Chapter 108 God Saved You(1/2)
"I think this is a waste of time! This team called San Remo is not at the point of consuming or testing AC Milan." In the stands, several professionals were whispering.
They are from Liverpool, some of them are members of the Liverpool coaching staff, as well as Liverpool scouts and some outside technical personnel.
Any top football game is no less than a war.
Regarding the open and secret battles in the Champions League, what happened is definitely not just some tricks in the draw.
It not only includes doing things in the visiting team's locker room, doing things in the hotel where the visiting team is staying, etc.
Those are all hidden operations that don’t come to the table, they are shameless and are not worthy of advocacy.
What can truly reflect the relationship between football and war lies in the preparations before the game and the research of the other party.
AC Milan had such a Italian Cup final before the Champions League final. Although it may allow them to win the title of double championship in the Cup, it may also allow them to be studied in advance by their opponents.
The ultimate goal of Liverpool and his group came this time was to provide effective information to the coaching staff in the rear.
Perhaps some people think that watching previous game videos is enough?
Why do you have to visit the scene in person?
What's more, AC Milan's opponent is pitifully weak in this game and will not gain much after watching it.
But the state is continuity, and the research value of the latest game is extremely valuable.
On-site inspections allow the inspector to see many things outside the camera.
"So calm down. What we have to see is never how AC Milan will play after San Remo takes the lead." The man led by this group said, "Although it is a bit hurtful to say this, I think we may not be able to do better than this San Remo when facing the real AC Milan!"
"We have a hard gap in strength with AC Milan, and I hope everyone can face this!"
"Of course, we are far better than San Remo, but when facing AC Milan, believe me, we are likely to play the role of San Remo."
"The first half is about to end, and I need all the detailed information of the first half. In the case of a huge advantage in the situation, will AC Milan reveal any flaws? This is what we are here."
"Otherwise... it's just a tactical analysis. Do you think the head coach will not do his job well?"
The man is named Carabeco Laird, and he is Liverpool's chief assistant coach.
And unlike the others, he is not a member of the former cooperation team of Liverpool's current head coach. He is a coaching talent trained by Liverpool himself and is nicknamed Liverpool's crown prince.
He has served as the head coach of Liverpool's youth training team.
This year, Liverpool coach was parachuted. Lairder mainly aims to help him quickly grasp the Liverpool locker room and coordinate various roles between the head coach and the players, teams and senior management.
It can be seen that Lairder did a good job. Without affecting the head coach's authority, he helped the head coach stabilize Liverpool, allowing Liverpool to reach the Champions League final with a not-so-strong lineup.
Although this result reached the finals, everyone believes that it is the credit of Liverpool's current coach.
But privately, Liverpool insiders knew that 40% of the credit were all from Laird.
After Ledel finished speaking, the people next to him immediately sorted out some data reports and reported to him.
After more than ten minutes of halftime break, everyone was resting, but Laird was fully fired.
One seemingly useless message flowed through his fingertips.
"Acc Milan players have a strong sense of winning or torture. After they scored a three-to-zero early, they did not shrink their offensive!"
"They increased their offensive strength and made full use of the width of the court. There were many dispatching and conversions on the left and right sides, and the effect was quite obvious!"
"Prashedes became their left-hand offensive engine. Even if he was the left back, he had already done part of the left winger's job. This put a lot of pressure on San Remo, but also revealed the gap behind him."
"Izeret can accurately shoot and cooperate in a small range, but when attacking with him as the core, he often prefers simple attack methods. Many of his advantages are made by his amazing speed and enviable dribbling, which is efficient and direct."
"But equally, this also means that in order to match Izeret's characteristics, AC Milan's midfielder's choices will not be too complicated when launching an offense. They do not often use dazzling cooperation."
"If the opponent has an interception expert, the football passed to Izelite is more likely to be stolen by the opponent, unless Izelite retreats deeper. Of course, Izelite has extremely strong propulsion ability, and he is not afraid of retracement, but this will make AC Milan's offense less smooth and suppressive."
"San Remo has a Latuidi who has completed two interceptions so far, and that's why. But one Latuidi is not enough unless he is five years younger. Or... there is also a person who is good at interception and can cooperate with him in defensive cooperation."
"It's a pity that such ability... Welsach does not have it. Molic seems to be able to see this, but he cannot take on the core tasks of both offense and defense at the same time, and no one can do this."
"Do we Liverpool have more than two good midfield defense players? There seems to be an elderly defensive expert in the substitute lineup. He usually has few opportunities to play, but..."
Laird was addicted to the ocean of data and could not extricate himself.
...
During the intermission, the San Remo locker room was very low.
All the players were frustrated.
Because they knew that this time they were really going to lose.
AC Milan is too strong!
That unparalleled suppression and the relaxed expression of the opponent's players completely made everyone feel the true strength of top league players.
Izerett had no effort at all and got the data of two goals and one assist.
Eighty percent of the one-on-one match between Becherchi and Prasedes ended in failure. The only few times in the past was that people deliberately let him go and lure the enemy into the deep tactical way.
But this does not mean that AC Milan is invincible.
At least after halftime, Molic felt that AC Milan's midfield ability was relatively mediocre. It was a three-pointer worse than Roma's distinctive steel midfielder.
This may be related to Izeret's strength.
Leaving the ball to Izeret is the best way to get started by AC Milan.
Even the midfielder's random kick, which was slightly larger, was able to pass the ball directly, and Izerett could use his clever header to hit the ball into the goal.
With such Izeret, AC Milan often does not need to compete with the opponent's midfield to compete for operations and situations.
The team did not require it, and their midfielders naturally would not specifically develop some styles of play that were not helpful to the team's tactics. Therefore, AC Milan's midfield gradually became mediocre and would only give the nanny ball.
This phenomenon was naturally noticed by AC Milan, so they introduced Rui Andres, the core midfielder of the Portuguese national team last year!
Andres, now 24 years old, has the only goal of coming to AC Milan to become the core of AC Milan's midfield.
However... when he arrived, everyone was surprised to find that he was incompatible with Izeret!
Andres is the core of the midfield and the core of the offense in the frontcourt. He is used to a lot of dribbling and precise chain cooperation with his teammates.
And this is exactly what AC Milan is missing.
Therefore, he and his teammates often make mistakes in cooperation and have no tacit understanding.
At the same time, Izeret's style of playing requires a lot of dribbling and a lot of space, which conflicts with Andres's close positioning requirements behind the precise coordination of the style of playing.
Therefore, Andres failed to reform the AC Milan midfielder. A talented national team's main force and even the core midfielder can only sit on the bench in Milan.
Even though he had many opportunities to play, it was obvious that in order to play, he gave up his playing style and became mediocre in order to match Izeret's needs.
Now, Andres is looking for a transfer. He is not suitable for AC Milan. He cannot imprint his logo in AC Milan's midfield and frontcourt while Izeret is still there.
"If nothing unexpected happens, Izeret will not play in the second half." Sotu and Manello walked in and brought some very critical news from outside. "Andres is warming up, and he will most likely replace Izeret and serve as AC Milan's front midfielder."
"In addition, AC Milan's rear defense gate and backcourt organizer Prasedes will also be out. Their only task in this game is to maintain a foot feeling and warm up..."
It hurts a bit of a joke, but the fact is that the two core players who performed best in AC Milan were just coming up to "play".
"Of course, the good news is that the replacement of Prashedes is Harwood Charoba of AC Milan's own youth training. He is 1.89 meters tall and can be competent for centre-back and full-back positions." Sotu continued, "Sogel should be very familiar with him."
Sauger nodded: "He and I are old opponents. He is an Englishman. He has excellent physical fitness and is fast. My confrontation with him always loses more than he wins."
Everyone in the locker room couldn't help but sigh.
Others' youth training is better than Sogel.
You know, although San Remosorghe is not the strongest, his role is irreplaceable. The powerful defender he can't handle is actually the weakest in Liverpool.
"Of course, Charoba's attention is not very focused, which is an important reason why I was able to steal goals in front of him often." Soegel still provided some useful information, "Otherwise, with his perverted physical fitness and defensive ability, he should have gained a foothold in the first team of AC Milan."
Molic's little notebooks were recorded next to each other, but he paid more attention to Lu Yang who was silent in the corner of the locker room.
"Or, you won't go?" Molic walked to Lu Yang and asked in a low voice, "Anyway, it's all three to zero. We can't win if you come up. Why don't you take a good rest."
"So this is the situation you created to prevent me from going to the venue?" Lu Yang looked at Morichi and said, "Don't gild your child on your face. This is no longer a question of whether you win or not. Don't you understand?"
"The players in AC Milan have no intention of stopping their strength. They really hope to create a tragedy on their own court and in relatively important games, so as to win the favor of fans and be recorded in the history of AC Milan."
"Five to zero, six to one, eight to two... I don't want to be so embarrassed!"
"What we have to do in the second half is not to chase three balls, but not to let AC Milan play the score into a basketball score!"
Lu Yang said the last sentence very heavily and loudly.
Many people in the locker room immediately looked over.
"Guys, we have been heroes for a whole season, but I absolutely do not accept that we become pitiful ghosts and jokes in everyone's eyes at the last moment!" Lu Yang glanced into the eyes of all the players, and then called out, "Ratuidi, Palacios, Najib, Jarrard, can you not concede the ball in the second half?"
Latuidi swallowed without saying anything.
He was not sure.
"Okay!" Under the pressure of Lu Yang's eyes, Naji said the answer Lu wanted in a dissatisfied manner.
"Didn't you eat? Tell me, don't lose the ball in the second half, is it okay!" Lu Yang yelled.
"Okay!" All the players of Sanremo responded to Lu Yang together.
"Okay! We only have two goals in the second half. The first is not to lose the ball anymore! If you lose it, then don't lose more balls!" Lu Yang said, "The second goal is that we must find a way to score at least one goal and win respect for San Remo!"
"No matter how I scored, even if I threw the football in with my hands, we had to score at least one goal!"
To be continued...