After saying goodbye to Rangnick, Li Yun, Qin Minghao and Wei Geer came to Zhang Sheng's hotel again in the evening.

The emotional difference between the three is still very large.

Weigel may know that he has finalized his transfer to Leipzig to stay in the Bundesliga, and he seems very happy, Li Yun still has a hippie smile, only Qin Minghao looks a little dull.

Zhang Sheng probably knew the reason.

Needless to say, Weigel is now the absolute main force of the team, Li Yun has also stood firm again after a period of ups and downs, and Qin Minghao is now slowly being squeezed from the main force to the rotation position, although Leipzig is a team that regards rotation as a daily routine, Qin Minghao has a lot of opportunities to play, but the position of the absolute main force has not been kept, which still makes Qin Minghao a little unhappy.

Professional football is so cruel, if you have strength, you have to go down, and if you don't have strength, Zhang Sheng can't give too much comfort, it all depends on Qin Minghao's own choice.

After playing against RB Leipzig, the Dragons' next warm-up match is against Nice in Ligue 1.

Like RB Leipzig, Nice is also the biggest dark horse in the league this season, before the winter break, Nice occupies the first place in the league, and below him there are traditional giants such as Paris, Lyon and Morocco, among which Ben Arfa's performance is really very bright, and he and Balotelli form a "bad boy" forward that makes the whole Ligue 1 fearful.

Nice's manager is Lucien Favre, a low-key coach who is absolutely the best of the best, and his command ability to take the likes of Borussia Monchengladbach into the Champions League before arriving at Nice in mid-last year is evident.

Similar to the famous coach Jurgen Klopp, this is also a coach who likes to play pressing, advocates the use of young players to strengthen the run, focuses on ground technology and ball control, and studies and analyzes tactical details to the extreme.

This game was the same as the last game against RB Leipzig, the Dragons played a tough game, compared to Leipzig's overall strength, Nice's individual ability and outstanding strikers, Ben Arfa, a former Dragons player, did not save face for his former teammates, and it was his two goals in the first half that gave Nice the lead over the Dragons.

In the second half, in response to Favre's dislike of changing formations and playing 4231 all the time, Zhang Sheng made appropriate adjustments to the formation, Ma Yongli played the back midfield, Qi Ming was pushed forward, and came to the position behind Ben Alpha, the winger, relying on Ben Alpha's opportunity to attack too high, and Nie Jiang completed a goal.

But then Balotelli easily broke through the door of the Dragons twice, giving Nice a 4-1 victory over the Dragons.

After the game, Ben Alpha ran to hug Zhang Sheng affectionately and the two talked for a long time, this weird "bad boy" is now having a good time in Nice, and being able to trample several previous enemy teams under his feet is too much for his appetite.

'I think Balotelli you can try, if he goes to the Super League, he will definitely be invincible, I think he is better than Diego Costa. "Obviously, Ben Alpha is concerned about the situation of the Dragons, knowing that the Dragons were bullied by Diego Costa in the AFC Champions League last season, and he actually started to promote his teammates.

Of course, Zhang Sheng knew that Ben Alpha was joking, and after the two talked for a while, they went their separate ways, because Zhang Sheng had too much to do.

These two games are for the players of the Longteng team, which is to fight against strong teams, learn from experience and grow, and this also applies to Zhang Sheng.

In the face of two powerful coaches in Europe, Hassenhutter and Lucien Favre, Zhang Sheng has so much to learn.

In particular, Lucien Favre's tactics had a great impact on Zhang Sheng.

From the games he commands, it is not difficult to see that he likes dynamic attacking football, but not at the expense of defence, his team is very focused when pressing, and at the same time has the ability to dominate possession under certain conditions.

Zhang Sheng's tactics of 352 full-court pressure and crazy running were Klopp, but judging from the actual game situation, there are still many weaknesses.

Relying on the rhythm and intensity of the game that is one level higher than the opponent, the Longteng team can now always quickly defeat the opponent with a wave of attacks, but there are also some flaws in the pressing style of play that cannot be eliminated. With less control in midfield than before, and a lack of limited positional tactics, the team was running at high speed from start to finish, and players were unable to switch tempos to gain physical buffer time. When the physical strength reaches a bottleneck, it is difficult for the defence to withstand the opponent's frantic counterattack with a sharp drop in pressing intensity, and without a stable low-post defense, the team can easily lose the hard-built lead at this stage.

The Longteng team was able to achieve good results in the case of obvious tactical defects, mainly relying on the physical advantages and tactical execution established by high-level training all year round, and a large number of excellent call-up players gave Zhang Sheng the confidence to use this set of tactics.

Now Zhang Sheng must upgrade his tactics again in order to fight against the Chinese Super League teams that will buy a large number of high-level foreign aid next season.

Establish a local numerical advantage around the ball with a wide range of runs, use the double back system as a support to build a defense against the enemy outside the country, rely on the oppressive counter-robbery to fight for the opportunity to convert the ball, quickly attack the penalty area directly through the midfield after breaking the ball, and at the same time improve the team's control by strengthening ball control and passing cutting, and also reduce the defensive risk caused by too many offensive and defensive conversions. This is a new tactical concept that Zhang Sheng wants to instill in the team during this winter training period.

In terms of details, Lucien Favre's command gave Zhang Sheng a great inspiration.

With Zhang Sheng's excessive emphasis on pressing and pressing, Favre's team's positional battle defense is stronger, the defense line and midfielder can maintain a compact position when defending in the backfield, and the strategy of luring the enemy to go deep into the midfield to implement a tackle is better than blindly counter-grabbing and pressuring In terms of physical distribution, Favre also appears to be more clever, his trap-style defense, stretching the opponent's offensive line, can consume a lot of opponent's physical energy at the same time, but also allow himself to have more means of preemptive action......

It can be said that the two games that Zhang Sheng played in the European winter training gained more than the 20 games he played in the Chinese Super League.

The previous tactics of the Longteng team were to pay attention to ball control, and after more than a year, they emphasized high pressing and speed, and now Zhang Sheng's purpose is to slowly integrate these two styles together, thinking that even the world's top coaches like Guardiola are moving closer to this tactical direction, which shows that this is a general trend of football tactics in the future.

Compared with Lucien Favre, who can have a large number of high-level games to hone his tactics, Zhang Sheng also has his own advantage, that is, he has a system.

At the end of last season, the system's 7 Advanced Tactical Shaping Boosters for Zhang Sheng became a killer feature.

In the next game, Zhang Sheng chose to experiment with tactics at the Portuguese national base and two Nordic low-level teams, judging from the process of the game, it was still difficult for the young players to grasp the degree of pressing, and they couldn't control themselves as soon as they let go, Zhang Sheng had to remind the players on the sidelines many times.

Since the experiment with this tactic, Zhang Sheng has discovered a fact, that is, it is necessary to give players more initiative on the field, let them use their own brains, when to speed up the press, when to control the ball, in the rapidly changing court, the player's reaction is always more timely than the coach on the sidelines.

However, such a change requires players to have a high ball quotient, rich game experience, and also requires the coaching staff to have a lot of work to hone their tactics.

Under the effect of the tactical accelerator, the success rate of the tactical details of the Longteng team is improving at the speed of the naked eye, and after defeating two small teams by large scores in a row, the Longteng team and the Russian Premier League giants Zenit St. Petersburg have a warm-up match.

This season's situation for Zenit is not good, for their positioning and investment, the Europa League group stage was eliminated early, the league is now ranked outside the European zone, their manager legendary coach Lucescu is not in a stable position, this winter break Zenit is very serious.

However, it is not difficult to see from the game that Zenit's players are obviously out of shape, and this former Europa League winning team has a number of Brazilian, Italian and Belgian internationals, but the strange thing is that they are very unfamiliar with each other.

The Longteng team relied on the overall constant change between pressing and ball control, although the individual strength of the players was not as good as the opponent, but the rhythm was firmly grasped by the Longteng team, and finally the Longteng team drew 2:2 with the Russian Premier League giants.

After the game, Lucescu came to chat with Zhang Sheng, surprised that there are so many excellent young players in China, and asked some questions about the Chinese Super League very carefully, perhaps it was Petrescu's high income in the Chinese Super League that attracted him.

This game with Zenit is the last warm-up match for all the main players of the Longteng team in Europe, and after this game, Huang Dawei, Nie Jiang, Ma Yongli, Qi Ming, Tao Wentao and Xiang Tiange of the Longteng team will leave the team to report on the national team.

In order to prepare for the match between the Chinese team and the South Korean team on March 22, the Chinese Football Association insisted on all the Chinese Super League teams during the winter training, and dispatched the international players for a flight training, the time was from February 10 to February 12, the time was just three days, in order to ensure the physical fitness of the players and avoid the fatigue of the players, the Chinese Football Association rarely provided the national team players with the treatment of round-trip business class, and all the costs were paid by the Football Association.

In fact, all clubs don't want to let go, like the Longteng team, they don't want these players to return to China now, and the Longteng team in the run-in period of tactical adjustment takes too much time, considering the importance of the Chinese national team to the South Korean team, Zhang Sheng finally chose to support, and several national team players all returned to China ahead of schedule, and the players who stayed continued to be familiar with the new tactics.

In fact, from another point of view, this can be regarded as a rotation experiment for the new season in advance.

In the new season, the Longteng team will continue to fight on three fronts, and rotation is a sure thing, especially the two points of central defender and goalkeeper are what Zhang Sheng focuses on.

After Ma Yongli left, the former substitute Lu Yangyang officially came to the position of central defender, and he will be a free man in the backfield, dragging back the midfield, and returning to the central defender to adapt to the position on the field. Compared with Ma Yongli, he is not without advantages, first of all, he is a striker, more than a year of training in the Longteng team, a year on loan, the technique at his feet can be said to be excellent in the central defender, stronger than Ma Yongli, secondly, his speed is fast, in the overall formation of the Longteng team forward in the pressing play, a fast central defender is still very useful Finally, don't look at him only 1.72 meters, his bounce and header ability is very good, if the ability to stand in the penalty area is stronger, the weakness of short height is not insurmountable.

In the position of goalkeeper, the non-called players of the three substitute echelons, the twenty-one-year-old Jiang Mingzhi now has the highest ability value, with nearly 70 Song Dongdong's potential value is the highest, reaching 135, but the ability value is now very poor, only less than 40, after all, he is still in the recovery period after the major surgery of his old injury, and the newly summoned Wang Junlei's ability value and potential value are moderate 51105, but after more than a year of irregular training, he also needs to adapt and recover.

It can be said that in the position of substitute goalkeeper now, Zhang Sheng is not at ease, and in the end, Jiang Mingming's actual performance prevails.

The most important thing in the next warm-up match is to have a warm-up match with Red Bull Salzburg, which will also be the last game of this winter training for the Dragons.

After playing two teams in the second division of Switzerland and Norway in a row, the game of the Longteng team to summarize the results finally arrived, Red Bull Salzburg gave enough face and played with all the main forces, but unfortunately Ding Huaiyi had just recovered from injury and could not start.

In this game, Jiang Mingming, Lu Yangyang, Lu Zhihui, Liming, Zhang Hao, Qu Wenming, Cao Jinghao, De Paul, Fernando, Tang Jin, and Chavez formed the starting lineup.

Salzburg still showed the strength of the rotation lineup of the Gao Longteng team, but it is also the Red Bull team, their ability to fight and press, and the tactical details are far inferior to Leipzig, maybe this is the common problem of small league teams, and the Longteng team is not like this.

In the first half, Salzburg, who had a high level of skills, easily led the Longteng team 2:0, and in the second half, the Longteng team scored two goals in a row to equalize the score, after the large-scale substitutions between the two sides, Salzburg's rotation players basically suppressed all the substitutes of the Longteng team, if it wasn't for their substitutes who wanted to show themselves too much, the final score was definitely not 5:2.

Zhang Sheng is very satisfied with this score, after all, this is the score played in the case of rotation and substitution rotation, if it is the full main force, Zhang Sheng thinks that he still has the strength to fight.

Don't look at Red Bull Salzburg's ten consecutive eliminations in the Champions League, but they are still a very competitive team in the Europa League, and Zhang Sheng is already very happy that the Longteng team can reach this level.

On February 14th, the Longteng team completed the high-intensity winter training in Europe, and the whole team flew back to China, and the new season is about to start!