King's Landing Nottingham

Chapter 422 What a fucking secret weapon
Chapter 422 What a fucking secret weapon
The podiums and medals needed for the award ceremony are now lying in an invisible corner of the Meadow Lane Stadium.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, the staff of the Notts County Club will quickly set up the podium.

At this time, the championship trophy has been placed in the center of the end of the player channel together with the game ball, and a big red square base with a height of 1.5 meters has been made into the shape of a hand, holding up the trophy of this competition.

Under the illumination of the lights in the Meadow Lane Stadium, the metallic luster of the trophy and the designed lifting base give people a feeling of heartbeat.

Due to his advanced age, the award presenter of this year's Magpie Cup Charity Invitational Tournament is no longer the highly respected Mr. Derek Parvis. The old man is not in good health, and he will basically not come out to participate in activities in the future.

If Wei Xun himself presented the award, the taste of coffee would not be enough, so Wei Xun invited the new Mayor of Nottingham, Mr. Aronson, to present the trophy to the final champion team.

As for the awarding of commemorative medals, small gifts, and bonuses to other participating teams, referees, and staff, it was jointly completed by the management of Notts County and Chelsea.

After all, Ambramovich also provided a bonus of 140 million pounds for this charity invitational tournament.

What's wrong with the patron's father wanting to present an award on stage?
Isn't this the custom of later generations?

So when the Russians brought it up, Wei Xun said very simply that he would also let Abramovich award it.

Wei Xun generously gave up the opportunity to show his face to the Russians. After all, this fat, white guy with a stubble on his face really likes to put on a show.

Since he wants to show off, let him do it, Wei Xun is happy to take it easy.

It has been said by Mourinho that it is an early Premier League championship battle. The opponents in the final of the Magpie Cup Charity Invitational Tournament are no longer hiding, and they have pulled out the strongest players in their various positions.

What kind of shit's secret weapon?

What's left?
Just do it!
Unlike Notts County, which has a relatively stable lineup, Chelsea has a lot of new faces in various positions. Many experts believe that Chelsea will have a period of pain. After all, they need time to adjust the lineup.

The Blues' six frontcourt players are Malouda, Charisteas, Duff, Deco, Lampard and Makelele.

Looking at the position, it looks like a four-three-three formation, but in fact it is a four-two-three-one with double midfielders. Makelele is a full-time engineer who does dirty and tiring work.

Gallas, John Terry, Samuel and Paulo Ferreira constituted Chelsea's defense. In front of the Blues' goal, standing in front of the goal was the Czech Peter Cech, who was selected for Portugal's European star team.

Guardiola, who has been tinkering with new formations and tactics during this period, has new ideas for player collocation.

After studying more than a dozen game videos of Mu-style Porto a few days ago, Guardiola still chose a double-organization core formation for this game, and sent all the main players in his mind:
The left winger is the Brazilian Ronaldinho, the right winger has Overmars, and the Ivorian Didier Drogba is full-time header and pie.

The three players in the midfield are familiar again, Rivaldo and Sneijder, and Harvey Alonso who returned to Notts County from Chelsea.

The Spaniard stood behind them, consolidating their defensive position, while dropping back to the back line to deliver the ball to the two attacking midfielders and wide players.

In the eyes of many people, the midfield line formed by these three players has almost zero defense, and one black and hard can make them cry.

Normally, Notts County's single midfielder is played by the Dutchman Edgar Davis. If not, there are George Grant, Anthony Aiert or Thiago Motta.

Many people predict that if these three play the starting midfielder, Notts County's defense line will inevitably choose some players with strong defensive ability, and Ram and Alves may have no chance.

I don’t know if Guardiola thinks the same way, but his defense in this game is indeed composed of four people with stronger defensive capabilities:
Fabio Grosso and Lichtsteiner are responsible for the defense of the left and right flanks. The central defender combination of Carvalho and Lucio will also undergo a huge test in this game. Desa.

Abramovich and some officials of the Chelsea club chatted with Wei Xun, Zhao Tai, Mendes, Marotta and others in the VIP box, chatting and drinking, while on the bench at Meadow Lane Stadium, players from the two teams, The teaching assistant was furious, with a very serious expression on his face.

Good friends, good buddies, let's not mention it for now, in today's game, brothers only want to win.

This is a bit like the warlords in Sichuan in the early [-]th century. They didn’t attack the cities. The senior generals played mahjong on the card table, and the army fought in the wild. Sometimes the victory or defeat at the card table could determine a city or a village gains and losses.

In short, it is very harmonious.

"Tighten up, everyone must watch the people and areas they are in charge of, and if it doesn't work, use tactical fouls to bring them down!
When switching offenses and pushing counterattacks, you must pay attention to fast, fast, fast, speed is always the first..."

Before the start of the game, Mourinho was still trying to instill his ideas into the players, and he didn't know how many Chelsea players around the Portuguese could really listen to them.

In any case, Terry, Gallas, Makelele and other players who were in the Chelsea team last season still gained something.

After Jose Mourinho instilled them with a new tactical concept for a long time, their understanding of defensive counterattacks has a new understanding compared to the previous coach Ranieri.

Less than 2 minutes after the start of the game, Gallas received a yellow card for a tackle behind him. This is to implement the head coach's tactics with practical actions.

"You wait for me, dog!"

Dutch midfielder Edgar Davies, who was sitting on the bench, raised his middle finger and spat viciously in the direction Gallas was running.

He will be replaced in the second half. If Gallas is still on the court by then, Davis will definitely avenge Sneijder, who is holding his leg and crying bitterly!
Fortunately, Davis is not on the court, otherwise it is likely to fight with Gallas, and Terry and Samuel are not easy to mess with.

"Jose, it looks like he can't hold on anymore, let's make a substitution..."

The old Mertesacker has been Guardiola's assistant for several years, and now seeing Georgia make a gesture of substitution, while suggesting to Guardiola, he has already taken Kaka's information in his hand .

"Substitute, let Kaka go up, the tactics remain the same..."

In this way, Kaka, who sat on the bench for only 3 minutes, stepped in after Sneijder was injured and got the chance to play.

Dutch midfielder Sneijder was carried out from the field on a stretcher by the staff, and his destination will be Notts County Medical Centre.

There is still less than a month before the start of the match. I hope that Sneijder's injury is not serious. Otherwise, Guardiola can only give up his double midfielder style of play.

After weighing the pros and cons, although the double defensive midfielder will increase a little defensive hardness in the midfield, the creativity of the frontcourt will also decrease a lot.

After all, Sneijder is the only midfielder in Notts County who has double-digit assists every season in the past few seasons.

Before the arrival of Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and others, Sneijder was the well-deserved frontcourt organizer of this Notts County team.

(End of this chapter)