Reborn Liverpool

Chapter 167 Preparations for South Korea
At the press conference after the game, Klopp, who led the team to an away victory, did not receive praise, but was unanimously questioned by the media.

"Last season's top scorer and MVP can only come off the bench. Is the Red Army really that strong?"

"Playing heartbeat games every game, how far can this Liverpool go?"

The neutral media sought truth from facts and pointed out the shortcomings of the Red Army's two rounds of league performance.

"Liverpool took a big advantage in the summer transfer (referring to signing Zhang Mai, who is worth 5000 million pounds, with 9000 million pounds), and now they don't reuse Zhang Mai. Are they trying to destroy this Chinese genius?"

"Ku Bird is Klopp's own son, and the Germans are terrified!"

The media in places such as London and Manchester became Zhang Mai's patron saint.

"The process and ending of the two games are exactly the same. Ku Niao was responsible for digging the hole, and Zhang Mai worked hard to fill it up. What's the inside story?"

Even its own "Liverpool Echo" jumped out to complain for Zhang Mai, and the arrow pointed directly at Klopp.

Only the media close to Liverpool's rival Everton sang praises for Uncle Zha:
"Zhang Mai is a cancer. There will be no peace wherever he goes. Klopp manages the army well. Only by surrendering Zhang Mai can he win two consecutive victories."

"The 10 billion fans in Huaguo will never agree that Zhang Mai can only serve as a substitute! It is recommended that Zhang Mai find another home in Dongchuang."

Many Huaguo media reporters were filled with righteous indignation, and they were directly ruthless words that drew salary from the bottom of the pot.

"The league has just started, and we are also adjusting and running in the new and old lineups at the beginning of the new season. Now that everyone can help us find out the problems, we will naturally improve the existing lineup. As for Zhang Mai! We introduced He just developed him as the absolute core of Liverpool."

Klopp, who has experienced many battles, can not be afraid of making things difficult and provoking by the British media, but he dare not ignore the attitude of the Chinese media, and simply directly declares that Zhang Mai is the No.1 of the Red Army.

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Zhang Mai didn't have time to deal with the commotion outside. After returning to Liverpool, he hurriedly packed his luggage and returned home.

Zhang Yulin, who is on loan to Tranmere, will also go with Zhang Mai, and Klopp will stay in the UK to continue public relations, because the Huazu team will have two consecutive World Cup preliminaries in September.

How to seamlessly embed Zhang Yulin into the Huazu team's lineup is also an important reason for Zhang Mai's early return to China. Zhang Yulin is a real rookie in the national football team.

Tranmere's performance in the Championship is not bad, ranking seventh in the Championship with one win and one draw. Zhang Yulin also scored his first goal in the Championship.

"The average level of the top [-] matches is like the bottom of the British Championship. You can score goals if you relax your mind. The only thing I want to warn you is: don't be surprised and entangled in the lack of level of your teammates, just play your own ball with peace of mind, and the rest I'll settle things for you!"

When Zhang Mai and Zhang Yulin, who was more than a year older than him, passed on the scriptures and gave away treasures, they were already on the flight back to China.

"Don't worry! I know the domestic level better than you. I don't dare to raise my tail with you as a master!"

Zhang Yulin, who is from China, knew that Zhang Mai was worried that he would underestimate those parallel imports and cause disturbances in the team, so he quickly agreed.

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The return of Zhang Mai and Zhang Yulin gave Lippi and the members of the coaching staff a sigh of relief, and immediately arranged for a joint training with the full lineup.

Lippi arranged a "4-2-3-1" anti-reverse formation for the Huazu team, with Italian hard-core defense running through it.

With the addition of Zhang Mai and Zhang Yulin, the formation can generate many changes:

When encountering a strong enemy, "3" can arrange Zhang Mai to match two strong defensive avant-garde to strengthen the hardness of the midfield and stifle the opponent's offensive;
When encountering evenly matched opponents, a technical and flexible midfielder can be placed in "3" to enrich the offensive routines of the frontcourt;

When encountering weak chickens, "3" will become Zhang Maijia and two technical midfielders, giving the opponent continuous blows like a storm.

With Zhang Mai, retreat can be used as a gate, attack can be used as a sharp knife, and there is no need to worry about the organization and control of the midfield.

After a few days of lineup drills, the coaching staff quickly determined the squad for South Korea:
4-2-3-1:

Goalkeeper: 23-Yan Junling∕1-Zeng Cheng
后卫：2-毕津浩、6-蔡会康、5-张林帆、17-于海∕21-李学鹏、3-冯消停、22-王燊超

Midfielder: 10-Zheng Zhi; 4-Liu Jianye/14-Zheng Cage, 18-Yin Hongbo

前卫：13-张迈∕8-蒿俊闵、19-姜宁∕12-黄波文、15-吴西∕16-孙克
Forwards: 11-Zhang Yulin/7-Wu Lei/9-Gao Lin/20-Yu Dabao

The 23 players of the Huazu team were training hard at the Xianghe base, and many domestic media outside were upset.

"China News":
The Huaguo team will usher in their first match on September 9-an away challenge to South Korea.

In the top 40 match, the Huaguo team did not perform well. They drew with Huaguo Hong Kong twice, and kicked the upper lottery into the death group.Fortunately, in the last round of their own efforts, coupled with the "great help" of other countries, they advanced to the final stage of the World Preliminaries in Asia after a lapse of 15 years.

In the top 12, the Hua Guo team was in Group A with Iran, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Qatar, and Syria.According to the rules, the six teams in the same group will have a home and away round-robin contest. The Huazu team will have Lippi and Zhang Mai, but the chances of winning against Iran, South Korea, and Uzbekistan, which are three teams ranked higher in the world than themselves, are not good. Big, the first South Korea is a big difficulty.

"Sichuan Daily":
After 15 years, the Huaguo men's football team once again appeared in the finals of the World Cup Asian qualifiers. On September 9, the Huaguo men's football team challenged the South Korean team at 1:19 on the same day.

From August 8th to August 24st, the national football team has been conducting pre-match training. The information from the front is that through the training situation of the previous few days, we can know that based on defense and a good counterattack will be the Huaguo men's football team. The guiding ideology of the game.

Facing the powerful South Korean team, Lippi is very likely to form a 5-back formation. There are 3 central defenders. Cai Huikang and Zhang Linfan are undoubtedly the best candidates. Judging from the current training, Zheng Zhi will be one of the 3 defenders.

It is worth mentioning that the Huaguo men's football team brought all 25 players from the training camp to South Korea. After the final training, the Huaguo men's football team also delineated a list of 23 players to participate in the China-Korea war.

The Chinese and South Korean national teams have faced each other 32 times in the international A-level competition. The Huaguo men's football team has 2 wins, 11 draws and 19 losses. The winning rate is only 6.25%, which is at an absolute disadvantage.Whether the national football team can bring surprises in this war attracts attention.

"Sohu Net":
The South Korean national football team will wear the "yellow robe" in the first match

In the middle of the night on August 8th, the chartered flight of the Hua Guo team arrived in Seoul from Shenyang. So far, the Hua Guo team's journey to the top 29 of the world preliminaries officially kicked off.

Huaguo football has launched 11 impacts on the World Cup. From 1994 when Huaguo football entered the professional track to the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, the Huaguo team has launched an impact trip 5 times, but only the national team in 2001 Successfully qualified.

Today, Huaguo football is once again on the road to the World Cup. This difficult road is not favored by many people.

In the FIFA rankings, Iran in the same group ranks 39th, China's opponent South Korea ranks 48th, and Uzbekistan's 55th. These teams rank much higher than China in international football. national team.

The Hua Guo team is currently ranked 78th, only higher than the 80th-ranked Qatar team and the 105th-ranked Syrian team in the same group.

However, in the top 40 of the world preliminaries, the Huaguo team's record against Qatar was not ideal. It is difficult to imagine the difficulty of fighting a bloody road among so many strong enemies.

Of course, it will not be easy for the Huaguo team to pass the first hurdle for the South Korean team.South Korean team coach Stillik said in an internal meeting that the South Korean team will attack with all their strength in the first game to crush the Chinese team's ambitions to qualify.

The South Korean team even stated, "It is estimated that the hundreds of millions of bonuses prepared by the Huaguo team can be saved, because other opponents in the same group will not give the Huaguo team a chance."

The color of the national team’s jerseys for this game has been determined. Because South Korea wears red at home, the national team will wear yellow jerseys for the away game. The white jerseys of the national team in the past have become a swan song.

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"That's good! The whole people are not optimistic about us. Objectively, it helps us decompress. Everyone just needs to play the game with peace of mind like usual training!"

Lippi talked eloquently at the team mobilization meeting before the game, but his eyes were on Zhang Mai from time to time.

"We all listen to the coach and treat this game as an ordinary game in a 10-round series!"

Zhang Mai naturally had to respond to Lippi's call.

(End of this chapter)