May 13, the day before the Copa del Rey final.

Malaga only had half a day's training session scheduled, as in the afternoon, they would take the team to Madrid, where the final will be held. As a few days ago, the training is still open to everyone, nearly 1,000 fans came to the stadium to shout slogans, play slogans to wish their team a good performance in tomorrow's game, after the training, Lin Sen sent all the players to the fans to do "star face-to-face" to thank the fans for their support, and he made an exception to accept a simple interview with the media, because there are some special guests today.

Although the Copa del Rey is an influential competition in Spain, it is still only a domestic cup in Europe, so it is not enough to attract the mainstream media in European football in addition to the domestic media in Spain, but it is enough to attract some non-mainstream but relevant media, such as the Polish media for Lewandowski, the Venezuelan media for Rondon, and the ...... Chinese media.

Unlike the Polish media and the Venezuelan media, which only focus on whether the players of their respective countries can start, the Chinese media are more concerned about whether Lin Sen can become the first Chinese to lift the Copa del Rey, although this possibility seems unlikely, but in any case, as the first Chinese coach to lead the team to the final of the Copa del Rey, he has already made history. CCTV directly sent a huge TV live broadcast team to prepare for the live broadcast of this game, although the time of this game is held late at night in China, but obviously they believe that the time point will not affect the ratings of this game.

In fact, the Spanish media borrowed the light of these colleagues from afar, and their problems were not as simple as these peers, from the starting lineup to the tactical strategy, from the personal relationship with Guardiola to the style collision with Barcelona, and almost wanted to treat this sideline interview as a formal press conference, so Lin Sen had to "politely" tell them to see you in Madrid in the evening.

Because, the official pre-match press conference will be held in the evening in the press conference hall of Calderón in Madrid, and there will be a press conference in Barcelona.

After answering questions from some reporters from China, and seeing that the players and fans were almost interacting with each other, Lin Sen decisively ended the interview and beckoned Tapia to gather the team and make final preparations for going to Madrid.

At 5:20 p.m., the charter plane from Malaga landed at Madrid airport, certainly not so coincidentally colliding with Barcelona. Barcelona arrived early two hours ago, compared with the much-anticipated Barcelona, although the players in Malaga are also suits and leather shoes, but undoubtedly the treatment is much shabby, at the airport, in addition to the Malaga fans who arrived in Madrid in advance to welcome, most of the media have been evacuated after interviewing Barcelona, after all, there is a press conference in the evening.

For the media who remained at the airport, Lin Sen still gave enough face to accept the interview, although it was only a few short sentences, and then Malaga did not stop at the airport for long, and soon took the team bus that had arrived in Madrid in advance and went directly to the hotel to rest.

The rest of the itinerary is scheduled, the evening is the press conference, because tomorrow's game is at night, the stadium is not open because of the final equipment commissioning at night, so the time for the two teams to adapt to the venue is scheduled to tomorrow daytime, of course, the time period of the two teams is still staggered, and then, and then it is to wait for tomorrow night.

In the evening, the first press conference was held by Barcelona, which arrived first, and Lin Sen waited in the familiar waiting room with the team's captain Gamiz, which made Lin Sen feel the feeling of being a person and a person.

When Balkase came in to tell him that Linson had arrived, in the aisle to the release hall, Linsen and Gamiz met Guardiola and Barcelona's captain Puyol, four people, eight eyes, not to mention the staggered-for-tat, Linsen and Guardiola both subconsciously smiled and nodded to each other, while the captains on both sides were expressionless, just looking at each other coldly.

Gamez, who just turned 24 last month and has been wearing the captain's armband this season, is not as prestigious as the old captain Arnault in the team, and his leadership on the field is not as good as the newcomer Gabi, but after nearly a season of edification, both the style of play and the temperament are becoming more and more stable, and the common impetuousness of young players seems to have disappeared before they appeared. In fact, according to qualifications, Games should take the initiative to greet Puyol, the big brother of the national team, but Gamez, who only entered the Spanish team once when the national team played a warm-up match, has no personal friendship with Puyol at all.

Pep Guardiola did not speak, Linson remained silent, Puyol kept his mouth shut, and Gámez watched coldly.

The four of them staggered by.

As soon as the two entered the press conference hall, the flashing lights and shutter sound kept flashing and sounding, and Lin Sen was used to seeing them.

After the press conference began, the old tune was repeated, but this time, Lin Sen seemed unusually patient, answering almost every question, even the various condescending questions of the Catalan journalist did not shy away.

"We have noticed that in recent days, Málaga's training has been mainly defensive training, and there have been more set-pieces and penalties, may I ask if this means that Málaga's tactics will still be defensive in tomorrow's game. Also, do you really think the game will go to penalties? "Needless to say, the person who asked the question was the pro-Barcelona media.

'We do what we do best, just like Barcelona, defending is part of it, and I don't believe Barcelona never practice defending. Penalty kick? The final is not a league and there is no draw, so penalties are also one of the possibilities. ”

"So, how likely is that?" Lin Sen's peaceful attitude did not exchange for the other party's resignation.

"It's as big as the possibility of not having a penalty shootout." Lin Sen raised his eyes and looked at the reporter, his tone was still calm, "I know Barcelona is strong, however, I don't think Barcelona is unbeatable, we have played Barcelona twice, one defeat, one draw, tomorrow, we will try to change the result of the game." ”

"Beat Barcelona?" The reporter's expression was a little exaggerated, as if he thought it was a big joke.

It seemed like a big joke, so there was a burst of chuckles in the hall, echoed by mostly pro-Barcelona media, and of course, more silence, but it also made the laughter, which was not good-natured, even more harsh.

The other Spanish media, who are silent, have long been a little unaccustomed to Lin Sen's peace today, and at this time, they are naturally happy to see the blatant "provocation" of the Catalan media, and they are ready to watch Lin Sen lash out when they hold their breath. After the Bernabeu tragedy in Barcelona, these Catalan counterparts seem to have followed the chicken dog to ascend to heaven, and their eyes are more and more above the top, it seems that every press conference will not be comfortable if they don't listen to the compliments of the other party, and they wish that the opponent would admit defeat in advance in every game, so Lin Sen's words just now triggered them to attack Lin Sen in a group for a long time, which is actually not surprising at all.

Relatively speaking, the Chinese reporters who came from afar looked at each other a little, of course they knew who had the advantage and who was at a disadvantage in this game, but the game had not been played after all, is it really appropriate to be so high-profile?

At this time, Gamès, who was sitting on the side and stopped talking after answering two questions at the beginning, finally couldn't help it, and was about to take the microphone to fight back, but he didn't think that Lin Sen looked at him first and stopped his movements, and then took the microphone and said word by word: "It's funny?" ”

When he spoke, Lin Sen still didn't seem to see any anger on his face, and he even smiled at the reporter who was still standing.

"It's strange to me that anyone would think we're here to compete for the runner-up. It's funny. Malaga does have a gap with Barcelona in terms of strength, but Malaga has not relied on sympathy or gifts to get to where we are today, we have relied on our own efforts to reach the final, so I think we have the same chance as Barcelona. I don't know where you got the confidence to think that there is no suspense in this game, did Guardiola sue you in the press conference just now? ”

Really.

In addition to the Catalan reporters, the other Spanish reporters on the scene secretly screamed in their hearts at the same time, how could it be Lin Sen, who was submissive? !

Pep Guardiola certainly can't say that! Even if Guardiola really decided in his heart that Malaga didn't have any chance, he couldn't have said these words, because it was about self-cultivation and respect. In fact, at the recent Barcelona press conference, Pep Guardiola also praised Málaga, although everyone thought it was just a courtesy of the Barcelona manager.

"I didn't say anything like that, please don't change the concept, Mr. Lin, I just think Barcelona is better than Malaga......" The reporter who was upside down tried to win back a city.

"So Malaga is bound to lose? If the strength is high, it must be the winner? Before the reporter could finish speaking, Lin Sen directly interrupted him, "If this is your opinion on football, then I don't think you should be a football reporter." ”

After speaking, Lin Sen no longer paid attention to the reporter's reaction, but leaned back, looking around at all the people in the hall.

"I still say that, I respect all opponents, including Barcelona, of course, but Malaga is here to compete with Barcelona for the title! Not here to throw in the towel! That's all for today, we'll see you tomorrow! ”