On August 24, Li Mudi saw the notice that the league had just sent to the club on the training ground, and the opening match of Group 2 of the La B League was determined to be Castile's away challenge to Gernika (GernikaClub), which would be broadcast live nationally, so the game time was changed to 20 o'clock in the evening on August 29.

Spain is undoubtedly a big country in football, and whenever there is an important football match, it is natural to miss the live TV broadcast, turn on various local TV stations and Spanish TV (TelevisionEspana-TVE), which covers the whole country, and there are live football matches everywhere. Of course, local TV stations mainly broadcast local teams, while national TV broadcasts must be the highlight of each round of La Liga and La B. For teams in the second division of the West League, there are not many opportunities to broadcast live across the country; As for Castilla, even the TV broadcast in the Madrid area is not every round, and the matches of the Real Madrid first team naturally have to be transferred every game, plus Atletico Madrid, Rayo Vallecano, and Getafe, who are also in Madrid, can imagine the number of times a reserve team plays in the third division.

The debut of the professional competition met the national live broadcast, and Li Mudi's protagonist aura showed a certain power.

For Gnica, the coaching staff has been working on it for a long time. This is a team that has just been promoted from La C, and the team is based in the Basque Country in northern Spain, and has the same player requirements as Athletic Bilbao. The usual line-up used by the team is a 4-3-2-1 with a midfield, and the players are very average, the only thing to note is Gorka Pérez, who was originally a central midfielder who arrived at Gnica and was put in the central defender position after arriving at Gnica, and has a strong header ability.

In view of the characteristics of the opponent's backline that is good but generally slow, Li Mudi plans to let Mbappe start in the first round and cooperate with the midfielder to play more behind the ball. Therefore, in the training of the week before the game, the focus was on the coordination of direct passing and diagonal insertion, and Li Mudi specially asked to clear the field before training to prevent the opponent's scouts from detecting it. It's not that he's too cautious, and he can't afford to lose the first game. As a rookie coach with no coaching experience, Li Mudi knows that he is not fully recognized by everyone for the time being, so he needs to build confidence with continuous wins - not only the confidence of the outside world, but also his self-confidence, which is not strong. In short: the game against Gnica must be won.

Saturday, August 29, 2015, cloudy, light wind and temperature of 23 degrees Celsius. Madrid is about 370 kilometers away from Gnica, and it takes 4 hours to take a bus, and the team arrived at the hotel before 2 o'clock, just to eat lunch directly - complaining about the Spaniards' three meal times, which are at least two hours later than the heavenly court, Xiao Lizi said that he is very unaccustomed.

After lunch, everyone went back to the room to rest, and Li Mudi had to pick up his parents first. In order to cheer for their son's important first battle, the old couple took a plane to Bilbao, and then took a taxi to Gnica, which was really tiring. After arranging a room for them to rest, they hurried to eat the dumplings brought by their mother—they really didn't have an appetite for lunch just now.

Before leaving the hotel, he had a brief tactical meeting, and came to the stadium at 6 p.m. for half an hour of adaptation training, while Li Mudi went to attend the pre-match press conference.

The third division is indeed not taken seriously, and even if it is a nationally broadcast match, the number of media reporters attending the pre-match press conference is not enough to watch. Fortunately, the newspapers Marca and As, which are close to Real Madrid, have sent people, otherwise they would be some tabloids that I have never heard of.

Since it is the "mouthpiece of Real Madrid", the questions asked are naturally not too embarrassing, and the rookie coach has made sufficient preparations before, so although the atmosphere of this pre-match press conference is very dull, at least Li Mudi feels that his personal image is still good.

At 20:00 Madrid time, with the referee's whistle, Li Mudi took the first step on the road to legend.

Castilla's starting line-up is: goalkeeper Yáñez, right wing-back Forlan, centre-backs Hector and Leon, left-back Abner, centre-midfielders Odegaard and Toro, midfielder Enzo, right winger Alvaro, left winger Left, and striker Kylian Mbappe.

Gonica's style of play was exactly what the coaching staff had expected: he was solid defensively, but he also used physical confrontation to create mistakes for Castilla's players and find opportunities to score. This is also because its players are not very strong, the midfield's organizational skills are not strong, and the forwards have no characteristics, and it is unreliable to try to tear through the defense of a slightly stronger team with normal cooperation.

Castilla's side was not in a hurry to enter the penalty area at the beginning, taking advantage of the player's good personal skills, avoiding the opponent's physical confrontation with passing like Barcelona, and not easily passing the ball without excellent opportunities, firmly occupying the ball on the field.

According to the FM system, Castilla had a staggering 83% possession in the first 20 minutes, kept a clean sheet and of course only had two shots on goal.

As most of the people on and off the pitch were drowsy by this boring style of play, Li Mudi, who had been standing on the sidelines since the beginning, found that Gnika's backline involuntarily pressed forward by 5 meters, and as Mbappe kept returning to midfield to receive passes, they were slackened and wanted to further press the pass that helped the midfielder against the Castilla player.

When the two full-backs mentioned the back line to fight for football, Li Mudi raised his right index finger and shouted: "Alpha! At the same time, Solari whistled on the side.

In an instant, the player picked up the speed of the pass, and Odegaard switched to the right to play a one-two with Alvaro, attracting Gnica's midfielder Torrildal to intercept and distribute the ball to the right-back Forlan, who was quickly inserted in the back row. Forlan surprisingly didn't take advantage of the momentum to continue to break through, but instead pulled the opposition back to move to this side and then passed the ball back to the feet of Enzo in the middle. Zizou's eldest son showed his skill not inferior to his father's, pushing the ball directly with the arch of his foot without stopping, the ball passed between the two central defenders, and then like a gust of wind, Mbappe shook off the entire back line and controlled the ball 3 meters from the arc of the penalty area.

The whole combination lasted less than seven seconds, and when the two central defenders of Gnica, who were completely unsuspecting, began to accelerate their recovery, Mbappe stepped into the box and pushed the curling ball in the face of the goalkeeper who was still hesitating whether to attack. The ball flew like a missile into the net from the top right corner of the goal, and the goalkeeper did not react.

0-1, the effect of the blitzkrieg was immediate. The coaches and substitute players behind Li Mudi instantly ran out of their seats, hugging each other and cheering at the players who were also hugging each other in the field.

After the restart, Gnica did not change his tactics, but the position of the back line returned to the position before the start of the game, and the head coach did not arrange any new routines, but shouted from time to time on the sidelines to be careful not to press too high. Seeing this, Li Mudi, who had recovered from the joy of scoring a goal, frowned, "What kind of routine is this?" Don't strengthen the offense, don't change the way you defend, and prepare to adjust in the second half? But this way of scrambling is very physically exhausting, and it is almost impossible to hold on to the whole game, is there a secret weapon on the bench that we don't know? ”

The situation on the field returned to the beginning of the game, Castilla was in full possession, and Gurnica fought frantically and grabbed wildly but rarely touched the ball.

In first-half stoppage time, centre-back Leon headed past Odegaard's corner to make it 2-0, and then the half-time whistle blew.

In the away team's locker room, Li Mudi praised the performance of the whole team and praised them for fully realizing the pre-game deployment of the coaching staff. Then immediately discuss with other coaches possible changes to the opponent in the second half. Fifteen minutes passed quickly, and several people did not discuss the opponent's possible changes, so they had to return to the coach's seat with questions.

The second half was the same as the previous 45 minutes, when Mbappe scored twice to make it 3-0 after slowly drawing pressure from the back.

After the ball was scored, Gnica replaced the starting striker with a high striker in an attempt to play high. However, Castile's two centre-backs also had good headers, and even if they didn't occasionally grab the first spot, the second was firmly at Castile's feet because the opponent's midfield was too far from the centre-forward.

After 10 minutes of play, Gnica replaced a central midfielder with a midfielder, and the formation changed to 4-2-1-2-1, which completely gave up the attack, and the secret weapon that Li Mudi had been worried about did not appear. After replacing Enzo with Mariano for a more attacking 4-2-2-2, the substitute striker opened up in the 86th minute with a header from a wide cross. In the end, the match was fixed at 0-4, and Li Mudi's career debut was flawless.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Li Mudi's eyes were red with excitement, and he rushed into the court and gave every player a big hug.

At the post-match press conference, in the face of unanimous praise from the media, the new coach of Castilla modestly gave credit to his colleagues and players. Fortunately, there are only newspapers close to Real Madrid, and they focused on the role of Li Mudi in the next day's newspaper, otherwise we may really be considered incapable of being a rookie in the Celestial Empire who is not familiar with the Western style of doing things.

After spending the night in a hotel, the team returned to Madrid the next day. The players were given half a day off, but the coaching staff was not, and they got together to study their next opponent, C.F. Portugalete.

In the evening, when he returned to his accommodation in the coach's apartment, he turned on the FM system and was about to review yesterday's game, and Li Mudi received a reminder: This month's scouting tool has not been used and will be invalid in a day.