Original title: Barcelona’s first career in 16 years, the first time in red to reveal why Messi is so flammable and explosive
In the early morning of the 18th, in the Spanish Super Cup final, Barcelona lost to Athletic Bilbao 2-3 in overtime and missed the championship. Messi “killed” himself at the last moment of overtime in the game-slapped his opponent on the head and ended in red-this was Messi’s first red card in Barcelona’s career. After the game, “Aspen” reported that he may be suspended for at least 4 games.
Behind Messi’s red card is a manifestation of his mental imbalance. 8 violations in 120 minutes, coupled with the “difficult birth” of the Barcelona presidential election and the confusion of the future, make Messi inflammable and explosive.
Before this game, Barcelona was waiting for a championship trophy-this century-old giant, the last time to taste the taste of championship, or 631 days ago, the 2018-2019 season La Liga champion. However, Athletic Bilbao is known for being an iron army and a tough one. One can imagine how difficult it will be for Barcelona. Especially at the last moment, Messi, who has always focused on the field, exploded.
At the end of the game, there was a dramatic scene. The opposing defender Villalibre continuously rammed Messi and blocked his offensive line. Messi couldn’t bear it and waved his right hand to hit the opposing defender. After watching the VAR (Video Assistant Referee), the referee believed that Messi was deliberately retaliating, and decisively showed a red card and sent him off the court. Counting this game, Messi has played 502 games for the Barcelona first team since October 2004. He received 78 yellow cards in the previous game, and this is his first red card. After receiving the red card, Messi left without a word.
Previously, Messi had only received two red cards during his national team, namely Argentina against Hungary in 2005 and Argentina against Chile in 2019.
Why is Messi angry? To put it bluntly, this is the result of his anxiety during the game: OPTA data shows that Messi was violated 8 times in 120 minutes. After the game, Barcelona coach Koeman said in an interview that he did not want to evaluate the referee on the matter of Messi’s red color: “I understand what Messi did. I can’t count how many times they fouled him.”
The deep-seated cause of Messi’s anxiety is related to the “difficult birth” in the presidential election of the Barcelona club. After a series of meetings last Friday, the election date for the Barcelona club chairman is likely to be postponed to March 7. In the morning, representatives of Barcelona held a meeting with the relevant departments of Catalonia and reached an agreement on postponing the presidential election. Both sides believe that, given the current epidemic in the region, the presidential election cannot be held on January 24 as planned.
Does the postponement of the election have any impact on Messi’s stay? Laporta, currently the most popular candidate, said: “I know he wants to stay. As long as the club provides an offer that suits him, he will do everything he can to stay.”
However, Messi definitely has opinions on the postponement of the general election, because no one wants the team’s performance to rebound more than he, but due to the delay of the new chairman, all signings cannot be carried out normally. “World Sport” previously pointed out that Barcelona has negotiated with Manchester City on Eric Garcia’s winter transfer, and Barcelona only needs to pay 5 million euros for him this summer. But the club finally gave up the introduction of Eric Garcia. Among the three presidential candidates, Laporta and Victor Fonte clearly opposed spending money to buy him in the winter.
Messi is about to turn 34, and his contract with Barcelona will expire in only half a year. Although he said that he will only think about the future after the season is over, it means that the chances of him staying in Barcelona are not big. A recent survey by the “World Sports Daily” even hurt Messi’s heart-nearly half of the 220 club members believe that Barcelona should not force Messi to stay, perhaps this also represents Barcelona fans One current attitude towards Messi: If he wants to leave, we don’t need to stay.
6.8% of Barcelona members have begun to accept the fact that Messi is leaving. Moreover, in this survey, 52.2% of the members think that the club should keep Messi, but only 14.5% think that “Messi should be kept at any cost”, and 37.7% of the fans think that Messi can only accept You can stay with a salary cut. In this way, the number of fans desperately eager for Messi to stay may be less than 20%.
Under the influence of various factors, it is no wonder that Messi hit his opponent red when he lost the Western Super Cup champion. But after all, the Western Super Cup is just the prologue of the new season. Messi and Barcelona still have a lot of games to play. If Messi can adjust his mentality, there are still many championships to win.
Red Star News reporter Hu Minjuan compiled the report, according to Visual China
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