"He still took a gamble."

On the day of the Champions League final, Gao Han, as an important guest, sat on the final podium in the stands of the president of Luzhniki Stadium. In addition to his wife Lin Xia, who flew over from Spain, there was also the head coach of the Spanish national team, Luis Aragones.

The European Cup is about to come, and this Spanish coach who has given everything to the national team and has bet his lifelong reputation naturally has to supervise the battle himself, and by the way, see what the process and ending of Guardiola's team faces Manchester United with excellent impact.

I believe this game will have great reference value for his upcoming European Cup.

When Gao Han got the list of both sides, his first reaction was that Ferguson bet.

Veteran Giggs and Scholes were both on the table, but young player Matic was left on the bench by him. In addition to Berbatov, Nani and Rooney, Ferguson has given the answer very clearly.

He wants to give it a try.

"I didn't expect that he was so old and still had such a stubborn temper. He actually got beaten by Guardiola's aggressive move." Aragonese shook his head with some amusement, obviously feeling unbelievable.

You know, Ferguson is a famous coach who has been famous in European football for a long time. He was actually played with by a young man. Isn’t that kidding?

Gao Han did not refute, but just smiled bitterly, because he knew that Ferguson was not attacked.

After all, he is such a person who would rather die in battle than retreat.

Many people have always had pragmatic impressions of Ferguson and Manchester United, but in fact, in the bones of Ferguson and Manchester United, this team has always insisted on offensive football, and Ferguson has always used his understanding of football to transform Manchester United's offense and organization.

So, in the past few years, Manchester United has been criticized for not introducing defensive players.

Just yesterday, Gao Han gave the advice that he would attack first at the beginning, and it would be best to score goals. If he could not score, he would disrupt Barcelona's rhythm. Then he would retreat and counterattack with a defensive counterattack, but Ferguson obviously did not adopt it.

As he said yesterday, he wanted to win a goal first.

As long as you score one goal first, Manchester United will have enough chips to deal with Barcelona and force the opponent to press and play. The counterattack will be much easier to make, but the risks brought by this style of play are also very great.

Once Barcelona scored the first goal, Ferguson's team will be finished.

This is also why Ferguson did not answer when Gao Han asked him yesterday if he could hold on.

I guess he was not sure.

Both sides have reached the Champions League final, and both sides have basically played according to their own ideas and are sticking to themselves.

"This game is expected to be decided in the first half at the latest." Gao Han said to Aragones.

The Spanish coach nodded, "If you don't go to Matic, there will be no midfield defensive interception. Giggs and Scholes have strengthened their offense. Both sides obviously want to fight against each other. I really don't know where he got the confidence."

As a Spaniard, Aragones is obviously more optimistic about Barcelona.

Gao Han is the same, but he believes that Ferguson's Manchester United is not without opportunities, it depends on whether he can grasp it.

After all, Guardiola's Barcelona is not so strong, especially the defense problems are still a lot.

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The competition seems to be developing in the direction Gao Han expected.

At the beginning, Manchester United, wearing a white jersey, took the initiative to attack, and in the first minute, it caused a foul by Barcelona midfielder Busquets. Manchester United's free kick directly attacked, causing Barcelona goalkeeper Valdes to miss the hand, but Rooney fell to the ground and blocked it by Pique when he shot.

After that, Manchester United continued to attack Barcelona and repeatedly posed threats.

Ferguson's abacus was just as he said before, grabbing a goal first.

In the first ten minutes, Manchester United scored four shots, but basically failed to catch them, which also made all Manchester United fans who came to the scene excited.

But in the tenth minute, when Manchester United's offensive was at its strongest, Barcelona suddenly made a counterattack. Iniesta dribbled the ball in the middle and passed it to the right side of the penalty area. Etoo cleverly dunked over Ferdinand, and before Carrick made up the place, he shot and broke the deadlock on the court.

One to zero!

A sudden goal completely stunned all Manchester United fans, but Gao Han, who was sitting in the stands, sighed softly and looked at the time on the scoreboard. It was less than eleven minutes.

"The competition is over." Gao Han shook his head.

Unless Ferguson's team can have another magical reversal similar to the 1999 Champions League final against Bayern Munich, the victory in this game will belong to Barcelona and Guardiola.

Of course, countless media will also pay part of the credit to Gao Han after the game.

Aragonese was also a little depressed. This was the Champions League final. After playing eleven minutes, there was no suspense. How boring is this?

"Ferguson is still paying the price for his own risk."

Gao Han nodded, "If Manchester United slowed down after the third shot was shot in the seventh minute and took the defensive, Barcelona would not score so easily."

But there is no if on the football field. If Ferguson chooses to bet, then he will have to take the risk of betting.

"In fact, Barcelona's midfield interception is not enough. As long as Manchester United calm down, there will still be a chance to play in this game. It's a pity..." Gao Han shook his head and sighed, looking at Aragones again.

"The smartest thing you do is to naturalize Marcos Senna. I dare say that the combination of Xavi, Marcos Senna and Xavi Alonso can make the Spanish midfielder stand out for the European Cup."

After hearing this, Aragones looked at Gao Han with a smile, "I said, are you praising me? Or are you praising yourself?"

Gao Han shrugged, as if he was saying, of course it was me, too?

Both of them laughed.

When Aragones naturalized Marcos Senna, it was Gao Han's suggestion, because Marcos Senna was unable to be selected for the Brazilian national team for a long time, and Deco, who was also unable to be selected for the national team, was naturalized to Portugal. Why couldn't Marcos Senna go to Spain?

What's more, Marcos Senna is still a very scarce player type in Spain.

"To be honest, the most troublesome thing I have now is whether to bring Raul."

After laughing, Aragones raised his biggest problem.

He is the third person to call Gao Han for help during the Bayern Munich championship celebration parade. The two sides agreed to watch the Champions League final together, and Gao Han should also fulfill his duties as a technical consultant to the Spanish Football Association.

Even though he has been slacking off for many years.

"In recent times, from the chairman of the Football Association to ordinary fans, many celebrities, and even the players of the national team have been talking to me about this. They basically have the same attitude. Even if they are substitutes or even if they are not allowed to play, they should bring Raul."

Gao Han understood the difficulties of Aragones, which is indeed a difficult choice.

From a relationship perspective, Raul must take care of it.

To put it bluntly, Spain has almost been brought by Raul in the past few years. He can be said to have supported Spain's most difficult trough period. Without Raul, Spain doesn't know what it will be like.

It is not an exaggeration to even say that he is the greatest star in Spain in the past twenty years.

But if it comes from a rational point of view, Raul must not lead him.

As a iconic player in Spain, Raul represents many interests. Regardless of admitting it or not, his existence is an obstacle to the reform of the national team, making it difficult for a group of international players who follow him as the leader to completely obey Aragones' orders.

The Spanish national team's qualifiers improved, starting with the deposed Raul, and then Aragones was able to successfully implement a series of reforms in the Spanish national team, and eventually led the team into the European Cup with great momentum.

But if, at this time, he recalls Raul to the national team, what kind of signal will it send to other players?

More importantly, after Raul joins the team, should he use it or not?

If he is a little out of place with the national team's style, but if he doesn't want to use it, wouldn't he lay a mine for the national team yourself?

When that time comes, how many people will stand up and accuse Aragones?

What's more, it's not necessary to recruit the national team. Isn't this clearly humiliating and giving Raul?

Gao Han admired Raul very much, but also sympathized with him very much.

Raul's greatest sorrow is not that he plays for Real Madrid and is in disagreement with Aragones, who was born at Atletico Madrid, but that he was born at the wrong time.

He is a great star worthy of admiration, but Gao Han doesn't think it would be a good thing to bring him to the European Cup.

"Louis, players can be emotional, but the head coach cannot. I believe that when so many people advise you, you still ask me this question. This proves that there is an answer in your heart. It's just that you need someone to support you and give you the courage to make this choice, right?"

Aragones was speechless, and Gao Han really understood his thoughts.

"Sometimes, I really doubt whether I should be hardened and say no to Raul, you know, at his age, this may be his last European Cup, and maybe even his last time representing Spain in a contest."

Even though he had never been very close to Raul, he felt that from the perspective of relationship, he should indeed give Raul a place, not to mention that Raul himself has compromised to participate in the European Cup.

Gao Han could understand and sympathize with Raul.

"But as a head coach, we always need to consider the whole team as a whole. Sometimes we even have to give up some feelings for this and even do something that hurts others, what do you think?"

Aragones was silent.

He understood all the principles that Gao Han said, even better than Gao Han, but it was still difficult for him to make this decision.

This is destined to be an imperfect decision.

Even if Aragones and Spain win the European Cup in the future, they will definitely regret Raul's absence.

But Gao Han was right, this is the fate of the head coach.

Just like Ferguson on the stadium, he would rather launch a suicide charge towards powerful forces like Don Quixote than choose to retreat because he knows his team and knows that some things would rather lose the Champions League final than not without.

The same choice is still with Guardiola, but fortunately, he is just a powerful party tonight.

This highly anticipated Champions League final ended with Guardiola's Barcelona defeating Ferguson's Manchester United 2-0.

The Spanish young coach led the team to the triple-tall championship in his first season of his coaching career.
Chapter completed!