Chapter 290 Liu Xiang's Successor

The best is always after the game.

In the battle between England and France, the result of the game was unexpected. England's victory was no surprise. The key was the strength of England and the final score during the game.

In fact, the two are the same concept.

The England team gives the impression that the striker lacks the means to score goals. No matter what team they are playing against, they are always weak in scoring goals and rarely win by a large score, let alone the powerful French team.

England and France have played against each other in the past few decades, and no team can score more than 2 goals in 90 minutes, but England beat France 3-0 in the group stage of the European Cup. The score of the game was very surprising.

"The Sun" commented, "England has shown something that has not been seen before in the game, and the most notable is the efficiency of the striker!"

After analyzing the 90 minutes of the game, many media used real data to illustrate the problem, "Looking at the whole game, England's advantage is not big, they only have 13 shots, while France has 11 and England's 13. Eight of the shots were from outside the box, and there were two headers, but they scored three goals and France didn't score a single goal."

Data speaks for efficiency.

13 shots into 3 goals, an average of 4.3 shots into one.

Although the England team has shown the efficiency of the striker, various football analysis experts have not been able to explain the reason. Conversely, what is the explanation for the efficiency of long-range shots from the outside? It's all about the players!

Does this have anything to do with head coach Wan Sheng?

The British media don’t see it that way. If the team can always perform well, why didn’t it work before? With Wan Shengyi as coach, the team’s striker efficiency will be high?

The final reason also comes down to Wansheng.

"Wansheng has at least brought a lot of fighting spirit and belief to the team. If you have confidence, you can often play better..."

This is the explanation given by the English media.

In addition to the results of the game, two other points that are more striking are the performance of the England players.

The two focus players - Morris and Gerrard.

Maurice's final goal was a perfect personal performance. He dribbled the ball through the penalty area, swayed French central defender Lamy with an imaginative move, and then scored with a volley. After the game, "French Football" gave Morris a perfect score of 8, and stated, "Morris is the core of the England team, and he played very well in this game, both as a team and as an individual. He was the England team's big win. The greatest hero!"

Walcott and Gerrard scored 7 and 7.5 points respectively.

"French Football" believes that Gerrard's performance was even better. The "some terrible" long-range shot helped England score the second goal, which almost made the French team directly desperate.

Walcott scored the first goal, but the performance was flat, so only seven points.

"French Football" described the injury of French goalkeeper Lloris as "inadvertent". Other media will not let this big champion go, and many media have issued corresponding shouts--

"Gerrard's terrifying shot threatens the goalkeeper's safety!"

"Loris became the first victim! Be vigilant! There will be more in the future!"

"Dangerous! Watch out for Gerald!"

"..."

One article title, if you don't know the fans think Gerrard is a terrorist, in addition, some French players in the mixed area interviewed, they also said that they were a little afraid of Gerrard's shot.

"I can't believe that Loris will be shot and kicked!"

"Maybe his moves were too big, but anyway, that shot was powerful and scary!"

"Gerrard is a very good player and any team should be careful with him!"

In this regard, Gerrard smiled and said apologetically in an interview, "I'm sorry, he was injured, I didn't mean it. I just wanted to score the ball at the time..." He also joked, "If If I can kick the goalkeeper on purpose, then I can be a superman..."

Gerrard is very polite and apologetic, and has won the goodwill of many French media.

The other was the exact opposite.

Wansheng!

French media reporters have a headache for interviewing Wan Sheng, because they have to face the ridicule of the "winner", Wan Sheng will not let them go, because these media have questioned England's victory before the game.

"I have said before that the French team is not a problem. We are the team that is going to the finals, and we will definitely win in the first game of the group stage." Wan Sheng smiled, showing no humility at all, "I want to do what I say. ,we won."

"Actually, we don't have to win the game. After all, it's only the first game. Unfortunately, the opponents are a little too weak, and they don't seem to have the ability to resist..."

This sentence not only annoyed the French media, but also made the French team and fans lose any goodwill towards Wansheng.

Of course, Wansheng doesn't care.

Wansheng also doesn't have any good feelings for the French team. Some of them still play for his team, but the players are players, the team is the team, and the French team is always so arrogant, as if they will always be the world. Like a champion.

After the press conference, Wan Sheng returned to the locker room.

The players are still talking about the game.

Wan Sheng didn't say anything, just watched with a cold face, and then everyone gradually stopped talking. After everyone was quiet, Wan Sheng said, "It's just the first round, there's nothing to be happy about, forget about the victory, There are many more games waiting for us!"

Immediately, many players were stunned.

Wansheng is like a professional pouring cold water. Everyone is very excited to talk about the game. He did not praise and encourage, but came up with this sentence. In fact, he did this to remind everyone not to get too excited. To the next game, then it is very likely that they will lose.

No matter what kind of competition, it is only after the last game that it is time to celebrate.

Now is not the time.

Wan Sheng didn't completely pour cold water, he continued, "I know you are all happy to win, but this is in the plan, yes, my plan, if I lose the game, it will be an accident!"

"Playing against France, we won, it doesn't matter if we win one goal or three goals, let history go to hell! We only got three points, the rules of the game won't be because we scored three goals , just give us four points."

"Next, you should always remember that we are a team that can reach the finals, no team can stop us, everyone must remember this sentence! This is very important!"

"This is the first game and the first victory. Next, we need to prepare for the second game. If we win the second game, we can confirm that we will enter the knockout stage. This is our temporary goal, but only temporarily."

After Wan Sheng finished speaking, he smiled at everyone, "Finally, let me say one more thing, your performance is good this year!"

"call……"

As these words blurted out, there was a sound of exhalation from the locker room.

Wan Sheng is actually not very old, but when he speaks seriously, he always gives people a kind of pressure, and when he laughs, it makes people feel very cordial.

The players in the locker room underwent a transition from pressure to kindness in a short period of time.

They let out a long breath!

But what is certain is that after this contest with the French team, the team's fighting spirit and confidence have increased a lot, and many players have become more convinced of Wansheng's coaching ability.

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In constant media reports, the entire England team went to Krakow, Poland for recovery training.

After a big battle, players need a period of time to recover, both physically and mentally. The football training master system can only help players recover their physical fitness, and mental recovery is also very important. Give players freedom and ease of training so the team can recover quickly.

In the second group stage of the European Cup, England is about to face Sweden.

On the first day, Wansheng only arranged for recovery training, and also let the players do an interesting training: in the hot spring, players passed the ball with their heads.

This kind of training refreshes everyone.

Players scrambled for the ball and kept shouting. The scene and atmosphere were very lively. Wansheng was rare and generous, and several reporters came over to take pictures.

"Isn't this Chinese so old-fashioned..." The reporters who came here had a slightly better impression of Wansheng.

On the second day, Wansheng added some new training content to the team. In addition to some players' personal recovery training, there were also some training on offensive methods.

In the match against the French team, Wansheng found that some players were too old-fashioned. There were better ways, but they had to choose the hardest way. Therefore, Wansheng arranged some high passes, short passes to the middle and set pieces. These trainings can help players, especially a few frontcourt players, familiarize themselves with how to make choices in front of goal.

Wansheng didn't care too much about the effect of a day's training. After all, the time was too short, and it was only regarded as 'entertainment' training. It would be better to let the team relax.

These are just aids.

What Wansheng has done is to give a few frontcourt players a special explanation of cooperation tactics.

This has nothing to do with the football training master system. It is entirely based on the coaching experience of Wansheng over the past few years. Especially in the past two years in Atletico Madrid, leading a team that is very good at attacking in Spain, there must be some gains in attacking experience, and Compared with the Spanish team’s various methods of scoring goals in the frontcourt, England’s team is very lacking in terms of player cooperation. For example, when playing against the French team, most of the cooperation between the flanks and the middle is a long pass, or It is the high-altitude ball, which is too 'backward' and too easy to be restricted.

Wansheng needs to make the frontcourt players understand the importance of short passes. They occasionally need to make some short passes to diversify the frontcourt coordination.

Don't worry about this in the middle.

With Morris in the middle, he can always play very well. Gerrard is also a very good player. The middle of the two is still reassuring, so the main thing is the wing. Some wing players don't know what to do. Passing the ball to the middle is always a direct long pass of 'personal heroism', which is very easy to be restricted by the opponent.

Wansheng's tactical explanations are just some small routines. For example, after a few passes, you can make the opponent unable to defend. Another example is how to pass the ball back when you are restricted by the opponent's players, and how to go after passing the ball. run.

These are still more complicated.

When it comes to the game, it is difficult to use what is really explained. It relies more on the player's personal ability and subconscious things. It is very difficult to improve in a short time.

Wansheng does not require everyone to have a big improvement, he just hopes to have a reminder for the players.

In professional football, professional players have reached the level of 'entering the England team'. In fact, they have nothing to 'learn'. Few coaches can guide these players, because they are already the top stars in the world, and they can absorb some of them at most. 'Senior' experience, and in terms of tactics, they have heard too much.

Some players, like Ashley Cole, didn't think it was interesting when he first heard Man Sheng's explanation, but after listening to some of them, he became a lot more serious.

These things are not often heard.

Although some tactical coordination is actually difficult to use in the game, it is only 'theoretical', but it is still very useful for reference. It allows you to have more ways to choose in the game, or in other words, think more. You can improve your reading ability.

Wansheng doesn't know what the players think. They just need to listen carefully. As long as they listen carefully, in the game, they may have better performances, or at least no harm.

This is the only thing Wansheng can do in the short period of time between the two games.

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Wansheng has a few other things going on as England prepares for the game against Sweden.

The London Olympics are about to start.

The London Olympics has nothing to do with Wansheng, and the British Olympic Organizing Committee did not invite Wansheng to attend the opening ceremony, but there is an athlete in the Chinese team who has a lot to do with Wansheng. .

In the Chinese Olympic team, Xie Wenjun did not stand out. He was once considered the 'successor of Liu Xiang', but he had no special achievements.

In May 2008, Xie Wenjun ran a time of 13.51 seconds and became the youngest man in the world to reach the Olympic A standard in the 110-meter hurdles. Olympic champion' background, few people know about Xie Wenjun.

Xie Wenjun looks good, but because he doesn't have much fame, it is not good for Tagorevan Medical Equipment Company's product promotion.

At that time, Wansheng signed Xie Wenjun, and many people in the company were puzzled, but Tagore Wan Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. is a private company of Wansheng, and the shares are in the hands of Wansheng and Kevin Tagore. The specific decision-making power can be said to be entirely in the hands of Wansheng In Wansheng's hands, other people, even the company's high-level personnel, can't say anything.

But they didn't support Wansheng's decision in their hearts...