Chapter 67: Returning Home Standing

In the dressing room, the young man of Castilla was a little out of control, on the one hand, because the score was behind, and on the other hand, he was angry when he heard that someone had used racist verbal insults against his manager, and it seemed that he wanted to pick up the guy and all the Real United players and fans in the stadium to fight to the death.

It's not a good mood. Although it is necessary to maintain a high morale in the game, it is also necessary to be moderate, and if you are too obsessed with fighting with your opponent, you will fall into complete passivity. It's a big move, it's easy to get a foul, and once you're focused on the opponent, you can't focus on tactics, positioning, or even where the ball goes. And if you can't see the situation on the field, what else is playing? Solve it directly with the opponent in the ring. So Li Mudi first had to do some ideological work for this group of angry calves.

After directing the physiotherapists to rush forward to help the players who fought very hard in the first half to massage, the coach of Castilla walked to the tactical whiteboard with a smile on his face, coughed softly twice to attract everyone's attention, and then looked at them one by one, and said slowly: "First of all, I would like to praise you as a worker who develops young players, in the last 45 minutes, you have completely demonstrated the professionalism and tenacity of playing style as a professional footballer, and I am very happy about that." This came as a surprise to the players who were still immersed in the previous disadvantage on the field, and they thought that the coach would be unhappy with the score.

Seeing the somewhat surprised expressions, Li Mudi smiled again and continued: "Secondly, I would like to express my personal gratitude to all of you, thank you for your support and help in the past two days, thank you!" He bowed deeply to the boys.

The players who were originally sitting on chairs resting or lying on the physiotherapy bed to receive massages were all startled, and hurriedly got up and looked at the big boss with a panicked face, and they didn't care about who they were competing with at this time.

After getting up, Li Mudi motioned for everyone to return to their original positions, what should they do. Then he immediately changed his face, his expression was stiff, and he said sharply: "But as the head coach of the team, I am very dissatisfied with your performance in these forty-five minutes!" Alvaro, what were you doing in the last twenty minutes? In my pre-match set-up, I asked you to use your personal skills to constantly attack the opponent's wings, not to ask you to knock them down with taekwondo. The right winger lowered his head and didn't dare to squeak.

"Febas, do you only have wrestling with your opponent on your mind? Even if you win Alonso, don't forget that he has already scored a goal and you only have a yellow card. "The new midfield core is in a cold sweat.

"Rivero, although I admit that your physical fitness is indeed much better than that of your peers, but you only have a body and not a brain! The other two people are surrounded and suppressed, and they have to rush up and fight them, do you think you are the king of plum balls? The young man, who had just turned 18, was about to burst into tears.

"And Lin Liangming, you and him. Mother. It's a winger, a winger! Li Mudi tapped the tactical board with a pen as he spoke, and at the same time gave his compatriots a fierce look, so frightened that Lin Liangming almost slipped off his seat and knelt directly, but he still had to continue to be criticized.

"What did you do in the first half? TM has become a full-back and has been dropping back to defend. I remember arranging the left wing-back before the game, is it dead? There was another sudden roar, which frightened the Brazilian Abner, who immediately got up and replied loudly: "It's not dead, it's all right!" ”

"Since you're alive, tell me if you want to arrange such a screen in front of you in the second half to help defend?"

With the need to keep an eye on the opposition's right winger Erzmendy, and centre-forward Garland also ran into his defensive area from time to time, the pressure on Abnell in the first half was really high, and he had to seek help from his teammates. But now that the boss has put his words here, he can't help but make a statement, so he simply responded: "Report to the boss, I don't need the screen in front of me, I can solve some problems by myself." Then he muttered, "And his defense is so bad, it doesn't help much!" ”

Abnell is worthy of being a living treasure in the team, and as soon as these words came out, everyone immediately burst into laughter, and the gloomy atmosphere caused by the game situation and the coach's criticism also rose all of a sudden. Only the back-handed man Xiao Linzi had a loveless expression on his face, accepting everyone's ridicule.

After the boys had laughed enough, Li Mudi once again assigned tasks to Lin Liangming, but his attitude was much more relaxed. "In the second half, you have to focus on the front pitch and play behind Elzmendy with a small range of three central midfielders, and when you are a big attacking threat, he is naturally suppressed. In addition, you can take advantage of Rivero's containment to make a few long-range shots, while paying attention to the second landing point. ”

After seeing his compatriots nodding solemnly, Li Mudi finally shouted to all the players: "The opponent is violating us with rough foul moves on the field, and their fans are insulting us with vile words outside the court, I know, this makes everyone very angry." But at the same time, I want you to think about why they're doing this. None of the teams that have come here to play here have been treated like this, so why are we the only ones? ”

Febas, who had not spoken up until now, responded: "Because they are afraid of us!" ”

"That's right! Because of the royal union of these dogs. Mother. Miscellaneous raised. They know that they can't beat us, so they're scared and want to use these tricks to break us, do you think we're going to be fooled? Li Mudi, who has always been gentle and humble, has turned into a villain full of swear words at this moment, which surprised Solari and the others on the side.

The players who responded to him were in a state of flux, shouting: "No! We're going to kill these stupid ......."

Li Mudi made a gesture of pressing down with his hands to the red-eyed boys, and said in a deep voice: "They want to completely take us down here and make the second round of the fight meaningless...... This is wishful thinking! But how can we break their dreams? Looking up at the expectant eyes in front of him, he continued: "Or do you want to fight them to the death like you did in the first half of the game?" No, our strength is not that, but a fast and three-dimensional attacking system. In the second half, the three central midfielders had to coordinate their positions with each other, and I asked that when the two wingers entered the opposition half, at least two of them should step in to pick them up. And once the possibility of a cross from the side is formed, there must be one person who runs to the edge of the penalty area to chase the second spot. ”

Speaking of which, he turned his head to Rivero's side, and while drawing the position on the tactical board, he advised: "After receiving the cross, don't force a shot unless you have a good chance, go straight back to the top of the arc of the big penalty area, and at the same time pull space to both sides to create a long-range shot opportunity for your teammates behind you." After seeing the other party nodding, he looked at Leon who was lying on the physiotherapy bed: "Your position is back again, be a scavenger, Manu will change to a marking central defender, and he has been pestering Garland, then the defense in the penalty area will be all handed over to you, and the central midfielder in front of you will provide you with the necessary help." ”

After arranging the rest of the tactical arrangement, the Castilla coach threw the pen back on the table and made a final summary: "We must continue to carry forward the previous tenacious style, not afraid of the opponent's physical confrontation, be resolute when it is time to foul, but do not eat cards needlessly, and be calm-headed." Then he closed his mouth and pointed out the door, where the home fans drifted into the quiet dressing room to the sound of music on the radio. After listening for a while, Li Mudi sneered: "They think that victory is already in their pockets, and we will be beaten all over the ground to find teeth, and finally become a dead body and be carried back to Madrid." I don't think so! I'm sure in forty-five minutes Castile will give these brutal and rude guys a slap in the face and tell them who the real footballers are. ”

"We're going home standing up!"

An undercurrent surged among the players.

After kick-off in the second half, the shouts and boos of the Real United fans in the stands did not abate in the slightest, and even the occasional insult could be heard against Li Mudi. But the Castile coach was unmoved, standing on the sidelines of the pitch with his hands in his pockets and watching the game in progress with a serious face.

After kick-off, the home team's striker Garland just walked ten meters in front of the penalty area, and found that the opponent's baby-faced young central defender stood beside him, and he was a little confused. But when he moved to the wing, the kid was still on his heels, even after he switched positions with the winger, and the opponent was also swapped between two defenders, leaving Manu to keep an eye on him. Garland then stepped up his range and found that unless he exited the 40-metre line of the away half, he would always have the heel around him.

Although Manu's man-to-man running made Castile's running on the field a little chaotic, Garland, who was tightly clinged to this piece of kraft candy, was completely out of the home team's offensive system, this kid seemed to have opened up all of a sudden, using speed and brave confrontation to make the home team's ace shooter very uncomfortable, and if he wanted to catch the ball, he could only retreat to the midfield, but what was the use of getting the ball there? The final link of the Royal United attack was absent, and the final part of the attack could only be handed over to the two wingers, but unfortunately they were not the material for this job and could not play a role at all.

Instead, Castilla began to create a couple of chances in the home half, after tackling the opposition's attack.

Alonso controlled the ball in the middle and tried to find a matching player, but the visitors' aggressive running and special man-marking tactics prevented several of the Royal United attacking players from running well, and he was caught by Toro and Muñoz in a hesitation and fell to the ground. Muñoz, who broke the ball, gave the football to Alvaro on the right side, who accelerated directly to the opponent's half according to Li Mudi's arrangement.

The Royal United, who did not retreat in time, only had five defenders in their own half, and in addition to Rivero, who had been in front, and Alvaro who was dribbling the ball, Fabas and Muñoz, who had just completed the break, were also inserted at high speed in the middle, and Lin Liangming on the left also ran desperately on the left, instantly forming a five-on-five situation.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the home team's left-back Mosilo immediately slid hard to prevent the opponent's dangerous counterattack, even at the cost of a foul.

Unfortunately, Álvaro's attention was also very focused in the process of dribbling the ball at high speed, rushing to slide the ball out before the opponent's flying tackle arrived, and then jumped with all his strength and flew over the body of Mosillo, and then chased the ball again, and finally controlled the ball about ten meters away from the opponent's bottom line.

The central defender Esnaola, who was marking in the penalty area, was afraid that the opponent would cut inside, so he hurriedly handed Rivero to the central defender partner Aimar, and at the same time called the returning midfielder Rodra to take his place, and he accelerated to the side to block Álvaro.

At the moment when several people changed their defenses, Muñoz also ran to the top of the arc of the penalty area, making Rodela hesitate on the question of who to mark, the visiting right winger took a step inside and crossed with his feet, the ball just went over the head of Esnaola, who stepped forward to make up for it, and Rivero in the middle stuck Aimar tightly behind him, and smashed the ball into the Real United goal with a powerful lion swing from six meters in front of the goal.

In the fifty-first minute, Castilla pulled the score back to the same level.