Chapter 631: Emperor Ren Duel
On 16 March, the Valdebebas Sports City had another exceptionally quiet day, not because of the usual rest on the first day after the match, but because most of the members of the first team and youth teams at all levels were transferred to the national team, which made it seem that the club's side has changed a little compared to the past.
The first team's coaching staff took the opportunity to get a five-day vacation, much to Lee's delightful humming because after two and a half months as a single dog, he finally waited for his family to go to Asia to recuperate to escape mad cow disease. In the next few days, not only did he accompany his mother and wife to go shopping with his mother and wife for the first time in many years - although his feet were almost tired and unconscious when he returned home, he also took his baby daughter to Disneyland in Paris for a whole day.
If it weren't for the bodyguards who were in charge of the security of the father and daughter, they couldn't stand more and more reporters, and it is estimated that Xiao Xiyin would have plans to live there overnight.
After more than 40 days of special training, the latter's consistency in crosses has improved visibly, and according to the tips given by the training package, the ability can increase from the previous 10 to 11 in six days.
And because of the decline in his overall ability caused by the previous serious injury, he has also begun to show signs of recovery due to timely and professional training, so his other abilities have not shown a downward trend due to the use of special training packages, which is good news.
Since the system stipulates that a player can only use two training packages at the same time, so when the training plan to improve the dribbling ability has only been carried out to the two-fifths level, Li Mudi decided to continue to strengthen the crosses of the double Bijia for a second time, at least to a passing level before starting to strengthen the physical strength.
The smooth progress of the plan to transform his compatriots has made the already high-spirited Real Madrid coach feel more relaxed, and he has decided to wait until the players return to the club, and use his newly acquired abilities with several young players that he particularly values in accordance with the plan he has made to fully and effectively develop their potential.
It's just that the moment didn't come, and the bad news that Varane and Odriosola were injured in the national team game reached Real Madrid, if it weren't for the FM system showing that the injuries of the two were not serious, and they could recover within two weeks at the earliest, Li Mudi was eager to call the current coaches of France and Spain to "greet" them.
The quarter-finals of the Champions League are about to start in the first week of April, and against Bayern Munich, who are in high morale and have a big lead in the Bundesliga, Real Madrid must give 100% energy to be able to seize the chance of promotion in the two-legged meeting, which is one of the main reasons why Li Muddy chose to accept the apology of Asensio and others. If the team has a key player injured at this juncture, the game will become even more difficult, and if they want to complete the treble, the Southern Star is a mountain that the Galacticos must climb.
Especially when he was eliminated by this old enemy last season, completing revenge is also a goal that Real Madrid must achieve.
Real Madrid's final game in March was at home to Alaves in the 30th round of La Liga, and given the upcoming Champions League tie, they will be looking to retain their squad this weekend, given that most of the players in the squad have played two consecutive friendlies with the national team and are not very physical in terms of fitness.
And just when Li Mudi drew up a training and game plan for the next two weeks according to everyone's situation, Hierro informed him of two pieces of news: Mbappe has generally agreed to the club's contract renewal conditions, only some specific details remain to be discussed, and the contract will be officially signed by the end of next month at the latest; However, Asensio's agent said that his client wants to be focused enough at the moment, so the next wave of contract extension negotiations can only be held after the end of the season.
With more than two years left on his current contract, the Real Madrid hierarchy are not worried that he will move to him as a free agent, but the failure to achieve the club's long-established plan is still very unhappy for the Spanish football giant. When visiting the manager's home on Friday night, Hierro complained to Li Mudi during the after-dinner wine tasting, believing that Real Madrid's current salary structure is very dangerous, and if it is not controlled, it is likely to cause immeasurable trouble, but the players who already have super high salaries are still dissatisfied one by one, which is really disgusting.
Regarding Big Brother's complaints, Li Mudi just acted as a qualified listener, and did not say too much to express his position. After all, he himself was one of the people who received a high salary from the club, and he really had no position to agree with the idea of a new salary structure.
However, in his cognition, throttling has always been very difficult, and even in most cases, it is a matter of exhausting all efforts but not getting even a little result, and sometimes it is counterproductive and causes greater expenses, so it is better to turn his energy to how to open source.
In the specific affairs of running the club, Li Mudi must be a pseudo-expert, in addition to knowing some of the most basic or rotten things, it is difficult for him to come up with any effective means. But he knows very well that as long as he can lead the team to bring out unnatural results, he can bring more economic benefits to the club, so he can confidently say that sentence to everyone: "The high salary paid to me by Real Madrid, every peseta is worth it."
Eliminating Bayern and other opponents after that, and successfully winning the treble this season has become the first and most crucial step for him to show his value.
Therefore, in order to ensure that the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals can be ushered in in the best condition, the Real Madrid coach hid core players such as Mbappe and Ndidi in the league on the evening of the 29th, and only allowed Asensio and Pellegri and others to play for a maximum of 55 minutes. However, even with such contempt, Mid-Table Alaves were unable to do the same thing as their club director's pre-match rhetoric, and even though the visitors scored a goal in the second half on a low-level mistake by Melay, they couldn't do better in their own defence, with a 3-1 defeat dropping them down one place and not far from the relegation zone.
On the other hand, the Galaxy Battleship adjusted the competitive state of most of the players through this "warm-up match", so that they could go to Munich with a relatively relaxed mentality.
When they arrived in the Bavarian capital city of southern Germany on Tuesday afternoon and rented the venue of the Munich 1860 club for suitability training, the opening game of the night was marked by a surprising result: Barcelona suffered a 4-1 defeat at the feet of Inter Milan at their home stadium, almost declaring the title defence unsuccessful.
After Atletico Madrid and Sevilla both reached the round of 16, La Liga has a rare chance that no team will reach the semi-finals, something that has not happened in more than two decades.
However, Li Mudi and his disciples obviously did not feel the pressure brought by this boring record, because in their hearts, not to mention whether they could win the final championship, at least the opponent in front of them must be defeated, and the humiliation suffered by the other party a year ago will be used as a break in the form of double dedication this time.
So there was no need for others to mobilize at all, everyone was holding their breath and wanted to press Bayern Munich to the ground at the Allianz Arena and rub it hard.
However, the strength of the Bundesliga hegemony is obviously not to be underestimated, and Ribery's team, after maintaining the strong performance of last season, has strengthened their speed ability through squad adjustments, although it is not explicitly stated, but many people believe that this is a preparation for Real Madrid's super counterattack. This time they met in the knockout round for the second year in a row, and Bayern's idea was also very clear, that is, to step on the corpse of this old rival again to complete the promotion, and strive to complete the wish of winning the Big Ear Cup.
So before the start of the first leg of the match, European football generally believed that this would be a super duel between pinpoints and wheat and Mars hitting the earth, and the process would not necessarily be exciting, but it was bound to become a classic. As for the prediction of who will have the last laugh, no one dares to be confident in what is true, and the general approval ratings are still very similar, and even 13 out of 16 experts from ESPN believe that the difference in aggregate score will not be more than one goal, showing that the strength of the two teams is too close.
Sure enough, after the opening, the two sides invariably launched a fierce scramble in the midfield area, wanting to take the initiative in momentum. Fifteen minutes into the game, the home advantage was evident, and Bayern had clearly received a buff on their doorstep and began to gain a greater advantage in terms of possession.
The visitors who were forced to recycle did not resolutely focus on defensive counter-attacking strategies as in the past, because the speed of several defenders on the opposing side did improve greatly compared to last year, which made Mbappe and Asensio less powerful and could not achieve the effect of seriously threatening the home team's goal. Therefore, if Bayern, which is also very strong in attack firepower, can attack as much as possible throughout the game, Li Mudi does not think that Real Madrid can return to Madrid with a good score.
So he had already predicted the situation, so he simply did not put Rodrygo in the starting list, but sent Pellegri who was more effective in positional battles. Real Madrid's tactics in this game were also changed to the overall attack and defense of the normal rhythm of the opponent to see who had the sharper conventional weapons.
This change of tactics is still a bit of a headache for Ribery, because in order to prevent the opponent's counterattack, he uses new signings with better speed ability in the two wing-back positions, and in terms of defensive ability alone, it is actually half a grade weaker than when all the main players are out of the station, which brings certain hidden dangers to the safety of his own goal. Therefore, in the "intrigue" before the game, the Real Madrid coach still took a lot of advantage.
Just looking at the performance of the two teams in the first half, the home team did a very good job on the defensive end, and basically did not leave any decent opportunities for the opponent. However, because Real Madrid no longer pursue the pace of counter-attack, they can increase the number of people in the backfield as much as possible when dealing with Bayern's attack, and then launch a positional attack after regaining the ball has also reduced unnecessary mistakes, so that the Bundesliga hegemons have never been able to get the opportunity created by the counter-attack in front of the two sides when they met last year.
So this much-anticipated focus of the battle, in this bland state, a serious lack of bright spots, ushered in the halftime whistle, which was really disappointing to the fans.
To their despair, the situation has not been reversed in any way, and the two giants who are in the top two single-game goals in Europe's top five leagues this season continue to switch between attack and defense as if they were deliberately consuming everyone's patience, until the game entered the final fifteen minutes, and the situation did not improve after substitutions and adjustments.
It was Koeman who made a brilliant solo breakthrough when he fired a powerful long-range shot from the left-hand side of the box that was saved by Andre Lunin. Rodrigo, who came on as a substitute afterwards, was also very clever to finish a very hidden cold shot, but it went slightly off the post because it rubbed the calf of centre-back Hofmann.
These two near-successful attacks were like an injection of excitement into the two old men, and they had an immediate effect, and the pace of the game finally accelerated to a level that was very enjoyable.
In the final moments, both teams seemed to untie their physical and mental bindings and launched a fierce attack on each other's goals. Unfortunately, due to the excellent performance of the defenders and some reasons of luck, no one could become the hero of the stunner, and the score of 0-0 was maintained until the end of the game.
This result is acceptable for both coaches Li Muddy and Ribery, but compared to the 3-0 game a year ago, Bayern fans will definitely be very dissatisfied. However, in the eyes of the outside world, the balance of promotion seems to have tilted in the side of Real Madrid, but with Bayern only needing one away goal to take the initiative, it is difficult to say what the final result will be.
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