The pressure on Manuel Pellegrini is very high, and one of the pressures that has put him on is the results, leading Real Madrid to play the best results in Spain, and even the best results in European clubs, so that the club and the fans can be satisfied.

The second is the performance and balance of the superstars in the team.

It's not enough for the whole team to just play well, the iconic stars in the team had better perform well, in other words, every superstar of Real Madrid will put pressure on Pellegrini, because if they don't perform well, the reason may be attributed to him-

Either they don't pay attention.

Either it's an environment that doesn't provide superstar performance.

The reason for all this is that the head coach is not famous enough, but even the top manager can't suppress the top stars, and this is the case in professional football circles, because the support and commercial value of top stars are much higher than that of a top coach.

There are several top superstars in the current Real Madrid team who 'must' perform well, and the most special and demanding of them are Zhen Shaolong, C-Ronaldo and Kaka.

The trio are widely regarded as the 'Three Superstars of Real Madrid'.

It's a lot worse than the other players.

Even Raul, the 'Prince of the Bernabeu', doesn't receive so much attention because of his age.

Zhen Shaolong is the most in need of a good performance among the three, Real Madrid has made a high investment in the world's No. 1, and definitely needs a high return on the 'world's No. 1' performance.

Zhen Shaolong's performance is a major issue for the entire club.

Regardless of whether Real Madrid can win the game or not, Zhen Shaolong's performance must not be bad, and even said that his performance is more important than victory or defeat, because the victory or defeat of the warm-up game is also a matter of face, at most it will bring a little public opinion pressure to the team, and the public opinion pressure caused by Zhen Shaolong's poor performance is too great, and Real Madrid will become the laughing stock of public opinion in the whole Europe, until Zhen Shaolong's performance gets better.

Before, before the 'Peace Cup' was to start, Pellegrini had thought about it

In the first game, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo were paired in the hope that they would try to adapt as much as possible.

That's a real warm-up.

Pellegrini is still relieved of Kaka and C-Ronaldo, the main problem of the two is in cooperation, and it can be seen in the middle of training that both are also good players, as long as it takes a little longer, they will definitely be able to perform better and better.

Zhen Shaolong is different.

He's not the kind of player who is good at cooperating, his individual scoring ability is outstanding, but he needs his teammates to take the initiative to find cooperation with him.

Such a player needs an environment.

If there are familiar teammates on the field, they will take the initiative to seek cooperation with him, and they will actively help create opportunities, and his performance must not be bad, but on the contrary, without familiar teammates, it is uncertain what he will perform.

That's what Pellegrini fears.

In addition, psychological pressure is also a problem, just transferred to Real Madrid and has not participated in the game, but has received huge expectations from the outside world, and anyone will have huge psychological pressure.

Zhen Shaolong's psychological pressure will be greater than that of C-Ronaldo and Kaka, because as long as his performance is a little bad, the public opinion of the outside world will become very poor, and the pressure will often affect the performance of players on the field.

Originally, Pellegrini's plan was to let Zhen Shaolong come off the bench in the last game, and he could find a reason for his short playing time and poor performance, and then dragged it out until other warm-up games, so that Zhen Shaolong could slowly increase the number of appearances to slowly adapt to it.

But......

Not now!

Therefore, the position and thinking of the head coach and the chairman are completely different, Florentino is considering the overall image of the club, Zhen Shaolong is the core star of the summer transfer, the most important transfer in football history, he has huge support and huge expectations in the fan base, he needs to stand up to help the club attract attention and create the world image of Real Madrid's top star lineup.

Of course the game must be won!

Real Madrid, the most expensive club in the world and a star-studded group, will really become a joke in world football if they lose every Peace Cup match.

Of course.

If the reason for the loss is definitely on the manager!

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The next day is the competition.

The Peace Cup was not held for a long time, and the mid-course races were very intensive, with only one day between the second and first races.

Real Madrid's opponent was replaced by Universitario de Quito Sport.

Despite the word 'Universidad' in their names, they are actually a professional football club, and quite a good professional club, with Universidad de Deportes de Quito being the top of the Ecuadorian First Division and one of the most successful clubs in Ecuador, having won nine domestic league titles.

Now they are at the Bernabeu to challenge Real Madrid.

No doubt.

For Ecuador's clubs, the opportunity to play against the world's top clubs is very precious, and the whole team is full of anticipation, and many players can't help but talk about the game and talk about trying to perform.

The Bernabeu Stadium was packed on this day.

The Bernabeu can accommodate more than 80,000 fans, but the stands are basically full, according to the statistics of ticket sales, the day before suddenly more than 20,000 tickets were sold explosively, because of the grapevine that Zhen Shaolong will appear in the starting lineup.

It's quite attractive.

Every Real Madrid fan is looking forward to Zhen Shaolong's Bernabeu debut, and Zhen Shaolong also has a large number of 'non-Real Madrid fans', he has already had an impact on the Spanish fan base, and the development momentum of the 'Zhen Shaolong Female Fan Support Association' is very hot, and similar fan associations will also organize fans to support Zhen Shaolong.

The actual number of tickets sold is: 72,019.

The data sold in the last game was about 50,000 tickets, and the gap between the two games reached more than 20,000 tickets.

Even if 50,000 tickets were sold, it was a great thing, after all, the game was only a warm-up game, not an official confrontation in La Liga, and the most fans in a similar warm-up game last year was only 40,000.

This speaks to the appeal of superstars.

Florentino was very satisfied with this, and released the news that Zhen Shaolong was going to play, and immediately sold nearly 20,000 more tickets, and the commercial value of the top superstar was reflected.

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In the expectation of the fans in the spectators, the stars of Real Madrid entered in turn, and the surrounding fans also gave violent cheers, like rumors of grapevine, Zhen Shaolong appeared in the starting lineup.

"His partner is Higuain!"

"At present, Real Madrid is full of superstars, Higuain has become a little inconspicuous, but in fact, he is still one of the youngest and best goalscorers, Higuain scored 22 goals for Real Madrid last season, beating Raul to become Real Madrid's most efficient goalscorer, and La Liga is the fifth highest scorer."

"Higuain has a challenge this season and his biggest rival is Zhen Shaolong, but maybe they can be the best partner as well."

In the introduction of the match commentator, the game on the field officially began.

Compared to the last game, Real Madrid's lineup is more gorgeous, Kaka did not appear in the starting lineup, but Zhen Shaolong's appearance is the most anticipated, and C-Ronaldo also appeared in the starting lineup, he played as a winger.

In addition, Xavi Alonso started in the middle, and his partner was Fernando Gago.

At the back are Metzelde, Pepe, Salgado and Marcelo, and the combination of the four cannot be said to be the absolute main configuration, but the only one is that Ramos did not play.

The goalkeeper position is Dudek.

Pellegrini asked Dudek to play in order to maintain his good form, after all, Casillas alone may not be able to withstand the whole season, and the second goalkeeper is still very important.

Soon the game began.

After the official start of the game, you can see the strength of Real Madrid, they easily suppress the opponent as a whole, and continue to create threats in front of goal, but professional football people can easily see where Real Madrid's problem lies -

Cooperate!

Real Madrid's strength is reflected in the strength of the squad, each position is the world's top stars, but the cooperation of the midfield is a little poor, C-Ronaldo continues to fight on the side, and Zhen Shaolong has been unable to get the ball for a long time.

That's the problem of coordination.

Zhen Shaolong's situation is a bit bigger than C-Ronaldo.

C-Ronaldo doesn't have much tacit understanding with his teammates, but because of the position relationship and ability problems, he still has a lot of passing and receiving the ball, and he can take the initiative to find the position of his teammates to pass the ball when he is in front.

Zhen Shaolong stood at the front of the lineup, and followed the defenders around him for a long time, and he and his teammates had no tacit understanding at all, so it was difficult to receive passes from his teammates.

This is actually normal.

Real Madrid's lineup is very gorgeous, everyone is a top star, they are used to playing with each other, or to play their personal ability, but they will not take the initiative to pass the ball to Zhen Shaolong, unless Zhen Shaolong runs out of a good position, otherwise there is no tacit understanding, Zhen Shaolong has someone around him to defend, and the pass is very likely to be intercepted, so he will definitely not pass the ball over.

For a period of time, Zhen Shaolong became a transparent person.

Even if he has become a transparent person, Zhen Shaolong is still the most attention-grabbing, and the camera lens frequently points to the past.

The game commentator couldn't help but worry and said, "We can see that Zhen Shaolong has not performed very well so far, and he has very few times to get the ball, and it can even be said that he can't get the ball......"

"He hasn't gotten used to it yet."

"When you join a new team, it takes a long time to get used to it, especially the strikers, who need to work well with their teammates, otherwise it's hard to get the passes."

The fans in the stands were somewhat disappointed.

Many Real Madrid fans want to see Zhen Shaolong's 'killing Quartet' performance, but Zhen Shaolong was unable to receive the pass for a long time, and he didn't even perform at all on the field, the only thing that can be gratified is that Real Madrid played well overall.

The most active on the pitch were Guti and Alonso.

Guti and Alonso are both good midfielders, with Guti on the flanks but very well with his team-mates, and he has become very active along the way.

Alonso, on the other hand, is in the middle, with more chances in the middle than on the wing.

Alonso also played for Real Madrid in the last game, and his performance was not so active, and this one is obviously a little stronger, which shows that his adaptability is really good.

Under the leadership of Guti and Alonso, Real Madrid played frequent attacks and continued to find opportunities in front, and Higuain was also active in the front line, looking for opportunities in front of goal again and again to directly threaten the opponent's goal.

This situation makes Guti, Alonso and Higuain feel good.

Alonso is because of his personal performances.

Guti and Higuain are too unnoticed, Real Madrid has brought in too many stars, causing them to be reduced to 'unnoticed people', Higuain was the team's top scorer last season, and they are all considered to be reduced to substitutes.

How about now?

When it came to the real game, several so-called 'superstars' were dumbfounded, but they became the best players.

Some of the original Real Madrid players also think so, they have no contradiction with Zhen Shaolong, C-Ronaldo and others, but anyone who suddenly becomes unnoticed is also very depressed, seeing that Zhen Shaolong and C-Ronaldo are not performing well, they are also a little gloating in their hearts.

"Look! Also top superstars! ”

"Worth 100 million? Worth 200 million? What do you think? When it comes to the game, that's how it behaves! ”

"It's not as good as me!"

“……”

Every star is unconvinced, and Real Madrid's stars are the same, they are more or less unconvinced by Zhen Shaolong, C-Ronaldo, Kaka and others, but they don't show it on weekdays, and they just think about it.

Unless the other person's performance is convincing, they will remain unconvinced.

Apparently.

So far in the game, neither Zhen Shaolong nor C-Ronaldo have shown a convincing level.

But the game was not what they imagined.

It was not Guti, Higuain, or Gago who created the next goalscoring chance, but C-Ronaldo, who has been 'doing his own thing' on the wing.

In the 27th minute of the game, C-Ronaldo took the ball on the left side outside the penalty area, he made a wonderful breakthrough, pedaled a bicycle from among the two Guido defenders to break into the penalty area, and then dribbled the ball inside to continue to shake off the opponent, and was tackled by the opponent from the side behind.

The referee did not hesitate to point to the penalty spot!

"Hula......"

C-Ronaldo's gorgeous performance caused cheers from the fans in the stands, and even the most critical people have to admit that C-Ronaldo's foot skills are really gorgeous, and he can still complete wonderful breakthroughs near the penalty area.

The penalty opportunity is too important.

If Pellegrini is allowed to allocate penalties, even if it is created by C-Ronaldo, Zhen Shaolong will definitely be in charge.

This is an opportunity for Zhen Shaolong to 'find confidence'.

It's a pity that Pellegrini has no say in this matter, who will take the penalty on the field is generally discussed by the players themselves, since the penalty opportunity was created by C-Ronaldo, it is naturally C-Ronaldo who will take the penalty.

C-Ronaldo also has no idea of giving up his chances at all.

When standing at the penalty spot, C-Ronaldo took a deep breath, he knew that there was a good opportunity in front of him, and it was likely to be the first goal after joining Real Madrid, and what made him feel very good was that Zhen Shaolong had not scored for the time being, that is, he completed the goal faster than Zhen Shaolong.

In addition, his performance on the court is also better than Zhen Shaolong, Zhen Shaolong almost didn't catch the ball much, and he at least had a breakthrough personal performance.

C-Ronaldo takes a deep breath and stares at the goal carefully.

When the referee signaled that he could take a penalty, Ronaldo made a deceptive leg flick to fool the judgment of the goalkeeper in Guito, and then kicked the ball hard into the bottom right corner.

He did it!

The Quito gate will be successfully tricked and pounced on the left!

But instead of flying straight into the goal, the ball hit the post with a very powerful bang.

"Damn!"

C-Ronaldo scolded secretly before he could do anything, he noticed that the other people behind him rushed over, and the one running at the front was a Real Madrid teammate, his legs moved very fast, and the route went directly towards the football landing point, as if he knew in advance where the football was bounced.

And then.

He finished with ease.

The ball flew straight into the empty goal without any suspense, and the Quito goalkeeper was still lying on the other side, and there was no one who could intercept it.

When the football successfully flew into the goal, C-Ronaldo noticed that the number behind the teammate who completed the goal - No. 13!

Zhen Shaolong!

At this moment, C-Ronaldo's heart panicked, and suddenly inexplicably had a bad premonition, and repeatedly felt that the future would become very bumpy......