Shortly after the Champions League quarter-final draw, Leon received text messages from Ibrahimovic and Pato during the meal.

Both told him not to be eliminated early, and to meet on the stage of the Champions League final.

Li Ang smiled helplessly and sent them back text messages to cheer them on.

Compared with the historical line in his memory, the development line of today's football is generally the same, but there has been a lot of deviation in the branches.

For example, in this draw matchup, Real Madrid and Bayern are still divided into one and a half zones, and Barcelona and Chelsea are divided into one and a half zones.

But unlike Leon's memory, Chelsea's opponent was not Benfica, but AC Milan.

The hard power of the two teams is really not much different now, and it is not wrong to say that they are evenly matched.

So Leon is not sure if Chelsea will be able to make it to the last four of the Champions League against Barcelona.

Now looking at the duel between the "palm" and the "back of the hand", Li Ang can only helplessly say "come on" to both sides from the bottom of his heart.

Whoever wins, Chelsea or Milan, will be happy and sorry for Leon.

As for the follow-up showdown with Barcelona, it depends on their respective tactical preparations and ability to resist pressure.

It takes the same tenacity and determination as the Chelsea side on the historical line, with the right tactics.

Luck is important, but the strength to win the title was one of the decisive factors for that Chelsea team to pull off a miraculous comeback and get stronger and stronger.

Otherwise, it will rely on hard power to fight, and now Milan and Chelsea are very difficult to pass Barcelona.

And for Leon, who is now a member of Real Madrid's main team, cheering for the two teams he likes is only incidental.

His main focus is still on Bayern Munich, who is in the same half as Real Madrid.

So he took the initiative to prepare again, at least, starting from him personally, he didn't want to leave any regrets at that time.

On the afternoon of March 17, Karanka told Mourinho something that he thought was strange.

Mourinho was also puzzled after hearing this.

"The little lion is practicing penalty?"

"Yes, I watched for a while, and he and Xavi practiced a long pass and went to Adan to practice a penalty save."

"Well, didn't he know that the first penalty taker in the team was Cristiano? The second penalty taker won't be able to take his turn. ”

"Well, it shouldn't be, the little lion is not stupid."

After a brief exchange with Karanka, Mourinho couldn't understand Leon's intentions for a while, so he followed him to the training ground.

There were very few people who practiced at this venue, and most of the players of the first team basically went to the physiotherapy room.

So Mourinho easily found Leon's group.

There will be Leon around the goal, Adan who practices penalty saves, and Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcelo who join in the fun.

At this moment, it is Ronaldo's turn to play, and Leon and Marcelo are still communicating with each other.

In the next moment, Ronaldo, who didn't have much to run, hit a tricky penalty shot aimed at the top right corner of the goal.

Adan's height and hand length still played a good role when pounced, but it didn't help to pounce in the right direction.

Cristiano Ronaldo's shot was powerful, fast and ruthless, and it hit the corner of the goal very crisply.

"Hahaha, little lion, look at it, this is the correct way to play a penalty!

But I still don't understand why you have to practice just two fixed penalty shoots in the top corner."

Mourinho smiled and applauded at this time, interrupting Ronaldo's complaint, and he was extremely relieved about Ronaldo's penalty ability.

And the few people who were facing away from him and Karanka at the moment found out about his arrival.

"Boss."

"Boss!"

"Just practice for a while, boss, and we'll go to physiotherapy after three more rounds."

The last sentence was said by Leon, and Mourinho was not in a hurry when he saw this, and motioned for them to continue, and he stood by himself with Karanka and watched.

A few minutes later, when Li Ang summed up the penalty practice, Mourinho also beckoned him directly.

"Tell me why, I don't think it's a wise choice for you to spend your time on penalty practice, and you never think of one thing to do one thing, how can you suddenly remember to practice penalty?"

Mourinho got straight to the point and didn't beat around the bush with Leon.

After all, Leon has been spending a lot of time practicing long passes recently, and the effect has come out, and Mourinho attaches great importance to it.

This is not only a strengthening of Leang's personal strength, but also means that Mourinho will have more tactical cards and rotation options in the future.

That's why he will only ask clearly about the matter of training now.

If Leon's answer was "on a whim", then Mourinho wouldn't mind helping the kid sober up.

"I think the more we play in the Champions League this year, the more likely we are to beat Bayern Munich and Barcelona.

So I want to prepare more, in all aspects.

If we do have to play a penalty shoot-out later on, then I won't panic because I'm not ready.

When the team needs me to take responsibility, I can at least go up and kick it confidently. ”

Mourinho felt far-fetched at first glance by the reasons given by Leon.

Just because of the possibility of a penalty shoot-out and starting to spend more time practicing so early?

But on second thought, Mourinho has nothing to refute.

Because Li Ang's character is like this, he sees things far and thinks comprehensively.

Do you think a penalty shootout is possible?

Of course, there is, in the finals of the big competition, the probability of a penalty shootout is not small at all.

Leon just wants to be up to the plate when the team needs him to step up, is that wrong?

There's nothing wrong with that.

In the end, Mourinho could only dryly admonish two sentences, telling Leon not to fall behind in the intensive practice of the long pass, and let him go to physiotherapy.

Karanka, however, looked thoughtfully at the back of Li Ang, who had caught up with Adan and the others.

"Jose."

"Huh?"

"The little lion has a point, and we did ignore this part of the training."

"You mean penalties? But we have enough penalty takers in our team, that's not our weakness, right? Cristiano, Kaka, Sergio"

"Penalty shoot-outs are more than just a contest of skills, you should know that, Jose.

I think the little lion has a saying that is very true, be more prepared, so that at least you will not panic because you are not prepared. ”

“.”

Mourinho pondered for a moment before deciding to hold another coaching session to discuss the need for this training session.

But even if they had discussed the outcome and decided to put the first team on penalties, it would have to be at least two days away.

Because tomorrow Real Madrid will have the 28th round of the league.

The opponent is Malaga, who have already broken into the top four of La Liga.

On the morning of March 18, after participating in the final practice that was not too intense, Li Ang also opened his social media and sent a private message to Isco.

Since their last meeting in the Copa del Rey, Leon and Isco have exchanged views on social media.

Well, Leon took the initiative to add friends.

And Isco, who looked a little arrogant before, quickly revealed his sullen characteristics after getting acquainted with Leon on the Internet.

This kid looks arrogant, but in fact he is very outgoing and cheerful when dealing with acquaintances.

It's just that sometimes I don't know how to speak.

For example, once he complained to Leon that a certain teammate in his team had a good relationship with him some time ago, but suddenly became estranged from him from a certain point in time.

Leon was curious at the time, so he asked Isco if he and his teammate had a quarrel or had some minor feud during this time.

Isco denied it, and then came another.

"It seems like one day when I was training, I gave him too many times, and he told me to stop doing this, and I told him that his defense was a bit bad and that he should practice more, isn't that true? I'm not wrong. ”

Well, Leona would look at the private messages Isco sent to himself, and he was almost overwhelmed.

From that moment on, he had probably figured out Isco's preferred way of communicating.

What topics Isco doesn't like, which players he doesn't like, he will say it bluntly.

At the same time, I will not feel bad because of some poisonous tongues and words between friends.

So Leon became casual and straightforward with him.

For example, the first thing Leon said to Isco was:

"Sneak out for a drink, drink coffee, the kind that doesn't give you laxatives before the game."

In less than half a minute, Isco sent a photo of him on the bus.

"Isn't it, it's not even in Madrid? Then I can rest assured, your preparations are not sufficient at all, and we will easily win tonight! ”

"You're farting! We're already in Madrid and we're on our way to our hotel! ”

"Okay, tell me the address, I'll be there later."

"Huh? Really drink coffee, huh? ”

"Huh? Tell me about fun, do you take it seriously? ”

“.”

"Fuck off!"

Leon teased Isco first as usual, and when he saw that the other party didn't reply to the message, he smiled and sent out a formal invitation.

"No kidding, you can't leave anyway after the game, come out for dinner."

"Eat? You're in for a treat! ”

"I please, I please, just to comfort your broken heart after losing the game."

"Oh, I also have a lot of things I want to ask you, so let's meet and talk for a while."

"What are you talking about? Next year's Golden Boy? Then you're out of play, next year it will definitely be Gotze or Eden Hazard in Ligue 1. ”

"I want to talk to you about what it's like to play in the Champions League!"

"That's not much to talk about, you submit a transfer application this summer, come to Real Madrid, buddy will take you to feel it for yourself in September this year."

"you! I don't want to go to Real Madrid, I'm going to Barcelona."

"You're going to forget it, go to Barcelona to find death? Cesc Fabregas can't play the position he wants when he goes to Barcelona, you go and put it on the bench? Listen to my brother's advice, Real Madrid is your bright future~"

After talking nonsense and tangling Isco again, Li Ang put down his phone with satisfaction.

At nine o'clock in the evening, after the two warmed up at the Bernabeu, they also pinched me, and I slapped you and interacted enthusiastically.

But as soon as they arrived at the game, the two had a confrontation and became energetic.

Isco is as usual no match for Leon in terms of confrontation.

However, he used more concise and fast passing on the offensive end today to make Malaga's attacking system work smoothly.

"Damn, I'll advise you, you kid really listen, you took the ball over me."

Seeing that something was wrong with the situation, Leon provoked Isco.

However, what he got was Isco's eyes and the figure of his teammates quickly on his short legs.

Pei Gong sat in the coach's seat and watched Isco's performance today, and he couldn't be more satisfied.

Isco has played very well in the past, but he just likes sticking to the ball too much and is too confident in his technical ability.

Isco, who played with a more concise and neat style today, was a lot less impressive in terms of breakthroughs.

However, Malaga's overall attack was more fluid and natural.

That's certainly what Pellegrini wants to see.

Malaga also took advantage of this momentum and struggled with Real Madrid in the opening stages of the midfield rhythm.

After all, it is the fourth place in the current La Liga, and this strength is still there.

Seeing this, Mourinho also asked Esindo, who started the game, to return to the defense and try to disrupt Malaga's attack.

After getting used to Isco's new style of play, Leon quickly figured out a way to target it.

Don't play with the ball today, do you?

Okay, then you don't want the space you had before!

As soon as Leon's close pressure and kraft candy marking were used, Isco was instantly unable to attack with ease.

However, he is a frontcourt core, and he will not retreat, and he will inevitably be frozen by Leon in the half of Real Madrid.

Seeing this, Cazorla had to retreat from the front line to help Isco share some of the organizational pressure.

Isco also tried to change his style, trying to use technology to get rid of Leon's oppressive marking.

So Malaga went back to the same problems they had with Real Madrid the last few times.

Isco attacks with the ball, Leon directly entangles the defense, Isco kicks uncomfortably, then the offensive operation of Malaga will be problematic.

Previously, Cazorla's retreat was able to reorganize Malaga's attack, but today Cazorla also has a difficult opponent to face.

Essien smiled happily and froze Malaga's attacking duo solidly, one by one with Leon.

It's really uncomfortable to wear a worker.

Malaga can't open up the situation in attack, but the backfield has been suffering from the sharp impact of Real Madrid's major attacking stars.

In the 33rd minute of the first half, Cristiano Ronaldo received the ball from Benzema, who had returned from injury, with a spiritual backheel and got the best chance to start the game on the left edge of the Malaga's penalty area.

He opted for a kick.

The kind with fast ball speed and big arcs!

This kind of rubbing is outrageous, it is a perfect combination of technology and power!

Malaga goalkeeper Caballero wanted to save, but he couldn't.

As soon as the goal was scored, the game went as quickly as everyone expected, moving in the direction that Real Madrid wanted.

Pei Gong looked at the current situation that his two frontcourt cores were frozen, and he could only choose to let Isco retreat first.

In this way, the organization of Malaga's offensive can be guaranteed.

However, the offensive threat has also decreased considerably.

Joaquín and Cazorla alone can't tear apart Real Madrid's backline and give too much passing support to striker Longdong.

So Malaga's follow-up counterattack plan can only be weak, and now this Real Madrid team has to invest troops to defend, that is, to be able to defend the opponent upset and helpless.

Leon looked at Isco, who was devastated, but he didn't feel any guilt.

Well, at least for the moment, he couldn't agree with what Isco had done on the training ground.

To your friends, it's a matter of punching hard!

Slowly spread out the daily routine and write about some off-the-field things for the protagonist.

For the time being, I'll write about the interesting stories between the little lion and a few friends and teammates.

It's still the old rules, it's well written and badly written, and the bigwigs will judge.

The bigwigs are also welcome to leave a message in the comment area, as long as it doesn't involve personal attacks, smearing players, and foodies who have something to say are kept.

Good advice, bad advice, big guys put forward a lot, and foodies will focus on one to listen to persuasion!

(End of chapter)