The rusty iron wardrobe leaned against the painted wall, and there were old posters hanging next to it. It was a few years ago when the date was seen. Several plastic stools of a decade ago were placed randomly on the ground. In front of the window near the outside of the venue, there was a row of leather mats sitting on the stools, and there were several palm-sized patches on the leather mats.

This is the away team locker room at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

It is probably difficult for people who have not been here to imagine that there will be such a "dismal" locker room in the modern Rome Olympic Stadium. However, obviously, the Rome Club and Lazio Club, which are home to Rome Olympics, are not interested in improving the environment here. They wish that the opponents who come here will feel more "traumatic". On weekdays, only cleaners come here to clean it, and these furniture have not been replaced for many years.

Real Madrid players are in the locker room.

Some of them were talking to each other in a low voice, while others were simply silent. The same thing was that everyone looked dull and had no expression of happiness at all.

They can't be happy.

In just one first half, they conceded two goals and failed to score one, and they were in the same mood as in this poor locker room.

Head coach Raymond walked in.

All the players turned their eyes to each other, Raymond was a little surprised, his eyes swept to the players, and he turned to smile bitterly - this was the first time since he took over as the coach of Real Madrid, he has attracted everyone's attention.

Raymond is 54 years old this year and speaks in Madrid. During his time as a player, he was a goalkeeper. In the fourteen seasons from 1971 to 1985, he played for Real Madrid. After retiring, he coached Albacete, Las Palmas and other teams as a head coach. He also coached Sporting Gijon and Numancia as the head coach. However, his performance was average and he was not well-known in the coaching industry.

In September, when Real Madrid announced Camacho's departure, he became Real Madrid's new head coach.

Raymond still remembers what he said at the time, "It looks a bit weird, today is a sad day for me. I saw an excellent person finishing his work, he did a good job, and this result is not fully reflected by the score on the field. It is not the way I imagined to come to Real Madrid."

The next surprise was that he took office on the first day and appeared on the training ground. He was booed by Real Madrid fans. The situation was different from Raymond's imagination. Although he was also surprised that he could become the coach of Real Madrid, he should not be treated like this.

Until now, more than two months have passed, and many fans are still dissatisfied with him. Although he has good results in leading the team, the team has been winning a big victory recently, but Real Madrid fans believe that it is all due to the stars. With Real Madrid's lineup, it is normal to achieve such results.

In short, good grades have nothing to do with him. Bad grades are his problem.

Raymond is very clear about his situation. His reputation is not enough to join Real Madrid, and his ability seems to be a little lacking. However, his love for Real Madrid still allows him to persevere. He hopes to stay until Real Madrid finds a qualified successor - although the players in the team are a little disrespectful to him, the fans of the field are even more disdainful to him.

Now, standing in this dilapidated locker room, Raymond felt somewhat relieved.

He found that the players valued him.

Yes, they are very important, perhaps because they can't find the backbone, they are two goals behind in the first half, and they don't know how to continue the next game. In any case, they are not coaches, no matter how outstanding they are, they are players. So when they encounter difficulties, they can only ask the coach.

When Raymond recalled his situation at Real Madrid, he suddenly felt a little funny, but now is not the time to think about it. As the head coach, he must find a way to solve the problem... although he does not get the respect he deserves in private.

never mind.

Raymond shook his head silently, walked to the middle of the locker room, moved a stool and sat down, watching the players staring at them, "We did a little bad in the first half."

He criticized the players first.

No one spoke or refuted him in the locker room. Real Madrid players also knew that Raymond was right. He lost two goals and did not score a single goal. If this is not bad, they are not the "Galaxy Battleship", but a small team.

"But we still have a chance."

Raymond sorted out his thoughts and said, "We failed to play our advantage in the first half. This is our problem, but the opponent's problem suddenly became obvious. Their defense was not good, and their offense was only dependent on the No. 13 person. They didn't even have a stable organizational core in the midfield."

"If we want to win, we must give full play to our advantages. What are our advantages?"

Raymond paused, looked at the players, and said, "We are a powerful Real Madrid. Each of our players is a world-class star. Our personal abilities are very strong. This is our advantage!"

"And they, Roma, are just small teams to us, like Mallorca, like Getafe..." Getafe and Mallorca are the teams that Real Madrid just easily defeated by a big score in the league.

Some players laughed out loud. In any case, Roma is also a quasi-giant in Serie A, and is still much better than the late La Liga.

Raymond's expression was very serious, "I'm not kidding. In front of us, Roma is not much better than Mallorca! Each of you players is very valuable. Our entire team is worth hundreds of millions of euros, but what about Roma? It would be good to have more than 100 million euros. Their core player Toti is not even on the court."

Real Madrid players suddenly realized.

If only the Roman players who started this game were not very valuable, the highest among them was the No. 13 boy and Casano. No one else was worth much, especially those very young and unfamiliar faces on the court, who were all players from the Rome youth training camp. It would be great if they could have two or three million euros.

Such a comparison is really...

"I hope you know this. Each of you has much better abilities than the opponent. This is our biggest advantage. We must play this advantage, so try to open the formation in the second half and show the advantage..." Raymond kept talking about the tactics of the second half.

Real Madrid players also listened carefully. This was the first time in two months that they had listened carefully to Raymond's explanation of the game tactics.

...

Compared to the visiting team's locker room, the atmosphere in the home team's locker room seems much more active.

Before the game, Roma's overall atmosphere was solemn. After all, the opponent was Real Madrid. It was one of the best teams in the world. In contrast, there were many problems and injuries. Roma was far behind when he was not good recently. But now they were leading two goals, and the result was unexpected. The advantage of the two goals was enough to relax them.

The same goes for head coach Derenell.

The current score relaxed him. At the same time, Roma's overall performance in the first half also satisfied him. They were not suppressed by Real Madrid, and they played well in both defense and offense.

He praised the players for their performance and asked them to continue playing like this in the second half.

In a relaxed atmosphere, time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, more than ten minutes passed. Roman players walked out of the locker room one by one to prepare for the second half of the game.

The second half began soon.

At the beginning of the game, Real Madrid launched an offense. Their attacks came one after another, making Roma passive defense. Fortunately, they were prepared and the formation contracted. They did not give Real Madrid too many opportunities.

But soon they discovered that Real Madrid's offense was different from the first half.

In the first half, Real Madrid's offense always seemed to be unfinished and had a vivid and exciting attack, but when the attack came to the frontcourt, it seemed a little confused and disorderly. Some players could pass the ball, some players would drive the ball by themselves, some players wanted to go to the side, and some players wanted to directly drive the ball through, and even shot a long shot.

That kind of offense is always easy to defend. Because Real Madrid has no backbone, their players are all made.

Now Real Madrid players are also a big player, but their formation is very wide, and each player is serious about completing his work, especially those big stars, such as Raul, such as Luis Figo. They began to perform frequently. Raul always connects to the middle and tries to pass the ball towards Ronaldo when he has the chance, while Figo will dribble the ball. His breakthrough is very sharp, and a single defensive player cannot effectively limit Figo.

Under Real Madrid's offensive, Roma's defensive formation frequently had loopholes and seemed in danger.

In the 51st minute, Figo dribbled the ball on Real Madrid's right, and passed two defensive players in a row to the middle. Raul received a pass and passed it straight into the penalty area. Ronaldo turned around and received the pass.

There is also Ferrari in front of him.

In the penalty area, under such a tight defense, Ronaldo suddenly accelerated, his body moved twice like a samba dance, and suddenly changed direction and jumped over Ferrari. Ferrari stood stupidly and didn't even react. Then the alien kicked the goal straight to the right corner!

Although Pelizzoli tried his best to make a save, the shot was too far ahead and the angle of the ball was too tricky. It would be difficult for him to save the ball even if he transformed into Superman.

Real Madrid fans immediately became excited.

"Goal! Ronaldo--!!"

"Ronaldo! Ronaldo! He swiped over Roma's central defender and shot into the net, helping Real Madrid recover a goal!"

"This is Ronaldo! Although he runs very little and hasn't performed much before, as long as he gets the ball, it's Roma's crisis!"

The Spanish commentator said excitedly.

The Roma players on the court seemed a little helpless. They had tried their best to defend, but they were still powerless to do anything about this goal. Maybe they could only blame Ferrari, but obviously this is not true. Ronaldo... That's Ronaldo. Not only Ferrari, I don't know how many players in the world have easily been deceived by Ronaldo's movements. His extraordinary movements seem to be completely unsolvable in analysis.

In the penalty area, a small angle, swing directly past!

It's so outrageous...

Zhang Tiehan just defended on the penalty area line, watching Ronaldo surpass his opponent and shot. When Ronaldo got the ball, he didn't feel any threat. After all, there were two Roma players next to Ronaldo. Ferrari was standing in front of Ronaldo and blocked all his shooting angles.

But Ronaldo actually drifted past Ferrari in such a small space.

"Is it too much for him?"

He knew that a world superstar like Ronaldo had very superb skills, but he didn't expect that he was so superb. Think about it, in that case, he would never have been able to pass Ferrari, and even had no chance to get the ball back to his teammates, but Ronaldo did it easily.

This is the gap, the absolute gap in the skills under your feet.

Zhang Tiehan shook his head with a wry smile. He originally thought he was very good, but compared with a "god man" like Ronaldo, his skills were simply impossible to see. He was not discouraged. He also had an advantage, that was his body. If Ronaldo competed with him for the points, Ronaldo probably could only sigh the same way.

But in any case, such goals are almost unreplicable.

This is Ronaldo's powerful personal ability. Before, Figo and Raul all showed the world's top football skills. The three of them combined to form this goal. But once, can there be a second goal like this? They can't perform so well in every attack. Instead, they can replicate their own goals one by one as long as they have a chance.

Zhang Tiehan Xu narrowed his eyes and stared at Real Madrid players. They were holding the football back to the center line, posing as if they were trying to tie the score, but... do you just want to rely on such a goal to tie?

It's so whimsical!

I will let you know that simple and straightforward goals are much easier than fancy goals!
Chapter completed!