Real Madrid reversed Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League to advance to the quarter-finals, thinking that the Spanish "national derby" at the weekend would be a match between the two sides, but they did not expect that the game scene and the result were one-sided, and Barca defeated Real Madrid 4:0 cleanly away.
In fact, this game has benefited both sides, first of all, it can make fans believe that Barca's current reconstruction under the leadership of Xavi is absolutely correct and imperative. It also made the Real Madrid executives realise that there is still a lot of work to be done in the rebuilding of the club, and some positions still need to be improved.
When Mourinho and Guardiola left La Liga and C Ronaldo went to the Apennines, the La Liga brand was supported by Messi alone. When Barca officially announced Messi's departure from Barca last summer, fans who love Messi expressed their anger at barca clubs, and many people believe that Messi's departure represents the beginning of barca and La Liga decline and loss of their former glory. In fact, after the dissolution of the "MSN Group", Barça has begun to decline when it is crazy to buy people with large investment, and gradually loses the most precious thing that dominates Europe. Barca's last three Champions League champions league squad relies on the golden generation of La Masia's training camp, Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Pique and other backbones to support Barca's lineup, and the head coach belongs to the club lineage, Barca is invincible for a time, the scenery is unique.
Barca's internal hematopoietic ability gradually weakened, and they could only rely on spending money to balance their strength, and began to spend a lot of money to enrich the squad, gradually forming a vicious circle. Coutinho moved from Liverpool to Barca for £12.1 billion in 2018, Griezmann moved from Atletico to Barca for £108 million in 2019, and Dembele moved from Borussia Dortmund to Barca in 2017.
After experiencing the unpleasantness of the Koeman era, Xavi took over the Barça coaching whip and won the strong support of the club's top management and fans, after all, Xavi is a Barça who is in the red, from Catalonia, and is the midfield brain of the "cosmos team", belonging to "his own people", no one is dissatisfied. Harvey invited his former teammate Alves to help him manage the locker room, slowly making the locker room "de-Messi" and smoothly completing the transition.
And Xavi brought Barca's long-lost offensive concept, now Xavi's Barça is not afraid of pressing, football can run under the feet of the players, all positions are frantically pressing, are constantly passing the running position, creating space, this is the new change that Xavi has brought to this Barca. The enthusiasm of this game is not only reflected in the results, but more importantly, it gives the club the confidence to rebuild, as long as Xavi has always adhered to his tactical philosophy, believing that Barca can go back to ten years ago, back to the era when whoever saw Barca had to shrink.
For Real Madrid, the benefit is that the Real Madrid executives are aware of the problems existing in the current squad. The loss was ugly, and although the league title was not a big problem, it was impossible to say that the "national derby" had lost so badly. In this game, Benzema was unable to play due to injury, and could only watch from the sidelines. In the Champions League that eliminated Paris, Karim Benzema's goal masked many of Real Madrid's problems, which is also an important reason why Real Madrid failed to go further in the Champions League after cristiano Ronaldo left.
When Cristiano Ronaldo was there, Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo were Real Madrid's stable scoring points. Today's Real Madrid are overly dependent on Benzema, and Hazard and Jovic are not up to the task. Without Benzema, Real Madrid would have missed another stable scoring point, and this game also made Florentino determined that Mbappe's window must be picked up. Real Madrid's ceremonial midfield is also slowly aging, there is a discontinuity, Modric and Tornico Ross midfielders are no longer stable, Camaringa is still too young, although there are highlights, but not enough to compete with Modric. Now Real Madrid's backline is a big problem, not strong enough, not deep enough, the lack of a strong center-back, let Arabba play center-back is simply a violent thing, Barca's Araujo to Real Madrid's forward line a good lesson, what is a pure center-back.
It is believed that this "national derby" has a great impact on Florentino, and if it can promote the transfer of several players on the international match day, it will be the biggest gain after losing.
Next season, Barca is likely to bring in Haaland to further barca's strength. Real Madrid's visa-free Mbappe has also basically agreed. Whether Haaland can let Barca build a "dream four team" and whether Mbappe can make real Madrid's "Galaxy" set sail again, we do not know. But if these two new-generation superstars land in La Liga next season, the "National Derby" will be more exciting because of the two of them, Mbappe vs Haland, La Liga will be their world!
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