Benitez made his debut in Real Madrid in his player and coaching career. He has been a die-hard Real Madrid fan since he was a child. Even at the press conference to announce his coaching of Real Madrid, he was tearful, which made everyone feel his love and loyalty to Real Madrid.

From an emotional point of view, he is definitely the most suitable coach for coaching Real Madrid among the famous coaches today.

But professional football never believes in tears, nor does it require too much emotion. Even Benitez himself believes in this.

Judging from the coaching philosophy, he is the least Real Madrid player, and some even think that his football is the same as Capello.

Who is Capello?

He coached Real Madrid twice, won two La Liga titles in two seasons, but was fired after winning the championship.

The reason why Capello was fired twice was almost the same, that is, no one in Real Madrid likes his football.

Real Madrid's football advocates imaginative and gorgeous creativity, and is an offensive football that is like a mercury.

Benitez is definitely a great tactical master, but in his football world, there is no creativity or offensive football. All he has is a rigorous and meticulous tactical framework and the players' hard-working mechanical execution ability.

As early as Liverpool's coaching period, everyone believed that Yang Yang was an alien under Benitez's coaching.

But this is obviously an unexpected product in Benitez.

Before the announcement of the introduction of Yang Yang, what Benitez wanted was a scorer who could provide more than 20 goals per season. However, after Yang Yang joined, the world was shocked from the second season, and Benitez had to revolve around him to formulate the team's offense.

From twenty-five goals to thirty-four goals, to forty-four goals in the third season, Yang Yang not only repeatedly subverted the outside world's impression of him, but also constantly broke the tactical ceiling for Benitez to formulate him and made exceptions for him again and again.

As the Guardian once said, it was not that Benitez changed his stubbornness, but that Yang Yang was too strong, so strong that Benitez had to compromise, because he had never seen a player as strong as Yang Yang.

Now, when it comes to Real Madrid, the situation is still the same.

Yang Yang, Ibrahimovic, Robben and Kaka, and Benitez suddenly gathered many talented superstars. He seemed to be a little overwhelmed, especially in the team's offense.

But from another perspective, Real Madrid now needs Benitez.

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Florentino is an old fan who has watched football for decades. He knows professional football very well.

Around him, Bardano was also a glorious European star, Zidane was a legendary superstar in European football, as well as Padessa and Butragno of Real Madrid's Five Eagles, all of which were included in the Real Madrid Hall of Fame legend.

These people also know professional football very well.

As early as when Florentino decided to return to the Bernabeu, he and his group of people had formulated a complete set of rigorous plans. As a football club, in addition to business and daily operations, competitive success is the most decisive.

How to succeed at the competitive level?

Then look at the most successful teams.

Liverpool has nothing to learn, except their group of players, and their locker room.

On the contrary, it was Barcelona, ​​a team that completely changed the technical and tactical concepts of European football, which brought the most profound shock to Florentino and all his men.

Many people mention Barcelona only mention their pass and ball control, but in fact, in the eyes of professionals such as Bardano and Zidane, the most important thing about Barcelona is not their pass and ball control ability, but behind this ability, Guardiola has created a high-pressing defensive system for this team and their abundant physical fitness.

The strict high-post pressing and oppressing defensive system allows Barcelona to put more pressure on their opponents, snatch the ball back in the shortest time, and at the same time ensure the stability of their team's defense. This is a new concept of combining offense and defense.

The abundant physical fitness allows Barcelona players to make more and more active running on the court.

To a certain extent, defense and physical fitness are the biggest links for Guardiola to improve on Rijcard's team, and it is also a key factor in Barcelona's ability to sweep the entire European football world.

But for Real Madrid at that time, the best pass-by-control players in the world were in Barcelona, ​​and Real Madrid did not have a systematic pass-by-control gene like Barcelona. Due to the objective laws of football, this made it impossible for Florentino to achieve it overnight and directly create a pass-by-control team similar to Barcelona at the Bernabeu.

This is impossible and unrealistic.

What should I do?

Step by step!

Barcelona's pass-control football consists of three parts, skillful pass-control, rigorous high-level pressing and pressure defense and physical fitness. Three factors are indispensable, and physical fitness is not difficult to achieve. The first two are the ones that are really difficult.

A skilled pass and control requires excellent midfield pass and control players, but looking at the current European football world, except for Valencia's David Silva, there is no player who can play in Real Madrid yet, and the Bat Legion's Elf King was unable to transfer to the Bernabeu in the summer of 2009.

Looking at European football, there are not many defensive tactical masters. Mourinho and Benitez are among the best. Both of these famous coaches are known for their good at building a defensive system, especially Benitez. The high-pressing and oppressing style of two back midfielders is his famous skill. He has been successful from Valencia to Liverpool.

So, the answer is obvious. Real Madrid gave up Ancelotti, and Benitez brought his team to the Bernabeu, taking on the task of building a rigorous defensive system for Real Madrid, and at the same time shouldering the burden of sniping Barcelona.

The 5-0 away win over Barcelona was almost all scored in counterattacks. Real Madrid's possession rate in the entire game was only half that of Barcelona, ​​which shows that Benitez's style of play has achieved initial success.

Next, let’s see Benitez’s training of the team’s midfield and backcourt.

But neither Florentino, Zidane or Valdano will regard Benitez as the future of Real Madrid, or the Real Madrid they are looking forward to.

If Benitez can't play that trick, many Real Madrid's current players can't play it either.

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Manuel Redondo sent Yang Yang out, and after he got in the car, he returned to the private room.

Florentino urged him to strengthen his support for Benitez, because now is not the key to determining Benitez's success or failure.

There are only two situations that can shake Benitez's position as coach. One is that the management feels that Benitez can no longer achieve the management's goals, that is, it is impossible to help the team create a stable and rigorous high-level pressing and oppression system.

Another thing is that he helped the team achieve this goal.

Although the latter is a bit cruel, this is professional football.

"To be honest, our current team's lineup configuration is indeed more counterattack-type, which is not good for the league." Bardano said with a frown.

Before the injury, Kaka, Robben, Sneijder, and even Xavi Alonso were all players who prefer counterattack type, which is also a helpless choice.

Needless to say, Kaka is one of the few superstar targets of Real Madrid. Robben and Sneijder stay at the team. Xavi Alonso is one of the best midfielders in the active service. Real Madrid has no choice unless they poach from Barcelona.

This is also the reason why Florentino would never consider Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese is also a counterattacking player. After having a comprehensive player like Yang Yang, there is no need to introduce Portuguese to increase the counterattacking elements within Real Madrid.

In the end, players still need to be executed. Too many counterattacking players will be detrimental to Real Madrid's future transformation.

Everyone, including Florentino, Bardano and Zidane, agreed that Barcelona's tactics will be the direction of future football skills and tactics and will completely change the technical and tactical concepts of European football.

Then why can't Real Madrid adopt a counterattack style?

The reason is very simple. This type of playing style is still working in the Champions League, but in La Liga, all teams are strictly guarding against Real Madrid. Where can we get the opportunity to counterattack?

The best example is the two games against Osasuna and Athletic Bilbao.

These opponents are considered a victory to defend zero by zero, so how can they give you space to counterattack easily?

Therefore, in La Liga, control teams have more advantages.

Of course, the ideal situation is to integrate counterattack and control.

This concept was proposed by Zidane and is very attractive, but everyone is still exploring how to implement it.

Thinking of this, Florentino turned to look at Zidane.

The special consultant suddenly understood the meaning of the Chairman's eyes.

"I think you should reconsider my proposal, go to the first team, learn more experience, and you are the future we are looking forward to." Florentino said earnestly.

Yang Yang is valued on the court and Zidane is expected on the sidelines. This is the policy and policy formulated by Florentino when he returns to the Bernabeu.

Zidane smiled bitterly, "Let me think about it again."

"You've been thinking about it for half a year."

"But I'm not qualified to coach yet."

"Then go and take the exam, we will reimburse you for the expenses." Florentino pressed step by step.

Zidane was depressed. Does he seem like someone who can't afford the training?

Redondo and Bardano both pretended to be eating, but were actually laughing.

If this scene is spread, the whole world will laugh wildly.

Is this still Zidane they admire?

But on the other hand, it can also be seen that the relationship between Zidane and Florentino is extraordinary.

"Things are decided, Manuel arranges it, you go to Benitez to study." Florentino said without any doubt. After pausing, he looked at Zidane again, his tone softened, and even asked for help with some.

"Our locker room now needs people like you to strengthen communication between the coaching staff and the players."

Zidane could not refuse.

From the day he promised to be Florentino's special assistant, he knew that it was a matter of time.
Chapter completed!