Chapter 26 The honor of La Liga?

Before departing for the Galicia region where Deportivo is located, Mallorca officially announced that Nadal, Ngonga, Olesola, Francisco Soler and Miguel Soler were unable to play due to various injuries. Go out and stay in Mallorca to recuperate...

As soon as the news came out, the whole of Spain was shocked!

The shock was not for anything else, but that no one believed that Mallorca would injure five main players in one go, and all of them were veterans over 30 years old-how shameless! You need to find a better reason to preserve your strength. This kind of joke-like injury... is it a joke?

Jose began to show that this young man is as shameless as an ordinary old fox. At the press conference before the game, he said solemnly: "I'm not lying, Miguel and the others are indeed injured, among them Miguel and Wei Cente was tired from the continuous battles. After all, they are both thirty-five-year-old players. Miguel and Javier were slightly injured during training. As for Francisco...he fell in his own home. A fall..."

The reporters at the scene booed collectively, expressing their contempt for this young coach who opened his eyes and told lies—it's fine for us reporters to lie, after all, this is what we do, what kind of trouble is your coach going to make? ! Don't grab our jobs!

Deportivo's head coach Irueta said with a smile in an interview: "I believe Jose's words are true... This is good news for Deportivo, maybe we can take advantage of the trend to stabilize The first position in the standings... Mallorca is an excellent team, and half of the main players are injured, which relieves us a lot of pressure."

The old fox also smiled very happily. This young man wanted to pretend, so it has nothing to do with him. Anyway, the three points in his hand are the most important. Even if Monaco was fooled by Jose-does it have anything to do with Deportivo? ? Anyway, they are not a La Liga team...

However, in the next game, Deportivo, who has not been in a good state recently, was unexpectedly overwhelmed by Mallorca, who only played half of the main players-in the case that most of the backcourt sent young players , Jose commanded the attack line with the largest number of main players to launch a fierce attack. The ball was running in Deportivo's half for most of the game. Tristan, Ibagaza, Stankovic... …even Carlos, who has gradually started to become a substitute, has played well!

However, Deportivo relied on their rich experience to solve the game by counterattacking. In the ninth minute, after receiving a direct pass from Djaminha, Ma Kai broke through the hastily formed Mallorca defense line and went straight to the first victory. Shortly after the start of the second half, Djaminha extended the lead with a beautiful long-range shot...

However, even after falling behind by two goals, Mallorca did not give up his crazy attack. The two wings continued to break through, and Tristan kept grabbing points, hitting Deportivo's two central defenders, Naibert and Cesar, on their backs...

When the game reached stoppage time, Mallorca, who used crazy attacks to loosen Deportivo's footing, finally got back a point. Tristan scored again and received a cross from Stankovic Afterwards, Tristan leaned on the opponent's young central defender Cesar and scored his seventh goal in the last six league rounds...

Irueta's eyes lit up on the sidelines. This young center is exactly what Deportivo needs. Although Ma Kai has a strong scoring ability and is equally tall, he is a technical speed type and prefers to play on the wing Breakthrough, the middle lane really lacks such a point...

"Maybe there is a chance to buy this kid." Irueta thought in his heart.

Shortly after Tristan's goal, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. Although dissatisfied with the passivity of the scene, the Deportivo fans still gave a warm applause, because the game that started the day before In one game, Barcelona lost 0-3 to Real Madrid in the battle of the century, and the gap between Barcelona and Deportivo widened to six points...

Deportivo champions are in sight!

This team had won the La Liga runner-up twice in the mid-nineties, but they had never won the La Liga championship in their history. When they were expected to win the first La Liga championship in the club's history, Deportivo The fans have given enough tolerance!

Amid the applause, Irueta took a long breath, then tidied up his clothes and walked towards Jose.

"It was a great game, we almost didn't win it," Irueta told Jose.

"Deportivo is very strong this season, which is normal." Jose shrugged and said indifferently.

This calm performance made Irueta more interested. He nodded to Jose with a smile, and then walked onto the court-although he is now interested in Tristan, he doesn't Will say to Jose - at least not yet.

"Have you taken a fancy to my Tristan?" Looking at Irueta's back, Jose shook his head. It's a pity that he can't control the club yet. If Deportivo invites Tristan and pays If there is enough cash, the management of Mallorca will definitely let him go...

Forget it, now is not the time to think about this. Tristan is a good striker and he is also his direct descendant, but such direct descendants are not difficult to cultivate. After he can control the club, there will be opportunities, and... Tristan is not a striker without ambition...

Regardless of whether Tristan has ambitions or not, Jose will not be wary of him because of this—in the professional football circle, player transfers are nothing more than normal, and there is no need for someone to leave to label someone a "traitor" What's more, Mallorca has always had a tradition of training players and then reselling them. Tristan is not too young. He was already 24 years old when Jose took over. For a center forward When the results came out, even if Tristan chose to leave, Jose would not think it was a betrayal—even Tristan could be regarded as a player he personally trained...

One thing Jose has to prepare for now is the first round of the UEFA Cup!

It is not a very favorable thing to play at home in the first round. After all, the schedule of first home and then away is quite unfavorable in both rounds. Everyone knows this-generally speaking, the second round It will be a decisive battle, and the location of the decisive battle will be held on the opponent's territory. The disadvantage is that individuals can see it...

So Jose's plan is to let the decisive battle take place on his own territory ahead of time, and strive to bury Monaco's entire promotion hope in the first round!

Of course, it is not easy to achieve this. Although Trezeguet and Henry, the two top forwards, have already transferred to Juventus, they still have a lot of famous players—Italy, who once played for AC Milan. Veteran forward Simeone, Croatian striker Pursau, midfielder Gallardo who was once the successor of Maradona in the Argentine national team, French winger Giuly who is about to shine, Mexican central defender Marquez in the defense, goalkeeper France The main player of the national team, Barthez...

However, Jose intends to set a trap for Monaco. The last game against Deportivo was part of the trap-the crazy attack suppressed Deportivo, but was counterattacked by the opponent with two arrows piercing the heart-if Monaco On the other hand, if this game is used as a reference, they will definitely die miserably...

If Monaco's coach Puel just watched the video of Mallorca against Deportivo, he could easily get an intuitive impression of Mallorca-that is, the team's offensive momentum is very fierce , but the efficiency is not high, there are not many ways to break the goal under pressure, and the defense line is unstable at the same time...

Regarding the "real situation" of Mallorca, plus it is an away game, Puel can easily think that to deal with such a team, he should adopt a method similar to that of Deportivo, that is, to shrink the defense and wear down the opponent. The offensive spirit, and then scored goals in the away game through counterattacks-Galardo and Giuly themselves are masters of counterattacks, and Simeone and Pursau are also enough to become the counterattack pillars of the frontcourt.

What Jose hopes is that Puel will make such a tactical arrangement, and during this time he has been rehearsing the tactics of forced attack, one of which is to use breakthroughs to create fouls-Monaco's two central defenders, Christian Val and the Mexican horse Ques are all brave defenders. They fouled a lot in the game. Although Mallorca doesn't have many set-piece players, Stankovic's free-kick level is not bad. It will be a very important means of breaking the door.

Time flies, in the blink of an eye, Jose has been coaching Mallorca for more than a month, and March 3rd has arrived as scheduled!

"In La Liga, Jose has proved his coaching ability with a five-game winning streak, but the next UEFA Cup match will be a test for him... There are four Spanish teams in the last 16 of the UEFA Cup , the four teams other than Mallorca are Deportivo, which ranks first in the league, Celta, which ranks mid-range, and Atletico Madrid, which is in the relegation circle. Their opponents are Monaco in Ligue 1 and Premier League. Arsenal in Ligue 1, Lens in Ligue 1 and Juventus in Serie A... This matchup is not a good matchup for La Liga. Deportivo and Celta met Arsenal and Juventus respectively. When encountering the two weaker Ligue 1 teams, Mallorca and Atletico Madrid, they have to focus on relegation. If one is not good, maybe the La Liga team will be wiped out in the UEFA Cup..."

When reporting on the UEFA Cup match, the Spanish media seemed rather pessimistic. This matchup was indeed not a good matchup for the four UEFA Cup teams in La Liga. At least, even they were not optimistic that Celta Vigo would be able to kill Juventus...

Jose remained silent about this. He didn't feel that he needed to take the initiative to stand up and say that he would lead Mallorca to win honors for La Liga in the European arena-even if it was Mallorca's responsibility, he also felt that he would use performance to win honor. It's more appropriate to speak...

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