Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Man Behind the Superstars Is Back
There are still many problems with Di Maria playing in midfield, and his direct cooperation with Alonso and Leon is not so tacit.
However, with Khedira's sudden injury, Mourinho felt it was a blessing in disguise to be able to make a new formation on the fly.
A little transformation risk, Uncle Bird thinks he can still bear it.
At least with the guarantee of the main position, Di Maria will not have too much repulsion.
And with Di Maria's return to the left side of the midfield as much as possible, the defensive safety of the side in front of Alonso was ensured.
Mourinho can also be more comfortable for Leon to provide adequate defensive protection against Kaka.
Fortunately, Li Ang didn't say big things, and he was indeed competitive enough, and it seemed that there was really a person who had the ability to support the sweeping on both sides of the midfield.
Although this will increase the physical consumption of Leon, with Las Diarla as a substitute, Mourinho is still more assured of the manpower reserves in this position.
It has been on the top for more than two months, and when Khedira recovers from his injury, he can still play back to the ideal formation of four, three, three.
Now, it's up to Di Maria and Kaka to adapt to their new position.
After the team's match, Real Madrid's main players basically knew what was going on.
Kaka waited with some apprehension for Mourinho's final decision, while Di Maria was also a little entangled.
"Angel, don't worry, at least your main position is no problem, you still try to plug in when you have a chance in the future, I will pay attention to filling your position at that time, besides, there is still my teacher behind you, and it is no problem to help you once in a while."
Li Ang looked at the angel's tangled look, and his heart was really a little empty, so he hurriedly stepped forward and assured the angel of patting his chest.
"Little lion, you are really a good person, thank you so much, the boss asked me to play a new position, I will play, in fact, I feel okay, I just need to spend a little more time to get used to it."
Seeing that Di Maria was still a little unconfident, Leon hurriedly flickered further.
"Don't say that! You can also play very well in midfield, you think, long and short passing skills, fitness, vision, selection of positions and you can do a good job in these aspects.
Isn't that what you need to play as a midfielder, at most you can defend more actively than when you play as a winger, you see, there is no shortage of ability, and I and my teacher will do the hard work."
"Ahem!"
Alonso, who happened to be not far behind the two, coughed heavily when he heard Leon's flickering.
And Li Ang also bit his tongue and quickly changed his words.
"Oh no, I'll do the dirty work! You're still so good at pushing on the ball, and you're much more dominant than the other central midfielders! β
Di Maria was confused by Leon's nonsense.
'Am I really fit to play in midfield?'
Amid self-repeated assumptions and doubts, Di Maria soon waited for Mourinho's invitation to talk.
Ten minutes later, Di Maria, who was sitting in Mourinho's office, listened to Uncle Bird's explanation of the reasons for changing his position one after another, and his face was very strange.
"Your technical advantage can help us better launch the attack in the midfield, and in addition to the long pass, you can take on the responsibility of carrying the ball forward."
"Playing on the left side of midfield is a great way to play to your advantage, and your long and short passes are already good, so you can help the striker score better and more directly after tearing through the defence."
"Defensively, you try to help Alonso reduce the pressure, and then Leon will actively chase back, and they will do the dirty work."
"Boss."
"Huh? Do you have any ideas as well? β
"No, I want to say, I probably understand what you think, Leon is similar to what you said, if you all think so, then I think you can try, I have no opinion."
"Clams?"
Uncle Bird was really stunned at this time, and Di Maria also returned to the training ground easily after making a decision.
After another 20 minutes, Kaka expressed his determination to Mourinho in his office.
"I think what Leon said to me makes a lot of sense, as we get older and in different physical condition, we have to change according to the way the team plays.
As long as you can give me the opportunity to prove myself, I am willing to contribute to the team in my new position, and I will play whatever you say. β
Jose Mourinho: "."
After holding back his stomach and talking in the end, he couldn't say anything, and Uncle Bird could only pull out a smile and encourage and comfort Kaka.
"You can think a little bit more about the way you play with a pass and a long-range shot from behind, and you know your physical condition, and changing the way you break through with explosions will also be good for the continuation of your career."
"I see, thank you, boss!"
got the answer he wanted, and Kaka finally unloaded his psychological baggage, shook hands with Mourinho and turned away confidently.
And psychologically, after taking the first step of the two players who are about to try to play in a new position.
Mourinho's work went much better.
Fine-tuning the original tactical play, adding Kaka's frontcourt threat through the offensive mode and Higuain's catch-and-do back, Kaka and Di Maria's back-insertion routine.
Kaka can shoot from a distance and can pull a cross from the side.
Di Maria can dribble the ball on his own or cooperate with Cristiano Ronaldo and Higuain to go straight to the opponent's defense.
Compared with the previous four-three-three formation, Real Madrid's offensive momentum on the right side is much weaker, but the attacking method from the middle and to the flanks is more three-dimensional and diverse.
In the warm-up match against Leicester City in the afternoon, Real Madrid relied on Di Maria's active forward advances to create many dangers.
Kaka also successfully picked up a pass in the 61st minute of the second half of the warm-up game, and Higuain scored with a low shot.
Although there are still many small mistakes in the coordination of this new midfield combination, it can only rely on Leon and Alonso to sweep the defense in the midfield and back.
But the progress of the run-in of several people still makes Mourinho more satisfied.
On August 1, the Real Madrid first team took another flight to go overseas, this time to China.
Huaguo and his party, Li Ang and a group of superstars of Real Madrid received a very warm welcome from Chinese fans in Yangcheng and Jinmen.
In the end, after two consecutive 6-0 sweeps of the local city's professional teams, Real Madrid flew directly back to Madrid.
The effect of military training is negligible, but the commercial effect is too good to be better.
Even the Real Madrid players were surprised that they played warm-up matches in China and played at home.
The cheers that barely stopped in the audience were really powerful.
It's a pity that this trip to China is destined to be short.
On the evening of August 6, the whole Real Madrid team flew back to Spain overnight, and on the morning of the 8th, they began intensive preparation training.
The Spanish Super Cup is coming.
Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey last season, so they need to complete a two-legged Spanish Super Cup match with last season's La Liga champions Barcelona before the start of the new season.
Because of the home-and-away system, Real Madrid is bound to try to win when they host Barcelona in the first leg.
But it is really difficult to beat the current Barcelona team.
Even last season's Real Madrid had already beaten Barcelona 1-0 in the Copa del Rey final.
However, under the influence of the heavy defeat of the first meeting in the league last season and the subsequent defeat in the Champions League semi-finals.
Real Madrid's squad will inevitably feel the pressure before they face Barcelona again.
Leon is actually fine.
He was emotionally stable and couldn't see much tension, much to the surprise of the Real Madrid stars.
After all, Barcelona has won the Champions League twice in three years, and has completed three consecutive championships in La Liga.
But they don't know that as a fan who is used to seeing the so-called "beautiful football" being pierced by a team that is good at space pressing and quick counterattacks.
Leon really doesn't have the so-called "fear" of Barcelona.
Not to mention the most classic Bayern brother in later generations, please drink Qixi and Rafite's several duels.
Just talking about now, when Barcelona was at its strongest, wasn't Inter Milan, composed of veterans, overturned in the Champions League last year?
Well, on the original historical line, this season's Barcelona was also overturned by the equally aging Chelsea...
So, Li Ang really didn't feel anything to be nervous about.
Playing Barcelona, Mourinho already has a hand, he should fight hard to defend and play with all his might.
Real Madrid's current starting lineup is really not bad, and Li Ang feels that his teammates can have more confidence in themselves.
His self-confidence somewhat eased some of the tension in the team.
And Mourinho also gave the Real Madrid players more confidence in tactical drills.
After six days in a row, the Real Madrid players, who gradually lost most of their pressure and tension in the step-by-step training, also gradually rebuilt their self-confidence.
In Mourinho's words, no tactical style of play is invincible.
And he's been very successful in proving that he can come up with ideas to crack pass-and-control football.
Real Madrid, it's time to regain their glory in La Liga.
Forget yesterday, let alone imagine a more illusory future.
It's now!
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On the evening of August 14, in the passionate cheers of nearly 70,000 Real Madrid fans at the Bernabeu, the players of Real Madrid and Barcelona began to follow the pace of the referee team out of the player tunnel.
After a lapse of more than half a year, He Wei, who once again commented on Li Ang's game, was also in a good mood.
After Li Ang went to Milan before, Liu Jianhong was too addicted, and witnessed the first assist and goal of Li Ang's career, and witnessed the moment when Li Ang and the Milan players won the cup.
Now it's finally his turn to continue to enjoy it.
In today's game, Channel 5 did not arrange a guest commentator for him, saying that stand-up comedy is sometimes more tiring, but He Wei no longer has to think about how to talk to others.
After reading the opening remarks to himself, He Wei quickly introduced the starting formation of the two teams today.
"Real Madrid, who are at home, lined up an atypical 442 formation today.
This is also a formation that they have often practiced in warm-up matches before, and after the injury of starting midfielder Khedira, Mourinho devised a new set of tactical play, and the crowd can also feast their eyes on how it works today.
First of all, let's introduce the starting players on the Real Madrid side.
Goalkeeper No. 1 Casillas.
In the backline, from left to right, there are 12 Marcelo, 3 Pepe, 2 Carvalho and 4 Ramos.
In midfield, Real Madrid's No. 10 Leon and No. 14 Alonso were paired in the back in the new season, and No. 22 Di Maria and No. 8 Kaka were on either side of the midfield.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema have partnered to form Real Madrid's new attacking pairing. β
"Barcelona's No. 1 goalkeeper ValdΓ©s.
Adriano at left-back, No. 22 Abidalga, No. 14 Mascherano at centre-back, and No. 2 Alves at right-back.
In midfield, No.15 Keita played as a lone midfielder, while No.11 youngster Thiago and No.8 Andres Iniesta played as a double central midfielder.
The starting three forwards are Barcelona's new signing this summer, No. 9 Sanchez, No. 7 Villa and No. 10 Messi. β
As soon as He Wei finished the introduction, the two teams that had completed the opening ceremony basically stood in their respective halves, waiting for the captain to pick the side, and then the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game.
The live camera will sweep over the important players on both sides of Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Messi, Iniesta, Villa, Ronaldo, Benzema, Alonso.
Countless fans who watched this game will also really feel the pressure of the Spanish national derby.
Look at these faces, look at this active football superstar, which game is played, it is completely the strong financial resources of the two La Liga giants!
And soon, with the referee's whistle, Benzema gave the ball to Di Maria, and the football "battle of the century" before the start of the new season officially kicked off!
"Zhuang Radio! Zhuang Radio! Welcome to 2011"
In He Wei's slightly passionate commentary, the Chinese fans who stayed up until four o'clock in the morning quickly woke up and cheered up to watch this super battle.
The matchup between Real Madrid and Barcelona has been the absolute focus of football in recent years.
Now with the participation of his own player Li Ang, the attention in China has broken through the sports circle.
The crowd that stayed up late to watch the game that night was not all serious fans, but also many onlookers.
So when Real Madrid launched an attack, Kaka, Ronaldo, and Leon were in the same frame as the three who would be inserted forward, the hottest topic of discussion was not Real Madrid's new tactical system.
but
"Real Madrid's appearance has won!"
Many Barcelona fans also have to admit at this time that Real Madrid has won the game completely.
Just look at the late-night discussion posture and heat, after the results of the Real Madrid game are on the hot search tomorrow, I don't know how many female fans will have to become Real Madrid's "ten-year old fans".
"In the end, the football game still has to talk about strength, see our Barcelona once again bloody Real Madrid, just use this Super Cup championship to make a good start to the new season!"
Many Barcelona fans also quickly shifted the topic to the contest on the field.
But as the game time passed, they looked at it and felt more and more wrong.
In the past games with Real Madrid, Barcelona was basically able to quickly gain control, and then relied on the advantage of the midfield to quickly form a certain offensive suppression of Real Madrid.
But how is it that today it happened to be the other way around?
Didn't Mourinho say before the game that he would be cautious about Barcelona's passing tactics?
Feelings: Your cautious response is to attack and strike first, right?!
Real Madrid, who uncharacteristically attacked Barcelona, caused a wave of cheers at the Bernabeu to erupt in a wave of cheers.
And Guardiola obviously didn't expect Mourinho to set off a smoke bomb before the game and swing his hand.
But he is not to blame, after all, it was only in the Champions League final that ended at the beginning of this summer that they knocked out Manchester United, who wanted to play against them.
With such a case in the past, coupled with Mourinho's style of play that has always been criticized by the media as "conservative", Guardiola naturally believes that Real Madrid will play a safe game at home.
Pep Guardiola also has a tactical record, but he is not responding to Real Madrid's on-the-go bombing.
Five minutes later, watching Real Madrid's offensive still unabated forward pressure, Guardiola fell into a habitual tangle of hesitation.
However, after a timely steal from Keita, Iniesta decisively held the ball and pushed forward to set off Barcelona's counterattack.
Guardiola's heart quickly settled down again.
Before the ball crossed the halfway line, Iniesta saw the right moment to send a diagonal straight plug to his right front, and the goal was clear, just look for Messi!
Di Maria didn't follow for a while, allowing Messi to face Alonso's defense in the ribs of midfield.
Although Brother Long has rich defensive experience and strong interception ability, he has no way to meet Messi's unreasonable change of direction and speed breakthrough.
His speed is a hard injury, and he was so bad that Messi didn't even have time to pull his jersey and foul him.
In the exclamation of the Bernabeu scene, Messi looked like he was about to go further to Real Madrid's backline.
But it was also at this time that Li Ang, who had seen a bad situation and started chasing back in advance, also killed Messi from the flank, who was still holding the ball!
"Can't be out of place!"
Li Ang, who had already made a decision in his heart, did not get on his body at the first time, but went further to the middle to chase back, and took a shortcut to get him a step ahead of Messi.
Messi looked at Li Ang, who was suddenly stuck in front of him, and was a little surprised at first, but then he didn't care too much about Li Ang's card blocking.
took two steps to the outside to seduce, and seeing that Li Ang was not fooled, Messi decisively cut inside.
He planned to wait for Leon to change direction when he was retreating, and then it would be easy to pass the ball and continue to cut inside the goal.
Leon began to retreat as Messi thought, as he thought, and it looked like he was dragging his feet for his teammates to catch up.
Messi was also very decisive in changing direction with another heavy shoulder smash during the march.
To his surprise, Li Ang made a decisive move this time!
An equally responsive and extremely clean kick stop!
Li Ang's excellent positioning and defensive prediction helped him successfully prevent Messi's advance in this defense!
And countless old Real Madrid fans also cheered in surprise at this moment.
There may still be some difference in defensive strength with the short figure they remember, but it is undeniable.
Leon, like Makelele at the beginning, has successfully propped up the midfield defense of the current generation of Galaxy Battleships!
Jose Mourinho looked like he was even more excited than the team had scored, celebrating passionately on the sidelines.
He was waving his arms to make the fans louder, louder!
Li Ang drove the stopped football foot directly back to the midfield, and the Real Madrid frontcourt players all looked at Li Ang with joy with a sigh of relief.
The man behind the superstars is back!
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A young man from La Masia was sent to Inter as a gift in 2009!
Obviously, this guy is better at heading, but Mourinho seems to have picked up a treasure!
A station pile No. 9 was born!
On the night of Mourinho's canonization, he became the most important figure behind the madman's world famous paintings!
That's it!
From Inter to Mourinho to Real Madrid!
In that era when it was dominated by the Dream Three team.
Who would have thought that a standing stake 9 would become the only key to shatter the dream team!
"Those things after being sold by Barcelona to Inter"
(End of chapter)