When Su Dong returned home to Barcelona from Turin, the first thing he did was to check the video of the game between Valencia and Inter Milan.
He really wanted to know what was the reason that caused his old club to suffer such an astonishing defeat in such a short period of time?
You know, in La Liga this season, in the first seven rounds of the league, Valencia conceded eight goals, even though it ranked second. In fact, this report card is not ideal at all, especially Valencia.
West Asia has always been good at defense.
As a result, they were defeated 5-1 in the Champions League group stage by Inter Milan, a team with deep grudges, at home.
In the first three rounds of the Champions League group stage, they had one win and two losses. This is not like a team that is aiming for the top spot in the group.
After watching the game video, Su Dong's questions got a lot of answers.
When playing against Inter Milan, Valencia's lineup made three adjustments compared to last season. After Su Dong's transfer, it became Di Vaio. Vicente on the left was injured and absent, and Rufit and Angulo were separated on the wings.
, the midfielders are Aimar, Albelda and Baraja, the defense is Carboni, Navarro, Canela and Curo Torres, and the goalkeeper is Canizares.
Both central defenders Marchena and Ayala were injured.
This is also obvious. Valencia may have transfers or injuries, and the overall strength of the team will be damaged.
But it's definitely not to this extent.
When it came to the game, Su Dong was surprised to find that Valencia actually did a good job in the first half and successfully defended the score at zero-0. Canela and Navarro also performed very steadily against Adriano.
Despite repeated attacks from Vieri, they still held on to the goal, which was not easy.
But in the second half, I don’t know what happened, but the situation suddenly reversed.
At the beginning of the game, Valencia conceded two goals in a row within three minutes. Then, after Aimar got a goal back for the team, he immediately conceded two goals in a row.
This reminded Su Dong of some media reports he had seen before. Valencia seemed to be suffering from some kind of terrible disease, and would lose goals in the second half.
Ranieri's ability is undoubted, and his personality is also very good, but his behavior is slightly conservative, which leads him to hesitate in handling many things, such as several Italian players he has introduced this season.
But they failed to handle the relationship between the Italian gang and the Spanish local gang.
This laid the foundation for Valencia's successive defeats.
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Turning off the game video, Su Dong couldn't help but fall into thinking.
He recalled that Rijkaard voted for Ronaldinho with his precious captaincy vote during the pre-season training.
Is this really because he wants to praise Ronaldinho?
I’m afraid not necessarily!
With Chairman Laporta and Vice Chairman Russell facing conflicts, what he, the head coach, can actually do is very limited. There are even many things that he cannot make public and can only do within his own scope of authority.
, do what you can to try to make up for the rift in the locker room.
He voted for Ronaldinho, and several Brazilian players became the backbone of the team. The Brazilian gang and the local gang reached a certain balance, and Barcelona had the best start in recent years this season.
This may not be something within the technical and tactical scope, but it can definitely reflect the ability of a head coach.
Ranieri's technical and tactical level is definitely higher than Rijkaard's, but when it comes to his overall coaching ability, that's not necessarily the case.
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At the weekend, Valencia, which lost first to Sevilla and then to Inter Milan, suffered two consecutive home defeats. It was also difficult for Valencia to challenge Real Madrid away from home. In the end, they lost to this archrival team 0-1.
This also caused Ranieri to receive more doubts and pressure.
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Barcelona faces Osasuna at home in this round.
Although they just had a tough match against Juventus in the middle of the week, Sudong, Ronaldinho and others were all present in this game, and Giuly, who was injured, also returned in this round.
Ronaldinho, who had an unsatisfactory performance against Juventus, broke out this time at Camp Nou.
After Osasuna's goal was defended for more than thirty minutes, it was finally broken by the Brazilians.
After he got the ball in the left rib of the frontcourt, he suddenly sent a long pass into the penalty area.
Sudong quickly rushed to the left side of the penalty area and fired with his left foot, breaking Osasuna's goal and opening the scoring for Barcelona.
Five minutes later, Ronaldinho dribbled the ball into the penalty area and was fouled by his opponent. The referee gave a penalty kick without hesitation.
The Brazilian superstar took the penalty kick himself.
After changing sides in the second half, Iniesta, who came on as substitute for Giuly, once again put in a wonderful performance.
When he broke through with the ball in the midfield, he took the initiative to find Su Dong to cooperate.
The two played a quick one-two against the wall outside the penalty area. Iniesta got the ball and rushed to the right side of the goal. After attracting the attention of the defense, he sent a cross pass and transferred the ball to the goal.
Faced with this pie that suddenly fell from the sky, Su Dong certainly would not spit it out. He followed up and volleyed the ball into the almost empty goal, scoring twice.
Three to zero!
Near the end of the game, Xavi gave Iniesta a wonderful assist. Iniesta volleyed hard from the right side of the penalty area and penetrated Osasuna's goal.
Four to zero!
In the end, Barcelona relied on Su Dong's two goals and Ronaldinho and Iniesta's passes and shots to beat Osasuna 4-0 at home and continue to maintain their lead in the standings.
Although Valencia lost, Sevilla won, which resulted in Barcelona's lead still being seven points.
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In the middle of the week, the second round of the Copa del Rey ushered in.
Barcelona fought hard one after another. This time they basically played with a substitute lineup, and players such as Iniesta, Messi and Larsson were all available.
The opponent is Gramernet, a team from the Spanish Third Division.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Playing away from home, the venue was very bad and it was raining, which made the game very difficult.
Barcelona controlled the situation, but missed scoring opportunities one after another, especially Larsson, who missed two very good opportunities in the first half, but ultimately failed to break through the home team's iron barrel formation.
After a change of sides in the second half, Messi opened the scoring for Barcelona with a header from Van Bronckhorst's cross from the left in just two minutes.
This was also the only goal in the game.
Barcelona won a 1-0 away game thanks to Messi's goal.
The shortest in the team, Messi actually scored a header, which earned Messi a special mention from Rijkaard.
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On the evening of October 30th, in the ninth round of La Liga, Barcelona challenged Athletic Bilbao away.
When the game reached the 75th minute, Su Dong came on instead of Larsson.
At this time, the score on the court was one to zero.
International practice is that the home team goes first and the visiting team goes last.
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Limited by the manpower of the first team, in order to better prepare for the Champions League in midweek, Rijkaard hid Sudong and Deco in this game. However, unexpectedly, the game did not go smoothly.
In just thirteen minutes, Athletic Bilbao used a quick counterattack to score a sneak goal.
Subsequently, no matter how Barcelona attacked, the Basque Lions did not give Barcelona the slightest chance.
After changing sides in the second half, Barcelona's offense still failed to improve.
Rijkaard made a decisive substitution adjustment in the 60th minute, with teenager Messi replacing the sluggish Giuly.
The French winger has not been in very good condition since his return from injury. He was substituted by Iniesta in the last round, and this time he was replaced by Messi, because Iniesta replaced Deco and partnered with Xavi in the midfield.
Messi, who had just scored the winning goal in the Copa del Rey, was very active after coming on the field, but Barcelona's efficiency in front of the goal was still not high.
In the last round against Osasuna, Ronaldinho won the best of the match, but his performance in this round was not ideal. Su Dong was not here, and he was strictly restrained by his opponent.
Not a very good performance.
Rijkaard had no choice but to replace Larsson with Sudong in the 75th minute.
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Su Dong only played for two minutes. After Messi got the ball on the right, he forced a breakthrough but failed. He suddenly buckled the ball back, took two steps back, and sent a cross with his left foot on the right side of the penalty area.
The ball crossed more than half of the penalty area and landed at the back of the goal.
Su Dong suddenly stepped in, got ahead of the opponent's central defender Murillo, jumped high, and headed the ball from close range.
Messi's cross was just right, and Su Dong was very comfortable with it. The ball directly hit the left side of Athletic Bilbao's goal.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
"In the 81st minute, Barcelona successfully equalized the score, one to one!"
"This is a very tacit cooperation, a remote connection from Su Dong and Messi."
"Before, many people said that Su Dong and Iniesta cooperated well, but now it seems that Su Dong and Messi cooperated very well this time. Messi clearly knew how Su Dong would run and how fast he would run.
How fast the ball is going to go, so it is very comfortable."
"We can see that Su Dong almost jumped up and hit him directly."
After scoring the goal, Su Dong shared the goal with Messi without hesitation, holding the Argentine teenager's hand, celebrating the goal and accepting congratulations from his teammates in front of the live TV camera.
Barcelona players are no stranger to this either.
Everyone knows that Messi has always been Su Dong's little follower, and Iniesta has recently joined Su Dong. The three of them are the core trio of the indoor football team.
In fact, playing indoor football really cultivates tacit understanding.
Both Iniesta and Messi are very close to Su Dong, and they have some clever cooperation on the court from time to time. Their inspiration comes from indoor football.
After everyone had finished celebrating, the three of them were still celebrating on the sidelines, with Messi and Iniesta surrounding Su Dong on the left and right.
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"I feel good today, want one?" Su Dong asked with a smile.
"The one you mentioned yesterday?" Iniesta asked.
"Yes." Su Dong was eager to try.
"No, we are in a draw now."
"Just because of the draw, Athletic Bilbao defended it so tightly. They definitely didn't expect us to make any surprise moves."
"But are you sure?" Iniesta was still worried.
"Don't worry, as long as Messi passes the ball, I'll be fine."
The two of them immediately looked at the Argentinian boy.
I don't know whether it was because of excitement or exercise, but Messi's face was red.
Being stared at by the two men, Messi was slightly startled and nodded confidently.
"I will try my best!"
"It's okay, I'm here!" Su Dong was full of confidence.
He's been wanting to try a new position for a long time!
