princely elegance

Chapter 14 Guardiola
In this way, the score of 1:0 was maintained until the end. At the end, Zaragoza pressed heavily and created several threats.The most dangerous of these was Pique's header 5 minutes before the end, which hit the post.

Before the end, take advantage of Zaragoza's overwhelming pressure.Gago sent out several chances, and even created a single-handed chance for Robinho to face the goalkeeper, but unfortunately his shot at the last minute missed.

After the game, Hierro in the box said something.

"I finally understand who he looks like in football. It really is your sworn enemy, Phil."

Seeing Guti's bewildered look, Beckham gently said a person's name.

"Josep Guardiola."

"That's right, his organization and distribution of the ball at the midfielder position, his excellent overall view, and the rhythm of offense and defense, he is more like Guardiola than me. I am afraid he has discovered it himself, so he is uncharacteristically in Real Madrid and frequently thinks about it. To put in an assist, this is imitating me."

The blond long-haired prince looked at Gago and said the conclusions he had observed from Gago in the past few days.

"The most important thing is that his technical movements are simple and simple, not as gorgeous and elegant as yours."

Bosque, who has worked with Redondo the longest, finally said this sentence in a slightly joking manner.

But he didn't expect that it was this sentence that made Lei Dongdo remember in his heart.

After the game, Gago followed Iker Casillas to thank the fans at the scene.

When he was leaving the field, Gago remembered something. Looking back, he saw Milito was still on the field.After talking to Higuain, he ran over by himself.

"Diego, can you swap jerseys with me?"

Gago took off his jersey and said that he has always liked this "ghost in the restricted area" because he is hardworking and simple, but has a rough fate.

Milito took off his jersey without saying a word and handed it to Gago.

Gago took it and left silently.

"Why exchange jerseys with him, he is a Barcelona fan."

Higuain, who was waiting for Gago in the channel, saw the jersey in Gago's hand and asked inexplicably.

"In the future, he will be a teammate of the national team, and he is a striker I like very much."

The little smoking gun shrugged his shoulders after hearing this, but his face still had a very unconvinced look.Just now Milito made exactly the same movement as him, but the last shooting movement was several grades more sophisticated and accurate than him.Young people hate being compared the most, and now watching Milito is not happy.

"Let's go."

After taking a shower in the locker room, Gago found that Capello, who took Van Nistelrooy to the post-match press conference, had returned.

"Well, everyone played very well in this game. Now our points have tied with Barcelona, ​​which has one game less. Keep the rhythm today and win the remaining games one after another."

After Capello finished speaking briefly, he announced the dissolution.

It is worth mentioning that in the last round of the game, Barcelona was defeated by the Spaniard 3:1 in the Catalonian derby.In the entire La Liga, the Spaniard is probably the closest to Real Madrid. They can surprise every time they play against Barcelona.

After this game, the voices that criticized Capello and Real Madrid suddenly disappeared.As if the sports media all over the world belonged to one company, they all praised Real Madrid's gorgeous offense with one voice.Capello's Real Madrid has been fully mature after half a season of tempering. The arrival of Gago will make up the weakest piece of Real Madrid's territory.

The local newspapers in Madrid praised Gago's debut at the Bernabeu, thinking that he will take over Redondo and Zidane's position, and the day when Real Madrid becomes the number one in the world again is not far away.Anyway, they edited the good clips of yesterday's game to express their opinions, and they completely ignored the tofu defense.To be precise, it is not ignoring, but getting used to it.Seeing the cheating defense every day, the reporters' criticisms have dried up, and the readers are getting tired of it.Occasionally, I have to write from a different angle to add a little freshness.

However, Gago knew that what the newspapers praised him for was completely nonsense, and he performed completely supernormally in that game.His cooperation with Real Madrid is not so mature, but the feeling of being in control of the entire team yesterday is really fascinating.Gago really wants to know if he will have the same feeling as yesterday when he is fully integrated into the Real Madrid formation.

Since then, Jiago has been training more diligently, especially the practice matches within the team, which is a good way to increase the tacit understanding.

But four days later they will face Betis at home for the second leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals.You must maintain your physical fitness, or according to Jia Ge's intention, you can't wait to train him more than ten or twenty games a day.After a few days like this, the tacit understanding came out.

The reporters of the Copa del Rey game are also very concerned, to be precise, they are very concerned about every game of Real Madrid.No way, the famous ones will be stared at even if they fart.However, their main purpose is to know whether Real Madrid's performance in the game is short-lived. Many people with ulterior motives are waiting for Real Madrid to slap their face after losing.

However, basically everyone in this game thought that Real Madrid would win, and Betis coach Luiz was very low-key before the game.There is no way not to keep a low profile. Their task now is not the Copa del Rey, but to find a way to avoid relegation.Now they are ranked fifth from the bottom in the league, only one step away from the relegation zone, and they will fall if they don't pay attention.

In this game, Louis hid the main players such as Vogel, Sobis, and Cappi. It was clear that he gave up the King's Cup and saved his strength for the league.

As for Real Madrid, Capello decisively arranged the strongest lineup. In addition to resting Cassie, the defensive teenager Torres started three consecutive games. Bravo replaced the injured Carlos as left back. Put on the captain's armband and form a central defender partner with Ramos, whose suspension is over; in the midfield, Gago continues to start with Diarra, Robinho and Reyes are separated on both sides, and Higuain and Ruud van Nistelrooy continue on the striker Make up double arrows.

No one thinks that Betis can stop Real Madrid, at most it is to create a little trouble, so that Real Madrid can concentrate more on dealing with it.

The situation after the opening also showed this point. In just 5 minutes, Real Madrid scored a goal.

After Gago got the ball, he observed it and made a long pass. The ball crossed the entire midfield and reached the middle of the opponent's penalty area.Higuain, who had a tacit understanding with Gago, stopped the ball instantly, and then shot with his left foot.It was blocked by the opponent's defender, but the ball flew to the feet of Reyes, who was plugging in at high speed.

Facing the opponent's defender, Reyes showed his versatility and quickly looked up to observe the situation in the penalty area.The left foot made a gesture to shoot, and when the opponent's defender blocked him, he dunked and cut inward to the middle.Betis, who quickly tensed up, tightened his defense all at once.

But at this moment, Robinho inserted into the right side of the penalty area, and Reyes, after attracting enough defense, sent the ball into the penalty area with one kick.

After Robinho got the ball, facing the goalkeeper, he shot low with his left foot to the far corner of the goal.

1: 0.

Only 5 minutes into the game, many fans are still looking for their seats, Real Madrid has already made a fantastic start.Let the presence of Real Madrid fans are crazy.

But this has just begun, and Real Madrid's offensive will continue wave after wave.Since the time is not far apart, it is the same place, and the main players have not changed, so Gago's mind once again remembered the feeling of being in control of Zaragoza.A tacit understanding is developed unconsciously.

In the 10th minute, the opponent made a counterattack. Dani broke through directly from the right side of the penalty area. Torres was still inexperienced and was easily broken by him.However, he turned around and chased back the moment he was broken through. Those without the ball must be faster than those with the ball.Torres gradually caught up.

At this time, Dani suddenly made an emergency stop and dunked the ball, dodging Torres who was chasing after him, and then directly shot from a small angle.But it was saved directly by Diego Lopez.

Gago, who retreated back, received the ball thrown by Lopez, turned around and dodged Maldonado who wanted to press.Then the ball was distributed to the left. After Reyes received the ball, he passed it directly from the right. Higuain succeeded in countering offside, but he failed to stop the ball and was intercepted by the attacking goalkeeper.

At this time, Capello on the sidelines made a gesture of pressing forward to Gago.Gago signaled to Diarra, and then he led the entire midfield across the center line, overwhelming the opponent's side.

This was the tactic of the previous game, so there was nothing strange about the personnel on the field. Reyes and Robinho on both sides immediately inserted into the front of the opponent's big penalty area.Bravo also began to move forward, taking advantage of his height to attract the attention of the opponent's defense.

Gago once again began to organize the ball. Reyes and Robinho on both sides are players with delicate skills at their feet. The three constantly use the pass to mobilize the opponent's defense.If you encounter a press, if you can get rid of it by yourself, you can take advantage of the situation and rush into the penalty area. If it doesn't work, Gago will appear in their sight.

At this time, Gago's ability to hold the ball was fully utilized by Capello. Even in the face of two people's pressing, he would never want to steal the ball from under his feet.

Ruud van Nistelrooy and Higuain contained most of the defensive forces, but their defense was not strong enough for Gago.Reyes and Robinho continued to break through with the ball, and Gago and Diarra also shot long shots from time to time, forcing the opponent to use part of their strength to defend.

But this is also Gago's plan, so the pressure on the two forwards will be less.So, in the No. 205 minute, after Gago mobilized the opponent's defensive force to the two wings with a pass, a scalpel-like through ball penetrated the opponent's two central defenders.

Higuain and Van Nistelrooy succeeded in anti-offside at the same time, but Van Nistelrooy's reputation is still great, and the opponent's defender went to block him first.So Higuain got the ball without any interference and was about to break into the penalty area.Higuain fell to the ground and rolled into the penalty area.

"Penalty!!!"

The Real Madrid fans present shouted excitedly.

(End of this chapter)