road to victory

Chapter 149 Tenerife
At this time, the UEFA Cup semi-final match also had the final result. The biggest winner of the UEFA Cup semi-final this time was Ligue [-]. Bordeaux and Monaco broke into the semi-finals at the same time, and it was these two teams that made the French most happy. They didn't even meet each other in the semifinals.Monaco's opponent in the semi-finals is the Serie A giants Inter Milan, and Bordeaux is even more lucky. Their opponent is Tenerife, a mid-range team in La Liga that has only stumbled all the way to this place.

When Fan Shang was researching this team, he only searched for a familiar name in his mind, German striker Neuville, and others, to be honest, Fan Shang had never heard of it in at least the last life, although there are All kinds of international players can only be said to be ignorant and ignorant.

In this semi-finals match, Bordeaux is still the guest before the host. It seems that this year's UEFA Cup matches all Bordeaux are first the guest and then the host.However, this away trip gave Fan Shang a headache. This is not a game in Europe at all. Tenerife’s home game is in a place called the Canary Islands in Spain. Fan Shang turned over the map and finally found it on the edge of Morocco in Africa. this place.Fan Shang now seems to understand why they have been able to go all the way to the present, especially in the last round, they lost to Brondby in Denmark in the away game, but they won a big victory at home.The entire country of Denmark does not have a provincial university of the Celestial Dynasty. It would definitely be exhausting for them to go to Africa to compete. Tenerife relies on this routine to avoid losses in away games along the way and win back at home.This time, the schedule of the first guest and then the host is actually extremely beneficial to Bordeaux.

Of course, this game is in April, and there are still three league games to be played in the middle. These three league games are very important, and it is related to whether Bordeaux can win the championship in advance.

The opponents in these three games are Nancy, Nantes and Montpellier. They are all old opponents, especially Montpellier. They have met in the cup before, but they all won the battle. Next Fan Shang didn't want any surprises in the match.

The results of these three games disappointed Vincent a bit. Nancy won smoothly, but they both scored draws against Nantes and Montpellier. Bordeaux scored 5 points in the three rounds.Although Monaco lost the game in the 29th round, they won three consecutive victories and narrowed the point gap with Bordeaux to 16 points. In this way, Bordeaux will not be able to complete Vincent's goal with 6 rounds left. Goal, this disappointed Fan Shang, of course the players also had to pay the price.From now on, they don't have to think about resting for the whole month of April, and they will have half an hour of tactical study time every day to make up for the damage they have done to Fan Shang's mind.

The game against Montpellier is on April 4th, and the away game against Tenerife is on April 5th, so Bordeaux set off directly from Montpellier to Ghana early in the morning on the second day of the game To the Li Islands, there is also a plane back in Barcelona. This time, the plane that departed in the morning did not land at the airport in Tenerife until dark.

Tenerife was proclaimed in 1912, but at that time its name was called SportingClubTenerife.For quite a long time after it was officially established, it has been in the regional league.In 1953, it was promoted to the second league.It was not until 1961 that they entered the top league La Liga for the first time, but they were unfortunately relegated the next season.Tenerife has been hanging out in low-level leagues for a long time. The real rise of the team began in the 90s, thanks to the former Barcelona player Javier as the club chairman and the Argentine team-building route and policy implemented by him.Especially in the early 90s, the head coach of the team was the legendary Argentine star Valdano, and he had Redondo, Pizzi, Alvarance and other players under his command. The best result was the No. .5.And last season, under the leadership of German coach Heynckes, they achieved a record of 5th in the league. Although the league performance this season is not as outstanding as last season, entering the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup can be regarded as a huge breakthrough.

This team should not be underestimated by Fan Shang. In the game at the Rodriguez Lopez Stadium that night, Fan Shang sent all the main players, hoping to strictly guard against the away game.

The Rodriguez Lopez Stadium can accommodate 24000 people, but Tenerife only has a population of about 20. That is to say, if every game is full, at least one out of every ten people will come to watch the game.It is this seemingly impossible thing that the fans in Tenerife have done. They have more than 20000 spectators in each game, which is a remarkable achievement.Of course, there is still a gap between this and Huo Village in the future.

But for Bordeaux, a high center forward is very troublesome. The two central defenders of Bordeaux Gamara are 180, Song is 183, and Chilavert is only 188, so Cordero created a huge threat to Bordeaux today.

The fans of Bordeaux who went with the army this time will definitely not be able to pass the triple digits, and can only hide in a small area prepared for them in advance.

Heynckes saw that the high center forward was ineffective, so he replaced Cordero with a 175 technical striker Juan Erre, gave up the air, and started to use short passes on the ground to cooperate with Bordeaux's defense.

Tenerife's main tactics are centered around a high center forward. Last year, their high center forward Pizzi scored 31 goals in one season and was the top scorer in La Liga. He defected to Barcelona in the summer.But Heynckes immediately found a replacement, a high center forward Cordero from Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time, he also found a fellow German, Neuville who was mentioned before. The current Tenerife striker is One high and one fast (how does it feel a bit like the heavenly dynasty), but the effect of the two of them is not as effective as last year's Piji.

Vincent finally made adjustments in midfield, adding a central defender, removing a striker, and replacing Wiltord with Distin.After Distin came on the field, he directly restrained Cordero. Distin's height of 190 plus a weight of 90 kg knocked Cordero, who was the same height but weighed 10 kg lighter than him, completely missing him. north.Without the attacking bridgehead of the high center forward, Heynckes' tactics had no starting point, so although Bordeaux still focused on defense in the second half, the threat posed to them by Tenerife was very small, and it was originally erratic. Neuville, who appeared and disappeared from time to time, is now only invisible, and he can hardly be found on the field.

Several times Tenerife's side kicks were snatched by Cordero. Fortunately, the center forward's header ability is not as good as expected. Several headers either flew or hit the goal, but he The few ferry crossings created a lot of opportunities for his teammates, especially Neuville, who is only 24 years old now, has slowly shown his ability. Bordeaux's strength is relatively concentrated, and Bordeaux may be pierced through the goal in the first half.

Fan Shang also moves very fast, you want to attack by force, I just don't let you do what you want, absolutely not to lose the ball, this is Fan Shang's only purpose at this time.

So Vincent followed Heynckes' adjustment and replaced the veteran Caussy with Pires.At this time, the lineup became a 541, with three midfielders in the midfield, plus a free Nedved, leaving only one Shevchenko in front.Fan Shang's psychology is that Shevchenko is dispensable now. If Heynckes' next substitution is to strengthen the offense, Fan Shang will definitely replace Shevchenko.

Sure enough, as Fan Shang expected, Heynckes replaced a striker and removed a full-back not long after, and Tenerife started to play 343.In this case, Vincent also replaced Shevchenko and veteran Lucas according to the established plan. At this time, Bordeaux's formation became 550. It sounds like a no-front strategy. turtle.Four of the five midfielders are midfielders, and Nedved can run better than the midfielder.

After seeing Vincent's substitution, Heynckes frowned and looked at Bordeaux's bench. He really didn't expect there to be such a shameless head coach. Normally, a striker would interfere in front of the bus. Really, Bordeaux didn't care about any face-saving projects, and everyone defended in their own half.

(End of this chapter)