Chapter 123: All-Round Is the Trend, Defense Is the Foundation

"Blaze, that steal just now was beautiful! When you grab the ball next time, you can be more bold in trying to advance, and Karim and the others will retreat to support you as soon as possible.

It is normal that the tacit understanding is still a little lacking at this stage. Sometimes when you really can't make up your mind, just go directly to Cristiano and send him a long pass, and you can give him a larger lead time."

On the training ground in the hot summer, Matuidi was holding an energy drink and listening to Li Ang's advice seriously.

The communication between the two is not a big problem, because at this moment Li Ang is communicating with him in slow but fluent French.

This is also one of the important reasons why Matuidi and Li Ang have quickly become closer in recent days.

The reason why Li Ang can use French smoothly now is not because he is diligent and studious.

It is because he drew a five-language proficiency capsule worth 500 points from the two gold prop cards opened in the previous championship gift package.

A five-language proficiency capsule, a pair of gold-level ankle protection boots, and a bottle of intermediate physical recovery potion that can be used ten times without time limit.

These are the three props that Li Ang opened.

He likes and is satisfied with the ankle protection boots. He can accept any equipment props that increase damage resistance.

The previous strong shin guards and this pair of ankle protection boots are enough for him to avoid most of the injuries on the court.

After all, the injured parts of football players are basically the knee joints and the legs below. It is not easy to injure the upper body.

There is nothing to say about the physical recovery potion. It is a regular in the prop card and is still very practical.

It is this five-language proficiency capsule. When Li Ang first saw it, he thought it was expensive and it was not cost-effective to exchange it.

Now he still has this idea.

However, it has been opened. Even if he uses the prop recycling function within the system, he can only sell this language proficiency capsule for 200 points.

After thinking about it, he felt that it was a loss, so Li Ang finally used it directly.

French, Arabic, German, Russian, Italian, these are the five languages ​​that Li Ang finally chose to master.

Among them, he knows Italian, at least he has no problem communicating with Italians in daily life in terms of oral communication.

But in the end, he really didn't know which language to choose. There was no need to learn Portuguese, and he knew English.

As for South Korean and Japanese?

He didn't want to learn that thing, just subjectively didn't want to learn it, so in the end he simply chose to be proficient in Italian, which was also considered to be a further adjustment of the accent.

So Matuidi was very surprised to find that in the Real Madrid team, in addition to Benzema, he had another teammate who could communicate in French without obstacles.

Li Ang also became popular in the training base because of this. Faced with the questions from his teammates, he could only attribute it to his learning ability.

This statement is acceptable, after all, Li Ang had previously taught himself Italian.

It's just that I, Guo Feng, felt hurt by 10,000 points.

You didn't ask me for help when you learned French, but now you don't ask me first when you communicate with others in French, but you ask the new teammate?

No love, no love.

Mourinho felt an unexpected surprise in this matter. After all, Li Ang and Matuidi are destined to partner up many times in the new season.

If there is no problem in language communication, then with Li Ang's guidance and explanation, Matuidi can also integrate into the team tactics as soon as possible.

The pre-season preparation time this season is still too short.

The European Cup has been played for a month, and many main players in Real Madrid need to rest for a while.

But the schedule does not wait for anyone. After Real Madrid finishes the last two warm-up matches with Milan and Celtic, it will usher in the first round of La Liga.

Then the Spanish Super Cup and the European Super Cup will follow.

So in order to give the main players more time to rest, Mourinho may have to arrange a rotation lineup with sufficient strength to face the first round of La Liga.

Leon and Matuidi are basically the starting pair of double defensive midfielders.

With Alonso resting, Leon's organization is enough.

As long as Matuidi integrates into the team faster, Mourinho will be quite satisfied with this double defensive midfielder combination.

Everyone says that Mourinho likes to use black and hard defensive midfielders, but the fact is that black and hard defensive midfielders are really useful.

Although Matuidi is not well-known now and has not played in major competitions for the French national team, his strength can fully meet Mourinho's tactical requirements.

The midfield has a large coverage area, excellent physical fitness, outstanding interception ability, and the key is that he is obedient and willing to do more dirty work.

It doesn't matter that he is not tall, Leon can make up for the midfield's air defense.

Today, Leon is over 1.84 meters tall, and his weight has slowly increased to 82 kilograms. He has excellent jumping ability and has made considerable progress in heading, which just makes up for Matuidi's shortcomings in air defense.

Finally, with Essien in good form, this midfield trio can only be said to be very strong, even stronger than when Brother Lian was there.

Of course, the opponents faced in the previous warm-up matches were too weak to test the current level of cooperation and tacit understanding between the three.

Brother Milan came at the right time.

On the evening of August 8, Real Madrid welcomed the warm-up match with AC Milan at the Bernabeu home stadium.

The exchanges between the players and coaches on both sides before the game were very friendly.

Kaka now won the treble in Real Madrid and returned to Milan, which can be regarded as a perfect ending to the story.

Milan fans no longer have the previous dissatisfaction with Real Madrid or even a little hate.

Of course, if Real Madrid is willing to loan Li Ang to Milan for another season or two, the Rossoneri will naturally be happier.

Unfortunately, it can't be loaned.

As Mourinho's absolute direct line and one of Real Madrid's current midfield cores, Real Madrid will never easily loan Li Ang out again.

So when watching Li Ang and Kaka, former Milan teammates, and Allegri interacting and hugging each other, Milan fans could only sigh softly.

The friendly match that night was played by both sides in a friendly manner. There was some intensity in the fight, but the movements were not too big, let alone malicious fouls.

However, even with the restrained defense, the new macho trio on the Real Madrid side made the old irons of Milan suffer.

Before Li Ang's turn, Matuidi and Essien's sweep had already resolved most of Milan's central offensive.

Real Madrid fans were very comfortable watching, but the old man in the private room smiled a little reluctantly.

How come the second generation of the Galaxy Battleship, which he spent a lot of effort to create in the past few years, suddenly has a trend of developing from a cloud of superstars and a pile of handsome guys to a devil muscle man?

The effect of the warm-up match was very outstanding. The old man also understood football, and naturally he could see the importance of Mourinho's tactical play to stable results.

But Essinga and Matuidi, they really don't have much commercial value.

Finally, looking at Li Ang's handsome and sunny face, the old man felt that his heart, which had been pulled, gradually eased.

Uncle Bird didn't know the uncomfortable thoughts of his chairman at this time. He was full of smiles on his face and talked and laughed with Karanka in the coaching seat for the whole game.

The result of the final warm-up season was 4-2. Ronaldo, who came on as a substitute in the second half of Real Madrid, scored twice, and Higuain and Callejon scored successively.

Real Madrid also won three consecutive warm-up matches after losing to Benfica.

And on the afternoon of August 12, in the last pre-season warm-up match with Celtic, Mourinho let almost all the players of the first team play.

As for the state of the game, the current Real Madrid coaching staff is not worried.

The core players in the team almost played until the last moment of the European Cup.

Li Ang is also a beast. He has practiced for another month. Now he has pulled all the main players out to play against Barcelona. Mourinho is absolutely confident that he can win the game against Barcelona again.

But from the overall perspective, in order to stably win the Western Super Cup and the European Super Cup, the main players still need to rest.

After rehearsing the tactics in the last week, Mourinho released a smoke bomb at the pre-match press conference of the first round of the new season.

Facing Valencia, a strong opening opponent who ranked third in La Liga last season, Mourinho was still not careless.

Emery said before the game that he would go all out and strive to score points at the Bernabeu home court.

It can be seen that he is still a little dissatisfied with the two defeats to Mourinho last season.

The 18-man starting list released by Real Madrid also made him think for a long time.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Di Maria, Alonso

Facing the situation that Real Madrid is likely to play with all the main players, Emery believes that they should not over-press and rush at the beginning.

Last season, Real Madrid scored more than 130 league goals, which is too terrifying. Any team that will play against Real Madrid is looking for death.

So Emery carefully formulated a 4-2-3-1 starting formation for counterattacks.

But on the evening of August 19, he did not see Real Madrid with all the main players.

Cristiano Ronaldo and his friends were talking and laughing on the Real Madrid bench, while the Real Madrid starters standing on the field were the substitutes that Emery thought before the game!

And after the game started, these Real Madrid substitutes quickly gained the upper hand in the match with Valencia!

Li Ang showed his "general style" from the beginning of the game.

His organization and dispatch, long and short passing ability seem to have made significant progress compared with last season.

It is still visible progress.

This caused La Liga commentators from all over the world to sigh, saying that Li Ang is now more versatile.

However, soon, in a quick counterattack after Valencia intercepted the ball, Li Ang cooperated with Matuidi who was chasing back to make a decisive and fierce tackle on Guardado.

Well, this taste is right!

Li Ang, with grass still on his face, even reminded his teammates to focus more on defense after he stood up.

Being versatile is indeed his future development trend.

But stable defense is his foundation!

Damn, I forgot to post it on time, there is still one chapter left