After the FA Cup with Birmingham, everyone, whether it is the media, fans, players, club presidents, head coaches, and anyone who is linked to football, pays attention to the Champions League.

In the quarterfinals of the Champions League, the first leg of the game will officially start on March 29.

The match between Liverpool and Barcelona is held on the second match day, which is March 30th. Liverpool will sit at Anfield Stadium to meet the challenge of Barcelona.

In fact, Liverpool has already made preparations for the Champions League.

Now any team in the world has a headache when encountering Barcelona, ​​because Barcelona is too strong. Although they were defeated in the quarterfinals of the Champions League last season and at the feet of Chelsea, Barcelona this season has amazing strength.

They can be described as swept in La Liga.

So far, they have eleven more points than Real Madrid, the second-placed league, and other La Liga teams can only look up to them.

Barcelona's strength has been strengthened since summer.

Barcelona did not actually have such a daunting strength last season, but the strength of a team has increased little by little. It is unrealistic to directly smash a team with big money like Chelsea. Even if Chelsea and Abramovich have spent 200 million euros, they can only be rampant in the Premier League. It is still in Manchester United and Arsenal have encountered crises in the past two years and are relatively weak.

In comparison, Barcelona started from the beginning of the century and was equivalent to Chelsea today.

Real Madrid was at its peak at that time, and it could be described as sweeping in Europe. The powerful Real Madrid dominance in La Liga can be imagined. Even so, Barcelona also had the ability to challenge Real Madrid at that time.

That's just the start of Barcelona.

Since Barcelona's history, it has been famous for hiring big-name stars at high prices. Kubala in the 1950s, Cruyff in the 1970s, Maradona in the 1980s, Romario in the 1990s, and Ronaldo Jr. after entering the 21st century are all representative figures in various periods.

Miguelli, Sanchez Carrasco, Schuster, Uruti, Maradona Subizareta, Reinker, Bacro, Begilistan, Amor, Koman, Lauderup, Ferrer, Stoichikov Guardiola, Romario, Sergi Aberado, Ronaldo, Fego, Rivaldo, Cruyvit Puyor, Saviola... These names interpret the glory of Barcelona.

But Barcelona has never reached their peak. This is related to their style. Barcelona's football is pleasing to the eye. There are countless fans around the world who like Barcelona, ​​but they don't like them because of Barcelona's results, but they are not liked by Barcelona's football.

If the whole world says a football that is closest to art, it must be Barcelona. Even in the era when Real Madrid cannot compete, Barcelona has no intention of changing the team's style.

They are also xenophobic.

This xenophobia made many teams in other countries not understand it, and even felt that Barcelona was not a professional football club, but like a team that was gathered together in Nazis, but Barcelona's nobility is undoubtedly.

However, in the 21st century, under the leadership of the new chairman Laporta, the club began to adopt a pragmatic attitude, and the xenophobia was not so serious. They took the initiative to introduce the stars they needed, regardless of whether they matched Barcelona or not, whether they had Catalan ancestry, or whether they were concerned about Barcelona, ​​in short, as long as this player could help the team's performance, Barcelona would extend an olive branch to him.

This is the beginning of Barcelona's strength.

From the beginning of the century to the present five years, Barcelona has become very powerful. They introduced Brazil's new generation of "King of Football" Ronaldinho, invited Dutch coach Rijcard to coach, and created a big miracle in the 2003-2004 season - they came from behind to surpass Real Madrid in the league and ranked second.

Before the start of the new season, Barcelona's spending in the transfer market reached 50 million euros.

Among all European clubs, Barcelona ranks second in the transfer fee, second only to Chelsea. The team has successively introduced eight high-level players including Deco, Gully, Larson, Etoo, Sylvinho, Beletti, Edmilson, and Navarro to join.

At the same time, the accumulation of last season, coupled with the strengthening of strength this season, with the combination of Rijcard, the new Barcelona was born. They are simply too strong. Many media commented on Barcelona, ​​"pleasing for the eyes", "full of charm, and "despairing", "full of control". There are praises in front and the feelings of the opponent behind.

Perhaps the words of those teams that play against Barcelona are the most convincing.

For example, in the La Liga that just ended, he lost 0-4 to Barcelona Real Sociedad coach Thors, who said, "We lost from the first minute of the game." This is a voice full of despair.

In the first minute of the game, Barcelona controlled the game. They controlled the football with constant passes and wrote the score with a sudden attack.

The dazzling cooperation and a sudden fatal blow were launched, which was Barcelona's attack.

Barcelona is also very proactive in offense, and Barcelona is also very proactive in defense. No one has to expect Barcelona to set up an iron barrel formation. Their defense starts from the opponent's half.

Those who don’t understand will think that Barcelona has a high formation and will have many loopholes in the backcourt, but in fact, Barcelona is the team that conceded the least goals this season. Up to now, they have only conceded 11 goals in the 27th round of the league, but scored 69 goals. With such gorgeous data, who dares to say that Barcelona’s defense is not good?

This is Barcelona now.

Facing such a Barcelona, ​​Liverpool must prepare early. Liverpool began to prepare two weeks ago, and even Liverpool did some tactical training for the game.

Almost every day, Benitez will organize players to watch Barcelona's game videos. He hopes that everyone can understand Barcelona's playing style and adapt to Barcelona's offensive methods on the field.

When playing against Newcastle, Benitez's change of formation was actually to try whether the 352 formation could be successful. Using the ordinary 442 formation against Barcelona, ​​it would be a disadvantage to cooperate with the excellent team. Just by looking at the game between Chelsea and Barcelona, ​​you can tell that Chelsea can be said to be passive from beginning to end. Although their iron-barrel defense has a great impact on Barcelona, ​​in fact, Chelsea does not have a good chance in the whole game.

Only when the strength of the two teams is very different will it be discovered that one side can only defend passively.

It can be seen how strong Barcelona is!

In the four quarter-finals of the Champions League, Liverpool and Barcelona are the most popular matches. Liverpool is the defending champion, and Barcelona is recognized as one of the strongest teams in the world. There will always be various highlights when the two teams meet.

In public opinion, Liverpool does not have the advantage.

No, it should be said that no one is optimistic about their ability to beat Barcelona, ​​even the English media is the same. Although Liverpool has Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan scored two goals in the first three rounds of the league and a FA Cup, and Zhang Tiehan also performed very well when facing a strong league team like Chelsea, Manchester United, and Arsenal, but so what?

Liverpool is facing Barcelona now...

Take a look at the odds of European bookmakers, here you can see which team is stronger in the hearts of fans.

Just think it was the commentary of The Sun, "Even if Zhang can score two goals, it will be difficult for Liverpool to win." This is the public opinion.

Liverpool players naturally care about these views.

The two teams are about to play, and their club is also a world-class team. As a result, everyone is optimistic about each other, so they are naturally very unhappy. When facing the interview, other Liverpool fans were still very modest, and Zhang Tiehan asked directly, "Why can't we win?"

Then a reporter explained to him.

Zhang Tiehan was too lazy to listen to it. It was not that he was arrogant, but that he had seen these things more than once. "You said we would definitely lose, but I said we would win, what do you think?"

The reporter was a little confused when asked.

"You said they can win, I said we can win. If you are very sure that you are right, you can put all your property on them, and your profit will definitely be quite good." Zhang Tiehan analyzed seriously, "Their odds are more than two points, which is the odds of double. Why don't you try it?"

The reporter finally reacted and asked, "Why don't you try it?"

Zhang Tiehan shrugged and gave him an idiot-looking look, "I am a Liverpool player, if I can't do this."

The reporter had nothing to say.

Zhang Tiehan continued to tease him, "Go and try it, it's twice the profit!"

"I don't like gambling!"

"No, this is not gambling." Zhang Tiehan said seriously, "This is a 100% victory, and 100% is not gambling..."

The reporter was so angry that he was so angry that he found that Zhang Tiehan was still talking nonsense, without any intention of letting him go. Other reporters around were happy to watch jokes, and some were recording something. They must have wanted to write down the matter and publish it. At that time, I am afraid he would become a joke.

So he simply did it all the time and flew it straight away.

Zhang Tiehan looked at the guy's leaving figure happily, glanced at other reporters, and asked, "Who has any questions about Barcelona's victory?"

Everyone shook their heads immediately.

Zhang Tiehan nodded with satisfaction, "Then I'll leave, beg!"
Chapter completed!