Beast King Costa

Chapter 275 Defenders are easy to get, geniuses are hard to find

Sporting Gijon is the team that David Villa played for during his youth training.

So Diego is quite familiar with this team.

The current head coach of Sporting Gijon, Manolo Preciado, was once a Spanish international at the same time as Bosque-of course, he belongs to the ranks of marginal internationals.

As a famous player in Deportivo, Manolo Preciado has not coached Deportivo, nor has he even left any resume as a coach in Deportivo.

The former Spanish international had a brighter period as a coach when he coached Racing Santander at the end of the 20th century and led the team to the top six in La Liga as a dark horse.

After that, he moved to Levante and Real Murcia until he became the head coach of Sporting Gijon last season.

It is worth mentioning that there is a little story between Manolo Preciado and "Madman" Jose Mourinho.

When Jose Mourinho first arrived in La Liga to coach, he and Manolo Preciado, who was still coaching Sporting Gijon at the time, had the most serious bickering in the air. It can be said that it is simply a "enemy" level—— In the first half of the 2010 season, Mourinho criticized Sporting Gijon for "surrendering without a fight" against Barcelona, ​​which triggered a verbal battle between Preciado and him.The Sporting Gijon coach once called Mourinho a "rascal", and he even grabbed his crotch and cursed Mourinho.

Manolo Preciado is not only good at speaking, but also the ability to lead the team to fight tough battles. He is also notoriously tough in La Liga-Manolo Preciado led Sporting Gijon to break Mourinho Austria's 9-year home unbeaten record, this can be regarded as a very strong response.

To the surprise of many people, in the end, these two coaches with quite personalities became close friends. Mourinho even went to Sporting Gijon in person after his 9-year unbeaten home game was broken. The locker room expressed congratulations, and smiled with Preciado.

Just pretty sorry.

This very personable coach died unexpectedly due to myocardial infarction in 2012 at the age of 54.

What is even more regrettable is that a few hours before Manolo Preciado died unexpectedly, Villarreal, which had just been relegated from La Liga, officially announced that he had officially signed a contract with him. The coach will be responsible for leading the team in La Liga. , Fight for the important task of returning to La Liga.

Although he has not officially taken office, Manolo Preciado's name is still engraved on Villarreal's team history monument.

Manolo Preciado's tactical style is quite sturdy-high pressing, close midfield pressing, and psoriasis defense in the backcourt. It can be described as a rare defensive master in the Spanish league.

Its main formation is 5-4-1 defensive counterattack.

Therefore, before the game, Fernando Santos reminded his players: "The midfielder must not lose the ball easily! Sporting Gijon's defensive counterattack is fast and efficient, which can be described as a rare existence in the Iberian Peninsula."

In this warm-up match, Manolo Preciado still attaches great importance to it. After all, the opponent is the Portuguese Super League giants. Even if Benfica's rookies are in charge in the new season, the core framework of the team is still at the top level in Europe.

Therefore, Manolo Preciado chose to play with all the main players!

Goalkeeper: Roberto Fernandez

Defenders: Roberto Canela, Samuel San Jose, Jones Bravo, Jorge Garcia, Rafael Sast.

Midfielders: Harvey Weger, Andre Gurao, Pablo Lucas, Michel.

Forward: Luis Moran.

Although there are no big-name or well-known players in this starting lineup, under the guidance of Manolo Preciado, it has a very strong integrity.

Although the striker Louis Moran is only 19 years old, he has a very comprehensive type. Whether it is height or speed, or the ability to combine the ball with the ball, and the skills of the left and right feet, all conditions are quite balanced-but there is no one aspect. particularly prominent.

Of course, Luis Moran is still very young and he still has a lot of room to grow.

It can be said to be a piece of jade produced by Sporting Gijon's youth training.

In order to carve this piece of rough jade, Manolo Preciado has spent a lot of effort on him. At the age of nearly 19, he has secured the position of Sporting Gijon's main center forward, which is quite rare.

You know, before David Villa moved to Real Zaragoza, he was not the main striker of Sporting Gijon.

This shows how much Manolo Preciado trusts Luis Moran's ability and talent in the frontcourt.

It's just that Manolo Preciado didn't have the opportunity to see Diego's single-handed ability in the frontcourt on the spot, otherwise, he would definitely drool with envy.

Of course, even if Marono Preciado asks Benfica to buy, it is impossible to get Diego-the football transfer market is not like the NBA, where the team decides to transfer, and the player's willingness is the most important thing.

Even if Sporting Gijon has the strength to win the second division in the new season, Diego will not be willing to play in the second division!

If Valencia, the "Bat Legion", were to buy Diego at this moment, perhaps Diego would nod his head excitedly: "Hurry up! I'll report tomorrow!"

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After the start of the game, Sporting Gijon's young striker Luis Moran showed extraordinary personal ability. He pressed Alcides enough in the frontcourt and Cagliaka, who retreated to play the central defender in the backcourt, repeatedly It needs to be flanked to be able to snatch the ball under his feet.

Since there are too many good midfielders in Benfica now, Fernando Santos decided to let the Russian defensive midfielder Kalyaka play as a central defender.

The player who made his debut at Dynamo Moscow played as a central defender during his youth training, and was later pushed into the midfield by the head coach in the first team to act as a defensive midfielder.

Therefore, there is nothing uncomfortable about Kaliaca's arrangement for Fernando Santos.

It's just that Fernando Santos' transformation method also led to the absence of a purely defensive midfielder in the team's roster.

This means that the two players in the middle of the midfield not only have to participate in the offensive organization, but also have to take on the task of intercepting the middle when the offense turns to defense.

But this is not difficult for Fernando Santos' Greek descendant Kate Solanis. He played this kind of all-around midfielder position in the Greek League.

João Kumbra seemed acclimated.

Obviously, Joao Kumbra is still too thin, not only when he is holding the ball, he is easily confronted by his opponent and his center of gravity is unstable.When defending, and because of poor predictions, he frequently turned into fouls when he kicked, which made him yellow in less than 10 minutes after the start.

"Hey! Kumbra is really useless..."

Fernando Santos communicated with Rui Costa next to him.

"I originally thought about cultivating a young midfielder in the new season, who can be used in the league and cup games. Now it seems that Kumbula can basically only report to the B team."

It is quite rare that Rui Costa agrees with Fernando Santos.

Rui Costa nodded and said: "Kumbulla is still too young, inexperienced, and not confronted enough."

Of course, Rui Costa did not forget to add: "Actually, in the midfield position, David Luiz can occasionally be topped up. I think he played pretty well in the midfield. But the problem of the back line is indeed It’s more stretched.”

"Hmm! The central defender's problem is serious!"

Fernando Santos nodded solemnly: "I had a phone call with Chairman Felipe Vieira the day before yesterday and told him that our team still needs to introduce an immediate combat power at the central defender position. I hope it can Before the start of the new season, buy someone who can rotate at centre-back."

Regarding this, Fernando Santos shook his head helplessly: "Actually, Ricardo Rocha and Kleb Anderson are pretty good! Why sell them. Keep them, then..."

"Then there will be no talented big center like Diego."

Rui Costa added with a smile: "Coach Santos, geniuses are hard to find! It is better to buy a central defender who can carry the rotation. And the central defender position, the transfer market price will not be too expensive. But Once a talented attacker is played, his value will skyrocket with a discrete difference."

"This one……"

Fernando Santos agrees with Rui Costa in his heart.

However, because of his face, he didn't nod and directly admit it, but changed the subject: "Ahem! Let's watch the game! Our scene is not so good!"

Indeed, from the opening to the 15th minute now, Benfica's lineup with Fernando Santos' Greek descendant Kate Solanis in the midfield is only a [-]-[-] against Sporting Gijon.

Sporting Gijon's five-back lineup has a very dense defensive position, which does not give Benfica a chance to penetrate in the middle.

The worst thing is that Manu and Assis can't open the two sides at all.

Although Manu is fast, after the ball is brought to the baseline, he cannot pass it out at all.

On the other side, Assis is not the type of wing blaster. Assis is mainly good at playing as a full-back. Let him hold the ball and go directly to the frontcourt to blast, and then complete the cross. It is better to let Katsolan Nice directly hit Mantoras with a high ball.

Helplessly, Mantolas's height did not take advantage of Sporting Gijon's defenders at all.

Every time he competed for the top with a header, he was either directly pushed back by the central defender of Sporting Gijon, or was called an offensive foul by the referee... Mantolas's expression is so sad!He is also very helpless.

Although the "national hero" of Angola is very strong in physical confrontation and extremely fast, but if he can't get the ball, these characteristics of Mantolas are useless.

(End of this chapter)