Zhang Mu just doesn't want to be involved in the French Cup too much energy. Monaco's main battlefield should be in the league.

But this does not mean that he is completely uninterested in the French Cup championship trophy. The title of double champion is still very nice after all. However, he can distinguish priorities. In the cup, he will send substitutes, which will not affect the league. As for how far he can go in the cup, it depends entirely on the performance and luck of the substitutes. Such a game is very valuable for training young players.

If he can reach the semi-finals in the Cup, then Zhang Mu doesn't mind distracting part of his energy into the Cup. I believe that one or two games will not affect his plan.

After getting Campola done, Zhang Mu knew that his strategy would not be disturbed, and even if some people had any opinions, it would not have a big impact. He could let go of his hands and feet and boldly do his best.

Let’s not talk about it when I got home and rested for a night. The next day, when Zhang Mu came to the training base, he received very bad news.

Since the league is about to start, we can't find a warm-up opponent that meets Zhang Mu's requirements for a while. We must have limited strength and strong defensive ability on the wing. Where can we have such an opponent? Even if we have one, it is not so easy to deal with. Who would like to be a sparring partner?

Zhang Mu also knew that such a suitable opponent was not easy to find. There was no way, so he could only let the reserve team take the lead. At worst, they could let them defend the wing.

Of course, there is not no good news. Before the last warm-up game, the midfielder Mohammad Diyala, who had not played due to injury, finally recovered from injury. Although he had only missed nearly a month of training and games, the team suffered a lot of losses. Although Flamini was talented and had a very tenacious midfield style, it was his turn to be physically and game experience, which was quite different from Diyala. Zhang Mu could finally welcome the start of the league with a complete lineup.

A few days before the start of the league, Monaco's first team played the last warm-up match with the reserve team, which was also a helpless move. Although Zhang Mu hoped to have a suitable warm-up opponent, he finally took the lead with the reserve team.

This reserve team is completely different from the reserve team he was under last season. At least Zhang Mu saw that most of the players were very unfamiliar, and Monaco did not have the mature tactical system from the youth team to the adult team like Barcelona, ​​so his playing style is no longer the overall advanced football of last season.

But that doesn't matter. Zhang Mu just wanted to fully test the team's offensive ability on the wing and arrange the reserve team to defend the dead. As for the offense, even if they were asked to let go, they would not be able to attack.

For young players in the reserve team, although this is more like a team training match, it is a competition with the first team after all. The coach of the first team is standing on the sidelines. If he performs well, he may not be unable to enter Zhang Mu's eyes and enter the first team in one step. Isn't this what they are pursuing?

So when they got the news, the excited expression on everyone's face was so exaggerated and could not be suppressed.

There are several role models in front of them. Now Hillens, the core of the first team organization, was transferred to the first team because of his outstanding performance in the reserve team, and has gained a foothold and has become an indispensable member of the first team.

In addition, Jim, the rear midfielder, the full-back Rainier and the substitute center Slimani are all outstanding players from the reserve team. They already have their own positions in the first team. Even if they are not the main players, they will not have few opportunities.

How great it would be if they could get the chance to enter the first team like their predecessors.

The reserve coach can only smile bitterly for the optimistic thoughts of the players. They are really naive.

If those players who have stepped out of the reserve team can gain a foothold in the reserve team, on the one hand, it is closely related to their talent. In addition, former reserve team coach Zhang Mu is also crucial to their training, and after a season of game training, they have the same appearance today.

The reserve team of this class does not have such conditions at all. Perhaps they are also talented people, but compared with their predecessors, they cannot keep up with the rhythm of the first team from their skills to their thinking. How can they gain a foothold in the first team? They have no capital at all.

They haven't fully figured out the situation yet. They are just opponents of first-team sparring. Alas, I hope that the fragile confidence will not be hit.

The reserve team coach repeatedly reminded the players to defend with all their might, especially on the wing. As for counterattack, let's talk about it if you have a chance.

In addition, the most important thing is to be careful when defending. This is not a formal game, and the winner is meaningless. If you are in a state of mind and injure the first team players, it is really not worth the loss.

But what made him helpless was that these young players obviously regarded his advice as a warning and had no intention of taking it to their hearts.

As a youth team coach, he also hopes that the players he trains will have a bright future and become world-renowned stars. However, it seems that the players under his command may not have this opportunity because they do not even have the most basic professional qualities.

Zhang Mu didn't know the various thoughts in the mind of the reserve team coach. His only purpose for this confrontation was to test the team's offensive ability on the wing. As for picking people from the reserve team into the first team, he didn't have this idea.

First of all, the first team is now in a complete team and does not need to make progress. Even if the young players are transferred, they may not get too many opportunities, and they will just waste their best growth time in vain.

In addition, when he visited the reserve team to observe Slimani, he had already inspected it. The reserve team did not have any players with particularly outstanding strength, and they did not have the strength to gain a foothold in the first team.

So Zhang Mu didn't have such an idea, just asked them to do a sparring training.

The game time is very suitable, and there is still one week before the first game of the league. This week is enough for the players to rest and adjust their state, so Zhang Mu decided to let the players fight with all their might.

The game was not held at the Latubi training base, but chose Monaco's home stadium, Louis II, because Zhang Mu felt that this would make the game more formal.

In addition, this game was not publicly sold for tickets, so fans can freely enter the stadium to watch the game. Zhang Mu hopes to create a game atmosphere, which is more helpful for the players to participate in the game.

However, the number of fans in Monaco is really limited. In the last game against Roma, only more than 5,000 fans came to the end. This confrontation was even more dismal, with less than 3,000 fans. It seems that Monaco has a long way to go for a revival.

Compared with other Ligue 1 teams, Monaco is inherently insufficient, and its permanent population is only over 30,000, and its population is less than 10,000. The base is there, and the number of fans is too high.

There is no way, Zhang Mu estimated that the team's home court might even become the home court of other teams. It has to be said that this is a major disadvantage of Monaco.

However, Zhang Mu believes that with the improvement of the team's performance and the changes in playing style, the team's game will definitely become more and more interesting, and at that time it will attract more fans to come to the stadium to watch the game and cheer for the team. Even people from cities around France can become fans of Monaco.

Before the game, Zhang Mu had repeatedly emphasized the importance of this game to the players. Although the opponent is a reserve team with significantly inferior strength, this is the last warm-up match before the opening of the team's league and the last chance for the team to practice tactics, so it must be played as a formal game.

It is true that the reserve team has limited strength, but if they defend with all their might, the first team may not be able to do anything. After all, breaking intensive defense is a problem faced by all teams in the world, not to mention Monaco, which is mostly young players.

This is also another purpose of Zhang Mu, which is to help the team accumulate experience in breaking intensive defense, because he believes that as the league progresses, Monaco will definitely become a powerful existence that makes all teams sideways. At that time, there will definitely be weak teams who give up offense and defend with all their strength in order to score points. If they consider breaking intensive defense at that time, it would probably be too late.

In addition, although the reserve team will defend with all their might, it does not mean that they will completely give up the offense. If they have a chance to counterattack after intercepting the ball, they will also move forward. Although their strength is limited, the speed of the frontcourt players is not slow, and if they are not careful, they will suffer losses.

Regarding Zhang Mu's caution, young players, especially a few players who have been following him since the reserve team, know how much Zhang Mu attaches importance to this game, and even pays more attention to the warm-up matches in Marseille and Rome, so he doesn't do anything wrong, and keeps warm-up preparations or adjusts his state secretly.

But the few old players who stayed in the team seemed to be distracted. In their opinion, the strength of the reserve team was extremely poor. Playing with them was as comfortable as playing games with children. They would ravage them as much as they wanted.

The two completely different attitudes are also manifestations of the players' mentality. Although Zhang Mu doesn't know what the players think, he can imagine that someone will definitely not pay attention to it. However, the game has begun and he will observe that if someone really treats his words as a breeze, then he will never mind turning them into a breeze.

Today, what Zhang Mu arranged was the main lineup in his mind. Mohammad entered the starting lineup, and Rainier was still in the main left front-facing position. Zhang Mu just wanted to see how powerful this lineup has.
Chapter completed!