Mallorca plays against Manchester United, Barcelona plays against Leverkusen, Real Madrid plays against Bayern, and Coruña plays against Liverpool.

This is the situation of the quarterfinals of this Champions League.[]

Four La Liga teams entered the quarterfinals again. Compared with the scene where their rival Serie A team were wiped out in the group stage, Spain was so happy that they had already begun to clamor for the situation that they would dominate the semi-finals. Although the opponents in these four games were not weak teams, La Liga was likely to win the semi-finals...

The two-legged match will be held between April 3 and April 10. This schedule is a bit dangerous for Mallorca, because between these two games, Mallorca will challenge La Coruña away, and next will be against Valencia at home. The next few opponents will not be easy to deal with. In the penultimate round of the league, they will still play away against Real Madrid away. Although Mallorca has a five-point advantage, its prospects are not optimistic.

As for the biggest opponents of Mallorca's league, Valencia and Real Madrid, Valencia's schedule is the best. They can concentrate on playing the league. In the last seven rounds, only La Coruna is a strong opponent. Real Madrid's schedule is also good. Mallorca and La Coruna are their biggest opponents in the last eight rounds. Although Mallorca leads with points, the schedule is the worst.

"No matter what, I will score six points in the next two league games, two home games!" Jose said viciously in the team's training that before challenging Manchester United away on April 3, Mallorca played against Real Sociedad and Espanyol for two consecutive home games. One of these two opponents is the relegation team and the other is the mid-range team. The most important thing is to get three points on them, so that Mallorca can choose to retain his strength in the league at the beginning of the Champions League.

However, at this time of the game, the relegation teams are the hardest to play. Now Real Sociedad's points are 36 points. Although they are out of the relegation zone, Tenerife, who is ranked last, has only four points. For them, if they can get one point away against Mallorca, it is a victory.

Real Sociedad actually does not lack good players. Forward DePaula and midfielder Alan Bru are both powerful players in La Liga. Attack midfielder De Pedro is an active Spanish international. Xavi Alonso, who gradually became the main player last season, has begun to become the absolute main player this season. However, in the past three seasons, they have been in the relegation circle. They have been almost successful in each season. They only completed the relegation career in the last few rounds. After the season, they can rank 13, 4 and 5. This is a very embarrassing situation for this team that has won the La Liga championship twice and is still the third place in La Liga in 97-98.

The same has been true since the beginning of this season. It was a seven-round victory, with two draws and five losses. Finally, I had a three-game winning streak in the middle, but then lost again. Fortunately, the board of directors blew up a lot in the winter and introduced the center Kovacevic, who could not play the main player at Juventus, and the young Turkish striker Nihart. Kovacevic returned to the famous Real Sociedad after returning to the famous Real Sociedad. So far, he has scored five goals, helping Real Sociedad grab a lot of points. It seems that Real Sociedad will not have too much problem with relegation this season.

However, even if they have good results now, they will not willingly lose to Mallorca on the away game. What do relegation teams want? What they want is to have a tenacious mentality of striving for at least one point no matter what team they face. Although having this mentality may not necessarily lead to success in relegation, if they do not have this mentality, relegation will definitely fail...

As one of the three major teams in the Basque region, Real Sociedad also has the fierce style of the Basque people.

This season, the other two teams in the Basque Country, Athletic Bilbao and Alaves, performed well, but they performed a little miserably when facing Mallorca. Alaves was hit four goals once when he hit Mallorca, and they almost made a psychological shadow. After Jose became Mallorca's head coach, Mallorca also maintained a high winning rate against Athletic Bilbao. This situation also made Real Sociedad a little when facing Mallorca away.

"This Real Sociedad team has many good players, why can't they play..."

Jose looked at Real Sociedad's roster. Kovacevic was originally the substitute center Jose wanted to introduce, but later gave up because of his non-EU identity. Nihart was also the substitute forward he wanted to introduce, and it was also because non-EU players failed to take action. As for Xavi Alonso, that is the young handsome boy who Jose has been talking about for a long time...

With only these people, De Pedro and other powerful people, if they change to lead him, Jose feels that he can hover in the European arena and strive for the Champions League every year.

"What a pity."

Until the beginning of the game, Jose still had this idea in his mind.

In this game, Jose sent all the main players. Now is not the time to keep his strength. It is the next home game against Espanyol. Jose is having a headache whether to let the main players rest to prepare for the match against Manchester United. After all, it is not easy to achieve good results at Old Trafford Stadium.

It is normal to use a more secure tactic in the away game when facing a strong opponent - this is how Real Sociedad is like this in this game, retracting the defense, Kovacevic is at the front, Nihart swam behind, Alonso plays an organizational role at the front of the penalty area, De Pedro connects to the middle and backcourt, and others focus on defense.

Facing intensive defense, Mallorca is now quite experienced. They basically don’t need the tactic of crossing from the bottom, because their two forwards are not very powerful. However, their back and forth involvement in dispatching and sudden straight passes in the middle are the killer weapons to break through intensive defense. At the same time, the personal breakthroughs of several players with excellent breakthrough skills can also create a great threat.

Alonso struggled hard on the court. Although his defensive ability was not particularly outstanding, he ran very actively. Alonso is now used by Real Sociedad as an engineer. Although his long passes and organization often show off his strengths, unfortunately, the head coach of Real Sociedad did not notice this.

"It's really a waste of resources. Let an orthodox fourth midfielder be an engineer. No wonder Real Sociedad's performance in the past two seasons is so poor." Jose said in his heart.

If such a player can be used well, it will definitely bring qualitative improvement and changes to the team. After Jose took over Mallorca for the second time, he immediately established Mota as the core of the midfield. At the same time, there are always people around him to help defense so that he can devote himself to the offense. With his instigation in the midfield, Mallorca's front-court offense can become more organized. Although Jose bought a lot of people, including future superstars like Ronaldo and Etoo, Mota's position in the midfield is still unshakable. He is the metronome of Mallorca's midfield and a barometer of Mallorca's performance in the entire team.

Jose knew that Alonso's talent in this area was even better than Mota, but now he was used as an engineer, and he didn't know if he would be useless.

However, Alonso was a midfield core figure with both offense and defense. Perhaps he got the right position in the next few years and then he had the wonderful performance now.

Although he was doing the work of the engineer, Alonso still showed his organizational talent. After a fierce attack, Mallorca broke through with an assist in the 21st minute and Etoo scored the first record for the team. However, just a few minutes later, Real Sociedad seized a counterattack opportunity to equalize the score.

This counterattack was initiated by Alonso. After interrupting Mota's straight pass in the middle, Alonso made a long pass at the first time. The ball accurately found Nihart, who was marching on the wing. The Turkish young player dribbled the ball and made a cross from the bottom. Kovacevic, who followed up, headed the ball and scored a goal to equalize the score.

Although Van Biten is very tall, he is worse than Kovacevic in terms of strength and his experience is also a little worse, so he was completely suppressed by Van Biten when he took off.

"Although I was not doing well in Serie A, Kovacevic's strength was still quite outstanding after arriving in La Liga." Jose touched his chin and thought: "It seems that he would have to come over a few powerful Serie A players in the future, at least they are quite useful in defense."

Although he was equalized, Jose was not in a hurry at all. Just now, it was just a highlight period for a few core Real Sociedad players. He could occasionally score goals in the highlight period, but he could not give them the advantage when facing a team like Mallorca.

Sure enough, after being equalized, Mallorca's offense began to become more fierce, and at the same time, the pressing in the frontcourt also began to become more fierce. In terms of backcourt defense, Van Biten firmly attached to Kovacevic, while Campano followed Nihart a little further back, staring at the two points of the opponent's counterattack. Mallorca's offense began to become more unscrupulous.

Before the end of the first half, Ronaldo's pass hit the opponent's defender and went out of the baseline, getting a corner kick. Van Biten, who had assisted, avenged him. He defeated Kovacevic, who returned to defense in the penalty area, and rushed to the top with a powerful header. Mallorca once again surpassed the score!

After the start of the second half, Mallorca's defense against several opponents was tighter. Nihart and Kovacevic had special people around him to guard him. Whenever Alonso got the ball in the backcourt, at least two people would go up to press, making it impossible for him to organize the attack smoothly. This targeted tactic quickly worked - Mallorca's third ball in the final victory was scored through the frontcourt press - Mota, who was in the forward, broke the ball under Alonso's foot and then stuffed it into the penalty area. Luke fell to the ground and shot was saved by the goalkeeper. Ronaldo, who followed up, immediately took the ball and scored the ball into the empty goal, three-to-one!

Looking at the celebration of Ronaldo and Mallorca players, Alonso felt depressed - the Basque boy was very depressed because of his mistake.

"Don't be discouraged, Xavi." Captain De Pedro came and patted Alonso on the shoulder: "Don't stick the ball after getting the ball in the backcourt, just get the ball quickly, so that the opponent will not have the chance to intercept the ball."

Alonso nodded silently, then looked up at Mota who was celebrating and cheering with his teammates - the other party was one year younger than him, but he had become one of the organizational midfielders in La Liga. Why didn't I have enough protection around me? Otherwise, I wouldn't do anything worse than him.

Alonso thought unwillingly.
Chapter completed!