Acknowledgments before the chapter: Thank you for the reward from the book friend flygao_yz.

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Pep Guardiola was quick to receive a report from Costa about the Malaga vs Mallorca match.

Guardiola watched the game report for nearly half an hour, and when he saw Costa's final personal evaluation, Guardiola smiled dumbly.

Although it is true that Costa was sent by him, in fact, Guardiola is a very self-directed manager, in other words, Costa's match report does not influence his judgment on the next game. Pep Guardiola believes in his tactical system, or La Masia's philosophy to be more precise, so even after a defeat and a draw at the start of the season, Guardiola still believes in his tactics.

And this near-blind trust from Pep Guardiola quickly paid off: he scored 23 goals in six games, an average of nearly four goals per game. In this case, will Pep Guardiola change his tactical strategy against Malaga because of Costa's report? The answer is self-explanatory.

Malaga, though. Costa's evaluation is actually an evaluation of Lin Sen.

And that's the main reason Guardiola asked Costa to go, to watch the game and, more importantly, to watch Linson.

Costa thinks Linson's game is pure play with fire**.

This was in line with the reaction of the media after the game, who believed that the defeat in the Copa del Rey in Malaga was a suicide attack and that Málaga chose to abandon the Copa del Rey.

Because, as everyone knows, the reason why Malaga has been able to achieve the current results in the league is that the solid defense has contributed to the great, and in eight league games, Malaga has only conceded four goals, one of the fewest goals conceded by the team in La Liga at present, not to mention that three goals were conceded in the game against Real Madrid. In addition to defense, it is the team's efficient counterattack.

But in this game, Malaga held high the banner of attack.

Pep Guardiola has never taken any opponent lightly, whether it is Malaga or rivals Real Madrid, which is why he laughed at Costa's final assessment: a manager who can put Málaga in the top league after eight rounds, but that's it?

Pep Guardiola knows that this must be Costa's "beautiful football concept" at fault, and like many Spaniards, he thinks that all teams that rely on defense are ugly, and even if they win, they are ugly.

Pep Guardiola doesn't fully agree with that.

Although La Liga advocates open play, there are not many teams that play defensive counterattacks, but only Malaga can play their defensive counterattacks so well. Moreover, for the "unconventional" Malaga, not many media in the whole of Spain dare to laugh at Malaga's defense is ruining Spain's offensive football, even the Ace newspaper, which is already a bit of a match with Lin Sen, did not dare to provoke Lin San in this regard.

Why?

Because it's too easy for Lin Sen to fight back.

If a team like Real Madrid and Barcelona plays ugly, the media can certainly criticize them, because they are fully qualified to play so-called beautiful football. But Malaga is the poorest promotion horse in the entire La Liga, and their budget for this season is even less than a fraction of Barcelona's summer budget...... For Málaga like this, it would be nice to win, and if you still want to ask them to win beautifully, it is not a question of Málaga's tactics, but of the intelligence of the questioner.

To put it bluntly, I'm millet plus rifle, you're an airplane and a cannon, and you still want me to bombard you, shameless?

It's true that the media likes gimmicks, but no one wants to do anything that makes it clear that it's humiliating.

Therefore, in Guardiola's view, Linsen is at least a very practical manager, because he is not following the trend of La Liga, but is very clever to hide under the identity of Malaga's promoted horse, and very decisively implement his own tactical concept.

It's just that in this game, why did Lin Sen suddenly change his tactical strategy?

Pep Guardiola touched his head with his hand, and it is not difficult to know the reason.

He imagined that he would change his tactics and strategies under what circumstances, in fact, there were no more than two kinds, one was the pressure of performance, which obviously Lin Sen did not have. Well, there's the second, the pressure from the top.

Little Sens wants a beautiful football?

Pep Guardiola smiled, if that's the case, then Lin's life is really difficult.

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Lin Sen didn't know that one of his tactical experiments could make Guardiola think so much, and it was so appropriate.

It's just that Guardiola's guess, although correct, is biased.

Lin Sen's experiment did not come from pressure, and it could only be regarded as a demonstration. Because there is indeed a little reason, Lin Sen was stimulated by the words of the old Sans, but more importantly, he actually wanted the players to be more aware of the current positioning of the team. Although so far, there are no signs of "arrogance" in Malaga, but everything needs to be prevented.

Just like Gundogan before him.

Gundogan, who had previously suffered a back injury, has been resting for almost a month in a row, during which the medical team has twice proved that Gundogan has recovered, but each time, Gundogan feels unwell during training, and Linsen has always listed Gundogan on the injury list, until the game against Sevilla, Gundogan participated in the team's joint training.

The reason, naturally, is that Lin Sen once again sacrificed his plug-in.

Gundogan's problem was finally determined to be related to the spine, because the position was too sensitive, Lin Sen didn't expect Gundogan to accept it at the first time, but what surprised Lin Sen was that unlike Aguero, who was afraid of pain, for his own treatment, in addition to showing a little surprise that Lin Sen would actually have this kind of treatment, he probably knew that Lin Sen was a doctor before, and Gundogan was extremely cooperative.

Of course, cooperation does not mean complete belief.

It's just that after a few treatments, Gundogan had to believe it, the reason is very simple, the so-called conservative treatment of the medical team, he felt uncomfortable as soon as he went to the training ground, but after Lin Sen intervened, he immediately felt alive.

However, Gundogan recovered from injury and was unable to return to the starting line-up.

Against Sevilla, Linson still started Duda, while Koke, who originally played on the left, took on the previous position of Gundogan. However, this game is a league, and Gundogan can understand Linsen's choice, however, against Mallorca, Gundogan still didn't get even a minute of playing time, which made Gundogan a little impatient.

He had to be impatient, and in the four league games he missed, Málaga did not seem to be affected in any way, with three wins and one draw, and more importantly, Duda, who was given the opportunity because of his absence, was excellent, with one goal and one assist in four games, while Koke, who occupied his position, made up for his absence the most, at least without obvious mistakes.

In such a situation, what is strange if Lin Sen continues to keep Gundogan on the bench?

So, when Lin Sen found Gundogan in the gym, the color on the top of Gundogan's head surprised him a little.

For nearly a week, Gundogan had to work in the gym for half an hour after training with the team to exercise his back muscles, and then Lin Sen's acupuncture treatment. Seeing Lin Sen come in, Gundogan was about to say hello, but Lin Sen had already taken the lead in waving his hand, and then he found a gym equipment and waited for Gundogan to practice by himself.

Ten minutes later, Gundogan's workout was over, and Lin Sen began his treatment.

Before starting, Lin Sen saw Gundogan stop talking several times, so he asked with a smile, "Do you have something to tell me?" ”

Gundogan didn't expect his hesitation to be seen by Lin Sen, he was silent for a moment, and said, "I don't want to question your decision...... Boss, but I'm curious to see if I'm going to play in the next game. ”

Lin Sen himself doesn't care much about what the players call him, Mr. coach, boss, leader, as long as the players can meet his requirements, it doesn't matter what they call him. However, it is undeniable that a change in title often represents a change in the relationship.

At present, most of the players in the team have begun to use the title of "head" when referring to him, and before that, except for Koke, everyone else called him almost always Mr. Coach. You know, this is in Spain. From Mr. Coach to the head, what is represented is obviously not just recognition on the field.

And Gundogan, before that, had always referred to Lin Sen as Mr. Coach.

In fact, Gundogan's mentality is very similar to Lin Sen's, he doesn't think that changing a title can make him look very respectful to the coach, plus the relationship between personality, so he has always used the first title.

Of course, this does not mean that he is a maverick, on the contrary, Gundogan is very happy with the atmosphere in Malaga right now.

On the training ground, everyone has a smile on their faces, even if they are tortured by the coach to death, there are not too many factions and dislikes between the players in the locker room, and the gap between the new and old players at the beginning has disappeared with the gradual familiarity of the two sides......

Gundogan thinks he is no more active than Rondon, no more likable than Royce, and less stable than Gabi...... He is a bit introverted, and he doesn't have a strong sense of existence on the training ground, but more quietly completes the training tasks assigned by the coach, and then, in his spare time, he quietly watches his teammates make all kinds of meat and vegetable jokes with each other, and occasionally shows a smile......

This kind of atmosphere reminds Gundogan of the atmosphere when he was still in the junior team, there was no pressure, and he played football simply for his dreams.

But at that time, there were still dreams that maintained this atmosphere. And now, what sustains this atmosphere?

Gundogan can only think of one answer.