"Spain won 1-0 against Portugal thanks to a goal from Villa in the second half. Spain, the winner of the European Championship, became the last team to hold a quarter-final pass in this World Cup. ”

Fran, who was watching the match, felt a toothache as Sweden won against Paraguay and the next opponent was the winner between the two. And looking at almost all the familiar faces in the Spanish team, Forlan instantly felt a chill on his back, he is more familiar with these players, but correspondingly, these people are all familiar with their own skills, right?

This is Villa's fourth goal of the tournament, the Spanish striker has shown super attacking ability, but the team's defensive gate is a guy who has been studied by the opponent countless times, and even the opposing head coach has managed his youth training. Ievee looked at the time when everyone had nothing to say, and patted Fran on the shoulder beside him, "You don't play at all in the next game, okay?"

Fran nodded heavily, "yes, wouldn't that solve the problem?" he gave Eevee a thumbs up in praise of his excellent problem-solving skills. Facing Ibrahimovic's raised eyebrows, Forlan bumped Ibrahimovic's shoulder, "You also played at Barcelona for a season, and they must have figured you out to be reasonable, otherwise you wouldn't play." ”

... So Lagerbeck found that the good way that his captain and vice captain came up with was that they sat on the bench and beat Spain off guard...

What a surprise! How did this catch Spain off guard? Even Lagerbeck, as the head coach, didn't know how to play this hand without the two of them!

It feels like you, the landlord, have a pair of king fried in your hand, but you calculate that your opponent may have a set of small fried or even more groups in your hand... At this time, even if you take the big and small kings apart and beat them, you are not willing to let the pair of kings smash them in your hands.

"To be honest, Portugal's performance in this game was really good, if it wasn't for the referee's misjudgment, I really can't say who will die. "Sweden's midfielder Eqdahl, known as 'Little Ibrahimovic', pouted, and Forlan rubbed the curly hair of the little guy next to him, but didn't say much.

Andres Iniesta sent in a through ball and Xavi followed up with a clever back-heel pass down the middle, but Villa's shot was saved by Eduardo before Villa fired a shot that bounced under the crossbar and into the back of the net.

What looked like a coherent goal was the moment Andres Iniesta went straight to his feet that he should have blown the offside whistle, and when the linesman hesitated to raise the flag, Xavi received the ball and knocked it to Villa, but at the same time Villa was also in an offside position. This time, the linesman neatly raised the flag for offside, but the manager did not stop the game in any way.

So there was a situation where when the Spanish team cheered, and the Portuguese gathered around the manager to ask for an explanation.

"After all, the result is still certain. Lagerbeck clapped his hands to stop the crowd from complaining, who gave the confidence that if their opponent was Portugal, they would be able to defeat easily?

"I think we still have to be lucky," Fran still maintained the serious expression of "let me sit on the bench, the captain will also accompany me to sit on the bench" just now, and after attracting the attention of the whole team, he said quietly, "After all, Igor Casillas is not standing in front of Francisco Alvarez, isn't it a lot happier to think about it this way?"

didn't wait for everyone to complain about how bad the backline of "Ramos, Pique, and Puyol" could be, and saw that the captain, who seemed to be going to talk about the double reed to the end, nodded in agreement, and instantly stretched out relaxedly.

Lagbeck looked at the pair of captains and vice-captains with a hidden smile in his eyes, but knocked on the table with a straight face, "Be serious, speaking of the Spanish team's backline, I want to remind everyone to pay attention to something." Lagerbeck simply raised a finger and watched with satisfaction as the players sat down and listened to the manager's instructions.

"Watch out for Sergio Ramos' header. ”

... Mr. Coach, did you discuss it with those two people, and it's funny!

On the Swedish side, a few leaders took the initiative to liven up the atmosphere, and the Spaniards, who narrowly beat Portugal, entered the screening room one after another after a day of repair, ready for the next game.

The assistant coach was debugging the projector, the players had not yet arrived, Bosque looked at his cronies and team captain Casillas, who had been staring at the outstretched hands in a daze, "What are you thinking, Igor?" Cassie was stunned, his palm subconsciously retracted back to the table, with a faint smile, the round face with baby fat in the past had already turned into a handsome face, "In a daze, I didn't think about anything." Bosque saw that he was reluctant to speak, and did not continue to ask questions, but looked at the meeting time that was still a few minutes away, and it was very smooth. If there is any difference between this Spanish team and the one that won the European Championship two years ago, he can only say that this team is now more mature and better than it was two years ago.

Casillas breathed a sigh of relief, what he had just thought was really not suitable to talk to Bosque. He saw the Spanish national team that even Arbeloa had joined, and he couldn't help but think of the twists and turns when Forlan failed to join the Spanish team. There are many things that Forlan doesn't bother to think about, thinking that it is for nothing to block himself, but Casillas can't be as big as him, not thinking about the good relationship between Camacho and Bosque, not thinking about why it was Pavon instead of Forlan who was transferred to the first team by Bosque, not thinking about why Camacho was reluctant to let him join the national team and even prejudiced him when he was the manager of Real Madrid.

It is still unclear whether Forlan was the right decision to recommend Bosque when Real Madrid was obviously short of people, but of course there are benefits, decision-makers can see his efforts, his achievements and his loyalty, and will put him at the forefront of the selection, just like when Baldano asked Perez to find a defensive defender, he naturally pushed Forlan from the first-team bench to Perez's eyes.

As for the downside, it is particularly obvious that Bosque was impressed by what he taught Forlan when he left Real Madrid, and he affirmed Forlan's ability and skills, but still "don't use dreams and naivety as a stepping stone to the team." "Just as he has been in Castilla for many years, just as he has been unable to make the Spanish national team squad for a long time.

This is probably why when Raulguti was still in Real Madrid, the four of them had a private conversation, even if Forlan's words were more or less biased towards Perez when it came to Bosque and Perez, Raulguti would not refute more. Bosque has changed a lot of Real Madrid people, and that's true, he'll keep Guti on when he's been making scandals, and he'll keep Casillas the starting goalkeeper when he's been run through the goal over and over again because of his lack of experience.

But it's also true that there are eleven people on a team on the football field, and there will always be corners and corners that you can't notice. He was willing to give Pavon a chance, so he had to give up on promoting Fran, after all, no one could tell Bosque at that time that Fran's achievements in ten years would be much higher than Pavon's. Casillas was not alone in these understandings, but he didn't want to say more.

Netherlands, Brazil, Uruguay, Ghana, Germany, Argentina, Spain, Sweden.

When the agreed meeting time comes, the names of the eight teams that have entered the quarter-finals are projected on the slide. The players waited quietly for the manager to speak, but Bosque suddenly rejoiced for no reason.

Although Kaka's performance in this Brazilian team was not successful, so that there have been rumors that Kaka is injured in the game, in Bosque's view, the Netherlands and Brazil, Germany and Argentina who are fighting against each other, and although Sweden is not a weak chicken, it is still undeniable that Spain's luck is still good.

In addition to Real Madrid and Barcelona, the rest of the Swedish team has midfielder Ekdal, who was once valued by Juventus (although he only made three appearances that season before being loaned to Siena), and the rest of the squad is all from the Swiss Super League and the Eredivisie.

Such a lineup, compared with the ultra-luxurious squad in his hands, which is almost half Real Madrid and half Barcelona, although he will still tell the players not to underestimate the opponent, even the layman can clearly see the disparity in the data on paper.

Therefore, these two 'special talents' have naturally become the objects that need to be paid attention to. Ibrahimovic has decided to leave Barcelona after this season, so whether it is Real Madrid, Villarreal, Atletico Madrid as opponents or Barcelona as teammates, they have spared no effort to tear down Ibrahimovic. But when it came to Forlan's question, everyone in Real Madrid was silent.

Most people thought it was Real Madrid's reluctance to expose their defensive holes, although in some eyes it was a sieve-like defence. Puyol wanted to talk about Forlan's well-known problem of loving backpasses in La Liga, but that was based on Forlan's blind trust in Cassie and was not valid in the national team. After a moment of silence, he found another starting point, "Forlan in Sweden is different from Real Madrid, he needs to constantly fill in on the left and right flanks and then return to position, and against Paraguay, Sweden will not have too much pressure at the back to give him the opportunity to support the midfield." ”

Attacking the backline, Villa is confident in that regard, "You mean to create holes in his defence?"

"Of course that's for the best," Puyol said it would be difficult to completely tear down Forlan's defense, without pouring cold water on Villa, "but there are other uses for it. ”

"In the 2001 World Cup qualifiers, England played 16.1 kilometers, 16,100 meters, which is an average of about 180 meters per minute. ”

Casillas, who already understood what the manager meant, knew in his heart that it was time for him to speak on behalf of the Real Madrid gang, "David has the second-highest average distance distance in a single race in Real Madrid's season, with an average of 13.1 kilometers per game. "As for the 'Real Madrid's season average distance run first', at this moment, probably no one will not know who it belongs to," the first is 13.3 kilometers. "Anyway, these external statistics are not secrets, but they themselves will remember this exaggerated data.

But although this is a single '0.2km' gap, everyone here will not think that Francisco Alvarez's physical limit is '16100+200'. Beckham, who was at Real Madrid, took his place with the energy to run and fight, and he needed to have the stats to prove his importance, and he was also a midfielder with a lot of movement, in addition to organising and participating in the attack, he also participated in the defense from time to time.

Forlan is different, although he has never spared physical strength, but the range of movement has always limited him to the backfield, and entering the front court has always been a rare wonder in La Liga. Everyone knows that Franna's more famous description than 'Iron Guard' is 'running to death', he is so energetic after every game and has never had physical exhaustion, what is 'running to death', that is, no one knows how far he has run on the playing field.

There are also limit tests within the team, but Fran's participation in this kind of physical limit test has always been "symbolically taking the first" and then relenting, never really reaching the so-called point of running to prostration, Cassie did not specify what limit Flan can achieve and no one can blame him, "But the point is, he is not stupid." Karls (Puyol) said it so clearly because Barcelona had tried this before, always trying to take advantage of him. However, the truth is, it would be a joke to want to run him around the field like a monkey with only a soccer ball. ”

Bosque glanced at Casillas, who had a somewhat strong reaction, but didn't say much for the time being, there is always this kind of chemistry when the national team and the club collide, especially in the case of the very likely future Real Madrid captain and the current Barcelona captain to share the captain and vice captain of the national team. If this strategy had been proposed by Bosque from the beginning, Casillas would not have had such a big emotion, but because it was Puyol, it was naturally more or less ill-intentioned.

"Igor, didn't you say it, it's because he's in Sweden and not Real Madrid," Xavi said ironclad in favor of Puyol's statement at this time, "You can see from the last match between Sweden and Paraguay that Sweden is looking to win**, and Sweden is very proactive in defense, and they will attack like this against Spain." ”

"Aggressively attack," Ramos repeated Xavi's words in a slightly strange tone, and Alonso, who was sitting next to him, stepped lightly on Ramos under the table, not to stop him, but to remind him to take it when he saw it. Xavi snorted, "Lagerbeck decided to attack aggressively in Sweden and Ibrahimovic decided to attack aggressively, do you think that according to his temperament, he will still stubbornly pursue his own rhythm of the game?" He would have considered it, but seeing that there are so many people who agree, he probably is wrong.

Isn't it easy for the forward line of Villa, Pedro and Torres, as well as the midfielders of Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso, Silva and Busquets, to pull Forlan, who already has the task of supporting the midfield, out of the rear and let him expand and expand his range of activities?

Isn't it true that everyone hasn't seen his physical limits, so let Spain try it this time.

The author has something to say: Yes, you read that right~ it's me again~ it's me again

Beckham's running distance is real data, and it took a long time to find 23333

Next Chapter... Probably the point is that Fran has been running, running, running...

As I explained to Coach Bosque before, Bosque affirmed Fran's skills, but felt that he was a kind of 'friendship threat'. And Bosque has a very good relationship with Camacho, and Fran's hard defense of Real Madrid reminds Camacho of the hard work of Spain (...) However, it turned out that Camacho did not use it very well, and he did not reject Sweden for the sake of Spain)

The Swedish team's 2010 squad is like this, Ibrahimovic is in Barcelona, and there is a small fresh meat who has been loaned out from Juventus, and the rest are all from the Swiss Super League and the Eredivisie.

... I can't get a defender to go to Sweden to win the World Cup, it's a bit of a shame.

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