Chapter 797 The scapegoat

Chapter 797 The Scapegoat

In today's world football, Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga, Manchester United in the Premier League, and Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga are known as the four strongest teams in the world. Fans have also given the four teams a name, called the Demon King Saren, which is homophonic to "The Demon King Kills People".

When commenting on the top four, many media generally believe that although Manchester United has won more championships in the past four seasons, Real Madrid's overall strength is slightly better than the other three teams including Manchester United.

This has been a consistent characteristic of Real Madrid under Zidane's coaching.

The Galacticos played very cohesively, not only in their offense but also in their defense.

Overall, Real Madrid is not used to defensive counterattacks. Even though Zidane arranged nine players to retreat, in fact, the team still has offensive football blood flowing in its bones.

The football field is indeed full of unpredictability, but it must be admitted that the advantage of overall strength can bring a higher tolerance rate, whether in a 90-minute game or in a long season.

In today's highly information-based world, there are no so-called pearls covered in dust. As soon as young players emerge, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, or even earlier, they will immediately attract the attention of strong teams, such as Manchester United's Rashford, Mbappe and Greenwood.

In the European transfer market where you get what you pay for, the wealthy Real Madrid can always find better players.

The team built with this group of players will naturally have stronger overall strength.

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Mourinho was happy that after he took over the Carrington training base, Manchester United ended the Glazer era. And the new owner of Manchester United was not short of money, and spent a huge amount of money to build a super luxurious lineup for him that could be comparable to Real Madrid, including spending 200 million euros to introduce Bruno from Udinese.

Although this transfer was once questioned, four years later, it turned out to be an extremely wise decision.

This not only made everyone at Manchester United breathe a sigh of relief, but also gave Mourinho more confidence.

Bruno is constantly scoring goals, making assists, and improving his strength, while also constantly raising Manchester United's ceiling.

As the team's head coach, all he needs to do is to continuously consolidate the team's foundation and bottom line, and try his best to bring out Bruno's threat and strength on the field.

Many people say that Mourinho doesn't like star players, which is actually wrong. What he doesn't like is the kind of star players who don't have enough strength but want to have tactical privileges.

But for a player like Bruno, any head coach in the world would treasure him, including Mourinho, because he knows that his trust and support will always be rewarded by Bruno.

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After conceding a goal, Real Madrid continued to defend and counterattack, using Hazard and Rodrigo on the two wings as counterattack weapons. The Galacticos did not panic at all because of falling behind. Instead, Manchester United made mistakes shortly after the start of the second half.

Also in the penalty area, also a corner kick.

Hazard quickly sent a tactical corner kick, and Rodrigo took a long shot from the edge of the penalty area. Manchester United players failed to block it in time, and De Gea flew over to save it, but was unable to do so. The shot actually passed through the crowded penalty area and flew to the back point.

Benzema rushed over and blocked Rodrigo's deflected shot into Manchester United's goal.

1: 1!

Real Madrid equalized the score, and the total score became 2:3. Real Madrid was only one goal behind!

Zidane was very excited on the sidelines. He has always been clear that Manchester United's defense is not as solid as Real Madrid's, and their real formidable part is the midfield.

The midfield composed of Bruno, Gundogan and Kante is arguably the strongest in the world.

But the same cannot be said for the defense, which consists of Luke Shaw, Van Dijk, Maguire and Cancelo. Although it is also one of the top defenses in Europe, it is definitely not the strongest in Europe.

Whether it is Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, or even Liverpool, their defense is no worse than Manchester United's.

When he thought of this, a smile appeared on Zidane's lips.

The two sides returned to the same starting line, and he once again saw hope of victory.

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"Manchester United intercepted the ball in front of the penalty area!"

"Kante passed the ball to Gundogan."

"Gundogan made a long pass directly to the front court..."

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The Red Devils launched a quick counterattack at home.

Bruno shook off Casemiro, rushed across Real Madrid's half at an extremely fast speed and headed straight for the penalty area.

Real Madrid had just equalized the score, and the players on the field wanted to make a concerted effort. In the previous attack, the team as a whole pressed too high, which resulted in Militao and Varane being the only ones left at the back when Manchester United counterattacked.

Militao returned to defense immediately and chased the ball at the same time as Bruno.

The Brazilian center back's turning and starting speed were slow, but Bruno's position was further back, which led to the two of them reaching the outside of Real Madrid's penalty area almost at the same time.

The football fell slowly, Militao judged the landing point, and used his body to block Bruno to the left.

It was the first time for the young Militao to face off against Bruno. In Militao's impression, Bruno, the world's number one football player, has always been known for his speed, explosiveness and dribbling, and his physical fitness is not his strong point. This led the Brazilian central defender to believe that as long as he suppressed him a little, he could limit Bruno.

But as soon as the two of them came into contact, Militao realized he was wrong. Bruno's body looked very thin, but his strength was not bad at all.

Compared with a strong and muscular man like Militao, he is certainly inferior, but it is unrealistic for Militao to eat him in one breath, especially since Militao also has to consider kicking the ball away.

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Militao is tall and has long legs, so he originally had several different options.

At this time, there were only four players near the Real Madrid penalty area, namely Militao who was chasing Bruno back to defense, Casemiro behind him, and Varane in the middle.

As long as Militao can pass the ball, whether it is to Varane in the middle or back to the goalkeeper, they are all very good options. At worst, he can just kick it away.

Originally, Militao intended to use his body to suppress Bruno, then push him away, grab the best position, and then pass back or sideways.

This was undoubtedly the safest way, but suddenly, he realized that his body could not suppress Bruno as easily as expected.

Not only that, Bruno seemed to have gone mad. He disregarded the danger at all, and took the initiative to stick his head out and rush forward to meet the falling ball.

This kick just happened to push the ball out, causing Militao's foot to miss.

The Brazilian center back was taken aback and retracted his foot in time, otherwise, he would have kicked Bruno directly on the forehead and blood would have been inevitable.

But precisely because of this, Bruno took this opportunity to break free from Militao's entanglement and quickly caught up.

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Courtois misjudged the timing of his attack this time. Perhaps he thought Militao should be able to deal with Bruno. In the end, Bruno won the duel, which was beyond his expectations.

Anyway, when Courtois attacked, Bruno caught up with the ball first. With a light dribble, Bruno dribbled the ball past the attacking goalkeeper Courtois...

After Bruno avoided Courtois, he chased him in one step and pushed with the inside of his left foot.

Varane in the middle quickly returned to the penalty area. In shock, he fell to the ground and slid, trying to clear the ball before it rolled into the goal line, but the final result was that both he and the ball slid into the goal.

After his sliding tackle, the grass was a mess.

After Bruno's shot, he continued to run out of the stadium, holding his hands high and shouting loudly to celebrate his goal.

Behind him, the referee finally blew the whistle to indicate that the goal was valid!

Less than three minutes after Real Madrid equalized the score, Manchester United relied on a quick counterattack and Bruno scored twice to break through Real Madrid's goal again.

2: 1!

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When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the score on the field remained 2:1!

Manchester United finally defeated the powerful Real Madrid with Bruno's two goals and won the European derby again.

Manchester United players won the game, everyone was very happy, and people kept coming up to Bruno to congratulate him.

Bruno was also grinning from ear to ear and talking to his teammates.

Occasionally, when Real Madrid players passed by him, he would politely shake hands with them and have a chat.

As one of the top football stars in the world today, Bruno is also very popular on the field.

Benzema walked off the field with his head down unwillingly.

Although he scored a goal in the game, which gave Real Madrid hope, Bruno's double goal ultimately killed the game.

During the game, Real Madrid retreated as a whole, Hazard and Rodrigo basically retreated to the midfield, Benzema was pushed to the front alone, while Manchester United's two wings played very actively.

Mourinho arranged Kante to mark him, and the French compatriot froze Benzema throughout the game.

Almost every time Benzema gets the ball, the French midfielder is near him. As long as he sticks to the ball a little, Kante will be able to entangle him in the first time, and once he is entangled by Kante, it will be a disaster.

In the Real Madrid team, he was once suppressed by a Portuguese player. After the Portuguese player left, Benzema finally felt that the clouds had cleared and the moon was visible.

But today, he was once again suppressed by another Portuguese man!

Benzema raised his head depressedly, exhaled, and his heart was full of depression.

His performance in big scenes and crucial games has always been his weak point and pain point, but he has never been able to make any breakthroughs.

He is very clear about his problems. He gets anxious easily and becomes chaotic when he gets anxious.

Thinking of this, he could only shake his head helplessly.