Chapter 171 Bosque in a Dilemma (43/136)
Returning to Spain from the draw ceremony, there will be two important games immediately.
Spanish Super Cup.
The Spanish Super Cup is different from the Super Cups in other countries. It adopts a home and away system and has to play two games.
This is the third and fourth meeting between Valencia and Madrid within a year.
To be honest, although the encounter between these two teams is very interesting, but the encounter is so frequent, everyone is really a little fatigued.
But for Chang Sheng, this is not a problem, and for Valencia, it is not a problem either.
Beating Real Madrid three times in one season, Valencia is now undergoing a period of regime change. They are full of fighting spirit for the old giants that symbolize conservative forces.
Chang Sheng is the same, he will never lack passion.
He will not let go of every opportunity to beat Real Madrid.
On the Real Madrid side, they won the ninth Champions League in history, which is the time of high spirits. They were displeased at the thought that they had conquered Europe, but had not been able to conquer Spain at home. Even if they won the Champions League, they lost the league title and the Copa del Rey, especially the Copa del Rey, which Valencia snatched right under their noses.
No matter what, I couldn't swallow this breath.
This time, with the power of the ninth Champions League, they will avenge their revenge in the Super Cup!
The first round between the two sides was held at the Bernabeu, the home court of Real Madrid.
Before the game, the media in Madrid began to build momentum for the game.
The banner played is naturally "revenge".
There are also media that use the words Chang Sheng once said to subdivide Chang Sheng.
"I remember often saying that he was going to win more Champions Leagues than Real Madrid... but now it seems like a joke, maybe Chang himself said it and forgot. Real Madrid has nine Champions Leagues. I don’t know how many Mr. Chang has? Not a single one, ha!”
"Real Madrid wants to use the Super Cup to prove to the Spanish fans who is the ruler of this country's football. Valencia only occasionally won the league championship in one season. The strength and influence of the round are far inferior to Real Madrid... ..."
"This is a good time for vengeance,
Real Madrid's morale has been boosted with the momentum of winning the Champions League. Moreover, Real Madrid has also introduced many good players this season. Mendieta said nothing. Some time ago, Real Madrid completed another transfer that shocked the world of football. They introduced the World Cup Golden Boot Ronaldo from Inter Milan at a price of 44.5 million euros! Today's Real Madrid, in terms of lineup, can be described as the best in the world! They have gathered the best players in the world! Raul, Zidane, Figo, Ronaldo, Mendieta. And Roberto Carlos. Six superstars. Real Madrid is already a six-star ship! "
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The Madrid media are desperate to prove that today's Real Madrid can beat any opponent on the pitch, including Valencia.
Real Madrid thinks so too.
Florentino is in high spirits. He has been in a good mood since he won his ninth Champions League trophy.
Last season almost became the darkest season after he took charge of the club. On the occasion of the centennial celebration, it would be too shameful to have empty hands and no champions.
Compared with the league championship and the Copa del Rey, the Champions League is obviously more important. More gold content.
After winning this championship, Florentino can give an explanation to his supporters and members of the Real Madrid Club.
But he still has a heart knot, perhaps the heart knot of all Real Madrid fans.
That is Valencia.
This summer Florentino abandoned his policy of one superstar a year, all because of Valencia, he wants to quickly increase his strength and replenish his strength.
So after he bought Mendieta, he dug Ronaldo from Inter Milan.
The joining of the two big stars has brought Real Madrid's strength to a higher level. Florentino believes that today's La Liga. There is no other team that can rival Real Madrid.
Now, he can finally teach that arrogant Chang Sheng a lesson!
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The president of Real Madrid is confident about Valencia's Spanish Super Cup first leg.
Real Madrid coach Del Bosque began to have a headache.
Because he doesn't know how to arrange these stars...
Originally, Raul and Morientes cooperated well, and the two also had a tacit understanding.
But now comes a World Cup golden boot, "Alien" Ronaldo. The player Mr. Florentino Chairman likes very much. Naturally, it is impossible to sit on the bench. Let him play.
Raul can not be sacrificed, he is the banner of Real Madrid.
In this way, only Morientes can be sacrificed.
But the problem is that Morientes is a very good center forward, and he can make many changes to the team's offense on the court.
If on Ronaldo. Coupled with Raul, the team's threat in the air is much smaller. When encountering the opponent's intensive defense and need to attack, it will be more troublesome.
But he has to take Morientes, because only Morientes can be sacrificed.
In fact, the impact of winning Morientes on the team is not only on the tactical level, but also on the relationship between the locker room. Because the relationship between Raul and Morientes is particularly good. Because an outsider has to sacrifice his good friend, it is obviously impossible to say that Raul has no opinion of Ronaldo in his heart.
At that time, there will be a gap between the two stars, but it will be a headache...
In addition, the problems on the forward line are relatively simple.
The biggest headache for Del Bosque is the midfield.
He now deeply feels that Chang Sheng agreed to let Mendieta come to Real Madrid in the first place, just to cheat Real Madrid!
The midfielder was originally 442, the double midfielders were Makelele and Herguera, the left midfielder was Zidane, but in fact Zidane was a free man, and the right midfielder was Figo. This configuration is just right.
Let's see, how can there be room for a Mendieta?
But in the same way as Ronaldo, how could a player who spent 30 million euros let him sit on the bench.
Tuck Mendieta in anyway.
But how to plug...
Bosque is now one big and two big.
Bosque frowned every time he saw club president Florentino confidently expressing in front of the media that Real Madrid's future is bright.
This bad locker room relationship alone is enough for him to cope, and he has no energy to think about a brilliant future.
He is now suddenly envious of Valencia's head coach, Chang Sheng, because of the transfer. Chang Sheng has more power than the club manager and chairman. He will buy whoever he says he will buy, and he will not buy whoever he says he will not buy.
So the players on his team are all he needs. He also knows how many players are in what position.
The whole team fits his bill. No one is redundant.
Your own tactical ideas can also be implemented. He will not force himself to adjust his tactics just because he wants to satisfy the desire of the stars to start on the field.
This is the ideal team for a coach.
When Chang Sheng was about to transfer power, he was criticized and ridiculed by the Spanish media, saying that he was overreaching. Don't look at the culture of Spanish football, if you open your mouth to learn from England, you will definitely fail.
But in the end, not only did they not fail, but they labeled this behavior on their own, whether it was in Getafe. Still in Valencia, wherever you go, people demand to control the transfer rights in their own hands, otherwise they will not sign the contract.
He may lose a lot of job opportunities by doing so, but once he gets a chance, he can build a team that is completely his own according to his own wishes.
As a head coach, who wouldn't want to be able to do that?
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Chang Sheng didn't know what kind of painful struggle Bosque had gone through before the game. This was not his concern, he never worried about his opponent.
But before the game, he got the opponent's starting list. When he found that Mendieta was not on it, an imperceptible smile appeared on his face.
He knew that he had successfully driven a nail inside Real Madrid.
If Mendieta retires in the future and he is still at the Valencia club, he must suggest that the club give Mendieta a medal of honor. To thank Mendieta for his contribution to Valencia's great rise during his undercover spell at Real Madrid.
Mendieta and Real Madrid definitely haven't seen "Infernal Affairs"...
He put down the starting line-up, then smiled at his players: "Real Madrid said before the game that they were the kings of Europe, so they could get their revenge. I think we have to correct their wrong thinking. Tell them. Spain, who has the final say!"
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when the players come out. Florentino on the rostrum looked at it, and the smile on his face that was originally smiling also froze.
Because he didn't see Mendieta among the players on the field.
Mendieta is a player he takes very seriously.
Not that he liked Mendieta so much.
Of course he really likes Mendieta, otherwise he wouldn't have pursued him for two consecutive years. Before last season, Real Madrid wanted Mendieta very much, if it wasn't for Valencia not wanting to sell the player to a competitor...
In addition, there is another very important reason why he attaches so much importance to Mendieta. That's the one big guy that hit Valencia.
He wants Mendieta to play the main force after being poached, and then use Mendieta's performance on the court to help Real Madrid beat Valencia.
At that time, for Valencia, this will be the heaviest blow. The players who were abandoned by them thrived in Real Madrid.
It is equivalent to saying that Mendieta is a model project created by Florentino, a face project.
How can it be allowed to be hidden on the bench by snow?
As early as last season, Bosque contradicted Florentino because of Pavon.
Now Florentino is even more upset with this rustic-looking old man.
Do you dare to put the people I bought on the bench?
In Florentino's heart, this meritorious coach who just brought back a European Champions Cup to the team is already a person who can leave at any time.
And he won't know that after he let go of this meritorious coach, until he left sadly, Real Madrid never won even a championship...