shadow striker

Before the start of the winter break, Karl hired his personal friend, the German statistician Kraft, for the club.

Many people may be surprised why a football club needs a statistician who seems to have nothing to do with football in addition to physical coaches, team doctors, psychologists, nutritionists and the like.

But in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup in Berlin, the German national team let the world see the importance of statistics to football.The penalty database owned by the Germans has helped statisticians figure out the penalty habits of Argentina's main players.

The night before the game, someone handed Germany goalkeeper Jens Lehmann a note with several Argentine players' penal propensities.

In the penalty shootout, the goalkeeper took out the small piece of paper from his socks that determined whether the German team could advance, which opened the Argentine's nightmare.

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Kress wavelength distance run/right, short distance run/left

Heinze lower left

Ayala waits longer, runs long distance, right

Messi left

Aimar waits longer, left

Rodriguez left

That was all that was written on that little note at the time.It was also these few short lines that allowed the German team to win the penalty shootout without any suspense, and also made the so-called Argentina team go home early.

The Germans used their rigor to defeat the Argentines, whose souls yearn for football.

German film director Junker Wortmann even made a live documentary about it.

Since then, many countries have paid attention to improving the database of penalty propensity, and even hired statisticians.The players who take the penalty kick are also more in control of themselves, not always kicking the penalty kick in the direction they are most comfortable kicking.But statisticians can always obtain many vital clues by interrogating the data.

Yet clubs associated with statisticians are few and far between.

What people can find, and related information, seems to be limited to the mysterious weapon provided to Chelsea by an economist named Ignacio in the 08 UEFA Champions League.

Yes, Chelsea's goalkeeper also received a note from the Economist in that year's Champions League final.The economist told the Chelsea club about the tendency of Manchester United players to take penalties.

For example, most of the penalties saved by Van der Sar were between 1 meter and 1.5 meters in height.

Another example is that Ronaldo will stop while running towards the ball.If he stops, there is an 85% chance that he will kick the penalty to the right of the goalkeeper.And he was able to change his mind at the last minute and kick the opposite side of the original plan.So against the Portuguese, the goalkeeper cannot move too early.

This statistical skill is known in the industry as magic.

And this time, the Turin team also hired a statistician who thought he had in-depth research in this area.Although modern football has developed to this day, it has become one of the requirements for the team to take penalty kicks so that people cannot find any rules, but statistics can still help a team in the first division to a large extent. League teams.

For example, he can record for the team the average number of offenses organized, the number of goals scored, and the number of assists per forward.It also records the average number of interceptions and effective card positions of each defender for the team, as well as a series of related data, and conducts rigorous analysis of these data, in order to submit an efficient player bonus mechanism to the club.

It is undeniable that the bonus of re-calculating the weekly salary every week is really a mechanism that can motivate players to play well in every game.

And the Turin team obviously spent a lot of money in order to hire such an efficient team.

In the first report submitted by the statistical team for the Turin club, Yue Yihuang, who held a relatively low salary but was firmly behind Francisco and Derico in the column of effective offense and team offensive contribution should be rewarded in equal value.

If it is just a bonus, this reward may not surprise the players as much.Considering that Yue Yihuang was promoted to the main offensive core of the First Division team for one season but still lived in a simple apartment with extremely low rent, the club manager decided to give Yue Yihuang a villa as a reward.

Until here, what Karl said to Yue Yihuang was the truth without any concealment or lies.

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Even if the club is really rich and powerful, can they really prepare such a perfect house in such a short period of time for their Phantom Son?

Yue Yihuang: "So, in the next UEFA Europa League match, we will all receive a small note with the penalty tendency of the opponent team's players?"

Carl: "Yes. And each of you will be fully aware of the goalkeeper's kicking habits of the opposing team before going on the field. But that is just a tendency and a kicking habit, not an absolute reminder."

Although Carl emphasized to Yue Yihuang that it was just a hint of possibility, but he still felt that this was really a wonderful thing.He couldn't restrain his rejoicing that the Turin team was bought by the man in front of him.

Although as the owner of a team, Karl is still very young, or too young.But it is such a person, but he can make Yue Yihuang feel that if this person controls the team, then they will have nothing to fear.It is enough to show your best form on the court as much as possible.

Perhaps Yue Yihuang should be frank. When he and his teammates saw Karl attend the press conference as the owner of the Turin team, he really didn't know that the friendship between the two could continue.However, the other party has already found the best mode of getting along for the two of them.

You can still go to an opera together, or attend a concert.

You can still sit in the empty Communale Stadium with a bottle of wine and two goblets at night.

Only this time, they won't just reminisce about the past of the Torino team together.

They will even talk about the present and future of the Turin team.

Yue Yihuang: "If we can participate in the Champions League next year, how great would it be?"

Carl: "Why not?"

This man is always like this, just one sentence can crush all your "I can't do it" thoughts.He is calm, with a calmness and calmness beyond his age.But in him, there is also an almost absurd passion, hidden under his gentle appearance, is an almost absurd passion for dreams.

Hearing this sentence, Yue Yihuang smiled: "We lost to Catania in the 16th round. This season everyone's points are tight again, and our standings fell to No.7 in one fell swoop. .”

"I see at least two important points in your statement. Would you like to hear it?"

The wine glass swayed slightly, the color of the wine circled around the transparent glass, and the final calm made people focus on the hand holding the wine glass.

Carl took a sip of the wine, and then said in a very relaxed tone: "First, this season until now, the teams at the upper reaches of the standings are very close to each other. This means that we are very close to each other. It is easy to be overtaken by others, and others will be easily overtaken by us. Second, we fell from No.5 to No.7 just without scoring a point in one round. Does this mean that we won two more games? Maybe So you can climb to No.3?"

"If there are six points more, it seems that it should be... promoted to No.4, which is exactly one point away from No.3."

Following Carl's train of thought, Yue Yihuang recalled the Serie A standings before the end of the winter break, said such a sentence, and then got Carl's toast.

With the crisp sound of glass colliding with glass, Yue Yihuang actually felt that what he even dreamed of achieving was so close to them.

Yue Yihuang once said to Carl, thank you for giving me a chance to realize all my dreams.

Karl replied, no, I just told you that your dream can come true.And the one who is actually realizing it is yourself.

Thinking of this, the pressing pressure of being dropped to the No.7 position in the standings seems to have dissipated.The corner of Yue Yihuang's mouth raised, and he drank the wine at the bottom of the glass in one gulp...

Although the winter transfer period is far less confusing than the nearly three-month summer transfer market after the reform.But it can also stage more than one scare per day.Big-name players left their old clubs, and many wealthy clubs competed for it.However, after those clubs sent out invitations to big-name players one after another, there was miraculous news that the old club offered generous treatment to keep that big-name player.

Similarly, there are some second-tier players who were not well-known in the past and are also being fired in full swing in the transfer market.

The Brazilian genius, the little prince of Seville, and the new star of Atletico Madrid, these young players with unlimited futures jumped into people's attention in the transfer market.

However, it was rumored that the Ligue [-] right winger that Turin intends to buy and the Levante all-around midfielder Ust, who was born in the Real Madrid youth training camp, no one really decided on them after their worth was exploded.

And three days before the winter transfer window closed, the Turin team made a quick move to finalize the Argentine right winger Parel from the Argentine First Division and Brazil's San Francisco, who will play for his new club after the winter break. cut.

On the day the Turin club announced the news on their team's official website, several clubs that have hyped the value of the Ligue [-] right winger and La Liga's all-around midfielder for almost the entire winter break stopped.They seem to realize that these two players are just a smoke bomb released by Turin, and the attitude of buying these two players quickly changed from imperative to ambiguous.

This directly led to a sharp drop in the value of the two players.The quick closure of some top clubs put the two players who had announced that they would join the new team after the winter break in an embarrassing situation where they could not find a next home.

But in the last two hours before the closing of the transfer window, the official websites of the Levante club and the Turin club announced the final destination of the all-round midfielder Uster-transfer to Turin.The transfer amount is 3000 to two million euros.

This back and forth undoubtedly made too many people dizzy and dizzy.

Under many people's jumping and cursing, the transfer window was completely closed, and those few transferred to new clubs immediately after the winter break, and sent their already packed luggage to the cities where their new teams are located.

On the first day of team training after the winter break, the Argentine River Plate player Parel, the Brazilian full-back Sanche, and the all-round midfielder Uster from the Real Madrid youth academy all arrived.And these three players from different countries and playing in different positions saw the scene where the Phantom Son of the Turin team was besieged by teammates on the first day they came to Turin.

Cassel: "Tell you to shut down! Let you run away from home! Let you find no one! Tell me where you have been these two days!!"

Tiar: "Cassel, don't say that, he only lives by himself, and going out for two days is not considered running away from home."

Nierva: "Actually, you spoke too quickly last time, and I still haven't figured out how you and the boss met."

Abida: "Come here and tell us, tell everyone, what happened to your chance acquaintance?"

Galei: "Yihuang, did the boss tell you if I will be sold next season..."

Facts have proved that it is useless to blindly escape... It is even worse to go directly to the training base after the phone is turned off for two days and people have disappeared...

A group of bloody men saw the victim coming, so they rushed forward, and they were still talking at first, but the group began to speak in three languages, which made Yue Yihuang completely feel that he had a language barrier and couldn't speak a word.So the people who couldn't get the answer broke out with enthusiasm, pushing, dragging and hugging him, and finally even lifted Yue Yihuang up together, and asked in the language of their respective countries:

"Say it or not! Say it or not! Don't tell me you fell!"

In this way, the players of the Turin team unconsciously staged a "bloody" scene in front of the three new teammates on the first day they arrived at the Turin training base.

So two players from fierce South America and one from a passionate country were dumbfounded.New teammates who don't know the truth start to worry about their life in Torino.At this moment, the smiling Dro quietly walked among the three of them, and sang the aria in an almost intoxicated tone:

"Look, how united and harmonious our Turin team is. The teammates are like brothers, and they run happily on the field. Oh Turin, oh Turin, La La Rey~!"

Parel: "..."

Uster: "..."

Sanche: "..."

Aww... Fran said that he irrationally ignored the next job in order to find Yihuang, so he was directly thrown to Milan City by the cold-faced manager Toure.He will be late for today's training and then show up domineeringly!