Chapter 40: No More Suspense!
Chapter 40 has no suspense!
The Bernabeu Stadium, at the moment when Vasquez scored, completely fell into a dead silence, the two teams played back and forth on the field before, and they couldn't see that their team was going to concede the goal, and even Barcelona couldn't take advantage of the ball, but just like that...... The goal went in!?
"Damn it! Ben in Barcelona? Parker delivered a very clever pass and Shaq kept our defence at bay in the middle, only for Vasquez next to him to score! In fact, this kind of tactical change should have been considered in advance, but the ball still went in, which should be regarded as a mistake by the defender line. ”
Real Madrid fans have very high requirements for the team, they want to play winning football, but also beautiful football, in recent years has actually changed a lot, after Capello, Mourinho and a group of conservative coaches edification, Real Madrid fans have begun to pay more attention to victory, and now to Prandelli here is naturally not so demanding, can win...... That's it!
In the first Spanish derby at Camp Nou, Real Madrid drew away to Barcelona, and Prandelli and his team were seen as the club's heroes at that time, and it was already a victory to not lose to their arch-rivals on the road.
But now that he is back at home, why did his team concede the goal first!?
The most important thing is...... This goal is a bit inexplicable!
In all aspects of the data competition, Real Madrid did not fall behind at all, seeing that the first half of the game was about to end, and suddenly conceded a goal in such a situation, which will not only hit the team's morale, but also have a disastrous impact on the team's tactics, how should the team play in the second half!?
Prandley watched from the sidelines, his face still calm. Just standing there quietly thinking, the already silver hair makes the old coach look a little wiser, which also makes the Real Madrid stars think that their manager will definitely have a way to turn the bad situation around.
But in fact...... Prandley really doesn't have much to do now!
Today's Real Madrid is no longer the super team that gathered C. Ronaldo, Bale and other big-name stars, and with the increase in player salary expenses, Real Madrid's investment in the transfer market is no longer large. With a net investment of only €80 million for three seasons, this only proves a little bit ...... Florentino has no passion.
But after Mr. Real Madrid lost his passion, the negative impact is that the team's squad is no longer super luxurious, and now there are only nine people in the team who are worth tens of millions of euros, which is not a small gap compared with Barcelona's thirteen tens of millions of stars, and ...... There is also an insurmountable gap in quality!
Barcelona's current squad is valued at 11 players over €20 million, eight over €30 million and two over €40 million. It also has the most valuable Shaq in world football, and the luxury of this squad is simply daunting, while Real Madrid has only four players worth more than 20 million euros, and only three people who are worth more than 30 million euros, and then there are no more.
Just now Vasquith's goal, although only Ben touched the ball? Parker and Vasquith, but Shaq, who didn't touch the ball, were also involved, without Shaq's presence. Prandley believes his chain defense can definitely jam Vasquith, but it's because of Shaq. Papadopoulos couldn't defend against Vasquis, which ultimately led to the goal being conceded.
At the moment, Shaq should be worth 100 million euros, and Ben? Parker is 40 million, and Vasquith is also about 32 million, so if you calculate it. Barcelona's goal just now is actually the result of an investment of 170 million.
This result...... It's really powerless!
The whistle blew soon after the end of the first half, and Prandley calmly turned around and walked down the tunnel...... He'll have to prepare for his half-time speech, even if there's nothing he can do to change the situation. He had to do something.
No one knows what Prandley said in the home team's dressing room at the Bernabeu Stadium, but "Brutal Simon" once again stressed at halftime that the team should make full use of Shaq's covering role and play the change of the cross from the wing, Vasquith's goal has fully illustrated Real Madrid's defensive weaknesses, as long as they attack this point, Barcelona will definitely have a chance to score.
Leading by one goal is not safe at all!
I don't know if it's Simon? Grayson's words worked, or Real Madrid's Italian chain defense was restrained by the "solar system tactics", and just two minutes into the second half, Barcelona played away...... Another goal!
This time, Shaq was still involved in the goal, Rafael sent a throw-in on the right side, and Shaq ran to the right to pick it up, and also piggybacked Papadopoulos to be involved.
When Shaq carried Papadopoulos with his body to receive Rafael's throw-in and knocked it back to Rafael, the Brazilian right-back decisively sent a diagonal cross close to the horizontal line, and Real Madrid's seemingly complete back line completely exposed its "weakness" at this moment!
"Whoosh!"
Ball from Jose? Angel flew in front of him, then passed behind Varane, and then in David? Two meters in front of Luis!
At this moment, the entire back line of Real Madrid failed to touch the ball with three people, Jose? Angel is a typical full-back player, and when he and Papadopoulos switched to central defenders, his interception ability naturally dropped a lot, and this time it was fully reflected.
Raphael Varane missed the chance to intercept due to his lack of experience, and he didn't notice that after Shakra was on the side, his good partner Papadopoulos also went to the wing, and it was Jose who was playing alongside him at this time? Angel, when his team-mate couldn't block the pass, he couldn't stop it anymore.
And Dawei? Louis...... His strengths lie in position, experience, and anticipation, and when it comes to speed, he is really much worse than the 23-year-old Italian left winger Rinaldi.
"Smack!"
Rinaldi stood in front of the small penalty area a little to the left of the middle, and with a gentle push of the arch of his left foot, the ball rolled against the ground to the bottom left corner of the Real Madrid goal!
Casillas, who was originally defending the near corner, was already trying his best to move sideways and make saves, but all this was useless, and his movements were still a beat slower!
"Huh!"
“GOLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Rinaldi waved his fists and ran with great excitement, the Italian winger really understood how important this goal is, and his name will be recorded in the history of Barcelona because of this game and this goal!
In the winter transfer, the Italian jumped from Espanyol to the city giants Barcelona for 23 million euros, although he contributed to the team in a few appearances, but only 1 goal in the previous 7 games, which still put a lot of pressure on him as a winger, if it were not for Fabregas's injury that caused Vasquez to retreat, Rinaldi is really difficult to get the starting position from competitors, and the personal ability of "new Messi" is really not blown.
But now...... Of course, all the pressure is at a loss, even if he can't win the competition against Vasquez, I believe that this goal will give him a lot of points in the manager's mind, and that is enough.
2:0, Barcelona expanded the score advantage!
Real Madrid's players had blank expressions, they didn't expect that the second half of the game had just begun, and their side had not yet played the tactics arranged by the head coach at halftime, but the opponent actually scored again, this game ...... Now how to kick again!?
Prandelli could only sigh helplessly, he knew how difficult it was to turn the game around from two goals down, not to mention that they were facing the strongest team in Spain and even all of Europe...... Barcelona!
But...... Something has to be done anyway!
Prandelli chose to make a substitution, he replaced Coentrão with 31-year-old Spanish striker Granero, who could not keep up with the rhythm, and replaced De Sagoev with "Little Pea" Hernandez, the Russian failed to form a connection with Ronaldo in front of him in today's game, and now he must make some changes, using Hernandez's impact and relying on C. Ronaldo's experience, this game ...... Maybe there's still a chance, right?
Prandley himself has lost confidence in the game, let alone his players?
Real Madrid's substitution adjustment did not have the desired effect, Barcelona's back line was already very strong, plus Simon? Grayson is also more focused on possession instead of defence, so they have conceded just 19 goals in 48 games so far this season.
Seeing that there was no hope for the team, more than 90,000 Real Madrid fans began to leave the stadium at the 70th minute, and they were halfway through it, they just wanted to express their dissatisfaction in this way, and Real Madrid really needs to rebuild now!
The results are not as good as the sworn enemy Barcelona, even the luxury of the lineup can't be compared, when did our Real Madrid have less money!?
In the end, when the whistle blew at the end of the game, Real Madrid lost 0-2 at the Bernabeu Stadium to their arch-rival Barcelona.
At the end of this round, Barcelona is already at the top of the standings with 89 points from 31 games, 29 wins and 2 draws, and this victory at the Bernabeu Stadium means much more than that, when third-placed Atletico Madrid beat their opponents to beat Real Madrid in the city derby by 78 points, the gap between the top and second places in La Liga has expanded to 11 points...... It's in double digits!
With seven rounds left in the league, Barcelona's double-digit points advantage has already made the title of La Liga this season out of suspense...... (To be continued......)