Chapter 210 A little nervous (for the leader aimarfs
Until the players arrived at the Luzhniki Stadium, the sky was still clear and there was no sign of rain.
No one cares about the weather anymore.
When the players were warming up, they consciously put on their sneakers and no one had to change their spikes.
The equipment manager looked at this scene and curled his lips inwardly. The set of long nails was gone.
Chang Sheng no longer mentioned anything about whether it would rain or not.
He now feels that maybe his intuition deceived him. After all, he is not Chu Zhongtian, and he has no intuition beyond ordinary people...
He began to think about how the game should be played in clear weather.
Competition skills can no longer be canceled or replaced.
It can only be wasted like this.
It is impossible for him to ask players to shoot from long distances in non-rainy weather just because of their playing skills.
Sunny days are different from rainy days. Shooting from any distance is a waste of opportunities. Lazio has the ability to send the football all the way to Manchester United's goal.
When the players all went out to warm up, the coaches followed suit, and only Chang Sheng was left in the locker room.
He closed his eyes and began to remember.
In my impression, the turf condition in that game was not good, and players from both sides slipped and fell from time to time.
Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar even slipped while saving a ball during the game, giving Lampard a chance to score a supplementary goal.
Should I take advantage of this?
Let the players create more pressure in front of the Manchester United goal, forcing all Manchester United defensive players, including Edwin van der Sar and the defenders, to make mistakes.
Maybe the chance of making a mistake is not very high, but as long as it happens once, it can be fatal!
Then we need more direct passes to threaten Manchester United's heartland...
Chang Sheng has a deep understanding of this game because he watched the live broadcast and saw the guest comments on the World Football program later, so he has a better understanding.
He can even recite the tactics United used in this game.
But when he originally designed the tactics for this game, he didn't consider this at all.
Why?
Because this is unnecessary.
The tactics United used in that Champions League final he knew were based on their opponents.
Manchester United would only use tactics like that when their opponent was Chelsea.
When the opponent switched to Lazio, who had a higher technical and tactical level, Chang Sheng didn't believe that Ferguson would use the same set of tactics.
Ferguson is no idiot.
Therefore, recalling Manchester United's tactics and using them as templates to come up with targeted strategies can only lead to a dead end.
In that Champions League final, compared with Chelsea, Manchester United's technical and tactical level was higher, so they used their technical and tactical advantages to score one goal in the first half and suppressed Chelsea for 40 minutes until the first half.
In the last minute, Chelsea relied on a mistake from Edwin van der Sar to equalize the score.
But now that Lazio's technical and tactical level is higher than Manchester United's, Manchester United will not just use this tactic.
They should use another method...
This method is very likely to be the one used by Chelsea to deal with Manchester United.
Use the traditional talent and physical strength of the English team to contain Lazio's performance.
As long as Ferguson has studied Lazio's videos, he will not be naive enough to want to compete with Lazio in technique and tactics.
Just like when the Spanish national team was at its most glorious, it was unwise for them to focus on their foot skills.
If the opponent uses his body, the game skills that he has used to increase the success rate of physical confrontation will come into play at this time...
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While Chang Sheng was meditating, the players finished warming up and returned to the locker room.
Chang Sheng saw them and asked casually: "Is it raining outside?"
Some players responded to their head coach with a strange expression: "The sky is clear, boss."
Chang Sheng nodded and stopped asking.
"Okay, let's talk about how to play the game under clear skies..."
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Ferguson was actually worried about rain. Although the weather forecast said there was no chance of rain, weather forecasts... everyone knew that it was something that "believe it or not, it's up to the weather".
He is the one who truly embraces the idea that "well prepared is always the right thing to do".
Completely different from the "historical speculators" like Chang Sheng.
Although Manchester United is an English team, Manchester United's current style of play is already the style of mainland football.
They pay more attention to technique rather than the long passing and lobbing of traditional English football.
Of course, after all, they are an English team. When it is really necessary to play long passes, Manchester United can also take the lead.
Ferguson hopes the weather will be good and suitable for everyone to play ground ball.
In this case, Manchester United is also good at it.
Looking at it now, he can breathe a sigh of relief.
So in the last ten minutes before the start of the game, he said to his players: "Just play as we practiced in training, give full play to the advantages of our two wingers, and the two full-backs must be proactive
The assist..."
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After both head coaches had said what they had to say, both teams left the locker rooms and waited in the tunnel to go out.
There was no communication between the two parties.
At this time, Lazio's players were thinking about the upcoming final and they were a little nervous.
Yes, nervous.
This is the first Champions League final for all of them.
In fact, what Ferguson said makes sense. Although many players in this Manchester United have not participated in the Champions League final, there are still people after all. Giggs, a veteran player, has participated in the 1999 Champions League final. He can
Pass their experience on to their teammates.
Although Giggs did not play in this game, Scholes started the game. He wore the captain's armband, and his calmness still affected the entire Manchester United team and made the young people of Manchester United feel at ease.
But on Lazio's side, there is no such pin-point figure.
Jose Passarella is too silent and too young as captain, and he has no experience in the Champions League finals. What useful information can he convey to his teammates?
The first Champions League final in life... everyone has their own expectations.
At that time, every performance he performs in the game will be widely disseminated along with the live TV broadcast...
If you perform well, you will become famous all over the world. But if you perform poorly... you may become the object of ridicule by everyone!
All kinds of thoughts entered the minds of Lazio players in the minutes before the game started.
Then they went out into the game with whatever ideas they had in mind.
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When Chang Sheng once again stood in front of the coach's bench on the sidelines of the Champions League final, it was inevitable that he would feel a little overwhelmed.
After the 2003-2004 season, he has not appeared on the stage of Europe's top competition for four full seasons.
In fact, it was only four seasons, but he felt it was very long, as if a century had passed.
He was once a newbie on this stage.
Now he actually has two finals experience like Ferguson next door.
He came back by himself.
Listening to the Champions League theme song played at the scene, Chang Sheng was sure that he belonged here.
UEFA Champions League...final!
The top competition in European football, here is the place to truly become famous!
I haven’t been here for four years. I wonder if European football still remembers me?
But it doesn't matter, if they don't remember it, I will use my victory to remind them of the name "Tyrant" Chang Sheng again.
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Chang Shengguang was worried about whether it would rain or not, and his heart was racing. After the game started, he realized that he had overlooked one thing.
That is to forget to do a psychological construction for this team...
Before the game, he talked all about tactics, but not psychology.
These players were a little nervous when they got to the court!
Chang Sheng feels a headache...
A football game is not like a basketball game. If it were a basketball game, winning would require a timeout, then gather the players together, use a short period of time to boost their morale and soothe their overly nervous and excited hearts.
I believe there will be no problem this way.
Now……
He can only hope that the players can adjust themselves soon.
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Ferguson is an old fox. Chang Sheng found that his players were a little nervous, so he naturally saw it too.
So he immediately walked out from the coaching bench and issued instructions to the Manchester United team, asking them to strengthen their offensive against Lazio!
Seeing this, Chang Sheng also walked to the sidelines and roared loudly: "Concentrate on me and abandon distracting thoughts!"
Unfortunately, such words are too general, and in the crowded Luzhniki Stadium, most players could not hear what he was shouting.
Ferguson asked the players to step up their offense and use hand gestures directly.
Can you use hand signals to calm down the players?
Under Ferguson's adjustment, Manchester United quickly strengthened their offensive.
Lazio, on the other hand, did not return to normal under the roar of victory.
From the beginning of the game, Lazio was beaten by Manchester United.
Their usual passing and running coordination characteristics were not fully realized.
Instead, he fell into Manchester United's rhythm.
"It seems that the Lazio boys are a little nervous... they can't let go... Ferguson is right, the Champions League final is a place that values experience..." The commentator also quickly saw Lazio's dilemma.
Because Lazio's players behaved very stiffly.
In fact, they themselves also found that they were a little nervous.
But when they realized that they were nervous, they became even more nervous...
This is a vicious cycle...
It was as if their bodies were no longer their own.
This tension reached its climax in the seventeenth minute.