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Chapter 400 The Golden Globe Awards after the World War

Chapter 400 The Golden Globe Awards after the World War

Just after a day's rest, Gago returned to the team's training base.Preparing for the next game is arguably the most important league game of the season and the biggest football event in the world.

In the No.12 round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Barcelona away!

If it weren't for the heavy weight of the opponents of the two giants in the Champions Cup, the media would have been hyping up this battle of the century a week ago.Everyone knows that the title of the entire La Liga depends on the two battles of the century. Regardless of the fact that Barcelona is 4 points behind Real Madrid in the league now, as long as they beat Real Madrid at home in Camp Nou, Real Madrid's unbeaten record this season will be broken. When the time comes to vent this breath, it is only a matter of time before being overtaken.

Last season, Barcelona did not have the opportunity to reverse Real Madrid to win the league championship. You must know that Real Madrid lost two games in a row after the World War. If Barcelona seized the opportunity to win two games in a row, then Real Madrid would swallow the bitter fruit of failure.But that battle of the century at the Bernabéu completely destroyed Barcelona's morale, and in the end they handed over the championship to Real Madrid, watching their rivals complete their three consecutive league titles.

Although Guardiola finally defeated Manchester United in the Champions League final, he regretted the last-minute loss of the league.If he can withstand the pressure after losing, he might be able to replicate Real Madrid's double crown in 08.

This time the battle of the century is at Camp Nou's home court. Even if it was just three days ago at Meazza and Inter Milan, Guardiola gritted his teeth and dispatched all the main players in order to be able to Won a victory at home and hit Real Madrid's morale while chasing 3 points.

Although Barcelona was vomited blood by Mourinho's 10-0-0 tactics in the middle of the week and failed to score, but in front of the title of "War of the Century", none of the La Liga duo was willing to bow their heads.

However, Guardiola underestimated Schuster's determination, probably inspired by Mourinho's draw with Barcelona in the last match.In the away game, the Germans put on a three-back lineup that made all Barcelona fans vomit blood.

Although the [-] Real Madrid fans who came with the team were dissatisfied with Schuster's conservative attitude, they also knew that the goal match against AC Milan in the middle of the week had seriously injured the Real Madrid players. Such a conservative attitude is also understandable.

"Fortunately, it's away!"

Schuster on the sidelines wiped the sweat from his brow. It would be fine if the game was tied or won. If he lost, he could imagine the overwhelming criticism after the game.

"Give up your advantage!"

"Facing the opponent's advantages with disadvantages!"

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Fortunately, the lineup of three defensive midfielders did not disappoint Schuster's trust. Alonso, Mascherano and Diarra constantly destroyed the opponent's ball possession in the midfield, giving Barcelona the smooth ball control that Barcelona has always been proud of. It's become a mess.In order to ensure the team's defensive ability, Schuster put Marcelo on the bench.

In the first half, the score of the two sides was 0:0 and entered the intermission. Schuster did not change his tactics in the locker room. He is not Guardiola. Obviously the main lineup has reached the limit of physical fitness, but he insisted on letting them play. .At the Nou Camp, scoring one point is his plan, and the final will be at the Bernabeu in April next year!

It was with this mentality that Real Madrid took the lead in the second half.This time the front trident is Gago, Higuain and Robben who is back from injury.All of them are players with various speeds with the ball, clearly playing defensive counterattacks.

In the No.60 minute, Alonso stole the ball and gave it to Robben on the right. The Dutchman took the iconic small steps to shake off Abidal, and then when Puyol blocked his inside route Cross to the middle.

At the top of the arc in the restricted area, Gago, who jumped in at high speed, dodged Butzkes' flying tackle and then volleyed towards Robben's pass, breaking the deadlock for the team.

After the goal, Gago was very excited, but this excitement only lasted 10 minutes. Messi received a direct pass from Harvey in the penalty area and faced Casillas single-handedly.Although Saint Cassie bravely saved Messi's push, but in the face of Iniesta's supplementary shot, he was powerless.

In the end, although the two sides created some opportunities, they were never able to score again.

It is worth mentioning that seven yellow cards and two red cards were shown in this game!

No.80 minutes, Gago dribbled the ball through Butzkes and was pushed from behind by him. The referee showed no mercy and showed a yellow card. In addition, Barcelona's midfielder had already had a yellow card in the first half, two yellow cards Turned red and sent off.

But then the referee found a balance, and Diarra was sent off with two yellow cards for a foul on Harvey.But at this time the game time has reached 10 minutes.

In the end, the battle between the two teams at Camp Nou ended 1:1. The score was not very satisfying. Gago's world wave was the only highlight of the game.Although Messi failed to score a goal, his performance has also been recognized by the expert media. Without his active running and breakthrough, there would be no Iniesta's goal.

For the score of 1:1, Schuster expressed his satisfaction, while Guardiola was very dissatisfied.

Barcelona, ​​whose main force was all out, suffered two consecutive draws. Inter Milan and Real Madrid's tactics can be said to be exactly the same, with seven players in the backcourt defending, and the offense is handed over to the trio in the frontcourt.Barcelona's possession rate was called a bunker, but they failed to win.

After this round, Real Madrid continues to lead Barcelona by 4 points to lead the standings.

"Barcelona lost their last chance and failed to stop Real Madrid at home at the Nou Camp. Then until the next century war, Real Madrid will occupy the top position. Now we can only hope that before the second confrontation between the two teams. Don't make the gap too big!"

After the game, "Daily Sports Daily" was very pessimistic and said that before the game of the century, they called on the fans to help the team let Real Madrid know that this is the home court of Camp Nou.And the Barcelona fans are also very strong, all the [-] seats are full. If it is not necessary to set aside thousands of tickets for Real Madrid, the entire stadium may be covered in red and blue during the game.

But the game they were looking forward to was tied by Real Madrid with extremely ugly tactics. The last game was tied by Inter Milan and their hopes of qualifying for the group stage were shattered. The new and old hatreds of these two draws came together , so that the media in Catalonia could not help but curse.

"This is a retrograde of football. Real Madrid is still known as the world's number one giant. The representative of La Liga actually played such an ugly game in the world's highest-rated battle of the century. This is discrediting La Liga, the real La Liga The team should stick to the offense and sweep everything with offense!"

The swearing of "World Sports Daily" on the second day was reproduced by many print media, and as the mouthpiece of Real Madrid, "Marca" responded immediately!

"We won ten Champions Leagues for La Liga!"

"If you ask a fan why La Liga is the number one league in the world, I think 90.00% of them will say that it is because La Liga has the best results in the Champions League. Real Madrid's ten Champions League trophies account for 90.00% of the credit , Speaking of winning glory for La Liga, I don’t think there is another team that can win more glory for Spain than Real Madrid. Even if Barcelona and the other eighteen teams are tied together, they can’t compare to half of Real Madrid!"

As soon as this point of view came out, Real Madrid immediately became the target of public criticism in La Liga, but "Marca" really didn't care. Since last season, every team saw Real Madrid desperately, as if it was not a league. It's the same as the Champions League final.But in the end, Real Madrid still won the league championship. Except for Barcelona, ​​​​other teams were really not seen by Real Madrid.

And "Marca" is really right, even if the other [-] teams in La Liga are tied together, they won't have as many honors in the Champions League as Real Madrid.

"Shameless, only Real Madrid and Barcelona have won the Champions League trophy in the entire La Liga. What's the point of comparing like this. If you have the ability to compare the league champions!"

"Daily Sports Daily" is naturally not to be outdone. In terms of the honor of the Champions League, there is really no team that can compare with Real Madrid. Even if the five consecutive championships are a little bit too much, they are still five championships.Even if those five are excluded, Real Madrid still has five, and the other nineteen teams combined are still not comparable.

"Okay, then let's compare the league champions of Real Madrid and Barcelona..."

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Just when the mouthpieces of Real Madrid and Barcelona were constantly squabbling after the war of the century, a piece of explosive news came, which made the whole La Liga boil.

Real Madrid's media became even more arrogant after knowing it, but Barcelona's media was even more angry.

At two o'clock in the morning on December 12, local time in France, "French Football" announced the winner of this year's Ballon d'Or on its official website.

"Although the news is surprising, the result is that the Argentine star Fernando Gago, who played for Real Madrid, has performed well in the past year, scoring 350 points and defending the Ballon d'Or honor. And last year led the Barcelona's other Argentine star, Leo Messi, who won the European Champions Cup, scored 348 points, ranking second with only two points. The Portuguese star who played for Manchester United in the Premier League..."

As soon as the result came out, fans all over the world were stunned. Although they knew that Gago and Messi's votes should be very close this year, when the final statistics came out, everyone felt sorry for Messi!

"With a difference of two points, the golden ball defends!"

This time, even "Aspen" lamented a little for Messi, but most of the pages were still promoting the news of Gago defending the Golden Globe.

"At this moment, Gago became a legend of Real Madrid, engraved his name on the Bernabeu forever, the first superstar in the history of Los Blancos to defend the Ballon d'Or, the king of Argentina surpassed Stefano, Figo, Ronaldo ..."

(End of this chapter)