[Football] I'm just a defender

Chapter 124 hapter 124

Mourinho and his new players made their first appearance at the Bernabeu in the Bernabeu Cup. This was the last warm-up match before the start of the league, and it was also a game that made the Meilingers full of curiosity.

How are the players doing after a summer break?How did the rookies recruited in the new season perform?More importantly, Mourinho, the champion coach who has just led Inter Milan to win the Triple Crown and brought a Champions League title to the declining Serie A, can he have a good chemical reaction with Real Madrid?

During the previous Bernabeu Cup promotion period, people always thought that Real Madrid’s opponent at the Bernabeu would be Brazil’s Corinthians. The Meilingers had been expecting Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos to return to Madrid. This time the fans agreed to Give them a round of applause, because this team treats their opponents better than they treat themselves.

It's a pity that Corinthians did not accept the invitation due to time conflicts. The opponent of the game was the Uruguayan team Penarol.However, Mourinho changed his style of big rotation and put the suspended C Ronaldo and Alonso directly in the starting lineup. In addition, Canales and Pedro, who performed well in the warm-up match before the game Luo, and Di Maria, Khedira, Carvalho and Ozil, who are also new aids, introduced one by one.

The only thing that surprised the media was that Francisco Alvarez was once again put on the bench by Mourinho, and who led Real Madrid's defense was temporarily unclear, but the three-back lineup was placed in the center back position It was Carvalho.

"It's not easy for the Portuguese!" A senior reporter in the reporter area said this, not knowing whether the "not easy" was referring to Mourinho or Carvalho.Arnold Theodore noticed the glance of the old opponent from time to time, and shrugged, "Don't you all know that Alvarez is taking a rest because of his health?"

"Physical reasons? I have followed Real Madrid for so many seasons, and I have never seen him need to rest for four or five games." The reporter said disapprovingly, but although this is just a warm-up match, Theo Duo is more willing to pay attention to the game instead of testing each other with him, "If you want to report on Carvalho's mentorship from Porto, Chelsea and now with Mourinho to Real Madrid, then go and report it. Anyway, if you go deeper, I guess People would rather believe that Mourinho will play double central defenders or even three central defenders, and they will not believe that Carvalho can put Fran...

But although Theodore's words did not make the reporters who wanted to make big news happy, they had to tell the truth.Fran is now in his heyday as a player, and he is no longer the rookie who could be put on the bench for half a season by the head coach of the new team.As for Carvalho, although everyone thinks that Mourinho brought him to Real Madrid to reuse him, after all, the Portuguese has been hovering between the main force and the substitute in Chelsea for the past two seasons.

What's more, isn't part of the reason why Mourinho was hired as Real Madrid's head coach is that he seems to be able to handle the locker room relationship very well. There is no reason why the head coach put last season's league heroes and World Cup superstars on the bench when he first arrived. Real Madrid itself is a broken line of defense?In Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan, it is rare to hear the news of the general's discord. He had a dispute with Cruz, a brief disagreement with Carvalho, and a little conflict with Balotelli, but it seemed to be reconciled later. Others Disagreements happen even less.

Because Carvalho, who seemed to have had a disagreement at the beginning, was summoned by Mourinho to Real Madrid again. Now the La Liga media are generally reporting that the champion coach is easy to get along with the players, and this is at least what Real Madrid fans like to see.

Although God knows that a few years ago, this group of La Liga media still agreed that Mourinho was a handsome man.

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During the nearly one-month warm-up match for Real Madrid, except for the Beckenbauer Cup home game against Bayern Munich, Fran played the entire game, and even if he played the rest of the game, he would play in the last garbage time to warm up.The first league game of the new season was an away game against Mallorca. Mourinho still took Forlan to the away game as usual, but he didn't put him in the starting lineup.

The remuneration is completely different. Khedira, Canales, and Di Maria started every game in the midfield. Even Ozil, who has not played in the United States for a few games, gradually has a stable appearance in the warm-up match. time.There are only 11 positions in the starting lineup. Some people get attention and opportunities to play, which naturally reduces the playing time of others.

Fernando Gago performed well last season, partly because of the appreciation of Argentine coach Manuel Pellegrini, but although the preparations from the warm-up match alone were not good, Gago vaguely felt that maybe he would not be able to get it in the new season. Pay attention to.

It has been three years since he came to Real Madrid. At the beginning, he came to the club that he dreamed of playing for when he was a child under the title of "Redondo's approved successor". Gained 80 goal and several assists.He can't believe that he can still play in this club. Yes, he is still only 1 years old, but he has almost stagnated in the three years from 24 to 21 years old.

Sitting on the bench watching his teammates and opponents running on the court, Gago felt at a loss for his future.Fran was analyzing Real Madrid's defense situation with Carvajal, the new captain of Castilla who was watching the game with the team, but Gago's gaze was so obvious that Fran didn't even think about it. Hao pretended not to see and asked kindly, "Are you okay Fernando?"

Alas... This question is also nonsense, how can it be okay?

Gago was startled awake by Fran's words, forced a smile but didn't say anything.Compared with the striker line composed of Ronaldo, Benzema and Higuain on the surface, Real Madrid's midfielder is undoubtedly too fiercely competitive. Now Diarra and Alonso are in the midfielder position, and the midfielder who plays the midfielder is even worse. All of them were excellent, and Gago couldn't even say "it's okay" in a daze.

Carvajal saw that the senior was temporarily unable to guide him, so he sat next to Granero, who was also his own family.Granero glanced at Castilla's new defender captain, and thought that Castilla's coach probably liked defenders, why else would he always let the defender be the captain of the second-tier team?

Fran felt that Gago was also stubborn. I heard that the head coach of Boca Juniors wanted him to play in a different way. At Real Madrid, Capello and Pellegrini even hinted that if he turned from a midfielder Play as a midfielder, so he will have a lot more chances to play.But Gago recognized the position of the midfielder and Redondo's way of playing.

It is true that, as Redondo praised, his understanding of the game and artistic sense are so brilliant, but none of this can make up for his shortcomings in physical fitness.

Is 'Fernando' such a headache?Fran wanted to feel this way, but for a while, he felt that no one around him could get the meme, so it was hard to say it. "Pintita..." Fran yelled at Gago, and Gago gave him a puzzled look. After all, although his nickname was not as popular as Higuain's 'pipita', his teammates basically knew it and Occasionally, he called him that, but he had never heard Fran call him that. It was always 'Fernando' and 'Fernando', which felt like calling the former Bernabéu prince.

But this time, Fran, who finally stopped calling him 'Fernando', hesitated several times, not knowing whether he should say it or not. Redondo let himself take care of Gago in his life, maybe he expected him to be his own. Successor?What's more, in fact, 24 is no longer a child on the green field, and he should make all decisions by himself.

Fran was still struggling, Gago watched the vice-captain's inexplicable confusion, but there was a change on the field due to the divergence between the two for a while. Ramos and Carvalho, who were assigned double central defenders, cooperated once. Improperly, Mallorca formed an excellent chance to score. Fortunately, Casillas' flying save blocked the football from the gate.

Mourinho also knew that it would be difficult for the two people who had just trained together for a month to reach the tacit understanding between Ramos and Forlan. He waved directly at the bench but didn't see anyone get up. The guy didn't know what he was thinking, anyway, he didn't watch the game seriously.As soon as the assistant coach noticed that Mourinho's face was down, he hurried over to remind Fran to warm up quickly, the head coach was going to replace him.Seeing him obediently going to the sidelines to warm up, Mourinho didn't care what he was talking to Gago just now.

A few minutes later, Real Madrid signaled a substitution, and No. 5 Forlan replaced No. 2 Carvalho.This substitution made Carvalho a little frustrated, but Mourinho on the sidelines did not criticize him, but patted him on the shoulder encouragingly.This substitution has brought huge changes to Real Madrid's defense. At least from Ramos' point of view, this guy upholds absolute confidence in Forlan. The central area was left to Fran alone.

Fran scratched his head, looking at the two defensive midfielders who unconsciously shifted to the midfielder, he didn't know whether to be happy to have their trust or complain about their lack of tune.

Ronaldo was extremely active throughout the game. This is his first appearance in La Liga after wearing Real Madrid's No. 7. Real Madrid's legendary No. 7 will put pressure on others, but it brings more motivation to Ronaldo.During the period when Real Madrid's defense gradually stabilized, Ronaldo and Higuain bombarded Mallorca's goal one after another, but they didn't score a goal for a while.

As the game drew to a close, Mallorca seemed content with a draw and began to stall for time.Countering Mallorca's efforts to delay time, Real Madrid's quick throw-in was unwilling to draw in the first game of the season.Diarra, who was holding the ball on the sidelines, quickly threw the ball to Alonso. Alonso took the ball and ran for a few steps. He adjusted the angle and prepared for a long shot without being marked, but was called a foul by the referee. The whistle, so that Alonso shot the plane, high across the goal.

That position is the area where Alonso is good at long-range shots. He was a little annoyed by the referee's whistle and looked to the sidelines. Only then did he realize that it was not his own foul that was whistled, but Diarra's throwing foul.On the sidelines, Mourinho complained to the fourth referee in great dissatisfaction, but in exchange for a yellow card warning from the referee.Fran walked next to the referee and the head coach with a headache, thinking in his heart that I have a defender who has not scored a goal yet, and you opened the scoring first, which is great, but on the surface, he is signaling to the assistant coach to hold Mr. Coach quickly. It's over.

Mallorca's mascot on the sidelines took advantage of the referee's inattention to hold the football to show off, but he just didn't throw the ball back on the field, and the Mallorca players didn't rush, anyway, they were not in a hurry to score goals.Fran, who assumed the responsibility of the vice-captain because of the inconvenient position of Casillas' goalkeeper, was a little annoyed by Mallorca's negative response. He glanced at the mascot who was still dancing with a football, and turned around silently. The referee saw that the Real Madrid vice team did not return to their original positions, but ran to the sidelines without saying a word, turned over the billboard to get a football, and ran back quickly.

During the process, he did not have any communication with his teammates to solve the problem, nor did he report the problem to the referee, so he decided the method entirely by himself.At this time, the referee also found that Mallorca was passive, and directly awarded the Real Madrid midfielder a throw-in, which is equivalent to directly exposing the part of Diarra just now.Fran, who rarely threw a throw-in on the sidelines, looked at Alonso, who was emptied by Mallorca again, and found it a little funny.

Alonso, who got the ball again, readjusted his angle. Before the Mallorca players could react, he took a powerful long-range shot. The football hit the goal post and bounced back to the penalty area. The one who appeared in the penalty area was not the C who had just besieged. Luo or Higuain, but the missed Benzema.

Seeing that Benzema scored with an easy push and the goal was judged to be valid, Mourinho's heart that has been hanging has been more or less relieved.He looked at the vice-captain among the forwards who had gathered to celebrate from the midfield, and thought it was a little funny, the kid was quite angry.

But in any case, Real Madrid also took a thrilling lead with a goal and won a game. Benzema successfully used this goal to top the scorer list.Cristiano Ronaldo and Higuain, who had been besieging for a long time, were a little uncomfortable, and they really didn't understand why the boy Karim picked up a leak in the end.

The locker room was fairly harmonious. After all, it took 90 minutes to win. Fran, who came off the bench, cleaned up very quickly.Fran rubbed his hair with a towel as he walked towards his seat, passing by Gago who was still in a depressed mood, he couldn't control what he wanted to say this time, "Pintita...I remember you told us, It means Huahuo, right?"

Gago nodded, and saw Fran stop wiping his hair. Biboca youth coaches, BiCapello, and BiPellegrini all said those words bluntly:

"So Pintita, have you ever thought that the object of your emulation should not be Redondo, but Riquelme?"

Only then did Gago understand why he suddenly stopped calling himself 'Fernando'.

The author has something to say: Steel Needle, Jia Ge’s physical fitness is not 01:30 worse than Dong Ge’s. Dong Ge just looks weak, but in fact he is stronger than anyone else.

In fact, he is a very spiritual organizer, and he is very good at picking and passing long passes, but the defense...is not something you can defend well if you are willing to defend.

However, Goose is not happy that he has to move in the front of the opponent's penalty area like the midfielder. He likes to fall gracefully in the midfield.

So I actually never understood, Boca Juniors, the same Pellegrinier, the same elegant dribbling skills, and of course the same power and speed...

Why did you look for Redondo and the midfielder? You should obviously learn Riquelme's attacking midfielder.

But this is also my personal opinion... I am still struggling with whether or not to let Gago change.

After all, to be honest, if he is willing to play like Redondo, then what he enjoys is probably the way the midfielder plays. Everyone has their own persistence.Otherwise, he should have changed at Boca Juniors...

But Maradona praised him as the 'redondo's successor' at the beginning... I deeply thought that this guy was at odds with Riquelme

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Speaking of which, jj has newly added a perspective column... It's fine if my Aarau is divided into the master and the slave... Fran is actually the heroine perspective...

Also drunk, such a shameless heroine, huh?

...I want to write Ibrahimovic's big bg, the heroine is Fran who turned into Frances

Extra Story: When Fran retired

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Fran held the physical training book of the Manchester United players, and while recording, he pushed the flat glasses that he was not used to. In front of him, Rooney was joking, "Fran, why are you still wearing glasses? Can you be normal?"

Fran didn't raise his eyes, and said slowly, "Wayne, are you getting fat again?"

Rooney remembered again that this guy was a guy who cheated people in the national team. The Manchester United friends collectively watched the assistant coach and attacked the captain. Basically, it can be regarded as Juan Mata, who was watched by Fran from the youth training. straight.

The team disbanded, and Ibrahimovic leaned over to Fran to look at his glasses, and asked casually, "Does Manchester United have a defense line that you can see for a long time?"

Fran was not guilty, "Isn't it!" Ibrahimovic felt that the famous Real Madrid star was really embarrassing when he said this. Don't dislike Real Madrid's defense line full of loopholes or Manchester United. He is not wearing plain glasses, but Real Madrid. Unique fan filter, right?

The head coach of Manchester United, Mourinho, has recently added a new catchphrase, "You guys are worse at defending than an assistant coach." But he didn't expect Mourinho to say the same to the referee.

"He's flopping! That Manchester City striker is flopping! How can a penalty be awarded! My player's sliding tackle was taught by the guy who can't foul," Mourinho said in front of the fourth referee. The crackling sound of the back pat continued to emphasize, "He is flopping, do you know what flopping is?" Guardiola on the other side kept a honey smile and watched Mourinho dying.

Fran felt that it was time for him to come on the field, he inserted directly between Mourinho and the fourth referee, and fell beside them.Mourinho was stunned for a moment, then reacted instantly and pointed at Fran, "This is a flop! Do you understand?"

However, regardless of whether the fourth referee understands it or not, the main referee gave both of them a yellow card...