Chapter 702: A New Position in Time of Crisis
The smoke of the Asian Cup is gone, but the footsteps of the Asian national teams have not stopped, everyone has summarized after the game, and the comparison objects of the summary are the champion Chinese team, China has now become a role model and goal for the whole of Asia.
Although the Japanese team lost the game, it was still widely praised after the game.
The Japanese media "Asahi Shimbun" commented very objectively - the Japanese team continued to maintain the momentum of progress, and they were eligible for the final victory, but unfortunately lost to the Chinese team. Japan in Asia is like France in Europe, and they have made the longest-term preparations and long-term plans for their current victory. Over the past four years, we have placed a lot of emphasis on teams in every age group, selecting and training the best coaches for high-quality training, and now it's finally time to reap the rewards. The Japanese Olympic team played well in Sydney, losing to the United States on penalties in the quarter-finals, but they were already above their opponents. In Beirut, they continue to be in good form and are playing well. On a technical level, they can compete with any high-level team in Europe and South America.
– Their shortcomings are a lack of strength and confrontation, and a lack of tactical discipline, but their midfield is extremely creative and covers up almost all of their shortcomings. Hiroshi Naba, Junichi Inamoto, and Hiroaki Morishima have strong passing organization skills and excellent awareness. Japan, meanwhile, boast two of the most lethal strikers. Among this group of stars, there is also the missing Hidetoshi Nakata, who returned to Italy, which shows that our national team is indeed full of talent. Indeed, the Japanese team has been improving, and this progress has been all-encompassing, because they have been patient and have done a lot of concrete and effective work. In the Asian Junior Championship, the Japanese national junior team defeated the Chinese national junior team by a large score, which also proves that there are more outstanding young people in Japan, which cannot be ignored.
- However, we are still inferior to the Chinese team. There are too many foreign players in the Chinese team - Zheng Zhi, Hao Haixi, Fan Zhiyi, Li Weifeng, Li Yin, Shao Jiayi, Yang Chen, Qi Hong, Xie Hui, Qu Peng...... They can even form a super national team with overseas players. The gap between Japan and China is to stay abroad! We have to get more players to play in Europe and close the gap!
After the end of the Asian Cup, the first thing the South Korean team did was to fire head coach Heo Dingmao. And the Korean Football Association also put the blame on Xu Dingmao, "Seoul Sports News" quoted the original words of the official website of the Football Association - Xu Dingmao wasted the talent of this group of players, since two years ago, the team he led has not improved, but has been playing more and more regressive, we can't see any hope, so we quit him. With almost two years to go until the 02 World Cup, we still have time to make amends, and we will make a great decision to hire Dutch coach Guus Hiddink!
The Korean Football Association did not believe that the team's loss was a problem of the player's ability, but the coach's ability, so they quickly brought in the Dutch coach Guus Hiddink.
"Seoul Sports Daily" also vowed that if the head coach of the South Korean team during the Asian Cup was Dutchman Hiddink, South Korea would not have lost to the Chinese team by a big score!
Until now, the South Koreans are still unwilling to accept the fact of defeat. They have been riding on the head of the Chinese team for many years, and they have lost four games in a row to the Chinese team in the past two years, of course, they are very unhappy, but they have never seen such a cheeky person.
And the Chinese team? The next day, he was greeted with unprecedented welcome. The Chinese men's national team has finally won the first A-level championship, and it was won in a 100% convincing way. Naturally, Chinese players have become the pride of the fans. It's a pity that among the players who returned to China this time, all the foreign players did not return to China, but went directly back to their respective clubs to report.
In order to compete in this Asian Cup, the foreign players have all invested blood.
Liverpool's main central defender Fan Zhiyi was originally not allowed to return to China to compete, but Fan Zhiyi returned to China directly without reaching an agreement with the club, and had a big conflict with the club, and may be reduced to a substitute after returning to the club.
After the departure of Eintracht Frankfurt's Yang Chen, Li Yin, Qi Hong and Li Weifeng, Eintracht Frankfurt only won one win, two draws and one loss in the league.
Shao Jiayi's 1860 lacked creativity, and Eindhoven's attack power also plummeted after the loss of koji.
Chinese players are becoming more and more influential in Europe.
Of course, the most affected is naturally Inter Milan. In the latest Italian Serie A match, Inter Milan drew 2:2 at home to Perugia, and only two draws and one loss in the three rounds of the league! Unfortunately, the league table has also slipped straight from first to fourth, with Roma, AC Milan and Lazio all running to their lead, and Juventus in the back bite them tightly. The advantage of four consecutive wins since the start of the season has long since disappeared, and Mourinho has been criticized almost every day these days, and his life has been quite bleak, and the pressure is greater than when he first took over Inter Milan.
Like last time, Mourinho is looking forward to Zheng Zhi's return day and night, and if he doesn't come back, the gentle boss Moratti may be about to use a butcher's knife against him, no matter how good the boss is, he will have competitive results, if he can't win again, it is not surprising that Moratti will fire him......
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Zheng Zhi did not return to the training ground directly, according to Mourinho, he had a day to rest and adjust before returning to the team to practice. But the front of the house is full of paparazzi, and the paparazzi don't know where they received the news, and they are already waiting for them here.
Seeing them, Zheng Zhi smiled.
I haven't met so many paparazzi in more than 20 days.
But he didn't plan to give the paparazzi a chance to interview, anyway, the questions were all those questions, and there was nothing new.
"Zheng,"
"Zheng,"
"Zheng!"
It was so ruthless that after waiting for most of the day, he just closed the door and left.
"Grass~~"
"This bastard never gave us a good look."
"It's too much."
There was another scolding......
But just as everyone was about to leave, a red Ferrari drove up.
Beep beep,
Honked the horn three times in front of the gate of Zheng Zhi's mansion.
"Who?"
Click, click If you think about it with your heels, you know that it's a woman, and it depends on who it is.
Zheng Zhi never hides in his private life, and shoots casually, but he never answers anything in front of reporters, just so bohemian......
"Bundchen?"
"She's on the door again?"
Seeing the back, many reporters immediately recognized it, and the graceful figure was too impressive.
"This guy is the first pig."
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The next day, Milan City was full of lace news from Zheng Zhi and Bundchen, Zheng Zhi successfully attracted the firepower, and even discussed the news of Inter Milan a lot less, the news king of Inter Milan was him and Vieri, in the days when Zheng Zhi was away, it was basically Vieri's lace news, as soon as Zheng Zhi came back, Vieri went to recuperate......
When he came back, he made an appointment, Vieri was also low-key, Zheng Zhi directly called someone to the door, and directly ignored the existence of the paparazzi......
However, the appointment was returned, and early the next morning, Zheng Zhi returned to the club in good spirits to report. Gresco held a copy of "Milan Sports Newspaper" in his hand and read it with relish in front of Zheng Zhi.
Bundchen drove a red Ferrari into Zheng Zhi's mansion, and then the two entered the house together, the living room was lit with gentle lights, and the two of them had a hearty dinner together...... Two hours later, the lights finally went out and didn't come back on until six in the morning. ”
"Hiss~"
"Zheng, the news of your overnight stay with Bundchen last night was described in too much detail, don't you close the window?"
Gresco likes Zheng Zhi's lace news the most.
"It's all from them,"
"I can't see it at all."
"Then you can really fight for two hours?"
"It's normal, it's just a football game."
Gresco glanced blankly and reminded Zheng Zhi, "The football game is only 90 minutes, less than two hours. ”
"But I can't play overtime?" Zheng Zhi asked with a smile.
"Grass~"
Half an hour of extra time adds up to 120 minutes......
"Hello~"
"Hello~"
Suddenly, Pirlo walked over while chirping, looking like he had a cold, and it was quite serious.
He covered his nose and stopped when he saw Zheng Zhi.
"Congratulations,"
"I've won the Asian Cup."
"Hello~"
He sneezed again.
"Stop,"
Zheng Zhi hurriedly put his hand in front of him to prevent Pirlo from approaching him.
"Sleepy skin, you have a cold,"
"Be careful of infecting us, hurry up and ask the coach for leave and get out of here."
Zheng Zhi immediately became vigilant, colds can be contagious, if he is infected by Pirlo, if he can't recover tomorrow, he won't be able to start tomorrow.
"No, I'm not the first, Recoba, it was Recoba who infected me, he sneezed last night, I didn't expect it to be the same after I got up in the morning."
Pirlo quickly explained, afraid that he was the source of the infection.
"No, we only play tomorrow, and we only need a dormitory tonight, why did you live in the dormitory last night?" Zheng Zhi didn't understand that the dormitory conditions of Inter Milan were too simple, just like a hotel for 10 yuan a night in China, it was not comfortable to sleep at all, and many club teammates complained that everyone didn't want to live here when they were playing at home, why did Pirlo think?
"I wanted to train here, but it was too much trouble to run back and forth home, so I stayed. I didn't know Recoba would be here. ”
"Then why did Recoba come here?" Gresco asked.
"I don't know, when I got back to my dorm, he was here, and he was already showered and dressed. When he left, he sneezed a few times, and then the next day I was like that. Pirlo spread his hands, looking helpless.
Uncanny......
Poisonous......
Then Pirlo went to Mourinho to ask for leave, and told Mourinho what had happened, and Mourinho frowned.
Someone lied, Recoba said he practiced at the training ground, Pirlo said he practiced at the training ground, but the two people who lived in the same room had never met on the training ground?
It's so fake, so there must be someone who is lying, but at the moment he can't tell.
Worse still, these two guys will probably not be able to play in tomorrow night's game, and if they don't recover in time, even if they do, they won't be in the best physical condition.
It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight......
Recoba is okay, there are people on the front line, Pirlo is quite important, I thought Zheng Zhi was back, Pirlo could return to the position of the front midfield, and the lineup was relatively neat, who knew if he had a cold?
Damn it.
Mourinho shook his head helplessly, grabbed the lesson plan in front of the table, and walked towards the training ground. Although things are quite bad, they are not so bad that they are, at least Zheng Zhi is back, and this is the most important weight.
Playing Monaco at home, it's time to stop the decline. This time, he decided to change his tactical play......
At three o'clock in the afternoon the next day, he attended a press conference, and his mood was much better than the previous days, and his tone was much softened in the face of the paparazzi.
"We're going to try a new formation today,"
'It's not that we didn't do well defensively before, we got lost on the offensive end, but today we're going to get those things back.'
"I will adjust the formation to 4231, and Zheng Zhi will appear in the forward position."
Mourinho has been playing 4312 or 442 before, but there is not enough performance on the offensive end, and now he needs to score too much, Mourinho simply promoted Zheng Zhi to the position of the forward midfielder. This may be a good way to solve the goal, Zheng Zhi has scored a lot of goals and assists in the Asian Cup, and Mourinho wants to graft directly into the Inter Milan team.
Undoubtedly, in Mourinho's view, Zheng Zhi is definitely the savior of Inter Milan, the real and only savior.
He released the starting line-up in advance, goalkeeper Frei, right-back Panucci, central defenders Blanco and Córdoba, and left-back Gresco. Defenders Di Biagio and Farinos, while Zanetti was promoted to the right midfield, on the left this is Dalma, striker Ronaldo, Zheng Zhi is behind Ronaldo.
You can say that he is a striker, or Zheng Zhi is a shadow striker. It was a rather bold attempt by Mourinho.
In yesterday's training, Mourinho only gave Zheng Zhi one request, to participate in every attack, and when there is a great opportunity to shoot, he must not hesitate to get up and shoot.
One can imagine how much Mourinho has faith in him......
Actually, Zheng Zhi is no stranger to this position, and he didn't fight back then? It's just that this memory is too far away.
What's more, the partner is Ronaldo, which saves worry and effort......