Chapter 508: Copa del Rey Final (1)

There is another point that has been paid attention to in this game, and that is the referee. In view of the problems in the last match between Valencia and Real Madrid, the Spanish Football Federation once thought of using referees from other countries, but for the sake of their own face, they still chose the referee Manuel from Spain. Gonzalez, the referee is a new star in Spain recently, and the Spanish Football Federation is unlikely to joke about this promising referee.

However, Fan Shang felt that he still had to keep an eye on it, and reminded the players before going on the field to try the referee's scale first and not be blind.

The game started with Gonzalez's whistle, and Valencia pressed up very autonomously, but due to Fan Shang's instructions, the action did not dare to be too big, and he was ready to try the referee's reaction first.

Today's starting line-up of the two teams is similar to before, Real Madrid's side is still 442, but there are changes in the position, goalkeeper Casillas, back four, Salgado, Hierro, Pavon and Robert. Carlos, four midfielders, Makelele, Elguera, Figo and Zidane, two strikers, Raul and Morientes.

Bosque put a double midfielder today, which is a rare situation in previous games, in order to deal with Valencia's attacking group, and the number of Real Madrid today is slightly thin, but the individual strength is the best on the planet.

Valencia still follow the 361 formation, goalkeeper Canizares, three defenders, Ayala, Lucio and Djukic, six midfielders, Albelda, Baraja, Angullo, Mendieta, Aimar and Belleron, striker Toni.

Fan Shang has not changed at all, what is there to change, these people are the strongest in Valencia now, and now the cooperation is also very tacit, there is no need to change.

The referee Gonzalez's whistle blew very tightly today, and there were some dispensable physical collisions that he fouled, so the opening 10 minutes were only 10 minutes, and both sides ate a few fouls.

After these ten minutes of testing, the two sides not only found out the scale of the referee, but also had a general understanding of how the opponent played today.

Needless to say, Valencia had to use the "CUJU" tactic of crossing, and Real Madrid's game was a defensive counter-attack, as can be seen from the two midfielders discharged.

That's good, the basic tone on the field is there, Valencia attacking, Real Madrid defending waiting for a counterattack.

However, Real Madrid's two strikers, Raul and Morientes, are really not counterattacking material in Vincent's opinion, one is not fast, the other is slower, such a counterattack ......

Fan Shang knows that this is Bosque's fear of Valencia's attack, when he played against Real Madrid before, Makelele couldn't take care of it alone, so that Belleron and Aimar couldn't toss, and Valencia repeatedly launched attacks from the middle, which can create a threat to Real Madrid's goal, and also caused a lot of goals.

However, Valencia's attack is not only in the middle, the attack on the left, middle and right is actually quite balanced, the middle has a big chance, and the side players will take the initiative to cut inside, and if the side opportunity is big, the players in the middle will of course go to the side, Valencia's attack is varied.

That's it today, Real Madrid's strengthened defense in the middle, so let's go white from the wing, but the defenders in the middle can't let them move with it.

So Bellerón and Aymar moved to the flanks to link up with the wide players, while Albelda and Baraja stood where Bellerón and Aymar should have been standing before, making Makelele and Elguela dare not move.

In fact, at the beginning, the two would go to the side to assist in the defense, but in the 16th minute, Baraja's long-range shot that grazed the post and flew out of the bottom line after receiving Albelda's pass made Real Madrid's two midfielders realize that although Valencia's two backs are not as delicate as the front midfield, the kung fu of this long-range shot is enough for the two of them to dare not move in the middle.

In this way, Valencia's two wings flew up, especially on the left side, Angulo and Aimar faced Salgado, who was definitely a fierce general, but sometimes it was a shortcoming, and today his fierceness became the biggest hole for Real Madrid.

In the 18th minute, Angulo broke through with the ball, Salgado followed, and Salgado saw the opportunity halfway and tackled without hesitation, but Angulo saw Salgado's movements, and before Salgado touched the ball, Angulo passed the ball to Aimar, who was pulled to the side.

Salgado didn't succeed in a blow, the reaction was still quite fast, he got up and pounced on Aimar, this time Salgado also adopted a tackle strategy, but Aimar's delicate technique was not tackled, a dodge dodged Salgado who rushed up from behind, and passed the ball back to Angullo.

At this time, Angulo was no longer defended, he easily brought the ball in, and at this time, Real Madrid's other giant Pavon in addition to Zidane came up to make up for the defense, facing the superstar Pavon who was on the same level as Zidane, Angulo did not hesitate and rushed towards Pavon.

Angulo took the ball forward with his right foot, and when the ball was not out of control, he suddenly turned on his toes, pulled the ball back to the right, gave it to his left foot, and then pushed the ball forward with his left foot, and Angulo slid past Pavon on the left. Having said all this, in Fan Shang's opinion, this is a bulltail pass, and then add a left-footed ball.

However, the effect is surprisingly good, and Pavon may not have expected Angulo to dare to play this kind of trick in the penalty area, and now the recently fired hot youngster was completely humiliated at the Bernabeu.

Angullo's genius gave him a chance to face Casillas one-on-one, Pavon is a chick, but the same young Casillas is not, seeing Pavon being passed like a telephone pole, Casillas abandoned the goal at the first time, and the goal behind him was handed over to the old captain Hierro.

Looking at Casillas's momentum, Angulo frowned, "This guy should be ready to pounce directly." Angulo then made his own judgment, but the corners of his mouth curled up and he made direct contact with Casillas, but he didn't stop at his feet and pushed the ball in front of goal with his left foot.

Toni was unguarded after Hierro stood up for goal, and although Angulo was staring at Casillas, the ball was passed to Tony.