Chapter 104 Breaking Through the Long Pass Threshold and Filling in the Gaps [Please Subscribe, Big Guys! ]

"Don't you have the word respect in your dictionary? You are now mocking the strongest team in Europe that has won three La Liga titles and two European titles in the past three seasons!"

"Madridists are complacent after leading for half a season. There are still 14 rounds left in the league. You'd better pray that Real Madrid will not let you down!"

"Your chances of reaching the semi-finals in the Champions League will end, because we will defeat you head-on again!"

"It's all a draw, but we drew with Atletico Madrid and you drew with Racing Santander. Shame on you!"

Barcelona fans who were angry at Li Ang's success began to leave comments and abuse him under his tweet.

However, Real Madrid fans are not vegetarians either. They soon launched a full-scale counterattack to help Li Ang "clean up" the message board.

Li Ang was speechless when he looked at the comments under his personal tweet the next morning.

At first, when he sent "Don't panic", he was trying to appease his fans and didn't even think about provoking Barcelona.

His original intention was to say that Real Madrid's lead was large enough and the margin for error was large enough. Occasionally drawing or even losing a game was not a big problem.

After the game, you just need to review the game to get rid of some impetuous emotions, cheer up and move forward steadily.

As a result, some extreme fans of Barcelona went to his tweet to mock him.

To be honest, Li Ang’s subsequent tweet “Don’t panic, Barcelona will give it away.” is not excessive, right?

This is just a normal counterattack. He is a football player, not an entertainment star who relies on traffic to make a living.

Others talk about him for no reason, so he certainly has the right to fight back.

He just didn’t expect that Barcelona fans would intensify their verbal attacks on him.

Facts have proved that trying to reason with a large and mixed fan group is completely unworkable.

So he showed his cards. He is very familiar with using magic to fight magic.

"Yes, Barcelona is the strongest team in Europe in the past three years. I was so envious when I saw Barcelona win two Champions League titles. After all, Real Madrid is just a small club that has won nine Champions League titles. We can't compare with big clubs like Barcelona."

"I should really respect Barcelona more. Let's win two games in the league this season. How can I show my full respect if I don't win two games against Barcelona?"

"I don't know if Real Madrid will still lose, but Barcelona should continue to lose. After all, six draws and two losses are the results that a La Liga championship team can achieve? Oh, sorry, it's seven draws now."

"Why can't the winner be proud? Should we cry if we win the head-to-head match and the points ranking? Sorry, I can't do it."

Li Ang's counterattack message directly blew up public opinion!

Real Madrid fans were so happy to see Li Ang's sharp message.

And the internal player communication group of Real Madrid was even more excited with Li Ang's crazy speech!

Arbeloa——[Damn it! Little Lion, you said it so well! We should be proud of our victory! Why can't we be proud? Did these Barcelona fans selectively forget what Pique did last season? ]

Pepe——[Little Lion is indeed a cultured person, haha, I think those Barcelona fans are so angry, and he fought back with sharp words! ]

C Ronaldo——[Very cool, remember to bring me with you next time. ]

Marcelo——[I have recorded these remarks of Little Lion. If there are Barcelona fans who leave me messages to show off their Champions League titles next time, I will use these words to respond to him, haha! ]

Casillas——[We should fight back, but the words can be a little gentler. ]

Ramos——[See you tomorrow, brother, I will give you a big hug, good job! ]

Varane——[Should I report this to the boss? ]

Li Ang was still happy when he saw the speeches of his teammates in front of him, but he slapped his forehead when he saw the academic master Varane.

He should have briefly discussed this matter with Mourinho. After all, when the club holds a pre-match press conference, reporters will definitely ask Mourinho about this topic.

The club may have public relations measures at that time.

Thinking of this, Li Ang directly called Mourinho.

As a result, Mourinho teased him as soon as he answered the phone.

"Why, you are so nagging now?"

"Ah? I'm not panicking, I just think I should briefly tell you about the situation."

"It's a small matter, you are smart. You didn't insult the fans by name, let alone the Barcelona players. They can't make a big deal out of this matter."

"Okay, that's fine."

"Jorge should call you soon, get ready to answer it."

"Ah?"

Before Li Ang could react, Uncle Bird had already hung up the phone.

And five or six minutes later, Mendes really called Li Ang to ask about the situation.

"Cause and effect? ​​Okay, that's probably it."

Li Ang explained the cause of the incident and his thoughts. After listening to him, Mendes just asked Li Ang not to talk about this topic with reporters in the near future.

And then, nothing happened.

Li Ang took the phone that was hung up again, and estimated that Mendes should deal with this matter with Real Madrid's public relations department, so he drove to the base for extra training without thinking too much.

This is when the benefits of having a reliable agent are reflected.

At least in terms of public opinion, if the players themselves have not done anything outrageous, they don't have to worry too much about their reputation being biased by media reports.

In the afternoon, when Li Ang finished his extra training and was about to drive home, he had already seen the favorable public opinion guidance on the Internet.

The pro-Real Madrid media focused on promoting that Li Ang was fighting back for Real Madrid.

Newspapers that have a better relationship with Mendes praised Li Ang for protecting Real Madrid fans, and repeatedly pointed out that it was Barcelona fans who started the public opinion war for no reason.

After the two sets of combined punches, the pro-Barcelona media could only criticize Li Ang for "disrespecting" Barcelona's speech.

But to be honest, a player who came from Real Madrid's youth training is still the main force of Real Madrid's first team. Why should he show respect to Barcelona?

Are you waiting to be scolded by Real Madrid's own fans?

Or are you waiting for opportunities to switch to Barcelona later?

Li Ang doesn't want to get involved in either of these aspects. The examples of Enrique and Figo are before them. After retiring, they can't escape being criticized by fans and the media again and again.

Therefore, he now has no interest in refuting the statements of the pro-Barcelona media.

Call him a Madridist or an anti-Barcelona, ​​whatever they say.

To put it bluntly, as long as he does not join Barcelona in the future, the perception of Barcelona fans towards him will not harm his interests at all.

He still understands where the fundamentals are and how to maintain and operate them.

As the storm subsided, Li Ang's popularity among Real Madrid fans grew even higher.

But what he didn't expect was that many neutral fans also came to follow his personal social account during this public opinion war.

"Do they like sharp-tongued players with bad mouths?"

Li Ang himself couldn't help but complain.

If this is the case, then these fans who follow him may regret it before long.

Just like he is generally not dirty on the court, but when he is dirty, even the "grand and beautiful" Costa can't stand it.

The sharpness of his words is usually not shown to the outside world. Well, he considers himself to be a civilized player who is elegant, easy-going and civilized.

It's okay to be weird every once in a while, but if he has to work hard every day, he can't do it.

Li Ang, who has always had a Buddhist attitude towards fans, did not put too much thought into the surge in the number of fans.

He took advantage of the rare downtime after the last round of the league to work on his long-pass ability.

He doesn't know why, but he feels that long passes are much more difficult than when he practiced short passes and ball control.

For example, if you open the liver from an ability value of 70, you can rise to the small threshold of 80 ability values.

Short passes and ball control are much faster than long passes.

Li Ang has been focusing on long passes since the offseason before the start of this season. As a result, his ability value increased from 72 to 79, which took him most of the season.

This is much slower than the speed at which he originally improved his ability to pass short passes.

Fortunately, Li Ang is not in a hurry. Recently, he feels that his control of long-passing skills has reached a threshold.

Perhaps after crossing this threshold, his long passing ability value can successfully break through to 80, and then there will be another golden training period for data growth.

This is all the experience Li Ang has summed up before.

"Maybe next game, maybe the next game, I will get a chance to break through in the game. Training is very important, but I still have to find more opportunities to try in the game."

After the training session on the afternoon of March 3, Li Ang thought about the feeling of practicing long passes with Brother Long just now, and suddenly a premonition came into his heart.

If he tries to find more opportunities to send long passes in subsequent games, he may be able to successfully open the door to the 80 ability value of long passes.

And Alonso, who was standing quietly watching Li Ang brooding, was also smiling.

He could sense Li Ang's solid progress in various technologies during this period.

Of course, long passes, as Li Ang's current main technical shortcoming, are definitely the part that Alonso is most concerned about.

Brother Long couldn't see the various ability value panels on Li Ang, but he could feel the subtle changes in Li Ang's long passing skills.

If we say that Li Ang's previous long passes were almost imitating his pursuit of smoothness and speed, they had the appearance but no precise landing point.

So now, Li Ang's long passes have begun to improve accuracy on the basis of speed.

Brother Long thinks this is the most appropriate way to describe Li Ang's progress.

And when Li Ang further improves his long-passing skills, he can accurately grasp when to pass the ball forward and when to pass the ball back, and he can pass it without too much deviation.

Then Li Ang will be able to successfully start his career. What he needs to do next is to further hone and improve his skills in a large number of continuous competitions.

After all, in terms of overall physical talent, Brother Long always believed that Li Ang was far better than him.

The two may be about the same in head-to-head confrontation and physical fitness, but Li Ang's flexibility, balance, speed and jumping are all stronger.

Thinking of this, Brother Long couldn't help but patted Li Ang on the shoulder with relief.

"Perform your best in the next game. Try more when you have the chance. Don't be restrained. You will try to do the same in future games. If you don't apply what you learn, how can you make it your own?"

Li Ang came back to his senses, looked at Brother Long's encouraging eyes towards him, and smiled and nodded vigorously.

On the evening of March 4th, Real Madrid ushered in the 26th round of La Liga with Espanyol at home.

This is a game that is destined to be more "good-looking".

The Spaniards are currently ranked tenth in La Liga, with no pressure to avoid relegation, and their young head coach Pochettino advocates offensive football.

With these two characteristics, and the good relationship between Real Madrid and the Spaniards, Mourinho immediately decided to fight a big offensive battle with his opponent.

So, under the premise that both sides put out a 4-3-3 starting formation, this round of La Liga has attracted a huge amount of attention from fans both in Spain and abroad.

On the Real Madrid side, Ronaldo, Higuain, and Callejon formed an offensive trident.

In the midfield, Alonso played as a single defensive midfielder, and Li Ang and Di Maria were on both sides of the midfield today.

In the back line, except for Nacho who continued to replace the injured Arbeloa, the rest of the starting lineups remained the same.

If Marcelo replaced Coentrao in the starting lineup, the offensive attributes of this formation would basically be full.

However, Mourinho finally chose to play it safe.

With Di Maria providing offensive support to Ronaldo in the left midfield, Real Madrid's firepower on the left will not be weak.

It was more reassuring for Coentrao to be in charge of defense at this time.

Although the Spanish forwards basically could not threaten Real Madrid's defense, what if?

Before the game started, Li Ang looked at the young Coutinho who was not far away from him, and smiled subconsciously again.

Coutinho, who was secretly glancing at Li Ang at this moment, felt nervous when he saw his smile.

I don't know which media spread the rumor before that Li Ang liked to smile at the opponent who Mourinho asked him to lock before the game.

Coutinho, who was not yet 20 years old, had a fluffy medium-length hair and looked quite honest.

He looked like he believed the media's words.

So when the Spanish launched the first offensive attempt and midfielder Romaric passed the ball to Coutinho, the kid was really nervous.

He played as a left winger today, and Li Ang happened to play as a right midfielder, so the match was solid.

Li Ang looked at the young Coutinho, whose eyes were a little erratic opposite him, and felt quite strange.

"Does my brother look so scary?"

Muttered to himself, but Li Ang's footwork was not slow at all.

Just like he had "educated" those young players born in the 1990s before, Li Ang gave Coutinho a good lesson in the first match.

First, block Coutinho's possibility of dribbling the ball along the sideline, and then press him to confront.

Li Ang used two defensive skills to make the shaggy-haired Coutinho feel extremely oppressive.

He wanted to turn around and pass the ball back, but Li Ang, who had already entangled him, would not give him a chance.

After poking the ball between Coutinho's feet, Li Ang pushed Coutinho away and blocked him behind him.

After grabbing the ball neatly, Li Ang took two steps with the ball, and then boldly sent the first diagonal long pass in the opening stage!

"Li Ang made a very neat long pass! Higuain retreated outside the penalty area to head the ball!"

He Wei didn't expect Li Ang to grab a good offensive opportunity at the beginning of the game.

At the moment when Higuain completed the header, He Wei was even ready to cheer for Ronaldo to break into the penalty area and score.

Unfortunately, Spanish central defender Rodriguez headed the ball back to the midfield first.

Ronaldo was a little annoyed that he didn't succeed in getting the ball in the end, but after being annoyed, he quickly gave a thumbs up to Higuain and Li Ang who made a long pass.

Mourinho looked at Li Ang who had retreated to defend with some surprise.

"Why is Li Ang so active today? This long pass is good."

"It's rare for this kid to attack so actively at the beginning of the game. Let him try more today?"

Mourinho heard Karanka's proposal and had no objection.

"Let's score first. Let this kid try more after leading by one goal."

Mourinho made a decision, but he didn't expect the first goal to come so quickly.

Just after Real Madrid and Espanyol each made several offensive attempts, Di Maria broke the Spanish defensive deployment in the seventh minute of the first half.

After passing two players, Angel saw that the Spanish defenders were coming to double-team him, so he quickly passed the ball to Li Ang who followed up.

Li Ang did not hesitate and passed the ball to Callejon who was cutting in from the right side of the Spanish penalty area.

Callejon took the ball and entered the Spanish penalty area in two steps. After a little observation, he sent a low pass directly!

The football "cut" from right to left in the penalty area without any hindrance like a sharp blade.

Higuain did not grab the ball, but Ronaldo, who was inserted at high speed at the back of the goal, did it in one fell swoop and almost blocked the ball into the goal guarded by Casilla!

The Bernabeu scene was boiling with cheers because of Ronaldo's first record again, and Mourinho and Karanka also looked at each other and smiled and released tactical authority to Li Ang.

Now with the double encouragement and empowerment of Brother Long and the coach, Li Ang had nothing to hesitate about and directly took over the task of long pass dispatch.

Compared with Brother Long, Li Ang's current long pass level is definitely much worse, but it is not to the point where it is difficult for his teammates to receive.

His vision is quite wide, and the timing of several long passes is very good, and several offensive players in the frontcourt can get them after running.

In the 21st minute of the first half, Callejon passed the ball back after an attack was blocked, Di Maria connected and passed the ball horizontally to Li Ang.

At the moment when the Spanish midfielders Follin and Romalik subconsciously followed the forward pressure, Li Ang knocked the ball, then adjusted his position and decisively sent a diagonal long pass with his left foot!

In the heart of the Spanish half, Ronaldo started to advance at high speed one step ahead!

In the fleeting judgment, the linesman did not raise the flag to indicate offside.

And Ronaldo, who had already unloaded and controlled the ball in front of him in the middle of the forward insertion, did not give Casilla too much reaction time.

He swung his left leg back quickly and slightly, but finally burst out with a strong shooting power, and violently shot the football to the top of the far corner of the goal!

Casilla reacted quickly this time, and there was no mistake in his save, but his speed was still too slow!

After a crisp and pleasant sound of the football hitting the net, the home team fans at the Bernabeu cheered again!

At this time, Li Ang heard the ability upgrade prompt that he wanted to hear the most, and he grinned with satisfaction.

He finally broke through the long pass threshold and initially made up for his technical shortcomings!