Super Marshal

"how do you feel?"

Northeast of downtown Madrid, in the head coach's office at Real Madrid's Valdebebas training base, Mourinho and his core coaching staff were sitting in front of the TV, discussing the live broadcast that had just ended.

In the sixth round of the Premier League, Manchester City defeated Chelsea 2-0 at home.

This is very instructive for Real Madrid, who will travel to Manchester to challenge Manchester City away from home in midweek.

Mourinho also attached great importance to this game. Not only did he arrange for his right-hand man, Real Madrid's chief scout Jose Morais, to go to Manchester in person to watch the game live, he also brought Karanka and Faria and other assistant coaches watched the live broadcast of the game together.

Zidane, the special adviser to the first team, also sat with them. He is the link between President Florentino and Mourinho, and Real Madrid also attaches great importance to the trip to Manchester.

After watching this highlight of the Premier League, everyone obviously gained something. However, when Mourinho asked them how they felt, everyone looked embarrassed, as if they could not describe or express it in words.

"Rui, please tell me first."

After Ruy Faria, who had medium-long hair, was called, he reached out and scratched the beard dregs around his mouth that had not been shaved for four days, and shook his head solemnly, "I don't understand, I don't understand. "

Rui Faria is in his early thirties and is very close to Gao Han in age. Both of them were once interns of the Barcelona first team, but Faria is a graduate of the University of Porto majoring in sports science. In order to complete his university graduation thesis [ High Efficiency Football] came to Barcelona for an internship and met Mourinho, the then Barcelona assistant coach.

The two hit it off, had similar interests, and became good friends. Later, Mourinho returned to Portugal to coach, and Faria has been following Mourinho as a physical coach. After Villas-Boas left Mourinho's team Later, Faria gradually assumed more important roles.

In addition to physical training, analyzing game videos and tactical research are Faria's strengths.

"Aito, what do you think?" Mourinho turned his head and asked the chief assistant coach Aito Karanka.

This is the right-hand man that the Galacticos found for Mourinho when he coached Real Madrid. He is familiar with everything about Real Madrid and understands the situation in La Liga.

"Like Rui, I can't figure it out. I always feel like there's something hidden in the cold."

"He didn't try his best." Mourinho replied firmly.

Judging from the course of the game, Manchester City's game was not easy, but it was not difficult either. The main reason was that in the first half, Manchester City did not take the initiative as before, but let Chelsea press out and play again. Score goals through counterattacks.

After scoring two goals in the first half, Manchester City did not pursue the victory in the second half. It was obvious that Gao Han was saving his strength.

But just thinking about it makes people shudder.

You know, this is a duel between the two teams at the top of the Premier League, but he is still hiding it. This can only be said that he has amazing confidence in the strength of his team, and he is sure that he will not lose.

But where did he get the confidence?

Therefore, everyone will say that they don’t understand and can’t figure it out.

"Zinedine, what about you?" Mourinho asked Zidane.

He found that the former French superstar was always frowning, as if he had encountered a very puzzling problem.

"There's one thing I didn't understand."

"tell me the story."

Not only Mourinho is concerned, but others are also looking at Zidane, wanting to know what is causing this former legendary superstar to be so distressed.

"We all know that Gao Han is best at attacking and passing, but at the beginning of this game he neither attacked nor controlled the ball. He even seemed to deliberately give possession to Chelsea. Even if he knows that Chelsea's passing ability is not as good as theirs, even if he has confidence in his team's pressing, there is no reason to do so."

After hearing Zidane's question, everyone looked at each other in confusion. Do you want to think about this problem so hard again?

"Zinedine, this is obviously a deliberate show of weakness." Karanka replied with a wry smile. "If you combine Gao Han's psychological warfare before the game, it is not difficult to find that he did this deliberately to let Chelsea suppress Come out and fight.”

"I knew he was deliberately showing weakness, but after Chelsea counterattacked, he could have continued to show weakness, but he grabbed the ball. From that moment on, Manchester City's possession of the ball has never been lower than Chelsea's."

Everyone couldn't keep up with Zidane's thoughts and didn't understand what he wanted to say.

"Zinedine, he already had a ball in his hand at that time." Faria reminded.

Zidane looked at his colleagues around him, nodded slightly, and said nothing more.

He knew that such an explanation was very logical, but it was certainly not that simple. Otherwise, how could he explain Gao Han's winning streak from his debut to now?

He must have done something right to make him so invincible.

In the past, Zidane never thought about coaching and regarded Gao Han more as a talented coach. But now that he has thought about coaching, his perspective and perspective on Gao Han are obviously different.

Maybe, if you have the chance, you should ask him face to face!

No one knows what Zidane is thinking, and no one will care. Mourinho and his team are more concerned about how to play in this game and the away game against Manchester City in midweek.

"There is no doubt that when playing against a cold team, we have no choice but to defend and defend." Karanka suggested.

Faria also nodded in agreement, "They just played a game with Chelsea. Although the game was not tragic, it was not easy to win. Even if Gao Han stayed in the game, it will definitely be difficult for them in the midweek game." It has an impact.”

As a physical coach, Faria tries to analyze opponents from a physical perspective.

"Modric's game is a protective suspension, and it is expected that he will be suspended at that time, so we will definitely face Manchester City, which has the strongest lineup."

Mourinho nodded slightly. He has always been a person who knows his own characteristics very well and knows exactly what he wants.

"The reason why Scolari lost this game was because he didn't figure out what he wanted at all. He was very hesitant. He wanted a draw, but he felt unwilling to do so because he was also a five-year-old. The winning streak, he feels like he can get more.”

"He was unwilling to accept it, but he was also a little scared. He was beaten four times by Manchester City in one year and lost three championships, which made him a little timid, so he was worried that his team could not do it, so he was very hesitant about this. It can be seen from the lineup he has put together that if there is a draw, Drogba should be on, not Falcao."

When Mourinho said this, he smiled proudly, "Scolari doesn't understand Gao Han at all!"

When the Portuguese madman said this, it gave people the feeling that he was the person who knew the coldest in the world.

"Gao Han, from the time he debuted to now, he wants to win every game, and as long as he wins, he never wants a draw, so when playing with his team, he either wins or loses, it's impossible draw!"

When Mourinho said this, his eyes showed great determination.

Although he didn't say it directly, everyone could feel the fighting spirit in his heart.

Since a draw is impossible, he has only one choice, and that is to win!

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Due to the impact of the strike in the first round of La Liga, the La Liga schedule in September is arranged very compactly.

Real Madrid has had a pretty good start to the season. They have played four rounds so far. Except for a draw with Real Mallorca in the first round, they have won the remaining three games. This makes Real Madrid's performance very eye-catching.

Especially in the fourth round of the league, after Valencia drew with Atletico Madrid 1-1 at home, it stopped the opening three consecutive wins in La Liga, while Real Madrid successfully completed the victory with a 3-0 victory over Espanyol at home. counterattacked and climbed to second place in the league standings.

Currently ranked first in the La Liga standings is the cold Chinatown.

In the fourth round of the league, Chinatown welcomed Lotina's Deportivo La Coruna at home. The latter had draws in the first three rounds of La Liga, and two of them were zero-0, so their performance was not ideal.

At the Butac Stadium in Leganes, after a fierce battle between the two sides for 90 minutes, Chinatown relied on Michu's winning goal in the 84th minute of the second half to defeat Deportivo La Coruña 1-0 at home. The assist was left back Alba.

This victory not only allowed Chinatown to continue to score three points and defend its position as the leader in the standings, but also became the only team to maintain four consecutive victories since the start of La Liga.

Pochettino has once again become famous with his outstanding performance this season. Michu, who was transferred for one million euros this season, has scored six goals in four games, becoming the biggest player in La Liga so far this season. discovery.

In the fifth round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Levante away.

For Mourinho's away game against Manchester City in midweek, and Levante's sluggish performance this season, the Portuguese madman did not use all the main players, but arranged rotations and confidently went out with Real Madrid's second team. Levante.

But the unexpected result is that Real Madrid actually drew 0-0 with Levante in the away game.

This not only surprised Mourinho, but also everyone at Real Madrid was shocked.

You know, at the beginning of this season, when Barcelona lost to Hercules 0-2 at home, Real Madrid fans did not forget to add insult to injury. But they did not expect that Real Madrid failed to win Levante and gained this result. The second draw of the season saw them drop out of the top four in the league.

Because in this round, Valencia, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona all won.

Valencia defeated Sporting Gijon 2-0 in this round's away game and returned to second place in the league standings.

Although Barcelona lost one game this season, they defeated Athletic Bilbao 3-1 on the road this round, won four consecutive victories, reversed Real Madrid, and reached third place in the league.

Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid both have three wins and two draws out of five games, but the Shelter 11 ranks fourth due to their goal difference, and Real Madrid falls to fifth. The ranking can be said to have plummeted.

As for Chinatown, since there are no European games in the middle of the week, the game will be played one day later than other teams and will challenge Malaga away from home.

Only four minutes into the game, Malaga took advantage of their home court advantage and took the lead in attacking and scoring.

But Pochettino's team quickly stabilized their position. In the 21st minute, Aubameyang received a long pass from Marcos Senna and scored a goal to help the team equalize the score.

Just three minutes later, Michu assisted Hazard to reverse the score, 2-1.

But in the 30th minute, Malaga once again launched a wave of offensive and evened the score.

The two sides fought fiercely in the first half, and the game went very exciting.

Just four minutes before Malaga equalized, another assist from Michu allowed Aubameyang to exceed the score again.

After that, Malaga launched another crazy counterattack, but midfielder Oliseu, who opened the scoring, fouled badly in the 41st minute and was sent off with a red card. This directly caused Malaga to have to fight with one less player in the second half and was forced to retreat. .

But Chinatown also failed to score again.

In the end, they defeated Malaga 3-2 away from home and led the La Liga standings with a fifth consecutive victory.