Chapter 61: Injuries and Suspensions
On February 21, the team's usual rest day, Li Mudi, who was about to stay in the apartment in the morning, called up the FM system and checked his personal information first. There are no changes to personal attributes, only the experience points of the medals.
The system assistant prompts that the first-level medal of the cultivation master has been completed, and the effect is to slightly enhance the training effect of the team, and the requirements for upgrading to the second level are also in the experience bar mode, and the accumulated player ability value increases to 100, with no time limit, and is currently 8/100.
The upgrade conditions for the second-class medal of Friends of Players have also been achieved, and the intimacy value of Lin Hart and Lin Liangming, which was not shown before, has reached 50 in an instant. The effect is that when the manager does not like the player with certain orders or measures (e.g., over-intensity training, asking him to play in an unfamiliar position, etc.), it seems to be useful to appropriately reduce the resistance of the players. The upgrade condition is also in experience mode, and the intimacy points of all players are added up, and the current progress is 224/1000.
In addition, the progress of the Friend of Colleagues Medal II is 290/1000, and the Master Conductor Medal is 350/1000, both of which are far from being upgraded.
After closing the profile window, Li Mudi opened the team interface and checked the current status of the Castilla players. With three striking red markers, it's impossible to ignore the past, with León and Toro both receiving yellow cards in their last game, bringing the season's total to five, and will be suspended for one round. Forlan's situation was more troublesome, he was hit in the knee by his opponent in the final stages of yesterday's game, and it was nothing big after a while, but who knew that the pain worsened after the game and he was rushed to the club's hospital. According to the estimates at the time, a concrete report could be made this afternoon, and the Castilla boss used the FM system to get the result first: a bruise on his right knee that is expected to be out of action for three weeks. Next weekend's game against Yamolbita was suddenly missing three main players, Li Mudi's head began to hurt, the team's form has just improved before there is a problem of personnel disorder, and the luck is really bad.
After using the scouting tool to check the development of the Castilla players and the situation of the next few opponents, Li Mudi entered a state of nothingness, leaning on the cushion on the pillow, his head empty, waiting for lunchtime.
After going on the Internet for a while in the afternoon, I still felt bored, so I took out my mobile phone and opened various apps to see which goddess could flirt with online. Well, Li Mudi is a typical thief who has no thief guts, just go to their Weibo or Instagram to see the latest news, occasionally send a blessing message, and dare not do anything else.
Just as he left a message for Song Qian on Weibo, and was about to go to Jessica to patronize it, the private message prompted the sound, and when he clicked on it, he saw that it was the goddess of Qingdao, and the two of them happened to meet on the Internet. After a brief chat about the recent situation, Song Qian said that she would participate in the Paris Fall/Winter fashion show in March at the invitation of Dior, and asked Li Mudi if she had time to go to France to play together.
Li Mudi, who was rarely invited by the goddess, almost gritted his teeth with hatred at this time, that week was just in time for the semi-finals of the Federation Cup in the middle of last week, and he couldn't leave at all, and there was time for the week before and the week after, why do you say that you are carrying it like this. Xiao Li, who still has a relatively high professional quality, had to reluctantly refuse Song Qian's invitation, and casually mentioned: "If it is convenient, you can come to Madrid, and I will invite you to a Spanish dinner." "Originally, I just wanted to be polite, but I didn't know that the other party became a foodie in seconds, when it came to check the itinerary, if I had the chance, I would come over, let Li Mudi cash in the meal he owed before, and then find a chance to talk about the remaining meals. Li Mudi was very surprised, and flew to eat, is this what idols can do? It can only be said that this Qingdao girl is indeed extraordinary.
The boss of Castile, who had just come out of the cafeteria in the evening and was about to go back for a walk to rest, received a call from the team's medical director, Jesús Angel. The other party first informed Forlan of the diagnosis result, which was the same as that given by the FM system, but then brought Li Muddy a bad news: substitute right-back Dani accidentally injured his left ankle when he went out shopping in the afternoon, the injury is not serious, but it also needs more than two weeks of recuperation. That means that for at least two weeks to come, there is only Filip Linhardt left in the squad as a player who can play at right wing-back. Li Mudi, who was still complaining just now that he missed walking in Paris with the goddess because of the arrangement of the double match next week, immediately rejoiced, fortunately, the cup schedule was not scheduled this week, otherwise so many injuries and physical pressure, the team is likely to suffer a defeat, then his dream of being undefeated in the season will be completely shattered.
When he returned to the room, he immediately checked the Real Madrid Under-19 squad through the FM system to see if he could send a right-back to Castilla for emergencies. turned out that Guti was also a strange person, and there was only one right full-back in the team, so he immediately gave up this thought, and it was better to take one step at a time.
In this week's tactical drill, Li Mudi confirmed the starting line-up early, with Manu, Peperu and Linhardt set to replace the original main team in the league at the weekend. During the training, the head coach asked Linhardt not to participate in the attack as in the previous tactical arrangement, and to stay at the back to avoid receiving a yellow card in a critical situation when the opponent played a counterattack. At the same time, the other players are asked to always pay attention to the protection of the only remaining right-back, try not to put him in a situation where he may be carded, and if necessary, they can foul their teammates early.
In this way, the training of the "Protect Panda Ringhart" tactic continued until the day before the game, and all that remained was to pray that bad luck had left.
On Saturday 27 February, at 20:00, the 27th round of Group 2 of La Liga B kicked off with a match between ninth-placed Amor Beata and leaders Castilla at home, broadcast live on local television.
Castilla's starting line-up for this game: goalkeeper Yáñez, right wing-back Linhardt, central defenders Hector and Manu, left-back Abnel, right midfielder Alvaro, central midfielders Fabas and Peperu, left wing-back Lin Liangming, double striker Kuchi and Mariano.
The home team is currently the most commonly used 4-4-1-1 in the league at this level, and all the main players are played.
After the opening, the visitors mainly attacked on the left wing, and the right side only played a role of involvement because the full-backs could not participate in the attack. Li Muddy arranged for Lin Liangming to cut inside as much as possible when dribbling the ball in the front court, while Kuchi will focus on the left and middle wings, actively receiving the ball when the former is in possession, and forming two exit points behind Mariano. This is done to create more difficulties for the opponent's 39-year-old central defender Blanco, after all, although the veteran in his forties has more experience than all the players on the field of Castilla combined, his physical fitness has declined to a certain extent, and he can no longer keep up with the pace of young people in terms of speed and agility. Mariano is no match for this man who can be his father in terms of age in terms of heading and power, and the breakthrough of Kuchi and Lin Liangming is the lethal weapon against him.
In the tenth minute, Lin Liangming, who cut inside from the left side, completed a two-on-one cooperation with two forward teammates in a row, and after wiping Blanco, he entered the penalty area, and hit the goal with his feet 15 meters away from the goal, and the ball passed between the legs of the opponent's goalkeeper and hit the net. At 1-0, the visitors took the lead very quickly.
Just when the home team shifted the focus of the defense to the extremely active Ku and Lin, Febas suddenly sent a precise through pass to the right in the eighteenth minute, Alvaro, who had not been strong before, cut in high, used a wonderful croquette work to dribble past the opposing defender, hit the right side of the big penalty area, and after attracting the home team's central defender Fasti to make up the defense, passed a low flat cross. Mariano in the middle immediately hit the forward point, but Blanco didn't dare to be careless, desperately trying to get stuck in the main position and block the opponent's attack. But who knew that the Dominican striker didn't shoot at the first time, but leaked the ball, at this time Blanco had already thrown his body out, and could only turn his head to watch the ball slide past the supporting foot, and hit the ghostly Kutchi's left foot arch in the middle, and flew directly into the lower right corner of the goal. 2-0, Yamolbita, who did not finish a single attack in the opening game, has fallen behind by two goals.
The progress on the pitch was somewhat unexpectedly smooth, the home team did not pose much threat to Castilla in attack, and several attacking players with decent ability did not seem to be in good shape, and always made mistakes inexplicably. This made the coaching staff of the visiting team feel a little lucky, and when the team was in a difficult situation, Lady Luck did not abandon them, but arranged for them a completely out-of-form opponent, which was really sweet.
Naturally, the coach of the home team also spotted the situation of his players early, and although he was brave enough to make a substitution in the 30th minute, it did not make any difference, and he still looked dead.
After a fifteen-minute break, the Amolbita players seemed to be improving, but they were unable to create good scoring opportunities in the face of the visitors' tight defensiveness, and as the game progressed, the form that had finally improved was wiped out.
In the 62nd minute, Mariano collided with Blanco, who had been entangled with him, as they collided over the header, and the heads of the two men collided violently, the latter with blood flowing from his brow bone, and the Castillan striker also showed some signs of unconsciousness. The two injured players were then substituted and "owned every minute of the opposing game".
Six minutes later, the visitors put on a brilliant individual performance, with left wing-back Abner dribbling all the way from the back to cross three men in front of him, and Alvaro at the back post accurately judged the landing point, unloaded the ball and pushed it into the dead corner, completely killing the suspense of the game. It was also his fifth goal in the last seven league games and became an important scoring point for the team.
In the 86th minute, substitute Mariano striker Rivero seized on a mistake by an opposition defender and stabbed the ball into the net in the six-yard box, scoring his first goal in the professional league and making Castile the first team in La Liga B history to have as many as 20 players score in a single season.
The final statistics showed that Castilla had 52% possession, 14 shots on goal and 10 shots on target, and only 6 fouls, but received two yellow cards, of which Febas also accumulated the fifth, and it was his turn to be suspended in the next league game.
If Mariano's injury is not too serious after the diagnosis, Li Muddy thinks he and his team have said goodbye to their previous bad luck and can go all out to prepare for Thursday's Fed Cup semi-final against rivals Real United.