Chapter 33 Crux
Real Madrid finally ushered in a strong opponent in the third round of the league - Sevilla. From this round, Real Madrid will have a "devil schedule", and their opponents are all teams with strong strength in the La Liga: the opponents in the fourth round are Valencia, the fifth round and La Coruña, the sixth round Villarreal, the seventh round Atletico Madrid, and the eighth round Athletic Bilbao.
If they want to successfully win the league championship after the end of this season, they cannot lose to these opponents.
In the game against Sevilla, Mourinho announced the starting list one day in advance, and Kaka was on the list!
In fact, from Kaka's attitude towards training, it is not surprising that he won the starter at all. He really worked hard and serious in training.
Mourinho has always cared about the training attitude of players, so it is not surprising that Kaka won the starter.
But the reality is subtle. There were rumors that Kaka might have to leave Real Madrid some time ago, so Mourinho arranged for him to start. Is there any connection?
There are many speculations from the outside world. Some people believe that Kaka's father's threatening strategy has been effective. It turns out that children who cry can get milk. Some people think this is a price-raising strategy that Mourinho made in order to sell a good price in the transfer market at that time, so that Kaka can appear and show the sellers the ability of the player and attract those clubs who are interested in Kaka to quote.
But no matter what, Kaka himself is very happy to be able to start.
He felt that his body had returned to normal, and it was time for him to have more time to find the game. It would be impossible to sit on the bench all the time.
While Kaka won the start, Chu Zhongtian also continued to start.
He didn't know what Mourinho intended to arrange for him and Kaka to start at the same time. Alonso has entered the training stage with the team. The team doctor said that if everything goes well, he can make a comeback in the next Champions League group stage. He will be several days faster than the expected return time.
There must be a reason for Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian performed better in one game than in another. Alonso was worried that if he really had enough rest for a month before returning, the team would no longer have his place...※※※Away match against Sevilla, the team arrived at Sevilla one day in advance for the field to adapt to the training. When allocating the hotel room, Kaka and Chu Zhongtian were together.
In the past, Kaca was assigned to a room with Portuguese players such as Marcelo, or Pepe, C. Ronaldo. But this time there was nothing strange, because Chu Zhongtian also spoke Portuguese, so it was not a problem for the two to communicate.
Kaka attaches great importance to this game, so on the eve of the game he rejected Marcelo, C. Ronaldo and others' suggestions to invite him to play live football, and chose someone to pray in the hotel room, hoping to gain strength from God.
If Kaka didn't go, Chu Zhongtian was pulled to make up the numbers by them.
In the end, Chu Zhongtian and C. Ronaldo got a draw, and the two completely defeated Marcelo.
When Chu Zhongtian returned to the room, he found that Kaka was still praying.
He didn't bother Ka, but went to wash himself first.
When he finished washing, he found Kaka sitting on the bed and watching him.
He smiled at Kaka: "Do you want to wash up?"
Kaka nodded, jumped out of the bed and walked towards the bathroom.
Chu Zhongtian turned on the TV, then lay down on the bed, pressing the remote control to find the program he was interested in.
Although it is in Spain, overseas programs can be received in high-end hotels. Chu Zhongtian wanted to see if there were any reports about the Bundesliga, and he was looking for German TV stations.
After searching for a long time, I couldn't find it. There was a German TV station, but it was a documentary... Later, he simply threw the remote control aside and looked casually.
After Kaka finished washing up, she came out of the bathroom and saw Chu Zhongtian watching TV. She also glanced at the TV screen and found that it was an advertisement.
"Hey, Ricardo."
Kaka turned around and looked at Chu Zhongtian.
"There are rumors outside that you are leaving Real Madrid. Is this true?" Chu Zhongtian asked.
Kaka shook her head: "It's just a rumor. I never thought of leaving here before the contract expires. I still want to... well, prove myself."
"But I don't think you need to prove anything. You have won the World Cup, won the European Champions League, won the European Golden Ball Award, and the World Footballer... What else do you need to prove?"
"Prove that I have not fallen yet." Kaka replied.
"How is your body?"
"I think it's okay." Kaka raised her leg.
"I still remember when you were in AC Milan..." Chu Zhongtian recalled. "You felt unstoppable at that time. Do you still remember that we had a fight once."
Kaka nodded: "We lost to you in the European Super Cup. To be honest, I had no impression of you at all before, but you surprised me in that game."
Chu Zhongtian smiled and scratched his head: "Hehe. At that time, you drove the ball for 70 meters. I kept chasing you. I had to try my best to catch up with you, and you seemed to be at ease. But in the end I blocked your shot. Do you know? I was lying on the ground at that time, and I was so happy that I didn't think about it. Because I blocked Kaka, the world's number one, from Kaka."
After saying that, he turned his head and looked at Kaka.
Kaka smiled a little bitterly. The so-called number one in the world is already the past.
"I used to search for videos of you playing football on youtube. I especially like your move of knocking the football behind you, turning around and wiping away the opponent, stroking forward, and it feels very cool. I can't learn it... I have to lower my headband to drive the ball. Later, you came to Real Madrid, but you never performed like that again..."
Kaka didn't know how to answer, so he had to shrugge: "I've been troubled by injuries."
"Actually not." Chu Zhongtian suddenly stared at Kaka, and had to say tone.
Kaka was a little surprised.
Injuries have always been considered the culprit for Kaka's poor performance at Real Madrid. It was the groin injury that affected him. He was unable to exert force while running and did not dare to physically fight his opponent. Therefore, after Real Madrid, he rarely had the scene of long-distance raids after getting the ball, and he fell to the ground immediately once he was hit by the opponent. Later, this injury also affected his performance in the Brazilian national team. The South African World Cup was simply disastrous for him.
He later had to undergo surgery and missed almost the entire season.
At first, team doctors and people in the media were optimistic that as long as the injury recovered, Kaka would be able to show the familiar side. But the situation has not developed so much now. It has been a year and a half since the operation. In the second half of last season, Kaka didn't even play a few games, and her health should have recovered as before.
But why can't he find the same feeling he used to be?
"Ricardo, I'll ask you a question. You must answer me seriously. What type of front midfielder do you think you are? Organizing an offensive or scoring type? Is it a classical front midfielder or more in line with modern football's front midfielder? Are you good at passing or shooting? Your main function is to impact the opponent's defense line or mobilize the opponent's defense line?"
Kaka lowered his head and thought for a long time and raised his head to Chu Zhongtian, "If you ask me what type of front midfielder, I think it's difficult to position myself. I'm not organized, but I can pass and assist my teammates. I'm not scoring, but I can score by myself. I'm definitely not a classical front midfielder, the classical front midfielder is like Rikelme. I'm not, and even Ozil is more like a classical front midfielder than me."
Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I think you are not the kind of front midfielder who takes the ball and organizes the system. Although your position is the front midfielder, I think you are more like a second striker. Your scoring ability is outstanding. You are not good at crossing several people in a small range, but your high-speed dribbling is invincible in the world. But you seem to have taken too many responsibilities in Real Madrid. These responsibilities should not be borne by you, so your performance is not as good as when you were in AC Milan..."
Chu Zhongtian analyzed his problem for Kaka. In fact, this was the result of Chu Zhongtian's thoughts for many days. He just likes to think about it. In addition, he also thinks that it would be a pity if Kaka could never win praise in Real Madrid. You must know that he used to regard him as a target of catching up. How could he watch his goal fall to this place?
"When you were in AC Milan, were you the organizer of the offensive, Ricardo?"
Kaka thought for a while and shook her head: "No, there is only one organizer in AC Milan, it is Pirlo."
Chu Zhongtian smiled: "Look, when you were in AC Milan, you didn't need to organize the attack, so you don't need to stop and take the ball frequently before considering where to pass the football. You can give full play to your characteristics of fast speed, sharp dribbling and strong impact. But in Real Madrid, no one will do this for you... Maybe it's because you think you are a midfielder and should take on the responsibility of organizing the attack?"
Kaka has to admit that what Chu Zhongtian said makes sense. He had never thought so before, but today Chu Zhongtian made sense. Yes, when he was in AC Milan, he never considered organizing an offense. If he led the whole team like this, he just needed to charge. Pirlo is AC Milan's brain, and he is Milan's fist.
But after he arrived at Real Madrid, he seemed to think that he should be the core of Real Madrid's midfield and be a brain. But in fact, his style of playing football is not the type of brain. Once he reduces his speed and takes the ball on the spot, his threat will be much smaller, and it will be much easier for the opponent to defend himself.
He nodded and admitted that Chu Zhongtian's statement was correct.
"Actually, there is no need to take so much responsibility on your shoulders. You just need to give full play to your own characteristics. Don't think about everything else, how to organize the offense, how to mobilize the entire team, and how to make the opponent's defense line break... Don't consider these. If you don't believe it, try tomorrow's game, depending on whether the situation will improve?"
After Chu Zhongtian finished speaking, he stopped talking. He believed that Kaka was a smart person and knew what he should do. If he said too much, he would seem to be despised by others.
Kaka didn't say anything anymore. Chu Zhongtian's words tonight gave him a lot of shock and inspiration, and he needed time to digest and understand.
No words all night.
※※ Judging from Mourinho's starting lineup arrangement, his idea seems to be the same as Chu Zhongtian.
Because he did not replace Ozil with Kaka, but replaced Dimaria with Kaka.
Everyone always says that Kaka cannot coexist with Ozil because their positions are all front midfielders. But in fact, Kaka played best in AC Milan and mainly played on the wing road. He cannot be regarded as a real front midfielder.
In this game, Kaka's position in the starting lineup is the right forward, but this is just a lineup diagram for people to see. In fact, his position is very flexible, not only him, but also Ronaldo and Ozil's positions are not fixed. Although Ronaldo is often active on the left side, he can also switch positions with Kaka because Kaka is also used to moving here.
Ozil ran back and forth in the competition, with a large range of movement.
※※※ Chu Zhongtian is not unfamiliar with Sevilla. The first European championship he won was snatched from Sevilla. His performance in that game was as impressive as the Champions League final. However, the influence of the League Cup was not as good as that of the Champions League, so Chu Zhongtian was only a nickname at that time.
Sevilla has changed a lot from that team back then. Alves, who attacked him with Navas, has gone to Barcelona and has been doing well at the Camp Nou. The left forward Adriano has also gone to Barcelona and has become a qualified rotation player.
As for another full-back Puerta, he was very regrettably lost his life due to heart disease.
Mid-back Paulson went to Juventus and later to Liverpool.
However, Navas, Fabiano and Canut are still in the team.
In today's game, Fabiano and Navas started, and Canute has become a substitute. He was once a terrifying full-scale center in the Spanish league. Now he is thirty-four years old, Lian Po is old.
The center team with Fabiano now in Sevilla is former Real Madrid center Negrado.
This center forward who was played with and abandoned by Real Madrid always has the strongest desire to fight for Real Madrid. Although Sevilla is also a strong La Liga team, being swept out by Real Madrid is still the hatred of Negredo.
Therefore, every time he plays Real Madrid, he is very excited, hoping to break through Real Madrid's goal and prove to Real Madrid how much it is to give up.
This time is no exception.
Just as the game began, Negredo found an opportunity to shoot a long shot outside.
The football came out, which shocked Real Madrid fans in a cold sweat, which made Sevilla fans at home very excited.
The Pisjuan Stadium was full of fanatic atmosphere, sweeping over like a heat wave, invading and devouring Real Madrid players.
Generally speaking, teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona can dominate their own home courts, but they will have a headache when they come to Sevilla, Valencia, Athletic Bilbao, and Espanyol, because the atmosphere of these teams is very good at home - this is good for the home team, and it is terrifying for the visiting team.
As one of the few teams in the league that have the opportunity and ability to threaten the two traditional giants, Sevilla has the ability to defeat Real Madrid and Barcelona at his home court.
Not to mention that Sevilla had a grudge against Mourinho's Real Madrid. Last season's Copa del Rey semifinal, Sevilla Club made a video to attack Real Madrid, and the end of the video read "We want to make you no championship" (vamos_deixar-te_sem_titulo). However, Sevilla was just a counterattack, because in the 16th round of last season, after Real Madrid defeated Sevilla 1-0, Mourinho once read it at a press conference with a piece of paper that wrote about the thirteenth issue committed by the referee in this game. The grudge between the two sides was earlier than this. When Mansa
When Noo just took over Alvarez and served as Sevilla's head coach, a reporter asked Mourinho's opinion on Manzano's coaching Sevilla. Mourinho answered very directly: "Who is Manzano? I don't know." You should know that in Spanish football, Manzano is not an unknown person. He was elected the best coach of La Liga in 2008 and led a small team like Mallorca to successfully win the Europa League. In the end, he was unable to participate in European competitions only because of the club's financial problems. He also led the team to create a season-long victory of ten consecutive games at home. He has the title of "Smart Star" in Spanish football.
After both sides had these tough times, it was no surprise that the game was fierce.
Sevilla's head coach Manzano didn't want the head coach of Getafe of Osasuna to give Chu Zhongtian too much space. He found that the reason Getafe lost was because they cared too much about Ozil in the midfield, but did not keep a guard against Chu Zhongtian enough.
He was very sensitive to the fact that Chu Zhongtian is the brain of the Real Madrid team today, and the core.c. Although Ronaldo scored many goals and was incredible in terms of tactical strategy, at most it was a sharp knife.
Therefore, if you want to chew off the tough trick of Real Madrid at home in this game, you must curb Chu Zhongtian's performance.
Sevilla fans must have not forgotten that Chu Zhongtian once snatched their League Cup, because as soon as Chu Zhongtian got the ball, a loud booing sounded at the Pisjuan Stadium.
At the beginning, some of the Chinese journalists who came with the team to interview were not very clear. These people were either just from Chu Zhongtian in the past two years, or were not academically skilled. They didn't even know the glorious deeds of Chu Zhongtian snatching food from Sevilla.
Later, with the explanation of their colleagues, they understood why Sevilla fans were so hostile to Chu Zhongtian.
The hostility of Sevilla fans surprised Real Madrid's coaches - they obviously didn't know much about Chu Zhongtian's past.
Only Chu Zhongtian turned a deaf ear to the booing.
He didn't care what Sevilla fans booed him, and he heard too much, and his ears were called into pieces.
These boos could not affect him at all.
He is now patiently entangling with Sevilla's midfielder Romarik, looking for an opportunity to attack.
Chapter completed!