Chapter 25 Chapter 25 The second half of the race begins
Valdebebas.
Redondo looked at the reports in his hand and frowned, "Leandri and Arbeloa's training intensity has been too high recently."
The assistant coach wrote in his notebook, "But both of their blood indicators are normal. They also asked the physical trainer before, and he agreed to do more training."
Redondo continued to scroll down, "If young players have too high intensity training, it will affect the body's hormone release and growth. Leandri is now 1.85 meters tall and his bones can still grow. He is not allowed to do too high intensity training before he stops growing." Redondo has been making continuous progress in the past few years as a coach at La Fabrica.
"Keep an eye on him and don't let him do too much extra training. He also goes for a run every morning, so the amount of training is more than enough."
The teaching assistant nodded in agreement.
On January 7, in the 19th round of the Spanish Second Division, Castilla faced Murcia at home.
There are 22 teams in the Spanish Second Division. The top three teams will be promoted to the Spanish First Division, and the bottom four teams will be relegated. Murcia is currently ranked 4th in the league, only one point away from the third place, while Castilla is now ranked 17th, and the situation is not optimistic either. The difference between their results and the last three is within 4 points. Their opponents in this round of the league are all mid-level teams, and it is very easy to score points. Castilla must ensure that they get at least one point in the game, otherwise it will easily return to the relegation zone.
In this game, both sides need to score points.
There are many fans sitting in the stands of the Di Stefano Stadium. Many of the Real Madrid diehards are three or four generations of a family. The oldest ones have watched many players grow from young buds to pillars at the Bernabeu, and they are not stingy in spending time to bring their families to watch youth training games. In addition, Real Madrid's first league game after the winter break will not start until tomorrow, and it is an away challenge. Some people who are addicted to football are rushing to support the little beets in their own fields to satisfy their excitement first.
The referee team led the players from both teams onto the court, and the tall Ryan Deli attracted a lot of attention. He has been playing for La Fabrica since U8, constantly jumping up levels to play in competitions, and his performance on the field is also remarkable. As long as he is given enough playing time, he will sooner or later be another guardian of Real Madrid after Casillas. Many fans on the sidelines have watched him grow up day by day, and many people have collected the photos of him being dribbled past by Redondo, Hierro, Raul and others, with his face puffed up with anger.
In this game, Redondo continued with the familiar 442 formation.
The referee blew the whistle and the game officially began.
Negredo passed the ball back to Parejo, and the two sides quickly separated their formations. Murcia's forward took the initiative to press.
Parejo, who was holding the ball, protected the ball tightly in the face of the opponent's close attack. Seeing Granero next to him making a forward run, he kicked the ball with his heel. Granero received the ball comfortably, looked around and passed it diagonally to Bernu who was waiting for the ball.
At this time, Negredo had already run to the left side of the arc top. Seeing this, Bernu immediately passed the ball, and the ball fell from mid-air to Negredo's feet.
During the opening period, Castilla's players penetrated very smoothly, causing the Melingers on the sidelines to cheer excitedly.
Negredo used his body to barely pass the ball from the double-team of two Murcia defenders. The end of the line was Parejo who happened to be in position. He kicked the ball, but the opponent's defender blocked it with his body. The goalkeeper controlled the ball under his feet, and Castilla's first round of attack was stalled.
Offense and defense reversal.
The opponent's midfielder found the most suitable passing route and directly tore a big hole in Castilla's defense. Murcia's forward had already run over.
Leandri had been paying close attention to the situation on the field since the opponent's goalkeeper passed the ball. Seeing his surgical-like through pass find the gap on the left side of Castilla, he quickly shouted to the left-back to come forward and block it.
But if the defense was really that reliable, Castilla wouldn't have been pushed into the relegation zone in the first half of the season.
Sure enough, the left back was made to lose his balance by the opponent's performance in two moves, allowing the opponent to dribble past his side, and he couldn't catch up with the opponent even if he wanted to chase back.
The central defender heard Leandri shouting for cover on the field and finally rushed over to block the shot.
Murcia's through pass was perfect, and the forward's dribbling skills were also very good. Facing the Castilla defenders who came up to press, he used his body to block and shot!
Leandri kept his eyes on the trajectory of the ball. Seeing that the defenders were unreliable and the opponent found an open space to shoot, he immediately judged where the ball would land.
Murcia's players were watching the ball heading straight for the upper right corner of the goal. Just as they were about to cheer, a pair of big hands appeared in their sight.
Leandro picked the ball up with both hands and held it steadily in his hands.
Seeing that the danger was over, Leandri was not going to tolerate the big guys on the field, "Pay attention to your position! Don't let them get the open space!"
So what if he is the youngest in the stadium? As long as the goalkeeper can be a father, he can naturally talk to everyone in the stadium.
Leandri passed the ball to Arbeloa.
Redondo on the sidelines looked at the assistant coach, "Did Ryan jump higher?"
"Probably. He has a good sense of timing and the stretching position is correct. I feel like that's not his limit." The assistant coach answered after looking through previous materials.
"I'll update his statistics during training tomorrow." Redondo was a little relieved when he saw Ryan, who was young but so imposing on the court.
In the 15th minute, Murcia launched an attack on the right, but Arbeloa cleared the ball out of the sideline.
In the 23rd minute, Murcia continued to pass the ball from the half court. Castilla's players couldn't even touch the ball in the next two minutes. Unfortunately, the striker missed the goal post when shooting.
In the 29th minute, Parejo received a pass from the backcourt near the center circle. He made a sudden stop and quickly passed the opponent's midfielder. The football moved forward at a very fast frequency under his feet.
Negredo received the pass from Parejo in front of the penalty area, and he was unguarded at this time!
Murcia made a mistake and missed someone!
Negredo kicked the ball hard with the instep, and Di Stefano drew a brilliant arc on the field and went straight to the dead corner!
Castilla was leading 1-0, and the players in the front field went to celebrate with Negredo who rushed to the sidelines and cheered. Leandri in the back field also excitedly hit the goal post twice with his gloved fists.
In the 36th minute, Murcia players, eager to equalize the score, pressed towards Castilla's half.
The midfielder observed the positions on the field and kicked the ball with the inside of his foot, accurately finding the ambushing Murcia striker again in front of everyone's eyes.
The forward still advanced from the left side, and without Leandri's reminder, the two defenders came forward to double-team him. It was a pity that the big brother on the opposite side was so tall and strong that the impact of his running made it impossible for the two of them to resist. He just staggered two steps before returning to holding the ball.
One-on-one!
Facing the Murcia striker who was attacking his goal like a tank, Leandri heard no exclamations from his teammates or shouts from the fans.
There was no defender in front of him.
Leandri chose to attack.
Two players who are over 1.8 meters tall met on the court.
The Murcia striker continued to advance fiercely. He saw Leandri lowering his center of gravity and moving forward, but which striker would easily give up the opportunity to score alone?
There was less than two meters between them, and the strong striker began to lean his body, swinging his right leg, trying to hit a far corner.
Leandri saw the opportunity and immediately stretched out his calf, causing the ball to bounce off him and deflect.
Murcia's players wanted to chase again, but Arbeloa got the ball first and sent it out of the penalty area.
Leandri breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this. Among the four defenders, Tofu Ge was the most reliable. The center back wanted to come over and pat his arm and kiss his neck to apologize, but Leandri waved him back to his position.
At the end of the first half, the score was still 1-0, and Castilla returned to the locker room with a slight advantage.
Redondo asked Juan Mata to go out for warm-up. At the beginning of the second half, he wanted to replace Niguez, who had not done much, with his uncle. He also wanted to change the left back, but Miguel Torres, who had played quite well, was taken away by Capello, and now he had no one to use.
Carlos's heavy artillery in the first team is about to rust. Apart from Bravo, there is Marcelo who has just been reported to be dizzy and has not played yet. The Italians urgently need a few more players at the left-back position.
The two sides changed sides in the second half.
Negredo, Parejo and Juan Mata attacked the opponent's goal several times in the first few minutes to try to expand the score. The defense was severely pointed out by Redondo for several mistakes during the half-time break. Now they did not dare to lose their position easily, for fear that the opponent would grab the missed man of Castilla and counterattack when they were not prepared, threatening the goal held by Leandri.
Seeing that they were unable to break the deadlock, Murcia became increasingly annoyed. In their view, Castilla has the support of Real Madrid. Even if the team's performance is not good, even if it is rare to be promoted to the Spanish Second Division after being in the Spanish Second Division B for a long time, why should Castilla, players of the same age, receive more attention because of the brilliance of Real Madrid? It’s obvious that the opponent is not as good as me.
This is also the idea of many Spanish Second Division teams. Whenever they meet Castilla, they will have more energy and want to teach the arrogant Real Madrid B team a painful lesson.
Before this game, they were thinking of a "massacre" with a huge gap in strength, but at this time they were one goal behind.
Murcia's players became more and more anxious as the game went on. It was no use for the coach on the sidelines to keep their formation and cooperate with each other. Instead, Castilla's defense was very effective. Only Negredo was left in the frontcourt, and everyone else began to retreat to their own half.
The score remained unchanged until the end, and Castilla once again stayed away from the relegation zone with the three points they had worked so hard to get.
After the game, Leandri spent some time with Vazquez and the others, saying that Carvajal had broken up and needed a loving hug from his brothers. When he finished taking a shower and arrived at the place, Carvajal was already lying on the table sobbing.
"Am I not good enough to her? How can she be with my brother!" Carvajal was really sad.
Leandri looked at Nacho and Vazquez strangely, and they both shook their heads, "It's not us, it's his classmates in school."
Love can turn brothers into enemies. Leandri has no intention of falling in love anymore.
After handing the paper to his good brother, he coaxed him by saying that he would find a chance to take him to meet a new girl, and then he sent the Minotaur Carvajal back.
When they got home, Maria told him that Florentino and Manuel were talking in the study and not to disturb them. Leandri nodded, but when he passed the stairs to the second floor, he vaguely heard Mr. Lafayette's voice coming through the door, "Is this number accurate?" Leandri didn't think much about it, because he didn't understand the affairs of his father's company anyway.
Back in the room, Ryan turned on his computer and found an email from Felix Cross from Germany in his mailbox.
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