Before the start of the national derby in Saudi Arabia, Barca from top to bottom, from Laporta's "let the boys feel the victory of the national derby", to the Catalan media reports, and Xavi's full-fledged posture at all costs, Barca has the intention of fighting in the Super Cup.
First of all, they give too much.
The Saudi people have shot generously enough, and the prize money of the Super Cup champion team is said to reach 14 million euros, which is basically catching up with the Champions League group qualification.
Last year, because of the epidemic, the Western Super Cup did not go to Saudi Arabia according to the plan of the Western Football Association, but this year, even if the epidemic is menacing again, the high income and participation prize money are in front of them, and the Western Football Association and the four participating teams are happy to go to Saudi Arabia to compete, which is also logical. Although the players do not necessarily buy it, such as the biba veteran Raul Garcia on the press conference to publicly contradict, the remarks are nothing more than the current football is just business, completely regardless of the player's feelings and so on.
This is not surprising, the players are also hit workers, out of thin air travel is certainly not willing, not to mention the increasingly serious epidemic.
However, in the case that the epidemic will not end in the short term, the Western Football Association needs to rely on the money earned in the Super Cup to support projects such as amateur leagues, and clubs also need to earn playing fees.
In the previous two years of the Super Cup, Real Madrid and Barcelona have been arranged as semi-finals in different halves, and the intentions of the Western Football Association are self-evident, the national derby + final is competing for the championship, and the ratings are not in the sky? However, in the first year, Barca did not argue, last year was a real Madrid gutter overturned, the Western Football Association this year simply arranged the national derby in the semi-finals, first earn a wave of ratings and then say.
Secondly, in recent years, the Barça national derby has really been pulled down.
Before the start of this game, Barça has lost four consecutive games against Real Madrid, from the previous years to the Bernabeu as their own back garden, to the current point, even if Barca is currently in the transition stage, it is somewhat unreasonable. As Barca mouthpiece "Daily Sport" said before the game, if it can really climb over the mountain of Real Madrid and finally win the Super Cup, for Xavi's Barca, the increased confidence is more important than the championship itself.
And before the game started, Barca's good news was one after another, and it may also be these that give Catalan local media confidence. The top management led by sports director Alemani sent Coutinho away, and then came to a "retreat to advance", reduced the salary to renew the Umtiti who was supposed to leave, and finally got rid of the registration of Felan. Xavi also seems to want to break the wrist of Real Madrid as much as possible, and Ferran and Pedri have just turned the new crown and can't wait to bring it to Saudi Arabia.
Barca's mouthpiece "Daily Sport" wrote before the game that he believes that this Barca can win the Spanish Super Cup, and these six reasons are also the same: 1. Xavi has been in charge for several months, and the players have been passed on to his high-level pressing concept. 2. Barca's players are hard enough. 3, Alves returned, so that this group of young people have a big brother to help. 4. Fati has returned after several months of recuperation. 5. Barca have been extremely successful in the Super Cup, winning 13 Super Cup titles, ranking first in Spain. 6. Barca went to this Super Cup with a desire to prove themselves, and they will be able to win a hundred, there is no reason to be invincible.
Quite like the shadow of "cao has ten victories, shao has ten defeats" put forward by Guo Jijiu before Cao Chengxiang's crusade against Yuan Shao, but Barça has this "six victories" is not false, and Real Madrid does not have a corresponding "six defeats" theory. Xavi was also modest in his pre-match press conference: "This is a challenge for us, Real Madrid are the best club in all of Spain. ”
In any case, the game still waited for the real knife and real gun to be played.
When the game really whistles, the first 30 minutes also confirm the words at the Barça coach's press conference, the more than comfortable Real Madrid does not seem to think that the opposite Barça is a difficult opponent, but it seems that the pace is slow and leisurely, once Real Madrid raises the speed, the Barça midfield really can't stop, and the top 20 minutes or let this season's explosive "Bear Emperor" get into one.
Judging from the performance of Professor Bu, who was directly caused by the loss of the ball in the midfield, barca was obviously not willing, so there was a second half of real Madrid to relax, Barca from the 38-year-old old Alves to the less than 18-year-old student Garvey, have begun to spare no effort. Watching Barca fight like this, God can't watch it anymore, so in an instant, he moved Militang on the field and replaced it with Miguire, replaced Luc De Jong with Lunisterui, and then Barca equalized the score.
After the first half, Harvey may also sigh:
"Real Madrid has a bear emperor, a lonely Dembele, and a rival."
Dembele began editing text messages to Laporta in the midfield dressing room:
"Boss, 40 million annual salary is really not expensive, think about it again?"
Barca is indeed enough to fight, Xavi adjustment is also timely, Pedri after the second half of the appearance is a knock on the mountain, but Real Madrid seems to be intermittent rhythm relaxation, in fact, hidden killing machine, Benzema such an old gun at the key moment to show heroic nature, a pillar is a key goal.
Real Madrid are once again leading, relaxed and freehand.
It's just that at the crucial moment, Militang is transformed into "Miquil", or maybe Fati is on the field before Harvey inspires him with the latest issue of the Daily Sports newspaper.
In short, Fati appeared in the most suitable position, a head to tie the score, both balls are by crosses to get in, can only say that Barca finally lived to their own hated look. According to a statistic, Barca have scored nine headers in all competitions this season, which is already the number one in La Liga.
Speaking of Fati, to a certain extent, although his injury is an uncertain factor after all, the attribute of being able to score goals on the spot is also another tall picker in the long run, but in this case, it seems to overlap with Phelan's attribute.
In extra time, in fact, everything is logical, Barca has run out of bullets, and the regular time almost killed but did not succeed, basically doomed to the final loss.
In terms of durability, this class of lads is young enough, but in the end, they can't run real Madrid, which has been blessed by Pintus this season. And Xavi, who knows this well, has been piling up strikers in regular time, with the intention of fighting, which also led to the moment Valverde scored, Barca's backfield was empty like a prairie. The second half of extra time also basically became a hotbed for Real Madrid to practice counter-attacking. Barca, who fought hard enough, finally lost at the feet of the freehand Real Madrid.
This game more or less let people see the shadow of the peak national derby, once Barça was the one who controlled the situation in the field, and Real Madrid was the representative of the crazy grab and counterattack, but nearly a decade later, both sides have lived as they once were, Real Madrid has become a stronger and more free-spirited side, Barca is desperate enough to swallow the national derby five consecutive defeats.
Even without Messi C Ronaldo, such a derby battle is still strong enough, please come and play more.
What remains unchanged is:
Modric and Busquets are also midfield masters of both teams.
There are new people on both sides who can pick up the girder.
Hazard still did not make his national derby debut.