When was the last time the Camp Nou hosted a Champions League match?
It’s been seventeen months and five hundred and fifty-six days since now!
It was the knockout round of the Champions League quarter-finals in the 2002-03 season. Barcelona faced Juventus at home. As a result, they lost to the Old Lady 1-2. They were eliminated with a total score of 2-3 and missed the semi-finals.
It can be said that that season, Juventus stepped on Barcelona's corpse and entered the Champions League final.
Last season, Barcelona missed the Champions League. After a season away, Barcelona returned to the Champions League. Barcelona drew Juventus in the group stage, which made Barcelona fans both happy and anxious.
They were happy because they saw the hope of revenge, but they were worried precisely because they were not sure whether they could take revenge.
Don't fail to take revenge and be killed by your opponent instead. This will be a big loss.
After an absence of 17 months, Barcelona's opponent was Shakhtar Donetsk in their first home game back in the Champions League.
This powerful Ukrainian team led by the famous coach Lucescu has won eight games in the Ukrainian Super League this season and performed very well. They lost to Juventus 0-1 in the first round, which was only a small loss.
I saw how powerful this team is.
After beating Real Mallorca 6-1 in an away game, all fans are full of expectations for Barcelona.
For the first Champions League home game in two years, the Camp Nou stadium was packed with 93,000 fans.
They were all looking forward to it, but also feeling anxious.
In the past few years, Barcelona's Champions League record has not been very satisfactory, which has made fans worried. Can the current Barcelona team go further in the Champions League?
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Barcelona's lineup is actually very thin.
As early as the beginning of the season, some media criticized the club management, believing that they spent 80 million euros to introduce Su Dong, but had to sell a number of rotation and substitute players in the team's prime years, resulting in the team's
The first team lineup is very thin.
The first team's regular lineup only has 20 players, and including young players such as Messi, they can barely make up the number. This is the smallest number among the 20 teams in La Liga. The number of players is small, and the fault tolerance rate is low.
What's even more terrible is that after the start of the new season, Barcelona ushered in a wave of injuries.
Nowadays, Motta, Gabri, Sylvinho, Marcos and Herrard are all out due to injuries, which makes the first team's formation even more stretched, and often can only play with one lineup.
In this case, it is not difficult to guess the game strategy formulated by Rijkaard and Tenkat, which is to seize the initiative as much as possible and play the best when their physical strength is at their best and their personal abilities are at their best.
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In fact, in the second half against Mallorca, the impact of the team's decline in physical fitness cannot be ruled out.
Shakhtar Donetsk are very physical and very fast, which is their advantage. At the same time, they are a team with great technical and tactical qualities, and Barcelona does not dare to be careless about this.
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The game started with the cheers of more than 90,000 fans.
Barcelona took the lead in seizing the initiative and Ronaldinho passed the ball to Belletti in the fourth minute.
The right back's long shot near the baseline went wide.
This was the first shot of the game.
After Barcelona's first shot, Shakhtar Donetsk realized Barcelona's intentions and decisively adopted a shrinking defense and even adopted foul tactics when necessary.
Then Barcelona could only create threats through long-range shots frequently, but they failed to score.
Until the 11th minute, after Ronaldinho took the ball on the left side of the penalty area, he saw Su Dong moving towards him. The two looked at each other and understood each other.
The Brazilian player took the ball and cut inside. After attracting the attention of the defensive player, he sent a kick behind him.
Sudong got rid of the Romanian central defender Bagan at great speed, got ahead of the Polish central defender Marius Lewandowski, crossed the ball into the penalty area with his left foot, and used his body to force Lewandowski away.
Ski, before the right back Srna had time to block it, he shot a low shot with his left foot.
This sudden shot was very unexpected and the angle was very tricky.
Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Rastuvka made a sideways save, but still could not prevent the ball from entering the net.
One to zero!
In an instant, more than 90,000 fans in the stands let out earth-shattering cheers.
Su Dong rushed out of the stadium excitedly and ran all the way.
"Su Dong! Su Dong!! Su Dong!!!"
All the fans in the field were shouting his name excitedly, and the teammates behind him rushed up one after another.
In the end, Puyol grabbed Su Dong from the waist and took him down on the sidelines, and they all fell to the grass.
"In the 11th minute, Barcelona scored first!"
"It's still a goal from Su Dong!"
"We simply can't believe that this 20-year-old genius is Barcelona's best and most surprising player this season. He has shown us the performance of Ronaldo back then, no, even better than Ronaldo back then.
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"One to zero, Barcelona temporarily takes the lead thanks to Su Dong's goal!"
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One goal can often change the entire trend.
There was also some confusion at Shakhtar Donetsk.
Four minutes later, Ronaldinho passed the ball into no man's land on the right side. Deco stopped the ball and scored with a low shot, giving Barcelona another victory.
Two to zero!
Before the end of the first half, Harvey quickly took a corner kick opportunity.
The two central defenders of Shakhtar Donetsk are not very tall, only about 1.84 meters. This gives Su Dong room to use his height, grab the first landing point, and sail the header to the back point.
Ronaldinho followed up and hit directly, breaking through Shakhtar Donetsk's goal again.
Three to zero!
Subsequently, the game temporarily fell into a stalemate, especially after the start of the second half. Donetsk once launched a counterattack with a furious attack, but in the end Barcelona still controlled the situation steadily and did not give the Ukrainian team a chance to counterattack.
Until the end of the game, in the 89th minute, Iniesta, who had just replaced Deco for six minutes, got the ball on the left and had a very beautiful continuous wall-to-wall cooperation with Su Dong.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The two of them seemed to be playing indoor football in the corridor of the Sports City, passing and cutting in succession, as if they were helpless in the tight defensive formation of Shakhtar Donetsk.
In the human realm, they all rushed into the opponent's penalty area.
In the end, after Su Dong stopped the ball, he feinted a shot, deceiving the opponent's goalkeeper and defender, and passed the ball back to Iniesta.
The latter easily pushed into the empty goal and succeeded, 4-0!
Iniesta, who scored the goal, was so excited that he threw himself at Su Dong, celebrating without any thought.
This is his first career Champions League goal!
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The game ended with Barcelona defeating Shakhtar Donetsk 4-0.
The visiting team players left, and the fans dispersed one after another.
Iniesta went back to the locker room to change his clothes, then quietly returned to the stadium, still holding the football he had just scored when he was in his hand, standing in front of the goal, as if he was reminiscing about the goal just now.
The cheers of the 90,000 fans seemed to be lingering in his ears.
That feeling is really great!
Suddenly, a hand grabbed his head and rubbed it hard.
That familiar touch and experienced technique, you knew without looking back that it must be Su Dong.
"It's just a goal, is it necessary to reflect on it like this?" Su Dong asked with a smile.
Iniesta turned to look at him, smiled faintly and said, "You don't understand."
"That's right." Su Dong nodded. If he was like him and could remember him for a long time after scoring a goal, then he would be much busier.
There is nothing to do every day, just stand in front of the goal and miss it.
"Thank you, Su!" Iniesta said suddenly.
"What can I say thank you for?" Su Dong smiled noncommittally.
Iniesta was silent and did not say any more.
At the beginning of the season, his situation was not good. He even thought that in the worst case scenario, he would be loaned out or transferred, but Su Dong's arrival brought him opportunities.
Especially during the period when Ronaldinho was absent, Iniesta performed well and won the recognition of the head coach, which is inseparable from Su Dong's support.
Without Su Dong, he wasn't sure if he could do it, but it would definitely be much more difficult.
Now, he even has his first Champions League goal in his career.
What a wonderful thing this is!
Every time he sees Sudong, Iniesta will feel a warmth and a sense of security from the bottom of his heart, as if nothing in this world can defeat him.
Iniesta is not a person who is good at words. It is still very difficult for him to say thank you, but he will choose to hide it in his heart and always remember it.
"Let's go!" Su Dong stretched out his hand again, touched his head vigorously, turned around and left.
Iniesta nodded obediently and followed Su Dong.
One tall and one short, one in front and one behind, two figures slowly walked into the players' tunnel.
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Sudong's crazy scoring streak since the new season temporarily came to an end in the sixth round of La Liga.
As a substitute, he assisted Ronaldinho to score the only goal of the game.
After playing the full game against Shakhtar Donetsk, Su Dong also had to take a break in La Liga. This was not only the advice of the team doctor, but also the advice of the personal coaching staff. They were also worried that Su Dong continued to play like this.
, the risk of injury will greatly increase.
Although the goal was interrupted, an assist still showed Su Dong's strength.
1-0, Barcelona defeated Numancia at home.
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Two hours later than Barcelona, Real Madrid met Deportivo La Coruna at home.
In the middle of the week, in the Champions League, with Raul's brace and goals from Figo and Carlos, they reversed Roma 4-2. This made many people think that Real Madrid was bottoming out.
But as a result, Galacticos was humiliated by Super Depor 0-1 at home.
This immediately plunged Real Madrid into a deeper abyss.
After six rounds of games, Barcelona continues to be at the top of La Liga with 18 points and a record of six wins. In addition, Valencia drew this round, trailing Barcelona by a full four points.
Real Madrid has three wins and three losses, ranking tenth.
This can almost be said to be a replica of Barcelona last season, except that Real Madrid's current situation is worse than that of Barcelona last season.
At least Rijkaard didn't get out of class at that time, and Camacho had already left early.
After the sixth round of La Liga, two weeks of national team match days ushered in, and La Liga was temporarily suspended.
But in two weeks, Barcelona will face a series of tough games.
Taking advantage of these two weeks, Su Dong decided to take care of a major event that had been planned for a long time.
