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Chapter 43: A Coru?a

If there is any team in the Devil's schedule that is not very "devil", it must belong to La Coruna.

La Coruna was once very powerful. In the eight years of coaching in Iruetta, "Super Laco" became "Champion Laco". He led the team to the first Spanish League One championship in the team's history, as well as the Spanish Cup of Kings, and two Spanish Super Cups. In addition to these championships, La Coruna also won four second-place runner-ups in La Liga, three third-place finishes, and five consecutive seasons to the European Champions League, creating a first leg behind AC Milan 1:4 in the European field, and reversed such a classic game 4:0 in the second leg.

But La Coruna's performance became weak as club executives cut the team's fiscal budget. Iruetta eventually left the team.

This team has become a supermarket for players selling. Now it can only linger in the middle and lower reaches of the league.

He has long lost the sharpness of the Iruetta era.

Although it was away, this game was not difficult for Real Madrid.

Real Madrid is in very good shape at present. They are almost invincible in the domestic league. Perhaps only one team can stop them, that is Barcelona.

Similarly, Barcelona is in good shape, winning consecutively, and overwhelming his stalemate Real Madrid on goal difference. Who can beat Barcelona now? Maybe only Real Madrid is.

Both teams want each other to go to hell, but they cannot lack each other. If they find that there is no one in life, they will lose the meaning of continuing to exist.

※※The match against La Coruña is the last game of this round of league. Chinese fans will get up at five o'clock on Monday to watch the game.

Although Chu Zhongtian joined the La Liga, the La Liga attracted much to the Far East, especially Chinese fans. However, many La Liga teams still have no interest in pleasing Chinese fans. The Spanish Football Association has not chosen a game since the last season and was held at noon in Spain. At that time, it happened to be around 6:00 to 7:00 in Beijing time. The Spanish Football Association hopes to use this method to attract Chinese fans to watch the La Liga and open up the market in the Far East.

But the results are very little. Because the time adjusted by the Spanish Football Association is not pleasing to both ends. On the one hand, for Chinese fans, six o'clock and seven o'clock are news time, and no TV station will broadcast foreign football matches at this time, so the ratings arranged at this point are not as good as late at night... On the other hand, for the Spanish, the game starts at noon and it is not in line with their habits. Spain is a night owl ethnic group, and from 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock in the evening, it is the most abundant time for them, so there are many games in La Liga.

All of them were held during this period, and noon was a rest time for them. It was really hard to have them come out to play in the hot sun at noon... It was precisely because of this reason that the Spanish Football Association could only arrange some less important games at noon, and two less famous teams competed, so their attractiveness was naturally not as good as those of the giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona. Since it was so unattractive, why should Chinese fans watch such a useless game between 6:00 and 7:00?

So this policy was only done once, and the Spanish Football Association was cancelled this season.

Chu Zhongtian's joining Real Madrid this season makes La Liga attractive to Chinese fans. The Spanish Football Association has not considered adjusting Real Madrid's game to a time period that meets the viewing habits of Chinese fans, but has been strongly opposed by Real Madrid Club. Mourinho believes that this time period is a torture for Real Madrid. Real Madrid does not need to change its habits and put itself in a very dangerous situation in order to satisfy the habits of Chinese fans.

So now Chinese fans still have to get up in the middle of the night to watch the football, but sometimes it is five o'clock, and sometimes it is one o'clock.

This game was not broadcast on CCTV's Sports Channel and Fengyun Football Channel, because CCTV and local stations have an agreement. On the same weekend, if CCTV broadcasts Barcelona's game, then Real Madrid's game will be given to local stations, and the same is true.

Because CCTV broadcasted the home game between Barcelona and Valencia in the early morning of Sunday, the game had to be broadcast live to local stations. This made the fans who could not watch other local station sports channels and could only watch it online. If they don’t know how to watch the game online... they would have to wait until they go to the website to watch the news tomorrow to watch the highlights.

In the match between Barcelona and Valencia yesterday, Barcelona won without any suspense. The winning was quite easy. It was not like playing Valencia, the fourth in the league, but like a group of adults bullying a child.

When Barcelona lost the Champions League final, many people who hate Barcelona shouted that Barcelona's era was over and European football has reached a time for a dynasty change. But with the beginning of the new season, everyone found that the era of Barcelona was not over and the change of dynasty was not that simple. They were still strong and still unmatched.

Real Madrid, which has one game less, is currently temporarily behind three points and they must defeat La Coruña.

Although La Coruna is no longer comparable to Iruetta's "champion Laco", after all, it can still cause some trouble for Real Madrid at home.

So Real Madrid cannot be taken lightly.

※※What Mourinho said most before the game was to be careful not to underestimate the enemy.

As a result, Real Madrid still habitually underestimated the opponent. Within the first fifteen minutes of the game, La Coruna's crazy style of play was shocked. Chu Zhongtian tried his best to reorganize the team, but he couldn't do it. La Coruna's style of play was really crazy, and they seemed to only play in the first half.

Everyone was pressing wildly and running all over the game, which made people worry about whether their physical strength could still last until the second half.

"I was wondering if a fifteen-minute halftime break could help them get better..." Assistant coach Kalanca was also surprised by La Coruna's tactics.

Mourinho sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, without saying a word.

For him, it is certainly not conducive to Real Madrid in this way. But he thinks this is also a good opportunity to see how Chu Zhongtian will deal with this situation...※※※The situation Chu Zhongtian is facing now is that Real Madrid never expected the opponent to use such tactics. You should know that La Coruna in the Iruetta era was a team known for its gorgeous playing style.

So it seems a bit messy when Real Madrid is attacked by La Coruña. In addition, everyone is a very capable star and wants to solve the problem by himself when encountering problems. The entire team is in a situation where they fight for their own.

He needs to reorganize the team.

In fact, it is not impossible to rely on the power of a star. As long as you can win, you can do whatever you want. But the problem is that the power of a star cannot be exerted at all times. If you only bet on the star, there will always be a time when you hit a wall. The chance of a person's state fluctuation is much higher than the chance of the whole team's state fluctuation.

What is the whole used to do? It is used to offset the problems caused by a person's poor condition.

When the team could not be organized, Chu Zhongtian did not make a long shot by himself this time, but kept passing the ball to his teammates and creating opportunities. As long as his teammates ran to the position, they would pass the football over.

Even if the opportunities he created were later squandered by his teammates, he still remained the same.

Pass, run, and ask for the ball.

If a teammate passes the football over, he will pass it to a teammate with a better position, and then continue to run and continue to ask for the ball.

Just go back and forth until you find a better opportunity.

He passed the ball to C. Ronaldo, and then raised his hand to ask for the ball. His position was very good. There were no players from La Coruna coming to defend him for the time being. As long as C. Ronaldo passed the ball to him, he could transfer the ball to a more threatening place.

He had seen Ozil run to an open position.

However, after taking two steps, Ronaldo directly shot with a long shot. As a result, the football was above the crossbar.

No threat posed.

However, Chu Zhongtian did not blame him, but looked for the next attack opportunity again.

Of course, he is not like this to everyone.

In the 27th minute, he passed the ball to Gareth Bale, who was inserted into the left back, and then asked for the ball to run, but Bale drove the ball to rush, not passing the ball to Chu Zhongtian, nor to other teammates. In the end, he brought the ball to a dead end and was cut off by the opponent's player.

Chu Zhongtian rushed back to defend and joined forces with Khedira to tackle the sideline. La Coruña got an out-of-bounds ball.

Chu Zhongtian shouted at Bale who ran back: "You should pass the ball to me, or other teammates with better positions, instead of leading forward by yourself. If you don't return to defend quickly, it would be dangerous. In this case, we should cooperate more, and they hope we will fight with them alone."

Although Chu Zhongtian and Bale joined Real Madrid at the same time, the two have completely different positions - Chu Zhongtian has established his core position through these games, and Bale is also a marginal figure who started for the first time and needs an opportunity to prove himself urgently.

So although everyone is new to him, Chu Zhongtian's status is higher than that of Bell. No matter what he said, Bell could only nod and listen.

After reminding Bale, Chu Zhongtian was still creating opportunities for his teammates to pass the ball.

※※※In the 31st minute, Real Madrid launched the offensive again. Chu Zhongtian passed the ball to Bale again, and then moved closer to Bale to provide support. Bale saw that there was a defensive player in Coruña ahead, which was difficult to break through easily, and passed the ball to Chu Zhongtian who was receiving him. Then he ran forward without the ball, making a move to play two and one with Chu Zhongtian, which attracted the attention of the opponent's full-back.

La Coruna's full-back ran back with Bale, and a trace of gap appeared in their defense line, and Chu Zhongtian decisively made a pass.

"pretty!"

"Fatal first pass! Ronaldo—"

c. Ronaldo was originally in the middle, but suddenly he inserted into the gap in the ribs and just happened to receive a pass from Chu Zhongtian.

La Coruña's central defender turned around and saw Real Madrid's No. 7. His first reaction was not to chase back, but to raise his hand to signal to the linebacker and referee c. Ronaldo to the offside.

But the referees made no statements, and the La Coruna players woke up as if they were dreaming and hurriedly returned to defense.

At this time, Ronaldo had already dribbled the ball into the penalty area. The penalty area was empty, and La Coruna's goalkeeper abandoned the goal and attacked!

In addition to the goalkeeper, other defenders also rushed towards Ronaldo.

Since Ronaldo always chose to shoot by himself before, La Coruña's players only guard against him to shoot.

Unexpectedly, Ronaldo suddenly passed the ball across the ball after attracting La Coruna's goalkeeper!

"Ronaldo, shot...passed!"

He not only deceived La Coruna's defensive players, but also deceived the commentator.

Everyone knows what such a pass means.

When Higuain appeared in front of the goal without any defense, the result was already destined.

"Higuain - gooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!" the narrator shouted.

It would be impossible for the Argentine scorer to let go of such an opportunity? No one expected that C. Ronaldo would pass the football to him, so there was no one La Coruna's defender beside him. What he had to do was very simple when no one was guarding him, which was to knock the ankle, let the football hit him to change direction, and roll into the goal himself.

"Real Madrid finally broke the deadlock! In the 32nd minute, they took the lead away! The goalkeeper was Higuain! But this was a beautiful team cooperation!!"

Real Madrid players gathered together to celebrate the goal.

Chu Zhongtian took this opportunity to instill the idea that "team is more important" in everyone: "Look, just play like this! Just play like this, they can't do anything! Use our passes to mobilize them, let them run back and forth, and exhaust all their energy!"

"Just kick like this, guys!"

After the crowd dispersed, Chu Zhongtian hooked C. Ronaldo's neck and asked him: "I thought you would shoot directly..."

Ronaldo smiled: "Hey! I knew you would think so, so I passed the ball directly, how about it? Didn't you expect it?"

I have to say that c. Ronaldo sometimes acts very irritable and ignores the overall situation, but sometimes his performance is impeccable.

For example, just now, it doesn't matter if he shoots by himself. After all, he has already shot alone. With his ability, he may not be able to score a goal. But he chose to pass the ball and handed the football to Higuain, who is more confident in shooting.

What is teamwork, that's it!

Real Madrid has found a way to deal with La Coruña. After gaining a goal lead, the game will be easy. La Coruña will definitely push out the attack, leaving a huge gap behind, and Real Madrid can use the fast counterattack they are good at to the extreme.

In addition, this long-term play will make the players of La Coruna unable to bear it. After they fell in the second half, Real Madrid will regain control of the situation. By then, La Coruna will be fat on the chopping board.

So Chu Zhongtian was not in a hurry to attack. He led his teammates to pass the ball and fully mobilize the players of La Coruna.

Originally, the La Corunans planned to take a proper rest and adjust the rhythm. But Chu Zhongtian continued to fall back and then took the opportunity to counterattack suddenly, but he did not allow La Coruna to get the opportunity to adjust the rhythm and rest.

After playing for 45 minutes like this, the players in La Coruna were generally tired.

This time, the game was different from Valencia. Although he only led one goal in the first half, Mourinho was not worried about being reversed by Coruña in the second half. Because the opponent's physical strength was almost exhausted in the first half. Especially Chu Zhongtian's performance after the lead made him lit up. He did not give such instructions, but he had already started doing it in advance.

This is a natural commander!

※※※After the second half, La Coruna was still strong for a while. After all, she had just rested for fifteen minutes and had recovered a little bit of physical strength. But Mourinho had expected that he asked the team to guard the team strictly after the start of the second half, and never let the home team score. As long as they lasted for ten minutes, the balance of victory and loss would tilt towards Real Madrid.

He expected it well.

Real Madrid's attack on La Coruña was determined to defend and then counterattacked. At this time, Mourinho replaced Xavi Alonso and replaced Khdira.

He got two midfielders who were good at organizing offense, which clearly showed that he wanted to score a goal.

After Alonso went up, he mainly assisted Chu Zhongtian, and Chu Zhongtian's position was higher than before. Of course, the threat he posed to La Coruna was even greater... Sure enough, in the subsequent game, Alonso was responsible for transporting the shells from behind, while Chu Zhongtian kept using threatening passes to create opportunities for his teammates to face the goal directly.

Whether it is C. Ronaldo, Higuain, Ozil, and Di Maria, they have had the chance to get a pass from Chu Zhongtian and shoot.

After the 70th minute, the speed of the entire team of La Coruña was significantly slowed down and its running was not as active as before. Most of the opportunities to play in the 50s and 5s have now fallen under the feet of Real Madrid players.

The goals also came in concentrated areas after this period of time.

In the 76th minute, Benzema, who appeared as a substitute Higuain, received a cross from Di Maria and pushed the ball into the goal. This was his first league goal this season. He finally broke the goal drought this season.

Three minutes later, Real Madrid made a comeback. Chu Zhongtian made a straight pass. Benzema's shot was saved by La Coruna's goalkeeper Alan Subia. Di Maria followed up and the ball rolled into the empty goal. From this goal, it was obvious that La Coruna's fatigue was fully displayed. The person who was tighter at the time was definitely not Di Maria, but La Coruna's defender Ze Castro, but his speed was not as fast as Di Maria. His steps seemed heavy and he couldn't move at all. In the end, he could only watch the football be taken first by Di Maria and then pushed the empty goal successfully... In the 87th minute, Real Madrid won another goal, and the person who scored this time was C. Ronaldo. He finally scored his own goal in this game.

In the end, Real Madrid defeated La Coruña with a huge gap of 4:0 away. The home team's tactics were almost successful, but they were defeated in the end. The gap in overall strength was a major reason. But if Real Madrid did not have a backbone player like Chu Zhongtian, the result might be completely different...
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