In the following days, after Mo Yang and the others finished their exhausting physical training every day, they had to conduct targeted and specialized tactical training.
This excruciating training lasted for more than half a month!
July 21, 2016, today is the open training day at the Liverpool training base.
Therefore, a large number of fans and reporters poured into the training base early in the morning.
Wei Bowen is also among the reporters. In addition to him, there are dozens of foreign reporters from domestic media.
In short, almost all the well-known domestic media came, and even some local newspapers came, which was very lively.
It has been more than half a month since Mo Yang participated in the closed training camp. During this time, these reporters were both happy and worried.
Happily, after many years, China finally has talented players in Europe's top leagues!
The worry is that Mo Yang will not be able to adapt to the Premier League giants. After all, the example of Dong Fangzhuo is still fresh in his mind.
Many people say that Dong Fangzhuo's failure in the Premier League was due to factors such as personality and language barriers. In fact, only the person involved knows the specific reasons, but it is estimated that there are some factors in this regard.
As for Mo Yang's character and language, Wei Bowen and the others were not worried at all.
Just watching Mo Yang get along with his teammates when he was at Leeds United, you can see how likable this guy is.
As for language, it's not a problem. That diploma from one of the world's top universities is not just a decoration.
This beast can speak seven languages, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is proficient in them all, so Mo Yang has no communication problems at all.
After seeing Mo Yang talking and laughing with Salah, Mane, Robertson and others during the training, these reporters who were worried about their mothers felt relieved.
Soon, the morning training ended and the reporters and fans were sent away by the staff.
Because the team will have an intra-squad match in the afternoon, such a match involving team tactics cannot be made public.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Klopp personally gave a two-hour tactical explanation class to the players and then took Mo Yang and the others directly to the training ground.
Mo Yang received the red vest and was actually in the main team, with Henderson, Coutinho, Sturridge and others.
As for Salah, Mane, Robertson and Matip, these new players have been placed in the yellow vest substitute team.
This arrangement makes newcomers such as Salah and Mane very envious. In their view, Moyang is the starting player selected by Klopp.
Soon, the match began. What surprised Mo Yang was that the main team and the substitute team had the same tactical arrangements.
His position is as a left center midfielder, partnering with captain Henderson and Lallana.
The tasks given to him by Klopp were to organize the offense and actively participate in defense and pressing. Except for being asked to drop back and participate in defense, the rest was almost the same as what he did at Leeds United.
After the game started, Mo Yang did the same thing.
But as the game time gradually passed, Mo Yang became more and more depressed.
Because he found that except for captain Henderson, others did not seem to trust him.
It’s okay not to pass the ball to him. When he ran out of the gap and raised his hand to ask for the ball, he was ignored.
This was a bit too much and made Mo Yang a little angry!
On the right, Lallana, Firmino, Sturridge and Arnold jointly forced the ball and passed it directly to Henderson.
Henderson caught the ball and passed it directly to Mo Yang.
Mo Yang dribbled the ball forward and was also surrounded by Salah, Wijnaldum and others. However, Mo Yang relied on a dazzling continuous fried ball to get past Salah first, and then crossed his left and right feet.
Using this area and that wave, the ball was taken out of the encirclement.
After the breakthrough, he saw a gap behind Alexander-Arnold on the bench. Following his habit at Leeds United, Mo Yang took off without thinking.
A beautiful and weird arc through the ball, turning and rolling directly from the left into the space behind Arnold on the right.
"Oh! Beautiful!"
On the sidelines, Klopp raised his hands in the air and exclaimed, but his face darkened the next second because Sturridge didn't react at all to Mo Yang's pass.
It rolled directly out of the baseline. Arnold, who was scared and sweating profusely, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it, and frequently looked at Mo Yang who was passing the ball.
"God! This pass is really beautiful!" Peter, who was full of amazement, said in a very regretful tone, "And that agile breakthrough technique with his feet!"
Another assistant coach, Pep Lijnders, also expressed admiration, saying: "This kid's court vision is really terrifying, and his ability to capture gaps is very sharp. The moment the gap just appeared, he was caught by him.
Got it, what a great player!”
"This little guy has made great defensive progress!" Defensive coach Carragher's focus has always been on Mo Yang's performance on the defensive end.
He played against Mo Yang in Gerrard's farewell game.
How talented Mo Yang was on offense a year ago, he was so bad on defense. He didn't expect that he would improve so much now, which he couldn't believe.
"I'll leave Yang's defense to you!" Klopp replied with a smile, showing his immense trust in Carragher, who was once the anchor of the Red Army's defense.
Carragher's training ability can be seen from the defensive abilities of two young players, Arnold and Gomez.
"Damn it! Chinese, do you know how to pass the ball? You have to pass it to my feet!" Sturridge yelled at Mo Yang, not feeling that it was his fault at all.
"Yang! Calm down!"
Seeing Mo Yang's face turn red, he wanted to fight back, but Salah, who happened to be beside him, immediately pulled Mo Yang.
"Alas!" Mo Yang, who felt aggrieved, had no choice but to hold back his depression.
"I wish I were on the same team with you! You can definitely catch the ball just now!" Mo Yang's face was very ugly, "It's obviously his fault!"
"Haha!" Salah was very happy to receive Mo Yang's approval.
After spending more than half a month together, he has confirmed countless times that Mo Yang is the one he wants to embrace in Liverpool.
Because he knows very well how evil Mo Yang's passing is. For a forward, this is the greatest happiness. He seems to have seen the Premier League Golden Boot trophy.
Soon, the game started again.
But it's still the same problem. Mo Yang can't catch the ball, and his teammates still prefer to hand it over to Coutinho.
Even if he sometimes received a pass, it was often passed out and his teammates didn't start running, and they didn't want to go to the same place as Mo Yang at all.
So the depressed Mo Yang began to observe Coutinho.
After a while, Mo Yang felt that it was pretty good, but this guy's field of vision seemed a bit small, and sometimes there were good gaps but he couldn't see them.
This made Mo Yang feel extremely regretful, but there was nothing he could do.
Trust is the basis for establishing tacit understanding!
In Liverpool, he could not get the collective trust from top to bottom that he had in Leeds United, from the head coach to his teammates, which made Mo Yang feel a bit of a gap.
As the game progressed, Mo Yang gradually realized that he seemed to be out of sync with his teammates, so he slowed down his pace in handling the ball.
Sure enough, the effect was immediate, but what followed was an inability to attack.
So Mo Yang controlled his own pace and cooperated with his teammates!
But even so, he was scolded by Sturridge again, scolding him for not organizing the offense, which was obviously looking for trouble!
After playing the first half in depression, Mo Yang’s performance was mediocre in the eyes of many people.
But in Klopp's small book, Mo Yang scored a high score of 8 points.
"Jurgen, Yang and Coutinho have some conflicting responsibilities on the field!" Peter has been helping Klopp improve this tactical system, so he can see where there is a problem at a glance.
"I know!"
Klopp smiled and nodded, thought for a moment and said: "Let Yang go to the bench in the second half! Let Coutinho organize the offense."
"Oh!" Peter frowned, then laughed, "You are still so sinister!"
"Who is the core depends on performance. I will use whoever is more efficient!" Klopp smiled wickedly.
His system can only have one offensive core, and the other can only serve as a support.
As for who between Moyang and Coutinho will be the core, he has thought carefully about it.
But I haven't made up my mind yet, and it's really hard to make a choice.
There are many types of attacking midfielders, but they can generally be divided into two types, one is mainly about organization and planning, and the other is mainly about offense.
Coutinho is an attacking midfielder who focuses on offense. His dribbling, breakthrough, passing assists and shooting abilities are all top-notch.
Coutinho scored 15 goals last season, ranking second in the team and first in scoring at the same position. This efficiency and scoring ability are higher than those of many teams' strikers. His ability to directly attack the goal is
Top.
However, Coutinho's shortcomings are also obvious. He does not have excellent court vision, so compared with his offensive ability in organizing and planning attacks, it cannot be said to be bad, but only very average.
Mo Yang is more comprehensive. Except for shooting, he has all the advantages that Coutinho has, and is even better. Especially his ability to organize and attack with all kinds of whimsical ideas, which can kill Coutinho instantly.
But this guy's shooting is surprisingly bad. In addition to Mo Yang, there is another point that is not as good as Coutinho, that is, he lacks experience in competitions.
Although young players have many advantages, the factor of instability can sometimes be very fatal.
Although Mo Yang's performance has been very stable, that was in the English Championship, this is the Premier League, it's not the same thing.
So after much deliberation, Klopp decided to adopt the principle of fair competition and use whoever is more efficient, so no one has anything to say.