The first defeat of the new season was definitely a painful blow to Chinatown.

Especially the away defeat to Atletico Madrid.

This team has always been the bitter master of Chinatown, in the quarterfinals of the Champions League last season, Chinatown stopped in front of Atletico Madrid, and the manager at the time, Pochettino, was also unable to take Simeone's team.

Time has passed, but I didn't expect Chinatown, which was a breakthrough this season, but it still fell under Atletico Madrid, which made the team feel extremely depressed.

Zinedine Zidane clearly felt the atmosphere in the dressing room after the game.

This season's La Liga has been very competitive, with bayonets from the start.

Although Chinatown have lost just one game so far, they immediately dropped to the top of the table, dropping to Barcelona by one point, the same number of points as Atletico Madrid, but relegated to third place due to unfavorable results.

Fortunately, after the twelfth round, Chinatown had a full week of rest.

Once the best footballer on the planet, Zidane knows the emotions of a professional player so well that he can't lose to anyone, and he knows better than anyone that the game against Levante in a week will be key.

It's not terrible to lose a game, but it's terrible that the team's anger is vented, and they lose again and again.

On the morning of the second day of the match, Zidane arrived early at the Chinatown training base.

In the two years that he has been coached by Gao Han, he has also developed a habit of arriving at the training base a little earlier than everyone else.

The security staff at the gate also recognized Zidane's Mercedes-Benz ML-class AMG, which was provided by Mercedes-Benz to the club's coaches and players free of charge after the team re-signed a car sponsorship contract with sponsor Mercedes-Benz before this season, and even the license plate number was connected to the number, which was very recognizable.

After parking the car, Zidane went straight to the office.

Although the training base provides a free nutritious breakfast, Zidane is still used to eating at home.

When he came to the office, the first thing he did was to flip through the newspapers that had been placed on the coffee table in front of the sofa early, and pay attention to the various news information in the morning, and the hot topic was undoubtedly the game last night.

The 2-0 defeat away to Atletico Madrid made Chinatown receive a lot of criticism, but more than that, it was understood.

For example, Matayana believes that it is not worth making a fuss about Chinatown losing this strong dialogue, the key is how to play the next game, and he also analyzed the current injuries in Chinatown, mainly due to multi-front battles.

As next year is the World Cup year in Brazil, the major European leagues have scaled back their fixtures this season, always in the middle of the Champions League matches, interspersed with several midweek league rounds, which makes the pressure on the players to play significantly more.

Zinedine Zidane's rotation has shown good results so far, with the Champions League on par with Manchester United, La Liga at the top of the table, and now only a step back, at least a point ahead of Barcelona, which is definitely convincing.

However, Matayana also mentioned that the average age of Chinatown is the lowest in La Liga, and the mentality of players is often less stable, and it is easy to become careless when winning consecutive games, and morale is demoralized after losing, which requires the club's attention.

In addition to Matayana, De la Morena also reminded Chinatown and the coaching staff on his radio show last night that the analysis is roughly similar to Matayana.

However, to Zidane's surprise, he read several newspapers in succession, but did not see any interviews with the management of Chinatown, Cantarero and Armando Marcos, and Gao Han's name was not even mentioned.

This took him by surprise.

Since he took charge of Chinatown this season, Gao Han has become very low-key, and it can even be said that his whole person seems to have disappeared, if he did not appear in the stands every game, he may have been forgotten long ago.

This is certainly counterintuitive.

In this game, Gao Han sat in the chairman's stand, which is a well-known thing, and it is impossible for media reporters to forget him, especially if the game is lost, the only reasonable explanation is that Gao Han and Cantarero and other club management have deliberately avoided interviews with media reporters, just not to let them play on the topic.

Thinking about this, Zidane suddenly smiled.

Of course, he understands the intentions of Gao Han and the management, after all, if the team loses, no matter what they say, no matter whether it is good or bad, it will inevitably have an impact on the team, so the best way is to treat it coldly and not show up.

Zinedine Zidane knows that this is also a tradition that has always been a tradition in Chinatown, such as the support for Mauricio Pochettino in the first place.

But in the end, he had only heard about it before, but now after experiencing it himself, he has to admit that this kind of behavior of the management of Chinatown really reassures him, at least there will not be much pressure.

As early as the day he signed with Chinatown, Gao Han, Cantarero and Armando Marcos told him at the same time that the tradition of Chinatown is that there is no hierarchy, there are no barriers to communication, and if the management has any ideas and opinions, they will be conveyed directly to him, not through the media, or a third party.

In the same way, if he has any opinions and ideas, he can also present them directly to Cantarero.

This is to make Zidane understand that any statement made by any media and third party does not count.

Combined with the current situation, Zidane couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart, no wonder even after Pochettino left Manchester United, he still spoke highly of the coaching environment in Chinatown, thinking that it is the team with the best coaching environment in Europe.

After Zidane finished reading the newspaper, the club's staff also came to the training base one after another.

Sergio Garcia is in charge of the data and intelligence analysis department, so Zidane's chief assistant coach is Claude Makelele.

It is clear that the French legend and close friend of Zidane is also concerned about the team's situation, and as soon as he arrives at the club, he goes straight to Zidane's office.

"Wait a minute, you go talk to Dr. Peters, I'm going to get a mental assessment of the players every day for the coming week. ”

After hearing this, Makelle nodded in agreement.

Steve Pieters is an expert in sports psychology that Gao Han relies on, and is also an authority in this area, following Gao Han for many years, after Gao Han retired, he officially joined Chinatown as a psychological consultant, not only serving the first team, but also taking care of the youth team, and even the youth training center in China.

"Also, tell Lorenzo that I need him to give me a copy of the recovery of the injured players as soon as possible, as well as a medical analysis of every player in the team. Zidane instructed again.

Many people have the impression that Lorenzo Buenaventura is the best physical trainer in the world, following Gao Han for more than ten years, and is second to none in terms of physical training, but few people know that he is also an expert in sports medicine.

Ten years ago, after Gao Han left Chelsea, Buenaventura officially joined Chinatown and focused on setting up Chinatown's medical and rehabilitation department, where he is now the head of the department, but also responsible for the team's physical training.

Of course, like Sergio Garcia, he has a team of people under him.

Chinatown's expertise lies here, and each department has the most professional and authoritative experts, which allows the head coach to be more distracted.

Makelle nodded in agreement, then got up and left.

Zidane sat on the sofa and pondered for a while, but finally took out his mobile phone, found Gao Han's phone, and sent a text message.

"Don't worry, I can handle it!"

For this boss, who is even younger than himself, but is also a teacher and friend, Zidane still admires him very much.

Especially in the past two years, he has learned so much from Gao Han that he is now desperate to coach a team independently, and to translate these theories and conjectures in his mind into reality as much as possible.

Gao Han's text message was also quickly replied, and the content was very simple.

"I believe in you!"

This made Zida warm in his heart and smiled.

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On the evening of November 9, Leganes Block Stadium.

A 2-0 defeat away to Atletico Madrid in the last round and the first heavy defeat of the new season have halted China's momentum and questioned the young team under Zinedine Zidane.

In another highlight-reel match a day earlier, Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad 5-1 at home, and Manuel Pellegrini's side won another big win to defend their precarious position.

And for the match between China Town and Levante, everyone is also full of expectations.

Will it reverse the defeat in the last round of the Dialogue, or will it sink further?

Zidane gave a rare high-profile answer before the game, this battle must be won!

Just eleven minutes into the game, Isco set up Eden Hazard for the first goal.

This group of young players in Chinatown played a wave of fierce attacks on their home field, and the visiting Levante played a little dizzy.

After scoring the lead, Levante held on with all his might, but Chinatown still controlled the game.

After the restart in the second half, China City once again played a wave of attacking attacks, and in the 54th minute, Hazard assisted Alex Sandro to score a goal, and the Brazilian left-back's powerful volley scored his first goal of the season.

After that, Chinatown took advantage of the victory and pursued it, and launched a fierce attack on Levante like a wolf.

In the 64th minute, Levante central defender Navarro maliciously fouled while defending, and was sentenced to death by the referee and sent off with a red card.

After that, the game completely entered the rhythm of Chinatown, the possession rate continued to increase, and Zidane also began to make substitutions.

In the 81st minute, Antoine Griezmann scored again.

In the end, Chinatown won 3-0 at home to Levante with goals from Eden Hazard, Alex Sandro and Antoine Griezmann, playing a hearty victory.

What shocked everyone even more was that Chinatown had 72 percent possession in this game, setting a new high this season and leaving everyone jaw-dropping.

Even many media and fans have said that Chinatown is likely to become the most dominant team in European football after Barcelona.

But in the face of the complete victory, Zidane remained calm and low-key.

In his post-match press conference, the France boss said the win was expected, but it wasn't perfect, as Chinatown wasted a lot of chances, especially from a whopping 11 corners, and didn't pose a threat, which is a lesson to be learned.

However, Zidane also said he was pleased with the performance of his players and firmly believed that the team had come out of the shadow of the defeat in the last round.

"I am confident that we will continue to attack the top of the league!"

It was after this round of competition that Gao Han also received a piece of heavy news from China.

(End of chapter)