Star Coach

Dosmingo's coaching skills are good. In the first season of the Portuguese Super League, he led Braga to the second place in the league, which is the highest ranking in Braga's history. Moreover, they made history by reaching the Europa League final this year.

Jiangshan found that West Ham's situation is a bit similar to Braga. Second place in the league, and then the first time to enter the Europa League final.

Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland.

Fans from both sides have entered the stadium. West Ham has more than 8,000 fans at the scene. After all, Ireland is next to England, and the distance is shorter. Both teams can get about 6,000 tickets. West Ham fans have a way to get 2,000 more people to enter the stadium.

Looking around, burgundy and sky blue jerseys are everywhere. This is the traditional jersey color of West Ham. With white shorts, it feels like a gang organization inexplicably.

The affectionate name of the Chinese fans - the Axe Gang. Jiangshan doesn't like it very much. It is obviously the Hammer Gang representing the working class. How can it be the Axe Gang?

Compared with the League Cup champion's prize of only 100,000 pounds, West Ham United can earn at least 30 million euros in revenue by reaching the Europa League final, with broadcasting fees and bonuses.

Moreover, the revenues of the Champions League and the Europa League are still rising, and the Europa League champion's revenue is expected to exceed the 45 million euro mark in the next few years.

This season, West Ham United has received nearly 100 million pounds in various broadcasting fees, which is enough to cover the team's expenses, and even the initial investment in purchasing the team has been quickly compensated by the high broadcasting fees.

By the next season, they will participate in the Champions League. As long as they reach the top 16, the broadcasting fee income will exceed 30 million euros, which is a considerable broadcasting fee income.

In any case, this is the Europa League champion, and Jiangshan even gave up the fight for the league championship and prepared early. In this season's Premier League, Manchester United reached the Champions League final and West Ham reached the Europa League final.

England, which is arrogant about good things, has even begun to look forward to whether the European Super Cup next season can be held between two English teams. Of course, Manchester United needs more luck to beat Barcelona.

Their opponents are not in the same position as Braga.

In the goalkeeper position, Jiangshan arranged De Gea, who started in the cup this season. He only played as a substitute once in the league, but he started in the League Cup, FA Cup and Europa League. The trend of rising is obvious.

Green sat on the bench and was already disengaged. Jiangshan obviously regarded him as a transitional goalkeeper. Next season, perhaps the main goalkeeper will be snatched away by De Gea.

The defender line is the English combination of Baines, Gary Cahill, captain Upson, and Glen Johnson.

In the defensive midfielder position, Kroos and Parker started together, and in front was the combination of Reus, Modric and Bale. In the forward position, Lewandowski was the starting player.

Suarez was unlucky and had a minor injury before the game. Jiangshan had to put him on the bench and only let him play when he couldn't open the situation.

There were also players such as David Silva, Ballack and Hargreaves on the bench, and their state could not support the performance of the whole game.

Braga also played with all its elite players, in a 433 formation, against Jiangshan's 4231 formation. However, their lineup lacked star power, with goalkeeper Arthur, Miguel Garcia, Alberto Rodriguez, Paulao and Silvio Pereira on the back line, and the midfield trio of Viana, Custodio and Wandinho.

On the forward line, the combination of Alan, Lima and Paulo Cesar.

After the game started, West Ham changed its usual behavior and directly controlled the rhythm of the game, and brought the rhythm of the game to a particularly fast pace.

Bale and Reus, two high-speed rockets, gave Braga a blow as soon as they came on the court.

Modric became the core of the frontcourt organization. His ball control and rhythm control are an indispensable part of West Ham. Even facing the tall midfield group in the Premier League, he can handle it with ease.

The probing stage of both sides passed quickly, and under the leadership of West Ham, the two sides really started to fight with real swords and guns.

Braga was particularly passive at the beginning. The breakthroughs of Bale and Reus were simply unstoppable. They could only use foul tactics to delay West Ham's attack.

The defense line frequently warned that if goalkeeper Arthur had not focused, they would have lost the ball.

Under West Ham's high-speed attack, Braga's defense had too many loopholes. The war between the two teams was no longer a competition of different levels. Braga was also smart. It defended at the beginning, otherwise it would have lost the ball long ago.

In the 24th minute of the game, Bale received a long pass from Modric and suddenly accelerated. In an instant, he got rid of Silvio Pereira. Wandinho chased behind him and could only eat dirt.

Bale accelerated, accelerated again, rushed to the vicinity of the penalty area, turned quickly, cut inside, and moved lightly and dribbled beautifully. Lewandowski understood and immediately shifted the battle line, pulled to the side, and lurked near the penalty area.

Bale accelerated and couldn't be pulled. Seeing Lewandowski and Reus took the defender away, he kicked decisively and shot violently.

The ball was moving very fast, and the shot at high speed was quite similar to Kaka's style in the past. Except for the ugly figure, the action was really beautiful. Moreover, the effect was also great.

Arthur was very focused, and his eyes flashed, and Reus appeared in front of him. He roared and flew to save the ball, but his speed was a little slow, and his arms were not long enough.

Bale finally scored a goal, breaking the deadlock, and West Ham led 1:0.

This is a golden goal. West Ham opened the game and controlled the rhythm of the game more firmly. Braga players rarely got the ball. They only had one thought in their minds, "Is West Ham really a Premier League team?"

It's not enough to counterattack sharply. The rhythm is so stable that others thought it was Barcelona's control flow! But it's not.

West Ham is also very aggressive on the defensive end. When Braga players passed the ball across half court, they found West Ham players everywhere. Their movement speed was crushed by West Ham early.

Hard work.

Lima advanced with the ball and was intercepted. Baines didn't cross half court yet, so he made a long pass to Reus. Reus accelerated and appeared in front of West Ham's penalty area again.

Facing Garcia who was defending, Reus calmly knocked the ball with his heel, turned around and passed the ball. His movements were chic and neat. This is a handsome player.

Lewandowski was ready. Facing the ball passed by Reus, he took a step forward, dodged the space, and lightly picked it up.

The big guy is also very smart. He lobbed the ball into the net and fooled Arthur.

Arthur punched the ground twice in anger, "Damn it."

Dosmingo buried his head. This game was not over yet in the first half, but it was already decided. They could not find any chance of winning.

Don't be slaughtered, we are the winners. Dosmingo thought to himself and looked at Jiangshan. The guy was on the sidelines and seemed to be dissatisfied with the team's performance. "Jiangshan is so handsome."

"Well, let's let Ballack play in the second half and feel the weight of the Europa League trophy. That poor guy." Jiangshan walked back to the coaching seat, "Of course, we still need a goal."