21.chapter 21
"Audience friends, you are watching the 14th round of La Liga, at the Calderón Stadium in Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid is currently leading 1-0, and the next will bring you the live broadcast of the second half of this game. ”
On both sides of the stadium stands, although it is the home stadium of Atletico Madrid, there are really many Real Madrid fans who come here. The city rivals, although the fans may usually be colleagues or even good friends, when the Madrid derby begins, these former relationships are put aside and they are strained with each other. And for Real Madrid, I'd rather lose to any La Liga team, including Barcelona, than to Atletico Madrid.
In other words, as long as you do well in the Madrid derby, congratulations, you will be the darling of the fans for a long time to come.
The schedule has been tight lately, with a recurrence of Elgra's knee injury expected to be reimbursed in a month or so, and Pavon will be replaced by him. In the first half, Ronaldo's heart-rending shouts and cheers from the Meilinger when he received an assist from Raul would have made him think he had won the whole world.
Atletico Madrid will not choose to back down when they are one goal down, and Atletico fans will not allow it, nor will their own style of play and characteristics. Sure enough, at the beginning of the second half, Atletico Madrid replaced a striker after conceding a goal first, and the pressure on Real Madrid's back line instantly intensified a lot. When Forlan and Salgado doubled to attack the Atletico Madrid striker, but were stuck by the opponent for a corner, Salgado patted Forlan on the back to show encouragement, and the rest didn't say anything, returning to the penalty area to prepare for a corner kick.
The corner kick defense strategy has always been zone + marking, Pavon and Salgado have followed the opponent's main striker respectively, Forlan stood next to Casillas and watched the front post, and nodded at the moment when he met Beckham's eyes, he was responsible for attacking and defending, if this corner kick was blocked, he immediately drove the ball to Beckham, and he launched a quick counterattack.
Atletico Madrid took a corner kick and saw the opposing striker jump up to head the ball, Forlan also planned to head the ball just in case Casillas raised his hand to catch the ball. At the moment of jumping, the opponent's striker seemed to inadvertently press down his shoulder, and in the camera, it was like Forlan jumped up and accidentally hit him, and his body in the air was a little out of control, fortunately, Cassie had already taken off the header and handed it to Forlan who had stabilized his body while Atletico Madrid desperately returned to defense, Forlan raised his eyes and swept his big foot to Beckham, who was waiting in the middle arc position.
The crisis in front of the goal was temporarily lifted, Casillas glanced at Fran, and said without moving, "There are still twenty minutes before the game is over, carry the brother." Fran moved his shoulders and frowned, there must not be a serious injury, but it must be bruised, this collision is really ruthless, but he still has to say, "It's okay, there's nothing to bear." ”
And this time, the quick attack that started with Casillas, the goalkeeper, because of the defensive position and the rapid adjustment of the offensive and defensive transitions, allowed Raul to score another goal for Real Madrid.
There was a wave of boos from the Atletico fans, who didn't know if it was Raul, who was running around Calderón to celebrate, or if he was venting his frustration with his team. One minute he won a corner kick and saw a chance to score, and the next minute the attack and defense turned to let the rival pour a goal. Life is full of surprises.
Time is passing by minute by second, and if nothing else, Real Madrid has already won this game. However, Atletico Madrid has always played with ruthlessness against Real Madrid, and this ruthlessness is not only reflected in the ruthlessness they reveal when they play from strikers to defenders, but also in the fact that they will never allow them to bow their heads in front of Real Madrid until the last minute of the game. So even if Atletico Madrid is only in the upper middle of La Liga in the league this season, even if this team falls into the relegation zone, it will be the most difficult opponent for Real Madrid.
When Atletico Madrid attacked again, Pavon and Forlan, who fell at the back of the team, were in full swing. With a beautiful long pass from the opposing midfielder, the striker hidden in the crowd instantly accelerated to the fore. The position of the football landing point is very close to Forlan and Pavon, the opponent is fierce, Forlan subconsciously moved forward to create offside, but Pavon, who was farther away, crossed the parallel line one step ahead of the striker. Fran, who had an offside plan that was instantly lost, immediately switched back to make amends, and saw that the opponent was about to rush into the penalty area, so he no longer hesitated to put a shovel immediately, but after all, he was too hasty, tripping the opponent's leg and causing him to fall to the ground.
The referee blew the whistle and immediately awarded Forlan a yellow card, who stepped back and acquiesced to the decision, staring at him for another free kick before frowning and shaking his hand. In fact, the set-piece in this position was not very good, and after lining up the wall, the ball went around the crossbar by Casillasto. But Forlan didn't just get this decision, he didn't get many yellow cards in between, and even less red cards, which is a bit unusual for his defensive style of play. Even with today's yellow card, according to the rule of automatic suspension of five yellow cards accumulated in La Liga, there is still a margin of two. What really made him feel awkward was the beginning that caused this mistake.
After this attack, neither side organized a decent attack until the end of the game.
After the game, Raul followed Queiroz to the press conference, and no one blamed Forlan's defense, after all, if you let the opponent into the box without letting the tackle go, it will only be more dangerous at that time. Guti held the kettle and looked at Casillas, and pouted at Franno, "Igor, you said him, he doesn't seem to be happy?" The fact of the victory over Atletico Madrid made Guti particularly happy, and he didn't want others to be unhappy.
Casillas shrugged his shoulders, seeing that Guti was about to put his hand on Fran, he quickly pulled Fran over, and nodded his shoulder at Gutinahan's gaze, "Hurt." Guti hurriedly raised his hands high and took a step back, indicating that I would not touch or touch.
I don't know if the double reed in front of me didn't attract half of Fran's attention, Guti grabbed his wet hair, and saw Cassie whisper, "What are you depressed about, not to mention that you originally wanted to be offside there, but Sisko failed to understand your plan and was counter-offside." It's not your fault that you have to put a shovel foul before being overlooked. ”
Of course, the Guti midfielder didn't see a scene in the goalkeeper's field of vision, he remembered the yellow card, and saw that the little teammate who usually didn't seem to take anything to heart was rarely depressed, "[When to attack, when to defend, the rhythm is too difficult to grasp, and the rhythm of this qiē is not up to me] You see, I didn't lie to you, it's not that my teammates are inexperienced, right, I know I'm the most tender one in the team? ”
The quick-witted Guti instantly understood what he was talking about, "So, where is this like you said, you two don't have a competition for positions? How is it possible? The central defenders of each family are the core of the backline, and this is just you and Sisko, when Elgra is injured, the two of you will fight for the command of the back line in the future." He didn't care at all about Cassie's expression that seemed to want to calm down the situation, and said to himself, "Fight Barcelona and beat Barcelona." This is a competition on the surface. ”
The anger shifted quite well, and Casillas sighed silently in his heart. It's purely Jose playing Barcelona to get the most out of it, it's true
After the matchup, everyone put themselves into the preparation for the matchup against Barcelona, although Barcelona is currently in fifth place in the league standings, and has just been overtaken by Athletic Bilbao, who was originally fifth, but no one will not value this game.
The training was basically over, and Forlan rubbed to Zidane's side who was kicking a free kick and practiced, "Zidan, can you cooperate with me to play for a while?" Zidane retracted his foot, feeling that it was a little strange for him to practice defense with him, but Forlan didn't express it clearly, "Fancy tricks, I want to see"
"Do you want to learn how to excel?" Zidane saw his little teammate hurriedly waving his hand after asking, "No, I really want to see it with my own eyes and be familiar with it." ”
"Aren't there a lot of videos?" Zidane said but did not refuse, the French admire this kind of junior, from talent to hard work, of course he will not refuse. Fran smiled and stroked his hair, of course he had seen the tape countless times, "But after all, seeing it in person is different." ”
Fran's pestering of Zidane caused a lot of laughter, Fran had no skin and no face, and his whole face was made into a mess and made a grimace when nothing happened, Zidane pulled Fran's shoulders and showed off to Beckham, "Look, your little teammate is mine." ”
Beckham's technical moves are certainly not as good as Zidane's, and Forlan studied Ronaldinho's style of play, and although there was a huge difference, it was the Englishman who asked Zidane to familiarize himself with the unbridled and unpredictable movements. Beckham chuckled and didn't speak, looking up just in time to meet Ronaldo's eyes, and the Brazilian seemed to see something.
When Forlan and Zidane came back from training for another half an hour to take a shower and go home, they opened the door and saw the person waiting in the locker room, who was actually the alien Ronaldo. Zidanedo's smart person, hehe, he went to take a shower with a smile and bypassed his little teammates, Ronaldo looked at Fran, who was sweating profusely, "You're done training and are you going home?"
"Well, what's wrong with Ronnie?" he scratched his head. I only heard the other party ask coldly, "Isn't it Ronaldinho?" As a teammate of the national team, of course I am more familiar with his style of play, not to mention the South American style of play, you can't ask the French." ”
"However, they all started in Ligue 1" That kind of delicate style of play has always been admired in Ligue 1.
Ronaldo, who transferred to the Eredivisie after debuting in the Brazilian Liga, snorted softly, "Go, pack up, I'll take you to my house." ”
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Barcelona, Catalonia.
Like Real Madrid, Barcelona are also taking the next game very seriously. Most of the people in the team already know about it, and about Beckham, it has been repeatedly studied by countless people in the past six months in La Liga. At this time, the Barcelona crowd watched the video, in which the protagonist is Francisco Álvarez.
"He's still a league rookie after all, if you say that he is fouled and red carded, what is the chance?" someone in the team asked, Puyol frowned and looked at an acquaintance in the video, perhaps he has the most say in this point, "He doesn't play the ball easily to get cards, although he said at Camp Nou" The rest of the words were swallowed back, after all, everyone knows that everyone has a home whistle, and everyone immediately changed the subject and watched the video carefully.
"Queiroz is this a scavenger for him to play? In addition to being very defensive, you also need to be very good at judging the situation. Argentina international Saviola said and looked at Cocu, who also plays at central defender in the team, Kocu looked at Puyol, but before Puyol could speak, Xavi, who was sitting next to Iniesta, interjected, "He is in the youth and reserve teams, and this is the way he plays." It was a joke at the beginning of the season. ”
Overmars stretched his arm, "It's a defensive guard, isn't it?"
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Madrid, on the way to Ronaldo.
Ronaldo slapped the steering wheel and looked at Fran in the co-pilot seat, "You know the task you are given, right? Although in terms of position and role so far, you are a lagging central defender, but the position that the manager has given you is more than this, you also understand, right?"
"Scavengers?"
"Scavengers? No, you're not a scavenger. Three centre-backs may be, but there is more to a four-centre-back configuration. ”