Chapter 981 The Last Battle
Just two days after Barcelona lost the Century Derby, the club's official website announced that head coach Guardiola had clearly conveyed the club that after the end of this season, he will no longer renew his contract with the club and will officially leave Barcelona's coach position in June when the contract expires.
This news immediately caused an uproar around the world.
Guardiola is leaving Barcelona?
This news was like a thunder, and it sounded over the European football world, and many European giant teams were moved.
The first to be hit is Chelsea. After firing coach Boas in March this year, Chelsea salivated Guardiola. After Espanyol made it clear that it would leave Barcelona, Chelsea's poaching plan was immediately implemented.
After the official announcement, the club quickly organized a press conference, with Chairman Rossell and Sports Director Subisareta accompanying head coach Guardiola to announce the news of his resignation after the season in front of media reporters.
But surprisingly, technical director Subizareta also made it clear at this press conference that the club's assistant coach Tito Biranova will take over Guardiola.
The news shocked Guardiola. In the subsequent interview, he said that he had never received any information on this aspect, and he did not know that the club had locked in Biranova as his successor, but he also made it clear that whether to accept it is Biranova's freedom, he only had blessings.
But everyone could read Guardiola's face that his inner surprise, loss, and even a little angry.
He is not a fool, he knows very well that he has been kept in the dark all the time.
But this is professional football!
The news of Guardiola's departure not only stimulated European football, but also greatly stimulated Barcelona.
After losing to Real Madrid at Camp Nou, Dream Three quickly slaughtered Barrecano 7-0 away, and then defeated Espanyol 4-0 in the derby, but in the last round, he drew Malaga 2-2 away.
This made Guardiola's last La Liga game somewhat unsatisfactory.
Compared to Guardiola's sadness, Chinatown's season ended well.
After eliminating Barcelona with a total score of 3-2 in the Champions League quarter-finals, Chinatown first defeated Bayern Munich 2-2-1 at home, and then lost to the Bundesliga class bully one-2 away. Pochettino's team performed very tenaciously and was in a match against Bayern Munich.
But after overtime, the two sides entered a penalty shootout, and the players of Chinatown were obviously under greater pressure. In addition, Neuer performed bravely and Chinatown lost points in a row. Even though De Gea saved two penalty kicks, he eventually lost one to three.
This crushing defeat also made everyone realize the fact that most of the players in Chinatown are still low in age and their psychological qualities are not tough enough. Even mature players like Rakitic, Pelle, Godin and Miranda have never proved themselves in European football, which has led them to worry about gains and losses at critical moments.
After losing the penalty kick, Chinatown shed tears on the Allianz Stadium and returned from Germany with hatred.
In La Liga, from the 32nd round, Chinatown first defeated Santander 3-0, and then defeated Villarrel 2-1 away, but soon drew two games 1-1 at home and away Real Sociedad and Osasuna.
After being eliminated from the Champions League by Bayern Munich, Chinatown quickly defeated Valencia 1-0 at home, defeating the Bats in the key top four league matches, defending the fourth position in the league.
In the last two rounds of La Liga, they lost to Atletico Madrid one-two away, and defeated Sporting Gijon 1-0 at home.
On the other hand, after Valencia drew Real Madrid away, she soon lost 0-4 away at Espanyol, and then lost away to Chinatown away, and in the last round, she lost 0-1 away to Real Sociedad in the away game.
Although he won all the home games, his poor away record ultimately forced the Bats to reap the bitter fruit.
After 38 rounds of the league, Real Madrid won the La Liga championship this season with 99 points. Mourinho's team failed to score 100 points, which was deeply regretful. Barcelona followed closely and scored 91 points.
There is no suspense about the third place in La Liga, and it belongs to Atletico Madrid.
Although the bedsheets cannot pose a threat to Real Madrid and Barcelona this season, their overall strength is still slightly better than other teams and steadily ranks third in the league.
Chinatown ranked fourth in La Liga with 66 points, while Valencia only scored 58 points, ranking fifth in La Liga, and then Malaga, Levante and Osasuna.
In the La Liga scorer list, Messi, who scored 50 goals in a single season, surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored 46 goals in a single season, and became a veritable scorer in European football.
Behind Messi is Chinatown's top scorer Aubameyang and Atletico Madrid's captain Torres. Both players scored 24 goals each and tied for the second place in the scorer list.
Higuain scored 22 goals, Diego Costa scored 21 goals, Real Madrid's offensive firepower was also very good, and he was able to defeat Barcelona and win the league championship again after years of separation. The Galaxy Battleship finally ushered in a recovery.
With this league championship, Mourinho's position in Real Madrid has also become stronger.
When the La Liga came to an end, the Ligue 1 also ended the war.
Under Gao Han's leadership, Paris Saint-Germain won the league championship with a record of 38 games without any danger. At the same time, it defeated Lyon in the French Cup final and won the French Cup.
In the UEFA Champions League championship battle, Gao Han and Emery staged a master-apprentice duel, but in the end, Gao Han was slightly better, defeating Emery's Bat Legion with a score of 3-0, winning the UEFA Champions League and achieving the triple-champion.
In the Champions League, Bayern Munich, who eliminated Chinatown in the semi-finals, and Manchester United, who eliminated Manchester City in a total score of 1-0, both met in the Champions League final.
These two teams with feud more than ten years ago met again in the Champions League final, which aroused the expectations of fans around the world.
Bayern Munich has an advantage in overall strength. Heinx's team took the lead in breaking Manchester United's goal, but the Red Devils and Manchester United performed very tenaciously. Ferguson's team struggled to hold on until the last moment, and in stoppage time, with Van Persie's goal, equalized the score one-to-one.
Mkhitaryan was the one who gave Van Persie the assist.
After that, neither side was able to score a goal and entered a penalty shootout.
But this time, Bayern Munich was not so lucky. Although Neuer saved a penalty, Navas on the opposite side performed even more bravely and saved two penalty kicks from Bayern Munich, helping the Red Devils defeat Bayern Munich with a penalty kick, winning the Champions League championship again.
After thirteen years of separation, Manchester United once again defeated Bayern Munich and won the Champions League title.
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On the evening of May 25, the Mestalia Stadium in Valencia.
The competition is about to begin.
Barcelona players finished their pre-match warm-up training and returned to the locker room to make their final preparations before the game.
Guardiola gently pushed open the door of the locker room, walked in, turned around and closed it gently.
When he turned around, all the Barcelona players in the locker room looked up at him.
This is the last game of European football this season.
Guardiola slowly walked to the players step by step, which was his last game in Barcelona.
The opponent is Chinatown, a team that eliminated them from the Champions League.
He wants to win, not just want to take revenge, but also because he wants to end his coaching career at Barcelona with a championship, even in the use of a useless King's Copa del Rey.
"This is the last game." Guardiola said slowly, his tone very calm, just like he usually is gentle and elegant.
"The opponent is very strong, he played well in the Champions League this season and won fourth in the league. This game will definitely be difficult, but I have always believed that you are the best and best players in the world, and Barcelona is the most outstanding team in the world. Even now, I have no doubt about this."
All the players listened quietly to Guardiola's words and looked at him silently.
"I've been disappointed with everyone's performance over the past period of time, which made me realize that we have to make some changes, whether we want to or not, so my choice is to leave, which is a decision I made myself after careful consideration."
Guardiola's words are equivalent to denying rumors from the outside media.
Some people say he is in a disagreement with the management, some say that the superstar players led by Messi and Ibrahimovic forced him to palace, and some say that he was poached by other giant teams, but now it seems that all this is fake.
"This is my last game in Barcelona. I hope everyone can fulfill my little wish. I want to see that Barcelona full of passion, concentration and resilience. Is it OK?"
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At about ten o'clock, the whistle was blew on time in the Cup of del Rey final.
Guardiola sat upright in the coach's seat, while Gao Han sat in the stands. They all realized the difference between Barcelona tonight.
From the beginning of the game, the Dream Team was full of high fighting spirit. They showed their sharpness from the first second, and everyone was full of energy. Faced with the pressing and oppression of Chinatown, they did not give in.
From the first minute, Gao Han realized that this game was probably out of the way.
In Guardiola's last game, in his farewell game, Barcelona finally regained the football they relied on for fame, and they finally showed unstoppable strength.
Messi, Ibrahimovic, Pedro, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Alves...
Less than a minute after the game started, Xavi made a wonderful pass to Messi, and Messi almost scored, but one minute later Barcelona created another murderous intent.
The first goal occurred in the third minute, with Pedro opening the first record for Barcelona.
After that, Barcelona almost fought against Chinatown. Faced with such a Barcelona team, Chinatown could not resist it.
In the 20th minute, Iniesta assisted and Messi scored.
In the 25th minute, Xavi assisted again and Ibrahimovic scored a goal.
In just half an hour, Barcelona did not leave even a slight chance for Chinatown. The attack like a storm made Chinatown unbearable.
Chinatown's first shot actually happened after zero to three, which shows how advantage Barcelona has.
And everyone knows that this half hour is the real Barcelona.
This is the Dream Three Team Guardiola pursues.
Half an hour later, Barcelona slacked off, but still firmly controlled the situation on the court.
Chinatown still performed better in the second half, and once counterattacked and even scored a goal, but in the end it was unable to create a miracle again.
One to three, Chinatown lost the King's Cup final and missed the first championship trophy in club history.
This group of young Chinatown players once again shed tears on the field.
Chapter completed!