Born to be a coach [soccer]

Sunderland's players returned to Sunderland with pride and pride following an unimaginably wild victory at Wembley.

The Sunderland fans were also as happy as a dream—they entered the FA Cup final?After making it all the way from the second tier to Wembley in 1973, they did it again?Many Sunderland fans even rummaged through boxes and boxes to find out the team scarf when Sunderland won the FA Cup and tied it on the arm of the Bob Stock statue outside the Stadium of Light. The legendary coach can continue to bless the younger generations, so that Sunderland can taste the cup victory again after more than 30 years.

Just three days after the game at Wembley Stadium, on April 4, Sunderland played at home to league rivals Blackpool.

Ordinarily, the team won such a victory at Wembley. The team should have greatly increased their self-confidence from top to bottom. It is also a home game, and there are countless Sunderland fans supporting them. This game should be played by Sunderland. De Lan regards it as something in his pocket, right?

But the result was beyond everyone's expectations. Sunderland lost - the team lost 0:1 to the visiting Lancashire team Blackpool.

What is even more unlucky is that Blackpool, like them, is a Championship team with ambitions of promotion. This loss is equivalent to losing 6 points. Originally, Sunderland had narrowed the gap with the top six to 4 points. The gap was thrown away again.

Strange to say, when they were behind Blackpool, all the Sunderland players on the field knew that something was wrong, and they all started to run, wanting to take out the goals they scored at Wembley and let their opponents take a good look at Sunderland. Lan's strength.But the players besieged almost the entire second half on the court, but they couldn't score.

Some key players also said after leaving the court that their state on the court was not right: knowing that they needed to fight hard, but their bodies were always lazily unable to cheer up.

After Sunderland lost this game, doubts about Anton and "Black Cat" immediately flooded over.Some are Sunderland fans, they are like this, they love deeply and take responsibility, the team suddenly lost a game, the fans are so anxious!

Other doubts come from outside, and many of them are even well-known football commentators and football celebrities.This time Ruben Smith was smart enough to hide and not make a sound in his column.But even so, someone still warned Anton: "It's never easy to fight on two fronts!"

"There's a saying in England: 'More is less'. If Sunderland want too much, they want the FA Cup, they want promotion. Then at the end of the season, they will find they have nothing."

"Obviously, these players from Sunderland have had an impressive second half of the season. But let's not forget that they have only one squad, and even the current striker is so-so, sleeping and waking up. This bench depth is not enough to support them until the end of the season when the two fronts are over. I am not very optimistic about Sunderland's prospects..."

Many people think that the fitness of Sunderland players will be a problem.After all, the English Championship itself has a very intensive schedule, and Sunderland has reached the FA Cup final all the way. The players are basically in the schedule of double matches a week for two or three months.At the end of the season, there will naturally be physical exhaustion and unsustainable situations.

At the summary meeting of the Sunderland team, Anton said to the players very bluntly: "It must be said that this defeat against Blackpool was a timely loss, a just-right loss..."

The Sunderland players were all dumbfounded: Coach... Does the coach have a fever? What he said is... what?

"I say we lost 'timely' because it was a wake-up call for all of us, that it doesn't mean anything that we can beat a Premier League relegation team 6-0. The toughest time. If we don't fight, we can't win; if we don't work hard, we'll get nothing..."

Anton said loudly.Many players bowed their heads.

Indeed, after a big victory at Wembley, many players inevitably felt ecstatic—until then, they realized that not only Sunderland wanted to win!Every team has the same ambitions and ambitions as them.If they stick to their previous results, what they get at the end of the season will only be a pity - after all, they haven't won any trophies now!

"And I say this 'loss' is just right because we still have hope, boys, we will catch up from now on, there is still time, there is still time!" Anton suddenly changed the topic.

There are still the last 4 rounds of the main match of the British Championship. As long as they can win, although they can't make it to the top two, they can still make it to the top six.

"After yesterday's game against Blackpool, please feel free to say what you think of this team! No matter what it is, the small moves of the opposing players during the game, or which player you think has a particularly fierce look... Say everything Come out," Anton asked persuasively, "because Blackpool is likely to be everyone's opponent in the final battle. Now, we have to sum up all the experience related to the opponent."

"Can you even say 'eyes kill'?" The players looked at each other and thought it was quite amusing, and they immediately started discussing with each other. There were so many people and strength, and finally the players kicked off the opponent's certain player on the court. The details of the habitual lifting of trousers before have been mentioned.

The bad emotions brought about by the defeat disappeared with this kind of slightly ironic "discussion".The players finally unloaded the burden and began to look forward to the future game.

At the club, chef and chief nutritionist Joyce Rohm and fitness coach Charlie Adams have been intensely researching ways to help players recover.

Mother Qiao naturally tried to choose some high-energy ingredients as much as possible to help the team members recover their physical strength as soon as possible while ensuring daily nutrition; and the solution Charlie Adams came up with was: hydrotherapy! ——He asked the players to go swimming at the end of daily training, using the buoyancy of the water to help the players relax the muscles of their limbs.The team's hydromassage pool is open to players around the clock to help them recover.

It's just that these are not big moves. When Russell went to Anton by chance, he found something amazing on Anton's computer.

"What is this?" Russell scratched his head in the face of the continuously generated [-]D images on Anton's computer, "So it will change by itself?"

Anton was crossing his arms, watching the movement on the screen calmly.After the three-dimensional image of a stadium was formed, he turned to Russell with a smile and said, "This is a model I built in advance. Now almost all of our players have finished the game and have done a lot of training. My The system has already collected a lot of data. The purpose of this model is to distribute the physical energy of all players equally to the remaining 7 games."

7 games?Russell raised his head and thought for a while, the last 4 rounds of the league, two play-offs, and one FA Cup final, exactly 7 games.It seems that Anton is already confident that his team will definitely be able to score in the top six and thus participate in the play-offs.

Anton pointed to the image on the screen and said: "Here is the running coverage area of ​​all the players after entering the field, and the air coverage volume of passing the ball. After inputting all these into the algorithm, the model will simulate the optimal result, that is, The best rotation plan for the whole team under the premise that no one is injured."

Russell is usually most afraid of looking at Anton's model. Every time he looks at his calculations, he feels like a coach living in the Stone Age.

But at this time, after watching everything, if Russell didn't say anything, it seemed a bit difficult.So he asked: "What if someone gets hurt?" Russell regretted it as soon as he finished speaking, and really wanted to slap himself: Don't be crowed, okay!

Anton said with a smile: "Arranging their physical fitness and running range reasonably is to avoid injuries! But in case there is an opponent's collision or unexpected strain, you can use it as a parameter input here, and you can also get a new copy." Arrangements. But Bob Stock will definitely protect Sunderland in the spirit of the sky, and this situation will not happen."

Russell breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help feeling that Anton could speak well.

On Anton’s side, he actually got inspiration from Royce. Young players who participate in high-frequency, high-intensity, and high-confrontation games prematurely are not only prone to injury, but may also bury hidden dangers for their future careers. Count them: Starting from Henderson, there are at least five players who are not yet 20 years old and are serious teenagers.

Therefore, in Anton's view, rotation is necessary—of course, every time a lineup is rotated, each player's position and style of play will also change. Communicate the staffing arrangements to the players.

"The next month will be the most difficult time, Russell, thank you for your hard work." Anton looked at Russell.All members of the coaching staff have been working overtime to varying degrees recently, and Russell's hair looks a little less than it was just after Christmas.

Russell kept a straight face on purpose, imitating the tone of the players: "Boss, we have worked so hard, do you have any indication?"

Anton let out a "ha" laugh: "For promotion and winning the championship, the club has designated bonuses for everyone. But this is the club's expression. As for myself..." He thought for a while and said, "I'll treat you to a drink." Craft beer, and invite your whole family to my house for a barbecue, how about it?"

Russell got up immediately and said that he took the rest of the coaching staff to work.

As he walked, he blamed himself: Don't be too drifting! ...How could I be so floating?Could it be bought by a barbecue?

But the thought of beer and barbecue waiting for him after the result gave the unpretentious assistant coach an immediate boost.

The author has something to say: I will be traveling for more than ten hours today, so I will meet you with the manuscript depositor, the second update at [-]:[-] p.m.!