Pep Guardiola knows Linson is playing tricks.

When Lin Sen's words at the press conference reached his ears, Guardiola was not surprised, he knew what virtues his own media had, and he also knew what Lin Sen's character was. However, Pep Guardiola does not envy Linsen, although it seems that Linsen can dominate every time, but don't forget that it is the journalist who eats the saliva, and Linsen is a coach.

In Pep Guardiola's view, Linson may have forgotten that when he was banned, the wall fell and everyone pushed it, that is, the media, for the media, as long as you take it, then they are invincible, when you succeed, they may be the icing on the cake, but if you fail, don't say that they are benevolent. Therefore, Pep Guardiola will never compete with the media, because it is unnecessary.

Of course, the Portuguese was an exception, but even he used the media as a means of battling the media.

"Pep, honestly, do you think that's what Lin really thinks?" The next day, as Barceloan was adjusting to the local area, assistant coach Vilanova asked Pep Guardiola. Vilanova, who has known Pep Guardiola since he was a player, has been his deputy since last season when the latter was the head coach of Barcelona's B team, and the two not only have similar personalities, but also have a very similar understanding of football, not to mention the tacit understanding.

"Expose all your tactical intentions? I don't think Lin is such a person. Guardiola looked at the stadium and said lightly.

"I think so too." Vilanova frowned slightly and said, "It's just that in this case, I really can't think of what Lin's intentions are. ”

Barcelona have been unbeatable this season, but in Vilanova's view, there are only two opponents that really make Barcelona's coaching staff feel tricky, and both teams have a very distinctive characteristic, that is, tough defense. One is Chelsea, which has just been eliminated by Barcelona in the European arena, if it weren't for bad luck, Chelsea led by Dutchman Hiddink almost let Barcelona go home in the Champions League, and even Pep Guardiola went up to shake hands with Hiddink in advance, but he didn't expect Iniesta to succeed in the last moment. As for the other team, it is Málaga at the moment, despite the fact that Barcelona are unbeaten against Malaga in two legs this season, but in reality, Barcelona's invincible attacks in these two games have never really destroyed Malaga's defense.

Barcelona will encounter Chelsea's tough resistance, which is of course Hiddink's tactical arrangement, but also because Chelsea has the most powerful midfield group in Europe, Essien, Ballack, Lampard, these people are all the top all-round midfielders in football today, but there is no such midfield group in the Malaga team, Gabi is a more prominent one, his partner Apono can only be said to be a good player, and it is obviously too reluctant to say that the top is the top, so the question arises - why does Malaga compete with Barcelona?

"It's just a smoke bomb." Guardiola turned his head and smiled at his old friend.

Vilanova's worries are actually clear to Guardiola, and the draw against Malaga is a wake-up call, and before this game, he carefully studied Malaga's tactics and came up with a result that even surprised him, because one of Malaga's most powerful weapons this season is fundamentally different from Barcelona's, that is, pressing counter-attacks in the front.

The difference is that Barcelona play with what appears to be a more high-end pressing of the passing line, while Málaga plays with space pressing. One is the line, the other is the surface, undoubtedly the line of the player's consciousness and tacit understanding requirements are higher, although the surface covers a larger area, but pay more attention to the number of advantages, the requirements for the player is simpler, to put it bluntly, it is to be diligent. When Malaga overlays this style of defense at the back, you can imagine what kind of defense Barcelona are facing.

Originally, the closer to the game, with Lin Sen's character, it was logical that he should conduct closed training, but he generously opened up the training, not only the fans could go in to visit, but even the media didn't hear about stopping half of it, it seemed that the whole world knew what he was practicing, but Guardiola knew that the final was not decided in the past few days, and there was really any targeted training Lin Sen had already finished practicing, so why bother to practice in the past few days, so Guardiola said that this was a smoke bomb.

It's just that even though he knows that this is a smoke bomb, Guardiola still doesn't know what Lin Sen is hiding under the smoke.

The stadium is the battlefield. Soldiers don't get tired of deceit.

If you can't guess, then Pep Guardiola's idea is very simple: to adapt to change.

Shortly after Barcelona's departure, Malaga moved into the pitch to acclimatise to the venue. In fact, in the time arrangement of adapting to the field, Lin Sen once expressed dissatisfaction, as we all know, adapting to the field is nothing more than adapting to two aspects, one is to adapt to the turf of the field, because the characteristics and length of the turf may allow players to have an impact on the judgment of the ball. The other is to adapt to the lighting of the playing field, because the lighting will have an impact on the player's judgment of where the ball will land. And this game was played in the evening.

But now, the adaptation site is arranged in the daytime, and the adaptation of the lighting is naturally impossible.

However, Linsen's dissatisfaction rose and dissipated quickly, for a simple reason: Barcelona adapted to the venue during the day.

The Malaga players who have adapted to the venue seem to be relaxed, and the pressure of the tournament does not seem to affect them, thanks to Linsen, Guardiola is right, for this final, Linsen has been preparing for this final for a long time. Just when Barcelona was tense and running on the two fronts of the Champions League, Lin Sen was already brainwashing and training his players.

So, Malaga didn't have three days to prepare for this game, but a whole month.

Looking around this stadium that is more familiar than unfamiliar, the shouts of the players from time to time can be heard in his ears, but the empty Calderon Stadium in the stands gives Lin Sen a strange feeling for the first time, and he seems to have a special fate with this stadium. Linson remembered what he said after his last game at the stadium last season with Atletico Madrid, saying that it was not his last game at Calderón, when Dina echoed his words, and then, in the first game of the new season, Linson fulfilled his words.

It was the beginning of his coaching career, and now it will witness the first final of his coaching career.

At this time, there are less than ten hours before the official start of the Copa del Rey final.

At this very moment when the eyes of the whole of Spain began to focus on the Calderón Stadium, also in Madrid, there was a press conference that suddenly stole the attention of almost all the Spanish media, this time, not because their sense of smell was high enough, but because they all received the same invitation, invitation, from one person: Florentino.

At 11:30 local time on May 14, at the Ritz Hotel in Madrid, Florentino officially announced his candidacy for the Real Madrid presidential election this summer.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

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The timing of Florentino's candidacy was not unpleasant.

Less than two weeks ago, Real Madrid had just suffered a 6-2 defeat at home to arch-rivals Barcelona, and the dissatisfaction of Real Madrid fans with the hierarchy was at its peak, with Florentino's personal assistant Manuel Redondo revealing "privately" that Galeries Lafayette would be running in the Real Madrid presidential election. A week ago, the bitter rival Barcelona eliminated Chelsea and reached the Champions League final for the second time in four years, and Zidane, who has been exposed by the media and has met with Florentino several times, publicly said: There is only one possibility for him to return to Real Madrid, that is, Florentino becomes the president of Real Madrid.

And now, with arch-rivals Barcelona likely to lift their first trophy of the season tonight, Florentino has finally stepped himself in front of the cameras to announce his imminent return. Not just Spain, but all of Europe is turning their attention to Madrid, but not because of the upcoming Copa del Rey final.

At the huge press conference, the background was arranged as the Bernabeu stadium, with an elegant smile on his face, Florentino talked to countless cameras, in front of him, are the major European media, Efe, Reuters, European News Agency...... It's like it's outside of football.

Lin Sen only learned about the bombshell news after Malaga had finished acclimatizing to the venue.

His reaction was the same as the others, first stunned, then surprised.

Of course, Lin Sen's surprise was somewhat different from the others. Lin Sen has long known that Florentino will definitely return this summer, and he was surprised that Florentino actually chose this time to announce his candidacy, there is no doubt that this will steal the limelight of the Copa del Rey final, but for Malaga, although they are also a side of the final, the limelight is not on their heads, so naturally it doesn't matter whether they grab it or not. The most unpleasant is undoubtedly Barcelona. Because whether they win the game tonight or not, tomorrow's headlines are destined to be undoomed.

The history in Linsen's memory seems to be about to repeat itself.

This summer is destined to be a lively summer.

After a brief period of surprise, unlike the enthusiastic discussions of the team members who learned the news one after another, Lin Sen quickly lost interest, which is not surprising, for him, this is not news, just a replay, not to mention that he is an outsider at all.

At this time, Lin Sen did not expect that Florentino's candidacy was just the beginning.

And in this bureau, he is not an outsider, although he is not the protagonist.

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PS: Sorry, it's late. After a day's power outage, I thought it was going to be cut off, alas......