Of course, after the news came out, some people thought it was just a gimmick, and some criticized the Football Association's preparations. Why did they go to Italy to warm up with European teams when they were obviously playing in the Asian Cup?
Are the opponents in the Asian Cup all European teams like Germany and Spain?
Opponents also said that the Chinese national team traveled a long distance and had to overcome jet lag, rest, and recover physical fitness. How much time was actually used to practice tactics? It is really doubtful.
In short, some people are optimistic about this matter, and naturally some people are not.
Everyone holds their own opinions, and no one can convince anyone.
In the end, we can only use the results of the Asian Cup to prove whether this choice was right or not.
If the Asian Cup goes well, even if the Chinese national team does not train, everyone will think that the players are only given enough rest to ensure their physical fitness.
If the Asian Cup is not played well, even the most top-notch warm-up plan will be a poor warm-up and drag down the team.
Therefore, such a high-profile training camp and warm-up actually put a lot of pressure on Gao Hongbo.
As for using the Asian Cup for training, the Football Association will never mention it again.
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Chang Sheng also hopes to do this to help Gao Hongbo and make his performance in the Asian Cup better, so that he may not give a chance to some domestic guys with ulterior motives.
The main reason why they attacked Gao Hongbo before was that "the Asian Cup was not played well", but in fact Gao Hongbo's national team's performance in the Asian Cup was remarkable. The only game they lost was by a referee.
Blackout match against host nation Qatar.
Of course, the scumbags won't care about this. They only need to see that the Chinese national team failed to qualify for the Asian Cup group, and that's enough.
Now Chang Sheng hopes to help Gao Hongbo erase this only thing that can be caught.
In this way, maybe he can change his fate against the odds and extend Gao Hongbo's life until the end of the Brazilian World Cup qualifiers.
After helping Gao Hongbo arrange these things, Chang Sheng had to devote himself to his work again.
The Chinese national team will come to Formello in early December, and there is still half a month left.
In the thirteenth round of the league, Lazio played Parma away, and three days later it was the Champions League group stage match against Twente.
Lazio did not send a large number of substitute players in the league just because they had a Champions League match.
On the contrary, in the league, Lazio used a relatively strong lineup.
Because now in the Champions League group stage, after four rounds, Lazio has won four games and accumulated 12 points.
Tottenham Hotspur, ranked first in the entire group, has only four points, and Twente, ranked third, also has four points.
Lazio is eight points behind them.
Such points not only ensure that Lazio will qualify in advance, but also ensure that they will qualify as first in the group in advance.
So there is no reason for Lazio to continue to spend too much energy in the Champions League.
This is a strategy that always works. Try to use the fastest speed and maximum efficiency to establish a large enough advantage in the early stage. In this way, in the subsequent games, when other teams are still qualifying for the group, or are in the group
During the first desperate period, Lazio was able to rotate significantly to allow the starting players to rest and allow more players to have the opportunity to compete.
Whether it's strategically throughout the season or in a single game, Lazio does this.
Why do they always score first in games?
This is because everything the winning coaching staff does in training is to allow the team to score first.
Score the first goal and put Lazio in a favorable position. Lazio will be able to deal with it much more easily in the following games. In fact, this is also the case. After Lazio takes the lead early in the game, basically few teams can reverse them, because Lazio
Their playing style is destined to play better and better when their mentality is relaxed.
They will use the pass to spin the opponent around, consume the opponent's physical energy, and preserve their own vitality, thus becoming invincible.
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Although Lazio already has a ten-point lead in the league, Chang Sheng does not think this point difference is safe. If possible, he wants to lead his opponents as much as possible.
This way, he will have enough room for maneuver when the Champions League knockout rounds begin in the second half of the season.
In the match against Parma, Lazio defeated their opponent 1:0 in the away game.
Continue to lead the standings with a ten-point advantage.
AC Milan led by Allegri actually performed very well this season, but unfortunately, they ran into Lazio.
According to historical records, they should be the league champion this season.
But now, history has changed.
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Lazio may not pay attention to the match between Lazio and Twente, but some people do care about it.
Before the game, Tottenham Hotspur head coach Redknapp suddenly praised Lazio and Changsheng.
"Chang is already the number one coach in the world in today's European football. I can't think of anyone who can do better than him. Some people would say Ferguson. But Ferguson didn't have three Champions League titles... He is so powerful, and
Still so young, he can continue to dominate European football for a long time..."
"Lazio is a very strong team, and I am optimistic that they will win the Champions League this season. Although no team has successfully defended the Champions League since the reform, I think this record will always be broken. Why
What about Lazio?"
This kind of praise came very suddenly. Before that, no one had heard that Redknapp and Chang Sheng had a good relationship.
So why did Redknapp suddenly boast of a winning streak?
Just because of Lazio's home game against Twente.
Now Tottenham Hotspur and Twente are tied with four points. Tottenham Hotspur can be ranked in front of Twente entirely based on the results of the two sides playing against each other. Tottenham Hotspur is temporarily ahead of Twente.
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But if Twente's points exceed them, then the relationship between the two sides will be meaningless.
Lazio has already won the first place in the group ahead of schedule, and they have every reason to give up this game.
And take a look at Chang Sheng’s starting lineup for Lazio’s away game against Parma: goalkeeper Handanovic, center backs Jose Passarella and Chiellini. Left back Balzaretti,
Right back Azpilicueta, midfielders Modric, Ledesma and Ballack, forwards Miroslav Klose, David Silva and Gotze.
This is Lazio's strongest A lineup.
Lazio has no distinction between main players and substitutes. So for the convenience of calling them, everyone gave them a lot of code names, such as lineup A, lineup B, and lineup C... these are the most commonly used code names.
This kind of lineup was used to face Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League before.
And now they have used it in the league. With the habit of winning often and not rotating, Lazio will definitely use the B lineup or the C lineup for the home game against Twente.
The lineup is different, and it’s hard to say how much the players’ desire to fight remains.
Redknapp was afraid that this would happen. Lazio was not interested in playing during the game. Their mind was not on the game with Twente. As a result, they lost to Twente at home, and if Tottenham Hotspur
If something goes wrong...it's hard to say.
Even Tottenham Hotspur won the ball.
In the last round, Tottenham Hotspur also have to go to an away game to challenge Twente. That is not easy to play. In order to qualify from the group, Twente will definitely give Tottenham Hotspur a hard fight at home.
In order to avoid such a situation, Tottenham Hotspur coach Redknapp naturally does not want to see Lazio lose to Twente at home.
So he has to say something good about Lazio and Chang Sheng. Give a high hat to Chang Sheng...
I hope Chang Sheng can take it for the sake of praising him, not violate sportsmanship, and live up to the praise he has given him...
It’s not like Chang Sheng has never done something like this before.
Last season, Lazio also won the first place in the Champions League group stage one round ahead of schedule. In the last round, Lazio lost to Liverpool 1:2 away from home. Of course, this did not cause any serious consequences.
But this somewhat shows that after achieving their goals, teams that always win will lose some games they should have won.
Redknapp had to guard against it.
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Sure enough, in the game against Twente, Chang Sheng sent out a B lineup - the goalkeeper is Mirante, the center back is Pavin and Bonucci, the left back Coentrao, the right back Faraoni, and the midfielder is Mei.
Reles, Hernanes and Bresciano, the forwards are Rocky, Candreva and David Silva.
Except for David Silva, all the others are players who did not start in the previous game.
Although this lineup is not weak, if the players do not take the game seriously, it may still capsize in the gutter.
Compared with the starting lineup, Redknapp is probably more worried about Lazio's attitude towards the game.
In this game, Lazio played very relaxedly and were not particularly anxious. If there were some opportunities that were not particularly good, they would choose to give up instead of risking injury to compete with their opponents.
Twente also knew that this game was their opportunity, so they launched a fierce press from the beginning of the game, forcing Lazio to give up some ball rights.
If they can beat Lazio away from home, they can continue to put pressure on Tottenham Hotspur.
Then in the last round of the group stage, we will have a decisive battle with Tottenham Hotspur!
The two games were played at the same time, otherwise Redknapp would have stayed in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast of the game.
However, even if he couldn't watch the TV, Redknapp did not give up on understanding the situation of the match between Lazio and Twente.
He asked the assistant coach to bring him into the coaching bench, and then he was responsible for listening to the situation there. Once there was any new situation there, he had to be notified immediately.
As a result, there was no news from there for the entire first half.
Tottenham Hotspur scored two goals in one go and took the lead early. There was no suspense about winning this game.
In this way, Redknapp will be more concerned about the situation of the match between Lazio and Twente.
His own thoughts were not even on his own game.
During the halftime break, he simply arranged the second half and hid aside to watch the first half highlights of the first half between Lazio and Twente with his assistant coach.
After reading it, his brows wrinkled.
It seems that my flattery has no effect?
Lazio did not play at a fast pace during the game, and the players were very relaxed, too relaxed.
Is Lazio really going to let it go?
The possibility of him is quite high... Because in the group stage, Tottenham Hotspur caused some trouble for Lazio. If Lazio wants to minimize the threat after qualifying, they will definitely have to
Get rid of Tottenham Hotspur, the strongest team in the group stage...
The more Redknapp thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.
If Lazio really loses to Twente at home in the end, they will never bypass their usual wins!
By then, the previous praise will turn into merciless criticism!
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After the start of the second half, Redknapp seemed absent-minded on the sidelines. His mind was filled with the game between Lazio and Twente.
Even though Tottenham Hotspur scored the third goal, he did not stand up from his seat.
Until the 70th minute, the assistant coach threw down the radio excitedly and shouted to Redknapp: "Lazio scored!"
It was as if Redknapp had been reborn.
He pressed his heart and slumped down in the chair.
Although he only scored one goal, based on his understanding of Lazio, as long as they are ahead in the game, few other teams can reverse them, and Twente does not have such ability.
Redknapp breathed a sigh of relief, now he could celebrate his team's 3-0 victory.
In this way, Twente lost to Lazio, Tottenham Hotspur won the ball, and the point difference between the two sides was opened to three points. In the last game, as long as Tottenham Hotspur draws away from home
Twente can qualify from the group. And even if they lose, as long as they don't lose more than three goals, it will not affect qualifying.
Tottenham Hotspur's chances of qualifying have greatly increased!
