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Chapter 939 Good News Bad News

For decades in the world of football, clubs have mixed feelings about the big competition year. The World Cup and the European Cup are top events, which have a strong role in promoting the influence of football in the world.

But every big game year, the stars who have played the World Cup and the European Cup often play poorly. This is the so-called "big game syndrome."

The situation has changed with the changes of the times. Modern football has extremely high physical and tactical requirements for players, making this "competition syndrome" gradually become history.

However, the opposite happened.

The club would rather endure the stars to overdraw their physical strength to play the World Cup and European Cup in the summer, but it is difficult to tolerate them participating in those qualifiers and warm-up matches during the season.

After all, major competitions have no direct impact on the club's performance, and the latter is hard to say. If Manchester City's David Silva, De Bruyne, or Chelsea's Eden Hazard, Liverpool's Joe Hart came for half a year. Injuries, they don't have to expect anything to gain this season.

In addition, in the past five or six years, with the high-position pressing and fast offensive and defensive tactics vigorously promoted by the new generation of coaches such as Tuchel, Klopp, Pochettino, and Enrique, the stars who consume a lot of physical energy are in the warm-up match. The frequency of injuries in the qualifiers has increased significantly.

If he was injured in a club match, he could knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, but if he was injured in a national team match... the head coach really couldn't cry.

Even if Sun Wu is very satisfied with the current configuration of the Manchester United team, there are sufficient bench depths in all positions, and even De Gea's substitute is Argentina's number one!
Sun Wu still has a headache. Of course, he will not forget how Milner, Phil Jones and Shaqiri were injured more than half a month ago.

10月3号打完埃弗顿，10月6号球员纷纷去国家队报道，在10月15号回归俱乐部，期间将近十天要打两场比赛。

So, on October 10rd, Sun Wu, who hadn’t left Liverpool yet, contacted the head coaches of various national teams in the hotel...

"Yes, yes, Evra started at Juventus yesterday!" Sun Wu chattered with the microphone, "Now that Luke Shaw has just returned, it's really not good...you don't want to see me Are you leaving get out of class early?"

"Hahaha." Didier Deschamps on the other end of the phone laughed, "Okay, no problem, but Kante and Griezmann still have to be recruited, and I want Pavard to try."

"Pavar?" Sun Wu frowned.

"Sagna is no longer the main player at Arsenal."

The entire French team has weak left and right full backs. Not only is he old, but also Evra is frequently injured. It is difficult for Sagna to guarantee his condition. However, Lucas and Pavard of Manchester United this season turned out to be in front of Didier Deschamps. one light.

In the end, Sun Wu exchanged Pavard for Lucas, and Deschamps took the initiative to call to appease Lucas... It's not that I don't want to recruit you, it's that Manchester United is afraid of your injury and refuses to let you go.

However, there is a reason for Deschamps to cooperate so much. Although the French team participated in the European Cup qualifiers, they are directly promoted as the hosts. There is no need to calculate points for the competition. It is purely a warm-up match. Pick the right players.

Next, Sun Wu's relationship with Sun Wu was not very smooth. The Dutch team's qualifying situation is not very good now, so they will pay no attention to Manchester United. It has long been announced that Manchester United defender Van Dijk will start in the key game against Kazakhstan.

Shaqiri, Milner, and Alderweireld, who had just returned from injury, were not retained. Lingard and Phil Jones were also selected for the England squad.

Bernardo Silva was selected for the Portuguese national team for the first time, and Sun Wu was ashamed to let him not go...

Even Falcao and Mane, two non-European players, have to play a warm-up match!

That is to say, Fabinho has not yet been selected for the national team, Rojo is still recovering from his injury, Luke Shaw has just returned, and there are only five or six people left alone on the Carrington training ground.

Sun Wu simply announced his disbandment, and everyone rested for a few days... But on October 10th, when the stars went to the national team to report, the news came that made Sun Wu furious.

At the St. George's Park training base, the England national team conducted its first training session. Sturridge and Baines were injured. The coach immediately recruited Harry Kane and Luke Shaw as replacements.

I can only congratulate Harry Kane for being selected to Sun Wu, but Luke Shaw has just returned to the training ground and has only participated in team training so far, and has not officially played yet!
Contacting Hodgson was not smooth, and after consulting with Luke Shaw privately, Sun Wu could only choose to let him go.

The old man Hodgson is really not a good bird. In the following pre-match press conference, he also criticized Manchester United coach Best for not letting him go.

"Luke Shaw is different from others. Once injured, the recovery period will be very long. I hope this time it won't be..." Dr. Swell complained privately, "There is really no need to recruit Luke Shaw, but the main force should be Tottenham. Ross."

"Actually, Southampton's Bertrand is also good, but Hodgson doesn't like it." Carrick, who is more familiar with the Premier League, smiled bitterly: "Ashley Young left the team, Rojo is still recovering from his injury, and the left back is now Lu. Cass alone."

"Milner can make a cameo, he played last season."

"But then it's Arsenal, Bellerin and Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain are very fast..."

In the next half month, Sun Wushou stayed at the Carrington base, on the one hand, worked with the coaching staff to refine the team's tactical system, the range of activities and running routes of players in each position, and on the other hand, accepted to participate in national team competitions at any time Player information.

There is good news and bad news.

Harry Kane scored his first goal for the national team 45 seconds after he came off the bench, Van Dijk Taishan headed a header to kill Kazakhstan, and Pavard, who was selected for the national team for the first time, won the praise of Didier Deschamps for his outstanding performance.

Bernardo Silva, who was also selected for the national team for the first time, assisted Ronaldo to score twice. Falcao continued his outstanding performance this season and scored in both warm-up matches.

They are all in good condition. Sun Wu called every player to congratulate him, but at the same time there is also a lot of bad news.

Before England's game against Lithuania, Luke Shaw, who worried the Manchester United coaching staff most, was injured again during the warm-up. He slipped and strained his thigh muscle during ordinary round-trip running.

After being rushed back to Manchester Hospital for diagnosis, Dr. Swell told Sun Wu that there is no need to expect Luke Shaw to appear on the training ground for the next month.

Sun Wu was frustrated, without his medical insurance card, Luke Xiao became a glass man again.

But the bad news came one after another. Shaqiri collided with his teammates in the game and injured his shoulder. The one who injured him was Xhaka, the midfielder of Arsenal, Manchester United's next league rival.

Griezmann, who has been on fire recently, was not injured, but this guy ran out to play after the game against Sevilla. Although it was mid-October, Eastern Europe was already very cold, and he caught a cold...

Sun Wu is very speechless about this, Eastern European women are indeed attractive, but you can die if you go out to play and wear more clothes!

Griezmann sneezed and told Sun Wu that he and Giroud shared a room...

Only then did Sun Wu feel a little better.

(End of this chapter)