Legend of Fengshen

Chapter 499 Is there an opportunity?

The other protagonist is Adebayor. Adebayor managed to earn a starting opportunity. How can he not want to explode? The purpose of Mourinho sending him is to hope for an extra fulcrum in the frontcourt. I don’t know what Adebayor thinks Yes, maybe he hasn't matched up with the team yet, he has a fulcrum role, but his general choice is to shoot.

The two central defenders defending Adebayor today, one is Ivan Hernandez and the other is Botia. Both of them are not low in height. Botia is 187, Hernandez is 190, And Adebayor's height is about 192.

Even though there is a slight advantage in height, Real Madrid is playing positional battles. Under the attack of two central defenders, it is still difficult for Adebayor to compete for the top. What's more, Hernandez and Botia's two small movements continue. Debayor rarely regards himself as a fulcrum. He wants to score goals, so most of his choices are shots.

Of course, the quality of this kind of shooting cannot be guaranteed, but it is nothing. He, Di Maria, and the two have got into the horns of strengthening the shooting. Mourinho is very unhappy about this situation, but there is nothing he can do. He can see that the state of the Real Madrid team is not very good. Without Ronaldo, he feels that the offense on the field is too clueless.

Di Maria is not on the same level as Ronaldo at all. He did what Ronaldo did, and now he has some vague thoughts about wanting Zhang Yuan to substitute in the second half.

At the end of halftime, Real Madrid's match against Sporting Gijon at home was 0:0. Real Madrid shot as many as 13 times, and the number of shots on target was not bad, but most of them were non-threatening shots on target. According to this data, Juan Pablo was considered brave, but in fact, he didn't have any outstanding chances, and he got Real Madrid's shots relatively easily.

Facing the tortoise and iron barrel formation, Mourinho doesn't have many ways to do it. Don't try to lure the enemy deep or something. Preciado is very cunning and won't be fooled. This is Real Madrid's home stadium Sporting Gijon. Will be fooled.

Because Mourinho's "bus tactics" have become famous in football, but he is not good at breaking through the iron barrel formation.

Now he can only be patient and wait for the players to perform better. After arranging the tactics, he called Zhang Yuan.

"Maybe you will play in the second half, warm up well, and I will make arrangements according to the situation!" Mourinho's other substitutes called Zhang Yuan alone without saying anything. This has already indicated a direction, the possibility of Zhang Yuan playing in the second half The sex is not ordinary, and he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and Zhang Yuan needed to be a shit-stirring stick.

Whether it will work or not only God knows. After all, Zhang Yuan has not played an official game for 3 months. Training and competition are two different things.

After hearing what Mourinho said, Zhang Yuan realized that his opportunity had come. If he did well, he might start in the midweek Champions League, otherwise he might continue to waste time on the bench.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. Sporting Gijon always kept in mind the teachings of head coach Preciado, and would never invest too much force in the backcourt of Real Madrid. In the first half, Real Madrid's ball possession rate was as high as 60.00%, but what It's useless, Real Madrid's backcourt can circle the field, but the frontcourt is struggling, and they use it quite a lot in crosses.

For an underdog like Sporting Gijon, Preciado plays a completely different kind of football. They don’t have the traditional small-scale passing and cutting cooperation in Spain. They rely on defense, and offense is not their specialty. They only scored 27 goals, an average of less than 1 per game, but their conceded goals are not too many, except for Barcelona and Real Madrid, they conceded the fewest goals.

Preciado didn't expect the team to survive the first half. During the intermission, he was full of praise for the team, praised the team, cheered for the team, and worked hard for me. Real Madrid's face, I treat everyone to a big meal.

He is not a civilized person. When Mourinho quarreled with him, Preciado even insulted people by touching his little brother. The spirit passed on to Sporting Gijon.

And the players of Sporting Gijon are really like hungry wolves. They still had a lot of energy to run in the second half, constantly disturbing the rhythm of Real Madrid. He was very impatient on the sidelines, and the players became even more impatient when they saw him. After all, they couldn’t take down Mourinho’s enemy. No one knew if they could stay in this position in the next game. .

Just look at Zhang Yuan, he was highly regarded by Mourinho in the past, but now he is nestling on the bench as well.

In the 57th minute, Zhang Yuan, wearing the No. 14 jersey, finally made his debut at the Bernabeu after three months. He replaced Adebayor, who disappointed Mourinho. It would be good if Debayor chooses to give many balls to his teammates, but he chooses to shoot. The quality is quite poor. So far in the game, he has completed 6 shots, but only one shot is on target. Such a performance by Mourinho It is not wrong for O to replace him.

When Adebayor left the field, his face was not very good-looking but he was helpless. He clapped his hands with Zhang Yuan and slowly returned to the bench like an eggplant beaten by frost. Mourinho didn't even look at him.

The fans at the Bernabéu burst into thunderous applause. Zhang Yuan's momentum is definitely not as good as that of Ronaldo, but his performance in the first half of the season is a good interpretation of the word "efficient", and he is also quite popular with Real Madrid fans.

Now that he has returned to the game after three months, the majority of Real Madrid fans will naturally welcome his return with warm applause, and at the same time hope that Zhang Yuan's playing will have an immediate effect.

Zhang Yuan thought that Mourinho would push Higuain to the front line to play the center forward, and let him play the position of Ronaldo, but Mourinho did not arrange this way. He pushed Zhang Yuan to the front line, and he gave Zhang Yuan The only order is to get Zhang Yuan closer to the goal and go deep into the core of Sporting Gijon's defensive area to disrupt the situation.

This arrangement reflects Mourinho's mentality. When the positional battle is fruitless, Mourinho hopes to use some direct means to solve the problem instead of passing control. Useless.

Of course, this is also in line with Mourinho's consistent proposition, he has never been very pursuing possession of the ball.

When Preciado saw Zhang Yuan on the field, he immediately realized the danger. He admired many players in the Real Madrid team, and Zhang Yuan was one of them. In his mind, this player was capable of solving problems alone.

After observing for a few minutes, Preciado quickly came up with a countermeasure. Zhang Yuan’s header has never been his strong point. Mourinho’s replacement of him will definitely reduce Adebayor’s high-altitude ball tactics on the field. Instead, the main means of attack will be placed on the ground attack.

Zhang Yuan is good at controlling the ball and breaking through. Preciado believes that if his central defender wants to single out Zhang Yuan, he must be looking for death. The most important thing is not to let Zhang Yuan hold the ball.

Preciado's strategy is to find a way to cut off the passing path of Real Madrid to Zhang Yuan. The disadvantage of playing a three forward with a winger is this place. The winger is too far away, and the center is easily isolated.

Preciado's strategy is to block the two sides and the center out abruptly. His current defensive strategy is not to focus on marking Zhang Yuan, but to push the passing points around Zhang Yuan as far as possible.

Zhang Yuan played very awkwardly. Higuain is not in good condition and breakthrough is not his strong point, so he often has no route to pass to Zhang Yuan, so he can only choose to pass back or pass to Ozil in the middle for redistribution.

Di Maria on the right has obvious physical disadvantages. After Preciado took countermeasures, Di Maria’s space was compressed and he moved more and more to the side. Sporting Gijon adopted a centralized defense in the center in the first half, but in the second half Zhang Yuan played. They obviously changed their strategy, spreading the defensive area and strictly prohibiting the ball from passing to Zhang Yuan's feet.

This trick is very effective, and Preciado is not out of stock, which makes Zhang Yuan very uncomfortable.

Under the current situation of Real Madrid, there must be someone in the penalty area. Zhang Yuan can’t choose to retreat too much. Dexterous cooperation, the farther away from the fans, the less of a threat.

So Mourinho has always been prepared to play without a front, and Zhang Yuan must be at the front.

The sides couldn't provide support, the center couldn't penetrate, and the protagonist of the shot in the second half became the midfielder. Everyone took turns to shoot long shots towards the goal of Sporting Gijon.

(End of this chapter)