Chapter 139: Domestic Pessimists

The players are still training. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoThe sun shines on the faces of those young people, showing vigorous vigor and vitality.

Zhang Shujie, Li Mu, Palowski, these three young players have all worn their country's jerseys. Manzo was a little envious, young is good. I think when he was young, he played football for more than ten years and worked hard for more than ten years, but he never entered the national team or the national Olympic team.

In football, hard work is not enough, you also have to be talented. Innate talent coupled with diligence in the later stage can achieve something.

Manzo sighed slightly, turned his gaze, and glanced at Guidolin beside him. The old handsome man frowned, his eyes a little wandering.

"Something on your mind?" he asked, Guidolin.

Guidorin smiled indifferently: "You see that?"

"I've been working with you for almost a year, and if I can't even see this, I'm too much of an assistant to be a failure. ”

Guidolin still smiled, but did not speak.

Manzo said, "What is it?" Can you tell me?"

Guidolin looked at the players in training: "You know Andrea, yesterday Giraldi called me and told me that if the team can't be relegated, let me pack up my baggage and get out of here." ”

Manzo wasn't surprised: "I already guessed. It's Giraldi's habit, and anyone in your position who doesn't get decent results won't stay in office. ”

"I promised him that I would definitely take Parma to relegation, otherwise I would have left without him. Guidolin swore an oath.

It's not easy to be a manager now. Just like AC Milan's Carlo Ancelotti, who led the team for eight years, has not been swept away because he has not won the league championship for many years. Not every coach can be as lucky as Ferguson and Wenger, and Ferguson has been at Manchester United for decades and has almost dominated the Premier League, although Wenger's Arsenal is not as good as the "Red Devils", but for a long time, Arsenal was the only Premier League team that could compete with Manchester United, and the confrontation between the leading scorers of the two teams, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Henry, also became a good story.

Carlo Ancelotti, who has two Champions Leagues in his hands, will not be able to become Alex Ferguson, and Guidolin, who has no honours in hand, will not be able to sit comfortably in the dugout after the team's relegation. Giraldi gave the death order, and Guidolin also gave the military order.

A maximum of eight rounds, no more than two months, will be able to decide whether Guidolin will go or stay.

"Andrea. Guidolin shouted: "If the team really falls to the second division and I am not here, where will you go?"

Manzo looked at the young boys and sighed, "I guess I'll stay here." As long as Giraldi doesn't drive me away. ”

"Can't bear those children?"

'I brought them into the Parma Academy and I couldn't have done it if I had to abandon them like that. ”

"If so...... I made them play in their first Serie A game, I made them perform so well in their first season, and I couldn't have done it if I had left them alone. ”

"Haha, where do you still look like a coach now. ”

"And what am I like?"

"Like a teacher in school, they will pay a lot more attention to those students who have good grades. ”

"You should say I'm more of a general. ”

"Oh? Why?"

"I led my warriors to kill the enemy on a green battlefield, teaching them how to defeat their opponents, how to storm cities and land. ”

Manzo nodded as he listened, "That's right. It just so happens that you have a few young soldiers under you, they are very good, and their future is limitless. After speaking, he looked at Zhang Shujie and Li Mu in training.

Guidolin also looked at them, smiling. Sometimes, even he admires Li Mu's technique and Zhang Shujie's footwork, and if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't believe that China would have such a good young player.

He patted Manzo and said softly, "Hopefully next season, we'll continue to coach them together." ”

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The 31st round of Serie A will start this Sunday, and before that, Yan Tao came off the bench in the just-concluded Eredivisie and played eight minutes without showing much. In the league that has ended, Sint-Truiden's Ma Junqiang finally settled in the main goalkeeper position at the end of the season, his ability has been unanimously recognized by his teammates, coaches and fans, he now needs a long break and tries to get into the national team next season.

The 25th round of the Portuguese Super League was played two games in advance, with Setúbal winning 1-0 away at Universitaria Coimbra to make it two wins in a row. In both games, Setúbal won by a narrow goal, with Zhao Wenkang providing an assist in the previous round and scoring the only goal of the game in this round. It was also the Chinese striker's second goal of the season.

On Sunday, March 28, the 31st round of Serie A was contested, and this round Parma challenged Chievo away, Chievo did not perform as well in the second half of the season as in the first half, and has reached the point of approaching the relegation zone, three places lower than Parma. But Parma will not sympathize with them, and mercy to the enemy is cruelty to himself.

Zhang Shujie got the start and formed a double striker with Palosky, and Li Mu was also among the starting eleven. I thought that the two teams with little difference in strength would make this game a little suspenseful, but whether it was the process or the result, it was a big surprise.

Chievo was completely unable to organize an effective attack.

Parma scored less than 10 minutes into the opening period, with captain Sergio Morrone netting his fourth goal of the season to give Parma the lead. Seven minutes later, Gallopa scored from distance. After just over ten minutes of the first half, Chievo trailed by two goals, which also made the mentality of the players have some subtle changes.

In the 43rd minute, Palowski received a wonderful pass from Li Mu and scored another goal, which silenced the home fans. At his home turf, he was three goals down before half-time, which no one expected.

Chievo stepped up in the second half, with a couple of dangerous shots on goal. But Mariga's goal in the 68th minute completely deprived Chievo of the confidence to counter-attack. With four goals down, it's too hard to get back with more than 20 minutes left.

In the end, Parma defeated Chievo by four goals away, and Zhang Shujie did not score and his performance was very average. He was replaced by Lanzafame in the 72nd minute, and Li Mu, who had an assist, was later replaced by Crespo.

After this campaign, Parma moved up one place in points. In the 32nd round, their opponent was Fiorentina, and they played at home. A few years ago, Parma defeated the Purple Lily 4:3 away, and this time the Purple Lily is bound to avenge a defeat!

In that wonderful game, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu were the heroes of Parma's victory, and Fiorentina saw the strength of the two Chinese players, so they naturally took more care of them. However, Guidolin did not send two starters, and Del Neri's previous tactics had to be rearranged.

Fiorentina's two starting strikers were Italy international Gilardino and Romaria star Mutu, while Parma fielded Paloski and Crespo as partners. The two teams staged another goal-scoring battle, with Gilardino scoring twice in the first half to give Fiorentina a lead, and another point in the second half Mutu to extend Fiorentina's lead to three goals.

Guidolin was desperate at the moment, and successively replaced Zhang Shujie, Lanzafamei and Li Mu, and promoted Li Mu to the forward line. This momentum paid off for Guidolin. The hero of the game is not Zhang Shujie, nor Li Mu, nor Palosky, but Lanzafamei.

He first knocked back Gallopa, who pulled a goal back for Parma from 25 yards from outside the box. In the final 10 minutes of the game, Lanzaffell scored twice in quick succession to level the scores and help his side to a hard-fought draw at home to Fiorentina.

Then in the 33rd, 34th and 35th rounds, Parma faced Napoli, Genana and Bologna respectively. Parma have only lost to Napoli in all three games, winning the other two. They have risen to 11th place in the table with three league games remaining, and Parma are relegated.

Parma are 12 points away from the relegation zone, and even if they lose three straight league games in the last three league games, the team can still be on the Serie A list next season, which means Giraldi will not fire him.

To the regret of Chinese fans, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu did not perform very well in these key games, both of them were two main players and two substitutes in these five games, but neither scored. In contrast, Li Mu only had one more assist than Zhang Shujie in the 31st round of the game, and there were not many highlights other than that. Parma have relied on Lanzafame in these five games, and the striker, who has not scored a few goals for most of the season, has scored four goals in those five games!

There has been a lot of criticism of Zhang Shujie and Li Mu in the Chinese media lately, starting with the belief that Zhang Shujie lost to Crespo and Lanzafame in the second half of the league in the forward competition. After the winter break, Zhang Shujie scored only two goals, less than half of what it was before the winter break. Although Li Mu scored one more goal in the second half than in the first half, his overall performance was still a little disappointing, and his signature dribble almost never appeared again.

Those "experts" in China keep commenting on the two, some people say that they are just a flash in the pan, and some people say that it was the opponent who didn't understand them before, so they could play so well, and now they are analyzed thoroughly and use reasonable defensive tactics, they can't show their performance. More pessimists believe that they will be able to return to China in two years at most.

These remarks were very unfavorable to both of them, and Wang Shihan guessed that Zhang Shujie must have heard some rumors as well. In this age of the Internet, everything spreads very quickly, from China to Italy, it is easy to see it at a glance with just a click on the computer.

Wang Shihan took the time to call Zhang Shujie alone, wanting to know how he was doing now. Zhang Shujie didn't have much ups and downs, in fact, in order to avoid the nonsense of some "domestic experts", he and Li Mu tried not to read news related to themselves when surfing the Internet, whether it was sad or happy.

Wang Shihan is still preparing for the college entrance examination, but he is still worried about Zhang Shujie in Italy. This made Zhang Shujie very upset, he was a big man, and he made a girl worry about him.

He promised Wang Shihan that in the remaining three games, as long as he can get enough playing time, he must score a goal.

At least one!

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Chen Hui and Shen Hao were looking at Zheng Dawei's email from China. The information in the email is all reported by the domestic media on Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, and none of the contents are good. Some even make people angry just by looking at the title!

"Zero Goals! Chinese Teenagers Fall!"

"Five consecutive rounds of poor performance, Zhang and Li's future is worrying!"

"They're just a flash in the pan!"

……

This time the reported rhetoric was even more caustic than the last. Before the winter break, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu also encountered a similar situation, but at that time, the two were more eye-catching on the court, but they were less lucky. And in these five games, the two have been invisible most of the time, rarely appearing in people's field of vision, and sometimes people wonder if they are still on the field. This also made the Chinese media think that the two of them had seen the strength of several strong teams in Serie A after a season of hard work, and they had been taught a lesson to lose their temper and lose their initial spirituality.

There are so many such players that they usually disappear into the crowd after a brief flash at the beginning. Chinese football once produced a talented teenager like Li Huayun who was as famous as Basten, but then it quickly fell flat. With the lessons of the past, it is no wonder that the Chinese media no longer continue to be optimistic about Zhang Shujie and Li Mu.

Chen Hui and Shen Hao looked at these reports, and the more they looked at them, the more angry they became, and before Shen Hao finished reading them, he couldn't help but scold: "Those people are really idle, but it's only five games! They are only nineteen years old, so they can't wait to deny them?"

Chen Hui shook his head: "A bunch of boring people. No, I want to rehabilitate Zhang Shujie and Li Mu!"

"How to rehabilitate?"

"Write a report! stupid!" Chen Hui said, "but I have to prepare, I don't have a clue yet, I try to write it tonight, and then publish it." Those bastards, who have not scored in five games, have belittled others to nothing! I think the two of them should have heard some information too, I don't know what they would think. ”

"Chen Hui, do you think we should go and find the two of them? We take this opportunity to go and see them, and hope that they will not be emotionally pessimistic. ”

"Well, we'll go now. After Chen Hui finished speaking, he closed his notebook, took some belongings, and walked out of the door with Shen Hao.