The second day of the match against Iraq, the Asian Cup was on hold for one day, but Hong Kong, China, did not rest and was still training and preparing for the game normally.

As Wan Sheng said, the group qualifying has not yet come to celebrate, so they still have to continue working hard to go further.

There are no rest days, and no players will complain. For Hong Kong players in China, every step now is to create a miracle of Hong Kong football. All Hong Kong, and even many domestic fans, are watching them and supporting them. It is worth it to perform more in the Asian Cup. What's more, it's not to mention that in the past few days of training, every player is full of energy to prepare for the game.

Due to yesterday's game, the team consumed a lot of physical energy, and the main thing was to do recovery training this day.

Wan Sheng has prepared a training plan for each player early. This content includes all the training for the next three days. Some of them are to restore physical fitness, some players also need to do personal training, and a large part is to continue to carry out tactical cooperation training.

After nearly a month of training and competition, it is not easy for most of the players in Hong Kong, China to effectively improve their personal physical abilities. There are only a limited number of players who can improve a little in confrontation. Others who want to improve quickly can only be in terms of technical attributes.

In this regard, Wansheng does not intend to let the team members contact.

One of the important reasons is that improving the technical ability attributes is not very obvious. For example, after a player's training, shooting ability or dribbling ability increases "1", but this can be said to be meaningless in the game. Unless the overall team improves significantly, it will be of no effect at all.

Therefore, the personal training of the entire team’s players is actually based on physical attributes and abilities.

The physical attribute ability has been improved almost, and the important point has become tactical coordination ability.

Under the effect of the ‘collaboration’ skill, the whole team is already familiar with the chain defense system and has a defensive foundation. The most effective way to improve is to let the team adapt to some offensive routines.

Hong Kong players still feel that this training is very novel.

Almost all players in the team are at the bottom of professional football. When they play football in the club, the training they come into contact with is very simple, but they rarely adapt to the training of matching routines.

To this end, Wan Sheng formulated several simple cooperation routines to let Diamares and Fan Zhiyi lead the team to get familiar with it.

He hopes that before the quarterfinals, the players in the team will be familiar with these routines. Then when they play against Vietnam, the team can perform better offensively and the goals may be larger.

After arranging the training plan and explaining the training content in detail, Wan Sheng handed over the training to others. Instead, he sat leisurely and watched.

This is the division of labor and cooperation between the coaching team.

Wan Sheng is like the "supervisor" of the coaching team. He is the boss and no.1. He has a lot of work and needs to formulate a training plan. He wants to lead the team to play, strengthen the team's morale, and do other aspects of work. But after doing this, he doesn't have to worry about it at all. The team's work is entirely carried out by several assistant coaches.

After a day of training, all the players of the team have recovered and officially started training for tactical cooperation the next day.

By this time Wansheng became more inclined.

This is also the "good luck" of the whole team of Hong Kong in China, because Hong Kong in China is the first in Group A in Thailand. They are the quarterfinals of Vietnam. It is still the Lagamangala National Stadium, and they will not change the training ground, just like the home team, just wait for Vietnam to come.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wansheng left Thailand by plane and headed to Malaysia.

Group C, the last group match between the Chinese team and Uzbekistan is about to begin. Wan Sheng was invited by the Central TV5 to explain the game as a special guest and host.

After getting off the plane, a staff from the Central TV came to pick it up. When we arrived at the broadcast area specially arranged for the Central TV, the game was about to start in half an hour.

Central TV has started broadcasting the game live.

Wansheng packed his clothes and sat down at the studio area. When he was about to ask what he wanted, the camera suddenly switched over.

Wan Sheng was caught off guard, and the commentator Liu Jianhong immediately smiled and said, "Let's see who is coming?" As he spoke, the camera pointed straight at him.

Wan Sheng wiped his hair with his hands and said with a smile, "I was really shocked. Please forgive me for my bad image. I just arrived from the airport."

"It's okay, I think the fans in front of the TV will forgive you." Liu Jianhong said to the camera, "Maybe there are some fans in front of the TV, but there are still some fans who don't know much about it. So I'll introduce it. On my right hand, the guest invited to today's game is Wan Sheng, the head coach of the Premier League Manchester City Club. The season ends in May, Wan Sheng is invited to take over the Hong Kong of China and has led Hong Kong China as the first in Group A. They will face the Vietnamese team in the quarterfinals..."

"Today, Wan Sheng was invited to visit Central TV to explain the game between China and Uzbekistan."

After Liu Jianhong finished the introduction, he said to Wan Sheng, "According to many media and fans' reactions, you don't accept many interviews. At the request of many fans, I want to conduct an on-site interview with you. Is it OK?"

"Of course, I'm here to be interviewed. If I'm still shy at this time, I should wear a hat that covers my face." Wan Sheng joked.

"You are so humorous, I think fans will like it. So, Wan Sheng, can you talk about your experience in leading the team? As we all know, Hong Kong, China is not a strong team, it is an Asian last-rate team. So how did you lead Hong Kong China to defeat Australia, Thailand and draw with Iraq in Group A games? In my opinion, these results can be described as ‘miracle’."

Wan Sheng thought for a while and said, "I think the secret is firmness. On the first day of preparation for training, I told the team members that you must be firm, have firm beliefs, and have a spirit of perseverance."

"Our training is very hard. From preparations to now, we only had a day off. That was the match against the Thai team and after we determined the qualifying quota, our main training content during this period was confrontation and physical fitness. This is what the team lacks, but the technical aspects are actually not important."

"Everyone persevered and insisted on the whole game in the game. This is the most important thing. I always think that there will be no opponents that cannot be defeated, just work hard and fight hard!"

Wan Sheng said it in a general way, but he understood the general meaning.

Liu Jianhong nodded and said, "The achievements in Hong Kong, China now prove that your work is very successful."

"Thanks."

"So now, we're back to the topic of this game. Wan Sheng, many media are rumoring that you are very good at predicting the game. So can you predict the score of this game now?"

Wan Sheng immediately shook his head and said, "No."

"Why?" Liu Jianhong was puzzled.

"The games I predict are often viewed and analyzed from an objective perspective. For example, the European Cup, the World Cup, those games have nothing to do with me and I don't have any support. So I can predict very objectively."

"But this game doesn't work. Like the fans and friends in front of the TV, I am also a pure Chinese fan in life. I support the Chinese team. Personally, I naturally hope that the Chinese team can win, so I can't look at the game from a neutral perspective."

Liu Jianhong immediately applauded, "So that's how it is."

"So the next question is, as a world-renowned head coach, can you give the Chinese team some advice?"

Wan Shengdao, "I have said this a long time ago. The biggest problem of the Chinese team is that they are not physically fit, and the gap in performance in the first and second half of the game is too big."

"This is a very serious problem. Every Chinese team's game will perform well in the first half, but in the second half, their physical fitness will not keep up, resulting in a much worse performance, and their opponents will often seize the opportunity."

"The team is like a sports car. Every player is a component of a sports car. There are key and non-critical ones, but every player is very important and can fully affect the performance of a sports car. The head coach is like a racer, and the football competition is like a racer. The sports car with the best performance runs the fastest, but may not necessarily win the racing victory, which is also related to the level of the racer. In addition, a very important point is that no matter how good the sports car performs, it requires power. What is the power? Everyone knows, gasoline. The physical fitness of a team is gasoline. If the gasoline is not enough, you can't run in the middle. No matter how good the sports car is, no matter how high the racing car is, it is useless. So my suggestion to the Chinese team is that before every competition, you must fill up the 'oil' so that every player can have sufficient physical fitness. Those players who do not have sufficient physical fitness, no matter how strong the ability is, it is meaningless to be famous."

The metaphor of Wan Sheng made Liu Jianhong unable to help but applaud, and the staff next to him all applauded.

"Wan Sheng, you said it's so good." Liu Jianhong couldn't help but say, "In our live broadcast, we hardly praise the guests, but my current mood can only be described as 'amazing'. I think your words will soon spread throughout China."

"Thank you." Wan Sheng responded politely.

Liu Jianhong quickly recovered and continued to ask, "Okay, then do you have any other suggestions for the Chinese team?"

Wan Sheng thought for a while and said, "As for the game, I think the Chinese team's defense should not be too conservative. They should be confident. They should try to let the ball move in the opponent's half and organize the offense when the opponent makes mistakes. If this is the case, it will be at least a draw. Everyone should unify their thinking on the court."

Liu Jianhong nodded. The media interviewed many internationally renowned footballers before, and pointed out the issue of conservatism in the Chinese team, which is also a cliché.

He continued to ask, "Wan Sheng, you don't want to predict the score of this game, so can you predict the future trend of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup?"

"In addition, which team do you most like in this World Cup? Is it the host? Japan, South Korea? or West Asia team?"

Wan Sheng nodded, "As long as the Chinese team passes the Uzbek level and breaks the so-called 'curse' in the media, I believe they will go far and reach the finals. "

"I don't have a team that is particularly optimistic about. If I really want to say that, I only look forward to Hong Kong, China, and that is the team I lead."

Afterwards, Wan Sheng said indifferently, "We don't need to care about the host, they will be eliminated then!"

This sentence immediately made Liu Jianhong laugh.

Some fans in front of the TV also realized that at present, Vietnam is the only one who can qualify for the host team, and Vietnam will meet Hong Kong, China in the quarterfinals, that is, Wan Sheng is expressing that Hong Kong China will definitely defeat Vietnam and reach the semi-finals! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!