Starting With Real Madrid

At night, the Bernabeu Stadium is brightly lit.

When Caparros walked into the stadium, he saw Gao Shen.

Gao Shen had a short, neat haircut, a handsome face according to Western aesthetics, and a kind smile. He wore a simple long-sleeved sports suit, giving the impression of a sunny young man.

But Caparros didn't like him.

When he first heard the name Gao Shen, he didn't like it.

It was news that Gao Shen was appointed by the new chairman, Martin, as the acting head coach of Real Madrid. He was only 25 years old.

Gao Shen is the youngest head coach in La Liga and the UEFA Champions League. He should be the youngest even in the European professional leagues.

This is precisely the reason why Caparros doesn't like Gao Shen.

Because, no one knows that the fifty-one-year-old Caparros has been coaching for more than twenty years.

He happened to be twenty-five when he first coached alone.

That team was called the San Jose Workers.

This is an amateur team whose name cannot be found in the Spanish Football Association.

Caparros took one step at a time. He climbed from the amateur league to the professional league. In this process, he has walked for more than 20 years. He finally reached La Liga, and he has not even had the chance to enter the Champions League.

But Gao Shen, a little-known Chinese boy, also at the age of 25, suddenly became the head coach of Real Madrid.

How lucky is this?

Caparros couldn't understand and couldn't accept it, but he was angry, very angry.

So, when he saw Gao Shen smiling and waiting for him at the entrance of the player tunnel, he greeted him coldly, shook hands with Gao Shen perfunctorily, and walked to the visiting team's coaching bench.

He wants to defeat Gao Shen and his Real Madrid!

Why should he be polite to his opponent?

…

"Hey, did this guy take the wrong medicine tonight? Why does he seem so angry?"

When Gao Shen walked back to the home team's coaching bench, Lucas cursed with a puzzled expression.

This is indeed too ungentlemanly.

"Maybe it's psychological tactics, or maybe there are a few days in a month when you're in a bad mood." Gao Shen didn't take it to heart.

Two generations of people, if he is still angry about such a trivial matter of sesame and mung beans, then he will live in vain.

Lucas had a nasty taste in the second half of the sentence, and laughed along with Gao Shen.

"I saw you pulling Ramos before we went out just now. What did you say over there?"

When everyone was about to come out, Gao Shen suddenly left Ramos and warned him about something.

"It's nothing." He shook his head with an inscrutable smile, and then reminded, "You forgot? Ramos is Caparros's proud disciple."

Before coaching Deportivo this season, Caparros coached in Sevilla for many years. His coaching style has always been known for its simplicity and blood, and his style is very tough.

How to say? Looking at Ramos' style, you know what Caparros looks like.

Ramos moved to Real Madrid this season, and Caparros coached Deportivo. The last time the two sides met was at the Riazor Stadium.

Everyone knows that Deportivo has always been a tough opponent for Real Madrid. The most famous instance is Real Madrid's centenary celebration being disrupted by Super Deportivo, leading to Bosque being hated by Florentino and eventually being fired.

Real Madrid's feelings for Deportivo are complicated, and Deportivo's feelings for Real Madrid are the same.

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With the whistle of referee Arturo, the entire Real Madrid team was like a thousand arrows, sprinting towards Deportivo's formation at the same time, and rushed directly to the defense line in one breath, even approaching the goal.

Such pressure made it difficult for the Deportivo players to cope.

Goalkeeper Molina was forced to take a big kick, wanting to find former Real Madrid winger and veteran Munitis in the front, but Abeloa took the lead, grabbed the ball, and dribbled it along the right side to the center line.

Real Madrid's right back sent a cross, which fell directly to the front point. Cassano and Argentine defender Coloccini competed for the top at the same time.

The ball was pushed out of the big penalty area and failed to shoot.

The first attack did not work, but Real Madrid still did not retreat, and continued to maintain the frontcourt pressure on Deportivo.

This is equivalent to telling Deportivo: I'm going to crush you!

It has been three weeks since Gao Shen became the head coach of Real Madrid.

In the past three weeks, whether it is training, daily communication, or in the team's tactical meetings, he has been trying to instill his tactics and requirements into the players, and the team has also arranged targeted drills in training.

For example, what should the nearest player do if the ball is on one side? How will the other players around you run?

At first, Real Madrid's players were still a little uncomfortable, but gradually, they all understood the profound requirements.

The team adopts high-level pressing, and the entire defense line is pressed very high. It has high requirements for local counter-attacks in the frontcourt. It does not mean that you must grab it. The most important thing is that each player's tactical execution must be in place.

All of these, players understand, and will be more attentive to execute on the field.

Even players like Cassano and Zidane, who lost the ball in the frontcourt, will immediately throw themselves into the counter-attack, even if it is just a symbolic grab, it can play a certain delaying role.

And Real Madrid's team pressed and pressed, and they directly pressed Deportivo to play in their half.

After about half a month of polishing, Deportivo was directly overwhelmed by Real Madrid's pressing.

Just five minutes into the game, defensive midfielder Duscher fouled Cassano while defending on the right from the front of the penalty area and gave Real Madrid a free kick on the right.

Beckham did his part to stand at the penalty spot. Real Madrid's two central defenders and De La Reid both ran to the frontcourt and came to the penalty area, and Ramos ran over to Beckham when he passed by. Beckham made a few remarks.

Beckham was a little surprised and turned to look at Gao Shen in front of the home team's coach, with questions in his eyes.

Gao Shen nodded slightly.

The move of Real Madrid's general on the side naturally attracted the attention of Deportivo coach Caparros on the sidelines because Real Madrid's right side was facing the coach's bench, and Beckham's move was almost in Caparros's line of sight.

What's the meaning?

He suddenly had an ominous premonition, but he had no idea what to do.

Beckham took a slow run, bent his leg, and sent a curveball with his right foot.

In the penalty area, players ran back and forth, creating a mess.

Gao Shen couldn't tell what was going on from the sidelines, so he saw Ramos rush out suddenly. Beckham's free kick landed on Ramos's head just right, and the Real Madrid central defender headed the ball directly.

The ball went straight to the lower right corner of the goal, hit the leg of the right defender Hector in front of the goal line, and deflected into Deportivo's goal.

One to zero!

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"

Ramos jumped up with excitement, and was about to rush out of the stadium amid the cheers of the Real Madrid fans.

Unexpectedly, the referee signaled it was an own goal.

Ramos, who was halfway through his celebration, suddenly stopped and stared at the referee blankly with murderous intent in his eyes.

Damn, I'm halfway through celebrating, and you tell me it's an own goal?

The Real Madrid fans at the scene were still excited and cheering, and the surrounding teammates still ran up to celebrate with Ramos, but the Real Madrid central defender was depressed.

A goal turned into an assist, sad!

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After taking a one-goal lead, Real Madrid continued to press Deportivo and won a free kick in the frontcourt outside the penalty area, but Beckham's free kick failed.

This wave lasted for nearly ten minutes before Gao Shen on the sidelines signaled Real Madrid to slow down and start to control the game calmly.

The backward Deportivo tried to counterattack but failed to take advantage of Real Madrid's defense.

It wasn't until the 17th minute that Deportivo got their first shot from Tristan.

Afterward, the two teams continued to stalemate.

Real Madrid focused on stability and were not in a hurry to attack. Deportivo, playing away from home, failed to create a threat after several attacks, and did not dare to blindly press forward.

On the contrary, in the 39th minute, Real Madrid grabbed another opportunity.

Deportivo's left-back Capdevila tripped Beckham while defending on the right on the outside of the penalty area and gave Real Madrid another free kick on the right.

It was almost the same position as last time.

Beckham took the penalty, and with the goal just conceded, Deportivo clearly paid a lot of attention.

But even so, with the cooperation of his teammates, Ramos just ran out of the gap, grabbed an unguarded opportunity, and headed the ball directly into Deportivo's goal.

Ramos was so excited that he rushed to the sidelines, flipped consecutively, and celebrated his goal.

Two to zero!

Real Madrid players all chased to the sidelines, cheering and celebrating with Ramos.

This time it was a real goal!

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"You're crazy! How come you got into position twice?" Guti laughed and grabbed Ramos and asked.

Ramos laughed, pretending to be mysterious: "Secret."

Everyone laughed and cursed.

"I saw that the head coach pulled you aside and said something before the game. Did he give you some advice?" Raul asked

It was only then that everyone suddenly realized, and they all saw it.

Ramos, noticing he had been found out, scratched the back of his head. "Actually, he asked me, 'Do you want to score tonight?' I said, 'Of course,' so he told me to get in position during corner kicks and free kicks in the frontcourt. When the time comes, try to get to the ball and work well with David."

Everyone was stunned. Is that all? Can you score just because you want to?

Beckham was the first to react and said with a smile, "Deportivo's two central defenders are not tall; they're about the same size as Sergio, but their jumping ability is..."

Ramos, the man who flipped consecutively after scoring just now!

After everyone understood, they looked toward the home team's coach, who was smiling from ear to ear and embracing the coaching staff.

Suddenly, they all realized that, without knowing it, Gao Shen had changed Real Madrid.

And they were constantly changing their impressions and views of Gao.

Even many who were staunchly opposed to him at first were now gradually accepting him.

It wasn't that they accepted the reality and compromised, but because they could all feel that the Real Madrid coached by Gao Shen was getting stronger bit by bit.

Different from the powerful galactic battleships of the past, this Gao Shen-led Real Madrid had a cohesive force.