Looking at the number of players in the deputy team, Wan Sheng felt a little headache.

The Hong Kong team has only recruited 18 players in total, and one player is injured. In other words, the current team cannot even make up the 18-man roster that has appeared. The most urgent task is to get a few more players, and it is necessary to get enough to report to the AFC's roster.

In addition, too small numbers are also unfavorable for preparation and training.

In normal preparation, you need to play some training matches. The two sides are 11-on-11, so the training match effect can be closer to regular competitions, so it is urgent to gather the number of players.

However, Wan Sheng couldn't do it himself in this regard, because he didn't know anything good about Hong Kong players at all. He needed to find someone familiar with Hong Kong football to do these things.

So Wan Sheng immediately called Liao Junhui, assistant coach arranged by the Hong Kong Football Association, and told him his request, asking the team to find several players. "I want young players, preferably under 24 years old, just be able to play in the official game."

This requirement is not high. Liao Junhui on the other end of the phone is a little unclear, so he didn't understand what Wansheng wanted such a young man with weak strength to do, but he agreed immediately, "I'll go find him right away."

Wan Sheng let go of the phone and breathed a sigh of relief.

He had known Liao Junhui.

Liao Junhui was born in the Youth Army of Yuyuan. He has played for many A teams in Juteng, Jiashan, Haibee, Oriental, Heroes, Seiko, Meiqing, Lixin and Sing Tao. He also represented Hong Kong in the south and north to fight. He was the goalkeeper of the Hong Kong team in the 1985 World Cup Qualifiers. He was selected as the best eleven players in the Hong Kong Football Stars in 1981.

He hung up his boots in 1992. After retiring, he focused on youth training. He taught Hong Kong 09, Yau Tsim Mong, the football team's youth and green base, and later joined the Citizen of the Group A team as goalkeeper trainers.

Liao Junhui was promoted to coach last year.

This time, the Hong Kong Football Association temporarily formed the Hong Kong team to compete in the Asian Cup, so it invited Liao Junhui to work as an assistant coach. Liao Junhui quickly agreed to the opportunity.

Recently, Liao Junhui has been in Singapore, Malaysia and other countries to arrange for Hong Kong teams to participate in trivial matters in the Asian Cup, such as the hotel where the team stays, temporary training grounds, etc. In recent days, he has also been preparing to return to Hong Kong to lead the team to train with Wan Sheng. Unexpectedly, Wan Sheng would recruit new players so soon.

This is not a problem for Liao Junhui, who is familiar with Hong Kong football. He quickly called various Hong Kong football clubs.

All clubs have heard that the Hong Kong team is going to recruit new players. And they are training under Wan Sheng. This kind of opportunity is very difficult. If you are attracted by Wan Sheng, not to mention entering Europe or something, your fame can also increase significantly. Even if you are not attracted by Wan Sheng, you can still be gilded in the Asian Cup. These are all players under their hands. The popularity of players will be beneficial to them. What's more, following Wan Sheng's training, which is good at cultivating young people, can also improve their strength slightly.

They rush to recommend their players.

While Liao Junhui was doing these tasks, Wan Sheng was considering team-related issues in the office.

First of all, the team's strength.

Too bad! It's really too bad!

No wonder the Hong Kong team in China has always had poor performance. The abilities of the players in the team are generally low. This is definitely the worst among the teams he has led, no doubt. Even the Derby County in the League One back then was much better than the Hong Kong team in China.

This can be seen from the general ability attributes of players in the team.

Most players' ability evaluation is around 70. If this data is lower, it is almost an amateur player. This is the result of combining physical attribute data with a relatively high value. If you talk about technical ability alone, you don't have to look at it anymore. It is completely the level of the lowest professional league in Europe, or even amateur teams.

Such a team...

Wan Sheng smiled bitterly.

Even with the coaching skills of football training masters and the attribute bonus of the player union, the team will catch up with the level of the English third-tier league, and this strength can only be considered second-rate in Asia. It is estimated that it is equivalent to Qatar and cannot be compared with strong teams such as South Korea, Japan, and Australia.

It is undoubtedly a bit of a dream to lead such a team to win the championship... Even if you still have various coaching skills that add bonuses to the game, Wan Sheng is not very sure.

But, this is a challenge!

After checking the attribute data of players in the team, Wan Sheng was more looking forward to leading the team.

What's the point if he leads a strong team to win the Asian Cup? Now he will lead the Hong Kong team to work hard towards the ultimate goal, which is a test of his coaching ability.

Football Training Master System. With his own abilities, he will do his best to make the team achieve the best results and do his best to do his best!

After strengthening his beliefs, Wansheng devoted himself to his work.

If a general coach just coaches a team, he or she will definitely need to let the team do training matches or watch the team's normal training carefully so that he or she can have corresponding tactical ideas.

Wansheng doesn't have to do this.

Through the football training master system, he has learned about the situation of each player in the team and the general situation of the team. He also has certain plans in terms of tactical ideas.

It is almost impossible to adapt to the "os-f" system tactics. Not to mention insufficient training time, the players' abilities cannot meet the standards at all. Thinking about the football field, they were originally technically coordinated with the playing style, but the players made frequent mistakes in passing the ball, and the team's tactics also lost their meaning.

The Hong Kong team is not strong enough to play the role of complex tactics.

So what are the tactics suitable for the Hong Kong team?

Main defense!

This conclusion is very easy to draw. Whether it is any team, the world's top team or the professional team, the technical abilities of the players in the two teams may be different, but the average physical fitness will not be much different. Hong Kong players generally cannot keep up with European players, but the numerical evaluation of physical ability will not be much different. After all, they are all professional players.

The body is not bad, and the defense does not require too complicated tactics, so the main defense can play its advantages.

In addition, Wan Sheng is considering that he has two defensive skills of "coach max perfect skill" -

"Strong barriers, defensive categories, coach ma's perfect skills.

In the persistence state, all players have improved their defensive attribute evaluation by 2.

In the official game, all players' physical confrontation ability is improved by 2 and the chance of injury is reduced by 50%.

All players actively activate: the goalkeeper is the last line of defense, under the power of a solid barrier, the team you lead will increase the reaction speed of the goalkeeper by 100% (only one game can be activated once, lasting for five minutes. After activation, passively loses the effect)."

"Resolute interception, defense, coach ma's perfect skills.

When your team is in the game, the steal success rate increases by 20%.

When your players are in the game state, all defensive attributes are increased by 1.

When your player completes a steal, the ‘pass’ attribute evaluation is increased by 5.”

With the two defensive skills superimposed together, and some defensive position training, this Hong Kong team with little strength will not be much weaker than the top Asian teams.

There is a saying in the football world that is called "winning in defense". As long as you work hard on defense and ensure that the team tries to concede as few goals as possible, then the hope of winning will be great.

As for the offense?

Counterattack is the only way out.

Normal attacks are no longer suitable for Hong Kong teams. Playing against teams such as Japan and South Korea in Asia is simply like surrendering. It is very unrealistic. While defending well, using fast counterattacks to find opportunities is the most suitable way of playing for the team.

Wan Sheng set the tone for the team's tactics, and he also thought about the most important training work during the preparation period.

In terms of tactics, defensive formation and defensive position are necessary to be trained, and he decided to adapt the team to Italy's chain defense.

Wan Sheng has never had the experience of allowing the team to adapt to chain defense, but the chain defense of Italy has been thoroughly studied. The key to this defensive system idea is to make it almost impossible for the opponent to break through each defensive player head-on.

During the game, there will be a gap between the players. This is the space for the opponent to cooperate with the ball, so linkage should be used when defending. If the player is a point, then this gap is like a line. When the point is under pressure, the line will naturally close to the place where the pressure comes from.

If there is only one chain, it is easy to be broken. Italy usually builds a line on the forefront and then adds the back line to form two chains, so that there is depth protection.

The forward line will form a chain, and the back line will form a chain. The front line chain will be filled with defenders when they are absent. When defending, the forward line team members double-team the opponent, and the defenders will seize the opportunity to make a move. This is the most basic defensive form.

The key points of defense seem very simple, but in fact, chain defense has very high requirements for defensive formation. As long as the formation is chaotic, chain defense will no longer exist. Even if the formation is always maintained well, the possibility of opponent stars being able to break through head-on is not ruled out. Therefore, the highest level of chain defense requires a defender with strong defensive ability to circulate between the two chains to defend the opponent's core players.

In this way, the chain defense system is completed.

Therefore, if you want to adapt to chain defense, the training of defensive position is necessary. During the preparation period, Wan Sheng planned to let all players adapt to the running of the formation and let the players truly adapt to the position in the game. This is not easy alone. After all, the players in the team have extremely poor tactical awareness. If you don’t look at it, you will know that many of them just focus on their own running in the game. If you want them to adapt to the concept of "team", it is something that takes time to complete.

Fortunately, the help of "collaboration" skills is helpful. After half a month of training, just training defensive positioning and running is enough to train something.

Of course, defense alone cannot win. Chain defense alone has consumed most of the players. There are only two or three players who can really invest in the offense, so fast counterattack and cooperation are also necessary. In this regard, Wan Victory is considered to win with speed.

Use the team's midfield connection and quickly pass two or three kicks to find opportunities.

This is the most important offensive style.

At the Mong Kok Stadium, the first day of the Hong Kong team's preparations, one morning and half afternoon were spent in normal training.

The players on the team felt very strange.

The training situation they thought was that the head coach was watching the coach, but for most of the first day, they didn't see the head coach at all. This serious young coach stayed in the head coach's office after a while of training for the team in the morning and never came out. Even the lunch was sent by the staff.

What is this guy doing inside?

Wouldn't he come to the training ground to guide the team?

Many players didn't understand, so in the afternoon, they were talking about this matter in a low voice.

After halfway through the afternoon, Fan Zhiyi, as an assistant coach, notified everyone to go to the head coach's office. When he heard this news, every player felt confused. Go to the office? No need to continue training?

They feel a little weird.

The team members walked into the spacious office and saw the young coach writing and drawing on the tactical board, looking serious. Someone entered the office, and he didn't turn around. After everyone was here, he still kept the same movement, drawing a pen on the tactical board from time to time, and didn't know what he was thinking about.

Fan Zhiyi walked over and reminded, "Wansheng, everyone is here."

Wansheng then turned around and looked at everyone.

"It's all here." He said, stood up and stretched, pointed to the tactical board and headed straight to the topic. "In the next time, I will start explaining the tactics that the team needs to focus on training. Each of you must listen carefully and remember firmly that this is very important and will directly affect your performance in training or in the game."

No one spoke, but many people disagreed.

In the past, the coach would occasionally explain tactics in the club, but only explain them. There were only a few people below, because when it comes to tactical training, the coach would repeat them again and again and guide them to do what to do in the game. After repeating this way, even if they don’t understand the tactics at all, they know how to play on the court.

However, Wan Sheng is obviously not their coach in the club, and he doesn't have so much patience to explain it to them one by one.

"The tactics are very simple. I will only talk about it once. You can choose to remember it carefully or not listen." Just when everyone was confused, Wan Sheng said seriously, "But I want to tell you all, a little bit."

He stretched out a finger, "I have seen you, and I have not asked you to introduce you yet. I don't know anyone's name and I have no idea about you at all. So, from now on to the official Asian Cup, whoever performs better in training will be able to play."

"On the contrary, if anyone performs poorly and doesn't know how to stand in training, and the coach needs to repeat the tactics himself, then I think he is definitely not as good as others."

"Do you all understand?" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!