It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 59 Tell a joke

“两队联赛历史上共交锋155次，巴萨72胜25平58负，主场51胜9平17负。”

"Barcelona have maintained their four-game winning streak at home against Athletic Bilbao in the league. The last time the Basque Lions dominated Camp Nou was in the 01/02 season."

"Alves and Cáceres are both suspended, Pique and Puyol return to the starting lineup, Busquets and Iniesta rotate in."

"Here are the lineups for both teams:"

“巴塞罗那出场阵容(4-3-3)：1-巴尔德斯；5-普约尔，4-马科斯，3-皮克，16-希尔韦尼奥；6-哈维，28-布斯克茨，8-伊涅斯塔；10-梅西，9-埃托奥，14-亨利。”

“毕尔巴鄂竞技出场阵容(4-3-2-1)：1-伊莱索斯；3-德尔坎波，5-阿莫雷比埃塔，18-古佩吉，15-伊劳拉；16-奥拜斯，10-耶斯特，24-哈维·马丁内斯；11-加比隆多，14-苏萨埃塔；9-洛伦特。”

In this game, Charles did not start.

In the league, although Barcelona's recent games have been a bit difficult, they have not lost yet.

The points gap with Real Madrid allows Guardiola to focus on the Champions League with confidence.

And Iniesta has recovered from injury and needs games to regain his form.

In Guardiola's plan, Charles will start in the next Champions League game.

In this game, all Charles has to do is to conserve his energy and wait until the next Champions League game. Because there are two away goals, Guardiola will let Charles play the whole game, and in the forward position.

Barcelona has so many talented midfielders, it's as if all the best midfielders in the past century were put into one era.

There is the Portuguese who once coined the term "Deco phenomenon" and has not yet officially retired from the ranks of the world's top midfielders.

There are also Xavi and Iniesta who are at their peak and rising in fame.

Then there is the up-and-coming Busquets.

Plus the signings of Yaya Toure, Hleb, Keita...

Each of these people has been favored by many wealthy families.

These people, it's a waste to keep them on the bench.

In the frontcourt, there are also many talents.

Not to mention other things, just the "Messi's successor" Bojan reached the peak as soon as he debuted.

But Guardiola doesn't like to use Bojan very much.

At the same time, there is still no progress in Eto'o's contract renewal with Barcelona, ​​and he is expected to leave Barcelona next season.

In addition, Henry also received an offer from Manchester City.

Henry didn't play well last season, so the media said he was going to the Major League Soccer.

Now that the Great Emperor has regained his form this season, the media have linked him to Manchester City again.

In Guardiola's eyes, Charles' versatility makes it difficult for him to be framed as a certain type of midfielder.

Judging from his previous "work experience", he is a natural rotation candidate for Toure and his performance in the defensive midfielder position is trustworthy;

From a functional point of view, Charles' technical advantage allows him to coexist with Yaya on the field.

Even when Xavi and Iniesta were both absent, Charles was able to take on the responsibility of dispatching and directing the team;

In addition, Charles' experience as a center forward and attacking midfielder during the youth training period allowed him to seize the right opportunity to suddenly move forward and become the team's can opener.

And the football IQ shown by Charles in many games also proved this point.

Moreover, Charles can also play as a striker.

In the last game, Charles showed that he can play as a striker.

Given that there are too many talented players in the midfield, and most of them are rare geniuses, the burial of any one of them is a loss to football, so Guardiola wanted Charles to play as a striker from the beginning.

The game starts soon.

Everything about this match went as Ciel expected, without the added bonus of hatred, there was no “David and Goliath” storyline.

Soon after the game started, Puyol made a cross from the right, and Eto'o's shot was blocked by the defender. In the 9th minute, Iraola passed the ball and Llorente's shot from the right side of the penalty area was blocked.

Messi, who got a rest, quickly showed his normal strength.

In the 12th minute, Messi received a pass from the midfield and was tackled in front of the penalty area after passing Martinez.

Barcelona free kick.

Marcos' direct shot from 25 yards was slightly higher.

In the 16th minute, Puyol fell behind and failed to create offside. Susaeta made a straight pass, but fortunately Yeste's shot from 14 yards was off target.

But just one minute later, Xavi made a free kick from the left and Busquets headed the ball into the net from 6 meters in front of the goal.

Barcelona 1:0 Athletic Bilbao.

Seeing this, Charles nodded with relief.

The reason why Busquets was able to get in from the middle and score his first league goal with a header was because the Athletic Bilbao players were busy defending several key players at that time.

But now that all the players of this Barcelona team are in good form, they can be defended by keeping an eye on the key players.

And at present, Barcelona's ball possession rate is much higher than that of Athletic Bilbao.

Barcelona made twice as many passes as Athletic Bilbao.

The whole scene was completely one-sided.

In the 21st minute, Javi Martinez was given a yellow card for fouling Iniesta.

Ten minutes later, Barcelona's offensive still did not subside like the tide, but instead came in wave after wave.

Iniesta broke into the left edge of the penalty area and was tripped.

Barcelona penalty.

Messi stood behind the penalty spot.

Charles didn't know what he was thinking.

As soon as the referee blew the whistle, he took a run-up, leaned forward, and calmly shot the ball into the right side of the goal.

Barcelona 2:0 Athletic Bilbao.

In the 34th minute, Javi Martinez passed the ball and Gabilondo's low shot from the edge of the penalty area went wide.

In the 37th minute, Yester made a free kick from the right, and Javi Martinez headed the ball over the bar from 8 yards.

In the 38th minute, Pique took the ball to the frontcourt and made a diagonal pass. Eto'o dribbled continuously on the left side of the penalty area and shot, but it was blocked by goalkeeper Iraizos.

One minute later, Puyol broke into the penalty area from the right and made a cross. Eto'o hooked the ball from 1 yards away, but unfortunately the ball hit the near post and went wide.

In the 40th minute, Eto'o made a straight pass and Henry's low shot from the edge of the penalty area was confiscated by Iraizos.

Eto'o's shot from the edge of the penalty area was blocked again.

In the 42nd minute, Xavi made a free kick from the right, and Eto'o's shot from the far post was blocked by Gabilondo and went out of the baseline.

Soon, the referee blew the half-time whistle.

Charles waited until the last player left the field, then walked into the locker room with Henry.

If nothing unexpected happens, Barcelona will win this game.

It's not like we were leading by three goals at halftime, it was very stable.

After returning to the locker room, the group started chatting again.

Guardiola is not here.

At first everyone was talking about the holidays a few days ago, but soon the topic turned to jokes.

(End of this chapter)