161 August 15th

Chapter 103 What the hell is this

Juan flipped through the newspaper in front of him, and was really worried.

Real Madrid seem to have taken an extreme route, and they seem to be getting a little out of step since they started trying so hard to collect superstars.

In such an environment full of big names, what should the children produced by Castile do?

Those children who didn't kick out, where do they go?

Raul and Casillas, who have already become the main players, may be a little better, but what about Guti?

What is Guti going to do?

The people on the phone didn't say one, two, or three for a long time, Juan was silent for a while, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Because of what?" ”

The legendary Real Madrid no product encyclopedia will actually get stuck at this time, which is simply abnormal......

This shows that there is indeed something going on inside Real Madrid, and the situation is so serious that even Casillas can't say it.

However, it is clear that Casillas still has no reservations about Juan, and after a moment of hesitation, he said: "Raul hit Ronaldo, in the dressing room. ”

“……?” Juan was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had misheard, "Raul? Didn't Guti hit someone and then Raul went to dissuade him? ”

Casillas also began to smile bitterly: "I saw it with my own eyes, can there be any fake?" ”

"What is the specific reason for that?" Juan is already starting to feel that things are getting bigger, Raul is usually a very calm and self-contained person, which is what Redondo admires the most, once he can get angry enough to hit someone, it must be because of someone particularly important.

For example, the last time Juan saw him in his own hands was in 2000, when the four of them kicked open the door of Galeries Lafayette's office, slammed the table, roared, protested angrily, and even pleaded, but they could not get the chairman to change his mind and stop signing Redondo's transfer agreement.

And for what this time?

Casillas was silent for a long time, and finally couldn't help but sigh: "Juan, are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid......"

“…… Hurry up! ”

Juan Díaz, he felt that his whole person was not good, could it be that he missed something again, but now that others are in A Coruña, isn't it normal that they don't know anything?!

Casillas was almost about to sigh, and he gritted his teeth and said a name: "Moreau......!" ”

Juan was stunned for a moment, but finally reacted.

At the beginning of the season, it was not only him who returned to Spain, but there was also one other person, and that was Morientes, who had been doing well last season, and he returned to Real Madrid.

Morientes was loaned to Ligue 1 Monaco and was recalled directly because of his good performance, and it stands to reason that he was welcomed back like this, and Morientes should have come to the end of his time at Real Madrid, right?

- Juan seems to feel that it seems a bit of a loss for him not to study the Real Madrid game in these rounds, but to leave it to his own tactical analyst.

"That's right," since even the name of the person has been said, Casillas simply has nothing to hide, and directly gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, it's Morrow, when the club bought him back, we all thought that good days were coming, but ...... You know, at the beginning of the season, Real Madrid brought in Owen again. ”

Michael Owen, Liverpool's little prince, the leading goalscorer, is a good guy and has a good temper, but it is precisely because of his presence that Morientes is back on the bench for the third time......

"Four league games, four Copa del Rey games, one Champions League...... It's been nine games, and Morrow hasn't even had a chance to play for a minute," Casillas was already a little helpless when he said it, "Seeing him like this, all of us are anxious......"

Juan understands very well, and now he is anxious about his friends here in Deportivo La Coruna, not to mention Cassie and Raul, who are still at Real Madrid.

"I know you're thinking right now, what does this have to do with that alien?"

Juan replied very honestly: "What does it matter?" ”

He laughed directly at Moreau in the dressing room...... It was in vain to say that he came back. Sighing, Casillas uttered the words.

Morientes is not a product of Real Madrid's academy, but since his transfer from Zaragoza in '95, Guti has been in a jealous environment - Raul quickly left him behind and fought with Moro hotly!

However, Guti was also angry and walked quickly, and soon he found that the people who helped him wipe his ass and carry the black pot changed from one to two, and he didn't have any complaints in an instant!

"Surely that's more than that, right?" Juan sighed directly, he also knew several Brazilians, among whom Robert Carlos, Romario and David Luis had directly convinced Juan that most Brazilians were actually this kind of mouthful......

Like the "alien" Ronaldo, Juan has already identified it in terms of appearance alone!

He must be an underwhelming type too!

Casillas acquiesced, and Juan sighed: "Well, since that's the case, I don't have anything to say, help me tell Raul, good beating...... Real Madrid informed me before they were going to sell Melun, and I bought him with him! ”

"You're not happy to buy Raul and Morun to buy me?!" Casillas felt loveless for a moment, "You don't want to think about how the club can sell Raul?" ”

"That's not going to sell you." Juan said indifferently, "I just said it casually to show my support for my friend!" ”

"......" Casillas felt something tumble in his heart, but he forced his swallow of the words he was about to blurt out and sighed again.

"After Raul played the aliens, the feeling in the Real Madrid dressing room was already a little weird, so after these games, our Real Madrid were not very smooth...... You know. ”

"I see." Juan nodded and sighed helplessly, "So how are you now?" ”

"How's that? Of course, holding back in the midst of them is all kinds of depression, and the defense is now all kinds of cheats, and I want to kill people now...... Casillas complained all kinds of things, and the envy in his words was almost overflowing: "I really envy Diego......"

The Diego he is talking about is Diego López, who was already his second goalkeeper when he was in Castilla, but now that I look closely, I don't know why he has to work harder to stay in the Real Madrid team......

"Isn't it not very good at playing?" Juan raised an eyebrow and asked, "No matter what the defense is, it's too exaggerated to be scored four goals, even if the opponent is Valencia......"

"I just didn't watch the game when I looked at you!" Casillas wailed, "Tell me honestly, didn't you look at it? ”

Hu was silent for a while, because he really didn't look at it...... "I was wrong." ”

Listening to the apology that immediately came on the phone, the little Spanish doorman was simply powerless: "Forget it, did you call specifically to mock me for inquiring about the enemy by the way?" ”

"Of course not." Juan denied it in all seriousness, and just as Casillas was about to ask what else was going on, he said directly: "My aunt suspects that you are playing match-fixing!" ”

“……??” Casillas almost didn't hold the microphone in his hand.

What does it mean to play match-fixing?!

Real Madrid is the kind of team that plays match-fixing?!

And...... Even if it is match-fixing, why should Real Madrid pour four goals into themselves? Not convincing at all!

"Yes," Juan's firm voice came from the phone, "but my aunt later said that if it was match-fixing, this game would be too fake to be possible, so I asked you what the situation was." ”

"......" Casillas was directly shuddered.

He naturally knew that he couldn't hide the two of the Albert family with this little bit of caution, but he really didn't expect that those two people would actually assist him!

Could it be that this is pie in the sky?

"Since it's the situation inside the locker room, then I won't ask too much, and my aunt is understandable, but you still have to work hard...... Barcelona have been ruthless this season, you have to pay attention. Juan told him very carefully on the phone, Barcelona is indeed particularly ferocious now, especially with Xiao Luo at the peak of this season.

Ronaldo and Ronaldo are no longer the same, and Real Madrid does not have anyone who can counterbalance Ronaldo at the back.

"It's useless for you to tell me!!" Casillas was speechless, the season had only been around for a while, and he was already about to be poured into two hands as many balls!

Is he to blame?! Blame him?!

"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about it." Juan was especially guilty on the phone, he had few good friends, and there were only a few people who could make friends, but now they were all struggling in the mire, and he could only watch from the outside, without even holding their hand.

Thinking of this, Juan's mood was a little heavy.

Deportivo played Athletic Bilbao at the new San Mamés stadium on Monday night, and before the day's game, the Spanish newspapers were aware of what Deportivo had planned for the night of the vanishing night.

…… Who is the person in charge of the schedule at Deportivo La Coruna and why hasn't he been killed?

Juan had no intention of dominating the new San Mamés stadium, but he was inevitably the focus of attention at the pre-match press conference, firstly because the note was too explosive at the end of the last game, and secondly, Deportivo La Coruna has been going so well lately.

In an interview, Juan said very directly: "It was just a small mistake, and as you know, this behavior didn't delay us from winning, did it? ”

The French media took the lead in protesting against Juan's rogue remarks, but they were really unemboldened.

…… Who really won the game?

"Monaco lost to Deportivo La Coruna, what do you think of Didier Deschamps? Was his tactics wrong in the last game? ”

Juan glanced meaningfully at this beautiful reporter with glasses, he always had to face this kind of problem trap in the interview, and there was no way to avoid it. As a manager, the most taboo is to comment on the ability of your peers, you can evaluate any team, but you can't directly express your opinion on the tactics and ability of the head coach, that is what football critics and reporters like to do, and between peers, you must not judge each other, unless you make up your mind that you will never communicate with each other or die endlessly.

Even if Juan's Deportivo was treated like that in the last game, he didn't rise to the level of evaluation of Didier Deschamps' coaching ability, which is very stupid, because from the outside point of view, you will only turn yourself into a clown, and your peers will see you as a mad dog.

…… Oh, Chelsea's Jose Mourinho doesn't count.

He caught everyone so rampantly, so he didn't care what the person on the other side thought.

So when facing the camera, Juan lowered his eyelashes and replied very calmly: "Monaco played very well, and the main reason for our victory was that we had more control of the game, created more chances, passed more accurately, and it wasn't Deschamps' problem to lose." ”

"So you mean that your team relies entirely on the individual ability of the stars to play?"

Juan sneered as he glanced at the person asking the question, and the corners of his mouth that seemed to be smiling also made a gasp sound in front of him.

The little coach Laco turned a deaf ear, or he didn't think that the sound was coming out of him at all, so he said with the usual expression: "Let's move on to the game, after all, Deportivo will play against Bilbao......"

"We have to respect the opponent in this game......" The whole audience especially gave face and helped him say this.

"Okay, since everyone knows, then I'll announce the roster for this game." Juan clapped his hands and smiled.

At this pre-match press conference, his mood is still relatively good, Deportivo has made great progress in his current tactics, and the relationship is also smooth sailing (?? And for the remarks in the last game, UEFA did not make any penalty to Deportivo La Coruna, of course, they did not pretend to be deaf and dumb, the referee directly fined 10,000 euros for the three-game ban, which is also a change of direction to Deportivo La Coruna.

"Hello everyone and welcome to Deportivo La Coruna away against Athletic Bilbao...... My God, the players in Bilbao all look like bullfighters. Frank was staggered.

"Isn't it?"

Two live room commentators can also joke there. The players on the field didn't even have time to catch their breath. The moment the whistle sounded, the game went straight into a state of anxiety.

When it came time to guess the coin, Bilbao got the ball, but they had just driven the ball out for less than a minute. The ball was lost, but Deportivo didn't get it......

Athletic Bilbao is a very traditional team, when the whole La Liga is basically corporatized, Bilbao has become a clear stream in La Liga along with Real Madrid and Barcelona, and it still maintains a membership system, and oh my god is different from the other two teams, that is, they only recruit players from the Basque Country.

Biba's captain, Suseta, was tasked with organising the attack, and most of Athletic Bilbao's balls had to be handed to him, especially from the kick-off.

But as soon as Suseta stopped the ball, he saw the No. 14 Fernando Gago rushing up from the opposite side.

In this game, Juan gave Gago the task of helping Aimar share the pressure if he still had the strength to watch Suseta.

In this match, Bilbao showed their ideas from the start, and they wanted to put the tempo into their own track, control the situation on the pitch and let the game get into their own rhythm......

But it was clear that Juan didn't want to give up the pace of the game from the start. Doesn't Bilbao like to control the scene? Don't be afraid, Deportivo can't do other things, and it's first-class to sabotage!

Suseta had just stopped the football, Gago had already rushed to him, Suseta shrewdly dodged the ball, intending to shake the menacing opponent, but Gago was obviously not a vegetarian, he raised his left foot and hooked Susetta's foot, and the football was dunked. But the man remained.

The referee's whistle sounded just in time, and seeing Susetta tripped directly by Gago, Bilbao's coach, who was sitting in the dugout, glanced at Juan.

Why, is the tactical tone of Deportivo a game sabotage?

In order to determine what was going on in his heart, he decided to observe for another ten minutes.

During these ten minutes, Deportivo La Coruna thoroughly implemented Juan's tactics.

He never thought about overpowering Bilbao in attack, or who was stronger than Bilbao, whose collision was more likely to injure opposing players, etc... If Bilbao wants to use their brute force to knock Deportivo La Coruna into a daze, then Deportivo will go straight to the detour and not let them get their way anyway.

Before the start of the game, Juan had already asked the whole team except the goalkeeper to actively press, from the front of the field to deploy layer by layer, must not let Bilbao bring their own rhythm, otherwise the whole team of Deportivo does not know if it is enough for others to play......

In the final tactical deployment class the day before, Juan had laid out the layout of the whole team on the tactical board, and on the entire board, only one line was particularly clear.

"Chief, what does that line mean?" David Luiz finally couldn't help but ask, "No matter how you look at it, it's the other party's forbidden area, right?" ”

"Yes, it's the lone top of the opposition penalty area, and it's Deportivo Deportivo's first line of defence...... Our defence, starting from the opponent's penalty area. 'That's what he said, and that's what the players did.

Mistakes, fouls, whistles that interrupt the game from time to time, the home fans don't want to see that anymore.

Obviously, generally speaking, it should be Bilbao who brings such a reaction to the opposing team, why Deportivo La Coruna?

Bilbao almost didn't recognise their home stadium.

As soon as Suseta received the ball, a person stared at him like a poisonous snake, not Gago who returned to defend or Aimar who was in the position. The man's facial expression was very calm, and he even had the strength to smile at him, and it was this smile that made Suseta despair.

Fernando Redondo.

Unlike a young man like Gago, Redondo's defensive card was stuck tightly, and after Suseta received the ball, he didn't even have any way to get the ball......

Like a frightened bird, Suseta immediately pulled the football to her feet to prevent it from being snatched by the opponent. If it was the No. 14 Laco who only knew how to pounce and grab the ball, he could have passed the situation, but the opponent in front of him had to make him pay attention to it.

Fernando Redondo, that's not an easy character to deal with......

Pull the ball, turn around, lean on Redondo, fortunately it is not his peak now, otherwise, he may not even have a chance to pull the ball!

Suseta looked up and saw that Fernando Gago had already killed, what did it mean?

That means there's space behind him! And there's one guy running out there!

Suseta didn't hesitate to give the football to the wingers of the team behind him, and then turned around, shook off Redondo and wanted to run forward, to have the most classic two-by-one!

Gago, who had just run over, saw that the football was passed behind him, and the Argentine was stunned directly, his brain was a little short-circuited, but he short-circuited, Redondo would not, the veteran's reaction was much faster than him, after seeing Suseta turn around, in order to make up for his disadvantage in speed, he was very experienced and directly inserted in the middle of Susetta's forward route, and by the way, he reached out and pulled it very friendly.

Suseta staggered, looking back at Redondo with some horror in her eyes.

Brother Dong actually stretched out his hand to pull people! He's not the same Dong Ge I know anymore!

Biba's striker naturally understood their captain's intentions, so he didn't let the ball stay at his feet, and directly rubbed the ball over the top, hoping to distribute the ball to the feet of Suseta in front of him again.

However, the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes! The ball was intercepted in the middle of the game, and it was Redondo who broke the ball!

While he turned to run with Susetta, he didn't forget to look back at what the Bilbao striker was going to do, how vicious his eyes were, and he knew what the opponent was going to pass when he saw the opponent's foot movement.

So, when the football flew over, he decisively turned and jumped again, and gave the football to Gago who was not far in front of him.

Gago was stunned for a moment after receiving the ball, but fortunately, his teammates also knew his problem, and after landing, Redondo made a gesture directly to Gago, which meant to pass the ball back, after receiving this gesture, Gago passed the ball back obediently, and the corners of Argentina's mouth rose after receiving the ball.

He seems intent on teaching Bilbao's captain Suseta a lesson, almost the same position, the same angle, the same position, but this time it was Redondo, and his pass was farther, faster and more precise!

The ball flew high over the entire midfield of Athletic Bilbao and towards the right wing of Deportivo La Coruna. No one seems to be there ......?

Frank jumped up and screamed: "Messi!! ”

Redondo's pass suddenly fell at a high point, just in front of Leonel Messi, where he could catch up, and there was no one within ten meters of him!

When Suseta planned the attack just now, the whole Athletic Bilbao team could be said to be pressing on it vigorously, and no one expected that the retribution would come so quickly and Redondo's pass would be so vicious......

As long as Messi stabilizes the ball, Laco Cruña's counterattack is just around the corner!

Leonel Messi looked up at the ball over his head, and did not choose to jump and pull the ball in disgrace, he ran directly two steps and a hook, stopped the ball in front of him, and then took a deep breath and dribbled the ball directly into the opponent's penalty area.

"Beautiful!" Allen, the assistant coach, couldn't help but jump up and hugged Juan very excitedly. "Juan, you bought a genius back, you bought a genius!!"

"Yes, yes......" Juan pulled away his assistant coach's iron tong-like arm, sighed and waved his hand, "Wait for the goal to be excited, isn't it a little early?" ”

"There were only two people in the Bilbao penalty area, and Deportivo was too coquettish on the counter-attack!" Frank slapped his thigh and laughed, he especially wanted to talk about Redondo's beautiful long pass now, but he couldn't bother at all. "Lionel Messi's breakthrough!!"

When entering the penalty area, Messi looked at the situation, and directly kicked up with a ball cross, his cross with some rounds, which is the most difficult kind of ball to save, the defender of Athletic Bilbao originally wanted to rush over immediately to the opponent's feet, but now he can only jump in a hurry and miss the ball directly.

miss!

At this moment, the heart of the entire San Mamés stadium was cold.

They clearly saw that the Bilbao defenders were definitely not behind their own team-mates' shirts, but ...... A Coruña's gradient blue!

The big nine is flying, Portillo!

There were huge boos from the stands, trying to interfere with Portillo's shot, and with Frank's majestic "Javier Portillo", the Spaniard pushed the ball towards the goal!!

Almost everyone on the pitch in San Mamés was praying for a miracle, but there was such a coincidence in the world, because the header came so suddenly, Portillo didn't have time to adjust the angle of his header and hurriedly chose to shoot, and the result was-

This football was stunned and pounced in the direction of the opponent's goalkeeper!

"It looks like it's playing, maybe Biba won't concede the ball!?"

However, problems arise.

Athletic Bilbao's goalkeeper reflexively jumped backwards and swung his palm at the ball, which was a terrible move......

for he is stretching out his hand to both sides. Instead of swinging it over your own head.

However, even so, he managed to block the ball and the ball was not far away.

Now there is a mess in front of the goal, no matter how you look at it, anyone can go up and cover a kick, but no one seems to be there at this time?

- Who said no one was there!

Frank took a deep breath.

“lionel——messiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!”

That's right, the Argentine kid who has been ambushed in the penalty area is finally showing his glory at this moment, and in the face of this almost free opportunity, he was unceremoniously swept the football into Bilbao's goal, as if he was doing shooting training in the team!

"A complete goal!! it’sgoooooal! Frank jumped and jumped, as happy as if he were something. Pretty!! ”

At the same time as Messi scored the football, there was a huge cheer in the stadium stands, and all the Deportivo fans jumped from their seats with their arms raised, but they were quickly suppressed by the disgruntled fans at home.

"Nice counter-attack, nice long pass! Redondo can actually fall into the leaves, it's incredible! ”

Messi, who scored the goal, did not run to the sidelines to celebrate with the fans this time, but turned around and ran to the coach's box and hugged their little coach tightly.

Most of the credit for this goal actually came from the Argentine players, and in the end, it was Juan who came up with such a tactic!

Seeing the ball go in, Juan and Allen both jumped up from their seats, sprinted to the sidelines with their arms raised and hugged Messi.

He did it! His tactics worked!

"Athletic Bilbao are behind Deportivo La Coruna at home and it doesn't look like it's going to be an easy one for Athletic Bilbao." Dean looked at the situation on the field and said very calmly, "The danger of Deportivo La Coruna has not passed, we all know it, Athletic Bilbao...... Not a very good team to play against. ”

The direction of the away fans began to sing a hymn about Redondo, which was small but gradually spread to the pitch.

"Redondo, Redondo, the birds perch on your toes, the music plays at your feet, the march is as graceful as a waltz, our Fernando, our Redondo......"

Redondo, who was surrounded by his teammates, couldn't hear what the fans were singing, the scene was too noisy, and the fans were too far away, and his ears were full of cheers and screams from the young people, which gave him a bit of a headache.

But one thing he was sure of was that he would make the right choice to leave Italy and return to Spain!

It's nice to be surrounded in the middle by your teammates, to be expected and responsible, to be shouted by the fans, it's so good...... He felt like he was back in his days at Real Madrid.

Fernando Redondo is far from old age.

Seeing that a goal was scored, the head coach of Athletic Bilbao couldn't sit still, and he stood on the edge of the pitch and began to adjust and direct the field, which seemed to play a role.

Athletic Bilbao's two midfielders shared the responsibility of attacking organisation while also distracting Deportivo La Coruna's defence.

Suseta is more flexible in his position, and he often pulls up to the left to play with his team-mates, so Deportivo has to follow Suseta at the back, after all, this man is the most dangerous player in Athletic Bilbao.

However, this is not difficult for Deportivo La Coruna, after all, their midfield interception ability is the envy of the entire La Liga, and in itself, Deportivo La Coruna has a lot of attack points, anyone has the ability to participate in the attack, and two or three people's passing and running cooperation can pull out the required gaps.

As he ran, Suseta received the ball smoothly and then turned and slammed it to the post, seeing what seemed to be his own goal starting to shackle, Juan rose from the dugout at the San Mamés Stadium.

Since Athletic Bilbao was the first to make the change, Juan decided to follow suit.

On the pitch, Gago's task remains the same, he continues to press Susetta, and with him at the center, Deportivo La Coruna's formation is pressed forward as a whole.

When he received this order, in fact, most of the Deportivo players were a little confused, they are now ahead of Athletic Bilbao, but Juan did not ask them to put away their defense like a shrunken turtle, but instead stretched their attacking defense and pushed Deportivo Lacuna's possession range further forward.

Juan did not let the team give up on the close encirclement of Athletic Bilbao, and he knew how good Athletic Bilbao was.

Like almost all teams with high physique, all the players at Athletic Bilbao must not be given the slightest space to use their physical skills, otherwise it will be a dead end for Deportivo La Coruna, who is physically weak.

"Susetara came back to focus on the organization, obviously trying to use the space left by Gago after he pounced on the defense to break through, in this case, we used the whole to fill this gap, move forward in the overall formation, continue to press Athletic Bilbao, and always take the initiative of the game in our own hands."

At half-time, Juan arranged Deportivo Dormana's tactics on the spot.

Pressing forward in formation and creating offside is a natural tactical choice. At the same time, Juan did not limit the attack because he wanted to defend, on the contrary, he asked everyone to actively insert assists - once Deportivo La Coruna got the opportunity to attack, both the full-backs and full-backs must resolutely step forward to suppress the attacking power of Athletic Bilbao on the wing! 166 Reading Network