However, as for when or if he will finally be able to bring the talent into his account, the Real Madrid manager, who had planned to find a chance to get involved in person, encountered his first big problem of the season in the Copa del Rey on January 7, and instantly left all future stars behind.

The Ipurua Municipal Stadium is arguably one of the oldest and smallest venues in La Liga today, especially the away team's dressing room, which always smells of musty during the winter season, which is not conducive to ventilation, and has become the last place in the minds of all other teams.

Compared to the stadium, which barely meets the standards of the Spanish Football Federation, its owner, Atlético Eibar, has been doing well in the last decade or so, since the 2014-15 season for the first time in its history, except for the first year when its rivals were relegated due to debt, they have been fighting back in the face every season against the title of relegation favourites.

The best result was to finish seventh in the table and compete in Europe the following year, which was a big surprise to everyone. Some people even joked that with the club's financial resources and overall strength, it is actually more difficult for them to get a European place than Real Madrid, Barcelona and other giants to win the league title.

So even if they have a terrible stadium environment, the opponents will still play with a deep respect for this team, because these people really deserve everyone's applause.

It's just that from the perspective of overall strength alone, Eibar, who is still playing steadily this season and can float up and down around the tenth place in the standings for a long time, is a bit far behind Real Madrid, who has shown an invincible domestic form.

In the meeting between the two sides in October last year, the league leaders thrashed the small team from the Basque Country 6-0 at home, and it was achieved with some of the main players hidden, which fully showed the reality that the ability of the two teams is not on the same level at all.

So this time when he came to the away game, Li Mudi still made some mistakes of underestimating the enemy, not only let many cores with excellent physical condition stay in Madrid, but also put three youth players into the starting list at the same time, obviously thinking that he would not encounter too many difficulties on this opponent.

However, the top scorer in the opposing team, Augusto from Castilla, was absent due to injury, and the main goalkeeper Ortiz was banned because he received a red card in the last round, which made the overall strength of the team drop a lot when it was already at a great disadvantage.

The Real Madrid player, who arrived at the Ipurua Municipal Stadium with the usual mentality of an easy victory, suffered a huge blow less than four minutes after the opening. In the course of a corner, centre-back Zori accidentally touched the ball in front of goal in a battle with the opposing central defender Villanueva, and provided an own goal assist for the home team's striker Koke, who successfully ate cake in the small penalty area and easily knocked open the goal guarded by Belgian veteran Courtois with a kick to help the team take a slightly unexpected one-goal lead.

As soon as the ball was lost, Li Mudi, who was still sitting in the coach's seat calmly and calmly communicating with his assistant about the team's future training plan, immediately frowned, and his expression became a little grim. It wasn't that he was so unhappy with the goal he conceded, after all, it was true that the players made undeserved mistakes, but luck also played a big part in it. And there is still a lot of game time left, and the difference of one goal is not enough to have much impact on the promotion situation of both sides.

It was only through the FM system in his head that the Real Madrid coach observed that Zori, who had just given a big gift to his opponent, had changed a lot in his mentality, revealing a serious tendency to blame himself. The young man's personality was relatively cheerful in the past, and he was a little reserved when he first came up to the first team, but after getting acquainted with the big brothers, he immediately became the pistachio in the team, and was one of the contributors to the team's atmosphere that has been able to maintain a relatively relaxed state, just like his previous role in Real Madrid's youth teams at all levels.

But the optimistic and cheerful personality only exists outside the playing field, and once he appears on the green field, Zori's seriousness hidden under the expression of giggling and laughing is revealed. The young centre-back is extremely demanding in training, especially in games, and is one of the few on-field role models who can truly fight for every ball and maintain a high level of focus at all times. This is also the main reason why the club or Li Mudi is optimistic about his future development prospects and is willing to bother to cultivate him at this time.

Sometimes, however, it is not a good thing to be too perfectionist, and such people often fail to accept failures that most other people can see as normal, and thus become emotionally out of control. Zori, who gave an own goal assist at the beginning of today, is obviously a little bit of a bull, thinking that his mistakes have led to the team's passivity in the situation, so he wants to make up for it more and more with redouble his efforts.

However, football, like other competitive sports, is not the kind of nervous and desperate investment that can achieve good results, and more often than not, it will cause a situation of excessive force, resulting in a stark contrast between the results and expectations.

In the 11th minute, the Real Madrid players who formed a siege outside the home team's penalty area made a mistake in the coordination of the pass, and the Eibar team immediately counterattacked. It's just that due to the huge defensive pressure they faced before, they didn't have many troops available in midfield. But at the critical moment, Camarasa, a veteran Spanish midfielder who has played for Betis and Cardiff, sent an incomparably sharp long-distance through ball in the face of pressure, helping Koke, who had already scored a goal, to get a golden opportunity to sprint straight to the away team's goal.

However, this situation is not particularly bad for Real Madrid, as their backfield is not completely undefended, and the two centre-backs plus the chasing back midfielder Marcos Llorente can hinder the opposition's only attacking player, so under normal circumstances, this counter-attack will not cause Courtois any decent problems.

But the accident happened at this moment, Zori, who was too obsessed with intercepting the home team's forward, did not get down in the "short-distance impact race" with the opponent, but completely caught up with Koke, who needed to dribble the ball, when the ball came to about 13 or 4 meters in front of the big penalty area. At this time, the Real Madrid central defender can choose to use his position to jam the inside line, forcing the opponent to only go to the right side, thus greatly reducing the possibility that the latter can directly attack the goal at a large angle.

However, Zori wanted to completely defuse Eibar's attack by himself, and recklessly used his body to squeeze and take out the ball in stride. As a result, the home striker, who was at least a magnitude smaller than him in terms of height and weight, fell to the ground and performed a series of tumbling on the turf very vividly, before looking innocently at the referee who was rushing towards the place of the incident, eager to get a decision in their favor.

In the end, with the help of the VAR team on the sidelines, Koke's wish was achieved, because both of them were slightly more than Real Madrid's other central defender Melle at the time of the incident, so even if Zori's foul action is not big, it is a little far-fetched to get a yellow card on ordinary occasions, but in the case of the referee's strict implementation of the relevant regulations, it is inevitable to receive a red gem card, which has become the key factor that changes the balance of strength between the two sides.

With one goal down, now one man less, and just over a ninth quarter of the way to play, the defending champions were in a state of extreme passivity. For any team, 10 against 11 is a very painful thing, and this loss cannot be made up for by adding a tenth of the distance that each player has run.

The most important thing is that everything came so early and suddenly, which really caught the emperor off guard. According to the normal process, the configuration of the four defenders cannot be changed in any way, so without the need for reminders from the coaching staff, the only orthodox central defender on the bench, Skriniar, who was not originally in the appearance plan, took the initiative to walk out of the bench, completed the initial warm-up with the coach as soon as possible, and put on the game when the next dead ball came.

It was Elias Zidane who was substituted before he had time to show his ability. Li Mudi retained the two wingers on the pitch, because in a short period of thought, he judged that Eibar might use the opportunity to play more and less to increase the investment in the attacking end, and then Real Madrid might get some counter-attacking opportunities, so the ability to retain the speed of the wings is an important factor in the equaliser.

However, the reality has since proved that the coaching ability and experience of the home team's coach and former Mallorca legend Ivan Ramis cannot be underestimated. After seeing the substitution option of the Real Madrid coach, the former also saw the move and continued to take a steady posture, looking like he was already satisfied with the 1-0 score, which made Li Mudi's plan unable to be implemented.

After the first half, the situation also fell into a dull situation, both sides showed a very restrained attitude towards the score and the difference in numbers, and there was no willingness to use all their strength to further rewrite the difference, so it soon ushered in the whistle of half-time.

The Real Madrid players who returned to the visitors' dressing room were clearly feeling a different tension than they had when they left here just over 40 minutes ago, not only because of the unfavourable situation in the game, but also because of the two lads who came back earlier. Looking at the frustrated Zori, even the assistant coach Platz, who originally wanted to criticize him, could only swallow the words in his mouth first, because the young man who would be forgiven by God even if he made a mistake was enough to blame himself and didn't need to be spurred on by others.

It's just that how to adjust in the second half is indeed a headache for the Real Madrid coaching staff at the moment. Even if they have consciously conserved the fitness of their players as much as possible, whether it is the coach's judgment based on years of experience, or the data observed by Li Mudi through the FM system, it is clear that the visiting team will suffer a serious fitness crisis after 70 minutes of play, and more seriously, it is likely that the first defeat of the season will be handed over at the Ipria Municipal Stadium, which was a situation that almost everyone did not expect before.

While the defeat in the Copa del Rey won't have an impact on their longest opening streak in the league, it will certainly not deal a blow to the team's half-season-long self-confidence, and it's hard to predict what will happen if they hold their breath and let it go. Therefore, under the premise of ability, no one wants to accidentally lose a blood that is not in the plan.

So after the rematch, Li Mudi signaled the players to immediately launch a wave of fierce offensive while the opponent's foothold was not stable. Although the absence of the playmaker in the middle meant that the team could not make the most of the back and forth movement of the left and right to tear apart the home team's defense during the siege, the youngster Jorge Solzano still came close to making a big difference. In the 62nd minute, he got on the end of Cesar Helabert's low cross from the right and struck a shot before two defenders.

Unfortunately, luck was on Eibar's side at this moment, and the ball bounced back into the box after hitting the right post, and the defender was the first to clear the ball.

Vinicius then made a solo run down the left, with the Brazilian winger using spectacular footwork to get past the two and cut inside before a third defender came up to block. But it was still a missed goal, the ball grazed the crossbar and flew off the bottom line, and Real Madrid missed the last chance to salvage the defeat.

With the early arrival of the fitness bottleneck, the visitors were no longer able to pose enough threat to the Eibar goal, but the home team took the opportunity to press out a continuous attack and almost broke the goal of Courtois twice, but fortunately, the old Belgian goalkeeper was in good form today, making a brilliant save that could be selected for the best save of the week, helping Real Madrid maintain their hopes of completing the second leg to a relatively easy point in theory.

Eventually, the Galacticos, who had not suffered a defeat in an official tournament since last summer, were hit head-on in their second game after the winter break, regretting that their dream of completing an unbeaten season was shattered.

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