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Chapter 403: Queiroz's stupor

"Mallorca's recent momentum has made people feel the strength of the defending champion again. After experiencing a slightly dull start and ups and downs, Mallorca began to win one victory after another with their sharp attacks. The Champions League quarterfinals, the King's Cup final, and the second three-pointer behind Real Madrid in the league...Mallorca has made great progress on three lines this season. What is even more surprising is that in this season, they have suffered the impact of the World Youth Championship and the African Cup. Six players left the team to participate in the national team and the Spanish youth team, but they still survived. In this case, Mallorca has started sprinting.

Their performance made all teams who are determined to win various championships feel nervous, especially Real Madrid - because like Mallorca, Real Madrid is one of the last two teams left in La Liga this season that are likely to win the triple crown! Whether in the league, Champions League or the Copa del Rey, they will be Mallorca's opponents - they and Mallorca are ranked first and second respectively in the league. Although they are not the opponents in the quarter-finals in the Copa del Rey, they are divided into one and a half zones, which is likely to repeat the scene of the two goals battles in the semi-finals last season, and in the upcoming Copa del Rey final, these two teams will also compete with each other!"

"Last season, Mallorca completed an unprecedented four-kill against Real Madrid. In the four matches in the league and the Champions League, they won four games in a row! Real Madrid has changed a lot this season. Bosque is unemployed at home, and Marklele has also transferred to Chelsea. The new head coach Queiros brought Beckham, and their goal is to win the triple crown... In the first round of La Liga, Real Madrid tied Mallorca away and stopped the four-game losing streak against Mallorca. However, for Queiros, this is far from enough. The Champions League, the League, the King's Cup, and the Century Derby. These are the four barriers that Queiros must pass to stabilize his position. Now the first barrier is in front of him. Only by defeating Mallorca can his position become more stable!"

Queros put down the newspaper and sighed.

Now he regrets being the head coach of Real Madrid. His most successful period was when he coached the Portuguese youth team. The two Portuguese youth teams emerged with many superstars, including Figo, Rui Costa, Paul Sousa, Couto, Baia, etc., and won the World Youth Championships for two consecutive times, which is called Portugal's golden generation. In fact, in the next ten years, these people were the mainstay of the Portuguese national team. However, in the following coaching period, his performance was average. After the Portuguese national team failed to enter the World Cup, he was dismissed in Portugal, he coached in Portugal, went to Japan, the United States, and then led South Africa to the World Cup, but was dismissed because of his poor performance in the African Cup. It was not until the end of the 2002 World Cup that he was invited by Ferguson to become the assistant coach of Manchester United. No one expected that he would become the head coach of Real Madrid a year later, responsible for leading this top team to continue moving forward.

However, the pressure on Real Madrid is extraordinary.

Buy people, the chairman makes decisions, the technical director sets the candidates, arranges the teams, superstars have to play, there is no chance for substitutes, and the game, if you win, you have to win good looks, and fans will cheer... All the pressures of this are things that Queiroz has never encountered before coaching other teams. At that time, there was only pressure on the results, but the pressure now does not come from the results...

When Ronaldo was replaced in the game, Ronaldo expressed dissatisfaction when he felt that he had not played much time; when the young defender Rouven was replaced in the game, it was regarded as a resistance to the policy of "Zidanega Pavin", and Florentino expressed dissatisfaction; the Madrid media did not seem to like him, and seemed to miss Bosque. When Ronaldo and Florentino expressed their dissatisfaction, they stood on the side of Ronaldo and Florentino. Even at the end of the half-time, Queros led the team to defeat Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, ​​La Coruna and other strong opponents, and tied Valencia and Mallorca, they still rated Queros as the worst coach in the half-time La Liga in the selection, but instead rated Valencia's Benitez and La Coruna's Iruetta as the best in the half-time - of course Jose was also ignored by the Madrid media at that time...

When he was an assistant coach at Manchester United, there were not so many troubles. With the towering tree of Ferguson, what he had to do was much simpler - and Queroz was already very dissatisfied with the fact that Real Madrid could not get respect. After all, even the clay man was still angry. After the selection, he hinted that he was likely to return to Portugal to coach.

From the bottom of his heart, Queros cannot be regarded as a top coach because he lacks the ability to withstand pressure and has tough skills. Without these two points, he cannot fight against unreasonable demands of the management and cannot gather a unified voice in the locker room - these two points need to be at least one of them, and there is no two points, that is a disaster.

So now Queiroz often misses his time at Manchester United, and when he saw his young opponent in this game on the stadium, he couldn't help but start to envy this young man.

He is young enough, less than thirty years old; he has top reputation and has won all the championships he can win; he is in power, the club chairman is his father, and he himself is the only shareholder of the club; he has prestige among the players, and he talks the whole thing in the locker room. As long as he says which young man has a future, this young man will be worth a hundred times the price immediately...

This is a guy that all coaches can't help but envy him, because he has all the factors of success. Of course, this is also because of his own efforts and excellence - the champions were won one by one by one, and he also chose Mallorca's players one by one, and he also obtained the ownership of Mallorca in various ways. The only thing he was born was probably that his father was Old Alemani, but you should know that Old Alemani was just a club chairman without shares at that time...

All this is achieved through Jose's own efforts.

Of course, Jose is bound to win this final. If Jose always sent a substitute rotation in the previous rounds of knockout matches and didn't care about winning or losing, then he would be a fool if he reached the final and didn't work hard. So in this game, he was also planning to send out the main lineup in his hands. In addition to fine-tuning in several positions, such as Iniesta replaced Dakot, Torres replaced Drogba's position, Matthias and Nadal started, and Campano replaced Beletti - other positions are the main players, and the few people in the replacement also have the ability to play the main players, but the focus is different.

However, the starting lineup announced by Real Madrid made Jose open his eyes wide in surprise.

It would be fine if Ronaldo did not play due to injury. After all, he was absent in the first two rounds of the league, and it would be fine if there was no pure defensive player in the midfield. After all, Beckham is basically a midfielder at Real Madrid now, and it is understandable that Solari came on the court as a super substitute. However, in the position of goalkeeper, Queros did not send Casillas, but instead sent a substitute goalkeeper Luis Cesar who had previously played in the Cup of del Rey and performed well!

This Cesar is not the later Brazilian goalkeeper Cesar. Although he was once a Spanish goalkeeper, he only played once. After transferring from Valladolid to Real Madrid four years ago, he has been playing the role of a goalkeeper and a soy sauce man in the Cup. Although he played very well in this Cup Cup match, Queiroz actually sent him to the field in such a final. What was he thinking?

The final is different from other previous games. One mistake may make you regret it for life, just like Jose used Roa in the previous cup matches. However, in the final, Cameni and all the main players will be sent, while Queros is holding on to the idea that "whoever starts will end, since Cesar has always been the main goalkeeper of the Copa del Rey, then the final should be allowed to continue."

This idea cannot be said to be wrong, but you should know that Real Madrid is a club that even Bosque and Jero can ruthlessly drive away. Isn’t it ridiculous to show warmth to a substitute goalkeeper at this time?

Jose didn't know what mentality it was in Queiros to make such a decision. All he knew was that this situation was definitely beneficial to Mallorca. If Real Madrid valued the most was not the superstars in the frontcourt, but the talented goalkeeper Casillas. In Jose's view, in the first ten years of the 21st century, there were actually only a few top goalkeepers. Not counting the old Caen and others, it was nothing more than Buffon who had been performing stably, Cech, who was not kicked in the brain, Cesar, who was still dormant, and Van der Sar, who was still strong, and the other was Casillas who became famous at a young age.

If one word is used to describe these goalkeepers, Buffon is unparalleled and stable, then Casillas is an unparalleled reaction.

Like Cesar, Casillas' reaction has almost surpassed human defense. His continuous save ability and instantaneous reaction ability are definitely top-notch. Cesar can compete with him in this regard, but Cesar's peak period and duration period are more than half shorter than Casillas...

In fact, Jose is the goalkeeper that he is most reluctant to face in La Liga, because this is a goalkeeper who doesn’t know when he will make a wonderful save. In a strong conversation, a wonderful save can often affect the final result of a game!

Although Mallorca completed four kills against Real Madrid last season, Casillas' performance was not bad. Except for his mediocre performance in the second league match against Mallorca at home, his entire team in that game was dragged down by Mallorca. What should you do if the goalkeepers can't be protected enough in the back line?

In other games, Casillas' performance was very top-notch, but Real Madrid's defense made many mistakes and was suppressed by Mallorca.

Casillas cannot play in this final. Even if Cesar performed well in the Copa del Rey before, he is just a good goalkeeper. With Mallorca's offense, it is not a problem to score enough goals when Real Madrid's defense is average!

Ronaldo in front and Casillas behind - Real Madrid, who lacks these two generals, wants to win my Mallorca? What a joke!

ps: I went out for a banquet at noon... I don't know why things have become so many, tragedy recently.
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