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Chapter 853 Anxious Lopetegui

In fact, Lopetegui was not born in a small team. He is a Real Madrid youth trainer. He has played for Real Madrid and Barcelona in his career. Although they are both substitutes, he has not played much. In the team, but this kind of background gave him the opportunity to coach the Spanish youth team and the Real Madrid youth team after retiring. After leading the Spanish youth team to win two European youth championships, he got the opportunity to coach Porto, and then replaced Bosque Coaching the Spanish national team, Zidane announced his resignation after the end of last season. Real Madrid urgently contacted him who was coaching the national team. Then he announced before the start of the World Cup that he would go to coach Real Madrid after the World Cup, and then the Spanish Football Association fired him up...

The opportunity to coach a giant like Real Madrid is indeed rare, but Lopetegui will inevitably lose his mentality when coaching Real Madrid like this. He is eager to achieve better results to stabilize his position, which proves that he sacrificed to lead the team to the World Cup. The opportunity is worth it.

But with his resume, it is still a bit difficult to suppress Real Madrid. Now that La Liga has played seven rounds, Real Madrid has won four, drawn two and lost one, and tied for the first place in the standings with Barcelona. In the past, he led the team to a [-]-[-] defeat to Sevilla, which still put him under a lot of pressure.

Under such circumstances, it is a good opportunity to win against Southampton, who is also in poor form recently, and to win honors that the previous Real Madrid coaches have not won.

After all, in the previous few years, Southampton met Real Madrid every year, but whether it was coached by Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, or Benitez or Zidane, only Zidane last season In the semi-finals, they defeated Southampton away.

And that time was also the closest Southampton was to being out.

If he can do it, he can indeed stabilize his position very well. After all, Real Madrid fans now hate Southampton terribly. Defeating Southampton is enough to make his status in the hearts of fans lofty.

His own appointment was hand-picked by Real Madrid chairman Florentino, and if he gets the support of the fans, then he will be able to hold on to the team.

It's that simple.

If a head coach wants to gain a foothold, in fact, there must be a triangle that can be sustained-trusted by the management, liked by the fans, and recognized by the team. If there are two corners of this triangle that are stable, it is basically no problem. If you have it, then there is no problem.

Now Lopetegui only has the trust of the management in this corner, so he is eager to add chips to his position.

In fact, the management may not really trust him. With Zidane’s departure, Real Madrid has no suitable candidates to find. Almost all top coaches have coached them before, and they don’t want to eat it later. The well-known head coaches in the world basically have their own masters. Under such circumstances, Lopetegui, who has a little resume and is their own Real Madrid, has become a seemingly good choice.

After all, Zidane's previous resume was worse than him.

Of course, the management also has certain reservations about such a head coach. Although Ronaldo was sold for 500 million in cash this summer, Real Madrid did not have any heavyweight investment. Thirty-five million euros for Courtois is already the highest. The expenditure, and then there are some piecemeal introductions, such as Mariano, Odriozola and other players. Although they cost hundreds of millions of euros in total, it is not a particularly large investment.

This means that management does not trust him and does not want to invest too much in his tenure, lest it will be difficult to clean up later.

Lopetegui is not unclear about this, so he has always seemed anxious.

When the day of the game came, the Southampton fans occupied the entire Saints Stadium. They shouted the names of the Southampton players loudly. Although they have not performed well recently, they still showed an extremely enthusiastic attitude. Hope the team can get out of the predicament.

Ji Ya has dispatched his entire main lineup, and the match against strong teams can speed up their running-in.

And Real Madrid's starting lineup made Ji Ya feel a little strange... You must know that they are old rivals.

Goalkeeper Keylor Navas, right back Carvajal, left back is Reguilon, two central defenders are Varane and Nacho partnered, midfielders Kroos, Casemiro and Ceballos, Modric sits On the bench, the two wingers are Vazquez and Asensio, and the center Benzema.

Bell, Ramos, and Marcelo missed due to injuries.

"This buddy has a problem with his training, why are there so many injuries." Ji Ya said gloatingly.

In the absence of the three main players, he even said that he would crush Southampton to death in the group stage. I really don't know where Lopetegui's confidence comes from.

But Real Madrid's players performed very well.

From the beginning of the game, they kept running and pressing in the midfield, trying to interfere with Southampton's game rhythm.

From this point of view, Lopetegui still has his own ideas. After all, the problems exposed by the Southampton midfielder before are obvious. Come out and make the win with what the forwards are doing.

This is how Liverpool won Southampton, and Liverpool's midfielder is still worse than the current Real Madrid.

For this reason, he put Modric on the bench, because although the Croatian is a well-deserved midfielder, his running press still wastes his ability, so let him be a substitute under such circumstances , It is also a good choice to come up to attack in the second half.

Yet Southampton's players aren't worried about that right now.

They also learned to organize De Bruyne and Rodri at the back, and then the two wide midfielders stepped up and quickly passed the midfield to launch the attack.

This style of play is a bit messy, but it can better train the midfielder, and at the same time it does not affect his offense too much.

When this set of tactics is proficient, Southampton's midfield run-in will be considered complete.

When Real Madrid started to press, the Southampton players began to retreat step by step, luring them to press out.

If Modric was there, Real Madrid's midfielder would not be lured out so easily, but now Modric is not on the field, so in the frantic press, Real Madrid's midfielder was unknowingly attracted past.

"The temperament of a team is easily influenced by the head coach. Now this Real Madrid...their temperament is chaotic, and it is very close to Lopetegui's characteristics." Ji Ya smiled at Benelli explain.

"That's because he can't affect the team's temperament at all..." Benelli complained.

Ji Ya laughed.