When Mallorca players raised the trophy of the King's Cup this season, nearly 50,000 Mallorca fans cheered at the Bernabeu, and Jose was hugging the assistant coaches one by one. The honor of this Copa del Rey is not particularly good, but it is undoubtedly a shot of a strong shot when the league is lagging behind. Although Jose feels that the possibility of his team winning the league championship is not too high, Jose cannot let Barcelona win the league championship so easily, at least they have to give them more hearts in the league. Now Barcelona has also reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, and is likely to be the opponent of Mallorca's finals. It is also a good thing to consume more Barcelona players' status before this.

Mallorca's bench is better than Barcelona, ​​and Jose will not give up on this advantage.

Mallorca, who returned to Mallorca with the King's Cup, started a city parade. Mallorca players enjoyed the welcome of fans in the city on the bus, but Jose did not appear on the scene, and no one in the coaching staff appeared on the scene - now they have begun to prepare for the next game.

"In the next league game, we still need to preserve some strength, at least not make the players too tired. Although I will not just give up the league like this, if the players cannot perform without any worries on the court, it would be better to give them a good rest. I believe in the ability of substitutes. If even Alaves and Osasuna can't win at home, they will not be suitable to be Mallorca's substitutes..."

The assistant coaches nodded one after another. Under Jose's management, Mallorca's substitutes basically have the ability to play the main players in mid-range teams, and their cooperation is quite tacit. Basically, if this group of people form a team to play in La Liga, even if they cannot get good results, they can relegate, especially the next opponent Alaves, who are now in relegation. Although Osasuna is now in the European competition area, their overall strength is not particularly strong. Mallorca's substitutes are still able to compete at home. Under the premise of the Champions League, this approach is completely suitable.

"Then we have to consider the game against Arsenal now? The schedule is a bit unfavorable for us. We will play home first and then away..." Ngongga said after thinking about it.

"This actually doesn't matter to us, because we can't not score a single goal in the away game." Jose said after a smile.

He said it very ordinary, but he had strong confidence - the assistant coaches were stunned, but they immediately understood what Jose meant. With Mallorca's offensive ability, they both had to attack at home or away. The number of goals will definitely not be too small, and there will be a possibility of conceding the ball. Therefore, for Mallorca, in fact, there will be no big confusion about playing home and away first, but it is more advantageous to play away first.

"Arsenal's recent defense seems to be good."

Looking through Arsenal's recent information, Ngongga muttered. Arsenal has always been famous for its gorgeous offense. After the five defenders retired, their defense has not been particularly stable. However, in the information Ngongga has in hand, in the last six league rounds, except for the large number of substitutes who had no temper, losing to Manchester United in the last six rounds, Arsenal only scored seven goals in the other five games, but did not lose a single goal. Just looking at the gains and losses, you would think this is a Serie A team rather than Arsenal.

"Is that true?" Jose frowned, and then he picked up another stack of information, which is the information of Arsenal's Champions League this season - and then he immediately saw something - in the group stage, Arsenal played relatively normal, scoring twelve goals in six games and conceding six goals, a typical team with strong offense and weak defense, but in the knockout round that began after the winter break, their defense was unexpectedly outstanding, defeating Real Madrid in two rounds 1-0, and defeating Juventus in two rounds 2-0, not losing a single goal in four knockout matches, and only scored three goals to enter the semi-finals. This performance is the data that a typical defensive counterattack team can reflect!

"I've found all the scores of Arsenal after the winter break and all the videos of Arsenal after the winter break that we have now."

After thinking for a while, Jose immediately gave instructions.

Mallorca's coaching staff immediately got a mess, but Mallorca's intelligence collection was quite accurate. Since they learned that the semi-final opponent was Arsenal, they have started to collect intelligence. This week, they have collected videos of all recent Arsenal games, scores and statistics of all Arsenal games this season. If Jose needs it, the videos of the game in recent months can also be collected. After all, the information transmission is now quite developed and convenient.

Jose began to look at Arsenal's game information and statistics after the winter break, and then he began to play Arsenal's recent Champions League games on the big screen without saying a word. The coaches also quieted down and began to watch various games separately.

It was not until the early morning that Jose breathed a sigh of relief.

"Have you discovered something?" Jose asked the coaches.

"They began to pay more attention to defense, and were used to tempting the opponent to press the opponent with his feet back and forth in the backcourt. At the same time, their offense was mainly counterattacking, and it was quite efficient. Henry was in good condition." Natal replied.

"They have more midfield running than before. Fabregas's kid has performed very well. No wonder Wenger sold Vieira without saying much this year and refused to sell it last year... His midfield organization can completely replace Vieira's position, and Henry is in good shape this year. It seems that there is hope of winning the Champions League championship this season has stimulated him. We must be careful about these two people." Ngongga said.

"You are right. It's obvious that Arsenal has begun to focus on the Champions League this season. Wenger has been with Arsenal for so many years and has won the Premier League FA Cup, but it's just a matter of the Champions League task. Now the group of main players who won the championship without defeat are gradually increasing. Campbell Pireyongbery is all going downhill. This season may be the last chance for them. Wenger began to realize that he wants to win the Champions League, relying solely on offense.

It's not possible, and more effort is needed to defend. So we can see the changes Arsenal has made over the past half season. They have almost relied on defense to reach the semi-finals. Facing Real Madrid and Juventus in a row without conceding goals, few teams can do this, and Henry's performance is also crucial. Fortunately, we discovered this in time, otherwise we would have suffered a lot of losses if we face Arsenal rashly." Jose said with a long sigh.

The coaches nodded one after another. In these videos, they could see that Arsenal has encountered several times. Although there are not many changes in personnel, the style of the game has changed dramatically. If Mallorca ignored this before and still played with them in the previous way, he would suffer a great loss in the game. Mallorca's coaches have no doubts about this, because Mallorca's offensive efforts and consistent deficit attention to defense are very likely to be caught off guard by Arsenal scored consecutive goals through counterattacks and unable to break through the opponent's goal!

It’s not that Mallorca has never played against a team that relies on defense to counterattack, but before that, Mallorca was prepared, and it was not too easy to just rely on counterattack to score Mallorca’s goal. However, even so, Mallorca’s losses were mostly lost because of poor offense and the opponent’s chance to counterattack opportunities and scored consecutive goals. If you didn’t pay attention before, maybe Mallorca’s unbeaten record at home would disappear like this!

Thinking of this, Mallorca's assistant coaches couldn't help but sweat. If this happens, Mallorca's confidence accumulated in the King's Cup game will probably be ruined. The home unbeaten record will be broken, which will make people feel that there is no hope for this season's Champions League. At that time, there will be little hope for the Champions League and the league. Only one King's Cup will be won, which is obviously quite unfavorable for Mallorca, who has just changed to a new stadium.

"But now that we know the changes in Arsenal, then the next thing will not be too difficult." Jose smiled and said: "The changes in Arsenal come from the changes in their attitudes, but in the adjustment of personnel, their changes are not very big. Except for Fabregas replacing Vieira, which is a big change, there are not many changes in other places. The characteristics of each player are accumulated over a long period of time. It is definitely not that Wenger can completely reverse it in the past few months. Therefore, Arsenal pays more attention to defense, just not to press it, and when there is no chance, they will be more dispatched in the midfield and the backcourt, and even lure the opponent to press and attack, and then rely on the small-scale cooperation between several people and Henry's outstanding personal ability to hit the deadly attack... They are

In this way, they defeated Real Madrid and Juventus. In the game against Real Madrid, they first defeated Real Madrid by relying on defense counterattacks one-to-zero away. At home, they relied on more effective control of the midfield and constant counterattacks to pull the opponent's attention, making Real Madrid suffocated to death. In the game against Juventus, they completely controlled the midfield at home in the first round, defeated Juventus with the performance of Fabregas and Henry, and bullied the opponent's strong offensive ability in the away game, and used intensive defense to suffocate the opponent. There is one thing in common in these four games, that is, at home, they will try their best to compete for control of the midfield, and at away, they will use intensive defense and counterattack to fight for at least one draw. This is a very rational way of playing, but we don't need to be too afraid of this way of playing."

Speaking of this, Jose waved his hand and said, "We must be more patient at home. If they recycle the defensive counterattack, we will take the opportunity to control the midfield and oppress Fabregas's chance to get the ball, and use a man-to-man defense against Henry, so that they cannot play well. If there is a goal, it will be OK. We must win at home, and don't let them score goals. Although their defense is very good, they are facing Real Madrid and Juventus, who are not very strong offensive. Our strong offensive ability is better than these two teams. As long as we can score goals at home, we can patiently deal with them and tell the players that we must be energetic in this game. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" the assistant coaches answered in unison.

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