Chapter 430 The hidden worries of the Spanish team and the ambitious French team

There was nothing his teammates could do about what happened to De Gea.

Ramos was originally looking forward to adding another Spaniard to Real Madrid's team to strengthen the strength of the local gang, but now it's better. The boss Cassie is gone, and De Gea, the younger brother, can't come either.

Real Madrid's local gang has been further weakened.

Casillas's experience made Ramos himself feel a bit sad.

If Real Madrid doesn't let Cassie stay at the club for the rest of his life, then one day in the future, if he can no longer play, will Real Madrid keep him?

The answer is probably no.

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After everyone arrived, Spain began training.

As usual, a large number of fans came outside the national team's training base.

There is nothing easier than going to the national team's training base to meet a lot of stars. If you are lucky, you may be able to get the stars' autographs and photos.

Perhaps affected by the club's transfer, De Gea's performance in team training was very poor.

In view of De Gea's poor condition, Bosque did not choose to let De Gea play when arranging the starting lineup against Slovakia, but continued to trust Casillas.

After Casillas joined Porto, he has played three full games on behalf of Porto. In these three games, he contributed two clean sheets and performed very well.

For Cassie, joining Porto is a good choice for him.

After coming to play in the Portuguese Super League, the burden on him was much lighter.

Porto has a dominant position in the Portuguese Super League. The pressure of the league is not great, and the competitiveness of the Champions League is not strong. If you are lucky, you can qualify from the group. If you are unlucky, it is not bad to finish the group stage and win a Europa League spot to play in the Europa League.

These are completely different from when I was at Real Madrid. After all, Real Madrid has been dreaming of winning the tenth Champions League trophy in team history over the years, and they have failed again and again, which makes every player on the team Everyone is under great pressure.

From a geographical point of view, Portugal is also very close to Spain, and it is very convenient to travel to and from the country. Playing football in Portugal is no different from playing football in Spain.

These are the things that attract him to Porto. Of course, everything has its pros and cons.

The teams in the Portuguese Super League are relatively poor, and even Porto, the richest, is far less generous than Real Madrid in terms of wages.

After Cassie joined Porto, his salary was reduced from the original 6.5 million euros to 5 million euros.

If he chooses to join another giant, the salary he can get will definitely be higher than this. After all, with his current strength, he has not fallen to the point where no team wants him.

With Cassie's current state, there is no problem for him to guard Spain's national goal for another two years.

As for whether it can persist until the 2018 World Cup, it is a bit difficult to say.

After all, if it really comes to 2018, Casey will be 37 years old by then. More importantly, Lin Quan remembers that Casey seems to have a heart disease, and he retired early because of a myocardial infarction.

Thinking of this, Lin Quan felt the need to remind Cassie and ask him to go to the hospital for a comprehensive physical examination as soon as possible.

If it can be discovered and treated in time, it may be possible to avoid being forced to retire in the future.

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On September 6, Spain faced the challenge of Slovakia, ranked second in Group C, at the New Tartier Stadium in Oviedo.

This game is not only about the top spot in the group, but also about whether Spain can qualify in advance.

In addition, this is still a game at home, so Spain sent its full lineup.

The same goes for Slovakia, both sides want to win this game.

In the second round of the group stage held last October, Slovakia defeated Spain 2:1 at home, breaking Spain's unbeaten streak.

So for Spain, this game is also their revenge game.

After the opening, Spain did not conduct a test and immediately launched a fierce attack on Slovakia.

David Silva, Iniesta, Lin Quan and others frequently played wonderful cooperation in the frontcourt, making Slovakia's defense uneasy.

On the other side, Diego Costa, who is in his prime, has also shown his potential as a striker. He creates a huge threat in the opponent's penalty area, and can also act as a troublemaker, using various small moves to make the opponent's defender Very uncomfortable.

The Slovak players' lungs were furious. You, the World Cup champion, actually used such despicable methods. Do you still have any shame?

However, Diego Costa doesn't care about this. As long as the referee does not notice and stop him, he will continue. If the opponent's defender is completely irritated and does something uncool in anger, that is simply too much. alright!

In the fifth minute of the first half, Lin Quan dribbled the ball forward, and David Silva cut inside to take the opponent's full-back away.

A red figure ran along the wing like a whirlwind. Lin Quan looked like he had eyes on the back of his head. Without looking back, he sent a pass from the penalty area.

The ball was passed to the right side of the Slovak penalty area, where there was a large amount of space.

Seeing Lin Quan's pass, the players on both sides of the penalty area failed to react immediately. Some people even thought that Lin Quan made a mistake.

However, when the red figure rushed towards him and received Lin Quan's pass impartially, they realized that this was definitely not a mistake, it was a wonderful pass!

The person who entered the penalty area was none other than Spanish full-back Alba.

When Alba saw the football flying towards him, he subconsciously stretched his head out and didn't even have time to complete the action of shaking his head to attack the goal. The football bounced back as if it had hit a stone.

The speed of the football itself plus the speed of his forward sprint, the superposition of the two caused the football to fly towards the Slovak goal at an extremely fast speed.

The Slovak goalkeeper was caught off guard and had no time to do anything and could only watch the ball hit the net.

The score became 1:0, and Spain got off to a dream start.

After scoring, Alba ran excitedly along the field, touching his head in disbelief as he ran.

It feels so good when a defender scores a goal. No wonder Ramos, that old boy, always sneaks into the penalty area!

Seeing their team taking the lead so quickly, the Spanish fans who came to the scene cheered.

Although they have seen too many scenes of the Spanish team winning, as long as they see the national team players scoring goals, they are still excited, as if they have rockets growing on their butts, they can't help but jump up. I can't sit still.

Football is such a fascinating sport that can so easily mobilize people's emotions and make them happy and crazy about it.

Taking the lead so quickly indicates that this game will go very smoothly.

What happened next was as expected. After Spain scored the first goal, the mentality of the players on both sides was greatly affected.

The Spanish players are becoming more and more calm, while the Slovak players are a little anxious.

After getting the ball, they were eager to launch a counterattack, but it was difficult to get past the Spanish midfield. Every time the ball was passed to half court, the ball was easily lost.

Once the ball is lost, Spain will launch an extremely fast counterattack on the spot.

In this counterattack, Diego Costa's advantages came into play.

In the 33rd minute of the first half, Diego Costa received Lin Quan's through ball, went to the meeting alone, and once again broke the Slovak goal.

The game was basically over at this point, and no one could beat Spain when they were leading by two goals.

The Slovak players tried to struggle without giving up, but were beaten with bruises and swollen faces.

Since the opponent was still resisting and did not surrender, Del Bosque, who originally planned to make substitutions at halftime, postponed the substitution to the 65th minute.

The extra twenty minutes were a disaster for Slovakia.

At the beginning of the second half, Lin Quan used a free kick to blast the Slovak goal for the third time.

Five minutes later, David Silva crossed in front of the goal, Lin Quan outflanked the shot and scored the ball, completing the score twice.

In the first half, although Lin Quan sent two assists, he did not score a goal. This made the Spanish fans who came to watch the game a little uncomfortable.

There were even collective shouts from some fans at the scene, asking Lin Quan to score one.

Unexpectedly, Lin Quan really satisfied them, and got two of them as soon as he entered, which was double satisfaction.

In the 63rd minute, Lin Quan gave the ball away. When he had a chance to shoot, he passed the ball to David Silva, allowing the opponent to push into the empty goal and expand the score to 5:0.

The Slovak players were completely stunned and completely honest. They no longer struggled and had nothing to struggle with.

They were five goals behind, and even the gods couldn't save them.

Seeing the team scoring consecutive goals in the second half, Del Bosque was happy.

So with a wave of his hand, Pedro was asked to appear, Lin Quan was replaced, and he was left to accept the applause of the fans alone.

Spanish fans are very fond of their own players. When Lin Quan left the field, the fans in the audience stood up and applauded him.

All five goals scored by Spain in this game were related to Lin Quan. His data of two shots and three passes, I really don’t know what words to use to describe it.

Thousands of words are finally condensed into two words - awesome!

With such talent in our national team, what more could I ask for?

After Lin Quan came off the field, the situation on the field became much calmer.

Without Lin Quan's connection and transition, Spain's offensive dropped sharply.

On the opposite side, Slovakia became completely honest after being beaten violently, and the game became dull.

Seeing this, Bosque asked Cazorla, Koke and others to appear one after another, and also replaced Iniesta and Fabregas.

They have another game to play three days later. Although they have qualified for the group ahead of schedule, Del Bosque still plans to take these players with him.

Even if it's not for the competition, it would be good to train with the big team for two more days.

After all, the time for the national team to train together is limited, and the tacit understanding between the players is far less than that of their club teammates.

Just like in this game, Lin Quan obviously cooperated with David Silva more often and more closely.

If other teammates can achieve the tacit understanding between the two of them, the Spanish team's strength will only reach a higher level.

Three days later, at home in North Macedonia, Spain failed to score a goal, but still defeated its opponent 1:0.

The only goal in the game came from the opponent's goalkeeper's own goal.

Del Bosque arranged a large number of substitutes to play in this game. Judging from the performance of the substitutes on the court, it can only be said to be quite satisfactory, not very satisfactory.

In this game, Spain's ball possession rate was as high as 78%. A total of 18 shots were completed, 6 of which were on target, but no goals were scored.

Judging from the data and the situation on the field, this was a one-sided game.

But judging from the final score, this should be a very anxious game. Spain has an old problem that often appeared in the past - a lack of attack.

In the absence of Lin Quan, the Spanish players seemed not to know how to attack. The ball was passed back and forth between their feet. The pass was beautiful, but the final kick was extremely ugly.

After Bosque replaced Diego Costa in the second half, the situation still did not change. Diego Costa completed 4 shots, two of which missed the goal frame. Both shots were successfully saved by the opponent's goalkeeper.

In terms of the ability to seize opportunities, the gap between him and Lin Quan is indeed a bit big. If these four shooting opportunities are given to Lin Quan, at least two goals can be obtained, Del Bosque thought in his mind.

As for the newcomers in the team, such as Vitolo, Paco, Mark Bartra, Bernat and others, the performance is really unsatisfactory.

Del Bosque can clearly feel that there is a huge gap between the talent and strength of these people and the golden generation.

It is simply unrealistic to expect them to replace these old players.

This fills Del Bosque's heart with worries. At present, it seems that the Spanish national team's strength can still be maintained, but when the 1985 golden generation retires, latecomers will simply not be able to fill the vacancies left by them.

Among the current young generation, except for a few people such as Isco, Juan, Koke, and Morata, who are good, the others are simply unsightly.

But to maintain a team, just relying on these few people is obviously not enough. Even if there is Lin Quan, a great god in the team, he can't lead a bunch of pig teammates!

If we can no longer discover useful young talents, then the Spanish dynasty may be able to last until 2018.

After all, there are only a handful of sober-minded people like Del Bosque in Spain.

People are just immersed in the current joy and ignore the hidden dangers of the team. Even if someone discovers it, they may not be able to wake up those sleeping people.

However, objective facts cannot be transferred or changed by human will.

The problems existing in the Spanish team are not only seen by Del Bosque, but also by Deschamps, the coach of the French team.

Moreover, he had already started to take precautions long ago, promoting and reusing a large number of newcomers, allowing them to occupy the main position of the national team.

Thanks to his efforts, the French team has now begun to gradually shake off the trough of the past few years and begin to regain its vitality.

"Spain team, let us test your quality in next year's European Cup!"