Chapter 66: The Fierce Battle

Back in the hotel room, Li Mudi picked up the new mobile phone on the bed - the travel bag and its contents had been taken away by the police as evidence of the beating, and as expected, several missed calls appeared on it, from Qi Zu, Raul and other people from the Real Madrid group, as well as acquaintances such as Zheng Xiaoyang and Xu Gengbao. After calling back one by one, briefly explaining the situation and progress, I went to take a shower.

As soon as he got dressed, there was a knock on the door, and it was Gines leading the two lawyers. They were followed by the hotel waiter, pushing a food truck with some dishes and a bottle of red wine. Several people planned to settle dinner in Li Mudi's room, and by the way, they would further discuss the follow-up of this matter.

When the boss of Castile saw them off, it was already twelve o'clock in the night when they were ready to rest. endured a strong drowsiness, habitually opened some SNS to check the dynamics of friends, and found that on Twitter, Real Madrid players initiated a topic against racial discrimination, and the current Ronaldo, Bale, Isco and other big names have expressed their support for Li Moody, and the retired older generation of stars have also Beckham, Ronaldo, Carlos and others have come forward to express their support. As of 0:00 on this day, the number of hits on this topic has reached 40 million, and there are more than 8 million messages, and Li Mudi's eyes are moist again......

At 11 o'clock at noon on Thursday, Castilla and his party came to the loan stadium for the final training before the game, and the atmosphere in the entire training ground was very depressing. The coaching staff, who knew it, did not try to intervene in the same way, but also needed to be able to give full play to the determination of the Basque team, which was very strong and physical.

Real United's home stadium Stadium Gal, was full of spectators an hour and a half before the start of the game, and the 5,000 seats were all home team fans, and the 300 tickets originally reserved for the away team fans have been urgently recalled by the Royal United Club after yesterday's clashes, otherwise the two sides are very likely to have violent clashes in the stands, and no one will be able to explain at that time.

In the afternoon warm-up, Castilla was booed by the crowd, and all kinds of invective from the audience lingered in the ears of the players and coaching staff. However, fortunately, the home team made great efforts to take precautions in advance, and did not let banners or flags with relevant racist remarks appear in the stadium, and the swear words in the mouths of these fans are also regular words, and no one dares to challenge the bottom line of people all over the world at this time.

For these home fans who spared no effort to put pressure on Castilla, Li Mudi, who had been standing on the sidelines watching the game when the players stepped on the field, said that he was not affected, because the language spoken by the people in the Basque Country is very strange, and even people in other parts of Spain can't understand it.

The Basque Country is located in the western part of the Pyrenees Mountains in southwestern Europe, on the coast of the Bay of Biscay, spanning the countries of Spain and France, including the Basque Country and Novara in Spain and the Basque Country in northern France. The Basques, the most traditional in the Pyrenees, are herders, and due to long-term communication and integration with neighboring ethnic groups, the Basque language has a large number of Romance language (that is, the "Latin" language mistranslated by the Celestial Empire), as well as many ancient Latin, but there are very few Indo-European loanwords, and it is the only language in Europe that does not belong to the Indo-European language family. Its grammar is unimaginably complex and difficult for non-natives to master, and in the 18th century, a Basque scholar worked hard for many years to complete the first Basque grammar book, which was called Hard Things to Do.

In addition, the Basque dialect system is extremely complex, with 8 officially recognized dialects and 25 sub-dialects alone. A village away, or even a house apart, may say different things, very much in the style of some southern regions of the Great Celestial Empire.

So even if almost all the fans are spraying Li Mudi, he can easily ignore everything, because he doesn't understand it at all!

Back in the away dressing room, the physiotherapists were taking the time to relax their muscles. Today's temperature is a bit low, around 13 degrees Celsius, similar to the league game the two teams played here in January, and there is light rain in the sky, which is not very suitable for the athletes.

At this time, the stadium radio began to play the music that the fans of the Basque Country loved, some of which were the latest and hottest pop songs, and some of which were old folk songs or pieces of music that had been passed down from ancient times.

Due to the departure of many of the previous core players, the team's main force and substitutes are no longer so clear, and the opponent is very tricky, so the lineup that was commonly used in the cup competition is no longer appropriate.

Castilla's starting line-up for this game: goalkeeper Abad, right wing-back Linhardt, central defenders Manu and Leon, left-back Abner, central midfielders Fabas, Toro and Muñoz, right winger Alvaro, left winger Lin Liangming, center forward Rivero, 4-3-2-1 in a two-sided formation.

Correspondingly, the home team Royal United did not use a very attacking 4-3-3 at home, but also played a similar formation to the visiting team, except that a central midfielder retreated into a midfielder, Zuleika, the old fox, wanted to ensure victory while being able to keep a clean sheet against Castile, and the abacus played very well. The visitors' attacking prowess is indeed weaker on paper than before, so it is still possible that Real United's plan to try not to allow their opponents to score away goals is still very likely.

On the other hand, the players that the Castile side needs to deal with, the shooting skills and speed of the center Garland and the dribbling and technique of the left winger Ozkoidi's double 16 are a huge challenge for the defenders, so Li Mudi sent the young central defender Manu, and he is the only defender in the team who can keep up with the former in terms of speed, as for Ozkoidi, he can only exert the collective strength.

Away games should be based on stability, so after kick-off, Castilla did not rush to launch a strong attack, but took advantage of Rivero's frequent retreat to create a numerical advantage in the midfield area, and used the pass to control the rhythm of the game. The home team's players were not in a hurry, just stuck to their respective positions, but the advantage in physical confrontation still allowed them to completely block several attackers of the opposing team. Lin Liangming has been completely lost in the muscle stick, and Álvaro on the other side has successfully broken through twice on the side through personal skills, but his teammates in the middle can't grab the landing point at all, and he hasn't been able to complete a target attack for ten minutes into the game.

On the contrary, it was the players of Real United who began to play after gradually adapting to the weather and the pace of the game. Amid the cheers of the fans, they took advantage of the home momentum to suddenly launch a frantic press in the midfield, aiming at the shortcomings of the visitors' three central midfielders who were not good enough at their feet, forcing them to deal with the ball in a shorter time, resulting in more mistakes.

Fortunately, the Castilla players have a firm belief and do not retreat because they have been put to the ground again and again, and even if they make mistakes, they always try their best to catch up and make up for the loopholes, even if they receive a yellow card for this. With 20 minutes to go, it was a bit of a surprise that the more brutal home side were falling behind in terms of fouls and yellow cards. And Li Mudi kept complaining to the fourth official that his players were being treated unfairly, and the home team didn't blow a lot of fouls. As always, Solari follows behind the boss, always ready to "save the car".

Just when they were all dissatisfied with the referee's decision just now, the Royal United on the field launched a quick attack.

Mike Alonso played the ball to Ozkoidi on the wing, who dribbled the ball down the flank and used his skilful foot skills to dribble past Linhardt in two strokes. After entering the thirty-meter area of Castile, he made a false shake at Toro, who was following him, and suddenly cut inside in disguise! This deceived the latter and another central midfielder of the visiting team, Muñoz, who came up to make up for the defense.

He then dribbled laterally, luring Febas on the other wing to come up and press, then used his strong body and powerful arms to hold the defender and continue to dribble down the middle.

At this time, Real United striker Garland and right winger Elzmendi were diagonally interspersed into the penalty area, pulling the visitors' defence, while the three central midfielders, all attracted by Ozkoidi's dribbling, had been chasing him alone, and a huge space appeared on the right side of the large penalty area outside Castile ......

When he saw this scene, Li Mudi on the sidelines flickered in his heart, and a sense of danger went straight to his mind.

Sure enough, Elzmendi suddenly sent a pass-through into that gap, and Mike Alonso, who caught up with him, shot straight with his foot without stopping.

The soccer ball drilled through the gap between Garland and Manu, who were tangling in the penalty area! With a gust of wind, it swept low over the turf and bounced five meters in front of the goal, and the rain sped up the ball's travel, and it swooped into the net before the hand of the Castile goalkeeper Abad pounced!

The stadium was instantly overwhelmed by the cheers of the fans, and the long "Goal^^^^^^^^^^^" of the live commentators on the loudspeakers made the home team's supporters burst into infinite passion.

On the other side, seeing the boys in the field gritting their teeth and being unwilling, the Castilian coach shouted a few times loudly, and clapped his hands vigorously to encourage everyone to start over.

When the game resumed, the home team's players wanted to take advantage of the win and go on to the next game. So the action is more simple and rough, with all kinds of high shots and violent long-range shots on the offensive end, and the defensive end is using ferocious and savage defense to stop Castile's counterattack. The young man of the away team did not show weakness, in the case of physical fitness far inferior to the opponent, he still dared to fight and fight, and for a time the smell of gunpowder on the field gradually became stronger, the number of fouls surged, and the referee had to show yellow cards many times to control the situation.

The game was cut in and out by the frequent whistles, and the 5,000 Royal United fans outside the stadium were furious that the Castillan lads dared to fight here, and kept greeting the families of the visiting team members with all kinds of insults. Unfortunately, someone shouted swear words in standard Spanish that discriminated against Li Mudi's skin color, and was caught on the bench of the away team, and the people inside blew up the temple in an instant. Assistant coach Solari and five substitutes Yáñez, Senna, Grau, Kuchi and Cedres all rushed out at once, looking back at the back of the crowd, cursing as they searched for the villain.

The fourth official on the side naturally noticed this incident, and hurriedly summoned security personnel, and with the cooperation of Li Mudi, persuaded several people back to the bench, and at the same time sent people to find the audience who said racist words, but unfortunately this is a needle in a haystack and is completely inoperable.

Soon after, the whistle blew at half-time, and Castilla was temporarily down by a goal in a fierce battle against their new arch-rivals.