Super Marshal

In the last round of La Liga, a miraculous reversal failed to happen.

Even though Chinatown beat Getafe 8-2 at the Real Stadium, they once again scored a crazy victory, pushing the total goals scored this season to 123, creating the most goals scored in a single season in La Liga history. highest record.

But Barcelona defeated Deportivo La Coruna 3-2 at home, making all this in vain.

Chinatown eventually lost the league championship and became the most tragic league runner-up in La Liga history.

Losing the league championship for two consecutive seasons made everyone in Chinatown feel very aggrieved. Especially during the recovery training on the morning of the second day of the game, the atmosphere in the entire Chinatown training center became very strange. It felt a little bit... No enthusiasm.

Not just the players on the pitch, but the staff in the centre.

After nine months of hard work, everyone thought this season would bear fruit, but they didn't expect it to be like this in the end.

No matter who you are, you will inevitably have emotions in your heart, which is also normal.

But then there is a Copa del Rey final and a Champions League final.

The opponents in both finals were Barcelona, ​​the team that took away the league championship from Chinatown this season.

When he thought of this, Gao Han sighed heavily.

"We must get over this emotion as soon as possible. We don't have much time to slowly heal the wounds."

Following Gao Han, in addition to the club's technical director Cantarero, was also psychological expert Dr. Steve Peters.

After listening to Gao Han's words, this sports psychology authority quickly nodded in agreement, "Don't worry, we have already drawn up a plan, and this year is no better than last year. The players are more mature and have improved a lot."

At this time last season, Chinatown also lost the Copa del Rey and the league championship in succession. Fortunately, at the last critical moment, the team defeated Atletico Madrid in the final and finally won a Champions League championship.

So far this season, Chinatown has only two championships left to compete for: the Copa del Rey and the Champions League.

After hearing this, Gao Han couldn't help but shake his head. He felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

This season's La Liga has been the same as last season, with ups and downs and twists and turns. Chinatown once saw the hope of winning the championship, but missed the opportunity due to its own mistakes. Even though it chased hard in the end, it still failed to catch up. Barcelona.

This last ten-game winning streak can be said to have boosted Chinatown's confidence and morale, and allowed everyone to clearly see Chinatown's strength, especially the several big wins, which were even more astonishing.

In terms of offense, 123 goals were scored, setting a record in La Liga history, even surpassing Atletico Madrid during Gao Han's coaching period. Hazard scored 33 goals and Griezmann scored 27. Ball, Firmino reached 20 goals, Morata, Isco and Pogba all scored more than 10 goals.

The assist numbers of Koke and De Bruyne are also quite good. De Bruyne has 20 assists, Hazard has 15 assists, Koke and Isco also have 13 assists. The performance of the entire midfield is Quite outstanding.

Chinatown's offensive capabilities are booming this season. A very important point is that the midfield and frontcourt are flourishing. Coupled with the team's offensive tactics, it gives the frontcourt players enough free offensive space.

This is also a major feature of Zidane's tactics this season.

The reason why the team lost the championship this season was because of problems on the defensive end.

Chinatown has conceded the highest number of goals among the top four teams this season, even more than Real Madrid, which has defensive problems. This is certainly related to the team's offensive style of play, but it also has to do with the rotation of the team's central defender configuration. related.

"If we don't sell Godin, maybe the championship this season will belong to us." Gao Han sighed.

Selling away Godin is equivalent to giving away the backbone of Chinatown's defense. It has created Atletico Madrid's strongest defensive lineup in La Liga this season, but it has also caused problems in Chinatown's defense.

"Don't worry about this." Cantarero consoled him in turn, "If we don't let Godin go, then we have to sell DeVry. This is obviously contrary to the philosophy of our team, and this season DeVry You have also seen his performance. In the second half of the season, he will definitely not lose to Godin, but he is younger."

In fact, de Vrij's performance in the World Cup did not surprise Gao Han and the technical team, because he does have such strength, but after the World Cup, de Vrij's overall performance will obviously reach a higher level.

It can be said that De Vrij now has the level of a top-notch central defender in Europe.

As the club's technical director, Cantarero supported Gao Han's original decision.

The same goes for head coach Zidane.

The young players in the team have to come forward, and De Vrij's overall strength has reached that level. As early as the second half of last season, he showed the level of challenging Godin, and even occupied the main position for a time. After the baptism of the World Cup, Chinatown had to choose between two players.

Godin is already twenty-nine years old, but Devry is only twenty-three years old. Anyone else would have made the same choice as Gao Han.

But now, selection issues similar to Godin and De Vrij are once again before the management.

It's just that he changed from the previous central defender to another position.

For example, in the frontcourt offense, when Hazard cannot move, with the rise of Jese, Morata, Dybala, and the appearance of two young players Martial and Kingsley Coman, China Cheng's frontcourt offense also became quite intense.

Head coach Zidane hinted to Gao Han more than once that the competition in the locker room is approaching a critical point.

If it is controlled within the critical point, it can be regarded as healthy competition, but once it breaks through the critical point, it will be vicious competition.

When that time comes, I'm afraid Zidane won't be able to stabilize the locker room, and the team will definitely be greatly affected.

There has never been a shortage of buyers for players in Chinatown. Nowadays, European football stars are even more difficult to find. There are countless players who come to poach Chinatown players. As long as Chinatown lets go, any player can be sold for a good price. .

The key is, who to sell to?

A team always needs metabolism, and the transfer market can better stimulate the team's metabolism. New players bring new atmosphere and new excitement to prevent the team from becoming stagnant.

Of course, the hidden dangers are not small. After all, it always takes some time for a newcomer to take over.

From the moment Gao Han decided to let Chinatown take this path, he already knew very well that the team would face such a situation sooner or later, and over the years, Chinatown has already established an effective internal self-esteem. Hematopoietic circulation mechanism.

This season, the team's performance in the league has been ups and downs, especially in March, when the team suddenly fell into a downturn. This is indeed quite surprising, and it can also be seen from this that the young team's The weakness lies.

On the other hand, Barcelona's performance this season has been very stable, and their status has been relatively stable. Superstars like Messi and Suarez were able to step forward at critical moments, which allowed Barcelona to beat Chinatown to win the championship.

Generally speaking, in the past two seasons, Chinatown's performance in the league has indeed been very good, and they have the level to compete for the championship. However, unfortunately, last season Atletico Madrid was in great form and the team suffered a double defeat. This season, Barcelona successfully counterattacked. It can only be said that Chinatown's luck is indeed worse.

But not in the Champions League.

The biggest difference between the Champions League and the league is that the techniques and tactics of the Champions League are more targeted, and the luck of the draw is also very important.

Last season Chinatown was able to win the championship mainly because the bitter host Atletico Madrid entered the final. However, this season's Shenlian Legion was eliminated by Real Madrid. The opponent Barcelona in the final did not have an advantage against Chinatown.

Therefore, there is still a lot to be done in this game.

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Gao Han's arrival made the training center players feel the importance of the club management.

Whether he is the actual leader of the team or a symbolic figure in reputation, Gao Han's importance to the team is extraordinary, especially at the spiritual level. Everyone respects him extremely.

Although the club's office, home court and training center are closely connected, Gao Han generally does not appear on the training ground easily, let alone enter the locker room, but he will appear every time the team needs him.

And every time they see Gao Han, everyone will feel a force.

This time, Gao Han communicated with Zidane in advance. After the training, he came to visit the players, routinely said a few words of encouragement and affirmed the players' performance and achievements this season.

The same words, said at different times and from different people, have completely different effects.

Every word Gao Han said at this moment was deeply engraved in the players' hearts.

Because he is Gao Han!

How to carve out players is a matter for the head coach and the technical department. As the boss, Gao Han is only responsible for controlling the overall situation.

So, he didn't say much to the players and quickly disbanded the team.

And he walked back to the coach's office with Zidane, Makelele and others.

The league is over, and a loss is a loss. No amount of regret can change this fact, but the next two cup games are crucial, especially considering that the opponents are Barcelona.

"The Copa del Rey match against Barcelona..." Gao Han paused and looked deeply at Zidane, "...it's very important!"

Zidane nodded heavily. He had been playing football for decades, so how could he not understand?

This kind of front-foot and back-foot game, the first game is often the most important, especially related to the team's morale and fighting spirit.

Chinatown's results against Barcelona this season are not bad, with one win and one loss, but this has nothing to do with the two finals.

"I have been thinking about an issue recently." Zidane mentioned it proactively.

"Tell me and listen." Gao Han replied.

Not only him, but everyone else also looked at Zidane.

"Will Luis Enrique fuck Xavi?"

This is indeed a problem.

From Barcelona's perspective, Xavi will undoubtedly continue to maintain ball control in the midfield. After all, the midfield triangle of Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets is still one of the top ball control combinations in Europe.

But Rakitic is also a midfielder that Luis Enrique attaches great importance to. In Barcelona's passing and control system, he is not as easy to use as Xavi, but he is better in offensive and defensive balance, and his running coverage ability is also quite good. Has the unique ability to attack later.

Zidane's question seemed to be asking whether Xavi would start, but it was actually a question about what style of play Chinatown should adopt to deal with Barcelona.

In the first match of the league, the home team won the game completely, and they won with the ball control advantage in the midfield. However, in the away game, Zidane tried to adopt a pass-and-control style again, but suffered a disastrous defeat at Camp Nou.

If you extrapolate from the results, it was exactly that game that cost Chinatown the La Liga championship this season.

At the deepest level of this problem, Gao Han felt Zidane's hesitation and lack of confidence.

The war is imminent, which is the head coach's Achilles' heel.