It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 90 88 Special Gesture

"Station, stage, you are watching the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Barcelona vs. Bayern at home."

"Before this game, unlike Barcelona who used rotation to win, Bayern lost 1:5 to Wolfsburg in the league and dropped directly from second to fourth in the standings."

"But the strength of the Bundesliga defending champions should not be underestimated."

"This season, Bayern's performance in the league has been up and down, but they are in full swing in the Champions League, scoring 8 goals in the eight Champions League games that have been played, tied for first place with Barcelona."

"But Barcelona conceded the most goals (11) among the top eight teams, and Bayern have won three of the past four encounters with Barcelona. They are also one of only three teams that have not lost in the Champions League this season."

"At the same time, after failing to attack in the league, Bayern can often find their offensive touch in the Champions League."

"Before the first leg against Sporting Lisbon, Bayern had suffered two defeats in a row."

"A week before the second leg, Bayern lost 2-4 to Leverkusen away from home, but then they beat the Portuguese giants 12-1 in the next two legs."

"That's why Barcelona godfather Cruyff said in his column: 'If I have to choose, I would rather Bayern Munich win a victory in the Bundesliga.'"

"'And not coming to Barcelona with a defeat.'"

"'A big loss will make a team more alert and motivated in the next game, helping them to fully demonstrate their fighting power.'"

"At the same time, this game has different meanings for both coaches."

"The first time the two teams met in Europe (in the 1996 UEFA Cup semi-final), Guardiola and Klinsmann were opponents, and Bayern won the game."

"The protagonist of this game is undoubtedly the clash between Charles and Ribery."

"The two are teammates in the national team and also scored twice for France in last week's World Cup qualifiers."

"Bayern's height, strength and speed will be Barcelona's biggest problem. The average height of Barcelona's midfielders is only about 1.74 meters,"

"The average height of the Bayern team is close to 2 meters. How Barcelona can cope with the high-altitude bombing of Toni and Podolski is a big problem."

"However, Brazilian defender Lucio has been confirmed to miss the game due to a muscle strain, Bayern substitute Van Buyten is unable to travel due to family matters, and substitute Oter is not competent."

"Bayern only have two main defenders left in defense: Demichelis and Breno."

"All-round defender Lahm has a leg muscle injury, and Ribery was also troubled by an injury in the league match against Wolfsburg."

"On the contrary, Barcelona's Iniesta has returned from injury, and his passing combination with Xavi will threaten Bayern's defense like in the European Championship final."

"In this game, Barcelona rotated four players. Toure returned from injury, and Alves, Messi and Charles were among the starting lineup."

"Abidal and Milito are absent due to injuries, while Holkera, Hleb, Pedro, Victor Sanchez and Henry were not included in the squad due to technical reasons."

"Bayern rotated four players, Oddo and Altintop returned from injury, and Butt and Demichelis entered the starting lineup."

"Lucio and Klose are out due to injuries, while Van Buyten and Kraft were not included in the squad due to technical reasons."

"In addition, the previous main goalkeeper Rensing was also rotated by Klinsmann."

"Now, let me introduce you to the lineups of both teams:"

“巴塞罗那(4-3-3)：1-巴尔德斯/20-阿尔维斯、4-马科斯、3-皮克、5-普约尔/6-哈维、24-图雷、8-伊涅斯塔/10-梅西、9-埃托奥、17-夏尔。”

“拜仁慕尼黑(4-3-3)：22-布特/23-奥多、6-德米凯利斯、33-布雷诺、30-莱尔/31-施魏因施泰格、17-范博梅尔、15-泽罗伯托/8-阿尔滕托普、9-托尼、7-里贝里。”

After Charles walked into the player tunnel, he heard the familiar voice again.

"TADA~Congratulations to the host for obtaining the reverse Van Bommel - Van Basten."

"In 2006, after the defeat in Germany at the World Cup, Dutch coach Marco van Basten turned his attention to Ruud van Nistelrooy and Mark van Bommel."

"In the end, the two announced their retirement from the national team one after another, but then Van Nistelrooy reconciled with Van Basten and returned to the Orange Army, while the conflict between Van Bommel and the head coach was completely irreconcilable."

"Van Bommel once swore a solemn oath: as long as Van Basten stayed in charge of the Orange Army, he would not wear the national team jersey for a day."

"It was not until after the 08 European Championships that his father-in-law, Van Marwijk, took over as coach that Van Bommel returned to the national team."

After listening to the introduction of the system, Charles couldn't help but be dazed.

Although he has not experienced the internal strife of the French team, he always smells the scent of internal strife in the Gallic Army from the internal strife of the Dutch team.

Van Basten is indeed very strong. He is one of the Three Musketeers of the Netherlands. His nickname is the Utrecht Swan, and some people call him the "Prince of Ballet".

Born into a sports family, Van Basten was once obsessed with gymnastics when he was young. Although he finally chose his beloved football, his every move on the court unconsciously carried the elegance and flexibility of a gymnast.

But by the time he could remember, Van Basten had retired for many years.

This artistic football soul, who was as graceful as a swan on the field, did not lose to his opponent or time, but to a rough foul.

In order to prevent the recurrence of "Van Basten-style" tragedies, FIFA revised the rules of the game to severely punish fouls such as tackles from behind.

Every time FIFA changes the rules, there are painful lessons behind them.

In addition to Van Basten who retired at the age of 28, there was also Maradona who was knocked down many times on the field, and the goalkeeper who paid the price with his life...

Maradona asked FIFA to change the rule of sending off the field after accumulating three yellow cards to sending off the field after accumulating two yellow cards.

The goalkeeper who paid the price with his life made a rule to protect the goalkeeper be added to the football rules (roughly speaking, when the goalkeeper has the ball, no one can press)...

While Charles was still thinking, Busquets had already walked out of the locker room.

“Are you waiting for the videos made by the fans?”

"Are you talking about 'Red and Blue Will Never Walk Alone'?" Charles' eyes were cast on the big screen in the stadium at this time, but the video of the song that the media had been hyping had not been released yet.

Busquets smiled and said, "It's 'Go Barcelona'."

Barcelona fans also want to imitate Liverpool's "You'll never walk alone" and adapt it into "Boig per tu", a very popular song in Catalonia, to create "Come on, Barcelona".

There is nothing else to say. The fans just want to give maximum support to Barcelona at home, while also dealing a devastating blow to the atmosphere of Bayern Munich playing away.

Let them also experience what a "devil's home court" is.

Charles smiled and put his arm around Busquets' shoulders. "But they chose this name, it's hard not to think of "Go Madrid"."

"Go Madrid" is the Real Madrid team anthem.

When Charles learned from the newspaper that Barcelona fans wanted to sing "Come on, Barcelona" together at the Nou Camp, the first thought that came to his mind was that Barcelona fans were collectively rebelling.

Everyone was stunned at that time.

But fortunately, it's just the names that are similar. If it was really an adaptation of the Real Madrid team song, it would be really fun.

Finally, "Go Barcelona" began playing on the stadium screen at Camp Nou.

But Charles couldn't tell how the song was sung specifically.

Raindrops continued to fall from the sky, and the grass at Camp Nou became slippery again. 7:45 p.m.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially begins!
Barcelona wore red home jerseys, while Bayern's jerseys were white. At first glance, it looked like a match between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Toni passed the ball back to Van Bommel, but at this time the formations of both sides had not yet completely dispersed. As Charles was running, Van Bommel passed the ball to Schweinsteiger again without much thought.

At this time, Charles and Eto'o also rushed out like arrows from a bow. Schweinsteiger did not have the mentality of rushing in at the beginning of the game, and passed the ball to the back line again.

Seeing that Oddo was about to receive the ball, Altintop also retreated to the side. Charles gave up pressing Oddo and turned to run to the sideline to block the connection between Oddo and Altintop.

Under the pressure of Eto'o, Oddo had to transfer the ball again to the only receiving point in his field of vision - Altintop.

Although there was still one minute left in the game, Klinsmann couldn't help but shake his head.

On the court, although all players have their eyes open, different players still have different fields of vision.

Barcelona players all have very broad vision. Although Charles did not come from La Masia, his vision is even broader than that of Barcelona's midfielders.

So he can always make some spiritual passes.

But this Oddo is far inferior.

Charles had already analyzed that he had to block the passing route, but Oddo could not see any other passing points within his field of vision and could only pass the ball to Altintop.

Sure enough, just as Klinsmann expected, Oddo's hasty pass was directly intercepted by Charles.

……

It didn't take long for the situation on the field to become one-sided.

Alves passed the ball low to the front of the penalty area, and Bayern's four defenders collectively retreated to the penalty area line.

Xavi received the pass from Alves, with Lyle blocking his shooting path in front and Ze Roberto watching closely from behind.

And Charles was at the top of the penalty area at this time.

Xavi flicked the ball with the inside of his right foot and turned around to protect the ball. Then, just as he took the ball a few steps back, shook off Lyle and Ze Roberto, and created space, he kicked the ball with his left foot.

Charles was in sync and moved forward. Demichelis' attention was still on Xavi, but Charles had already passed behind him again.

When he looked back in fear and embarrassment, he saw that Charles had broken through everyone's defense and entered the penalty area!

Butt had no time to curse and attacked directly. Seeing that it was too late, he thought quickly and almost lay on the ground, delaying time while blocking Charles' shooting angle.

With Lyle lagging behind the defense line, Demichelis and Breno rushed back to save the situation like lightning.

Just as Butt was about to grab the ball with his hands, Charles supported himself with his right foot and gently smoothed the ball with his left foot, taking the ball away again.

However, due to Butt's blocking, there was no space for the kick, so Charles could only continue to carry the ball to the baseline.

At this time, Demichelis made up for his mistake and chased back to the small penalty area.

Charles also realized the urgency of the situation. He stretched out his left leg with all his strength to stop the ball from continuing to roll forward, and at the same time, his whole body was like a car braking suddenly.

The whole person leans back, with the entire weight of the body supported by the heel of the outstretched left foot.

Just when he was about to fall due to losing balance, Charles twisted his waist and the original momentum of sprinting forward was changed by Charles to swing to the right.

At this moment, his right foot mercilessly knocked on the ball that had just bounced back -

"brush!"

The ball was kicked out by Charles, and Charles fell to the ground.

The ball is still on the way, but now Demichelis is in the middle of the small penalty area.

The "goal channel" between Demichelis and the goal post is definitely less than one meter.

Just as the ball was about to pass, Demichelis stood up directly, rushed to the goal post and kicked the ball out.

Xavi and Eto'o came over.

Charles took Xavi's hand and stood up. Eto'o gently brushed away the grass behind Charles' back and asked, "Are you okay after twisting your body like that just now?"

"It's okay, I just didn't use enough strength in the last kick, otherwise it would have gone in," Charles shook his head and said with a smile.

Busquets also came over at this time, "Ha, are you hungry again? If I had known, I would have hidden some snacks for you before going on the court."

Charles pretended to be angry and pushed Busquets away, "I don't want the snacks you hide in your socks."

Harvey smiled so hard that he could not close his mouth. He covered his mouth with four fingers and said, "Then I'll hide it in my shorts for you next time."

"Get lost," Charles winked and slapped Harvey on the shoulder, "Be careful or I'll tell Pep about you going downstairs to eat potato chips last night."

There are only three places on a player's body to put things.

One is the shorts without pockets, another is the socks without interlayer, and the last place is the sneakers.

When the coach calls you to the sidelines to feed you, you don’t have much flexibility and can’t eat at any time. It would be much more convenient if you hide the food on your body.

As for how to hide food and save it for eating on the field, it is a science.

Among them, Barcelona's master is Busquets. He has hidden things in his shorts and socks, and he can keep them there for a long time without losing them. At the same time, he can find them easily when needed.

Corner kick for Barcelona.

After chatting, Charles and Xavi walked towards the corner area together.

The only difference is that Xavi was standing outside the boundary, while Charles was standing inside the boundary near the corner area.

Eto'o, Toure and Puyol stood in a vertical line in the penalty area.

Iniesta stood directly in the small penalty area and stood together with the Bayern goalkeeper.

Busquets did not choose to join in the fun in the penalty area, but seemed to be completely uninvolved in the attack, standing near the midfield on the side where the corner kick was about to be taken.

Butt felt uneasy looking at Iniesta beside him.

Judging from the situation, Barcelona seems to be planning to take a tactical corner kick.

Generally, if a club arranges a tactical corner kick, it will prepare many options, and the player taking the corner kick will choose one based on the situation on the field.

But just now on the court, Xavi didn't make any special gestures...

Typical errors have been corrected

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