December 6, 2006, 20:45 p.m

Ukraine, Kyiv, Valery? Lobanovsky Stadium

Rainy and snowy weather, the temperature is minus 5 degrees, light wind, very freezing.

For Real Madrid players who are accustomed to the climate of Madrid, suddenly arriving in the icy and snowy Ukraine, the huge drop is enough to collapse a man with iron fights, especially in this kind of sleet weather.

"If it's a little bigger, the game will be postponed, but it's just not big, it's not big, it's!"

Standing in front of the away team's coach's box, Yang Cheng was wrapped in a thick black windbreaker, a warm scarf around his neck, and his whole body was also fully armed, tightly wrapped, but when the drizzle and snowflakes fell on his head, it was cold and uncomfortable.

Real Madrid immediately welcomed Valencia after defeating Lyon, and drew 1:1 with Valencia away from home, and Barcelona extended the points gap to 7 points, but three days ago, Barcelona challenged Levante away in the 13th round of the league, and was unexpectedly forced to draw by Levante, Real Madrid defeated Athletic Bilbao 2:1 at home, and it was shortened to 5 points.

At present, the most important thing for Real Madrid is to strive to win the group in the Champions League, but Dynamo Kyiv's home stadium is too devilish.

"It's so damp and uncomfortable!" Benitez on the side stepped the turf under his feet.

"You're overdressed, fatty!" Paul? Bayer laughed.

Benitez has been very disgusted recently by people saying that he is fat, but in fact he is indeed getting fatter and fatter, fatter than in his previous life, but he hasn't exercised much, and his body has been very blessed, and now Yang Cheng has the idea of betting on him to lose weight.

"In rainy and snowy weather, the geothermal system is turned on, it must be humid, and even the air is full of water!" Yang Cheng shook his head and said.

One can imagine that in this cold and humid. The entire space of the stadium was wet, and it was inconvenient to even move your hands and feet. How can the players on the pitch let go of their skills and play football?

Real Madrid's players wore black away shirts for this game. But they are all long-sleeved, and the socks are also long. To keep warm. But once the game is long, or after falling to the ground, these jerseys, socks and other things will absorb water, and then it will become the biggest obstacle for players to display their skills.

"Don't say we're complaining, lo and behold, the game is about to start, how many people are in the stands? Not more than 10,000! Redondo shook his head.

Empty, the security guards became the largest group of fans, and even the fans of Dynamo Kyiv were reluctant to watch in this climate. Sometimes when I think about it, Yang Cheng really thinks that the Champions League is really fucked up.

Due to many considerations such as venue and climate, coupled with the team's injuries, Real Madrid has made a lot of adjustments in this game.

Goalkeeper Casillas, the backline is Arbeloa, Elgra, Thiago? Silva and Marcelo, from left to right in midfield are Juan Mata, De La Red, David Beckham and Granero, and the twin strikers are Negredo and Villa.

Changing the formation 442, Yang Cheng felt that in Ukraine, in this environment, playing technical football with Kyiv Dynamo was definitely a fool's dream, and the best way was to kill the other party in the simplest, most direct, and most capable way.

Ramos is still not in the line-up by Yang Cheng, Thuram is not well injured, but Cannavaro was also injured in the game against Athletic Bilbao, and in the winter, injuries always come and go, especially some of the elderly who are not too young.

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The overall strength of the superiority made Real Madrid play very active at the beginning of the game, but the grass was too slippery, and the ball was difficult to be handled by them like their arms as usual, and there were many mistakes. ..., in the 13th minute, Dynamo's right-back threw the ball into the field, Marcelo did not appear in time, stuck the position, former Manchester City veteran Berkovic answered, and easily sent the ball to the penalty area with a diagonal pass, Thiago? Silva predicted the landing point in advance and wanted to clear the ball at the first point.

The snow melted quickly on the grass due to the geothermal system, but it also made the grass very slippery, and while he was fighting for position, he accidentally slipped with his foot, and although he stabilized his body in time, he followed with a big foot that missed the ball, and the ball rolled from his feet with a strong spin towards nearby Dynamo Kyiv striker Shaskikh.

The latter will definitely not miss this God-given opportunity, facing the incoming ball, directly volleying the ball into the goal guarded by Casillas, 1:0! Real Madrid's players were stunned, the team had encountered great difficulties in this game, and now it is lagging behind, wouldn't it be even worse?

Thiago? Silva covered his mouth with both hands, looking annoyed and guilty.

"Don't do that, Thiago!" Elgra walked over to comfort his partner, "Everyone makes mistakes, don't take it personally!" ”

This old Real Madrid player has experienced the worst years of Real Madrid's defense, when they hardly had a game that went uncriticized, he and Hierro were the most scolded by the fans, but then Hierro left, but became the most missed player by Real Madrid fans, what should be said?

"The field is too slippery, so be steady!" Ergra reminded.

Thiago? Silva nodded, as a newcomer, he did lack the skills to play in such slippery conditions.

The first to concede the goal, coupled with this hostile environment, the players are stiff and conservative in their movements, for fear of making mistakes, making it difficult for Real Madrid to open the field, whether it is the attacking combination of Marcelo and Mata on the left, or Granero on the right, they don't know much about the threat.

The most threatening was Beckham's several long passes, including in the 31st minute, Beckham made a long pass from the backfield, and Villa hit the goal after successfully countering offside, but was raised by the linesman and misjudged as an offside, missing a great opportunity to equalize.

Yang Cheng was also aware of this problem at halftime, and he used Xavi in the second half. Garcia replaced Granero on the right, leaving Xavi? Garcia and De La Red formed a double midfield, with David Beckham moving to the right to play to the advantage of his crosses.

After moving to the wing, Beckham was not as central as the middle, but he was less limited and defended on the flank, which made him a greater threat.

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Reuben? De La Red, an experience and David? Silva is about the same young man.

In 2000, when David? Silva arrived at Real Madrid full of hope. Participated in Real Madrid's academy selection, but was rejected by Real Madrid scouts on the grounds that they were too short. Finally he went to Valencia. It was only this season that Yang Cheng was reintroduced to the Santiago Bernabeu and performed well.

Yang Cheng even took David? Silva's example. At a meeting on the reform of the Scouting Department. The scouts who denounced the corpses as incompetent and shameless bastards, because they didn't choose materials for Real Madrid with such a high salary, and they didn't do anything all day, and they didn't deserve to stay at Real Madrid.

At that time, he also said a sentence, that is, with the scouting level of Real Madrid, even if Messi came, it would be useless, because when he came to Barcelona, he was also not tall, but Barcelona knew how to want him.

For young players. Technique and creativity are the first criteria for selection, and the body can be cultivated by nurture. …,

But there are very, very many people who don't understand this.

De La Reed, too, was born in Mostoreles, southwest of Madrid, and was later introduced into the youth system by Real Madrid scouts, but a year later they sent him back to Mostoles on the grounds that he was too thin to remain with the team, only to bring back De La Reed after just a few games.

Bosque has said that De La Reid can be Spain's best midfielder and become Spain's Patrick Vieira.

Prior to this season, De La Rede's first-team appearance record was three, but so far this season he has made 11 appearances in all competitions, although many of them have come off the bench, but Yang Cheng values him very seriously.

De La Reid can also feel that the manager cares about him, for example, after each training session, he receives an analysis from the coaching staff listing the mistakes he made in training, as well as a series of improvements, and then he can go to the technical team and request a video collection of his mistakes and excellent performances, as well as some suggestions and highlights of players that the coaching staff thinks he can learn from.

These helped De La Reid a lot, especially Yang Cheng kept telling him that as a midfielder, he should not be too delicate, and he should make his style of play fierce and more aggressive, but he could not give up his expertise when he had the ball.

His footwork is very good, his awareness is very good, he has a big picture, short passes, long passes, especially the straight plug after inserting the ball, he is very thoughtful, and his long-range shooting ability is also outstanding, which is the basis for him to gain a firm foothold on the court. It can be said that in less than half a year after Yang Cheng's arrival, the stimulation and progress brought to him exceeded his past.

But more importantly, Yang Cheng gave him and a group of academy youngsters treatment that they had never had before, that is, allowing them to make mistakes and giving them the space to display their talents, which is undoubtedly the driving force behind their progress.

The only thing that was more frustrating was that every day of the training session, De La Red had to arrive earlier than anyone else, go to the laboratory for a routine heart test, and then be allowed to train, which even De La Red didn't know why, because he and his family had no heart disease records.

But Yang Cheng insisted, he couldn't help it!

So, when Harvey? As soon as Garcia came on, De La Reid knew he could be biased into the attack, and when David Beckham drew a lot of defensive pressure down the right and moved a long ball to the left, with Juan Mata and Marcelo linked, De La Reed knew his chance had come.

He has been waiting for many years in Casstilla, he is 21 years old, he knows very well that the opportunity has come, and if he does not seize it, he will regret it!

As soon as Mata had linked up with Marcelo on the left, he noticed the black figure and cut in silently, having combined so many times at Castilla that he knew how to do it.

So Juan Mata cut inside on the left flank, attracting pressure from inside and out of the box, and then suddenly crossed the ball.

The ball moved laterally almost to the line at the edge of the penalty area, Negredo and Villa were pulling, and after De La Red stepped in, he faced the incoming ball, the kid who still looked childish did not panic in the slightest, and in the face of the defenders who rushed out of the box, he did not stop the ball, but directly picked up his right foot and pulled a rebound ball.

The opposing defender lifted his right foot to prevent De La Rede's long-range shot. But he didn't expect it to be a bouncing ball, and the ball passed under his raised right foot. Fell on the grass. The slippery grass makes the already slippery soccer ball slippery and faster. When you bounce it up again. The goalkeeper barely had time to react. ..., the ball crashed into the net and landed on the grass, splashing with water.

De La Red turned around excitedly and ran, this boy who still had a short crisp, no beard, and looked childish and sunny rushed out of the court excitedly, slid and kneeled on the grass, while his teammates were excited to catch up from behind and hug him.

There was no one in the stadium stands. So the celebration was not enjoyable, and after a few hasty celebrations, the players dispersed.

De La Reid got up from the grass, walked forward quickly, and when he passed in front of the away team's coach's box, he walked over, hugged Yang Cheng tightly, kissed him heavily on the cheek, and smiled vigorously.

"I'm grass!" Yang Cheng stretched out his hand and rubbed his cheek, he felt that it was too shadowy.

The assistants around him were all smiling from ear to ear, not to De La Red's actions, in fact, this was normal, but they felt that Yang Cheng's reaction was a little excessive, did he have a habit of cleanliness?

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After the equaliser, Real Madrid could play more patiently, while Dynamo Kyiv continued to defend and counter-attack.

As the game progressed, Real Madrid still couldn't find a good way to beat their opponents in this stadium, and it was not until the 59th minute that the rain and snow began to stop, which made the slippery pitch slightly improved, and Real Madrid's best ground coordination and promotion could also be used.

In the 78th minute, Marcelo advanced with the ball and formed a beautiful cooperation with Mata on the left side again, Mata leaned to the middle to get the ball and knocked back to the bottom line, Marcelo inserted it at high speed and picked up the front point of the penalty area.

In the defense of two defenders of Dynamo Kyiv, Villa stretched out one of his legs and stabbed the ball into the bottom left corner of the goal, 1:2!

In the end, Real Madrid defeated Dynamo Kyiv 2:1 away, completing the fifth consecutive win in the Champions League group stage, accumulating 15 points with 5 wins and 1 loss, and qualified as the first in the group, while Lyon was forced to draw 1:1 at home by Bucharest Stars, and finally could only qualify as the second in the group.

Aside from Barcelona, who are the same country in the first and second groups, Real Madrid may face Bayern, PSV Eindhoven, Roma, Benfica, Arsenal and Lille, with Bayern and Arsenal both having caused Real Madrid great pain and are likely to face each other again. After the team's triumphant return from Ukraine, the Spanish domestic media also spoke highly of Real Madrid's reversal, believing that Yang Cheng's strategy, employment, and command in the game this season are worthy of recognition.

As the best performers in this game were youth team players such as De La Reed and Juan Mata, many media outlets began to feel that Real Madrid's youth academy was in full recovery.

"The lack of attention to the youth team was one of the biggest mistakes Florentino made when he was at the helm of Real Madrid, and in the first ten years of his tenure at the helm of Real Madrid, Real Madrid was the biggest talent pool in La Liga, and at its peak, all 22 teams in La Liga had Real Madrid academy players, but at the same time, Real Madrid's first team emerged with outstanding youth stars such as Raul, Guti and Casillas."

"At that time, Real Madrid had a reasonable promotion mechanism from the youth team to the first team, ensuring that the best and best academy players could play for the team, but this was later overshadowed by the superstar policy, and Zidanegapavon's policy was a distortion of the youth team."

Alfredo, editor-in-chief of the newspaper As, wrote an article in the newspaper and spoke highly of the changes made by Yang Cheng after coming to Real Madrid.

"Many people like to say that now is a world where money and interests are rampant, football is becoming more and more professional, Real Madrid is one of the richest football clubs in the world, and it is very important to use money to attract the best players to join and play the best football, which is the concept of the early stage of the Galaxy Battleship, but it is too idealistic." "Now that Yang Cheng is in charge of Real Madrid, his team building philosophy is obviously an adjustment to the early stage of the Galaxy Battleship, and he pays a lot of attention to loyalty and tradition, which is the most important thing for any big team, which represents cohesion, and these are largely maintained by the youth team. ”

'So, we saw that Arbeloa played in the first team, whether it was on the left or the right, he did very well, conscientious, decent, Mata, De La Red, Xavi? Players such as Garcia, Negredo, and Granero have been given frequent opportunities, and Real Madrid has finally returned to its tradition of valuing young players. ”

"I appreciate what Yang Cheng once said, sometimes, not every teenager who comes out of the academy is a genius and can play the main team in the first team, but this cannot be a reason for us not to insist on youth training, because youth training is the future of any football club, even football!"

In the face of praise from Spanish media authorities, Yang Cheng replied on his Weibo.

"Starting today, I decided to subscribe to an As-newspaper and watch Alfredo every day? Mr. Relatoño's column is more valuable and informative than those who only know how to brag about patting horses! ”

"Like I said at the beginning of the season, give me three years and I'll bring out an invincible Real Madrid team, I promise!"

As soon as Yang Cheng's Weibo was issued, the editor-in-chief of Marca newspaper, another Spanish football media authority, Eduardo? Yingda also made an invitation on Weibo, "Maybe you can come to Marca to write a column in person, we are always welcome, Mr. Yang Cheng!" ”

"Come to Asbao, it's more valuable!" Alfredo? Relaño jokingly extended the invitation.

As a result, he then evolved into two major media authorities in Spain, the young Eduardo? Indah and the senator Alfredo? The controversy between Relanho and finally even Atletico Madrid fans, the first person in the Spanish sports media, and the most influential host of Radio Serre, José? Ramon? De la Morena was also involved, turning into a multi-sided scuffle.

It immediately became a hot topic of conversation among the Spaniards, who felt that the young Caesar was very different from any of Real Madrid's previous managers, and that it attracted more attention from the fans.

But as a head coach, Yang Cheng undoubtedly has to rely on the results on the pitch to speak. (To be continued.) )