Chapter 166 Locking Bruno

Back in Serie A, Udinese defeated Turin 2:1 away from home. As Juventus was tied with Sassuolo in the away game this round, Udinese tied with Juventus in points, but temporarily ranked second in the standings with a goal difference disadvantage.

Immediately, the entire Udinese team focused their energy on the upcoming third round of the Champions League group stage.

Meanwhile, at the Valdebebas Stadium, the head coach's office.

Ancelotti and three members of the coaching staff were sitting on the sofa, watching the TV on the opposite wall intently.

The TV was playing the seventh round of Serie A that ended last night, Udinese's away game against Turin.

Next Wednesday night, Carlo Ancelotti will take his Real Madrid to the Stadio Friuli to face Udinese away.

Ancelotti attaches great importance to this game.

Turin was not very strong and could barely hold on for the first 30 minutes. But in the 33rd minute, Bruno created a killing opportunity on the right and passed to assist Di Natale to score with a header.

Just eight minutes later, Vidmont passed the ball behind him, and Bruno easily countered offside and scored with a single goal, 2:0.

In the 64th minute of the game, Turin pulled one back.

Subsequently, Turin, playing at home, continued to counterattack with all its strength, but was unable to break through Udinese's city. In the end, Udinese defeated Turin 2:1 away from home.

Bruno passed and shot, increasing his number of goals in Serie A this season to 4 and assists as high as 7.

But now, the video studied by the Real Madrid coaching staff is different from the regular game video. This game video has been carefully edited by the club's video analysis team, which is more conducive to analyzing Udinese's technical and tactical characteristics.

Among them, the one that Ancelotti attaches most importance to is Bruno, the core of Udinese's offensive organization.

With 4 goals, 7 assists and 11 goals in 7 rounds, Bruno's performance this season is even better than last season.

Regarding such a performance, not to mention the outside media and fans, even Ancelotti himself found it unbelievable. Because as a coach who came from Serie A, Ancelotti knows very well how strong Serie A's defense is.

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The more everyone in the coaching room analyzed, the more surprised they became.

Bruno is only twenty years old, but the strength he shows on the court is beyond the reach of adults, even famous stars.

Take Real Madrid as an example. There is only one superstar like Cristiano Ronaldo in the team who can produce such data. Anyone else is far inferior.

After listening to some analysis by his assistants, Ancelotti said: "This player has strong running ability and excellent physical fitness. Now that the physical strength has come up, one-on-one defense is useless for him, but will affect us. defensive position."

Ancelotti rejected an option that many teams had, which was to assign someone to defend Bruno. Because facts have proven that no one can guard Bruno one-on-one.

"I think we should stick to the original defensive system, shrink appropriately, and strengthen the defense in the middle, especially the front area of ​​the penalty area and the ribs. This is the area where Bruno is most threatening."

The European Super Cup match against Udinese gave Real Madrid's coaching staff a more direct and comprehensive understanding of Bruno's abilities.

But that was before the season started. After more than half of the season, Ancelotti believed that Real Madrid could win Udinese in the away game, but they had to get rid of Bruno first. This is a serious problem.

"Bruno is a very smart, very good at thinking, and very adaptable player. We must pay more attention to him. On the premise of maintaining the stability of the overall defensive formation, we must pay as much attention to his defense as possible in the next two days. , we have to arrange a targeted training, and we have to freeze him completely at the Friuli Stadium!" Ancelotti finally said.

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For this game, both teams are determined to win, because judging from the current situation, the direct confrontation between the two teams may directly determine who will be first in the group stage.

And because of Real Madrid's influence in the world, this game has attracted worldwide attention.

On the match day, the Friuli Stadium was even more packed. In addition to Udinese fans, there were also many visiting team fans.

When the players from both sides walked out of the tunnel and entered the stadium, the scene was huge, with cheers and boos mixed in. In that battle, even the Udinese players were quite surprised.

But thinking that the opponent is Real Madrid, everyone knows it.

In this game, the head coaches of both sides unanimously arranged a 4231 formation.

For the home team Udinese, Kanizis is in charge of the goal, and the four people in the defense are Cancelo, Danilo, Domic and Pasquale; Kante and Alan form a double midfielder to maintain defense on the line. Dement, Bruno and Guilherme lined up, and Di Natale's single arrow came forward.

For Real Madrid, Casillas serves as the goalkeeper. The back line is Arbeloa, Pepe, Varane and Marcelo. Modric and Kroos partner in the midfielder, James Rodriguez, Yi Sco and Ronaldo formed the forward line, and Benzema's single arrow came forward.

However, when the game started, Real Madrid's formation was more like 442, with Ronaldo and Benzema forming a double forward.

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Both sides played at a fast pace after the start, and Bruno, as the core of Udinese's offensive organizer, naturally received the focus of Real Madrid's attention.

Especially when the players of Real Madrid, after Ancelotti's key deployment and drills, seemed to have created an iron cage in their own half, and each player was like the iron bars that made up this iron cage. , and Bruno is the little bird imprisoned in this cage.

Ancelotti did not specifically assign manpower to mark Bruno, but he used regional defense to confine Bruno and cut off Bruno's connection with other players in the frontcourt, middle and backcourt.

Real Madrid's targeted defensive tactics effectively curbed Bruno's performance after the opening. In the first ten minutes, he received the ball very few times and felt isolated from the team. .

Bruno quickly realized this and immediately expanded the scope of his activities.

After Mourinho became the head coach of Real Madrid, he injected rationality into this offensive team, and the defensive level also improved a lot.

After taking over the coaching position of Real Madrid, Ancelotti strengthened the offense while maintaining Mourinho's emphasis on Real Madrid's defense.

As soon as Bruno enters the threatening area in the frontcourt, Real Madrid immediately tightens the cage, and the cage will still move as a whole as Bruno runs.

This makes Bruno quite depressed. He can only play on the wing or retreat deeper to get the ball in non-threatening areas.

Away from the goal, his threat is greatly reduced.

Bruno also had to admit that Real Madrid's defense was indeed very good.

This is not a passive defense, but an active pressing defense full of overall movement.

"This old fat guy really has two skills." Bruno glanced at Ancelotti in front of the visiting team's coaching bench and smiled to himself, "But if you think you can trap me like this, you are really looking down on me! "

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In the first ten minutes, Bruno misfired on the right and failed to create a threat after receiving several passes, which made Ancelotti very satisfied.

The assistants sitting in the visiting team's coaching bench also breathed a sigh of relief that the targeted tactics worked.

Ancelotti still felt a little sad in his heart.

For Bruno, the winner of the Golden Boy Award and a young genius well-known in European football, Ancelotti originally didn't pay much attention. After all, he has coached too many outstanding players, including Ballon d'Or winners and World Footballer of the Year.

However, the previous European Super Cup made Ancelotti realize the difference between Bruno, the Golden Boy Award winner, and other Golden Boy Award winners.

Ancelotti couldn't believe what was happening on the court in front of him.

Was Bruno really imprisoned like this? Is he the kind of player who gets locked up easily?

As soon as this ominous thought came to his mind, Ancelotti saw Bruno looking towards him on the court, with a half-smiling expression, as if to say, you underestimate me!

This made Ancelotti suddenly feel a strong sense of uneasiness.

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When Bruno saw the football passed back to the backcourt and reached the feet of Cancelo on the right, he quickly pulled to the right, ran back along the sideline, and raised his hand to ask for the ball from Cancelo.

Marcelo chose to follow up immediately, but his reaction was a step slower and his speed was not as fast as Bruno. By the time he caught up behind Bruno, Cancelo's pass had already reached Bruno, so the Real Madrid left back Choose to stand behind Bruno.

But Bruno had already predicted his choice. Before Marcelo could get close, he took a step forward and stopped sideways with his left foot. The football immediately slid to Bruno's right, and he immediately turned around, faced Marcelo sideways, and quickly cut inside with the ball.

Midfielder Toni Kroos was right behind Marcelo, but because they were moving quickly just now, the distance between the two was a bit far. After Bruno turned sideways and cut inside with the ball, Kroos returned to the defensive position.

Facing the hurried opponent, Bruno was just trying to cut into the penalty area from the ribs. Kroos immediately fell for the trick and made a blocking move, but in fact Bruno feinted a shot, passed Kroos, and dribbled the ball horizontally inside. cut.

Bruno's original idea was to cut inside with the ball to the center, and then cooperate with his teammates depending on the situation, or pass the ball to his teammates. But when he dribbled the ball all the way to the right side of the top of the penalty area, he saw Modric, the late Real Madrid midfielder, retreating too deep in a hurry, blocking the central defender to a certain extent, and between the two midfielders Another gap appeared.