Chapter 100 Here It Comes, the Champions League King Is Coming Here in a Mud Truck! [Please Subscribe! ]

Without too much time to regret that the 21-match winning streak in the league was ended, Real Madrid's main players boarded the plane to Moscow on the morning of February 13.

This is a relatively long journey. Real Madrid players had lunch on the plane and spent the afternoon half asleep and half awake.

It was not until four o'clock in the afternoon that their plane landed at Sheremetyevo International Airport.

Li Ang felt that apart from returning to China, the longest time he had taken a plane was today from Madrid to Moscow.

And Moscow gave him a blow as soon as he left the warm indoor environment.

In Moscow in February, the outdoor temperature was terribly low.

Before Li Ang became famous, it was almost four or five o'clock in the afternoon in Madrid this month.

You can wear a thick T-shirt and a jacket to stroll on the street.

But now he put on sports thermal underwear and cotton clothes in advance, but he still shivered before getting on the bus.

In the rainy and snowy weather, Li Ang only vaguely heard Karanka say a figure of -6℃ to Mourinho.

Such a temperature is simply unimaginable for Li Ang, who grew up in the south of his motherland and has basically lived in Madrid since he went abroad.

Not long ago, he went to London, where the winter climate made him feel a little uncomfortable.

But now he has to be prepared to play football in an environment that may reach -10℃ at night.

Li Ang felt very magical, but he had to force himself to adapt.

Because he didn't want to be ridiculed by Psy for playing poorly on the court because of fear of cold.

Cold? I won't be cold if I run two more laps on the court later!

Li Ang is still very confident in his ability to adapt.

However, when they had dinner at the hotel where they stayed and arrived at the CSKA Arena at 6:40 in the evening, Li Ang realized that he was still too young.

The artificial turf, which was almost covered with frost, appeared in front of Real Madrid's main players.

Li Ang rushed up and stepped on it twice. That feeling

Well, it can only be said that it can be played, but it is hard to say how much technical advantage Real Madrid players can play on this kind of grass at that time.

In the filming by the staff accompanying the team, the Real Madrid stars smiled awkwardly and paced in the stadium with a confident look.

In fact, every player is panicking now.

The cold temperature, artificial turf, and frost on the turf!

And the start time of tomorrow night's game is set at 20:00 local time.

The temperature will be even lower by then.

This is no longer a question of whether to adapt or not. It will be difficult for three or four players in the Real Madrid team to perform normally by then!

Mourinho can only try his best to instruct the logistics staff to prepare enough cold-proof lining and gloves, and let Rui Faria and Pintus re-formulate the warm-up plan.

To play in the cold on artificial turf of this quality, the players must be fully warmed up.

He would rather consume more of the players' physical energy before the game than see any players get injured at that time.

As for the result of the first leg.

Now Mourinho's bottom line has been quickly lowered from a small win to a draw without any player injury.

Of course, it would be better if they could get one or two goals.

The Real Madrid players, who were a little worried, took the bus back to their hotel after the game.

At this time, only in the warm indoor environment can they feel more at ease.

However, the next morning, they still had to complete the last pre-match training in the rented temporary training ground in the snowy weather.

The training ground that could be rented in Moscow at this time also used artificial turf.

The Real Madrid players were uncomfortable playing, and the coaching staff members were uncomfortable watching.

But the conditions were just like this, and the Real Madrid players could only adapt first, just as if they were simulating the feeling of the evening game in advance.

Li Ang seemed very "excited" and increased his running volume in the morning training.

However, after running a lot and warming up his body, his confrontation performance was still quite good.

And he had good physical fitness, Mourinho was not worried that he would be weak in the game if he ran too much before the game, so he let him toss.

As time went on, the temperature in Moscow began to drop rapidly after a period of continuous rise in the afternoon.

After six o'clock in the evening, the cold weather hit again quickly. Real Madrid's players and coaches were also mentally prepared to take the bus to the CSKA Arena.

Because Moscow is too far away from Madrid, and the game starts in the middle of the week, there are not many Real Madrid fans accompanying the team on this expedition.

At least much less than when Real Madrid plays away games in Western European countries such as France and the Netherlands.

When Li Ang was warming up, he took a rough look and there should be less than 2,000 people.

Compared with the pity he and other Real Madrid players felt, Mourinho had already thought of the home power of CSKA Moscow later.

Although this stadium can only seat 30,000 people, the fans of the Russian Premier League have always been famous in European football for their strong fighting power.

That is to cheer on the field and to other fans off the field.

Mourinho looked at the Russian macho man who was leading the singing with his bare chest in the sub-zero temperature environment, and could only purse his lips and shake his head.

After the warm-up, which took longer than usual, the Real Madrid generals trotted back to the locker room with almost white smoke coming out of their heads.

Mourinho and Karanka also urged the players to quickly take off their slightly sweaty inner linings and training clothes.

Everyone quickly dried their upper body and cheeks and put on clean sports linings and jerseys.

Li Ang took the thick sports gloves handed over by Mr. Karanka and added the last layer of insurance to his body.

After Mourinho gave his last tactical reminder, he repeatedly emphasized that every player should run more at the start.

"We don't rush to start with them, and we don't rush to attack. You first feel the adaptability of your body, run more, control the ball more when you have the ball, and then pay more attention to your movements. When you feel that your body is still a little warm, Don’t do those big kicking moves when you’re playing.”

After Mourinho gave some careful instructions, seeing that the time was almost up, he asked Casillas and the players to do the final morale mobilization.

At this moment, the CSKA Arena was already buzzing with people.

The "enthusiastic" Moscow fans made the atmosphere very heated with singing and various slogans.

That is to say, no high-alcohol drinks are allowed into the stadium, otherwise one by one of these fans will almost all turn into shirtless super hunks.

When the players on both sides began to line up, as expected, there were strong boos from the stands close to the channel on the side of the Real Madrid players.

Immediately afterwards, the entire bleachers and even the entire stadium began to boo!

Real Madrid players have seen this kind of huge scene a lot, and those with better psychological quality don't have any special feelings.

If they can only boo people, it shows that the quality of these Russian fans is already good.

If this were to be the case in Turkey, the fans of the Turkish Super League would start the game with a fireworks display and all kinds of abuse, and the quality was extremely touching.

After the opening ceremony, Li Ang took small steps and did several abdominal jumps in his own half.

When he felt his body was warm again, the referee on duty also blew the whistle to start the game.

Duan Xuan and director Zhang Luzhang were sitting in the studio of Channel 5 to commentate on this Champions League match live today.

At this meeting, Duan Xuan also quickly introduced the starting lineups of the two teams after quickly reading the opening remarks.

Real Madrid came out with a 4-4-2 formation today.

That is the deformation 442 they used commonly in the league at the beginning of this season.

Benzema and Ronaldo served as double forwards, and Kakala moved to the rib area near the wing.

However, Di Maria, who used to start in the left midfield, was on standby today, and Li Ang took his starting position.

Essien went behind Kaka for defensive protection, while Alonso trailed behind.

Coentrao, who is healthy in the defense, is still the starter. The double central defender combination of Ramos and Pepe remains unchanged, but the starter on the right has been changed from Arbeloa to Nacho.

Arbeloa suffered a slight muscle strain during the warm-up this morning and will definitely not be able to force his appearance at the moment.

Nacho, as the first substitute at right back, naturally stepped up.

Fortunately, Carvajal started the game against Levante the day before yesterday. If it was Nacho, he played the full 90 minutes.

Now Mourinho really has a headache.

CSKA Moscow has a balanced starting lineup of four, two, and three one.

If they press forward and attack, their formation can be regarded as a four-three-three.

After the opening, when they actively pressed through the half to put pressure on Real Madrid who kicked off first.

The red and blue jerseys and the four-three-three offensive formation instantly gave the Real Madrid players an urge to fight.

"Hey! CSKA's momentum is quite similar. Their home jersey looks strikingly similar to Barcelona's from a distance? Real Madrid's players won't be motivated by this, right?"

Director Zhang laughed and made a joke. When Duan Xuan saw it, he immediately became happy.

Because from a distance, CSKA Moscow and Real Madrid are fighting together, and it really looks like Barcelona and Real Madrid are playing a game!

Li Ang also took advantage of the situation and gave himself a wave of psychological hints.

"This is not CSKA, this is not CSKA, this is Barcelona, ​​this is Barcelona"

After muttering a few words in his mind, Li Ang raised his head again and looked at CSKA No. 10 Zagoyev, who happened to be facing him, with a hint of passion in his eyes.

"Xiaomei. Xiaoza, here I come!"

Zagoev is now taking over the ball that his teammate just grabbed, leading the ball forward to test and push forward, thinking about which way to focus the attack.

As a result, before he took the ball a few steps, he met Li Ang who looked extremely excited.

"What's going on with this guy?!"

Seeing Leon's fierce pressing posture, Zagoev did not dare to raise the ball at the first moment, and quickly knocked the ball to his midfield partner Aldonin.

But when Li Ang saw that the ball was no longer at Zagoev's feet, he immediately stopped crossing the center line and continued to press, and just stared at Zagoev and slowly retreated.

Zagoev was stared at by Li Ang and his scalp was numb, and Mourinho was also confused off the court.

"We made a strategy to let that kid keep an eye on Zagoev?"

Uncle Bird asked Karanka uncertainly, and Karanka shook his head.

Mourinho rubbed his chin and watched the development of the game for a while.

Looking at the situation where CSKA Moscow was unable to launch an offensive due to Zagoyev's restriction, he clapped his hands with his fists.

"Good, let's play like this first! Anyway, we are also focusing on stabilizing the situation in the first half. Let the little lion freeze Zagoyev, and Essien and Alonso will block the middle, and CSKA can't play any tricks!"

Mourinho did not intend to revise the tactics and let Li Ang play according to the original tactical plan.

Li Ang's defensive targeting gave him a new idea.

Freezing CSKA's midfield core Zagoyev forced CSKA to not easily change and launch a full-scale offensive.

Before they could solve the problem of Zagoyev being locked by Li Ang, they could only use other less efficient offensive methods to deal with Real Madrid.

As for the position change?

Ha, Zagoyev went from right to left, then Li Ang went from left to right!

CSKA's number ten core must be arranged.

Both sides kicked off for more than ten minutes, and soon entered the stage of constipation in offense.

Real Madrid was not used to the grass and temperature, and their technical advantages were limited, so it was difficult for them to launch the sharp attacks they had in the past.

And CSKA Moscow was simply because their core players were eaten to death by Real Madrid.

Zagoyev could not move, and there was no good attacking opportunity with two defensive midfielders.

It was even more impossible to rely on two wingers, and Tosic and Musa were not the top explosive players in Europe.

Real Madrid could not open up the offense, but on the defensive end, they were still at the top level in Europe.

Even if you can get past Essien and Li Ang, you can't easily get past Coentrao and Nacho in a one-on-one situation.

Li Ang's performance was getting better and better with active running, and Essien's body was gradually warming up.

Another thing is that Essien is not like Alonso who has been back in Spain for more than two years, so he is not very adapted to this extreme cold.

Essien played a lot of games in the Premier League before. During the winter schedule, the temperature in England was not as extreme as in Moscow, but it was also cold.

At this time, his adaptation speed was obviously faster than other Real Madrid players.

So when he let go, Real Madrid's defensive hardness in the midfield was immediately improved.

The players of CSKA Moscow will feel more and more uncomfortable.

The opening was smooth, and they saw Real Madrid's discomfort, and they also wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to press forward and grab the advantage.

But after Zagoev was targeted by Li Ang, the situation was not right!

After Li Ang and Essien once again forced back CSKA's offensive, they smiled at each other and then actively invested in their sweeping and intercepting.

Make way, the ace of the Champions League, the mud truck, is coming!

Today should be the third chapter, haha