[football] this god

Although Mourinho thought that the guarantee that Cristiano wanted was too low on his personality, but after thinking about it for a while, he recalled his style of dealing with people over the years, and felt that Ronaldo's worries seemed to be reasonable—— Mourinho, a man with a very clear view of himself, decided to forgive Ronaldo for his offense.

Real Madrid's troubles are indeed not over.

"After narrowly beating Dinamo Zagreb, we are flattened by La Liga underdogs Levante, Mr. Mourinho, how do you explain this?" A few days later, when the third round of La Liga ended, In the post-match interview, a reporter questioned Mourinho so aggressively.

Mourinho frowned, arguing that tactical issues would take time.

But this kind of statement can no longer appease the reporters. Mourinho can clearly see this from the expressions of the reporters, so he changed his countermeasures.

"Barcelona had two consecutive draws in La Liga and the Champions League before this round, but why didn't anyone blame them?" Mourinho asked the reporters in turn, "I think some people here are not worried about Real Madrid losing, but rather Fear that Real Madrid will not fail - they are afraid that Real Madrid and I will have a break, that we will succeed."

The reporters looked at each other in blank dismay-at least one part of Mourinho's statement was true: Barcelona had been winless for two consecutive games before this round of league victory over the underdogs.

Losing two consecutive games is indeed not a big deal, even against the flourishing Barcelona, ​​it is not unforgivable, but it is true that, as Mourinho said, Real Madrid only got a draw after all, and in this draw, Real Madrid Cristiano has not yet played—and it is understandable that Cristiano did not appear: After this game, Real Madrid will play three games in nine days, and each game is not as good as This time is easy.

It is true that Cristiano is not very old and is at the beginning of the season. It seems that he does not need to take turns, but it is understandable if Mourinho is considerate of him and hopes that he can concentrate his energy on more important games. of.

After all, Barcelona's lessons learned from playing Milan in the Champions League group stage are not far away.

——In the second minute of game No.70, the score between Barcelona and Milan was maintained at 2:2.

At this time, Pique cut off the ball from the Milan striker in his own backcourt. Pique noticed that the opponent's defense missed Leo after getting the ball, so Pique made a decisive and decisive long pass to Leo at the front. in front of you.

Leo caught the ball very smoothly, and he started quickly as soon as he caught the ball, directly leading his opponent by one body.

Everything could have gone very smoothly. As long as Leo advances to the penalty area at this speed normally, he can get a single-handed chance.

But just when Leo took a step inside the penalty area, all the Barcelona benches stood up and held their breath, and everyone thought that this quasi-single shot would change the score, but Leo's shot suddenly lost its previous level.

Leo's shot was limp and the Milan keeper had the ball in his arms with little effort.

Guardiola was not satisfied with the result of the ball, but he didn't take it too seriously at the time.After all, it's not uncommon to not have enough strength to finish a shot after a sprint on the football field, especially when the game has gone on for more than 70 minutes.

But what happened next was not unusual.

In the 708th minute of the game, Barcelona got the ball again - Puyol protected the ball, then distributed the ball to the wing and handed it to Alves, luring Milan's defense to retreat collectively to chase the ball.

Seeing Puyol's goal achieved, Alves returned the ball to Puyol behind him.

Puyol got space in front of him, and calmly sent the ball to the other side to Busquets, further pulling Milan's defense line--Milan's defense line was caught, and Busquets took the opportunity to find a slight cross in front of him. In front of the vacant Harvey.

Harvey also received the ball smoothly and dribbled the ball past Milan's first layer of defense.

Milan's defensive players began to concentrate in the middle. At this time, Harvey suddenly dribbled the ball, turned around and took a step back, and then took advantage of the gap on the diagonal front side to hit the ball to Leo who quickly penetrated from the side. .

Leo could have pushed forward as fast as the last time he caught the ball, but perhaps because of the unsatisfactory result of the last shot, Leo decided to change his strategy-Leo made some adjustments and then distributed the ball to the Villa in the middle.

Villa replaced Leo in the middle, and successfully came to the penalty area-but at that time Milan's defense had piled up in the middle, Villa did not directly confront them, but instead retreated to the side and rushed to the bottom line.

Villa made a pass back from the baseline and suddenly appeared in the middle of the penalty area to Leo, who also received the ball smoothly.

The Milan defensive players were shocked, and immediately a person came to interfere with Leo - the Milan players did not exert force, but just clinging to Leo to prevent him from adjusting his force.

In normal times, Leo can completely get rid of such interference-after all, the opponent players dare not take the initiative to rely on Leo, and can only stand in the interference by themselves.Leo was perfectly able to block the opponent and shoot at the same time.

But Leo failed to fend off his opponent, and of course it was difficult to complete the shot.

The shot was again resolved by Milan.

Guardiola stood in front of the bench and sighed -- he could see clearly now that Leo's failure to shoot after the last sprint was certainly due to exhaustion after the sprint, but I'm afraid part of it was because Leo was already tired. .And if it wasn't obvious enough then, it's more than enough now.

Leo is tired.

Leo certainly wasn't too tired to play, but Leo wasn't very good at two-day events, to say the least.

And if Leo's situation can be evaded because his physical fitness is not his strong point, then in the next 10 minutes including stoppage time, the other Barcelona players who appeared on the field due to lack of physical strength will have no mistakes. Can be justified.

After all, Leo's physical fitness is indeed not a strong point, so it can't be that this shortcoming can be transmitted to other teammates like the flu, right?

——"But Barcelona is facing Milan and Real Sociedad after all. The level of these two opponents is higher than that of Real Madrid's opponents in these two games."

Although people admit that Mourinho stated an undeniable fact, people can't help but bring up another truth underlying this fact-Barcelona's opponents are indeed stronger, and their mistakes seem more forgivable.

Mourinho scoffed at this.

"There's no difference," Mourinho said haughtily. "Losing to anyone means losing points, and all losing points means forcing yourself into trouble on the way to the title -- I can't see my What is the difference between the failures of Mr. Guardiola and the failures of Mr. Guardiola. If someone sees it, it can only show that this person treats Real Madrid and Barcelona differently."

All the reporters were in an uproar.

A considerable number of these reporters have been reporting with Real Madrid for many years. They care about and love Real Madrid, so they cannot accept Mourinho's accusations.

"Sir," a reporter said loudly, "is the current situation caused by us? You coached the team's poor offense and Ronaldo failed to create goals for the team. Is this caused by us? You Don't you think you and Ronaldo should at least give us an apology instead of blaming us here?"

The reporters didn't directly scold Mourinho and Cristiano for being useless, but what they meant was obvious-they probably didn't plan to bring Ronaldo in at the beginning, after all, Mr. Ronaldo didn't even play in this game.But life is like this, as the top card, you will be forced to be at the forefront of being scolded.

Mourinho rolled his eyes secretly - he knew that neither he nor Ronaldo could escape, but he didn't expect all this to come so early.

At least he didn't expect to question Ronaldo so early. After all, if he didn't have dementia to remember things, Ronaldo just scored a penalty in the Champions League group match just past, didn't he? ?Isn't a penalty kick a goal?Does a penalty kick have no self-respect?Does a three-pointer from a penalty kick count as 2.5?

The big boy who doesn't understand football.

But such accusations also reminded Mourinho of the gentleman's agreement between him and Cristiano.

Tsk, trouble, Mourinho thinks this way, maybe he shouldn't agree to Ronaldo, so that he doesn't have to think about how to reach a deal between them at this time.

But Mourinho has always kept his word, and since he promised Cristiano, he must do it-and he really knows that if he shows his favor to Ronaldo at this time, it will not only help strengthen their relationship. At the same time, it can also make other players trust him more.

All in all, it's a safe bet.

"I know a lot of people think that there is something wrong with Cristiano and that he can't always lead the team to victory. But what I want to say is that Cristiano is definitely the person who loves and cares about this team the most— ——If not the only one, at least one of them—Cristiano has been trying his best to help each of his teammates grow in the past season and now. For a player of this caliber, I don’t think anyone can be more humble than him. Sometimes I even question myself: Jose, do you really deserve such a hard-working player? Are you really like him? Are you working hard at work?"

Mourinho said so.

"Cristiano is the best active player in the world. He is also the hardest-working player in the world who respects himself and his profession the most. I will not allow anyone to slander him in front of me."