princely elegance

Chapter 224 This Must Be a Coincidence
Gago has the unique excellent skills of South American players, and his style of watching Redondo's video playing since he was a child also has the simplicity of European players.Delicate and concise technology endowed him with first-class breakthrough ability, and as a genius, he has the keen insight and broad vision of a midfielder, and can see the flaws of the opponent's defense in an instant.

In La Liga, whenever Real Madrid was in a stalemate, Gago would step in from the backcourt and use his breakthrough ability to make the stalemate fluctuate. As long as there is a change, there will be a chance.There is no absolutely perfect line of defense on this planet, and Gago's excellent view of the overall situation allows him to seize the fleeting opportunity to penetrate the opponent's line of defense.

Therefore, he has the most assists in the entire La Liga, especially when facing weaker opponents, the more assists he can get.In the entire La Liga arena, a team that can maintain a complete defense line under the impact of Real Madrid stars has not yet been born, and for Serie A, it is not impossible.

In order for Gago to play a role, the first thing is to get close to the penalty area. Under the training of Schuster this season, Real Madrid's small technical cooperation in the midfield has reached the point of perfection.Most of the goals were scored through short pass penetration and personal breakthroughs to tear apart the opponent's defense.There are basically very few goals scored directly from the backcourt to assist the striker like the Premier League teams.

So this time Spalletti's tactic is very simple, that is, to keep Gago from getting close to the penalty area. Perotta, the resistant midfielder, has wrapped Gago like a dog's skin plaster.Not far away, De Rossi did not forget to support while taking care of the organization, and the two midfielders blocked Gago's way forward at the same time.

The meaning is obvious, passing the ball is okay, breakthroughs are negligible!

For Roma, as long as Gago can't play, then Real Madrid's skills will be ineffective.

Of course, if it's Messi at his peak, let alone two, even three or four, he would dare to use his quick change of direction in a small area to break through.But Gago is still very self-aware about himself. He is outstanding in his ball control and overall situation. Although his breakthrough is good compared to ordinary players, he is inferior to Robinho and Robben, two wingers. A bit, let alone compared with Messi.

Every time he wants to take the ball forward, Perrotta will stand in front of him just right. The backcourt players of the Italian national team are all people who have fully utilized their racial talents.Gago tried a few times just now, but every time he tried to pass this stiff-faced midfielder, De Rossi would come over and block his way forward. Nearly steals the ball.

After doing this several times, Gago began to change his strategy and began to use passing to organize the team's offense.Although Guti did not play in this game, Robben was there.When Peter Pan was at Chelsea, he was the team's offensive initiator, organizing, shooting, and breaking through everything.

Real Madrid's first shot was completed by him. Since the two midfielders in the center of Rome put most of their attention on Gago, Robben easily cut in from the side and fired.However, Roma's defense blocked his shooting angle very neatly. Even if there were occasional gaps, there was still Brazil's national goalkeeper Doni in front of the goal!
"The situation is not good. Although it is still a draw, the team's offense was completely expected by the opponent. Robbie has no chance to face Panucci, a full-back who was as famous as Carlos in Real Madrid. Higuain still Too immature, in the Champions League against Juan, a central defender who has experienced a lot of scenes, he didn't do much, now the only thing he can rely on is the captain besides Robben!"

After more than ten minutes of the game, Gago correctly estimated the situation on the field. Roma's defense was specially arranged for this lineup of Real Madrid.Using the "pair" method, Real Madrid's several offensive points were defended one by one. In this game, Roma invested a lot of energy in defense. It seems that Spalletti intends to not concede a goal at home, which will determine the victory. The key to losing is the away game in the second round.

"As expected of a coach who can make a name for himself!"

After wanting to break through and being blocked again, Gago glanced at Spalletti who looked weird off the field and let out a psychological admiration.At least from the perspective of future generations, the Italian's name is far more than the current Real Madrid coach Schuster.

"It seems that a poor player career is the key to becoming a good head coach!"

When Gago was complaining inwardly, Roma's defense had already started to encircle him. Now that Real Madrid can attack only Robben, Gago's passing line is already obvious.

But the imagination of a genius is always unexpected. Just when Perotta took a slight sideways step and was about to intercept the pass to Robben in advance, Gago, who keenly observed the gap, swayed his calf and slammed on the ball. .

"Gago, shoot directly from a long distance!"

The commentator at the scene was a little excited. From the scene of this game, it can only be described as boring.Roma is based on defense, except for the three tricks at the beginning of the game, the rest of the time was played by Real Madrid in the half.However, Real Madrid's offenses were all thunderous and rainy. Apart from Robben's occasional shots, Raul's few forced shots could only allow Doni to exercise his muscles and bones.

But this time, Gago used his personal ability to shoot a long-planned long shot. The angle and kick position were calculated from time to time.Passing the ball to Robben all the time is also to induce Perotta to form inertial thinking.There was very little space for this shot, and it was drawn from the center to the lower left corner of the goal.This is the only gap between Perotta and De Rossi.

"I expected this from you a long time ago!"

Spalletti, who was off the court, saw this scene but smiled lightly and murmured something.

Spalletti also took into account the fact that Gago can shoot beautiful long-range shots only by relying on the explosive power of his calf muscles. He knew that even if Perotta and De Rossi's cooperation defense is tacit, it is impossible for the entire game. No flaws were revealed.As for such things as flaws, sometimes revealing themselves will become a hole card that determines the outcome.

Before the start of the game, Spalletti had trained for this situation. He indicated that when he really couldn't guard against it, he could show Gago a gap. With Gago's super insight, even if it was just a It can be grasped in an instant.And the exposed gap must be towards the left side of the goal, and the next step is to rely on goalkeeper Doni.

For the goalkeeper, reducing the defensive goal by half, even a colander can become a goalkeeper like Casillas.

When Doni got the ball from Gago, he always stood on the left side, because he knew that his teammates would only show the gap on this side for Gago to see.

Sure enough, under Perotta's half-intentional and intentional dislocation, Gago kicked a beautiful long shot, which went straight to the lower left corner of the goal.

"This feeling of predicting the enemy's shooting route in advance is really good!"

Doni didn't even fall to the ground sideways, he just took a step and used his body to block all possible angles of Gago's ball.Stretching out his hands, Dhoni was going to hold the ball firmly, and then throw it quickly to launch a counterattack. If he was lucky, he could take the opportunity to break Real Madrid's goal and take the lead.

But at this moment, a white figure appeared in his eyes, and behind his white figure was the distraught look of his teammate Max.

When Gago kicked the shot, Raul threw away Mex who was marking him. Originally, he meant that if Doni let go, he would go over to find a miss, but seeing Doni actually seemed like The goalkeeper stood up ahead of time to block the angle of the goal, and the aura of Lord of the Rings in the penalty area was fully displayed at this moment.Lifting his right leg, he lightly rubbed Gago's shot. The high-speed ball changed its flight path instantly when it encountered an external force, and blasted towards the middle.

Doni was terrified at this moment, but fortunately he was still standing, immediately fell his body to the ground, and rushed towards the middle, trying to block the ball.But Raul was very smart with the ball. The ball hit the lawn before crossing the goal line, then bounced up and changed direction again and flew to the upper right corner of the goal.

"gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

"The goal was scored. Gago made an assist, and the captain of Real Madrid inserted the ball in time to score the goal. After 10 minutes of the game, there was finally a goal."

"Facing this ball, Doni has nothing to do. He has done well enough. He predicted Gago's shot route in advance, but the key of the Lord of the Rings slid and let the ball change direction. And it flew into the goal. Before, there was a rebound action, even if Buffon made a pounce on this ball, it would be the same result!"

The commentators in Rome tried to excuse Doni one after another, but he didn't know that this was Spalletti's tactical arrangement.The more than 3000 Real Madrid fans who came with the team uttered their loudest voices in an instant, and they were happy for the team to take the lead.

"This is Raul's 60th goal in the Champions League and his 62nd European goal. With this goal, he equaled Muller in the number of European goals and approached the record held by Inzaghi. Let us cheer for the birth of a legend!"

After scoring the goal, Raul came under the stands of the fans, with his back to the fans, stretched out his thumbs and pointed to the back of the jersey, where Real Madrid's number 7 is!
Gago arrived first, without any scruples about the captain's face, he pushed Raul's from the front and celebrated the goal.And then, Robinho and Higuain also came to celebrate, an away goal, and Real Madrid had a perfect start to the game.

At the moment Raul scored, the smile on Spalletti's face froze. At this time, he recalled and realized that Gago's long-range shot was not fast, as if he was waiting for Doni to block it. Same.And in a split second, Raúl was in, and then changed the direction of the ball, breaking through what he thought was a flawless defense.

"This must be a coincidence, otherwise it wouldn't be such a coincidence!"

Spalletti comforted himself like this in his heart, but there was a bone-chilling chill that chilled his whole body!
(End of this chapter)