Will I hurt you if I score like this?

Chapter 2 The first opponent of low-profile dream [-]

2008 7 Month 24 Day.

When the Barcelona team bus slowly drove into the Murrayfield Stadium, the 37-year-old Guardiola was sitting there, looking over affectionately.

This is the largest stadium in Scotland. It is usually used as the home ground of the Scottish Rugby League, and is used as a venue for rugby matches and Scottish tennis matches. After all, the Easter Road Stadium, the stadium of the Hibernian team, is too shabby.

Hibernian Club fans wearing green jerseys are entering the stadium.

Among these people, there are many Barcelona fans wearing red and blue arrow shirts.

After all, as one of the largest clubs in the world, Barcelona has tens of millions of fans all over the world, and the middle and lower clubs are therefore willing to start friendly matches with giants.

Not to mention the ability to expand popularity, just the flock of fans can bring a lot of income.

If you lose a few goals and walk away with a smile, others will understand if you lose a tragedy.

I will say that it is normal, after all, it is playing Barcelona.

If you win by accident, you will be famous all over the world in an instant, and the traffic will be full.

Twenty days ago, Barcelona's meritorious coach Frank Rijkaard officially announced his dismissal.

Barcelona's new head coach is not the famous coach Mourinho who has been rumored for a year, but the young coach Guardiola who has little experience as a coach.

What he took over was a "battleship" that seemed to have an extremely luxurious configuration, but was actually suffering from internal and external troubles. It had failed in various competitions for two years.

The Spanish faction and the mercenary faction in the team are at odds with each other.

Among the foreign players, Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Ed Milson and other players also have conflicts with each other.

The team missed the league championship in the final stage of last season, and last season Real Madrid won the championship three rounds ahead of schedule. Barcelona fans and senior management were fed up with two years without a championship.

And Messi, the absolute core of the team later, although he has secured his main position before, his status in the team is far from being comparable to that in the future.

He has always had the label of "outsider".

The conflict between Laporta and Russell, the team's top executives, has intensified, almost to the point of tearing their faces apart.

After Guardiola took office, he righted Messi and officially established his absolute core position.

And set about cleaning up the Brazilian gang headed by Ronaldinho. It is a certainty that the Brazilian will leave Serie A.

But he still needs victories, hearty victories to bring him prestige.

It is enough to suppress these well-known stars and make them completely obey the prestige of their own tactics.

In that stadium, which is smaller than the Nou Camp, it is the first opponent he has to face since leading Barcelona.

And beside him, in the dim light, the Barcelona players sat in their seats.

Listening to songs, chatting, and making dirty jokes.

He didn't take his opponent seriously at all. Of course, this was a normal reaction.

Their names are: Valdes, Alves, Pique, Marcos, Eto'o, Gudjohnsen, Hleb, Henry, Pedro, and Messi.
After all, these people will shock the world in the next year.

There was a jovial air in Hibernian's dressing room.

Head coach Mishu Patlainen's tactical requirements for the players can be summed up in eight words.

It's business as usual, the game looks great.

Anyway, there is a high probability that they will not be able to beat, so it is better not to put so much pressure on the players.

In the pre-season warm-up match, the main focus is the warm-up.

If you are too serious, carefully arrange your tactics, mobilize the enthusiasm of the players, and finally be beaten to a complete defeat, it will affect the state of the possible players.

Levi sat in the locker room, carefully arranging his sneakers and shin guards.

Listening to the noisy voices of teammates in the locker room.

Someone slipped into the dressing room of Barcelona next door to take a group photo.

Someone made an appointment to get Henry's jersey.

In the British Isles of this era, the top player in the Barcelona team must be the King of Highbury.

His eyes were very calm, without any waves.

After breathing slowly and evenly, he could hear his heart beating rhythmically in his chest.

A virtual panel slowly emerged in his mind.

One of the player images composed of countless light spots is constantly speeding, dribbling, and shooting.

He has an unruly expression and elegant movements, like an invincible king visiting the green field.

[Fusion Template: Johan Cruyff]

Fast speed, extremely smooth dribbling ability, accurate scalpel-like passing, running ability covering the whole court, left and right balance without reverse foot.

Cruyff was almost an all-around fighter with no flaws.

The only two shortcomings may be that his shooting power is a little weak, and he mostly shoots from tricky small angles in the penalty area.

The second is that Cruyff's overall stature is relatively thin, and his ability to hold the ball with his back in the penalty area and fight hand-to-hand is slightly weaker. According to him, the ability to fight for the top of the ball is not a strong point.

And this happens to be what Levi is good at.

Therefore, he is looking forward to what kind of monster he will become after being combined with Cruyff's abilities with only a few attributes that can make up for the shortcomings of this template.

"Pep, what are you waiting for?"

Holding the tactical notebook, Vilanova saw Guardiola standing in the tunnel leading to the players.

At this time, Guardiola is not yet at the end, the fine stubble extends to the ear side and is connected with the short black stubble, and the dark eyebrows look a little happy.

The dark eyes of melancholy reflected the light of wisdom.

"A kid, he called me a few days ago, I thought he would take the initiative to come to me."

Guardiola snorted and frowned.

"It's really rude."

"Is it Li Wei?" Vilanova guessed right away, and a figure of a Chinese boy appeared in his mind.

"He wants to go back to Barcelona? I'm afraid."

When Levi was in the B team, Guardiola and Vilanova were the head coach and assistant coach of the youth team respectively.

At that time, they were coaching the youth team. Barcelona had just been relegated from the Second Division B, and they were playing in the Third Division. Everything was more negotiable.

But now they need to maneuver the behemoth of Barcelona.

Every move must be done with care.

"No, he wants me to intervene for him. He just wants to go to a team that can play games and hone himself."

"A good boy."

Vilanova nodded and said.

He remembered that he had watched the video of Li Wei's game when he first came to La Masia. At the beginning, he also belonged to that kind of very spiritual player, but later in a team training, he was injured by a dangerous shovel on his right ankle and was reimbursed for several months.

Although the speed was not greatly affected after recovery, the dexterity and direction-changing ability were much worse.

In the end, we can only take the path of increasing the confrontation ability.

"Let's go, the competition is about to start, let's see how he is doing."

Although the friendly match claims that every dog ​​can start.

But right now Levi does not belong to the player sequence of the Hibernian Club for the time being, so he has no chance to start.

He could only sit on the bench and wait temporarily, watching the two teams warm up.

Murrayfield Stadium has 67800 seats, and today's occupancy rate is quite high. At this time, it is already full of spectators. The emerald green flag of Hibernian is waving under the spotlight, but there are still too few fans compared to the entire stadium.

Another Scottish Super League team in Edinburgh, the city rival Hearts fans also came a lot.

There are also Barcelona fans and neutral fun people who came from all over the UK to watch the game.

Songs and whistles filled the sky.

Hibernian's fans are also more buddhist. Except for games against other Scottish teams, they don't care about winning or losing against a Spanish team.

Instead, watch familiar faces take on big-name players who can only be seen on TV.

If you are optimistic, you should watch the Champions League.

The home team Hibernian sent a 442 formation.

Goalkeeper: Andy McNeill
Defenders: David Van Zanten, Paul Hanlon, Chris Hogg, Rob Jones
Midfielders: Steven Ticot, Joe Keenan, Dean Shiels, Alan O'Brien
Forwards: Steven Fletcher, Colin Nish
The visiting team Barcelona sent out the usual 433 formation, which can be described as star-studded.

Goalkeeper: Valdes

Defenders: Alves, Pique, Max, Corcoles
Midfielders: Vazquez, Busquets, Gudjohnsen
Forwards: Messi, Pedro, Henry

New players such as Alves, Pique, Caceres, Hleb and Keita made appearances, while Silvinho and Abidal were injured and absent.

The referee blows the whistle and the game begins.

For a friendly match, the visiting team Barcelona, ​​who came from afar, kicked off first.

Pedro stepped on the ball and gave it to Vazquez lightly.

These two are very familiar to Li Wei, especially Pedro, who had partnered many times when they were in the Barcelona B team.

Vazquez is definitely not the one from Real Madrid later, but a product of Barcelona's youth training. His full name is Victor Vazquez.

On the field, Messi on the right side of Barcelona was constantly moving between the gaps of the opposing players. The Hibernian defender around him tried to stick to him, but his stubby calves seemed to be equipped with springs.

After the Brazilian left, Messi inherited Barcelona's glorious No. 10 jersey.

The No. 30 jersey of the second team when he first debuted is currently worn by Vazquez.

At the beginning of the game, Barcelona firmly controlled the ball in the midfield, using a seemingly meek tactic to transmit in the midfield.

It's like a flexible fishing net that covers people.

If you don't show any flaws, you will be fine.

And if it struggles and struggles, and it grabs its weak point, it will immediately be cut with blood.

Especially the current three midfielders are still dominated by players from the second team.

Including Busquets, it is also in the hands of Guardiola that he really shines.

As for Harvey, Iniesta and Yaya Toure, none of them played at this time.

It is enough to firmly control the opponent's midfield.

Li Wei knew that this was the beginning of Guardiola's football philosophy into this Barcelona team.

Just thinking about it, in the 4th minute of the game, Busquets got the ball and faced two double-teams. Suddenly, he pulled the ball lightly and turned around to get rid of it.

The Hibernian formation, with two players suddenly out of position, immediately vacated a big hole.

Messi stepped forward to catch the ball, his long-haired head kept turning to observe.

After observing Alves who was plugging in from the right, he twisted left and right, and made two consecutive changes of direction as if he wanted to turn around and get rid of him.

Suddenly and secretly tapped Alves with the heel of his right foot.

This is the first tandem between the Brazilian and Messi in an official game.

After getting the ball, Alves dashed along the wing, and the Hibernian defender who was marking him tried to stick to him, but Alves, who was not tall, was very strong.

He pokes into Hibernian's right like a loach.

In the cross from the kick, the football crossed an arc and fell into the penalty area.

Central defender Cross-Hogg pushed Henry, who had sneaked into the penalty area, and struggled to clear the ball.

But the football did not clear the siege and flew to the outside of the penalty area.

Nordic tough guy John Goodson volleyed, and the football was refracted into the net in front of the goalkeeper struggling to save.

In the opening 4 minutes, Barcelona led 1:0.

It was as if foreshadowing the nature of the game.

A war of annihilation, a mass extinction.

(End of this chapter)