Chapter 74: Lover Chapter and the European War (Explosive Chapter)

In the match against Valencia, despite having a great advantage in ball possession, Barcelona was unable to take points away from Mestalla, the famous and terrifying home stadium in La Liga. The score of 0-1 was mainly due to Valdés's mistake, and then the gift to Valencia, Barcelona's points lead was reduced to 6 points.

In the press conference after the game, Rijkaard attributed the team's loss to bad luck: "We have the right attitude, and we have tried our best to find a good result. But unfortunately, we lost the game in this way. If Barcelona had a little luck, they could have won the game."

Rijkaard was reluctant to criticize the players, and he was understanding of Valdes: "He is a player, a person with character, who works very hard in training and games. Now we have to help him because he is of great value to the team.

Rijkaard believes that although the lead has been reduced to 6 points, Barcelona should not be too worried. However, the Dutchman is also eagerly looking forward to the return of Ronaldinho, Deco and others: "Once these players return to the team, Barcelona will regain the motivation to win." But paradoxically, he denied that Barcelona has a Ronaldinho dependency...

Barcelona players were dissatisfied with the result after the game. Valdés, who made a big mistake of giving gifts and entertaining guests, said: "I am sad to lose the game because this game is very important. What's worse is that their goal was a gift from me... It's definitely not a good feeling to lose a goal in this way, but this is also part of football. It was an irresponsible goal, a gift from me. Obviously, it was a bad blow for both the team and myself at that time."

Valencia coach Flores showed a moderate amount of pride in the press conference after the game: "Compared with two weeks ago, the league is now more suspenseful, especially for the fans. This is a game that pushes us towards success, but first, we have to complete the goal set at the beginning of the season, which is to enter the Champions League... We will continue to create fear and pressure on Barcelona... Now I hope Barcelona will play with pressure because they are not allowed to lose again.

After the game, the media was not only hyping the life-and-death battle between Barcelona and Valencia, but also the duel between Eto'o and Villa, the two top strikers in the La Liga scorer list who were both born in 1981 (after this game, Eto'o had 18 goals and Villa had 15 goals). However, this season, Valencia and Barcelona have played against each other twice, and Villa has scored 3 goals against Barcelona, ​​while Eto'o has scored nothing.

Therefore, El Mundo named Villa as one of the protagonists of this round: "He is not only the absolute main force of Valencia and the best local scorer in La Liga, but will undoubtedly become a player participating in the World Cup. In the national team, he should also be the main force."

On the contrary, Eto'o, who returned from the national team, was quite lost. Barcelona had a possession rate of 64% in the whole game, but Eto'o only had 2 shooting opportunities, and both of them were off target...

On Monday morning, Ricardo simply glanced at the news and forgot about the race - one reason was that he was barely mentioned, and the other main reason was that Valentine's Day was coming up on February 2, which was on Tuesday! As a scumbag with many girlfriends, he had to make arrangements quickly.

First of all, it is Princess Sarafina. This is the most difficult to deal with, because not only is Valentine's Day on February 2th, but February 14th is also her 2th birthday, and Riccardo is too busy to go back to Milan to celebrate with her.

He could only ask Pimenta to select two gifts in advance, and even spend money to hire a team to celebrate Sarafina's birthday. As for what gifts and what team, Ricardo really couldn't think of it, so he had to leave it to the professional big sister to take charge...

For this purpose, Ricardo also prepared a generous holiday gift for his close sister Pimenta - you can buy any gift within the budget of 2 Euros!

Pimenta was also very satisfied with Ricardo's gift. Giving gifts to a little girl and holding an event to celebrate her birthday was so simple... It would be nice to realize the dream that I didn't realize back then! It might be a little more high-end, anyway, there is a sucker to pay for it...

Thinking of this, Pimenta felt a little bit happy again. Although it was not prepared for himself, the process of shopping was the easiest to have an orgasm! So Pimenta took the initiative to arrange for Riccardo's second target, Chiara, to go with him. Anyway, they were both in Milan. It happened that he had many unfulfilled dreams that year, so the ABCD plan could be fully arranged.

Listening to Pimenta's budget report, Ricardo couldn't help but think that this 2 euros gift was really worth it! There are so many ways to celebrate Valentine's Day and birthdays?! From now on, everyone's birthdays and holidays around him will be contracted to her. She really deserves to be an internationally renowned senior manager in the future!

With a solid plan, Ricardo could not help but feel relieved to have two confidantes in Milan, Italy. As for how to arrange for Sarafina, who turned 18, whether to keep her or sleep with her, he would have to wait until the Easter holiday in April to consider it...

The last case, Julian, was the easiest to deal with. She was lying on her bed lazily. In the afternoon, she was going to have an interview at a Spanish biopharmaceutical company - it was just a formality of course. Julian, a top student, had been recommended to AstraZeneca, and the feedback from the internal interview arranged last week was that she had passed it successfully, so she should be able to go back and start her internship next week.

AstraZeneca, headquartered in London, is a leading global biopharmaceutical company with operations in more than 100 countries and production bases in 17 countries. It has annual revenue of more than US$200 billion and annual R&D investment of more than US$30 billion... There is no biopharmaceutical company in Spain that can match it, not even close to it. Of course, there are not many companies in the world that can compare with it.

So in the next few days until she leaves for London on Friday, Julian has nothing to do and can spend time with Ricardo.

In addition, boss Rijkaard was also very considerate that all the men in the team had important political tasks or physiological needs on Valentine's Day night, so he considerately changed Tuesday's training session to earlier in the afternoon, and focused on tactical training, so that all the guys in the team could have enough time and energy to deal with dates in the evening.

So Ricardo's plan for Tuesday was to take Julian to the seafood market and Chinatown to shop early in the morning, and then have seafood hotpot at home in the evening!

Having his own cozy little apartment, Ricardo didn't want to squeeze into an Internet celebrity restaurant with groups of lusty couples in the early spring when it was still chilly, and then get ripped off.

Isn't it nice to eat seafood hot pot in a world-famous port city? Chinatown supermarkets sell all kinds of seasonings, soups and ingredients, such as Lao Gan Ma sesame sauce, sesame oil and fermented tofu. Ricardo even found a bottle of chives...

Ricardo has already thought of the base for the double-flavored hotpot. One side is Sichuan-style spicy red oil, and the other side is coconut, astragalus and wolfberry chicken. The sea cucumber was posted yesterday, and I have to buy oysters, red shrimp, scallops, abalone, snow crab, beef and mutton slices, spinach, leeks, okra and winter melon in the morning...

We already have red wine and soda water at home, and we just need to buy some fruits.

When the food is hot, you can roll over in the next room without having to go to the hotel...

So, on Valentine's Day, Ricardo used Yuanyang Seafood Hot Pot to get Julian, and the Ice Goddess also agreed to start taking medicine to prevent the sports protective equipment from being damaged...

(What a scumbag! He even came up with such a weird excuse...)

In the next two days, Julian, who looked cool but was gentle inside, accompanied Ricardo back to school to study in the library and went to the club to watch Ricardo's training. This made Ricardo's classmates, teachers, teammates and coaches all envious: "It's so soon that we have another girl with a fairy-like appearance?" (Obviously Chiara had accompanied him before, so everyone had seen it...)

Ricardo could only quickly be modest: "No, no, I didn't change it, I just added one..."

Everyone: "...Fuck! I really want to give him a big slut fight!"

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The happiness passed without knowing the time. Soon, Friday morning came. Ricardo woke up the sleeping ice goddess wrapped around him and set out to send Julian to the airport before the housekeeping company arrived...

Then he went back to school for morning exercises and classes, and returned to the club in the evening to participate in training. After learning that he was selected in the squad for the weekend match against Real Betis, Ricardo rushed to the airport for the second time in one day with a happy mood to greet Chiara with a happy face - it seems that the Valentine's Day gifts and surprises prepared by Pimenta are very powerful!

However, both parties were restrained and stopped at the end of the night. After all, the girls who could ride on Ricardo knew the oath that someone had sworn that their penis would be chopped off if they did not restrain themselves. Although it seemed to have no effect at the moment, there was still a god above our heads, so we should still have some awe.

(So ​​the number of words that need to be omitted for the sake of love and peace is only about 2,000 words...)

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Because there is a Champions League knockout match next week, the 2th round of La Liga will be played at 18:22 on Saturday, February 24, and Barcelona will face Real Betis at home.

Barcelona had previously suffered two consecutive defeats in the league, losing to Atletico Madrid and Valencia, and was eliminated from the King's Cup. Barcelona's performance has not been good recently, so this game before the Champions League knockout stage cannot be lost. It is a crucial battle for the whole team to restore confidence and boost morale.

Belletti and Sylvinho replaced Marcos and Van Bronckhorst in the starting lineup respectively, the injured Deco and the banned Ronaldinho replaced Van Bommel and Giuly in the starting lineup respectively, and Larsson replaced Esquero in the starting lineup.

In preparation for the Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea next week, Messi and Li Qi were kept on the bench - perhaps only Ricardo felt that he was kept on the bench...

In addition to Joaquin, Ricardo also found a familiar face in the Real Betis starting lineup - Tardelli, the future Lulong star, who was suspended for two yellow cards and one red card for diving in the World Youth Championship and did not play in the same game; in this game, he actually became one of the two starting arrows of Betis! This made Ricardo envious for a while...

Then after the opening, the first shot of the game also came from this bald striker.

In the 2nd minute, Fernandez broke through on the left and made a back pass near the baseline. Tardelli rushed to the goal and forced a left-foot shot against the defense from 12 yards in front of the goal. The ball was blocked by the defender and lost its speed and was easily caught by Valdes.

However, after this attack, the game was immediately taken over by Barcelona, ​​who were playing at home. Betis was forced back to the half court and kept rubbing...

In the 3rd minute, Eto'o broke through to the right side of the penalty area and shot from a small angle, but his shot was saved by Betis goalkeeper Dobras.

In the 5th minute, Eto'o moved to the left edge of the penalty area and tried again, but it was again confiscated by Dobras.

In the 9th minute, Ronaldinho, who had been holding back for two games, broke free from the defense and suddenly made a cross. Iniesta followed up from the middle and shot from 25 yards, but unfortunately it went wide of the baseline.

Barcelona took the lead in the 17th minute after forming a siege. Ronaldinho's father cleverly passed the ball to the right side of the penalty area in the face of defense. Eto'o quickly inserted and swept the ball to the far post. Larsson arrived in time and shot the ball into the half-empty goal! This was the Swede's fifth league goal this season, helping Barcelona to lead 5-1.

After scoring the goal, Barcelona obviously had no intention of stopping and continued to maintain a fast-paced pressure and offensive.

In the 19th minute, Belletti came from behind and volleyed with his right foot from 25 yards in the middle, but the ball was saved by Dobras.

In the 20th minute, Eto'o took a long shot with his left foot from 28 yards on the left, but the angle was too straight and was caught by Dobras.

Barcelona almost extended the lead in the 23rd minute. Ronaldinho's father dribbled into the left side of the penalty area, made a realistic fake move to create space and then passed the ball to the far post. Larsson headed the ball from 5 yards in front of the goal, but he actually deflected the powerful header.

Two minutes later, Ronaldinho's father made a comeback and broke through the left side of the penalty area again and made a cross. This time Deco stopped the ball with his chest at the far end and passed it to Eto'o. The Cameroonian shot from 10 yards on the right side of the penalty area, but was unfortunately blocked by Dobras' legs again.