Lazio's final opponent in the Intertoto Cup was Deportivo La Coruna.
This draw result is really good news for Chang Sheng.
Because at this stage, the team he is least afraid of playing is the Spanish team - more than four years of coaching experience in Spain have made him very familiar with the characteristics of the Spanish team. Deportivo can be regarded as an old rival.
The winner knows how his Lazio should deal with Deportivo La Coruna.
It is impossible to defeat the opponent as easily as before, but I feel that I should still be capable of defeating Deportivo La Coruña.
There are more than ten days before the two-round finals, which is enough time to prepare for a regular victory.
Although there is an International Toto Cup competition, Chang Sheng still arranges a warm-up match.
Although theoretically speaking, it is best not to arrange double matches a week during the season preparation period, but Chang Sheng relies on his long preparation time in the early stage and sufficient physical reserves, so he dares to arrange double matches a week at this time.
Although the Toto Cup can be regarded as a warm-up match, it is a formal competition after all and there is pressure on performance.
Moreover, only three players can be replaced in a game, so there is no way to test the team's game status and level.
That kind of warm-up match where everyone agrees to substitute as many players as they want for a game. The main purpose is to allow as many players as possible to get enough playing time. The coaches observe their status, find problems with different combinations, and then solve them.
question.
Time passes very quickly in this rhythm.
In the blink of an eye, it was the first leg of the Toto Cup final. The most obvious thing that the Lazio players felt during this period was that the level of tacit understanding between them seemed to have increased again, and their ability to understand new tactics had also improved.
This feeling cannot be described in words. They just feel that in training and warm-up matches, they understand the tactical requirements laid out by Chang Sheng more thoroughly, and they understand better how to play on the court.
Unlike at the beginning, they were completely confused and didn't know what the new tactic was. No matter how much Chang Sheng said, it was just a bunch of meaningless word combinations in their minds, without any meaning or meaning.
Unable to form a sense of picture.
But after this period of training, all Lazio players feel comfortable.
Although there have been many legends about winning in the past, one of them is about practicing new tactics in a week.
But most of them don't believe it and think there must be something wrong with the media reports.
But now they have experienced this magical experience for themselves.
However, in a very short period of time, they felt that they knew more and more about the new tactics and had a better understanding of them.
They can't find the reason. Although the coaching staff works very hard, it's not so magical, right? It's more effective than any specific medicine...
In the end, they could only conclude that this must be caused by the boss's mysterious Eastern witchcraft!
So in my heart, my awe for this head coach became even deeper.
No one even slacked off during training - for fear that they would be harmed by the boss's witchcraft.
Chang Sheng is also willing to play the role of a mysterious master among the players. Making the players fear him will help him completely conquer the locker room.
Although he has almost emptied the original locker room, it is always better to be cautious.
The atmosphere in the team's locker room is quite harmonious now, and nothing has caused Chang Sheng to feel a headache.
This is a good sign.
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In the first round, Lazio challenged Deportivo La Coruna away.
The two sides fought fiercely for ninety minutes, and finally shook hands and made a draw at 2:2.
Lazio has two away goals and has already taken the lead.
After the game, some Spanish media said that his constant victory proved that he was still a dominant head coach in Spanish football. Even if he had left Valencia and changed to an Italian team that was adjusting, Deportivo La Coruni still
There is no good solution.
Lazio supporters couldn't wait to celebrate qualifying for the UEFA Cup.
They don't believe that returning home will allow Deportivo to make a comeback.
This kind of thing can happen to any team, but it can't happen to a winning team.
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As preparations for the season progress, Lazio's players have a deeper understanding of the new tactics, and they can also demonstrate more tactical requirements on the training ground.
Chang Sheng began to train the players and came up with more tactical routines for the players to practice.
Various offensive routines, defensive routines, set-piece offensive routines, set-piece defensive routines, coupled with different training skills.
Chang Sheng threw all the training skills he had no chance to use in Rome to Lazio.
If you want Roma to regret it, you have to make Lazio a truly strong team!
On August 24, Lazio welcomed Deportivo La Coruña at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.
The final score of this game surprised many people.
5:0!
Lazio massacred Deportivo at home!
Although many people thought that Lazio would win at home, they did not expect to usher in such a hearty victory!
In this game, Lazio completely controlled the situation on the court. Deportivo was beaten without any power to fight back. Lazio played an improved mad dog tactic on the court, which made Deportivo's players feel both
"Friendly", but also feeling strange. Because this set of tactics is different from the group of mad dogs they once encountered in La Liga...
They are faster! They have more direct passes, are sharper, and naturally pose a greater threat to the goal.
Valencia's tactics are more controlled, slow and slow.
If we want to make a more intuitive comparison, Valencia wears down its opponent, just like a boxing championship that lasts twelve rounds and wins by points in the end. Lazio, on the other hand, uses a stormy offensive.
Win by directly KOing your opponent.
It's hard to say which one is more threatening. It's safer to win by points. Basically, it's not easy to make mistakes. It just waits for the opponent to make mistakes, but it requires more physical strength because it takes twelve rounds. And it's a direct knockout.
As for the opponent, he can only do this if he has strong attack power and explosive power. The disadvantage is that once he is unable to knock down the opponent, he is likely to be KO'd by the opponent in turn.
But if you ask Deportivo now, they definitely don't like playing against Lazio.
Chang Sheng was interviewed after the game and expressed his sympathy for Irueta: "Irueta has worked in Deportivo for eight years and has achieved very good results. Under his leadership, Deportivo has become such a famous team.
The little-known small team became 'Super Depor'. But because the club has no ambitions, his efforts have now come to nothing. The head coach of a team always signs a team once a year and is reluctant to buy people.
A team that only knows how to sell people obviously has no future."
Some media believed that he was telling Lazio President Lotito that he should not be in or out of the transfer market just to pay off debts.
But in fact Chang Sheng was just feeling emotional.
When he became the head coach of Valencia, he used the banner of ending Super Depor to build momentum for himself.
Now, this 5:0 means that he really buried Super Depor with his own hands.
From now on, Deportivo will be completely reduced to a soy sauce.
There is no such thing as Super Depor anymore.
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Lazio defeated Deportivo La Coruna with a total score of 7:2 and qualified for the UEFA Cup as they wished.
They will start their UEFA Cup campaign in mid-September.
The competition format of the UEFA Cup this season is to play the first round of knockout rounds. The 80 teams will decide the winner through a single round of home and away games. Half of them will be eliminated. The remaining 40 teams will be divided into eight groups.
There are five teams in each group, and after five rounds of home and away group matches, two 32-team teams will be selected to advance to the knockout stage.
These thirty-two teams will then fight against each other to determine the top 16, top eight, top four, and finally the champion.
Deportivo fans could not imagine what their team would eventually achieve in the UEFA Cup, nor did they expect to win the UEFA Cup.
They are just happy to be in the UEFA Cup.
Because as their rivals in the same city, Roma also qualified for the UEFA Cup, and now that they do, Roma can't stand up in front of them.
It is out of this simple hatred that after Lazio qualified for the UEFA Cup, Lazio fans have completely accepted the new coach Chang Sheng.
If they still had doubts about Chang Sheng before - after all, the Italian media were all talking about Chang Sheng, and many people were worried about whether Chang Sheng could really adapt to Italian football - now, no Lazio fans will question Chang Sheng.
The two previous Lazio looked like they were about to go bankrupt and disband at any time. Now with the arrival of a group of energetic newcomers, the team has actually entered the UEFA Cup!
At this time, Lazio fans felt that their boss had really made a good deal - their love and support for the constant victory also made them love and support the club's stingy boss. In fact, Lotito
After taking charge of Lazio for one season, fans have had a lot of criticisms about this stingy president.
They always feel that Lazio's future is dark under the leadership of such a stingy club president.
Now, they feel that their boss is really wise and powerful. Under his leadership, the club will definitely move from victory to victory and regain its revival and glory.
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Before the start of the league, qualifying for the UEFA Cup was a great boost to the morale of Lazio.
This will help the team face the long and arduous season that is about to begin with full morale and mental state.
Chang Sheng was also very satisfied with the result.
Especially during this period, the team's training effect has improved by leaps and bounds, and the players' ability to understand and implement new tactics has been greatly improved.
This makes Chang Sheng full of confidence in the new season.
Just like that, three days before the start of the league, Chang Sheng announced that he would treat everyone to a meal at his own expense.
This is to wish Lazio good performance and good results in the new season.
This decision was unanimously welcomed by everyone.
The players in the team, even those with the lowest salary, are not without a meal, so they are not short of the meal. They just express their good opinion of the head coach's approach to the people.
In this summer's pre-season training, Chang Sheng always played the role of a black face. He kept a close eye on each player's training status. Once a player did not train seriously or failed to meet the standards in the weekly training assessment, he would
What awaits them is Chang Sheng's roar and punishment.
It can range from a fine to a severe penalty of going to the reserve team to face the wall for a week.
Under such a punishment mechanism, no one dares to be lazy.
So this pre-season training may be the hardest one they have ever had.
Of course, now that the team has qualified for the UEFA Cup, everyone knows that their hard work was worth it.
It was only when they saw the approachable side of him that he always won, and everyone realized that their head coach didn't just train people with a straight face.
After possessing the attributes of awe and mystery, Chang Sheng also possesses the attribute of "kindness" among the players.
Chang Sheng also secretly lamented that if there were too many raw melons and eggs, it would be easy to fool him, and the problem of affinity would be solved with just one meal...
However, from this meal, Chang Sheng also felt that this might be a good tradition. From now on, before the start of the league every year, after the transfer market is announced to be closed, it would be a good idea to pay for everyone to have a meal.
It can enhance the relationship between you and the players, especially new players, and also allows new players and old players to enhance their understanding and deepen their friendship.
It is necessary to persist in this matter.
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