Starting with Real Madrid

Reality is often more absurd than fiction.

The "war" on the football field is never as exciting as the story off the field.

After the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final, the home team won 2-0.

The Spanish media have speculated that Real Madrid and Barcelona will meet in the Copa del Rey final, which is "destined".

Obviously, there is a wonderful story behind all the "destiny".

Real Madrid's 2-0 defeat of Atletico Madrid was more reflected on the court, in the profound formation and strategizing, especially when he dared to rotate the team's top superstar Ronaldo in such an important game.

More importantly, Real Madrid won!

Alfredo, the editor-in-chief of AS News, updated his column immediately after the game, saying that this is a game that does not seem very eye-catching for Real Madrid, but it is definitely a game of great significance.

"It further establishes that Real Madrid is a collective, not a group of stars."

If it is said that Real Madrid's 2-0 defeat of Atletico Madrid is convincing both on and off the field, then Barcelona's 2-0 defeat of Real Sociedad is particularly embarrassing.

Referee Gonzalez's three penalties completely changed the trend of the game.

The first time happened in the 35th minute. At that time, Barcelona was unable to attack Real Sociedad for a long time, but was frequently attacked by the visiting team. When Puyol defended Real Sociedad's counterattack in the frontcourt, he attacked striker Carlos Vela. The tactical foul was shown a yellow card instead of a red card, which caused quite a bit of controversy.

But the biggest controversy happened in the 43rd minute, when Carlos Vela hit the Barcelona goal directly after receiving a pass from his teammate, Puyol chased after him, trying to stop the Mexican from advancing, and the two had physical contact all the way .

Carlos Vela also played very smartly. He kept protecting himself with his hands and did not give Puyol a chance. However, when he entered the penalty area, Puyol had no choice and caught Carlos Vela. The hand made him lose his balance, and the shot that fell to the ground lost his threat.

Regardless of the reaction on the pitch at the time, even the Barcelona players themselves felt the crisis, and the Camp Nou fans were all silent, thinking that at the very least it should be a yellow card or a penalty.

But Puyol already has a yellow card.

As a result, Gonzalez said nothing and signaled the game to continue.

This caused great indignation among Real Sociedad players.

The two penalties were very obviously biased. This is no ordinary mistake.

Taking advantage of the confusion of Real Sociedad, Barcelona quickly scored the first goal, but what was even worse was that when the Barcelona players celebrated the goal, Real Sociedad defender Ingor Martinez protested to the referee, thinking that he The punishment was unfair.

But Gonzalez was very decisive this time, and directly showed a red card, sending off Ingor Martinez with a red card.

After three penalties, the game has completely lost its suspense.

Real Sociedad coach Alster accused the referee after the game, thinking that the enforcement of the game was a shame.

Alster said it was already very difficult to play at Camp Nou, but it was even more difficult tonight.

"There is no doubt that Barcelona were once an admirable team, they achieved very high results, but now, tonight, they have been a huge disappointment."

Alster even said that if a team like this, with such a performance, can win the La Liga championship, it will be a tragedy for the entire La Liga.

Compared with his previous admiration for Real Madrid under Gao Shen's coaching, the implication is very obvious.

He supported Real Madrid in the title race.

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One is worthy of the name, and one is not worthy of the name.

This caused a huge response after the first leg of the King's Cup.

This is not the first time that Barcelona once again benefited from a red card at the Nou Camp, and it has once again attracted the attention of public opinion.

Even the mouthpiece of Barcelona's Daily Sport and Mundo Deportivo had to admit that Puyol's second foul was a very obvious misjudgment.

Many Spanish professionals, especially the former international referees, have come out to express their opinions. They basically believe that the yellow card for the first tactical foul can barely be washed away, but Puyol's second foul, even the yellow card and Not giving a penalty kick, this is definitely an amateur mistake.

Some media also pointed out that Barcelona urgently needs a champion now, and the Spanish Football Association is trying to "help" Barcelona through the current crisis of public opinion.

Because just two days before the game, the turmoil over Barcelona's introduction of Neymar finally broke out. Several opposition directors in the Barcelona board of directors directly sued Russell to court, and former chairman Laporta also came forward to support him. Demand the disclosure of Neymar's transfer terms and transfer funds.

Russell failed to withstand the pressure and voluntarily resigned, and the first vice-chairman Bartomeu took over as the chairman of Barcelona.

This also caused an uproar in Barcelona and even Spanish football.

Coupled with the controversy caused by this Copa del Rey semi-final, everyone was disappointed with Barcelona.

Even the Daily Sports Daily published a report that the attendance at Camp Nou continued to decline.

Barcelona's mouthpiece, Luo, listed a very detailed data, saying that Barcelona's stadium attendance this season has created a record low.

Take the Copa del Rey as an example. Only 38,000 fans entered the stadium to watch the match between Barcelona and Real Sociedad.

In the Bernabéu, more than 80,000 Real Madrid fans entered the stadium, which is more than twice that of Barcelona.

The Daily Sports Daily felt that this comparison might not be very objective, so it compared the two home games in the knockout round of the quarterfinals.

Real Madrid played against Espanyol, and the Bernabéu stadium had more than 78,000 fans, while Barcelona played against Levante, and the Nou Camp stadium had only 25,000 fans, not even the Bernabeu. one-third of.

You know, the capacity of the Nou Camp is much larger than that of the Bernabeu.

The Daily Sports Daily felt that just comparing the Copa del Rey was not convincing enough, so it compared the Champions League group stage with this season's La Liga, and found that so far this season, Barcelona's average attendance rate in La Liga is less than six. Ten thousand.

What about the Bernabéu?

The venue is full!

How bad is attendance at Camp Nou?

Barcelona general Alves once criticized Barcelona fans in public, criticizing those fans who did not watch the game on the spot, and were not as loyal to the Red and Blues as they said.

"Sometimes, I even feel like I'm playing away from home."

It is not difficult to see that the attendance at Camp Nou has reached an embarrassingly low level.

Although Barcelona found various reasons for this, including the start time, including various other reasons...

After the daily sports newspaper published a questionnaire, the fans gave two answers. One is that Barcelona's record has begun to lag behind Real Madrid, and they may not even be able to win at their own home court.

Secondly, Barcelona's football is getting boring.

"The players obviously lack motivation. They start to get bored and can't find the passion to play. Every game is carried out step by step, and they only complete tasks mechanically on the court, lacking exciting and exciting performances."

"Everyone sees the ball rolling, but no one gets excited about it anymore because it's non-threatening!"

"The team also lacks an overall plan, a lack of exciting and exciting vision."

The Daily Sport compared Real Madrid and Bernabéu fans bitterly.

"The fans at the Bernabéu are full because they know that every home game, a high-level team can bring them unexpected surprises."

"Like this game against Atletico Madrid, they can suddenly usher in an explosion after insisting on tens of minutes of high-intensity and fierce confrontation, so that everyone can feel the blood and passion of football again."

"They can see the performance of young players like Pogba, Verratti, Casemiro, Varane, Jesse, Morata, etc. at the Bernabéu, track their growth and progress, and even Looking forward to the future through their mistakes!"

"They can also be in front of the coaching bench at the Bernabéu, where they can see the command and control of the overall situation. They can see the world's top coaches line up and strategize, and do their best to bring the team victory. Looking forward to the unprecedented triple crown promised by Gao Shen, and the great era that belongs to Real Madrid!"

"In comparison, we had nothing, and even our head coach, Martino, looked like a mediocre bystander."

"Although, we had expected him to bring more changes to the team."

Daily Sports Daily believes that Barcelona fans have completely lost confidence in the team's football.

This was not only obliterated by Barcelona's football itself, but also defeated by Gao Shen and Real Madrid.

There is no harm without comparison.

It is precisely because the sophisticated Real Madrid's performance is too amazing and too strong, but it sets off the current Barcelona's incomparable mediocrity, and naturally it cannot attract Barcelona fans into the Nou Camp.

The Daily Sports Daily also raised a question.

In the first two days, the world-renowned sports magazine [World Football] once made a ranking of players' annual salary.

Surprisingly, among the top ten annual salary lists in world football, there are actually four Barcelona players, namely Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and Neymar. UU Reading www. uukanshu.com

And what about Real Madrid?

There is only one Ronaldo!

Daily Sports Daily believes that this needs to attract the attention of Barcelona's new management.

You know, although Barcelona's revenue has reached 480 million euros, ranking second among world clubs, Real Madrid's revenue has exceeded 600 million euros, ranking first among clubs in the world.

Florentino even stated in the recent membership meeting that the profound coaching and the outstanding results he brought have strongly boosted Real Madrid's business globalization, and it is estimated that the 13/14 season will exceed 650 million euros.

It is absolutely unhealthy for the players' annual salary to exceed Real Madrid by a large margin when the revenue is far lower than that of Real Madrid.

The Daily Sports Daily believes that if the Barcelona management does not make a decision on this and control and restrain it, Barcelona will sooner or later have a big fall in the annual salary of the players.

It may even drag the team into an unstoppable financial crisis.

That was the real catastrophe for Barcelona.