Mister Legend

Chapter 15 The real debut
On August 8th, Li Moody saw the notice just sent to the club by the league on the training ground. The opening match of Group 24 of the West Division B League was determined to be Castilla's away game against Gernika Club, and it will be the national team. Live broadcast, so the game time was changed to 2:8 on August 29th.

Spain is undoubtedly a big football country. Whenever there is an important football match, the live TV broadcast will naturally not be missed. Turn on various local TV stations and the Spanish TV station (TelevisionEspana-TVE) covering the whole country, and there are live football matches everywhere.Of course, local TV stations mainly broadcast local teams, while the national broadcasting of national TV stations must be the highlight of every round of La Liga and La Liga.For teams in the Spanish Second Division B League, there are not many opportunities to broadcast live nationwide; for Castilla, even the TV broadcast in the Madrid area does not have the opportunity for every round. Naturally, Real Madrid's first-team matches are Every game has to be turned, coupled with Atletico Madrid, Vallecano, and Getafe who are also in Madrid, the number of times a reserve team matches in the third tier can be imagined.

The first show of the professional competition met the national live broadcast, and Li Mudi's protagonist halo showed a certain power.

For Gnica, the coaching staff has studied for a long time in advance.This is a team that has just been promoted from West C. The team is located in the Basque Country in northern Spain and has the same player requirements as Athletic Bilbao.The common lineup used by the team is 4-3-2-1 with a defensive midfielder. The players are very average. The only thing to pay attention to is Gorka Pérez, who is on loan from Athletic Bilbao. ), this person originally played as a midfielder, but after coming to Gnica, he was placed in the position of a central defender, with a strong header ability.

In view of the fact that the opponent's defense is good but the speed is generally slow, in the first round of the game, Li Mudi intends to let Mbappe start, and cooperate with the midfielder to play more behind the ball.Therefore, in the training one week before the game, the focus was on the cooperation of direct pass and oblique penetration. Before the training, Li Mudi specially asked to clear the field to prevent the opponent's scouts from detecting it.It's not that he's being overly cautious, and there's nothing to lose in the first game.As a rookie coach with no coaching experience, Li Moody knows that he has not been fully recognized by everyone for the time being, so he needs to use continuous victories to build confidence-not only the confidence of the outside world in him, but also his self-confidence that is not strong .In short, one sentence: the game against Guernica must be won.

On Saturday, August 2015, 8, it was cloudy, light wind, and the temperature was 29 degrees Celsius.Madrid is about 23 kilometers away from Gnica, and it takes 370 hours to take a bus. The team arrived at the reserved hotel before 4 o'clock, and just had lunch directly. When I was young, Xiao Lizi expressed that he was very uncomfortable.

After lunch, everyone went back to their room to rest, and Li Moody went to pick up his parents first.In order to cheer for their son's important first match, the old couple took a plane to Bilbao, and then took a taxi to Gnica. They were really tired.After arranging a room for them to rest, hurry up and eat the dumplings brought by my mother-the lunch just now really has no appetite.

Before leaving the hotel, I held a brief tactical meeting, and came to the stadium at 6:[-] pm for half an hour of adaptive training. At the same time, Li Moody went to the pre-match press conference.

The third-level league is indeed not taken seriously. Even if it is a nationally broadcast game, the number of media reporters participating in the pre-match press conference is not enough to watch.Fortunately, Marca and Aspen, which are close to Real Madrid, both sent people, otherwise they would all be tabloids that have never been heard of.

Since it is the "mouthpiece of Real Madrid", the questions asked will naturally not be too embarrassing, and the rookie coach has made sufficient preparations, so although the atmosphere of the pre-match press conference is very dull, at least Li Moody feels that the personal image has been shaped well. not bad.

At 20:00 Madrid time, with the whistle of the referee, Li Mudi took the first step on the road to legend.

Castilla's starting list here is: goalkeeper Yanez, right back Forlan, center backs Hector and Leon, left back Abner, center midfielders Odegaard and Toro, midfielder Enzo, Right winger Álvaro, left winger left, and forward forward Mbappe.

Gnica's style of play was exactly as expected by the previous coaching staff: while defending solidly, he made more use of physical confrontation to create mistakes by Castilian players, so as to find opportunities to score.This is also because its players are really not strong, its midfield organization skills are not strong, and its forwards have no characteristics. It is not reliable to try to tear through the defense of a slightly stronger team with normal cooperation.

At the beginning of the game, Castilla was not in a hurry to enter the penalty area, and took advantage of the players' good personal skills to avoid the opponent's physical confrontation with passing the ball like Barcelona did. Hold the ball firmly.

According to the data given by the FM system, in the first 10 minutes, Castilla's ball possession rate reached an astonishing 83%, and the number of shots from the opponent was zero. Of course, he only had 2 shots.

When most people on and off the field were drowsy from this boring style of play, Li Moody, who had been standing on the sidelines since the beginning of the game, found that Gnica's defense was involuntarily pushed forward by 5 meters. Mbappe kept returning to the midfield to receive the pass, causing them to relax and want to press further to help the midfield against the Castilian players.

When the two full-backs came up to the midfield to fight for the football, Li Moody raised his right index finger and shouted: "Alpha!", while Solari whistled from the sidelines.

In an instant, the player speeded up the pass. Erdegaard switched positions to the right and played a two-for-one with Alvaro. After attracting Gnica's midfielder Torildal to intercept, he distributed the ball to the back row and quickly inserted it. Right back Fran.Unexpectedly, Fran did not take advantage of the situation to continue to break through, but passed the ball back to Enzo's feet in the middle after pulling the opponent's defense to move to this side.Qi Zu's eldest son showed his little skills that are not inferior to his father. He pushed the ball directly with the arch of his feet without stopping the ball. The football passed between the two central defenders, and then Mbappe threw the whole line like a gust of wind. The back line controlled the ball at a position 3 meters away from the arc of the penalty area.

The entire coordination lasted less than 7 seconds. When the two central defenders of Guernica, who was completely unprepared, started to speed up and chase back, facing the goalkeeper who was still hesitating whether to attack, Mbappe stepped into the penalty area and pushed the arc. string ball.The football flew into the net from the upper right corner of the goal like a missile, and the goalkeeper didn't respond.

0-1, the effect of the blitz was immediate.The coaches and substitute players behind Li Mudi ran out of their seats in an instant, hugged each other, and cheered at the players who were also huddled together on the field.

After the re-kick-off, Gnica did not change his tactics, but the position of the back line returned to the position before the start of the game. The head coach did not arrange any new routines, but shouted from time to time on the sidelines to be careful not to press too high.Seeing this, Li Mudi, who had recovered from the joy of scoring, frowned, "What kind of routine is this? Don't strengthen the attack, don't change the defensive method, and prepare to adjust in the second half? But this kind of fighting method consumes energy. , almost unable to last the whole game, is there a secret weapon on the bench that we don't know?"

The situation on the field went back to the beginning of the game. Castilla had full possession of the ball, while Gnica fought wildly and made crazy rushes but rarely touched the ball.

In stoppage time in the first half, central defender Leon scored a header from Erdegaard's corner kick and broke the home team's goal, 0-2, and then the halftime whistle sounded.

In the locker room of the visiting team, Li Mudi highly praised the performance of the whole team, and praised them for fully realizing the pre-match deployment of the coaching staff.Then immediately discuss with other coaches about possible changes in the opponent in the second half. Fifteen minutes passed quickly, and several people did not discuss the opponent's possible changes, so they had to return to the coach's bench with doubts.

The game in the second half was the same as the previous 45 minutes. After slowly attracting the forward pressure of the opponent's backcourt, he suddenly launched a direct pass. He seized one of the two opportunities. Mbappé scored twice in the No. The score was rewritten to 609-0.

After the ball was scored, Gnica replaced the starting forward with a high center forward in an attempt to play high.However, the two central defenders of Castilla also have good headers. Even if they occasionally fail to grab the first point, because the opponent's midfield position is too far away from the center, the second point is firmly controlled by Cass. Tilia's feet.

After playing like this for 10 minutes, Gnica replaced a central midfielder with a defensive midfielder, and the formation became 4-2-1-2-1. Now he completely gave up attacking, the secret that Li Moody has been worried about Weapons did not appear either.After replacing Enzo with Mariano and playing a more offensive 4-2-2-2, the substitute striker also opened in the No. 806 minute, which was a header after a cross from the wing.In the end, the game was fixed at 0-4, and Li Moody's career debut was perfect.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Li Mudi was so excited that his eyes were red, he rushed into the field and gave every player a big hug.

At the post-match press conference, in the face of unanimous praise from the media, the new Castilla coach humbly gave credit to his colleagues and players.Fortunately, there were only newspapers close to Real Madrid, and they highlighted Li Moody's role in the next day's newspaper, otherwise our rookies who are not familiar with the Western style of handling things might really be considered incompetent.

After staying overnight in the hotel, the team returned to Madrid the next day.The players were given half a day off, but the coaching staff did not have a holiday to get together to study the next opponent, CF Portugalete (CF Portugalete).

Back at the coach's apartment at night, Li Modi turned on the FM system to review yesterday's game, and received a reminder: The lunar exploration tool has not been used this month and will be invalidated in one day.

(End of this chapter)