Camp Nou
The Barcelona fans angrily raised their arms, creating a massive wave of noise with boos, whistles, and shouts. In their sight, Chen Zhong had shalessly taken down ssi in the penalty area.
This was a disgraceful foul, a penalty! It must be a penalty!
Red card, Chen Zhong must be sent off with a red card!
Barcelona's players were also agitated and gathered around. They couldn't count how many tis they had "surrounded" the referee, but if they could get a penalty and have Chen Zhong sent off, it would all be worth it.
"This wasn't a foul, you should get up."
Chen Zhong turned to look at ssi, who was still sitting on the ground, and calmly said. ssi glanced at Chen Zhong, feeling a bit conflicted inside. Chen Zhong's tackle was clean and decisive, and he had first touched the ball; it was himself who "collided" into him.
But hearing the passionate voices of the Barcelona fans and looking at his flushed teammates surrounding the referee, ssi neither pretended on the ground nor pressed the referee. He just sat quietly.
Argentina is the country with the "Hand of God" World Cup miracle, from a national perspective, it was a great goal. On the stage of the World Cup, using such a thod completed revenge against England, that man could be considered a national hero.
But from a sports ethics perspective, it was not an act of sports fairness.
And ssi...
Once tried to replicate that man's "Hand of God."
In the eyes of so people, soccer is just a continuation of war.
And for victory,
What's wrong with using any ans necessary?
Real Madrid's players also gathered around, with a completely different purpose than Barcelona's.
"What you did was unethical."
"I saw it very clearly."
"You dived." Cavaleiro bent down and accused ssi as he passed by, but ssi said nothing, just tidying up his shoes and socks.
"In the final monts of the first half."
"ssi fell in the penalty area."
"Barcelona's players surrounded the referee."
"It was a decision that could determine the match's outco."
The referee squeezed out of Barcelona's players' encirclent and walked up to Chen Zhong. Chen Zhong, while tapping his left fist with his right hand, looked at the referee and said: "I touched the ball first, he couldn't dodge in ti and crashed into ."
His calm tone caused the referee's previously furrowed brows to slowly relax.
No matter who you are, being surrounded by a group of sweaty guys shouting is sothing no one likes, and the referee was no exception.
He actually saw it very clearly and just wanted to confirm, to see what Chen Zhong had to say.
After hearing Chen Zhong's words, the referee made the final decision.
"The referee pulled out a yellow card!"
"But it's not for Chen Zhong."
"It's for ssi!"
"The referee considered ssi to have dived!"
"It's a bold decision."
Camp Nou exploded completely, and the stands were filled with a million misunderstandings from Barcelona fans.
They roared, angrily cursing the referee and Chen Zhong, but the referee remained unmoved. After giving ssi a yellow card warning, he blew the whistle for halfti.
From the stands, various debris fell, and the Real Madrid players ran back to the locker room under the escort of the security staff.
Guardiola and Mourinho exchanged a glance before each heading into the locker rooms to arrange their tactics.
In Real Madrid's locker room, Mourinho decisively used his first substitution while standing in front of the whiteboard, replacing Negredo with Di Maria.
This action made the players in the locker room look up, curious about what this Portuguese man was doing.
No one knew why he made such an adjustnt.
On the whiteboard, Real Madrid's formation turned into
Kaka, C. Ronaldo, Di Maria
Alonso, Chen Zhong, Khedira
Marcelo, Cavaleiro, Pepe, Ramos
Casillas
Such a lineup was sure to give Guardiola and Barcelona quite a surprise. Mourinho couldn't help but want to laugh at the thought of Guardiola's astonished expression when he saw Cristiano Ronaldo beco the center forward at the start of the second half.
The two of them had once "worked" together. Mourinho clearly understood Guardiola's quirks, knowing that Guardiola liked everything to be under control, hoping all scenarios in a match would go as he imagined and not hoping for his opponents to see through him. Mourinho just wanted to play around with that.
It made him happy.
As the players filed out to head to the field, Mourinho specifically held back Di Maria.
Angel Fabian Di Maria, an Argentine player, nicknad "Angel," is a rare left-footed player in football, and soone Mourinho is optimistic about as a winger, belonging to Mourinho's core group at Real Madrid.
Mourinho patted Di Maria's shoulder, looking directly into Di Maria's eyes, and said: "Listen, the only way to defeat Barcelona is to surpass them in body confrontations, to beco tougher, dare to slide tackle, and work harder in running than they do."
"I know you have a relationship with ssi, but I want to say, if necessary, take him down, if necessary, tackle him, if necessary, no matter what ans you use, you must stop him."
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