78 chapter 78
The defeat against Getafe forced Capello to play his hand as well as he could. Yes, it had to. And this time, Capello's choice to play the risk card is Robinho.
Since the beginning of the season, the Spanish media have been criticizing Real Madrid's line-up, saying that a big club like Real Madrid can only complete a one-line attack under the current squad because there are no details in the whole. So who can solve the problem of details? There are many people who give the answer, and it's Robinho.
Robinho's football is beautiful, there's no doubt about that, and his bike will always get a round of applause at the Bernabeu. But as we all know, in Capello's coaching dictionary, defense is always the top priority, and passing the ball also serves defense. Capello can tolerate Forlan's excessive exertion and his brain is flooded, but the Italian won't like the Brazilian teenager who he sees as "only pedaling" but sees running without the ball as nothing. But it's also a big truth that Capello is a coach who only looks at training, which means that as long as the players can impress him in training, he can give them a chance.
And the national derby was the opportunity given to him by Capello after Robinho's initial transformation after the Champions League. Speaking of the Champions League, after losing to local rivals Getafe, Real Madrid won 4-0 away against Steaua Bucharest, a long-established Romanian powerhouse. However, Barcelona's away match against Chelsea in the Group A group stage resulted in a 1-0 victory for the English side.
Lionel Messi, the young Argentine under twenty years old, has been Barcelona's best player in recent times. In contrast, Ronaldinho's former position at the heart of complete firepower, which has been fluctuating since returning from the World Cup, has become more and more awkward, while the younger and most promising Messi under the command of Rijkaard has been reused, and Ronaldo's prospects have become a little confused.
"This national derby is of great significance, both to see if Real Madrid can withstand the pressure of public opinion and continue to lead the team forward, and whether his head coach can sit firmly. It also depends on what kind of trend Barcelona's intra-team competition will take. ”
In this regard, Capello emphasized Messi's marking in the pre-game arrangement, Forlan knows what kind of high-level player Xiao Luo is, not to mention that Ronaldinho's age is about to be at the peak of his glory, and it is embarrassing to happen. "Do you need to keep an eye on Messi one-on-one?" Fran unconsciously grinded his lower lip, Capello was silent for a few seconds, "It's up to you to decide, Ronaldinho can revitalize the midfield if he performs well, and then take care of the whole." But if Ronaldo is in the same state as the previous games, watch Messi, this is your task. ”
Looking at the development trajectory of the Argentine kid, if it is Messi a few years later, maybe Fran is not very sure that he can watch or even see him to death. But for a little genius who is not yet twenty years old and is far from being called mature, Fran even thinks in his heart that it should be 100% possible.
Matchday was fast approaching, with Barcelona coming to Real Madrid's home side, the Bernabeu, for what would largely determine the league winner's derby. In the players' tunnel, even if there is a good relationship between the players of the two teams, the atmosphere is quite tense. Puyol and Raul are serious, and Harvey is talking to Guti, after all, they all know that Guti is a person who can't care about anything when it comes to temper. Fran thinks that Harvey is a little stupid, Guti really turned on the rampage mode, who knows if he evolved into the artillery mode of killing 800 enemies and losing 1,000 or the humanoid self-propelled hanging of inspiration to kill all directions?
It's all uncertain.
Even so, watching Xavi say something like "thank you to Real Madrid for the applause", I felt that I couldn't let my own side team be bullied. This is a reference to last season's magical performance at the Bernabeu that impressed Millinger and received applause from the audience, and the Catalan region has been proud of this for a long time. "What is there to thank for, thank you for giving you a glimpse of the good qualities of our family? Guti simply squirted back.
Guti had already finished his breath, and Fran decisively interjected the conversation before Harvey could open his mouth to retort, "To be honest, won't you add a burden to your own people by saying this?" Straight back to the base camp, Harvey looked at Fran's line of sight and saw Ronaldinho, who didn't know if he heard it.
Brazilians are looking for happy football, and I don't know if he can be so unrestrained in artistic football when football causes him more trouble than happiness.
People thought it would be a close game, no one expected that the goals would come so quickly, and no one expected that it was not Barcelona who scored first, but Real Madrid, who has been sprayed by the media as 'a team in a slump of form'.
"Real Madrid got the right to kick off, Guti and Beckham went down the line, Guti passed straight to Robinho! Robinho's unloading was extremely beautiful, cutting inside along the left side, crossing to the right! Raul! Raul took advantage of the situation to shoot on goal!aaaaaallllll!The goal was scored, Sergio Ramos assisted Raul, Robinho's beautiful cross was successful!In the second minute, Real Madrid took a 1-0 lead against Barcelona!
Raul and Sergio Ramos celebrated their goals at the corner flag, and the crowd cheered from the stands. Casillas waved his gloved hand with vigour, and Forlan looked at Ramos from afar, feeling a sense of pride as a fellow defender. Capello was a little excited on the sidelines, he didn't expect the first goal to come so quickly, even if he showed confidence before, but he would be worried about whether the loss in this game would be unsafe. But one goal can't decide anything, Barcelona will definitely strengthen the attack, thinking of this, Capello gestured at Forlan to keep the defense, and Forlan nodded slightly.
But the fierce attack belonging to Barcelona that worried them did not come out, and in the next game, if Robinho proved his attacking strength with his passing at the beginning, his countless back-to-back chases showed why he was finally reused by Capello. As a player who is arguably dismissive of defending, it doesn't matter if his defensive skills are high or not, he has at least expressed to Capello that he wants to be appreciated.
And this containment battle, which Capello imagined should have been Forlan's fight against Messi, became Robinho's famous work, which can only be said to be providential.
Robinho flicked off Zambrotta's cross from the left, Raul hit the crossbar with his foot, Robinho nudged Ruud van Nistelrooy on the counter-attack, but the Dutchman was busy running and missed a good chance, Robinho disrupted Ronaldo's pass, and Robinho received Carlos' low cross for Real Madrid to score the second and final goal of the game. In the end, Real Madrid won 2-0 in this national derby, and Robinho, to borrow a phrase, was almost all his figure.
After the game, Le Monde gave Robinho a game-high 8.5. If we talk about that derby a year ago, he was completely behind Messi. In today's big battle, the two youngsters at least fought to a draw, and if the actual score is taken into account, Robinho is even stronger than Messi. Six dangerous passes were almost fatal, seven tackles and five fouls. spared no effort to run, defended and fought actively, and made breakthroughs in individual breakthroughs and assists, and his near-perfect performance made him receive bursts of applause from the Meilinger. Barcelona fans were proud of the fact that Ronaldinho's performance last season shocked Meilinger and received a round of applause at the Bernabeu. But this time the Brazilian was not so lucky, and his performance in the double contrast of Messi and Robinho got him only boos.
A 2-0 defeat to Real Madrid ended Barcelona's unbeaten league record this season, while Capello extended his unbeaten run at Real Madrid's home game, which has now been rewritten to 29 games, with 22 wins and seven draws, which is a respectable statistic. And because of this victory, whether it is the victory itself or the vitality shown by this team, Capello does not need to worry about his position for the time being.
"Real Madrid, led by the talented Guti, overcame Barcelona with football authority and attitude, Rijkaard's side were disappointing, and Real Madrid fans enjoyed a joy at the Bernabeu Stadium that they hadn't enjoyed for a long time. ”
The atmosphere in the team was much better because of this game, and Guti, who was collectively praised by the media as 'talented' after the game, was in a particularly good mood, and he jokingly told Robinho that he should let Forlan invite him to dinner, after all, Robinho did a lot of things that Forlan was responsible for to make him a lot easier, so that he could cooperate with Guti without pressure to completely revitalize the midfield. Fran smiled and agreed, 'Treat, 'Treat', I don't know if Fanny next to him really didn't hear the premise of 'Invite Robinho' clearly, and immediately hyped it up, "Fran has a treat at night, everyone is free!"
Fran, who seemed to have been wronged, shrugged his shoulders and didn't refuse, but watching more and more people who joined in the excitement and responded, he began to think about the price of the Madrid hotel and thanked Beckham, because because of him, he had a group of restaurants marked with 'delicious and expensive' and 'delicious and inexpensive' in his mind. Raul looked at Fran, who was lost in thought, and pushed him, "What are you thinking?" Fran couldn't tell him, I was thinking about how to save money by having a treat, so he replied pretending to be profound, "I'm thinking about Barcelona." Raul laughed when he said this, "'The best Messi is not bad, Ronaldo is not bad, Ronaldo is the worst Gudjohnsen', isn't that what the Catalans say about them? ”
Samuel Eto'o, this is not a topic to talk about in depth for Real Madrid, even if Raul seems to talk lightly, Forlan has no intention of answering. In Forlan's view, it is not so much the average forward performance as the following Mourinho's Chelsea, Capello once again proved one thing that Rijkaard did not believe in before, and the amount of time in possession is not the key to winning a game. 64.3% and 35.7%, Barcelona in the Spanish national derby has the advantage of possession that is usually two grades higher than the opponent's overall strength, but the final score is 0:2, and even the number of shots on goal is less than that of Real Madrid. Barca's encounter at the Bernabeu was almost a replicate of the one at Stamford Bridge four days ago, with the same goals conceded, the same frantic counter-attack, the same defeats. The difference is that they conceded earlier, counter-attacked more fiercely, and conceded more goals.
Rijkaard's courage is evident in the absence of a defensive midfielder in the three starting strikers, and in the fact that he is attacking from the first second, which may be a force of faith – there seems to be no word "conservative" in the Dutch football dictionary, and there seems to be no word "stability" in the Dutch personality, but this courage is exactly what Capello wants.
"But Messi is good," Fran looked at Raul, "to be exact, but Messi is good, very good." "You're saying the same thing as Jose, and if you can tell Jose that Barcelona has a very good player with a bright future, I think maybe he can become a king in the future. Raul joked.
"Ah, that's a great achievement, and personally, I'm going to work hard for my first defender. ”
"Think about how much you're going to bleed at night, Mr. First Defender. 166 Reading Network