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Chapter 179 Simple, Direct Football

The next day, what Wan Sheng said in an interview after the UEFA Champions League group draw ceremony appeared in media reports.∥∥≦∥≤

Many media are talking about Wan Sheng and Mourinho's "hand-in" criticizing the UEFA score system, which has become something that the media and fans who are used to seeing the two confrontations in the English League are talking about.

However, there is a media outlet whose focus is still on Wansheng, that is the Daily Mirror.

The Daily Mirror has long become the leader of the "Anti-Wansheng League" in England. They have also become the media hostile to Manchester City and Wansheng, such as the benchmark for supporting Manchester United media, because everyone knows that the Daily Mirror and Wansheng are mortal enemies, and they will not report the good news about Wansheng or Manchester City.

However, it must be recognized that the influence of the Daily Mirror is. As a newspaper with tabloids as its core, their sales volume is second only to the Sun, and they are very influential in England and Europe.

If the Daily Mirror commented on Wan Sheng in England, few people would read it, because there were too many such reports and readers were tired of it. However, they reported on Wan Sheng's interview after the Champions League group, and the scope of it was not just England, but the entire Europe. Their purpose was to put Wan Sheng on the European stage and let him confront the entire Europe.

That means it is like saying, "Look at this Chinese boy, he is arrogant and does not take other national teams seriously, and he is already surrounded by enemies in Europe!"

This is naturally the result of many media efforts.

Their purpose is to let Wan Sheng play quarrel with other European strong teams. This approach is indeed very useful. Inter Milan, which was talked about by Wan Sheng, soon made a voice. Head coach Roberto Mancini was dissatisfied with Wan Sheng's statement of "third in the Inter Milan League", so he said, "He has led the team to participate in the Champions League for the first time. What qualifications are he qualified to point fingers at the Champions League division! If he is not satisfied with Manchester City being ranked in the third level, he can lead the team to get good results, such as winning the Champions League championship, then Manchester City will definitely not be the third level next year!" It can be heard.?≦∥≮⊥∈∈≥∈≧╃┼.╬┭ Finally, it is definitely a satirical irony of disdain.

Capello, who had just taken over as Real Madrid coach, also joined in the fun and said, "We must admit that we have drawn a good draw. Everyone says this is the death group. But I don't think so. Manchester City and Sofialevski have no experience in European competitions, and this group is still very easy for us."

Capello's meaning is very obvious, just to show that Manchester City and Sofialevski are easy to deal with, and qualifying in the group is not a big problem for Real Madrid.

Fans and media who don’t know the details will definitely be surprised to hear Capello say this, because although Manchester City has no experience in European competition, it is definitely an opponent that cannot be underestimated. After all, Manchester City was the British League champion last season and won the League Cup. Even if such a team does not have European competition experience, it will still bring huge threats. Everyone must admit this. So why did Capello say this? Is it intentionally angering Manchester City?

But if you know the details, the media and fans know that Capello is boosting morale.

This summer, Real Madrid completed a major blood change. The most important news is that 55-year-old Ramon Calderon was elected as the new chairman of Real Madrid with the slogan of promise to introduce new generation superstars such as Kaka, Robben, and Fabregas.

Perhaps in other clubs, fans are most concerned about the new coach, while Real Madrid is not. This club is always centered on the chairman. The battle between Florentino and Calderon is simply an epic passionate drama, no less than the presidential elections in some small countries. The competition between the two is always topical to talk about. In the campaign, they use various means. It is not easy to become the chairman of Real Madrid. Calderon promised results and brought confidant players such as Cannavaro and Emerson. He invited the "gold coach" Capello back to Real Madrid again to settle the position of chairman. In addition, after Calderon took office, he also bought powerful stars such as Van Nistruei and Diarra for Real Madrid.

After this wave of blood swap, Real Madrid is no longer the team that looks gorgeous last season.∧∧.┭┭.╬╃ is actually weak, but it is not certain to have much strength. Capello’s task is to combine this large group of new stars with Ronaldo, Beckham and other stars in the team. This work is almost certain to be his key task in coaching Real Madrid.

If these stars can come together and become a team that cooperates with tacit understanding, then Real Madrid will definitely become one of the most powerful teams in the world, because no team in the world is more gorgeous than their lineup. On the contrary, Real Madrid will not have much enhancement from last season.

Now Capello stands up and talks about the Champions League grouping and says that there is nothing wrong with it, it is completely encouraging morale. He is expressing a kind of confidence and an attitude towards the new season.

But obviously, Capello is not clear that European football is no longer an era where famous coaches speak out. It is also an art to speak in the media. Without this kind of artistic cell, it is better to be low-key.

After knowing what Capello said from the reporter, Wan Sheng smiled without hesitation, "Oh? Mr. Capello means that Bayern Munich cannot threaten Real Madrid? But I think Mr. Felix Magat must not see this."

This move is called "Dao Shui Donggui".

Bayern Munich coach Felix Magat felt the feeling of being shot while lying down. When he heard the news, he was still confused. He only knew that Real Madrid had obtained coach Capello talked about the group grouping. Then Manchester City's young coach mentioned himself, as if he was refuting Capello's view, believing that Bayern Munich is no worse than Real Madrid?

Felix Magath spoke directly with confidence without fully understanding it, "I think Bayern Munich is the strongest in Group G!"

Perhaps the head coach of every team would say this, but when Magath said this, the reporters saw that there was something strange about him. He didn't understand the reason, so he talked about Bayern Munich's preparations for the Champions League, and said that the team's goal was only the championship. ≤?∥Net≮.┮

Magat said a lot, but it had nothing to do with Capello and Wan Sheng's topic. Some reporters originally wanted Magat to ironize Wan Sheng, but they got this result, so they could only shake their heads and smile bitterly.

After Magath knew the causes and consequences, it was too late to say something. He knew that if he did that, it would definitely become a bigger joke, so he hated Capello and Wan Sheng.

To be honest, there are few very good relationships between famous football coaches. Because they can easily become opponents on the green field, the same is true between Magath and Capello. The relationship between the two was not good at all. This time they were grouped together, and there was a verbal battle in the media. The relationship naturally became worse. As for Wan Sheng, Magath was dragged into the water this time and was embarrassed in front of the media, wasn’t it caused by him?

Wan Sheng didn't know what Magath thought. He just felt very funny when he heard Magath's words. He was planning to fight in the media, but he didn't expect it to be the result. He suddenly felt like he was "high and cold", as if he had become an opponent with Magath and Capello. He had not become an opponent alone with Mourinho.

These so-called famous coaches are really boring, they are probably outdated, right?

Wan Sheng thought so.

However, saliva in the media is nothing. The real victory or defeat has to be decided on the court. When he gets there, Wan Sheng will not be any contempt. He must make the team prepare everything before he can defeat Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and other century-old giants on the court.

This season's Champions League group stage is definitely a challenge for Manchester City.

After the international match day, the team will face the league again, and the next opponent is the newly promoted team Reading.

Wan Sheng is not unfamiliar with Reading.≤≮≮≮⊥≈≈. When he led Derby County to play in the second division, Reading was a strong opponent. Manchester City also met in the cup last season. Head coach Koper and Wan Sheng were also old acquaintances. But no one expected that Reading team led by Koper had an amazing result last season, with 31 wins, 13 draws and 2 losses, and a total score of 1o6 points was only the record when Derby County was promoted. Under Koper's leadership, Reading Club finally made its first appearance on the stage of the top league in England after 135 years of ups and downs.

This is exciting news for Reading fans. After 135 years of hard work, the team has entered the top stadium for the first time, so it is not an exaggeration to celebrate it.

Of course, that has nothing to do with Manchester City. Now the two teams are direct league opponents.

Before playing against Reading, the team still had a lot of work. After international match days, some players were in poor condition. Wan Sheng could clearly learn about this problem from the football training master system data. In addition, the performance of some players in training can also be seen.

This is "International Match Day Syndrome".

In the past, this problem was mostly found in Wansheng's opponents, such as Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, etc. These teams have more national team players, but now the problem is found in Manchester City, because Manchester City also has many international team players, such as Morris, James, Anelka, and Sun Jihai, Wang Xiaolei, Ziegler, etc., they all entered their respective national teams.

After a game with the national team, some of them became in a state of unstable state.

In response to this situation, Wan Sheng can only let them make some physical and psychological adjustments, but it will definitely take a few days to recover, but the game against Reading is close to you.

In the end, Wan Sheng chose to let those players in poor form rest for a round and let players in good form appear and participate.

In fact, there is another reason for Wan Sheng to do this, that is, the first game of the Champions League is approaching, and two days after the match against Reading, the first round of the match against Sofialevsky was in the first round.

This is Manchester City's first European Championship in the past century

Even if it does not talk about its importance of "historical significance", in the Champions League group stage, it must win if it meets weak team Sofialevsky, otherwise it will not be so easy to score points in Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, so Wansheng must retain strength for this game.

But he didn't expect the game against Reading would be so difficult.

As a newly promoted team, Reading's performance was very strong in his previous life. Their defense was very firm. The way they only wanted to play in the frontcourt also posed a significant threat to Manchester City.

Such a team that seems to be inexperienced but feels very difficult to fight. Wan Sheng was surprised by the performance of Reading. In his opinion, the team's performance was not very bad. The team's cooperation was played and suppressed, but the effect was not that good for Reading, and occasional mistakes in defense were easily given Reading.

The Reading team scored the first goal in this way.

In the 31st minute of the game, Reading's Korean striker Xue Qi-hyun successfully scored with his head, helping Reading to take the lead.

This situation was unexpected.

After that, Manchester City maintained a long suppression against Reading in the first and second half, but only before the end of the game, Darren Bent helped the team equalize the score with a strong shot in the chaos in the penalty area.

The game ended 1:1.

A draw is equivalent to a failure for Manchester City, because in another game played at the same time, Manchester United beat Tottenham Hotspur 1:0, achieving a four-game winning streak in the league. So far, Manchester City is two points behind Manchester United.

After the game, Wan Sheng and Koper politely shook hands, and then they thought about the game along the way.

He knew that he and the team were a little careless.

Reading is a newly promoted team, but they were definitely not a weak team to get more than 10 points in the Championship last season. In this game, their defensive performance was very tough, and simple and direct football also posed a great threat to Manchester City.

Such a simple and direct way of playing sometimes plays a very good role.

Wan Sheng must admit that he learned a lesson from this game.

This may have something to do with his youth.

As the media said, he was still too young, had too little experience, lacked experience, and did not have enough accumulation. He always thought that Manchester City's tactics were the best, but now Koper's use of very simple and direct football made him and Manchester City suffer a big loss.

He will remember this lesson.

Later at the press conference, Wan Sheng also directly said, "This is a lesson for us. We were a little careless. In addition, Reading performed very well today, and they deserved to take a point away!"

Wan Sheng's words surprised many media reporters.

In everyone's impression, this young Chinese never admits defeat. He will perform very strongly against Manchester United, Liverpool and other giants. Even if the game is not going well, he will also find other reasons for the team to "explain" that the loss is not the reason for the team.

Now he actually took the initiative to recognize the other party's performance?

This surprised many people.

But in fact, Wan Sheng has always believed that facts are facts. Reading's performance is indeed very good. The victory or defeat of a league is nothing. No team can guarantee that there will be no mistakes in 38 rounds of the league in a season. What's more, the team has been affected by international match days in the past two days, and many main players have not played, so it's not surprising that they tied with their opponents.

This draw taught Wan Sheng and the team a lesson, but it was not in his mind. After the game, he began to consider the Champions League group stage with Sofialevsky. (To be continued.)
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