729 The biggest failure
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Although before the game, many media were hyping Real Madrid's goalkeeper turmoil with great interest, and they were all exaggerating the contradictions between Yang Cheng and Casillas, especially Casillas was on the bench in the league against Deportivo La Coruna and Mallorca in the cup, which was interpreted by the media as Yang Cheng's warning to Casillas.
"Watch your main position, Captain!"
There are even newspapers that simply match a photo of Yang Cheng in command training, with such a narration, and next to it is a very aggrieved picture of Casillas, which has indeed caused a lot of controversy.
After all, put the main goalkeeper and captain of the Spanish national team on the bench and instead appoint an infamous Anthony well... Adam, this is indeed a very difficult thing to accept.
But in Real Madrid's away game against Numancia, Casillas's name appeared again in Real Madrid's lineup, and he still qualified for Real Madrid, and he also wore Real Madrid's captain's armband to participate in the pre-match guess.
For the obscure town of Soria, the arrival of Real Madrid is undoubtedly a celebratory festivities in the small city, which has less than enough capacity, and the Pajaritos Stadium, the home stadium of Numancia, is packed, but it is clear that more fans are not coming to see the home team, but to see Real Madrid.
Goalkeeper Casillas, the back line from left to right is Marcelo, Thiago. Silva, Ramos and McConn, with Xavi at the back. Alonso and De La Red, while the defenders are Ronaldo, Kaka and David. Silva, the single striker is Villa.
This star-studded lineup caused a huge response at Numancia's home stadium.
Yes, they admire Real Madrid's stars, but their slogan is, "Kill them, Numancia!" ”
"It's like killing Barcelona, killing Real Madrid!!"
Obviously, the 1-0 home defeat to Barcelona in the first round of the league made Numancia fans want to see another upset, because everyone has a Robin Hood complex in their hearts, and it is natural that they all want to rob Real Madrid and relieve Numancia.
And the home team also unceremoniously launched a fierce scramble for Real Madrid at the beginning of the game, as if they were restraining Barcelona, and Numancia's home conditions are really bad, coupled with the home team's crazy pressing Real Madrid started a little passive.
The first shot came in the 5th minute, when Numancia hit after a break on the flank, hoisted the ball into the box from the left, and Casillas dropped the ball in the air before the opposition striker.
"Come on, press it all on me!" Casillas reversed his habit of keeping goal with his head in the back of his head and began to become more proactive.
All the players pressed forward, and Casillas also used a big kick to transfer the ball to Numancia's half, and since then Numancia has rarely threatened Real Madrid's goal, but Casillas is not completely out of chance.
He stands at the last checkpoint of the defensive line, and from a certain point of view, he is the person with the broadest vision in the whole team, so he can always clearly see where the opponent's ball is coming from, who is ready to respond at which hole, and then by directing his teammates, to fill these holes, to block the opponent's attack.
"Sergio, kill him at 2 o'clock!"
"Marcelo, McConn is up, come back a little!"
"Thiago, well done, nice defense!" …,
In addition to directing and giving encouragement and affirmation to his teammates, he was also very excited when the team scored, almost hugging Thiago and Silva and celebrating in the penalty area.
So much so that after Real Madrid's final 4-0 win over Numancia, Casillas received a high score that did not match his performance when the media rated Real Madrid's players.
"From a historical point of view, a goalkeeper getting a high score often represents a slump in the backline, which shows the team's poor defensive system from the side, but in this game, Casillas, who regained his main position, proved that a goalkeeper can not only play in front of goal, he can also do more."
"From a goalkeeper's point of view, his performance was limited by the overall strength of the team and the perfect control of the situation, but as a captain, as a player, his contribution gave him a high score, indisputable!"
After the game, Yang Cheng also praised Casillas' performance, believing that Casillas had re-staged the return of the king after adjustments, and he also believed that San Cassie's performance would get better and better.
However, Yang Cheng also took into account one point, that is, the better Casillas performs, the less opportunities Anthony has to stink, which is definitely not much good for a young goalkeeper.
It's a headache, if you send Antonio and Adan away, Real Madrid's substitute goalkeeper is a big problem, but if you don't let him go, you can't get enough training for the game, which is tantamount to wasting a goalkeeper with great potential.
Real Madrid has always taken great care of the city team Getafe, and Getafe is also known as the second team of Real Madrid, because many of the owners and management of this Getafe team are die-hard members of Real Madrid, and they also rely on their good relationship with Real Madrid, they can always dig up the treasure of the academy, known as the Real Madrid youth training factory.
Now, with the aging of Abondanseri, Getafe's main goalkeeper position has ushered in a blank period. Adan has been performing well recently and is interested in bringing in the goalkeeper, but Yang Cheng has decided to hold it down for the time being and wait until the end of the season to make a decision.
Sometimes, finding a substitute is more of a headache than finding the main team, because if the players introduced are not strong enough to bring enough competitive pressure to Casillas, it will not have much effect at all, but if the strength is too strong, how can people come to Real Madrid to sit on the bench and play as a substitute for Casillas?
In the end, it's a very tangled question! On 4 February, Real Madrid hosted Sevilla in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final.
A week of double-match matches has put pressure on Real Madrid, and injuries to four players, including Mascherano and Granero, have had an impact on Real Madrid, who eventually beat visiting Sevilla 2-1 at the Bernabeu.
Antonio, Adan, who had performed well in many consecutive games before, was finally inevitably broken through the goal in this game, but his recent outstanding performance has left a deep impression on the fans, and Yang Cheng will also give him more opportunities in the future to help him train and improve.
Back in the league, Real Madrid welcomed Racing Santander at home, facing this defensive counterattack team that is second only to Real Madrid and Barcelona this season, Real Madrid finally lost points, 1:1, Real Madrid drew at home to Racing Santander.
This team brought a lot of trouble to Barcelona in the last round, if it wasn't for the lucky goal at the last critical moment, it would be difficult for Barcelona to retreat from the away side, and now they continue to maintain the tenacity and pressing tactics of the northern team, taking advantage of Real Madrid's physical and mental fatigue, it is indeed a good effect. …,
With a draw, the lead shrank back to two points, and Real Madrid remain league leaders.
Yang Cheng has been mentally prepared for this situation, from the winter break to the present, a series of double matches a week, the Copa del Rey schedule has made it difficult for Real Madrid to compete with Racing Santander in terms of physical fitness, and it is not easy to survive until now.
The media in Catalonia have started a new round of hype, believing that Barcelona has a chance to reverse Real Madrid and encourage Barcelona to continue to work hard, but Yang Cheng is not interested in these reports, he is more concerned about whether his team can adjust its fitness and condition.
After a week's rest, Real Madrid visited Sporting Gijón's Moulin Stadium, with goals from Aguero, Ronaldo, Marcelo, Kaka and Ramos, away 5:0 away to Sporting Gijón, and these five goals are from Ming players, which is quite amazing, and it also proves that what was previously publicized and hyped by the media has no impact on Real Madrid.
On the contrary, Barcelona, in the away game against Real Betis, Guardiola made a lot of rotations, Messi, Henry and other players sat on the bench, Keita, Hleb, Cáceres and others who returned from the Africa Cup of Nations all played, but in the end it was 0:2 behind in the first half.
At the critical moment, it was Messi and Bojan who played to help Barcelona score two goals in a row, and finally got a valuable point 2:2 away.
If it was Real Madrid who made the mistake in the last round, and Barcelona survived the intensive schedule after the winter break and successfully shortened the gap with Real Madrid, then in just the past round, Barcelona's own mistakes once again widened the gap between themselves and Real Madrid to 4 points.
At present, Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga are both outstanding, with a very large lead, and the number of goals scored by these two teams is also constantly improving, and there is no shortage of big wins, so the outside world generally believes that only Barcelona can shake the foundation of Real Madrid's championship.
This season's Real Madrid has maintained an impressive record of 23 rounds of unbeaten in La Liga, if it weren't for a Barcelona dead behind, according to the usual environment, it would have already taken a big lead, and it could even be announced that it would have won the championship in advance, but now Barcelona is chasing so tightly, the gap between the two teams is bright, and the outcome is unpredictable.
But it is foreseeable that whoever wins the championship is destined to become the most tragic runner-up in the history of La Liga!
On the 22nd, Real Madrid welcomed the Real Betis team at home.
After a week's rest, and in order to better prepare for the Champions League against Lyon in midweek, Real Madrid played a frantic round of attacks in the first half, almost beating Real Betis to the point where there was nowhere to escape.
Just 4 minutes into the game, David . Silva picked up the ball on the edge of the box and got rid of a defender and went straight into the box, where Villa caught up and scored for Real Madrid to open the scoring.
But only less than 10 minutes later, Real Betis, who began to focus on defense, was once again scored by Real Madrid, this time it was Xiao Xiao Luo who broke through on the right side and cooperated with Kaka, and the Brazilian passed Xiao Xiao Luo to complete a very wonderful shot in the penalty area, rewriting the score to 2:0 for Real Madrid!
In the 19th minute, it was Xiao Xiaoluo who cut into the penalty area diagonally and scored after receiving a pass from Villa, helping Real Madrid expand the score again.
Seeing that Real Madrid was crazy, Real Betis was not polite, and pressed out directly, Oliveira scored 1 goal for Real Betis in the 31st minute, 3:1.
But less than four minutes later, Real Madrid scored two goals in the 35th and 41st minutes respectively to rewrite the score to 5:1. Silva made a long pass from the back and found David. Villa, the Spanish striker reached into the penalty area after winning the ball, got rid of the goalkeeper, and pushed the empty goal, 6:1! …,
Scoring 6 goals in the first half, Real Madrid's powerful attacking power was breathtaking, and Yang Cheng did not have the slightest politeness, and at the end of the break, he replaced 3 players in a row to save strength for the Champions League game in midweek.
Real Betis, who was disabled by Real Madrid, completely lost the fighting spirit and desire to fight back, and finally could only accept the 6:1 defeat and leave the Bernabeu stadium in disgrace.
In the other game completed at the same time as Real Madrid, Barcelona lost 1-2 at their home stadium to rivals Espanyol, Barcelona veteran de la Pena beat Barcelona with two goals in this game, and substitute Yaya, Toure scored a face-saving goal for Barcelona in the last minute.
As a result, Real Madrid's lead over Barcelona expanded to 7 points, which immediately made all Barcelona fans angry, thinking that Pep Guardiola's arrival and the team's heavy investment in reinforcements did not bring substantial changes to Barcelona at all, on the contrary, the gap between Barcelona and Real Madrid is still so obvious.
"Where did Ibrahimovic, whom we brought in a lot of money, go when the team needed him the most?"
"Why is it that Hleb, Cáceres, Keita and other players have performed so well in other teams, but when they come to Barcelona, it suddenly seems that they don't know how to play at all?"
"It's not just the players and the manager, it's already a problem for Barcelona now, from top to bottom, we have to find the root cause of the problem and solve it, otherwise, we can't reverse Real Madrid!"
The day after the derby, Barcelona's mouthpiece World Sports published a poll on the satisfaction of Barcelona's fans in several big operations last summer, in which Barcelona fans loved and hated to abandon Mourinho and choose Guardiola.
They don't like Mourinho, it's indisputable, but the problem is, Pep Guardiola is too bad!
This is evident from the second option.
After Eto'o left the Premier League, his goals in Manchester City have been rising steadily, and his performance has become better and better, but Ibrahimovic has been criticized and debated more and more in Barcelona, and 9 percent of Barcelona fans believe that letting Eto'o go is a short-sighted operation of Barcelona management's ignorance.
"We gave the best shooter to someone else, but left the worst one!"
If the spearhead of Barcelona fans on Eto'o's issue is directly at Laporta and does not hold Guardiola responsible, then for Ibrahimovic, 90% of Barcelona fans believe that Ibrahimovic is the biggest failure in Barcelona's history and the biggest parallel import in Barça's history.
Among them, in the poll, the choice of not wanting to see Swedes in the next season is as high as 70%.
"We have Messi, we have Thierry Henry, we have Bojan, we don't need Ibrahimovic!"
This almost represents the voice of Barcelona fans, and it also makes Ibrahimovic's situation at Barcelona worse and worse.
The top annual salary, the top transfer fee, the top treatment, but they can't bring the top football, this is the embarrassment of Ibrahimovic.
Among Barcelona fans, they generally attribute Ibrahimovic's reason to Guardiola's lack of experience, thinking that Guardiola is too blindly confident, which led him to let go of Eto'o, who was originally more in line with the club's tactics, and introduced an Ibrahimovic who could not adapt to Barcelona's tactics at all.
"At the beginning of the season, many people said that they should give trust to Ibrahimovic, because Zidane transferred from Juventus to Real Madrid, and also experienced an adaptation period of about half a year, so I should give Ibrahimovic more time, but now more than half a year has passed, and most of the season has been carried out, but we still don't see signs of Ibrahimovic integrating into Barcelona's tactical system." …,
"On the other hand, Real Madrid, we can see that every transfer they make has a very high tactical intention in it, whether it is Kaka or Xiao Xiaoluo, the superstars they introduce are all players who can bring great improvement to the team's local position and overall strength, which will greatly improve the overall strength of the team."
"Look at Real Madrid, look at Barcelona, we have reached the point where we have to make rectifications, we have to improve the status quo, we have to find our problems, otherwise, if we continue like this, we still can't catch up with Real Madrid, we can only run behind Real Madrid!"
There is no doubt that whenever Barcelona have a problem, Rosell will step up.
The appearance of this manager, who brought superstars such as Ronaldinho and Eto'o to Barcelona in the first place, undoubtedly caters to the desire of all Barcelona fans, who want to have someone to lead Barcelona, both in the superstar market and in football, preferably like Ronaldinho and Eto'o's dream two team days.
Rosell also gave a stern rebuke to Laporta's management strategy, believing that he was kidnapped by Cruyff and chose an inexperienced manager like Pep Guardiola to take charge of Barcelona, "This is the stupidest decision in Barcelona's history!" ”
In the face of pressure from his opponents and protests from Barcelona fans, Laporta chose to stand up, saying that he would never resign voluntarily, because it was a cowardly act, and he would draw up a team reform plan in the shortest possible time, "to continue to strengthen the team's fighting power at the beginning of next season."
'I don't think we've failed this season, we're only seven points down in the league and we still have a chance, and we still have Champions League to fight for, so it's not time to give up early.'
However, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said coldly in an interview with the media, "From today onwards, Stamford Bridge will become Barcelona's nightmare!" ”。 )