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In the past six months, Li Chengze has had a hard time.

It is a very honorable thing to be the absolute core of a team like Tianhe, whose position is even more important than the coach. However, such honor comes with enormous pressure.

In the evaluation of public opinion, the most special one in the league is not the recognized No.1 Lu Xiaotian, but Li Chengze.

No matter how strong Lu Xiaotian is, he's still a player. It's his duty to charge forward on the court, and he can't do anything else. But what about Li Chengze?He doesn't have many real battles on the field. After all, he is a support player. Using support players to charge into the battle is a waste of money. Switching a few combat cards occasionally is a tactical change. It is not worthwhile to do so in the long run.

Therefore, Li Chengze seldom kills opponents, and rarely scores goals himself. However, he can raise the level of the entire team to a higher level when he is on the field. Tianhe is not as good as Changfeng as a whole, but he has always been able to fight against Changfeng in the past two years. It is because of Li Chengze that the sparks are flying around and the wind does not fall.

Because they understand his value, Tianhe trusts Li Chengze so much and gives him such high authority. When Ren Shifeng was here, Li Chengze didn't have such a high status, but with Ren Shifeng's retirement, Zhuo Mang took over. , Li Chengze's status in the club has long exceeded the upper limit that a player should have.

However, after the arrival of this year, Changfeng strengthened his strength again, and Tianhe began to be unable to use tactics to suppress the opponent. There is always an upper limit to tactics. There is no way.

However, Li Chengze started to change the goal of the team this year, and began to focus on training newcomers. Although it is very normal from the perspective of the overall strategy, judging from the temporary results, it is much worse than before.

Han Yiming, Duan Bao, Du Qingfeng, and Guyi, four players under the age of 20 entered the first team, and several old players were eliminated-you must know that a team only has the number 22, and four players were replaced at once. That is, nearly one-fifth of the candidates have been replaced, and the entire team will naturally have some problems.

What's more, Tianhe's lineup has always been very stable. Since Li Chengze entered the first team to gain a firm foothold and gradually changed their blood, their first team has not changed for three years. where?In the past three years, Tianhe has won two league championships, one cup championship, two Super Cup championships, two East Asian Cup championships, and two World Cup championships!
In the past three years, even Changfeng's performance is much worse than Tianhe's. Of course, if it is extended to the last four years, the performance of both sides is similar, but Tianhe is now beginning to decline, and Changfeng is getting better and better. .

And now that the exchange of blood has started, what has become of the results?
They lost to Changfeng in the Super Cup. That was the last time they were so close to Changfeng. They are now only ranked fourth in the league. Losing points that should not be lost in many games is a key point. The cup is as usual He made it to the top eight, but compared with previous years, this result is of course much worse.

After all, for a team that has won N championships in the past four years, even if there is no championship, it is also a runner-up team. The current results are already considered to have declined to a large extent.

Fortunately, Tianhe has a shrewd management team. Although it was strongly recommended by the legendary coach Ren Shifeng back then, if they hadn't been decisive, they would not have allowed a young man like Li Chengze to take on such an important task. He gave Tianhe enough rewards, and Li Chengze became the top player.

Now it's only half a season's decline in performance, so they won't lose confidence in Li Chengze.

What's more, Zhuo Mang is also supporting Li Chengze - if Li Chengze appears to be in decline, Zhuo Mang is the one who has the most reason to attack, after all, he is the head coach, and the existence of Li Chengze will make the head coach's light much less - but Ren Shifeng's vision That's right, Zhuo Mang is low-key, but he is a coach who puts the interests of the club above his personal interests.

Li Chengze is now using temporary achievements to pave the way for future development. Professional insiders can see this. However, under such circumstances, a coach who has the ability to make his own interests bigger while safeguarding the interests of the whole , Even if he seems unremarkable, he is a remarkable person.

This amazing person expressed his attitude in front of the management and insisted on supporting Li Chengze, leaving Tianhe an opportunity to become strong again.

The interior of Tianhe is not monolithic—the interior of any club is not monolithic. As a joint-stock club, there are many ambitious guys in the current management of Tianhe. Overthrowing Li Chengze is equivalent to overthrowing the position of the current chairman. Now, such an opportunity has disappeared.

Of course it's only temporarily lurking, but at least for now, Tianhe's interior is still stable.

"It takes a long time to hone a new lineup, coach, thank you." Li Chengze said to Zhuo Mang.

"It's just a matter of duty." Zhuo Mang waved his hand: "But this period of time is very long."

"Yeah, especially Han Yiming, he can make up for the weaknesses in our lineup. With luck, he might be the next Lu Xiaotian... But we haven't used this kind of tactics before, and we want to gradually shift the focus of attack to his. It is indeed very difficult, but this is something that must be done, no matter how difficult it is, if you don't do it, you will never make progress." Li Chengze nodded.

"Few people can see the long-term like you. Teacher Ren was right." Zhuo Mang patted Li Chengze's shoulder with satisfaction. A healthy person is much stronger.

"Aren't you the same? So for Tianhe, the greatest person is neither me nor you, but Mr. Ren." Li Chengze smiled slightly.

"There is nothing to talk about in the league. If we can't win the championship, the top few are easy to talk about. The ranking may be close, but it will not affect our status. It is just time to let go and train people. However, we entered the quarter-finals in the cup and faced a team. For a first-tier team, the results should be better." Zhuo Mang changed the subject.

"This first-tier team is not ordinary." Li Chengze smiled: "Whether they can win or not is uncertain now."

"It's the team that used to play against Changfeng for a while, right? It shouldn't be bad, but judging by their ranking in the First Division, they are only in the middle. They may have potential, but they may not be able to play it out now. They defeated Tianlong in the last round. The performance is indeed good, but compared with us, it is not enough, right?" Zhuo Mang froze for a moment.

"It's hard to say, the team that Lu Xiaotian values...it won't be so simple. Unfortunately, the information we have collected is only their performance in the amateur league and the first division league in the past two years. These performances may not prove anything, and Their personnel has changed a lot, but a few cores have been retained. Zheng Qi, Su Jing, Zhang Shu...you need to be careful." Li Chengze sighed: "What's more, I always have a feeling that this team , will appear dangerous in the future."

Zhuo Mang nodded silently, he believed in Li Chengze's feeling - because in many games, Li Chengze's feeling was always able to find the most correct direction when there was obviously no intelligence support, this point, he It's all too familiar.

"The next training can only be based on me. After all, our goal is to train the team, not anything else. One or two championships are not of special significance to us now." Zhuo Mang said after thinking about it.

"Yeah, I'm just a pity. If Changfeng wins the five crowns this year, even if we can win it in the future, it will only be the second one. The first one and the second one will always be different." Li Chengze Some regret to say.

Zhuo Mang nodded with deep sympathy. For the current Tianhe, one or two championships are nothing. What they really want to pursue is the pinnacle of the five championships. The meaning of this glory is greatly reduced.

Top players, of course, must pursue unprecedented glory, especially when they have all other honors.

This point has never changed in the history of the football era. Whether it is the former legends of Chinese players or the former legends of other countries, they have all launched an impact on this great goal, but they all failed. Let this goal become more desirable to pursue.

The weak may feel that "the honor that I have never won is impossible for me", while the strong may think, "The honor that no one has ever won is the most worthy of it!"

There is no doubt that Li Chengze is a strong man. This young man looks thin, he is not good at walking and has a disability, but his heart is stronger than most people.

The strong often do not rely on the body, but rely on the mind.

It is precisely because of this kind of thinking that Li Chengze always thinks about winning the first five crowns. Although he thinks that Changfeng has the best chance this year, as long as Changfeng has not won the five crowns, he will I will continue to work hard and look forward to getting such an opportunity.

"In any case, we have to beat this guy... After reaching the semi-finals, we will enter the finals. In the finals, we still have a chance to snipe Changfeng. Their good form cannot last too long. If we meet them again, we will also go to the finals." It's not that there is no chance, by that time, the new tactics of our overall lineup will almost take shape..."

After the Super Bowl, Li Chengze's speech made many people think that he had given up all kinds of competitions this year, but in fact, although Li Chengze said that, he did not give up any opportunities.

That said, firstly, it is to stimulate the strong teams in other leagues, and secondly, it is also to paralyze Changfeng. Even if it is difficult for Lu Xiaotian to take him lightly, he will do the same.

Weakness in the league is also a part of Li Chengze's layout.

"Recently, we need to collect more extraordinary data, especially the data of their recent games in the China Cup. The more detailed the better." Li Chengze finally said to Zhuo Mang.