Football: Starting from the 05 World Youth Championship

Chapter 312 Mendes' Advice
As the score was tied, the mentality of the players on both sides of the field began to change.

After equalizing the score, Inter Milan's players were obviously more relaxed.

Before the game, their goal was to lose less and win more, and to score as many away goals as possible.

Now that their goal has been achieved, the psychological pressure has been relieved a lot.

The situation on Real Madrid's side was completely different. After their leading advantage was wiped out by the opponent, the Real Madrid players became obviously anxious and their actions on the field began to become more aggressive.

In the 25th minute of the first half, less than two minutes after Inter Milan scored a goal, Cambiasso was hit by Carlos in a fight and was forced to receive treatment off the court.

Taking advantage of the fact that Inter Milan had fewer players on the field, Real Madrid quickly launched a fierce attack.

But what made Real Madrid feel helpless was that after Cambiasso was injured, Lin Feng immediately retreated to the position of defensive midfielder and temporarily acted as a defensive midfielder, together with Vieira and Zanetti, to stifle Real Madrid's attack in the midfield.

Real Madrid could not break through the defense for a long time as their overall formation was pushed too far forward and they almost conceded another goal to Inter Milan’s counterattack.

The Real Madrid fans in the Bernabeu stands were so scared that they felt their hearts were about to burst!

Thirty minutes later, even the most optimistic Real Madrid fans had to admit that Inter Milan was indeed difficult to deal with.

The strength of the opponent's midfield exceeded their expectations. Real Madrid could not gain any advantage in the midfield battle and even began to fall into a disadvantage.

The reason for this situation is that in addition to the three defensive midfielders, Inter Milan also has an attacking midfielder who likes to return to defense and participate in midfield stranglehold!
Although in this era, the classic attacking midfielder who is only responsible for offense and not defense is slowly being eliminated, many teams now prefer to use a central midfielder who is capable of both offense and defense rather than a pure attacking midfielder.

But even so, players like Lin Feng are still rare.

Because he has a large range of activities on the field, when he appears near the opponent's penalty area, he plays the role of attacking midfielder, and when he appears near the center line, he plays the role of central midfielder.

But this is not Lin Feng's limit. Sometimes he will retreat very deep and temporarily play the role of defensive midfielder.

This means that in local area battles, Inter Milan will often have one more person because of Lin Feng's joining.

Originally, Real Madrid had a difficult time playing when the number of players was equal. Now that the opponent has one more player, the pressure on them has naturally increased greatly!

In a box somewhere in the Bernabeu stands, Real Madrid president Calderon was talking to a special guest:
"Mr. Jorge, I'll leave the player's affairs to you. As for the club, we will be the ones to negotiate. In short, money is not a problem. As long as he is willing to come, everything can be discussed!"

After hitting a wall in Kaka's transfer, Real Madrid quickly changed its target and set its sights on Cristiano Ronaldo, who has performed very well in both the Premier League and the Champions League this season.

Compared with last season, Ronaldo has experienced his own breakthrough this season.

So far, Ronaldo has scored 15 goals in the Premier League, tied with Chelsea striker Drogba for the top spot in the Premier League scorer list.

Although many of them were penalties, some were even scored by Ronaldo through his much-criticized diving, such as the one when Manchester United beat Tottenham 4:0, which caused the anger of tens of thousands of Tottenham fans at White Hart Lane.

But even so, compared with his data in previous seasons, Ronaldo's data this season has increased exponentially.

The Portuguese, who is about to turn 22, has already entered the golden period of his career.

His outstanding performance naturally attracted the attention of many people, including Real Madrid, which was in urgent need of introducing big-name stars to fill the gap after the end of the Galacticos.

Hearing Calderon's words, Mendes nodded:

"Please rest assured, Mr. Chairman, I will try my best to communicate with Cristiano, but please forgive me for being frank, Ronaldo is very happy at Manchester United and does not really want to leave Manchester United."

C Ronaldo was discovered by Sir Alex Ferguson and brought to the top five leagues. He is very grateful to this coach for his support.

He is unlikely to accept Real Madrid's invitation before he has achieved enough honors for the team, as that would give people a sense of ungratefulness.

Especially this season when Manchester United has re-emerged in the league and suppressed Chelsea, it will be easier to achieve results if he continues to stay at Manchester United.

It is of no benefit for Ronaldo to come to Real Madrid, a team that is in a rebuilding period of transition from the old to the new, with many conflicts within the team, an extremely complicated locker room situation and ball bullies.

Mendes' words made Calderon very disappointed. He didn't understand why it was so difficult for him to introduce a top star?

Why was it so easy for Florentino to attract so many top stars when he was president?

He even poached Figo, the star player of his arch-rival!

Compared to him, where exactly am I inferior to him?
This was Inter Milan's offensive round. When Calderon saw Lin Feng send a straight pass in the midfield, breaking through Real Madrid's defense and assisting Torres to completely reverse the score, he was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.

Mendes also saw the goal and almost couldn't help cheering for it in front of Calderon.

Seeing Calderon's face turn pale, Mendes smiled and said:

"Mr. Chairman, isn't the person you want on the court right now?"

The person Mendes was referring to was naturally Lin Feng!

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"Inter Milan has completed the comeback. Torres played the ball beautifully and Casillas had no way to stop him!"

"Real Madrid paid the price for their negligence after failing to score for so long. Facing a top team like Inter Milan, Real Madrid should not have given the opponent such a good counterattack opportunity!"

"Yes, Real Madrid was obviously anxious during that period just now. The players only thought about attacking, thinking that they could score a goal by pressing hard. Little did they know that this would only make them die faster. Lin Feng and Torres on the Inter Milan side are both good at quick counterattacks, and this ball happened to be connected between the two of them!"

In the CCTV studio, two commentators were cheering for Inter Milan's goal.

At the same time, they were also criticizing Real Madrid's attitude towards the game in the recent period!

In the opinion of the two commentators, Real Madrid has not woken up at all.

I thought this was a league game?

Inter Milan is not like those underdogs in La Liga who are at the mercy of Real Madrid. They cannot be defeated by a strong attack. Instead, it will expose their weaknesses and allow the opponent to seize opportunities.

The tactics arranged by Inter Milan in this game are somewhat inclined towards control and counterattack. Real Madrid's style of play is simply jumping into the opponent's trap.

On the sidelines, Real Madrid coach Capello was furious. This ball really broke his defense!
Three defensive midfielders were unable to stop Lin Feng alone, allowing the opponent to pass the ball!

This is simply a crime!
The Bernabeu Stadium fell into unrest when Inter Milan reversed the score.

The Real Madrid fans who had been full of expectations for the game and thought they had a sure win, now all started to panic.

Why do the opponents seem to be stronger than them? Are we going to lose at home?
At this moment, Real Madrid fans fell into self-doubt.

The players on the field were also in self-doubt. After Inter Milan reversed the score, there was a brief confusion among the Real Madrid players.

Some people were anxious to attack and equalize the score, while others felt that Inter Milan’s counterattack was too threatening and wanted to play it safe first, waiting until the opponent’s edge had been delayed for a while before making another move.

The consequence of the lack of unified thinking within the team was that the players' coordination errors on the field began to increase, and even the formation began to become disconnected.

In the 38th minute, Inter Milan seized the opportunity and launched a very threatening counterattack from the wing.

Although no goal was scored this time, it still made Real Madrid fans break out in a cold sweat.

They can't play like this anymore. If they continue like this, the opponent will only get better and better. Once Inter Milan goes crazy, Real Madrid won't be able to stop them even if they want to.

At the end of the first half, Real Madrid finally faced up to reality and dared not attack as wildly as before.

They even tried to make space for Inter to push out their formation to facilitate their attack.

But Inter Milan was not fooled. We are the ones leading. Why should we be in such a hurry?

So they patiently passed the ball back and forth in the midfield and backcourt. If Real Madrid did not send anyone to press, they could have continued like this.

There was a lot of booing at the Bernabeu, and it was unclear whether Real Madrid fans were booing Inter Milan for deliberately passing the ball back to waste time, or booing their own team for playing without blood.

A large number of Real Madrid fans did not buy into Capello's approach.

Now, not only are we playing ugly, we can’t even win the game. We might as well continue playing in the original beautiful football way!

Not to mention ordinary fans, even Real Madrid president Calderon became dissatisfied with Capello after seeing the score.

In an instant, almost all the pressure fell on Capello.

The score remained at 1:2 until the end of the first half, and Capello returned to the locker room first with a grim face.

A storm is brewing in Real Madrid's locker room.

Fortunately, the locker room at the Bernabeu Stadium has good sound insulation, and the strong winds and rainstorms at Real Madrid did not affect Inter Milan's locker room.

Leading the score and scoring two valuable away goals, this result far exceeded everyone's expectations before the game.

Because the opponent was Real Madrid, almost everyone thought it would be a tough battle before the game.

Mancini was even prepared to lose at the Bernabeu!
But what no one expected was that the score in the first half would be like this!
With such a big advantage, there are more options in the second half!

Inter Milan can play more proactively and seek more goals. Anyway, they have a lot of room for error and can afford such risks!
Of course, if you don't want to take risks, you can play more conservatively.

Real Madrid's offensive threat was not very great in the first half. After Zidane retired and Beckham was sold, the strength of Real Madrid's midfield was weakened a lot.

Although Guti's passes were very accurate, he found it difficult to find an opportunity to display his unique skills under the guidance of three burly men from Inter Milan.

At the beginning of the second half, fans noticed that Real Madrid made the first substitution.

Higuain, who performed mediocrely in the first half, was replaced by Robinho.

Although Capello didn't like Robinho very much, he had to use him at this time, because Robinho at that time was indeed stronger than Higuain. If he replaced him, he might be able to hope that his breakthroughs on the wing would help the team find a way to attack.

Robinho's cycling skills are indeed good and very deceptive.

Facing his bicycle, Grosso really suffered a great loss at the beginning. He was deceived by the opponent's fake move, kicked rashly and was passed by.

Fortunately, his teammates helped him clean up the mess in time and no disaster happened.

Having learned his lesson, Grosso no longer kicks rashly.

If you want to ride a bicycle, just do it, and I will just watch you perform quietly.

Anyway, every time Robinho used bicycle kick, Real Madrid's advancement speed would suddenly slow down, and they would have to change from fast break to positional warfare.

It is difficult for Real Madrid to score a goal in this positional battle when their defensive formation is already in place and teammates are in position.

Even if Robinho rides a bicycle ten thousand times, this will not change!
When Robinho first came on as a substitute, Real Madrid fans would cheer and applaud for his beautiful bicycle kicks, but after a long time, the fans became numb.

You should dribble past the defense and cut inside to shoot!
If you really can't do it, just pass the ball!

Don't just keep pedaling your bike, or you'll end up with the ball at a dead end!

Knowing that Robinho is very sticky to the ball, Inter Milan's response strategy is to decisively send players over to double-team him when the opponent has the ball.

In a one-on-one situation, riding a bicycle is useful, but what about a one-on-two or even a one-on-three situation?
In this situation, as long as Robinho is not decisive in passing the ball and is entangled by Inter Milan's players, he will be forced to pass the ball back and the attack will be terminated.

In serious cases, the ball was intercepted and Inter Milan launched a counterattack.

After a while, Raul from Real Madrid was the first one who couldn't stand it anymore!

In the 64th minute of the second half, Raul was rarely irrational. He forced a breakthrough with the ball without any particularly good opportunities. Although he did not succeed in the end, he won a free kick in a good position in the frontcourt for Real Madrid.

Since Beckham and Zidane are not here, there is no doubt that Carlos will be the one to take the free kick for Real Madrid.

Seeing Carlos coming to the ball, Cesar couldn't help but feel a little scared.

Cesar knew very well how powerful his compatriot was in free kicks.

Since Carlos is very famous for his heavy artillery, the players forming the human wall on the Inter Milan side were all very nervous, carefully protecting their vital positions for fear of being hit by the ball.

However, I don’t know if Carlos learned something from Lin Feng, but he made the same free kick choice as Lin Feng did in the first half. When everyone thought he was going to shoot directly, he passed the ball to the back point.

Raul suddenly rushed out and headed the ball 1 meter in front of the goal, and the ball flew into the net close to the goal post.

Real Madrid scored a goal in the same way as Inter Milan did in the first half, equalizing the score again!

Now both sides are back to the same starting line, but after the goal, Real Madrid's morale boosted.

(End of this chapter)