The national team's match day passed like this, in the singing of Avril Lavigne.
In fact, whether it was last season or this season, there are not too many international players in Valencia's team. At least compared with other giants, they can only be called a "diaosi team."
Even if Valencia wins the league championship, this has not fundamentally changed.
Last season, there were nine international players in Valencia's team, namely Spanish internationals Albelda, Mendieta, Canizares, Vicente, and Baraja.
Argentina international Ayala, Aimar.
Norway international Carew, Swedish international Ibrahimovic.
Compared with the real giants, the number of international players sent is pitifully small.
And for more than half of last season, Baraja was not selected for the national team.
Even after last season's outstanding performance, the number of Valencia's international players has not increased significantly, except for two more Portuguese international players.
The two Portuguese players, Paulo Ferreira and Carvalho, were unknown and transparent when they joined Valencia.
And as they performed well in Valencia and became the main force, Valencia's results in La Liga continued to rise.
These two were also selected for the Portuguese national team.
Although they are only marginal figures at the moment, they have participated in national team training and competitions. As long as they continue to maintain this state and continue to improve, they will sooner or later become the main force in the Portuguese national team.
After selling Spanish international Mendieta and Argentina international Aimar, Valencia still has nine international players this season.
Portugal internationals Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira.
Swedish international Ibrahimovic.
Argentina international Ayala.
Of the four players Chang Sheng introduced this season, none of them are international players.
Cambiaso has not yet been selected for the Argentine national team, and neither has Deco. He is a Brazilian, but there are so many talents in Brazilian football that there is no place for him, otherwise he would not have come to Portugal to play. If he often
If Sheng had not bought Deco, Deco would have obtained Portuguese citizenship in 2003, and was then recruited into the Portuguese national team by Scolari and became a Portuguese international. But now it seems that he has no chance to become a Portuguese international, because
To become a Portuguese international, you must first obtain Portuguese citizenship.
Naturalization requires six years of residence with a residence permit. Deco came to Portugal in the summer of 1997. By the summer of 2002, he left Portugal and had lived for five years, with one year left.
In this year, he may lose the opportunity to play for the Portuguese national team.
Neither Arbeloa nor Mista are international players.
Arbeloa is too young and Mista is inconsistent.
In Getafe's best season, he was in the second division and was not taken seriously, so he was naturally not eligible to be selected for the Spanish national team.
Later, after Getafe was promoted, the winning streak disappeared again. Without the winning streak, his performance began to fluctuate. And even if Mista performs well, there are too many players like him in Spain and he cannot be selected for the Spanish national team.
The team is also very normal.
Some media have previously analyzed that Valencia's strength has not really been enhanced based on the number of international players.
But this is caused by the habit of winning and recruiting. Because as a time traveler, I know which players will be very powerful in the future, but are in decline now. They are high-quality and cheap players. Naturally, there is no need to go out and spend high prices to buy those famous stars.
, national football team. Therefore, the players bought by Changsheng are all future national football players, but they are not known yet.
In fact, having more international players may not necessarily mean you should be happy.
Especially on national team match days, the entire training base is empty and nothing can be practiced except shooting training and physical training.
This will greatly delay the team's training. Not to mention that the main players will be injured on the national team match day, which will damage the club's combat effectiveness, resulting in a protracted dispute between the club and the national team.
Valencia currently has only nine national players, so at least it can still ensure the integrity of the team on national team match days.
Normal training will not be delayed too much, and team B will be brought up to train the same way.
This will help Valencia prepare for various competitions during the season.
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So in the first round of the Copa del Rey and the second round of the league, Valencia's performance was basically not affected.
In the first round of the Copa del Rey, Valencia played Manuel Tener Lopez in an away game. Changsheng made the entire substitute lineup plus part of the B team lineup.
Unlike last season, it is obvious that this season the Copa del Rey is used by Chang Sheng as a training ground.
Even so, Valencia still defeated its opponent 2:0 in the away game and easily advanced to the next round.
Valencia's opponent in the second round of the league is newly promoted Huelva.
Facing such a weak opponent, Chang Sheng made bold and confident rotations. All players who had participated in the national team games were given rest time, either on the bench or in the stands.
In the first home game of the new season, Valencia defeated their opponent cleanly 4:0.
Four different players scored goals in the game, which fully demonstrated the characteristics of Valencia's mad dog tactics in attacking.
Both Mista and Cambiaso scored their first official game goals after joining the team.
Cambiaso also contributed one assist, and Mista had two assists. After the game, Mista was voted the best of the game.
He used his own actions to prove that Chang Sheng did not buy him out of favoritism.
But he can play an role in Valencia.
Mista's tireless running during the game helped the team a lot.
Even commentator Moen said Mista looked like a real mad dog.
After playing the second round of the league against Huelva, Valencia welcomed their first opponent in the Champions League at home. They are also considered to be the strongest in the group and can compete with Valencia for first place in the group.
..."Red Army" Liverpool.
This is also Chang Sheng’s first Champions League game.
In Chang Sheng's mind, perhaps influenced by the mentality of later generations of fans, he always feels that the UEFA Cup is far inferior to the Champions League. The only real European competition is the Champions League.
So he didn't feel anything when playing in the UEFA Cup last season, but when playing in the Champions League, he seemed very excited.
Lin Mo announced the first mission of the Champions League. The mission requirement is very simple, which is to win the first Champions League victory. In other words, to defeat Liverpool.
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Liverpool's head coach Houllier is in a good mood now because he thinks this away game will be easy for Liverpool.
When the lottery results first came out, he was full of confidence and felt that he was lucky to be in this group and a real good draw.
In his scenario, Liverpool will finish first in the group, and Valencia can finish second in the group - if they are lucky.
When his scouts sent him weekly game reports about Valencia, he became more convinced of this idea.
Faced with Valencia's back-footing tactics, Liverpool's response was to defend and counterattack.
In fact, defensive counterattack is the standard tactic used by Houllier in Liverpool.
Since Houllier took over Liverpool, he has begun to transform the defense and introduced a series of defensive players. In the future, Hyypia and Hamann will be the anchors of Liverpool's defense.
Henkoz, who can only be considered a second-rate player, can form a successful central defender partnership with Hyypia, which is inseparable from Houllier's accumulation of heavy troops in Central Europe.
The compressed backcourt allowed the two tall central defenders to give full play to their man-to-man defense capabilities, plus the neurotic Westwood. The transformation from three defenders to four defenders, coupled with the interception ability in the Premier League
Hamann, the strongest midfielder, is the defense that Houllier has used for five years.
As a Frenchman, his efforts to transform the defense are more conservative than those of the British.
This kind of defense is used to deal with Valencia's reverse attack, and Houllier thinks it is enough.
What determines the outcome of a game is offense.
In terms of offense, Houllier emphasized the word "fast". This word runs through Houllier's entire offensive thinking. Houllier made full use of Owen's unparalleled starting and changing speed to pass the ball directly behind him concisely and clearly.
"The gun picks a line". Under the impact of Owen, the bulky English defenders couldn't turn around and looked at the ball and sighed. This is why Owen performed so well in those years and even won the European Ballon d'Or.
The reason is--fed by tactics.
Houllier, who had tasted the sweetness, introduced counterattack forwards with good speed in the following years, giving up Fowler, who had a keen sense of smell in front of the goal. At the same time, the ball in the midfield and backfield was also very fast, basically using long passes.
Mainly with medium-distance direct transmission.
This is Houllier's offensive tactics.
And this set of offensive tactics, in Houllier's opinion, just restrained Valencia's frontcourt pressing tactics.
Just frequently start from the backcourt and look for Heskey.
Then let Irving take over and rush forward with the ball.
In fact, this season, Houllier is also trying to make tactical reforms, transforming the simple and crude tactics into more technical ones. This has just begun, but against Valencia, he plans to temporarily abandon his reforms.
Win the ball first and then talk about it.
In order to win, he chose more utilitarian tactics. Just like when he first arrived at Liverpool, in order to win, he chose to abandon the offensive style of the team during the Evans period, focused on adjusting the team's defensive system, and established the "stabilize the position first"
The basic tactical idea of "waiting for an opportunity to counterattack quickly" is the same.
Ensure victory and always come first.
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Because he was so confident, Houllier took the initiative to start a war of words.
Before leaving for Valencia, he said in an interview with the English media at the airport: "I have no physical problems, and the same is true for Liverpool. We are confident to win this game!"
When he said these words, he had a faint smile on his face and looked confident.
The English media seemed to be infected by Houllier's confidence.
In their press releases, they focused on describing Houllier's confidence and painted a wonderful prospect for Liverpool fans.
"Houllier seems confident, which is a positive sign..."
"Although it is an away game, and although the opponent Valencia is currently in good momentum, we have to firmly believe that in the Champions League, Liverpool's experience is definitely greater than Valencia's! Liverpool has won four European Champions Cups, and Valencia has
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