Schuster never dreamed that in the fourth round of the league, he would face a Malaga team that is higher in the standings than Real Madrid.

Simply judging from the opponents of the two teams in the first three rounds, Real Madrid's three opponents are Deportivo La Coruna, Numancia, and Racing Santander, while Malaga is Atletico Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, and Almeria. In terms of pure competitive form, Malaga is even better than Real Madrid. Real Madrid lost in the first round, struggled to defeat Numancia who beat Barcelona in the first round with a score of 4-3 in the second round, and although the score was 2-0 in the third round, both goals came from set-pieces, which shows that Real Madrid's form is far from the best.

On the other hand, Málaga, the three games, almost all of them are a pattern, solid defense, sharp counterattack, except for the last goal against Atletico Madrid in the first round is slightly thrilling, the next two games can almost be described as uneventful, and there is no sign of the ups and downs of the promoted horses, and the local media in Malaga have begun to cheer for the team's excellent start.

However, Real Madrid is not only on the top of the board, at least, they occupy the absolute top of the two teams' historical records, since the end of the last century to the present, the two teams have played a total of 14 games, Real Madrid won 10 and drew 4, no defeat! Therefore, it is not that Schuster deliberately underestimates Malaga, but for Malaga, who has won three consecutive victories, his evaluation has only risen from the contempt of "promotion horses" to not contempt.

Of course, this did not prevent Schuster from praising Malaga in his pre-match press conference, and also complimenting Linson, who had teased him last season.

"As a promoted horse, Malaga's table is perfect. On Sunday, we have to be up to 12 points and the Rose Garden is never an easy course. ”

"Lin's table xiàn was very nice. He showed his managerial talent at Atletico last season and this season in Malaga I think he has the ability to do even better. ”

Regarding Schuster's remarks, of course, Linson would not be naïve enough to think that Schuster would really be afraid of Malaga, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although Real Madrid is currently behind Malaga, if Malaga is really fluttering, it is really not far from death. Therefore, at the same press conference before the game, Lin Sen not only complimented Real Madrid for half a day, but also put a smoke bomb.

He directly announced his starting line-up against Real Madrid.

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"Is that really tomorrow's starting list?" Tapia asked casually as she looked at the screen with her eyes on her face.

"What do you think?" Lin Sen frowned, his two eyes staring ahead, and he seemed to answer casually.

"I think you're setting off smoke bombs."

"I know you're still asking."

“…… Wouldn't you be too ...... Immoral? ”

"Football is above morality!"

“……”

"Besides, most of the starters I'm talking about are true."

“……”

I guess too, Tapia is a little helpless, he finds that he seems to be unable to keep up with Lin Sen's thinking step more and more, could it be that this is the "generation gap"? It's just that why is he getting more and more adapted?

"Antonio, would you like to know my predictions for the next match?" Lin Sen, who was still frowning, said.

As soon as he heard Lin Sen's words, Tapia's hand shook, and he turned his head to look at Lin Sen, now, the word prediction is about to become his sensitive words.

“GOAL………”

Tapia didn't wait for Lin Sen's answer, but waited for a passionate voice from the TV in front of him, he hurriedly turned his head, and sure enough, in the upper left corner of the TV screen, the score had changed: Real Madrid 1:1 Malaga.

Tapia immediately cried and laughed, if she didn't play like this, she would even cheat when she played a game.

Looking at Lin Sen who looked like usual next to him, Tapia could only continue to shake his head helplessly.

Inviting Lin Sen to his home for dinner was Tapia's own idea, after all, he had already bothered Lin Sen several times, either actively or passively. For Tapia's invitation, Lin Sen readily agreed, so, after the training, Lin Sen and Tapia came to his home, the first visit, because it was directly from the court, Lin Sen did not have time to bring any gifts, originally wanted to go into the kitchen to help Mrs. Tapia, but the enthusiastic Mrs. Tapia did not give him a chance at all. Lin Sen had no choice but to go to the living room and wait for the meal to start.

At this time, Tapia suddenly moved out of a PS3, so, the two who are also fans of FIFA games quickly became a mess, at first both of them chose the world's strongest teams, and they were all happy to play, Lin Sen relied on the young eye to win Tapia several times, Tapia lost and his face was black, and later, the two sides switched to the club level, Tapia chose Real Madrid without saying anything, and also designated the team for Linsen: Malaga. In his words, are you, as the head coach of Malaga, embarrassed to use other teams?!

So, Lin Sen began the abuse process of wanting to die.

"Dinner is ready."

Mrs. Tapia's greeting rescued Lin Sen, who had already moved his mind outside the game, Lin Sen simply pushed two, five or six, and Tapia had no choice but to stop.

At the dinner table, Lin Sen was full of praise for Mrs. Tapia's craftsmanship, not entirely polite, not to mention anything else, at least Tapia's chowder that blew up to the sky, Lin Sen, who had been in Spain for several years, found it so delicious for the first time, and I don't know if it was because of the relationship between concentrating on eating, because during this period, Lin Sen and Tapia had "relapsed from the old disease" several times and planned to chat while eating, but they were stopped by Mrs. Tapia.

It wasn't until after dinner that Lin Sen finally had a real discussion with Tapia about tomorrow's match.

The opponent is Real Madrid, according to many people's predictions of the game, Malaga will win less in this game, which may be the general mentality of most La Liga clubs in the face of Real Madrid Barcelona, the title of the Spanish Super League is not fake, these two teams are not on the same level as the average La Liga team. Therefore, for this game, many people thought that the pressure on Linsen would be unprecedentedly huge, but in fact, Linsen's pressure can be said to be equivalent to nothing, because no matter what the outcome of the game is, the club and the fans will not be too entangled.

Against Real Madrid, Malaga will continue to adopt a defensive counter-attacking strategy, which Linson and Tapia agree on. However, there was a bit of disagreement between the two sides over the starting of the personnel, and Tapia's previous doubts about Linson's starting were not just casual words.

In the first three games, Málaga's starting XI showed little change except for occasional changes in the attack. Linsen was also pleasantly surprised by the seamless integration of the two strikers with the team's tactics, with Rondon scoring in the first round and Lewandowski starting in the second round also scoring his first goal in La Liga. Linson's original plan was to let the Pole play the starting line-up and Rondon as a substitute, but now it seems that these two strikers, who are similar in size but have very different characteristics, can form a rotation according to the different opponents.

Looking at the results, nothing was better than the backline, which conceded just one goal in three games, and centre-back Rosario even sealed the win in the last round. But judging from the table, Lin Sen is actually most satisfied with the team's midfield barrier, especially Gabi, the future captain of Atletico Madrid is too good, no longer obsessed with the role of "metronome" Gabi, but inspired his defensive ability, three games down, running distance, key steals and other jù gorgeous jù dazzling.

So, it's not so much that the team's defense is good, it's that the team's midfield defense is doing a good job. Linsen doesn't want to ignore the defensive effort, but he knows that against Real Madrid, the midfield may not be able to share much pressure from the defense, and the team's backline will face the biggest challenge. Therefore, Lin Sen plans to move the team's defense.

And the difference between Lin Sen and Tapia is also here.

According to Linsen's plan, in the next game, Linsen plans to return to the starting lineup Rosato, who has returned from injury, and then push Alba to the position of winger and remove Koke, on the other hand, Calleyan, who often played as a right wingback and has stronger defensive ability last season, replaces Elisus, that is, in a sense, Linsen is ready to play "four wingbacks", which Linsen did when he was at Atletico Madrid.

As for Lin Sen's plans, Tapia didn't think he was too conservative, but that he was too risky. There is nothing wrong with strengthening the defense, but he also put forward two reasons, one is that Rosato has just returned, and his form may not be guaranteed, not to mention that it is an opponent like Real Madrid. Second, Koke and Elisu have scored one goal each in the first three games and have shown excellent form, while the opponent Real Madrid's two big wide attackers last season, the bicycle teenager Robinho left the Premier League, and Peter Pan Robben has not recovered from his injury.

Tapia's two reasons were righteous, and the evidence was conclusive, and Lin Sen couldn't refute it, so he simply nodded and admitted, but he didn't intend to change his mind, and the reason also made Tapia unable to refute.

For Rosato, Linson is not only interested in the experience of the Brazilian defender, but also in one of his skills: free kicks. Rosato's free-kicks, who were Malaga's number one free-kick last season, were a must, and Linson has been carefully watching Rosato's free-kicks in the last week of training, and the results have been satisfactory. For teams that play defensive counter-attacks, set-pieces have always been an important means of scoring, and Linsen has been worried that there are no good free-kickers in Malaga, and although Isco and Reuss are free kick masters in the future, the present is not the future. Therefore, Rosato's comeback can be regarded as making up for this shortcoming.

Secondly, it is a fact that Koke and Elisu are good on both sides, but Koke is still too young after all, although it has been proven in terms of mentality against Atletico Madrid, but the body can't deceive people, Ruiz's fitness report is not to be ignored, Koke, who has started three games in a row, needs to rest, and Elisu, who scored in the last round of games, has a similar problem to Koke, but it is not physical, but a little injury, although the results of the medical team's examination are not serious, but Linsen has his own opinion, on Real Madrid, Malaga must do its best.

As a result, no one could convince anyone, and it was in this situation that Málaga welcomed their strongest opponent this season, Real Madrid.