Chapter 207 Didn't This Make It Through?
The next morning, Qi Ce got up from the bed, looked at Shinji Kagawa who was lying on the ground sound asleep with a dazed expression, then remembered something and smiled wryly.
This guy drank too much yesterday and didn't go home, so he fell asleep at Zize's house.
I lost yesterday and woke up this morning to see a man in the room, what is this called...
After calling Shinji Kagawa up, the two went to the training ground. Usually the day after the game is a rest, but now Dortmund still has European missions, and the next day is recovery training.
"Thank you, Mr. Qi, I can only talk to you about this in Germany."
Zize smiled: "Don't bring these emotions to the court, I can talk to you about this at any time outside the court."
"Of course, I understand."
Zize knew that the next game against Standard Liege was again Dortmund's way of responding.
After the upset loss to Bochum, the morale accumulated from the original three-game winning streak seemed to sink to the bottom. In the dressing room of the away team at the Ruhr Stadium, Klopp's attitude was completely different from that at the Allianz Arena. He came to the training ground heavily, only to find that Klopp stood at the gate of the training ground and greeted the players with a smile as if nothing had happened.
He does it a lot on training days, Klopp is always the first to arrive, occasionally not, but for most players this season it has become routine to say hello to the manager before they enter the training ground.
Originally seeing Klopp yesterday, the players thought that Klopp, who was disappointed, would not appear at the gate of the training base today, but he still came.
"Ice Cube Boy, forget what happened yesterday, it's a new day!"
"Yes, of course, boss."
"Shinji, why did you come here in the same car as Ice Cube Kid?"
"Ah...Boss, I went to Qi Jun's house for dinner yesterday..."
"Haha, no problem, glad to see you have a good relationship."
A sentence or two of light chat and banter, as usual.
The same goes for training. The training after the game is relatively easy. Klopp emphasizes physical fitness, and more emphasis on the storage and distribution of physical energy. He will not force the players to practice hard like Magath. It is still very easy when it is time to relax.
Morning is jogging.
There is still a tinge of chill in the daytime in March in Yangchun,
Klopp joins the jogging as well, he and Kyle running together, the two chatting occasionally.
This is a very common scene. Klopp also often runs with the players. He will take part in jogging for recovery training every time, but he rarely talks to the players, because Klopp himself often emphasizes running. Don't talk when you are talking, just focus on breathing.
It's also backed by science, Klopp believes in these things, and today he seems to be a little bit different.
Of course, after a failed lesson, it is normal to have some differences. After chatting with Kyle, Klopp chatted with Weidenfeller, Zidan and others one by one, and then ran to Zize around.
"Boy, how are you doing?"
Qi Ce hesitated for a moment, and replied honestly, "It's not that bad."
Klopp was taken aback, then smiled: "Very well, boy, you are more honest than them, and they all say they are in good shape."
"Maybe what they say is true and we all want to win it back."
"Of course, boy, I want to win it back too, everybody does, so, remember where we were?"
Zize didn't understand what he meant, but nodded anyway.
"Football always has accidents, what we have to do is keep ourselves."
In this way, Klopp communicated with almost every player for a while. When he finished chatting with the players, the jogging was almost over, and then there was simple training with the ball.
Klopp chatted with everyone, the players vented in private, and found that the coach was just chatting, he didn't criticize the players' performance, and he didn't say anything to cheer him up, just chatting.
Finding Qi Ce is a little different. He talks about different things to different players. For example, Shinji Kagawa. Klopp seemed to see that Shinji Kagawa was in a bad state of life recently, so he asked him about his situation.
After learning about the breakup with his girlfriend, Klopp told him earnestly to forget the last relationship, and the best way is to start the next relationship as soon as possible.
Then Klopp told Shinji Kagawa whether he knew a few young girls and wanted to get to know them. Shinji Kagawa smiled awkwardly and politely declined, but Klopp still provided him with a very useful news.
Because Kagawa Shinji prefers girls from his own country, Klopp told him that there are more Japanese gathered in Germany, most of them are college students, and their age is quite suitable.
Klopp talks about these daily topics with most players, and the players are happy to chat with him. Shinji Kagawa seems to have benefited a lot, and he plans to go there during his break.
The other players are similar. They didn't talk about football with Klopp. After Klopp's turn around, the atmosphere of the team seems to have changed a lot.
This is the secret of Klopp as a coach. His experience as a player allows him to treat the players as friends. Now that he is getting older, it is also suitable to be a big brother. This is what he has studied in his coaching career over the years. the way they get along.
It looks fine.
The heavy atmosphere in the morning disappeared for the most part in the afternoon, and the intensity of recovery training was not high. When they left the training ground in the afternoon, the players finally returned to the usual atmosphere, talking and laughing towards the parking lot, ending the day's training.
Klopp felt relieved seeing this scene.
As a coach, when the team loses or loses a game that should not be lost in the outside world, the coach is usually the one who needs to take the blame. Of course, for the coach, whether to take the blame is secondary.
After all, as a coach, which one doesn't have super psychological endurance and is scolded all the way?
Don't look at Klopp himself as the hero of Mainz, but Klopp was not less scolded at the beginning. Even if he is a meritorious player for Mainz, he still has to be scolded.
Didn't it all come through!
The most difficult thing is not being scolded or questioned. The most important thing for their coaches is the players, the players they face directly and face every day.
The state and psychology of the players are what the coaches are most concerned about. To put it simply, the performance of the players is the direct cause of whether the coach will be scolded. Much less, and this is what Klopp cares about.
Now it seems that he should have done a good job, at least put the mentality of the players back to before the loss to Bochum.
Klopp's strategy is like this. In fact, this loss is not only significant in the standings, but it can only be said to be an accident. Bochum played well, and there will always be several opponents every season. It's not like Dortmund can't win with this style of play, Zize is a very good weapon to break the deadlock.
Sometimes you can't win, and that's normal.
So Klopp talked to Zize about football matters to make sure that Zize's state was not affected too much.
The next step is to let the team return to the mental state before the loss to Bochum. Everything is business as usual. His tactics are fine, and the championship must be fought for with all his strength. Although the initiative is not in his hands now, it is enough to be able to do well .
Klopp did not put the competition for the Bundesliga championship in the first season on the agenda. This loss was very bad from a competitive point of view, but from an overall point of view, it is not unacceptable, but the team's previous record was too high. Well, the loss to Bochum this time is a bit of a contrast.
Next, the team will usher in the Belgian domestic league giants Standard Liege, which will determine the second round of the Europa League quarter-finals will start at the West ** Stadium.