road to victory

Chapter 480 Slowly Adapting
Although the next league opponents are not strong, there is one person among them that Fan Shang still attaches great importance to. That is Benitez who should have sat in Fan Shang's current position. He led Tenerife to upgrade last year. According to history He should take Cooper's class and come to Valencia. Now that Vincent is here, Benitez can only stay in Tenerife and continue his island life.

This is the second time for Fan Shang to fly to the Canary Islands within a month. I don’t know what Spain thinks. They let this island in Africa to participate in the La Liga. Fan Shang thinks they might as well start a small league. It is too far to send good players to Spain.

Tenerife is actually not the first time we met Fan Shang. He taught in the intercontinental competition when he was still in Bordeaux, but at that time Tenerife had already started to decline, otherwise it would not be possible to become this season newly promoted.

Benitez's tactics are still so local selection, what kind of tactics are used when encountering players, just like the current Tenerife, most of these players are from the youth training of the previous team. It turns out that the team defended and counterattacked in its glory His style goes deep into the cells, so now Benitez is also using a defensive counterattack strategy.

This time at home, Benitez gave up the counterattack and defended with all his strength, hoping to stop Valencia's progress at home.

But it is a pity that Benitez thought too much. His bus tactic in the first half really made Valencia a little bit at a loss. It was because Vincent didn't let Tony play today, but Vincent replaced him when the situation couldn't start in the second half. Tony, who had rested for several games in a row, broke the deadlock with a header in the 85th minute, and at the same time allowed Valencia to successfully take away three points from the away game.

Vincent praised Benitez frankly at the post-match press conference, thinking that he is a head coach who is proficient in tactics. Tenerife's tactics today are successful, but if their defensive line improves a bit, Then the result may be different. At the same time, he also emphasized that he appreciates Benitez and hopes to cooperate with him if he has the opportunity.

However, Fan Shang's words are indeed a bit exaggerated. It's all about how the head coach cooperated. Anyway, what the media said was that Fan Shang wanted to invite Benitez to be an assistant coach.Fan Shang doesn't care what they mean by what they taste, in fact, Fan Shang means this. If he can have such an assistant coach, it will be easier for him in the future.This sentence was said casually, who knew that the media would make a big publicity the next day, saying that Vincent hoped that Benitez could become Valencia's assistant coach.

Fan Shang didn't care, but Benitez hated Fan Shang. He felt that although his achievements were not as good as Fan Shang's, he was still the head coach of a La Liga club. If he wanted him to be an assistant, he would be able to make such a big splash It was written in the newspaper, obviously he didn't take himself seriously, the enmity was settled, but Fan Shang didn't know it yet, he was now thinking about how to deal with his next opponent.

The UEFA Cup has entered the third round of elimination. Valencia's opponents in the first two rounds were not strong, but this round Valencia encountered the veteran Scottish powerhouse Celtic. Those eliminated in the group stage, they have defeated Juventus and other strong teams in the Champions League.

The Celtics' style of play has been consistent for decades, and they are tough. The tough style of traditional Scottish football is vividly reflected in them, so Vincent is not worried about their strength. What he is worried about is playing against this kind of team. Will these thin arms and legs of West Asia get hurt?

Facts proved that Fan Shang seemed to be over-concerned. The Celtics played tougher, but they didn't play dirty. They didn't make any intentional fouls. Things like tackles and pullers were put on the bright side and went straight.

This is much better. The delicate skills of Valencia's players played a key role in this game. They absolutely made a difference. Valencia scored two goals in the whole game, almost all of which were passed into the goal.To be honest, Valencia's players don't want to have much physical contact with the Celtics. The mutual pass and cut cooperation has become Valencia's first choice for offense, and they keep making two-over-one passes.

In the end, the score of 2:0 at home was very acceptable to Fan Shang, but Fan Shang felt that he had to change his formation when he went to the away game. The Celtics were played so badly by Valencia today. After the body is done, Fan Shang must be mentally prepared for head-to-head encounters.

In the league, Valencia continued to advance triumphantly. They played an away game against Real Sociedad. Now Real Sociedad is a team that has no worries about relegation but has some difficulty hitting the top ten. Their goal every year is to enter European competitions, but almost Not much has been achieved.

In this game, Valencia did not give Real Sociedad a chance at all in the away game. The Valencia players, who have adapted to the high-position press, began to slowly improve their ball possession rate. In this game, their ball possession rate reached 65%. , Real Sociedad's offense hardly caused any trouble to Valencia's defense, but Valencia still lacked a bit in the finishing touch. With such a high ball possession rate, the final score was only 1:0, which made Fan Still a little dissatisfied.

Fan Shang also found the problem. In just a few games, these frontcourt players have become addicted to passing the ball. When they have a chance to shoot, they don't shoot. They have to pass the ball to find teammates. Fan Shang doesn't understand why Valencia The situation came so quickly, and this situation in Barcelona was in the later period of Guardiola.

But since there is a problem, it needs to be solved. Fan Shang is looking for a solution during training this time. Before that, Fan Shang rarely participated in training, except for tactical training.

But ever since he discovered the problem, Fan Shang will strengthen his role in the group confrontation. Only when a player passes the ball at the place where the shot should be shot, Fan Shang will stop the game, and then he will go to the field to tell the players. It didn't matter to them, but later this kind of intermittent game really made them a little unbearable, so Fan Shang's opinion was adopted by them, and they consciously began to increase the probability of shooting at a reasonable position.

This went on for a few days. Anyway, during training, several midfielders would no longer enter the danger zone and continue to pass the ball. They would choose a better way to deal with it.

But it was too late to consolidate. Valencia will go to Scotland in the middle of the week for the second round of the UEFA Cup match against the Celtics. Although they won two goals at home, Vincent still did not underestimate the Celtics. .

(End of this chapter)