Chapter 466 Defeat Mourinho!

The Champions League final is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, May 17, at the Stade de France in Paris, France.

This is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Champions League, so the final venue returned to the venue of the first Champions League final 50 years ago.

Barcelona faces Chelsea, a showdown between the two most powerful teams in European football today.

In La Liga, Barcelona established its leading advantage in the league early on and won all the championships of this season in one go, except for the Champions League. Chelsea is also a Premier League powerhouse and won the championship ahead of schedule. Mourinho has won the Premier League title for two consecutive seasons. Both teams are the most popular teams in European football.

Such a confrontation naturally attracted the attention of fans all over the world.

Even before the game, the two teams had already begun their battle of wits and courage.

Barcelona had originally booked a charter flight from Barcelona to Paris on Monday evening, and even the hotel had been booked in advance.

This caused many media from all over the world to wait at the airport, waiting for Barcelona to come out.

But who could have thought that Barcelona changed its mind at the last minute and did not go to Paris as originally planned, but postponed it to Tuesday noon. On Tuesday morning, they still conducted a closed training session at the Gamper Sports City.

When Barcelona's charter plane suddenly landed in Paris, media reporters only hurriedly received the news, but Barcelona quickly took a bus directly from the tarmac to a hotel near Versailles.

In order to avoid harassment from media reporters as much as possible, Barcelona even arranged a hotel in the suburbs and booked the entire hotel exclusively for use by players, their families, and club staff.

Not only that, just like last year, Rijkaard also brought all the first-team players, including the injured, to Paris.

"I hope that just like last year, every one of you will be there when the team wins the championship!"

At the critical moment, Rijkaard's words were quite provocative.

In terms of logistical support, the club used a heavy truck with four front and eight rear wheels, loaded with a whole truckload of supplies, and transported it from Barcelona to Paris. In addition to the players' training equipment and food, the most special thing on the truck was a bottle of oversized champagne produced in Catalonia.

As we all know, France is rich in wine and champagne, but Catalonia also produces champagne. Although it is not as famous as France, Barcelona would rather choose its own champagne than use French ones.

Last year, the team forgot to bring champagne when they went to Istanbul, Turkey for the game. This year, they made it to the Champions League final again. Barcelona is no longer the rookie it was last year. Now Barcelona is aiming to become the first top club to successfully defend the title since the reform, so the team prepared extra-large champagne in advance, hoping that the players can perform more confidently.

When the team arrived in Paris, all the supplies had already been delivered.

All of Barcelona’s food and drinks in Paris are on this big truck.

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Unlike Barcelona, ​​Chelsea's pre-match preparations were also well organized.

The Blues arrived in Paris on Monday evening, trained at a football field near the hotel on Tuesday morning, and went to the Stade de France for field adaptation training in the afternoon.

According to the schedule, their field adaptation training time is before Barcelona, ​​and the two teams just staggered.

After the afternoon training, Mourinho attended the pre-match press conference.

Regarding the upcoming Champions League final, Mourinho said he is full of confidence and the players can't wait.

The Portuguese madman was as proud as ever. He said that the reason why Barcelona won consecutive victories was only because they had never encountered a truly strong team, such as Chelsea.

As for the Champions League final tomorrow night, Mourinho said that his biggest hope is that the team can finish the game with all its players.

"We can definitely beat Barcelona as long as we play with eleven men!"

This is also Mourinho's psychological tactics.

Barcelona is good at passing and controlling the ball, and has technical experts like Suarez, Ronaldinho and Messi. They get more ball and control the ball longer. Chelsea is good at running and defending, and the Blues' style has always been tough and aggressive.

Mourinho's advance precaution was to put pressure on the referee.

If the Chelsea player is really sent off, wouldn't that prove what he said before the game? Then everyone will definitely wonder if there is really something shady going on? But if the referee is concerned about the impact and relaxes the enforcement standards a little, it will be more beneficial to Chelsea, because they play aggressively, and loose enforcement standards mean that they can infringe on Barcelona to a greater extent and prevent Barcelona from getting the ball and organizing attacks.

It can be said that Mourinho's remarks are very clever.

Of course, to use the words of Cruyff's rebuttal in his column, this is called cunning cleverness.

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Su Dong was also invited by UEFA to attend the pre-match press conference.

At the press conference, he said that he was negotiating a contract extension with Barcelona, ​​"There is no doubt that my future belongs to Barcelona!"

Su Dong is quite experienced in the upcoming Champions League final.

He won a Champions League in Valencia, reached the Champions League final for two consecutive years in Barcelona, ​​and won one last year. Now, Su Dong has reached the Champions League final for three consecutive years.

In response to this, Su Dong smiled and said that the most important thing before the final is to keep a calm mind.

"Many people say that we are the favorites, but I don't think so, because in football matches, especially such an important final, you never know how amazing your opponent will be, so there is no such thing as a favorite."

Regarding the current situation of the team, Su Dong said that he is not worried about the problems on the technical and tactical level, and he thinks there is no problem in this regard.

The real problem is psychological.

“I think we might be a little anxious.”

Three days ago, in the last round of La Liga, Barcelona played away against Athletic Bilbao with an all-substitute lineup, but lost 1-3 away from home. Logically, this is nothing, but some players were still affected.

"I am a little worried about this. If we can't control this emotion well and can't calm down before the game, then we will definitely be affected by it during the game, or even ruined by it."

Su Dong said he could understand the pressure because everyone was eager to successfully defend the title.

The Champions League has been reformed for more than ten years, but no team has successfully defended the title so far. Even a team like Juventus has reached the Champions League final for three consecutive years, but has only won one.

The once powerful Real Madrid had many superstars in the past few years, but between 2000 and 2002, one of their stadiums was snatched away by Bayern Munich, and they were separated in the middle and failed to successfully defend their title.

It can be said that the competition in the Champions League today is more brutal than ever.

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In this regard, Su Dong suggested that the team should try to avoid external interference, "Don't think about the championship, don't think about history, just focus on the game. I know this is difficult because I have been affected by this before, but we must do it."

When talking about his teammates, Su Dong not only talked about himself and Ronaldinho, but also focused on Messi.

"If there are still people who regard Messi as a rookie now, then he will definitely teach his opponent a lesson in the final."

"Maybe, Chelsea's defenders know Su Dong very well, but they don't know Messi!"

The media at the scene all laughed, thinking that Su Dong was intentionally promoting his best friend to a higher position.

After all, in Barcelona, ​​Su Dong is the undisputed number one superstar, and Messi's status is even lower than that of Ronaldinho, Deco, Xavi and Puyol. His performance is indeed good, but he is still young after all.

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The next day, the morning of the final.

When Su Dong was reading the morning newspaper in the hotel, he found that almost all the media automatically ignored his words about Messi and focused more on him and Ronaldinho.

"Leo, tell me, you have no sense of existence!" Su Dong casually handed a newspaper to Messi beside him, "I have said it like that, but they still don't believe it. So, in this final tonight, you have to work harder and slap them hard in the face to let them know how powerful you are."

Messi smiled and glanced at the newspaper. "I don't need them to know how capable I am. You just need to know."

"That won't do. I've already said it. Just go ahead and mess up their defense and make Mourinho mad to death." Su Dong said with a smile.

He and Mourinho have the same agent and they actually have a good relationship privately.

But there is no way, who makes them opponents on the field now? "Jose is very cautious. He doesn't say it, but he will definitely pay attention to Messi." Deco played under Mourinho and he knows the style of the Portuguese madman.

Don't be fooled by the fact that he always acts like a big shot in front of the media, in fact, deep down he is a person with serious insecurity, so he prepares very carefully and will not miss even a single detail.

"It's okay. I'll open up the defense when the time comes. You can just defend and charge forward boldly to see which unlucky guy will come to defend you." Su Dong seemed to be hoping for chaos in the world.

Messi smiled shyly and said nothing more.

People who are familiar with him will get used to his shyness, but only those who understand him will know that behind this shyness and low-keyness, Messi also has a little-known pride and competitiveness in his bones.

He has never been willing to lag behind others. The reason why he is convinced by Su Dong is because of his relationship with Su Dong and the help Su Dong has given him. This makes him obedient to Su Dong and do whatever he says.

If it was anyone else, Messi would have defeated him long ago! "Don't worry, I'll be there when the time comes." Ronaldinho is also a dribbling maniac. He smiled and showed his buck teeth. "Leo, let's dribble the ball as much as possible on both sides and see who is the bigger threat."

This time Messi was not polite and nodded directly.

The fight was successful!

"Leo, don't be afraid, I'll help you." Iniesta expressed his support to his best friend.

Ronaldinho was stunned. Are they going to play two against one?

Add to that Su Dong, whose butt had already turned away, this...

Ronaldinho immediately looked at Deco with "bad intentions", and the latter scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Don't look at me, I'm Portuguese now!"

Everyone present burst into laughter.

Even Ronaldinho himself was delighted.

(End of this chapter)