Mister Legend

Chapter 588 Step by step
Although 2025 is not the year of the World Cup and the European Cup, and the schedules of the major leagues are not as tight as in even-numbered years, the relative looseness is limited to just before the winter break.When the vacation is over, double matches a week has become the most common thing for the top giants fighting in the third line. The tense and almost suffocating schedule also increases the difficulty for the team to maintain a stable state.

No, even though they thought they had prepared as much as possible before the game, Real Madrid still stopped their winning streak in the away game against Valencia on the 19th, ending their La Liga season. The unbeaten record among them disappointed the whole club.

In fact, in this game, Li Moody's plan still has a high chance of scoring three points. Although the overall strength of the opponent is not weak, under the management of Singaporean wealthy businessman Lin Rongfu, he has been able to maintain his combat power at a high level for ten years. However, after all, they are still affected by the status of the club and their absolute wealth, and they cannot introduce the top superstars in world football. Therefore, the distance from the final honor always seems to be very close, but it is actually very far away. They should not have the ability Withstood Real Madrid's way forward.

However, in this match, the Bat Legion, which regards Real Madrid as the club's number one mortal enemy (in turn, Valencia can only rank third in the Galacticos) suddenly ushered in a big explosion. Carlos Soler, left-back Tony Rato, right-winger Ferran Torres and Argentine forward Maximiliano Romero all played exceptional performances, and Ling was already prepared Li Moody had quite a headache.

The Real Madrid coach originally formulated a set of defensive and counterattack tactics, hoping to consume the morale of the home team through a solid defense within the first hour, and then launch an offensive to reap the victory in the final stage.It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. Ferran Torres scored a wonderful long shot near the end of the first half, making Li Moody's plan a failure.

And when the league leaders in the away game planned to change their strategy and strengthen their offense after the rematch, the central defender Melai was sent off because he received the second yellow card in the game soon, and he played one less player. Galacticos faced a huge dilemma at 7 minutes.

Unwilling to end his undefeated league title at the Mestalla Stadium, Li Moody boldly chose to continue attacking, adjusted his formation to 3-3-2-1, and tried to fight for a draw.But contrary to expectations, no matter whether the three midfielders are concentrated in the middle or spread out to increase the defensive area, they cannot limit the continuous impact of several Valencia attackers who are in high form, and soon lost the No. 70 minute. Two goals, completely lost hope of scoring points.

In the end, the score of 0 to 2 not only allowed Real Madrid to reap the result of failing to score in an official game for the first time since the beginning of the season, but also reduced their point advantage in the standings to two points.Barcelona has achieved a wave of strong three-game winning streak after the winter break. They can win at least three goals in each game. Among them, the performance of new aid Haverts has been more and more affirmed by the outside world, allowing people to see their goal of overtaking hope.

Under such tremendous pressure, Li Moody and his disciples who returned to Madrid temporarily ignored the criticism from the media, and put all their attention on the next few vicious battles, and the first to bear the brunt was Wednesday night in the Copa del Rey at the Bernabéu.

In the two-round knockout rounds, the schedule of first home and then away is basically equivalent to allowing the opponent to get a half-goal advantage, because once the two sides draw within 180 minutes, the subsequent overtime and possible The penalty shootouts on the field must be played at the door of others, which is extremely unfavorable for the team playing away in the second round.

In order not to let themselves fall into that bad situation, Real Madrid must have an advantage of at least two goals or more at home, otherwise the pressure will be a bit heavy when they go to the Galicia Autonomous Region in the northwest of Spain a week later, which is not conducive to The implementation of the team's plan to preserve its strength for the subsequent leagues.

So even though he is about to be a guest at the Estadio de l'Oro on Sunday to challenge Villarreal, which has a very high winning percentage at home, Li Moody still sent players in better condition to start in the Copa del Rey in the middle of this week, and Without deliberate rotation, it is to strive to end the suspense of promotion in the first round.

However, his wishful thinking will not be so easy to start. Although Celta Vigo's overall strength is average, it has often been reduced to a relegation team in the past three or four years. The highest ranking is only No. 13. .But when they face the Galacticos, they can always perform as expected. This is also a puzzle that is difficult to explain.

If it weren't for the media's popular science before the game, it would be hard for most people to believe that Real Madrid had only completed one league double play against Celta Vigo in the previous six seasons, and the last two games in the King's Cup Meeting also did not take advantage of anything.

Three seasons ago, Guti led the team to encounter this opponent in the eighth-finals. The result was that they won the right to advance only by virtue of the advantage of more away goals; , the two teams met in the quarterfinals. As a result, the Galaxy Battleship, which was almost all the main players, was eliminated 2016-17 at home and 1-2 away, with a total score of 2-2. news.

Although he does not believe in western metaphysics such as fate, Li Mudi still maintained enough caution before the game, because the opposing team does have two stars with current abilities and potentials: 25-year-old Mexican striker De La Loza and the Turkish international, short and versatile frontcourt Emre Moore, plus the local goalkeeper Ruben Blanco and the Spanish national team winger Diego Palme are equal backbones. It is not realistic to easily win Celta.

And the situation after the opening did not exceed the expectations of the Real Madrid coach. The former local forward Aspers, who just retired last summer and took over the coach of his old club, is a rookie coach with great ideas on the offensive end. He has changed the team. The strategy of reusing a playmaker formed over ten years ago distributed all tasks equally to all the players in the frontcourt, which solved the paralysis of the team's offense because of a player's poor performance or being marked to death. The ills of the state.

From this point of view, he and Li Mudi are teammates in the same camp, and they should have a lot of things to communicate with each other.

Under the influence of the new coach's strategy, Celta's offensive power has improved compared to previous seasons, which is one of the main reasons why their league ranking this season can reach the range of [-]th to [-]th. .When facing most opponents, one of the three or four players in the frontcourt can always stand up and play a role, making it difficult for their offense to be completely restricted.

It's just that although this strategy will have a good effect against teams with loopholes or hidden worries in the defense, it will not be effective against top teams with average strength, whether it is personal ability or overall top-notch level. What is too much of a threat? For example, today's Real Madrid has excellently controlled the situation on the field and did not make the visiting team find any opportunities to take advantage of.

On the other hand, Celta's defense performed well in the opening stage. At least in the first half hour, there was no sign of collapse under the strong pressure exerted by the home team.Of course, the 0-0 score can be maintained until this time, and it is also inseparable from the unsatisfactory foot wind of Rodrygo, Mbappe and others before, wasting two or three good opportunities to score goals.

However, Vinicius completed a stunning left-sided personal dribble in No. 30 two minutes and still broke the deadlock on the field. After passing the opponent's three defensive players in a row, he sent a nanny assist to his teammates. Rodrigo, who was unguarded at the end, naturally would not spit out the cakes he put in his mouth, and his easy push helped Real Madrid gain a one-goal lead.

And this ball can be regarded as opening the seal of the home team's offensive players who had worn their shooting boots crookedly before. Their offensive became more and more fierce. They launched two long-term sieges against Celta, and reached the end in the second half. Scored the second goal of the game in 6 minutes, completing the minimum goal proposed by the coach.

Of course, for the sake of safety, scoring at least one more goal without conceding a goal is what Real Madrid needs to actively strive for in the remaining 30 minutes.So Li Mudi took the lead in changing his tactics. He used Oyar Sabal, who had been rumored with other teams in the winter transfer window but finally stayed on the team, to replace Mbappe, who always felt a little worse in this game. I hope that the team's originally dull right wing can also be active and create more threatening offensives.

But facing the captain of the visiting team, Jonny, who returned to Celta after transferring to Atletico Madrid a few years ago, Oyar Sabal was at a disadvantage in terms of speed and made a breakthrough. The good-quality crosses failed to help Rodrygo, who is too short and can only play on the ground ball, to get a decent chance. The opponent's defender can mark in a very targeted manner, which made the Real Madrid coach's attempt It almost ended in failure.

So after seeing that the Brazilian striker tried his best and only got an unsure and difficult shot, Li Moody, who was standing on the sidelines watching the game, turned around and signaled Platz to retrieve Peleg, who had been warming up for a while. Here, and his move naturally did not escape the camera of the broadcaster and many fans on the scene who paid attention to his movements.Less than half a minute later, there was a burst of not-so-violent but still very obvious cheers in the Bernabéu stadium. It was the Meilingers welcoming the new aid's debut. The popularity of the Italian striker's fans was indeed so good to the point of envy.

No.609 minutes, Pieto Pellegri, who was born in Genoa and has not yet celebrated his 24th birthday, stood on the turf of the Bernabéu for the first time in an official game wearing the unique white shirt in the world. It's a milestone moment.

Many years later, when Pellegri, who has become a Real Madrid star, was interviewed by a reporter from "Marca" after his retirement ceremony, he described in detail to the latter that he played for Real Madrid on January 2025, 1. The scene of the first show, as if that moment has been imprinted in his mind, will never be blurred memory.

However, compared to the excellent performance of many super forwards of the Galaxy Battleship in their debut, although his debut cannot be said to be disappointing, it can only be regarded as unsatisfactory at best.

In 24 minutes of playing time, the total data completed are as follows: dribble, 23 times out of [-] attempts; pass, [-] times out of [-] times; header scramble, [-] out of [-] wins; foul, [-] times ; There is also the most important shot for a striker, four in two.It is only on paper to evaluate the Italian international's debut performance through the above figures, which should still be relatively good.

But anyone who has watched the live game can feel that Pellegri still has many problems that need to be solved urgently before he can fully integrate into the team.His ability at the feet is indeed very strong, he can hold the ball in the opponent's penalty area and the top of the arc, and has passed threatening balls for teammates who are running many times.However, he has not been able to satisfy the coaching staff in the decision of when to break through by himself and when to make a quick ball and then move forward.

In order to find a tacit understanding with his new teammates as soon as possible, the Italian was a little too deliberate in pursuing teamwork, and missed some good personal assault opportunities.Although Li Moody did not ask the Spanish striker to increase his attempts to dribble and break through when Villalivre played, it was based on the premise that the local center's footwork was only at an average level. Being able to become the most promising signing target of the Real Madrid coach is due to his ability to hold the ball beyond Harry Kane and only slightly weaker than Ibrahimovic.

A striker who can not only catch the cakes sent by his teammates steadily, but also create scoring opportunities by himself, can take over the mantle of pass shooters such as Van Basten, Batistuta and Ronaldo. For a while, he placed the title of world football's number one striker on his own head.Obviously, this is what Li Modi asked of his lover, and he firmly believed that the latter could do it.

Fortunately, the current Galaxy Battleship has enough time to wait for Pellegri to adjust his way of playing in the new environment. Even if his Real Madrid first goal has been delayed, it does not affect the coaching staff and teammates. his trust.

As the schedule continues to advance, the outside world has begun to have some doubts about the ability of this new aid. The Italian striker began to appear frequently as a substitute for the new club, and the playing time also showed a gradual increase. The performance of the players has also developed towards the good side at a speed visible to the naked eye.

An indirect assist, a shot at the goal post, and a direct assist... People who originally questioned whether the striker who was exchanged for less than [-] million yuan would become the largest parallel importer in the history of Real Madrid have to admit that Pellegri's The ability is still worthy of playing for the world's top giants, but I don't know when he will pierce the window paper.

(End of this chapter)