Chapter 245 Strive to win
When the 13th round of the league ended, everyone was surprised by some things that happened in this game. ": "Piaotian Sixue Network"
In the end, Mallorca defeated Real Madrid four-to-two at home. Compared with the two sides scoring a total of five goals in the first half, only one goal was scored in the second half. However, that was because Mallorca began to focus on defense in the second half, and several substitute midfielders were replaced by Jose in turn. Garcia, Marcos, and substitute defender Campo were replaced by Jose one after another. Although Real Madrid replaced Guti, Gremy and Portillo, they still had no way to get Mallorca's defense line. They only scored a single goal after receiving a pass from Raul in the 85th minute. In this game, Mallorca defeated Real Madrid four-two, leading the number one giant in La Liga.
As for the advantage of leading second place Real Sociedad, Mallorca also reached five points and six points ahead of third place Valencia. The league has only twelve rounds and has such an advantage, which is really surprising to Mallorca's outstanding form this season.
After three consecutive draws, they have now won four consecutive victories. Among these four consecutive victories, they also defeated giants like Barcelona and Real Madrid at home. With such performance, Mallorca has gradually begun to have some kingly momentum and has begun to truly deserve the word "Real" prefix of their team name!
After playing this league, just as Mallorca fans were celebrating this great victory, Mallorca's team took a short rest and flew to Germany, flew to Leverkusen, preparing for the first game of the second stage of the Champions League group stage.
The group group situation this time is far from the group situation in the first stage of the group stage. It is divided into a group with Inter Milan Leverkusen and Newcastle, and Mallorca is under great pressure. Although there is no real champion of last season in this group. Mallorca is the runner-up in La Liga, Inter Milan is the runner-up in Serie A, Leverkusen is the Sanya king last season, and Newcastle is the third place in the Premier League - this does not prove that this group is very weak. In fact, both Mallorca and Inter Milan lost the league championship at the last moment, while Leverkusen finally collapsed in the third-line battle. Although their performance in last season still had various flaws, they already had the strength to win the championship.
Although Leverkusen seemed to be in a slump in the Bundesliga this season because he lost Barack as the core, Newcastle did not strengthen much strength, and Inter Milan also lost Ronaldo as a top striker, but the competitiveness of this group is still quite huge.
Relatively speaking, Leverkusen, who has lost his midfield core, has to deal with it better in this group. In the Bundesliga, they are about to fall to the level of relegation, so even in the away game, Jose has to win a victory.
The only thing that is beneficial to Mallorca is that the schedule is quite good for them. They first face Newcastle and Leverkusen, two relatively weak opponents, and the highlight of the continuous match against Inter Milan will only start next year. If Mallorca can defeat Newcastle and Leverkusen in a row, there will naturally be more room for maneuver in the two games facing Inter Milan.
If it was a tragedy for Mallorca to lose the league championship in the last few rounds, then Leverkusen was a bigger tragedy - the two consecutive losses in the last three rounds made their five-point advantage vanish, and both the German Cup and the Champions League lost in the finals. The unprecedented Sanya King made the team never recover in the next time - but what they may not know now is that ten years later, another Bundesliga team has become such a tragic team, that is, the Bundesliga overlord Bayern Munich, who lost to Dortmund in the domestic league cup and became the runner-up. In the final of the Champions League, he missed countless opportunities, and finally lost to Chelsea, which also attacked with a remnant team, becoming the second Sanya king since the founding of the European Champions League. The tragedy is endless.
Of course that was already ten years later, and now Leverkusen is the biggest tragedy in Europe.
After losing three championships in a row, Leverkusen lost their midfield core Barack Barack. Although he introduced powerful players such as Brazilian striker Franza, local players Bierovka, and Brazilian central defender Juan, he was far from making up for the losses caused by Barack Barack's departure. After Emerson, this was already the second midfield core they lost.
Their ranking in the Bundesliga can now explain the problem - ranking 11th in the Bundesliga is simply an incredible thing for a team that is only a slight difference from the championship last season. You should know that although Barack left, Schneider Novier Lucio Butramilao and other important players are still there, and their main lineup is also very top-level - goalkeeper Butt, defender Kifkovic, Lucio, Juan, Placente, midfielder Ramilao dragged behind, Basturk broke out, and both wings are Schneider and Bierovka, and the forwards are Berbatov and Burdaric. Both of them are powerful players, but they have no soul on the court.
Mallorca also suffered a lot of losses in this game. Nadal felt tired after the last game. In order not to overdraw the old captain too much, Jose put him on the bench in this game. Campo and Van Biden were partnered with the central defender, Campano rotated Beletti, Alonso and Albertini were partnered with the midfielder, and at the same time the forward line was replaced by Torres and Etoo. Jose wanted to use Lucio to press the gap after the assist, and this Brazilian central defender had many problems, although he was definitely a top central defender.
Two Brazilians partnered with the central defender... Although the Brazilian national team used three defenders to build an excellent system in the World Cup just over the past few months, everyone knows that the Brazilian national team's defensive success depends largely on the wonderful performance of the two midfielders. Although the three defenders performed well, they made many mistakes. They conceded four goals in seven games, among which the game against England was a very obvious mistake by Lucio - this defender could not always maintain good attention and was a bomb on the defense line.
What's more, he likes to dribble the ball forward - this approach will allow the team to often get some offensive opportunities, but it is easy to leave flaws in the backcourt. At the same time, although he is fast and back to defense in time, there are always times when he cannot return to defense. Of course, Jose needs to take advantage of this.
At the same time, Jose will not pin his hopes for goals on Lucio's mistakes - he can never score goals by luck alone. Leverkusen's biggest problem now is that there is no core. Although Bastulk in the midfield is talented, he is not a player with a big heart and cannot organize the operation of the entire team. Ramilao is just a core. Although Schneider is a veteran of Leverkusen, he does not have enough influence when he is on the wing. Bierovka has just transferred. After the midfield core Barack left, it is quite difficult for them to re-establish a well-functioning offensive system.
Why can Mallorca quickly show his combat power and perform better than last season with so many people this season? It is because Ronaldo, the offensive core of the frontcourt, did not leave, and Mota, the core of the backcourt, left, but because Jose introduced a more famous Albertini, this influence was minimized. This was only after one or two games at the beginning of the season that he quickly returned to the state of last season after being unacceptable to one or two games at the beginning of the season. Before Albertini integrated into the team, the outstanding performance of several forwards did not affect Mallorca's performance due to the running-in of the midfield, which formed a good trend that Mallorca has become better and better since the beginning of this season.
But Leverkusen did not have such luck.
Although Mallorca, based in the midfield, still firmly gained the advantage on the field. Both Ronaldo and Kaka have huge lethality after getting the ball in the midfield. Although Ramilao is also an excellent defensive midfielder, even if one of them is guarding one, it feels very difficult. Not to mention that the two of them take turns to attack, both Ronaldo's skills and Kaka's impact make this tough midfielder anxious.
Mallorca did not use any special offensive methods throughout the game, but their steady attack was constantly creating opportunities. Two agile forwards ran back and forth to find opportunities, making Lucio and Juan, who were used to confrontation, feel quite uncomfortable.
In the first few minutes, Mallorca took the lead. Capdvilla, who had assisted, received the ball from the left and then made a cross. Torres at the front point made a clever leak, and Etoo, who was inserted in the back, rushed to Juan to kick the ball and kick the first record.
Although Leverkusen relied on Berbatov to equalize the score after receiving a corner kick before the end of the first half, Mallorca continued to have the advantage on the field in the second half. A fatal mistake in Placente's midfield allowed Mallorca to launch a quick counterattack. Kakaeto Ottorres and the other three faced a helpless Lucio. After continuous passes, Torres made a single shot and pushed the goalkeeper Butte to score, and took the lead again.
Rufit, who came on the bench, scored the third goal after receiving the pass from Ronaldo. Mallorca even had the chance to score the fourth goal. Unfortunately, Ronaldo's penalty kick was saved by Butte. In the end, Mallorca defeated Leverkusen 3-1 away and won the first victory of the Champions League group stage.
With four consecutive league wins, three consecutive Champions League wins, and one victory in the Copa del Rey, Mallorca has achieved eight consecutive victories. However, for Mallorca, their victory will not end there, but will continue.
"Sevilla, Real Sociedad, Vilva, Newcastle - we have four games left before the winter break. All we have to do is win the remaining four games and welcome a happy winter break with a complete win!"
In the locker room after the game, Jose waved his arms and said boldly.
That's right, all he has to do is win all the next games and lay a great foundation in the league and the Champions League!
In the league, Mallorca's advantage is five points. If he can win the next three league games in a row with the best condition now, he may be able to expand his lead to a relatively high level, so that before the intensive season of the second half of the season begins, Mallorca will also appear more at ease.
Chapter completed!