Rijkaard is in a hurry!

  The first half ended with a 0-1 deficit, and Real Madrid, who were pying away at the Pizjuan Stadium, were leading by two goals, which made him start to lose his temper.

  He felt that he had to make some ges to turuation around.

  After sending the pyer back to the locker room, he immediately made adjustments, signaling Ia to follow him back to the locker room.

  This is the signal for a midfield substitution.

  "Wait, Frank." Ten Cate couldn't help but persuade.

  "I know the situation is very critiow, but anyone be in a hurry, but you 't. You are the head coach of the team, and you 't mess up."

  Rijkaard stopped, turo stare at his assistant coach, tried to trol his breathing rhythm, and said word by word: "I'm not messing up, we then our offense."

  "Yes, but at this time the substitution will send a signal to the pyers, you know." Ten Cate was also anxious.

  He felt that Rijkaard was really messed up.

  In fact, ask yourself, anyone in this position would be in chaos at this moment.

  From leading by ten points to being tied by oppos, Bara has always been the leader of the league. There is pressure, but it is not messed up.

  But things are different now. In the final round, the league champion was almost assured, but the oppoook the lead. Anyone in this situation would be panig.

  But Bara is pletely different from other teams.

  What Bara emphasizes is passing and trolling the ball, and what is most needed is patience, order, ess, and reason.

  Rijkaard's substitution at this time was ttheeam's offense, whi itself was correct, because Barust score two goals in the sed half, and ges were needed. But Rijkaard had begun to rush, which was not acceptable.

  The coach's mentality be felt by the pyers.

  One of the important reasons for g the goal in the first half was that after the fans of the home team shouted that Real Madrid had a two-goal lead, the pyers on the field got anxious, and there were more mistakes in passing and receiving. Athletic Bilbao seized the opportunity to sneak a goal.

  The pyers were already in a hurry, and Rijkaard added more pressure, making the situation even more dangerous.

  But Rijkaard also had his own siderations.

  "I know, of course I know." He was annoyed and shouted at Ten Cate, "I know I have to score two goals in the sed half, otherwise, the La Liga champion belongs to that damn ese!"

  "I know, you're right, he didn't give up the game. I uimated our oppo and made such a mistake, so I have to do my best to make up for it now, is there a problem?"

  "I know even more that you looked down on me from the very beginning. You were my assistant coach, you just wao use the influence of Bara to improve yourself, and you even thought about repg me, so you have embarrassed me in the media many times and caused me trouble."

  Rijkaard's emotions got out of trol.

  He felt that Ten Cate was watg a py and enjoying his misfortune in order to prove himself right.

  He has always been polite, and if he hadn't been really anxious, he wouldn't have gotten so out of trol.

  And his words not only stuen Cate, but also everyone around him.

  When had they seen Rijkaard lose his temper?

  But after venting, Rijkaard calmed down instead.

  Tenkat looked at Rijkaard deeply, without denying or expining.

  He khat Rijkaard had been holding back these words in his heart for a long time, and finally he couldn't help but burst out when he was about to break down and was so critical aive.

  He knew even more that Rijkaard was actually muilty, ashamed, and uo accept his pre-match mistakes.

  At that time, Ten Cate believed that Bara should try their best to win the game. Rijkaard's formation was not enough to win against Athletic Bilbao, but Rijkaard felt that it was enough.

  He o set aside more energy and resources for the Champions League final three days ter.

  Now, the game proves that Rijkaard was wrong!

  He also khat he was wrong, so he hurriedly looked for corres, trying to make up for his mistakes.

  But what Ten Cate wants him to know is that Bara 't be in a hurry!

  "I am the head coach of the team, I am the first responsible person for the team's victory, and you are just my assistant!" After Rijkaard finished speaking in a deep voice, he walked straight into the pyer tunnel.

  Ten Cate stood bnkly at the entrance of the pyer tunnel. He found that he was wrong too.

  He thought he could uand Rijkaard, but he couldn't.

  Over the years, he has always thought that Rijkaard could tolerate his bad temper, could accept his bombardment of the club's ma in the media, could allow him to yell at any pyer in the dressing room because of his ability. Rijkaard has had to rely on him.

  But now it seems, no.

  Rijkaard is no fool, he does uand, but as a leader, he swallow his pride for the sake of the overall situation.

  But I don't know since when, Ten Cate crossed the line.

  Maybe it was when he accepted the Ajax invitation, or when he was being tantalized these days, or maybe earlier...

  Anyway, when Ten Cate crossed the line, Rijkaard didn't want to bear it anymore.

  ...

  At the beginning of the sed half, Barade a substitution.

  Ia repced Thiago Motta.

  Van Bommel returo the back midfield, with Ded Ia in charge anization and passing in front.

  This is also one of Bara's regur midfield binations.

  However, Athletic Bilbao, who had a lead, obviously pyed more servatively, fog on defensive terattacks. The pyers were very active in the game and made great moves.

  This would be hard enough in normal times.

  Now, the Basque lions all know that Bara is impatient to scoals and to reverse, so they are even less anxious. Instead of being anxious, they use some tricks from time to time.

  Fouls are onpce, and what is even more disgusting is that they will deliberately dey time in various ways.

  I have to say that Athletic Bilbao is a team with rich experien stepping on the lihey know how to trol the referee's w enfort standards, so some of their small as are done by stepping on the w enfort standards.

  Bara is in a hurry, they are not in a hurry.

  And everyone knows that when Bara is in a hurry, it is easy to make mistakes in passing and trolling the ball, and even the pyers have a great temper.

  This has led to the game slowly being dragged by Athletic Bilbao into the kind of hand-to-hand bat they are best at, while the passing and possession rhythm that Bara is most aced to is pletely unpyable.

  When the game went to the 60th minute, Rijkaard saw that the situation on the field had not ged. He made a sed substitution, repg Van Bommel with Larsen, and the team pyed 4-4-2.

  Eto'o and Larsen formed a double forward, Ronaldinho and Giuly were on the wings, and Ded Ia partnered in midfield.

  That's enough to show an attitude.

  Rijkaard is encing pyers to go all out and fight to the death with their oppos.

  No matter what, they o secure a win here!

  The Bara pyers och were also enced and began tanize waves of attacks, taking an overwhelming advantage on the se, but they made frequent mistakes in attag anization and never posed a substantial threat to Athletic Bilbao's goal.

  When the game reached the 80th minute, after Athletic Bilbao formed a steal in the midfield, they quickly instigated a terattack. The right-wing fullback La Cruz quickly moved forward, went straight into the right side of the penalty area, and made a cross. The ball was sent into the penalty area.

  Llorente grabbed the spot, beat Puyol and Marcos, and headed the goal from cle.

  But the ball was saved by Valdes and failed to score.

  Just when everyohought that Bara's crisis was over, Etxeberria, who came off the bench, volleyed with his left foot and broke Bara's goal again, giving Athletic Bilbao another victory.

  Two to zero!

  If the first goal ceded still left hope, thexeberria's goal pletely killed Bara.

  Rijkaard was on the sidelines, c his fa pain, watg what was happening o disbelief.

  He never imagihat his team would be forced into su embarrassing situation, that he would even hand over the league title, which had been ahead for most of the season, to the arch-rival Real Madrid.

  He knew very well what this loss would bring to himself and the team.

  ...

  Losing two goals in a row was a huge blow to Bara's morale.

  Sometimes, football games are like that.

  After losing the first opportunity, it is often very difficult to reverse the situation.

  It's like wheional football team drew with Brazil back then. At the beginning, it was better than Brazil and didn't do its best. They thought they could win the game, but they never mao score. Later, Brazil started to exert its strength, but it was already too te.

  This is of course not the real level of Brazil and the national football team, but a draw is a draw.

  The same is true of Bara today.

  Rijkaard's lineup decisions before the game, and his on-the-spot ands during the game, repeatedly caused problems, resulting in Bara's failure to find their rhythm. They went down by two goals.

  With two goals behind, Bara's morale plummeted.

  The pyers khat they had to score three goals to wile.

  But at that time, let alohree goals, it seemed difficult to score even a single goal.

  A very typical picture emerged in the eighty-fifth minute.

  Bara took advantage of Athletic Bilbao's mistake to create an opportunity. Belletti ao'o faced goalkeeper La Fueogether in what seemed like a foolproof one-ouation.

  However, Eto'o's shot was saved by La Fuente, ati failed to seize the opportunity to make a timely shot.

  Bara's morale was evidently greatly affected, making it difficult to pose any threat to Athletic Bilbao.

  Rijkaard was visibly frustrated towards the end, and he didn't evehe third substitution.

  In the end, the Dut could only helplessly watch his team lose 0-2 at the San Mames Stadium, handing over the La Liga championship that was clearly already within their grasp to Real Madrid.

  He khat he had lost!

  From the moment he was deeply interfered with and influenced before the match, he had already lost this starting lineup!