Mister Legend

Chapter 60 Difficult running-in
Real Madrid can introduce almost all super attackers in the world, but the signing and transformation of the defense line is very problematic.These two seasons have been the best defensive stage in the past 30 years. The defensive team composed of Marcelo, Shuiye, Varane and Carvajal is one of the best in Europe, but this is not a bad idea. After adding the offensive ability bonus.In terms of defensive ability alone, it can only be regarded as a sub-first-class level, and there is still a big gap from the top.

Leaving aside the two wings, let's just talk about the central defender.Shui Ye's scoring ability is comparable to an excellent center forward, but his entire career has been accompanied by recklessness and position selection troubles. The former allowed him to get far more red cards than ordinary people, and the latter frequently caused him Unable to correctly read the game situation at a critical moment, resulting in a serious loss of position.In addition, the Real Madrid captain is not young anymore, and his peak period will soon pass. Once his physical fitness declines, the superhuman ability he had before is likely to cease to exist.

Varane can be regarded as the leader of the new generation of central defenders in terms of defensive ability and consciousness. However, since he transferred to Real Madrid at the age of 18, his growth has not met everyone's expectations for him before. He's been called the next Laurent Blanc and Marcel Desailly.Varane, who is about to turn 23 now, not only failed to show superhuman strength in competition with his peers Aymeric Laporte, Daniele Rugani, Marquinhos and others Strength, but there is a danger of being surpassed by rising stars such as Romagnoli (Alessio Romagnoli), because of his extremely high injury physique.From time to time, he was injured for a few months, which has seriously affected his player career development. Van Basten and Ronaldo are both immortal geniuses, but unfortunately they both stepped down from the altar due to injuries. Varane repeated their mistakes is very likely.

Veteran Pepe's ability goes without saying, but his nerves are always short-circuited, coupled with the traits of combining the above two shortcomings, he has not been able to get an evaluation that matches his ability.Although the monk who has come to the final stage of his career has gradually restrained the madness and frizz of his youth as he got older, it is a pity that the years are not forgiving, and the decline in physical fitness such as speed and jumping has made him who was once all-powerful. Losing the capital to be the main force in the top giants, the day of leaving Real Madrid seems to be foreseeable.

Fortunately, Real Madrid's first team introduced the young central defender Vallejo from Zaragoza in the summer of 15. This young player born in January 97 has amazing potential, and his mental attributes are in a mess. It is possible to take over the banner of Master Shui and guard the city of Real Madrid in the next ten years.

But only one of the two central defender positions is reliable.Among the remaining players, the 26-year-old Nacho has reached the peak of his ability and has no potential. At his current level, he can only serve as a substitute in the team; another hopeful star, Diego Llorente (Diego Llorente) has been loaned out by the team and has not proved his strength in a strong team.Just in case, Real Madrid needs to prepare an additional young central defender to join in the future construction. The answer given by Li Mudi is Mele.

From the point of view of potential, Mele, who was born in Sporting Gijon's youth training, is very similar to Diego Llorente, and both have the possibility of becoming a first-class central defender, while the former's precociousness is obviously more prominent. Appeared in the main position of the team.If a purchase application is made in the summer a few months later, it is estimated that without 2000 million euros, it will be difficult to impress Sporting Gijon's top management. This winter transfer window will be the last chance to win him at a lower price.But even so, the other party also put forward an offer as high as 600 million, which is a price that Real Madrid's management will never agree to.After 20 days of wrangling, the price reached 200 million and could no longer drop.Seeing that the transfer deadline is approaching, Li Mudi didn't want to miss this excellent opportunity to strengthen the team's future strength, so he reluctantly proposed to lend to the opponent Odegaard, which moved the heart of Sporting Gijon, which happened to lack the core of the frontcourt. Concessions were made on the price, and the deal was finally completed before the deadline.

Mele stayed with his home team in the second half of the season, and even if he came to Real Madrid in the summer, he would not play for Li Mudi's Castilla.For the benefits that he could not enjoy, Li Mudi paid a huge price for the common ground by losing the core of the midfield. This great spirit of harming himself and benefiting others moved Qi Zu and the club's top management, allowing him to buy and rent from Real Madrid in the future. When I was a player, I almost never encountered human factors to make things difficult, so it can be considered that good people are rewarded.In fact, this is all a routine played by Li Modi, how can others who don't have cheats understand it!

After some adjustments, only Toro and Álvaro were left in the original frontcourt of Castilla. Mbappe, the main striker appointed by the coach, followed the first team for a long time because he was also valued by Zizou. Fortunately, Mariano conquered everyone with his outstanding performance and became the team's leading general and pioneer.The position left by Odegaard can be handed over to Fabas. The 20-year-old midfielder has made rapid progress in recent months and has the potential to become an offensive and defensive all-round central midfielder; Couch will occupy the position behind the striker. The completely different style of play from Enzo before will also be the team's winning secret in the next few months; the most worrying thing is the left winger. Lu's Cedres grows up as quickly as possible.

On Thursday, February 2th, at 4:19, Castilla ushered in the challenge of Lynns at home. This was the first round of the Federation Cup quarter-finals.

Castilla's starting lineup for this game: goalkeeper Abad, right back Dani, center backs Linhart and Manu, left back Rodriguez, center midfielders Peperu and Ganfornina, right Forward Cedres, left forward Lin Liangming, shadow forward Kutch, forward Mbappe.

Lynns currently ranks No.4 in the B11 group of the West Second Division, which can be regarded as a weak team in the quarterfinals.The formation in this game is 4-4-1-1, and the strength of the players on the field is very average. Only the 33-year-old veteran forward Kepi has extremely high shooting skills and off-the-ball running, and needs to focus on marking.In addition, the two central midfielders, Canario and Chico, one attack and one defense, cooperate very tacitly, and are also the core players of the visiting team.

After the opening, the home team wanted to control the ball first and mobilize the opponent's defense to find flaws in it, but who knew that they made frequent mistakes as soon as they came up, and there was no tacit understanding at all in the pass-run cooperation.Just when the players were still looking for the feeling of the game, Lynns suddenly exerted strength and caught a return pass error by Gfornina. After the ball was intercepted by Canario, he directly dribbled the ball to the top of the penalty area. , a powerful shot.Abad's line of sight was disturbed by Linhardt who was defending, and he reacted a little slowly, but barely saved the ball.Keeping up, Kepi quickly judged the point of the rebound with his keen killer sense, and reached the goal ahead of Manu, and nudged the ball into the empty goal. 0-1, in the opening 6 minutes, Lynns, who was a guest, took the lead.

The inexplicable mistake led to the loss of the ball, which made everyone very annoyed. After the re-kick-off, Castilla started to attack crazily, but the effect of cooperation between each other was still not good, and many good opportunities were wasted.It was not until the No.30 minute that a simple cross was played from the right to grab the point. Cedrez's cross was caught by Mbappe in the middle, and the close-range head-shaking attack caused the opponent The goalkeeper dropped the ball, and the French striker, who had an excellent second reaction, immediately fell to the ground and shot, hitting the ball into the goal, and the score was tied.

This goal was the last good chance for both sides to score in the first half. After that, the home team was still affected by mistakes and it was difficult to break into the opponent's dangerous zone.After scoring an away goal, Lynns put more energy on defense, and failed to make good use of the opponent's mistakes to create any good opportunities.With a score of 1-1, the two teams ushered in the halftime whistle.

In the home team lounge, Li Mudi briefly commented on the various mistakes made by the team in the first half, and asked the players to focus on simple tactics first, and discard the offensive routines that required complicated moves.At the same time, squeeze Kepi's living space on the defensive end, and someone must follow him at all times, so as not to let him get the chance to touch the ball comfortably.

After the start of the second half, facing the opponent's deep defensive formation, Castilla gave up the teamwork that required multiple players to participate in the conduction of the ball, but frequently used two-to-one, wing crosses and individual breakthroughs. A style of play that requires less tacit understanding.Although Mbappe, who is at the top, is not as good as Mariano in the ability to compete for headers, his impact combined with speed and strength can still cause great trouble to the opponent, while Couch is at the front of the penalty area His dribbling has also won free kicks for the team many times, but unfortunately he failed to seize them.

In 8 minutes, Li Mudi replaced the mediocre Lin Liangming with the young striker Rivero transferred from U19, and Mbappe came to the left.This substitution immediately had a miraculous effect. In the 603rd minute, left-back Rodriguez made a pass from the bottom. Neither player in the middle could touch the ball. Cedres, who was inserted on the right, was on the sideline of the penalty area. After receiving the ball, he directly stuck to the ground and kicked the ball back vigorously.The football slid over the toes of many players to the rear point like lightning, and Rivero, who was unguarded, easily knocked the ball into the goal. 2-1, the home team overtook the score.

After taking the lead, Castilla made persistent efforts, and Mbappe scored a wonderful long shot in the No.701 minute, extending the advantage to two goals.

As the home fans celebrated the imminent victory, Lynns launched a blitz after the kick-off, and Canario's pass was returned by Kepi to the substitute Espinal, who was far from the goal. The strong shot from outside 25 was blocked by the center back Manu with his legs and went out of the bottom line.Canario's corner kick on the right was smacked towards the far corner of the goal by his defender Joe. Peperu, who was marking the opponent there, stretched out his foot in a hurry to try to clear the siege. Unexpectedly, he accidentally touched the ball. Into his own goal. 3-2, the visiting team narrowed the gap in the score in an instant, and the fans who were still in high spirits just now hugged their heads and sighed.

Fortunately, Li Moody turned on the hair dryer and the confidant brother mode in time, so that the players calmed down in a short time, and continued to attack the opponent's goal with a fairly normal mentality. In the No.809 minute, Cedres received Mu Bappé made a push after passing the ball, fixing the score at 4-2.A two-goal lead in the first round is still an acceptable result, but it is not good news for the opponent to score two away goals. The situation of this group of duels has become more subtle.

Before the team had finished summing up the various mistakes that occurred in this game, Castilla had to go north to the Basque Country to challenge the No.20 opponent in the fourth round of the league, Leoia.Facing the underdog ranked No.16, Li Mudi's team was once again scored twice by the opponent, but with the goals of Mbappé, Mariano and Munoz, they won the original 3-2. Three points as expected.All of a sudden, a lot of problems appeared in Castilla, which had updated its lineup, and it became a hot issue in the West Division B League, and Li Moody once again stood on the cusp of the storm.

(End of this chapter)