Commanding Legends - Chapter 10
In Real Madrid’s 4-2-3-1 formation, the most easily determined position is the goalkeeper, and Casillas is the best choice.
San Casillas’s title will be in Real Madrid for at least a few more years, which shows his strength.
Judging from the data of this season, Casillas is undoubtedly one of the best players in Real Madrid at the moment.
Real Madrid’s goalkeeper has the world’s top reaction ability and incredible saving ability. Unfortunately, he is limited by his height, which makes him unstable in handling high balls, but this does not undermine Casillas’ status as a world-class goalkeeper.
San Casillas’s status will continue until he is older and his physical function declines, causing his reaction ability to decline as well, and then he begins to expose more weaknesses and shortcomings.
But this is already a matter of ten or eight years later.
In terms of right back, Real Madrid has a total of five players, namely Salgado, Cicinho, Diogo, Ramos, and the young player Arbeloa who was promoted from the second team.
Needless to say, Ramos was positioned as a central defender by Gao Shen. Among the remaining four, Salgado was a little old, Cicinho was slightly stronger than Salgado, and was in his prime, but unfortunately he was a member of the Brazilian gang. Diogo was the worst, and his future achievements would be relatively the lowest.
Gao Shen decided to reuse Arbeloa in this position.
Although Arbeloa is not well-known now, he has always been in the second team, and he is still not favored by the first team at the age of 23, but his strength is not weak. He is not only the captain of Real Madrid’s second team, but also the captain of the Spanish national youth team.
If Gao Shen remembers correctly, Arbeloa transferred from Real Madrid to Deportivo La Coruna in the summer of 2006. After only playing for half a season, he was bought by Liverpool for three times the price to the Premier League, and then Messi was frozen, becoming famous in one battle.
It can be seen that Arbeloa’s current strength is definitely not bad, he just lacks the opportunity to show it.
Sometimes, giants and large companies are like this.
They are not short of talents, but they lack the soil to reuse talents.
The same situation also happens on the left side.
Carlos is almost 33 years old, and his condition has declined significantly. His left side has always been the hardest hit area for Real Madrid’s defense. The same is true for the left-back substitute Raul Bravo. The performance of the left side where the two are located is very unstable.
Under Carlo, Raul Bravo is often arranged to play as a central defender, which shows how embarrassing it is that Real Madrid’s defense line is already stretched to the limit.
But in this case, Felipe Luis is still placed in the second team.
This season, the Brazilian left-back has performed very well in the second team. Not only is he fully present, but he is also good at both offense and defense.
Gao Shen remembers that after he left Real Madrid in 2006, he was loaned to Deportivo La Coruna for two years. At first, the head coach Caparros did not trust him and only let him serve as a substitute. However, as the team’s performance plummeted, Caparros was dismissed, and his successor Lotina entrusted Felipe Luis with an important task at the end of the season, and he also showed enough outstanding strength.
By the 2007 and 2008 seasons, Felipe Luis had firmly controlled the main position on the left side of Deportivo La Coruna.
Like Arbeloa, this Brazilian left-back is not without strength, but lacks opportunities to show it.
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As for the central defender, Ramos will definitely occupy one of the positions.
He was born as a right-back, and now he occasionally plays on the left and central defender, but Gao Shen knows that Ramos’ future is in the middle. Although his future is controversial, no one can deny that Ramos is one of the world’s top central defenders, especially his personal defensive ability.
The key lies in the other central defender.
Woodgate is very strong, with a height of 1.88 meters and excellent strength confrontation. These are Woodgate’s advantages. From a technical point of view, he has almost no obvious weaknesses.
But he is prone to injury.
Today, Woodgate has no injuries and is in good shape, but there are great hidden dangers. No one knows when he will be injured again.
This is fatal, because the most important thing for the defense is stability.
In Gao Shen’s memory, Woodgate left Real Madrid in the summer of 2006. From 2006 to 2007, he played a very amazing performance in Middlesbrough in the Premier League, proving his strength again, but soon fell into injury again.
It can be said that as long as he is not injured, Woodgate is a world-class central defender, but he has too many injuries.
Elguera is also a veteran of Real Madrid. He was born as a defensive midfielder. In 2000, he was transformed into a central defender by Bosque. He served as the central defender in the five defenders and helped Real Madrid win the Champions League in 2000 with a solid defense.
After that, Elguera has been hovering between central defender and defensive midfielder, and his performance has been ups and downs.
Pavon, Ruben and Mejia are all Real Madrid youth training. Among them, Pavon is the most familiar. Zidane’s policy of adding Pavon pushed him to the forefront, but it also shows Pavon’s potential.
But times have changed. Now, whether it is Pavon, Ruben, or Mejia, they are all lacking in some heat and have not met the expectations of the year.
Now it seems that Woodgate and Elguera are really worth using.
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Real Madrid has many midfielders, and many of them are capable of playing the defensive midfielder position, but the first one Gao Shen determined was Gravesen.
The Danish midfielder has good ability. He played very well in Everton that year. He not only had good performance in defense, but also in organization and offense. He came to Real Madrid because of this performance.
One of the important reasons why Gao Shen took a fancy to Gravesen was that he had a deep conflict with the Brazilian gang, especially Robinho.
This is actually very normal.
When playing for Real Madrid, no defensive player in the backcourt would have a good impression of the superstar in the frontcourt, except Raul.
Robinho is a typical Brazilian genius. He is very self-centered. He basically does not participate in defense and is very sticky to the ball. Imagine if he took the ball to the frontcourt and lost the ball, and he did not actively participate in the counter-attack, resulting in the opponent’s counterattack directly hitting the Real Madrid midfielder. Who can accept it?
The conflict between the two sides has a long history. Gao Shen still clearly remembers that in August 2006, during the Real Madrid pre-season training camp, Gravesen and Robinho had a big fight, which led to Gravesen being sold. Gao Shen
kept his distance from geniuses like Robinho.
Facts have proved that geniuses who fight alone are about to be eliminated, and the future trend of football is teamwork.
Geniuses like Messi also need a team to shine.
This is why Gao Shen decided to suppress the Brazilian gang.
The enemy of my enemy is my teammate, and Gravesen is a player worth winning over.
Pablo Garcia has excellent defensive ability, but he needs to be observed. Beckham can also play as a defensive midfielder. Although he is very close to the Brazilian gang, Gao Shen feels that he may not support the Brazilian gang in this matter.
Beckham has a very clear pursuit, and Gao Shen is confident that he can convince him.
Another one is De La Red.
This young player is very comprehensive, with a height of 1.85 meters, good physical confrontation, diligent style, strong footwork and passing ability, excellent overall view, and a sudden long-range shot from behind. Later, he was praised by Bosque as the best midfielder in Spain. Of course,
this praise is a bit too much, at least compared with Xavi and others, he is still inferior, but it is enough to prove De La Red’s strength and potential.
The only obstacle is his heart.
De La Red retired early because of heart problems. Gao Shen has asked Lucas to arrange and ask the team doctor to conduct a very detailed physical examination of De La Red, especially the heart. I believe that the report will be obtained soon. For
the position of attacking midfielder, Gao Shen’s most ideal candidate is definitely Zidane.
This summer, Zidane, who is still strong, can lead the French team to the World Cup final. There is no doubt about his strength. More importantly, the French superstar knows the overall situation and knows how to advance and retreat, which is very rare.
With so many Real Madrid superstars, why did Florentino only bring Zidane when he returned to the palace for the second time? Later, he was cultivated and made the head coach of Real Madrid. Was it just because of Zidane’s football achievements?
Zidane has already said that he will retire after the World Cup this summer, and Gao Shen believes that he certainly does not want to end his career in this way.
As long as there is a desire, there will be a chance.
Ronaldo is not considered for the center position for the time being. Raul, Negredo and Soldado are all the next candidates to be considered by Gao Shen. There is also Cassano as a winger, who is also a nerve knife. The effect is very surprising if used well.
Some other players, such as Adrian Martin, Jurado, Baboa, Barral and other young players, although they have performed well in the second team, Gao Shen has not heard of any achievements of these players in his memory, so he did not include them in the plan.
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When he woke up, Gao Shen found that he had slept directly on the sofa all night.
He was in the tactical library all night. When he woke up in the morning, not only did he remember what happened in the library, but he was also full of energy, as if he had slept all night last night.
This is definitely a good baby!
Apart from anything else, Gao Shen can continue to study when others are sleeping.
Mom no longer has to worry about me being unable to sleep because of studying.
After hastily tidying up the house, Gao Shen went out to buy breakfast and bought two newspapers on the street.
They were still AS and Marca.
Like yesterday’s newspapers, today’s AS and Marca are still focusing on Real Madrid’s change of coach, and the focus is Gao Shen’s remarks declaring war on superstars at yesterday’s press conference.
What surprised Gao Shen was that the reactions of the two major media were very torn.
Whether Real Madrid should clean up superstars has always been a divisive issue, and Gao Shen now openly proposed it. This is the first time in the past few years that reporters from the two major newspapers have written articles to support it, but some reporters also believe that even if superstars are to be cleaned up, a rookie who has just stepped out of school should not be the one to do it.
But most media reporters still believe that Real Madrid’s problem is not superstars, but how to use superstars well.
In fact, every point of view has its merits.
Just like if they are all superstars, can they be killed with one stick?
Will Real Madrid be better if all the superstars are sent away and another wave of players are supported?
Not necessarily!
After Capello took office, he sent away so many superstars and introduced many talented players. In the end, Beckham was still the only one who kept the team alive in the second half of the season?
Without Beckham, could Capello and his Real Madrid win the championship that year?
You know, this was when Beckham was banned by Capello and decided to go to the United States six months in advance. He still maintained his professionalism and helped Real Madrid finally reverse Barcelona and win the championship.
How many fans have completely changed their views on Beckham because of this season?
And Zidane, judging from his playing and the various things in the next few years, he is a very smart person who knows the limits, knows when to advance and retreat, and can take the overall situation into consideration.
Gao Shen feels that among the foreign superstars, Zidane and Beckham are worth fighting for.
Even if he can’t let them support him wholeheartedly, he must let them do their best on the court and implement the team’s tactics, and he knows how to convince these two superstars.
They both have very strong desires and pursuits!