Chapter 325: Cut off
When Ronaldinho and the Brazilian team appeared in the corridor of the Sports City, he asked Su Dong provocatively, "Su, let's pick a game?"
Su Dong happily accepted the challenge with his two friends Messi and Iniesta.
At this moment, everyone in the Barcelona team clearly felt that the dark clouds that had been hanging over Barcelona for days had finally dissipated.
Especially after the indoor football match, Su Dong's physiotherapist Grant Downing diagnosed Ronaldinho again and gave him a lot of training suggestions, which were very targeted and made Ronaldinho express his gratitude.
Everyone can see that the problems of the team's two top players have been resolved.
Or maybe, they didn't have any problems in the first place, it was just the hype from the outside world and some atmosphere within the team that caused them to have some frictions without realizing it, but after both sides talked it out, there was actually nothing wrong.
If there is no problem with Su Dong and Ronaldinho, then there will naturally be no problem with others.
As a result, the Barcelona locker room became active again.
Iniesta secretly told Su Dong that Puyol and Xavi had both praised him in private, believing that he took the initiative to step out and reconcile with Ronaldinho, resolving a conflict that should not have arisen.
But only Su Dong himself knew that he had to do this.
In other words, if he wants to be the top player, he must do this.
Chairman Mao was right: if you make as many friends as possible and as few opponents as possible, you will win.
The same is true for the fight for the top spot.
A top player without the support of his teammates is just a commander without troops. Who will listen to him?
Besides, no matter from which angle you look at it, the Brazilian players in Barcelona all follow Ronaldinho's lead. Is it meaningful for Su Dong to have a conflict with Ronaldinho? From a personal point of view, Su Dong's current environment is that a big tree attracts the wind.
The 80 million euro transfer fee certainly made him famous and gave him a high status in Barcelona, but what about the reality? Did no one want to see him make a fool of himself in private?
This is the case in the locker room, but what about the stadium?
Su Dong has clearly felt that the defensive pressure he faces in every game now is several times that of others. It is completely different from when he was in Valencia before.
When playing against Ajax, there was a scene that best reflected the situation in the Soviet Union.
That is, when he received the pass from his teammate and turned to shoot, in the instant he stopped the ball and turned around, three Ajax players including De Jong surrounded him.
They are all staring at Su Dong!
Any player, even one as strong as Ronaldinho, would find it difficult to play well under such defensive pressure.
So, teammates are needed at this time.
Giuly is a winger, while Ronaldinho is good at dribbling and breaking through.
If Su Dong can join forces with Ronaldinho, both of them can attract defensive attention for each other, open up space, and thus achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two. As for who can perform better and seize more opportunities, it depends on personal strength and luck.
Su Dong needs Ronaldinho, and Ronaldinho also needs Su Dong.
Apart from anything else, the situation Ronaldinho faced last season was that there were no teammates in front of him to help him withstand the defensive pressure, which resulted in his threat not being fully unleashed.
And now, Su Dong is here.
The powerful combination of the two became an inevitable choice.
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Three days later, Barcelona will challenge Atletico Madrid away.
Just six minutes into the game, Su Dong pulled to the right, received a through pass from Giuly, dribbled the ball back into the penalty area, and quickly dribbled past Atletico Madrid center back Pablo, before making a cross in front of the goal.
Ronaldinho headed the ball in front of the goal, but unfortunately, it was slightly off target!
Although there was no goal, Ronaldinho still gave Su Dong a thumbs up.
Anyone could see that both of them began to actively seek cooperation with each other.
Whether it is Su Dong or Ronaldinho, they both have strong dribbling and ball protection abilities, which allows them to attract the attention of the surrounding defenses as soon as they get the ball, and then drive teammates outside the range to penetrate the gaps.
This makes Barcelona's attack more threatening.
By the 22nd minute, Su Dong and Ronaldinho had begun to find a tacit understanding in their cooperation.
After Ronaldinho broke through on the left, he passed the ball to the front of the penalty area to find Su Dong.
After Su Dong received the ball with his back, he passed it back to Ronaldinho's forward line. The Brazilian player rushed into the penalty area, stopped the ball and shot directly, scoring the first goal for Barcelona, one to zero!
After scoring the goal, Ronaldinho jumped up excitedly and rushed to the sidelines, shouting "Su" loudly. He kept looking back and waving, signaling Su Dong to catch up and go to the sidelines with him to celebrate the goal.
Su Dong also rushed forward at the first moment.
"Although we don't want to admit it, the cooperation between Barcelona's two superstars in the front court is really hard to defend against."
"Atletico Madrid's defense was very tight, but whether it was Ronaldinho's dribbling or Su Dong's back-to-back pass, it was difficult for them to defend, especially when the two players cooperated well, it was difficult for the defenders to keep up."
"It has been 22 minutes since the start of the game. Barcelona has been attacking for 22 minutes, but Atletico Madrid has not even had a shot yet. This is very surprising. It is not difficult to see Barcelona's strong offensive power."
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It wasn't until the 25th minute that Atletico Madrid scored a volley by Torres.
But ten minutes later, Ronaldinho again took the ball on the left, attracted the attention of the defense, and moved to the right.
Belletti quickly made a run and received a pass from Ronaldinho on the right side outside the penalty area. After a slight adjustment, he sent a cross into the penalty area.
Su Dong quickly seized the most advantageous position, without even jumping, he leaned forward and headed the ball into Atletico Madrid's goal, 2-0! "GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"
"It's Su Dong again!"
"This is his third consecutive game in which he scored a goal, and he made one assist and one shot!"
"After joining Barcelona, Su Dong's performance is still as stable as before, continuing his outstanding performance in Valencia. He has just turned 20 years old, and his performance is no less than Ronaldo back then."
"Four goals in three games, and three assists, Su Dong is absolutely amazing!"
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In the end, Barcelona defeated Atletico Madrid 2-1 away.
The goal conceded happened in the second half.
Atletico Madrid's long pass from the backcourt went straight behind Barcelona's defense. Both Oleguer and goalkeeper Valdes made misjudgments and almost got involved.
Torres got the ball in hand, shook off Puyol who was returning to defense, and calmly shot the ball into the empty goal.
This goal conceded was also the first goal conceded by Barcelona this season, but it reflects a lot of things.
For example, center backs and goalkeepers.
Needless to say, the whole world knows that Barcelona's defense is not solid. Except for Puyol, Oleguer and Marcos have not performed very stably. This is also a long-standing problem for the team.
And the goalkeeper.
In the past few years, Barcelona's goalkeeper has always been a problem, including Reina, the later Turkish goalkeeper Rustu, and Valdes this season. It can be said that Barcelona's goalkeeper position has always been a weak point.
Compared with Real Madrid, which has a world-class goalkeeper like Casillas, Barcelona does have a big problem in the goal position. However, many giants are lacking goalkeepers nowadays, and it is difficult for Barcelona to find a better and more suitable one.
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Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 without any major problems, but other teams were not so lucky.
There are only three teams that have maintained two consecutive wins in the first two rounds of the league, namely Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.
Now, Barcelona has defeated Atletico Madrid 2-1 away, and its only competitor is Real Madrid.
Interestingly, when Barcelona went to Madrid to play, Real Madrid came to Barcelona to challenge Espanyol away.
As a result, Real Madrid lost unexpectedly to Espanyol 0-1 away from home.
Raul Tamudo and Ronaldo both missed penalties in the game, Samuel accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off, and the defense was very poor throughout the game. It is hard to believe that this is the Argentine rock that shines in Serie A.
Salgado, one of Real Madrid's vice-captains, elbowed his opponent during the game and was sent off with a red card in the final stages of the game.
Even Real Madrid's other vice-captain Guti was recorded in the match report for insulting the linesman and the fourth official on the sidelines during the game and is likely to face additional punishment.
The two red cards made Real Madrid very dissatisfied, and they believed that the referee from Valencia was quite unfair to Real Madrid.
After losing 0-3 to Leverkusen away in the first round of the Champions League group stage in the middle of the week, Real Madrid lost 0-1 to Espanyol away in La Liga, which undoubtedly put Real Madrid under great pressure.
Real Madrid coach Camacho said in the post-match press conference that he would not throw questions to the referee like others did, because they are also human beings. Sometimes they make good calls and sometimes they make bad calls, which is understandable.
Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid 2-1 away, while Real Madrid lost 0-1 to Espanyol away.
With this ups and downs, Barcelona began to secure the lead in the league with a three-point lead.
As the mouthpiece of Real Madrid, AS summarized the lessons learned from the double defeat in a week and believed that Camacho did have some problems, but the more serious problem was that all teams knew that Real Madrid's midfield was [cut in half].
"When the whole world knew that we needed a defensive midfielder, we didn't recruit anyone in this position. This is the most serious problem in itself!"
AS even began to miss Makelele, believing that selling Makelele was definitely the most serious mistake.
While Barcelona proudly climbed to the top and the Catalan media was jubilant, Real Madrid suffered two defeats in a week and the superstars lost miserably. This gap made more and more people begin to believe that Barcelona will win the La Liga championship this season.
What is even more unexpected is that the day after losing to Espanyol, Camacho, who had just taken over as Real Madrid head coach in the summer, announced that he would resign from the Real Madrid coaching position.
This immediately caused an earthquake in European football!
(End of this chapter)
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