Chapter 137

Goals from Fernando Gago and Portillo gave Deportivo a two-goal lead, but just three minutes later, a burst from Arsenal's young striker Robin van Persie gave the Gunners hope again.

Campbell battled with Andrade and Capdevilla on the edge of the Deportivo penalty area, but the ball fell to Bergkamp, who raised his eyes to look at the front of the field, and suddenly shot with his left foot from 20 meters away from the goal, and the colorful football went straight into the corner!

Diego López was completely unable to react, and Bergkamp's furious shot was almost comparable to a world wave, even if Buffon or Casillas stood in front of the goal, there was nothing they could do about it.

For this conceded goal, Juan was convinced.

It's all about the individual player's ability, and that's the fact that once you give a superstar the space and time to play, it's completely out of the way.

However, even knowing that the opponent has a strong world-class player, Juan still signaled everyone to continue to attack and not think about anything else when he adjusted the break at halftime.

Shortly after the start of the second half, Deportivo La Coruna's goal was lost again!

The second goal was scored by Thierry Henry, who broke through so quickly, and in the absence of such a strong midfield support as Redondo on the pitch, the entire defense was almost immediately penetrated, and Van Persie's beautiful through ball made it easy for him to stab the ball in the box and let Arsenal equalize after two goals down!

"A Coruña is in danger...... Well, well, actually, no. Frank complained to himself, "Honestly, I'm going to know one thing right now, Deportivo gave a 5-2 at home, so is he going to pay a 2-2 draw at this point?" ”

"No, you might be underestimating him." Dean sighed softly, "You can see that Deportivo must be more than this at this point. ”

"I also know that Deportivo La Coruna will definitely not just forget it, but Arsenal, you don't know, once they go crazy, it's not easy to control."

“…… You take a closer look. Dean looked at Frank helplessly, "The mental outlook of the players on both sides of Arsenal and Deportivo is not the same. ”

"Huh?" Frank was stunned and looked down at the small screens in front of him.

Indeed, it looked as if Deportivo La Coruna was in big trouble, but after ten minutes or so, they were not only unharmed, but seemed to have the upper hand......

'Arsenal are really attacking now, but their attacking ability has obviously dropped a lot. Dean coughed lightly and continued, "Neither side is the kind of team that can fight for physical strength, but Deportivo La Coruna is at ease, and in midfield, Juan Díaz has come up with enough places to allocate them, which is to make them a little more physical in midfield than Arsenal. ”

"And the main thing is...... If you take a closer look, in the back and forth sprints and entanglements just now, Deportivo players have always adhered to the policy of running less and passing more, maximizing the consumption of Arsenal's physical strength while saving physical strength. ”

"It is worth mentioning that in the last match at Highbury, Deportivo used the same tactic, however...... The professor was fooled again. ”

Arsene Wenger also found himself fooled again, after pulling back two goals in a row, although Arsenal were still attacking, but their attacking intensity obviously dropped a lot, not only failed to successfully play against Deportivo in midfield, but gradually fell behind......

In the 60th minute of the game, Deportivo La Coruna finally succeeded in a strong attack, Belleron crossed from the side, Gago pressed the opposing defender's header to cross, and Morientes, who followed up in the middle, scored this goal with an extremely beautiful volley!

Deportivo La Coruna takes the lead again!

After Deportivo La Coruna took the lead again, Arsenal were unable to show their previous frenzied attacking momentum again, until Arsene Wenger made three successive changes in a row at the end of the day, and most of the present reacted - Arsenal were almost exhausted.

"No wonder Arsenal have been beaten passively at this time, and the expression on Wenger's face is simply not too heavy...... As it stands, Deportivo La Coruna is 8:4 on aggregate with Arsenal and there are still twenty minutes left in the game, and Arsenal can still come back from defeat if they can score four goals in the next twenty minutes......"

When he said this, Franco Herdine glanced at each other, as an old partner, Dean took over the topic very clearly: "But this is almost impossible, we can see that in the first 20 minutes of the game, Deportivo La Coruna and Arsenal are almost both sides you attack once and I attack once, and the rhythm of attack and defense changes quickly." ”

"After Deportivo led by two goals, Arsenal attacked more frequently, and Laco appropriately recovered the defense to save physical strength, and Arsenal completely lost the capital to fight against Deportivo in the second half."

Seeing that Wenger had rotated three people, Juan looked at the situation on the field and also chose to make consecutive substitutions, Diego Forlan replaced Morientes, Rionel Messi replaced Pablo Aimar, Thiago Silva replaced Juan Riquelme, and Deportivo continued to maintain pressure on Arsenal's frontcourt.

Deportivo La Coruna is now 100% sure of a place in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, so at the end of the game, it is normal for Juan to let some young people come up to experience the experience and feel the Champions League.

Especially in the 83rd minute of the game, super substitute Diego Forlan scored Deportivo La Coruna's fourth goal of the game, which completely sealed Arsenal's exit.

Since the substitution, Juan has returned to his position and chatted with his assistant coach Allen, with a relaxed expression on his face.

In the battle between two attacking teams, Deportivo finally had the last laugh!

In this game, Deportivo La Coruna did not have major injuries, was in good physical condition, had a positive mentality, was in excellent condition, and played directly with a wave of real strength when playing at home, this team looked as deceptive as their manager, and Arsenal, who accidentally fell into the trap, became the biggest victim.

After the game, the English media described the match as "Laco upset", which was ridiculed by the Spanish media.

"May I ask the media in England that it rains every day and causes water in their heads? Is there any problem with La Liga's first win over fourth place in the Premier League? We really don't understand what the British media thinks. ”

There is no detailed comparative analysis of this, and not even a little data is taken out, but it is clear at a glance - Serie A has dominated in recent years, and no one in the Premier League or La Liga has convinced anyone, and the gap between the two sides is still a little bit.

When interviewed in the mixed area, Juan still had the same cold expression, but now no one thinks he is "dull", in fact, whoever looks at him at this moment has a star-like glint in his eyes.

That is, the dog that saw the flesh and bones, the shark that smelled the fishy smell, and the reporters who foresaw the headlines!!

"Dias! What you said before the game......"

"Dias, what do you think of this game......"

"Dias!!"

However, no matter who it was, no matter how hoarse it was, Juan did not stop his steps, he passed directly in front of everyone, and the players who were still being interviewed by media reporters in the mixed interview area immediately closed their mouths and followed after seeing Juan, and never looked back.

"What's the situation?" Most people are dumbfounded, after all, generally speaking, when the players are interviewed, it is normal for the head coach to pass here, but Juan just walked through here for a while, and everyone didn't look back??

Seeing that the whole team of A Coruña quickly disappeared at the entrance of the passage, the reporters could only put down their cameras in their hands in disappointment and chatted with each other.

"Is Juan a Pied Piper......?" There is a very famous fairy tale in Europe, as long as a person who plays the magic flute appears and plays the flute, all the children in the town will follow him, which is completely subconscious, which is exactly the same as Juan is now.

"I think he's more of a tyrant than the Magic Flute, and his players aren't all children......"

"Tyrant? How to explain it? ”

"You think, he was so aggressive before the game started, and obviously he was strict, he looked like he was disciplined, and Deportivo almost the whole club was in charge of him, do you think he looks like a tyrant?"

"Hmm...... If so...... It seems to be a little bit ......."

The reporters at the scene glanced at each other, and they all saw excitement in each other's eyes.

Even if Juan Díaz doesn't say anything, it's still big news!!

And in reality? Juan hurried over only because the time he had agreed to call Casillas was approaching, and he wanted to find out the situation on the lord's side tonight, and by the way, comfort his little teammates-

At the same time this evening, Manchester United played AC Milan at home in the second leg and he already knew the scoreline.

0:2, according to the convention, the front and the away are behind.

In the first leg, Manchester United also lost 1-2 away to AC Milan, and the Red Devils' 04-05 Champions League journey came to an end.

At the same time, Manchester United also has a difficult brother, and that is Real Madrid.

Real Madrid doesn't know if it's a little back this season, this season died in the round of 16 again, and the title of Champions League Sixteen is finally sitting firmly.

This season, I don't know if they are unlucky, they met the old woman Juventus in the quarterfinals, you must know that Juventus is not a vegetarian!

After a hard-fought 1-0 win at home in the first leg, Real Madrid were unceremoniously beaten 2-0 by the Bianconeri in the away leg, and lost the game with an aggregate score of 1-2.

The thought of having two people to comfort Juan felt a headache, and his face naturally didn't look good, and how could the players who saw his face dare to continue? They all ran as fast as they could, and Juan didn't pay attention, all the time immersed in his own thoughts.

There was silence in the locker room after the victory, and Alan looked left and right and felt very unaccustomed, so he coughed lightly: "Juan? ”

"Huh?" Juan was still thinking about how to speak to Cristiano, and replied a little nonchalantly.

"It's over, don't you have anything you want to talk to everyone about?"

Hearing Alan say this, Juan looked up a little dazedly, and found that the entire locker room was looking at him.

"We had a great performance today, I don't have anything to say." Juan coughed lightly.

"......" everyone looked at him in silence.

Then you didn't talk all the way and kept a calm face?!

Facing everyone's somewhat unkind expressions, Hu was silent for a while and said: "Okay, no matter what, today's performance is really good, tomorrow is a day off, and the day after tomorrow I will start preparing for the game against Barcelona." ”

"Oh!!" When it comes to having a holiday, the players' expressions all become clear.

Poor players, who are basically open all year round except for the winter and summer breaks, can get a day of respite in the dense schedule is very cherished!

After everyone was on vacation, Juan sat down again, played with his mobile phone, and finally made up his mind - don't call, just send a text message, he was afraid that he would feel bad when he heard those two people collapse.

"How does it feel?"

A message, sent to two people, there was no response at all from Cristiano, and Casillas quickly replied with a "sucks :(" to him.

Juan waited patiently for a while, after all, Cristiano's side is strictly controlled, and generally speaking, mobile phones cannot appear in the locker room, so he is just holding the mentality of giving it a try, and Casillas is here......

The main thing he knew was that Casillas must have a lot of complaints to say at this time, and he estimated that it would be impossible to make a phone call on the bus back, and even worse, ......

Igor Casillas, recognized as handicapped and slow in typing.

Sure enough, after almost two minutes of waiting, Casillas' second text message was long overdue.

"Juventus' two goals could have been avoided, but Salgado was in charge of my sight and Samuel was in charge of assisting other strikers, so I was really devastated!!"

Just looking at this line of words, Juan could feel the anger of the young player, and he couldn't help but smile: "Did you change the jersey with Buffon?" ”

"It's here! I forced Raul to change it for me, hehehe...... After all, if the captains of the two teams change their jerseys, he will definitely give it! ”

“…… Why don't you change it yourself? ”

"I went, I went with Raul, and I took a picture with him afterwards!"

Casillas is now completely out of the Champions League, so he is relaxed, and Juan is a little unable to laugh.

Juventus' 27-year-old goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is in his prime, and although it is not inexplicable, his terrible consistency is a headache for all teams.

If Deportivo do face Juventus, Gianluigi Buffon is the most difficult hurdle they will face.

Of course, Juventus' own defense is also particularly amazing, Juan thought about it, and the current quarterfinals have all been produced, Deportivo La Coruna, AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Chelsea, Olympic Lyon, Bayern Munich, to be honest, all opponents are not good.

Casillas also knew that the next possible opponents of Deportivo were not all good stubble, so he was very worried about the situation in their team, and Juan coughed lightly.

Deportivo and Deportivo are imagining two different things inside and out, there is no high-pressure policy, there is no serious atmosphere, and it is not like Casillas's imagination that "the whole team is like a training camp".

The whole team lives in a very cheerful atmosphere every day, and most of the players are not so delicate, everyone is very smug and doesn't pay much attention to the game.

No matter who the opponent is, just work hard to win.

However, Casillas's worries are not unnecessary, after all, Deportivo has a lot of Champions League experience here, and if he can't adapt to such a dense schedule, there may still be time to adapt.

His biggest concern is not adaptability, but whether Deportivo will be able to hold up.

– because soon, the international break will begin.

Deportivo has a lot of international players in the team, although some are still young and only sit on the bench, but there is no shortage of the main force of the national youth team, so if you look at it this way, Deportivo may have to empty half.

And now their third-line battles have reached a very critical time, if they only go to play because of international friendlies and cause players to be injured, then Juan has nowhere to cry.

Of course, no matter what, Deportivo didn't have any problems at this time, and all he wanted was to prevent it from happening.

And the next game is against Barcelona, so why not think about anything else?

Just as Juan and Casillas were chatting about the team, a new text message arrived, which Juan opened to read.

"Juan Juan, I was prevented to death today!"

"......" Juan was speechless for a while, and replied to him: "Then you are so happy?" ”

"I'm not happy, I'm excited, AC Milan's defense is so ruthless, I was shoveled out of the pitch by Gattuso!"

"Are you hurt?"

"Fortunately, it hurt a little when I hit the billboard, but fortunately Gattuso was seriously injured, and their team doctor came over, so I could borrow a little medicine to spray."

Juan thought he had misunderstood, and he looked at Cristiano's words for a long time before hesitating back: "Their team doctor?" ”

"Yes, I told their team doctor that I was also injured and gave me some medicine, and their team doctor helped me deal with it...... Manchester United's team doctor didn't even come to see me! ”

Juan was a little helpless, he finally found out that his little teammates may not be conscious of being opponents.

"By the way, the lord asked me how you are today, and I said you are okay, do you want to call him?"

Juan had a gut feeling that something was wrong, but he quickly agreed: "Got it." ”

But to be honest, talking to the lord, he is really a little worried now, after all, he really doesn't know what the lord thinks.

So after hesitating for a while, he decided that it was better to die than to live, and not to call first......

Both of them are going to get on the plane, let's go back and fight again!

However, after a moment of hesitation, he received a message.

"Casey is going to make eel jelly tomorrow."

—The sender, Alex Ferguson.

Juan smiled wryly.

The invitation of the lord is really awkward to the point of eclecticism!

However, he quickly replied with a message: "Can I have the pleasure of tasting it?" ”

This silence was a little long, but the lord still gave him a reply, Juan looked down at the "come" on his phone, and couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth.

Even most of the players had already showered and come out, Allen came to call him, Juan looked down at his phone, put it in his pocket and smiled: "Deportivo is all disbanded on the spot, I'll do something." ”

"Boss, can I go play with you tomorrow?" David Luiz was a little eager to take the plunge, and now that the days were starting to get hotter, Juan had an open-air swimming pool in his backyard, and his favorite thing to do was spend the day in it.

It's very comfortable!

"I'm probably not home tomorrow and I'm going to go out." Juan said very easily, "But the big guy has my key, if you want to play, talk to the big guy, and let the big guy open the door for you." ”

“……”

After Juan said this, he quickly walked out of the locker room, and Morientes chased after him in three or two steps: "Juan." ”

"Huh?"

"Where are you going?"

"Airport."

"Then I'll go with you."

“……？”

Facing Juan's somewhat confused face, Morientes said very naturally: "I'll go see Raul, he used to go to Monaco to see me, but now it's my turn to see him." ”

Juan nodded clearly: "Since that's the case, that's right, the two of us have a flight." ”

Morientes was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded.

When Raul came to pick him up, he was a little stunned for a while when he saw the two people talking and laughing in front of him: "Juan? ”

"Raul, long time no see." Juan waved his hand very naturally, "Can you take me to Igor's house along the way?" ”

"Uh......" Raul looked at the security checkpoint, "I'm not going to hide it, Igor and Guti just passed the security check...... It was a plane to A Coruña. ”

"......" Juan opened his mouth, turned around and left. Juan, where are you going?! ”

"Buy a ticket and go back to A Coruña!"

"Wait, hey, don't be in a hurry......!" Raul and Morientes grabbed him directly, "Wait a minute, don't be impulsive!" ”

"Let go, I can still catch the same flight." Juan took a deep breath and turned around to book a plane ticket, only to be hugged head-on.

"So Guti is not mistaken, you really came......"

"I can't let you go to me every time, can I?" Juan replied with a smile, then frowned. "Igor, don't hug me by the neck, I'm so tired from bending over."

“……”

Raul and Morientes, a pair of good friends who have not quarreled for a hundred years, finally watched the "domestic violence" scene for the first time, Raul sighed while watching: "Morrow, you said that when you fought with me in the past, Juan was so good at fighting?" ”

"Nope." Master Mo is usually straightforward, and he added at the end, "At this moment, his combat power is not as high as Guti. ”

The five of them habitually use each other as the base unit, that is, the lowest person is a unit point, for example, Guti is the least able to fight among them, so they use Guti as the base unit, for example, "I can fight two Guti at a time!" "I can hit three!"

…… Of course, this is also inevitable that Guti will blow up when he is fine...... However, his combat power is really all reflected in his mouth, and Guti's mantra in the past was "I can say ten at a time like Morrow!" ”

It's not a night in Spain, it's the rhythm of the nightlife, and there are few people at the airport, but some people are still noticing.

Raul is more conspicuous than the average star in Spain, and seeing that it is about to cause a commotion, he immediately cooperates with Morientes, and the two of them pull up and run one by one, so as not to be surrounded by the crowd of onlookers, which is completely unlucky......

"Actually, according to the rules, Juan shouldn't be able to meet with us at this time, after all, you are the head coach." While driving, Raul turned around and teased: "And Real Madrid is actually not in a good mood at this time, you know, Champions League 16 Lang." ”

When he said this, even Raul was a little helpless, but he quickly came back to his senses: "Speaking of which, your results this year are really great." ”

"It's okay......" Juan said politely, and Casillas was already glaring at him from the side: "It's okay??" ”

In the third-tier battle, Deportivo La Coruna has not fallen behind and has maintained a very good form, and the four teams in La Liga that went to participate in the Champions League, Barcelona and Real Madrid have fallen to the top 16, and Valencia has not even broken out of the group stage......

In comparison, Deportivo La Coruna's newest team made it all the way to the quarterfinals, which is simply incredible, okay?

However, now the media is not very optimistic about Deportivo La Coruna, and every time they think that Deportivo La Coruna is going to lose, but every time Deportivo does not get their wish.

Now the media have found out that the more Deportivo scolds, the more they will be slapped in the face with the results after that, and they really don't know what this team wants.

- Quarterfinals, an emerging team, isn't La Liga really funny?

However, Deportivo La Coruna is doing really well at the moment, so the Spanish media, no matter how reluctant they are, will be a little bit of a cheer for the only surviving team in their home league.

In addition to World Sports.

"Speaking of which, someone in Barcelona is shouting at you again, you know?"

"I don't know, I didn't subscribe to the World Sports Newspaper." Faced with Raul's question, Juan answered with great confidence.

I really don't know!

Raul shook his head with a smile: "Yes, it's nothing important anyway, it doesn't matter if you don't know." ”

"When you say that, I'm a little interested." Juan poked Casillas beside him, "Igor, you must know, tell me about it?" ”

"It's not ......," Casillas muttered, he did know, and he had a few friends at Barça, and he and Raul were the kind of people who had friends all over the world. It's just saying that your results are completely released and sent all the way to the top eight, otherwise it would be impossible for you to have such good results or anything......"

"Okay." Juan rubbed his forehead helplessly, "I just want to know who said such brainless words now." ”

"Rijkaard." When he said this name, Raul's tone was a little bad, "He is so focused on us and you that he may still think that he didn't lose badly enough." ”

Barcelona did lose badly, they were killed by the same double as Manchester United, and the worst thing is that it was Mourinho's Chelsea who killed them twice.

Say they are miserable, that's because Chelsea is also a team that has just regrouped this season, their manager is Porto's champion coach Jose Mourinho, these two games have come down, Barcelona has injured two people in a row, one of them is called Ronaldinho......

The British tough guy style of play lives up to its name! Chelsea are also good at playing big bus formations, and Barcelona is so embarrassed that they are not at this time.

Barcelona's next game is against Deportivo La Coruna - to emphasize, the team has almost no injuries, and Deportivo La Coruna is in good form at the time of the game, so it will be a lot of bad luck no matter how you look at it.

And that's it, Rijkaard still comes to the mouth cannon Deportivo La Coruna?

Didn't he really have water in his head?

"Okay, okay, whatever he says." Juan waved his hand casually, "Deportivo vs. Barcelona will be clear after the match." ”

All four of them laughed maliciously in the car.

"Speaking of which, Juan, you've been tough lately, are you going to make any big moves?" Raul asked nonchalantly, and Juan couldn't help but smile.

"Okay, don't tease me, you know that I was originally such a person."

"Of course I know, but you don't usually act like that in public, I thought you were going to hide your true nature until you died." Raul smiled back and gave him a lazy smile.

Raul sent the two of them back to Casillas's house, they have a manager of Deportivo La Coruna, and he said that if tomorrow is a holiday, tomorrow must be a holiday, unlike the two people on the Real Madrid side, with some pity in it-

Real Madrid's Champions League is over, the first leg of the Copa del Rey was killed by Deportivo La Coruna, and the second leg is estimated to be even worse, they have to shift the focus of the game to the league, as for the Copa del Rey and try to see......

Do your best, know the destiny of heaven.

However, because the pressure of the current schedule has become less, Real Madrid has no holidays at this time, and Raul is very pitiful that they will continue to train tomorrow, how to listen to it with a tragic taste.

So even if Morientes and Juan came to Madrid to see their little buddies, they could only stay at home and sleep well, and continue to train in Valdebebas tomorrow, which is the right thing to do.

"Speaking of which," Casillas suddenly remembered something while lying on the bed, and turned his head and said, "Luxenberg is very angry." ”

"What is there for him to be angry about?" Juan casually used his mobile phone to comb his hair to the back of his head, "How can you blame others for your lack of strength?" ”

"No...... He also seems to be angry that Deportivo La Coruna is doing better than us, after all, you know that......"

"Of course I do." Juan narrowed his eyes in distress.

"The manager of the whole La Liga...... In other words, the head coach of the whole football world treats me as an outlier, and when I am not a person of the same world as them, after all, the age difference is ...... here."

"That's, then you're ......"

"I'm not sad, and I don't have anything to say, after all, it's true...... At my age, they're probably still fighting for the main position. He yawned, "I'm special in my own right, and what they think has nothing to do with me." ”

To be honest, Juan only wanted to reply to Rijkaard's words - anyway, the quarterfinals are a little stronger than your top 16, and Barcelona has the ability to play Arsenal, and the Gunners can exhaust Barcelona's defenders just by attacking.

However, considering the mood of his little friends - the top eight and his own teacher - are very unlucky, and they are also the top eight, he finally didn't say what he said, after all, harmony is the best.

When he woke up the next morning, Casillas drove Juan to the airport, and he was a little reluctant, after all, he thought Juan would stay here all day, but Juan's face was very heavy.

"I did a very excessive prank, and now I'm going to apologize."

"Who?" Casillas asked this purely out of curiosity, Juan was usually very measured in his pranks, how could he suddenly go too far?

"Do you remember the last time I went to ask for Beckham's shirt?" Juan sighed softly, "I asked him to write 'Happy every day, smooth work'...... Then I couriered it to the lord. ”

"......" Casillas was dumbfounded. 166 Reading Network