Chapter 390: Infighting in the Barcelona locker room?

Author: Amazing

Chapter 390: Infighting in the Barcelona locker room?

At 7 p.m. on the 12th, Madrid's lights were on, and the Calderon Stadium was very lively.

The top spot will be held here tonight, and it is also the last game of the first half of the season.

Atletico Madrid and Barcelona are the only teams that remain unbeaten.

They will have a peak battle at Calderon Stadium tonight.

In the past, at this moment, the one who fought for the top spot with Barcelona should be another Madrid team - Real Madrid.

But the results this year are different, with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid being two points apart and one point apart from Barcelona.

If Atletico Madrid can defeat Barcelona at home tonight and Real Madrid can win again, Real Madrid will surpass Barcelona in points!

At Calderon Stadium, fans are entering the stadium in an orderly manner, and players from both sides are warming up on the court.

Messi was finally seen in Barcelona. The Argentine superstar returned from injury, adding a lot of highlights to tonight's game.

Atletico Madrid's atmosphere was good, and the players heard laughter while warming up.

This season, Atletico Madrid remained unbeaten on all fronts, which gave fans a great surprise and greatly enhanced the team's confidence.

Simeone stood on the sidelines and observed the warm-up situation of Barcelona players alone, to be more precise, he was observing Messi's condition.

After returning from injury, Messi will recover to what level?

This is what he needs to know.

Messi was in good condition when warming up, which made Simeone frown.

As an Argentinian, Simeone knew how strong this person was and how terrifying he was on the court.

However, when he turned to look at his team, he breathed a sigh of relief and his frown relaxed.

This is an invincible team, Barcelona has Messi, Innista, Xavi, I have Lee, Costa, Godin!

Last season, with Malaga's strength, Pellegrini was able to lead Malaga to double-winning Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and finally won the La Liga championship.

If Pellegrini can do it, can't I?

Thinking of this, Simeone's confidence improved a little more.

"Let Lee defend Messi?"

Simeone complained about Pellegrini in her heart: "Only you can think of such a weird tactic!"

However, thinking about Malagan's "weak" defense line, Simeone understands why Pellegrini did that.

How bad is Mara plus the defense line for a season?

While leading Barcelona for seven points, Barcelona was caught back and even overtaken.

If it weren't for the Champions League, Barcelona would definitely not give Malaga a chance to achieve a miracle in the last round and secure the championship early.

Atletico Madrid's defense is second to none in La Liga, and so far it is the team with the least goals conceded among the 20 La Liga teams.

Having such strong defensive ability requires Li Chuanqi to participate too much in defense?

At 7:30, the players of both sides ended the warm-up and returned to their respective locker rooms to make final preparations for the upcoming peak showdown.

In the VIP box, Atletico Madrid President Serezo accompanied FIFA President Blatt, and the two talked and laughed.

They are surrounded by Atletico Madrid's senior executives and FIFA officials.

Of course, it is impossible for Blatt to come to Atletico alone.

Not far away, there is another VIP box, Spanish coach Bosque led his assistant team to greet the fans.

Boske had good reasons to watch the game.

The last time the Spanish team gathered to compete in the last two games of the European qualifiers in the World Cup, a total of 11 players were selected by Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, and many of them were the main players of the team.

In other words, in tonight's game, half of the Spanish players will play, and more than half of the main players will play!

Such a game is of course worth Boske to watch the game on site and observe the players' status.

The visiting team locker room.

Barcelona coach Martino is giving the players a pre-match encouragement: "This is not an ordinary game, I think this game will affect whether we can win the championship in the end!"

This remark aroused the dissatisfaction of many players, and Pique said: "Coach, we must have confidence in Barcelona."

Messi nodded and said: "So far, we have not lost this season, we have won too many times in this stadium."

The words of the two made Martino very uncomfortable, and he felt alone in the locker room.

Martino is an Argentinian. The reason why Barcelona invites him to coach Barcelona is because of his Argentinian identity and hopes to live in harmony with Messi and create sparks.

After Martino's success in coaching in the Americas, he was also very eager to succeed in Europe, so when Barcelona threw an olive branch to him, he agreed without any hesitation.

Under his leadership, Barcelona has a good record this season. Both in La Liga and the Champions League, and has achieved good results. La Liga remains unbeaten, with four wins, one draw and one loss in the Champions League group stage, and advanced to the knockout stage as the top spot in the group.

The only failure in the group stage was to challenge Ajax away, and at that time Barcelona had already secured the quota in the group, which was considered a careless loss of Jingzhou.

Such results are super-god performances in other clubs, but in Barcelona, ​​they are very ordinary results.

In the words of World Sports, "Mardino's coaching can only be described as passing the exam."

Martino thought Messi would give him support in the locker room when he saw that he was a fellow villager, but unexpectedly, Messi didn't seem to buy it and didn't give him much support.

Perhaps in Messi's heart, Barcelona is his hometown, and in his heart, Argentina's only thought is to fight for this country.

"I know everyone has won a lot of honors on the court, but I also know why Barcelona asked me to coach here."

Martino said with a cold face: "If it weren't for the poor performance in the past two years, maybe I wouldn't have the chance to come to Barcelona at all. Since I am now Barcelona's coach, you should respect me.

But I didn’t see any respect from you!”

This was very heavy. Pique wanted to refute a few words, but was stopped by Harvey with a stern look.

Injesta said: "Coach, we are definitely supportive, you continue."

Martino looked at Messi deeply and said, "I know if you call the chairman, I will be fired. You don't have to show off to me every day, I already know."

The atmosphere in the locker room became tense.

Messi looked up at Martino, who looked at him without any weakness.

Xavi stood between them, pulled Messi with one hand, looked at Martino and said, "Coach, now is not the time to talk about these things. We are about to play the game."

Other players also persuaded Martino.

...

Unlike the chaos in Barcelona's locker room, Atletico Madrid's locker room was full of fighting spirit, and Simeone was drooling at the tactical board, making tactical requests to the players.

"Barcelona gets the ball in the backcourt, we must counter-robb immediately! We must never give them any chance to pass the ball quickly! Including using fouls to stop them!"

Simeone shouted: "We want to make the scene confused! Only in this way can we have a chance!"

"Two seconds!"

Simeone shouted at the players: "After conceding the ball for two seconds, we must complete the counter-robbery, and we must never give them any chance to handle the ball easily!"

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!