Mister Legend

Chapter 12 The First and Second Battles of Coaching

The physical fitness coach Olellana and the defensive coach Santiago Sanchez in the coaching staff are very strict. In addition, most of the players in the team have good professionalism, so the overall training effect is still satisfactory. The only thing that needs to be worried about is Li Mudi. What matters is the team's offensive tactics.The players in the frontcourt have no problems in terms of technique and physical condition, and the results shown in the usual training are not bad, but Li Moody still feels that the cooperation between them is a bit sluggish. It did not show the dominance it should have.

The main lineup is initially determined: goalkeeper Yanez, right back Forlan, center backs Haimi and Leon, left back Abner, center midfielders Odegaard and Toro, midfielder Enzo, right winger Alvaro , left winger pull left, center Mariano.

When the novice coach was busy deploying offensive tactics, the day came on July 7, and the first game of Li Moody's coaching career began.From then on, a legend - not even a shadow can be seen.

Since it is the first show of the new season, the measure of exempting tickets has been adopted. Fans can watch for free with the ticket stub or season ticket certificate of any game in the previous season.The Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium, which had an average attendance of just over 4000 last season, is full of 6500 seats today.

After arranging the tactical play of the game, after a few words of encouragement, the players began to enter the field.Seeing 22 young people who were not a few years younger than him bouncing into the stadium, Li Moody could only feel the sound of his heart beating so loudly that it even overwhelmed the enthusiastic cheers of the fans.Sweat came uninvited again, dripping down the head onto the white shirt.

A drop of sweat flowed into his eyes, and the salt in it stung Li Modi. He hurriedly took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket while everyone's attention was on the field, and quickly wiped the sweat on his face a few times.After tidying up a bit, he turned around and took a bottle of mineral water from the back of the coach's seat, and took two gulps to relieve his nervousness.

A whistle blows, and the game officially begins.

As the striker of the Athletic Bilbao B team turned the football back to his teammates, Li Moody's attention was firmly grasped by the game in an instant. At this moment, it seemed that no one else or anything existed. It disappeared without a trace.

In this game, the Biba B team used a 5-4-1 defensive lineup.The configuration of three central defenders and a defensive midfielder made their personnel density in the backcourt very exaggerated. In addition, Castilla had many problems with their offensive coordination, so the scene was ugly.One side defends intensively, and the quality of counterattack is also poor; the other side wants to press hard, but there are so many offensive mistakes that it is completely unable to effectively distribute the football to a reasonable position.To put it bluntly, the quality of this kind of competition is not as good as the amateur players in the Spanish regional league, and it even competes with the Chinese National Football Team-forgive me for being black here.

Li Mudi kept shouting from the sidelines, directing the players to move, but it had no effect at all.At 10:45 minutes into the first half, after discussing with Solari, Li Moody asked the players on the field to change their pre-match arrangements.Instead of attacking aggressively, it turned into long-term possession of the ball, and paralyzed the opponent's defensive awareness through the inversion of the midfielder, so as to seek opportunities, but unfortunately it did not achieve results. After 0 minutes, 0-[-], Li Moody's team performed poorly.

Through the observations in the first half and the various data and scores given by the FM system, Li Mudi has discovered the crux of the team: apart from the short training time and everyone has not developed the habit of some routines, the central midfielder in the organization The abilities of Degao and midfielder Enzo have not been fully utilized.Not only did the two have no cooperation on the field, but they interfered with each other, causing the midfielder to completely lose control of the rhythm and handling of the ball.

The most suitable position for Erdegaard should be the front midfielder. He himself prefers to play this position. In addition, he is also full of adaptability at the right winger position.But the team has no reliable technical players in the central midfielder position, and it is too wasteful to put Enzo on the bench.In reality, Benitez changed the lineup from 4-2-3-1 to a 4-3-3 similar to Barcelona in Dream II period after a period of time in the new season.There is no attacking midfielder in the three midfielders, and occasionally a defensive midfielder is withdrawn. This has led to the world-class attacking midfielders James Rodríguez and Isco can only be used as "[-] million" substitutes to play wingers, too reckless !
Li Moody attaches great importance to the personal abilities of Erdegaard and Enzo, and believes that the two are Xavi and Andrés Iniesta of Castile, who can bring terror-level dominance to the team.So at the beginning of the second half, Munoz was used to replace Álvaro, and Erdegao was promoted to the right side, and Munoz and Toro partnered in the midfield, and Erdegao played the right winger.

After the adjustment, the state of the team improved somewhat compared with the first half, but still did not play a wonderful teamwork, but the unnecessary mistakes were reduced.It wasn't until the 75th minute that Enzo was replaced and Odegaard was replaced by the front midfielder. The team played a few threatening attacks, but unfortunately they all returned without success under the opponent's heavy defense.

In the end, the first game coached by Moody Li ended 0-0. The team's performance was unsatisfactory. In the player ratings given by the FM system, all the frontcourt players were below 6 points, of which Enzo was 5.5 and Odegao was 5.8. .

After the game, Li Moody urgently held a meeting of the coaching staff to discuss various issues that were exposed in the game, and the meeting lasted until [-]:[-] pm.

Back at the apartment, I called up the system interface, and found out the specific performance data of the players in this game. I saw that Erdegaard always moved up to squeeze Enzo's position, and Enzo only played for 10 minutes. After passing the ball to Erdgao six times, Li Mudi frowned and thought about the solution.

Before the next day's training, Li Mudi purposely found two people to have a chat for a while.Enzo went home last night under the guidance of his father Qi Zu, and he understood what his problem was. He sincerely apologized to Li Moody and said that he should not deliberately ignore Erdegaux. When Odegaard plugged in, he temporarily switched positions with him to protect the integrity of the formation.Seeing Enzo's performance, Li Mudi was very happy. Only those who can face up to their own strengths and weaknesses, admit mistakes and correct them in time will be able to achieve success. Little Enzo has already seen his father's back in this regard.

And Erdegaard also felt sorry for his performance in the last game. After consulting a few tactical points, he tactfully proposed that he and Enzo's positions should be swapped.After not getting a definite answer, he returned to the training ground uneasy.

Li Mudi frowned again involuntarily.

In the next few days, the team strengthened the rehearsal of various tactical coordination in the midfield and frontcourt.Li Moody is not a rigid coach. Because players and coaches observe the game from different perspectives, what they see will be different.He prefers the players to judge the situation on the spot by themselves. He will only stand up to remind and arrange new tactics when the players have obvious judgment or control errors.Therefore, the organization core is the most important thing for Li Mudi's team. The possibility of the next Maradona and Zidane in modern football may be very small, so the two-person organization combination similar to Harvey and Iniesta has always been It is what Li Moody wants to focus on.

It's a pity that the cooperation between Enzo and Erdegaard has progressed very slowly.The former is only quite satisfactory in the position of central midfielder, and can play less than [-]% of his ability; while the latter obviously prefers to play as a midfielder. Even if the starting position is central midfielder, he always runs forward unconsciously, disturbing the entire formation. Chaos.

Li Mudi suspected that countless brain cells had died again, and kept meeting with the coaching staff to discuss and make adjustments, hoping to solve this big problem as soon as possible.

On August 8, Huesca, the second-tier team in the province of Huesca, which borders France, was a guest. This team was in the same group as Castilla in the second-tier B league last season and won Reached the championship and successfully upgraded through the play-offs.Although they have been promoted to the second division, due to the difficulties of funds and scale, the strength of the new aid introduced is not too strong, so the overall strength is not much different from Castilla.

The course of the game also proved this point. In the first half, neither side had any threatening offenses, and their performances were half-baked.In the 65th minute of the second half, Li Mudi replaced Odegaard, who had not been working well with Enzo, and Castilla gradually took the offensive. In the No. 803 minute, the left winger pulled the left and scored the only goal of the game. In the end, Castilla struggled to win their first warm-up match 1-0.

The problems between Erdegaux and Enzo are still unresolved, which makes Li Mudi feel very helpless. It is extremely frustrating to encounter a hurdle that may not be overcome at the beginning of his coaching career.Is it necessary to let one of them sit on the bench?

When I turned on the FM system at night and observed the situation of the team, Erdegaard showed a hint of dissatisfaction: I had some doubts about the coaching ability of the head coach, and I was dissatisfied with the current situation of the team. "I'll intervene! I'm so busy that I'm not tired yet, but you're dissatisfied first. Wait, I'll give you some shoes tomorrow!" Li Modi said angrily.

The next day, Li Modi got up early and had breakfast, then walked towards the U19 training ground.

"Good morning, Hans. Do you have time? I want to chat with you." Moody Li resorted to one of his nirvana: find the parents!

Hans Erik Odegaard (HansErik Odegaard), the father of Martin Odegaard, when Real Madrid introduced him, he dug his father together by the way, and now he is the coach of the Real Madrid U19 team-this is a potential rules?
"Hi, Li. Of course, I also want to have a good chat with you. How is Martin doing in the reserve team?" Mr. Hans was still very polite to his son's boss.

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