On November 30, 2008, in the thirteenth round of La Liga, Real Madrid played against Barcelona at home at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. An hour before the game started, Real Madrid fans had already entered the stadium in groups and began to wait for the kick-off of the game.
El Clasico is held every year. But today's El Clasico receives the highest attention. The senior officials of the two teams and various celebrities came to the scene.
Real Madrid's Di Stefano, who had not been seen for a long time, came to the scene. Di Stefano was already 82 years old and had not appeared on the scene for a long time due to health reasons. But when Di Stefano came, no matter what
Everyone has to stand up and say hello. After all, Di Stefano was the king of football in the 1950s and was once the best player in world football. Before Pele came out, Di Stefano was the king of football. He was
His status in Real Madrid is even more transcendent. He is the first among Real Madrid celebrities and the honorary chairman of Real Madrid. With Di Stefano coming over, Florentino has to give up the middle position to let Di Stefano
sit.
Of course, the same is true for Barcelona. Cruyff, the emperor of Barcelona, was also present in person. Cruyff is here more than anyone else. Because Mourinho was not able to take over Barcelona because of Cruyff.
The reason. The current Barcelona coach Guardiola is Cruyff's favorite disciple. If Cruyff hadn't supported him at the beginning, how could Barcelona have let a rookie like Guardiola become the Barcelona coach. Today is Mourinho
The first collision between Neo and Guardiola, of course Cruyff had to go to the scene to take a look.
In addition to these celebrities and senior executives, many top agents in European football also came to the scene. Like Riester, Carvajal. There are also Portuguese agent giant Mendes and Alonso's agent Ibáñez.
, Kaka’s father. There are also Henry’s agent Jerome Anderson, Guardiola’s agent Orobitgue, and Guardiola’s brother Pere Guardiola.
These agents are all current agent giants, or future agent giants. They control a lot of player resources in European football, and they are all figures who can be on an equal footing with many clubs.
“It’s truly spectacular.”
Riester shook his head. It is estimated that few El Clasicos have attracted so much attention like today. In the past two years, the El Clasico was even a little lackluster. But today's El Clasico has attracted the attention of the whole world.
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"Both Real Madrid and Barcelona were rebuilt, and their results are now very good. This is the first time they have collided after the rebuilding. Of course, it attracted a lot of attention."
Carvajal nodded. For Carvajal, he is not very happy this season. Because Carvajal got to this point thanks to Real Madrid's flag player Raul. But Raul is in good form this season.
But he can only become a substitute player. He started twice and made five appearances as a substitute. He scored four goals. However, Raul's status in Real Madrid has declined obviously. Fortunately, Carvajal still has Casillas.
This ace player.
"Genes. Which one do you like more?"
Riester saw that the two sides had begun to line up, so he asked Carvajal casually. Carvajal looked to the side and made sure that no one heard the two of them, and then whispered: "Do you know?
Before the game, there was some turmoil between Mourinho and Real Madrid’s senior management.”
"Are the rumors true?"
There is no airtight wall in the world. Real Madrid's top management asked Mourinho to attack. He could not play the defensive defense that Mourinho played before. Such news had long been revealed by the media. But Real Madrid did not have it.
Admitted, even Mourinho denied it.
"Well, I heard that Mourinho even slammed the table when he was talking to Valdano."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Real Madrid is seeking death. Can Mourinho still endure it?"
List has not had much interaction with Mourinho, but he also knows his temper. He is not a person who can take anger, nor is he a coach who can tolerate outsiders pointing fingers at his team.
"After all, this is Real Madrid."
"No, no. Mourinho is very tough, but he is not someone who accepts things like that."
Real Madrid, Real Madrid, have not had any championships for five years. The more they struggle at this time, the more difficult it is. Since Mourinho has become the head coach, they should trust him instead of interfering with them.
"Dududu——"
The national derby finally kicked off under the much-anticipated circumstances.
"Hello everyone, this is the Bernabeu. Real Madrid plays against Barcelona at home. Let's take a look at the starting lineup of the home team Real Madrid. The goalkeeper is Casillas, and the defense is Marcelo, Metzelder, Pepe, and Ramos.
, the midfielder is Lars Diarra, Xabi Alonso, Kaká, Joaquin, Ribery, and the striker is Cristiano Ronaldo.”
"Barcelona's goalkeeper Valdes, the defense is Alves, Puyol, Pique, Abidal, the midfield is Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Arshavin, and the striker
It’s Henry. Barcelona sent six youth academy players for this game. Guardiola is a player from Barcelona’s youth academy, and he was also the head coach of Barcelona’s B team before. It seems that he is going to make full use of Barcelona’s youth academy players.”
Both sides have fielded the most powerful combination. The lineup Real Madrid is fielding now is Real Madrid's best lineup, but it is not the lineup Mourinho has in mind. Mourinho has studied Barcelona and he does not think it is like this now.
The lineup can stop Barcelona.
The core of Real Madrid's midfield is Alonso, who is a very good core player in the midfield. But the biggest weakness of Real Madrid is also Alonso. Although Alonso is a Spanish player, he can control the ball, get rid of, and break through.
It is not his strong point. As for Barcelona's Meng San, many people say that its characteristic is control. But Meng San's control is accomplished by the crazy counterattacks of Barcelona players in the frontcourt and their running without the ball in the frontcourt.
Therefore, Mourinho originally hoped to add one more person in the midfield to protect Alonso. However, Real Madrid's senior management directly interfered with Mourinho's formation, and Mourinho directly sent everyone on the field.
"Alonso, Henry came over to grab the ball. And Iniesta next to him came over too."
The Barcelona players' active counterattack in the frontcourt is one of the biggest characteristics of Meng San. They use active running to achieve the numerical advantage in a small area. Facing the siege of several people, Alonso can only
Pass the ball out. Because of his ball control, getting rid of it is not his strong point. However, he passed the ball in a hurry, so he did not hand it over to his teammates comfortably.
"Alonso handed the ball to Kaka. Kaká, Busquets, Busquets stole the ball from Kaká. Busquets is a young player who is only twenty years old, and he was able to overwhelm Yaya Toure.
He and Keita got the starting lineup. From the game, Busquets' positioning ability is very strong."
"Busquets, gave the ball to Xavi. Xavi gave the ball to Arshavin, Arshavin gave the ball back to Xavi. Xavi gave the ball to Iniesta, Iniesta
The ball was given back to Xavi again. Xavi gave the ball to Messi."
There is something wrong with Real Madrid's entire thinking. Mourinho wanted to defend and counterattack, but the top management wanted to attack. Therefore, Mourinho could only arrange an attack, so the Real Madrid players also wanted to attack. But now they encountered Barcelona's reverse ball.
Real Madrid did not have a clear defensive idea. Xavi kept passing the ball to several players, and after a bonus 20 seconds of hypnosis, he suddenly handed the ball to Messi.
"Messi, Messi got the ball. Messi, Marcelo, are you a winger? I doubt that the Marcelo Real Madrid bought is a winger, not a defender."
The commentators all ridiculed Marcelo. Because Marcelo is simply not the defensive action of a defender. After Messi gets the ball, he comes up to grab the ball. It is a completely amateur action. Messi simply accelerates to the right and all
Marcelo was passed without any fake moves.
"Messi wants to enter the penalty area, Marcelo chases back."
"Messi spikes, Marcelo, penalty kick! Penalty kick! I want to say Marcelo, are you playing? Does he want to play street football?"
The commentator thought Marcelo was too funny. Messi broke through Marcelo for the first time and entered the penalty area. Facing Marcelo who was chasing after him, he smashed the ball and immediately shook Marcelo. Marcelo faced
Messi once again completed an amateur move and tripped Messi with his foot.
Mourinho really couldn't laugh or cry when he saw Marcelo's amateur moves. Mourinho is the top defensive coach in European football, and the teams he has coached are all extremely defensive. But when he arrived at Real Madrid, he actually wanted to transform the team.
Players like Marcelo. There have been poor defensive players in Mourinho's teams, but this is the first time that Marcelo is an amateur defender.
"The Real Madrid players told the referee that this was not a penalty kick. If you ask me to say that this goal was a clear penalty kick, how could the Real Madrid players have the nerve to protest to the referee. The only blame is that Marcelo has no brains. This is a penalty kick without any problems.
.”
"Penalty kick, penalty kick. Messi has already come up. This penalty kick is taken by Messi!"
"One to zero. Only seven minutes into the game, Barcelona is leading Real Madrid 1 to 0 in the away game."
"Shhhhhhh-"
All the fans at the Bernabeu expressed their dissatisfaction with boos. Mourinho, who usually plays the leading role in the stadium, sat there very coldly, as if he didn't care about losing the ball.
"The Real Madrid team is not unified at all. I can't see whether Real Madrid wants to attack or defend."
After watching for a while, Riester shook his head. It should be said that Real Madrid is very strong now. Cristiano Ronaldo is a perfect center player, plus Ribery, Kaká, and Joaquin are three arrows in unison.
If Real Madrid can follow Mourinho's tactics, maybe they can really beat Barcelona.
"Yeah. This game is difficult." (To be continued...)
