Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

Looking at the handsome young player Li Qi who was celebrating wildly with Alves in his arms, Chiara fell on the sofa with a flushed face again. She probably reached her destination this time. The afterglow of excitement made her not want to tidy up her pajamas that had slipped to her key parts. After all, this game was too exciting.

Indeed, all the players, coaches and fans of Sevilla were very happy. Facing the Barcelona team, they fell behind in the first half and were given a red card. However, the home team not only quickly equalized the game and won the penalty kick, but also scored two goals against Barcelona with one man less...

In contrast, Barcelona's players, coaching staff and fans were all confused. How could they beat one more player and still get beaten? Wasn't this a good style? Suddenly, the mentality of the Barcelona team was a little broken...

Barcelona kicked off from the center circle for the third time in the second half, but suffered another blow soon after.

In the 63rd minute, because the team was behind and the performance was not good in this game, Giuly was very dissatisfied with Alves' close entanglement defense. He directly kicked Alves, who tripped him and had a foul mouth, in retaliation, but was seen by the referee. So Giuly directly received the Ruby War God Card and clocked out early and returned to the locker room. Although Alves also received a yellow card warning, Barcelona lost its numerical advantage.

Juan Ramos on the sidelines clearly saw the hint from Li Qi's eyes, and the home team needed to take advantage of the momentum to lock in the victory. Taking advantage of Barcelona's red card and the momentum of Sevilla's goal, he successively replaced Renato and Navas with Puerta and Alfaro, maintaining the vitality of the midfield and frontcourt to continue to put pressure on Barcelona and attack Barcelona's defense.

So for a while, Barcelona lost its numerical advantage, and also lost its advantages in midfield and ball possession...

In the 65th minute, Sevilla almost changed the score again. Puerta, who came on as a substitute, received a through pass from Li Qi, broke into the left side of the penalty area and shot from a small angle, but unfortunately Valdes blocked it with his face.

However, Rijkaard was unwilling to give up and wanted to make one last fight, so in the 67th minute, Eto'o, the African cheetah who had recovered from injury, replaced Marcos, and 2 minutes later, Saviola, who knew Sevilla, replaced Messi, who was restricted in this game and did not perform well.

The two sides entered a stalemate phase, and it was Sevilla's turn to control the ball, but they had no good way to deal with Barcelona's defensive position. However, when the game came to the 74th minute, Barcelona suffered another blow. Zambrotta, who was playing frustrated in this game, fouled Pueta and made rude remarks. The Italian received two yellow cards in a row and accumulated a red card and was sent off...

Trailing by two goals and being outnumbered, Barcelona had no choice but to give up attacking and switch to defense; Rijkaard was also very helpless and decided to give up the game, after all, he had to go to the away game against Liverpool in the Champions League in the middle of the week.

In the 77th minute, Edmilson replaced Ronaldinho, which also announced that Barcelona officially gave up. At the end of the game, Barcelona goalkeeper Valdes also seemed to have divine help, making a high catch and blocking to keep the goal from being lost.

Looking at Li Qi who was still running and passing excitedly on the field, Rijkaard must have regretted it to the point of being green with anger. This player who was only a substitute in his own team and was loaned out, on the contrary, shined in this game against his host team. He didn't beat his host team by himself, but his one goal, two assists and more than 1 steals were so annoying...

Sevilla, who had the advantage in numbers, morale and score, missed consecutive opportunities to expand the score in the final period of the game.

In the 83rd minute, Li Qi passed the ball and Kanoute's left-foot shot from 16 yards on the left side of the penalty area was saved by Valdes.

In the 87th minute, Li Qi sent another straight pass, and Kanoute, who was on the right side of the penalty area, shot low from 16 yards, but was still confiscated by Valdés. Then Pueta passed again from the left side of the penalty area, but Kanoute's shot from 12 yards on the left side of the penalty area hit the left post and went wide... The Mali striker, who is the top scorer in the La Liga scorer list, definitely didn't bring his shooting boots today.

In the 92nd minute, Alves and Kanoute made a wall pass, and the former's shot from 10 yards went wide.

In the 95th minute, Alves and Kanoute still cooperated with each other through wall passes, and Alves' shot from 14 yards on the right side of the penalty area hit the crossbar.

As Alves' powerful shot was deflected by the crossbar and bounced out of the bottom line, the referee blew the whistle to end the game.

In the end, ten-man Sevilla reversed Barcelona and achieved consecutive home victories. Sevilla overtook Barcelona by 1 point and topped the La Liga standings.

九人巴萨则遭遇客场连败，至此，里杰卡尔德的球队在联赛中已经连续7个客场不胜，上一次他们在客场赢球还要追溯到104天之前--2006年11月19日客场4比1战胜马略卡。上一次巴萨遭遇同样尴尬的记录还要追溯到00/01赛季费雷尔执教时期，当年他们在联赛中仅名列第四位。

Li Qi was still very excited after the game. After all, he was able to reverse the game even with one less player, and even suppressed the strongest Dream Team II in La Liga at the end of the game. Li Qi was very satisfied with his performance in this game, which can be regarded as a masterpiece since his debut.

However, although the game was tense, Li Qi was still the first to exchange jerseys with Ronaldinho's father after the game, and also chatted with Messi, Iniesta and Xavi for a few meaningless words, such as that although the tackle just now was intentional, it was not intended to hurt you, and good luck in the Champions League in the middle of the week...

But it was obvious that these Barcelona teammates didn't want to piss him off, and they directly sent the best player of the game back to the home team's locker room.

At the post-match press conference, Rijkaard could not hide his disappointment: "Why did we lose when we were leading 1-0 and had one more player? The biggest mistake was that we did not end the game when we should have. First, Li Qi quickly equalized the score, and then Ronaldinho missed the penalty kick. After that, we began to lose control of the game..."

Then Rijkaard graciously complimented the winning opponent: "Sevilla deserves the victory. Sevilla is a very strong team. This team is very disciplined and organized. Li Qi and Alves are both top players in La Liga. I don't want to talk too much about our goal loss. This is not the responsibility of one person..."

Finally, Rijkaard quickly turned his attention to the Champions League in the middle of the week and said: "Losing is not a bad thing. The ownership of the league championship will not be determined by one game. Losing to Sevilla before challenging Liverpool is a lesson for Barcelona, ​​because the two teams have many similarities in tactics and playing style."

However, this time Juan Ramos was not as confident and high-profile as when he won the Christmas championship at the end of last year. After all, he was taught a lesson just after the New Year. Instead, he was very low-key. In addition to the routine affirmation of the team's comeback and the statement that the league competition is still in a white-hot stage, he could only barely conceal his excitement and focused on praising Li Qi, who was like a god in this game.

However, the next day, although most of the media had already shifted their reporting direction to the upcoming Champions League life-and-death battle, there were also many that focused on analyzing this game and gave Li Qi high praise, such as Mundo Deportivo:

"…Although Rijkaard wanted to save his strength for the Champions League life-and-death battle with Liverpool in the middle of the week, he still brought Ronaldinho and bet on this Sevilla killer. In the previous six matches against Sevilla, Ronaldinho broke the opponent's goal five times. This time Ronaldinho did not disappoint the coach. Just 14 minutes into the game, he used a header to break the opponent's goal and helped the team take the lead.

Then in the 29th minute, Ronaldinho broke through Osio and entered the penalty area, causing Osio to be forced to commit a foul in the penalty area and receive a red card. This was Ronaldinho's highlight moment in this game!

Ronaldinho naturally stood in front of the penalty spot. Among the 17 goals he scored this season, 6 were penalties, which is his specialty. Once he scores the penalty, Ronaldinho can even tie Kanoute on the scorer list and tie his goal tally with last season.

But the script turned around. At this critical moment, Sevilla goalkeeper Palop stepped up and blocked Ronaldinho's penalty kick, which made Barcelona's morale stagnate. After that, it was the young Italian player Li Qi, who was loaned to Sevilla by Barcelona, ​​who dominated the game.

Although Sevilla had one less player, Li Qi used his tireless running and excellent reading of the game to eliminate the numerical difference between the two sides. He even used two sharp steals and counterattacks to make Barcelona pay the price for their contempt for him at the beginning of the season.

Throughout the game, Li Qi ran more than 1 meters, nearly 1 meters more than Alves, who came in second. Iniesta, who ran the most on the Barcelona side, only ran a little over 1 meters, which was not as good as Adriano who ran kilometers.

Not to mention the regular direct pass assists, in addition to contributing a wonderful heel goal and a magical heel assist, Li Qi also contributed 16 successful steals and interceptions throughout the game, almost catching up with the 22 successful interceptions of the entire Barcelona team.

In addition, Li Qi won 14 confrontations, successfully dribbled past the defense 12 times, and made 10 key passes. Even when the home team was passive for most of the game, his pass success rate was still around 90%...

At the post-match press conference, Sevilla coach Juan Ramos described Li Qi's performance in this game as a god descending from heaven, which was not an exaggeration at all.

Li Qi's wonderful performance even broke through Barcelona's left defense in this game, and Alves, who contributed one goal and one assist, was much inferior...

It is foreseeable that when the season ends, no matter what Sevilla's results are, Sevilla or Barcelona will have to pay a high price to keep this rising Italian star.

It is said that many big clubs from the Premier League, Serie A and Bundesliga have already set their sights on this versatile midfield talent, not to mention that the core of the Italian youth team is receiving a contract that is almost the same as that of the youth team..."

However, Ricardo, who performed well in the game, did not have the leisure to appreciate the media's praise for him, because after the game Ricardo found that he had strained his right groin muscle.

During the game, Ricardo didn't feel anything because he was too excited, but when he returned to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes, he found something wrong; later the team doctor diagnosed that it was a muscle strain caused by running too intensely, which was not very serious, but Ricardo was expected to rest for 10 days to recover from the injury, and he will definitely miss the first leg of the UEFA Cup quarter-final in midweek and the league next weekend.

Later, Ricardo's personal training team also conducted an assessment. First of all, Ricardo must have met the physical fitness standards and been able to bear the load in order to be able to play such a high-intensity rhythm and run in fierce actual combat. As for why he was still injured due to fatigue, the personal training team attributed this to the lack of intensity in normal training and previous competitions.

If Ricardo wants to reach an average running intensity of more than 1 meters per game, he must maintain a running volume of at least 80 meters during training, so as to ensure that his body can always be in a good condition at an output power of about %; in addition, in more games, Ricardo must play more of an offensive, defensive and transitional role to allow his body to adapt to such an intense confrontation...

For the time being, Ricardo is unable to make decisions on behalf of the head coach, and can only strengthen his training after recovering from his injury; it is a step-by-step process, and Ricardo is not a greedy person.

In addition, Ricardo was not the only one who suffered an injury after the game. Several Sevilla players who performed well and ran more in this game, such as Kanoute, Alves and Adriano, all showed some symptoms of muscle discomfort to varying degrees. Fortunately, except for Ricardo who was confirmed to be injured, the others only needed to rest for two or three days to recover, which at least would not affect the game.

Ricardo was helpless: He can't be handsome for more than three hours... But it's okay, I have a short vacation, I can send Chiara off, and spend time with Eva and his goddaughter Sofia. I can think of taking them on a short trip. In addition, it seems that I need to attend an event of the brand I endorse, so now I have time...

Ricardo is in a good mood, but he is not the only one who is unlucky. Barcelona fans who have just been sad will continue to be sad because in the Champions League match in the middle of the week, Barcelona was eliminated despite a small away win...

2007年3月6日晚上19时45分，06/07赛季欧洲冠军联赛16强淘汰赛次回合一场焦点战在安菲尔德球场展开争夺，由利物浦坐镇主场迎战巴塞罗那的挑战。

这场比赛对利物浦的比赛是里杰卡尔德执教巴萨的第200场比赛，也是双方争取一席8强名额的决战。首回合，利物浦做客诺坎普2比1逆转取胜，占得先机；不过利物浦在之前的主场3次迎战巴萨只取得1胜1平1负的战绩，并不占优。

在00/01赛季，利物浦在主场1比0取胜；01/02赛季，巴萨在安菲尔德3比1复仇取胜。另外，双方均在上周末的国内联赛中分别告负强敌……

However, in this game, the tactics adopted by Liverpool were very similar to those used by Sevilla against Barcelona last weekend, cutting off Barcelona's midfield and frontcourt, pressing defense in the half court, and counterattacking quickly, while Gerrard played the role of Li Qi.

So facing the tenacious Liverpool, Barcelona had an extremely difficult game. Liverpool, who had less than 30% of the ball possession, had 16 shots, 7 of which were in the penalty area, and 6 of which were on target; while Barcelona only had 7 shots in the entire game...

If it weren't for Valdés's superb performance, Barcelona wouldn't have been able to win this face-saving victory. Valdés was also the best player in the team with the highest rating.

Although Barcelona won 75-1 against Liverpool away from home with the only goal of the game scored by Gudjohnsen in the 0th minute.

But in the end the two sides drew 2-2 on aggregate, and Liverpool advanced to the quarterfinals of this season's UEFA Champions League thanks to more away goals.

The Barcelona team had no time to feel sad. As soon as the game ended, the whole team turned their attention to the Spanish derby at the weekend and prepared for the battle of the century against Real Madrid at home!

Of course, Ricardo was not in the mood to pay too much attention to his old club, because the day after the Champions League match was the UEFA Cup match, and Sevilla, who played at home, also encountered big troubles...