Starting from playing as a defensive midfielder for Real Madrid - Chapter 422

c413 Teach the young M a lesson

James’s change is gratifying. Ancelotti saw it and felt sincerely happy for James from the bottom of his heart.

After all, he was the core midfielder he had promoted before. He has always admired James’ technical characteristics. If he really had to be ruthless and abandon him, he would definitely feel bad.

Fortunately, the development of things did not go to the worst situation. James is willing to change his playing style and accept his new position in the team, so he still has a future in Real Madrid.

Ancelotti can also put forward the priority of James’ appearance accordingly.

There may be a little selfishness in this, but it is undeniable that a James who is willing to invest heavily in the defensive end must play a greater role than Kovacic and Marcos Llorente at this stage.

Thinking of this, Ancelotti couldn’t help but remember the second team that Mourinho created in Real Madrid.

In those years, Real Madrid’s first team was able to kill through Europe for two consecutive seasons, and to a large extent, they had to thank their second team for being able to steadily grab points in the La Liga and help the main players of the first team reduce the burden of the game.

It is no exaggeration to say that the lineup of Real Madrid’s second team at that time was able to compete for the top six in La Liga.

So can Real Madrid build a second team with outstanding strength now?

Ancelotti thinks it can!

The strength of the substitutes in Real Madrid’s front line is definitely not comparable to that of the past, after all, Morata and Callejon, two powerful stars, are gone.

Mariano, who came on the top, can only be said to be just enough, and Jesse also lacked the past spirit after his serious injury.

Fortunately, the strength of the substitutes in Real Madrid’s midfield has not declined much compared to before.

Imagine that James, Llorente and Kovacic will form the midfield trio of Real Madrid’s second team in the future. The defensive ability is indeed slightly worse, but the control is not weak at all.

Add Ashraf, Nacho, Varane and Danilo on the back line, such a substitute lineup can be used to play in La Liga against the lower-middle teams.

Not to mention the miracle of Mourinho’s Real Madrid playing against strong league opponents with the second team, by holding down those mid- and lower-level opponents, the main players of Real Madrid’s first team can devote more energy to the Champions League…

Without the attention of the live camera, Ancelotti suddenly lowered his head and smiled, obviously in a very good mood.

Zidane saw Ancelotti’s abnormal performance, but he only thought that Ancelotti was happy because of the team’s lead, and didn’t know that the head of their coaching staff had planned to go back to experiment with the formation of the second team after the game.

The young players of Real Madrid on the bench didn’t know that their opportunity had quietly arrived.

The first half of the game came to an end quickly.

James’s first goal helped Real Madrid open the door to victory. Isco scored a long shot from outside the penalty area in the stoppage time of the first half, successfully helping Real Madrid expand its lead to two goals!

In the 62nd minute of the second half, after Li Ang made a header and scored the third goal of Real Madrid in this game, Ancelotti made a substitution adjustment directly.

Li Ang, Ronaldo and Modric all went off the field to rest, while Kovacic, Llorente and Mariano got a chance to play.

Three days later, Real Madrid will travel to the away game to challenge Monaco in the second round of the Champions League group stage.

Since the decision to increase the frequency of rotation this season has been made, Ancelotti simply rotates in today’s league.

It can be regarded as giving the three core players in the frontcourt more rest time.

In the end, the score of the sixth round of La Liga was fixed at 3-0.

Real Madrid also achieved six consecutive league kills in the new season, and was far ahead in the standings, leaving behind its competitors Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.

In addition to the victory in the first round of the Champions League group stage, Real Madrid has now won seven consecutive games at the start of the new season, and its hot state has attracted the attention of media all over Europe.

In this case, no one thinks that Real Madrid will encounter any trouble in the Champions League group stage.

After all, Real Madrid had easily suppressed PSV Eindhoven in the first round of the group stage, so there was no reason why they couldn’t handle Monaco, which seemed to be at the same level as PSV Eindhoven, in the second round.

Public opinion was almost one-sidedly optimistic that Real Madrid would easily win two consecutive victories in the Champions League group stage.

It was also under this kind of European praise that the confident Real Madrid ushered in the Champions League group stage match with Monaco.

This was not the first time that Li Ang came to the Louis II Stadium.

He and his teammates defeated Atletico Madrid here and won the UEFA Super Cup. For him, this stadium also carries beautiful game memories.

However, it was his first experience to fight against Monaco here.

When it comes to his impression of this old Ligue 1 team, Li Ang’s first reaction was that they almost created a miracle in team history and won the Champions League in 2004.

It was a pity that they met Porto led by Mourinho in the Champions League final that year and eventually lost.

Li Ang also knew that Monaco was a team in the Ligue 1 that often played in European wars and had relatively rich experience in European wars.

Apart from that, he doesn’t know much about the history of Monaco.

But compared to other Real Madrid stars, he is very “familiar” with many young players in the current Monaco first team.

Except for Falcao, the tiger he played against, and Mbappe, the “Director M” who is destined to be famous in the football world in the future, looking around, Li Ang can only say that everyone in Monaco is familiar!

Lemar, Bernardo Silva, Fabinho, Bakayoko, Moutinho, Glik, Subasic…

This is simply a huge treasure trove. In terms of development potential, the current Monaco is even more terrifying than Paris Saint-Germain!

In Li Ang’s impression, Monaco at least made it to the quarterfinals of the Champions League this season, and the potential players that emerged in the team were almost plundered by major giants.

Mbappe was favored by the management of Paris Saint-Germain because of his excellent performance this season.

After successfully “inspecting the goods” in the form of leasing to Paris Saint-Germain in the 17-18 season, Mbappe transferred to Paris Saint-Germain for nearly 200 million euros.

You know, this huge lease buyout fee was almost negotiated in the summer of 2017.

Mbappe’s talent is so terrifying that he can make Paris Saint-Germain willing to pay such a huge sum of money for him at the age of 18, which is simply outrageous!

But now, Monaco is still stumbling in the Champions League group stage, and Mbappe has not become famous in one battle.

Li Ang will pay attention to such a dark horse team and the young Mbappe with explosive strength, but he will not be too nervous facing them.

Li Ang has no intention of suppressing young people, but just like ruthlessly suppressing Pogba in this year’s Champions League final, Li Ang still has a unique habit of “educating” young stars~

M is the leader of the young generation in the future football world. Today, Li Ang met him. It would be unreasonable not to train him well.

So before the game officially started, Mbappe fully felt Li Ang’s enthusiastic attention to him.

It was a kind of undisguised gaze. Mbappe looked over and saw Li Ang’s warm smile.

And as a beautiful Lingge in private, Mbappe certainly knew what Li Ang’s excessive attention to the opponent’s players before the game meant.

In the past, as a TV audience, Mbappe would make a scene with his friends, laughing and complaining about which unlucky guys were targeted by Brother Lion.

But today, when he himself became the unlucky guy, a strange expression soon appeared on his face.

There was some satisfaction. Although he didn’t know why he was targeted by Li Ang alone, it already showed that Li Ang valued him and recognized his strength.

In addition, he was more helpless and depressed.

Can the players targeted by Li Ang still perform well on the court?

Mbappe is certainly confident in his own strength, but he will not be arrogant to think that he can now be on par with the peak Messi and Ronaldo.

And Li Ang has fought against the peak Messi and Ronaldo, and he has gone against the current and forcibly won the Golden Ball Award!

When he thought that he would face such a strong opponent, Mbappe was both excited and a little scared.

But no matter how complicated his emotions were, whether he chose to give in or muster up the courage to face the challenge, the game finally arrived on time!

The capacity of the Louis II Stadium is not large, and even if it is full, it cannot accommodate 20,000 fans.

But at the moment when the game officially started, more than 10,000 loyal Monaco fans at the scene still cheered enthusiastically as much as possible to cheer for their beloved team!

In that distant and glorious 03-04 season, Monaco just eliminated Real Madrid and entered the top four of the Champions League that season.

More than ten years have passed, Real Madrid is still strong, and Monaco has once again created a young army with great potential.

It seems that the same script was distributed to the two teams.

Monaco fans are also looking forward to the team they support to bravely defeat Real Madrid head-on like many years ago!

Maybe this is an unattainable dream, but in the football field, who dares to say that the weaker team is not worthy of dreaming? !

There are so many examples of the weak defeating the strong. Monaco even turned the tables and forcibly reversed Real Madrid to create a football miracle!

Everything is possible.

Monaco fans are eager and expecting, and Monaco players on the field are also eager to step on the corpses of Real Madrid and become famous!

Young people don’t know how to restrain their emotions. After this hot battle was leaked, the Real Madrid players, as their opponents, quickly understood their intentions.

The smell of gunpowder soon enveloped the heads of the players on both sides.

Real Madrid’s stars are not so small-minded and will not be angry because of the challenge of young opponents.

But they are somewhat unhappy, and this unhappiness makes them enter the game state in advance, and want to teach the young guys on the opposite side a lesson!

However, the actual game situation did not quickly favor Real Madrid. Instead, Monaco first gave Real Madrid a blow on the offensive end!

And the side that launched the offensive happened to be the wing where Mbappe was.

This can be regarded as a deliberate indulgence choice by Li Ang at the beginning of the game.

He needs to let his teammates deeply understand Mbappe’s technical characteristics and breakthrough threats.

With this basic understanding, he will be more effective in cooperating with his teammates to double-team Mbappe.

So Carvajal, who started today, suffered the most.

Although the degree of bad luck is not as bad as Maicon who met Bale in Inter Milan, Carvajal also served as a background board for Mbappe.

Mbappe, who is only a few months away from turning 18, is really fast!

With great momentum and fearlessness, he used his speed advantage to forcibly break through the right side of Real Madrid like a tiger coming down from the mountain!

Such an arrogant attitude and such a sharp breakthrough speed made many fans in front of the TV stunned!

The live camera was also aimed at Bale, who was on the same side with Mbappe today, after Mbappe was finally stopped by Ramos.

The language of this camera is very interesting, and many fans are also looking forward to the speed duel between Bale and the French teenager Mbappe today.

But soon, Li Ang who stood up disappointed these fans who were watching the excitement.

Letting Mbappe break through the side once can remind his teammates, but letting this kid break through again unscrupulously for the second time?

That would be a slap in Li Ang’s face!

After Monaco played the set-piece tactics in the frontcourt, Li Ang quietly completed the position change with Modric and came to the right side of his own midfield.

So when Monaco got the ball again, Mbappe got the ball on the wing as he wished, and he looked up and saw Li Ang’s familiar intercepting figure.

There was no time to make more dribbling attempts. Mbappe just dribbled the ball and wanted to move forward, but he was directly met with Li Ang’s decisive tackle!

This fierce tackle forced Mbappe to jump and let Li Ang pass, and the ball under his feet was quickly passed to Benzema who was running forward after Li Ang stood up.

Real Madrid’s counterattack began!

It was still a smooth pass and cut cooperation. After just four seconds, Bale sent a cross ball, and Ronaldo overpowered his opponent and headed the ball in the back of the penalty area!

It’s a pity that the football finally went slightly off the crossbar, and Real Madrid was only two or three centimeters away from the first goal of the game!

Ronaldo held his head and roared with regret, and thousands of Real Madrid fans at the scene gave warm applause.

This applause was for both the offensive players in the frontcourt and Li Ang who had accurately intercepted Mbappe in the backcourt.

Three minutes later, Monaco, who had the ball, came back.

This time Mbappe chose a smart running path. He did not receive the ball in the midfield first, but pretended to move forward to the ribs in the inward position and then reversed to the side!

Fabinho, who had a tacit understanding with him, quickly sent a straight pass to the side. Mbappe held his breath, thinking that Li Ang would definitely not be able to catch up with him easily this time!

As a result, Li Ang never thought about racing with him to chase the football.

After the outbreak started, Li Ang leaned to the side for the first time, and then exerted force to squeeze Mbappe out of the sideline!

This scene made Mbappe look very thin, but in fact, although Mbappe is relatively young, his confrontation ability is not bad at all.

That is, Li Ang, a midfield tank with both speed and strength, can do this. If a normal midfielder forced to squeeze Mbappe, he might be slipped by this kid using his speed.

After knocking out Mbappe in the confrontation, Li Ang successfully caught up with the football, and then turned around and sent a long pass.

The ball landed precisely at Modric’s feet, and Real Madrid’s quick counterattack was about to begin.

Mbappe, who complained to the referee about Li Ang’s foul to no avail, smiled helplessly.

Li Ang, who happened to be walking by Mbappe at this moment, also shook his head.

This action seemed to be teasing Mbappe:

You have potential, but you are still too young now, you need to practice more!