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Chapter 511 No dull game

Madrid, the capital of Spain.

After defeating Manchester United at home and entering the FA Cup final, the Newcastle team only rested for one day in Newcastle, and flew to Madrid overnight. Anyway, the time is so short, resting at home is better than going directly to Madrid for two days of training.

For entering the semi-finals of the Champions League, Pei Wei can still afford the accommodation fee in Madrid. The income gained for each step in the Champions Cup is enough for the Newcastle team to live in a big city like Madrid for the first half of the year. Pei Wei can still calculate this account.

Long Bisheng also brought Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan to Madrid this time. Both Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan decided to fight with Long Bisheng in the stands for the rest of the season. Naturally, Long Bisheng would not refuse. Anyway, Newcastle didn't charter a plane to fly to Madrid, so Long Bisheng simply asked the Newcastle club staff who booked the flight tickets to book two more tickets. Even the hotel where Long Bisheng stayed in Madrid also reserved a room for them to stay, although they were not allowed to stay during the team's away games. Players and their families live together, but sitting together and chatting is also a good adjustment.

During the two days in Madrid, Long Bisheng naturally practiced with the team, while Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan happily went shopping on the streets of Madrid. Shopping is a woman's nature. It's a shame to go back to such a luxurious city without buying something.

During the evening break, Long Bisheng still had time to wander the streets of Madrid with the two girls. There were not many such cases. As long as it did not affect training and games, Mourinho would turn a blind eye. After all, Newcastle players are very professional and can distinguish between private affairs and official affairs.

For Long Bicheng, this time Madrid's trip is of great significance. This is not the first time Long Bicheng came to Bernabeu. When he was in Hoffenheim, he had come to Bernabeu with the team, but the painful memories of Long Bicheng was the last season of Long Bicheng in Hoffenheim. In the Champions League Cup group stage, they also returned from Yu Yu. Not only did they not enter the top [-], they were still at the bottom of the group, and even the qualifications of a league cup could not be caught.

After all, the emerging Hoffenheim still can't compete with the old giants like Real Madrid, but this time is different. Long Bisheng has become a part of Newcastle, striving to eliminate Real Madrid and enter the semi-finals of the Champions League!

As long as it is a professional team, it will want to play in the best team and defeat the best opponents one after another. At the moment of victory, all the sweat in normal training is worthwhile, and the professional life of the players can shine brightly.

For Long Bisheng, his life is a process of catching up and surpassing. Whenever he catches up with an opponent or surpasses a friend, it can bring him great psychological satisfaction, but no matter how many opponents he has, he will never surpass him. Now that he has reached a very high level, if he does not strive for honor as much as possible at this time, when will he wait?
A player's best form is always only a few years. Although a highly professional player can maintain his peak period for a long time, it is not in the golden age group after all.

In terms of physical fitness, 22 to 30 years old is the age group with the best physical fitness. In terms of experience, a player can only accumulate rich experience after the age of 24, and some may even be later. That is to say, the age at which a player can achieve the most results is between the ages of 24 and 28. After that, physical fitness will slowly begin to decline.

Now Long Bisheng is at the peak of his physical fitness, and his experience is different from most players. In China, he received a completely European training method for young players, and then he went to Europe at the age of 16, which is extremely malleable. Although the teams he played for were all low-level teams at the beginning, he personally felt the completely different atmosphere of the three football powerhouses of Italy, England and Germany. In terms of experience and adaptability, he is not worse than some veterans. If you don't get good grades, it's really called hell.

It's just that strength alone is useless sometimes on the football field, and luck is needed-this season, Newcastle can at least win one or two enough championships this season.

What happened to Leverkusen in 02 was a lesson for all teams that wanted to hit the Triple Crown. Of course, Newcastle will also notice that Mourinho has consciously adopted the rotation system since the beginning of this season. 99 games with different starting lineups, Sir Alex Ferguson once increased this number to more than 100 games, and the results of Chelsea and Manchester United in those two seasons were quite brilliant, and now Mourinho wants to do the same.

Now among the 25 players in Newcastle's first team, except for the young third goalkeeper Hartz who has not played, all other players have played records. In addition to minimizing conflicts in the locker room, it also minimizes the physical energy consumed by the players.

After six or seven months of painstaking efforts, it is finally time to reap the rewards. Compared with other giants, Newcastle does not play much more games, and the physical consumption of players is actually less. This is where Mourinho's confidence lies.

Take Newcastle’s opponent Real Madrid as an example. Newcastle has played double matches in a week recently. How much less games can Real Madrid play? After a season until now, no game can be given up by the team. This game is Newcastle’s fourth game in two weeks, and Real Madrid is the third game.

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The majestic Bernabéu is still very conspicuous in Madrid at night. This pure white building has undoubtedly become one of the landmark buildings in Madrid, and it is also the pride of half of the people in Madrid—the other half are of course Atlético Madrid fans...

Today's Bernabéu was full of seats, [-] Real Madrid fans shouted straight into the sky, and [-] Newcastle fans showed no sign of weakness. Their uniform singing made them not inferior to the Real Madrid fans who had an absolute advantage in numbers. Football is a war in a peaceful age.

Players fight on the court, they fight off the court.

Today, Mourinho fine-tuned the lineup again. Four defenders Rimatok appeared in the position of left back, but Bale did not become a substitute.

This lineup surprised Hiddink, but he quickly realized that Mourinho didn’t want to give up Bale’s assist ability, but he was worried that the space behind him would be used by Ronaldo, so he pushed Bale into the midfield and let Mattok fill the space behind him. In this way, Newcastle’s slightly weak defensive left had two players who could attack and defend well. Both offense and defense were strengthened, especially in defense.

Hiddink did not follow the lineup from the previous game, but sent Benzema and Higuain as two center forwards. Cristiano Ronaldo returned to the midfield, leaving Diarra alone as the midfielder, and Alonso sat on the bench.If it is still such a slow attack, maybe Newcastle can keep the lead until the end just by defending and killing time!

In his home court, instead of being smothered to death by Newcastle, it is better to attack desperately to have a way out!
Although Mourinho's starting lineup has consolidated the defense, it has reduced the speed and scoring points of the counterattack. Without Ribery or Walcott, Newcastle's counterattack is nothing more than using Long Bisheng's header and Messi's personal skills. From this point of view, this game is not without chance.

Just when Hiddink thought this way, the game had already begun!

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There was a burst of cheers above the Bernabéu stands, then a sigh, and then applause-this voice already explained what happened just now-Real Madrid created a good opportunity at the beginning!

Kakala dribbled the ball to the side and made a cross. Higuain retreated with a header and followed. Ronaldo used his speed to get rid of Essien's defense, and then volleyed directly!The ball was saved by Cech flying to the bottom line, a corner kick.

The opening shot made the Real Madrid fans immediately excited. Although they knew that Real Madrid was at a disadvantage in this game, for them, seeing a wonderful offensive game is the most important thing, sometimes even more important than the results!

Although they were a little dissatisfied with Hiddink's putting Ronaldo in the midfield, the five attackers in the frontcourt made them look forward to the next game!

Silva did not pass the ball directly into the penalty area. Although the current Real Madrid's ability to grab points in the penalty area is not bad, it still cannot be compared with Newcastle, where many people gather. Silva passed the ball to Drenthe who came forward with an assist.
The ball flew out with a high arc, but suddenly there was a drop, bypassing the players on both sides in the penalty area, and went straight to the dead corner of the goal.

Maicon, who was standing in front of the goal, headed the ball out. Essien kicked the ball out. There were no Newcastle players in the frontcourt. Diarra intercepted the ball easily, and then distributed the ball to Ronaldo who ran out of the penalty area.

Bale and Martok immediately surrounded him. Ronaldo was still able to control the ball under the attack of two excellent left backs, and then suddenly passed the ball through the gap to Kaka in the middle!
"Wonderful pass! As he grows older, Ronaldo's awareness and accuracy of passing are also improving!" The ESPN commentator exclaimed loudly.

Cristiano Ronaldo's pass was indeed exceptionally beautiful. After Kaka received the ball, there was no one around him defending it!Of course, Kaka would not force the ball into the dense Newcastle penalty area, but looked up to observe the situation in the penalty area, and then immediately took a long shot!

Kaka was born after he landed in Europe, and he was hailed as a model of modern attacking midfielders, relying on his excellent long-range shooting and long-distance attacking personal ability!

From the moment the ball left Kaka's feet, the ball entered a high-speed forward state. Even the movement of the camera lens was difficult to keep up with the flight trajectory of the ball, so the photographer directly moved the camera to the goal, but he quickly turned the camera back—because the shot was blocked in the middle!

Long Bisheng, who had just returned to the penalty area to help defend the corner, rushed over from the side and blocked the shot with his chest!
The ball hit Long Bisheng's chest heavily, but Long Bisheng didn't even frown, he took a step forward, stretched his legs to stop the rebounding ball, then took the ball two steps forward, and gave the ball to Messi who was cruising on the right!

At the beginning of the game, he could only cruise alone in the midfield. Messi, who was watching C Ro Kaka take turns, was already suffocated. After receiving the pass from Long Bisheng, he immediately rushed to the Real Madrid half.

Albiol retreated from the center line. Instead of rushing towards Messi, he chose to block Messi and face the goalkeeper directly. Diarra sprinted into the penalty area in the other direction. Behind them were the Real Madrid players who returned to defend and the Newcastle attacking players who were about to follow up. However, Long Bisheng, the initiator of this counterattack, was left far behind. After all, his disadvantage in speed was fully displayed in this long-distance running.

Seeing that Albiol did not pounce, Messi was slightly disappointed. With his technical characteristics, he was afraid that the opponent would not pounce. Once he got close, his excellent dribbling skills and ability to control the ball were enough to instantly throw off the opponent.

Since you don't come up, then I will go up!Messi immediately made a choice. He shifted his route with the ball a little bit, and began to insert obliquely into the middle. In this way, if Albiol did not post it, then he would be able to face the goalkeeper Casillas directly after running a few steps with the ball.

In desperation, Albiol could only stick it up carefully, but he didn't stick it up directly, but kept a certain distance. This is a very wise choice. Facing a striker with excellent speed and technique like Messi, he can only easily pass by if he sticks up rashly.

But Messi naturally has a way to deal with this kind of defense. He first pretended to dribble the ball to rush towards Albiol, and then quickly swiped the ball in the opposite direction to speed up the breakthrough!
In order to defend Messi, Albiol slowed down, just giving Messi a chance to speed up!

If it weren't for Diarra, Albiol would have been directly broken by Messi.

When Albiol slowed down Messi's speed a little, Diarra had already rushed over like a tiger, and was about to stretch out his foot to break the ball that was out of Messi's control!

Messi turned around quickly and pulled the ball back, but his speed of advancement also stagnated. Ramos, Pepe and Drenthe had already returned to the defense. Even if Messi had a great ability, he could not break through the entire defense of Real Madrid.

Sighing in his heart, Messi turned around to protect the ball, and then passed the ball to Long Bisheng who was rushing forward. Long Bisheng received the ball, then turned around and passed the ball to Bell who was on the left.

Long Bisheng jumped high while running, and under the interference of Pepe's body, he rushed to the top of the ball. He rushed to the top in a hurry, and the ball flew over the crossbar.

"What a pity!" Pei Wei clapped his hands violently and shook his head: "These guys are really quick to return to defense. But without Ribery, our number of counterattacks is a bit small."

"They will definitely press forward to attack. Sometimes one person can collapse their defense." Mourinho pursed his lips: "In the beginning, their physical fitness is not bad, and they can still do this kind of defense, but how many times can they do it? As long as our defense is good enough, sooner or later there will be a chance to counterattack."

"Well, maybe you're right." Pei Wei sat down and said, "After all, we only need to score one goal, and they're going to score four goals... How many years have we not conceded four goals in a game? It seems like we haven't all the time?"

Mourinho smiled and did not answer his question.

At the beginning, both sides had a chance to score, and this game will definitely not become dull.

(End of this chapter)