"Mr. Yang Huan, how is our stadium atmosphere?"

In the stands of the telecommunications stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, Galatasaray's chairman Unar Issar pointed at the stadium with pride and asked Yang Huan.

As everyone knows, with Yang Huan's painstaking management, St. Mary's Stadium in Southampton has long become a famous devil's home court in Europe. It is known for its fanatical home atmosphere, but Istanbul in Turkey is also not bad, claiming to be the Red Hell.

Therefore, Unar Issal had long wanted to compete with Yang Huan.

But Yang Huan didn't take this seriously at all, laughed and nodded, "Well, it's quite good, it's really hell!"

Logically speaking, Galatasaray's number of fans is also good. After all, it is a Champions League match, attracting more than 50,000 in total, and almost 60,000 people come to the stadium to watch the game, but the problem is that their stadium capacity is as high as 80,000.

With a total of more than 20,000 yuan, it is easy to make people feel that there is a large area in the stands.

But it has to be said that Turkey's fans are indeed very fanatical. The momentum and sound waves formed by more than 60,000 people are really impressive. No wonder this place is called the Red Hell.

After receiving Yang Huan's praise, Unal Aisal suddenly burst into laughter, "In Istanbul, although Fenerbahce and Besiktas have good attendance rates, they are inferior to us!"

Fenerbahce and Besiktas are both teams in Istanbul, the capital of Turkey, and are considered deadly enemies of Galatasaray.

When Yang Huan heard this, he turned his head and looked at UEFA President Platini, who was sitting next to him, and smiled bitterly.

This is the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals and the first time Southampton has ever participated in the Champions League knockout round. According to the rules of the Champions League, the first draw of the group stage is drawn in the second place, and the schedule is also home first and then hosted, so Yang Huan also attaches great importance to this away game and supervises the game himself.

After hearing about it, Platini also temporarily changed the itinerary and came to Galatasaray.

Just now, Mr. Unal Issal took the initiative to take on the role of host and introduced Platini to Yang Huan with great face, saying that the UEFA President came to the telecom stadium in person, showing his importance to Galatasaray.

Yang Huan could only laugh helplessly about this.

There is no way. Turkey's football has indeed developed very quickly in recent years, especially after 2002, when Turkey actually reached the semi-finals of the World Cup and finally won third place, which greatly stimulated the domestic football atmosphere in Turkey.

In addition, Türkiye has developed rapidly in its economic development in recent years due to its geographical advantages, so the football industry has developed faster and faster, and has gradually become the destination of many European balloon stars.

For example, in Galatasaray, Sneider, Ebue, Felipe Melo, former Liverpool midfielder Riella, former Real Madrid midfielder Altentop and other famous European stars are in charge.

But when it comes to vision and ability to run a football club, Turkey's teams still have to chase after it!

Yang Huan had seen such a joke in Ancelotti's autobiography before.

It is said that after Ancelotti was dismissed from Parma, a Turkish team came to him and hoped to invite him to coach. Ancelotti proposed to go on-site inspection before making a decision.

At that time, the two sides agreed to keep it confidential, but as a result, Ancelotti got off the plane and was immediately surrounded by crazy fans.

Originally, this situation occurred, and the two sides had no possibility of cooperation, but the other party used their pestering skills to pick up girls, and they chased Ancelotti without integrity. They even met Ancelotti's various difficulties.

Want a villa? It also has a sea view?

OK, for you!

If you want a special car, you still have to be equipped with a driver?

no problem!

Do the air tickets to Italy need to be reimbursed by the club?

It should be!

Lead your own team, can't you point fingers?

This is nature!

...

Anyway, it is said that in the end, Ancelotti really had no reason to refuse, and even almost agreed.

But later the Italian ran back to Italy on an excuse and didn't dare to go back to Turkey if he was beaten to death. He just refused the other party by phone. Fans basically knew what happened in the future.

From this point of view, it is not difficult to see that the operation of the Turkish team is still as virtuous as it is now!

But it is very interesting that the Italian Ancelotti refused to coach the Turkish team when he was beaten to death. But now, Galatasaray's head coach is from Italy, and he is also a famous coach, former Manchester City coach Mancini.

What's more interesting is that Mancini coached Inter Milan, while the former coach of Galatasaray, he replaced, coached AC Milan. Coincidentally, Trim was dismissed from AC Milan that year, and replaced by Ancelotti.

It really corresponds to that sentence, where can we meet in life?

Perhaps it was the shining halo brought by famous coach Mancini and Galatasaray's breakthrough from the Champions League group stage, which gave the Turks extremely strong confidence.

Just now, Unal Issal even said in a half-joking tone that Galatasaray's strategy is to win at home and compete for a draw away.

In other words, breaking through the group stage can no longer satisfy them, they want the quarterfinals!

This made Yang Huan seriously doubt whether he was too low-key?

You should know that Southampton's original goal was to qualify in the group. After all, this is Southampton's first season in the Champions League. Many players have no experience, and head coach Bielsa also has no experience, so he is more cautious.

But now, seeing that even a team like Galatasaray dares to say that it is going to enter the quarterfinals, Yang Huan has to seriously suspect that the goals set by him and Peter Kenyon and others are really inferior!

But it's true that as soon as the game started, Galatasaray was not at all inferior to Southampton.

Mancini's game strategy is very cautious, focusing on guarding, and then looking for opportunities to fight back.

Italian head coaches usually have good at defense, so Galatasaray is also airtight.

Although Southampton got several chances, it failed to pose a threat, and Galatasaray also seized one or two opportunities and hit a counterattack, even (there was an opportunity for a free kick in the frontcourt.

The most threatening thing is undoubtedly Sneijder's cross from a counterattack, but Varane made a critical clearance before the opponent's players, resolving the crisis and making Platini, who was sitting next to Yang Huan, cheered loudly.

"Raphael has been improving in the past few years in Southampton, and has performed quite steadily this season, with a very general style!" Platini praised it.

As a Frenchman, he has always been happy to see the outstanding performance of his fellow countrymen.

Yang Huan's attitude was rather calm, "He is only twenty years old and can't praise him!"

After hearing this, Platini immediately laughed and nodded constantly, "Yes, if you just look at his performance on the court, you can't tell that he is only twenty years old and is too mature and stable!"

Yang Huan also agreed that Varane is indeed quite outstanding.

In the past few years in Southampton, after careful consideration by the coaching team, his physical fitness is perfect in the central defender, with almost no flaws, and his defensive skills are becoming more and more perfect. He has lacked experience before, but with the accumulation of professional experience in recent years, he has already gained the ability to stand alone.

Even with the absence of Harvey Martinez many times, he commanded the entire defense very well.

Today, Varane has long become an indispensable member of Southampton's defense line, and is also a brilliant gem produced by the Saints Youth Training Camp!

Although Southampton's main central defenders are Xavi Martinez and Varane, Bielsa is actually a little dissatisfied. This was only when Yang Huan planned to send Nastasic to Inter Milan.

It turned out that this guy had already secretly tried several times Nastasic and Varane's left and right central defenders.

Many people think that the left foot or right foot when talking about the central defender is not a difference. Many people even have doubts about the left centre-back and the right centre-back, and do they think it is necessary to distinguish so clearly?

But in the eyes of professionals, it is necessary and very necessary.

What's more, in the eyes of paranoid people like Bielsa, unless there is no such condition, you must do this!

In Bielsa's tactical system, the full-back undertakes a considerable task of inserting. In addition to defending, the central defender is also crucial to play the ball, so he pulled Xavi Martinez to the backline and played against the central defender to give full play to his advantage in the ball.

As we all know, today's teams pay attention to frontcourt pressing.

Just imagine, if a right-footed player plays the right center back, is the same as a left center back, and when facing pressing, the ball is the same?

It can be said that when a right-footed player plays left central defender, the shot is very restricted.

Also, Bielsa's tactic is four defenders, but he often arranges to drag the midfield back to the defense line. The two central defenders have to be pulled apart and go to both sides. At this time, the right-footed player plays on the left central defender, and the disadvantages are very obvious.

In this case, Bielsa tried to let Nastasic play the left-footed left-center-back in the future and Varane play the right-center-back, with the purpose of further strengthening the defense and ball output of the Southampton central defender combination.

So, when Yang Huan decided to send Nastasic away, Bielsa opposed it desperately.

After all, it is really difficult to catch a left-footed central defender these days, not to mention a high-potential left-footed central defender like Nastasic, who is even more scarce. Who is willing to let go?

Yang Huan looked at the court. The central defenders who started in this game were still Xavi Martinez and Varane, but for a while, Nastasic may be replaced by Xavi Martinez.

As for what kind of chemical reaction will occur at that time, who knows?

Southampton attacked for a while at the beginning. Seeing that it failed to get the results, Tony Cross and Modric's double midfielder waved, and the rhythm immediately slowed down.

This also makes the game no longer as intense as it was at the beginning, the pace is so fast and so beautiful.

"It seems that Mancini is also prepared for this game!" Platini smiled slightly and said.

Yang Huan also laughed when he heard this, "I really don't believe it. The trident composed of Ibrahimovic, Hazard and Suarez also broke through Mancini's iron wall!"

This statement also reflects Yang Huan's strong confidence in the team's strength.

In the Champions League group stage, Southampton's performance was beyond everyone's expectations, and its attack power was second only to Real Madrid. With an impressive record of five wins and one draw in six games, he raised his head to qualify in the group.

Not only did this happen to everyone, but even the Southampton management was a little surprised.

Because the team's original goal was to qualify in the group, I never thought that I would perform so well.

It's like another team, Juventus, although it is the Serie A champion, most of the teams participated in the Champions League for the first time, so they won third place in the group stage and were directly stepped on by Galatasaray and forced to play in the Europa League.

Platini also nodded. Southampton's attack power is indeed amazing. Bielsa's team is always so aggressive and passionate that any possibility will appear.

But soon, the UEFA president began to get on the topic and mentioned some recent events.

Gradually, the topic fell on FIFA.
Chapter completed!