Chapter 121: We're still growing, Real Madrid, we're still growing! [Please subscribe to the big guys! ] 】

"Leon is sober, he hasn't forgotten his defensive responsibilities because of the new tactical positioning, and Real Madrid's backfield players will also need to find a way to get into the game a little faster, Nacho and Carvajal. Pay more attention to the defense! ”

He Wei, who commented on Real Madrid's opening game alone today, couldn't help but have a faint worry in his tone.

Jose Mourinho's starting smoke bomb before the game greatly interfered with Emery's tactical layout and won more tactical convenience for Real Madrid in the opening stage.

However, Nacho and Carvajal, who started at left and right full-backs today, played somewhat mediocre defensively.

In terms of attacking advancement and fighting in the middle, Real Madrid has the upper hand, and Valencia will have to endure and fight against it first.

However, Nacho and Carvajal, who were involved in the attack near the halfway line, failed to return in time twice in a row.

This also led to Valencia's counter-attacking effect of breaking the ball very well.

Suddenly, Real Madrid's dominance on the field turned into a defensive hazard.

That is, Li Ang did not press forward at the beginning, and Matuidi was particularly active in defending today, which continuously stopped Valencia's rapid counterattack.

Essien will see that the situation has changed and has withdrawn from the front.

Nacho and Carvajal, who were alerted by Leon's yelling, gradually sobered up.

It's not like they're really floating or in bad shape.

It was purely because he was too excited to start the La Liga opener for Real Madrid for the first time.

In contrast, Varane, who partnered with Albiol today and also started for Real Madrid for the first time in the opening game of La Liga, is much calmer.

Fortunately, Li Ang's merciless yelling was very timely, and the two gradually played normally after they cleared their minds.

At least after focusing on defense first, Real Madrid's wings were not broken by Valencia.

Mourinho, who was watching this scene from the sidelines, gradually widened his brows.

After Leon, Essien and Matuidi all held on to their own half, Valencia's attacking attempts began to hit the wall repeatedly.

The unleashed trio quickly severed the effective link between Valencia striker Soldado and the midfielder.

The striker from Real Madrid's academy who has scored 72 goals in the past three seasons can only be helplessly silent.

With Jonas and Feghouli both locked up, he could only start to frequently pull out of the Real Madrid penalty area to help his teammates make the ball and sort out the attacking route.

But no matter how Valencia's midfielders move the ball and look for opportunities.

As long as they can't penetrate the midfield interception defense with Leon as the core, then they will not be able to feed Soldado offensive shells on the ground.

It's okay to play crosses.

Real Madrid are not excluded from Valencia's multi-ball crosses.

After trying twice and seeing that Soldado couldn't take advantage of the point in front of Albiol, Valencia himself gave up the idea of continuing to attack with crosses.

Real Madrid calmly withstood Valencia's opening three-board attack.

Leon made Guardado and Jonas suffer as they tried to attack Real Madrid's defence with the ball.

More agile, confrontational, and explosive than accelerated, none of their abilities is better than Leon's.

And when it comes to technology.

Leon will be really grateful to Messi for his "ravage" in those games last season.

After feeling Messi's change of direction and accelerating cadence, and looking at the skills of players like Jonas, Leon really didn't feel too much pressure.

Unless a many-to-one situation is formed in a local stadium area today, then Leon can only admit it, otherwise Valencia will not want to have a one-on-one chance to pass Leon and face the Real Madrid defense.

Leon is so confident, and Mourinho and more than 70,000 Real Madrid fans at the scene are even more confident in his performance!

'Daniel [Carvajal], go forward when you have a chance, we'll pass you later, and then you give the ball to Alvaro [Morata] who retreats.'

Leon took advantage of a deadball opportunity to find Carvajal and advise him.

Nacho's ability to push forward on the offensive end is not as good as Carvajal's, so now Nacho can stay at the back and solidify the defense.

Carvajal, who has found a balance between attack and defence, can also start to play his forward game.

Real Madrid's forward trident today is Alvaro Morata, Vazquez and Callejon, and no matter who retreats, the three can cooperate with Carvajal to complete the ball as soon as possible.

However, Leon is more optimistic about Morata on the push end.

In terms of technique and speed with the ball, Morata is the strongest in Real Madrid's rotational striker.

Fight back, the pursuit is to be fast and the end to be stable.

So instead of Callejón and Vazquez pushing in and then Morata doing the finishing blow, it's better to do the other way around.

Let Morata push in, then let Callejon finish the shot.

Carvajal would have understood what Leon meant, and Essien also took the opportunity to make a brief communication with Morata, who had retreated to near the halfway line.

Valencia are still figuring out how to dismantle Real Madrid's midfield defence.

It's been ten minutes since they attacked, and the connection between the central and back fields is a little disjointed, not serious, but in Leon's opinion, that's Real Madrid's chance.

Matuidi was under the command of Leon and moved to the rib area on the left side of the penalty area.

Vázquez will be aggressive running on the left side of the half, a little ahead of Matuidi.

Valencia subconsciously shifted their attacking route to their left side, which was Real Madrid's right half.

Previously, Li Ang was deeply positioned, and the midfield defense on this side basically relied on Essien to complete the sweeping and covering first.

So Guardado, who pulled the side to catch the ball, was relieved to knock the ball horizontally to Jonas who retreated to respond.

Guardado, who played a season in La Liga last season and has not played against Leon, feels that such a pass is not a problem.

Perhaps it was also Li Ang's "honest" squatting pit that made him lose his vigilance.

So at this moment, his passing action is more relaxed, and the ball speed is not too fast.

It's still a normal choice, and Jonas with his back to the Real Madrid defence doesn't feel like a problem.

But when Feghouli's exclamation rang out on the other side, Jonas instinctively stood up with hair!

A natural sense of crisis arose from the bottom of Ruonas's heart, but before he could make any countermeasures, a white-clothed figure faster than him had already decisively let go!

The shovel figure flashed past him, and Jonas didn't stop his movement to run towards the football, and finally hooked on the opponent's body and fell to the ground!

The football was shoveled to Essien's position, the referee on duty did not make any gesture of foul, and the game continued!

Valencia defender Costa pressed Essien for the first time, but Essien did not mean to lead the ball and turn to advance, he simply turned his back and sent the ball to the side!

Carvajal is up to speed!

He stopped and went straight to the side and started to soar!

Costa's top defense allowed Valencia's half-court defensive barrier to be punctured like tissue paper.

And Leon and Costa, who had previously completed a decisive tackle, formed a stark gap at this moment!

This is the difference in defensive awareness, this is the difference in strength!

Mourinho also hammered his palm the sidelines, roaring loudly to speed up Vazquez, who had just started to plug in on the other side!

Carvajal took Leon's confession to heart after rushing past Valencia's half, and Morata was able to run to his flank in time.

As soon as the ball was handed over, Carvajal continued to go down the edge and take away Mathieu's defence, while Morata would also stride forward with the ball.

Gago, who returned from Roma on loan in the summer window this year, but was completely sold to Valencia by Real Madrid, is desperately chasing back!

In front of Alvaro Morata, Valencia's centre-back Ruiz had pressed forward with great momentum.

There is no doubt that if there is an opportunity to get tangled with Alvaro Morata, Ruiz will not hesitate to use a tactical foul.

But Morata didn't give him that chance.

At the moment when the two were about to face each other, Morata broke out and changed direction, and the whole person's body was almost forced to fold to the other side! Even with the ball, he forced into the heart of Valencia's penalty area!

Ruiz's outstretched hand didn't pick up anything but air, and Morata, who had completed the push mission, made the final pass.

The moment Mathieu put down Carvajal and pounced, Morata sent a straight ball forward!

Callejon was calm.

In the previous run, he has been calmly observing the changes in the situation on the field.

Morata completed the breakthrough, broke the face with points, and forcibly tore apart Valencia's defensive deployment, and what he had to do at this time was very simple.

After leading the ball into Valencia's penalty area, Callejon made a coherent kick-off shot directly on the run!

This made Valencia's other central defender, Ricardo Costa, and goalkeeper Alves not react!

Because Callejon's starting angle was already small, Alves was even sure that he would pass the ball to Vazquez at the back post.

This is also in line with Callejon's style of play at Real Madrid last season.

Calm and selfless.

But at this moment, Callejon seems to have incarnated as Ronaldo, and he is extremely confident in his shooting skills in the penalty area!

His shot aimed at the far corner of the Valencia goal clings to the turf and rolls quickly past Ricardo Costa.

Alves gritted his teeth and pounced on the far corner!

His second reaction is fast and not slow, but the ball rolls faster at the moment!

When the ball hit the inside of the far post and bounced into the goal line, Alves' interception was too late!

Callejon clenched his fists, did not stop his steps, and ran all the way to the corner flag area!

He jumped high to the excited cheers of the Real Madrid fans, turned around in the air and roared with his fists!

Carvajal and Morata ran over and hugged him tightly, followed by Vazquez, Essien, and Leon.

Callejon's talent is really not particularly good.

But he also really appreciates his chance to come back to Real Madrid, so he's very hardworking, very, very hardworking.

The outside world will always report how much Li Ang likes to practice.

That's also because there are more topics on Leon, and there is more traffic and attention.

However, in the Real Madrid team, every player actually knows that Callejon, like Leon, is the most hard-working type of player.

He worked his shots, he worked his crosses, and maybe he will never be the brightest man at Real Madrid.

But he will be the most reliable team-mate around every other Real Madrid player.

A reliable teammate who never lacks courage at critical moments and can always make others feel at ease!

Leon waited for his teammates in front of him to celebrate, and finally smiled and hugged Callejon firmly.

This kind of heartfelt appreciation does not need to be described in words.

Mourinho is like that, and so is Leon.

They all like and trust Callejon, and the lead at this moment is the best fruit they have reaped after this trust has been instilled.

Whether a team is united or not, every fan and commentator can tell.

He Wei bluntly praised every player in the Real Madrid rotation squad at this moment.

"Maybe this rotation team still has a lot of shortcomings, a lot of shortcomings, but they have tightly integrated each other's talents, united with each other, made up for each other's shortcomings, and continued to grow in the voice of vigilance.

They are young, but they have already represented Real Madrid on the field, such a youthful power, such a growth story is always exciting!

Perhaps, one day in the future, we will find that every member of this team has already made a name for themselves in football.

And I believe that day will not be too far away! ”

He Wei's commentary sparked a resonance among countless domestic Real Madrid fans.

At this time, Mu Shuai and Karanka, who were standing on the sidelines and applauding constantly, looked at the united young Real Madrid players, and their eyes were full of satisfaction.

When they made the decision to select such a rotation team, they were not so confident.

Can trusting a group of children really bring enough solid rest time to the main players of Real Madrid at that time?

Last season's treble may have given the answer.

Real Madrid's rotation team, which is mostly composed of young children, has now shown the potential for further transformation.

Mourinho doesn't know, he doesn't know what kind of strength the rotation team he has led will play in the future.

But he's looking forward to it.

Perhaps, as many Real Madrid fans ridiculed at the end of last season, in the future, Real Madrid A team will play Champions League and tough battles, and B team will play in the league?

Hehe, if you can really play another Grand Slam season with such a division of labor, then the situation in La Liga, or the whole of European football, will have to really change

After the game restarted, Real Madrid, who played with momentum, refused to give up the dominance of the midfield at all.

Valencia changed their formation under Emery's adjustments, and played four-three-three.

But unfortunately, Mu Shuai also adjusted the formation accordingly.

Real Madrid changed to 4231.

After Emery watched Real Madrid change the formation to focus on midfield control and counter-attack, his face instantly turned ugly.

Perhaps, Mourinho didn't mean it.

But the reality looks like Mourinho is mocking him.

"The formation you can't play, I'll teach you to play, four-three-three beat you four-two-three-one, I win, use four-two-three-one to beat your four-three-three, I will still win."

Unai Emery even made up a scene in his mind of Mu Shuai's sneering at him.

Well, in fact, Mu Shuai didn't think about that at all.

There are two reasons for switching to 4231, one is that Real Madrid is familiar, and the other is that Mu Shuai wants to stabilize the 1-0 lead here.

When the whistle blew at half-time, Unai Emery didn't shake Mourinho's usual handshake and walked briskly back to the dressing room.

Mourinho shrugged his shoulders and didn't say much in front of the live camera.

But at the beginning of the second half, Real Madrid's resolute defensive strangulation in the midfield immediately put Valencia under great pressure to organize the attack.

Real Madrid's rotation may not be as strong at the back and up front.

But only the midfield trio, the hardness is directly full, and the defensive strength in the entire La Liga is completely daring to say that it is the top three.

Emery doesn't believe in evil, and adjusts the formation to play four-four-two and play two wings to attack.

As a result, on Real Madrid's side, Leon dragged behind, and Matuidi and Essien pulled the side, and Valencia's wide players were bad old sins.

The 1-0 stalemate did not change until the 70th minute of the second half, and Emery, who couldn't sit still, was really anxious this time.

He removed Gago and midfielder Costa and replaced them with Parejo and striker Piatti.

So Valencia changed the formation again and played a set of 4132 extreme offensive formation.

At the last moment, Mourinho made a substitution.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcos Alonso went on, with goalscorers Callejon and Vazquez down.

Real Madrid switched to 442.

The midfielder went directly to the four back midfielders, and the long passes such as Ronaldo and Morata in front were over, just to fight the counterattack to the end!

So in the last 20 minutes, the offensive and defensive battle between Real Madrid and Valencia became more exciting and beautiful.

Because Real Madrid did not defend to the end, even if they were in the back four, they wanted to create another opportunity to score and completely kill the game.

Valencia's side is even more crazy on the offensive end, surrounding Real Madrid's half-court attack, Soldado and Jonas also repeatedly seized the opportunity to shoot!

Of course, with Leon and Alonso in the middle, Valencia will only have to find some opportunities to shoot from distance.

Adam, who started today, was still in good form and he made a cautious save.

Without deliberately pursuing the necessity of confiscating the ball, he always chose to hit the ball very safely.

Ronaldo is not in a hurry at all, and he is very patient in his position.

Maybe it's because I won too many championships last season.

He now seems to be more relaxed towards his teammates and towards himself.

So in the 86th minute of the game, when Real Madrid's threat counterattack came out, he had to be more prepared.

Morata has a real header for what he said.

Brother Long's long pass from the back was steadily flicked by him and crossed behind the Valencia defence.

Ronaldo sprinted with full force and threw off Ruiz who was chasing after him.

Facing the attacking goalkeeper Alves, he confidently chose to shoot into the far corner of the goal.

And the football that entered the net again also announced that Real Madrid won the opening match of this season's La Liga!

The growing Real Madrid youngsters announced their progress with this win over last season's third-placed La Liga.

They're still growing, Real Madrid, they're still growing!

It's a little late.,I'm sorry guys.,We'll update it normally tomorrow.

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