Chapter 419 Messi cried!
The players of Real Madrid would never have thought that losing to Celta Vigo at home was just the beginning of their tragic fate.
After the second round of La Liga, the first round of this season's Champions League group stage was held in the middle of the week.
Real Madrid will challenge French Ligue 1 powerhouse Lyon away.
Logically speaking, Real Madrid did not lack morale and fighting spirit in this game.
Ronaldo was suspended and Robinho started. This was the first Champions League game in the Brazilian player's career. Captain Raul has scored 49 goals in the Champions League. If he scores one more goal, his number of goals in official Champions League matches will reach 50, which is also something worth commemorating.
Luxemburg once again displayed his carefully trained magic matrix, trying to suppress Lyon away from home.
The so-called magic matrix is to adopt the double defensive midfielder tactics.
In the last round against Celta Vigo, he used the combination of Graveson and Guti, but this time it was the combination of two tough guys, Graveson and Pablo Garcia, with Baptista and Beckham in front, and Raul and Robinho partnering up on the front line, which was obviously also taking into account the away game.
As a result, the problems exposed in the match against Celta Vigo were even more obvious in this game.
Be it Raul and Robinho in the front or the four tough guys in the midfield, they were all gathered in the middle, resulting in a serious shortage of people on the flanks. The team was unable to launch an effective flank attack, while the middle seemed abnormally bloated.
Luxemburgo asked the full-backs to come forward to assist, but in this case, when counterattacked, the two flanks behind became the biggest hidden danger, which was also the reason why they lost 2-3 to Celta Vigo at home in the second round of the league.
This time in Lyon, Real Madrid played even more miserably and lost 0-3.
Yes, that's right, a complete defeat of 0-3! What's more interesting is that in the first round of the Champions League group stage last season, Real Madrid also lost 0-3 away, but the team they lost to was Leverkusen from the Bundesliga.
For two consecutive years, Real Madrid suffered a 0-3 defeat in the Champions League group stage, and the defeat caused strong indignation in the Spanish media.
In fact, many people think that Luxemburg's team is not as good as Camacho's.
At least, before Camacho lost 0-3 to Leverkusen, he won a narrow one-goal victory over newly promoted Numancia at home in the league.
The schedule is so similar!
Both teams faced newly promoted teams in the second round, both teams played away in the first round of the group stage, and next, they will face Espanyol in the third round of the league.
Last season, they lost to Espanyol 0-1 away. What about this season? When the news of Real Madrid's 3-0 defeat to Lyon came out, everyone wondered if they would lose to Espanyol away in the third round. If they lost 0-1 again, it would be destined.
I just don’t know if Luxemburg will resign in anger like Camacho?
You know, Luxemburg had already resigned once to Florentino, but was not allowed.
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While Real Madrid suffered a crushing defeat away from home, Barcelona also encountered difficulties away from home.
A rainstorm completely disrupted all of Barcelona's tactical deployments.
The Weser Stadium completely turned into a swamp. Barcelona's best passing and controlling style of play encountered the biggest obstacle. The wetter the field, the more passing errors they made. Ronaldinho, in particular, loved to hold the ball and made mistakes one after another after the opening, which made it difficult for him to pose a threat.
Werder Bremen took advantage of the rain to attack Barcelona and tried to break through Barcelona's goal.
But after defending against the Bundesliga team's attack in the first ten minutes, Barcelona began to stabilize its position.
Su Dong, Ronaldinho, Deco, Xavi and others got together, negotiated, and decisively adjusted the tactics.
Give up more ball control and adopt a more efficient and concise style of play, especially mid- and high-level balls.
This adjustment quickly took effect.
In the twelfth minute, Van Bronckhorst made a cross from the left and passed the ball directly to Deco who was coming from behind.
Deco passed the ball directly to Ronaldinho without stopping. The Brazilian had just stopped the ball and without waiting for the defensive players to catch up, he quickly passed it diagonally to the left side of the top arc in front of the penalty area.
Werder Bremen's Brazilian central defender Naldo is 1.98 meters tall, a little taller than Su Dong. This was his first Champions League game after transferring from Brazilian side Juventus to the Bundesliga. He performed very hard, especially when facing the World Footballer of the Year Su Dong, which made him even more excited.
When he saw Su Dong trying to receive the ball with his back to the goal, he quickly approached him from behind and tried to push him away.
In Naldo's impression, whether in Brazil or in the Bundesliga, whenever he was squeezed like this, even if he was not squeezed away, it would be difficult to hold the ball.
But what surprised the Brazilian center back was that when he hit Su Dong's back, he felt as if he had hit a wall.
Not only was he almost knocked away, but Su Dong stood still.
What surprised him even more was that Su Dong stopped the ball directly to his left and suddenly turned around.
His partner Pasaan was horrified and rushed over to block the attack immediately.
But after Su Dong turned around, he did not shoot directly, but kicked the ball towards the top of the arc with the outside of his right foot.
Deco, who had just passed the ball, rushed up at this time, stopped Su Dong's pass into the penalty area, and shot directly into the goal.
Naldo was a little dumbfounded!
This is the strength of the World Footballer of the Year!
He was so proud of his physical confrontation, but he couldn't get any advantage in front of Su Dong.
This guy looks skinny, but how come he is so good at strength confrontation?
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Deco scored a goal and broke the deadlock on the field.
Werder Bremen, playing at home, launched a fierce counterattack against Barcelona.
French midfielder Micoud planned several good attacks in succession, but unfortunately he failed to seize the opportunities.
The most dangerous one happened in the 36th minute. Miku made a straight pass, Krashnich made a cross from the left, and Nelson Valdes actually hit the ball high on the small penalty area line and missed a great opportunity.
This also sounded a wake-up call for Barcelona.
Just three minutes later, Xavi sent a straight pass past the Werder Bremen defense.
Su Dong quickly moved in from behind, successfully got ahead of the offside, caught up with the ball, and shot directly.
The shot brought up the water on the grass, splashing all over him, but the ball went straight into the goal of Werder Bremen, 2-0! "GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
“Two to zero!”
"Barcelona's quick counterattack was very sharp."
"Xavi's through ball was very beautiful, and Su Dong's timing of running in was just right. The Bremen players protested to the referee, thinking that Su Dong was offside, but the referee indicated that Bremen defender Schulz was the last player to play, so Su Dong was not offside."
"Barcelona are not obsessed with possession now, but are more focused on quick attack."
"From the current perspective, Barcelona's ball possession rate is only 52%, which is basically the same as Werder Bremen, but the offensive threat is greater. The biggest problem for the home team now is still on the offensive end."
"Miku also didn't give his best performance tonight in the defence of Marcos Senna."
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After taking a two-goal lead, Rijkaard made a substitution at halftime.
Oleguer replaced Belletti and let the Barcelona youth player play as right back and take a defensive stance.
If Oleguer performed poorly as a center back, he performed well as a right back.
In the 60th minute, Argentine youngster Messi replaced Giuly.
A minute later, Su Dong turned his back again, blocked Pasaan with his body, and passed the ball to Messi.
The young Argentine player came on and shot directly with his left foot without hesitation.
The shot was clean and powerful, but the ball's momentum was not suppressed.
Messi spread his hands in frustration and sighed heavily.
Su Dong walked over with a smile and touched his head, "It's okay, try harder, there will definitely be a chance!"
Sure enough, not long after, Su Dong retreated again, stopped the ball and turned around deftly, got rid of Naldo, and quickly sent the ball to the right side of the penalty area.
Messi and Su Dong have a good understanding of each other and of course they would not miss such an opportunity. They immediately quickly cut into the penalty area, caught up with Su Dong's ball, and shot.
Unexpectedly, Schultz, who was chasing him desperately, made a mistake in a hurry and pushed him directly into the penalty area.
The referee blew the whistle decisively, foul!
Yellow card plus penalty! Messi cried!
I really want to score a goal, is it easy?
My feet were already up and I was about to shoot, but you pushed me down? You think I'm easy to bully because I'm short? Su Dong walked over, pulled Messi up, and gently touched his head, which was wet with rain.
A long sigh, "Poor child!"
Ronaldinho, Barcelona's top penalty taker, would not let go of such an opportunity. When he passed by Messi, he couldn't help but smiled slyly and said, "I'll treat you to a meal later."
Messi doesn't even look at him straight in the eye, so who would care about you treating him?
If you have the guts, let me take the penalty!
Ronaldinho walked to the penalty spot with a smile on his face, took a few steps back, then quickly ran up and scored the goal in one go.
Three to zero! The Brazilians were so excited that they danced and celebrated.
Messi was outside the penalty area, looking at him with his heart bleeding.
"It's okay. When you become the top player in Barcelona in the future, you can also steal other people's penalties in this way." Su Dong comforted.
Messi raised his head, looked at him deeply, and lowered it again.
With Su Dong around, how long would it take for him to become the top boss? Besides, he didn't have such ambition.
All he wants now is to play more football, participate in more matches, have a chance to score goals, perform better, and have the club quickly give him a promotion and a raise, and then return to his hometown to find his girl with the beautiful big eyes.
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After leading by three goals, the German team had completely lost interest in fighting, and Barcelona had no intention of continuing to score goals.
The game went straight into garbage time.
In the end, Barcelona defeated Werder Bremen 3-0 away from home thanks to Su Dong's pass and shot, as well as Ronaldinho's penalty.
Both were 3-0, but one side was a complete winner and the other side was a complete loser.
The two Spanish Super League giants faced completely different situations after the first round of the Champions League group stage.
The reactions of the Spanish media and fans were also completely different.
Although many people find it hard to accept, they have to admit that Real Madrid is no longer in the same league as Barcelona.
(End of this chapter)
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