i want to be king

Chapter 396 Even God Can't Save It!
Rijkaard has never been so helpless.

This season, Barcelona is not the first time to concede two goals, nor is it the first time to be frozen helplessly by the opponent's iron wall, but that is in some other games in the league or the Champions League.

But at this moment, what Barcelona is playing is the Champions League final!

Conceding two goals in a row in the opening 3 minutes was definitely the worst blow for Barcelona.

The morale of the team is clearly in disarray.

It shows on the pitch.

From the moment the second goal was conceded, the Barcelona players panicked.

They were very scared, because before the game, whether it was Cruyff or Begiristain, they were instilling a bottom line in the players, that is, no matter what, the third goal cannot be conceded.

Lost the third ball, even the gods couldn't save it!
This is also normal, because in the history of the Champions League final, or even in the history of the Champions League, there has never been a team that was three goals behind and could reverse it. It would be a great miracle!

But since it is a miracle, it cannot be created by human beings at all.

Even God is not sure!

As a result, the Barcelona players on the field began to panic and began to worry about gains and losses. They wanted to stabilize the defense and get back a goal as soon as possible, but the weak defense continued to have problems.

The result is as it is now.

After more than 20 minutes of the game, Barcelona's frontcourt offense was slow to play a threat. Su Dong was like a decoration in front. Stam and Nesta were close to him, and it was difficult for his teammates to send the ball to his feet. This completely disarmed Barcelona's most threatening attack point.

In contrast to AC Milan, they adopt a very pragmatic tactic, which is to defend.

Quickly counterattack after stealing the ball.

How similar is the starting point of this style of play to the tactical concept used by Capello's AC Milan to restrain Cruyff's Dream Team?
No wonder before the game, Ancelotti vowed that he would reproduce the classics of the year in this game.

Four to zero?

From scoring two goals in the opening 3 minutes to the embarrassing situation of Barcelona now, who dares to say that there is no such possibility?

Now, Barcelona's only belief is to stick to the third ball.

As long as you hold on, there is still a chance for everything!

……

Just when Rijkaard thought the team could stabilize for the time being, the Barcelona midfielder pressed too high.

Deco tried to break through with the ball, but Gattuso successfully intercepted the ball.

Seedorf quickly passed the ball to Kaka.

The Brazilian teenager started at the fastest speed. After catching up with Seedorf's pass, he dribbled the ball all the way across the center line.

At this time, Barcelona's lagging position was seriously out of position. Marcos failed to follow Kaka immediately, allowing the Brazilian teenager to drive straight in with the ball and rushed into Barcelona's 30-meter area.

When Kaka rushed to the front of the penalty area, the two strikers Shevchenko and Crespo cleverly pulled to the two sidelines, waiting for a pass from Kaka.

Although Marcos decisively shoveled on the ground at the front of the penalty area, trying to destroy Kaka's dribbling, the Brazilian player took the first step and passed the ball straight behind him to Shevchenko on the left side of the penalty area.

The Ukrainian striker slanted behind the defense line, caught up with Kaka's pass outside the left corner of the small penalty area, and shot directly without stopping the ball.

Valdez flew to save, but still failed to prevent the ball from rolling to the right of the goal.

"Three to zero!"

"My God, it's only been 28 minutes, it's unbelievable!"

"AC Milan made another victory, three to zero!"

"There is no suspense in the game. With three goals leading, AC Milan played an amazing momentum from the beginning. Almost every counterattack they made made Barcelona unable to parry."

"It's amazing!"

"Before the game, everyone thought that this would be a battle between dragons and tigers, a peak duel, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a one-sided massacre. Barcelona's offense could not penetrate AC Milan's defense, and their fragile defense could not stop the Rossoneri's sharp counterattacks again and again."

"Three to zero!"

"AC Milan has seen the championship trophy beckoning ahead!"

…………

…………

In the stands, at the moment when Shevchenko pushed and scored, both Cruyff and Begiristan jumped up from their seats as if they were electrocuted.

Immediately afterwards, they all sat back down in great disappointment.

The third ball finally failed to hold!
"What the hell is going on?" Laporta couldn't believe his eyes.

Barcelona's defense is problematic, but how could it be beaten like this?
With Barcelona's performance tonight, anyone will suspect that Barcelona must have received money from AC Milan and deliberately played match-fixing.

Otherwise, how to explain Barcelona conceding goals again and again?
Who can accept such a fiasco?
"Could it be that you really want to lose another game by [-]-[-]?" Laporta raised his voice.

Cruyff sighed a long time, "The three conceded goals are all due to defensive problems, all of which are our own problems."

"But it's not so outrageous at ordinary times. Even in the face of Bayern Munich and Chelsea, we conceded three goals, but it's not like it is now, especially in the opening three minutes." Laporta still didn't want to believe it.

Technical Director Begiristan shook his head and sighed bitterly, "The mountainous pressure is also a huge distortion to the player's psychology, especially when the game trend is completely subverted by the opponent, their pressure is countless times greater than usual, and the psychological quality is slightly weaker, basically collapsed."

"That's right." Cruyff nodded, "It's as if you are in the most important exam in your life. You have prepared [-]% and thought you could get a high score, but when you walked into the exam room and the examiner handed out the exam papers to you, you suddenly found that you couldn't do a single question."

"That is a kind of crushing despair!" Cruyff also felt the same, because he had experienced all this before. "What is even more tormenting is that you can't hand in the exam in advance. You have to pretend that you can do it. Watching other people answer the exams like flying, you have to accompany them to finish the exam, that feeling is so hopeless!"

Laporta is a lawyer. He has experienced the cruelest exams and elimination rates, so he can understand what Cruyff said, and he has some empathy for the Barcelona players on the court.

"Every Italian coach is a tactical master. Capello was like this at the beginning of the year, and so is Ancelotti tonight. Even, he should have known how to play against Barcelona as early as the Gamper Cup before the season."

It was at this moment that everyone suddenly recalled what Ancelotti said in an interview with the media after the Gamper Cup match in August last year. Given another chance, he would never lose to Barcelona.

At that time, everyone thought that he was just unwilling to lose and deliberately said some words to support the scene, but now it seems that he really counted everything at that time.

"What should we do now?" Laporta was a little out of breath.

He was terrified.

Now, his only wish is not to win the Champions League, but to stop conceding goals.

Even if they lost [-]-[-] like this, it would still be a little better than that disastrous defeat back then.

It would be even more ideal if he could score a goal and save face.

Cruyff and Begiristan also shook their heads helplessly.

11 years ago, they could not come up with any effective solution to such a scene, and it is the same now.

Because he has nothing to do!

Rijkaard's starting tactics before the game were considered deadly by his opponents. He lost two goals in two set-piece defenses, which made Barcelona's defenders defend carefully, for fear of giving the opponent another set-piece.

AC Milan has the strongest defense in Europe and the sharpest counterattack.

Facing such an opponent, what can Barcelona do?
"Missing the third ball, God can't save it!" Begiristan shook his head helplessly.

……

Inside the stadium, the game continues.

When the game reached the closing stage of the first half, Harvey tried to make a straight pass and sent it to the frontcourt to find Su Dong, but was cut off.

Pirlo quickly passed the ball straight to Kaka.

The Brazilian player turned around with a beautiful stop, got rid of Marcos, took two steps forward, and quickly sent a long pass.

The ball was accurately passed to the back of Barcelona's defense and passed by Oleg.

When the Barcelona defender turned and tried to chase back, he tried to slide the tackle, but the ball did not touch the ball.

Crespo nimbly ran out of the gap, faced the attacking goalkeeper Valdez, and made a beautiful push to send the ball into Barcelona's goal again.

Four to zero!
"The victory has been decided!"

"AC Milan has completely killed the game in the first half!"

"We can't believe that Barcelona are going to be defeated in this game, conceding four goals in a row."

"This reminds us of the final 11 years ago. Cruyff's dream team was the favorite before the game, but in the final, they were defeated by Fabio Capello's Rossoneri [-]-[-]. It was a classic battle in the history of the Champions League final."

"Now, after 11 years of absence, the two teams met again in the Champions League final. Ancelotti once again used a [-]-[-] game to bloodbath Barcelona and reproduce the classics of the year."

"Even if the Barcelona midfielder doesn't make adjustments in time, I believe it is entirely possible to lose a bigger score in the second half."

……

Rijkaard raised his hands in despair, his face looked like he was about to cry, and he looked like he was surrendering.

The Barcelona players on the field also completely lost their fighting spirit, and everyone was like a walking dead.

No one thought that the game would eventually evolve into what it is now.

They originally thought they could win, but in the end, not only did they lose, but they also lost in such a useless and embarrassing manner!
This battle completely shattered the confidence of everyone in Barcelona.

Rijkaard is even mentally prepared to take the blame and resign as soon as the game is over!
In the stands, Laporta also had the urge to leave early because he didn't want to experience that humiliating defeat.

Begiristan's face was also extremely ugly, and he was extremely desperate.

"Now, God can't save him!" Cruyff sighed helplessly.

The godfather of Barcelona seems to have aged a dozen years.

Immortals are hard to save, but there is still a glimmer of life after all.

But now, even the gods can't save it!

The whole stadium is half sea water and half flame.

AC Milan is celebrating wildly, while Barcelona is wailing everywhere.

No one noticed at all that Su Dong, who was silently waiting for the serve in the middle circle, clenched his fists and clenched his teeth.

He hates!

(End of this chapter)