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Volume 11 2004 Chapter 708 The boos at Camp Nou

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    Won two consecutive victories to stop the decline, but Mourinho is not too satisfied. In his vision, even if he does not expand his lead at this time, he must at least ensure a four-point advantage before the new year. In fact,  Newcastle has done quite well, but Chelsea's results are even better. They have won one more game than Newcastle after the New Year. The one-point advantage is not enough to let Newcastle's players breathe a sigh of relief.

    The most important thing is that the knockout stage of the Champions League is about to begin. After winning the championship last year, Mourinho has no reason to relax in this competition. The Champions League is different from the FA Cup and League Cup. Not only does it have  Higher honor also means more generous income.

    Fortunately, there is an FA Cup match before the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, and Newcastle has already been eliminated in this competition. In other words, Newcastle can play well before the first round.  Take a break and recharge your batteries to conquer your opponents.

    But, this opponent is not so easy to conquer.

    Perhaps it was because they felt that Newcastle's three opponents in the group stage were too unsatisfactory, allowing Newcastle to easily qualify two rounds ahead of schedule and win the first place in the group one round ahead of schedule. UEFA ranked the strongest among the eight second-placed teams in the group.  One team was allocated to Newcastle.  After the match came out, Pei Wei was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother.

    His acquisition of Newcastle was low-key enough. He did not buy whoever he wanted like Abramovich's Chelsea did, and used checks to the point where every giant in Europe was in danger. Nor did he think that he could rely on money like Abramovich did.  He can create a giant that dominates Europe, but why does Chelsea's experience in history rest on his own head?  Isn't it just winning a European Champions Cup? As for deliberately dealing with Newcastle?

    No one knows better than Pei Wei how strong Barcelona has been in the two seasons since the beginning of this season - the La Liga championship this season, the La Liga and Champions League double championship next season - such brilliant results are simply amazing.  It can be regarded as a dynasty, more importantly.  Now Barcelona has the strength to win the championship but does not have the honor of the championship. This team is even more terrifying because their players have a strong motivation to get any honor they want.

    Complaints are complaints.  Pei Wei also knows the significance of UEFA's arrangement. In any case, they do not want a team in Europe to sweep everything.  Among the teams that won all the championships, Real Madrid in the Galacticos era always met Bayern in the knockout rounds and group stages, because Bayern was the only team with the highest winning rate against Real Madrid at that time.

    The same was true for Chelsea later. Even if Pei Wei kept a low profile, Newcastle would inevitably become the target of public criticism after winning last year's Champions League.

    Now that the match has come out, it is useless for Pei Wei to be angry again. After all, Newcastle plays in a competition hosted by UEFA and must abide by the rules set by the other party - even if these rules are sometimes not so fair.

    So after learning about this matchup, Newcastle began to prepare for this game - Mourinho also attaches great importance to this game. The reason is very simple. Barcelona can be said to be the starting point of his coaching career, where he  learned a lot.  It was not pleasant when he left. It was for this reason that he was even more eager to defeat this opponent.

    ??Regarding the two Mars-colliding contests between Chelsea led by Mourinho and Barcelona led by Frank Rijkaard this season in history.  Even after such a long time, Pei Wei's memory is still fresh, but he does not think that Newcastle will definitely pass the risk as it did in history.

    He has already affected history.  Mourinho is not leading Chelsea. Although Newcastle now has several players from Chelsea in history, Barcelona is not that Barcelona. At least Deco, the absolute main force of Barcelona in history, is not in Barcelona now.

    Since history has changed, to paraphrase Li Ning¡¯s advertising slogan, everything is possible.

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    February 24th, Camp Nou.

    At 8:30 pm local time in Spain, a match in the first leg of the 2004-05 European Champions Cup quarter-finals was played in one of the most famous stadiums in Europe, which can accommodate nearly 99,000 people (originally No.  Campo can accommodate 115,000 people and is the largest professional football stadium in Europe. After converting all standing seats into seats in 1999, the capacity has been reduced. It is the professional football stadium in Europe that can accommodate the largest number of fans)  The Camp Nou was packed an hour before the game started.

    Newcastle fans arriving from afar

    Ten thousand people, there is an old saying in China that goes "Ten thousand people, boundless",?A number that cannot be ignored anywhere, but at Camp Nou, 10,000 Newcastle fans seem so insignificant.

    ? Barcelona is the spiritual pillar of the Catalans, and this is so obvious at the Camp Nou.

    Playing football under the boos of nearly 90,000 people is not that simple. Even Real Madrid only won one victory at Camp Nou during their heyday as the Galacticos. In some respects, Barcelona  Much like Newcastle, their fans are so crazy that they are almost paranoid, and the home courts of both sides are one of the most difficult to conquer in their respective leagues.

    Before this game, the two sides also had some similarities - they were both current leaders in their respective leagues, and both started their renaissance last year - but Newcastle had a gap of honor for decades before last year.  In this period, Barcelona's honor gap period is only a few years.

    The battle between the two head coaches is also interesting. Although Mourinho's tactics at Newcastle are full of classic offenses, Newcastle still uses defensive counterattack tactics in most games, which also makes Mourinho  Austria was labeled as an ugly coach, and although Rijkaard looks much uglier than Mourinho, he has always insisted on using gorgeous offensive tactics in Barcelona, ??pleasing Barcelona while allowing Barcelona to rise steadily.  Spanish fans who have a paranoid interest in beautiful football, especially the 3-0 home victory over old rival Real Madrid in the first half of the season, brought Rijkaard's reputation to its peak.

    In the eyes of Catalan fans, Mourinho, who has been an assistant coach in Barcelona for four years, has reason to show respect for this century-old giant, but Mourinho obviously does not want them to get their wish.  Two days before the start of the game, Mourinho confidently announced the lineup for this game - goalkeeper Cech, defenders Maicon, Lucio, Dawson and Hart, midfielders Makelele, Essien,  Franck Ribery, Nie Fei, forwards Ibrahimovic and Drogba - the main lineup has not changed much. Everyone can see that this is Newcastle's main lineup this season. Although Mourinho has done a good job in rotation, others  The players have also played a lot, but this lineup is still Newcastle's main lineup. It is difficult for other players to shake the position of the main players in this lineup. From this aspect, Mourinho's influence on the team  The renovation was a success.

    Moreover, except for Makelele, who is over 30 years old, the other players in this lineup are all in the golden age group of 25 to 27 or young players under 25 years old. If it runs well, Newcastle can  Keeping the lineup intact in the next few years means being able to maintain its glory.

    It is rare to announce the lineup in advance before the game, but it is not uncommon. However, most of the time it is done to boost the morale of the team, or to lower the morale of the opponent - look, we are playing  You don't need to use any strategy, I can kill you directly with strength - that's pretty much what it means.

    The proud Catalans naturally believed that Mourinho was looking down on them, so they tried their best to be provocative in the pre-match interview, and Mourinho is a man who never suffers from his mouth.  He kept the media at bay with his famous acerbic remarks, so the atmosphere became extremely tense before the game even started.

    There was nothing special when the players from both sides came out. Both Barcelona and Newcastle fans in the stands gave out huge cheers, although the objects of their cheers were different.

    Later, when Rijkaard walked out of the tunnel, he received the same cheers - although the Newcastle fans booed, their boos were not matched by the cheers of the overwhelmingly dominant home fans.  It was difficult to reach Rijkaard's ears.

    Half a minute later, Mourinho and Pei Wei walked out side by side. The moment they appeared at the entrance of the players' tunnel, the entire Camp Nou was silent for a second, and then there was a loud bang that could make people's hearts stop beating.  boos.

    Almost all Barcelona fans stood up from their seats. Rulin pointed his middle finger at Mourinho. The overwhelming curses and boos poured down from the stands. If these curse words turned into reality, it would be enough to put Mourinho to death.  Rinho and Pei Wei were buried alive.

    Even the players on the field stopped their warm-up and looked at Mourinho and Pei Wei in a daze. Even the Barcelona fans did not expect that Mourinho's move to announce the main lineup in advance would actually cause Catalonia  The Ronians were so disgusted.

    Looking at the ferocious and almost deformed faces, Mourinho walked towards the visiting team's coaching bench without changing his expression. Pei Wei shrugged his shoulders and followed him, smiling as he walked and said: "Jose  , I didn¡¯t expect you to enjoy the treatment that Figo received back then.

     ¡±¡°I thought of it.  "Mourinho said without looking back.
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