Judging from the match against RB Leipzig, the Longteng team still has too many deficiencies in the details.

Especially in the high press, the coordination between the players is not very good, when the first player comes up, how to run the player behind him, how to block the opponent's pass, how to defend the player who is in the third line to defend against the player who is likely to receive the pass, in these aspects the Longteng team has a lot of work to do.

In the face of Leipzig Red Bull team such a team with strong foot ability, how the Longteng team should do it, it is very necessary for Zhang Sheng to consider, after all, there are several teams in the Chinese Super League such as Guangzhou Evergrande and Guangzhou R&F that can play at the feet, as for the AFC Champions League, Japan's J-League, South Korea's K-League, not to mention, especially the J-League team, the foot pass is absolutely first-class.

In terms of offense, how should the first, second, and third line players devote themselves to the offense after the successful pressing, and the Longteng team should also play more organized and layered.

For example, in this game, the Longteng team did not have no chance in the first half, and the Longteng players who played the main force still grabbed the ball a few times, but sometimes they were too impatient to hand over the ball, resulting in mistakes in the attack, and sometimes they seemed hesitant, so that the opponent quickly arranged the defense line again and lost the suddenness of the attack.

After the game, Li Yun took the posture of a big brother and brought Qin Minghao and Wei Ge to find Zhang Sheng.

This season, Li Yun maintained the hot form of last season, under his leadership, RB Leipzig conceded the fewest goals in the Bundesliga, and this is not just a little, it is a full eight fewer than the team that conceded the second fewest goals in the league, such a result is absolutely overwhelming.

Indeed, judging from the ability index, Li Yun has almost reached the peak of his ability value of 107 (after using the potential pill) - to 103, such an ability is definitely the top at the level of German B.

At the same time, his generous personality is also very suitable for being a leader, so the backline players in the Red Bull team never thought that this young man who was only 24 years old could not be used as a defensive commander, or even a strong contender for the captain of the team.

"Boss. Li Yun was still respectful after seeing Zhang Sheng, "It's really rare for you to come to Europe once." ”

Because of the national team competition, Li Yun returned to China several times last year, and every time he respected his teacher, as long as he returned to China and was not far from Jiangcheng, as long as Zhang Sheng was still in Jiangcheng, he would take Qin Minghao and Ding Huaiyi to visit Zhang Sheng. Zhang Sheng is because as the head coach, it is not good to run around at will, if he does not bring the team to Europe to warm up, he will definitely not have a chance to come, if he doesn't want to find a strong team to hone his tactics, the Longteng team, which is late on vacation, may not come to Europe this time.

"I can't leave this position. Zhang Sheng defended himself.

"I think you really should come to Europe. Qin Minghao was speechless this time, "The game just now was really interesting. We were really pressed in the first half, even though we scored a goal, but to be honest, it was the toughest game I've played since I came to the Bundesliga. If you have a better player, it's absolutely amazing. It's too similar to Borussia Dortmund's previous tactics in the Bundesliga. ”

"I think it's harder for the boss. Li Yun shot better this time, "It's not that I despise domestic players, what is the level of Klopp's Dortmund players, and what is the level of domestic players, it is not easy to play this tactic to this extent." Jurgen Klopp's tactics are great, but there are many coaches with good players, how many can play?"

Then Li Yun persuaded: "Boss, I have the same idea as a mouse, come to Europe, find a better team to bring, and the results will definitely not be bad." ”

Zhang Sheng shook his head a little helplessly and said: "A Chinese wants to be the head coach of a better club in Europe, it is a hundred times more difficult than you to play in a better team in Europe, do you know?"

"Alas!" Li Yun and Qin Minghao, who knew this matter well, also looked helpless, because they had to take care of Weigel, everyone talked in German, and all of them, including Weigel, who had not spoken all the time, also showed regret.

"How's it going?

"That's good. Weigel is still shy off the field, "Brother Yun takes good care of me." ”

Weigel's two words "Brother Yun" are really accurate, it seems that Li Yun did not teach him less, and only Li Yun did this.

Zhang Sheng turned his head to look at Li Yun, who was still giggling with an unashamed expression.

Seeing Wei Geer's shy smile and Li Yun's face full of the little fox's successful smile in stealing chickens, Zhang Sheng also knew that with Li Yun here, Wei Ge would definitely not be treated badly, not to mention that Wei Geer's own strength was also leveraged.

Then it became a time for the four of them to chat, and the trio of the Red Bull team took turns to tell what they felt was wrong with the Longteng team in this game, and gave suggestions to Zhang Sheng, who was also very humble to remember these firmly, because the players on the field sometimes understood the situation on the field better than Zhang Sheng on the sidelines.

After finishing the conversation with the three disciples, according to the questions they raised, Zhang Sheng decided to adjust some details after discussing with the coaching staff, and at the same time play a less difficult game to build up confidence for the players.

And the players after only one day of rest, they did show their form, in front of a Spanish regional league team, played extremely beautifully, in the first half of the team with the main force to lead 4:0, in the second half although also replaced a number of substitutes, in the face of the opposite weaker substitutes, still scored 3 goals, the score of 7:0 in this game can be said to be very different from last year's 4:0 when it was also a regional league team in Spain.

In this game, the Longteng team took advantage of the skillful high pressure in the front court early to take the lead in five minutes, so that the opponent who was not weak in tactical ability conceded the goal early.

Moreover, the bench lineup of the Dragons scored three goals in the second half, and it can also be seen that the Dragons are much stronger than last season in terms of bench depth.

A big win gave the Longs a lot of confidence, and when they faced a Ligue 2 side two days later, the team played a very beautiful game, with a score of 3:1 for a team of Ligue 2 level.

After the game, the coaching staff of the Longteng team summed up the experience, that is, the players let go of their mentality, it is far better than cowering and thinking about how to do the action, and at the same time, it is important for the players to familiarize themselves with this high-intensity pressure and get used to the feeling of successful goals.

It seems that sometimes confidence-building is really important.

When the Dragons warmed up in Europe, Pato, who had already completed the loan formalities and arrived at Chelsea in the Premier League, also started his European football journey again.

After a simple week of adaptation, Pato came on for Chelsea's match against Newcastle, second-half substitute Diego Costa's Pato scored twice in just over 20 minutes to help the team win 6-1, he played very smartly on the field, although the absolute speed is not as good as before, but in the running, passing coordination more than a notch higher, although the opponent is very weak, but it can still be seen that his ability is trustworthy.

After the goal, Pato called Zhang Sheng that night, and Pato seemed very happy on the phone, and talked to Zhang Sheng about the training and games during the time he came to Chelsea.

Zhang Sheng was also very concerned about his various performances, and was silently happy for him.

Two days later, the Dragons played another match against Ajax's first-tier and second-tier mixed teams, which should be regarded as the strongest opponent the Dragons have faced in Europe.

After the opening, the Longteng team used the full-court pressing style of play to play well, and once pressed Ajax in their own half, and even the former famous star De Boer, the head coach of Ajax, looked at Zhang Sheng in surprise.

He thought it was just a commercial game, and he asked the team that was in the league period to deal with it, and he was very unhappy, and there were a lot of substitutes and young players, but he didn't expect this game to start in such a situation.

By the twelfth minute of the first half, the Longteng team's pressing in front of the court had an effect, and De Paul, who grabbed the ball, made a beautiful straight stop, and Nie Jiang took advantage of the situation to insert into the penalty area, and easily pushed the goal after shooting.

After more than 30 minutes, it was Ben Alpha's turn on the left side to successfully reverse offside after receiving Qi Ming's broken ball, expanding the score to 2:0.

At the end of the half, Zhang felt that the strongest opponent he had encountered was two goals behind.

But in the second half, the players of the Longteng team played extremely hard, although the Longteng team with two substitutes wanted to press the opponent, the result did not have much effect, and the Ajax side of several main players maintained their own formation very well, they frequently played counterattacks, and Qi Ming and Roque Gill in the midfield became the busiest players of the Longteng team, they had to go up to attack, and they had to keep taking turns to defend, very tired.

In the final stage of the game, as the Longteng team changed more and more substitutes, the control of the game was reduced more and more, and the opponent's main striker Milik scored two goals in a row to make the score 2:2.

Zhang Sheng, who was standing on the sidelines, also realized the gap between the main force and the substitute on the field.

In terms of ball quotient and game experience, the main players of the Longteng team are indeed much stronger than the substitutes, and the tactics arranged by Zhang Sheng for the Longteng team are extremely demanding on the players' on-the-spot self-adjustment.

The substitute players were either inferior in talent or too young, always making all kinds of mistakes, resulting in a half-time score of 0:2 and no victory.

Of course, these things can grow slowly with the number of games played, plus their own accelerated growth charms should grow faster than other players, what they need is to let them fight against such high-level opponents with real guns, even if it is annoying and wrong, it is acceptable.

After the game, De Boer also came over to chat with Zhang Sheng, praised the tactics of the Longteng team, praised the players of the Longteng team, and took the initiative to ask about Nie Jiang's situation.

Zhang Sheng, of course, was very tactful and rejected De Boer's "kindness".

Although the game was a tough one, Ajax could only be regarded as a small hurdle in the warm-up match of the Dragons, and there were many stronger opponents to play in the future.

On the third day after the match, the Dragons played again against a Spanish low-division team, and in this La B team, the Dragons once again found their confidence, and the score of 4:0 was enough for them to let out the anger they had when they played against Ajax.

However, the next match against La Liga side Valencia made the Dragons realize once again the strength of the teams in the big five leagues.

Although Valencia has not had a good season and is now only ranked 13th out of 20 La Liga teams, the difference in the quality of the players between the two sides is still really big in the game against the Dragons.

In fact, look at Valencia's players: Rodrygo and Negredo who are worth 30 million euros, Gomez and Joao Cancelo who are worth 15 million euros, and Mina, who is 10 million euros, which is not more valuable than the players in the current team of the Dragons.

It's just that these players are not in shape, but when facing a Longteng team with a strength lower than their own, they can pose a great threat to the Longteng team by relying on their individual ability alone.

This game is a typical overall individual game, the Longteng team relies on the overall pressing tactics, the whole team players advance and retreat together, and the opponent completely relies on the individual ability of several obvious players.

At the beginning of the first half and the second half, the Longteng team was able to rely on physical fitness, constantly through running, grabbing, and chasing back to gain a little advantage, and in the second half of the second half, even if they were replaced with physical substitutes, they were still pressed and beaten.

In the end, the Longteng team did not hold before the end of the game, and was scored twice by the opponent, and the game ended with a score of 0:2.

After this match, the Dragons returned to Portugal to prepare for a match against the first team of Sporting Lisbon.

Sporting Lisbon still attaches great importance to this game, and the starting team is actually the main lineup, facing the second team in the Portuguese Super League, the Longteng team is suppressed too much.

How well the back line plays has become the key assessment point for Zhang Sheng and the coaching staff.

From the first minute of the game, Sporting Lisbon had the absolute initiative, and the Dragons' 3-5-2 was compressed into a back five and two midfielders, and even then, the opposition scored two goals in the first half.

Sporting Lisbon scored a goal at the start of the second half, followed by a large number of substitutions, and the game ended with a score of 3-1, with the Dragons saving some face thanks to a free-kick from De Paul.

From this game, the Longteng team can see the gap between themselves and them when the Champions League-level teams show their true strength.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Longteng team is in the adaptation period to the 3-5-2 formation.

After playing the match with Sporting Lisbon, the Longteng team chose a Norwegian Premier League team to find a feeling, and finally the 3:1 match ended the Longteng team's warm-up training in Europe this time.