Chapter 14: The First Warm-Up Match

Before the start of the league, the team arranged a series of warm-up matches to help the players get used to the rhythm of the new season. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Before each season, each team arranges some warm-up matches, and in addition to commercial purposes, the team can do some team run-in and adjust the state of the players.

Of course, for FC United, there is certainly no commercial need to play in the warm-up games.

The first opponent was away to Lille, not Lille in France, but Lille in Wales.

This team is a lower team in the Welsh Premier League and is much stronger than FC United. However, many professional teams are not very strict about the needs of warm-up opponents, mainly depending on the team's warm-up needs.

When the players arrived at Gig Lane Stadium, there was a red bus parked in the parking lot at the entrance of the stadium, which was actually the same type of public bus that shuttled through Manchester. In order to save money, the team rented such a car from the public bus company to take the team to the away game.

Seeing this car, Li Qingshan had an urge to take out his bus card.

Marginson came to the crowd, he counted the number of people, and then checked the list and found that the players who should have come were coming. While waving his hand, let everyone wait for the bus. This time it was a bit far away and they had to leave early.

After the players got into the car, the driver started the car and turned out of Gig Lane.

As soon as they got on the bus, everyone noticed the big bag under the feet of assistant coach Roy, who had been wearing training clothes for training before, and that bag must have contained a competition suit.

"Now let's start the jersey." Marginson gestured to the bag. FC United have not announced their shirt numbers for the new season, so all but a few absolute main players may have their numbers changed.

"The player number and your name have been filed with the FA, if you want to change the number, report it to Roy in advance. Let's wait for next season. Marginson said.

Then he pulled out the list and began to read it, and for each person he read, that person went up to get his jersey.

The number ten jersey belongs to the team's captain, Dean Stout. The number 10 shirt often symbolizes the heart or spirit of the team. Dean Stott is the absolute workhorse of the team, the commander of the midfield, the captain of his team, his colleagues are not too young in the team, and he has enough seniority in the team, and he is very convincing in this shirt.

Nick Adams got the number 11 shirt and he looked very happy because it was his favourite number. Li Qingshan looked at his excited appearance and remembered that he once said that his favorite player was Manchester United's legendary No. 11 Ryan Giggs.

Striker Mike Norton was given the number 13 jersey, which was his number last season. The number thirteen is not an auspicious number in the West, yet Mike Norton has single-handedly chosen this unlucky number. His reasoning was: "This number will bring nightmares to the enemy!" ”

Whether this number brings nightmares to the enemy or not is not discussed for the time being, Mike Norton's fierce face is easy to give opponents nightmares............

"Lee!" Li Qingshan was observing the reaction of others after getting the jersey, and heard Marginson call his name coldly.

He stood up and looked at the manager.

"It's yours." Marginson picked up a set of jerseys and shook them at Li Qingshan.

He stepped forward, eager to find out his jersey number.

"9", the white number was presented in front of him and the others, and one of his teammates let out a soft sigh.

This is the number that symbolizes the main center!

The initial jersey numbers were assigned according to the formation, and the reference formation was the MW formation.

MW is an ancient formation invented by the Englishman Chapman, which appeared shortly after the offside rule was formulated, before the offside rule, everyone was a team except for the goalkeeper, most of the people were forwards, and after offside, there were requirements for the advancement of the midfield and attack, and there was a MW formation.

In general, in the MW formation, the number 9 is the center, the number 7 is the right winger or right inside, the number 11 is the left winger or left inside, the number 10 and 8 are two attacking midfielders, the 4 and 6 defensive midfielders, and the 352 three central defenders or single central defenders and left and right defenders.

Football has developed to the present, and the number has long lost the meaning of its original position, but there are some numbers that have special significance because of the blessing of some legendary stars.

For example, the number 10, which symbolizes the core and the leader. The stars who have crossed this number are like stars, knowing that they are still shining in the sky of football. The two champions, Pele and Maradona, both wore the number 10 jersey on the pitch.

The No. 9 jersey has symbolized the role of a goalscorer, a goal machine, and a finisher since ancient times.

Marginson gave the No. 9 jersey to Li Qingshan, which means that he is ready to hand over the position of the main center to Li Qingshan and let him be the team's finisher.

After the jerseys were distributed, Marginson began to announce another rather important thing: "The line is starting to announce the team's starting line-up for this game. ”

The noise and buzz of getting the new shirt was gone, and everyone was staring at the manager with their ears on.

Marginson unhurriedly flipped through his notebook: "Today we play 442. Goalkeeper James Spencer, centre-backs Adam Jones and Kyle Jacobs are partnered, left wing-back Jerome Wright, right wing-back Lee Neville. ”

There are no personnel changes to this set of backline from last season's FC United backline, which stood the test last season and did not concede many goals throughout the season. The combination of the backline to maintain a stable line-up is especially important for a team aiming for the title. Especially the partner of the central defender, there needs to be a lot of tacit understanding.

Generally speaking, the four midfielders of the 442 formation mainly have two standing modes, one is parallel and the other is diamond-shaped. Marginson chose 442 in a parallel position, and the two central midfielders in the middle generally have a certain division of labor, one main attacker and one main defender. But even being in charge of offense requires a certain amount of quality on the defensive end. Because the midfielder in the parallel position is relatively thin, if there is a central midfielder who is not involved in the defense, the defense in the middle is easy to be penetrated by the opponent.

"Left wing-back Jack Cottrell, right wing-back Nick Adams, left midfielder Dean Stout, right centre-back David Butch"

"Next up are the forwards, Mike Norton and .......," Marginson said, pausing here and then adding: "Li Qingshan"

The bench has a goalkeeper, a defender, two midfielders and a striker. The back-up goalkeeper is Jon Vosnop, an honest man who has been in the team's second goalkeeper for several years and has a certain quality but not enough to be the main goalkeeper. The substitute defender was Cedric Crewe, the two substitute midfielders were Carlos Loka and Nick Pratt, and the other substitute striker was Matthew Wolfendon.

As for the other players who are not in the squad, they can only cheer for the team in the stands.

After reading the team roster, Marginson sat down. It's not time to announce the specific tactics yet, so we have to wait until he gets to the playing field, and it's still early.

Li Qingshan nailed out the window and gradually became distracted. The buses are already on the highway and heading towards Wales, which can take a few hours by car.

His first game in England will start in Wales, next to England.