Sporting Gijon is playing away from home in this round of the league. They will visit the Pizjuan Stadium in Seville. This stadium is one of the home stadiums with the highest winning rate in La Liga this season.
Sporting Gijon arrived in Seville one day in advance. At the hotel where they were staying, assistant coach Scott Terry was allocating rooms to the players.
Li Ang was observing Adil Rami and Juan Arango, and both players were a little silent.
In this game, Arango was included in the team's squad, while Lamy was not included in the squad. However, he still came to Seville with the team and will appear in the stands. Liang hopes that the French midfielder
Defenders can feel more about the atmosphere of La Liga matches.
After the arrangements were made, Li Ang called over Lamy and Arango. He felt it was necessary to talk to and cheer up the two players.
It was Rami's first time signing with a professional team. He had not even played a minute on behalf of the team before he was arbitrarily questioned and even ridiculed by the media. Juan Arango had just arrived last summer.
When playing in Europe, my performance was mediocre when I was in Mallorca. Now when I came to Sporting Gijon, I was questioned to such a degree by the media. This is indeed a situation for the two new players who have just joined Sporting Gijon.
What's terrible is that in this new environment and in the new team, they have not yet started their careers, so they are labeled with question marks or even malicious exclamation marks. This is unfair.
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"Adil." Li Ang asked Lamy, "Have you ever heard of the Brest team?"
Lamy shook his head in confusion.
"This is a French professional team." Li Ang said, he shrugged, "This is a French third-tier league team. You see, even Lamy, a Frenchman, has never heard of it. It can be seen that this
This team is what it is now.”
Lamy didn't understand what the head coach was going to say. He had never heard of a French third-tier team. This was not surprising.
Juan Arango was also a little confused.
"The doubts and malicious criticism you two are receiving now were also received by Franck Ribery a few months ago," said Li Ang, "because before coming to Sporting Gijon, Ribery played for Brest.
To be precise, his contract with Brest was about to expire and he had no ball to play."
Both Rami and Arango's eyes widened. Of course they now know the importance of Ribery in the Sporting Gijon team. Ramy's fellow Frenchman is now the absolute main force in Sporting Gijon's midfield.
Their outstanding performance in the first half of the season was one of the important factors that contributed to the team's current ranking in fourth place in the league. They did not expect that Ribery would experience a similar experience to them a few months ago.
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"The media doubted Ribery, criticized him, and questioned whether a French low-level league player could be worthy of playing in La Liga. The pressure on Ribery at that time was no less than you are now." Li Ang winked, "The media at that time were
Concentrate all the firepower on him, and now the two of you can share the attack firepower received by each other."
Hearing Li Ang's joke, Lamy and Arango both laughed.
"In the face of doubts and criticisms, Ribery did a good job. He responded directly to all of this with outstanding performances and goals! He used his outstanding performances to severely punish those media who looked down on him.
Slap! How do the media talk about Ribery now? You should be able to imagine it. Those are all disgusting compliments." Li Ang said with a smile.
Lamy's eyes widened with envy and admiration on his face. Arango also clenched his fists, looking relieved, as if he was the one slapping the media.
"Now, don't think too much and ignore those flies." Li Ang patted the shoulders of the two players with one hand, "All you have to do is work hard, train hard, and do everything with hard sweat.
Be prepared, and then use your outstanding performance to fight back fiercely when the team needs you!"
"Slap their mouths!" the two men said in unison.
"That's right." Li Ang smiled and nodded, "Come on, work hard just for the day when you can feel proud!"
Both of them nodded vigorously.
"I have a very good eye for people." Finally, Li Ang said with a wink.
Smiles appeared on the faces of the two people, and the head coach's words moved them even more. For new players who join a team, nothing gives them more peace of mind than the head coach's regard.
Leon has set a good example of Frank Ribery for Adil Rami and Juan Arango. Correct your attitude, work hard, and learn from Ribery's good example!
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Li Ang chose to let Lamy sit in the stands for this game and did not enter the game squad. This is a more correct decision. After all, Lamy has never played a professional game. From an amateur player to La Liga, the span is too big.
Now that Lamy has not yet met the requirements to represent the team in the game, Li Ang is going to let Lamy train with the team first, run in with the team for a period of time, and improve his strength level. He also has another consideration, which is that depending on the situation, he can
Send Lamy to the reserve team to play in the Spanish third division for some training.
As for Juan Arango, he was a rotation player for Mallorca in the first half of the season. He started or came on as a substitute for more than ten games on behalf of Mallorca. His own strength is not bad, and he can be regarded as having played in La Liga.
With experience, although his performance was average, the Venezuelan already had the basic qualifications and strength to play in Sporting Gijon's first team. Therefore, in the game against Sevilla, Liang included Arango in the team roster.
With Mata not yet back from injury, Arango and Modric are players with very different technical characteristics. Arango will enrich Sporting Gijon's offensive methods to a certain extent.
The next day, at the pre-match press conference, Sporting Gijon head coach Li Ang and Sevilla head coach Caparros both praised each other. The head coaches of the teams ranked fourth and second in La Liga watched.
It seems quite sympathetic.
In fact, when he turned around and returned to their respective locker rooms, Li Ang gritted his teeth and issued an order to his players that they must win the game and make a good start for the second half of the season after the winter break. And Sevi
On Sevilla's side, Caparros also had a serious look on his face, emphasizing the importance of this game and demanding that the team must win. Sevilla, ranked second in the league, can be said to be very motivated now. They feel there is nothing wrong with it.
The team cannot be defeated by them. In the league match before the winter break, they took away three points from the Bernabeu, humiliating Real Madrid. This time they faced Sporting Gijon, fourth in the league, and faced this
The slogan that Sevilla coach Caparros, the dark horse chaser, shouted within the team was: Teach the Gijon people a good lesson!
