69novels Chapter 488
Chapter 488
On February 21, 2007, the entire Manchester City team landed in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, Spain.
Barcelona is not only about football, but also one of the famous tourist destinations in Europe.
It is close to the Mediterranean Sea and has beautiful scenery. Ancient historical relics are combined with modern high-rise buildings. Gothic-style church buildings can be seen everywhere in the city.
Su Fei took a bus to the hotel. Through the window, he could see that almost every street had foreign tourists taking pictures.
The development of each club must be closely related to the economic development of the city where it is located. After all, only money can play football.
And Madrid, where Barcelona and Real Madrid are located, are the second and first largest cities in Spain respectively.
In order to facilitate going to and from the stadium.
Manchester City staff booked the Sofia Hotel for the players, which is less than 1km away from the Nou Camp Stadium.
When Su Fei packed his luggage and opened the balcony window of the guest room.
It happened to be able to clearly overlook the entire Nou Camp Stadium from a high altitude. The Nou Camp is a UEFA five-star stadium and the second largest stadium in the world.
Currently, it can accommodate nearly 120,000 fans. It is an open-air design, and the background color of the three-story stands is designed to be the red and blue interlaced on the Barcelona team logo.
Thinking of the upcoming battle tomorrow.
Su Fei couldn't help but feel excited.
This is the first time that he will play a game under the witness of so many fans on the scene.
What kind of terrifying sound can more than 120,000 spectators burst out?
This question will soon be answered.
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That afternoon.
Su Fei chose to stay in the hotel room to rest, turned on the TV, and watched the four Champions League round of 16 duels that took place today.
PSV Eindhoven 1:0 Arsenal.
The result of the match between the Dutch giants and the Premier League giants was somewhat unexpected.
Arsenal could not attack for a long time, while Eindhoven relied on Mendes's kick at the top of the penalty area in the 61st minute of the game. Under the defense of several opponents, he suddenly cut the goal from a long distance and laid the foundation for the victory.
It is worth mentioning that in the 66th minute of the game, overseas player Sun Xiang came on as a substitute and became the first Chinese player to log in the Champions League knockout stage.
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Lille 0:1 Manchester United.
The French Ligue 1 powerhouse Lille, who is at home, broke out with an amazing performance.
The Red Devils were suppressed on both ends of the field, creating several good threatening shots, but unfortunately they failed to seize the opportunity and convert them into goals. Instead, Giggs opened the goal with a beautiful direct free kick.
After the game, the camera was aimed at Ferguson who took the initiative to hug Giggs on the sidelines of the court.
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Real Madrid 3:2 Bayern.
The duel between the two world-class giants turned into an offensive war.
Among the shining stars of the Galaxy Battleship, Real Madrid still stood out in this game - Raul Gonzalez Blanco, the Real Madrid model worker who has played the most games in the Real Madrid first team in 12 years.
In the 10th minute of the game, Raul scored the first goal for Real Madrid, and then in the 23rd minute, Lucio scored with a header to equalize the score. Unexpectedly, in the 28th minute, Raul played again, competing for the header in front of the goal and scored twice. Before the end of the first half, Van Nistelrooy, who changed from a red shirt to a white shirt, volleyed in front of the goal to help Real Madrid further expand the goal lead.
The score of 3:1 was maintained by Real Madrid until the last minute of the game. In the 89th minute before the end, Van Bommel made a long-range world wave and changed the score to 3:2, but time was ruthless and Bayern could only leave the Bernabeu with regret.
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Celtics 0:0 AC Milan.
This duel, which seemed to have a huge gap in strength before the start of the game, presented a dull situation for more than 90 minutes.
All members of the Milan dynasty were lost, and they were unable to break the Celtic goal. It seemed to confirm what the media said before the game. Milan without Shevchenko was like a person without a hook. There was only midfield passing, but no final goal.
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The first four rounds of the Champions League round of 16 came to an end. There were many upsets and exciting matches.
After reporting on the day's games, the media naturally turned their attention to the four rounds of tomorrow's matches.
Roma vs. Lyon, Barcelona vs. Manchester City, Inter Milan vs. Valencia, Porto vs. Chelsea.
The most watched match was the match between Barcelona and Manchester City.
The pre-match heat of this match.
It was also the second most popular match in the entire Champions League round of 16, second only to Real Madrid and Bayern.Match.
《Barcelona Dream II Dynasty vs Manchester City Su-Style Dynasty!》
《05 Golden Ball vs 06 Golden Ball! Ronaldinho vs Su Fei!》
《Counting the last time Su Fei and Ronaldinho played against each other, the highlights of the German World Cup group match between Brazil and Croatia!》
《Barcelona vs Manchester City pre-match odds released, 1.7 to 1.3!》
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February 22, 1 pm.
After having dinner at the hotel, the Manchester City team took a bus to the Nou Camp Stadium for early warm-up.
The straight-line distance was less than 1km, but it took half an hour.
There was no way.
The heat of this game was so high that it directly caused traffic congestion around the Nou Camp Stadium.
In the square outside the stadium, thousands of Barcelona fans wearing red and blue jerseys had gathered, waving flags and singing "El Cant del Barça".
"Tot el camp, és un clam~"
"Som la gent blaugrana~"
"Tant se val d’on venim, si del sud o del nord~"
When Su Fei followed his teammates to change jerseys and appeared on the field, the Barcelona players were also training in the other half.
The two teams did not communicate.
Instead, they kept looking at each other curiously while warming up.
On the Barcelona side.
Leo Messi and Ronaldinho were doing simple passing exercises, and the Argentine teenager's eyes were always on the other side of the field.
"Leo, pay attention."
"Ah? Hmm."
Ronaldinho noticed Leo Messi's distraction and deliberately made a difficult lob pass. Unexpectedly, the moment Messi turned his head, he easily hooked the falling football with his instep.
"Haha, this won't bother you. Leo, they can't beat us."
"Yeah."
Both of them had been defeated by Su Fei in the World Cup, so Ronaldinho could fully understand why Messi paid attention to Su Fei.
"Relax, only when you relax can you perform like you did in the league."
Saying this, Ronaldinho performed a juggling act.
He kept juggling the ball, getting higher and higher, but he was able to hold it steady every time, as if there was a line between the ball and his toes.
Then.
"Bang!"
Ronaldinho volleyed the ball and kicked it towards the goal.
The ball drew a beautiful arc of more than 30 meters.
It accurately hit the dead corner of the goal.
"See? If it's during training, I can guarantee that I can hit 10 out of 10 shots like this."
"But during the game, it's hard."
"This is the impact of pressure on people. What I need to do is to enjoy the game as much as possible and relax in the game as in training."
Ronaldinho vividly taught Messi his football philosophy. Messi was thoughtful, gradually let go of his nervous look, and smiled.
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