Super Coach

Putting aside the influence of Muscati for the time being, Yang Cheng talked with Veron for a while. From the latter's words, it revealed that he also felt helpless about it, but Yang Cheng only asked him to continue to stay. One day in Kaiserslautern, he had to work hard to memorize and compete, and Veron nodded and agreed without hesitation.

Yang Cheng did not make any clarification on the whole matter. Even if Muscati deliberately leaked the news of Veron's refusal to raise his salary and clamored for a transfer to the media, Yang Cheng still refused to comment as usual.

On the contrary, on another matter, Yang Cheng did it very neatly.

The European Cup schedule is currently still a two-round home and away game system, and the time is generally arranged in February of the following year. It just so happens that the Bundesliga will resume fighting in February. Originally, UEFA wanted to arrange the two rounds in 1. At the beginning of the month and the beginning of March, Yang Cheng hopes to arrange the game on February 4th and February 11th, that is, between the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd rounds of the league.

For this matter, Yang Cheng personally called Dortmund's Hitzfeld, and the two hit it off almost immediately, and the latter immediately agreed to jointly propose an adjustment to the schedule with Yang Cheng, because the German winter break began on December. If the game is played on January 8, wouldn't it require the team to postpone the holiday?

The 21st round will be held on January 1, so the players' winter vacation will inevitably be affected. Therefore, Yang Cheng and Heathfield jointly put forward a proposal, hoping that UEFA will adjust the European Cup schedule.

After receiving the request of these two coaches, UEFA immediately made an investigation, and finally decided to respect their decision and arrange the game in early February to avoid the German winter break.

After obtaining this favorable adjustment for the team, the morale of the players is even higher, because they can get almost a month of winter break, which is definitely a rare recharge for the players.

But immediately afterwards, the team's board of directors made a decision. After holding a player meeting, they announced the Kaiserslautern's bonus budget system for this season. This system is basically carried out in accordance with Yang Cheng's requirements, so immediately With the response and support of the players, they all expressed their willingness to work harder to help the team achieve better results, and they can also get higher bonuses.

That is to say, in this enthusiastic preparation atmosphere, Kaiserslautern ended the pre-season physical reserve and began to fully enter the technical and tactical preparations for the new season.

In order to prepare for his first Bundesliga debut season, Yang Cheng paid close attention to the details and refused to let go of every aspect. Especially since last season, he asked Paul and Beyer to start an in-depth investigation of the Bundesliga team. Information, from preparations to the present this season, Paul and Beyer are constantly collecting the technical and tactical analysis and characteristics of each team in the Bundesliga, as well as game videos.

In 1997, the scientific level was not 11 years old,

Therefore, many of Yang Cheng’s wishes have not been realized, but game video highlights can still be achieved. Although there is no video highlight for each player’s opponent player as Yang Cheng requested, he still tries to do it as much as possible. better.

The first game video highlights to be drawn up are Bayern Munich in the league round. This team will not only be the opponent in the first round of the Kaiserslautern League, but also very likely to be the last opponent in the German Cup.

In addition, Yang Cheng is also paying close attention to Stuttgart. This Bundesliga powerhouse is currently in transfer trouble. Last season, he scored 17 league goals for the team. Uncle, currently flirting with Bayern Munich.

Stuttgart naturally tried their best to retain the Brazilian center who scored 41 goals in 87 games in three seasons, but Elber himself hoped to reach the peak of his career in Bayern Munich.

In order to avoid losses for the team, Stuttgart is also planning for the worst just in case, if Elber transfers to Bayern, they will introduce Nigerian striker Akbo Boli from Rostock to replace Elber's departure.

This team had a difficult 2:2 draw with Bochum in Aue. The team's skills and tactics seemed a bit chaotic. Obviously because of the transfer of players, the team's pre-season preparations were affected. A penalty kick eliminated Bochum 6:5, but it made Yang Cheng see the flaws of this team.

The first is the offense. After Elber was deeply involved in the transfer dispute, the state of this team was obviously affected, which led to the weakening of Stuttgart's offense. Before they wanted to ask for Pavel and Kuka, but now the latter has switched. Nuremberg, Stuttgart are a little bit out of touch on the front line.  …”

Before Kaiserslautern went to Osnabrück, the team held a tactical seminar on the semi-final match against Stuttgart. Yang Cheng let the players watch the video highlights of Stuttgart's game while analyzing the situation. The technical and tactical advantages and disadvantages of the team.

The current head coach of Stuttgart is also a young coach, that is, later the head coach of the German national team Loew. The formed trident crosses the Bundesliga, in which Bobic and Elber form a double forward, and Bulgarian star Balakov organizes support behind them.

The technical characteristics of these three players are very complementary, coupled with Balakov's excellent organizational skills, after Stuttgart has been tempered and formed, they scored 78 goals in the Bundesliga last season. Both reached double digits and became the most powerful offensive team in the Bundesliga.

But now Elber is deeply in the transfer quagmire, being pressed on the bench by Loew, Bobic is alone in the front, and Balakov is also a little helpless in the midfield. It didn't seem impossible.

Just imagine, the trident is missing a corner, and the impact and blow to this Stuttgart team can be imagined!

Stuttgart's defense has also changed a lot. These are our opportunities, but Balakov is a well-known organizational midfielder in Europe. We must not be careless, especially his left-footed arc free kick, which is at the front of the penalty area. We want to minimize fouls and use the midfield to directly press the opponent to push them out of the danger zone! .

Football confrontation is an offensive and defensive game where you come and go, you retreat and you advance. If Kaiserslautern presses up, unless Stuttgart can withstand the pressure, otherwise, they can only choose to retreat, prolonging the distance between the striker and the opponent's goal distance.

Yang Cheng has absolute confidence in his midfield. The midfield composed of Ballack, Nedved, Veron and Gattuso after a season of running-in, looking at Europe, can suppress Kaisers Lautern's midfield team is really rare, even a top team like Barcelona can't do it.

The midfield suppresses the opponent We mainly play two sides, with Luther, Michael and Pavel in the middle, you should know how to do it! ... Yang Cheng said with a smile.

Van Nistelrooy's sense of shooting Ballack and Nedved's back row, these have become Yang Cheng's sharp weapons in offense, and also a powerful weapon for Kaiserslautern to continuously defeat powerful enemies!

Guys, this season is our return to the Bundesliga. I hope you understand that our goal is not just to avoid relegation. We were the European Cup Winners' Cup champions last season, and the European powerhouses that fell at our feet include Barcelona , Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich and Dortmund, we have enough strength and confidence, we can achieve even more brilliant results! .

As always, although many people say the German League Cup is just a cup for pre-season training, but, in my dictionary, any game is crucial. I hope you may also understand that this time leaving From Kaiserslautern to Osnabrück, there is only one destination, and that is to return triumphantly from Leverkusen!…”

Leverkusen is the venue for the final of the League Cup. The two semi-finals are held in Osnabrück and Augsburg respectively. The winners will gather at Leverkusen's home stadium on July 26. The final championship fight.

Afternoon 22 July Osnabrück

Although it was only the semi-finals of the League Cup, the Osnatel Stadium was still packed, and the stands, which can accommodate 20,000 people, were crowded with people, including Kaiserslautern fans and Stuttgart fans, and some even heard the news. Neutral fans who want to get a taste of Kaiserslautern, one of the most popular teams in Europe last season.

In this game, Yang Cheng arranged for Reinke, with Lucio, Kyle and Kosch on the back line. The midfielder remained unchanged, with Nedved, Veron, Gattuso and Ballack. Left winger position As Denilson just returned to the team after participating in the Copa America, Salihamidzic served as the team's left winger.

On the right winger position, Yang Cheng let Deisler sit on the bench, appointed Schneider, who is more experienced, as the right winger, and the forward was Dutch center Ruud van Nistelrooy, whom Yang Cheng placed high hopes on this season.

From the very beginning of the game, Kaiserslautern aggressively pushed forward, especially on the two flanks, but whether it was Salihamidzic or Schneider, they were still following the ball. During the running-in period of the team, they still failed to cooperate with the players in the game.

Originally, Yang Cheng could use Denilson. The Brazilian performed very well in the Copa America and helped Brazil win the championship. However, because of this, he missed the pre-season preparations, so Yang Cheng arranged for him to rest and inspect Salihamidzic by the way. .

Salihamidzic's speed is very fast, and his personal breakthrough ability is excellent, but he is used to being the core in Hamburg. This must be corrected for him! Yang Cheng watched the game from the sidelines and warned.

People who are used to being the core will always have a kind of inertial thinking, thinking that others should revolve around themselves in the game. This kind of mentality and thinking is not allowed in Cheng Cheng's team.

Seeing that Salihamidzic made several breakthroughs on the left, but the next pass was a bit disappointing. One of them, Ruud van Nistelrooy had already run to the position, but he chose to be reckless.

On the contrary, Schneider on the right is not as sharp as Salihamidzic in terms of breakthrough and speed, but he is more skilled in cooperating with the midfield and frontcourt. It is estimated that this is because of him in Jena, and Salihamidzic Chiche is related to Bundesliga Hamburg.

After Denilson recovers, let Salihamidzic rest for a while!... Yang Cheng shook his head and sighed.

Paul, Baier smiled wryly, knowing that Yang Cheng planned to use the method of boiling the eagle to force Salihamidzic to change, but this is also an impossible solution.

After a season of tempering and growth, coupled with the ripening of Yang Cheng's super coach assistant system, Kaiserslautern's player strength has improved by leaps and bounds. Especially in the midfield, Ballack, Veron, The strength of Nedved and others has broken through DA, among which Veron has reached 172, and Gattuso's strength has also reached 157.

Regardless of the strength of Kaiserslautern's players, Gattuso in particular, but in fact, the data distribution of this player is quite reasonable, and he will never lose to those players with more than strength. top stars. Taking the most important attributes of a midfield defender as an example, Gattuso's stamina is full, his sense of position is only 15, but teamwork and work attitude are 18 and 17 respectively, and determination and determination are 17 and 17 plus defense The technical marks and tackles are 17 and 19 respectively. From this point of view, Gattuso is a very qualified midfielder defender.

The next thing Yang Cheng has to do is to improve his values ​​in other aspects as much as possible, such as offense, such as defensive prediction, which can make Gattuso's career go further, and his contribution to the team will be will be bigger than it is now.

As for Ballack and Nedved, these two players are characterized by comprehensiveness, excellent offense and defense, but they also have one thing in common, that is, they have a high teamwork and work attitude, and they are all 1. Veron is working The investment and teamwork also reached 15 and 17 respectively, which is quite high.

In this case, Kaiserslautern's midfielder firmly suppressed Stuttgart's midfielder. Although Balakov was excellent, he was unable to support himself. Facing Kaiserslautern's strong midfielder alone, he started from the game. From the beginning, I found helplessly that the road of head-to-head confrontation simply wouldn't work.

He wanted to retreat, but Kaiserslautern pressed forward immediately. Without Elber, it would be difficult for Bobic alone to do anything in front, even if Kaiserslautern's defense pressed forward to further compress Stuttgart's midfield , But Stuttgart still has not done anything to change this situation.

In the 31st minute, after half an hour of trial and confrontation, Kaiserslautern finally found a chance. Veron passed the ball to the right. Schneider took the ball with his back and used his skillful foot movements Protecting the ball, seeing that he couldn't pass the opponent on the wing, he suddenly stopped and changed to a cross-cut pass to pass a through ball.

Ballack originally wanted to lean over to respond, and immediately plugged in from the back row, and after touching the ball, he took advantage of the momentum and knocked across.

The ball passed through the Stuttgart central defender, and Ruud van Nistelrooy from the outside of the penalty area, ahead of the defender, easily volleyed the football that was coming across.

The ball wobbled against the right post and rolled into the goal, 1:o!

Ruud van Nistelrooy was very excited after scoring the goal. Ballack gave the ball very comfortably. After he inserted it, he didn't need to use any effort, just volleyed it. The angle was also well controlled, beyond the reach of the goalkeeper!

Ballack ran towards Ruud van Nistelrooy first, and then the two hugged tightly to greet the teammates who came to celebrate from behind. When Schneider came over, the two hugged him tightly again, In this way to prove that he is also indispensable for this goal.

After breaking the deadlock on the field, Yang Cheng is more confident about this game!

In the 5th minute, after Lucio cut off the ball passed to Bobic in the left backcourt, before Stuttgart's offensive and defensive transition had not adjusted, he suddenly dribbled forward with the ball and planned directly as his left central defender. A counterattack.

Veron, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Salihamidzic on the left also actively moved forward.

Originally, Salihamidzic was the fastest, and he was on the left, but when he was running, he overlapped with Ruud van Nistelrooy. Seeing that the pass could not be passed, Lucio immediately passed the ball It was given to Veron, who took advantage of the situation and made a straight pass.

Van Nistelrooy originally wanted to lean to the left to form a cooperation with Salihamidzic, but they almost collided with each other, and began to move horizontally to the right outside the penalty area. Veron just passed the ball to the right, and Van Nistelrooy was in the arc of the penalty area After getting the ball on the right side of the top, he adjusted it and volleyed directly. The goalkeeper responded, but the ball was too fast, and he could only watch the ball pass under his feet and roll straight into the net without scratching.

After scoring two consecutive goals, Kaiserslautern's morale was like a rainbow. Before the end of the first half, they played another round of offensive, which made the Stuttgart defense line panic.

Loew must be regretting it at this time. If Elber was there, the situation would be completely different! Yang Cheng was very satisfied with the team's performance and smiled brightly.

Elber staged a double-double in the Bundesliga last season, both goals and assists reached double digits, and he was in a very good state. On the other hand, although Bobic scored a lot, his assists were pitifully few. , is a more independent center.

Another very important feature is that Elber is very good at holding the ball with his back. The most watched scene in the Bundesliga last season was that Balakov passed the ball directly to Elber, who relied on the defender to get the ball. The ball, and then wait for teammates to press the ball or split the side, which is why Balakov can score so many goals.

Now without Elber, Stuttgart lacks a player who can hold the ball in the frontcourt, and the offense has completely become a one-shot deal. The defense is relatively simple. With Erber's speed, Stuttgart is equivalent to losing its fangs in counterattack.

Although it was only 2:0, Yang Cheng already has the chance to win this game. Love will regret that he stubbornly excluded Elber from the squad, but after this game, I believe he will See more clearly, the role of the player Elber in the current Stuttgart stunt and tactical system.

Sometimes, buying players for a team is not just as simple as replacing them with matching characteristics. After all, every player has his own technical characteristics and habits. No player in the world has the same technical characteristics, just like No two leaves are alike in this world!

Therefore, in many cases, replacing a player is actually equivalent to tearing down and rebuilding!