[Football] Crown of Thorns

The first leg of the 2014-15 UEFA Champions League semi-final is about to be staged at the Nou Camp Stadium. The two sides of the game are Barcelona, ​​which currently ranks first in La Liga, at home against the Premier League giants Liverpool.

This Champions League is the first time Liverpool and Barcelona have faced each other in nearly seven years.

在欧战纪录上，利物浦和巴萨的交手纪录最早是在1975-76赛季，当时是在联盟杯半决赛上，巴塞罗那主场0-1、客场1-1，最终以总比分1-2被利物浦淘汰。此后两家在2000-01赛季再次在联盟杯半决赛上相遇，巴塞罗那主场0-0、客场0-1，以0-1的总比分被利物浦淘汰。随后的2001-02赛季，欧冠两家在小组上分到同组，当时巴萨在客场3-1击败了利物浦，在主场0-0平，那年利物浦的唯一进球是由金童欧文打进。此后则是在2007-08赛季的欧冠淘汰赛，利物浦客场2:1战胜巴萨，主场0:1负巴萨，利物浦凭借客场进球多淘汰了卫冕冠军进入8强。

Generally speaking, the two sides have not played many times in the European war, and there are not many opportunities to meet, but speaking of it, every Liverpool-Barcelona game basically wins a key game.

"So, our situation is more favorable?"

After hearing the history of these clubs, Gama squinted and said to Gerrard.

Poor Jie Baozi grinned, not knowing what to say.

"Don't bully the captain!"

Tommy held her chin and said to Gama with a smile.

Jia Ma cut, but he didn't deliberately make things difficult for Jie Baozi.

Jie Baozi, who found that he was getting more and more helpless now, made a 'thank you' gesture to Tomei.

西班牙当地时间5月6日20:45，2014/15赛季欧冠半决赛首回合一场焦点战马上就要在诺坎普球场展开。

In this game, Barcelona will hit their team history record of consecutive victories in the Champions League, but Barcelona does not have an advantage in the record of the two teams in the European war.

On the other hand, look at the Red Army Liverpool. Since winning the Champions League in the 0607 season, their European results have not been very good. Except for the captain Gerrard, the other players in the team have nothing to ask about the experience of Barcelona. Therefore, in terms of the players themselves, Liverpool does not have much psychological advantage in facing Barcelona. In general, most players still need to pass their own psychological barriers.

For example, before the game, some people were planning to ask Messi to change jerseys and sign his name, or to change jerseys with Neymar and Suarez...

"That's all it takes!"

Gama dismissed their thoughts.

"Say it like you don't want to change your jersey."

Johnson jokingly said this to Gama.

"I never thought about changing the jersey!"

Gama said very frankly, "Why should I change jerseys with them? I don't want to change such ugly jerseys."

The teammates in the locker room were silent.

Don't want to change?

Because the Barcelona jersey is too ugly?

Gama you...

"Then, if someone asks you to change your jersey..."

Johnson asked.

"If you really want my jersey, I can't change it."

Gama replied.

Many teammates laughed.

Noticing the surprised reaction of his teammates and thinking Gama was joking, the corners of Furtado's lips twitched, but he shut up!

What Jia Ma meant was definitely not a joke, the point was that the other party sincerely wanted it! ! !

Thinking of this, Furtado was suddenly a little happy about Gama's 'threat' to his teammates on the bus. Otherwise, these guys might feel that they can't beat their opponents psychologically, and they can't compare to them in terms of momentum. On the other side.

"Xiko, do you think the opponent's defense line today..."

After the small talk, everyone started their different ways of rejuvenating before the game. Furtado pushed Gama and asked in a low voice.

"Why are you asking this?"

Leaning against the wall and closing his eyes, Gama said, "This issue should be considered by the forwards."

"cut!"

Furtado curled his lips and ignored him lazily.

Jia Ma was not in the mood to chat at this moment, he had already started to deduce the game in his mind.

After knowing that their opponent in the semi-finals was the Cosmos team, Gama has found all the videos of Barcelona's Champions League matches this year. Although he said it was easy, Gama knew that facing Barcelona, ​​​​the game must be difficult. of.

Especially in the previous game against Bayern, he used Barcelona TK tactics twice in a row. Although it was only used briefly on the field, but now he is going to face the original version, I am afraid that he is no longer suitable for this method of command.

For the match against Barcelona, ​​Gama also specially found Veloso and asked him to find some information about Chelsea's match against Barcelona back then. Although there are all kinds of information on the Internet now, but the detailed information on how Chelsea played against Barcelona that year, It also depends on the complete information collected internally by the Blues—especially now that Mourinho is returning to the Blues, if Gama and Mourinho had no friendship at all, he would have come to ask for advice on how to get rid of Barcelona in person.

After knowing what Gama had done, Furtado also satirized the sentence 'Mourinho lost to Barcelona 5-0 when he was in Real Madrid'!

For some reason, Furtado doesn't seem to like the famous Portuguese football coach very much. When he mentions Mourinho, he often has a weird expression.

But thinking about Mourinho's coaching experience when he was young, it seems that he can't understand Furtado, right?

Gama had already deduced several situations in his mind where the two sides would fight each other, but generally speaking, it was not ideal.

"By the way," Gama opened his eyes, and he asked Gerrard who was sitting opposite, "For Barcelona, ​​their defensive general Mathieu can't play, right?"

Gerrard, who was talking to Torres there, looked over, "Yes, it is said that the Frenchman suffered a leg injury and will need a truce for about three weeks."

"Is this news true?"

"Sure!"

Gerald nodded, indicating that the source of the news was reliable and true.

"That's it!"

Gama nodded, "Barcelona's formation is the same as ours, 433. Then, yes, Didn't Mascherano say he was injured? He can play today?"

"it should be OK."

Gerrard nodded, "His injury is not serious. If Mathieu can't play, Mascherano will definitely play."

"Well," Gama folded his arms, "So, in Barcelona's defense, apart from goalkeeper Ter Stegen, it should be Alves, Pique, Mascherano, and the other one, Shi Steven, who do you think will replace Mathieu?"

Speaking of the opponent, Gerrard thought about it seriously, "Based on the number of appearances played by Barcelona's defense this season, it should be Jordi Alba."

Gama nodded, "I think so too. Barcelona seem to attach great importance to this young player. From what I saw in the game, he has outstanding skills and strong ball control ability. However, as for the left back, hehe," Gama suddenly He laughed, which attracted puzzled eyes from his teammates.

"how?"

Gerrard came over and took out a few pieces of paper, which seemed to be materials prepared by the coaching staff.

Gama took it over and looked at it, with a smile on his lips, "A typical Barcelona person."

"What do you mean?"

Furtado asked curiously.

"Little Kuailing, hehe~~~" Jia Ma laughed, "His height."

Knowing what Gama meant, many teammates laughed.

Gerald patted Gama's arm angrily, "He will say strange things."

"I'm not wrong," Gama clicked twice, keeping his eyes on the information in his hand, "Anyway, in addition to being careful of their quick counterattacks, you must also be careful of their passing. Of course, you can attack the frontcourt. Highball."

"But Pique's height..."

"It's just that Pique is tall," Gama said disapprovingly, "Don't tell me that you can't walk the high ball?"

This time, the teammates were all silent.

To be honest, when they heard that they were going to play against Barcelona, ​​they really didn't think about the game carefully, especially the question of whether they could win Barcelona?

Win Barcelona?

This question is a bit...hehehe, really?

That's Barcelona!

I believe this is what many people think.

However, looking at Gama's performance, it turns out that he is really considering winning Barcelona!

Seeing the expressions of his teammates, Gama was a little unhappy, "Let's talk about this Jordi Alba. When he was in the La Masia youth training camp, he was said to have no talent and ability and was dismissed, but What about now? He was bought back by Barcelona and became the team's first-line main force. Are you not as good as him?"

"It's not even possible that Barcelona bought him because he is Catalan..."

I don't know who muttered such a sentence behind.

This sentence made Jia Ma angry all of a sudden, he slapped the paper in his hand to the ground and stood up.

"coward!"

Seeing Gama's face change, Furtado grabbed him, "Shiko!"

Gerrard also quickly smoothed things over, "No one thinks so, it's just a joke."

Jia Ma glared at Gerald, his green eyes showing sharpness, "Steven, it's because of you that you have spoiled this group of uncles! Do you want to call you sound masters!"

"Hiko!"

Furtado stopped Gama from growling.

Jia Ma turned his head and stared at him, "Shut up."

Furtado, who was glared at by Gama, spread his hands and took a step back.

"Afraid? Can't win? Do you want to just admit defeat and go home to pick up the baby? What are you doing here? Come to hug your thigh???"

Jia Ma's words were sharp, even broken.

"Hiko!"

This time it was Gerald's voice.

"Why, can't you say? You don't even have the idea of ​​winning, how can you play the game?"

Gama kicked away the scattered sneaker bag, "Don't be ashamed here, you want to be ashamed, but I don't want to."

After finishing speaking, Jia Ma turned around and strode towards the door of the locker room, opened the door and flung it away.

The rest of the people in the room looked at each other in blank dismay. Jia Ma's attack was so sudden that some of them didn't even have time to react when they saw Jia Ma slam the door out after a roar.

"Steven..."

Torres pushed Gerrard.

Gerrard, who was embarrassed, sighed, "Sorry, it seems that our too relaxed attitude put too much pressure on Hiko."

Furtado glanced at the knocked-out door panel and twitched his lips. Gama seemed relaxed on the surface, but his heart was always on fire, not only for today's game, but also for the previous game and the previous one. In fact, he had already accumulated a lot of anger in his heart, probably because the sentence just now became the last straw, which made him completely explode.

"I'm going to find Shiko."

After saying this, Furtado turned and walked out.

Seeing that Furtado had also left, Gerald rubbed his forehead.

There is still an hour and a half before the game starts, and they have made such a mess, which is terrible.

I don't know if I can find Rogers... Uh, forget it, the coach can't come to the coach for the internal conflicts of the players.

Gerald had a headache and a tired heart.

"Sorry, let me just say..."

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