From coaching Real Madrid

Chapter 1085 The Coward’s Game

Eden Stadium, Prague, Czech Republic.

In the home team's dressing room, Chelsea's players are making final preparations before taking the field.

Mourinho crossed his arms and watched the players busy, secretly thinking of words in his heart.

Strictly speaking, the European Super Cup is not an important game, but it is related to the team's morale.

It also concerns Mourinho himself.

He doesn't want to lose to Gao Shen again!

Since Gao Shen's debut, he has never gotten any advantage from Gao Shen in several encounters, but he has never given up. He has been working hard, trying, and waiting for opportunities.

He believed that God would always favor him.

Maybe tonight?

After everyone had finished cleaning up, Mourinho looked at the time again, then coughed twice and walked over.

"Let me say a few words."

After everyone heard this, they immediately put down their own things. Some of them were almost finished, so they finished it quickly.

The locker room suddenly became quiet, and everyone looked at Mourinho.

Goalkeeper: Cech.

Defence: Ashley Cole, Terry, Koulibaly and Ivanovic.

Midfield: Lampard and Ramirez form a double defensive midfielder, with Schürrle, Oscar and Willian up front.

Forward: Torres.

It's hard to say whether Mourinho's lineup is 4, 2, 3, 1 or 4, 3, or 3. Anyway, it depends on the positions of Schürrle and Willian.

The reason why it is used this way is because Mourinho wants to pursue speed.

Juan Mata is becoming less and less popular in Mourinho's tactical system.

Mikel, Mata and Lukaku are on the bench now and in this dressing room.

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"I spent many years in Spain."

When Mourinho spoke, he raised his right hand slightly, as if to introduce himself.

But everyone knows that he must have a purpose for saying this.

"I stayed at Barcelona for several years and almost became the head coach of Barcelona. Later I coached Real Madrid. If I say that I am familiar with Spanish football, I believe no one will object."

Everyone nodded.

There was no way to object to that, he was indeed very familiar with it.

"Whether it was the first time I coached Chelsea, or later I coached Inter Milan, or when I coached Real Madrid, they all like to say that I am anti-football. What do you mean? It means that we are not playing football."

"I have always been very disgusted with this statement. Please tell me, if we are not playing football, what is it? Volleyball? Table tennis? Badminton? Or...the moon?"

At the end of the sentence, Mourinho suddenly said this and pointed to his head, which immediately made everyone in the locker room burst into laughter. This was so funny.

"I am very confused, why should they define football? The strong can define what football is and what is anti-football? Then, if one day we defeat Barcelona and Spain, will we also

Can you define, are they anti-football?"

Everyone nodded again.

There is no problem with this logic.

"Taking a step back, many people accuse me of being utilitarian. I admit it, but what I want to say is that defense has always been the most important part of football tactics. Even those who oppose me and question me cannot deny the importance of defense.

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"The essence of football is to score goals and be scored against. Isn't this what offense and defense are?"

"Then what's wrong with our tactics? We attach great importance to defense. Is that wrong?"

Mourinho paused, took a breath, and then continued.

"I think Spanish teams are too obsessed with possession of the ball."

"I have experienced this kind of passing and controlling play many times. Do you know? 70% to 80% ball possession rate, thousands of passes, but they have never been able to break into your penalty area and threaten your goal.

, I can’t understand, what’s the point of controlling the ball like this?”

"I think this is more like a self-movement. They can tell you how hard I work, how diligent I am, how obvious our advantages are, how much possession we have, how we are, but we have bad luck.

Lost."

"This is nonsense."

"You practiced a thousand penalty kicks before the game, but you didn't score a few in the game. Why are you impressing yourself? What qualifications do you have and what face do you have to say such a thing?"

"Spanish football gives me a feeling of constantly working overtime. Things that can be completed within working hours are delayed and delayed until they have to work overtime. This is a disease!"

"I never bothered to play football like that."

"I always emphasize efficiency and speed!"

There was silence in the locker room, everyone was listening silently.

This is not so much Mourinho mobilizing, but it actually seems like he is saying some heartfelt words to the players.

He is telling Chelsea's players what he wants and what he disdains.

"There are a lot of cross passes and back passes, there is a lack of changes in rhythm, there is no large-scale transfer scheduling, there is no sudden increase in speed, and even players no longer take advantage of their personal abilities. Everyone does not dare to take risks and is like an ostrich.

Bury your head in the sand, anyway, as long as I don't lose the ball, everything will be fine."

"In their philosophy, as long as the ball is within my control, there will always be a moment when you make a mistake."

"They wait forever, like a cowardly coward!"

When Mourinho almost shouted these words, the atmosphere in the locker room obviously changed.

Everyone's emotions were mobilized and stimulated.

"Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​as well as the Spanish national team, have different tactics, but they are essentially the same. Their players have strong skills. They have excellent ball control ability against any opponent. They like

Control the ball."

"I can assure you here that Real Madrid will still focus on possession of the ball tonight."

There is no doubt that Chelsea's players cannot keep up with Real Madrid in terms of technology.

But this does not mean that Chelsea will be easily defeated on the pitch.

Football has never relied solely on technology, and tactics have never been simply technical coordination.

If this is the case, then Barcelona will be invincible.

"Tonight is an opportunity, an opportunity for us, and for all teams and players like us around the world, to clear our name!"

"I hope you can show your best performance on the court to burst this bubble and let the whole world see clearly and re-understand what football is!"

"We also want to use this game to tell all fans that it is not the football played by the Spaniards that is football, we are also playing football. We are not anti-football. On the contrary, we have experienced decades and passed the test of a century.

Real football!"

Mourinho said to the end, the more he spoke, the more excited he became.

The Chelsea players became more and more enthusiastic and excited as they listened, and many players even couldn't help but shout along.

"In this game tonight, I have only one request for you."

"Use the way we are best at, walk into this stadium, defeat Real Madrid, and prove to the world that we are right!"

Chelsea's players suddenly felt as if they had been shot to death, screaming with excitement.

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From the first minute of the game, Gao Shen was clearly aware of the difficulty.

Real Madrid took the lead to kick off, but as soon as the game started, Chelsea's powerful defender Fernando Torres tripped his compatriot Xabi Alonso in the frontcourt. Although he did not get a card, he was warned by referee Eriksen.

But this has revealed a very obvious signal.

Chelsea players are so excited!

Gao Shen's opening tactic is to attack.

He knows very well that Mourinho will definitely defend. If not, Chelsea will take the lead against Real Madrid?

So he wanted to take the lead, try to score a goal, and force Chelsea to press forward. Then the game would be easy to play.

But he didn't expect that Mourinho would be so determined.

First Torres, then Lampard, then Koulibaly knocked Benzema from behind.

Three consecutive fouls, but no cards were awarded. It was obvious that he was playing with the referee's standards.

This made Real Madrid's attacking tactics intermittent, unable to catch up, and the rhythm was a bit chaotic.

Gao Shen stood on the sidelines and could see clearly, but he had no good solution.

It is impossible to ask Mourinho to say: We have agreed, a gentleman will talk but not do anything.

It's strange that Mourinho ignored him.

Although Chelsea committed many fouls, their defense was very tight, and every foul happened to be stuck at that point, which prevented Real Madrid from picking up their rhythm, which was very fatal.

So Real Madrid played very awkwardly.

In addition, Chelsea's three lines were kept very compact, resulting in Real Madrid's attack being unable to penetrate.

But in the sixth minute, Chelsea suddenly launched a quick counterattack.

Schürrle used his speed to get rid of Arbeloa on the left, dribbled the ball to the left side of Real Madrid's penalty area, and then passed the ball to the penalty spot. Torres stepped in and started to kick.

At the critical moment, Varane returned to defense very quickly. He got ahead of Torres and poked the ball to the side. Ramos came back in time to control the ball and narrowly escaped disaster.

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Gao Shen shouted to Arbeloa from the sidelines.

The source of the danger just now was that Arbeloa failed to follow Schürrle in time, causing him to speed up.

Fortunately, Torres no longer has the same speed as he did back then, otherwise, even Varane might not be able to stop him.

But that's Mourinho's strategy.

He just defended and defended until Real Madrid made mistakes on its own initiative, and then he quickly counterattacked.

Mourinho's trick has been tried and tested, and he will almost always use it when facing teams such as Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid or Manchester City.

This is a tough nut to crack!

Even by accident, instead of chewing off the bone, my tooth cracked.

Gao Shen signaled Arbeloa to pay attention, and Marcos Alonso on the left, to also pay attention to defending William.

At the same time, Gao Shen also signaled Xabi Alonso and the midfielder to pull the overall formation back a little and not to press too high.

If Chelsea is suppressed too much, wouldn't it mean that his own offensive space is also suppressed?

After the arrangement was completed, Gao Shen could only continue to wait.

He just wanted to see if this group of Chelsea players could perfectly implement Mourinho's tactics?

As long as they make mistakes, Real Madrid will have a chance!

(End of chapter)