Acknowledgments before the chapter: Thank you for the reward from the two book friends yshzhong and Mo Hair.

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Fortune is fickle.

Last year, it was about this time, in the 34th round of the league, it was Pellegrini in the east of the river, who was full of spirit, and even the possibility of winning the championship was still possible. Hexi is Lin Sen, disgraced, with two consecutive defeats at the beginning of his coaching. The world of football, from Hedong to Hexi, took less than 30 years, and in less than a season, Linson and Pellegrini switched places.

In this regard, Pellegrini has no feelings, so Lin Sen is even less likely to be emotional.

Linson still respects Ellegrini, and that hasn't changed since he and the Engineer first faced each other. Nowadays, there are a lot of young coaches in La Liga, and Lin Sen is also one of them, so there are not many head coaches who can make Lin Sen use the word respect, because for Chinese, respect is far more valuable than the respect that foreigners mention at every turn.

It's just that the respect outside the field becomes life and death when it comes to the field.

Villarreal's results this season are far lower than last season, and Pellegrini once attributed the reason to luck, because this year he not only retained the main framework of last season, but also made targeted supplements, which should have been further improved. However, if he had Lin Sen's eyes, then he might have come to a more objective conclusion.

In Linson's eyes, it is actually logical that Villarreal have a worse result this season than last season. Linson had an opinion about the team when he played against Villarreal last season, when he thought the Yellow Submarine was just a few people who could shine all over their bodies. At that time, there were already two people in Villarreal's squad who were close to that level: one was Pires and the other was Cazorla.

This season, the Chilean engineers have certainly left the team this season, naturally including these two people, and have made additions, but in fact, his supplements have still not been able to keep up with the aging pace of the team.

On the offensive line, Pires is aging, and Carney looks like he can succeed the Frenchman, but in fact he is far inferior to the Frenchman in terms of experience and overall vision. What's more, Cazorla is still hovering on the verge of glowing all over her body, but she can never go further.

At the back, Godin and Gonzalo certainly rejuvenated the grandfather-level defense in an instant, but neither tacit understanding nor experience could completely replace the old and strong defense last season.

In such a situation, if Pellegrini can completely put down his body to defend like Linsen, he may be able to maintain his competitiveness last season, but the Chilean obviously cannot be compared with Linsen, Linsen is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, not only is he not afraid of tigers, but he is also not afraid of the Football Association and not afraid of the media, for him, as long as Malaga can win, he has nothing to fear. However, he needs to take care of many things, such as the tactical style that he has worked hard for several years to develop for Villarreal......

Perhaps it was because of the near-tacit silence of the two head coaches that the pre-match media interpreted this to mean that both sides were focused on the game itself.

There are 38 rounds of games in a season, and when the league goes on for more than 30 rounds, it means that the league has officially entered the final stage, which is also the most cruel stage. Villarreal host visiting Málaga in the 31st round of the league and Pellegrini meets Linsen for the third time, and the two meetings before that have resulted in draws, one against Engineer and one against Engineer.

For this game, compared to Linsen, Pellegrini's desire to win is undoubtedly higher than Linsen, because he also knows that this is his team's last chance to catch the Champions League shuttle, and the engineer's idea is directly reflected in his tactics in this game.

Obviously, after two battles with Linsen, Pellegrini has been very clear that if he plays with Linsen's team according to the original routine, most of the games will end in a draw, because both sides are based on defense, Villarreal's offensive routine may be a little more than Malaga, but it is far from being able to break the balance between the two sides.

Like Manuel Pellegrini, Linson's thinking is also tactical.

In this game, Lin Sen does not seem to have changed much in the arrangement of the starters, only the position of one person in the midfield has changed, Gundogan, who usually plays in the front midfield, stood in the position of the back waist at the beginning of this game, and Gabi and Apono formed three back waists, Reus on both sides of the front court plus Quaresma, and the arrow figure Lewandowski, are all players with strong individual ability.

What Lin Sen wants to do is obvious: I am still the main defense, but don't go too far, otherwise I will not be polite.

Just when the two teams were tense, somewhere in the stands of the Stadium of Love Songs, there was a person who quietly looked at the field with scrutinizing eyes, and his eyes stayed on the two managers in the field from time to time, but more often on Pellegrini's body.

He is a figure that almost everyone knows in Spain, but no one recognizes him in sunglasses at this time, perhaps because he has been out of the public eye for a little longer.

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Jorge Baldano is an all-rounder.

He was a player, his playing days were glorious, he was team-mates with Maradona in the national team, won the World Cup, won two La Liga titles in the club team, and won two La Liga titles in three years with Real Madrid. He also worked as a coach, when he had to retire in the 32nd team due to hepatitis, he became the head coach of Real Madrid's youth team, and then left Real Madrid to lead the relegation team Tenerife to break into the League Cup, and after returning to Real Madrid, he won the league championship for Real Madrid in the first season, of course, there is another highlight in his coaching career, which is the promotion of Raul.

However, when people mention the name Valdano now, people's first impression is that he is a manager.

In the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship, Florentino pursued the "Zidane + Pavon" policy of one superstar a year, so the world remembered the heroic President of Real Madrid, and the sports manager of Real Madrid at that time was Baldano, that is, he was actually the actual operator of Real Madrid's transfer. Subsequently, with the departure of Florentino, Valdano's place was replaced by another Real Madrid legend, Mijatovic, and Baldano was temporarily removed from the public eye.

And now, he is reappearing, apparently, because of Florentino.

And he's here, apparently, to investigate, to inspect the players, but also to examine the coach.

The player is the Spanish international Cazorla.

The coach is Chilean engineer Manuel Pellegrini.

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The race has begun.

As with the formation on both sides, Villarreal is the main attacker and Malaga is the main defensive.

The defensive strategy of the Malaga Tun in the middle forced Villarreal to put most of their attack on the wings, which in theory should be more comfortable for Villarreal's wide players, but in reality, whether it was Cazorla on the left or Carney on the right, the game was played very awkwardly.

Because, they always have to do the last pass in a way that they may think is the least technical, and that is the bottom cross.

If the attacking player feels awkward, the offensive effect will not be much better.

Manuel Pellegrini frowned from the sidelines, as did Baldano in the stands.

Florentino is not the president of Real Madrid, it seems that Baldano's work seems premature, but in fact, all these inspection work must be concluded before Florentino announces his candidacy, the reason why Florentino was able to beat the old Sanz to become the president of Real Madrid in an upset is because of this kind of precautionary planning, otherwise, how could Figo risk the world's disapproval to join Real Madrid in that situation.

There is a lot of work that Baldano needs to do before deciding on a person to look at, in the case of Cazorla, the reason why Cazorla is locked is because of his age, secondly because of his characteristics and position, and thirdly because he is a Spanish international, the same applies to Pellegrini, after determining that Juan de Ramos, who is not "his own man", is absolutely impossible to stay, Florentino's team began to look for a new manager, and the Chilean is one of them.

And the reason why I want to visit the scene is nothing more than to confirm the results of my own investigation, after all, the footage of the game video follows the ball, not the person I want to investigate.

It's just that now, whether it's Cazorla or Pellegrini, Baldano is a little disappointed by his watch at this time.

For Cazorla's technical characteristics, according to Baldano's words, this is a weakened offensive version of Carlos, short stature, outstanding speed, good dribbling and technique, and a long-range shot, but now it seems that Cazorla lacks a certain ability to read the game, of course, this can also be understood as a strong tactical execution of the manager, but knowing that there is a wall over there and insisting on hitting up, this is a bit of a lack of flexibility.

As for Pellegrini, the team has set several standards for the new manager, one of which is not necessarily related to the manager's ability requirements, but it is especially important for Real Madrid next season, that is, affinity. Because Real Madrid will have a grand recruitment plan in the summer, at this time, the manager obviously cannot be too aggressive, and Pellegrini is one of the main candidates by virtue of this.

However, Manuel Pellegrini was clearly unprepared for Málaga's changes in this game, but Málaga had anticipated his desire to strengthen his attack early on, so he set up an extra barrier in midfield.

Thinking of this, Baldano's eyes glanced at Lin Sen who was standing not far from Pellegrini.

Young is a little younger, how can the coaching style be so conservative.