"I've studied the last four warm-up games, and the one with the most shots on goal was the first game against the Chinese national team, where we had a total of 42 shots on goal, the least of which was in Japan, where we had 26 shots on goal!"

Chris Schmidt followed Yang Cheng out of the lab, along with Tim Hank.

"Based on the data I have, the team has been doing well in recent times!"

Yang Cheng nodded as he walked, he had just received a detailed data report from the lab, and the team's daily training was based on this data report.

"It's three weeks until the Italian Super Cup!" Yang Cheng reminded.

Inter Milan, who won last season's Champions Cup and Coppa Italia, will compete in the UEFA Super Cup this season, with the former taking place in Monaco on 24 August against Premier League side Liverpool and the latter on August 19 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome against last season's Serie A champions Roma.

Tim Hank smiled, "Don't worry, we've all counted this time." ”

Yang Cheng nodded incessantly and continued to move forward, although he didn't say anything, but everyone knew that he was eager to beat Roma, because last season's Serie A champions, Inter Milan could almost be said to have watched Roma reach the top.

Although Inter Milan won a heavier European Champions Cup, this still could not fill the shortcomings in Yang Cheng's heart.

"Normally, if you want to start getting into shape from the beginning of the season, you have to train a lot for six weeks and then adjust and rest, but our trip to Asia this season has definitely affected the training a little bit, so we have made some adjustments!" Tim Hank explains.

Yang Cheng still has a lot of trust in Tim Hank's ability in physical training.

It would be absolutely foolish for a team that wants to make a difference in the league and have all the players at the top at the same time, because no one can stay at the top for a long season, and if the players are in the same form, they win when they are in good form and lose when they are in bad form.

Therefore, the best thing to do is to let some players reach the peak for a certain period of time, and when his form declines, another group of players will come up and play a key role in their place.

One of the great characteristics of this type of team is stability!

It's like in some games where Ronaldo can't score, Ruud van Nistelrooy can score, and once both players are in a goal drought, Batistuta can step up and score, and the same goes for other positions.

"Next is the adjustment period, don't exercise too much, the key is to pick out the details!" Yang Cheng explained.

In several warm-up games in Asia, Inter Milan also exposed some problems.

Indeed, after two years of running-in, the players are already familiar with each other, but there are still some details that have not been done well, such as Yang Cheng's reconfiguration of the midfield, and Nedved's contribution to the attack in the front court after playing as a midfielder.

With an extra Andrea Pirlo behind him, the two strikers in front of him get the most benefit, they do more in attack to find holes and runs, as long as they run out of gaps, then once the ball comes, with the individual ability of Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Batistuta, it is almost a goal.

This situation will definitely be more obvious after Deco is integrated into the team!

Tim Hank and Chris Schmidt got Yang Cheng's latest request and turned to go, while Yang Cheng was about to go home, but noticed that there were still people on the training ground who stayed to practice on their own.

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"Luka, your playing posture is too rigid, hard bridge, hard horse, too much reliance on your body!"

Baggio took the ball directly to Luca Toney, one short and one tall, forming a clear scene on the pitch.

I saw Baggio turn around with a nimble back, leaned on Luca Toney with his body, deceived the opponent with a flexible feint, turned around, and shot skillfully, and the ball went straight into the post and into the net!

"Your skills are good, you should be good at using them, think more, analyze more, and if you want to cooperate with your teammates, then you must first understand their technical characteristics, understand what they do when and what they usually do." ,

"That's a good point!" Yang Cheng praised with a smile.

"Boss!" The two players saw Yang Cheng coming over with a smile on his face and shouted in unison.

"However, Luca, your biggest problem at the moment is not your consciousness, but that you don't even know how to use your body well!" Yang Cheng walked over directly.

"Robert's turn with the ball just now looks light, doesn't it?" Yang Cheng asked.

Luca Toney nodded, he couldn't do that seemingly easy move himself.

"It's actually hard, especially for a strong centre-forward, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy!"

After speaking, Yang Cheng specially asked Baggio to cooperate with him to make a demonstration, and let Toni be responsible for passing.

"The opponent's marking of the center forward will be very tight, which requires the center forward to move, keep moving, the kind of center forward who stands in the penalty area and waits for the ball is no longer suitable for the development of modern football, even if he is tall and strong."

"If I expected to finish the next move near the edge of the penalty area, then I would be near the penalty spot and suddenly retreat......" Yang Cheng suddenly ran back and motioned for Tony to pass, and the ball came directly to Yang Cheng's feet.

"As soon as the ball arrives, you have to start to know how to use your body......" Seeing Yang Cheng pressing back, Baggio was immediately blocked by him, "We call this creating offensive space, and at the same time devouring the opponent's defensive space......"

Both Yang Cheng and Baggio's demonstrations were slow, making it easy for Toni to see that once a striker is leaning on it, especially a high striker like Luca Toney, it is almost impossible for the opponent to touch the ball.

"In times like this, there's a lot of space on your left and right sides and in front of you, and your teammates can pass, you can plug in, you can play and so on......"

Luca Toney's eyes couldn't help but light up, because after Yang Cheng suppressed Baggio, the space controlled by the latter was compressed to a minimum, and he couldn't control the space around him at all.

In a football game, there are always two extremes.

Among them, the two most obvious are the open space advocated by the attacker, and the compressed space advocated by the defender.

The football field is a boxy field, and the square of the ground is fixed, so from the earliest and most primitive method, it is to increase the height and use the height to expand the space of the football field.

In modern football defensive tactics, defending the ball is a very important course, and every team will treat the defense of the ball as an important topic to train and prevent, regardless of whether the opponent has a high striker or not.

Therefore, offense and defense are actually the confrontation between opening up space and compressing space, if the compressed space is done well enough, strong enough, so that the opponent cannot open up enough space to plan the attack, then the defense wins; But if the defense can't keep up with the speed of the opponent's opening up space, and then the hole is created, then the attack wins!

In Yang Cheng's previous life, the football played by Barcelona was a tactical system that repeatedly created space, and theoretically speaking, whether it was from their theory of creating space, or from Cruyff's theory of winning possession, they were correct, and the combined system was also great.

Even so far, Yang Cheng is not sure that he can crack it, and he has to admit that Mourinho did achieve the limit of Barcelona's defense in 2011.

But he still doesn't like Barcelona football for two reasons.

First of all, it is still that sentence, a group of players from childhood to adulthood let them play a football routine with only two cooperation modes, and then through several years, they are sculpted into a team, and everyone is turned into a component of a goal machine, and goals are turned into an assembly line operation.

This model, at first, is art, but forever, it is killing art!

Secondly, under the great tactical system, their executors have never had the demeanor of a strong man, fake falls, red cards, La Masia Film and Drama Academy, these are the reasons why Barcelona has been questioned, and it is also the reason why Yang Cheng dislikes this team the most.

When he came into this world, his goals have always changed, from wanting to establish himself at the beginning, to succeeding later, and now becoming one of the world's best managers, he has succeeded!

But now he has one more goal, and that is to beat the strongest team, Barcelona! ,

With his football philosophy!

It's difficult, it's really, really hard, and Yang Cheng can't do it at all now, because what people like Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Mourinho can't do, he can't do now.

But he is willing to work hard for it, and sees this team as his goal and motivation to strive for and continue to improve!

Yang Cheng's thoughts were flying, but in his exchanges with Baggio and Luca Toney, he explained his requirements for the high school striker very well.

"In my opinion, a top power center often goes through three stages!"

Yang Cheng spoke eloquently in front of Luca Toni and Baggio.

"The first stage, which is where you are now, is to use your body to create and open up offensive space for the team, and to compress the space that the defenders control; The second stage is your goal, take the ball, turn around! ”

As early as Luca Toney arrived at the team for the first time, Yang Cheng clearly told him that taking the ball and turning around is the next goal he will work on, and he also knows very well how high the requirements are for holding the ball and turning.

"What is the third stage?" Baggio also asked with interest.

"Stay here!" Yang Cheng pointed to his head.

This time it was not only Luca Toney, but even Baggio himself was surprised, but he felt that Yang Cheng clearly summarized the three stages of a center forward's career.

But in fact, there are three stages for players in each position, but the first two stages have different requirements, but the third stage is the same.

Technique, consciousness and physicality all come together to make up a professional footballer.

Under normal circumstances, the technique is the earliest mature, and it is generally possible to become a professional player, and the technique is generally outstanding, but how much you can play on the court depends on the mind and body.

Awareness includes many different aspects such as talent, judgment, experience, some of which are fixed, such as talent, for example, some players are born with the big picture of reading the game, but there are also aspects that need to be improved as the game grows, such as experience, such as the sense of space on the football field.

As I just said, the football field is a rectangle composed of length, width and height, and every player is a part of this cuboid, among the 22 players, some people are easy to get lost and can't figure out the surrounding environment and space, but some people, as soon as they walk into the field, can be keenly aware of the changes around them, the running of teammates and the holes in the space.

Some of these people rely on talent, and some rely on experience.

To put it bluntly, if you kick more balls, you will become a fine!

A player's career often starts with technique, and when the body matures, it becomes an organic combination of technique and body, but awareness determines the height that the player can achieve.

Then, the technique is balanced, and the physical function begins to decline, but as the game accumulates, the consciousness continues to improve, which is like two parabolas, when the technique, the body and the consciousness reach an intersection point, which is the player's golden age, that is, the peak of his career.

Perhaps, at his peak, his physical function may not be the healthiest, and his consciousness may not be the best, but he is definitely the best and most ideal period of combining body, technology and consciousness, so he can play the peak performance that he has dreamed of in his life, and only a very small number of extraordinary epoch-making superstars can be combined when technology, body and consciousness are at the peak at the same time, that is, epoch-making stars, or even football kings!

Yang Cheng is now asking the R&D center to study this information in advance, because he is very aware of one point, that is, the golden age of professional players will advance with the deepening of scientific research, and Messi, Xiao Xiaoluo and others have entered the golden period of their careers early, which has the help of scientific research.

"Well done, Luca!" Yang Cheng smiled and encouraged, "It's good for you to watch more of your teammates' games and training!" ”

Luca Toni nodded in agreement and watched Yang Cheng leave, and Baggio beside him was also deeply touched.

It was the first time he had analysed his career so clearly, and he was unfortunate because he never reached the peak of his life, because his body was almost dead by the time he was 18 years old. However, as Yang Cheng said, he is playing football with his brain, so even if his physical function declines badly, he can still continue to play until he feels that he can't kick anymore.

This is also the reason why Yang Cheng renewed his contract with him.

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While Inter Milan is actively preparing for the upcoming cup competition, the Serie A transfer market is also starting to enter the final sprint.

First of all, last season's defending champions Roma, Fabio Capello's team showed strong momentum in the final stages of last season, especially with the success of the run-in at the back, he did not make too many reinforcements this summer, only brought in young players such as midfielder Lima to pave the way for the future.

But the midfield organizer he coveted has never been found, and he originally wanted to ask for Zanetti of Inter Milan, but Yang Cheng rejected his offer without hesitation, and the player himself took the initiative to find Yang Cheng, saying that he was eager to stay in the team.

As a result, Capello will have to join the pursuit of Spanish midfielder Mendieta.

Juventus sold Zinedine Zidane for a staggering price, but they soon brought in Thuram from Parma for a staggering €42.5 million, and also set their sights on Cannavaro.

As for Zidane's successor, Moggi originally tried to ask Inter Milan what they thought of Nedved in the hope of bringing in the Czech, but Yang Cheng did not hesitate to refuse, and they are now preparing to bring in Verona's Adrian Mutu.

The Romanian star has been really good at Verona and he can play in multiple positions up front, but he's also worth a lot of money, estimated at around €15 million.

But there are also rumors that Moggi is preparing a big deal to bring in Mendieta from Valencia at a sky-high price to replace Zidane's position, but it has not been officially recognized so far.

Moggi is also looking for a goalkeeper to replace Edwin van der Sar, but the top goalkeeper in European football has been hard to find recently, and he is hoping to bring in Abbiati from AC Milan.

AC Milan don't mind selling Abbiati because Dida is doing well and with two major signings in succession, Rui Costa and Inzaghi, AC Milan really need to breathe a sigh of relief.

Compared with the turmoil in the outside world, Inter Milan is relatively stable, after all, after two consecutive seasons of expanding the lineup, Inter Milan's lineup is strong enough, all Yang Cheng has to do is to ensure the stability of the team's lineup.

Apart from the introduction of Deco from Kaiserslautern, Inter Milan have not made much movement this season.

But even so, Inter Milan still relied on their own strength, successively defeated Lazio 3:0 in the Moretti beer cup, first with goals from Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy, and then in the last half, with Zanetti's goal, defeated Juventus 1:0 and won the Moretti beer cup championship.

But just a few days later, Inter Milan welcomed AC Milan at home, and in the first half, they beat their rivals AC Milan 2-0, and then Batistuta's goal to beat Juventus 1-0 and win the inaugural Thiem Cup.

The warm-up matches have won one after another, and Inter Milan's morale is like a rainbow, especially this team has not conceded a goal in so many warm-up games, which is indeed a big surprise to everyone, and they are predicting that with the aura of the European champion, Inter Milan will be the number one favorite in Serie A this season.

But it was at this time that both inside and outside the team were generally satisfied and began to inflate themselves a little, but Capello's Roma gave Inter Milan a slap in the face at the Olympic Stadium!