Chapter 602: The first championship of Real Madrid's career
The two legs of the Champions League quarter-finals are scheduled for two weeks in the same week, making it difficult for the participating teams not to show signs of a dip in the league due to distractions from European competition, although this does not include Real Madrid.
Limdoudi's approach and rotation strategy have allowed the team to put together a very strong squad even if they were all the starters in the last game, and they are also weak in the league this weekend, this season's promoted Almeria. Even if it is an away game, but considering the top and bottom positions of both sides in the standings, this three points have been counted by most people into Real Madrid's pocket before the game starts.
The result was not reversed, and even though the home team had set up an eight-player bus in front of their goal, they could not prevent their city from being breached three times in 90 minutes. Manuel Pellegrí's volley, Ceballos' slash from outside the box and Villarivre's first goal after returning from injury helped the Galacticos walk away from the Mediterranean with great ease and extend their four-point lead over Barcelona.
On April 8, Li Mudi, who led the team to the Champions League, once again returned to the familiar but somewhat unfamiliar city of Turin, and was treated almost by the Italian media. In the form of a brief answer to reporters' questions at the airport, he also expressed that he was still paying attention to the behavior of his old club Torino, which attracted bursts of cheers from fans who came to pick up the airport from afar.
After Belottti, Baseley and other cores of the older generation of teams left one after another due to age, the Red Bulls entered a period of substantial renewal of the lineup, and the results inevitably declined, which made many fans of the older generation sigh.
However, after former captain Vives was promoted from youth coach to the first team two years ago by the club's new president, Valentino Cairo, the spirit of the whole team is still commendable. And after years of unwavering commitment to youth development, Torino quickly reaped the dividends, with a number of young players from the Academy showing great potential, and an impressive number of new players emerging almost every year, giving the team a lot of hope for development.
For this reason, Valentino Caiiro has repeatedly expressed his deep gratitude to Li Mudi by phone in private, and the so-called predecessors planted trees and later generations take advantage of the coolness, no matter what outstanding results the Red Bulls have achieved after the departure of the current coach of Real Madrid, he has a share of the credit, which is something that the whole Torino club and all supporters should not forget.
So that night, an extremely rare and interesting scene happened. Outside the hotel where Real Madrid was resting, when some extreme Juventus fans wanted to use the loud noise to disturb the players' rest, the Torino fans, who were more numerous, suddenly rushed out of the spur and forcibly drove the former away. The physical confrontation between the two sides almost escalated further, but fortunately, the police, who had been guarding not far away, arrived in time to defuse the conflict, otherwise this farce would not know how it would have ended.
The next day, the Real Madrid coaches and players were very touched by the help of the Torino fans, and when they went to the renovated Fiat training base in the morning, Varane, Asensio and Mbappe got off the bus outside the gate as representatives of the team, thanked the fans who had come to welcome them, and provided them with autographs and photos as gifts.
As for Li Mudi, who was shouted by no less than 300 people outside the bus, he did not get off the bus in order to avoid the situation getting out of control, but his thumbs-up gesture through the window and the smile full of sincerity still won everyone's applause and cheers, showing the super influence of this Celestial Empire in Turin City.
After less than an hour and a half of adjustment training, everyone was ready to drive back to the hotel for dinner, and met the host players and coaching staff who had finished their morning practice at another venue, and the two sides had a short but friendly exchange. Of course, it is mainly the hairy children of the Torino team who pay tribute to Real Madrid's big-name stars.
Li Muddy also discussed tactical issues with his former disciple Vivis, who was three years older than him, and stayed for lunch in the cafeteria at the latter's affectionate invitation. During this period, the Real Madrid coach gave a lot of good advice to Vives, who is not very experienced in coaching the first team.
At the other table next to the two of them, Valentino Cairo, the club's president, who is second in age after Zhang Kangyang and is about to become the second youngest in Serie A, is warmly welcoming Hierro, who arrived in Turin with the team. After a short period of communication, the two bigwigs, who have a lot of influence in today's European football, quickly reached an agreement on the establishment of a partnership, which surprised Li Mudi, who knew about it later.
Although the formal "alliance" still needs more in-depth exchanges and official confirmation, it does not prevent Real Madrid and Torino from initially establishing a mutual assistance channel in many fields such as youth training, commercial development and personnel exchanges, which is a major event that can play a positive role in dragging, whether it is for the Galaxy Battleship that needs to continue to expand its influence in the world, or for the Red Bulls, who are eager to further improve the club's hematopoietic function and transform it into instant combat power as soon as possible.
In this regard, Li Mudi is naturally happy to see it, the two teams he has coached can cooperate more closely, which is definitely a great thing, if it weren't for Coventry's reputation is still too low, he can't wait to immediately make a "Taoyuan Righteousness" type of covenant, and follow the two big brothers to beg for food, that kind of life should be very comfortable.
Not to mention the action between the club's top management, just look at a key matchup that started that night. After being treated to great hospitality by the Torino club, the Real Madrid players have been able to maintain a relatively high level of form, which has allowed them to cope well with the intense pressure from Juventus.
The old woman, who was behind by one goal, returned to the home stadium and naturally wanted to take the initiative of the game firmly in her own hands. Conte's overly conservative approach to the Bernabeu on his first trip to the Bernabeu was widely criticised, but the results were acceptable to the team's supporters.
After all, judging from the historical records of the two sides, if Real Madrid wins the knockout round with a small goal win at home, the final promotion party is Juventus, and there is no exception.
In the 1995-96 season, the two teams met in the quarter-finals, and the Galaxy was defeated by the Bianconeri 1-0 at home and 0-2 away, fulfilling the latter's long-cherished dream of winning the Big Ears Cup again after 11 years.
Seven years later, the two sides met in the semi-finals, and Real Madrid, with Zidane, Figo, Ronaldo and many other superstars, lost 1-3 away from home after winning 2-1, and unfortunately stopped in front of the final stage. Figo, who is known for his penalty-taking kicks, was a loser in the 68th minute of the second half when he faced Buffon one-on-one, leading to the team's defeat to Alp, and also signaling the decline of Real Madrid, which had won the Champions League three times in five years.
However, Juventus, who reached the final that year, also failed to reach the top, and Nedved, the absolute core of the team, received a yellow card in the second leg of the semi-finals, which caused him to accumulate a yellow card, and the old woman finally hated the penalty shoot-out at Old Trafford. Judging from this result, they have not succeeded much better than Real Madrid, who were eliminated one step earlier.
A similar drama occurred in the quarter-finals of the 2004/05 season, when Real Madrid won at home to Juventus thanks to a goal from centre-back Elgra, only to be beaten by Uruguayan striker Salayeta in the 116th minute of extra-time two weeks later. At the end of the season, Figo joined Inter Milan on a free transfer, marking the beginning of the disintegration of the first phase of the Galaxy, with the retirement of Zidane and the departure of Ronaldo, Beckham and others, the era of famous superstars came to an end.
With so many living precedents, it is clear that Juventus have a very strong belief in continuing this fine tradition, and in terms of strength, they do have the capital to speak out.
Gui is the biggest golden sign of Italian football, and the old woman, who has been very successful in youth training, can win the favor of most stars with her status as a top giant, so that the strength of the team has always been maintained at a very high level. In terms of this stability alone, in the last decade, that is, Manchester City under Pep Guardiola has been able to compare with Juventus, and even the likes of Barcelona and Bayern Munich have lamented that they are inferior, let alone Real Madrid, whose form has been up and down very obviously.
Inheriting the mantle of his predecessor Marotta, Juve's current sporting director, Paraticić, has done his job well over the past few years, maintaining the competitiveness of the team in the process of a new generation that no one can escape, and this alone can add him to the ranks of the best transfer directors in European football.
It's just that the Real Madrid team coached by Li Mudi is no longer the luxurious division with weak defensive ability and no appearance, and now Real Madrid has a backline with outstanding ability to resist hitting, strong team awareness and trustworthiness, coupled with extremely sharp counter-attacking ability, which makes Juventus who try to use the strong control of the midfield to suppress the opponent in the half is quite a headache.
If it weren't for the fact that Mbappe was too anxious before the end of the first half and missed a great chance to shoot a single knife, the suspense of this matchup would have almost been solved early.
In the end, Conte, who was too afraid of the visitors' high-quality counter-attacks, failed to maintain the strategy of putting enough pressure on the Real Madrid defence throughout the game, and by the time he made up his mind to break the boat, there was not much time left for them. Even though the referee's decision on some of the penalties made Real Madrid angry, the scoreboard at the Allianz Arena did not change until the final whistle sounded.
0-0, 1-0 on aggregate, the curse-breaking Galaxy Battleship struggled through the worst hurdle of their own game, reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time in three years, and it seems that the first treble in the club's history is not very far away.
However, it is a little regrettable that Mbappe and Skriniar, the two cores of the front and back courts, missed the first leg of the next round because of the accumulation of yellow cards, which brought a lot of negative impact to the team's away game against Bayern on April 30, which is a big worry brought by this promotion battle.
Of course, there are still three weeks to go before that game, even if you are worried about the problem of squad matching, it is not yet the time when you are anxious, Real Madrid's most important goal at the moment is how to play the Copa del Rey final on the 20th, and the rest of the issues are not considered in the long term for the time being.
In the third week of April, there was a rare adjustment period without matches in the middle of the week, with Real Madrid and Barcelona, the two teams that reached the Champions League semi-finals, and Valencia, who reached the semi-finals of the Europa League, taking the opportunity to start recuperating for the sprint ahead.
Li Mudi, on the other hand, still maintains a relatively large rotation strategy, allowing every player in the team to mobilize his state as much as possible, so that he can come up at any time to help the team tide over the difficulties at critical moments.
After defeating Levante and Alaves with a score of 2-0 and 3-2 successively, taking advantage of the opportunity for Barcelona to lose points again in the league due to carelessness, Real Madrid once again extended its lead to as many as six points after 33 rounds, not only further reducing the suspense of winning the championship, but also 28 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss are still the same as the best record in history at the same time, and there is still hope to break the record of 100 points in a single season in La Liga.
Of the remaining five opponents, apart from Barcelona, it seems that only Deportivo can create some danger for the Galacticos. However, the current "Flag of the King" is no longer the Super Laco team of the turn of the century, and it will be difficult for them to stop the progress of the league leaders, so as long as they can guarantee that they will not lose at Camp Nou, Real Madrid will have a good chance of becoming the maker of new history, which makes all the Madrid media and Meilinger extremely excited.
Until then, the eyes were turned to the Mestalla. At 20:30 on the evening of the 20th, the final of the 2024-25 Spanish Copa del Rey was held as scheduled at the home stadium of Valencia.
In the 45 minutes of the first half, Xavi's pass-and-control style of play allowed Barcelona to grasp the initiative on the field, but the quality of Real Madrid's several counterattacks was not bad, and the two sides were evenly matched.
After the restart, the rain increased the difficulty of possession and the more concise style of play of the Galaxy began to take advantage, with Manuel Pellegle hitting the opposition post with a volley in the 71st minute that nearly gave his team the lead. However, after strengthening the defensive depth at the back, Barcelona's defense no longer gave the sworn enemy any chance.
The gradual accumulation of water on the field made it difficult for the players on both sides to bring out their full technical ability, so that the score remained unchanged until the whistle blew at the end of the 90-minute game.
If it hadn't been for the fact that the rain had already reached moderate and slowly subsided towards a complete stop at the end of the game, perhaps the referee would have considered discussing a temporary suspension of the game with the managers of both sides.
The drainage facilities at the Mestalla Stadium were also very advanced, and after 10 minutes of extra time, the condition in the stadium was basically restored to an acceptable level, and the spectators were able to enjoy the national derby-level contest.
However, due to physical and other reasons, the two teams failed to score a single goal in extra time and had to go into a brutal penalty shootout.
As a result, Ukraine's Andrei Lunin, who won the starting position in this game, played a very high level of penalty save, saving the penalty kicks of Abel Ruiz and Malcolm successively, and used accurate judgment to force Havertz's shot to choose a more tricky angle in the final round, and the ball flew directly out of the woodwork.
Real Madrid won 3-2 before the last penalty taker had even played, lifting the Copa del Rey for the 21st time in their history.
This is the first championship honor won by Li Mudi since he coached the team, and the significance is naturally extraordinary, but in his mind, this championship is just a start. That's it, the triple crown, the six crowns, and even the overlord of an era are all goals to be fought for in the plan of the people of the Celestial Dynasty.
Not only is it the best coach of this period, Li Muddy hopes that his name will become a legend in the entire history of modern football, and that is also one of his biggest dreams since he crossed over with a plug-in, and he is confident that he will achieve it perfectly in the near future.
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