Chapter 56: The Winter Transfer Window Closes
On his second day back in Madrid, Razuo made a decision among four teams interested in signing him on loan, opting for C. Osasuna, who are currently in the middle of La Liga. Atlético Osasuna)。 Historically, it is surprising that the team in the autonomous region of Navarra, which is located in the north of Spain and borders France, has a rivalry with Real Madrid. Slovenian Matej Pucko, the team's main left winger, was able to commit to a starting point in the early stages after a two-month injury due to a torn muscle.
After the departure of the main left winger, Li Mudi naturally wanted to straighten out his compatriot Lin Liangming, and at the same time, because the staffing of this position was somewhat weak, and the 17-year-old Dutch teenager Mink Peeters (Mink Peeters) was transferred from U19, and the double value of 93 and 138 is better than nothing.
The last opponent in January is Real United, who have suffered a lot for Castile in the first half of the season, and this Basque team has an extremely tenacious style of play and a lot of experience, and is currently fifth in the league with 10 wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats. Ben came to the opponent's home game to make the team feel a lot of headaches, and now there is a temporary lack of league assist king, personal assault ability is very strong pull left, the new signing Kuchi has not formed enough tacit understanding with his teammates, this game is really difficult to deal with.
A few days before the game, the team conducted a lot of tactical coordination drills, and Li Mudi pragmatically changed the predetermined goal to a tie and win, requiring the players to run more actively on the basis of the previous one, and pay attention to the opponent's physical confrontation while passing and controlling the ball. Although this will make the physical consumption of the players reach a terrifying level, but in the face of the double advantage of the opponent's body and the home field, the general level of possession is likely to be simply and rudely replaced, and the consequences of being counter-robbed and losing the ball in the midfield are too terrible, it is the way to die, and it is likely to be directly beaten into a sieve by the Royal United.
On Saturday, January 30, at 20:00, the temperature was only 11 degrees Celsius, the sky was still drifting with a light rain, and the quality of the turf was somewhat poor.
Castilla's starting line-up for this game: goalkeeper Yáñez, right wing-back Forlan, central defenders Hector and Leon, left-back Tejero, central midfielders Fambas and Toro, forward Odegaard, right winger Alvaro, left winger Lin Liangming, center Mariano. Seeing Kutchi's thin and small body before the game, the Castilla coach still couldn't put him in the starting line-up ruthlessly, for fear that he would stand up and be carried down, which was terrible.
Immediately after kick-off, the home team launched a full siege, and in the face of menacing opponents, the lads of Castilla had no dignity at all, no one dared to stay on the ball on their feet for more than two seconds, and they were eager to pass the ball and kick the trouble to their teammates. In this way, there was no personal breakthrough with the ball at all, and there was no pointless passing without tactical coordination, and after barely controlling it for a minute, he gave up the ball, and Li Mudi, who saw the sidelines, shook his head. However, there is no way to be too angry with them, after all, seeing the Royal United players full of muscles and hideous faces, Li Mudi on the sidelines is a little empty, not to mention directly facing these evil players.
At the beginning of the game, the away team changed its previous style of play, withdrew the overall formation very far back, and focused on the tactics of solid defense and waiting for opportunities to counterattack. The home team, under the command of Mike Alonso, the core of the midfield, constantly used wide crosses to test the air defense and confrontation ability of the Castilla back.
In the 11th minute, Castilla played a quick counter-attack, Odegaard's through ball went through the crotch of the defending defender, Mariano immediately entered the box, but the interference of central defender Urzizu kicked the ball into the side-netting, and missed a great chance.
A minute later, the visitors had another chance to shoot, and Odegaard's corner was met by Leon, who had been ambushed to the front post, but unfortunately he was also pressed by the defender and couldn't make a perfect header movement, and the ball went over the post.
In the 16th minute, Real United finally seized on a passing error from the visitors, tackling a cross pass from Fifas fifteen yards outside the Castilla penalty area, and the through pass from centre-forward Romo caused a one-on-one effort from winger Mgaka. The latter drove straight to the goal with the ball and fired a furious shot with his foot near the penalty spot, but goalkeeper Yáñez judged the route and hit the bottom line with a single punch with his left hand, causing the home fans to sigh loudly.
After that, the two sides formed a stalemate, and the Castilian players, who gradually adapted to the high-intensity physical confrontation, reduced unnecessary mistakes and occasionally used team cooperation to attack the opponent's goal; Real United, on the other hand, defended by creating offsides, allowing Lin Liangming and Mariano to fall into the offside trap many times, while still playing high in attack to create problems for the visiting team. For a while, all kinds of people on the field turned on their backs, the players were dirty into mud monkeys, and the originally distinct red and white jerseys turned black and gray, and if you only look at the lower body, you will definitely not be able to tell who is from that team.
At halftime, the score was still 0-0, and in terms of technical statistics such as ball control, shots on goal, and fouls, the two sides were evenly divided, and no one could take advantage.
In the lounge, the Castilian players were very tired, and their rapid breathing took a long time to soothe it. Through the FM system, it can be seen that everyone's general physical strength has come to about 70%, so it is likely that there will be injuries in the second half, the coaching staff hurriedly arranged for physiotherapists to come forward to relax and massage their muscles, and Li Mudi seized the time to arrange the tactical arrangements for the next 45 minutes.
The previous light rain has gradually become heavier, and the turf in the stadium has been tattered to a certain extent, which is more and more detrimental to the visiting team that focuses on technical flow. In addition, it can be seen from the situation in the first half that Lin Liangming's ability is still far from that of La Zuo, and he cannot defeat the opponent one-on-one with his personal speed and technique, let alone attract other players from the opponent to come over and create a gap for Mariano and Odegaard in the middle. The current Celestial Empire players are still not strong enough, and they need to grow up as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to stay in European football in the future.
At the start of the second half, Castilla changed formation, with Odegaard dropping back into midfield to improve his efficiency on the ball. Seeing that his opponent seemed to have given up most of his attacking ability, Real United head coach Zullaika made a big swing of his hand, causing the two wingers to shrink to the middle, and both of them were pushed to the first line, turning into a 4-3-3 strong attacking formation, and strengthening the long-range shot in the middle.
In the 50th minute, the home team penetrated in the middle, three strikers pressed the visiting team's back line into the box, the Iliad in the middle attracted Febas and Toro to the front to scramble, pushed the ball to the right, Mike Alonso received the ball and surged forward, raising his foot to shoot a powerful shot, the ball rushed towards the goal of Castilla at great speed. Yáñez on the goal line was in a very reasonable position, and after a slight move he took a position and was just waiting to be square. However, the ball was covered with rain and became very slippery, and Yáñez couldn't control the ball with both hands, but let the ball bounce out. There was a sudden uproar in the penalty area, with a large group tearing each other and rushing towards the landing point, and finally it was centre-back Hector who won the favor of Lady Luck and poked the ball out of the line with his toes. Yáñez, who was shocked into a cold sweat, excitedly stepped forward to save the team and shouted loudly to express his gratitude.
The home team's corner kick was pushed out of the bottom line in the other direction of the goal by Toro at the back post, and it was still a corner for the home team. The second time the ball went straight to the front post, and the suddenly inserted central defender Esnaola jumped up and shook his head to attack the goal without being marked, but unfortunately the angle of the top was a little right, and Yáñez dragged it off the crossbar with a single fist. Li Mudi, who was on the sidelines, was very dissatisfied with this defense and shouted for the players to concentrate and not make such low-level mistakes again. Real United's third corner in a row finally had little effect and was completely destroyed by the visitors.
The time gradually came to the seventieth minute, and the rain was still falling, and there was no good grass in the field, and it was a rotten vegetable field. Just when the players' physical strength came to a limit, Castilla suddenly played a successful siege in the front, the crazy running of Fambas and Lin Liangming forced the opponent's central midfielder Martinez to make a mistake in passing, Fambas's through ball passed through the opponent's entire backline, and what Mariano had to do was to accelerate with all his strength to catch up with the ball and face the opponent's goalkeeper with a single knife. But then there was another accident, the Dominican skidped, and he fell to the ground on a big horse, allowing the best chance of the whole game for the visiting team to slide past him. All the members of the Castilla arena and on and off the stadium held their heads in their hands, as if they had seen a UFO, and their faces were full of incredulity.
Li Mudi was also very frustrated after missing this chance to kill, but the game still had to be played, and seeing Mariano's fight to only 55% of his physical strength, he was embarrassed to blame anything, so he could only cheer everyone up and concentrate all his energy to face the home team's counterattack.
When replacing the physically exhausted Mariano with Narvaez, Li Mudi also deliberately grabbed him and comforted the young man who was still regretting. After that, Forlan and Leon, who received yellow cards, were replaced one after another to avoid the possibility of being sent off.
In the 91st minute, the home side created another good chance when substitute striker Domingos fired a shot that hit his team-mate's calf and hit the post, and Castilla was somewhat lucky to escape.
In the end, this rain encounter between Royal United and Castile ended in a 0-0 ending. The home team had a slight advantage with 52 per cent possession, and their shots on goal were unsatisfactory with 4-of-10 and 2-of-11, with a foul ratio of 17-19, completely ruining the beauty of the art of football.
The next morning, the team doctor brought a not very good news to Li Mudi, who was about to lead the team back to Madrid, Lin Liangming had a cold, and the preliminary judgment was to rest for a week, Li Mudi was immediately confused, who was used on the left winger in Thursday's Federation Cup?
After returning to Madrid, the team went on vacation. The coach of Castilla could not rest, and hurried to the office building to discuss the team's lineup with Zizou. The two men had a three-hour meeting with Real Madrid's sports minister and youth director before coming out of the office just before dinner. Subsequently, Real Madrid's official website released a number of messages in a row:
1. Castilla midfielder Martin Odegaard will join Sporting Gijón on loan until 30 June 2016;
2. Real Madrid bought Jorge Meré, a 19-year-old central defender at Sporting Gijón, for 10 million euros and loaned him to Sporting Gijón for free until June 30, 2016;
3. Real Madrid has reached an agreement with Zivkovic that the Serbian youngster will join the team as a free agent on July 1, 2016;
Fourth, Castilla Colombian striker Narvaez transferred to Real Betis for 200,000 euros;
5. Mbappe was temporarily sent to Castilla for a period of two weeks.
6. Real Madrid will hold an external recruitment event for young players in March, hoping that children who love football and want to make football their lifelong career can actively participate in the registration.
At this point, the winter transfer window of the 2015-16 Spanish league season has completely closed, and the Real Madrid first team has acquired several promising seedlings at unimaginable low prices in the future, while Castilla and Li Mudi have ushered in a difficult challenge in the second half of the season after losing several key players such as Enzo, Lazo and Odegaard.