Chapter 18 Getting Better

Under the growing boos, Li Mudi, who had been standing on the sidelines, was already sweating, but he had always firmly believed that as long as he didn't lose the ball first, he could turn the situation around at any time.

I have to say that the defense on Castile's side is indeed very average, and the ability to fight for the ball is passable, but the speed of the two central defenders is not fast, although at this time there are retreating double backs and wingers who have transformed into wingbacks to protect, which is still dangerous. There are two main reasons: first, the team has always focused on offensive tactics and has little overall defensive practice; Secondly, the two central midfielders on the field are very poor in defense, and the team does not have a full-time defensive midfielder. However, fortunately, the players of Real United did not seize the opportunity, and the excellent performance of the goalkeeper was able to keep the goal from conceding.

During this period, Castilla did not think of playing behind the opponent according to Li Mudi's ideas, but after a failed attempt, it seemed that the visiting team had discovered its intentions. After that, when the two midfield cores of the home team wanted to switch from defense to attack, they always couldn't find a comfortable opportunity to kick, and twice they were directly put to the ground by the opponent to foul to contain possible danger. Although he was given a yellow card, Odegaard was also very angry because of the continuous violations, the technical handling was a little out of control, several passes were outrageous, and he also received a yellow card for a retaliatory action.

Seeing this scene, Li Mudi shouted twice into the stadium, signaling the players to stay calm. At the same time, the resentment towards Zulaika has eased a bit, he is indeed a good manager, and the pre-match preparation and on-the-spot response are very good.

The half-time offensive and defensive battle lasted for half an hour, and in the thirty-second minute, the turning point that Li Mudi had been expecting appeared.

Although the possession of the ball is less physical than that of the player who grabs the ball, it is not very easy. When the physical limit came, the 20-year-old boys gritted their teeth and persevered for a while to get through, but the average age of the 28-year-old Royal United players came later, but it was not so easy to persevere.

Centre-back Hector broke a short pass from the visitors, and the football was kicked into a relatively open area, and the players of both sides fought for the ball together, while the Real United midfielder and captain Romo, who was closer to the ball, ran at a speed that was obviously not as fast as it was in normal condition, and was the first to reach out and poke the ball to Odegaard who was following on the side. The Norwegian took the lead with his right foot and then passed forward. Enzo had just received the ball when he was hit in the back, but this time he was far less powerful than before, and he took advantage of the situation to swipe the ball into the opposition half, and before the central defender Esnaola tackled, he kicked the ball out with a big foot, and when he fell to the ground, his eyes were watching the two players run at full strength.

Li Mudi saw it clearly on the sidelines, Esnaola commanded his partner Azkeidi to retreat to the rear before he stepped up, Mbappe didn't realize that this might be an opportunity at first, so he had been pulled down by the opponent nearly seven or eight meters away when he started, but the absolute advantage in speed still allowed the two sides to contact the football almost at the same time.

Azkiedi used his height and position to win Mbappe, struggling to head the ball down the flank, but who would have expected Castilla's left winger to follow up desperately and the ball came right at his feet. Lazuo continued to run with the ball to the penalty area, but due to the physical overdraft, he became the end of the crossbow. After entering the penalty area, he accidentally drove the ball wide, and just as he gritted his teeth and was about to catch up with the ball, he was knocked to the ground by Royal United right-back Urzizu behind him. He made a mistake with the ball, so that the opponent was completely unexpected, and the original action of stepping forward to intercept could not be recovered due to physical limitations, and it happened to hit him, which was really a mistake.

The referee caught up and awarded a decisive penalty and showed Urzizu a yellow card. In the face of this rather dramatic scene, the cheers of the fans finally overshadowed the boos.

The team's top penalty taker, left-back Abner (12 penalty ability, tied for the highest in the team, please allow Xiao Li to cry for a while) came up, deceived the opposing goalkeeper, and blasted the ball into the middle of the goal. Castile, who was extremely passive on the scene, took a 1-0 lead over the visiting Royal United with this penalty.

After the goal was scored, Li Mudi immediately summoned Fambas, who did not participate in the celebration, to come over and ask the team to take advantage of the opponent's poor physical fitness and morale to turn defense into attack and strive to press the opponent back into the half.

In the following ten minutes, Castilla began to get stronger, gradually falling on the field, forming a close match with the opponent, and in first-half stoppage time, Mbappe accidentally scored a world wave - a long-range shot about 25 meters from the goal to rewrite the score to 2-0.

In the locker room, Li Mudi was very excited, and felt that he had proved that he was even better than Zulaika, a powerful manager. So praise the players and encourage them to continue to keep their fighting spirits high in the second half and try to score goals as soon as possible to kill the game.

Before the start of the second half, Castilla made two substitutions, and the two wingers who were extremely physically exerted were replaced by Cedeles and Lin Liangming, who made his Spanish professional league debut. The two new arrivals were also asked by Li Mudi to strengthen their running, not to mention attacking, and also to drop back when defending to help consolidate the midfield.

Just when most people had not yet recovered from the rhythm of the half-time break, three minutes into the kick-off, the Royal United used exquisite coordination to break through the opponent's defence. With a standard through ball, striker Garland shook off the entire backline and dribbled towards goal, before smashing past onrushing goalkeeper Yáñez to send the ball into the empty net. At 2-1, the home team's lead was narrowed to 1 goal.

Castilla was a little confused by the sudden blow, and there was a disunity among the players on the field, not knowing whether to continue with the plan at half-time or to stabilize the defense first, as they did at the beginning of the first half. Seeing this situation, Li Mudi decisively ordered: "Put the bus".

As if a video replay, the situation on the pitch returned to 55 minutes ago, and the home team retreated and counterattacked.

Zulaika couldn't sit still at this time, and came to his side to keep commanding, because he knew in his heart that he was only one goal behind now, but once the rhythm of the first half was repeated, when the Royal United's physical fitness problems appeared again, the result would be even more terrifying, and the age gap of eight or nine years would be completely out of suspense after 70 minutes. So now you have to score as soon as possible and try to get back ahead of your fitness limits, even if it's acceptable.

In the 60th minute, Li Mudi replaced Odegaard, who had a yellow card, with Peperu, and the defensive posture was more obvious, and when he made a substitution, he deliberately looked at Zuleka. It's a pity that the head coach of the away team has been focusing his eyes on the playing field, probably because he is afraid of seeing this scene and is estimated to be sick.

Seventy-five minutes later, the score remained at 2-1. Real United captain Romo and midfield stalwart Mike Alonso were both overdrawn and could no longer hold on and were substituted. The newly recruited young players have a big gap with the main team in terms of experience and ability. Castilla took advantage of the opportunity to regain the initiative on the pitch and gradually unfolded their established passing tactics.

In the 82nd minute, Lin Liangming, a young player from the Celestial Dynasty who played a professional game for Castile for the first time, received a pass from Enzo and burst into the penalty area to hit the far corner, killing the game completely.

In the fourth round of Group 2 of the 15-16 La Liga B League, Castilla sat at home and won a difficult 3-1 victory over the visiting Royal United. With the other three teams failing to win in this round, Castilla are now two points clear of second place with 12 points from four wins.

In this game, the home team had just 43% possession, and it was the first time since Li Mudi moved in that possession was below 50%, including in the warm-up match. 403 passes completed at 64 per cent and 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. In addition, 16 fouls and four yellow cards set a record for the season.

In the post-match press conference, the protagonist is still Zulaika.

In the face of the malicious question of the Marca newspaper reporter: "Now how do you evaluate the performance of Castilla and Li Mudi?" "The away coach changed his pre-match arrogance and claimed that his previous remarks were a tactic and wanted to interfere with the opponent's performance, and he didn't really think so.

"Castilla are very strong, players are so young but they are very good, they are the top seeds of this season's title, I don't see any team that can really stop them. Lee's performance was also very good, with a good command on the spot, and he firmly grasped our physical weaknesses. I think the schedule is so unkind to us......"

Li Mudi on the side still didn't know whether Zulaika's words were sincere, or if he put another smoke bomb, so he could only thank the other party for his praise and said that he had learned a lot from him.

The next day, the news of Lin Liangming's debut goal was on the sports news of the five sets of the Celestial Empire and major sports newspapers, as the head coach Li Mudi really followed the fire, and all kinds of YY news similar to "The Celestial Empire generals will meet in Madrid and lead the team to the championship" are flooded on major websites. Coupled with the fact that the previous emojis have just flowed in, Xiao Li has suddenly become a big star whose fame is comparable to that of "Taotao" and "Xueyou". It is said that in a cyber scolding war between the Celestial Empire and Wanwan, a Li Mudi marked with an expressionless face, "You can't die!" The emoji picture killed a piece of ......

On Wednesday 23 September, Castilla won 3-0 away at C.F. Talaveradela Reina, scoring Mariano, León and Gavernina, earning him the long-awaited Master of the Conductor Medal in a five-game winning streak.

The effect of the first-class medal of the conductor is to slightly shorten the time for players to run in, which is another chicken rib! The promotion conditions are: using the method of accumulation of experience points, command the game to produce a win and draw to get different points, and breaking various records can also get the corresponding experience points, the specific score is shown in the statistics after the event. To illustrate, Mbappe scored five goals in the third round, breaking the 25-year record for a single game in Spain's third tier, and was able to earn five experience points. The current upgrade status is: 5/1000.

This unclear explanation made Li Mudi very painful, and when he was about to call out the system assistant to ask in detail, the mobile phone rang.