Chapter 103: Resentment and Helplessness

But there's more to lament than that.

At 19:00 local time in Spain on May 14, as the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, Real Madrid won the last round of La Liga this season with Ronaldo's brace at the Riazor Stadium, the home of the former bitter host Deportivo La Coruna, and perfectly ended the journey of the domestic competition with a wave of 12 consecutive wins. In the league, 28 wins, 7 draws, 3 losses, 91 points, 111 goals scored, 34 goals conceded, this result is still very good.

Unfortunately, in the other La Liga game that ended at the same time, Barcelona won 3-0 at the Estadio Nuevo Los Carmens in Granada, and Uruguayan centre-forward Luis Suarez completed a hat-trick. At the same time, their record reached 29 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses, and with 91 points in the same situation, they successfully defended the league title by using the aggregate score of 5-2 against their rivals in the two legs. At the same time, in the competition for the top scorer in the league, Su Shen also overwhelmed Ronaldo's 35 goals with 40 goals, and the former scored 3 fewer penalties, which is more golden.

Losing the title in this way was very frustrating for both the players and coaches of the Real Madrid first team. In the first days after that, the media and fans repeatedly mentioned the 4-0 defeat at the Bernabeu, saying that it was this game that buried the team's nine months of hard work, and if you count all the previous preparations, it would have been a year. Benitez really became the target of public criticism as Li Mudi expected.

In fact, it's not all his own pot, Zizou has also lost to Villarreal away after taking over the team, was forced to draw away by Real Betis and Malaga, and lost at home to local rivals, but people always choose to see what they want to see. In their eyes, Zizou is the hero who led the team to the Champions League final again after two years and is about to win the 11th Big Ear Cup, so they subconsciously ignored that if Barcelona had not encountered a rare low ebb, it might have been successfully defended in advance as early as the end of last month, which would leave Real Madrid with the opportunity to say this and that.

It was close to midnight when the first team took a chartered flight back to Madrid overnight, but the Castilla coach still ran to the airport to pick him up despite the discomfort of his biological clock, but fortunately he could wait directly at the VIP exit with the advantage of the club's insiders, instead of staying outside to feed the mosquitoes like hundreds of ordinary fans. The players who came out with their suitcases really looked tired and lost, and Ronaldo, who has always been a little emotional, had a black face throughout the whole process, and even did not change his expression when facing Li Mudi's comforting hug, and did not say a word. Jesse, Mbappe and others, who are not old and have not experienced these storms, are even more depressed, and they have expressed their resentment and unwillingness to lose the championship when facing Li Mudi, who is very close to them.

After briefly comforting the two children, at the end of the team, he ushered in his good friend Qi Zu. The Real Madrid coach looks good, although he unfortunately missed the first major title of his coaching career, but he is still satisfied with the results of his debut season, especially the team's form in the last two or three months has gradually been adjusted to a peak, and now this Real Madrid team is confident of winning against any team in the world. It's just a pity that the league ended too early, and if there were a few more rounds, it might be able to form a comeback. Another regret is that there are still two full weeks before the Champions League final, during which there are no other official matches to play, and the state of the players is very likely to decline significantly.

The two men parted ways after chatting outside the bus in the parking lot, and the rest of the first team was to take the bus back to Valdebebas, while the coaching staff, who were living outside, could get off the bus on the way. And the coach of Castile, whose destination is also the Real Madrid stadium, is not qualified to return with them, so he can only take a taxi by himself, and come alone and go back alone, which is really miserable!

A week after the first team completed their league campaign for the season, the development squad faced the first leg of the final league tie. On 22 May, they travel to the Autonomous Community of Murcia, southeast of Madrid, to take on the famous European football team UCAM Murcia, based in the capital city of Murcia.

Yes, you read that right, this is a big school team, and it's a small character that has only been established for less than 20 years. In 1999, in order to compete in the Spanish University Games, Wukang University, known as the "Sports University", established an official football team in Spain, becoming the school's 20th professional sports team, and their basketball team was the only university team on the European continent to compete in the national top league.

Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia (Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia) has world-class research results in the field of sports, and has partnerships with the Spanish Olympic Committee, La Liga, the United States Strength and Sports Association and other institutions, and is also a football talent training base for La Liga. In addition, according to the latest multidimensional global university rankings, Wukang University ranks first in the world for psychology majors.

After more than 10 years of accumulation, the Wukang University football team, which can only be regarded as a "great-grandchild" in Spanish football, finally ushered in an explosive period this season, they defeated the rival Real Murcia in La Liga in Group B4 of La Liga, and successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the La B promotion play-off championship as the group champion, with 22 wins and 77 points creating the team's best results since its establishment.

Speaking of which, we're going to talk about this play-off. The promotion play-offs of La B should be called the most bizarre format in football, the whole competition is participated by the top four teams of 4 groups, a total of 16 teams, of which four champions are first to catch each other, home and away two legs, the winner is directly promoted to La B, and the loser enters the next round of play-offs. At the same time, a total of four groups of 12 second to fourth place matchups home and away, the second place against the fourth place in other groups, the third place against the third place in other groups, the two warring sides draw lots, the six losers are eliminated directly, and the six winners enter the next round of play-offs. At this time, in addition to the two teams that have been promoted and the six teams that have been eliminated, there are still eight candidates left, and then there will be a two-legged home and away match, with four losers eliminated and four winners advancing to the final round of play-offs.

Let me catch my breath...... The remaining four teams are still playing each other home and away, with two losers eliminated and two winners promoted to La Liga. At this point, all the four upgraded places have been generated, so is that the end of it? Of course not! The two winners of the four championships in the first step will also have to play an inconsequential round of home and away matchups, and the winner will be named the overall champion of the entire La B League! Nima is really a soap opera, theoretically a team needs to complete a maximum of three two-legged six games to be promoted, and a month is not enough time, and it is also drunk.

The four group winners of La Liga B in the 14-15 season are: Racing Santander with 74 points in Group 1 (the former La Liga team has fallen into such a miserable situation that in reality it failed to be promoted this season), Group 2 Castile has a record record of 108 points, and Reus Sports (C.F. Reus) has 73 points in Group 3. Reus Deportiu) and 4 groups of 74 points from the Universitario de Vucon de Murcia. Coupled with the remaining twelve teams participating in the play-offs, together with the draw results given by the Football Association, they are exactly the same as in the previous life. At that time, Solari led the Real Madrid reserve team to victory after Zizou took over from Benitez, and successfully reached the top of the group with a good score of 80 points, but in the play-offs, he first lost 3-4 to Murcia Wukang University in two legs, missing the perfect opportunity for direct promotion. And then then they suffered a 0-4 aggregate defeat at the feet of Lleida, which was only less than 15 years old, and it was a shame to miss out on the qualification to return to La Liga! Because in the following season, Castilla did not have the previous domineering and luck, and in the 16-17 season, they only achieved 13 wins, 12 draws and 13 losses to get 51 points, and they were able to avoid the relegation play-offs (Mensajero, who is fourth from the bottom, has 46 points).

But in this life, the situation is completely different, Castilla has become a BUG-level existence under the tutelage of Li Mudi, and almost no one will believe that this team cannot succeed in being promoted to the second division. The bookmaker's odds for this group of matchups between Real Madrid's reserve team and Murcia University of Murcia in the Champions League semi-finals can be seen how optimistic they are. In the first round of the home team's home team's three outcomes, Murcia's odds were 4.07, 2.78 and 1.59, and in the second leg, Castile had three odds of 1.04, 16.67 and 40.22, almost no reason not to win.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, Castilla has already booked the final championship, but the head coach of the team does not think so, and until everything is engraved on the scroll of history, there is nothing certain, certain and certain. Therefore, he asked the members of the coaching staff to strictly cooperate with his work, and to stifle all kinds of negative mentalities and emotions such as complacency, impetuousness, and anxiety that may exist or will arise in the team in a timely manner, and the whole team should treat every game as if it were a mortal rival Real Union, or even Barcelona.

After two days of repairs, the first team regrouped at the training ground to make final preparations for the Champions League final at the end of the month. Zizu found a friend in his free time and proposed to send Mbappe to the reserve team if needed, but Li Mudi politely rejected the other party's kindness after thinking about it carefully.

The French phenom has been called up to the first team midway through the season after he joined Real Madrid before the summer transfer window closed last year and has shown superhuman potential in the development squad. Overall, he has made a staggering 20 first-team appearances in all competitions, but has only played 587 minutes in total, which is limited considering that three of those were full Copa del Rey games. But even so, Mbappe also delivered 3 goals and 4 assists in his debut season for Real Madrid's first team, and was unanimously considered by all the media to be worth 650 at that time. He also scored 16 goals and provided seven assists in his 15 appearances in all competitions for Castilla, making him the youngest player in history to win the Player of the Year in La Liga B, if not for his infrequent appearances.

Although with the Frenchman, the third-tier team almost lost the possibility of winning against Castilla, and Li Muddy could easily lead the team to the final throne. However, when evaluating this team, the media that has had a lot of good things before are focusing on promoting Mbappe, Mariano, Kuchi and other talents who are far beyond players of the same age, believing that it is their existence that will make the team reach its current heights, and many games are due to their super individual ability to bring victory to the team. Although there seems to be some truth to this, people forget that it is precisely because of the selfless dedication of the players behind them that the so-called talents of this group of attacking line will get excellent scoring opportunities again and again. The team's victory belongs to everyone in the team, and it is not easy to get by relying on one or a few players. Once Li Mudi brings back to Castilla Mbappe, who is already essentially a regular rotation player for the first team, it is inevitable that after the team wins, someone will once again ignore the performance of others and put the credit on the former, which is too unfair for the lads who have also worked hard for a season.

In addition, Li Mudi also feels that in this level of competition, even if there is a lack of French youngsters, no team will be able to really danger them, as long as they do their best, then no one can steal the championship trophy under their noses.

Just as the whole team was united and preparing for the play-off at the weekend, a phone call from Gines left the manager in a deep state of helplessness. The Spanish ace's agent has learned from his peers that Torino is in talks with Roma about the transfer of Brazilian right-back/right midfielder Bruno Pérez. This player was originally the absolute main candidate of the team in Li Mudi's plan, but because of the fact that he has not yet taken charge of Turin, he is not qualified to dictate the construction of the team, and can only watch the two clubs argue over the price of around 10 million euros. And in the mind of the current coach of Castile, this value will not be sold if it is multiplied by three, after all, there have not been too many excellent all-round right players on the market, and if you sell one of them, no matter how much you spend, you will not be able to buy a suitable replacement.