Chapter 60: Still the Strongest

After the game, Castile's coaching staff worked extra shifts in the hotel to study the performances and statistics of the game, and everyone agreed that the current team needs to speed up a little more in attack, and once the players get used to that rhythm, it will pose a very big threat to the opponent. Due to the significant decline in the ability of the midfield to control the ball, the back line will leak more under the opponent's fire, and it is difficult to completely block the opponent in a short period of time. So in the coming days, Castile's winning pattern will change to score more goals than their opponents and compete to see who has the more offensive firepower.

The next day, the team returned to Madrid at noon without resting, and in the afternoon they were engaged in the practice of the new formation, and Li Mudi decided to return Mbappe to the first team on the same day, and the league team will play 4-4-2 at the weekend.

Lin Liangming's ability shown in training is indeed not able to satisfy the head coach, although the current Celestial Empire youngsters have made great progress in ability compared to when they first came to Madrid, they are already the strongest players in the Celestial Empire football circle at this age, but in Europe, where there are more football geniuses than dogs, it is completely insufficient. He is now a regular at the Under-19s, but at Castile he is more than a step behind with Cedres. Now because of the deployment of personnel, the left is on loan, Cederes is still more able to play on the right side, the young player Peters who was transferred from the U19 is still too young, and there is only Lin Liangming as a positive left winger, and Li Mudi's intention to put him in the starting line is already very obvious. But the young man did not have the intention of being ready, he was always not on the same racket with his teammates on the court, and the ball stopped as soon as it reached him.

So for the next few days, the head coach shouted at Lin Liangming's roar over the Castile training ground, and Spanish was occasionally mixed with Chinese, so that the other members of the team learned a few curse words such as idiot, stupid, and brain water.

On Sunday night, Valentine's Day in the West, February 14, the 25th round of the league was in full swing, and Castilla welcomed Talavera at home, who are third from the bottom of the standings.

The home side presented a new 4-4-2 formation, starting the line-up: goalkeeper Yáñez, right wing-back Forlan, centre-backs Hector and Leon, left-back Abner, who has just returned from a month-long injury, right wing-back Alvaro, central midfielders Fabas and Toro, left wing-back Lin Liangming, and double-strikers Kuchi and Mariano.

The visitors continued to follow the usual practice of coming to the Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium to defend solidly, with a 4-4-1-1 formation, but only central midfielder Jose Sanchez was able to play of the team's three absolute players, with centre-forward Pelares and centre-back Victor Martinez both absent through injury.

After the start of the game, Talavera's pre-match tactics of encircling the home team's players in the midfield were declared bankrupt before they could be implemented, and Castilla suddenly made a 180-degree change from his previous style of play, not seeking too much control of the ball, but playing with individual ability. Alvaro and Forlan on the right flanks became the most active attacking points in the field after the opening, and the tactical routine executed was so simple, which was to combine the response of teammates in the middle, play a one-two or triangular reversal, and then use speed and small skills to kill all the way along the wing. Once you've reached around 30 metres from the baseline, you'll have a variety of passing options, whether it's a direct 45° cross or a continuation of the pitch. Mariano in the penalty area, Kuchi at the top of the arc of the penalty area, and Lin Liangming from the left to the middle are excellent contact points, and for a time the left side of Talavera became the hardest hit area of the defense, and they had to invest a lot of manpower and energy here to deal with the opponent's assault.

Despite the lack of Martinez, a stalwart with excellent headers, Talavera's header ability at the back is still very good, and relying on the numerical advantage does not give Mariano any advantage. In addition, the midfield line dropped back and did a good job of blocking low crosses without allowing the home side to create good chances. However, this also limited their attack in disguise, the overall position was too far from the opponent's goal, and it took many passes to kick the ball into the home team's penalty area, which gave Castilla plenty of defensive time and tackles.

Twenty minutes later, Talavera had two strikes, but they were both forced shots with the opposition defence in good position, and did not pose any threat to goalkeeper Yáñez. On the other hand, the attack on the home team's side, although there were only four attacks, but every time it scared the away team into a cold sweat, especially Lin Liangming received Mariano's header and rubbed back, and got a golden opportunity in the small penalty area, but unfortunately his close shot was kicked and let the away team escape.

After seeing that the opponent put the defensive focus on Alvaro's side, Castilla shifted the direction of attack to his left side, and the combination of Lin Liangming and Abner began to strengthen the wing attack after more than 20 minutes. After that, the central players received the ball, and the two wings began to move the opposition defence, and under Mariano's cover, the erratic Kuchi finally played the role that the coaching staff expected, and scored his first goal since joining the team in the 30th minute. It was a personal break that started on the right side of the opposition penalty area, and after connecting two people, it sent the ball under the armpit of the opposing goalkeeper before he fell to the ground.

Two minutes later, Lin Liangming on the left side kicked back, dodged the defender and then got up to cross with his right foot, and Alvaro at the back post cut in at high speed and cushioned the ball into the away goal with the arch of his foot, and Castilla's lead became two.

In the second half, Talavera tried to suppress the offensive momentum of the home team with attack, but unfortunately the ability was a little lacking, and he failed to find the flaws of the home team, but was beaten several counterattacks, and the goal was rumored several times.

In the 71st minute, substitute Kuchi came on Muñoz seized the opportunity and successfully scored in front of the goal, and the score became 3-0.

In the 75th minute, Hector was punished by the referee for an unintentional handball in the box, and Jose Sanchez deceived Yáñez to pull a goal back for the visitors.

Eight minutes later, Mariano completed a stunning sideways volley with the interference of an opposing player to make the match 4-1.

In this game, Castilla managed just 48% possession and 8 shots on target from 17 to Talavera while Talavera had 5 of 10 attempts on target, but the results were far from perfect. This shows that Li Moodi's team has completely blown up their opponents in terms of efficiency, and can still create enough threats for opponents after abandoning their previous pass-and-possession tactics.

Today is one of the most important festivals of the year in Western countries, especially for young men in their twenties, this night is the key to determining whether they can be "happy" in the future or even the rest of their lives, and naturally they will not be delayed by other trivial things. And the old guys in the coaching staff were so urgent, which made Li Mudi very unexpected, usually pretending to be very man, this time it leaked, they are all fucking strict wives! The team boss who wanted to analyze and analyze this game with everyone was very depressed, and he held his stomach and had nowhere to say.

In fact, the depression is mainly because everyone else in the team has a significant half, even Lin Liangming, who is under the age of nineteen and usually can't beat a fart with three sticks, has a little girlfriend in the Celestial Empire, only Li Mudi, the guy who wasted countless tissues in China and then ran to Spain to disgrace the Celestial Empire, returned to the apartment alone on this night when hormones filled the entire continent, cooked a bowl of noodles for himself miserably, and cried while eating in front of various sadistic TV shows - spicy beef noodles are too spicy, Not as tasty as tasty.

After rejecting polite phone calls from several coaches, Castile's single "kneeling" Xiao Li decided to rest early and survive today, so that he could torture these guys who were heavy on sex and light friends tomorrow. In order to avoid being disturbed, he picked up his phone after lying down and prepared to turn it off. After thinking for a while before pressing the button, I opened Instagram and Weibo, and wrote a message to Song Qian, Taeyeon, Jessica, Sunny, Yuna and Krystal everyone: Happy Valentine's Day, Sa Lang Hi (Korean pronunciation of "I love you"), then turn off the phone in seconds, put your head in the cup, and go to sleep!

Early the next morning, Li Mudi went to the players' dormitory without eating breakfast, smashed the door from room to room, and forcibly called Lin Liangming and several other foreign players who were far away from home. Seeing these people with sleepy faces, all of them like frosted eggplants, the boss said that he was very happy. I wanted to ask them how many packets of paper they had made last night, but I was too embarrassed to open my mouth, so I scolded them a little under the pretext of relaxing their physical exercises.

After the young men came to their senses, they led them to the cafeteria to deal with the stutterers casually, and then returned to the dormitory where Lin Liangming was located and held a live football doubles match. The head coach took the initiative to play video games with them, which is not common, and the second goods, who were complaining because they were woken up early, also became happy, and they matched up to challenge the previous overlord, the Celestial Empire group, and this fulfilling day passed like this.

Before going to bed at night, Li Mudi took out his mobile phone that he had never dared to look at before, opened the app, and found that several goddesses were not as angry or otherwise violent as he expected. Song Qian and Sunny, who are relatively familiar with each other, jokingly send their wishes that their Moody Oba can find their other half soon, while Taeyeon, Yoona and Krystal, who don't know each other well, only reply with the same Happy Valentine's Day, and Jessica, who doesn't know him at all, unsurprisingly doesn't hear from him.

Faced with this result, Li Mudi felt both relieved and bitter, he was still too far away from the goddesses, and he was completely a person from two worlds, so he shouldn't have any delusions......

The draw for the semi-finals of the Federal Cup was announced the next day, and Castilla and Real United were finally drawn together, much to the laughter of the coaching staff. I couldn't smoke it when I wanted to kick him before, but now I don't want it, but I ran into it again, it's really a trick - after this Celestial Empire word came out of Li Mudi's mouth, it became popular throughout the club, and it is said that Qi Zu began to study the fatalistic science of the East again.

On Saturday, February 20, it was another live broadcast on Madrid's local television. Castilla faced fourth-bottom Guadalajara on their home turf, and with Mariano's hat-trick and Álvaro's goal, they struck a 4-1 thrust into the relegation zone.

The home side had just 53 per cent possession and scored four goals from just five of their 15 attempts on goal, with Forlan's own goal conceded.

Two big wins in a row have once again proved the quality of this team, they are still the strongest team in the league, and there is no one.