Free kicks, the new nightmare of rivals/Mourinho's secret slaughter with the role of Sami Khedira

Mourinho's Real Madrid has plans for free kicks this season. A program that AS has revealed details of.

According to Sports Three, this season, Real Madrid scored in a strange and very effective way on restart kicks, and by designing a special program by Jose Mourinho, set-pieces have turned into a terrible weapon.

Real's statistics this season have been extraordinary in the amount of use of deadlocks. Real Madrid have scored seven times from free kicks. An impressive statistic that shows a fundamental change compared to the entire matches of last season, when only twelve goals were scored in this way during one year.

AS Spain newspaper revealed in a report that Jose Mourinho's special thoughts are behind this tactical transformation. Every week, the Portuguese head coach makes his players practice free kicks for hours at the Valdebas training ground, and a few minutes before the start of each match, he reminds his students of the practiced plans.

This strange efficiency is the result of detailed division of duties in the technical staff. Pedro Machado is in charge of training for attacking set pieces and Sami Khedira, the former midfielder of Real Madrid and the current coach of the team, is responsible for organizing defensive set pieces. However, the final approval of all plans is with Mourinho.

The concrete manifestation of the success of this scenario was seen in the La Liga match against Espanyol. Jude Bellingham opened the scoring with a header from Arda Guler's spectacular pass in the ninth minute, and Mourinho immediately ran from the bench to his assistants and hugged them, showing his satisfaction with their success.

But the most brilliant night of this tactical plan was the European Champions League match against Rome, when Real scored three times on Goler's accurate passes.

AS says that the hierarchy of strikers in Real Madrid is clear. As long as Arda Güler is in the lineup, the 23-year-old Turkish star will take all free kicks, followed by Bernardo Silva and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Real's seven free kick goals this season are very diverse. In addition to the hat-trick against Roma and Bellingham's header in the league, Arda Güler opened the scoring for Elche with a spectacular free-kick and Antonio Rudiger and Kylian Mbappe each scored once from Bernardo Silva's accurate passes. Now there is no doubt that Mourinho's tactics have terrified the opponents' defense.