I Want to Be the King of Football

On March 12, in the twenty-eighth round of La Liga, Barcelona faced Athletic Bilbao at home.

Athletic Bilbao's oppressive style of play gave them an advantage on the field from the very beginning, and even put Barcelona in a passive embarrassment for a time.

It's still at the Camp Nou!

But in the 21st minute, Su Dong dribbled the ball along the middle and rushed forward quickly after getting the ball. At a distance of 30 meters from the goal, he shot a cold arrow and shot a long shot, which opened the scoring for Barcelona.

This is also Su Dong's 28th league goal this season.

After entering the winter break, Su Dong's performance in the league was also subject to a lot of doubts, but in the two rounds of the Champions League against Bayern Munich, he received extremely high praise.

Then, in the 31st minute, Ronaldinho assisted Giuli to score, extending the score for Barcelona.

The score was 2-0 until the end of the game.

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A week later, in the twenty-ninth round of La Liga, Barcelona played away to Deportivo.

In the tenth minute of the game, Barcelona used a free kick in the frontcourt to create chaos in the penalty area.

Puyol, Sylvinho and Giuly all made supplementary shots and were blocked.

At the critical moment, in the middle of the penalty area, Su Dong used his body to hold the defender, and when the whole person was about to fall, he reluctantly kicked and stabbed and scored a goal for Barcelona.

This goal allowed Barcelona to finally beat Deportivo Deportivo 1-0.

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After the twenty-ninth round, La Liga was suspended, ushering in two weeks of national team game days.

The next schedule is very important for Barcelona. First, the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals will be played away in the first leg of the Champions League in midweek, and they will be away to Chelsea. At the weekend, they will go to Madrid to challenge Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.

These two matchups are crucial, and they are the focus battles that Barcelona must win.

The worst thing is that the captain Puyol was injured in the national team game and is destined to miss the 30th round.

Not only that, but the Mexican international Marcos traveled a long distance to return to play in the country. He also came and went in a hurry and was destined to fail to catch up with this game. In addition, Edmilson was still seriously injured, so that Rijkaard had to discharge the youth training teenager. The center back combination of Navarro and Oleg.

Who would have thought that in just eleven minutes, Edu made a cross from the left and Fernando scored in front of the goal, opening the scoring for Real Betis.

Just one minute later, Luis Fernandez sent a straight pass from the left. Edu successfully countered offside and then made an oblique pass. Joaquin followed and pushed and scored, extending the score again.

Two to zero!

Losing two goals in a row is still at Camp Nou, which can be said to have completely stunned Barcelona!

Fortunately, three minutes later, Xavi's long pass was dropped into the penalty area. Su Dong blocked the Real Betis defender with his body. After stopping the ball, he turned and volleyed directly, regaining a goal for Barcelona.

One to two!

In the 29th minute, Sylvinho drove straight in, made a cross from the left, and Su Dong followed up, jumped high, headed the goal, and smashed the ball into Real Betis' goal again.

Two to two!

Barcelona successfully equalized the score!

But for Barcelona, ​​this is obviously not something to be happy about.

The Champions League quarter-finals are just around the corner, and the national derby against Real Madrid is just around the corner. At this critical moment, Barcelona's defense is making repeated mistakes, which makes everyone lose confidence in Barcelona.

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Change sides in the second half.

In the fifty-seventh minute, Su Dong pulled to the left, received a pass from Ronaldinho, pulled the ball horizontally in the middle and cut inwards. A powerful curve ball that hangs directly to the right of the goal.

Three to two!

hat trick!

Although there were a lot of goals, Su Dong, who had fallen a bit in the league since the winter break, stepped forward at a critical moment.

The whole Camp Nou was cheering for him.

But Barcelona was not happy for long.

After just six minutes,

Joaquin succeeded in anti-offside, dribbled the ball into the penalty area and scored a low shot from the right rib, equalizing the score again for Real Betis, three to three!

Subsequently, Rijkaard made a substitution adjustment, and Su Dong was replaced by Larson.

Barcelona failed to score again, as did Real Betis.

In the end, the two sides shook hands three to three.

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Real Betis drew 3-3 at home, and Barcelona was criticized after the game.

Su Dong, who scored a hat-trick, is known as the only player who can lift his head out of the Camp Nou. Catalan media have said that Su Dong is the last dignity of Barcelona.

It's hard for us to imagine that without Sudong's critical moment, we would have been slaughtered by Real Betis at home!

The Daily Sport was rather unhappy with the result of the game, arguing that Rijkaard's side did not show a satisfactory turnaround, especially on the defensive end.

Marcos Senna still worked hard, but in this game he couldn't handle the midfield alone, and the defense was full of problems.

The absence of Puyol and Marcos is the key, Oleg itself is unstable, and the teenager Navarro takes the place, which is also uneasy, which makes Barcelona's back line more fragile.

The World Sports Daily even sent a soul torture, Is Rijkaard planning to use such a defensive line to go to Stamford Bridge and the Bernabeu? Does he think his team can get out?

Even the mouthpiece of Barcelona is extremely disappointed with the team's defense.

Although Rijkaard said after the game that Puyol and Marcos would follow the team to the away game to challenge Chelsea, no one dared to place high hopes on Barcelona's defense.

Going to London with such a line of defense is tantamount to suicide! Godfather Cruyff was furious.

He once again took aim at the Brazilian Gang, believing that too many Brazilian internationals have caused Barcelona players to travel long distances and consume too much.

Ronaldinho's performance in the second half declined significantly.

Although Su Dong's performance in the league was not as good as in the first half, he still scored a lot at critical moments, and he turned the tide twice in the Champions League, which proved his value as the team's top scorer.

Even, in the second round, he sacrificed himself and became the team's tactical center. The team consciousness is evident.

Cruyff believes that if Rijkaard can't come up with a solution within three days and visit Stamford Bridge, Barcelona will be in trouble and may even suffer a disastrous defeat.

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Barcelona suffered a three-to-three draw with Real Betis at home, and the British media were the happiest.

A number of British media have said that Barcelona's defense is as fragile as ever.

Even if it's just against a team like Real Betis, Barcelona is playing quite a mess, and the defense is full of mistakes. At Stamford Bridge, Mourinho's team will have a better chance of winning.

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The Sun is even more high-profile, believing that the Blues have basically got a ticket to the semi-finals.

Chelsea are so strong and morale right now that Jose Mourinho's team is fully capable of finishing the fight in the first leg at Stamford Bridge, especially with Barcelona in a downturn.

The Daily Mail speculates that with the attacking power of Real Betis, they can break Barcelona's goal three times at Camp Nou. With Chelsea's attacking firepower, it is absolutely not a problem to score four or five goals at home.

Maybe, we will see an earth-shattering massacre at Stamford Bridge!

Chelsea captain John Terry expressed confidence that the team will win in the first leg.

I know Su Dong is very strong, but I would say that at Stamford Bridge, he won't get any chance!

Makelele, who once played for Real Madrid, also said that he is very familiar with Barcelona, ​​I will not let them pass through the midfield at will, we know how to beat them in the game!

The Guardian also analyzed the three goals conceded by Barcelona against Real Betis in the game, and believed that all of them were old problems of Barcelona's defense. It's the central defender's own problem.

These problems have been around for a long time. Even if Puyol returns, it will be difficult to change and improve in a short period of time.

The Guardian also revealed that Real Betis' counter-attack speed is very fast, which is worth learning and learning from Chelsea, because the Blues have no shortage of players with super speed, such as Duff.

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The decisive battle is imminent!

Compared with the overwhelming confidence of the British media, the Spanish media are very pessimistic about the prospect of Barcelona's expedition to London.

Although both Puyol and Marcos were with the team, and although Sudong had just scored a hat-trick and was in excellent form, in the face of Chelsea, whose overall strength was better than Bayern Munich, Barcelona exposed its own problems prematurely.

When announcing the 18-man squad, head coach Rijkaard reluctantly admitted that the team's defensive problems were indeed serious, but he believed that the team still had a chance at Stamford Bridge.

But if it spreads out, who will believe it?

The Spanish media felt that Rijkaard was bluffing.

When facing Bayern Munich, Barcelona failed to come up with a good strategy in the second round, but only made a big bet on Su Dong.

Now, in the face of a stronger Chelsea, Barcelona is in such a sluggish state and has such serious defensive problems. What can they do with the Blues?

Even Rijkaard said that in the away game, even if it loses, it is acceptable to return to Camp Nou to reverse, just like when they played against Bayern Munich in the first leg.

But the question is, can this kind of thing be reversed again and again?

After Barcelona drew with Real Betis three-to-three, the three major European bookmakers all lowered the odds of Barcelona, ​​causing Barcelona's winning odds to drop to the bottom third of the eight teams, just ahead of Lyon and Egypt. Indhoven is slightly higher.

Chelsea's title odds have climbed all the way to a level where they are on a par with AC Milan.

Clearly, the bookies are putting out real money and betting that Chelsea will come out on top in the quarter-finals.

The explanation given by William Hill is that there is no problem with Barcelona's offense, but in the Champions League knockout stage, especially in the knockout stage of the quarter-finals, with such a fragile defense line of Barcelona, ​​it is not very likely to move forward.

If it's just a gaming company looking at it this way, then there's still something to worry about.

When the three major gaming companies see it this way, it is basically a sentence of death for Barcelona.

The game has not yet been played, and the domestic media in Spain has been bad-mouthing.

They have said that this will be the worst season in the La Liga Champions League in recent years.

It was in this bleak atmosphere that Barcelona went to London.