On the evening of April 30, El Sadar Stadium.
Real Madrid away to Osasuna.
Real Madrid was exhausted physically aally after just battling Min at the San Siro, while Osasuna is sitting at home and has had a week of spare time to recharge and wait for work.
Gao Shen had to rotate in this game, and Ramos being suspended with a red card had a huge impa Real Madrid.
The goalkeeper was Casils, the back line sisted of Raul Bravo, Elgra, Xavi Garcia, and Abeloa, the midfielders were Gravesen and Pablo Garcia, the front line was Robinho, Baptista, and ho, and the siriker was Ronaldo.
In the frontcourt of Real Madrid's lineup, Gao Shen arranged an attag lineup of four Brazilian pyers for the first time, especially for ho as the right winger, which was the first time in history.
One of the important reasons for this arra is that Real Madrid's back line was somewhat empty.
This was Xavi Garcia's first start on behalf of Real Madrid, and he was also a crucial tral defender of the team, fag a famous pyer like Milosevic.
Gao Shen was very entangled before the game. He tried to pair Woodgate with Elgra. Woodgate himself felt that he could py double games in a week, but as a result, it would be very troublesome to py Santahree days ter.
Xavi Garcia performed well in training. He is tall and strong, and his defensive ability is also good. In addition, Real Madrid's defense has bee a system now. After prehensive sideration by Gao Shen and the coag staff, they all felt that they could give it a try.
As long as they survived the Osasuna battle, Sp Santander would field the bination of Woodgate and Ramos in the middle of the week, and the back line would not o worry too much.
In the end, Gao Shen decided to take a risk.
But just in case, he arranged for Pablo Garcia, who was familiar with Osasuna, to partner with Gravesen in front, and used this pair of maen to protect the defense. With Baptista and ho, who are both offensive and defehey already had a figuration tthen defense.
As for Robinho and Ronaldo, they were the two knives used by Gao Shen to attack.
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After the start of the game, Baptista's le shot souhe horn.
Then Ronaldo broke through the right rib of the penalty area and passed the defender, but the shot was saved by the goalkeeper Ricardo.
Then Robinho dribbled the ball from the left and made a forcible breakthrough. Baptista took a long shot from the front of the penalty area, but he still failed to score.
The first eight minutes beloo Real Madrid, theered the rhythm of Osasuna.
The home team also tried to break Real Madrid's goal, but the 442 formatioed them from gaining an advantage in the midfield, and they were forced to use long passes and side crosses as their main means.
This was also deeply expected.
Raul Bravo and Abeloa actively blocked on the fnks, Elgra, Xavi Garcia, Pablo Garcia, and other pyers actively trolled the middle. Along with Gravessen and Baptista actively returning to defense, Real Madrid's trol of the mid-high ball was still in pce, and they did not give Osasuna a ce.
The most threatening moment was ih minute, when Osasuna striker Webber tried to stop the ball in the chest in the penalty area. He took off at the same time as Abeloa, who was behind, grabbed the point, but fell in the penalty area and couldn't get up.
Osasuna's pyers rushed over and shoved Abeloa, thinking it was a bad foul.
Before the game, Gao Shen warned his pyers that in the home court of Osasuna, the referee's w enfort has always been home-based because the fans here are really savage.
Therefore, Abeloa did not resist when fag the oppo's push, but directly "fell to the ground."
I have to say that this guy still has the potential to be an actor, but unfortunately, it is not produced by La Masia Film and Television Base.
The referee also knew what was going on, so her side gave a penalty, but each gave a warning, and the game tinued.
But the tension of the game was obviously getting stronger.
In the first 30 mihe two sides each had seven shots, but none of them were able to hit the goal.
But in the 31st minute, in an attack from Real Madrid, after Robinho got the ball from the left, he cycled in a row, threw off the defender, and cut in, passing the ball to Ronaldo, who was retreating.
The Brazilian alien turned his back to the attag dire, and after taking the ball back, he separated the ball in time.
Baptista quickly plugged in, stopped, and rushed into the top of the arc of the penalty area. Without waiting for the defending pyer to approach, he shot directly with his legs.
It was already the third shot of the Brazilia from the front of the box.
He had missed both on the previous two occasions, but this time he bsted the ball straight into the bottom of Osasuna's .
1-0!
"Yeah!!"
Gao Shen couldn't hold himself ba the sidelines and jumped up excitedly.
The whole stadium was booed, and Real Madrid's pyers rushed out of the stadium to celebrate.
In particur, several Brazilian pyers such as Ronaldo danced samba on the sidelio celebrate the goal.
"Nice job!" Gao Shen appuded vigorously and shouted loudly.
After the celebration, Gao Shen loudly remihe pyers on the sidelines.
"Be careful, and cheer up!"
"You do it, e on!!"
The se of Gao Shen cheering for the pyers on the sidelines was also captured by the live broadcast of La Liga.
"Real Madrid's formation tonight is still a bit servative, but it's uandable."
"With Real Madrid's current age, lineup, state, and the schedule they have to deal with, it is absolutely difficult for them to py a satisfactame in every game."
"Gao Shen also looked very nervous and passioonight."
"He's under a lot of pressure now, because just yesterday, Bara beat Cadiz 1-0 at home, which makes him have to win Osasuna tonight."
"secutive away games against such difficult oppos. Ramos is suspended with a red card, and Zidane and others o be rotated. This makes Gao Shen really stretched."
Just when the live broadcast was aimed at Gao Shen, a pstic bottle was suddenly thrown from the stand, flying directly ao Shen's head, and fell into the stadium.
"Osasuna's fans were very dissatisfied. Sundries were thrown from the stands, and this bottle of drink was almost thrown into the deep."
"Although it was live on TV, we could still hear the voices from the se. Osasuna fans were cursing Real Madrid's head coach, obviously dissatisfied with the goal ceded just now, and believed that Gao Shen's encement to the pyers rovocation to them."
Gao Shen pio the fourth official on the sidelines, but the other party was helpless, indig that Gao Shen had better go back to the coag bench of the visiting team, where there is a roof, at least there is o worry about being hit by debris.
"But Gao Shen is still standing on the sidelines. He wants to use this behavior to tell his pyers that he is fighting side by side with them!"
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The first half ended with a one-goal lead for Real Madrid.
After ging sides in the sed half, Osasuna unched a wave of onsught, trying to kill Real Madrid in one go.
Before, they beat Valencia like that.
At the beginning of the sed half, they scored two goals in a row, stunning the Bat Legion.
But Real Madrid is not Valencia. They made a full pn before the game, and there were thousands of warnings in the locker room just now.
Although the team was forced to be in dahe existence of Casils and the defensive system that the team had worked hard to build in the past period of time all pyed an effect at this time.
The pyers made mistakes but didn't cede the ball.
As Osasuna's wave of offeacks receded, Gao Shen was also secretly relieved.
After 65 minutes, Gao Shen took the lead in making substitutions and repced Ronaldo with Soldado.
The Brazilian Alien tributed an assist, and his movement in the frontcourt was also very active, whied a lot of physical energy.
Osasuna also quickly made substitutions, repg Cvijo with attag pyer Moha and simultaneously repg Franjo with tral defender Mu?oz, adopting a three-back style of py.
This is a very aggressive offensive adjustment, and Aguirre made it clear that he wao fight Real Madrid to the end.
Gao Shen also quickly made adjustments, repg Robinho with Juan Mata as the left winger.
This is not the first time Juan Mata has e on; he has e off the bench before, but it was either during some garbage time or not impactful.
But this time, the 18-year-old Real Madrid pyer finally had a ake a difference.
Ih minute, after Pablo García successfully intercepted the ball, he ha over to Gravesen, who quickly initiated a terattack.
The Danish midfielder passed the ball to Juan Mata, who was retreating from the left. After the Spanish winger received the ball, he started quickly, pursued by two Osasuna defenders.
Mata decisively khe ball across to Baptista and signaled him to pass it back.
The Brazilian midfielder uood and khe ball back to the left side of the penalty area.
Mata quickly broke into the left side of the penalty area, reached the ball before tral defender Cuélr, and stabbed it towards the goal lihe ball erfectly crossed.
Right in front of the goal, Soldado had been waiting for an opportunity. As soon as he saw Mata's cross, he immediately followed, and with a cle header, scored the ball into Osasuna's .
The referee's whistle sounded again.
Not only were Real Madrid's pyers on the field screaming wildly, but even Gao Shen on the sidelines was surprised for a moment before bursting into cheers, his whole demeanor exuding fidence.
He really did not expect that Mata would be able to seize su opportunity to terattack.
They deserved it!
Who made Aguirre take a risk with a back three?
"Wow! Nice work!" Gao Shen roared forcefully.
The boos otensified.
But everyone khat Osasuna couldn't stop Real Madrid tonight.
More importantly, besides the three Brazilian pyers who helped Real Madrid beat Osasuna, there were also two youth pyers, Juan Mata and Soldado.
At the critical moment, Real Madrid's heritage still pyed a signifit role.
2-0!
Gao Shen ughed aloud, thinking to himself: Now, no one should call me a 1-ist again, right?