Chapter 855 Leading La Liga
"How does it feel?"
In the northeast of Madrid, in the head coach's office of Real Madrid's Valde Baybas 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 beat Chelsea 2-0 at home.
This is very instructive for Real Madrid, who will go to Manchester midweek and challenge Manchester City away.
Mourinho also attached great importance to this game. Not only did he arrange his right-hand man, Real Madrid's chief scout Jose Mores, who went to Manchester in person to watch the game on the spot, but he also brought assistant coaches such as Caranca and Faria to watch the game live.
Zidane, the first team's special adviser, also sat with them. He is the connection between Chairman Florentino and Mourinho, and Real Madrid also attaches great importance to the trip to Manchester.
After watching this focus match in the Premier League, everyone obviously gained something, but when Mourinho asked them how they felt, they all looked embarrassed, as if they could not describe and express them in words.
"Ruy, let's talk about it first."
After being named, Rui Faria, who had medium-length hair, reached out to grab the bearded scum at the mouth that had not been shaved for four days. She shook her head with a serious expression, "I can't understand, I don't understand."
Rui Faria is in her early thirties and is very close to Gao Han. Both of them were interns in the first team of Barcelona, but Faria is a graduate of the sports sciences at the University of Porto. In order to complete her college thesis [high efficiency football], she came to Barcelona for internship and met Mourinho, the then assistant coach of Barcelona.
The two hit it off and had similar interests and became good friends. Later, Mourinho returned to Portugal to coach, and Faria has always followed Mourinho. As a physical coach, after Boas left Mourinho's team, Faria gradually took on a more important role.
In addition to physical training, analyzing game videos and tactical research are all Faria's strengths.
"Aito, what do you think?" Mourinho turned his head and asked chief assistant coach Aito Kalanca.
This is the right-hand assistant that Mourinho found for him when he coached Real Madrid, familiar with everything about Real Madrid and understand the situation in La Liga.
"Like Rui, I can't figure it out, I always feel that Gao Han is hiding something."
"He didn't do his best." Mourinho replied with confidence.
Judging from the process of the game, Manchester City's playing was not easy, but not difficult. The main reason was that in the first half, Manchester City did not take the initiative as before, but instead let Chelsea push it out and play, and then scored goals through counterattacks.
After two goals in the first half, Manchester City did not pursue the victory in the second half. It was obvious that Gao Han kept his strength.
But thinking about it makes people feel scared.
You know, this is a showdown between the top two teams in 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 his confidence?
Therefore, everyone will say that they don’t understand and can’t figure it out.
"Zinedin, where are you?" Mourinho asked Zidane.
He found that the former French superstar always frowned, as if he had encountered a very puzzling problem.
"There is one thing I didn't understand."
"Speak and listen."
Not only Mourinho cares, but others also look at Zidane, wanting to know what exactly makes the former legendary superstar so distressed.
"All of us know that Gao Han is best at attacking and passing control, but at the beginning of this game, he neither attacking nor controlling the ball. He even seemed to deliberately give the ball to Chelsea. Even if he knew that Chelsea's ability to pass control was not as good as theirs, even if he had confidence in the pressing and oppression of his team, there was no reason to do so."
After hearing Zidane's question, everyone looked at each other. Do you have to think about this question so hard?
"Zinedin, it's obvious that he is deliberately showing weakness." Kalanka replied with a wry smile, "If you combine Gao Han's psychological battle before the game, it's not difficult to find that he did this on purpose and let Chelsea fight."
"I know 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 ball control has never been lower than Chelsea."
Everyone was a little unable to keep up with Zidane's ideas and didn't understand what he wanted to say.
"Zenedin, he had already had a goal in his hand at that time." Faria reminded.
Zidane looked at his colleagues around him, nodded slightly, and stopped saying anything more.
He knew that such an explanation was natural, but it was definitely not that simple. Otherwise, how could he explain that Gao Han has maintained a winning streak since his debut?
He must have done something right to make him so invincible.
In the past, Zidane never thought of coaching, and regarded Gao Han as a genius coach more, but now he had thought of coaching, so his vision and angle of view of Gao Han were obviously different.
Maybe, if you have the chance, you should ask him in person!
No one knows Zidane's thoughts, and no one cares about it. Mourinho and his team are more concerned about how to play the away game in mid-week challenge Manchester City through this game.
"There is no doubt that we have no choice to play against Gao Han's team, so we can only guard against each other." Kalanka suggested.
Faria also nodded in agreement, "They just played a game with Chelsea. Although they didn't play fiercely, they won't be easy. Even if Gao Han retained his strength in the game, it would definitely have an impact on their mid-week game."
As a physical coach, Faria tries to analyze her opponents from the physical aspect.
"Modric's game is a protective suspension, and it is estimated that it will be there, so we will definitely face Manchester City with the strongest lineup at that time."
Mourinho nodded slightly. He has always been a person who is very clear about his characteristics and knows what he wants.
"The reason why Scolari lost this game is because he didn't figure out what he wanted at all. He was hesitant. He wanted a draw, but he felt unwilling to accept it because he also won five consecutive victories, and he felt that he could get more."
"He was unwilling to give up, but he was a little scared. He was killed four times in a year and lost three championships, which made him a little timid. So he was worried that his team would not do it, so he was very hesitant. This can be seen from the lineup he had lined up. If he wanted to draw, he should go to Drogba instead of Falcao."
Mourinho said this and smiled proudly, "Scolari doesn't understand Gao Han at all!"
When the Portuguese madman said this, he felt that he was the person who knew Gao Han best in the world.
"Gao Han, from his debut to now, wants to win every game. As long as he wins, he never wants to draw. Therefore, if he plays with his team, he either wins or loses, and it is impossible to draw!"
When Mourinho said this, his eyes were filled with incomparable firmness.
Although he didn't say it directly, everyone could feel his inner fighting spirit.
Since it is impossible to draw, he has only one choice, that is, win!
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Due to the impact of the first round of La Liga strike, the La Liga schedule in September was arranged very tightly.
Real Madrid started the season pretty well. So far, it has played four rounds. Except for being tied by Real Mallorca in the first round, he won all the other three games, which made Real Madrid's performance very eye-catching.
Especially in the fourth round of the league, Valencia drew Atletico Madrid 1-1 at home, and stopped the three-game winning streak in La Liga, while Real Madrid successfully completed a counterattack with a 3-0 home victory over Espanyol and ranked second in the league standings.
The one who temporarily ranked first in the La Liga scoreboard is the high-altitude Chinatown.
In the fourth round of the league, Chinatown welcomed Lotina's La Coruna at home. The latter tied in the first three rounds of La Liga, and two of them were zero to zero, and their performance was not ideal.
At the Butak Stadium in Leganes, after ninety minutes of fierce fighting between the two sides, Chinatown defeated La Coruna 1-0 at home with Michu's final goal in the 84th minute of the second half, assisted by left-back Alba.
This victory not only allowed Chinatown to continue to score three points, defending its position as the leader in the standings, but also became the only team to maintain four consecutive victories since the start of the La Liga.
Pochettino has also become famous again with his outstanding performance this season. Michu, who has transferred for one million euros this season, scored six goals in four rounds, becoming the biggest discovery in La Liga this season.
In the fifth round of La Liga, Real Madrid challenged Levante away.
Mourinho's away game against Manchester City in the mid-week, and Levante's performance this season is sluggish, so the Portuguese madman did not send all the main players, but arranged a rotation, and confidently went to Levante with Real Madrid second team.
But what was unexpected was that Real Madrid actually tied with Levante in a 0-0 draw.
This not only surprised Mourinho, but also shocked Real Madrid.
You know, when Barcelona lost to Hecures 0-2 at home at the beginning of this season, Real Madrid fans did not forget to take advantage of the situation, but unexpectedly, Real Madrid failed to win Levante, and got the second draw of the season, leaving the top four in the league.
Because of this round, Valencia, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona all won one after another.
Valencia defeated Sporting Gijon 2-0 away in this round and returned to the second place in the league standings.
Although Barcelona lost one game this season, they defeated Athletic Bilbao three-to-one away game in this round, won four consecutive victories, reversed Real Madrid, and won third place in the league.
Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid both won three and tied two games in five games, but the bedsheets team ranked fourth with the advantage of goal difference, and Real Madrid fell to fifth, and its ranking was plummeted.
As for Chinatown, since there are no European events in the middle of the week, other teams will challenge Malaga away for one day late.
Just four minutes into the game, Malaga took advantage of his home court advantage and took the lead in launching a snatch and scoring.
But Pochettino's team quickly stabilized its position. In the 21st minute, Aubameyang received a long pass assist 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 made another attack to tie the score.
The two sides fought against each other in the first half, and the game was very exciting.
Just four minutes before Malaga equalized, it was another assist from Michu that allowed Aubameyang to surpass the score again.
After that, Malaga launched a crazy counterattack again, but midfielder Oliseu, who opened the first record, made a bad foul in the 41st minute and was sent off with a red card, which directly led to Malaga having to fight no one person in the second half and being forced to retreat.
But Chinatown also failed to score again.
In the end, he defeated Malaga three-to-two away and led the La Liga standings with five consecutive victories.
Chapter completed!