The Champions League is not only the honors of the team themselves and their respective leagues, but also related to the UEFA scores of the UEFA scores in the Champions League and the League Cup through the UEFA scores in the major leagues.

In order to make their team achieve good results in the Champions League and the League Cup, Serie A has advanced the league in Inter Milan, which participated in the Champions League semi-finals, to Saturday, and La Liga is even more amazing. In order to deal with the ash, they have advanced the game between Barcelona and Espanyol to Friday.

Espanyol is both Barcelona's arch-rival in the city and Real Madrid's follower. Blocking Barcelona is their entire mission every season. As for whether Barcelona can win honors for La Liga, they don't care. Espanyol goes all out in the game against Barcelona and is determined to dismount Barcelona.

Although he only has 3 points ahead of Real Madrid, out of confidence in his own strength, Barcelona coach Guardiola, like Mourinho, sent a lineup mixed with the main force and substitute.

In fact, Barcelona, ​​whose main and substitute lineup is also better than Espanyol, but every Barcelona player who appears on the court regards the game as a routine. Everyone is saving energy and energy for the mid-week Champions League semi-finals, and it seems that only that game is a real contest. The excessive media hype has made Inter Milan and Barcelona aroused people's interest too early.

If this attitude is not a derby, it would be fine for Barcelona to win the game, but it is not enough to defeat the city's arch rival Espanyol. Facing the Spanish who had cramped, Barcelona failed to play the attacking power that was the best in the world. In the end, Espanyol tied, and the advantage of leading Real Madrid was only one point left.

This result is obviously unfavorable for Barcelona, ​​because it means that Barcelona cannot keep their strength in the league between the two games and Inter Milan semi-finals, and both lines must go all out.

There was Volcano Ash first, and then Barcelona was unable to win the derby. The opponent was Mourinho, the coach who was the best at playing Barcelona. After the game, the media believed that it would be not easy for Barcelona to win the game this time when they were away from Meacha. After all, Barcelona played against another Champions League softie, Arsenal, and Barcelona failed to win the away game.

But Guardiola didn't care. When he led the team from Barcelona's Gambo Sports City, Guardiola held a press conference, "There is no way, we can only choose to take a bus to Milan, which is an ancient mode of transportation. We can wait for flights, but if the flight still cannot be opened on Tuesday, we will not be able to go to Milan. According to UEFA regulations, we will be sentenced to 0:3 loss when we miss the game. It is slower and more tired to take the bus. But I think as long as we can appear on the stadium, we will definitely achieve a positive result of 0:3. This is a 180-minute game. The place to advance is in Camp Nou, not Meacha."

Barcelona's core world football player Messi also said that volcanic ash cannot affect Barcelona. As long as the referee is fair and Inter Milan is not allowed to compete with martial arts and wrestling, Inter Milan can completely win in Meacha.

Although Barcelona players and coaches said that the ash had little impact on Barcelona, ​​the Barcelona club still made sufficient preparations for this long-distance trip.

There were only 40 people going to Barcelona, ​​but the club found two buses and four drivers. The bus had 38 seats and a small bar. The players took a bus, and Guardiola, the coaching staff and other entourages took another bus.

In order to make the players not bored during their journey, the club has also prepared two movies for the players. One is "The Successful Things Are in People", which tells the story of former South African President Mandela using the national rugby team to adjust racial conflicts, and the other is "Inglourious Bastard", which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Guardiola used to edit Barcelona game video and "Gladiator" together to motivate the team in the Champions League final last year. But this time, the club's vice chairman Eus said that the two movies were played purely for entertainment. Barcelona does not need motivation now, and they are fully capable of defeating Inter Milan.

Since we set out three days in advance, in order to ensure the safety of the journey and the rest of the players, the club did not rush to travel overnight and divided the journey into two stages. The first stage was from Barcelona to the coastal city of France, with a total journey of 634 kilometers, and the second stage was from Cannes to Milan, with a total journey of 351 kilometers and a total journey of 1,060 kilometers.

In the past two seasons, Barcelona has competed with La Liga and European powers in a total of 26 times. In La Liga, they have faced Real Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, Villarreal and other teams 13 times. Barcelona has a record of 9 wins and 4 draws, while in 11 matches with top European teams, Barcelona has only lost one game, and this game is the Champions League group stage loss to Inter Milan.

Barcelona has been almost invincible in the world in recent years. Although the influence of many factors has increased the difficulty of Barcelona winning at Inter Milan at home, no one thinks that Barcelona will be eliminated by Inter Milan, and Barcelona itself does not think that it is famous Champions League softball. Inter Milan, who has not reached the final in 45 years, can block its own pace of entering the Bernabeu, so this forced Long March almost turned into a star-chasing journey.

The Barcelona bus is painted with obvious club logos and is cheered by fans along the way. Many fans also learned about this route and went to Barcelona to travel to the toll station along the expressway. Even in the service area, some fans came to find Messi to take photos and sign autographs. Barcelona's reputation also received special treatment for them. When crossing the border, they did not need to queue up for inspection like other vehicles but were directly released. Even if they encountered traffic jams, many drivers waiting for the bus were excited to make way for them after seeing the bus that was the six-time champion Barcelona.

At 14:45 pm on Monday, two Barcelona buses arrived at the Melia Hotel in Milan. Barcelona departed at 14:41 Sunday at Gambo Sports City in Barcelona. It had been a whole day when they arrived. Without the influence of Icelandic volcanic ash, it would only take an hour and a half to fly from Barcelona to Milan.

Today in the 21st century, Barcelona has experienced a journey of "returning to nature", as if back to the 1950s.

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When Barcelona rushed to Milan, Inter Milan had been conducting closed training.

When Mourinho just entered Inter Milan, whenever he was closed training, the media mocked him for pretending to be mysterious, and fans cursed him for being cruel and arrogant and did not take fans seriously. However, as Mourinho's record in the Champions League became better and better, Mourinho's closed training was gradually accepted by fans and the media. Mourinho's fans also regard closed training as Mourinho's secret weapon and killer weapon. Once Inter Milan adopts closed training, Mourinho's fans began to look forward to Inter Milan being able to win a surprise victory in the game and defeat their opponents in one fell swoop.

Sometimes Mourinho is indeed making a fool of himself, but this time Mourinho's closed training is indeed creating a secret weapon against Barcelona.

Barcelona has no secret to Mourinho.

Since the 1996s, Mourinho has been a translator and assistant coach at Barcelona. Guardiola was a Barcelona player at that time. Both were deeply influenced by Barcelona's tactical philosophy, but the world is so wonderful. It was influenced by the same club, but the two of them have different ends. Many years later, one of them has become utilitarianism, defense is invincible, and the other is called an art master, and the offense is like mercury.

Later, Mourinho became Chelsea's head coach, and he met Barcelona again. Times have changed. The former assistant coach has become Barcelona's opponent today. The first time Mourinho's Chelsea eliminated Rijcard's Barcelona; the second time Barcelona eliminated Mourinho's Chelsea, and the third time they met in the group stage, Mourinho's Chelsea won one win and one draw, and six matches, Mourinho and Barcelona scored 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

Mourinho was then dismissed from Chelsea and served as Inter Milan's head coach. He and Chelsea met again in the group stage, and the two sides scored one win and one loss, and the total score became 3 win, 3 losses and 2 draws.

No one expected that the two sides would meet again in the semi-finals.

Barcelona is almost no change in the group stage, but Inter Milan has introduced Pandev and Sneider.

Although Pandev and Sneijder will not make Inter Milan improve their grades, they can enrich Inter Milan's tactics and make Inter's play more varied.

With Pandev and Sneider, plus Gao Xiaodong who can play all positions, for tactical master Mourinho, he can completely set up a formation and playing style that his former friend Guardiola could not expect.

Mourinho and his coaching staff conducted in-depth analysis and research in this game against Barcelona. In fact, after the draw of the quarterfinals, Inter Milan played against CSKA Moscow and Barcelona played against Arsenal. At that time, Mourinho knew that he was going to meet Barcelona again, so he started to ask Faria and others to collect materials and prepare a way to deal with Barcelona.

Mourinho will never move in the backcourt of Inter Milan. Mourinho's football lies in solid defense. What a stable defense requires is a stable defense line. If you win by surprise, you must not take action on the defense line.

Mourinho will not move at the center position. Inter Milan has no more suitable center than Milito. Regardless of whether Barcelona has targeted defense, Milito will play as a center. Mourinho needs Milito as a fulcrum to threaten the opponent's defense and assist his teammates.

The midfield combination is what Mourinho has to do the most and is the best position to make tactical adjustments.
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