The rusty tin wardrobe leans against the painted walls, and there are old posters hanging next to it, the date is a few years ago, a few ten-year-old plastic stools are scattered on the ground, and near the window that can see the outside of the venue, there is a row of leather-cushioned stools, and there are several palm-sized patches on the leather upholstery.

This is the visiting dressing room at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

For those who have never been here, it may be difficult to imagine that the modern Stadio Olimpico in Rome would have such a 'bleak' dressing room, but it is clear that the Roma club and the Lazio club, which are home to the Rome Olympic stadium, are not interested in improving the environment here, and they wish that the opponents who came here would feel more 'miserable', and only the cleaners here are cleaned on weekdays, and these furniture have not been changed for many years.

The Real Madrid players in the dressing room.

Some of them were whispering to each other, others were simply silent, and the similarity was that all of them looked dull and did not look happy at all.

They couldn't be happier.

In the first half alone, they conceded two goals and failed to score a single goal, and they were in the same mood as the poor dressing room.

Head coach Raymond walked in.

All the players looked at him, and Raymond was a little surprised, his eyes swept to the players, and then he smiled bitterly - this is the first time since he took over as Real Madrid manager that everyone has been in the spotlight.

The fifty-four-year-old is a goalkeeper in Madrid, playing for Real Madrid for fourteen seasons from 1971 to 1985, and after retiring as a player, he coached teams such as Albacete and Las Palmas as Camacho's assistant, as well as Sporting Gijón and Numancia as head coach. However, his results are mediocre, and he is not well-known in the coaching world.

In September, when Real Madrid announced Camacho's departure, he became the new manager of Real Madrid.

Raymond remembers what he said at the time, "It looks a little weird, today is a sad day for me." I saw a wonderful man finish what he was doing. He's done a great job, and it's not something that can be fully reflected in the scores. That's not the way I imagined coming to Real Madrid. ”

Then, even more unexpectedly, he appeared on the training ground on his first day of taking office, and was booed by Real Madrid fans, which was different from what Raymond imagined, although he was surprised that he could become the manager of Real Madrid, but he did not deserve such treatment.

Until now, more than two months have passed. There are still many fans who are dissatisfied with him, although he has led the team to good results, and the team has been winning big recently, but Real Madrid fans believe that it is all the credit of the stars, and with Real Madrid's lineup, it is normal to play such results.

In short, good grades have nothing to do with him. Bad grades are his problem.

Raymond is well aware of his situation, and his popularity is simply not enough to settle for Real Madrid. His ability also seems to be a little lacking, but his love for Real Madrid keeps him going, and he hopes to stay until Real Madrid find a qualified successor - despite the disrespect of the players in the team and the disdain of the outfield fans.

Now, standing in this dilapidated locker room. Raymond was somewhat relieved.

He found that the players valued him.

Yes, very much, maybe because they can't find the backbone, they are two goals behind in the first half and they don't know how to play the next game. At all costs. They're not coaches, they're still players no matter how good they are, so when they get into trouble, they have to ask the coach.

Raymond thinks back to his situation at Real Madrid and suddenly feels a little funny, but now is not the time to think about it, as a manager, he has to find a way to solve the problem...... Although in private he is not treated with the respect he deserves.

Never mind.

Raymond shook his head silently, walked to the middle of the locker room, moved a stool and sat down, and looked at the players staring at him one by one, "In the first half, we did a little poorly. ”

He first criticized the players.

No one spoke in the dressing room, no one refuted him, and the Real Madrid players also knew that Leimon was right, conceded two goals and didn't score a single goal, if this is not bad, they are not a 'Galaxy Battleship', but a small team.

"But we still have a chance."

Raymond sorted out his thoughts and said, "We didn't play to the advantage in the first half, this is our problem, but the opponent's problem is also suddenly obvious, their defense is not good, their attack is only on the thirteenth alone, they don't even have a stable organizational core in the midfield." ”

"If we want to win, we have to play to our strengths, what are our strengths?"

Raymond paused, looked at the players, and then said, "We are a strong Real Madrid, each of our players is a world-class star, our individual ability is very strong, this is our advantage!" ”

"And they, Roma, are a small team relative to us, like Mallorca, like Getafe...... "Getafe and Mallorca are the teams that Real Madrid have just beaten by a big margin in the league.

Some players laughed out loud, in any case, Roma is also a quasi-giant in Serie A, and it is still much better than the bottom of La Liga.

Raymond's expression was very solemn, "I'm not kidding, in front of us, Rome is not much stronger than Mallorca!" Each of your players is very valuable, our whole team is worth hundreds of millions of euros, but what about Roma? It would be nice to be over 100 million euros, and their core player, Totti, is not even on the pitch. ”

The Real Madrid player was stunned.

If you only count the Roma players who started this game, the value is really not very good, the highest value among them is the thirteenth boy and Cassano, and the others are not worth much, especially those very young and unfamiliar faces on the field, all of them are players from the Roma academy, and it is estimated that it would be good to have two or three million euros.

Such a comparison is really ......

"I want you to know this, each of you is much better than the other party, this is our biggest advantage, we have to play to this advantage, so in the second half try to open up the formation and show the advantage......" Raymond kept talking about the tactics of the second half.

The Real Madrid players are also listening carefully, and this is still two months. For the first time, they listened carefully to Raymond's explanation of the tactics of the game.

……

Compared to the away team's dressing room, the atmosphere in the home team's dressing room is much more lively.

The overall atmosphere in Roma before the game was dignified, after all, the opponent was Real Madrid, one of the best teams in the world, in comparison, there were many problems and injuries. Roma, who have not had a good result lately, are far behind, but now they have a two-goal lead, which is a surprise result, and the two-goal advantage is enough to relax them.

The same goes for head coach Drinel.

The current score made him relaxed, and at the same time, the overall performance of Roma in the first half also made him very satisfied, they were not suppressed by Real Madrid, both defensively and offensively played well.

He praised the players' performances and asked for the second half to be played like this.

In a relaxed atmosphere, time flies. Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and the Roma players walked out of the locker room one by one, ready for the second half of the game.

Soon the second half began.

At the beginning of the game, Real Madrid launched an attack, and their attacks were wave after wave, so that Roma could only defend passively, but fortunately they were prepared and contracted at the beginning. Didn't give Real Madrid much of a chance.

But it didn't take long for them to discover that Real Madrid's attack was different from the first half.

In the first half, Real Madrid's attack always seemed to have a beginning and a tail, and the attack was impressive. But when it comes to the frontcourt, the offense looks a little chaotic, some players will pass the ball, some players will dribble the ball themselves, some players want to go to the side, and some players want to break through with the ball directly, or even come to a long shot.

That kind of offense is always easy to defend. Because Real Madrid doesn't have a backbone, their players do everything.

Now the Real Madrid players are doing the same, but they are very open and every player is doing his job seriously, especially the big stars. For example, Raul, such as Luis Figo, they began to show Xiàn frequently, Raul always connected to the middle, and tried to pass the ball in the direction of Ronaldo when he had the opportunity, while Figo would break through with the ball when he got the ball, his breakthrough was very sharp, and a single defender could not make effective restrictions on Figo.

Under the offensive of Real Madrid, Roma's defensive formation is frequently porous and looks precarious.

In the 51st minute, Figo dribbled the ball on the right side of Real Madrid, passed two defenders in a row to pass the ball to the middle, Raul received the ball and passed it into the penalty area, and Ronaldo turned around to receive the pass.

There's Ferrari in front of him.

In the penalty area, under such a tight defense, Ronaldo suddenly accelerated, his body moved twice like a samba, and suddenly jumped over Ferrari with a change of direction, Ferrari stood stunned and didn't even react, and then the alien pushed straight into the right corner of the goal!

Although Pellizzoli tried his best to make a save, the shot was too far forward and the angle of the ball was too awkward, and it was estimated that even if he transformed into a superman, it would be difficult to save the ball.

Real Madrid fans immediately boiled.

“Goal！ Ronaldo - !! ”

"Ronaldo! Ronaldo! He shook past the Roma centre-back and pushed it into the net to help Real Madrid pull a goal back! ”

"This is Ronaldo! Even though he didn't run much, even though he didn't have much to show before, as long as he got the ball, it was a crisis for Roma! ”

The Spanish commentator said excitedly.

The Roma players on the field looked a little helpless, they had tried their best to defend, but they still couldn't do anything about this goal, maybe they could only blame Ferrari, but obviously this is not true, Ronaldo...... That's Ronaldo, not only Ferrari, I don't know how many players in the world have been deceived by Ronaldo's actions, and his passing actions are fundamentally inexplicable in the analysis.

In the forbidden area, at a small angle, just shake through!

It's outrageous......

Zhang Tiehan was defending on the penalty line just now, watching Ronaldo pass and shoot. When Ronaldo got the ball, he didn't feel any threat yet, after all, Ronaldo was next to two Roma players, and Ferrari was standing in front of Ronaldo, blocking all his shooting angles.

But Ronaldo actually shook Ferrari directly in such a small space.

"That's!"

He knew that a world superstar like Ronaldo had quite superb skills at his feet, but he didn't expect it to be so superb that he thought about it, in that case, he couldn't have passed Ferrari, and he didn't even have the opportunity to pass the ball back to his teammates, but Ronaldo did it lightly.

This is the gap, the absolute gap in technology under the feet.

Zhang Tiehan shook his head with a wry smile, he originally thought that he was very good, but compared to a 'god man' like Ronaldo, his skills were simply unwatchable. He is not discouraged, he also has an advantage, that is, the body, if Ronaldo grabs points with him, Ronaldo can only make the same sigh.

But at the end of the day, this kind of goal is almost impossible to replicate.

This is Ronaldo's strong individual ability, and before that, there were Figo and Raul, all of whom showed the world's top football skills, and the three of them combined to cluster this goal, but there is one such goal, and there can be a second time? They can't attack every time they show that they are so good, but their own goals, as long as they have the opportunity, he can copy them one by one.

Zhang Tiehan squinted his eyes and stared at the Real Madrid players, who were holding the football back to the middle line, posing as if they wanted to tie the score, but ...... You're just trying to tie with goals like that?

It's so whimsical!

Lao Tzu will let you know that it is much easier to be simple and direct than fancy goals! (To be continued......)