of a corner kick to cooperate tactically and passed it to Yang Yang outside the penalty area.

Four minutes later, another assist from Yang Yang helped Kaka score a goal and helped Real Madrid seal the victory.

This is the whole process of the game.

Through this efficient counterattack and set-piece tactics, Real Madrid tore through Barcelona's defense three times in a row, and finally pushed Guardiola's team into the abyss of despair.

It was [-]-[-] at home and [-]-[-] on aggregate. This was definitely the most humiliating defeat in Barcelona's century-old history, and it was even more humiliating to lose to rival Real Madrid.

The silence of the fans at the Camp Nou is only temporary, they are suppressing 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 and they need someone to take charge, whoever it is!

Gradually, there were faint boos from the stands, and then it became louder and more obvious, and finally the whole stadium was booing, and it was not clear whether it was booing Real Madrid or Barcelona.

But soon, some fans began to draw slogans on the spot, shouting slogans and slogans calling for Guardiola to dismiss get out of class and Russell to get out. There were also some more extreme fans who directly attacked the Barcelona players, thinking that they were a bunch of useless people who were beaten like this by their opponents in their own home court.

The public opinion was turbulent, like the sky 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 of the home team, looking directly at the pitch and facing the fans.

The experience of this season has taught him a lot and taught him the hard way.

In the past, he always thought that football is a game of probability, just like possession of the ball. As long as Barcelona holds the ball in their own hands as much as possible and holds the ball in the opponent's hinterland for a longer period of time, the probability of winning will continue to increase.

In fact, his first season in charge was his most successful, winning almost everything except one Champions League.

Benitez came to La Liga with Liverpool's great success, and Florentino's restoration also brought Real Madrid superstars such as Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic and Kaka, and their strength has improved by leaps and bounds.

Guardiola has been reflecting on the transfer in [-] recently. He feels that Barcelona's biggest regret is that the team missed Yang Yang, which led to Real Madrid's strength by leaps and bounds, and has a top superstar who can compete with or even surpass Messi. In addition, there is another player that makes Guardiola regret.

That is Mascherano.

The Argentine midfielder joined Real Madrid, allowing Real Madrid to straighten their weak waist for many years. Then Florentino and Valdano also tasted the sweetness, and took advantage of the opportunity to introduce Xavi Martinez, who was interested in Barcelona from Athletic Bilbao.

One ebbs and another, Real Madrid's extremely successful team strategy has allowed them to suppress Barcelona in the past three years.

Of course, the most important thing is Yang Yang, who is known as "Bassak's Nemesis".

In the past four years, Guardiola has been leading Barcelona to evolve and improve. He has continuously improved the team's style of play and tried various changes, which has earned him and Barcelona great respect in world football.

Yes, they are not as good as Real Madrid in terms of performance, but their football philosophy 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 point, that is people's hearts.

In the past few years, Spanish football has been extremely successful. After winning the European Cup, they won the World Cup. This year, they set their sights on the European Cup. This will become a historical event in European football. The Spanish national team is based on Barcelona players, which inevitably makes Barcelona players feel self-inflated.

To put it simply, it is becoming more and more difficult for Guardiola to get these people to pay for the team.

Xavi and Puyol have become veterans from their playing years. They have experienced many battles and are world champions; Pique has become more publicized and active in various occasions.

There is also Messi, who was still a fledgling young talent back then, but now he is the top superstar in world football. He wholeheartedly wants to surpass Yang Yang and reach the podium of the FIFA Awards Conference in January.

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Too many interest entanglements are intertwined in the Barcelona locker room, and even Guardiola cannot fully sort them out.

At this moment, he stood in front of the coach of the home team, thinking how similar the Barcelona under his coaching was to the Barcelona at the end of Cruyff's coaching?
It was a series of humiliating defeats, and it was all turmoil in the locker room.

Guardiola has enough prestige to suppress the locker room. In fact, in the Barcelona locker room, no one has dared to challenge his authority so far, including Harvey and Iniesta, who were once put on the bench by him. They all chose to obey.

But no one provoked, it doesn't mean everyone is sincerely convinced.

Who should start more, Cuenca or Pedro?

Can Thiago replace Harvey?
In this game, is it appropriate for Fabregas and Messi to act as free agents in the front and center?
Don't the players have doubts in their hearts?
Doubt is like a seed, buried in the soil, it will soon take root, germinate, and finally break out of the ground.

Guardiola obviously felt this change in the atmosphere within the team. Although everyone still obeyed his arrangements and instructions as always, he could feel the gap between him and them, which was something called [doubt].

Doubt is followed by a fear of the unknown.

They began to worry about whether they would fall out of favor, they began to worry about whether they would be purged, and they even worried about whether they would lose their main position...

Guardiola himself experienced the end of Cruyff's coaching. He knew very well what the dressing room in Barcelona looked like at that time, so he also understood that what he was in now was the environment in which Cruyff was.

The Dutchman chose to flee, what about him?

Guardiola began to realize that he had been forgetting one thing in the past four years, football is always played by players.

He pursues the kind of offensive and defensive integration, a natural tactical realm, and he hopes that his players can regard the tactical creed as an instinct. In the past four years, Barcelona has indeed achieved this, but in the last year, they began to doubt.

First, there were consecutive away mistakes in the league, leading to Real Madrid falling behind by a large score. Then, the Champions League has also been humiliated by Real Madrid's humiliating score. At this moment, Guardiola doesn't even know how to play in the next two century derby games?
Can I still play?

From the moment he gambled on Thiago and other young players and failed, he was no longer the unquestionable authority in the Barcelona locker room. He fell from the altar to the mortal world, and he began to accept criticism and accusations, even doubts.

Guardiola has no way to tell others why he chose Thiago, Tello, and Cuenca, as if he has no way to tell others why he trusted Pique so much when he was not favored at Manchester United.

He has no way to solve the problem in the locker room, and he has no way to dispel the players' doubts about him.

Then he has only one choice left.

So, when the game ended, Guardiola stood in front of the home team's coaching bench for a while, his face extremely ugly, and then turned around and walked back to the player tunnel. While walking, he took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Russell in the stands.

(End of this chapter)