Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Spanish Super Cup

It's important to start the season well. But Granada soon had another more important match. Spanish Super Cup.

Isn't the Spanish Super Cup a tournament that takes place before the start of the season?

Someone familiar with La Liga will surely ask that. In fact, there is a reason why the Spanish Super Cup will start later than La Liga this time.

The reason for this is that it was originally intended to be held in China. The Granada team is now basically half a team of Chinese fans, so the Granada team from top to bottom, and even the Spanish Football Federation is willing to hold it in China. However, the opponent of the Spanish Super Cup, Real Madrid, the winner of last season's Copa del Rey, has been very opposed.

Real Madrid was against it and it didn't work at first. With sufficient interests in mind, the Spanish Super Cup was strongly scheduled to be held in Shanghai, China.

It's a pity that just when Yan Feng was about to follow the team back to China and perform well in front of his hometown fathers, he didn't do it beautifully. Weather forecasts that there will be a super typhoon on the day of the race. In addition, after the typhoon, the competition venue was damaged and the continuous heavy rain.

This situation made it impossible to play. Originally, it could have been temporarily moved to another city in China, but this time the Real Madrid team took the opportunity to strongly oppose it and refused to fly to China, so naturally the game could not be held.

In desperation, the Spanish Super Cup was postponed for the first time in history.

After consultations on all sides, the matter had to be returned to Spain. As champions of last season's league, Granada have the advantage of playing at home in the first leg.

Three days after the first round of the league, Granada welcomed Real Madrid at home.

The period leading up to the new season for Real Madrid has been a bit stormy. first experienced the return of Ancelotti, then the departure of Ronaldo, followed by the purge after Ancelotti's return.

Carlo Ancelotti cleared up a couple of big names before the season, including Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema. may be deterred by the purge, and Ronaldo, who has been using the departure team to intimidate him with a salary increase, has temporarily stopped.

Where there is purge, there are new reinforcements. And this time Ancelotti made a big deal and used 150 million euros to poach Cavani.

The arrival of Cavani, coupled with the heavy use of Alosio, has essentially improved the attacking firepower of Real Madrid. It's just that the turmoil in the team has made them change more often in the first round of La Liga. It was just a draw with Real Sociedad.

After failing to get off to a good start in the opening game of the league, the Spanish Super Cup became even more important, especially for the new Carlo Ancelotti. He desperately needs to prove himself in such an important competition.

For these reasons, Real Madrid are taking this game very seriously, even at Granada's home stadium, and they want to get something out of it.

'It's our home stadium and whoever comes can't stop us from winning. As for the opponent, don't come to the time, Ronaldo won't be able to play. Mourinho said confidently before the game.

'Cristiano Ronaldo will definitely play. There is no doubt about that. As for the rest, even at the Stade Granada, we have the confidence to win and the quality to match it. Ancelotti also responded to Mourinho's provocations.

After all, it was only the beginning of the new season, and the two sides only had a limited verbal exchange. After that, there were no other mouths.

Soon, the match began at the Granada Stadium, cheered on by tens of thousands of Granada fans.

As mentioned above, Real Madrid takes this game very seriously. As a result, Real Madrid launched a series of onslaughts after an initial cautious trial. Especially the big man in the team, Ronaldo, in order to prove that he has the value of the same salary as Messi, he also played openly.

And the Granada team, under the command of Mourinho, unsurprisingly played a defensive counterattack.

If it had been last season, Granada would never have done that on their home turf. With enough offensive ability, even if it is a fight for breath, it will not be weaker than the opponent's momentum.

However, Mourinho didn't care about what seemed to him to be false. His defensive counter-attacking tactics, in the case of home advantage, naturally made Real Madrid unable to start.

Throughout the first half, Real Madrid was under the turtle of the Granada team, like biting a hedgehog, which made them extremely depressed. And Ronaldo, who was eager to show himself, was even more angry and scolded. "Coward!" "Coward!" "Shameless!"

Listening to Ronaldo's scolding, Yan Feng was also a little helpless and couldn't refute it. Under Mourinho's strong demand, the Granada team just didn't come out, and everything was based on foolproof.

As a result, the first half was a dull one.

In the second half, just when everyone thought Mourinho would be like in the first half, he allowed Granada to switch to an attacking style of play.

You can let go of the attack, and after holding back a full half of the game, the Granada team is almost red-eyed. The sudden and rapid furious attack caught the Real Madrid team off guard.

Less than five minutes into the second half, Granada scored the goal.

It was Granada who scored first. Carlo Ancelotti was not in a hurry at first, but felt that Real Madrid's opportunity had come. Just when he adjusted the team's tactics and was about to give the Granada team a hard blow, Mourinho waved his hand, and the Granada team shrank back.

This made Ancelotti depressed. What makes him even more depressed is that since then, the Granada team has not shrunk out. Later, it was mainly defensive counterattacks until the game was exhausted.

The first leg of the Spanish Super Cup was consumed like this, and Ancelotti was depressed and wanted to curse. However, I lost the game, and I said too much. Depressed, Ancelotti could only speak.

"There's the next round, we'll see you at the Bernabeu. Hopefully you'll be able to hold the game like a turtle then. ”

Mourinho just said lightly. "The result of the game is always the most important thing. The process, you just have fun. Hehe~"

Well, the game wasn't as good as it used to be, but at least it was won, wasn't it? Naturally, the fans were happy and didn't say anything.

A few days later, Granada easily won the second round of La Liga.

A few days later, the second leg of the Spanish Super Cup began at the Bernabeu.

And in this second leg, Mourinho was more direct, and the bus was set up throughout the game. In the second half, Modric was even replaced at the beginning and Harris was replaced by a defensive. And then naturally it is to keep the game to the end.

In this way, at the Bernabeu, the bus that the Real Madrid team put out for Mourinho was directly blocked.

0:0 became the final result. In a two-legged situation, Granada won the event with an aggregate score of 1:0.

As a result, Yan Feng and his teammates lifted the Spanish Super Cup championship trophy at the Bernabeu.