Chapter 56 The Next Goal

Chapter 56 The Next Goal

After all the European games in this week are over, the whole of Europe is shocked by the strength of La Liga.

The Champions League, the semi-finals of La Liga won three seats, the UEFA Cup, and Mallorca entered the final - there are only six teams in Europe that are still qualified to play European competitions, and four of them belong to Spain! And the Serie A team that was the most glorious in the European arena before has been completely wiped out-only Lazio entered the UEFA Cup quarter-finals, and it was also defeated by Valencia with an almost humiliating score. Parma was defeated in the qualifiers. Scotland's Glasgow Rangers were trampled to death; AC Milan was eliminated in the first stage of the group stage and failed to qualify for the UEFA Cup; Fiorentina was eliminated in the second stage of the group stage, and Lazio was eliminated in the quarter-finals. In the UEFA Cup, the five teams that participated in the UEFA Cup were all eliminated. Bologna lost in the third round. In the fourth round, Parma, Udinese, Juventus and Roma were all wiped out. It was a disgraceful season-last season, Inter Milan made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Juventus made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Parma and Lazio won the UEFA Cup and the Cup Winners Cup respectively. The season is much stronger...

The La Liga media was very proud of this-see if you see it, Serie A has declined, and our La Liga is now the number one league in the world!

Mallorca, which is the least favored, reached the UEFA Cup final all the way, and was praised by everyone. Since being eliminated in the Champions League qualifiers, Mallorca has faced tough bones. He played quite well in the UEFA Cup even though he was in poor form for half a season. Except for the first round against an underdog in the Czech Republic, the second round faced Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, and the third round Facing Ajax in Eredivisie, Monaco in Ligue 1 in the fourth round, Galatasaray in Turkey in the fifth round, and Leeds United in the semifinals—it can be said that apart from Serie A teams, They have touched all the better league teams and still can enter the final of the UEFA Cup. This kind of achievement is top-notch.

The final of the UEFA Cup will be held on May 18th. The opponent is the killer of La Liga who defeated this season. Two La Liga teams have fallen at their feet. That game will be the most important game in Mallorca since Jose took office!

"Now I don't think about the UEFA Cup final. After all, we have not succeeded in relegation."

After returning to Mallorca, Jose said solemnly to the reporters who came to interview, which aroused boos from the reporters.

There are only five rounds left in the league, and Mallorca already has a great advantage from the relegation zone. Compared with those La Liga relegation teams who are still struggling, Mallorca is now in heaven...

It's just that while booing, the reporters also had to admire Jose's ability-what was Mallorca like when he took office four months ago? The league points are only 12 points! After the thirteenth round of the league, their points have reached as many as 43 points, 31 points in the thirteenth round of the league, ten wins, one draw and two losses. In these thirteen rounds, the entire La Liga team has no record. On the right, apart from Mallorca, Real Madrid scored the most points during this period. They scored 30 points, while Deportivo, who ranked first in the standings, only scored 20 points during this period. Four points, second-ranked Barcelona only scored 22 points. If Mallorca can score an extra 20 points in the first half of the season, they will even be a strong contender for the league title now!

While becoming the team with the most points in the second half, Mallorca also achieved a series of beautiful victories in the UEFA Cup-4-1 victory over Monaco at home, 3-0 victory over Galatasaray at home, Defeating Leeds United with two goals... These are hard results, and they can kill people!

Even the most demanding football critics can only praise Jose's performance in the past four months. His youth, his identity... were all used by the media and commentators to criticize him four months ago His things, but now, have become the most powerful evidence to boast of him...

Although Mallorca, an island team from a remote village, has always been disliked by people, firstly, they have no connections, and secondly, their style of play is not pleasing, but no one can say no to Jose Come.

Reporters and fans look at the results, commentators and other coaches value Jose's coaching style, but they can't see that Jose has any fixed coaching ideas. Let's go back to Cooper's previous defensive counterattack tactics, which makes sense, because Mallorca's most powerful weapon now is the experienced defensive line. Many tough battles have been won by defensive counterattacks. However, in many games However, Mallorca, who was raped by Jose, relied on offense to solve the opponent.

Naturally, there are two versions of this coaching style. At best, coaching is like a powerful and unconstrained style, leaving no trace, and elusive. At worst, it is extremely random, with no fixed tactics. The team panicked.

It's just that with Jose's recent performance so good, there is no market for this kind of statement-after all, they are all talking about hypotheses, assuming that Mallorca will not play well, assuming that Mallorca will not play well. There will be panic next time—assumptions are just assumptions after all, and assumptions without facts can only be reduced to a laughingstock. Slap yourself in the face, besides, Jose didn't offend anyone when he was a fledgling, so naturally no one would be bored to take the risk of losing his face to offend him.

José turned a deaf ear to this discussion, pretending not to hear it—fixed style? Then you have to have the right players to say, if you don't adapt to the situation and use tactics in an eclectic manner, should you start to fix your style now? It's better to have a full stomach before preparing to go to a well-off life.

Jose has already made some preparations for the future development of Mallorca, but now is not the time, at least he has to wait until he can master the club before making a correct development path, otherwise even if he wants to do it, it will be very difficult. No foundation and no prestige, how to do it? Cruyff established the La Masia Football School and laid the foundation for Barcelona's dominance more than ten years later. Achievements allowed his idea to be fully promoted, and his status as the honorary chairman of Barcelona also allowed Cruyff to not encounter too much resistance in the process of building the La Masia football school, and even his disciples were able to continue. It affects any Barcelona head coach, so that Barcelona does not need the best head coach in the world, only the most suitable head coach is enough-to achieve this level, in a membership club like Barcelona, ​​it is Not even the chairman can do it.

It's just that the fledgling results of this season have made most Mallorca fans accept Jose as a young head coach. After Jose takes control of the club, he wants to implement some moves, which is obviously better than implementing them in a big club like Barcelona. much easier.

With Mallorca almost successfully relegating and entering the final of the UEFA Cup, Mallorca fans have completely accepted the existence of Jose. After all, the most successful head coach in Mallorca history is the former Cooper. The achievement is to bring Mallorca the King's Cup, the Spanish Super Cup and the runner-up of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Jose has achieved results not inferior to Cooper in the European arena after only half a season in office. It needs to prove itself through the results in the league, but Mallorca fans fully believe that as long as Jose is given a full season, then Jose will be able to do better than Cooper!

This expectation also comes from Jose's identity—after all, Jose is from Mallorca, and they belong to them...

This season is coming to an end, Mallorca's last game, only six games left, five league games and one UEFA Cup game, the league's five opponents are away against Oviedo, home against Real Betis, The away game against Sevilla, the away game against Valladolid and the home game against Atletico Madrid, four of the opponents are relegation opponents. It may be said that Mallorca will also kill all of these opponents and get a more ideal for themselves. While ranking, also drive these opponents into the abyss!

For Jose, in the face of these opponents, there is nothing to hold back. It is enough to play well one game after another. The most important point is not to let the players of the team get injured.

However, it seems that Jose does not need to worry about this. Except for the UEFA Cup final, which will be held between the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth rounds, there is a one-week interval between each other league games. Time, those old guys on the back line, as long as they are physically fit, they will not be injured based on their experience. The other attackers are not the kind of players who are often injured. There won't be too many problems.

Flying directly from Leeds to the province of Asturias in the hinterland of Spain, they are preparing to face Real Oviedo, who is also in the relegation battle. Ser also dispatched troops and replaced most of the players in the backcourt. This approach made Mallorca's defense line strength drop a lot. After defeating Real Oviedo, Tristan and Ngonga each scored a goal, and the points have reached 46 points!

With the loss of both Atletico Madrid in eighteenth and Real Betis in nineteenth place, Mallorca has successfully avoided relegation in fact and in theory-they lead Atletico Madrid by 13 points and Real Betis by ten. With four points, he has successfully relegated ahead of schedule, and even has a chance to enter the top ten positions in one go!

"The second half of the standings is not where we Mallorca need to be."

During the celebration in the locker room after the game, Jose said with a smile: "Now that we have successfully relegated, it all depends on the hard work of the players. However, we don't seem to be satisfied with this. In the next games, we will also play every game. We must do our best to win, at least, we have only one goal in the future, and that is to make our final ranking in the league rank in the top half of the standings!"

"Oh—no problem!"

Hearing Jose's words, the Mallorca players were stunned for a moment, and then roared happily!