Mister Legend

Chapter 610 Unexpected Defeat

However, regarding when he will be able to or whether he can eventually be included in his account, the Real Madrid coach, who originally planned to find an opportunity to participate in person, encountered his first player of the season in the Copa del Rey campaign on January 1. A big trouble, and all the future stars were left behind in an instant.

The Ipurua Municipal Stadium should be regarded as one of the venues with the oldest facilities and the smallest capacity in today's La Liga, especially the visiting team's locker room inside, which always exudes a kind of mildew in the season when ventilation is not conducive to winter. The taste of the game has become the most unwilling place for all other teams to be a guest.

Compared with this football field, which is almost barely able to meet the standards of the Spanish Football Association, its owner Eibar Athletic Football Club has been doing very well in the past ten years. After entering the domestic top league, except for the first year when competitors were ordered to be relegated due to debt problems, they stayed in La Liga in a thrilling manner. Every season after that, they finally finished playing against the title of the relegation favorite predicted by the outside world. face back.

Among them, the best result came to No.7 in the standings and participated in the European competition in the following year, which can be said to have greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.Some people even jokingly said that in terms of the club's financial resources and overall strength, it is actually more difficult for them to obtain a European seat than it is for giants such as Real Madrid and Barcelona to win the league championship.

So even if their court environment is bad, opponents will still have deep respect for this team in the process of fighting, because the performance of these people is indeed worthy of everyone's applause for them.

Just from the perspective of overall strength alone, Eibar, who is still playing steadily this season and can fluctuate up and down at No. 10 in the standings for a long time, is really far behind Real Madrid, which has shown invincibility in the domestic state. A little big.

In the match between the two sides in October last year, the league leader bloodbathed this small team from the Basque Country 6-0 at home, and it was achieved with some of the main players hidden in the snow, which fully showed the two teams. The reality that their abilities are not at the same level at all.

So this time when he came to the away game, Li Mudi still made some mistakes of underestimating the enemy. Not only did he keep many core players in excellent physical condition in Madrid, but he also put three youth players into the starting list at the same time. Obviously, he thought that he would not encounter too many difficulties with this opponent.

However, the top scorer in the opposing team, Augusto from Castilla, was absent due to injury, and the main goalkeeper Ortiz was suspended because of a red card in the last round, which made the overall strength of the team in this game. Even at a huge disadvantage, it has fallen a lot. If this can make the Real Madrid coach keep enough vigilance against it, it is really difficult for some strongmen.

The Real Madrid players who came to the Ipurua Municipal Stadium with the routine mentality of easily winning a victory suffered a huge blow in less than 4 minutes after the opening.During the attack and defense of a corner kick, the central defender Zori accidentally touched the ball in front of the goal in the competition with the opponent's central defender Villanueva. The home team forward Kekai sent an own goal. Successfully ate cakes in the penalty area, and easily knocked away the goal guarded by Belgian veteran Courtois with an arched shot, helping the team take a slightly unexpected lead by one goal.

As soon as the ball was lost, Li Modi, who was sitting on the coach's bench calmly and discussing the team's future training plan with his assistants, suddenly frowned and his expression became a little serious.This is not because he was extremely dissatisfied with the conceded goal. After all, it is true that the player made an undue mistake, but the luck factor also played a big role in it.And there is still a lot of game time left, and the difference of one goal is not enough to have a big impact on the promotion situation of the two sides.

Only through the FM system in his mind, the Real Madrid coach observed that Zori, who had just given a big gift to his opponent, had undergone a considerable change in his mentality, showing a serious tendency to blame himself.The boy's personality was quite cheerful in the past, and he was a little cautious when he was first promoted to the first team, but after getting acquainted with the big brothers, he immediately became a happy fruit in the team, and the atmosphere of the team has been able to maintain a relatively high level One of the heroes of the relaxed state, just like his previous role in Real Madrid's youth teams at all levels.

But the optimistic and cheerful personality only exists outside the game field. Once he appears on the green field, Zuo Li's seriousness hidden under the expression of joking and joking is revealed.This young central defender is extremely demanding on himself in training, especially in games. He is one of the few role models who can truly fight for every ball and maintain a high degree of concentration at all times.This is also the main reason why the club or Li Modi is optimistic about his future development prospects and is willing to bother to train him at this time.

However, sometimes, it is not a good thing to pursue a perfect personality too much. Such people often cannot accept failures that most other people can treat with a normal heart, and thus lose control of their emotions.Zori, who sent an own goal assist at the beginning of the game, is obviously a bit of a dead end. He thinks that his mistakes have caused the team to be passive in the situation, and he wants to make up for it with redoubled efforts.

However, football is similar to other competitive sports. It is not the kind of one that can get good results if you put in your nerves all the time and put in your life. This is in stark contrast to expectations.

No. In the 11th minute, the Real Madrid players who formed a siege outside the home team's penalty area made a mistake in passing the ball, and the Eibar team immediately counterattacked.It's just that because they faced huge defensive pressure before, they didn't have many troops available in the midfield.But at the critical moment, Spanish midfielder Cama LS, who has played for many teams such as Betis and Cardiff, sent a very sharp long-distance through ball under the pressure, helping the team who had already scored a goal. Ke Kai got a golden opportunity to sprint straight to the visiting team's goal.

However, this situation is not particularly bad for Real Madrid, because their backcourt is not completely undefended. The two central defenders and the midfielder Marcos Llorente who is chasing back can give the opponent's only offensive player an advantage. Come to hinder, so under normal circumstances, this counterattack will not cause any decent trouble for Courtois.

But the accident happened at this moment. Zori, who was too persistent in intercepting the home team's striker, was not at a disadvantage in the "short-distance impact competition" with the opponent. Instead, he was about [-] or [-] meters before the ball came to the penalty area When he was in position, he completely caught up with Ke Kai who needed to dribble.At this time, the Real Madrid central defender can choose to use his position to block the inside line, forcing the opponent to pass the ball to the right, thus greatly reducing the possibility of the latter being able to directly attack the goal at a large angle.

But Zori wanted to completely resolve Eibar's attack with his own strength, and recklessly used the action of squeezing the outside belt with his body and striding to intercept the ball.As a result, the forward of the home team, who was at least an order of magnitude smaller than him in terms of height and weight, fell to the ground. At the same time, he performed continuous rolling movements on the turf very vividly, and then looked innocently at him. The referee, who was rushing towards the accident site, was eager to obtain a favorable judgment result for them.

In the end, with the help of the VAR team on the sidelines, Kekai's wish came true. Since both of them were slightly higher than Real Madrid's other central defender Mele at the time of the incident, even though Zori's foul was not too big, It is a bit far-fetched to get a yellow card under normal circumstances, but when the referee strictly enforces the relevant regulations, it is inevitable to receive a red gem card, which has become the key factor that changes the strength comparison between the two sides.

One goal behind, and now there is one player missing. When the game was just over one-ninth of the time, the defending champion fell into extreme passivity.For any team, ten to eleven is a very painful thing. This kind of loss is not to say that each player can make up for it by adding one tenth of his original running distance. .

The most important thing is that everything came so early and suddenly, which really caught Real Madrid by surprise.According to the normal process, the configuration of the four defenders cannot be changed anyway, so there is no need for the coaching staff to remind, the only orthodox central defender on the bench, Skriniar, who was not originally in the playing plan He took the initiative to walk out of the bench, completed the initial warm-up with the coaches as soon as possible, and was ready to go into battle when the next dead ball came.

The one who was replaced was Elias Zidane who hadn't had time to show his ability.Li Mudi retained the two wingers on the field, because in short thinking, he judged that Eibar may use the opportunity of playing more and less to increase his investment in the offensive end. At that time, Real Madrid may get some opportunities to counterattack, so keep them The speed ability of the two wings is an important basis for the tie.

But the reality later proved that the coaching ability and experience of the home team's coach and former Mallorca star Ivan Ramis cannot be underestimated.After seeing the Real Madrid coach's substitution choice, the former also saw the tricks and continued to adopt a steady posture. It seemed that he was quite satisfied with the 1-0 score, which made Li Moody's plan unable to be carried out. .

The situation after the first half immediately fell into a flat situation. Both sides showed a very restrained attitude towards the gap in score and number of people, and they were not willing to use all their strength to further rewrite the difference, so they soon ushered in The halftime whistle.

The Real Madrid players who returned to the visiting team's locker room obviously also felt the tension different from when they left here more than 40 minutes ago. This not only stems from the unfavorable situation in the game, but also has something to do with the two boys who came back earlier.Seeing Zori with a frustrated face, even the assistant coach Platts, who originally wanted to criticize him, could only swallow the words first, because even if he made a mistake, he would be forgiven by God. of young people have blamed themselves enough and don't need others to spur them on.

It's just that how to adjust in the second half is indeed a headache for the Real Madrid coaching staff at the moment.Even though he has consciously tried to preserve the physical fitness of his players as much as possible before, whether it is the coach's judgment based on years of experience, or the data observed by Li Mudi through the FM system, it shows that the members of the visiting team will be at the end of the game. Seven and 10 minutes later, they encountered a serious physical crisis. More seriously, it is very likely that the first loss of the season will be handed over at the Ipurua Municipal Stadium. This was a situation that almost no one expected before.

Although the loss in the Copa del Rey will not have an impact on their record for the longest opening win streak in the league, it will inevitably have a certain impact on the team's self-confidence accumulated for half a season. If it is removed, it is difficult to predict what will happen in the future.Therefore, under the premise of ability, no one wants to accidentally lose the first blood that was not in the plan.

So after the rematch in another place, Li Mudi signaled the players to launch a wave of fierce offensive immediately when the opponent's foothold was not stable.Although the absence of the organizer in the center prevented the team from maximizing the use of left and right back and forth to tear apart the home team's defense during the siege, the young player Jorge Solzano almost made it great merit.After receiving a low pass from Cesar Hrabbert on the right flank in No. 60 two minutes, he completed a collision before two defenders.

It's a pity that luck was on the side of the Eibar team at this moment. The ball bounced back into the penalty area after hitting the right post hard, and was first cleared by the defender.

After that, Vinicius completed a solo pass on the left. The Brazilian winger used incomparably gorgeous footwork to pass the two, and completed a strong shot after cutting inside before the No.3 defender came up to block. .But still missed the goal, the ball flew off the baseline against the crossbar, and Real Madrid missed the last chance to save the defeat.

With the early arrival of the physical bottleneck period, the visiting team could no longer pose a sufficient threat to Eibar's goal. Instead, the home team took the opportunity to suppress the continuous offensive and almost broke the goal guarded by Courtois for the second time. Fortunately, the old Belgian goalkeeper Today's state is very good, and he made a magic throw that can be selected as the best save of the week, helping Real Madrid to maintain the hope of completing the comeback in the second round at a relatively easy level in theory.

In the end, the Galaxy Battleship, which had not lost a single game in an official game since last summer, encountered a sap head-on in the second game just returned to the game after the winter break, and regrettably declared that they attempted to complete the game. The dream of an undefeated season was shattered.

(End of this chapter)