After a pleasant day of vacation with Wu Lei and his wife, Gao Zheng returned to Mahada Ongda.

Before training began, head coach Simeone had a meeting with the rest of the squad about the upcoming Champions League final.

Just as the reporters asked him, he had to ask the players a question: "What do you think about the upcoming Champions League final?" ”

Gabi, the captain of the team, stepped up: "We want to beat Real Madrid in the final, boss. Revenge two seasons ago! ”

His words were immediately echoed by the rest of the team, and even those players who were not in the team at all two seasons ago also expressed their intention to kill Real Madrid.

Simeone was very happy with the team's performance and it seemed that the morale was available.

So he nodded: "But it's not easy to beat Real Madrid." We haven't lost to them in the league, but we haven't beaten them in the Champions League either. I want you to understand this - revenge requires a lot of effort and a lot of cost, and this game is not going to be easy. Even harder than our away games against Bayern Munich and Barcelona. ”

Playing Bayern Munich away, Atletico Madrid lost 1:2, and if it weren't for Gao Zheng's goal, Atletico Madrid might have been eliminated. The same is true for Barcelona away from home, although Atletico Madrid played well in that game, but ended up losing 0:3.

Simeone used these two games as an example to warn his players that they have a revenge mentality, but don't be too careless because of this, thinking that as long as you want revenge, you can win the game.

Actually, it's not even close.

"Over the next two weeks, we're going to have a series of training sessions for this game and two warm-up games at the same time. I want everyone to cheer up. I know after a season everyone is tired, but at this time there is no other way but to grit your teeth and persevere. If you want revenge, you have to show the determination to get revenge! Simeone said to everyone.

"Don't worry, boss. We are willing to do anything to beat Real Madrid! Someone in the team said.

"That's right, I've been dreaming about that game a lot since that final...... If you don't beat Real Madrid, you can't swallow this breath! ”

"We won't let Real Madrid lift the trophy against us this time!"

The crowd was excited.

Simeone smiled: "Okay, then let's train seriously." This time, it's our turn to make history! ”

He is now available to respond to questions from journalists about the Champions League final and Real Madrid.

Because he and his players have come to a consensus.

He knows that the players don't feel nervous and stressed because of the aggressiveness they show.

On the contrary, if he is too conservative and modest, it may cause dissatisfaction among the players...... I feel that the manager looks down on them too much.

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At the time of Rafael Benitez's sacking, even the most optimistic Real Madrid fans could have imagined that in just half a season, their side would reach the Champions League final and have the potential to win the 11th Champions League trophy in the club's history.

After all, the situation at Real Madrid was really bad at the time.

In particular, the 0-4 loss at home to Barcelona was a great shame.

It was Real Madrid's second-heaviest defeat at home to Barcelona in history, losing by four goals after their 5-0 defeat at home to Barcelona in 1974.

Since that game, everyone has been talking about Benitez's dismissal.

Later, after Benitez drew 2-2 with Valencia, he really got out of class.

He was succeeded by Zinedine Zidane, the coach of the second team of Castilla.

Although Zidane was one of the most influential and successful players in the history of European football during his playing days, the idol of countless professional players, and a winner in life.

But in the field of coaching, he still needs to prove himself.

Before taking charge of Real Madrid's first team, he had only experience in the second team of Castilla.

This makes Zidane's coaching career in the first team of Real Madrid not very promising.

You must know that there is no shortage of people in this world who were popular when they were players, but after changing to head coaches, they can't take a look at the past.

However, many successful managers in football have achieved great things as players, and may not even be players – if they are not managers, I am afraid that many people do not know that they are still in the world.

For example, Mourinho, like Marcelo Lippi, like Arsene Wenger......

is as strong as the "ball king" Maradona, and he can't get the coaching results after changing careers to become the head coach.

In the 2010 World Cup, he led Argentina, which had a successor Messi, but failed to break through Germany in the World Cup, and left his post after the World Cup.

His coaching is more of a gimmick than how good he is at the actual level.

Although Real Madrid cultivated Zidane as the future manager of the team, when he temporarily took over from Benitez, everyone felt that this was just a transition, after all, in the middle of the league, a good manager is hard to find, plus coaching a team like Real Madrid, any manager needs to think about it, and it is impossible to make a decision in a short period of time.

This led to the need for a temporary firefighter.

Many predict that Zidane will work until the end of the season at most, and then in the summer, Real Madrid will find a more suitable person to replace him, and he may return to Castilla to continue training and gaining experience.

On the Chinese Internet, Xiao Yingying, the "bright light" that Xiao Yingying believes very much, also posted a Weibo when Zidane took office: "Don't think that if you change Zidane, Real Madrid will be able to counterattack Barcelona, I am not optimistic about Zidane's coaching ability at all!" ”

The result?

Zinedine Zidane led Real Madrid to a seven-game unbeaten run, scoring five goals in their first two games. Real Madrid is on fire!

There are some games where you don't even know what's going on, it's clear that Real Madrid is the underdog, but it's always Real Madrid who wins in the end.

When you watch the Real Madrid game, you can't see any different tactical ideas from others, this Real Madrid team seems to play in the same vein as the football left over from the Mourinho era.

So at that time, many netizens ridiculed Zidane's Real Madrid as an "X**T" tactic, but such X**T can always win in the end.

So everyone thinks that Zidane is a child of destiny and has extraordinary mysterious powers.

He coached Real Madrid not by tactics, but by "metaphysics".

There are also Chinese fans who gave Zidane a picture, in an old photo, Zidane has become a Taoist, wearing a robe, holding a seven-star soaphorn flag, and the hat on his head has the word "Xuan" written in the middle, looking like a fairy wind and bones, although he has an old face, it does not show any disobedience, which makes people feel that Zidane should be like this.

There is a joint on the left and right: Qi Xuanzong, whose mana is boundless, can still win if he loves to kick around.

Middle Batch: God's Chosen One.

Zidane is indeed so mysterious.

Although everyone can't understand his tactics and always thinks that there is nothing surprising, Real Madrid's results are good.

In the league, because it was pulled too far by Atletico Madrid, it was unable to compete for the championship in the end. But that doesn't mean they aren't good enough in the league.

A 1-0 defeat at home to Atletico Madrid was their last league defeat of the season, and Real Madrid went on a twelve-game winning streak under Zinedine Zidane.

These include a 2-1 away win over Barcelona.

The defeat to Atletico Madrid also became the only league game Zinedine Zidane has lost since taking charge of Real Madrid.

Real Madrid, who had been up and down in the first half of the season under Rafael Benitez, were reborn.

In the Champions League, Real Madrid's results were even better, except for a 2-0 defeat to Wolfsburg in the first leg of the quarter-finals, Real Madrid went all the way to the final.

Real Madrid, who was considered by everyone to be a waste of this season, has a chance to compete for the Champions League again!

Now that they have met their old rivals again in the Champions League final, they have also been defeated, so that many Real Madrid fans have begun to look forward to the 11th Champions League trophy......