Chapter 68 Guti

"Frank Ribery, who has a more flexible position, burst out with amazing energy. Compared with him in the previous two seasons, he is now at the level of a world football player!" The commentator was still talking and praising Ribery, and the game had already started again.

"When he first debuted, he was fixed on the left side. His first season in the Premier League was amazing and successful. But at that time, he was at most a short and good wing assaulter. Later, Tony Donn asked him to lean a little further into the middle, and the fine adjustment of the position brought us a more comprehensive Frank Ribery. Whether it was breaking through the ball on the wing, shooting in the middle, or even organizing the offense, he did a great job!"

It happened that Ribery got the ball, and the commentator immediately became excited: "It's Frank Ribery got the ball now!"

Ribery, who scored the goal, felt that he was in very good shape and planned to beat Ramos one-on-one. The result was... He was stuck in the inside and couldn't cut in, and his speed was suppressed. The ball under his feet was knocked to the ground and shoveled out of the sideline by Ramos.

Seeing the ball being shoveled out of bounds, Van der Fate, who was waiting for the reception, was a little dissatisfied and waved his hand. He was just next to Ribery, and no one was on guard for the time being. If Ribery passes the football to him, he will have the chance to transfer the football out and reorganize the offense. However, Ribery chose to fight alone, ignoring his teammates to come up to receive the opportunity.

Ribery saw Van der Fate's gesture and quickly raised his hand to express his apology to him. He did ignore his teammates just now, and the goal just now made him feel a little proud.

Although Forests won an out-of-bounds ball, it did not pose any threat to Real Madrid. Bale's pass was intercepted, Real Madrid took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and Nottingham Forest quickly retreated to defend - except George Wood.

The football passed to Guti's feet again, and George Wood went forward instead of retreating and went up to meet him.

Guti is still in the middle circle. The Forest team's two sides are quickly returning to defense, and George Wood plans to build the first line of defense in the middle circle.

Seeing Wood coming up, Guti was planning to pass the ball, but when he looked up and found that there was no suitable route to get the ball.   After just being stunned, George Wood was already in front of him.

Guti pushed the football to the left and then pulled it back suddenly, trying to take the opportunity to get rid of the opponent.

Unexpectedly, George Wood was not fooled, but just leaned his body up. Forced Guti to turn around. As long as Guti turned his body and protected the ball with his back to the offensive direction, the players of the Forest team will have enough time to run back to defend.

In order to protect the ball, Guti had to turn around. In this way, he could not send the ball to the most dangerous place as soon as possible.

This was not the thing that annoyed Guti the most. What made him feel unhappy was that Wood kept rushing behind his back, and his small movements were so annoying. The leg tried to reach the front to grab the ball, but he couldn't reach it, so he could only kick Guti's ankle...

Guti didn't want to get in a relationship with the other party here. He was not a fool, he knew that this was equivalent to delaying the attack speed of his team. So he passed the football to Diyala, then turned around and glared at Wood.

He stared at the ground with Wood's eyes. That look was absolutely not "friendly", it was cold, as if he was watching not a person. It was prey. Guti hated this kind of eyes very much, and he felt that he was insulted.

He ran forward, and Wood followed him back.

He knew that he was the boy's target in this game, so he decided to give the other party a good look.

In this game, Forest team played a defensive counterattack. It was different from the forest team's riddled defense line facing Real Madrid. Facing the dense and overall defense of Nottingham Forest, Real Madrid's offensive players have to spend some time thinking.

After a series of passes, the football reached Higuain's feet. He planned to turn around and break through, but asked Pepeka to come down. The person turned around and the football stayed.

However, the Forest's ball was not easily passed. Pepe's forward pass was stabbed from behind by Raul because the distance was too close.

Real Madrid continues to launch an offensive.

Raul protected the football under Pepe's close press.

Nowadays, Raul is very different from when he was young. He is no longer the simple striker who only needs to be responsible for scoring goals. In today's Real Madrid team, his job is not to score goals. It is to defend and make goals.

It is not easy for Pepe to cut off Raul's earth. Now his position is very sensitive, and he dare not easily make a foul. He can only interfere behind him. As long as Raul does not have the idea of ​​turning around and breaking through, he can only do this.

Raul also found that Pepe's defense was quite tight in the back, and he was not sure that he could turn around and break into the penalty area, so he passed the football out.

The football fell to Guti's feet again.

Guti didn't even have to look up to know who the black shadow appeared in front of him was.

He is now in front of the penalty area. He raises his foot and shoots. Wood rushes to block it without hesitation. But Guti shakes his ankle and the shot turns into a direct pass!

He did not pass it to Raul, who was right in front of him. Instead, he passed it to the other side that was almost considered his visual blind spot. He found the pass path, and the football passed through the crowd in front of the penalty area and sent it to Robinho's feet.

A huge cheer burst out from the stands at the Bernabeu Stadium. The popular Brazilian cyclist always makes people unconsciously expect it. Real Madrid fans like this kind of player who is good at performing fancy skills the most because it can please them.

Pique immediately made up for the position and asked Robinho to pull the ball away with one foot.

Seeing Robinho start performing, the cheers in the stands became louder.

Pique's reaction was quite fast. He expected that Robinho would shake off his next step to cut inward, so he quickly turned around and cut across the route Robinho was moving forward.

But this time he was wrong. Robinho made no move after the ball. Pique made himself empty and lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.

The Brazilian boy easily shook away the falling ground, and then he didn't wait for other Forest players to force him up, cut in and kicked the ball!

After Robinho received the ball, Van der Sar put all his attention on him and saw him shoot, quickly saved it. Blocked the football out of the baseline.

Although this offense did not score, Guti glanced proudly at George Wood next to him. This offense was started from here. The direction and vision of his ball at that time completely deceived George Wood - when he looked at Raul and Higuain on the left, who could have thought that he was actually going to pass the football to the space on the right?

But when Guty glanced at Wood, what he saw made him feel even more depressed.

He only saw George Wood's back - Wood was busy going back to the penalty area to defend the corner kick.

After falling behind, Real Madrid significantly strengthened its offensive, and a corner kick was not finished. The football was pushed out by the Forest's defender, and Real Madrid intercepted the ball in the midfield and continued to attack. Real Madrid, who was unwilling to fall behind at home, must quickly equalize the score. The longer they find time to delay, the more unfavorable they are.

However, the Forests' overall defense has been tested by many major games. Until the end of the first half, Real Madrid did not get any good opportunities. In addition to Robinho's shot, Sneider also had a long shot, bypassing Van der Sar's fingers, but flew out under the post. Then, Raul's shot that was close to him was used by Pepe's body to the bottom line.

These three offensive opportunities were concentrated within ten minutes after conceding the ball, but when they did not catch up, Forest's quick counterattack forced Real Madrid to temporarily stop this crazy attack - they were worried that Forest's quick counterattack would widen the score gap.

Seeing this scene, Don En showed a happy smile on the sidelines. So far, the game has been within his plan. Real Madrid is not afraid of others playing against them. Or they like other teams playing against them because they don’t care about how many goals they lose from behind, and one more goal in the front is. What they hate the most is that their opponents shrink and garrison near the penalty area. Defend in a dense manner, and then use a firm and quick sneak attack to get everything done.

But this is such a team in the bones of Nottingham Forest.

So the first half is very hard for Real Madrid players on the court. On the one hand, we must strengthen the offensive and strive to equalize the score. On the other hand, we must always beware of their sudden fast attack. With Beckham, the long passerby master, the Forest team's rapid counterattack speed is one level faster than before - the flying speed of football is always faster than the speed of humans running...

Most of the time Nottingham Forest's offense is like this - handing the football to Beckham, then Van der Fatt and Ribery flew forward, and Van Nystruey pulled to the side. Eastwood retreated and responded. Then Beckham made a long pass, accurately delivering the football to the Forest players, maybe Ribery, maybe Van der Fatt, maybe Van Nystruey, maybe Eastwood... In short, his long pass accuracy is eight of ten feet to hit.

This situation makes Real Madrid's defense a headache. Unless someone can stick to Beckham without any step away, he can't stop him from doing this. The cost of such a counterattack is too low. Just need Beckham to raise his foot.

Except for the goal conceded, Schuster remained silent throughout the first half. He was looking for a way to break this tactic. He knew very well that if he couldn't break it, he could only count on luck...

It would be a shame if any head coach admits that he has to rely on luck to win.

At the end of the first half, Shuster's face was not very good. He had heard booing from the stands. Some were complaining that the score was behind, and some were complaining that the scene was ugly... What should he, the head coach, complain about?

I need a defender, not Ribery and Cristiano Ronaldo!

Don Eun was very happy in the locker room. He did not hide this at all. He praised everyone. The offensive players performed well in the process of scoring goals, while the defensive players are the heroes of the team still leading the team.

"You guys did a great job. We have to play like this in the second half. Unless all luck runs to the opposite side, we won't lose." Don En said firmly, enhancing the confidence of the players. In fact, this is a bit redundant. Nottingham Forest is now a long time to play at the Bernabeu. When you see the stadium outside, you will take out your mobile phone and digital camera to take photos.

Someone from the Forest team nodded. Tang En was not saying beautiful words to boost morale, but that's the fact - as long as the Forest team leads, with their playing style, victory is sure to win.

"Guti is their offensive core." After saying these things that everyone knows, Tang En began to arrange more detailed tactics. "I think the only problem in the first half was... the excitement of Guti was not enough." The smile on Tang En's face looked sinister.

"Don't expect George to change his strategy a little in the second half. I'll try every means to anger Guti and make him lose his calmness." Judging from the first half, Guti's temper has been much more restrained this season than before. Whenever he was let down by Wood and refused to show friendship, anyone would feel dissatisfied with this situation. If Guti had two seasons ago, he might have just gotten up and pinched the opponent's neck, or when the Forest's offense was not even halfway through, he would have made an unnecessary foul, get a yellow card or even a red card, vent his emotions, and then be sent out.

In this game, Guti was able to resist getting angry when facing Wood's intentional or unintentional provocations, which forced Don to look at him differently. Is it Shuster's request, or is his own mature personality?

In the home team's locker room, Shuster was pulling Guti and reminding the important thing: "It's obvious that you are the first person that all opponents want to kill."

Guti was drinking water and did not comment on this statement.

"You did a great job in the first half, but I'm still worried... I was wondering if Tony Donn would ask more forest players to siege you?"

Guti stopped drinking water, and he looked at his head coach.

"I believe he can really do this." After saying the previous sentence that surprised Guti, Schuster seemed to be more sure of this idea, and he added. "He did whatever he wanted to win. Now everyone knows that you are the core of Real Madrid's offensive..."

"That is, he wants people to anger me, make me perform abnormally, or just be sent off by myself?" Guti asked.

Schuster nodded.

Guty recalled George Wood's performance in the first half, which really made this sense.

"I won't let them do what they want." He cursed and sweared.

"You have to stay calm, no matter how they provoke it." Shuster reminded.

Guti put down the water bottle and nodded: "I know how to do it, sir."

Shuster patted him on the shoulder and ended the conversation.

As long as Guti does not lose his calmness, Real Madrid has the hope of winning the score in the second half and even taking advantage of the situation to overtake.

The key is Guti. His condition and performance are now barometers of Real Madrid's performance.

But will Don En easily let Goudi go?
Chapter completed!