Chapter 141: Fatal Loophole
At half-time, Inter Milan and Real Madrid drew 1-1, but now Real Madrid is still 2 goals ahead of Inter Milan in a sense, so there is not much worry in their eyes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Seeing that Inter Milan's players are in a bit of a doldrum, Héctor Cooper has made some tactical adjustments, and in fact, it is in a sense that Real Madrid is at their weakest.
This season, Real Madrid still implemented the one-star one-year policy to bring in Beckham, but the midfielders not only let go of the double back Makelele and Flavio, but even the almost signed Milito was also marked as "failing the medical examination" and rejected the Bernabeu.
The firepower in the midfield and the midfield overlapped, and the central defense became more and more fragile, and Real Madrid, which was heavy on attack and light on defense, became more and more sick this season.
Real Madrid have stumbled on multiple fronts this season, reaching the final of the Copa del Rey on thin ice, and on 15 February, Real Madrid narrowly managed to retain the league top spot with a controversial 1-1 draw at home to Valencia.
Real Madrid's 7 draws and 4 defeats so far in the league are even less than in previous seasons, and the "benefit" from the controversial decision has attracted more criticism.
On March 17, at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Real Madrid, the main player of the class (goalkeeper Casillas did not come on as a substitute), lost 2-3 to Zaragoza, and missed the Copa del Rey for the first time in 11 years. It was understandable to lose to arch-rivals Deportivo La Coruna in the final two years ago, but what is the value of Real Madrid now after losing to promoted Madrid, who are 12th in the league and difficult to beat home and away in the league? The dream of a triple crown was shattered.
After barely beating the old rival Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, who entered the top 8, faced Inter Milan in the quarterfinals, and after the draw was announced, Real Madrid surpassed Arsenal in the championship odds to rank first.
In particular, Real Madrid beat Inter Milan 4-2 at home on March 24, and people thought that Inter Milan's home comeback was only a theoretical possibility.
But in the eyes of Hector Cooper, although most people are not optimistic about Inter Milan, Hector Cooper still has considerable confidence in Inter Milan.
The April 6 match was a speculative affair and Real Madrid even went close to sealing the win with a goal away from home, but Héctor Cooper still believes Inter Milan can sink the Galaxy.
In the eyes of Héctor Cooper, Momo, the outcast of Real Madrid, will prove his worth in this game, although Real Madrid's shooting angle and height are exactly what Real Madrid's goalkeeper Casillas is best at.
Therefore, in the hearts of Real Madrid fans, with Casillas, Momo will be magically absent, and Real Madrid will step on the corpse of Inter Milan and successfully ascend to the position.
And Momo was doomed to nothing in front of Casillas.
Real Madrid boss Florentino undoubtedly wants to go one step further, and it is not as shameful to fall in front of Arsenal or Chelsea as to die in front of Inter Milan, who have not won the Champions League in n years.
Now that Real Madrid have lost the Copa del Rey, it is impossible for him to abandon the Champions League again, after all, La Liga is not a very good position for Real Madrid right now.
After 31 league games, Real Madrid are only one point ahead of Valencia, and Valencia have no top-six opponents in the league in the remaining seven games, and Real Madrid are still in danger.
First against this season's dark horse Osasuna, then with Atletico Madrid away city derby, and then at home to the old rival Barcelona in the battle of the century, and after 35 rounds of away games against rival Deportivo La Coruna, can Real Madrid still be at the top of the standings? I'm afraid that in the final round against Real Sociedad, they will have to wait for Valencia to overturn the ship at home against Albacete.
It would not be a surprise if Real Madrid had nothing left for the season, and a team that lacked balance in attack and defence would not be able to achieve absolute success even with a few attacking players, and perhaps this empty season would have introduced Florentino to the real football.
And now the Champions Cup is still going on, if they can win the Champions League, then it will definitely be a good thing for Real Madrid, at least not for nothing, and the policy that has been criticized at the beginning of the season can be relieved.
The result of the exit is unacceptable to Real Madrid, and now the general manager Baldano is in a very good mood, the Argentine said that this Real Madrid, his eyes are not open with laughter, he said unashamedly: "We almost controlled the whole game, all the players wanted to win the game, the players performed very well, they did their best."
Of course, at halftime, not everyone at Real Madrid was quite happy with the result of the game, including Casillas.
Young goalkeeper Iker Casillas is the most unhappy with the team, and in his opinion, if Real Madrid continue to perform like that in the second half, it will be a matter of time before they are eliminated from the competition.
Real Madrid's player Casillas knows too well that "laziness" and "lack of physical strength" are big problems, and if Real Madrid continues to give Momo that opportunity, Casillas cannot guarantee that he can keep the goal safe.
Asian journalists were not idle at this time.
Reporter Huang Yi commented: "Without Beckham, Real Madrid would be completely different. In Real Madrid, midfielder David Beckham is very important, he is the key to attack and defence. Before the game, Monaco coach Didier Deschamps predicted. Indeed, without Beckham, the power of Real Madrid's midfield is invisibly less than half.
Instead of flying to Monte Carlo with Real Madrid, Beckham did not fly to Monte Carlo with his wife Victoria to the Swiss Alpine ski resort for a holiday to ease the rumored marital crisis.
Beckham was replaced by Borja, and apparently it was because the victory in the first leg gave Real Madrid a two-goal advantage, and this time Queiroz decided to give the young players a chance.
However, as Queiroz himself admits, there is no one in Real Madrid's midfield to replace Beckham, and Borja not only does not have Beckham's long passing, but also cannot find his own position, like a headless fly flying around. The inexperienced Borja only used the movement of the opposing attacking players as a reference for his actions in the game, and as a midfielder, he not only did not play the role of organizing and distributing the ball, on the contrary, he was repeatedly surpassed by the opponent in defense.
It wasn't Borja's first time playing in a central midfield role, as the game against Inter Milan was his 19th appearance of the season and his ninth appearance in the starting line-up. 'I won't feel pressure, I'll act like I did in the Copa del Rey against Valencia.' Borja said after learning that he had been given a chance to start.
But it turned out that Queiroz had a bias in his midfield set-up for such an important game, as evidenced by Momo's first-half stoppage time goal. When Morientes cleverly flicked the ball to Momo in the box, he had already noticed that Momo on the right edge of the box was completely unguarded, and that position was exactly what the midfielders had to target.
The Chinese did not waste Morrientes' "good intentions", and sent the ball into the right corner of the net with a right-footed volley, and the score was rewritten to 1-1.
There was also an incomprehensible decision in Queiroz's set-up: he put Bravo on the bench and let Elgra, who had just recovered from his injury, link up with Messia.
Indeed, the centre-back duo of Messia and Bravo performed well in the last league game against Albacete, with the two youngsters showing maturity and Queiroz should have continued to play as the main centre-back pairing, with Elguera replacing David Beckham and Guti at the back.
Elgra has been a regular midfielder in the past, and while he won't be able to deliver long balls as accurately as David Beckham, at least his tackles can make a big difference defensively, and Elgra's excellent awareness could potentially open the scoring for Real Madrid.
This analysis naturally speaks to Héctor Cooper's heart, Héctor Cooper has made a detailed setting for this point, and there is also a new arrangement for Momer's shooting requirements.
(To be continued.) )