Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 520
Putting aside the troubles of personal affairs, Zhang Yuan returned to training after completing a one-day vacation.

"You rest for the weekend league! I plan to let Gonzalo play, and you have to recharge for the Champions League!" Mourinho arranged when talking with Zhang Yuan.

Real Madrid's opponent on the weekend is Valencia, and in the middle of next week, Real Madrid will welcome Guardiola's Barcelona again at the Bernabeu. Mourinho wants Zhang Yuan to rest for the sake of giving Zhang Yuan a moderate rest after his comeback.

Not only him, but Real Madrid's Mourinho has already made up his mind to make a replacement in this game. The goal is to play well in the semi-finals, strive to reach the final, and achieve the goal of winning the Champions League.

The gap in the league is five points, but Mourinho is very clear that this looks small. In fact, it is very difficult for Real Madrid to reverse and reach the top. Instead of this, it is better to focus on the Champions Cup. The honor of the Champions Cup has been Real Madrid for many years. Not seen, this is enough to make up for the loss in the league.

Of course, there is a deeper reason. Real Madrid has too many frontcourt attackers with strong abilities. It is impossible for Mourinho to ignore this. He must give these players appropriate opportunities, otherwise the substitutes and main players If the relationship is too clear, this team is destined to be unstable.

Mourinho's excuse was that many players who played after the Copa del Rey final needed to rest, and he carried out the rotation in a fair manner.

Zhang Yuan felt that his physical condition was very good, but he did not say to Mourinho that he could do what he wanted. On the one hand, respecting Mourinho’s authority in formation was a quality he must possess as a player; On the other hand, he also knows that Mourinho's position is not easy to do. He has to wipe out the team, and it is impossible not to give others a chance.

But he still replied to Mourinho, "Boss, I'm suspended!"

Mourinho patted his forehead and smiled. It seemed that he hadn't lined up yet. Otherwise, members of the coaching staff would have told him that Zhang Yuan was sent off in the Copa del Rey. Suspended.

Anna did not propose marriage to Zhang Yuan again, and stayed in Madrid for another two days before flying back to the United States, where her career focus was.

The match against Valencia was played on Sunday afternoon. In the same venue a few days ago, the Mestagna Stadium, Real Madrid did not give the home team any face and beat Valencia with a score of 6:3.

Real Madrid beat Valencia 4-0 in the first half, and the second half became an exhibition match.

Valencia's goals are all a little face-saving goals, such a big score is not surprising.

Valencia is currently ranked third, but the gap between them and Real Madrid is already 17 points, which is enough to explain the strength of the two teams. Except for Barcelona, ​​​​the other teams in La Liga are considering two issues when facing Real Madrid. The question of whether you can hold it and how many goals you concede.

But what kind of team is Valencia? They are a relatively representative attacking team in La Liga. Defense is not their weakness. However, it is very brave to stick to their own style when playing Real Madrid. The price of being brave is either playing. It's all about trampling Real Madrid's corpse.

It's a pity that Real Madrid, which has made a substantial rotation, is still not an opponent they can rub as much as they want.

They are no longer the existence that can compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga. Historically, Valencia is a serious team, and it is also a famous team in the European arena. Unfortunately, since Valencia's The management decided to start building a new stadium, and Valencia's bad luck began.

It was in 2006, and the Mestagna Stadium had a long history. Its initial capacity could only be more than 1 people. Later, with the development of Valencia (they are the well-deserved No. Top spot), more and more fans, the stadium has been expanded again and again, and finally reached a capacity of 55000 people.

In fact, this stadium has a lot of capacity. Many teams in the Premier League have less capacity than this, including some giants.

But the stadium facilities and so on are all backward in all aspects. The decision of Valencia's management to build a new stadium is understandable. It turned out that after the construction started, the global economy began to decline. Of course, a second-rate economic country like Spain is The disaster was severe, and it is normal for La Liga teams to borrow money to develop football. Real Madrid and Barcelona have a strong foundation and are not afraid of debts, but Valencia can't. It just so happened that they wanted to sell the Mestagna Stadium, but they didn't sell it.

In this way, the club had no money to repair the stadium, no money to pay off debts, no money to buy people, and they were entrusted by the Valencia government.

But they are still awesome, they can buy and sell people, their strength is definitely not comparable to Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​but they are still comparable to other teams, and their results in the past few years are still stable, this is the fact.

It is obviously incorrect for many fans to judge strength by looking at the rankings. La Liga is now in the duo stage, and the strength of other teams is really much worse.

The main center Higuain sent by Mourinho lived up to expectations and completed a hat-trick in this game. Mourinho is very happy to see Higuain, he still appreciates it, but he said that sometimes For tactical purposes, Higuain had to be excluded.

Another person gave Mourinho a problem, that is Kaka. Kaka never got a chance against Barcelona. He wasted two games on the bench. It is a lie to say that he has no opinion. Man, he was holding his breath all the time.

In this game, he held his breath again, but the result was two goals, and he scored twice.

This made Mourinho's head a headache. After the game, he said to reporters: "Kaka's state is slowly recovering. He is an important member of our team. Today's performance is very good. Excellent, I'm so happy for him!"

But in private, he is not happy at all. Tactically, Kaka used to assist and score goals in AC Milan. He looks very beautiful. He is a breakthrough midfielder, commonly known as a modern midfielder. all-rounder.

The problem with Real Madrid now is that there are too many all-rounders. A Ronaldo, Zhang Yuan and Kaka can do the work of several people. Mourinho doesn’t need so many. He needs a connection in the frontcourt Or, these so-called all-rounders are not good enough for this person, and he needs Ozil.

Kaka performed well and Mourinho didn't need it. This is Mourinho's problem. There may be nothing under the cover of the results now, but when Real Madrid gets unlucky one day, the media will definitely blame Mourinho on the head.

But now Mourinho is just a temporary headache, he quickly put such a headache behind him, and now he needs to concentrate on dealing with Barcelona.

After Real Madrid defeated Barcelona in two consecutive games, their whole mood was different. What Zhang Yuan could feel was that kind of confidence. After losing to Barcelona in 5 consecutive games, the mood of Real Madrid players was more or less impatient.

And the big environment of Real Madrid is really not as closed as Barcelona. The players are more disturbed by the outside world than Barcelona, ​​and their emotions are easily fluctuated.

When the game is not going well, there are all kinds of impatience, and the defenders start to become sloppy. This is exactly what Mourinho wants to change. Now it seems that the effect is not bad. The players of Real Madrid in the two games can calm down and execute It's tactical, and it's a phenomenal phenomenon.

Since Albiol received a red card in the league, it did not affect his appearance in the Champions League. Mourinho decided to use the same formation as in the league in the Champions League.

He had a better idea, but things didn't happen that way. Khedira was injured in training two days before the game and couldn't play!
"Damn it!" Mourinho scolded God after learning of Khedira's inspection status.

He has to be depressed. Khedira has performed very well this season, especially on the defensive end. Rasdiala has few opportunities to play. It is still unknown whether he can do it, but he has no choice. Compared with other old injuries No. comeback, it is undoubtedly more reliable to trust Las Diarra.

Real Madrid has a lot of old injuries this season. For example, Gago is injured. He was injured before he played the game. He has a pure glass physique. There is also Garay in the defense. The last game against Varen West Asia turned out to be the first time he played for Real Madrid all season. As for how many times he can play this season, there is no need to estimate it, and it is estimated that it will stay in single digits.

Mourinho is not talking nonsense when he sometimes refers to injuries to his performance. In the middle of the league, Zhang Yuan and Higuain were absent for a long time, and the impact on the team was still obvious.

(End of this chapter)