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Nelson O Baptista is reading a newspaper that is the São Paulo edition of Scoreboard.

Newspapers such as Scoreboard and Reims, which have an influence throughout Brazil, are not a newspaper that sells all over the country. They're very localizable.

Wherever you take root, you will report the news.

So these big newspapers tend to have a lot of editions, and in Rio de Janeiro it's the Rio edition, and the main focus is on football news in Rio, because fans in Rio don't care much about football news in other parts of the country.

The reverse is true in São Paulo.

With the exception of the Brazilian national team, fans in the big states only focus on the teams and stars in their own states, and players from other places don't know much about them.

This is why the glory of São Paulo is already a celebrity, in Rio, in Rio Grande do Sul, in Bahia...... and other places are still like nobodies.

So when it comes to the international match between Sao Paulo and Brazil, Nirmal will not take the glory to heart at all...... If he had been a player from the state of São Paulo, he would never have made that mistake......

Rio is better, after all, the glory is famous in the Rio-São Paulo tournament.

However, because the teams that reached the final four of last season's Rio-São Paulo tournament were all São Paulo teams, the media in Rio de Janeiro gave up paying attention to and reporting on the Rio-São Paulo tournament early. The name Glory is very limited in Rio, even if some people know it.

The São Paulo edition of Scoreboard is not available in Rio, so it was not easy for the newspaper to be on Nelson O'Baptista's desk.

It was because he heard that Grayson, the name of the "Scoreboard", had written a particularly detailed article on the analysis of São Paulo's new tactics, so he asked someone to buy it from St. Paul. For this newspaper, his people drove nearly 900 kilometers back and forth, more than ten hours by car.

It shows how seriously Nelson O'Baptista attaches importance to this article.

As a former Sao Paulo manager, it is only natural that he takes this opponent so seriously......

When Glory first entered the Sao Paulo youth team, the head coach of the Sao Paulo first team was the Nelson O Baptista.

Later, Nelson Obaptista was dismissed by São Paulo club president Gauvea because of his poor results, and Valdemar de Oliveira, the head coach of the glory team in the youth team, replaced him as interim head coach, only to lead the team for only two games before being dismissed, and Osvaldo de Oliveira took the position and became the head coach of São Paulo.

So Nelson Baptista still knows a lot about this São Paulo team.

If it was the former São Paulo, I'm afraid he wouldn't have taken it so seriously, because he knew it well.

But when Osvaldo arrived, the São Paulo team underwent some changes that made him feel unfamiliar with this team.

In order to prepare for this match, he went to watch the last few games of Sao Paulo, and the double-forward tactics that Osvaldo insisted on naturally fell into his eyes.

If you only watch the first few games, I'm afraid that Nelson Baptista will still not be too comfortable with Sao Paulo.

Because Glory and Kaka are completely incompatible, Sao Paulo's so-called two-man midfield tactics are more like a ten-man game - when Glory is involved in the attack, Kaka seems to disappear from the pitch and vice versa.

Such a team obviously has little fighting power to speak of, and their own performances have been up and down, with good and bad results.

Then he saw São Paulo host Corinthians.

Corinthians are a team that Nelson Baptista is naturally familiar with as the head coach of Flamengo.

Flamengo is the team with the most supporters in all of Brazil, while Corinthians are the second most supporter. When he was coaching in São Paulo before, he also led the team to play against Corinthians several times, although they all won, but Nelson Ao also had deep feelings about the strength of Corinthians.

Unexpectedly, the Sao Paulo Trident suddenly functioned normally in that game, beating Corinthians 3:0. In particular, the two strikers have performed well, Glory has a goal, Kaka has a goal and an assist, and Fabiano has also a goal and an assist.

The game made Nelson Baptista suddenly realize the danger - if Sao Paulo had such a two-front tactic, I am afraid that Flamengo would not be easy to deal with.

It was from this match that he began to pay special attention to São Paulo's new tactics.

This time, as soon as he heard that the Sao Paulo version of "Scoreboard" had a special page to analyze Sao Paulo's double-forward tactics, he naturally wanted to buy it and take a good look.

Half an hour later, Nelson Baptista lifted his buried head – he finally read the article word for word.

I have to say that Grayson is worthy of the name, this analysis is very thorough, and he has benefited a lot after reading it, and has a deep understanding of São Paulo's double forward tactics, knows their strengths, and most importantly, understands a lot of weaknesses.

The relationship between Glory and Kaka is still not harmonious, which is important information. So the Trident tactics relied on Fabiano to connect with it.

To contain the trident of São Paulo, it is necessary to contain Fabiano.

As long as Fabiano is completely frozen, and he is not allowed to comfortably possess, pass and run, Sao Paulo's trident is basically equivalent to waste......

Corinthians' head coach Pereira just didn't expect Osvaldo to let Fabiano retreat, and did not set up a defensive strategy specifically for this situation, causing Fabiano to activate Glory and Kaka.

In the end, Corinthians were defeated by the three young men......

Of course, Grayson's article is still in the tone of a São Paulo, and the article highly praises São Paulo's tactics, arguing that as long as the three of them play normally, it is absolutely impossible for Flamengo to contain the glory.

While touting São Paulo's tactics, he was very contemptuous of flamengo. It is believed that Flamengo's recent inconsistent results are unlikely to pose any threat to Sao Paulo, even on their home turf.

Nelson Baptista, who coached in São Paulo and now in Rio, is not so much at odds with the two states and is not very interested in the Scoreboard's assertion that São Paulo will win, Flamengo will lose.

But as a seasoned manager, he realised it was something he could use, and if he could use it, it could make a big difference in the team's fighting power – and who wouldn't be angry and want to pull it back after being looked down upon?

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In Osvaldo's office, the last pre-match coaching meeting is being held, which is mainly about discussing the results of training, who is doing well, who is in bad shape, and who is not in good shape, so that the head coach can make a decision on who to make in the 18-man squad.

Towards the end of today's meeting, it was natural to digress.

"It's strange that Grayson suddenly wrote an article in Scoreboard praising our tactics, what does he mean by that? Is it subservient? "Assistant coach Mauro mentioned a recent thing that has been of concern to him a lot.

He didn't care alone, when he said this, it immediately caused a heated discussion among the coaches.

The team's offensive coach, Rocha: "yes, yes. I saw it too, and my eyes were popping out when I saw it......"

The team's goalkeeper coach, Roberto Rojas, also nodded in agreement: "I also went to see the author of the article and found that it was Grayson's guy." It's really surprising, has he changed sex? ”

Gilberto de Moraes, the team's other coach: "I don't believe he has changed sex, but he is right, our new tactics are very powerful. I think he saw our outstanding performance, so he had to bow his head in front of the situation, which is really gratifying! I used to hate the articles he wrote attacking us, as if all our efforts were in vain! ”

Osvaldo's office has a relaxed atmosphere.

Everyone was happy to have conquered a discerning critic like Grayson.

Osvaldo frowned slightly and voiced his concerns: "But he analyzes it so thoroughly that anyone who looks at his article will understand what we are doing." It doesn't matter if the average fan sees it, but what if our opponent sees it? ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

But Moraes waved his hand: "Flamenco? There's no São Paulo version of Scoreboard for sale in Rio......"

"It's more than 400 kilometers from Rio to São Paulo, and it's only five hours each way. If you have the heart, this is not a problem at all. Osvaldo said.

Everyone was silent again.

They have to admit that the manager has a point. If it were them and wanted to know the opponent's information, they might do the same.

"Grayson lost all the details of our tactics in front of Flamengo's head coach Nelsono, who used to coach Sao Paulo and knows our players very well, if you know our tactics very well, if you know our tactics......"

Osvaldo didn't go on.

He didn't have to go on, everyone could guess what the outcome would be.

"It seems that this game is not as easy as we thought." Assistant coach Mauro said after coming to his senses.

Before that, everyone was optimistic about playing Flamengo away. Because Flamengo's performance this season has been inconsistent and the results have been very bad. As a traditional powerhouse, they are currently only ranked 20th in the national championship.

That's just too far from their top-eight goal.

The opponent's form is inconsistent, and even when playing away from home, the Sao Paulo coaches are full of confidence in the team. Because of the team's progress during this time, they as participants are very clear.

They have confidence in the team they have coached themselves.

So Mauro's words made the atmosphere in the office suddenly become solemn.

It seems that they have to re-evaluate their opponents and have less confidence in their own team.

It was at this time that the attacking coach Rocha suddenly said, "No. I think at least we have one of us, and Nielsen Ao doesn't know much about it. ”

Hearing what he said, everyone didn't react at first, but when they did, they all laughed.

Mauro laughed, "yes, how did we forget about him?" ”

Osvaldo also smiled and nodded: "Sometimes even we don't know him very well, let alone Nelson Ao who can only rely on the game footage to understand him...... I wonder what kind of gift he will give Nelson Ao when the time comes? ”

The atmosphere in the locker room suddenly came alive again.

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Today is less than two days away from the match against Flamengo and today will be the last training session before the match. After training, Rongguang will go to Rio with the team, staying at a local hotel to prepare for the next afternoon's game.

At five o'clock in the morning, Rongguang got up and went to the rooftop to start his training.

After the warm-up, he walked to the rooftop area crisscrossed by pipes with the football in his arms.

The dark pipes stood in the early morning mist, and the shadows were not very clear.

It was the darkest time before dawn, and even the stars in the sky were much dimmer.

Rongguang held the football and looked ahead, the few pipes in front of him were the clearest, and further down, it was very blurry, but a shadow could still be seen.

Shaking in the light mist, as if it were really a human being.

Behind those blurred figures, he saw the "goal" again.

The tubes are all blurry, but the "goal" is clear.

It's been there for so many days, it's never moved, and it doesn't even need to be seen anymore to know that it's going to be there.

Wait quietly for the glory to arrive at it.

Rong Guang took a deep breath of the cold air of São Paulo in the early morning, then gently dropped the football, and before it could hit the ground, he unloaded the football with the instep of his right foot, and the football obediently stopped on the ground.

I'm coming, pipes!

Glory dribbles forward!