Mister Legend

Chapter 585 Terrible Stability

After winning the national derby but reaping the result that the three generals will not be able to play in at least the next three league games, in the next few days in the western media, many people are worried that Real Madrid's results may be lost during the winter break. There may be a decline before the arrival. After all, the importance of Mbappe, Asensio and Varane to this team is not comparable to that of Villalivre.

Even for the Galaxy Battleship, which is known for its thick bench, it is unrealistic that its status and performance will not fluctuate significantly after losing these three core members at the same time.

Therefore, in the eyes of some media and netizens, maybe Barcelona, ​​which lost that crucial battle, has really ushered in a turning point. As long as Harvey's team can play at its best, it will be ready before the league enters the rest period. There is still a possibility that the four-point difference in the standings will be narrowed or even evened out.

But no one expected that when all ten matchups in the No.12 round of La Liga ended on December 22, Real Madrid's previous four-point advantage, which ranked first, was not only not reduced, but increased by one point. Too many people didn't expect it.

As for what happened during this period, we can find out from the reports of the most well-known media in the country, such as "Marca" and "Aspen".

To paraphrase the comment of Felix, the famous reporter of "Marca", that is, "this man from the Chinese dynasty and the team he led have shown the world terrible stability. Although affected by injuries, their offense is no longer like It was so sharp before, and it seemed a bit too nervous on the defensive end because of the lack of a leader, but on the whole, Real Madrid's belief in fighting for every victory has not lost. They are facing opponents who are not as ranked or as strong as themselves At the time, almost all the points that were listed in the plan were taken, which was terrible."

In the middle of this month, "Aspen" made more detailed statistics on the basis of a previous British media report, and the results were amazing.That is, Li Moody's team had an unbelievable 96.37% winning percentage against "weak teams", which means that he almost never made any mistakes where he should not lose points, which is simply inhuman performance.

Through this data, the experts took it further and pointed out that the Real Madrid coach has an ability that has not received enough attention from the outside world before, that is, the ability to make effective tactical arrangements for the opponent's weaknesses. .He is always able to discover and make good use of the opponent's shortcomings, allowing his team to control the initiative on the court in the most correct way in the game, allowing the opponent to play at his own pace, which is equivalent to You have the key to victory.

In addition, the Real Madrid coach also has superb on-the-spot adaptability, and can always make the best response in a very complicated situation or in an extremely unfavorable situation.

The above two characteristics are combined in one person, which is really quite rare in the professional football industry that has been developed for more than 100 years, and maybe only Chapman or Michelle, etc., who are not very impressive to modern people The legendary coaches of the older generation can stand shoulder to shoulder with him.And this is because the latter few are in the era of insufficient information, and they all carry a lot of fabricated brilliance, so it is difficult to truly objectively evaluate.

However, after such a summary, the title of the world's number one coach on Li Mudi's head, which seemed a bit erratic due to a year's rest, finally managed to stabilize.Previously, the European media had been advocating that Guardiola had regained the title of the world's best by leading Manchester City to the Champions League, and the Spanish media were also supporting Harvey, the young coach of Barcelona, ​​plus Simeone who coached Inter Milan and The other famous coaches Klopp and Pochettino performed very well, which caused a lot of impact on the Real Madrid coach.

But when La Liga and the five major leagues have reached the final stage of this year, the competition for the top spot in the head coaching world can basically come to an end. For the time being, no one can threaten Li Moody's status.Unless Guashuai can achieve the feat of defending the Champions League, his performance will be slightly inferior to the Chinese who had achieved great success at Arsenal before.

It's just that the Real Madrid coach can be recognized by the mainstream football world (even if his main purpose is not the case), how much work has been done and how much effort has been spent in the middle is still not clear to others.But as long as they know how Li Mudi got here in the past three weeks, I believe they will admire him even more, but the object of admiration is not his coaching talent, and he is far beyond the diligence of his peers.

From the end of the national derby on the 2nd to the end of the league game with Betis on the 22nd and the winter break, during the early 20 days, although Li Moody went home every day for the night, the earliest time he entered the house was not Will be earlier than 08:30 PM.If it wasn't for the fact that the daughter who doesn't have to go to kindergarten on weekends can take the opportunity to go to the club's resident to find her father to play for a while, the father and daughter who originally wanted to be together every day would not meet each other. This is enough to prove that the Real Madrid coach is serious at work. How huge is the investment.

Due to the team's serious decline in strength and morale due to injuries, as the helm of the Galaxy Battleship, Li Moody had to do better in the pre-match preparations, so as to reduce the pressure on the players. Increase your chances of winning a match.

Before Real Madrid's overall strength was there, and he only needed a general guidance strategy to enjoy the fruits of victory with confidence. He fell by himself, and started a nightmare-like long-term overtime period, as if he had returned to the period in his previous life. After suffering for a month, I was in the life of a diaosi who could barely live on food and clothing.

Fortunately, the final results are worthy of the rare hard work of this lazy patient with advanced cancer. It didn't make Li Modi sweat in vain. At the same time, he was able to enter the Christmas and New Year's holidays with a relatively good mood. It is an opportunity to accompany the little princess to resolve the dissatisfaction accumulated during her days.

12月5日，在轮换了全部参加了国家德比的首发球员之后，皇马在自己的主场还是无比轻松地以5比0大胜了西乙球队穆尔西亚，以总比分12比0的碾压性优势挺进了国王杯的十六强当中。

Two days later, the draw for the quarter-finals was released. The Galacticos faced La Liga's newly promoted Las Palmas, and they also enjoyed a favorable arrangement in terms of the schedule. The promotion situation is still bright.

The following weekend, the team went away to challenge the younger brother Vallecano in the same city. Zizou’s eldest son Enzo is the current star of the latter, and he has played well in the past few seasons. Although I can't take this opportunity to join a team with stronger strength, but at least I can still give full play to my own strength.

In Li Moody's plan, not only must this three-pointer be pocketed, but if the situation permits, he also wants to send Elias in the second half, so that the young man can fulfill his long-cherished wish of competing with his brother.If Qi Zu's two sons can really appear on the same field, presumably the old man who encountered certain difficulties at Old Trafford this season will definitely get some comfort. After all, Enzo, Luca and West The three of Ao have also played together in Spain before, but they have never met in an official game. It is a pity to say it.

It's just that his wishful thinking didn't work out in the end, and the game was won, and the process was relatively easy. Even if the score of 3 to 1 could not be called a complete victory, it was enough to satisfy Real Madrid, who had a disorganized lineup.

But just when the team coach was about to use his friend's fourth son to call back from the warm-up in the No.604 minute of the second half, the Brazilian striker Rodrygo, who had already scored twice, was kicked by the home team's defender during a dribble. Some of the calves were lost, and he was doing pain on the turf with a grinning expression on his face.

Judging from the immediate feedback given by the FM system, this should be a soft tissue contusion, not a big problem, and it will heal after three or four days of rest.However, Li Mudi, who was facing a shortage of strikers, naturally did not dare to be careless, and immediately changed his previous plan, letting Dybala come off the bench to play the role of a single striker.

The main purpose of doing this is to worry that the rush to replace young players will cause insufficient pressure on the opponent on the offensive end, so that Vallecano can take the opportunity to strengthen the offensive and break the original balance on the field.

When the 3-1 score was maintained until there were 5 minutes left in the regular time, the Real Madrid coach, who was no longer worried about losing points, used the last substitution in his hand.It's just that Enzo has been replaced by the opponent's coach. In the case of losing the gimmick of meeting brothers, he gave the young striker Jorge Solzano who performed well in the middle of the week a rewarding opportunity to play, which made people look forward to it. Nephew Elias was a little disappointed for several days.

However, three days later, Li Moody still made compensations to the other two teenagers besides Jorge. In the final game of the Champions League group match away to the Dutch powerhouse Ajax, with Mbappe's two goals The Real Madrid coach, who took the lead early on the ball, began to make personnel adjustments when No. 60 minutes into the second half.

He first replaced the captain Vallejo with central defender Zori, and let the young player partner with Skriniar in the defense. He hoped that he could observe the performance of the world's top defender at close range. Learn more from it.

After that, Elias Zidane also got the opportunity to make his Champions League debut in No.703 minutes, but he was placed on the right winger position. Li Mudi wanted this left foot to exercise on the wing Let’s take a look at the internal attack method that he rarely uses in normal times. After all, the team rarely sets up a midfielder in the formation now. If he wants to get more playing time, the young man needs to complete the transformation as soon as possible.

It’s just that the Real Madrid coach never expected that Ajax, who had no pressure to win or lose, suddenly hit a wave of climax when the game entered the final stage. The ball also posed several threats to the goal guarded by Courtois.If Rizzo hadn't blocked an opponent's supplementary shot on the goal line at the last minute, maybe the game would have ended 2-2.

If such a result is achieved in Amsterdam, then Real Madrid will retreat to the second place in the group with a disadvantage of two points, which is extremely bad news for the draw of the first knockout round to be held next week up.

Fortunately, his behavior of replacing two young players in a row in the second half did not lead to tragedy. This will not only be of great benefit to the team's future pursuit of better results in European competitions, but also will not cause the team to lose the ability to continue to use formal football. The competition exercises the confidence of the newcomers, so everyone is happy.

On Sunday, the 15th, after finishing the task of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Real Madrid immediately ushered in the most important weekly double match before the winter break. They will face Sevilla, Bilba E-athletics and Betis are the top ten rivals in the standings.

Especially the first two, they can be called the bitter masters of the Galacticos. They let the La Liga giants swallow the bitterness of failure several times. Together with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, they became Real Madrid's four opponents with the lowest winning percentage in the domestic league.

Therefore, whether they can achieve an ideal result in these three consecutive battles has become the top priority for them to maintain their leading edge in the standings, and the first challenge of Sevilla at home can also be regarded as A touchstone to test whether Real Madrid can still play at the top level of Europe in the absence of multiple players.

But the final result is still satisfactory. With the goal scored by the central defender Mele through corner kick tactics shortly after the opening, the leading Galaxy Battleship just took the opportunity to come up with their best defensive counterattack Tactics, in turn to contain the visiting team that desperately needs points to stabilize the No.4 position in the league.

Although Asensio's injury and Mbappe's suspension caused Real Madrid to lose their previous absolute suppression in the front two wing positions, in this game where there can be no mistakes, Li Mudi boldly used Di Barra, and gave the Argentine veteran an absolute core position, allowing the team's frontcourt to form a more effective whole. This strategy has received very good results.

In the second half, Fabas caught a negligence of the opponent's defense and scored his second goal of the season through a long shot, helping the team seal the victory, thus ending the previous three consecutive games against this young guard An embarrassing record.

But three days later, at the San Mamés stadium in the Basque Country, Real Madrid failed to continue their winning streak. They led almost the entire game, but inadvertently contributed under the tremendous pressure of their opponents before the end With an own goal, he could only return to Madrid with a 1-1 draw.

Fortunately, Goddess of Luck is still in favor of the Galaxy Battleship. In another focus match that ended at the same time, Barcelona lost 1-2 away at the feet of Atletico Madrid, which has rebounded. Not only did it not narrow the gap with the leaders, but The distance from the mortal enemy is getting farther and farther.

After experiencing this small twists and turns, Real Madrid can finally settle down and prepare for their last game before the winter break. On the 22nd, they returned to the Bernabeu and played the championship in front of Betis, who is temporarily No.8 in the standings. level of performance.Especially Mbappe, who had held back for three rounds in the stands, had a big explosion as soon as the ban was lifted. He kicked his head and kicked his first hat-trick of the season in less than an hour. The audience applauded in unison.

And Asensio also paid in this game, came off the bench for 10 minutes, and his condition looked good.

A 4-0 victory allowed Real Madrid to perfectly end the first half of the season. It seems that they have swept all the impact of the past two miserable years into the trash can. The future prospects are It's bright.

(End of this chapter)