Barcelona's draw was like a bomb, causing huge waves in Spanish football and even European football.
Who would have thought that the quasi-La Liga champion, which was already a sure thing, would suddenly encounter twists and turns?
In Spain, even the Catalan media are asking soul questions: What is going on with Rijkaard's team recently? What went wrong?
Daily Sports devoted two pages to analyzing this game and analyzing the crux of Barcelona's draw with Racing Santander.
Finally, we came to a very depressing and helpless conclusion: Ronaldinho.
Real Madrid were chasing after them fiercely. Barcelona actually attached great importance to this game, or should I say, to every subsequent game, for fear that Real Madrid would reverse it by accident.
Rijkaard also used all his main players in this game. He only let Ronaldinho, who played continuously, rest. The rest were all played with the main lineup. The central defender used teenagers Rodri and Puyol to partner.
But such a main lineup, after losing Ronaldinho, suddenly became unable to win.
The ball possession rate reached an astonishing 80%, which can almost be said to be a huge advantage. However, Barcelona only shot ten times, with three shots on target and two goals scored.
Playing at home, Racing Santander only had about 20% of the ball possession rate, but they created eight shots, three of which were on target, and scored two goals. In terms of offensive data, they were on par with Barcelona.
Racing Santander head coach Manolo Preciado admitted at the post-match press conference that he was not surprised that the team was able to draw with Barcelona at home. He even believed that if the team could do better
, fully capable of defeating Barcelona.
The head coach, who is on the verge of dismissal, made no secret of the fact that he gained valuable experience in defending Barcelona from the El Clasico at Camp Nou. “If you look at the process, two to one would be a more reasonable result.
, we won at home.”
Preciado's words attracted a lot of media attention.
Although the head coach of Racing Santander has poor coaching performance this season and has no outstanding resume in the past, a fifty-nine-year-old man who has been playing football for decades is by no means mediocre to be the head coach of Racing Santander.
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Is that battle at Camp Nou really worth learning from?
Daily Sports analysis believes that Racing Santander is almost replicating Real Madrid's 4231 tactics, especially the defense, cutting up Barcelona's frontcourt trident, forcing Barcelona's frontcourt players into fighting on their own.
situation.
Without Ronaldinho, Barcelona also lost the core of their frontcourt offense. Larsson, Eto'o and Giuly mostly played alone. After Deco and Iniesta fought continuously, their bodies were also very weak.
exhausted.
Daily Sports said that this season, Ronaldinho missed six games, and Barcelona's results were two wins, two draws and two losses. This report card is definitely failing for the leader of La Liga, and it is also
Highlighting Ronaldinho's importance to Barcelona.
But Brazilian stars are also human beings and they also need rotation and rest.
Daily Sports even compared Real Madrid.
It is also a two-front battle, and it is also a championship challenge, but in this home game against Real Sociedad, Real Madrid rotated most of their players, but they still defeated Real Sociedad 1-0 at home without any danger.
The Barcelona mouthpiece did not forget to express a wave of profound conservatism, because since he took charge of Real Madrid, he has played more than a dozen games, and except for the first game against Atletico Madrid, which was 3-0, there was only one goal in most games.
This is a very embarrassing statistic, especially for the head coach of Real Madrid, who represents offensive football.
But from another perspective, Gao Shen did a good job in rotation, especially at the critical moment when he decisively used Brazilian players, whether it was Ronaldo who came back early, or Baptista and Robini who started this round.
Both O and Cicinho performed at a very good level and added momentum to Real Madrid.
Daily Sports said that Rijkaard and his team should think carefully about how to go further in La Liga and the Champions League.
Because next, in the Champions League semi-finals, Barcelona will meet Villarreal led by Pellegrini.
Real Madrid met AC Milan, Barcelona met Villarreal, and there were three La Liga teams in the Champions League semi-finals. This was certainly a sign of La Liga's strength, but it also sounded the alarm for Barcelona.
The Yellow Submarine has always been a pain in the ass for Barcelona.
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Barcelona's draw made many media who originally questioned the conservative nature of the game suddenly become uncomfortable to talk to.
Call him conservative, that is indeed conservative, always one to zero.
But when it comes to results, Gao Shen plays steadily and steadily, scoring three points in every game, especially defensively.
From the time he took over as the head coach of Real Madrid to now, he has kept zero goals in seven consecutive rounds in La Liga. This improvement in defensive level is visible to the naked eye.
Some people even say that Real Madrid relied on defense to score so many points.
No matter what, be it conservative or defensive, Real Madrid is catching up.
From being ten points behind to being tied now, the result is just at a disadvantage. With six games left in the league, who dares to say that Real Madrid will have no chance to reverse the situation?
Who can guarantee that Barcelona will never make another mistake?
As a result, the direction of Spanish public opinion began to change.
More and more media are beginning to praise Real Madrid's defensive level and the efforts of Real Madrid's players.
For example, a Madrid media outlet published in the newspaper that the Real Madrid star did not take a vacation after playing against Juventus, but instead worked non-stop to prepare for a new round of matches.
According to the practice during the Galacticos era, the team should have a day off after playing Juventus. Even considering the tight schedule of the game, they should have a half-day off so that the stars can have a good rest.
"It is said to be a break, but in fact everyone knows that this is a time specially set aside by the club for the stars to make extra money."
In the past few years, whenever the team has a break, there will be news and reports about stars attending commercial activities.
When the team's performance is good, the fans talk about it; when the team's performance is not ideal, this kind of business tactic is criticized and becomes the target of criticism from fans and the media.
But no matter what, Real Madrid will not cancel the team's vacation.
Previously, when hard-line coaches such as Queiroz and Luxenberg were coaching, they had many falling outs with the stars because of canceled vacations.
The most serious incident was that the coaching staff, captain Raul and local players all agreed, but the stars still protested and received support from the management. The reason was not complicated. Some of the stars' business activities were actually arranged by the club.
of.
Therefore, to a certain extent, canceling the stars' holidays is tantamount to cutting their income in a different direction.
There is a saying throughout the ages: Cutting off someone's wealth is like killing one's parents.
However, during Gao Shen's coaching period, the team's holidays were canceled many times, but there was not even a single controversy.
The media even published photos of Raul, Ronaldo, Zidane and Beckham training hard in vests on the training ground after playing against Juventus, to prove the transformation of Real Madrid stars.
"We don't know what kind of magic Gao Shen has that can make these originally unruly superstars obey orders, but we can feel that Real Madrid is starting to become more and more normal under Gao Shen's coaching."
"This is the secret behind Real Madrid's seven-game winning streak!"
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After Real Madrid tied with Barcelona, Gao Shen still did not attend the post-match press conference.
He finally fulfilled his promise and allowed Maquida to show his face in front of the media.
This made the media reporters at the scene very dissatisfied, because Gao Shen did not take the uncrowned king seriously at all.
Some media reporters even threatened Maqueda in person, "If he doesn't attend the press conference again, we will reject Real Madrid from now on!"
But how effective is such a threat?
Although Real Madrid's performance has declined, the golden name of the Galacticos is still very shining, especially with such an ups and downs performance this season and the legendary head coach, which has made the current Real Madrid more gimmick, and also
More eye-catching.
Are they willing not to cover Real Madrid?
Maqueda is not from Xiamen University, so of course he will not be intimidated, but he did not entangle with the media reporters. He just conveyed a profound sentence, "I believe that Barcelona will definitely make mistakes again, and we will definitely catch up."
Then, Maquida looked down at the note in his hand, then looked up at the media reporters in front of him, then looked down again, then looked up again...
After hesitating for a long time, he finally read it out.
"There is not much time left. I hope everyone present will think about how to write the final report on Real Madrid winning the championship!"
The scene was filled with dead silence at first, and then it was boiling.
All the media reporters in the audience were in an uproar.
Isn't this too arrogant?
After tying Barcelona in the standings, do you really think Real Madrid can win the championship?
He is afraid that he has forgotten that Real Madrid is still second in the league.
But soon, some media couldn't help but think a little deeper, isn't this another sophisticated psychological warfare?
Some media thought further that this was not only psychological warfare, but also mobilizing and encouraging players.
And the media continues to dig deeper...
Maquida was sitting on the podium, looking at the media reporters talking about it below, and he suddenly felt very puzzled.
Isn't it just a sentence that Gao Shen said casually or wrote down?
Are you so picky about words and so in-depth?
He also said that he was the uncrowned king and was led by the nose by a twenty-five-year-old young man.
What a disgrace to the uncrowned king!
However, after thinking about it, Maquida actually didn't guess what Gao Shen meant by these words.
Psychological warfare? Mobilization order? Or...
Or maybe, it’s a little bit of everything.
Anyway, after getting along with him for this period of time, he felt that Gao Shen looked young, but he couldn't figure it out. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that he was unfathomable, and the more awe he felt.
Many times, the things he does feel very vain at the moment, but when you look back afterwards, you will find that he always has deep meaning.
Maquida doesn't know how others view Gao Shen.
But he really felt that Gao Shen was like a monster in the mist of the abyss.
