Chapter 538 Killer

Liverpool has a very strange tradition.

The night before each home game, the team will meet at the Hope Street Hotel.

But the players' favorite place to go after the game, or usually, is the St. Thomas Hotel.

The two hotels are not far away, and Anfield is about a ten-minute drive away, but for Liverpool, they seem to be two different places.

If the players are in a good mood, or if they win at home, it must be a celebration at the St Thomas Hotel.

The owner of the hotel is a die-hard Liverpool fan, and he will chase after every game, whether it is home or away, he will come.

Of course, the owner of the Hope Street Hotel is also a hardcore Liverpool player. Over the years, this hotel has always been the hotel where Liverpool stayed before the home game and has never changed.

The only difference is that there is a St Thomas Bar in the St Thomas Hotel, which has the best atmosphere in Liverpool and is also a favorite place for local fans. Liverpool players often meet here.

Daniel Agger's Italian restaurant is also nearby.

Interestingly, when the players checked into the Hope Street Hotel the night before the Chelsea game, they were discussing how to celebrate at the St Thomas Hotel after the game tomorrow.

Because the owner of the St Thomas Hotel has said that as long as the team wins against Chelsea and advances to the final, he invites everyone in the team to celebrate, and all the drinks in his bar are provided for free.

Of course, the target is limited to Liverpool players and employees.

This is definitely an alluring condition for the likes of Gerrard and Carragher.

Every player sees it differently. Some see the atmosphere, some want to drink, and some think of beautiful women.

And by then, it will definitely be another sleepless night.

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Yang Yang and Xavi Alonso were not interested in these, so the two took the initiative to ask the coach to apply for the same room.

Benitez agreed.

So, all night, Harvey Alonso was sitting on the bed reading books, Yang Yang was studying his opponents on his laptop, and by the way he was wearing headphones to video with Su Ye. He is now even better than Maxwell was , I want to see Su Ye every day.

Finally, it was almost time when Yang Yang turned off the computer.

"Do you think it's weird?" Yang Yang asked suddenly after turning off the lights.

"It seems that there is no targeted training." Xavi Alonso said.

In the dark, Yang Yang hummed, "The boss just let us have a shooting training."

It was a training session this afternoon. Benitez asked Aurelio and Abeloa to pass the ball to the top of the penalty area on both sides of the penalty area, and then other players kicked their feet to hit the close corner.

Yesterdam took a notepad and made notes over there.

Every player took a few shots from both positions, but the coaching staff didn't explain a word about what was going on.

"It's normal, he's always mysterious," said Xavi Alonso.

"But he is reliable every time." Yang Yang replied.

In his mind, what Benitez once told him reverberated. He discovered a very secret loophole in Chelsea that even Mourinho himself hadn't noticed, but what exactly is it, he still hides it to this day. Tuck.

Could it be that this shooting training has something to do with this?

"I remember, he once said that in a game with a team from the same country, many players are often familiar with each other. When communicating before the game, the content of the game will inevitably be involved. Guess, there have even been incidents of opposing players deliberately extracting information before."

The stadium is like a battlefield, and it is understandable to gather information before the game, but I can only blame myself for not having enough awareness of confidentiality.

"So, since then, he has never announced some tactical details in advance before the game. He will only announce it on the day of the game, sometimes even in the locker room before the game, just before the game, just to avoid leaks."

When Xavi Alonso said this, Yang Yang thought it was a little funny, but he didn't resist.

He has never been a very curious person. If it is related to him and needs to be done by him, Benitez will tell him sooner or later, and there is no need to be anxious.

"Eh." In the darkness, Harvey Alonso's voice came from the next bed, "Yang, will we enter the final?"

"Yes!" Yang Yang replied without hesitation, after a pause, he added, "Not only do we have to enter the finals, we have to win the championship!"

"That's really been counted by Gerrard!" Harvey Alonso laughed.

Yang Yang couldn't help laughing too, and Xavi Alonso told him the same thing that night.

"He's a fortune teller!"

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The next morning, Yang Yang still went to the gym to train for a while.

De Michele was with him throughout, and he is now in charge of the team's training program in the gym.

On the day of the race, all schedules are strictly scheduled, including the lunch break.

Yang Yang is a special one, because he is used to his own training mode, such as going to the gym in the morning and swimming at noon. These are the habits he has accumulated over the years, and his body has already adapted to it.

Even to a certain extent, the gym or swimming is a different kind of relaxation for him.

Two hours before the game, the team took the team bus from the Hope Street Hotel on time.

When the players walked out of the hotel, Liverpool fans were already waiting at the door of the hotel, and saw the players cheering, or singing the team song, or shouting the players' names, cheering for the team, hoping that they can beat Chelsea tonight.

But no one will come to crash the team, because they all know that the players need calm before the game.

Every evening game, it is the evening peak of Liverpool when it starts.

The police car will clear the way for the Liverpool bus in front to ensure that the team arrives at Anfield on time as expected.

The players were on the bus, without communication, without speaking, and in silence.

When he was at Ajax before, Yang Yang would enter the super training ground for training, but not at Liverpool, because it is only ten minutes away.

Wherever the bus passes, there will be crowds of Liverpool fans cheering on the roadside.

The seats on the car are also very particular. Some players are more casual, but some are more superstitious. They always deliberately choose the same teammates to sit together. For example, Aurelio, he has to sit with Yang Yang, because He believed it would bring him luck.

In fact, after sitting with Yang Yang, he performed well in every game.

But sometimes Yang Yang really wanted to tell him that the reason why he performed well was because he was standing in front of him, not because the two sat together before the game, because Yang Yang didn't like sitting with Aurelio very much.

The two had a good relationship, but Aurelio liked to talk when he was nervous.

But today, he didn't speak.

This is the first time he has touched the threshold of the Champions League final!

Benitez, who is sitting in the front row, is usually reading a newspaper or playing Sudoku, a math game he is obsessed with.

Yang Yang was very troubled by this, because he was not interested in the brain-consuming calculation of Sudoku at all.

But the Spaniard is obsessed with it, and it fits his image.

Unlike usual, when the team bus passed by the University of Liverpool, several Chinese students played slogans in Chinese, cheering for Yang Yang, and they all wore Liverpool jerseys, obviously planning to go to the school. Anfield, this made Yang Yang feel moved to meet old friends in a foreign land, and waved to them through the car window to express his gratitude.

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After arriving at Anfield, prepare, rest, warm up, go back to the dressing room...

Everything was going smoothly and everyone was used to the day-to-day home preparations.

Facts have also proved that Liverpool's home results this season are really quite good.

When the players returned to the locker room and were preparing for the final game, coach Benitez finally unveiled his last trump card for this game.

"I've always believed that a good manager has to be visionary and he has to reserve his tactics before the most important game, and in fact, I've always done that."

The locker room was so silent that only Benitez's voice remained.

Everyone knows that this is the final tactical arrangement before the game, and everyone listens very carefully.

"I was aware of a loophole at Chelsea long before the first leg, but in the first leg, I didn't use it because I wasn't sure I would hit one at Stamford Bridge, so I deliberately stayed for the second leg. "

Benitez said this with confidence, and this confidence infected every player in the dressing room.

"If you think about it carefully, it's not difficult to find that we have never practiced set-piece tactics in the past few games, have we?"

After listening, the players thought for a while and nodded in unison. It was true that they had never practiced.

"If you think about it again, in the first leg and the last two league games, did I deliberately ask you to take penalty shots from set-pieces, or in the middle of the penalty area?"

The crowd nodded again.

All corner kicks and free kicks in the frontcourt are penalties, so when Hypia scored a header against Portsmouth, everyone thought it was Benitez seeing the other side A loophole, I didn't expect it was to prepare for this game.

Yang Yang guessed it all at once, and this is called trying to cover things up, because he knew that Mourinho would definitely study Liverpool's recent games, especially set-piece tactics.

Then, on the contrary, Mourinho's Chelsea's loophole must be set-piece defense, and it is the front point!

"So tonight, I want to tell you that Chelsea's set-piece defense, the near post is their weakness, they always make a hole at the near post, but the opponents often fail to grasp this hole and use it to score goals. ."

"So tonight, I need someone who can get out of the crowd when the team takes a corner or a set-piece and the other players are around the box and rushing into it, and he can get out of the crowd and take the right time. Location, attack the opponent's near post!"

"This can help us break Chelsea's goal!" Benitez said loudly.