In the next few games, because of the return of the injured, Qin Minghao and Li Yun were excluded from the squad, but the two of them did not have any complaints, and they were still conscientious in training. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The performance of these efforts has given them another opportunity.

First of all, Qin Minghao's opportunity, because the team's main right winger, Brazilian Leonar, had multiple injuries and had to be operated on for more than 5 months, and head coach Schmidt thought of Qin Minghao for the first time.

Even if it is not in his most suitable position, Qin Minghao still did not disappoint Schmidt, he interspersed with running positions in the front court, breaking through with the ball, and passing and receiving assists, all showing his ability to be not weaker than others. In three consecutive games, Qin Minghao scored 2 goals in addition to contributing 3 assists, which is completely phenomenal. Even the local Austrian sports media have claimed that the Chinese boy is the biggest discovery of the season for Red Bull Salzburg.

Compared with Qin Minghao, Li Yun's opportunities seem to be much less, after all, in the position of central defender, age is very important, unless you come from a football powerhouse, and you have the talent to completely crush all teams since you were a child, otherwise in the position of central defender, basically all head coaches tend to choose mature grades, mature playing styles, with mature players, and will not rashly play a formal game with a young central defender. Because if the frontcourt offensive player makes a mistake, it will only affect the attack, and the central defender is likely to lose a goal as long as he makes a mistake, and if he loses a goal, it is very likely to ruin a game, so Li Yun has not had many opportunities to play, even if he has been in the 18-man squad for a long time.

Red Bull Salzburg's centre-back duo is one such veteran, one is Uganda with Swiss nationality, Sekaggya, and the other is Douglas from Brazil. They are 33 and 30 years old, and they are all battle-hardened veterans.

However, Sekaggya has entered the late stages of his career this season, and the club's focus is on the Austrian youngster Hinteregger, who was highly regarded in 1992 and is hailed as the Austrian national team's future first-choice centre-back. Historically, this person was indeed selected for the Austrian national team, and won the best newcomer in the Austrian Liga in the 2015 season, and then was bought by Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga, which is still very powerful.

As an outsider, Li Yunzai has no advantage in competing with Hinteregg, who has a household registration book, because local players are always more popular than foreign players. However, Li Yun was not afraid of this unfair competition, and in one game, Hindleg made a low-level mistake that caused the team to lose the game. Li Yun seized the opportunity and played exceptionally well in the game where Hindleger was punished for not playing, defending successfully at the back and providing an assist to break the deadlock on the pitch. After this game, he became the first substitute for Sekaggya and was very solid in the many appearances that followed, not at all like a young player under the age of 22. And in the last two games of the winter break, Li Yun successfully squeezed out Sekaggya to become the starting central defender.

In the first two games, Li Yun not only played well, but he used his natural command talent to make the team's back line more aggressive and more solid defensively. Even head coach Schmidt praised Li Yun and said that he was a natural defensive commander, and Li Yun could be regarded as his main position.

In the Europa League group stage on December 13, Red Bull Salzburg played against the Danish Premier League's Esbjerg club, Qin Minghao and Li Yun both appeared in the game as starters, and Qin Minghao also scored his first Europa League goal. This is also the second Chinese player to score in the Europa League after Chinese player Wang Chu. The back line led by Li Yun was forbidden to be tested by the main striker Emile Lin, the former Danish U21 main striker, and kept a clean sheet against the opponent, and finally the team also defeated the opponent with a score of 4:0 and entered the 1/8 finals of the Europa League.

Hearing Li Yun's introduction, Zhang Sheng was very happy for their performance, although it is only a third-rate league in Europe such as the Austrian First League, but there is still a chance to experience a high-level game. The Austrian Bundesliga is ranked 16th in Europe, below the Czech Republic, Romania, and above Cyprus and Croatia, and each year the champions advance to the third round of the Champions League play-offs, while the second and third place winners and domestic cup winners enter the Europa League play-offs.

Red Bull Salzburg are guaranteed to have a Champions League to play every year, and although they are often knocked out in the fourth round of the play-offs, they still often have the opportunity to compete with some of Europe's strongest teams in the Europa League, which is very important for players like Qin Minghao and Li Yun who are in desperate need of high-level games to gain experience. And these high-level games can very well reflect the weaknesses of the two of them now, which Zhang Sheng believes is more important than their strengths, because only by reflecting the shortcomings can they train in a targeted manner.

Li Yun spoke very frankly about the shortcomings of the Red Bull Club against the two of them - not enough physical confrontation, which is also a common problem of Chinese teams in Europe.

Among all the players in Europe in Chinese history, those who can achieve a certain degree of success must be players with excellent physical fitness, so it is not difficult to see that players with excellent physical fitness such as Sun Jihai, Zheng Zhi, and Yang Chen can gain a slight foothold in European clubs.

Qin Minghao and Li Yun's physical fitness should be said to be among the best among domestic players, but after arriving in Europe, even leagues such as the Austrian First Division can only be said to be qualified, and when it comes to high-level games such as the Europa League, the lack of physical confrontation ability is a little revealed.

When he first arrived at Red Bull, Li Yun and Qin Minghao, who were physically and easily versed in the domestic league, were not so easy, and Schmidt underestimated the two of them a little because of this reason at first, because they obviously did not have the burly lines of European players, and Schmidt also thought that they were not qualified to play in the Austrian First Division. It's just that Qin Minghao and Li Yun's good physical talent still quickly adapted to the league, but Schmidt also quickly put forward higher requirements, that is, to make their physical confrontation ability adapt to the Europa League.

Li Yun introduced to Zhang Sheng: "When playing against Denmark's Esbjerg, I and the mouse obviously felt a little difficult to fight, of course, this has something to do with the fact that the Danish team is a Nordic team and the players are mainly Nordic players. Because Nordic players are generally tall and powerful. When I went head-to-head with their players, I did suffer a bit of a loss. Later, the two of us made more use of technology to deal with them, and only then did we have a certain advantage. ”

Zhang Sheng was a little worried: "This is not the final solution. When you were still in the Dragons, I have emphasized the importance of physical confrontation many times, but the low level of the domestic league has not made your confrontation ability improve very much in actual combat, which is why I sent you to play in the Europa League. If you don't step up your physical fitness and confrontation training, you will suffer a lot in the future, after all, the ultimate goal of the two of you is not the Austrian league, you should play in the teams of the five major leagues. At that time, the confrontational nature of that kind of competition will be far from what it is now. So while stepping up your physical training, the next Europa League game is a rare opportunity for you to temper, although many of the teams you face are also from some second- and third-rate European leagues, but they are all the top teams in their own countries, such a rhythm and the degree of confrontation is not comparable to your current league, you must seize this opportunity and play a few more games like this. ”

Li Yun touched his head and said, "I want to too!" But I have to defeat the opponent step by step and enter the next round." Let's think our opponent in the next round is Ajax, which is a super giant in the past! ”

Zhang Sheng couldn't help but be a little anxious: "What? When you meet a team like Ajax, you're afraid? Do you know the current level of Ajax? Do you know the current level of the Eredivisie? Don't be presumptuous, the current level of the Eredivisie is really not good." They are almost completely out of the second group of the Europa League. ”

Zhang Sheng said this for a reason, because although the performance of the Dutch national team has been very strong in recent years, but as the Dutch domestic league Eredivisie has indeed declined year by year, except for Einhorn has a certain amount of financial support, other teams are not as good as a year, as far as Zhang Sheng understands, from 2013 to 2016 years, the Eredivisie has been continuously surpassed by Ukraine, Belgium, Turkey, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic in the UEFA league points rankings, and they are only narrowly ahead of Greece in 13th place, which means that they are likely to lose the only direct qualification to the Champions League。

What Zhang Sheng didn't know was that in the Europa League this season, Red Bull Salzburg knocked Ajax out with a total score of 0:3 away and 3:1 at home with a total score of 6:1. Zhang Sheng just wanted to build more confidence for Li Yun.

Facing Zhang Sheng's words, Li Yun suddenly had a spirit and said: "Since the boss said that the Netherlands is not good, it must not work." It looks like we have a lot of hope for the Europa League this time!"

Zhang Sheng also nodded: "That's true, as long as you train well, the result will definitely be very wonderful." (To be continued.) )