super storm

Chapter 991 Can't Miss One!
At midnight on January 28, when the referee Teixeira blew the whistle for the end of the game, Messi stood on the penalty spot at the Villarreal Stadium, raised his head, looked at the dark night sky, his eyes were full of confusion.

What's wrong with Barcelona?
Why is this happening?

The red scoreboard on the stands of the Love Song stadium showed the final result of the game, zero to zero, neither side was able to score a goal, no matter how crazy Barcelona organized and planned the offensive, they still failed to create a threat.

The first to bear the brunt is Messi, who missed at least three single-handed ball opportunities.

The first time was in the No.17 minute of the first half, Alves sent a direct pass, and Messi, who successfully countered offside, entered the penalty area and formed a one-handed shot. The ball passed the attacking goalkeeper, but it missed the right post and missed the goal.

Then Messi made a wonderful pass and took a free kick, which made the opponent suffer. Villarreal's defender paid the painful price of three yellow cards in order to stop Messi, but Barcelona will always be just a little short of scoring.

In the last 10 minutes, almost all of Barcelona's players rushed to attack, and Messi even got two single-handed goals in No.80 Seven and No.80 Nine, but both times were bravely resolved by Villarreal's goalkeeper Diego Lopez.

The one-handed goal of three excellent opportunities did not score even one. Messi is also extremely dissatisfied with his state tonight.

The kick-off time is 22 o'clock, and it will be almost midnight after the kick-off, but for Messi, who is used to the Spanish routine, there is no problem at all, because for the Spaniard, midnight is the beginning of the night.

Tired, this is Messi's biggest feeling now.

Not only the tiredness after playing a 10-minute game, but also the physical and psychological fatigue brought about by the long-term double-match a week recently, which is simply incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it personally.

It can even be said that this is a physical and psychological ordeal.

Due to the European Cup this season, the schedules of major European leagues have been tightened. The first round of La Liga this season has been rescheduled to January due to the player union's strike. Coupled with the Copa del Rey schedule, January's events have become extremely dense.

After the winter break, teams such as Barcelona and Real Madrid will usher in a [-]-day monster schedule starting from January [-]th. Each week is a double match, and [-] games will be played within [-] days. Seven La Liga games, six Copa del Rey games and one Champions League game.

It can be said that since the winter break, Barcelona has not done any rest, and directly entered a high-density, high-intensity intensive schedule, and every game is very important, and every game is under heavy pressure.

Because Barcelona is currently as many as [-] points behind Real Madrid, and if the league is hopeless, then the cup will become more important.

If it's just that, that's all. What's more terrible is that people in the first team began to get injured frequently.

Pique, Pedro, Iniesta, Sanchez...

Facing the devil's schedule, Barcelona began to pay the price for the shortcomings of the team's lineup.

Guardiola's teams have always been expensive and not expensive. The first-team lineup was not abundant, but as a result, under the devil's schedule, players began to suffer injuries. Before the match against Villarreal, there were only [-] players available for the first-team.

Fourteen players!
Eleven players went up, and there were only three players on the bench, and in order to make up the number, they had to call in four teenagers from the second team to come up to help. But now, the devil's schedule is not over yet.

How many games are left?
More importantly, this game was tied, but Real Madrid reversed Zaragoza [-]-[-] at home. Yang Yang made a pass and shot, assisted the equalizer and scored the reversal goal.

In other words, Real Madrid's lead has been extended to fifteen points.

despair!

This is an extremely desperate gap!

Messi can't even imagine how the team will face the next schedule when they are so huge behind Real Madrid?
There are many reasons for the team's current predicament, including player problems and management problems, and the coaching staff must also be involved.

From the pre-season summer training, to the thin lineup of the first team, to the instability of the players' mentality, which led to consecutive away points in the first half, and now after entering the devil's schedule, the problems of physical crisis and insufficient bench thickness have completely erupted, directly putting Barcelona into an unstoppable situation.

With [-] rounds left in La Liga, Barcelona are [-] points behind Real Madrid, a gap that is basically impossible to reverse.

What's more terrible is that in the next fifteen days, Barcelona's devil's schedule will continue.

In the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, Barcelona will face Valencia and Real Madrid will face Athletic Bilbao. This will be a fierce battle, and the winner will be decided in early February to see who can enter the final of the King's Cup.

Messi wiped his face vigorously, shook off the sweat from his hands, turned around, and looked at his teammates. He found that everyone's face was the same as his own, so confused, so scared, so uneasy.

Many people say that Guardiola will leave after the end of the season because he is completely disappointed with the status quo of the team; some people say that Barcelona will strengthen signings this summer, and Neymar will come to the team to change the team's current status of over-reliance on Messi; some even say that Guardiola is determined to clean up...

All kinds of rumors, all kinds of news, emerge in endlessly. Even the people in the Barcelona team don't know which ones are true and which ones are false. The only thing that is certain is that they lost badly this season!

Fifteen points behind in the 21st round, which almost sentenced Barcelona to death!

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"We played brilliantly, moved aggressively and had a lot of range. I hope we can win the remaining [-] games and all the points, fight like we did tonight. If we keep playing like this, we will have another good season."

Guardiola publicly expressed his affirmation of the players' performance at the press conference after the game.

Those who don't know, after hearing these words, must think that Barcelona has won.

Then Guardiola changed the subject, "The draw is a pity, but there is nothing to blame. I hope to convey the belief of the bloody battle to my players. Now we should try to win all the remaining games."

Fifteen points behind, Guardiola admitted that it was indeed very difficult. He also admitted that the team had made too many mistakes in the previous period and exposed many problems, but he never mentioned what mistakes and problems occurred.

Everyone knew that he was at odds with the management, and he always felt that Russell did not give him enough trust and support.

And when a reporter asked whether Real Madrid would win the La Liga title, Guardiola said generously, "I don't agree with the assertion that Real Madrid will win the La Liga title now, because there are still [-] rounds, and everything is still possible. I can only say that Real Madrid has a great possibility of winning the title, but we still have a chance."

"There is no doubt that we are going through a devil's schedule, but there is nothing to complain about. As Barcelona players, we should have gotten used to the rhythm of playing every three days in the past few years. All we have to do is to go all out and continue to fight for victory."

As for Barcelona, ​​Guardiola said helplessly that being behind by [-] points is indeed quite serious, "But we must go all out to continue, don't we?"

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Barcelona tied with Villarreal away and conceded another two points. Real Madrid led by [-] points and basically locked the league championship ahead of schedule.

This piece of news quickly detonated European football and media fans all over the world, and countless people were congratulating Real Madrid.

After all, at the strength level of the two heroes of the Western Super League, it is impossible to close the [-]-point gap, but Real Madrid still dare not have the slightest paralysis.

On the second day after defeating Zaragoza [-]-[-] at home, after learning that Barcelona drew [-]-[-] with Villarreal, the Real Madrid locker room spontaneously organized an internal meeting in the locker room at the Valdebebas training base, initiated by captain Iker Casillas, vice-captain Ramos and the team's number one star Yang Yang.

This meeting did not even invite anyone from the management and coaching staff to participate. Only the first-team players and a few youth team players who followed the first-team training, such as Carvajal, Nacho, Jesse and Vazquez, were present.

At the beginning of the meeting, captain Iker Casillas told everyone straight to the point that the [-]-point lead is indeed obvious enough, but it is not enough to ensure that Real Madrid wins the championship, and Real Madrid's goal is not just La Liga.

"Barcelona is encountering a devil's schedule, and so are we. Therefore, what happened to Barcelona should arouse our vigilance and attention. We must give up all luck and arrogance. We need to play well in every next game and win every opponent."

At this time, in the dressing room of Real Madrid, there must be no mood of blind arrogance and complacency.

I would like to thank Benitez for laying a foundation of knowledge for Real Madrid during his coaching period, not only the tactical framework and defensive system, but also the rotation mechanism. So far this season, Real Madrid has played more than 30 players in the first team.

Ramos also delivered a speech afterwards, encouraging all teammates to guard against arrogance and impetuosity. They must play every game down-to-earth and strive to achieve more brilliant results this season. This is not only for fame and profit, but also for an honor.

Yang Yang gave a speech after following the two captains. His words were very simple, just two sentences.

"This season is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, probably only once in many of our careers."

"We want the La Liga title, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League, we also want one, not one less!"

(End of this chapter)