Hero of the Penalty Area

Chapter 328: A different field match (the first guarantee)

The Philips Stadium was cheering and thunderous, and the stands seemed to be trembling, and it seemed that another earthquake was happening at the feet of each of them.

In such a joyous scene, Barcelona's coaching seat and benches were deadly silent.

The atmosphere is really weird.

Vilanova didn't react when he saw this scene at first.

"Uh...what's wrong?"

But he is always an assistant coach who has experienced many battles, and he soon wakes up-a goal happened, but it was not Barcelona that scored, but... PSV!

This discovery surprised him too much. For a while, he even forgot about standing up.

Barcelona is behind?

Although this is on the away game, but the opponent is weak Eindhoven, how can we fall behind? With Barcelona's strength, it should be ahead!

Even if we have replaced a lot of main players, the young people from La Masia youth academy are also the best in football. These young people are probably the absolute main force and core of any team. So even this second Barcelona team should be able to easily defeat their opponents.

Vilanova focused on listening to the radio from the beginning of the game. He did not pay enough attention to the game, so he did not know that the game was relatively stalemate at the beginning. Barcelona did not have the absolute ability to easily defeat Egypt. Indhoven.

If he knew this, he wouldn't be so shocked, but would have the same expression as Guardiola-ashen!

Because this goal means that Barcelona want to win the game, need to pay a higher price. And it also shows that Barcelona's performance is not as good as they thought before the game!

Perhaps it was because too many main players were replaced in one go, and too many young players were allowed to play. After all, they lacked the experience of playing the Champions League, let alone the quarter-finals. One step forward in this kind of competition is the semi-finals, which is a completely different world. Throughout Europe, only four teams can appear in the semifinals. This is a very tempting opportunity for Eindhoven.

In fact, even if he was drawn to be with Barcelona, ​​Eindhoven did not give up. Although hope is very slim. But Eindhoven's coach Kocu did not give up hope.

Since he knew the result of the draw, he started to pay attention to Barcelona's movements.

He has played in Barcelona for many years and he knows this team very well. He knows that the biggest feature of this team is pride. They are proud of their team’s traditions. They are also proud of their team’s strong strength. He is even proud of the Catalonia region to which the team belongs, and proud of the fact that Catalonia has always been in conflict with Spain.

This pride seeps into their bones.

Pride is naturally a good thing, but too much pride becomes a bad thing.

For example, sometimes, they will look down on teams that are weaker than them, and will involuntarily produce emotions of underestimating the enemy.

Just like this time.

His own team is simply too weak for Barcelona. Barcelona has another intention to find Liverpool's revenge in the semi-finals, so naturally they will not focus their energy on the game against Eindhoven.

In this way, I have no chance...

Sure enough, the information that came back quickly told Coku, and he got what he wanted.

Eindhoven was not taken seriously by Barcelona. Not only that, they also believe that Cocu is PSV’s head coach, which will make these two games easier. Because Cocu used to play in Barcelona before, once served as the captain of Barcelona, ​​and has a good relationship with the Barcelona media and fans. With Cocu’s sense of identity with Barcelona, ​​maybe he will take the initiative to release the water...

This statement made the Barcelona media speak out with pride and triumph.

This angered Coku.

Kocu considers himself a very dedicated head coach. Although he is young and his resume is not glamorous, he respects football and takes the initiative to release water. He can never do things like Kocu. In his opinion, being thought by others that he would release water is simply a humiliation to himself!

But he did not express this anger.

Not only that, he has to express his kindness to Barcelona before the game, so he talked to reporters about his days in Barcelona before the game. He said that he still misses those Barcelona teammates, and The fans. He likes the city of Barcelona, ​​and he still said that he will always be a supporter of Barcelona.

He said it sincerely, coupled with his six years in Barcelona, ​​became the record of the most foreign players in Barcelona history, no one believes that Cocu is telling a lie.

Koku really didn't lie, he was telling the truth.

But love for Barcelona does not mean that we have to release water for Barcelona.

This is just to confuse Barcelona.

He succeeded. Barcelona sent more than half of the young players to play, and even Messi had a rare opportunity to rest.

At the same time, Kocu kept instilling a philosophy into PSV players before the game. That is, "Even if the whole world thinks you will lose, you can't give up." He kept telling everyone the Barcelona media's contempt for Eindhoven, and built up a bit of hatred of Barcelona in their hearts. Fighting spirit.

Eindhoven is also the giants of Dutch football. If it were placed 20 years ago, would Barcelona dare to despise them so much? Now who is so humiliated by the opponent, who feels better?

The flame of fighting spirit is burning in the hearts of every Eindhoven player.

Then they lead Barcelona in the game!

After his team scored a goal, head coach Kocu rushed out of the coaching bench with his arms raised, his expression of excitement changed.

All the hard work and comeback are worth it at this moment!

Didn’t you say that this is just a warm-up match for the semifinals?

I'm going to tell you what an unusual kick-off match this is!

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When the PSV player found out that he was really ahead of Barcelona, ​​he was ecstatic. Their celebrations were even exaggerated.

But Barcelona did not protest. At the beginning, they hadn't recovered from the shock-our mighty Barcelona was led by PSV? Was led by such a team? !

They can accept being led by Liverpool and Real Madrid. After all, these two teams have the same strength as them. Even if they are ahead, it is normal.

But Eindhoven and them are simply the difference! It was possible to lead Barcelona when the game only started twelve minutes!

Such a reality is too cruel and a bit too shocking.

And when they finally recovered from the shock and began to accept this reality gradually, there was something else that made them a little confused.

After all, Guardiola is the team's head coach, not as vulnerable as others, he quickly calmed down and accepted this reality. What should be considered now is how to fight back, instead of thinking "This is impossible! This is impossible! How is this possible!"

So when he came back to his senses, he naturally noticed Vilanova next to him, he rang, and when Eindhoven scored a goal, Vilanova suddenly stood up with a strange expression on his face.

It's just that now Vilanova is frightened by the fact that the team is behind, and has no reaction anymore.

He turned to look at Vilanova: "Tito, it seems that you have something to tell me?"

Hearing Guardiola's words, Vilanova reacted: "Uh...yes..." He remembered what he was going to do.

Just thinking of this makes the expression on his face even more ugly.

Guardiola watched the change of expression on his face: "What's the matter?"

"Uh...Liverpool scored. Chen Yingxiong scored, just when we lost the goal...Liverpool was ahead!"

Guardiola was also stunned.

Then he reacted-it was terrible!

His team is behind, but Liverpool is leading. He is so familiar with Liverpool, he has taken the lead at his home court, even one goal is enough. Liverpool will play more and more smoothly in future matches, and Dortmund will have no power to fight back. Maybe Liverpool can end the suspense of the two rounds at home.

In that case, even if the Westfalen Stadium is horrible and hell, what threat does it pose to Liverpool?

Only then did Guardiola react to the problem that he had been ignoring before.

He only saw the pros and cons of the schedule, but forgot that Liverpool, who played at home first, could completely crush Dortmund and end the suspense of the quarter-finals by relying on their strong home court advantage. After all, Dortmund is far from Liverpool in strength, and this possibility is not non-existent.

In this way, I may not be ready to work with ease when the time comes!

So what I should think about now is how to get rid of Eindhoven as soon as possible on the away game, just like Liverpool, making the second round of the two sides directly meaningless!

Thinking of this, he nodded to Vilanova: "I see, Tito. You continue to pay attention to what's going on there and tell me what happens."

After assigning tasks to Vilanova, he took a few steps forward and walked to the very edge of the coach's command area.

Many of the main players did not come to the Netherlands with the team this time. This is to deal with Liverpool and to maximize their rest.

However, some players followed the team to the Philips Stadium.

Messi, as the team's trump card, sits on the bench at this time.

If Messi is in place, the game will be over soon.

It's just... when you run into a PSV, you have to send out the strongest player, do you seem to be too incompetent?

Guardiola also has his troubles.

The trouble with him is the same as the previous Martin O'Neal, that is, some people think that his success is not based on his own ability as a coach, but on talented players such as Messi, Xavi and Iniesta. Didn't Ibrahimovic say it? "What is Pep Guardiola? I can be Barcelona's coach and I can win the championship!"

This sentence is like a thorn, always stuck in Guardiola's heart.

And he himself knew that he did have some shortcomings, so after leading Barcelona to win so many championships, he decided to leave temporarily, his reason is "I need to recharge", this is not an excuse, this is a genuine reason.

After he came back again, he once led Barcelona to a Champions League championship, but that was not enough. After Xavi gradually aged, Guardiola won much fewer titles than when he coached Barcelona for the first time. Although compared to other coaches, it is still considered a success, but Guardiola's opponent has never been someone else, but himself.

How can such a proud person allow himself to be inferior to his former self?

He has been charging for a year, and he should be better than his previous self.

The championship is the only criterion to measure all of this.

He wants to let the world know that Pep Guardiola can succeed not because he has top players such as Messi, Xavi and Iniesta, but because he is a good head coach!

That's why he hesitated now.

It is the same as Martin O’Neal before, because now Martin O’Neal has figured it out. He is not like Guardiola, who came from a famous family, and he achieved dazzling results enough to blind others.

So his mentality is closer to a normal person and more peaceful.

Since Chen Yingxiong is worthy of his dependence, then he is dependent.

It's no big deal.

As long as you can win the championship, you can do anything.

Some things are fictitious, meaningless, but heavy gold medals and trophies are the most practical.

Once he looked away, Martin O'Neal would not be obsessed with those vain things.

But Guardiola hasn't reached his level yet...

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