Temporarily putting aside the influence of Muscati, Yang Cheng talked to Veron for a while, and from the latter's words, it was revealed that he was also helpless about this, but Yang Cheng just asked him to stay in Kaiserslautern for one day, he would work hard to practice and compete, and Veron nodded and agreed without hesitation.

Yang Cheng did not make any clarification to the outside world about the whole matter, even if Muscati deliberately leaked the news that Veron refused to raise his salary and made a fuss about the transfer to the media, Yang Cheng still refused to make an evaluation as always.

On the contrary, in another matter, Yang Cheng did it very neatly.

The schedule of the UEFA Super Cup is still a two-legged home-and-away system, and the time is generally scheduled in February of the following year, just when the Bundesliga rekindles the war in February, UEFA originally wanted to arrange the two-legged matches in early January and early March, but Yang Cheng hopes to arrange the game on February 4 and February 11, that is, between the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd rounds of the league.

For this matter, Yang Cheng specially called Dortmund's Heathfield in person, and the two almost hit it off, and the latter immediately agreed to jointly propose to adjust the schedule with Yang Cheng, because the German winter break starts on December 20, and if the game is scheduled for January 8, wouldn't it be a postponement of the team's holiday?

The 21st round of matches will be played on January 30, so the players' winter break will inevitably be affected, so Yang Cheng and Heathfield have jointly proposed that UEFA adjust the UEFA Super Cup schedule.

At the request of the two managers, UEFA immediately made an investigation and finally decided to respect their decision and schedule the match for early February, avoiding the winter break in Germany.

After securing this favorable adjustment for the team, the morale of the players is even higher because they can get almost a month of winter break, which is definitely a rare charge for the players.

But immediately afterwards, the team's board of directors made a decision, and after holding a player meeting, announced the bonus budget system for this season's Kaiserslautern, which was basically carried out according to Yang Cheng's requirements, so it was immediately responded to and supported by the players, who all expressed their willingness to work harder to help the team get better results, and they could also get higher bonuses.

It was in this enthusiastic atmosphere of preparation that Kaiserslautern ended his pre-season physical reserves and began to fully enter the technical and tactical preparations for the new season.

In order to prepare for his first Bundesliga debut season, Yang Cheng can be said to be strict in detail, and he refused to let go of every aspect, especially since he started last season, he asked Paul and Bayer to begin to investigate the information of the Bundesliga team in depth.

The scientific level in 1997 is not as high as in 2011, so Yang Cheng has a lot of ideas that have not been realized, but the video highlights of the game can still be done, although there is no video collection for each player's opposing player as Yang Cheng requested, but he still tries to do better.

Bayern Munich were the first to be drawn up in the first round of the league, and this team will not only be the opponents of Kaiserslautern in the first round of the league, but also the final opponent in the German Super Cup.

In addition, Yang Cheng is also keeping a close eye on Stuttgart, a Bundesliga powerhouse that is currently in transfer trouble, scoring 17 league goals for the team's striker last season, and Brazilian center Elber, who has performed well in Stuttgart for two consecutive seasons, is currently eye-to-eye with Bayern Munich.

Stuttgart are naturally desperate to keep the Brazilian centre-forward, who has scored 41 goals in 87 games in three seasons, but Elber himself is hoping to reach the peak of his career at Bayern Munich.

In order to avoid losses to the team, Stuttgart is also preparing for the worst "in case Elber moves to Bayern", they will bring in Nigerian striker Akpoboli from Rostock to replace Elber's departure.

The team drew with Bochum in a difficult 2:2 draw in Aue, and the skills and tactics of the whole team seemed a little chaotic, obviously because of the transfer of players, which affected the team's pre-season preparations, although they finally eliminated Bochum 6:5 on penalties, but Yang Cheng saw the shortcomings of this team.

"First of all, the attack, the team's form has obviously been affected after Elber's deep transfer dispute, which has led to Stuttgart's attack also weakened a lot, before they wanted to ask for Pavel, Kuka, but now the latter has moved to Nuremberg, Stuttgart is a bit out of the attack. …”

Before Kaiserslautern left for Osnabrück, the team held a tactical seminar for the semi-final against Stuttgart, where Yang Cheng asked the players to watch a video of the Stuttgart match and analyse the team's technical and tactical strengths and weaknesses.

The current head coach of Stuttgart is also a young coach, that is, the later head coach of the German national team, Loew, the biggest feature of the Stuttgart team he coached is the front trident, Balakov, Bobic and Elber's trident across the Bundesliga, of which Bobic and Elber form a double striker, and Bulgarian star Balakov organizes behind them.

The technical complementarity of these three players, combined with Balakov's organisational skills, has allowed Stuttgart to score 78 goals in the Bundesliga last season, with the trident reaching double figures, making them the most attacking team in the Bundesliga.

But now that Elber is mired in a transfer quagmire and is pressed on the bench by Loew, Bobic is alone in front of him, and Balakov is somewhat isolated in midfield, it is not impossible to keep an eye on Stuttgart.

Just imagine, the Trident is missing a horn, and the impact and blow to this Stuttgart can be imagined!

"Stuttgart's backline has changed a lot, these are our chances, but Balakov is a well-known playmaker in Europe, so we must not be careless, especially with his left-footed curling free-kicks, in the front of the box we have to try to minimize fouls, use the midfield to press the opponents directly", and push them out of the danger zone! ”。

Football is a game of back and forth, and if Kaiserslautern presses, Stuttgart will have to retreat unless they can withstand the pressure, extending the distance between the striker and the opponent's goal.

Yang Cheng has absolute confidence in his midfield, and the midfield composed of Ballack, Nedved, Veron and Gattuso "After a season of running-in, looking at Europe, there are really few teams that can suppress the Kaiserslautern midfield, even if it can't even be done by a top team like Barcelona."

"Suppressing the opponent in the midfield" We mainly play two wings, with Luther, Michael and Pavel in the middle, you should know how to do it! Yang Cheng said with a smile.

Ruud van Nistelrooy's shooting sense "Ballack and Nedved are inserted in the back row, which has become a sharp weapon in Yang Cheng's attack, and it is also a powerful weapon for Kaiserslautern to continue to thwart strong opponents!"

"Guys, this is the new season for us to return to the Bundesliga and I want you to understand that our goal is not just to relegation" We were last season's European Cup Winners' Cup winners, and with the European giants Barcelona, Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund at our feet, we have enough quality and confidence to achieve even better results! ”。

As always, although many people say that "the German League Cup is just a pre-season training cup, in my dictionary, any game is crucial" I hope you may also understand that this time leaving Kaiserslautern for Osnabrück, there is only one destination, and that is to return from Bayer Leverkusen! …”

Bayer Leverkusen was the venue for the Carabao Cup final, while the two semi-finals were played in Osnabrück and Augsburg, with the winners gathering at Leverkusen's home stadium on 26 July for the final title.

On the afternoon of July 22, Osnabrück

Although it was only the semi-final of the Carabao Cup, the 20,000-seat Osnatel Stadium was packed with fans from Kaiserslautern and Stuttgart, as well as neutral fans who had come to see what Kaiserslautern had been one of Europe's biggest teams last season.

In this game, Yang Cheng arranged for Reynke to start, the backline was Lucio, Kyle and Kosch, the midfield remained unchanged on the day, Nedved, Veron, Gattuso and Ballack, the left winger position has just returned after Denilson's participation in the Copa America, and Salihamidzic served as the team's starting left winger.

In the right winger position, Yang Cheng put Deisler on the bench and appointed the more experienced Schneider as the right winger, and the forward is the Dutch center Van Nistelrooy, whom Yang Cheng has high hopes for this season.

From the beginning of the game, Kaiserslautern took the initiative to press the attack, especially on the two wings, but both Salihamidzic and Schneider were still in the run-in period with the team, and they still failed to cooperate with the players in the game.

Originally, Yang Cheng could have used Denilson, the Brazilian performed very well in the Copa America and helped Brazil win the championship, but because of this, he missed the pre-season preparations, so Yang Cheng arranged for him to rest, and by the way, he inspected Salihamidzic.

'Salihamidzic is very fast and has great individual breakouts, but in Hamburg he is used to being the heart and that has to be corrected!' Yang Cheng watched the game from the sidelines and admonished.

People who are used to being the core will always have a kind of inert thinking, feeling that others should play around themselves, this is not to say that players are playing big names, but a kind of inertial thinking brought about by being accustomed to prism, but Yang Cheng's team is not allowed to have this kind of mentality and thinking.

Salihamidzic made a few breakthroughs down the left, but the subsequent passes were a bit disappointing, including one when Ruud van Nistelrooy was already in position, but he opted to go for it.

On the contrary, Schneider on the right side, the breakthrough and speed are not as sharp as Salihamidzic, but the cooperation with the midfield and the front court is more skillful, it is estimated that this is related to him Jena, while Salihamidzic is related to Hamburg in the Bundesliga.

"When Denilson is back in shape, let Salihamidzic rest for a while! Yang Cheng shook his head and sighed.

Paul, Baier smiled bitterly, knowing that Yang Cheng was planning to use the method of boiling eagles to force Salihamidzic to change, but this was also an undone job.

After a season of tempering and growth, coupled with the maturity of Yang Cheng's super coach assistance system, Kaiserslautern's player strength has improved by leaps and bounds, "Especially in the midfield, the strength of Ballack, Veron, Nedved and others have broken through, of which Veron has reached 172, and Gattuso's strength has also reached 157.

Don't look at the strength of Kaiserslautern and these players don't seem to be high, especially Gattuso, but in fact, the distribution of this player's data is quite reasonable, and he will definitely not lose to those top superstars with a strength of more than 180. Take the most important attributes of a midfield defender, Gattuso's stamina is 20 full value, positional sense is only 15, but teamwork and work attitude are 18 and 20 respectively, determination and determination are 20 and 17 respectively, and defensive skills are 17 and 19 respectively, from this point of view, Gattuso is a very qualified midfield defender.

The next thing Yang Cheng has to do is to improve his stats in other areas as much as possible, such as offensive aspects, such as defensive anticipation, which can make Gattuso's career go further, and his contribution to the team will be even greater than it is now.

As for Ballack and Nedved, the characteristics of these two players are comprehensive, both offensive and defensive are very good, but they also have one thing in common, that is, teamwork and work attitude are very high, all of them are on 1, and Veron has also reached 15 and 17 in terms of work commitment and teamwork respectively, which is very high.

In this case, Kaiserslautern's midfield firmly suppressed Stuttgart's midfield, although Balakov was excellent, but it was difficult to support alone, and he was helpless to find from the beginning of the game that this road would not work at all.

wanted to retreat, but Kaiserslautern immediately pressed, losing Elber alone in front of Bobic is difficult to do anything, even if Kaiserslautern defense forward pressure further compresses Stuttgart's midfield, but Stuttgart still did not change the situation.

In the 31st minute, after half an hour of testing and confrontation, Kaiserslautern finally found an opportunity, Veron transferred a pass to the right side, Schneider took the ball with his back, and used his skillful foot movements to protect the ball.

Ballack was supposed to lean over to answer, but immediately cut in the back row, touched the ball and struck it horizontally.

The ball struck the ball past the Stuttgart centre-back, and Ruud van Nistelrooy struck a volley from the edge of the box ahead of the defenders before he met the ball coming sideways.

The ball swayed and rolled into the goal by grabbing the right post, 1:0!

After the goal, Vanney seemed excited, this kick Ballack gave very comfortable, he didn't have to make any effort to plug it in, just volleyed directly, the angle was also well controlled, and the goalkeeper couldn't reach it!

Ballack ran to Ruud van Nistelrooy first, and then the two hugged each other tightly to greet their teammates who came from behind to celebrate, and when Schneider came over, the two hugged him tightly, and this goal was also indispensable for him.

Breaking the deadlock on the field, Yang Cheng is more sure of this game!

In the 5th minute, after Lucio cut off the ball passed to Bobic in the left backfield, he suddenly dribbled forward before Stuttgart's offensive and defensive transitions were adjusted, and directly planned a counterattack as his left central defender.

Veron, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Salihamidzic on the left are also actively pushing forward.

Salihamidzic was the fastest and he was on the left, but he overlapped with Ruud van Nistelrooy when he was running, and Lucio, seeing that he couldn't get the pass, immediately handed the ball to Veron, who took advantage of the situation and slotted it in.

Vanney was originally going to lean to the left to form a match with Salihamidzic, but he almost collided with each other, and began to move sideways to the right on the periphery of the penalty area, Veron's ball just passed to the right, and after taking the ball on the right side of the top of the penalty area, Vanney adjusted it and directly volleyed, and the goalkeeper reacted, but the ball was too fast, and he could only watch the ball pass under his feet, rolling straight to the net, and not planing

After scoring two goals in a row, Kaiserslautern was in high spirits, and before the end of the first half, another round of attacking attacks caused a storm in the Stuttgart defence.

"Loew must be regretting it at this time, if Elber was here, the situation would be completely different!." Yang Cheng was very satisfied with the team's performance and had a bright smile.

Elber had a double-double in the Bundesliga last season, reaching double digits in goals and assists, and was in excellent form, while Bobic scored a lot of goals but had very few assists, only one, and was a lone centre-forward.

Another important feature is that Elber is very good at holding the ball with his back, and the most watched scene in the Bundesliga last season was that Barakov passed the ball directly to Elber, who leaned on the defender to get the ball, and then waited for his teammates to press before passing or splitting the ball, which is why Barakov was able to score so many goals.

Now that Elber has been lost, Stuttgart lacks a person who can hold the ball in the frontcourt, and the offense has completely become a hammer deal, and the defense is relatively simple, and Kaiserslautern pressed forward and lost Elber's speed, Stuttgart is equivalent to losing the fangs when counterattacking.

Although it is only 2:0, Yang Cheng has won this game, and Loew will regret his stubborn exclusion of Elber from the squad, but after this game, I believe he will see more clearly the role of Elber's player in the current Stuttgart stunt and tactical system.

Sometimes, a team buys players not just to match the characteristics of the replacement, after all, each player has their own technical characteristics and habits, and no player in this world has the same technical characteristics, just like there are no two same leaves in this world!

So in many cases, replacing a player is actually equivalent to tearing down and rebuilding!