Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 407
When the Chelsea team walked out of Istanbul Airport, they immediately saw a large group of reporters waiting there.

These reporters have arrived in Istanbul a few days ago. Their purpose is to interview the mood of local fans, interview the environment of the Champions League final, report the progress of the event at any time, and so on.

In the eyes of many players, the Champions League final is equal to the World Cup final. Although in the hearts of fans, the two are probably a little bit worse, but there are many stars whose countries have no chance to participate in the World Cup. Even if they enter the World Cup, they will not have the strength With good results, the Champions League final is the highest level event they can participate in.

From this point of view, the gold content of the UEFA Champions League final is indeed very high, and it is actually the same. It is by no means an easy task to break through the siege among many football giants and reach the final, just like the famous Barcelona. So far they have only won two European championships.

It can be seen from this that it is not easy to win the Champions League trophy, which is the highest honor of European football clubs.

However, many media did not comment highly on this game, because they felt that the outcome of the game was not suspenseful, and Chelsea would definitely be the winner. Therefore, when the Chelsea team rushed from the airport to the hotel, 80.00% of the reporters present They all followed suit, and there were only a small part of the reporters who stayed at the airport waiting for Liverpool. It can also be seen from this that the gap between the two teams in the hearts of the reporters is really not small.

In the imagination of many players, Turkish fans should be very violent, and the fans here are definitely not cute at all.

However, when the whole Chelsea team boarded the temporarily rented bus and rushed from the airport to the hotel, they saw many, many local fans in Istanbul standing on both sides of the road, many of them holding 'Welcome' and 'Come on' in their hands. It is surprising to see signs with similar slogans to welcome the arrival of the two teams.

But that's really nothing, isn't it?
For Turkish fans, the two teams are both English teams, and they have no inclination to play at all. Even if they buy tickets, it is just to enter the stadium to watch a high-level game that they usually do not see.

In the absence of a tendency to play, Turkish fans are just like fans from other countries. They also like stars. There are so many world-renowned players in the Chelsea team. They really have no reason not to welcome them. The opportunity for these players to come to Istanbul is really great. Not often.

However, compared to Chelsea, Liverpool's treatment is a bit worse.

When the Liverpool team walked out of the airport, most of the reporters had already rushed to the hotel where Chelsea was staying, wanting to see if they could have a chance to interview one or two players. A rough count is only more than 100.

You know, this is the final of the UEFA Champions League, and more than 100 reporters are really nothing.

Before this final, Chelsea had already won the FA Cup, the League Cup and the Premier League. They are already a small triple crown. As long as they win this game, Chelsea can get the honor of the quadruple crown.Compared with Chelsea, which is in full swing, Liverpool has no results. Even in the league, they have played No.5. This has already destined them to only participate in the UEFA Cup next season.Under such circumstances, how can these reporters be optimistic about them?No matter from which aspect, Chelsea will win the championship cleanly!
Although they were prepared in their hearts, the Liverpool players were not in a good mood when they saw this scene. Perform better, let the team win, and slap the faces of these media who are stalking.

"Well, listen to me, I think we should take the game seriously and try to win and get the championship trophy. Those people think we will lose. If we win, think about their faces. It must be funny. "

On the bus, the atmosphere of the Liverpool team was not very good. Most of the players had a sullen face. Seeing this situation, Gerrard immediately stood up and took the initiative to explain: "The coach said a long time ago that they are very good, but We are not bad, this is Istanbul, not Stamford Bridge, we have no reason to be nervous. We should try, how will we know we will lose if we don't try?"

"Steven is right! We should try harder." Jamie Carragher snorted coldly, stood up and said.

Although the words of these two people did not have a great impact on the players, they at least made them feel better. After arriving at the hotel, the first thing for the Liverpool players to do was to adapt to the venue. Said to visit, although it is almost night now, but Benitez still asked the players to enter the Kemal Atatürk Stadium to have a look around, to find out the feeling on the stadium in advance, so that they can get the first time In the second day, you can enter the training state faster.

On the other hand, the Chelsea players gathered in a room chatting after tidying up their rooms, waiting for the arrival of the head coach Mourinho. It was not that they didn't want to do something, but that the entrance of the hotel was blocked Hundreds of reporters, unless they do something collectively, a single player will definitely be surrounded as soon as he leaves the hotel. Thinking about being surrounded by hundreds of reporters, that is definitely not a pleasant thing .

Not long after, after dismissing some influential media reporters, Mourinho came to this room to give them a short tactical instruction lesson. In fact, he is already very familiar with Liverpool and Chelsea. , and when he was at the Chelsea club, Mourinho didn't say much, he could only let the players train seriously and take the game seriously.

However, talking more will always deepen the impression. This time Mourinho has a lot of materials in his hands. He distributed these materials to each player and asked them to use the time tonight to read carefully. , analyze carefully, and remember everything described in it.

The information seems to be a lot, but in fact there is not much content. Wang Li took a cursory look and found that it was just a specific introduction of Liverpool players.

In this information, it is generally a detailed analysis of each player in Liverpool, including a series of items such as 'what is good at', 'how to play', 'what you often do', 'the specific position of the running position', etc. , Although this information does not seem to be much, it is definitely a conclusion drawn by a large group of people after watching many, many game videos.

This is the crystallization of the hard work of the coaching staff. In order to win this game, they have made sufficient preparations. .

What Chelsea players need to do is to deeply remember the information of the players who are opposite to them. In fact, there are not many. Everyone can remember three or four on average, which will be very helpful for the game.

"I don't want to see any accidents happen, and I don't want to see a player who doesn't play seriously. Before you get the championship trophy, if any of you don't do this, just leave the field. I think everyone They all want to play in the Champions League final."

Mourinho's tone did not appear harsh, but the meaning contained in it touched the hearts of every player.

Although everyone came to the game with the team, there were only 11 places to play. In such an important game, who wouldn't want to play?To win a Champions League medal without participating in the competition is definitely not perfect, no one wants to do that.

It would be even more embarrassing if you were replaced in the middle of the game! !
Even if the team wins, I am afraid that the media and fans will think that this has nothing to do with you. After all, since you are replaced by the head coach, it means that your performance is not very good, and if the team loses the game, you are likely to become Chelsea's sinners, think about it, when the Blues fans recalled Chelsea's Champions League final in the 04-05 season, they thought 'it was all because of XXX, otherwise we would have won the championship trophy! ', no one wants XXX in it to be their own name.

"We need to attack from the two wings more in a timely manner, use the fast attack on the two wings, and switch to the middle to look for shooting opportunities. The opponent's offense mostly comes from the middle. When defending, the focus is still on the middle. The fullbacks should also pay more attention to returning to defense. "

The Chelsea players have heard these tactical arrangements before, but Mourinho told them again without getting tired of it. This is the best tactic obtained after discussion by the team's coaching staff. I think this tactic is very good, at least to maximize the advantages of Chelsea.

However, even though the players have memorized this tactic, they still listened seriously. This game is the last and most important game of the season. No one is a fool, and they don't want to work hard. After one season, the chain finally dropped and the championship was handed over to others.

As long as they work hard for a few more days and put their full strength into the game, they will be able to relax after 90 minutes. That is the time to relax and celebrate.

The next morning, the two teams went to Ataturk for training to adapt to the venue. The stadium looked very big, and the managers of the stadium were obviously very business-minded. Today, the Ataturk Stadium actually Tickets are sold to the outside world, and the effect is not bad. Many local fans want to go to the stadium to watch the daily training of the two teams.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the stadium can accommodate more than 8 fans, but there are already a lot of fans standing sparsely. It is not the regular game time, so many fans are standing directly next to the fence of the stadium, constantly moving towards the players in the stadium. They waved their hands and kept yelling in the local language. Whenever a player performed well, they also cheered loudly with purpose.

In this case, the training effect of the two teams can be imagined. The players protested to the management of the stadium, but that would not have any effect at all. After all, this is in Turkey, not England.

In fact, the team's assistant coach Clark also felt that training in such an environment would allow the players to perform better during the game. After all, there were [-] fans in the surrounding stands during the game, and now there are only zero Just a few thousand scattered fans.

Among these players, Wang Li is the most unaffected. He received the most 'violent' welcome, but his training did not seem to be affected at all. It should be said that his training has been 'playing' , when the 'play' was on the rise, he also performed a tricky shot, which attracted more fans around to marvel and applaud.

Although Wang Li has only been at Chelsea for a year, he has long been famous in the team. These Turkish fans know him much more than Lampard and Terry, and many of them, I knew him from the promotion of the Europa League before the game.

There is publicity when there is a game. After the two teams in the Champions League final came out, UEFA and the local media in Istanbul made crazy publicity for this game. Even though some Turkish fans would never watch foreign leagues, they still Knowing that these two teams are about to face off in Istanbul.

Among them, the promotion of Chelsea is "succinct and to the point". Many advertising stickers are a picture of Wang Li's barb shot.It can be said that after such an advertisement, it is impossible for Wang Li to hide his face and make people not recognize him. As for the other Chelsea players, except for those fans who like to watch the Premier League can recognize one or two, the other fans are not at all. Can't name it.

Fortunately, the stadium staff seemed to be very good at judging the situation. After seeing this situation, in order to attract more fans to buy tickets, he directly opened the big screen of the stadium and began to introduce the main players of the two teams one by one, which greatly satisfied the fans. Their "hungry for knowledge" also embarrassed the players trained by the two teams.

Therefore, the first day of training ended in such a scene. Most of the players of the two teams walked out of the court with a face full of helplessness. The players who were ignored by the staff secretly rejoiced that they were not on camera.

It is definitely an embarrassing thing to be watched on the big screen before there is any performance.

That night, Chelsea held a temporary press conference. The press conference was held in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel. When Wang Li and Lampard walked down the stairs, there were already over a hundred journalists in the lobby. This is obviously not all. There are still many reporters frantically taking pictures through the glass at the entrance of the hotel. Due to limited space, they are not allowed to enter.

Such temporary press conferences are usually made by the team's press officer to release some recent information on the team's current situation. Generally speaking, there is no special significance, so Mourinho did not attend, and only the representatives of Lampard and Wang Li Chelsea met with reporters and answered a few questions.As the leader of Turkish newspapers, the reporter of "Istanbul Church News" first asked: "Mr. Allen, can you talk about your views on this game?"

Wang Lidao: "There is no special opinion. Chelsea and Liverpool are already very familiar with each other. What we have to do is to play the game with a normal heart and treat it as an ordinary league, not a final. A great game for the fans."

"Do you think Liverpool will be Chelsea's opponent?" Afterwards, a "Sun" reporter asked.

Wang Li smiled and said: "I think our strength is stronger, but anything can happen in a football match, so we must take the game seriously and make the accidents of the game as few as possible, so that we can win the championship trophy smoothly. "

"Then what is Chelsea's goal?" Wang Li smiled, and then said confidently: "We only have one goal, and that is to defeat them and win the championship trophy."

Even in ordinary leagues, it would seem impolite to say such words, and the media would think that this was bragging and not paying attention to the opponent at all, but for this game, these words were made by Wang What Leigh said, the effect is completely different.

At the press conference, the following words were 'Chelsea will definitely win the championship', 'They are not opponents at all', 'How many goals is your goal to win? 'Waiting for a series of flattering and inquiring words, Wang Li himself felt blushing when he heard these words.

Unlike Chelsea's press conference, which was full of excitement and unanimously supportive voices, Liverpool's press conference was full of 'bumps'.

Most of the reporters' questions revolved around the idea of ​​'how many goals are you going to lose', they didn't believe that Liverpool had a chance to win, the gap between the two teams is too big, if this is not the final of the Champions League, I'm afraid None of these journalists will come to interview Liverpool.

Seeing this situation, Gerrard, who followed the head coach to the press conference, smiled wryly in his heart. Although he also knew that the chances of the team winning the game were not high, but when others said it, the feeling in his heart was completely different .

The team has reached the final of the Champions League, and anyone would want to win the championship, even if the opponent is the mighty Chelsea.And these reporters at the scene would not understand this at all, they only kept talking about related issues such as 'will you be under a lot of pressure', which made Gerrard extremely uncomfortable.

However, on the other hand, he is also very fortunate. Judging from the performance of the reporters, Chelsea may have made the mistake of underestimating the enemy in the touting. He knows that there is a big gap between the two teams. More chance of winning.

So, in the face of reporters' questions, Steven Gerrard, who has always been known for his perseverance, actually put on a sincere face of "really so", which made the media want to anger Liverpool in order to get big news. The goal was not achieved, but it made them feel that Liverpool really had no hope of winning——
Even the pillars of the team have lost confidence in the game, so how can we play this game?
PS: It rained heavily in BJ yesterday, and Xiao X was affected. After being drenched, he had a high fever of 40 degrees and took aspirin three times before he retreated. So, today's update is a bit late, sorry
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