Chapter 162 The Game with the Chinese Team

While Wansheng and Hasson were talking, the warm-up game was going on.

In this warm-up match, Wansheng's main purpose was to test the team's new formation. After about ten days of training, the team was just getting used to the new formation and could barely play. In fact, the basis of tactics has not changed. Many players do not really need to adapt to anything. The key inspiration lies in the cooperation of frontcourt players.

The most critical change is still in the midfield.

After Morrisra, he has become the core of offense and defense in the true sense. The diamond-shaped stance in the midfield has become a triangle stance in the middle. The addition of two flanks will increase the tightness of the midfield. This change has no effect on offense. Either defense is beneficial, but adjustment also means change. After Maurice La, the attacking firepower in the frontcourt will depend on the performance of other avant-garde players.

David Silva, Joey Barton, Ivan Crewe, Ozil and others have to adapt to the avant-garde position.

David Silva is the best among them. With the adaptation and improvement of last season, David Silva is enough to play the main role of the team. He cooperates with Morris very tacitly. Personal skills, whether it is passing and receiving the ball, or individual performance are quite good.

Joey Barton is even worse.

Joey Barton’s flaws in his personal ability are obvious, that is, his skills-personal breakthrough ability, passing and receiving ability are not outstanding, there is a big gap between his overall personal skills and David Silva, okay Wansheng told him to cooperate more with his teammates, so there was no big problem on the court, and his performance was not bright, but it could be regarded as quite satisfactory.

Ivan Crewe has also adapted to the position in the middle of the lower midfield. He has done a good job with his teammates on offense, slightly better than Joey Barton, especially with Morris, who have been teammates for many years. . The tacit understanding is very good. He is even better than David Silva. The only problem is that his personal ability has no special highlights, and his performance is similar to that of Joey Barton. Not as good as Joey Barton on defense.

Ozil... is still just a young teenager. His comprehensive ability evaluation is currently only 83, which is the lowest among the players in the front and middle of Manchester City. In addition, he has no tacit understanding with his teammates, and he has not even fully adapted to his tactics. Needless to say.

It seems he still needs a lot of time to adapt to the team.

Wansheng gave Ozil 15 minutes. It's a lot of attention to him. He wants Ozil to grow up as soon as possible. He is not required to quickly reach the level of top stars, at least he can keep up with the pace of the team and become a qualified frontcourt player.

Even if the players in the midfield did not meet the real expectations, Manchester City still completely suppressed Nottingham Forest with absolute strength. In the face of Manchester City's strong strength, Nottingham Forest had no resistance at all, although they tried their best to win over the fans. performance in front. But the gap in strength has become an unbridgeable gulf.

In the end, Manchester City easily won the game 4:0.

The score is of course nothing important, and the process has nothing to say. Nottingham Forest is too weak, and the gap with Manchester City is huge. Wan Sheng is still concerned about the effect of the formation change. He found that Joey Barton, Ivan Crewe and David Silva are partners. It is so good, or this is also a problem of cooperation, and it also takes more time to adapt. If there is another game, it is still necessary to try other people to try the effect to find the problem.

In this warm-up match, being able to find this problem can be regarded as achieving the goal.

Wansheng was quite satisfied with the results of the warm-up match.

After the warm-up match, Wan Sheng and Hasson discussed the problems between the teams together, and recommended a few players in the Manchester City youth team who were "passable". How to decide after that depends on Hasson himself.

He then led the team back to Manchester.

At this time, the Chinese media also began to report on the match between Manchester City and the Chinese team. The media coverage seemed to help Xinlang Sports, because CCTV did not seem to be interested in a warm-up match, so Xinlang became the only broadcaster. The media of Quan can imagine how much energy Xinlang, who is committed to promoting online live broadcasts in China, will devote himself to the promotion of the game.

In the publicity, Wan Sheng, Sun Jihai, and Wang Xiaolei became the protagonists. As for the players of the Chinese team, there is not much introduction.

This is a strange phenomenon.

Many Chinese fans can memorize the Manchester City lineup by heart, but if you ask him who the main goalkeeper of the national team is, his answer is likely to be...I don't know, and then ask the previous sentence, "Isn't it Wang Xiaolei?", something like this The answer really makes people smile, but this is a common phenomenon in China.

In the final analysis, it is the fans who are too disappointed with the results of the national team.

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There was a voice in the media before the game, that is, I hope that all the players of the Chinese team will do their best. If Wansheng can take a fancy to them, China will have one more player who has entered the Premier League.

This is what many people expect.

In terms of the current lineup of the Chinese team, domestic players occupy the majority, but everyone knows that the five major leagues, and even the players who have studied abroad, will have a higher level of strength, and most of the players are in Costa Rica, which is a low-level European league. They can often break into the World Cup finals, which is a clear proof that players born in China will always be inferior in terms of tactical awareness.

Therefore, both the media and fans hope that more Chinese players can go abroad and move to a higher level of professional competition, so that there will be more good players in China.

When Wan Sheng heard this voice, he could only shake his head silently.

This has nothing to do with being patriotic or not, it is entirely because of the reality.

First of all, Manchester City does not have so many non-EU players. Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei occupy two non-EU players. If they introduce another player, he will not be able to guarantee the playing time of the players. Therefore, the idea of ​​introducing a large number of Chinese players is simply unrealistic.

He also wants to contribute to the development of Chinese football, but he can only do as much as he can, and will not be desperate for it.

In addition, the existing international players of the Chinese team basically have little room for training.

Players of these national brands cannot be too young, and their skills are often finalized, and there is not much potential for improvement at all.

So I want him to look at a certain player and try to bring in Manchester City. It's just an unrealistic fantasy.

An exchange match is an exchange match. For Wansheng, this is a warm-up match without anything else, but Wansheng said to the media before the match. "The Chinese team is an opponent that needs to be taken seriously. We will do our best!"

Of course, this is just an argument for the face of the Chinese team.

In fact, Wansheng is treating this as an ordinary warm-up game, to test the team's new formation, to find some problems, and then solve some problems, while allowing the players to adapt to the next game. Find the feeling of the game. As for those who are not doing their best... Manchester City don't need to do that at all, otherwise the Chinese team will definitely not look good in terms of face if they win too many goals.

This is the best of both worlds.

Wansheng just wanted to have a warm-up match, not to go shopping. The two teams didn't have such a big hatred, and the purpose of the Chinese team's European training was just to play against the strong teams. Manchester City is not serious. Definitely a strong team.

In this atmosphere, the game between the two teams began.

Not surprisingly. Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei appeared in Manchester City's starting lineup, which made the Chinese media very satisfied, and they hoped to see them play for Manchester City.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester City launched the offensive.

At the same time, Wansheng also stood with Zhu Guanghu, the coach of the Chinese team. This is not an official game, and there is no need to stand apart. Both of them stood on the sidelines and had some exchanges about the game and coaching.

Wan Sheng still has some understanding of Zhu Guanghu. As far as he knows, this old coach, who is over 500 years old, has been in decline since 2000. The results of the Chinese team he led are really messed up. It is worth mentioning that , When the shady story of the Football Association was revealed in 2012, Zhu Guanghu was implicated because he bribed the chairman of the Football Association 50,000 yuan, and his coaching career ended by then.

But no matter how bad Zhu Guanghu's team performance is, he is also a veteran coach in China, and he has a lot of experience. His poor performance in coaching the Chinese team is not just his personal reasons, there must be many other reasons, that is to say, he There must be many advantages on the body, and there are also places worth learning from Wansheng.

For example, now, Zhu Guanghu's attitude towards Wansheng is very modest.

In terms of coaching, Wansheng's achievements are even more outstanding. He is the coach of the Premier League club and led the team to two league championships. However, in terms of qualifications, he is only a newcomer in the coaching world, not as good as Zhu Guanghu, a veteran coach. .

However, Zhu Guanghu humbly asked about Wansheng's coaching experience.

Wan Sheng was a little flattered, so he greeted him with a smile, and the two discussed how to prepare for the battle. This is also a problem faced by Zhu Guanghu, because the Chinese team is about to face Singapore in the Asian Cup qualifier group stage. This game is very important. .

Zhu Guanghu was talking about tactics and praising Manchester City's style of play, while Wan Sheng talked about the most important factor for victory, "Fighting spirit and on-the-spot performance are more important. No matter what the tactics are, players must play. There is no fighting spirit and no use at all.”

Zhu Guanghu nodded in approval.

Due to very complicated internal problems, the Chinese team lacks fighting spirit in many cases.

But Zhu Guanghu is interested in tactics, because he knows that the young people in front of him are very successful in this regard. For example, Manchester City's tactics are quite gorgeous on the field. It is not easy for the team to organize defense, and they can only compress the formation to squeeze the space.

So Zhu Guanghu asked about the tactics suitable for the Chinese team. Wan Sheng observed it for a while, and watched the two attacks of the Chinese team, and then said, "I think simple tactics are more suitable for the Chinese team."

"Simple tactics?"

"Yes, the Chinese team's play style is very good now. The direct long and short pass coordination does not require players to have very good awareness and good personal skills." Wan Sheng said, "The effect of complex tactics is indeed obvious, but It also requires players to keep up with the strength. For example, in the English league, the play style of the lower league teams is also very simple and straightforward, and many of them are not as good as the Chinese team. Even if we copy our tactics to the Chinese team, it will be difficult to adapt. ."

"Our core is Morris." Wan Sheng pointed to Morris's position, "He is a very good player, whether in terms of personal ability, awareness, and overall view, he is the best in the world. If there is no Morris, I would If a different team plays the same tactics, the power will be much weaker.”

This is the truth.

Morris' core position in Manchester City cannot be questioned. At least in the current 4141 formation, he is the most critical member. No player can take his place. Of course, without Morris, Wansheng can also adjust the formation. But that's another way of saying it.

"The Chinese team is not weak, and there is no need to pursue too complicated tactics. I think the current tactics are very suitable. As long as the team has the fighting spirit, everyone is in good shape, and they still have a fight with South Korea, Japan and other teams. ."

This is also Wan Sheng's heart.

The Chinese team always loses to South Korea and Japan. Is there a real strength gap? Maybe there will be in the future, but the Chinese team in 2006 is still very strong. Li Weifeng, Dong Fangzhuo, Li Tie, Shao Jiayi, and Sun Jihai and others are all strong old players. As long as they show their strength, It cannot be said that it is definitely stronger than Japan and South Korea, but it is not much worse.

The key issue is still the mentality of the players, which is to play on the spot, the striker always hits the empty goal and kicks away... any tactics are meaningless.

In the conversation between the two, Manchester City has scored two goals.

The first goal was scored by Anelka, who received a pass from Joey Button, forcibly broke through defender Zhang Yaokun, and volleyed the ball into the net.

The second one was scored by Ivan Krewe. He took advantage of a free kick and shot a curved shot directly from 25 meters. Facing this shot, goalkeeper Li Leilei failed to judge accurately, and the football hung against the right post. Goal.

2:0.

The Manchester City fans were cheering for the goal.

This game was only a warm-up match, but because of last season's Premier League title, Manchester City fans' confidence in the team has greatly increased. In addition, Manchester City's gorgeous style of play has also attracted many fans, so the warm-up match was also watched by nearly 40,000 fans. This makes the warm-up match even more lively than the normal official match.

The cheers on the scene were resounding, and Ozil and Boateng were even a little nervous when they first entered the team.

When Wan Sheng talked with Zhu Guanghu, he also left out these two newcomers, and then he thought about it and let Boateng replace Leto Ziegler, and then he replaced Anelka and David - Silva, Darren Bent and Bergkamp got their chance.

This is the first appearance of the Dutch 'Ice Prince' at Manchester Stadium and the first time to represent Manchester City!

The moment Bergkamp stepped onto the court, he immediately became the center of attention.

The fans in the audience applauded him!

All the players on the field looked at Bergkamp, ​​including the players of the Chinese team. In the Manchester City squad, Anelka was the most famous before, but now he has become Bergkamp. Many Chinese players listen to him. Growing up with Bergkamp's name, it's impossible for them not to pay attention now that the idol is right in front of them.

Wan Sheng and Zhu Guanghu also applauded and wished Bergkamp's debut.

This is Bergkamp, ​​the influence of a generation of superstars. (To be continued ~^~)