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Paulo Bento is not as unstressed on the camera as Bosco. This 43-year-old coach who is definitely young and promising among the coaches looks at the camera facing him with a blank expression, and then reveals A near-never smile, and then put his eyes on the court again.

The camera didn't stay on Paul Bento for too long, and his image was projected on the big screen, but it didn't take long.

Many Spaniards are not familiar with the head coach of the Portuguese team. Even if they recognized him, it was just a glimpse and passed away. Only Bosque, who was staring at the big screen and frowning slightly, stood up and waved to Bento.And Paulo Bento smiled politely and respectfully this time, and nodded.Afterwards, the two sat down separately, and almost at the same time they asked the assistant coach who brought them with them: "Why didn't you tell me that person is here?"

The two assistant coaches both looked helpless. They are not tabloid reporters, so they can't stare at them every day, right?Moreover, the two of them did not choose the VIP box or the guest area at almost the same time, and they were all sitting in the auditorium. Even if they were close, how could they recognize them among the dark crowd?

Bento felt a little surprised by the collision with Spanish coach Bosque today, but he didn't think much about it.

Since taking over the coach of the national team two years ago, Bento has a good record. He led the Portuguese team to successfully break out of the death group surrounded by Germany and the Netherlands in the European Cup and reached the semi-finals all the way , although it is a pity to lose to the Spanish team, the champion of this European Cup, the Portuguese team led by Bento can also leave the field with their heads held high. , The young marshal can also take his disciples to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

There are many players of Portuguese nationality in the Deportivo team. Due to the similar language, many Portuguese players will come to Spain to play.Paul wants to select the best athletes for the national team.

The purpose of Bento coming to Camp Nou this time is very simple, to observe the players.

And his focus is on the Deportivo goalkeeper, Clemens, who has just staged a wonderful three-peat attack.

Bento turned the pen in his hand, temporarily took his gaze away from the field, and turned to stare at the notebook in his hand.

It clearly records Clemens' past record, the number of saves per game, the running distance, and the number of goals conceded.Compared with other goalkeepers, Bento also listed him a separate column of data called assists.

Not only the adult team's data, including the data from the youth team and the Sporting Lisbon youth training camp, Bento has all in his hands.This is not difficult for Bento. With the experience of playing football and professional teaching at Sporting Lisbon, it is easy to get some data.

For a goalkeeper, the number of assists is simply like accumulation. Occasionally, a goalkeeper may give an assist. In a game between Germany and England, German goalkeeper Neuer assisted his teammate Miroslav Klose. Klose scored directly, and the whole process took less than ten seconds, and the background board of this divine goal was the poor England goalkeeper Joe Hart.But after all, the goalkeeper's position is too special, and occasional assists can't make them increase their value. It is the goalkeeper's job to keep the goal.

But Clemens's assists are quite a lot. Looking at the notebook, Bento began to wonder how Deportivo played football?The goalkeeper has got so many assists, are they going to keep this simple and rude style of play?

But when Bento put his eyes on the number of goals conceded next to him, he couldn't help but smile.

In the youth academy and the youth team, Clemens performed only slightly better than the average young player, otherwise Sporting Lisbon would not let him go and let him come to Deportivo.But after this young player arrived in Spain, he seemed to be completely reborn. He entered the adult team, and his high-defense resistance was perfect.

With a clean sheet, the string of 0s made Bento almost unable to restrain the smile on his face. He could only pretend to cough to cover up his inner joy.

I have Ronaldo in the frontcourt and Clemens in the backcourt and it looks perfect.

Bento thought of the goal set for him by the Portuguese Football Association, to qualify for the group stage, strive to enter the knockout stage and strive to get a seat in the quarterfinals.Bento cast his eyes on the court again, and secretly weighed in his heart, the quarter-finals?If he can really get the players he wants, Portugal can expect more.

Compared with the national team, clubs tend to be stronger. After all, some wealthy clubs are rich, powerful and attractive. All the good players in the world have sharpened their heads and drilled into them. Naturally, wealthy clubs will not lack good players.In order to fight for higher salaries and keep their positions, these players spare no effort in the game. They spend more time with their teammates in the club than with their teammates in the national team. There will also be problems with the tacit cooperation between them.Therefore, the head coach of the national team will prefer to select players from the team or league where the domestic superstar is located. This kind of player is to feed the star. fused together.

But the only exception on the field is the goalkeeper.

The goalkeeper position in front of the goal line is the last hurdle for the team. When the whole team is helpless, a good goalkeeper can at least ensure that the team does not concede or concedes fewer goals, and will naturally gain an advantage in any game.And goalkeepers often don't need to think about teamwork. All they need to do is to keep the goal and try to keep the goal.Of course, there are exceptions to this. For example, the goalkeepers in Germany who want to contract the entire stadium naturally need defenders to fill their positions, but that is something the Germans have to consider, and it is not within the scope of Bento's consideration.

Portugal is not a place for goalkeepers. In the past, most of the goalkeepers in Portugal came from the local league. Their performances were quite satisfactory but they did not perform better. Now, Bento has an additional choice under Ronaldo's suggestion.

The only thing that needs to be considered is how to compete with Bosque who is not far away and snatch him over.

The two coaches in the stands competed with each other, and the situation on the field also changed suddenly.

Towards the end of the first half, Barcelona launched another wave of offensive.

In Barcelona, ​​goalkeeper Valdez also wants to become a member of the defense, and often he will participate in the team's overall tactical system.He passed the ball to Pique, Pique looked up and looked around, and carefully gave the ball to Iniesta.

What Iniesta faced was Rich and Nelson's double-team attack. After nearly four and 10 minutes of fierce fighting, the Deportivo players can still use such strong physical fitness and hard work. It is really impressive. surprised.Iniesta played the ball down the right flank, where Xavi had already stopped the ball before handing it to Fabregas without stopping at all.

Through the cooperation of quick short passes, Barcelona's offensive has actually reached Deportivo's half, Fabregas even transferred the ball to Messi again!

Deportivo's defense failed to create an offside, and the linesman did not respond.

The ball was passed to Messi's feet. Messi observed Clemens' position out of the corner of his eye, made a quick judgment in his heart, and then made a fake move, as if he was going to shoot to the left of the goal.Clemens' body also began to shift in that direction, but Messi turned his ankle and kicked the ball towards the near post!

Clemens, whose body had already started to fall, had no time to pull back his body. He frowned slightly, and simply opened his legs, almost split them into a straight line, and finally blocked the ball that was rolling close to the ground with his calf. goal!

Deportivo defender Elvado, who rushed to the position, took the opportunity to kick the ball vigorously, without giving the Barcelona player a chance to make a supplementary shot or get a corner kick.

Then Elvador ran to Clemens, ready to drag their goalkeeper up, but before him, someone had already stretched out his hand to Clemens.

Messi, who failed to shoot, seemed a pity to think about it. He thought it would be better if the angle was more tricky, but he was still very friendly and prepared to pull Clemens up.Clemens looked up at him, did not refuse the kindness from the opponent, took Messi's hand and stood up, stood still and slightly lowered his head and said, "Thank you, Leo."

Messi himself said softly to him: "Good job, Thomas."

The second ball, this is the second direct shot that Clemens' wind blocked him in this field.Messi obviously ruled out the opportunity to make up the shot just now. He looked at Clemens and shook his palm slightly.

The two must-have goals were saved, which is enough to show Clemens' ability, but it will not continue.

Clemens looked at Messi calmly and didn't speak, but that expression obviously didn't care about what the Barcelona superstar said.

This scene was also clearly seen by Sessam, and he couldn't help laughing: "Just yesterday evening, Messi and Clemens, two core players who are absolutely heavyweights in their respective teams, accepted the acceptance together. Interviews from Chinese media, and the two interacted on Twitter. Clemens also sent a gift to Tiago, who was born less than two months after Messi, which made the two of them bond. Good friendship. But judging from their performance, the friendship off the field made them more friendly, but there was no sign of humility. Clemens blocked the door of Deportivo, Barcelona arrived in the first half The few good chances so far have not turned into goals, and Messi is obviously telling Clemens that he is determined to score."

This is purely Sessam's guesswork, and the fans did not see any provocative behavior between them.

And Zhang Bin, who was surrounded by Deportivo fans, was a little surprised and said: "Clemens's ball is beautiful!"

Although the big George next to him can't understand Chinese, he can still understand the name Clemens. The uncle of the fans automatically attributes this sentence as a compliment, so he said in English very friendly: "Thomas has been doing Well done, and will do better.”

Zhang Bin is also very interested in chatting with Big George: "The save just now looked very exciting, maybe it can't be called a save. Clemens blocked it with his legs. His body is really soft and tough."

Big George's English is actually not very good. Simple vocabulary is okay, but complicated ones are not.So he seemed to listen to Zhang Bin's words calmly, and finally gave a summary: "It's all thanks to Thomas's long enough legs."

Zhang Bin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, but the laughter was submerged in the excited singing of the Depor fans and was not eye-catching.

There was one minute of extra time in the first half, and the referee blew his whistle after the stoppage time. The two teams temporarily fought 1:0, and neither scored a goal.

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Deportivo's assistant coach Fernandes quickly retrieved the data from the first half of the game, and then submitted it to Vazquez.

Vazquez browsed quickly before entering the locker room, and it was roughly the same as he estimated on the field. Barcelona had an overwhelming advantage in terms of possession rate, pass success rate and number of shots. Deportivo was generally worrying. The number of times is only a poor two-foot shot, but they are all within the range of the goal frame.

"Much better than expected." Vazquez looked optimistic, which was expected, "I'm surprised that the team can quickly enter the state, I thought they would have trouble in the first 10 minutes. "

Mentioning this, Fernandez couldn't help but smiled, and lowered his voice slightly: "Alex told me just now that Pizzy was a little nervous at first, and then Clemens yelled at him to tell Mr. Make Pizzy enthusiastic."

Vazquez froze for a moment, then laughed too.

He knows the tempers of the players under his team. They are all good-tempered, but they also have a good face. The older players want to maintain their status in the team. Take a look at the young players. It's not just Pizzi who was stimulated by what Clemens said, but maybe the entire old players in the midfield.

Vazquez didn't mean to stop this, but felt that the more the better, encouraging the defense is also a responsibility of the goalkeeper. Now that Clemens can open his mouth is an improvement.

Vazquez said as he walked to the locker room: "Compared to this, I think there are two reasons why the national team coach came."

"Sir, do you think it is possible for our players to enter the national team?"

Compared with Vazquez, Fernandez's love for Deportivo is undoubtedly deeper.

Personally, Fernandez naturally blesses and looks forward to these players being able to become members of the national team, galloping in international competitions, winning glory for the country, and increasing their own social status, but from the perspective of the club, Fei Nandis feels that after the winter break is a good stage to grab points, and the difficult teams are arranged behind. If these players are not bound by the national team competition, they will naturally help Deportivo get better grades.

But he can't say these words. He is just an assistant coach, and his status in the team is not high. He can get the support of the players only because of his qualifications and the recognition of the old players. He has no right to influence others. Destiny future.

So Fernandis wants to know what the coach means.

Vazquez didn't seem to care much, and said flatly as he walked to the locker room: "No one will be selected except Clemens."

Fernandez was taken aback. In his opinion, the lads from Deportivo may not have the fate and talent of those superstars, but if they work hard enough, they can even get a chance under Barcelona on the court. How could such players not be able to enter? National team squad?

Vazquez did not explain, the expression on his face was very calm, and Vazquez had already seen many things clearly when he was in charge of the club.

There are many talented players in the team, and there are also experienced players, but the former is young and the latter is old, neither will be the No. 1 pick.Even Clemens, if he didn't have a brilliant performance against the giants, he might not be so easily valued by the national team coach.

In the final analysis, Deportivo is a small team, they will not have too many international players.

Vazquez will never hinder the future of his disciples. Often the head coach of the club will give some suggestions to the head coach of the national team. The technical characteristics and advantages are exaggerated, but Vazquez himself knows that the head coach of the national team receives countless faxes every year, most of which are dust in the corner.

Even if the game is played well, his players still won't have much chance.

Vazquez has never said these words to anyone. It is not something a good coach should do to beat players' self-confidence, and anything is possible. What if his disciples are taken by others?

So when Vazquez entered the door, the first sentence was: "The head coaches of the Spanish and Portuguese national teams are here. Are you satisfied with your performance now?"

Everyone can see clearly the arrival of the Spanish head coach, and there are not many people who can make the Nou Camp fans stand up and applaud.

But the appearance of Paulo Bento was really unexpected. The Portuguese players occupied half of the locker room and exploded in an instant. Their faces were full of excitement, especially Nelson. This young Portuguese guy almost jumped up. , was grabbed by the shoulder by Clemens and did not move, but winked as if he had been electrocuted.

But immediately, everyone turned their eyes to Clemens.

They are not stupid, if they are so good, why no one looked for them before?Now the team who can attract the attention of the two head coaches at the same time is undoubtedly Clemens, who was only promoted this season, and his dual nationality is even more thought-provoking.

Could it be that he was the one who brought Bosque and Bento together?

Clemens looked at Vazquez with a calm face, and said lightly: "Sir, I am very satisfied with my performance."

...My child looks cold, but he is actually very narcissistic.

Vazquez couldn't help smiling, he liked Clemens' temper, and he was also very satisfied with Vazquez.Everyone on the field seems to have ups and downs and mistakes. Only the young man left behind by himself and the board of directors was always calm and stable. The goalkeeper didn't have so many fancy moves, but it made people feel very solid.

Vazquez patted the whiteboard and began to explain the deficiencies of the first half and the tactics of the second half. Time was limited, and he spoke extremely fast, but this meant that he did not put Clemens into the defense line like before. .

To Clemens, Vazquez had only one sentence: "Keep the goal well. If you don't concede a goal in this game, I will go to Chairman Rendoiro and apply for you a bonus for not conceding a goal," Vazquez paused. "Double."

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After the start of the second half, Barcelona still controlled the situation on the field.

Coach Toranova replaced two players, replaced by Busquets and Puyol.After Puyol returned from injury, Harvey handed over his armband to him. Puyol put it on his arm without hesitation, and then quickly organized the defense.

The role of the Barcelona captain after playing is obvious. Nelson frowned. He could find a gap just now, but now it seems extremely difficult.

Nelson, who wanted to show off to Coach Bento, grabbed Clemens before the start of the second half and asked him to pass the ball to him. Clemens also agreed, but now he can't find the opponent's flaws. What should I do? What about performance?

And in this game, Clemens, who once again saved Thiago's shot, held the ball, quickly observed the position, and directly passed a long pass. The ball flew to Nelson as accurately as if it had eyes. Nelson just arrived right away!

"The rhythm of Deportivo! Clemens made a straight pass. I don't have time to praise the magic of Clemens' save just now. Now it's time for Nelson! Nelson took the ball forward. He and Ricky Made a run into the wall, got past the man and now... oh, Busquets broke the ball and he gave it to Cesc Fabregas in the frontcourt! Fabregas broke into the penalty area and he took the ball very fast Come on, next to him is Messi, and behind Messi is Mascherano, who is closely following, Fabregas can pass the ball!" Suddenly, Sesem's voice suddenly stopped, "God , what is the Depor defender doing? He tackled Cesc Fabregas!"

"beep--!"

Clemens could see clearly that his defender Esami fell to the ground and shoveled. He didn't touch the ball at all, but directly hit Fabregas and overturned him directly.Fabregas fell to the ground, and the Barcelona players immediately surrounded the referee, complaining that it was a foul!

The referee pushed away the Barcelona players surrounding him, walked up to the panic-stricken Esami, took out the yellow card with a stern expression, and then pointed to the twelve yards.

"Penalty kick! The referee awarded a penalty kick! God, has Deportivo's luck run out!"