Chapter 53: Six Crowns Ever since Shaq transferred to Manchester United, Simon Grayson¡¯s team has always had a characteristic, which is that he can bring good results to the team in his first season of coaching, but The real formation of the team was always in the second season. After "Cruel Simon" fine-tuned the team, the team would become closer to perfection. This season is Simon Grayson¡¯s second season coaching Barcelona, ??and Barcelona¡¯s performance this season can only be described as perfect. In more than three months before the end of the year, Barcelona has played well in various competitions. 22 games, and then won 22 games, and the team also won the Spanish Super Cup and the European Super Cup. Entering December, Barcelona is still unstoppable. They defeated Lyon 7:4 in an away game and won the Champions League group stage. Barcelona had already secured the top spot in the group, and Lyon had also secured second place in the group. Two games. Naturally, the team played very well, scoring 11 goals in 90 minutes. But when Barcelona gets serious, it will be a bit difficult for opponents to break through their goal On December 8, Barcelona defeated Sevilla 5-0 at home. On December 11, Barcelona defeated Deportivo La Coru?a 3-0 at home. On December 14, Barcelona defeated C¨®rdoba 3:0 away from home. Before going to the Club World Cup, Barcelona also ensured its leading position in La Liga. With 15 wins and 45 points in 15 games, Barcelona has 9 points more than the second-place Atletico Madrid who has one more game. When Barcelona left Spain to play in the Club World Cup, Spanish football did not stop, and they focused on Real Madrid. This season, Real Madrid¡¯s performance can only be described as terrible, since losing to Barcelona 1:3 away from home. Prandelli's team became unstable. At the end of October, they lost 0:1 to Deportivo, 0:2 to Hercules, and 1:2 to Levante. , coupled with draws with Espanyol and Atletico Madrid, they are now only ranked sixth in La Liga, with only 29 points, which made them withdraw from the league championship early. It¡¯s almost halfway through the league. The news that Prandelli will resign has become more and more intense. Some reporters even followed Barcelona to Japan and asked Simon Grayson about Prandelli at the press conference of the Club World Cup semi-final between Barcelona and Gamba Osaka. view. "Cruel Simon" has lost his temper after winning countless honors and has become more plain and simple. Naturally, he also understands the importance of connections in the football circle. Facing reporters' questions, he said seriously: "Prandelli is a great coach. His past experience proves his ability, and last year he caused a lot of trouble for Barcelona with Real Madrid. I I think what Real Madrid's senior management needs most now is patience, and what Prandelli needs most is trust from the management. Without these a team cannot be successful. I know the management of many clubs now. The top managers only value results, but they don't realize that changing a head coach is a very dangerous thing. When accepting a new team, any head coach needs a process of familiarity, understanding, and adaptation, and he must also follow his own rules. Plan to build the team before it can produce results, and Prandelli now knows Real Madrid very well. He has already completed the accumulation process. What he needs most now is patience and time. "The reporter below said again. A question was raised: "Simon. Whether you are in Manchester United, the England team, or now Barcelona, ??you always take over the team and produce results immediately. Is this contrary to what you just said?" "Me?" Simon Gray Sen laughed: "How can it be contrary? It is true that I have quickly achieved results in every team I coach, but haven't you noticed that I always buy players that I have used before, or that I am familiar with?" Players, I even carried out a major purge of Barcelona last season. At that time, the fans had little confidence in me. Fortunately, I survived. Oh let¡¯s talk about the Club World Cup.¡± Simon ?Grayson is indeed right. Whether he is coaching Manchester United or the England team, he basically uses his familiar disciples, especially Shaq, his "godson" and "Cruel Simon" who will definitely coach him wherever he goes. Wherever he takes. but. When they heard that the Club World Cup was going to be discussed, the reporters were quite disappointed. The Club World Cup is so trivial to talk about! ? Gamba Osaka! ? Or another semi-final match between Boca Juniors and Chivas Regal of Mexico? These teams are all fucking weak teams in front of Barcelona. Barcelona is much stronger than them, and they also have all kinds of weapons in their hands to kill their opponents. They don't even need anything else. Just one Shaq is enough, and saying that they what's there to say! ? ??People who really know the four teams in this year's Club World Cup will never ask stupid questions about who will win the championship. That is really stupid! Barcelona, ??which has already won the "Five Crowns", will never let others disturb its dream of becoming the "Six Crowns" for the second time! This is indeed the case. On December 14, Barcelona defeated Gamba Osaka with a score of 6:0 with the help of Shaq and Vasquez's hat tricks. After the game, the opponent had no temper at all. There was also an incident where Gamba players fought for the jerseys of Shaq, Vasquez and others, which made the Barcelona team laugh and cry. It was rare for them to see such a guy who felt honored even after being hit in the face. The result of the other semi-final was a bit unexpected. Chivas Regal of Mexico defeated Boca Juniors in a thrilling 3:2 score. They scored two goals in a row after leading by one goal. Go ahead, but in the last ten minutes of the game, the Mexicans also scored two goals in a row, and finally won the semi-finals with twists and turns. Naturally, the good luck of Chivas Regal in Mexico had nothing to do with the strong Barcelona. Three days later at the Yokohama International Stadium, Barcelona defeated their opponent with a score of 2:0 without any suspense. Their performance really convinced their opponent. oral. During the game, Barcelona¡¯s ball possession rate reached 60%. Completed 26 shots, won 17 corner kicks, and 10 free kicks. The team's passing success rate reached 85%, and two shots hit the goal frame. Otherwise, this score would never be just It's 2:0. Barcelona, ??which won the Club World Cup, returned triumphantly. Although the team does not attach much importance to the Club World Cup, the fans do not think so. After all, the current Barcelona has won the "Six Crowns" and has reached the level of Guardiola's "Cosmos Team" in terms of honor. level, winning all championship honors, which proves that Barcelona is indeed the strongest in history without any doubt. Guardiola¡¯s ¡°Cosmos Team¡± is also the ¡°six-time winner¡±. But at that time, their record was not as brilliant as that of Barcelona under Simon Grayson. Simon Grayson has coached Barcelona for 88 games, and they still have not lost a single game, even from the late last season to this season. , creating a record of 47 consecutive wins in all competitions. The great achievements of the "Six Crown Champions" have made Simon Grayson the new god of Barcelona. The whole city is celebrating, and the team is also participating. Anyway, after playing in the Club World Cup, the team will have almost two weeks to rest. The Christmas holiday is coming! Although the winter transfer window is about to open, Simon Grayson is also busy. The team's performance this season is too good and perfect. He no longer needs to modify the team, he only needs to deal with some poaching matters. When the entire Spanish football world was shut down, sports reporters were not idle. They began to summarize the performance of many teams in the first half of the season The best performing team is, of course, Barcelona, ??which has achieved a complete victory record. There is no doubt about this. The player with the most goals There is no suspense about this. Shaq ranks first in the scorer list with 38 league goals. The second-placed Espanyol French forward Jean Cavillier "only" scored 19 goals. . In addition to the scorer list, Barcelona players dominated the assists list and the passing list. Fabregas ranked first in the assists list with 10 assists. Behind him is Vasquez, who has assisted 9 times. This Spanish young man has 11 goals in the league, ranking fourth in the scorer list. On the passing list, Alaba and Fabregas ranked first and second with passing success rates of 93% and 91% respectively. With these two outstanding midfielders, Barcelona's offensive players naturally scored a lot of goals. It will be less. In the competition for the "King of Extraordinaires". Barcelona's two wingers shine, Rinaldi tops the list with 5.11 dribbles per game, and the French genius Otara ranks second with 4.59 times. It can be seen from here how sharp Barcelona's wing breakthroughs are. Compared with the huge advantage in offense, Barcelona's defensive system performance this season is mediocre. No one can make the top three in steals, headers, key interceptions and other statistics, because all opponents are now facing Barcelona. Sometimes you can only parry but not fight back. It is really difficult to take advantage of the few offensive opportunities to create a threat to Barcelona. What's more, Barcelona, ??which has the world's top scorer Shaq, only has the responsibility to score the opponent's goal. How can it be possible for the opponent to attack their own territory casually? At the end of the year, the Spanish media once again made a statistics for Shaq, and the results surprised them. Shaq's current career goal total is as high as 969. It is almost not difficult to score 1,000 goals this season. Shaq, who debuted at Leeds United, scored 132 goals for his home team, scored 436 goals for Manchester United in four years, and scored 157 goals in his first year with Barcelona.Having scored 177 goals for England so far and 67 goals so far this season, Shaq is only 31 goals away from the 1,000-goal mark. 31 goals may be difficult for others, and even many players cannot score so many goals in a season, but it is just a piece of cake for Shaq. Shaq is destined to become the 2007 Romario this season. Later, the first player to reach four figures in goals. In the history of world football, six players including Joseph Bican, Gold Muller, Arthur Friedrich, Pele, Franz Bindel and Romario have scored more than He has scored 1,000 goals, but the value of Shaq¡¯s goals is by no means comparable to these people. Every goal Shaq scores is a goal in an official game and is recorded. Those goals scored in warm-up matches are simply not worth mentioning. Not counting!