Chapter 49

Chapter 49

When Van Gaal came out of the tunnel, his face was gloomy.

The Camp Nou Stadium, which can accommodate more than 100,000 people, is full of banners at the moment, and the cheers of more than 90,000 die-hard members of Barcelona covered the entire stand. Barcelona fans wearing Barcelona home jerseys dyed the entire stand in red and blue , no matter from which angle it looks, this is a stage for Barcelona fans to revel, and it is the scene of Barcelona's weekly celebration ceremony!

Every time he came to Camp Nou to direct a game, Van Gaal would feel a burst of complacency. Nearly 100,000 people cheered for him. Under his command, those opponents would be defeated...

Although Barcelona can't beat every opponent, the frenzied atmosphere at Camp Nou will make Van Gaal feel that he is the king of the world, and he is the best coach in the world.

It's just that although today's Camp Nou is still imposing and passionate, Van Gaal has lost his usual mood.

Not only him, but even the assistant coach Mourinho who came out behind him, his usually gloomy eyes began to look even gloomy now.

Van Gaal got Mallorca's starting lineup two hours before the game, that is, the deadline for reporting the player list, and then he found that Mallorca did not save their strength, but the elites did their best to play the main force. The lineup is all on the field, and several old guys on the back line, including the former Barcelona meritorious player Nadal, also appeared in the starting lineup...

Obviously, he was tricked by Jose, or he guessed wrongly what Jose was thinking, which made Van Gaal's mood very bad now!

Mourinho, who is behind Van Gaal, is also in a bad mood. He agrees with Van Gaal's judgment, which means that he, like Van Gaal, was deceived by Jose.

Almost in an instant, Mourinho began to feel very disgusted with this young head coach with the same name as himself-Mourinho is actually a careless person, and the players he dislikes are almost There is no chance to play. This can be seen from the later Argentine striker Crespo. Crespo had conflicts with him when he was at Chelsea. When the two met in Inter Milan, Crespo never again. Didn't get any chances, even though he was blocked with another Argentine striker, Cruz, but Cruz got some chances later, and Crespo had almost no chance...

"In the future, I will definitely let you know how great it is..." Mourinho thought in his heart.

Sometimes, it is easy to become friends between people, and similarly, it is easy to become enemies, and sometimes it is just because of some inexplicable reasons.

Of course Jose didn't know, he played a little trick to make a top coach in the future treat him as an enemy, but with his character, even if he knew, he would probably be very happy--to be accepted by Mourinho It is also a very proud thing to regard people like Ao as enemies!

When Jose walked out of the player tunnel, he immediately felt two eyes falling on him, and following his eyes, he saw Van Gaal and Mourinho.

"Tsk tsk, the current Mourinho really looks like a young man." Jose commented in his heart, forgetting that compared with the other party, he was more like a man except that he was a little neater and didn't have so much beard. Lengtouqing.

Facing the gaze of the other party, Jose smiled slightly, and then walked to his place, and when his smile fell into the eyes of Van Gaal and Mourinho, it was no different from another kind of provocation...

"What an arrogant young man!" Van Gaal thought in his heart.

"Do you take the initiative to irritate the opponent? It seems to be more useful for young coaches..." Mourinho thought in his heart.

Jose didn't care what a current top coach and a future top coach were thinking. After returning to his seat, Jose didn't rush to sit down, but looked around at the Nou Camp he was in. Pu Stadium.

The four-story grandstand, with a height of 48 meters at the highest point, covers an area of ​​55,000 square meters, with 100,000 seats and an excellent evacuation system. Twenty-four passages allow all fans in the entire stadium to evacuate within five minutes. Lighting, fireworks , Incomparably gorgeous, one of the five-star stadiums recognized by UEFA!

"It is indeed a great stadium." Jose took a deep breath and made his oath in his heart.

"One day I will build an equally great stadium for Mallorca fans!"

Before the start of the game, when the players above Camp Nou saw Nadal appearing in the stadium, they applauded warmly-Although Nadal made his debut in Mallorca, the most glorious period of his career was It was spent in Barcelona. After spending five seasons in Mallorca, the 25-year-old Nadal moved to Barcelona. In the next eight seasons, he was the absolute main force for five seasons and two seasons. It is the main force. In the eight seasons he played for, Barcelona won five seasons of La Liga titles, two King's Cup titles, one Cup Winners' Cup title, one Champions League title and one Toyota Cup title. In addition to the three European Fairs Cup champions (the predecessor of the UEFA Cup), almost all of the honors in the game were obtained during this period. Everyone knows that Miguel Angel Nadal is Barcelona's "Dream Team" "The mainstay and defense core!

For such a meritorious coach, even though he is not from Barcelona, ​​nor from Barcelona youth training, he can still be warmly welcomed by Barcelona fans!

You must know that although Nadal is not from the local faction in Barcelona, ​​he is low-key and kind to others. Whether it is foreign aid or the Catalan gang, they all respect him very much, and he never forms a clique. Things that are not good for the club, such a person will get enough respect in any team.

And among the players that Barcelona started today, there is also a former Mallorca player-that is Dani who replaced Figo in the right winger position today-this Spanish native forward who came from Real Madrid's youth training last season. Mallorca performed well. Mallorca won the third place in the league and reached the final of the Cup Winners' Cup. Dani contributed a lot.

In this way, he transferred to Barcelona with a worth of more than 10 million U.S. dollars, and his performance in Barcelona was also quite good. The ball also made Barcelona fans dissatisfied with Van Gaal, thinking that he prefers to use the former Ajax players he brought over instead of Spanish local players...

For the Barcelona players, they didn't know that Mallorca was going to be serious as soon as they saw Mallorca's starting list like Van Gaal-for some reasons, maybe it was to make face, Van Gaal He did not warn the players that Mallorca is going to fight us hard, but as usual, told the players to concentrate on the field and concentrate on the game...

This kind of cliche lecture did not bring too many reminders to the Barcelona players.

So after the opening game, although Barcelona launched an attack as usual, they unexpectedly discovered that the opponent's defensive resistance seemed to be quite fierce.

Rivaldo's long-range shot in the sixth minute was Barcelona's first shot in the whole game. However, under the timely interference of Soler, this long-range shot was not very powerful, and Franco flew to save the ball After standing up quickly, Franco threw the ball far away, and Mallorca launched a counterattack!

The ball flew to Ngonga, seeing that Guardiola had already stuck towards him, Ngonga did not stop the ball, but directly volleyed the ball to Soler, Soler took the ball, raised his foot and passed the ball Ibagaza on the right.

When the midfielder is assigned to the two wings, it means Mallorca's counterattack, but there is a difference between assigning to Stankovic and Ibagaza - Stankovic has better dispatching and organizing skills , passing to Stankovic means to advance steadily, while Ibagaza is good at personal assault, passing to him means the start of a quick counterattack!

This time is no exception.

Soler's pass was not as good as Ngonga's. After Ibagaza stretched out his foot and stopped the ball, he immediately began to dribble the ball along the side. The opponent's frontal defense reduces the physical confrontation that he is not good at, and can also give full play to his excellent advantage of fast dribbling. Jose's simple position change activated Ibagaza again!

After breaking through to the center circle, Ibagaza ran into Sergi, who jumped to defend him. Knowing that the opponent was also an excellent full-back, Ibagaza did not force a breakthrough, but passed the ball with his foot Tristan, who retreated and took the ball, then accelerated to bypass Sergi and continued to sprint to the bottom line!

Tristan stopped the ball under his feet, resisted Abelardo's pressing behind him, then turned around forcefully, raised his foot and sent the ball to the right while half turning!

Ibagaza accelerated to get rid of Sergi, then caught up with Tristan's pass, and then did not break through to the bottom line, but took the ball to the middle, and sprinted into the penalty area with the ball!

Ibagaza's speed is indeed very fast, but the average height of Barcelona's defense has done a good job in quickly returning to the defense. In addition to Sergi chasing behind, another central defender, the Dutchman Frank De Boer It has already retreated quickly, hoping to stop Ibagaza's single-handed route.

Seeing that Frank De Boer was about to block his way forward, Ibagaza did not continue to move forward, but immediately swung his right foot on the corner of the penalty area, and then took a long shot!

The quality of this long-range shot is quite high. The Dutch goalkeeper Hesp flew to the side and blocked the ball with one hand. Another Dutchman Reziger who returned to the defense rushed to make a clearance before Eto'o made a follow-up shot!

"It's really the Dutch gang." Jose muttered in his heart. The Dutch players who returned to the defense to save and clear the siege just now were Dutch players. Al and striker Kluivert, among the starting 11 players, there are six Dutch players, only four local Spanish players, plus one Brazilian Rivaldo, it is no wonder that although he led the team to two consecutive league titles, Fan Gall has never been liked by Barcelona fans with a strong local awareness.

You must know that it is not a day or two for Van Gaal to reuse his direct lineage. It is no wonder that Van Gaal started from the Champions League won by Ajax, and now he basically uses the Ajax that won the Champions League. Players, even Litmanen, who is not Dutch, can get a high salary of five million U.S. dollars, which directly caused Figo, who was holding three million U.S. dollars, to be dissatisfied, and signed the famous contract with Florentino. agreement...