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Chapter 1352 Casemiro's Desire

Van Gaal did not agree to Yang Yang's invitation on the spot, and Yang Yang had already prepared for it and didn't care.

After all, he is the head coach of Manchester United. Before the contract with Manchester United expires, he will not easily make promises to others.

However, Yang Yang is confident that if Van Gaal leaves Manchester United this summer, he will choose to return to Ajax as long as he is not invited by the upper reaches of the four major leagues.

After all, he is 65 years old.

When a person reaches a certain age, he can no longer do many things, such as playing football and coaching.

Seeing Van Gaal again, Yang Yang clearly noticed Van Gaal's old age after a detailed discussion.

More than ten years ago, he was in the prime of life, but he was hit hard, so he was able to make a comeback through Alkmaar, but now he is 65 years old, and he has already passed that age.

Returning to the familiar Holland, returning to the familiar Ajax, and returning to the familiar position of technical director is very suitable for him.

After staying at Van Gaal's home for a day, Yang Yang returned to Madrid from Manchester that night.

Real Madrid's next opponent is Barcelona!
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La Liga has long lost its suspense. It is an indisputable fact that Real Madrid won the championship, but Barcelona still wants to break the unfavorable record against Real Madrid in the past few years. Enrique also shouted the slogan of fighting for dignity early on.

It is also interesting to say that the two La Liga century derbies this season were both arranged after the national team game.

The first round was the twelfth round, which happened to be the first game after the national team match day in November. Now the No.30 round is just after the national team match day in March. This is a very hard challenge for Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​​​who have many international players.

As we all know, it is very doubtful how much state the international footballers can play in the national team and return to the club after a long journey. This is a very doubtful thing.

But there is no way, the schedule is arranged like this, and Real Madrid has no right to interfere with the formation of the national team coach, especially now that all the national teams are preparing for the World Cup or the European Cup, the pressure on the national team coach is also great.

Among them, the international players in South America are under the greatest pressure.

South America ushered in two World Cup qualifiers in March, including the focus of Brazil against Uruguay.

Suarez, James Rodriguez, Mascherano and Di Maria all played two consecutive games. Real Madrid right back Danilo was selected for the Brazilian national team, but he did not play in the game. He was more of a substitute. Instead, Barcelona's right back Alves played two games.

The left-back Marcelo was not liked by the Brazil national team coach Dunga. The latter did not even recruit the in-form Marcelo, which also caused a controversial news.

When Dunga was interviewed by the media and explained why Marcelo was not recruited, he said that the national team doctor had communicated with the Real Madrid team doctor and believed that Marcelo had been suffering from injuries, so the national team decided to let Marcelo rest.

But Marcelo himself was outraged by this and indirectly refuted Dunga's statement through the media.

The Marca newspaper broke the news that the Brazilian national team has not had any communication with Real Madrid, nor has it made any contact with Marcelo himself. Dunga's remarks are just to transfer the conflict and transfer the dissatisfaction of Brazilian fans to Marcelo.

Because in the two games in March, Brazil drew [-]-[-] at home with Uruguay, and then drew [-]-[-] with Paraguay away. This made Brazilian fans very dissatisfied. Many people accused Dunga of why he did not recruit Marcelo, who was in hot form, and Dunga's remarks were undoubtedly shifting the contradiction.

After the Spanish media counterattacked, Grimalti, the Brazilian national team doctor, also publicly accepted media interviews. On the one hand, he said that he was very busy and had no time to pay attention to the outside world.

When the flames of war ignited on Real Madrid, coach Zidane immediately stood up to support Marcelo and publicly criticized the statement of the Brazilian national team doctor Grimaldi, saying that no member of the Brazilian national team had contacted Real Madrid from the beginning to the end.

"They said they had chat records with our team doctor, but as far as I know, there doesn't seem to be such a thing. Maybe they can publish it to see what's going on." Zidane was also a little angry.

As a head coach, he has to protect his players.

In the end, this matter gradually disappeared with the silence of the Brazilian national team, and finally subsided.

But for a long time, the conflicts between Marcelo and Dunga have repeatedly appeared. The main crux is that Dunga accused Marcelo of Real Madrid's interests, regardless of the interests of the Brazilian national team, and even at the expense of fraud.

And this time the conflict undoubtedly once again exposed this contradiction in front of the media and fans.

When the interests of the national team and the club conflict, whose interests should the players give priority to?

This is an eternal problem in football.

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On the evening of April [-]nd, at Camp Nou in Barcelona.

In the No.30 round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Barcelona away.

Real Madrid once again formed a four-three-three formation, with Courtois as the goalkeeper, Marcelo, Vermaelen, Harvey Martinez and Danilo as the defense, Casemiro at the back of the midfield, Toni Kroos and De Bruyne in the center, Isco and Vazquez on the front wings, and Yang Yang as the lone striker.

All the international players who played the main force in the national team were once again excluded from the starting lineup, including Suarez, Modric, David Silva and other players sat on the bench.

The strategy of Yang Yang and Zidane is very clear, that is to choose the players with the best condition, the most guaranteed, and the most physical fitness to face Barcelona, ​​because it is bound to be a bloody battle at the Nou Camp.

Barcelona is playing the main force, the goalkeeper is Bravo, the defense is Alba, Mathieu, Pique and Alves, the midfielder is Iniesta, Busquets and Turan, and the frontcourt is Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.

Luis Enrique took another risk in this crucial game and chose Turan to start instead of Rakitic, obviously hoping to use Turan's technology to help Barcelona better control the game and the ball.

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At the beginning of the game, the two sides launched a fierce fight.

Barcelona's passing and receiving speed is not fast. On the one hand, it is because of Real Madrid's active pressing, and on the other hand, it is because of the addition of Turan, a new aid. This makes Iniesta and Busquets need to slow down the passing speed, so that Turan can adapt to Barcelona's passing control.

Slowing down the speed of passing and receiving the ball has another purpose, which is to seduce Real Madrid to take the initiative to press up and grab it, which is Barcelona's favorite.

Real Madrid seems to adopt a tit-for-tat four-three-three, but in fact, Isco and Vazquez both retreated deeply, looking like two full-backs, so Real Madrid's formation is more like four-one-four-one.

The difference from the first round of the match between the two sides is that both Zidane and Yang Yang have a clearer understanding of the tactical execution of Real Madrid players and the strength of the team, and they are more confident.

When playing Barcelona in an away game, defense must be the first. How to contain Barcelona's passing and possession is the key.

The strategy adopted by Real Madrid in this game is that in Barcelona's half, Real Madrid actively presses up and presses, but once the press fails, or the ball passes the center line, the frontcourt immediately retreats. Isco and Vazquez take the initiative to retreat to the midfield to help defend the two wings.

Toni Kroos is still responsible for suppressing Busquets, and Yang Yang is also actively running in the frontcourt to support.

Casemiro stayed in front of the defense throughout the game, and he was the key to Real Madrid's midfield defense.

The difference from the first round is that Messi won the starting lineup this time. One of Casemiro's important tasks is to freeze Messi and seize the gap between the midfield and the defense.

When all the international footballers are fighting for the country, Casemiro has not been recruited from the Brazilian national team for a long time. Dunga would rather choose Gustavo who played for Wolfsburg, or even Augusto who played for the Chinese Super League.

This made Brazil's lower back full of anger.

Before the game, both Yang Yang and Zidane concluded that if there is anyone in the Real Madrid team who is most eager to perform and prove himself in the derby of the century, the most urgent person must be Casemiro, because he is eager to enter the Brazilian national team.

And it turns out that Casemiro did perform quite well.

The Brazilian midfielder with a height of 1.8 meters [-] has a pair of long legs. When facing the flexible Messi, his interception and physical confrontation are very important. He not only steals interceptions in his own position, but also actively expands his range of activities to make up for the two full-backs Marcelo and Danilo who attack from the back.

By firmly locking the gap between the midfield and the defense, Casemiro helped Real Madrid not only withstand the attack from Barcelona, ​​but also freeze the Barcelona threat, almost building an unbreakable barrier in front of the defense, bringing balance to the team.

Including Messi, many Barcelona players have suffered in front of Casemiro.

The existence of Casemiro allowed Real Madrid to gain a firm foothold in the Nou Camp, and at the same time liberated other players.

Real Madrid's wing was active, Toni Kroos and De Bruyne had no worries, Marcelo and Danilo also took the opportunity to move forward actively, which made Real Madrid's counterattack impressive.

Barcelona controlled the ball but failed to control the game.

In the first half, the two sides came and went, fighting a battle of attrition, but in the end no one was able to score.

But in the second half, as the game progressed, Real Madrid gradually accelerated the pace of the game, which made many Barcelona players unable to keep up with their physical fitness, especially after entering 10 minutes.

This is a strategy formulated by Yang Yang and Zidane before the game, because the thickness of Barcelona's bench is not strong, and the players travel long distances, which consumes too much. Once they enter the last 10 minutes of the game, they will suffer physically.

In the 608th minute, Vazquez counterattacked to the frontcourt and knocked back from the right side of the penalty area. De Bruyne made a diagonal pass and sent it to the penalty spot.

(End of this chapter)