Chapter 81 The French Team Attacks
Lin Quan has never paid attention to this question because he is not the favorite this year.
He only played for less than half a season, and although his performance was good, the time was too short and he was far behind those favorites who had already played for one or two years.
"The Golden Boy Award begins in late October every year and is announced before Christmas in December. Now is the critical period for the Golden Boy Award. The Spanish Football Association is doing its best to fight for Isco, and I want to fight for you."
Between Isco and Lin Quan, Bosque definitely prefers Lin Quan more.
After all, the latter is a player he promoted, and Isco has not yet been selected for the national team. Between these two people, he will definitely choose Lin Quan.
"Even if I don't get selected this year, I still have to create momentum. That way it will be easier to be selected next year!"
"Also, our team's penalty kicks have always been unstable. Almost all of these players on the field have a record of missing penalties."
This is the reason why Bosque insisted on doing this, the players in the team are really unreliable.
If they were a little more reliable, they would not have given the responsibility of taking the penalty kick to a young player who is not even 17 years old.
Lin Quan still had some concerns in his heart. To be honest, he was a little tempted by Bosque's proposal.
Who wouldn't want the privilege of taking penalty kicks, which can increase the number of goals? Maybe if I take more penalties in the game, the Golden Boot Award for the top scorer will be secured.
According to the system's regulations, if you win the Golden Boot Award, you will be rewarded with points.
But if this privilege is really given to me, will the veteran players in the team accept it?
He didn't want to destroy the atmosphere within the team and upset the old players.
So he thought about it and said:
"Thank you for your kindness, but I think it's not fair to other players to let me take the penalty directly. So..."
Bosque saw that he was about to refuse, so he sighed and changed his words:
"Okay, in that case, then I'll add you to the penalty kick list. You and the other players will take turns taking the penalty kicks. Whoever misses will take the next one. If you don't miss, you'll keep taking the penalty kicks until you miss. What do you think?"
This is a good suggestion as it neither gives him any privileges nor gives him the opportunity to compete with other teammates.
If his teammates had missed the penalty themselves, he would have had a chance and his teammates would have had nothing to complain about.
"Okay, I'll follow your instructions!"
Bosque shook his head. This kid, everyone else was vying for the privilege of taking penalty kicks, but he didn't want it when it was offered to him.
While Spain was busy preparing for the match, their opponents, the French team, had already arrived in Madrid by plane.
Because the home team is so strong, the Spanish fans did not do anything excessive against the visiting team.
Most of them went to the national team's training base to cheer for their home team.
“Is that our Messi?”
"Wow, this is such a beautiful pass!"
"Tsk tsk, this is a skill worthy of someone who came out of La Masia's youth training camp!"
Many fans came to the training base specially to see Lin Quan. Most of these fans fell in love with this young man in the team after watching the live broadcast of the match between Spain and Belarus.
They held banners with various words on them, some wore Lin Quan's No. 30 jersey in the national team, and some held his No. 10 jersey in Werder Bremen, and their faces were full of excitement.
"Tsk tsk, you have so many fans!"
Morata was a little envious and jealous. Why didn't he, who was tall, strong, handsome and handsome, have so many fans? It must be because he didn't score enough goals. If he could score three goals, these people would definitely become his loyal fans.
"Compared to the captain and the others, we are still far behind!"
Lin Quan looked at the sidelines, where Casillas and Ramos were signing autographs for their fans.
The two have a lot of fans. Their arms are sore from signing autographs, and they haven’t even walked out of the circle of fans yet…
The national team's training base is in Madrid, which belongs to Real Madrid.
Ramos and Casillas are both key players of Real Madrid, so it is not surprising that they are warmly welcomed by fans in their home turf.
On the contrary, the players from Barcelona are very low-key in Madrid, because they know that even in the national team, there are still many Madrid fans who do not welcome them.
Just like the booing Pique received when he came in before, although this was somewhat related to the fact that he raised five fingers to humiliate Real Madrid on the field.
However, the grievances between Barcelona and Real Madrid over the years are too deep, and it is common for fans of the two teams to attack and slander each other.
Add to that Catalan separatism and things become even more complicated.
In this case, it is better to keep a low profile.
This is also the reason why Lin Quan did not sign autographs for the fans who supported him. Although he has never played for Barcelona, he is still a Barcelona player in name.
So he was worried that he would be booed if he went out, after all, he had benefited from Pique before...
At around 6:30 in the afternoon, the players of the Spanish national team boarded a bus and started heading for the venue of the game - the Calderon Stadium.
This may be the last time that the Spanish national team plays a World Cup qualifying match at the Calderon Stadium. After Atletico Madrid received investment from Wanda and decided to build a new stadium, the Calderon Stadium is likely to face the fate of demolition.
Therefore, among the several candidate stadiums for hosting the group stage, the Spanish Football Association deliberately chose the Calderon Stadium and gave up stadiums with better conditions such as the Bernabeu.
The match between Spain and France is a focus battle in the third round of the 2014 Brazil World Cup European qualifiers.
In addition to many TV stations in Spain choosing to broadcast the game live, Sky Sports also broadcast the game.
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Because the match between England and Poland will not be played until tomorrow afternoon, this match has also attracted a lot of attention in the UK. Sky Sports has even arranged an ace commentator like Martin Taylor to comment on the match.
"Spain has won 24 consecutive games in the World Cup qualifiers. In the last game, they slaughtered Belarus 6-0 away from home. The team is in hot form.
In addition to the World Cup champions, there are also some new faces in their team.
Like their No. 30 player Lin, he is the offensive core of Werder Bremen, who is ranked fourth in the Bundesliga this season.
He has played in six Bundesliga games and scored nine goals, with an average of 1.5 goals per game, the highest efficiency in the entire Bundesliga.
As for the national team, he has only played one game for the Spanish national team so far, but has already scored three goals and provided three assists.
Although this player is young, he has already shown the potential to be a superstar. I believe that this winter, there will be no shortage of big clubs chasing him.”
Like Martin Taylor, there are many people who pay close attention to Lin Quan, such as the commentators on the French side. In their pre-match analysis, they emphasized the threat posed by Lin Quan in the frontcourt to the French team.
Ribery, who had played against Lin Quan in the league, also emphasized in an interview before the game that Lin Quan was the most threatening player in the Spanish team.
Given the French team's current state, they don't have much chance of winning against Spain without Lin Quan.
And when Lin Quan joined and Spain began to evolve towards the ultimate form, their chances of winning would probably be even lower when they met Spain.
“Although we don’t want to say this, we have to admit that in terms of team strength, we are no longer a top team in the world.
There is a big gap between us and the World Cup and European Championship double champion Spain. Our goal in this game should be to maintain a draw. As long as we don't lose away from home, we will have hope of winning when we return to our home court in the next round!"
The French commentator is pessimistic, and their head coach is also pessimistic.
In this game, they directly adopted a defensive posture and planned to play in a shrinking manner.
During the European Cup, they played freely against Spain, but were beaten 2:0 by the opponent.
Now that the opponents have become stronger, if they still play like that, wouldn’t they be seeking death?
Of course, kicking back doesn't mean they give up.
On the contrary, compressing their own formation to the backcourt and letting the opponent's formation press forward will be more conducive to their counterattack.
Although Spain's passing and controlling system is very powerful, the French team pursues efficiency rather than ball possession.
As long as they can score one or two goals in the counterattack, they will most likely win in the end. What’s the use of Spain having a higher ball possession rate?
At 19:45, players from both teams began to enter the field one after another.
The formation of both teams in this game is 433, and the starting lineup is:
Spain: No. 1 Casillas, No. 17 Arbeloa, No. 16 Busquets, No. 15 Ramos, No. 18 Alba, No. 8 Xavi, No. 10 Fabregas, No. 6 Iniesta, No. 21 Silva, No. 30 Lin Quan, No. 11 Pedro France: No. 1 Lloris (the one in the 2022 World Cup final), No. 2 Debuchy, No. 21 Koscielny, No. 5 Sakho, No. 3 Evra, No. 6 Cabaye, No. 17 Gonalons, No. 12 Matuidi, No. 14 Menez, No. 10 Benzema, No. 7 Ribery After the national anthem was played and the hands were shaken, the time came to 20:00.
With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.
(End of this chapter)