i want to be king

Chapter 392 Never Lose the Third Ball!
A week later, in the No.30 sixth round of La Liga, Barcelona challenged Levante away.

Only 6 minutes into the game, with the connection between Su Dong and Ronaldinho, the Brazilian superstar took a long shot from the left, piercing Levante's goal and opening the scoring for Barcelona.

But then the game fell into a stalemate.

No.305 minutes, Levante took advantage of a free kick opportunity to create chaos in the Barcelona penalty area. Rivera made a kick and equalized the score for Levante. The two sides ended the first half [-]-[-].

But just over a minute into the second half, Levante player Gango broke into the penalty area from the left to form a single shot. After the shot was blocked by Valdez, his teammates made a missed shot and hit the score.

Until No. 60 minutes, Harvey took a corner kick, Marcos headed forward to ferry, and Su Dong scored a close-range header from the back to tie the score, [-] to [-].

After the score was equalized, Su Dong and Ronaldinho were also replaced one after another.

In the end, the two teams shook hands two to two.

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Although there is no loss and this game is meaningless, but facing Levante, the defense conceded two goals, which is somewhat worrying.

The Catalan media have expressed doubts about Barcelona's defense, especially the Champions League final is just around the corner, but the team has not shown any signs of defensive improvement, which is very worrying.

As far away as Italy, AC Milan, who had just lost [-]-[-] at home to Juventus, failed to get out of the predicament. They drew Lecce [-]-[-] away and basically lost the competition for the Serie A title.

At the post-match press conference, Ancelotti had to regret that the Serie A championship was basically hopeless.

"But we still have the Champions League!"

Ancelotti's meaning is very clear, that is, from this moment on, AC Milan will devote all its energy and resources to the Champions League final.

This is definitely not good news for Barcelona.

Even the godfather Cruyff reminded Rijkaard in the column of the Vanguard that defense will be the most severe test facing Barcelona in this Champions League final, especially the players, who must minimize unnecessary mistakes as much as possible.

"This is the most important game in the world, and it is also the most competitive game, bar none!"

"All of us know that the more pressured the game is, the more likely players are to make some inexplicable mistakes."

"But every great team has to learn how to defuse those pressures and avoid mistakes like this."

Cruyff also very rarely took the initiative to bring up the UEFA Champions League final held at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece 11 years ago. It was one of the most tragic defeats in his life, and he rarely even talked about it in front of outsiders.

But this time, he used this game as a negative teaching material to remind Rijkaard.

"Before the final that I will never forget, we had the advantage. At that time, we had the strongest attacking lineup, led by Romario, we had Guardiola in the midfield, Koeman and Nadal in the defense. Everyone believed that our strength was very good."

"In contrast to AC Milan, the absence of Baresi and Costacurta has a great impact on them. Everyone, including ourselves, feels that our offense should be able to play a role. We just need to control the ball, control the rhythm as usual, and use our pass and cut advantages to pull and tear apart the Milan defense. We have the world's best scorer Romario."

"But in the game, we were surprised to find that things were completely beyond our imagination. Our opponent didn't intend to allow us to pass and cut easily. Our offense was strictly contained by the opponent."

"What's more terrible is that when our offense can't play a threat, our midfielder keeps making mistakes, and we concede goals again and again."

Cruyff reminded Rijkaard that it is necessary to be fully prepared. Everyone must have a strong psychological quality and be mentally prepared to lose the ball first, so as not to be in a hurry and lose again and again.

More importantly, be patient and don't lose the ball and lose the formation. This is very terrible.

"Facing the Italian team, we must maintain enough patience."

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Cruyff's remarks attracted Barcelona's attention. For this reason, Rijkaard even arranged for the players to watch the video of the game that year. Everyone saw how the Dream Team under Cruyff's training collapsed in front of Capello's iron army.

The four conceded goals were basically serious errors in Barcelona's midfield, including the quick counterattack by the defender after the ball was intercepted.

In addition, according to current standards, AC Milan's offside goal that was blown off was actually scored, because the player that AC Milan dragged to the end at that time did not directly participate in the offense.

Even, AC Milan had another center post in the second half, which was also a quick counterattack from a long pass directly behind him.

It can be said that, looking at the whole game, Barcelona was indeed beaten black and blue by AC Milan, quite embarrassing.

The current Barcelona technical director, Begiristain, served as the left winger in Cruyff's team at the time. He also showed his own experience and warned all Barcelona players that in that game, the Barcelona players themselves made too many mistakes that should not have occurred.

"In the first half, when we were behind zero to two, we still had a chance, but unfortunately, at the beginning of the second half, we conceded the third. This was a goal that made us desperate."

The conceded goal was that the left back Sergi was too sticky to the ball. After being intercepted by Savicevic, he directly kicked a long-range lob from the right side of the penalty area and directly lobbed the ball into Barcelona's goal.

The goal is very beautiful!

"But more importantly, our defenders and goalkeepers have committed an irreparable disappointment, which is very demoralizing!"

Begiristain said that when everyone was ambitious to get back the situation in the second half, the score was expanded by the opponent as soon as he came out, especially the stupid mistakes made by the Barcelona players themselves, which made everyone lose confidence in the counterattack.

"No matter how powerful the offense is, it can't beat the constant mistakes!"

As a former left winger, Begiristan is obviously very aware of the mentality of offensive players.

Football has always been a difficult game to score goals.

So, when an attacking player is trying to create goals in front, but keeps losing the ball behind him, it is just hopeless.

"Remember, no matter how bad the situation is, no matter what, never lose the third ball!"

Begiristain's meaning is not to say that Barcelona will lose, but to warn Barcelona players to have bottom-line thinking and not to concede three goals in any case, otherwise the gods will be hard to save!

The players basically listened to it.

They are all seasoned stars, and naturally they all know that in such an important final, if they concede three goals, they basically have to surrender, and there is absolutely no possibility of turning the situation around.

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University student dormitory building in Munich, Germany.

knock knock knock.

Wang Chuqing was studying in the dormitory when someone knocked on the door suddenly, followed by the voice of her Korean roommate.

"King, I have a letter from you"

"Oh, wait a minute."

Wang Chuqing was a little reluctant, turned her head to look out the window, and sighed faintly.

This should be another love letter from some boring person asking her roommate to send her, right?

How many times has it been?

She has long been tired of it.

Even though she has clearly rejected many people many times, there will always be people who feel that she will be the lucky one.

But how did they know that in Wang Chuqing's heart, a special person had secretly lived in at some point.

"It's from Barcelona, ​​Spain." The roommate outside the door flipped through the envelope and saw the city where the letter was sent.

Inside the door, Wang Chuqing's heart trembled when she heard this, and she immediately quickened her pace, taking three steps in parallel, and walked over to open the door.

After receiving the envelope from her roommate, Wang Chuqing thanked her with a smile. Noticing the strange look in her roommate's eyes, she quickly turned around and closed the door, leaning her back against the door, and flipped through the envelope.

Sure enough, it's from Barcelona!
In that strange city, she had only one friend.

Carefully opening the envelope, Wang Chuqing found a card and a ticket inside.

"Miss Wang, I hope you can come to watch my game when you have time, Su Dong."

The following is a printed way to introduce two ways to go to the Champions League final. One is to go to Barcelona and meet with the club's relatives and friends. At that time, the club will charter a flight to pick up the relatives and friends to Istanbul, so that they can take care of each other.

It is also possible to go to Istanbul on your own. Two days before the final, Barcelona has already booked a hotel. The family and friends can check in with the tickets and ID documents. Su Dong has submitted the list of his relatives and friends to the club.

Wang Chuqing looked at the envelopes, paper cards and tickets in her hands, as if drinking honey in her heart.

This is the ticket to the Champions League final!

I heard that outside scalpers have sold tickets for the Champions League final to two to three thousand euros, which is definitely a sky-high price, and it is hard to find a ticket.

Two days ago, some classmates were asking her if she could buy tickets through BMW's channels, but they didn't know that the huge BMW company got very few tickets, and a few high-level executives of the company basically didn't have anything to do with the people below.

Su Dong gave her the ticket, no doubt treating her as a good friend, which is more valuable than the ticket itself.

Thinking of this, Wang Chuqing's heart moved, and she immediately walked back to the desk, took out her mobile phone, found Su Dong's number, opened the text message, hesitated for a long time, pondered over her words, and finally sent the text message with shaking hands.

"The ticket has been received, thank you, I will go to the scene to cheer for you! You will definitely win!"

After the text message was sent, Xiao Nizi blushed again, looked at the tickets, envelopes, cards and mobile phone in her hands and smiled foolishly, her heart was filled with indescribable joy.

"Thank you! My parents will be there too, you can join them. See you in Istanbul!"

Su Dong quickly sent her a text message back.

"See you in Türkiye!"

After Wang Chuqing finished replying to the text message, she was no longer as cold as usual in front of her classmates, she jumped up joyfully, her laughter was especially sweet.

The Korean roommate next door was well-informed, and after hearing the news, he felt puzzled.

Is this girl in love?
who is it?

(End of this chapter)