Betis only brought back a draw from Tenerife, which is normal in the eyes of most media. You should know that at home the Canary Islands teams like Tenerife and Las Palmas, even giants like Real Madrid and Barcelona have repeatedly crawled over the ship.

Among them, when Tenerife was still in La Liga, Real Madrid suffered a lot in this team.[]

Real Madrid will be able to win the final league championship as long as they defeat Tenerife away in the last round of the 91-92 season!

However, in this game, Tenerife finally defeated Real Madrid 2-0 with the goal of No. 1 star Redondo, which also made Barcelona come from behind and lucky to win the league championship!

History is always an amazing coincidence. In the 92-93 season, in the last round, Real Madrid met Tenerife again. This time, Tenerife is still fighting at home. Moreover, as long as Real Madrid wins, they can still win the final championship! (Baidu encyclopedia says 92-93 and 93-94, but the cover checks the past schedule, and it should actually be 91-92 and 92-93 seasons)

However, Redondo once again became the key player in this game. He scored the only goal of the season in this game, helping Tenerife defeat Real Madrid in a three-to-two win.

After Barcelona completed a reversal in the standings and won the championship, their players admitted that Redondo was their biggest contributor to the championship!

The media joked that unless Redondo plays for Real Madrid, as long as the Argentine is still in La Liga for one day, the White Army will miss the league championship!

Real Madrid naturally would not believe in this so-called devil, but later they chose to bring Redondo to the Bernabeu and created another glorious era for the White Legion!

Given this fact, it is not embarrassing that Betis only scored a point at Tenerife's home court.

However, for the "Anti-Tang Sect", they seized the opportunity to attack Tang Feng.

Terman of "Seville City" was titled "The Betis attack group is silent, and the interaction between Tenerife is blank" in his column. In his article, he pointed out that the young Betis team's unstable state weaknesses began to gradually reveal. Moreover, the offensive routines that Tang Feng has been using are gradually being understood by his opponents. He also boldly predicted that the Betis team will soon usher in Waterloo.

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Tang Feng and the players naturally wanted to give a counterattack as soon as possible for Terman's attack.

However, perhaps the team wants to prove itself too much, or perhaps the team's condition has really fluctuated after experiencing its previous crazy performance.

In the following games, Betis' performance did decline to a certain extent.

On October 30, Betis faced relegation favorite Logronis at home.

The Betis team faced the iron barrel formation lined up by the opponent and attacked for more than 70 minutes before Senna, who came on the bench, seized a free kick opportunity and broke the deadlock on the court.

In the end, Betis only won the game one-to-zero.

However, a week later, Betis did not have such good luck in the away league against Ebar.

In this game, Betis' offense performed well. Villa and Arteta's goals helped Betis take the lead twice. But Ebar stubbornly tied the score twice.

In the end, Betis had no choice but to usher in the second draw of the season.

This is not over yet. In the game against Murcia three days later, Betis was once again stubbornly blocked by this mid-range team.

Murcia's defense was very stubborn, and once led the Betis on the court with forward Rorito's counterattack goal in the 36th minute.

Faced with this situation, Tang Feng took a desperate bet at halfway through the second half, replaced three attackers in one breath and launched a crazy attack.

Finally, in the 88th minute, Yu Jin seized a chance to have a melee in the penalty area, shot successfully, and tied the score.

Even so, Betis still ushered in the first two-game draw this season.

Moreover, the performance of three draws in the last four rounds has also begun to gradually increase the momentum of the "Tang faction" again.

Under the leadership of their "leader" Terman, reports questioning Tang Feng and Betis can be seen in the media around Spain.

"Young people can only play with the wind, and they have weak self-regulation ability when encountering adversity..."

"Tang Feng lacks experience and his technical and tactical skills are very limited. The team's tactics are single and has been thoroughly studied by his opponents..."

"It's so difficult to face mid- and lower-level teams. If they are allowed to face upgraded opponents in this state, they will definitely lose..."

"Betis' unbeaten record is a hymen. Once it is pierced, the latecomers can conquer them more easily..."

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During this period, Tang Feng lived in an environment full of these doubts and remarks. The pressure was self-evident.

Fortunately, Sevilla's performance has been very average recently. They failed to seize the opportunity of Betis' unstable performance and took the opportunity to surpass Betis, but only narrowed the gap of two points, and there is still a three-point gap between Betis.

It was time for some teams to seize the opportunity and narrow the gap with the First Group!

Under such an unfavorable situation, Betis also reported a bad news in the second round of the Cup of Rey.

That is, they won the Mallorca team from La Liga!

Although Mallorca also holds the title of Royal, they were only unknown in La Liga. Their best record before was just the runner-up in the Copa del Rey.

However, in recent seasons, Mallorca has risen strongly in La Liga.

In the 98-99 season, they briefly climbed to the top of the league, and eventually they ranked third in the league and entered the UEFA Champions League qualifiers historically.

Last season, due to the departure of the team's meritorious coach Cooper and the poaching of a group of main players, Mallorca's record declined and was only ranked in the middle.

However, under the leadership of Aragones this season, they seem to have found their 98-99 season again. They are now ranked third in the league!

Among them, Etoo, who rejected Betis' invitation this summer, once again showed his outstanding form after releasing Mallorca. In the first eleven rounds of games, he had already scored six goals and was very efficient!

In the poor condition of the team, they encountered the well-formed Mallorca team. Many Betis fans were worried about the team's situation.

For Tang Feng, who has the idea of ​​making a difference in the Cup of del Rey, he also felt unlucky when he met the A-level team in the second round.

The outside world generally does not optimistic that Betis can defeat the well-formed Mallorca team in the Copa del Rey.

This also includes some "supporting Tang people", and they all suggest that Tang Feng can give up the King's Cup and then take the opportunity to give players a chance to rest and focus on the league.

Because of this period, Betis's schedule is very dense, and it has maintained two games a week for three consecutive weeks.

Even though Tang Feng consciously rotated, the team was still feeling some fatigue, which was obviously an important reason for the team to continuously draw!

In fact, even within Betis coaching staff, there are people who have this idea...

"Don, we should probably give up the Cup of Kings. You know, the team is not in good condition now..." At the tactical discussion meeting preparing for the match against Mallorca, the old coach Jose Noggs suggested.

With Tang Feng's outstanding performance this season, the old coach also trusts Tang Feng more and more. However, as an older man with more experience, he feels that it is necessary to make some suggestions to this junior.

Regarding Jose Noggs' suggestion, Tang Feng smiled and replied: "Jose, I think the game against Mallorca is a good opportunity for us to get out of our current bad state!"

"Good opportunity? Don, don't you want to win something in the Copa del Rey, right? Oh my God, shouldn't our only goal this season be upgraded?" Jose Noggs asked in confusion.

Tang Feng smiled faintly again. He had never expressed his ambitions for the Copa del Rey, and even within the team and coaching staff, he had never expressed such an idea. In fact, he did not intend to express his ideas now... He did not want the team to bear another layer of pressure.

"Jose, do you think the team's problem is lack of rest, just like those media, and then we just need to give the players a break in the Copa del Rey to solve the problem?" Tang Feng glanced at Jose Noggs and asked.

"Isn't it?" Jose Noggs was even more puzzled.

"Physical fatigue is certainly a reason for poor condition. But I think more importantly, there is something wrong with the team's mentality!" Tang Feng answered seriously.

"Mentality?" asked Boas on the side.

"Yes, mentality! You all know that most of the players of the team are young people around 20 years old. The team's continuous victory some time ago, the love of fans and the media's enthusiasm made their confidence a little inflated. Then, when they drew three games in four games, in the face of outside doubts and even criticisms, the confidence they had finally built up was a little broken. They only feel that the more they played, the more they were getting worse. When they were mentally tired, they were more physically tired! So, now the players do not just need to rest. In fact, for these young people, a double game a week is not a big problem. What's more, we have consciously rotated! What we need is to rebuild the team's confidence, a kind of invincible confidence like the previous one!" Tang Feng replied in a positive tone.

After hearing Tang Feng's words, the members of the coaching team were all in thought.

Except for Andres Ricardo, a member of the coaching staff who previously worked as a teacher and physical coach at the university, others, including the young Boas, have been in contact with football for many years.

Therefore, they quickly understood and agreed with Tang Feng’s idea.

"You mean to let the team build confidence by defeating La Liga Mallorca?" The young Boas first guessed Tang Feng's intention.

"That's right! Mallorca is now performing well in La Liga. If he can defeat them, the morale of the team will definitely improve greatly. Even the outside world's doubts will be much smaller!" Tang Feng nodded and replied.

"But...Mallorca's condition is very good. Moreover, their lineup is also very strong this season. I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with, right?" Although Jose Noggs also understood Tang Feng's thoughts, he still expressed concern.

"Well, Mallorca is indeed very strong this season. They are in excellent form, but through my understanding, I find that they are not without shortcomings. We are not without chance of winning!" Tang Feng replied with a stack of information.

He asked Boas to collect these materials. In fact, Tang Feng had already begun to study how to deal with Mallorca as early as after the lottery ceremony.

With the help of Boas, an intelligence collector, and Mallorca's hot state in La Liga this season, Tang Feng easily got their first-hand information.

"The midfielder and backfield players of this Mallorca team are already very old. Among their main players in the midfielder, except for the two full-backs, Finidi George and Stankovic, from the two central-fronters to the four main defenders, they are veterans over 30 years old. Among them, Ngongga and Nadal are already 34 years old. Although they are in good condition, they are definitely not able to compare with young people in terms of physical fitness. This is where we can make good use of it!"

"Of course, Etoo and Biagini on their forward line are both young people, so their team's offense mainly relies on the speed of the two forwards to counterattack. If we can limit their counterattack, their offensive power will be greatly reduced..."

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Tang Feng analyzed his way to deal with this Mallorca team one by one.

Although he was more afraid of Etoo, he knew very well that Etoo in the Mallorca period was still lacking in scoring methods than the later cheetah of Barcelona and Inter Milan, and he relied more on his speed.

In fact, the reason why Tang Feng wanted to win Mallorca was that he wanted to prove Etoo with a victory. What a visionary thing he had to refuse Betis' invitation!

It is indeed not a good thing to do business with selfishness. But if this selfishness does not affect the interests of the team, the problem will not be big.

Listening to some of the weaknesses of the Mallorca team analyzed by Tang Feng, the members of the coaching staff also agreed with Tang Feng's statement that when facing Mallorca, Betis definitely has no chance of winning.

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After being unified in the coaching staff, Tang Feng quickly brought this determination to defeat Mallorca to the team's training.

The players can clearly feel this because, in previous games, no matter who they faced, the team's training was not as targeted as this time preparing for Mallorca.

Tang Feng's determination also infected most of the players on the team.

There are already a large number of young players in the team. They may have some lack of experience, but they will never lose to veterans when they fight hard.

In fact, the energetic young people prefer to challenge authority more than those steady veterans!

In the eyes of these young people, what about the La Liga team? We can also enter La Liga next season!

Of course, the reason why the players' mentality has changed is also related to Tang Feng's deliberate exaggeration.

When he is training, he often uses the words of the media to despise them to stimulate the players.
To be continued...