Golden Greenery

Chapter 151 (Part 2) Old and strong Enrique

The schedule in March and April is very intensive. If they can continue in the UEFA Cup, Fort Madi will have double matches almost every week. Just one week after the draw with Ajax in Amsterdam, it was the home game against Barcelona in the first leg of the fourth round of the UEFA Cup.

We have reached here, the top 16, the quarter-finals, even if we are facing a giant as big as Barcelona, ​​Madibao will not give up. Although Madibao is still a small club, they will no longer be trembling in front of powerful players. They have the pride and courage to fight no matter who they put in front of them. The more famous their opponents are, the more aggressive they will be.

Madibao has an idea, and Uncle Zha has an idea. In order to compete well with Barcelona, ​​three days ago, the big teams and horses all recuperated, and Madibau, who only played with a full substitute lineup, still defeated their old rival Osnabruck 1:0 at home. The new aid Zhirkov is killing everyone, and one person can cause the opponents to panic. The Osnabruck midfielder Kleinin, who is brilliant in the third league, is a hammer in front of him. Kleinin, who won the Silver Ball Award in Class C last year, has obviously not made much progress. He once proudly dominated Class C with the Six Musketeers and now he can't even eat the ashes of the six young masters.

In the evening, captain Zhuoyang held a banquet to congratulate Zhirkov. The Russians were not at all ambiguous when drinking, and Zhuoyang did not dare to challenge him at all. However, when Cheryl introduced her best friend to Zhirkov, the young man immediately turned red in the face and completely lost his calmness and domineering attitude on the court.

The young masters who have had enough of it and worked hard are finally looking forward to coming to Barcelona today, but the current situation of this giant is not very good. For most teams, it is an honor to participate in a competition like the UEFA Cup, and it is even more glorious for a small club like Madiburg. However, it would be a shame for Barcelona to come to the UEFA Cup. Because there are only two super giants in La Liga, Real Madrid and them, and there are four Champions League places. Only qualifying for the UEFA Cup means that they were completely stripped of their skin by small teams.

In fact, Barcelona has not ranked among the top three in the league for four consecutive seasons, and last season it only ranked sixth. This is simply a shame. However, this is not the end, Barcelona was even ranked fifteenth this season, which is simply embarrassing.

Moreover, Barcelona's performance in European competitions before this has not been very good. Such a big giant has only one Champions League in its history. No one dares to believe it. And their old enemy Real Madrid already has nine Champions Leagues at this time.

This year is a period of drastic transformation for Barcelona, ​​but from the current point of view, it is not successful.

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Although Zhuoyang has been fascinated by Ronaldinho for a long time, Ronaldinho did not face him today. Barcelona, ​​which pays attention to technology and midfield, the most important position is the central axis of the midfield, that is, the two people in the middle. Today, sitting further back in the middle is the 24-year-old Spaniard Xavi, who has been famous for a long time. This is a very magical player.

When he was just 20 years old, Xavi became the core of the star-studded Barcelona team, successfully replacing the aging meritorious player Guardiola, and became better and better as he worked, and even became a representative figure of the organizational midfielder.

But Xavi was severely restricted today, and the person who restricted him was the butcher De Jong.

In the Madibao team, Butcher and Zhuoyang are double midfielders, but De Jong's position is slightly ahead, and in front of him is Xiaozhu. Of course, these guys often switch places, and the changes are ridiculous, but today the Butcher was asked to nail Harvey. Harvey is indeed very good, but he has never encountered an opponent with such a strong defense in his position, because the average team facing him is an organizational midfielder with average defense. However, De Jong is the originator of the defensive midfielder.

Harvey is better than the Butcher. After all, De Jong is still very young and has not experienced many strong opponents. But Harvey was caught off guard and was in a hurry, and it was hard to adapt for a while.

Harvey is positioned deeper, and in front of him is another central core.

Midfielder Luis Enrique, Zhuo Yang is facing this famous veteran today.

Enrique is a man with a lot of stories. He was born in Real Madrid and has since become the vanguard of the Barcelona team's anti-Real Madrid team. He is the most scolded. Just like some rebels, in order to show their loyalty to their new masters and avoid suspicion, they will deal with their own people more cruelly than their enemies. During the Anti-Japanese War, many traitors, puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers were much more ruthless than the Japanese. Of course, this metaphor is not appropriate at all for Enrique.

Enrique became well-known to the world when Spain faced Italy in the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup in the United States. He was elbowed by Italian defender Tassotti and broke the bridge of his nose. Everyone in the world saw it, except the referee who was on duty. The scene of Enrique looking for Tassotti with blood all over his face will always be fixed in the minds of fans.

Enrique is a very outstanding attacking midfielder, but he is old. At the age of 34 this year, he couldn't deal with the 18-year-old Zhuo Yang. Captain Madibao made him very embarrassed. Time is no match for youth. What can be done?

Enrique has been thinking about one thing in the past six months: What will happen after playing this year? He has three options: retire after executing his one-year optional contract with Barcelona; return to his first team of youth, Sporting Gijon, to play for another year before retiring; or retire directly.

Barcelona hopes that he will choose the first one, and Lian Po still has some residual heat. Enrique himself prefers the second option, which is to return fallen leaves to their roots.

The new head coach Rijkaard sent veteran Enrique in the important midfielder position after careful consideration because he has rich experience and hopes that his experience can restrain the young and scary Madibao. Unfortunately, Rijkaard miscalculated.

Rijkaard is also a man with a story. He was the most inconspicuous of the "Three Musketeers" in the Netherlands in the past, but in fact Rijkaard was a very great talented player. As a central defender, he was once hailed as the best central defender in the world at that time. Of course, Baresi and Costacurta expressed dissatisfaction on the spot. As a result, Rijkaard, who came to AC Milan, was transformed into a defensive midfielder by Sacchi, who ranked first among the "Top 100 Coaches in the World". As a result, Rijkaard forced the two main players of the Italian national team, Ancelotti and Albertini, to compete for another position in AC Milan in the midfielder position. A few days later, at the age of 32, Ancelotti chose to retire.

Rijkaard pioneered the all-around defensive midfielder and is considered the originator. In the eyes of authoritative football figures, he is much better than the other two Gullit and Basten in the "Three Musketeers". It's just that he is naturally low-key, unlike those two hot-tempered people.

The low-key Rijkaard became a tough coach. As soon as he took office, he put the former Argentine golden boy Saviola as the main center on the bench and insisted on reusing his compatriot and one of the representatives of the 1976 Super Platinum Generation. , 'Kluivert'.

However, this game showed that it was his own people who were cheated, and Kluivert was really useless.

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