princely elegance

Chapter 382 Champion 11
Schuster was very happy to defeat the resentful Athletic Bilbao and win the Super Cup, but what made him most happy was that the two rounds were also within the scope of La Liga, so Pepe's suspension was reduced by two games. Only five league games remain.He is very familiar with the current situation of the team. The offensive combination of the center and front field has basically been adjusted, and only the defense is worrying.

Heinze and Albiol's central defender partner can only be said to be quite satisfactory, and the two full-backs Marcelo and Ramos are both atypical in their bones that their desire for offense is greater than defense.At the critical moment, I can only rely on the possession of Casillas God.

If Pepe can come back, then he and Heinze have been teammates for at least two years, and the degree of tacit understanding is definitely higher than that of Albiol.

But these can only be solved by time, and the problem of defense cannot be solved overnight.Although there are still a few days before the transfer market closes, Schuster has no plans to buy someone.Moreover, there is one more important thing waiting for him to do.

In the 2009/2010 season UEFA Champions League group stage draw ceremony, Schuster took Gago to Morocco, and Platini made a smile on last year's Champions Cup in the Grimaldi Conference Hall in Monte Carlo. Summarize.

The defending champion Barcelona has become the biggest winner, and to be precise, Messi has become the most dazzling one. He not only won the Champions League Golden Boot with nine goals, but also won the best striker and best player awards, just like Gago last year The same is the focus of attention.

However, Gago has received as much attention as Messi. In last season's Champions League, he also scored nine goals and won the Golden Boot. At the same time, he also squeezed out the assist king Harvey and won the award for the best midfielder.

When Gago and Messi stood at the front desk to take a group photo together, the Argentine reporter almost dropped the camera in his excited hands.

The other two awards, the best goalkeeper and the best defender belong to the Premier League. The Dutch goalkeeper van der Sar won the best goalkeeper for the second time. The last time he won the award dates back to the last century.Chelsea captain Terry won the honor of the best defender for two consecutive seasons.

After the award ceremony, the most critical group stage draw ceremony began. Probably because La Liga has been too successful in the Champions League in the past two seasons, Platini, who originally planned to suppress the Premier League, had to target La Liga teams.

When the results of the draw came out, many people's faces became very strange. The La Liga duo met the Milan duo.

Real Madrid and AC Milan were drawn into the same group. The dialogue between Gago and Kaka after a lapse of two years ended with Gago's disastrous defeat last time. What will be the result this time?

Mourinho met Barcelona again. As long as these two names are drawn together, there will never be a lack of topics.Moreover, Eto'o was almost disgracefully driven away by Barcelona a few days ago, and he will return to Camp Nou to play against his old owner in a blink of an eye.

Although the fight between the two heroes surprised a group of related bosses, they didn't show any signs of panic, because the other two opponents who were assigned to them were soy sauce boys who accompanied the prince.Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​and Milan are basically recommended to the top [-]. The difference is who is the first and who is the second.

Compared with Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​who have a strong backstage, Atletico Madrid, who are both La Liga teams, was raised by a stepmother. He was assigned to the death group, and he was drawn together with Chelsea and Porto, two hard bones.Although Sevilla is not as sad as Atletico Madrid, the Glasgow Rangers and Stuttgart in the same group are not fuel-efficient lamps, and it is also difficult to qualify from the group.

In the past, Ferguson and Wenger, who were always swearing at each other in the lottery, laughed from the beginning to the end this time. When leaving the field, Ferguson even came to Schuster and Gago with a smile and said hello.

After the draw, Gago did not go back to Spain directly. He and Schuster stayed until the next day to watch the UEFA Super Cup between Barcelona and Shakhtar Donetsk at the Luis II Stadium.

In this match, Gago didn't have anything to hide, he was dressed in off-white casual outfits with a pair of sterling silver-rimmed glasses.Of course, the glasses don't have prescriptions, and Gago wears them because of the sponsorship.Now his whole body has been stripped clean by the major sponsors. Although he is not short-sighted, when Dior's four-year sponsorship of 500 million euros was delivered to his table, he agreed without thinking.

Dior's requirements for Gago are very simple. They shoot two advertisements every year and wear his glasses in public. Of course, the materials and styles are all specially customized according to Gago's preferences.

Although it will be a bit troublesome to wear glasses in the future, compared to 500 million euros, it is still an easy job.This time, Gago was captured by live cameras as soon as he appeared at the Louis II Stadium. Sometimes Gago really wondered how those photographers could see him among tens of thousands of fans.

But he is not the only big name who came to watch the game today. Apart from Schuster beside him, Ferguson and Mourinho, the two most famous stars among the coaches, attracted the shots as well as Gago.

Probably because Guardiola was under some pressure under the watch of so many famous people, today's Barcelona actually scored a goalless draw with Shakhtar Donetsk in 10 and [-] minutes of the game.

"Fair, look at that Ukrainian central defender, what do you think of him?"

After the game entered overtime, Schuster suddenly asked Gago.

Before the game started, Barcelona and Shakhtar Donetsk announced at the same time that the two sides had reached an agreement. After the game, "Eastern European Caesar" Ziglinski and his new teammates will take a flight to Barcelona.

This game is Ziglinski's last game on behalf of Shakhtar Donetsk, and the opponent is the future club Barcelona.So in this game, the Ukrainians worked extremely hard and performed very well, blocking all of Barcelona's continuous attacks.

"He is tall enough to make up for Barcelona's air defense disadvantages. He has excellent foot skills and can organize offenses in the first place. The ability to launch counterattacks with long passes is only comparable to Ferdinand. From all aspects, he is very suitable for Barcelona's system."

Gago frowned and said a lot, and just when Schuster was about to sigh, he added one last sentence.

"However, he is a parallel importer. With an investment of 500 million euros, if Barcelona can recover half of the cost in the future, it will be regarded as a profit!"

"Why do you say that!"

Just when Schuster wondered about Gago's evaluation of Ziglinski, a very interesting scene happened off the field.Ziglinski, who performed well throughout the game, made a mistake. He stumbled on the sole of his foot when facing Messi, allowing Messi to easily cut into the penalty area, and another central defender of the miners had to come to make up for it.

Then, Messi made an easy cross, and the teenager Pedro single-handedly faced the goalkeeper to complete the lore.

"Infernal Affairs!"

This was the first thought in the minds of all fans, but then they threw it out of their minds.It had just rained in Morocco before the game, so the lawn is very slippery at present, and Ziglinski's mistake can be forgiven.

"Let's go, boss, it's nothing interesting, I don't want to see Barcelona's proud look!"

After seeing Messi assisting Pedro to break the deadlock, Gago raised his hand to help his glasses that had slipped off the bridge of his nose, turned around and prepared to leave.

Schuster shrugged helplessly, then turned around and left. Although there were nearly 10 minutes left in overtime, but with the Germans' understanding of Barcelona, ​​it was impossible for them to let the championship go away from their hands.Especially when Real Madrid just won the Spanish Super Cup two days ago.

Now Barcelona must be desperate for a champion to declare war on Real Madrid. This year they still want to overthrow the white rule and pull Real Madrid from the throne.

For Gago and Schuster, watching Barcelona win the championship is definitely not a pleasant thing in their hearts. They might as well leave early and return to Madrid to prepare for the opening game of La Liga.

The camera that always pays attention to Gago faithfully fed back this scene to the audience, and also let the Barcelona players on the sidelines know that their biggest opponent has left the field.

The final score of the game was 1:0. Barcelona relied on Pedro's goal to win the UEFA Super Cup, which was a response to Real Madrid's Spanish Super Cup a few days ago.

"Although this year's La Liga has not yet started, both Real Madrid and Barcelona have declared war on their rivals with a championship. Now I am looking forward to the moment when they will face each other!"

When the commentator at the Luis II Stadium watched Barcelona celebrate and win the Super Cup, he said something very emotional.Now La Liga is the well-deserved No. [-] league in the world. For two consecutive years, the opponents of the Champions League finals have been the Premier League and La Liga, and in the end they all ended with La Liga winning.

Thirteen Champions League trophies have made La Liga unprecedented. Looking at the lineups of Real Madrid and Barcelona at the same time, there is no problem in maintaining the dominance of the Champions League for the next five years. Other league teams can really feel it when they look at Real Madrid and Barcelona. despair.

And just when Messi was going to show off the trophy to Gago, he found that Gago had already left.

On the way to the airport, Gago receives a text message from Messi.

"This year, let's compare again. Whoever has won more championships is currently 1:1. When the season ends, whoever loses will..."

After Jiago read the content, he manually deleted the text message, and then replied with two words.

"No time!"

Leaving aside Messi's out of shape after seeing this text message, Gago, who returned to Madrid, is preparing for the opening game of this year's La Liga.

Like last year, Real Madrid's opponent is Deportivo. If there is nothing tricky in this, even Marcelo would not believe it.Riazor's curse is still in effect, but unlike last year, this year's first round is home to Real Madrid.If Real Madrid wants to break the curse of Riazor, they have to wait until the No.20 round.

(End of this chapter)