Although Jose does not think that the Cup of Kings is very important, the double-line defeat in the league and Cup of Kings in just two weeks has made Mallorca fans full of concern. Couple with the end of the home win record before the winter break, Mallorca fans began to feel a little unconfidence in the team - because Mallorca's performance exceeded their expectations before, and now the team is up and down, Mallorca fans have the feeling of "the team is about to be beaten back to their original form"...

The media have given enough caution. They are not blind. It can be seen that Mallorca has been much better than last season since the beginning of this season. The troubles I have encountered recently are not the kind of trouble that cannot be solved. It is just that the players are in a bit depressed. In this case, perhaps with just one victory, Mallorca can return to the same state as in the first half of the season.

A team that performed well and had poor performance for half a season but had poor performances were just a few situations. First, the previous outstanding performance was because other opponents were not familiar with them, and it was difficult to win after they were familiar with them. Most of the newly promoted teams who performed well at the beginning were of this type; second, important players were injured or poached, resulting in a huge loss of strength in the team. Later, Hoffenheim was such an example. Ibissevic's injury made their performance in the second half of the season become quite average; third, the players experienced large-scale slackness, which led to a sharp drop in performance, and there are many such examples.

Basically, the team's performance has been too big in half a season, all within the scope of these three possibilities. Mallorca's poor performance in recent games is not because of this reason. Their tactics are already very well-known, and there is no other team that feels unfamiliar with them; they have no important players who are injured or poached. At the same time, when the World Cup is approaching, Mallorca's players are less likely to be slack - even if they don't care about Mallorca's performance, they have to care about their status in the national team.

In other words, what Mallorca is facing now is just a few small troubles, not big troubles.

For Athletic Bilbao, they are also bound to win away against Mallorca. After twenty rounds of the league, they ranked third, with 34 points only two points less than Mallorca. If they can beat Mallorca away, they will be able to reach the second position. From Real Madrid, who is first to Betis, who is ninth, they all want to enter the top four and enter the Champions League next season - everyone is salivating about the benefits of the Champions League.

Real Madrid has 38 points, Mallorca has 36 points, and Celta has 34 points - these are the points of the top three, and Betis, who is ninth, has 32 points - the five teams from fourth to eighth, Celta, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Alaves, and La Coruna have 33 points! It can be seen how chaotic the La Liga is this season...

In such a mess, it is undoubtedly a very important thing to be able to win a game against your competitors.

Jose wants to treat this game as a battle to wash away the previous downturn, and Bilbao also hopes to reduce one competitor through this game and lay a solid foundation for himself to enter the Champions League next season.

Because of the mid-week time of playing the King's Cup in Mallorca, Bilbao has been in Mallorca for four or five days and has begun to adapt to the local climate.

The media generally believe that this game will be a 55-5 game. It is difficult for Bilbao to shake Mallorca's unbeaten glory at home, and it is not easy for Mallorca to bite his opponent. The Basques have never lacked courage and fighting spirit.

"If we attack back and forth, we are not afraid of them, and we are not afraid of any team... However, we don't need to fight with them... When facing Bilbao, where is our advantage? Technology and midfield control ability. So, don't be anxious in this game, put your feet on the offense more, and wipe out their fighting spirit. When they start to become impatient, seize the opportunity and give them a ruthless one!"

Jose has arranged the tactics of this game and has an insight into people's hearts. Jose has a keen sense of smell, and this game is no exception.

In this game, Jose sent a technical midfielder, and Ronaldo Motarufite all appeared, just taking down Carazze and allowing Pablo Garcia to serve as the main midfielder. His task is to protect Mota and allow the other three technical players to perform better.

On the right back, Jose sent Campano to stabilize the defense, in order to prevent his midfield defense from being penetrated by the opponent. As for the defense in the penalty area, Jose was not very worried. Although Urses was a member of the national team, he was not a super center. It was enough to have Van Biden and Nadal defended him.

After the game started, Athletic Bilbao indeed launched a fierce attack, trying to gain the upper hand from the beginning to score!

"I started using this set two seasons ago." Jose thought disdainfully.

This kind of attack on the opponent at the beginning is to have an unexpected effect. With a long time of preparation, this approach is not very effective - Jose has enough experience in dealing with this tactic and enough experience in using this tactic.

Faced with this impact tactic, the way to deal with it is nothing more than two words - one is stable and the other is dragged. Stabilize the formation and don't be disrupted by the opponent. After getting the ball, the opponent's foot is back and forth, and the opponent cannot press in the frontcourt. This is what Mallorca did.

When the opponent launched a fierce attack at the beginning, Mallorca appropriately shrank his defense, gave up two wings to allow the opponent to break through, and firmly defended the penalty area and the front of the penalty area, so that the opponent could only continuously create opportunities through the cross from the bottom, and easily resolved the opponent's wave after wave of attacks.

After resisting the opponent's attack, Mallorca began to constantly reverse the pace in the midfield and drain the opponent's sharpness and physical strength. If you want to use a pressing attack, you have to have fierce pressing and suppression in the frontcourt. However, under the back and forth transmission and dispatch of several technical midfielders of Mallorca, this kind of pressing can only be useless, and will consume a lot of their physical energy.

After pressing for a while, the players in Bilbao began to feel that this would not work. Under the command of the coach, they began to slow down the pace of pressing. In this case, Mallorca took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack!

After receiving the pass from his teammate, Mota did not pass the ball again, but boldly dribbled the ball forward and launched an attack. His forward shot caught the opponent off guard. It was not until he broke through the middle circle that someone came up to defend him.

Seeing someone coming up to defend himself, Mota was calm and raised his foot to Ronaldo, who was receiving the ball on the left. Ronaldo took the ball and turned around, and with his left foot, he passed a transfer ball across the entire half. The ball accurately landed at Rufitt's feet on the right!

Rufit chased the ball and took the ball forward. While running, he looked up at the situation in the penalty area, and then kicked the ball at a forty-five-degree angle and passed it into the penalty area.

This was a cross with a huge arc. The ball was bypassed by the front point. Etoo in the middle jumped to attract the attention of the opponent's defender. Luke, who was inserted in the back row, leaned over to the top facing the ball!

The ball flew into Bilbao's goal quickly, and a huge cheer immediately burst out from the sky above the stands!

"Albert Luke! Luke again! His condition has been surprisingly good recently! It has been like this since before the winter break. After the winter break, he is also the only highlight in the Mallorca team! Such an excellent striker, Camacho, please take him to the World Cup!"

The commentator of Spanish National Television shouted loudly. Luke's condition has been in great heat recently. He has scored ten consecutive goals in the league, with eleven goals. This continuous goal ability has amazed everyone. He has scored fifteen league goals this season, second only to Tristan and Morientes in the scorer list - so far, all of the top three in the La Liga scorer list are local scorers, which has not happened for a long time.

Not long ago, Celta scorer Catania, Espanyol's Tamudo, Bilbao's Urses, and Real Madrid's Raul, seven of the top ten scorers in the La Liga. Only Barcelona's forward partners Cruyvit and Saviola and Dutch scorer Ma Ke in La Coruña occupied the other three positions, which also made the competition for the forward line of the Spanish national team more intense.

Luke was also quite excited after scoring the goal. He was not a high-profit shooter. He did not score as much as Eto Odo last season, but he lost one this season. His goals were five more than Eto Odo, and he has become Mallorca's well-deserved first shooter.

He also wants to win the La Liga top scorer - if he can win the La Liga top scorer, then the Spanish national team will have his place no matter how you say it!

After rushing to the bottom of the stands, Luke turned around and hugged Rufit, who assisted him. Rufit's cross was so beautiful that he quickly fell down after spinning at high speed. As long as he grabbed the first point, he could basically push the ball out.

Jose clapped his palms twice, then looked down at his watch - it was now the 35th minute of the first half, after spending half a day of physical fitness, he suddenly accelerated and launched an attack, and immediately scored a goal - this change and mastery of the rhythm proves that the state of Mallorca players is gradually recovering!

Regardless of whether Bilbao is ranked third now, as long as Mallorca's players are in good condition, Jose will be confident that he will beat all teams at home!

Bilbao is just the first one. Next, before the Champions League rekindled in late February, Mallorca will try to grab points in the league so that it can perform more easily in the next Champions League and the league!

After taking the lead, the victory of this game was within reach for Mallorca.

After the start of the second half, Mallorca continued to deal with the opponent in the midfield and never made any progress. However, once an opportunity was found, he would immediately launch a fast and fierce attack. This fast and slow attack method made Bilbao's players quite uncomfortable, and Mallorca's advantage became increasingly greater.

In the 70th minute of the game, Rufit broke into the penalty area and was knocked down by the opponent's defender. The referee awarded a penalty kick, and Ronaldo took the penalty in one go, 2 to zero.

In stoppage time, Rufit took a corner kick again, assisting Van Biden headed the ball to score, three to zero, Mallorca defeated Athletic Bilbao and consolidated his position as second!

"It's great to see our players come back. The next period of time will be our most critical moment. God has not abandoned us yet. In the next league and the Champions League, we will strive for a more satisfactory result. We have no trouble... never." Jose said with a smile at the post-match press conference.

ps: Sorry, I forgot to update it regularly yesterday, but today I still have three chapters and ten thousand words.
Chapter completed!