Chapter 757
After lunch, Liverpool players took a bus and left the hotel to the Olympic Stadium in Athens for pre-match adaptive training.
Athens Olympic Stadium is a five-star stadium in Europe. It is located in Marusi, in the northern suburb of Athens, Greece. It is a multi-functional stadium. The stadium has U18 audience seats, 480 media seats, and more than 10 VIP rooms. The entire stadium looks very majestic, so that the standard football stadium of 105 meters x UR meters looks very small.
At this moment, there were already many Liverpool fans sitting in the stands.
Before Liverpool came to Athens, many fans had arrived in Athens in advance. After Liverpool arrived in Athens, more fans came. Many of these fans did not have tickets. They came to Athens to try their best to see if there were scalpers who refunded their tickets or refunded their tickets. Even if not, they could still play in Athens and experience the joy of Liverpool's championship up close.
Fans without tickets are definitely unwilling to miss Liverpool's training opportunities. Most of the games are not favored. If you can't even see training, this trip will be in vain.
Seeing Liverpool players walking into the stadium, Liverpool fans in the stands shouted excitedly. Many people even shouted the names of stars such as Chen Yu, Gerald, and some people shouted Benitez's names. There were noises in the stands.
Liverpool players also waved to the fans and expressed their gratitude for their support.
Benitez first entered the stadium and observed for a while. A hint of joy appeared on his face. He said to the assistant coaches beside him: "The turf is long and wide, with average quality, under repair, and not very neat. The ball may bump when it rolls and runs smoothly. A five-star stadium has hosted the European Cup, which is really not necessary."
Team doctor Waller said in confusion: "I see you are laughing..."
Benitez smiled and said, "Of course, such turf has a great impact on technical teams that require very accurate passing requirements, but it has little impact on a force-impact team like ours."
Tactical analyst Duff said: "It's true. AC Milan has been here to play games this season, and it's on this field, but they didn't perform well. They lost 0l away to Athens AY, and it seems that the technical team is still at a disadvantage here."
Benitez said to the players who came over: "Milan is more familiar with this stadium than us. They have played with Athens APK in the Champions League group stage. If we want to not lose to our opponents in this item, we must train more and feel more before the game, and find the feeling of home court here."
The players all laughed. It was impossible to get familiar with each other so quickly like their home court, but they all nodded repeatedly.
Next is training. When they just came to Athens, the players' states were being adjusted. They did not practice their own tactics, and they could only do basic skills in passing, receiving and shooting.
The fans are not picky and applaud the players' superb basic skills from time to time.
Seeing that the fans were very enthusiastic, Benitez organized a group confrontation exercise. The atmosphere became more lively, and more and more fans came to hear the news, and soon more than 5,000 people.
In the middle of Liverpool's training, Ancelotti brought AC Milan players to the stadium.
Originally, the training time of the two teams should be staggered, but Ancelotti seemed to have come here to see Liverpool's training in advance, and it is not ruled out that it is a disturbance to Liverpool's training
Liverpool players are playing in group confrontation. When they see AC Milan players coming, they are a little shocked. They are already excited to play, but their emotions immediately fall.
Originally, Chen Yu was controlling the ball to attack. After the Milan players arrived, Chen Yu stopped the attack, stepped on the ball under his feet, and glanced at the Milan players. The Liverpool players also understood and stopped pressing and looked at the Milan players together.
Milan's players also stopped and stared at Liverpool's players.
The fans' shouts also paused at this time.
Time seemed to stagnate suddenly, and the air seemed to suddenly freeze.
The Liverpool and Milanese met the paralysis for about a second. Chen Yu turned his head and shouted to his teammates: "Okay, let's have fun." Then he passed the ball to Gerald beside him.
With AC Milan players watching next to you, Liverpool's confrontation game became purely performative, pressing was like a show, everyone passed the ball, shot the ball, and it was over soon.
Benitez is also a very personalized coach. He didn't leave after the training, so he took the players to sit on the sidelines to watch AC Milan's players training.
Liverpool fans saw that Liverpool players did not leave, and they would not leave. As long as Milan players made a mistake in passing or missed the goal, they would start booing.
AC Milan players practiced very awkwardly under the gaze of Liverpool players and the booed fans, and they could only pass the ball and shoot the ball, which could not achieve the training effect at all.
At this time, AC Milan fans were no longer there. They started to boo with Liverpool fans, then turned into trash talk, and then became quarrels. Finally, as a Liverpool fan rushed over and punched a Milan fan, the fans of both sides fought together.
At first, two fans close to the area fought together, but soon the fans from other areas rushed over, and almost hundreds of fans were mixed together, and they were about to develop into a battle of thousands of people.
The Greek stadium security guards may not have expected that training would cause such sparks to burst out. Not many people came and they were very unprofessional. When Liverpool fans and Milan fans were squirting trash talks and scolding each other, they were still watching from afar, even talking and laughing. When the two sides fought together, it would be difficult for them to go over and separate the fans. In the end, they could only use water guns and tear-jerking eggs to stop them. Some security guards even beat the fans with rubber sticks, but it was too late. In just a few minutes, dozens of fans were injured.
However, Liverpool fans and Milan fans did not seem to have any expectations of having a conflict with each other at this time, and neither of them brought the guys. The injuries suffered were all minor injuries, mostly blue-faced and skin injuries. The two heads were bleeding and the rubber sticks of the stadium security guards.
The managers of the Olympic Stadium did not reflect on their slow reactions, but instead blamed the Liverpool players for not leaving after the training. After separating the fans of both sides, the managers of the stadium asked Benitez to take the players away from the stadium as soon as possible.
Benitez and the players stayed because AC Milan came to the stadium early and affected his team's training. Now, seeing the conflict between the fans of both sides, Benitez also felt a little guilty and prepared to leave. However, seeing the stadium managers ordered them to leave so strongly, Benitez was a little annoyed and said, "Do we have no right to stand here?"
The manager of the stadium is a fat man. He has too much flesh on his face and almost no expression can be seen, but his tone is very arrogant and harsh. "Right? You have this right, but this right is given to you by us. Only when we allow you can you stay here. Now I ask you to leave quickly. Otherwise, I will forbid you from coming to the Olympic Stadium to train. Well, maybe the training base over there is more suitable for you."
Before Benitez could speak, Gerald stood up and said, "What if we don't leave."
The fat administrator pointed to the security guard and said, "In order to ensure the safety of the stadium, I can only let the security guard invite you out."
Gerald sneered, "Then you let the security guard come and invite us out."
At this time, Benitez picked up his cell phone and prepared to call the Greek FA to ask the FA to coordinate the matter. He didn't want to leave the stadium in shame under the gaze of AC Milan.
But at this time Chen Yu walked over, he raised his cell phone to the fat manager and said, "I have recorded all the things you did just now. If you ask the security guard to drive us away, I will hold a press conference immediately after I go out and give this video to the reporters. I believe the reporter will be very happy to play this video to the whole world to see the Greek security guards' kung fu. If you think you don't see us, then I will delete the things I recorded."
"I'm not scared of you for threatening me."
Although the fat administrator said this, he obviously lacked confidence because he knew Chen Yu and knew the influence of a superstar like Chen Yu. As long as Chen Yu announced it and added some criticisms to the fire, he would be under too much pressure.
The fat administrator turned his head and looked around, then walked closer to Chen Yu, and said, "You can stay, but I hope you will go back early. The training is over. Why don't you go back and take a shower and have some rest."
When Chen Yu heard the fat administrator surrender, he smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry about this, well, I'll delete it for you to record the video."
Chen Yu deleted the video of the fans fighting he had just recorded in front of Fatty. The fatty administrator took Chen Yu's cell phone and watched it again. Only then did he feel relieved. He shouted to Benitez, "You have to leave quickly." Then he left and went to the stands.
Benitez was also worried about being driven out of the stadium just now. Seeing Chen Yu settled the fat administrator so easily, he couldn't help but give Chen Yu a thumbs up.
Gerald also smiled and said, "Chen, you are so good. Did you really record it just now?"
Chen Yu smiled slightly and said, "I recorded a little."
Benitez just didn't want to be kicked out of the stadium by that fat man. In fact, he also knew that if the Liverpool players did not leave, Liverpool fans would definitely not leave either. After a long time, there might be problems, so he said to the player: "Let's just come here today and go back to the hotel."
Chapter completed!