Chapter 154: New Season
No one knew what Marino had said to Manzo in the locker room that morning, and no one had asked them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 In the afternoon tactical training, Marino was customized around Palosky, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu on the offensive line.
This discerning person can probably guess a few points at a glance.
Perhaps, as he said, playing under him is regardless of nationality and age, and only ability is important. Of course, there is no official competition yet, and the so-called ability can only be inferred from last season's game, and at the same time, referring to Manzo's opinion, I roughly listed the prototype of the main force in my heart.
In the days that followed, Marino's main attacking tactics were first and foremost about how to place the three men, and in terms of formation, he also decided to use 4-3-1-2 or 4-3-3 as the main players. In the attack axis of these two formations, Palowski basically remains the same, mainly Li Mu and Zhang Shujie.
If 4-3-1-2 is used, then Li Mu is in the forward position, Palowski and Zhang Shujie play double forwards, of which Palowski is in the front, Zhang Shujie is a little behind, and if necessary, he can also be allowed to stand parallel to Palowski and play a double center configuration. However, this situation should be relatively rare, and there are almost no double center forwards in the current mainstream tactics of world football, and some teams do not even have a center forward, such as Barcelona.
If a 4-3-3 formation is implemented, then Li Mu is promoted to the forward line. His striker is different from Palowski and Zhang Shujie, Palowski is in the center, Zhang Shujie is on the right, and the position is a little further back than Palowski, while Li Mu is on the left, and the position is a little behind Zhang Shujie, about between the striker and the front midfielder. In this way, he can play a role in the connection between the midfield and have more opportunities to devote himself to attack.
Marino's tactics were still very effective in training, but I didn't know what it would be like when it came time to play. A few days later, Parma played a warm-up match against a second division team, and in the end Parma won 3-2, and it was Zhang Shujie and Li Mu who scored for the team, as well as Palosky.
Three days later, Parma played the last warm-up game of the pre-season, against a third-division team, the score was 3:1, Zhang Shujie and Palowski each scored a goal, Gallopa scored a goal, Li Mu did not score, but contributed an assist, and also created a penalty, but unfortunately Palowski missed the penalty.
Back-to-back victories in the warm-up matches gave Marino hope, which strengthened his attacking tactics. It's just that he is not very satisfied with the backline, Parma's defensive ability without Panucci has been significantly lowered by a notch, and several new defenders have yet to be run in.
The summer transfer market is just a few days away, with Parma bringing in Zacardo in the second half of August, the defender Marino needs. There is also Lucarelli, who is out on loan, who has returned to Parma after unsuccessful negotiations. Of course, the most surprising thing for Marino was the arrival of Giovinco.
As a former Juventus star, the 23-year-old Giovinco was once hailed as "Piero's successor", but unfortunately Giovinco sat on the bench for two years with the Bianconeri, and this summer he finally made the right choice, leaving Juventus and moving to Parma on loan for 500,000 euros.
The diminutive Giovinco is a versatile attacking player who can play as a midfielder or as a winger. Although his joining can enrich Parma's offensive routine, in a sense, he will also become Li Mu's biggest rival, and even form a little competition with Zhang Shujie.
Some people come and some people leave, Chilean player Córdoba has not had many opportunities to play in Parma, and now with the addition of Giovinco, Li Mu has been corrected again, and the Chilean will only have fewer and fewer opportunities to play, so the team sold him to Brescia.
Coming to Parma Giovinco in the new season, he will wear the No. 21 shirt, he originally wanted to get the No. 10, but last month, Li Mu had already obtained the shirt in advance.
At 10 o'clock in the evening of August 29, Beijing time, the 2010-2011 Serie A season is about to kick off. Before that, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu had just learned that Xu Ziyi, a Chinese player in La Liga Villarreal, had been promoted to the first team, and his agent happened to be Feng Kai.
So among this group of teenagers, except for Ma Junqiang, who came to Europe first, all the others have the same agent.
However, Xu Ziyi's entry into the first team of Villarreal is basically only concerned by the Chinese media, and on the 29th, the Serie A giants AC Milan suddenly announced that Swedish star Ibrahimovic has joined the team!
It's a heavyweight transfer, and the media is just as enthusiastic about it as Villa is to Barcelona, if not better. Mainly because Ibrahimovic was the core of Inter Milan, he was depressed in Barcelona last year, and this year he actually came to the rival AC Milan, which is definitely a big blow to Inter Milan fans.
Another key point is that last summer, Ibrahimovic's transfer fee reached 69 million yuan, and this year he came to AC Milan for only 24 million yuan! and he transferred to Milan City on a rent-to-own basis. This is not to say that Ibrahimovic's value has really shrunk so much, it can only be said that Galliani is a master negotiator, and I don't know what he said to Barcelona, he actually introduced the Swedish high school striker at such a low price, this deal can really be described as "good and cheap".
The arrival of Ibrahimovic shook the Italian football world, but Marino didn't care about this, AC Milan with or without Ibrahimovic, with Parma's strength is still difficult to win, so Marino doesn't plan to waste time on this, he is fully committed to his first Serie A game, and no coach dares to take his first official tournament lightly.
Parma are playing at home against Brescia, where Cordoba has just arrived and are desperate to start and prove himself to his former club. If you look at the strength alone, these two teams are not on the same level. Brescia have only returned to the first division this season, having spent five years in Serie B. Parma, who finished eighth in Serie A last season, are hosting a promoted side and if Marino dares to lose, Giraldi will let him go.
Speaking of Brescia, Chinese fans may immediately think of Robert Baggio, which is estimated to be the only memory that most Chinese fans have of Brescia in the past ten years. But Baggio has been retired for a long time, Brescia is different, there is no big star in the team, and the players are generally older, compared with Parma, who have the young guards of Giovinco and Paloski, Brescia has no advantage.
In Parma's locker room, Marino is still analyzing his tactics, he arranged a 4-3-3 formation, the three forwards are Zhang Shujie, Palowski and Li Mu, Giovinco plays the front midfield, and he is the closest person to Li Mu. The two were still able to spark in training, and now Marino wants to see if the two can coexist on the pitch in the game.
With a marker in his hand, he said to Giovinco while drawing on the tactical board: "Sebastian, you and Li Mu have to go back and forth more during the game, and the two of you can exchange positions with each other according to the situation on the field." And the same goes for Zhang, your position is also very flexible, you don't have to be limited to the right, you know what I mean?"
Zhang Shujie nodded: "Understood." Of course, he understands that Marino has instilled this awareness in his training these days, and wants him to be active in the entire midfield, if Li Mu can't insert Qiao Wenke, and at the same time Zhang Shujie retreats back, then Qiao Wenke can go up diagonally from the right.
'At the back, the two centre-backs are keeping an eye on their two strikers, both of whom are young and slow to turn, so as long as you can stick to them, they won't have much chance. ”
Marino looked at Zaccardo and A. Lucarelli, both of whom nodded.
* (This Lucarelli is not striker Cristiano Lucarelli, but his younger brother Alessandro Lucarelli.) This is an explanation, and will not be elaborated on later, but will be expressed by A. Lucarelli. )
Tardini Stadium, in the press box, Chen Hui and Shen Hao, who had disappeared for a long time, reappeared in Italy, and the new season began, as full-time reporters for Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, they must be responsible for reporting all the news of the two teenagers.
"Hey, Chen Hui, do you know that Cao Weilin was transferred from Belgium?"
"Well, I know. Transferred to the Netherlands, ready to report on Yan Tao's game. ”
"Then there is only one Yuan Qing in Ma Junqiang. ”
"One Yuan Qing is enough, and it would be a bit redundant to put two people. We are in a special situation, Zhang Shujie and Li Mu are on the same team, so the two of us can continue to work together. Chen Hui opened the notebook as he spoke, and suddenly he remembered something: "By the way, that Xu Ziyi seems to have entered the first team, is the editor-in-chief now arranging for someone to go to Spain?"
Shen Hao shook his head: "It doesn't seem to be yet." The editor-in-chief means that it will be arranged separately after some time, and it is not yet known how many games Xu Ziyi will be able to play in the first season. If you sit on the bench the whole time, there won't be much reporting value. ”
"Makes sense. ”
"Chen Hui, do you think Zhang Shujie and Li Mu will get more playing time in the new season?"
"Are you stupid? They were the main players in the first round, what does this mean? It shows that the new coach trusts them!"
"Just because you played the main team in the first game doesn't mean that you will be the main force in the future. ”
"Of course I understand. But it at least proves that Marino believes in their abilities. ”
"They're only nineteen, so young and hopefully there won't be too much pressure. ”
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In the players' tunnel, the eleven main players of the two teams had already stood in two columns, Zhang Shujie was still standing at the end, and Li Mu was in front of him.
The referee on duty and the two linesmen walked into the stadium with the 22 players, and as the field of vision gradually widened, the shouts of the fans became louder and louder, almost reaching the point of deafening.
Parma's eighth-place finish in the league last season has given fans more to expect from this young team. They have a stronger squad this season and the fans are hoping for their players to play better and try to break into Europe.
It's been a long time since they've competed in Europe.
The players of the two teams gathered separately, took a group photo, then shook hands, the captains of the two teams exchanged team flags, and in the first half Parma chose the venue and Brescia chose the ball.
Zhang Shujie stood at the junction of the middle line and the center circle arc, the sun shone on him without hesitation, Italy in August is still a little hot, there are many people on the court, and the heat seems to become stronger.
Palowski stood across from him, and Li Mu was a little to the left behind him. In the middle of the centre circle, Brescia's two strikers, Caracciolo and Posancini, stood together and waited for the kick-off.
The referee was looking at his watch, and the whistle was in his mouth, and when the time was up, the whistle would blow from his mouth.
Zhang Shujie swept the stands, because it was at home, most of the fans were also wearing Parma's traditional yellow and blue jerseys, which were also the uniforms of the players in this game. Zhang Shujie looked in the direction of the press stand, although he couldn't see the people in the seats clearly in the crowd of fans, Zhang Shujie knew that Chen Hui and Shen Hao must be there.
I haven't seen these two reporters for more than two months, and the time is really unconscious.
A whistle sounded, drawing back Zhang Shujie's attention, and the referee on duty blew the whistle for the start of the game. Amid the loud shouts of the fans, Caraccino knocked the ball to Posanic and ran forward.
The 2010-2011 Italian Serie A season officially starts at this moment!