Chapter 477: Growth in Rapid Progress

At the internal training ground of Real Madrid Club in Madrid, Spain, the players of Real Madrid's first team are competing in groups on the field.

It was easy to score goals in a 7v7 match on a small field, but the difference between this time and previous confrontations was that Wang Li actually sat on the sidelines to watch - Coach Carlo asked him to watch Real Madrid's cooperation and learn from it, and another reason was that the game with him on the field ended too quickly.

On the field, Guti made a diagonal pass to Ronaldo, who poked the ball into the net and sent another temporary team of seven people off the field. Beckham was among them. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked towards Wang Li.

After walking over, Beckham sat next to Wang Li.

At this time, Wang Li was still thinking about his own problems. In the last match with Arsenal, he found that he was too independent. Perhaps he was very strong, but this style of playing left other Real Madrid players with few opportunities to perform. As a result, on the court, he always had to confront many opposing defenders alone, making it difficult for Real Madrid to win and also dragging down the team's performance.

This drag does not mean that Real Madrid's overall performance is bad because of his appearance on the court, but Wang Li feels that if he plays and cooperates more with his teammates, Real Madrid's offensive ability will be improved to a higher level, instead of the current situation where almost all the goals are scored by himself.

"...David."

Wang Li was a little confused about this question. Seeing Beckham sitting next to him, he wanted to ask but was hesitant.

"Alan, what's wrong?" Beckham turned his head and asked with a puzzled look.

"I think... okay, David, do you think the way I play on the court is correct?" Wang Li gritted his teeth and asked.

Beckham thought about it puzzledly and asked, "Your playing style? What do you mean?"

"In terms of coordination, I suddenly found that when I was playing on the court, I rarely passed the ball and was a bit alone."

"Are you talking about your style?"

"Yes."

"You've been doing really well, why are you thinking about this?"

Wang Li pondered for a moment and said slowly: "In the last game, I saw the performance of Igor and Louis. I think they are very strong. Of course, there is also you, David. I think cooperating more with everyone can make the team play better."

Seeing Wang Li's expression, Beckham understood. However, he really hadn't thought about this question.

Football is a team sport, but in a team, personal ability is particularly important. Wang Li's personal ability is the best in the team, so people don't have too many ideas about his unique playing style. After all, Wang Li's performance in every game is speechless. However, Beckham understood Wang Li's idea, so he thought about it and said, "Then why don't you try it?"

In fact, Beckham doesn't have a definite answer to this question in his mind. After all, Wang Li's performance is good. After he gets the ball, he can always find good opportunities for the team. If he cooperates more with other people, perhaps other people will become a burden, or can he really greatly enhance Real Madrid's offensive ability?

No one can say for sure.

"Try?"

Wang Li's eyes lit up. Although Beckham just said it casually, it was very useful to him. Since the last game with Arsenal, he has been trying to think about this problem, and occasionally watching other players play, just to give himself some confidence.

However, he never thought about cooperating with his teammates.

"Why not try it out?" Wang Li couldn't help but think.

So he immediately found Robinho, who was on David's team, and said, "Sousa, why don't you take a break and let me try?"

Robinho took a sip of water, glanced at Wang Li, and asked, "Didn't the coach ask you to stay on the sidelines...???"

"Oh, never mind."

Wang Li turned his head and glanced at Carlo, and said, "I want to play for a while. I will tell the coach."

Robinho nodded in understanding and said, "Well, I'm a little tired too." He smiled wickedly and continued, "You'd better let the game go until noon, then I can go straight to lunch."

Wang Li chuckled, said nothing, and walked towards head coach Carlo.

The confrontation on the field ended with the victory of "Ronaldo's team". The goal was scored by Guti. This star trained in Real Madrid's youth training camp performed well. After Ronaldo's shot was saved by Casillas, he pushed the ball into the empty goal and made Casillas leave the field in vain.

Then, Ronaldo, who was still excited, saw Wang Li among the players of "David Beckham's team".

Ronaldo, who was bragging to Carlos, fell down. He found the assistant coach who was acting as the referee and protested: "This is not fair, they are cheating!! Alan is a substitute in our team..."

The funny actions and words made the teammates around him laugh.

But no matter what, the training match had to continue. With an expression that said 'you cheated', Ronaldo still passed the ball and then ran to the front court alone.

The attack ended with Guti's shot hitting the airplane, and then it was Wang Li's team's turn to attack.

The goalkeeper passed the ball to Ramos, who passed it to Baptista, and after several passes, the ball was delivered to Wang Li near the midfield.

Seeing Wang Li get the ball, two defenders from Ronaldo's team rushed up together, but even so they still had little confidence. After such a long period of contact, the Real Madrid players knew that it was almost like a daydream for a defender to grab the ball from Wang Li alone.

However, when two defensive players approached Wang Li, Wang Li chose to pass the ball. He kicked the ball to Beckham who was standing in a parallel position, and then ran towards the frontcourt.

Under normal circumstances, when Wang Li got the ball in the midfield, as long as there were not too many opposing players in the midfield, he would basically choose to dribble past them. But now he chose to pass the ball, which made his teammates who were watching the game around him a little confused. They didn't notice it during normal performances, but they noticed it now.

However, such a small detail does not mean anything. They are just curious but rarely care about it.

Seeing the black-haired boy running towards the front court, 'Ronaldo's team' quickly contracted their defense line. All the players returned to the back half, and there were 4 players huddled together in the penalty area. You have to know that this is a 7v7 game, and except for the goalkeeper, there are only six people in total.

However, Wang Li's performance seemed very casual. After Beckham passed the ball to him again, in the opponent's surprised eyes, he did not force a breakthrough or shoot directly, but chose to pass the ball again.

Wang Li didn't stop the ball at all, but kicked it to Beckham.

This pass back caused some chaos in the opponent's defense in the penalty area. Several players gathered around Wang Li. Then, Beckham kicked the ball straight into the penalty area, and then Ramos, who was unguarded, made a push shot and put Ronaldo's team in crisis.

The football was saved by the goalkeeper.

The angle of Ramos' shot was really bad. He is a defender after all, so it is understandable that he can't shoot.

The lack of a goal made Team Beckham feel a little disappointed, but Wang Li felt that his performance was pretty good. He kept thinking about the attack just now.

If he had dribbled past the defense and attracted the attention of all the opposing defensive players, and then passed the ball or shot, the probability of scoring a goal would certainly not have been higher than the one Ramos just made. In other words, his choice just now was correct, at least it increased Real Madrid's chances of scoring.

However, he knew that due to his outstanding personal ability, if he chose to pass the ball, his performance would become ordinary, and Real Madrid's performance would not be much better. If he wanted to truly integrate into the team and let the team play to its best ability, he must find a balance between his own performance and the team's cooperation. This balance point is the best point for Real Madrid to perform.

In other words, it is the point where he contributes the most to the team.

Therefore, in the following training matches, Wang Li kept trying to pass the ball, and his dribbling became less frequent. He kept trying to cooperate with his teammates. So after two rounds, "Team Beckham" was finally kicked off the field by Team Ronaldo.

“Haha, we won once!!!”

After beating 'Beckham's Team', fat Ronaldo was extremely excited. He and Carlos danced samba on the court to celebrate. This was the first time since Wang Li joined Real Madrid.

However, Wang Li just smiled casually. He gained a lot from this training match. He not only needed to "try it out", but also needed some time to digest the gains, so that his gains could reach the maximum extent.

For Wang Li now, his personal skills have reached a peak. If he wants to continue to grow, he can only work hard in this area.

Real Madrid's recent schedule is very busy.

On February 22, they will play the Champions League knockout match against Arsenal, and the second round will be held on March 9. In the 16 days between them, they have four games to play, against Mallorca and Atletico Madrid in the La Liga, and Zaragoza in the two rounds of the King's Cup.

The first event is the King's Cup.

After several rounds of competition, Real Madrid is also making great progress in the not-so-favorable King's Cup. After eliminating Real Betis in February, they have entered the semi-finals of this season. This result surprised Carlo a little.

With the result of reaching the semi-finals, it would be a shame not to fight for the championship trophy, so Carlo still wants the team to give it a try, of course, that is without affecting the Champions League.

However, Real Madrid's recent schedule is indeed too tight.

On February 24, they need to challenge Zaragoza away, and then play a round of league games on February 29 and March 4 respectively. On March 1 is the second round of the King's Cup. These games are too close to each other. In order to allow the players to conserve enough physical strength before the game with Arsenal, Carlo has to implement a rotation system.

After four consecutive rounds of such games, the players on the field will have physical problems.

Carlo is also worried that this will greatly increase the chances of Real Madrid players getting injured. In fact, all of Real Madrid's main players are now in the team, and most of the injured players have recovered. Carlo feels that his luck is pretty good, and of course he hopes that his luck will continue to be good.

And ensuring that the players do not get injured is an important factor in ensuring that he can still coach Real Madrid next season.

In the first away game against Zaragoza, Carlo still fielded half of the main players, because if Real Madrid beat Zaragoza, they would advance to the King's Cup final, and it would be a pity to give up such a result.

In this game, several players with better physical fitness or defenders such as Casillas, Roberto Carlos, Pavon, Baptista, Guti and Wang Li played, while all other main players were left in Madrid by Carlo. Only Robinho and Ramos had the opportunity to follow the team to Zaragoza, the capital of the Autonomous Region of Aragon and Zaragoza Province.

In this game, Carlo arranged a 541 formation for the team. The main purpose of this formation is defense. Although Zaragoza is not strong, they have performed very strongly in the King's Cup. He hopes to leave the suspense to the next game. After all, it is not worth fighting away from home.

Wang Li was the lone striker at the forefront of the team, Baptista and Guti were the generals in the midfield, and five defenders firmly guarded the backcourt. This formation satisfied Carlo, and he felt that even if the team did not play well, it would not lose too many goals.

Carlo didn't think about winning the game by a big score. After all, there are only half of the main lineup on the field, and they just experienced a big battle with Arsenal a few days ago. It is not an easy task to defeat a La Liga powerhouse that still has strength waiting for the game.

However, the result was quite unexpected. Real Madrid won 1:5 away from home and Zaragoza did not pose much threat to Real Madrid.

The team's key contributor was Wang Li. Although he only scored two goals in this game, he also contributed two assists.

From the beginning of the game, Wang Li has been trying to cooperate with his teammates. Although head coach Carlo attaches great importance to this game, Wang Li does not take it seriously at all. A Spanish King's Cup is almost no different from chicken ribs.

He is just training his abilities on the court and finding the balance point for cooperation with his teammates, which is not an easy thing.

At the beginning of the game, Zaragoza launched a massive attack on Real Madrid. In their home court, they seemed to want to show their strength. At this time, Wang Li was a little slow. He kept trying to cooperate with his teammates, and his teammates' mistakes were the main reason for Real Madrid's passivity.

So, 12 minutes into the game, Zaragoza scored a goal.

However, as the game progressed, Wang Li's performance became better and better. He often made wonderful through balls and found good opportunities for his teammates. This even made Real Madrid players uncomfortable, because they were used to Wang Li's "aloneness" and the sudden change made them unable to react.

But they immediately discovered Wang Li's passing 'secret'.

Every pass of Wang Li's seems to be extremely fast and powerful, but with just a slight touch of the foot, the football will automatically fall to his feet. Every teammate who receives a pass from Wang Li feels extremely comfortable, and it is so easy to stop the ball.

As Wang Li and his teammates adapted, the performance of Real Madrid's semi-substitute lineup became better and better. Although Zaragoza strengthened its defense against Wang Li, as Wang Li and his teammates cooperated more, their defensive role was greatly weakened.

So, Real Madrid scored a goal in the first half, and the goal was scored by Guti.

Later in the second half, Real Madrid scored four goals in 45 minutes. This scene made Carlo laugh on the sidelines. The away game ended with a score of 1:5, and there could be no more satisfying outcome for him.

After returning to Madrid, Real Madrid will challenge Mallorca away again. This is the 25th round of the La Liga.

In order to allow the players to have sufficient rest time, Carlo still sent out half of the main players in this game. Although Real Madrid is under great pressure in the league, they have the same points as Barcelona and are in second place in the league, but the recent competitions are too dense, and Carlo is powerless to send out the main lineup. After all, there are many games in the league. If they lose a game and drop points, they may be able to catch up later. If they lose in the Champions League, then the team will be eliminated directly.

Facing Mallorca, Carlo felt that the team would not lose. After all, the team's performance this season was too poor. In fact, it was true. The result of the game was 3:0. Unfortunately, Wang Li seemed to be in an unstable state. He only scored one goal, but Real Madrid still won the game.

In fact, in this game Wang Li was still trying to figure out how to perform best, but he passed the ball too many times, which resulted in him not being able to play well, and he only scored a goal at the end of the game.

But this gave Wang Li some experience. He needs to keep adapting in the game in order to have the best performance.

Of course, the premise is that Real Madrid will not lose. As long as the team is in an advantageous position, he will have plenty of time to train himself.

The next day, in the second round of the Copa del Rey semi-final, Real Madrid faced Zaragoza at home.

In this game, Carlo arranged Wang Li on the bench, and accordingly, Beckham and others did not even make it into the game roster, and Real Madrid's all-substitute lineup chose to defend at home.

The games were too close together, and Carlo had no choice but to make this choice.

Fortunately, we had a 4-goal advantage away from home, and if we just held on, Real Madrid would have won.

This season, it was the first time that Real Madrid played so poorly at home. Facing a team that could score 5 goals in away games, they were repeatedly "rubbed" by the opponent. In the whole 90 minutes of the game, Real Madrid had only four pitiful shots, three of which missed the goal frame, and only one long shot did not have enough power and was easily caught by the opponent's goalkeeper.

However, Real Madrid persisted to the end, with the score being 0:2. Although Zaragoza won, they were still eliminated. Real Madrid advanced to the final of the Copa del Rey, where they will compete with the winner of Espanyol and Deportivo La Coruna for the Copa del Rey championship.