Chapter XXVII. Mourinho's Exams
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Because of Alonso's injury, Chu Zhongtian will be the core of Real Madrid in the coming month. Zidane believes that with Chu Zhongtian's strength, as long as he sits in the core position, he will never be able to pull him down.
Harvey. Alonso is very good, but he is still worse than Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhong Genius is the best fit for Real Madrid.
He now sees Mourinho with a smile on his face, what else can Mourinho do but roll his eyes?
β»β»β» "Alonso is injured!" Emily's tone was a little excited.
Chu Zhongtian coughed, and she hurriedly whispered, "Ah, what a pity...... But! You've got a chance to start, haven't you, Chu? β
Chu Zhongtian thought about it, it seems to be the same, Real Madrid only has three real midfielders, and now that Alonso is injured, he will be partnered with Khedira.
"I'm on pretty good terms with Harvey, Amy. He speaks English and we talk a lot, so I'm sad about his injury......"
Emily pouted on the other end of the phone, "Wake up, Chu." You're not being interviewed right now, I'm your wife, not the reporter you're interviewing. β
"Yes, yes...... That's right, but I'm really sad in my heart, he's my teammate...... And even if he doesn't get hurt, I can start. β
"That's it!" Emily suddenly exclaimed, "That's it!" β
"When are you coming back, Amy?" Chu Zhongtian ignored Emily and asked rhetorically.
"This one...... Let's go another week......"
Chu Zhongtian thought for a while: "I was not in Madrid at that time. β
"How?"
"National team breakday...... Gao Hongbo called me, this competition has me, I have to participate. β
The qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil had already started on June 29 this year, and the Chinese team's opponent was a very weak Mongolia, so Chu Zhongtian was not called into the team at all, and he was just about to return to Hoffenheim at that time. The first round of the Asian Cup qualifiers is a two-legged home and away two-legged tournament with 38 teams going head-to-head, with the winner advancing to the second round. The nineteen teams that advanced to the second round were ranked according to the results of the previous qualifiers, and the top 11 directly advanced to the top 20 in the third round, and the remaining eight teams fought against each other, or a two-legged home and away system, with the winner advancing and the loser eliminated. Because the overall result of the Chinese team in the Asian qualifiers of the last World Cup was 16th, the top five teams that directly advanced to the first tier of the third round of the top 20 will directly advance to the top 20 as long as the Chinese team can pass the first round of the competition.
In fact, the Chinese team's World Cup journey really began from this moment.
Without Chu Zhongtian, the Chinese team, with Deng Zhuoxiang as the core, defeated Mongolia bloodlessly in the first round, won 7:0 in the first leg at their home stadium, and scored five goals in the second leg away from home on July 3, and finally eliminated the Mongolian team that played soy sauce with a total score of 12:0.
In the second round of the game, the Chinese team had a bye and directly advanced to the third round of the top 20, Chu Zhongtian happened to participate in Real Madrid's pre-season training camp at that time, so he just didn't have to return to China to participate in the competition, so as not to have problems with the new team.
After the second round of the competition, all the 20 teams participating in the Top 20 have been born, and then the group draw for the Top 20 has been made. The Chinese team, as the third-tier team, is in a group with North Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkmenistan.
Judging from this grouping, the Chinese team avoided the strongest opponents, and North Korea was the first team, but in fact, North Korean football is already going downhill these days, and the Chinese team has Chu Zhongtian, and it should not be a problem to beat them. In the second tier is the UAE, and in the fourth tier is Turkmenistan. In this group, as long as the Chinese team plays normally and Chu Zhongtian is not absent, it should not be a problem to advance to the top ten.
Chinese fans can finally look forward to the Chinese team playing the top 10 matches - the Chinese team was eliminated from the top 10 matches in the last two World Cups, which is really sad.
And this time, because of Chu Zhongtian, Chinese fans can also look forward to the trick World Cup finals by the way. If the Chinese team successfully breaks into the World Cup, Chinese fans can continue to look forward to whether the Chinese team can achieve a zero breakthrough in the World Cup - score a goal, get a point, and win a game.
These three goals were put forward ten years ago, but they were not achieved, and now they have fallen on Chu Zhongtian.
Now there are three years left until the 2014 Brazil World Cup, and Chu Zhongtian will be exactly thirty years old by then, the official last golden age, and in four years, he will be thirty-four years old, and it is hard to say whether he can maintain his condition. At the age of 30, it was a good time for him to officially make a career. So the expectations of Chinese fans are justified.
Although the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup have begun. But this time he was not recruited to play in the qualifiers, and the third round of qualifiers will not start until November. This is a warm-up game, because the top 20 matches will start in November, Gao Hongbo in order to let the team run in, since the Asian Cup, the Chinese team has hardly played any game with the main force, playing Mongolia Gao Hongbo found a large group of young people and marginal figures of the national team, and used Mongolia as a training.
After listening to Chu Zhongtian's explanation, Emily was a little lost, she missed Chu Zhongtian very much, and she had no choice but to go back to Madrid, but she still couldn't see her husband.
"Well, it's just a week." Chu Zhongtian comforted her on the other end of the phone. "If you come back, go and see how the new house is being renovated, I haven't been there for a few days."
Chu Zhongtian was busy, so he couldn't take care of the decoration of the new house.
He's busy because of Alonso's injury, he's going to take the position.
β»β»β» Mourinho considered that if he simply replaced Alonso with Chu Zhongtian, the tactics would be as before, and it would not be impossible, but it seems that he could not fully exert Chu Zhongtian's full ability, which was a bit wasteful. It's like a car with five gears, but you're running in only one gear.
Rangnick has turned Chu Zhongtian into a free man, which means that if you want to give full play to his 100% ability, you have to use him as the core and reformulate your tactics. But Real Madrid's metronome is Alonso, but the core is C. Ronaldo.
Chu Zhongtian's position is quite awkward...... How?
Even if he wants to re-establish his tactics around Chu Zhongtian, it is impossible in a short period of time, and it is unrealistic to ask the team to complete such a transformation within a month.
Mourinho was wondering what would happen if he didn't assign any tasks to Chu Zhongtian and let him choose to play freely on the field...... He was taken aback by the idea of his own - no one had ever tried to do this, leaving an organisational midfielder to completely ignore tactical demands and move freely of his own choosing. Barcelona's Messi is also free, but he is only an attacker, not a playmaker, so there is nothing wrong with him moving freely, but it will increase the threat. But Chu Zhongtian is the commander, he needs to cooperate with the whole team, and the whole team also needs to cooperate with him, if he moves freely, what will the others do? Will it leave his teammates at a loss?
Like his teammates, Chu Zhongtian left Madrid, the capital of Spain, by plane, and he will be the furthest to travel, including Argentina and Brazil, as Argentina and Brazil have played their two warm-up matches in Europe.
Previously, Mourinho was very dissatisfied with Gao Hongbo's recruitment of Chu Zhongtian to participate in an inconsequential warm-up match, because he was worried that this would cause Chu Zhongtian's physical problems. Unfortunately, this is an international A-level match day, and the club must release the players back to play on this day, otherwise the national team can sue the club to FIFA, and the club will not be able to take care of it.
Chu Zhongtian returned to China, and his return greatly increased the attention of the national team. It was the first time he had returned to the national team since joining Real Madrid.
From the airport to the training station, Chu Zhongtian's car was followed by more than a dozen vehicles from various media, they chased and intercepted, took pictures and videos, and this battle made a reporter later feel that Chu Zhongtian is the only superstar of Chinese football, and even the only superstar of Chinese sports.
In the national team, Chu Zhongtian is naturally highly sought after. Because he is from Real Madrid, the players of the national team are obviously particularly interested in the gossip about the daily life training of Real Madrid's superstars, and they all want to ask what Real Madrid's training life is like. For example, I heard that C. Ronaldo is a table tennis master, so how good is his play? Is Kaka's wife really beautiful? What kind of person is Jose Mourinho? Did Chu Zhongtian ask for Zidane's signature?
Chu Zhongtian always tries his best to answer his teammates' questions, as long as it doesn't involve too many **, he is happy to tell his national team teammates.
Of course, he didn't travel thousands of miles back to China this time to spread gossip to his teammates, and the competition was still the top priority. Chu Zhongtian, who hadn't practiced with the national team for a long time, joined the training without even falling jet lag. This made Gao Hongbo very satisfied.
The opponent of the Chinese team in this warm-up match is the Canadian team from North America. Canada's ice hockey is famous, but their football is tragic, not as high as China's team in the latest FIFA rankings.
In the end, at his home stadium, Chu Zhongtian led his teammates of the national team to victory with a score of 3:1. He didn't score a goal in the game, but he had two assists, which made Gao Hongbo very satisfied off the field - it turned out that the long absence from training with the team did not affect his feelings, and he still cooperated with other teammates very well. As long as he can maintain this state, Gao Hongbo is very confident in the top 20 match of the Chinese team, and the final battle will only be in the top 10 match.
After the warm-up match of the Chinese team, Chu Zhongtian left China and returned to Spain.
Here he met his long-awaited wife, Emily. Stan.
Life has returned to normal...... β»β»β»After the training was over, Chu Zhongtian routinely practiced for himself. This time he didn't practice shooting, but long balls, and Alonso's injury left the team without a good master of long balls on the pitch, and he had to try to make up for that loss, so he had to work on long balls. In fact, Chu Zhongtian's long pass is already very good, but he believes in a principle, that is, no matter how skilled his skills are, if he does not contact for a long time, he will regress.
After practicing the long pass, he practiced another set of shots for himself before returning to the dressing room.
After taking a shower and changing clothes, Chu Zhongtian walked out of the locker room with a backpack on his back, and bumped into Mourinho at the door.
This surprised him a little.
"I see your car is still in the parking lot." Mourinho said after seeing him.
"Ah...... I was just training ......"
"Don't you mind delaying you for a few minutes?" Mourinho asked.
Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I don't mind." β
He was a little surprised. It was the first time Mourinho had spoken to him alone. Although there have been exchanges in training, it is the first time that we have met and chatted alone in private.
He thinks it has something to do with Alonso's injury.
"Hmm...... What is life like in Madrid? Mourinho didn't say what he wanted to say directly, but first exchanged a few pleasantries.
"It's good."
"I heard your new house is being renovated?"
"Yes, but I don't know how far the decoration has been, I haven't been to see it in this time......" After throwing the renovation of the house to Emily, Chu Zhongtian simply stopped going.
"Hmm......" Mourinho asked with a deep groan. Did Rangnick ask of you when you were in Hoffenheim? β
Chu Zhongtian didn't expect Mourinho to ask such a question, he was stunned for a moment before replying: "No...... He just told me he wanted the team to attack, or he wanted the team to defend......"
"What do you do if he wants the team to attack?"
Chu Zhongtian frowned and shook his head, "That has to be combined with the actual situation......
Mourinho nodded and beckoned to Chu Zhongtian: "You come with me." β
Chu Zhongtian didn't quite understand where to go, but he didn't ask, just followed Mourinho, the two of them turned left and right, and finally walked to Mourinho's office...... Mourinho didn't greet Chu Zhongtian to sit, entered the office and turned on the TV directly, and then pressed the switch of the video recorder.
He actually wanted to watch the video with Chu Zhongtian!
When the game appeared on the TV screen, he fast-forwarded it with the remote control and froze it.
Chu Zhongtian found out that this was actually the video of Real Madrid's first round of La Liga away against Osasuna...... Mourinho, on the other hand, is where Real Madrid are coming back from behind. Chu Zhongtian still remembers that this counterattack is completely a kind of inertial counterattack, that is to say, Real Madrid's players actually have no mature offensive methods in their hearts, but they just want to attack because they are behind and are irritated, which is completely reflexive. So at that time, it seemed that Real Madrid's attack was very chaotic, always playing wherever they wanted, lacking coordination and command, facing Osasuna's iron bucket formation, always thinking that they could score goals by relying on the strength of one person.
Mourinho froze the picture here and then turned to look at Chu Zhongtian: "If I want you to attack at this time, what will you do?" β
Chu Zhongtian understood, is this considered an exam?
"I'll just shoot from distance."
Chu Zhongtian's answer was a little unexpected for Mourinho, and he asked a little strangely. "Long shot?"
"Well, high-quality long-range shots......" Chu Zhongtian pointed to the TV screen, and when Mourinho froze, it happened to be Khedira taking the ball. If I had taken the ball in this position, I would have shot straight at goal. β
Mourinho glanced at the TV screen, where Khedira had the ball and was about 34 or 5 metres from goal.
He frowned: "Something too far away......"
Chu Zhongtian smiled: "That's my effective range." β
Mourinho remembered that when he was in charge of Inter Milan, Chu Zhongtian used a long-range shot to open the door of his team. His long-range shots tend to be not high, but they are fast and have a lot of power on goal.
Does the power work a miracle?
Mourinho thought for a moment and said: "Do you want to rely on your individual ability to score goals and make up for the disadvantage? I'll admit that your long-range shot is good, but such a good opportunity doesn't come up anytime and anywhere......" He meant that he was more than 30 meters away from the opponent and was unmarked.
Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Yes." So I didn't expect that one shot to score. I just think our guys were a little flustered after falling behind, and the offense didn't seem to be in order. So I think the first thing a commander should do is to stabilize the morale of the military. β
Mourinho stared at Chu Zhongtian's face for a long time, then turned his head to look at the TV screen: "Go on." β
"Actually, it's not necessarily about using a long shot, but a long shot is the most suitable in this case. Just one or two quality shots on goal can restore the team's confidence and composure. And then...... Be quick. Chu Zhongtian said.
"Quick?"
Fastness is indeed a characteristic of Real Madrid, and it is a new characteristic that Mourinho has been working on since becoming Real Madrid manager. He wants to bring out this characteristic of Real Madrid to the fullest.
If it's just fast, he doesn't think it's new. And the situation at that time Real Madrid was not fast.
"Yes, fast. I don't think there's any team in the world that can stay in formation with a constant and fast onslaught. And as long as their formation is broken up by us, there are plenty of opportunities. β
"So, how fast?" Mourinho sat on the table and leaned over to ask Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian thought about it for a while, and then said: "Speed up the passing and receiving speed of the midfield, reduce the useless dribbling and ball control, the two wings are ready to receive the ball in the middle at any time, and the two back midfielders ...... Get closer, try to minimise long passes, short passes are best. It can also attract the opposition defense to move closer to the middle, and then make room for the wings, and then just one shift is needed......"
This set is actually Hoffenheim's usual tactics, Chu Zhongtian is still the most familiar with Hoffenheim's tactics after all, since everyone's characteristics are fast, why can't Hoffenheim's tactics be used on Real Madrid?
Of course, he just made a suggestion, and more work had to be done by the Real Madrid team - first of all, they had to be willing to take it.
After listening to Chu Zhongtian's discussion, Mourinho was sure of one thing - Chu Zhongtian, the midfield commander, may be the most special one of the same type of players he has seen.
(To be continued)