When Barcelona's offense began to become unbearable and the state was in poor condition due to a dilemma, Atletico Madrid still maintained an extremely high fighting spirit.
Now they have no baggage at all, because the news from another venue is that Numancia is behind Racing Santander 0-1 in the away game - obviously, Racing Santander has no intention of letting go!
This is of course good news, and the other is bad news for Barcelona. Deportivo is ahead of Celta Vigo on the road...
Barcelona's players didn't know the news, but they knew that the current situation in the league was very unfavorable to them.
However, because of concerns about the Champions League, Barcelona's offense still did not show anything too sharp. Throughout the second half, their offense failed to create too many threats. Instead, in the 73rd minute, Atletico Madrid scored again.
Got it!
After receiving the pass from Solari, Juninho showed off his power and drove straight from the midfield with the ball. He passed Cocu and Frank De Boer in succession, and then faced the attacking Hesp with a calm push.
Enter the net!
This goal became the last straw for Barcelona.
When Atletico Madrid scored the second goal, Van Gaal calmed down. He shook his head, then replaced Rivaldo with Dani, announcing that he would give up on the game.
During the time, Atletico Madrid's defenders worked together to maintain the lead until the end.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the entire Camp Nou was filled with the cheers of more than a thousand fans who had come from afar!
News from other games has already come. Numancia struggled to regain a point in the second half, and finally tied with Racing Santander in the away game. Atletico Madrid tied Numancia in points, just because they won each other.
The negative relationship ranked behind Numancia, while Real Betis, another team in the relegation zone, did not rebound as hard as Atletico Madrid. They lost to Mallorca 0-4 in the away game, and their points were lost.
Atletico Madrid surpasses three points!
After winning their first three consecutive league wins this season, Atletico Madrid has been infinitely close to the relegation zone. Now their situation is great!
Barcelona's future is worrying. Deportivo La Coruna defeated Celta Vigo in an away game and scored precious three points, once again narrowing the gap with Barcelona to five points. With only three rounds left in the league
, it is already quite difficult for Barcelona to make up for this five-point gap. As long as Deportivo gets five points in the next three rounds of the league, it is absolutely impossible for Barcelona to win the league championship!
In the King's Cup competition, if a miracle does not happen in the second round, it will be difficult for them to enter the King's Cup final. This almost means that Barcelona, which wants to win the Triple Crown this season, will have to wait until this week.
, suffered heavy setbacks on both the Copa del Rey and League fronts!
What has brought them a heavy setback is Atletico Madrid, which has not even succeeded in relegation! He is not even an official head coach now, but just a man who has led Atletico Madrid's second team for half a year and is coaching a regular first-tier club for the first time.
A twenty-one-year-old young man!
Now, this arrogant young man is celebrating crazily on the court with his players.
"How about it? Did I say it? Even if the whole Barcelona is hostile to us, it will not prevent us from winning! No matter how angry they are, they can't let us stop celebrating at the Camp Nou! Even if we are sprayed with water at this time
For us, that just adds a different color to our celebration!"
Dick patted Belleron hard on the shoulder and laughed loudly and said to the other players.
Belleron secretly moved his shoulder that was so painful from Dick's pat. He had been running on the field for a long time and didn't want to be hurt internally by this energetic head coach again...
"Come on, let's go back to the locker room and get ready to rest. We have a day off tomorrow. Let's go out to have fun tonight! Jimmy and Paulista are treating us!"
Dick pointed at Hasselbaink and Juninho and said.
"Why us?" Hasselbaink and Juninho said unconvinced at the same time: "You are the head coach, you should be the one to treat us!"
"Because you have the highest income." Dick gave a convincing reason: "I would like to treat you, but my weekly salary is only 250,000 pesetas, which is not enough for you to go to a nightclub and drink a bottle of wine..."
"You obviously won a jackpot of one hundred thousand dollars in the winter!" Baraja immediately pointed out the inaccuracies in Dick's words.
"The boys from the second team made a fuss about treating me, so I spent all my money!" Dick lied without changing his face or heartbeat.
"Huh..." Atletico Madrid players booed at the same time. They all knew that Dick was lying, but there was no evidence...
But with such a wonderful victory, treating guests is also a happy thing!
The reason why we celebrate in Barcelona is because there will be a Copa del Rey semi-final between Camp Nou and Barcelona in the middle of the week. However, Atletico Madrid players are full of confidence because of the three-goal advantage in the first round.
It was enough for most of them to enter the final of the King's Cup. It was appropriate to take a day's rest before that...
It can be said that Atletico Madrid players relaxed a lot that night. They began to like Dick as the head coach more and more. Although this guy threatened all the players with the intimidation of Old Hill as soon as he took office, but after that
He came down and led the team to consecutive wins, giving the team great hope of avoiding relegation. He didn't talk nonsense on the training ground, and he didn't scold them randomly off the court. More importantly, Dick was better than them in the nightclub last night.
Playing like crazy, but also letting go, so much so that the players, who were a little restrained at first because they were drinking and picking up girls in nightclubs with the head coach, have completely returned to the state of coming out in groups to have fun...
They can lead them to victory on the court, get along well with the players off the court, and make vulgar jokes without being annoyed. Why wouldn't they like a coach like this?
However, having fun on Barcelona's territory was naturally discovered by Catalan reporters. However, they lost two games in a row to Atletico Madrid, conceding five goals and not scoring a single goal. At this time, it is time to criticize Atletico Madrid.
It is obviously an unwise move to say that the players have no professionalism - they can beat you without professionalism, how can it be embarrassing for the Barcelona players who have professionalism...
So the reporters just said a few sour words in the media, leaving all other pages to criticize the Barcelona players and coach Louis van Gaal. Mr. Rodriguez was even more annoyed to death. Barcelona lost these two games.
If he doesn't win the Champions League, he will have to eat a microphone in public - a microphone made of foam, plastic blocks, metal sheets and wires. If he eats this thing, won't his stomach be full of holes?
Of course he could cheat and refuse, but in this case, he probably wouldn't be able to do it as a reporter...
Therefore, Mr. Rodriguez is looking forward to Barcelona's character breaking out in the next game, completing a major reversal, eliminating Atletico Madrid and winning the Copa del Rey - without winning the Champions League and the League.
It’s all okay! As long as you have a King’s Cup, I can let you run naked in downtown Madrid! Barcelona, you must be more ambitious!
Two days later, a bolt from the blue struck Mr. Rodriguez.
Breaking news.
"This afternoon, FC Barcelona submitted an application to the Spanish Football Federation, requesting not to participate in the second leg of the Copa del Rey in midweek because the members of the Dutch national team all went to participate in a warm-up match of the Dutch national team and they did not
France gathered enough people to participate in this game, and at the same time, they were going to participate in the Champions League to save energy. The Spanish Football Association issued a warning to them. However, Barcelona insisted on giving up the game. In desperation, the Spanish Football Association agreed.
Their request announced that Atletico Madrid would directly enter the Copa del Rey final, which is undoubtedly good news for Atletico Madrid because they can concentrate more on preparing for the league..."
"I have to say that this kind of move is not in line with the image of the Barcelona club... Even if they don't value the Copa del Rey, which is the most important tournament in Spain besides the league, they have now announced that they will give up the second round! Even if
There is a good reason, but it is difficult to justify..."
"If they beat Atletico Madrid in the first round away from home, would they give up the second round? Don't be kidding! It's because they felt it was difficult to catch up with three goals, so they found a reason to give up the game.
Concentrate on preparing for the Champions League! If you completely give up the game because you don’t take it seriously, then what’s the point of the Copa del Rey?”
This approach of Barcelona caused dissatisfaction among many media. Even the Spanish Football Association once wanted to deprive Barcelona of the right to participate in the Spanish King's Cup next season. In the end, it canceled this penalty and agreed to Barcelona's request not to participate in this game.
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Dick's reaction to this was quite violent.
"Damn it, if you want to run away, run away as soon as possible, leaving us in Barcelona for two days, what a big deal!" He complained to Marriner privately.
When being interviewed, he shrugged his shoulders: "I think Barcelona is right to do this, because they will never be able to enter the final of the King's Cup. It is better to save some energy and it will be good for everyone...
...Why, you don’t believe it? I don’t use any other tactics, I just use defensive counterattacks. As long as I don’t concede three goals in 90 minutes, that’s enough. Barcelona has concerns and wants to focus on the Champions League. How can they compete with us? However,
I still have some objections, because we have been stuck in Barcelona for two days for the second leg of the semi-finals. Of course it doesn't matter if there is a game, but now there is no game. Is the accommodation and food provided by FC Barcelona these days?
We should be reimbursed..."
After this paragraph was published in the newspaper, I don’t know how many readers spewed out their tongues after reading this paragraph!
"This guy is really..." Countless readers shook their heads after reading this paragraph. They really didn't know what adjectives should be used to describe Dick, or... this guy is just a big bitch?
At this time, the big bitch? Di had already brought his team back to Madrid with great satisfaction. He did not expect that he originally regarded three consecutive games against Barcelona as three thirty minutes in one game.
In the end, you only played for sixty minutes, and the next thirty minutes became garbage time, and people just stopped playing with you...
How unbelievable I am to beat them directly. This thought makes Dick feel very proud. Now, he only has four games left to play this season, three league games and one King's Cup.
finals!
Regardless of whether the opponent in the final is Real Madrid or Espanyol, they have to work hard for another 90 minutes to determine whether they advance, but we won without a fight. This feeling is really good...
