Chapter 440: Leverkusen's Revenge

Li Liang began to search for information about Gaudino.

He read online that Gaudino was born in 1948 and is a top physical trainer and sports rehabilitation professional who used to teach at the University of Turin.

Since 1981, Gaudino has been at the service of Juventus.

Seeing this, Li Liang's conscience was shocked, Pezzotti and De Rosso are both in their 60s, and they feel that these two can almost be regarded as members of their grandfather's generation, and the famous Gaudino is nearly seventy years old!

During Gaudino's coaching career, he had a long-term and close cooperation with Lippi. In 1999, Lippi joined Inter Milan and Gaudino also went to Meazza with him.

After Lippi left Inter, Gaudino opted to stay with the Nerazzurri. Gaudi, who spent 10 years at Meazza, returned to Juventus in the summer of 2009 until leaving the Bianconeri on 30 May 2010.

From 2004 to 2006, Lippi was in charge of the Italian national team, and Gaudino also assisted Lippi on a part-time basis, helping the team win the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

After coming to China with Lippi, Gaudino let the Chinese players, who have been criticized for their physical fitness all the year round, complete every high-intensity game under the condition of fighting on multiple fronts, and finally won the AFC Champions League and three consecutive Chinese Super League championships!

With reverence for Gaudino, Li Liang entered virtual training, regaining his passion for learning English in order to fulfill his promise to Adams.

Although Li Liang didn't know how powerful Gaudino was, from Spinoli's words and the information about Gaudino he saw on the Internet, he vaguely felt that a new door was opening to him.

On Wednesday, Li Liang started training alone at La Tubi, and the coaches and boys of the reserve team were accustomed to the first team's training maniac, and at the end of their training session, Li Liang was still working hard according to the information left by Spinoli.

Mbappe, who was also not on the list to go to Germany, came to Latuby in the afternoon. On the empty training ground in winter, Mbappe was surprised to see Li Liang alone.

Mbappe walked to Li Liang's side, and Li Liang stopped: "Killian, what are you doing in a daze, come together?" ”

Mbappe picked up the coat on the ground and threw it to Li Liang: "Li, I have a question I want to ask you!" ”

Li Liang took his coat and stopped: "Please teach me?" What questions do you have? ”

Mbappe scratched his head: "Lee, I've been feeling really good lately, I feel like I've become much more brave and decisive on the field, but every time I shoot, I always feel that I don't handle it well.

Actually, I've had a lot of really good chances in recent games, but the results weren't ideal, and I think if it had been Radamel [Falcao], he would have scored more goals than me on the same chances! ”

Li Liang understood what Mbappe meant, in the last game against Dijon, Mbappe had a forced breakthrough in the penalty area after coming on as a substitute, dodged the angle and finally hit the ball on the post.

Li Liang thought seriously for a while, and asked rhetorically: "Killian, how many headers have you scored this season?" ”

Mbappe was stunned: "I haven't scored a header yet!" ”

Li Liang smiled: "How many headers did Naradamael score?" ”

Mbappe counted on his fingers: "Plus the warm-up game...... There are 5 of them! ”

Li Liang laughed and said, "So you and Radamel are not comparable at all!"

Maybe he's a 'tiger', you might be a 'hound', and you don't attack in the same way.

I dare say that there are opportunities that Radamel can capture, and similarly, there are moves that only you can do, and Radamel can't do them.

However, I am sure that Radamel will not have the same problems as you, and he will certainly not compare himself to other strikers now. ”

Mbappe was stunned and asked, "Why?" ”

Li Liang threw off his coat, started to move his body again, and rushed back to the training ground while leaving only one sentence: "Because he is confident!" ”

Mbappe was stunned, he stood in place and thought repeatedly, suddenly raised his head and laughed: "Wait for me, Lee!" ”

After speaking, he caught up with Li Liang and ran happily with Li Liang.

Today's training ended early, as there was a live broadcast of the final matchday of the Champions League group stage in the evening, including Monaco away to Bayer Leverkusen.

Group E was clear ahead of the tournament, with Bayer Leverkusen and Monaco finishing second and first respectively before the final round, and it was really just a routine game for both teams.

Jardim felt that this was a rare opportunity to adjust and rotate his players, so the vast majority of the main players did not travel to Germany with the team.

Bayer Leverkusen have failed to win against Monaco in their last five European meetings (two draws, three defeats) and were beaten twice in the Champions League group stage in 2014-15.

For this game, Bayer Leverkusen coach Schmidt is very keen to wash away the shame of the past with a victory.

This can be seen in the starting line-up he line-up.

Although Schmidt rotated a number of key players including star goalkeeper Leno, stalwart Turkish Toprak, iron waist Rus Bender, Chilean midfielder Aranguiz and wide player Bellarabi, he still sent Brazilian left-back Wendell, Turkish talented midfielder Calhanoglu, German rookie Brandt, high school striker Kiessling and Hernandez, who has played for Manchester United and Real Madrid.

Seeing the starting lineups of the two sides on TV, even Li Liang gasped.

Monaco's starting lineup is only Raj as the main substitute, in addition to Moutinho, Dillard Sanctis is more experienced, as well as Carrillo, Boslia and several young substitutes in the first team form the Monaco lineup, Li Liang can't help but sweat for them.

The referee's whistle blew on TV, and Bayer Leverkusen's home match against Monaco in the final round of Group E of the Champions League group stage finally kicked off at Bayer Arena.

After the opening, both sides played very openly, and it can be seen that due to the pressure of not qualifying, the players on both sides are very relaxed, and wonderful individual performances and exquisite cooperation appear from time to time, which makes Li Liang in front of the TV envious, this kind of situation of attacking the two sides is exactly what he dreamed of, and it is just the same as the feeling of the virtual training match that he is most familiar with!

Ten minutes into the first half, the home side's dominance began to emerge, with Schmidt retaining the main attacking combination, which made Leverkusen's attack look very threatening.

Especially the little pea Hernandez, even through the TV screen, Li Liang felt a powerful and extremely powerful aura!

Li Liang has been very familiar with the Mexican star in the past, and now from the perspective of a professional footballer, "Little Pea" is simply a nightmare for all defenders.

His erratic and sharp movement up front, combined with his incredible speed, has left Raj and his young team-mates at the back struggling.

If there are shortcomings, "Little Pea's" passing ability is slightly weak, but compared to his running and point-grabbing awareness, it is completely negligible in front of this Monaco "second team".